November 20, 2024

Review Category : TMZ Music News

Five Unforgettable VMA Reactions: Miley, ‘NSYNC, One Direction Fans Go Wild

From Miley Cyrus twerking onstage to 'NSYNC's reunion, Sunday night's 2013 Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center offered up plenty of shock-worthy moments. But while some viewers were content to yell at the TV, others took to their Vine or Instagram accounts to express exactly how they were feeling.

MTV stoked all that by asking fans to attach the hashtag #VMAreact to their posts. So after the lights went down, we dug around and found our five favorite fan reactions to some of the best moments from the awards show.

The first VMA of the night went to Thirty Seconds to Mars for Best Rock Video. When we presented the award to them on the Pre-Show red carpet, one Echelon fan member was so excited he turned into the Hulk, ripping his shirt right off!

Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke had one of the most interesting performances of the evening. There were giant teddy bears, giant booties, tons of twerking and lots of tongue. ... A few fans weren't sure how to feel about it.

As the only independent artists with VMA nominations and a slot to perform, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won just for being there. So when the duo took home three out of the six awards they were nominated for, including Best Hip-Hop video, their Shark Face Gang was beyond ecstatic.

If we know anything about Directioners, it's that they love social media. So when the guys won Best Song of Summer — the fan-voted category — their fans went wild.

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‘NSYNC Finally Reunites, But Did They Ever Expect To Break Up?

During Sunday night's VMAs in Brooklyn, Justin Timberlake capped off an amazing medley of hits by reuniting 'NSYNC to perform their single "

News of their intended reunion leaked earlier in the week, and the group had been trending on Twitter for days, until fans' wildest dreams actually came true at the Barclays Center. J.C. Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone joined Justin onstage and the crowd went wild.

It was a monster night for Timberlake, who took home Video of the Year for "Mirrors" and was honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. The 32-year-old "President of Pop," as he was fondly introduced by Jimmy Fallon, has been on quite the journey since his boy-band days.

Photos: Justin Timberlake's Big Night

In their 1998 interview with MTV News, a young Timberlake shared his vision for a future career that clearly turned out to be a long and prosperous one. When asked which star's career they would like to emulate, JT was quick to respond. "We don't wanna be anybody else, we wanna be 'NSYNC," he said. "Wherever it takes us, I think it's gonna be in a positive direction because we surround ourselves with positive energy."

21 Must-Have 'NSYNC Collectibles You Didn't Know You Needed.

"Everybody sacrifices when they wanna do something like this," he added, of their inability to lead "normal" lives. "But for us, it's worth it because this is what we love to do. We love to make music, we love to tour, we love to be in the studio, we ...

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Rupert Grint’s Butt Takes Center Stage In Exclusive ‘CBGB’ Clip

With each new movie that a member of the "Harry Potter" cast takes on, the world gets to see a new side of a young actor or actress that they have known since they were 10 or 11 years-old, so it can be kind of shocking experience for those that grew up with Emma, Rupert, and Dan.

In this exclusive clip from "Rupert Grint, specifically, his butt.

"CBGB" recounts the beginnings of New York City's punk rock scene and the future icons that passed through the doors of the legendary club. The cast of characters includes Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, and Cheetah Chrome, the Dead Boys guitarist that Grint plays in the film.

Essentially, "CBGB" was a place with great music where just about anything could happen. Take this exclusive clip for example. In it, Cheetah Chrome is speaking with Genya Ravan (Stana Katic) at the bar. She comments on his red locks and asks if they are the genuine article or just a dye job.

Cheetah Chrome insists that his hair is, in fact, the real deal, but there's only one way to really convince her. That's when he drops trou, and we see a whole lot of Rupert Grint. Not exactly what you expected to see from the former Ron Weasley, huh?

Grint is joined in the cast by his former Hogwarts potion master Alan Rickman, Donal Logue, Ashley Greene, Justin Bartha, and Bradley Whitford.

"CBGB" opens in theaters everywhere later this year.

