Hey, Internet! We see your llama frolicking to DMX‘s “Party Up (Up in Here),” and we raise you this video of ponies dancing to Ginuwine‘s classic 1996 R&B jam, “Pony.” Their saddles are waiting. Come, and click on it.
Why? Ummmm, because why the f–k not?! As arbiters of all things culturally relevant to popular music, we consider it our duty — neigh, OUR HONOR to bring you this gloriously necessary clip. Enjoy!
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There are a couple of ways to cleverly make a music video to celebrate a new single from an artist who is no longer with us. You can cull some of their greatest moves into a kind of classic moments collage, recruit a current superstar to dance and sing alongside the fallen idol or have everyday people dance and sing joyously to the fresh track.
Or, as in the case with the “new” Michael Jackson video for “Love Never Felt So Good,” do all three.
The clip from the just-released posthumous Xscape album debuted on Wednesday morning (May 14) and it’s an exuberant fiesta of all things MJ, anchored by throwback glimpses of some of his legendary music videos — including “Thriller,” “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “Smooth Criminal” and “Bad.”
With acolyte Justin Timberlake joining MJ for a bonus track duet from the eight-song album, the clip is a celebration of all things Michael, from his most iconic dance moves, to the smile his music brought to the faces of people across the globe to, let’s face it, JT’s superbad fanboydom.
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By Kat Rosenfield
George R. R. Martin’s fans are already a bunch of excitable literary junkies; his most recent book, “A Dance with Dragons,” was published back in 2011, which means that we’ve all been experiencing Westeros withdrawal for a solid three years with no end in sight.
But now, the sadist author has added a whole new dimension to our anxieties over the whereabouts of “The Winds of Winter”: on an appearance on “Conan” Tuesday night, Martin revealed that while he does own a modern computer with an internet connection, he writes his massive novels on a word processor dating back to the Reagan administration.
“I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine, not connected to the internet,” the author said. “I use Wordstar 4.0 as my word processing system.”
According to Martin, his ancient DOS computer serves his purposes just fine — and just as important, doesn’t feature a cranky-making talking paperclip or solicitous autocorrecting.
“It does everything I want a word-processing program to do, and it doesn’t do anything else,” he said. “I don’t want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lowercase letter and it becomes a capital. I don’t want a capital! If I’d wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital! I know how to use the shift key!”
And admittedly, and especially for an author who writes high fantasy novels full of made-up names and places and mythical creatures, that is a reasonable quibble. (Although is this really a ...
Read More →Tuesday night, M.I.A. dropped a track called “Baddygirl 2 — MIA PARTYSQUAD BEYONCE FLAWLESS REMIX” on Twitter, tweeting: “Beyonce camp has not replied for months > SO HERE >.” It looks like the “Double Bubble Trouble” rapper had been trying to collaborate with Beyoncé for a while, and we all know how much M.I.A. loves playing the waiting game.
Despite the inclusion of the word “FLAWLESS” in the song’s full title, “Baddygirl 2″ doesn’t appear to feature any easily recognizable bits of the BEYONCÉ track — well, except for a verse that kicks off with “I woke up like this/ I went to bed like this/ We do everything just like this.” Don’t worry, though, because from the insane, frenetic production to the “Diva” sample at the end, there’s plenty to #BowDown to.
As we’ve seen before, M.I.A. isn’t one to sit idly by while bureacracy slows her roll. Remember that time when she threatened to leak Matangi unless her label, Interscope, gave the album a release date? I mean, it totally worked, though…
In any case, M.I.A. really couldn’t have picked a better time to do something controversial and Beyoncé-related. Someone knows her SEO!
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There are two possibilities about what’s going on with actor Simon Pegg right now: either he’s hardcore trolling the internet, or he’s snagged a role in “Star Wars: Episode VII.”
Okay, fine, there’s a couple of other possibilities we’ll get to in a second, as well as some broader speculation. But first, the facts.
On May 12 it was reported that Pegg had wrapped filming in London on his latest feature, Terry Jones’ “Absolutely Anything.”
He certainly has a number of other projects on his schedule, including possible post-production work for “Man Up,” “Kill Me Three Times” and the aforementioned Terry Jones feature. That’s not to mention working on “Mission Impossible 5,” which is currently in pre-production and will be released in 2015.
With that all on his plate, though, why is Pegg trying to park in Harrison Ford’s parking space?
Unless there’s another Harrison Ford, or the actor — who is reprising his role as Han Solo in the upcoming “Star Wars” sequel — has parking spaces all over London just waiting for him with his name on them, there’s a good chance this is at Pinewood Studios, the home base for the J.J. Abrams production.
Only adding fuel to the fire? Mere hours earlier, Pegg retweeted this tweet by none other than the official “Star Wars” account itself:
So is Pegg making an appearance in the next “Star Wars” movie? It certainly makes a lot of sense, as he’s worked with Abrams on both the “Mission Impossible” and “Star Trek” movie series. Given his ...
Read More →Does Theon Greyjoy need a sister on “Game of Thrones“? Not anytime soon, Lily Allen told fans in a Reddit AMA.
What makes the “Hard out Here” singer such an expert? Well, if you didn’t know, Alfie Allen, who plays Greyjoy, is Lily’s real-life bro.
