November 1, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Miley Is Teaching Republican Girls How To Twerk, Pharrell Says

Pharrell Williams is a man at peace. He's got a hit album and a career-defining mega-single with 
 he's, yes, happily married and even his goofy hats are a meme that just won't quit.

But after two decades of cranking out hits, he knows better than to rest on his laurels and put it on coast. Which is why in a new GQ profile Skateboard P has so much on his mind, including revealing who our next president will be.

We skimmed over the article to find the 8 best moments of pure Pharrellitude, in no particular order:

1. Bad News, Tea Party: Your Daughters Love To Twerk
After all those n-word jokes in 2014, Pharrell says "good luck" to the ultra-conservative GOP offshoot party. "They're all trying to learn how to do the Dougie. Please. While their daughters are all twerking," he said. "Trust me: Miley tells me all the time: All those little girls, all those girls with their Republican daddies, they're twerkin' somewhere listening to Jay Z and Beyoncé and doin' the 'Happy' dance. And that's black."

2. Regrets? He's Had A Few, But Trucker Hats Aren't One
"No," Williams said when asked if he regrets his former headgear. "I always did the same thing. I've dressed like I make my music. 'No one's doing that: I'm gonna go do that.' With the trucker hat, it was just a different time. And it was just N.E.R.D. time for me, you know? And that's what we represented — like, the anti-media image. We represented the real: black kids that skated."

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Mack Wilds Graduates Early With His Sophomore Album

Mack Wilds made a pretty smooth transition from acting to music, scoring a coveted Grammy nomination for his debut album, New York: A Love Story, so it's no surprise that the Staten Island native doesn't want to stray far from the successful formula, on his sophomore LP.

"[The album] is definitely still gonna be very hip-hop, because I'm more than an R&B artist," he told MTV News of the next project, on set at his "Henny (remix)" video shoot last week. "I consider myself [to be]a hip-hop artist. That's the culture that embraces me the most. I don't consider myself [to be] the R&B crooner, singing to a girl."

"I'm definitely more of the hip hop, tell-my-story, where I'm from, and probably bag your chick type of stuff. So with that aspect, it's gonna be very hip-hop orientated but very musical."

New York: A Love Story was heavy with nostalgic 90s-era rap melodies, and it sounds like fans can expect more of that coming up.

"[I] love messing around with instruments and stuff so it's gonna be a very creative album," he added. "It's pretty much the finding of me as a man — the different stories and trials and tribulations one goes through, looking for themselves, on their way to being a man."

No word yet on when we'll hear new music from the album. In the meantime, look out for the "Henny (remix)" video, which features cameos from Busta Rhymes, French Montana and Mobb Deep. The clip was inspired by Craig Mack's 1994 star-studded video for "Flavor in Ya Ear ...

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What Does The Rock Yell In The New ‘Hercules’ Trailer? Watch Now

The first trailer for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's was released earlier today, and it's exactly as badass as you'd expect, with the title character fighting lions and some kind of wooly mammoth with his bare hands.

The trailer also raises a big mystery: What does The Rock yell in the very last shot? The yell itself is drowned out by the trailer's music, and so we're left with one of the biggest cinematic mysteries since Bill Murray whispered in Scarlett Johansson's ear in "Lost In Translation."

Well, it took some careful study and consultations with numerous lip-reading experts, but we think we narrowed it down to the most likely suspects.

Check out the video to see for yourself, and get even more of The Rock as the man, the myth, and the legend himself when "Hercules" opens everywhere July 25.

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Emma Watson’s Guide To Getting That Gross ‘Noah’ Look

Emma Watson, star of the upcoming "

She's such an icon, in fact, that Watson will be taking over the MTV Twitter account on March 26 to give you an exclusive look at the red carpet premiere of the film, from getting ready, to chatting with fans and beyond.

For the biblical fantasy epic, though, Watson took a different tact.

"[I was] a bit greasy, didn't shower too much," Watson joked when MTV News asked her about her "Noah" look, in Los Angeles.

When she came to set for the epic fantasy shoot, she was sporting a hairstyle that wasn't exactly period appropriate for the character of Ila.

"I actually had a bob at the time, and obviously that's not going to work for a biblical movie," Watson said. "So we had to figure out how we were going to adapt that."

In the film, Watson plays the wife of Noah's (Russell Crowe) firstborn son, Shem (Douglas Booth), who has to survive not only a supernatural deluge, but also battles against armor-clad warriors and the wrath of the unseen Creator.

Watson worked with "American Hustle" and "Watchmen" costume designer Michael Wilkinson, alongside the film's makeup department, going through multiple hairpieces to get the bob to work. But sadly, Watson's natural haircut wasn't meant to make it to film.

"You could see that it didn't look very real because I had short hair," Watson continued. "My hair and makeup artist was like, 'Why don't we just give you dreads?' "

We don't know whether Watson's dreads will inspire a style revolution, but you can check them out ...

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Rixton May Not Be Naked In New Video, But They’re ‘Still A Lot Of Fun!’

Rixton have already showed us that they are talented musicians, but in their latest music video, the guys are about to show us that they're pretty good actors, too.

