If it feels like we have a crisis of faith every year on the morning after the Super Bowl when some clever geek figures out that one or more of the performers in the pre-game or halftime were either lip synching or playing to a track, well, there's a good reason.

Because we do. Every year. And you know why? Because a lot of the time they are. And it's fine, because the alternative is way worse according to a man who should know.

"We expect it to be perfect," said Rickey Minor, who served as Whitney Houston's musical director when she pulled off what is widely considered to be the greatest Super Bowl performance of all time. And, by the way, Houston's 1991 version of the "Star Spangled Banner" was lip synched, because Minor said that's how you have to do it.

"Halftime and the National Anthem, 'American The Beautiful,' dating back to before there was such a thing as pre-recording, a lot of the singers ended up having not very good performances," he said.

Minor was no the phone with MTV News on Wednesday (February 5) to discuss why people should settle down about Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea's admission on Tuesday that his band was pretending to play their instruments
 during their record-setting halftime performance at Sunday's game.

"With the sound delay inside the stadium and all the echo and the sound bouncing off the walls, you can't discern pitch and you can't tell when you started and where you ended," Minor said of the difficulty of hearing yourself ...

Like a yeti glimpsed in a forest clearing between the noble pines, Will Ferrell appeared on the Internet on Tuesday for a Reddit AMA to raise awareness for a Cancer for College charity drive — and then, having blessed the heads of Redditors with a dozen glorious golden jokes, vanished once again into the ether from whence he came.

It was a single, fleeting moment of magnificence that will never again be repeated and was over far too soon. And if you missed it... well, your tears are understandable. But you can still bask in the AMA's aftermath, as we revisit the actor's best witticisms on a variety of important topics.

On The Superhero Role That Should Have Been His:
"It was down to me or Tobey Maguire for Spider-Man and they harshly told me I was too fat for the suit. That having been said, every time I watch 'Spider-Man' I still think I was the better actor for the role."

On The Benefits Of Being An Action Figure
"It is fantastic to have my own Lego of President Business/Lord Business. Now my children actually will talk to me. Prior to this moment, they really wanted nothing to do with me."

On The Sheer Power Of Ben Stiller's Blue Steel Face In 'Zoolander'
"Unfortunately it was a closed set. At that point in time, the look was considered too powerful to be around so only essential crew and safety people were allowed on set."

On Fomenting Cultural Hatred
"There's a lot to hate about Sweden. Beautiful people, the high cheek bones, the fact that ...

This week on The CW's "

"Nyssa al Ghul, daughter of Ra's al Ghul comes into town; and she comes into town for Sara," Lotz told us over the phone. "Very specifically for Sara! She wants Sara to come back with her slash to her, and the drama will ensue from there." For a bit of background, five years prior Sara was stuck on the show's mysterious island at the same time as protagonist Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). We've seen how a bit of her back-story, but not how she escaped the island, hooked up with the villainous League of Assassins, or took on the Black Canary personality. And with this week's flashbacks showing Sara's past, rather than Oliver's, we should get some of those gaps filled in.

"We get to see some of the Lance family before all the drama, and pain and death," Lotz added. "You get to see who they all were before everything went down."

Shooting the flashbacks, which find Sara, Laurel (Katie Cassidy), Quentin (Paul Blackthorne), and guest star Dinah Lance (Alex Kingston) bonding over dinner was a refreshing change for the normally grim show.

"We really enjoyed shooting those scenes," Lotz said. "It felt like we were on a different show. I prefer more darkness for the other characters, but it's a fun change."

In the present day, though, things are back to the grim and gritty as Nyssa (Katrina Law) comes looking for Sara, with the suggestion that the duo may have been more than friends.

"It's not so black and white," Lotz noted on the possible ...

When anticipation for a movie is as high as it is for some of the upcoming tentpoles like "Star Wars: Episode VII" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron," fans are desperate for any scrap of information that tell them something about the next big blockbuster.

But that frenzy for details leads to a lot of shaky info getting passed around, like casting rumors that are only partially confirmed and editorializing that gets mistaken for reporting.

To cut through some of the confusion, we've taken a look at five of the most anticipated movies coming out in the next two years and collected the confirmed facts about each, as a kind of cheat sheet for fans who want to know the truth and nothing but the tuth.