If you think she’s going to spend time on the show as one of George R. R. Martin’s characters, you’re wrong. When a fan asked if she’d play Theon’s sister, Lily answered with a strong N.O.
“I’ve been asked to do a Game of Thrones cameo,” Allen said in the AMA on Tuesday night. “They asked me if I’d be interested in playing Theon’s sister, and I felt uncomfortable because I would have had to go on a horse and he would have touched me up and sh–. Once they told me what was entailed, I said no thanks.”
So I guess all hope is lost when it comes to Lily on “GoT”?
“I would be open to doing a musical cameo like Sigur Ros, though,” Lily added. Yes!
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Dr. Dre Holds The Key
Doors open for Dr. Dre. Even more so now that he will receive the key to the city of Compton, California.
Channing Tatum Played His Cards Right
The role of X-Men superhero, Gambit, is in Channing Tatum’s cards. “X-Men: Days of Future Past” producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, confirmed that he will play the card-throwing character in a Gambit-centric movie. “He’s a rogue, Channing — he’s a rascal, just like Remy LeBeau,” Donner explained.
Justin Bieber Attempted Cell Phone Robbery
Justin Bieber is accused of allegedly trying to steal a woman’s cellphone on Monday night at Sherman Oaks Park in California. Supposedly, the pop star seized the phone after he thought she took pictures of him and his friends getting into a fight with another group of people. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the situation further.
Beyonce’s Instagram Photos Say 4,000 Words
Beyonce attempted to put rumors to rest by posting four photos of her and her sister, Solange, on Instagram this morning.
First Look At Ben Affleck ‘Batman’ Suit
Men look good in suits and Ben Affleck is no exception: peep these new close-ups of him on the set of “Batman Vs. Superman.”
Clay Aiken Is Representin’
Clay Aiken takes one sprint closer to winning the position as the North Carolina congressman after his fellow Democratic competitor Keith Crisco died unexpectedly earlier this week. The singer runs up against Republican, Renee Ellmers, in November for the coveted seat in the House of Representatives.
John Krasinski Introduces Hazel
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By the end of “The Beginning of the End,” the title of the “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” season finale, at least one thing was clear: Coulson’s team isn’t going anywhere.
Deputized by Nick Fury to rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. from the ground up, Phil Coulson and friends remain tasked with protecting civilization from internal and external threats. Grant Ward, meanwhile, will rot in a prison cell for the rest of his life, or until he’s broken out. And John Garrett, the man formerly known as the Clairvoyant, is a pile of goo in a sub-basement somewhere.
It was a satisfying finish for the show’s turbulent first season, but it left more questions in the air than it answered. Here are 12 of our most pressing questions coming out of the finale:
Seriously? No Outer Space?
Between the Kree connection, the fact that Skye is an 0-8-4, Garrett’s ability to see and feel “the universe,” and the upcoming release of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the “S.H.I.E.L.D.” finale was all set up to take the team to the cosmos. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the agents are staying right here on Earth, focused on rebuilding their agency. Will next season take us to the stars, once “Guardians” firmly establishes the Marvel galaxy? Or will Coulson’s team always stick on this planet, protecting it from external threats?
Did Garrett Have To Die?
Yeah, he did. It would’ve been nice to leave the door open for Bill Paxton’s return (and, frankly, it’s still possible; this ...
There have been endless theories and speculation about what triggered Solange Knowles’ attack on Jay Z in a hotel elevator, but many of them have been framing Bey’s little sister is a very negative light. Seems like Beyoncé is getting a little weary of all the trash-talking, because on Wednesday morning (May 14) the 32-year-old star posted several photos of herself and her sister on Instagram — all in a row.
Maybe Bey scheduled these posts just in time to catch the morning news feeds.
Video footage of the incident first leaked on Monday, and since then Bey has only shared couples photos with Jay Z, or solo shots of herself. That didn’t help to silence the memes about Solange going on the attack, but it looks like Beyoncé is finally making a statement in her own way. She shared four snaps, including a recent shot of her cameo during Solange’s Coachella set.
In the aftermath of the fight, headlines began to circulate that Solange had erased Beyoncé from her own Instagram account, save for one single photo, but it turns out that wasn’t true. A thorough combing of Solo’s account found that Bey was still very much present.
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The great Jay Z $20 million master tapes caper appears to be over. Less than a month after Los Angeles police opened an investigation into an alleged extortion plot over some of Jigga’s prized recordings, the case has been closed.
According to TMZ Jay’s camp has stopped pursuing a criminal extortion case against former producer Chauncey Mahan, which led the police to close their investigation.
Mahan was questioned last month over accusations that he was holding for ransom master recordings made between 1998 and 2002 that were reported missing in 2002. Mahan reportedly had the tapes in his California storage facility and had contacted Jay’s partners at Live Nation and said he was going to either auction the recordings or hand them over for a $100,000 “storage” fee. Mahan was not arrested in the incident, in which Jay’s team filed a grand larceny complaint with the New York Police Department while the Los Angeles Police Department investigated the extortion allegations.
While the LAPD confiscated the recordings, law enforcement sources told TMZ that Jay’s camp decided not to pursue the extortion charges. At press time it was unclear what would be done with the tapes.
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