The U.K. band is set to release the video for the lead single off their recently released EP, on Wednesday (March 26) on MTV.

The foursome invited MTV News behind the scenes of the shoot, which took place at a Los Angeles boxing ring, to get an inside look at what fans can expect.

"This girl kind of sets us up and we invest our own money in a poker game and we get set up, like, ripped off," lead singer Jake Roche said. "We wanted to make like a Guy Ritchie-type film and get our acting heads on."

In what looks to be shaping up as quite the gambling story, the guys, who admitted they were having "the time of our lives" while on set, are seen around a poker table engaging in a high-stakes card game with a short-haired blonde woman, presumably the one who ripped them off.

If you're expecting nudity, however, like we saw in their breakout hit, then you might be disappointed. The boys, who are MTV's Artist to Watch, are keeping things covered up since the song "has a bit more of emotion."

"It's just totally the opposite of 'Make Out' — like, I am not naked and swinging on a wrecking ball. That would be weird," Roche said.

Drummer Lewi Morgan added, "I don't think we wanted to ever step away from that ["Make ...

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Schwarzenegger Reveals The Secret Of His ‘Terminator: Genesis’ Character

He said "I'll be back," and he wasn't lying: Arnold Schwarzenegger will return to the role that made him famous in the upcoming "Terminator: Genesis." But as MTV News found out when we sat down with the actor to discuss his upcoming movie "

"It will be challenging because it will be a new director, and it will be a really action packed movie," Schwarzengger said of the movie, which starts shooting in April. "And sometimes it does get more difficult when you're 66 years old and doing this kind of action, versus when you're in your 30s or in your 40s."

Which brings up an interesting question. "Terminator" introduced Schwarzenegger's time-traveling killer robot in 1984, when the actor was a mere 37 years old. He last played the T-800 model in the 2003 threequel "Terminator: Rise of the Machines," which was over a decade ago. And robots don't age — right?

"The way that the character is written, it's a machine underneath," Schwarzenegger continued. "It's this metal skeleton. But above that is human flesh. And the Terminator's flesh ages, just like any other human being's flesh. Maybe not as fast. But it definitely ages."

As far as we know, this is a new wrinkle in the continuity of the "Terminator" franchise, and potentially one to accommodate the self-admittedly older Arnold. So we'll get to see an older robot, and not a younger one Ô right?

"Terminator deals a lot with time travel, so there will be a younger T-800," Schwarzenegger added, blowing our minds, "and then what that model does later ...

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Logan Lerman Says ‘Percy Jackson 3’ Is Officially Dead

Logan Lerman won't be returning to the role of Percy Jackson in a third film based on the long running YA fantasy series of the same name. In fact, a third movie won't be happening at all.

"It's not happening," Lerman said when MTV News asked about a threequel at the junket for Darren Aronofsky's upcoming biblical fantasy "

Lerman starred as the title character in 2010's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," as well as last year's "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters." The first two movies followed the title character, the demigod son of Poseidon as he survived the life of a hero-in-training at Half-Blood Camp while battling the forces of the Titan Kronos.

The award-winning "Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse" would have been the next book in the series coming to the big screen — presumably in 2015 or 2016, if the pace of the first two films' release was continued — following Percy and his allies' attempts to rescue the goddess Artemis and Percy's long-time friend Annabeth from the clutches of their kidnappers.

"It's been a great experience for me," Lerman said of the role. "It's opened up a lot of doors for me, but I don't think it's happening." One of those doors is playing the role of Ham, middle son of Noah (Russell Crowe) in Aronofsky's ("The Fountain") epic flood fantasy. It was a role that he wasn't even sure he'd be offered.

"I was interested in this movie before I even knew what it was. I heard that Darren Aronofsky was making a ...

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Hey Lorde, The Black Lips Will Probably Never Collaborate With You

Lorde may have sported a Cramps shirt on the cover of Rolling Stone, but don't except fellow deep-dark punk band the Black Lips to collaborate with her any time soon. According to guitarist Cole Alexander, "Royals" is his least favorite song — ever.

"We'd probably say no [if Lorde asked us to collaborate]," Alexander told the A.V. Club as part of the publication's "Hatesong" column, in which musicians explicate why they're not down with a certain tune.

"We've said no to stuff like that before. Sometimes I'll try to open myself because some things will be so ridiculous that I might actually do it, but I don't think I'd do it with her," he said.

Ridiculous — and awesome — decisions include the band's stop at this year's Hangout Festival and their upcoming tour for Underneath the Rainbow, during which the band will pump manufactured smells into venues around the globe.

Alexander emphasizes that he doesn't dislike Lorde herself, just the naïveté and style of the popular song. "It's hard to say I actually hate it, but it's a bit confused," he said, pointing to the familiar lyrics decrying pop stars' and rappers' fascination with Maybachs and diamonds.

"Most of the people that are rapping about Maybachs and diamonds come from really 'torn-up towns,'" Alexander said. "I feel like they come from worse parts and they aspire to get Maybachs and diamonds because they come from ratchet-ass 'hoods where they have no hope. I think it's a bit righteous of her."

Still, he amended, "I feel like she's ...

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