"Star Wars: Episode VII"
» J.J. Abrams is directing.
» It is currently scheduled to open on December 18, 2015.
» John Williams will compose the score.
» J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the script. Michael Arndt wrote a previous draft.
» Production will take place in the UK.
» There are spinoffs planned. Kasdan is writing one, and Simon Kinberg is penning the other. Each will focus on a specific character.
» R2-D2 is in the movie.
» Jesse Plemons met with J.J. Abrams, but he has yet to be cast. Others auditioning (but, again, not cast) include Saoirse Ronan and Zac Efron.

"Fantastic Four"
» The reboot will open on June 19, 2015.
» "Chronicle" director Josh Trank is helming.
» Michael ...

The XXII Olympic Winter Games are mere days away and they're already shaping up to go down in history — it's not clear yet, however, if their entry into the books will be positive or negative.

This year's winter games have thus far been fraught with a lot of issues — and they haven't even kicked off yet. There's the killer whales slated to perform during the games, the news of which set off a wave of dissent among activists.

There's fear of terrorism — according to a CNN poll, 57% of Americans think it a real possibility during the games.

There's also the very real threat that most visitors will be hacked as soon as they sign online in Russia.

And, of course, there are Russia's newly instated national laws banning "gay propaganda," which have angered and frightened LGBT athletes participating in the games, according to ESPN.

Upon arriving in city, however, visitors were confronted with more immediate concerns; despite the games being days away, the conditions in the area are far from sanitary and safe, according to The Guardian.

Hotels are unfinished. The streets are overrun with stray dogs. Complaints are filling Twitter in droves. All this after Russia spent $51 billion on the games — making it possibly the priciest Olympics in history.

Check out a run-down of the conditions below, according to some journalists on the ground in Sochi:

Unfinished Hotel Rooms

Workers are reportedly scrambling to finish hotel rooms in Sochi, which lack necessities like floors and fixtures. As a ...

For a long time, Lady Gaga was more of a super hero than a pop star. Yes, her music was incredibly catchy and popular ("Just dance, gonna be OK, do do doo doo doo"), but when it came to unearthing the woman behind her chart-topping hits, what we got was a bit of a mystery. Unlike most singer-songwriters we know, Gaga was different: she masked herself in a big, black sunglasses; she wore dresses made from meat; and in her "Bad Romance" video, she had horns protruding from her shoulders and cheeks. To our standards, she was not normal.

It wasn't until recently that we started to see Lady Gaga as a person, one that feels and suffers, when she opened up on her eating disorder and dedicated her ARTPOP album to throwing off critics' hate. That's why Mother Monster's latest Harper's Bazaar interview makes so much sense.

Lady Gaga's 'Harper's Bazaar' Spread Is A High-Fashion Space Odyssey

The Q&A, which made its way online Wednesday (February 5), asks Gaga about her beginnings, fashion, her mom and got more candid with fun, quick questions like " 'Romeo and Juliet' or 'Titanic'?" But some of those short answers took longer to digest. For example:

HB: What's the myth about you that you'd like to dispel?

LG: That I'm a myth.

I'm used to Gaga's strange interview answers — remember when she ate Dave Letterman's paper? — but this one hit me, and I realized that it's the truth that I was talking about above. She's just a ...

Andy Mineo did it again. Last year, the New York MC turned heads when he sold 28,000 copies of his Heroes for Sale album independently — right under the nose of most hip-hop heads. Now, the rising rapper's back on the Billboard 200 with his latest EP, Never Land

Impressive sales weren't the goal for Mineo, whose Never Land EP had a very limited budget and was only released digitally. But he still managed to move 26,000 copies of his EP in its debut week, landing at #13 on the Billboard albums chart and #2 on the rap albums chart.

We caught up with Mineo on Wednesday (February 5) by phone as he was making plans to travel from a snowy New York to Nashville to rejoin the Roadshow Tour, the Christian music-themed run that he's been on since the top of the year. He told us he didn't go into this with great expectations:

"I didn't know what to really expect because I was dealing with two opposing things. One was that, yes I expect our fans and the 116 family [fan army] to come out and show support, because they always have. But at the same token, I said this is a very last-minute EP that didn't have marketing dollars, that didn't have a big budget, that didn't have a lot of stuff that we normally put into an album."

Mineo is signed to LeCrae's Reach Records and though Never Land is driven by his faith, his skill helps to break the stereotype that religious rappers aren't typically very good. ...