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Shailene Woodley’s Short Hair Makes VMA Red-Carpet Debut

It's pretty much a VMA tradition at this point for stars to debut new looks on the red carpet, and Sunday night it was Shailene Woodley's turn. The young actress was there to help premiere a first look at "

The cropped 'do debuted on Woodley's Instagram last week, but the VMAs marked the look's first big public outing, and Woodley told MTV News that she couldn't be happier with it. "It's awesome. The actual cut of it is very Midwestern, 17-year-old girl, which is the character I'm portraying," she said. "It's fun to embody this sort of energy for a while."

The new look is all part of getting into the character of Hazel Grace Lancaster, the protagonist of John Green's best-selling book, but Shailene has found her own freedom in losing her locks. "I feel lighter. I also feel strong, especially when I'm able to cut it the way I want to cut it," she said. "I'm not nervous at all, so excited. I love it."

While Woodley's hair was connected to "The Fault in Our Stars," she was just as thrilled to hear people's reactions to the "Divergent" first look. "I think people will be very enthused by how it looks visually very different from a lot of other young adult films," she said.

Her co-star, Miles Teller, had a good feeling about how fans of Veronica Roth's novel would react to the first footage. "It's exciting. You work on something for a couple months, and you hope when it comes out that people are going to see ...

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Lady Gaga’s Too $hort Collaboration: ‘It’s A Big F*cking Deal’

Lady Gaga lives to shock. She did it again Sunday night at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards with a run through that had her changing costumes six times during her performance.

But she also made jaws drop on the red carpet before the show, during an interview with MTV News' Sway when she revealed that she's hooked up with one of his Bay Area brethren on a song for ARTPOP. When Swayasked if Gaga was working with any rappers on the album she said she'd actually hooked up with Oakland icon Too $hort.

"I'll give you one ... Too $hort," Gaga told a surprised-looking Sway when he asked if there would be any hip-hop guests on her album.

That's all she revealed, though, so we hopped on the phone with Shortdog on Sunday night to find out how this unexpected hook-up happened.

"I was doing some songs last year with one her producers, DJ White Shadow," $hort said about tunes he's recorded with Shadow for a house music project he's been working on. "He's been pretty busy, doing his thing around the world and he got back at me a little while ago and said, ''There's a song that Lady Gaga's doing that possibly they would want to get you on ... so I said, s--- I'm down with it!'"

Soon after, the session was booked in Los Angeles and $hort got in the booth and laid his verse down, just like that. "Then he called back and was like, 'She's going to debut the song at one of her ...

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‘Divergent’ Teaser: The Five Best Scenes

Fans hopped aboard the train Sunday night, as stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James debuted the first official look at the action thriller during the VMA Pre-Show.

The film, based on the Veronica Roth novel, is set in a near future Chicago in which society has been divided into five factions, each upholding a different virtue: Abnegation (selflessness), Erudite (intelligence), Dauntless (bravery), Amity (peacefulness) and Candor (honesty). Citizens are tested as teens to determine which faction they should align with, but when heroine Beatrice "Tris" Prior (Shailene Woodley) is told she doesn't fit into any of the five, she leaves home to pledge the Dauntless.

With a jam-packed sneak peek full of can't-miss moments, we break down the five key scenes from the "Divergent" clip.

Being Different
When Abnegation-born Beatrice undergoes her aptitude testing (a requirement for all 16-year-olds), she's delivered unsettling results by administrator Tori (Maggie Q): "You're different. You don't fit into a category. They can't control you. They call it Divergent. You can't let them find out about you."

"And what if they already know?" Beatrice asks.

"Then you're already dead," Tori warns.

Those words haunt Beatrice, and instead of staying with her friends and family in the faction she knows, she decides to pledge the Dauntless.

Taking A Flying Leap
Of course, being an initiate in the most fearless of factions is no mean feat. One of Beatrice's first tasks is to jump from the roof of a seven-story building into Dauntless headquarters — through an ominous black hole. Here we see her, still clad in her Abnegation ...

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Kanye West’s ‘Lynching Tree’ Has Deep, Dark Roots

When Kanye West announced that he'd be performing "Black Skinhead" at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, fans everywhere probably anticipated a flashy, seizure-inducing reflection of the track's video. Never one to do what's expected of him, Yeezy decided to ditch "Black Skinhead" altogether, and when the chill-inducing sound of "Blood on the Leaves" breached the stage Sunday night (August 25), it called for a slightly darker show.

The track samples Nina Simone's cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit," a disturbing tale of Southern slavery and the lynching of African-Americans. So when it came time to give his first live performances of the Yeezus track, he ditched the fiery glitz of his last VMA performance — his silhouette danced in front of a large image of a tree. And while viewers may have thought it was just a tree, it's actually a work of art that has much deeper roots.

It's "Lynching Tree," a photographic still by British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen that embodies dark historical themes of "Blood on the Leaves." The tree — located somewhere near New Orleans — once served as a gallows for slaves, and buried near underneath it are lynched victims, according to the Schaulager museum in Basel, Switzerland, where the piece hangs.

It's related to McQueen's fall film, "Twelve Years a Slave," which tells the story of a free African-American man kidnapped in 1841 and eventually sold into slavery at a cotton plantation in Louisiana.

It's a haunting image for an at-times haunting track — and it all made for a VMA moment ...

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‘Breaking Bad’: What Last Night’s Episode Tells Us About The End

Well, that was intense.

We're three-eighths of the way through the final episodes of "Breaking Bad," and it's pretty safe to assume that a good portion of the audience suffered an embolism from the gut-wrenching hour that was "Confessions."

If Vince Gilligan and company are making one thing clear with these final episodes, it's that every minute is going to count in getting us to the finale and learning the fates of Walter, Jesse, and just about everyone else. "Confessions," in particular, gave us a few clues about where we're headed.

The End of Hank?
You thought Walter was going to confess on camera, didn't you? In what has to be considered one of the best "Breaking Bad" twists ever, Walter used his would-be taped confession — another reference to the pilot, by the way — as a platform through which to blackmail his brother-in-law to not proceed with the investigation. The revelation that Marie accepted cash from Walt and Skylar to fund Hank's rehab was "the nail in the coffin" for Hank Schrader, and the only person who could possibly save his crusader to bring Heisenberg to justice just flew off the rails.

Jesse Versus Walter
That's right. Jesse Pinkman. Though he wouldn't cooperate with Hank in the interrogation room, something tells us that he might be a little more willing to testify, but that doesn't appear to be the route Jesse is taking right now. By the end of the episode, it was pretty clear that he has decided on the "Let's burn down the White family house" solution.

The mystery of Brock's poisoning was ...

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VMA Best Fashion 2013: Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez And More!

Wow, running around the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards red carpet was an adrenaline-packed affair. The frisson in the late-summer Brooklyn air was unmistakable as fans lined the block to scream adoringly at their favorite award-show attendees and performers. The fashion was diverse and as on-point as ever with trends running from zany to glamorous.

Our favorite looks of the night tended to rove across all silhouettes and trends but one of the most memorable of the evening had to be Rita Ora's robin's egg blue Alexandre Vauthier. The bodice was classic Rita — a plunging V, strong shoulder and encrusted with gems but the train stole the show. It was stunning, featured thousands of marabou feathers and was so long and luxurious that it had to be carried by her stylist. A pristine, angular, blonde "lob" (long bob) complemented the ensemble.

Katy Perry's Ungaro dress similarly mixed more than one motif and texture. It featured a leopard print, skin-tight, long-sleeved, knee-length base textile but also featured enormous golden butterflies jutting out from various points on her shoulders. A clean, pulled back, high ponytail completed the look with a Céline sandal and Anita Ko jewelry.

If you want to talk about intricate embellishment, you'd be remiss not to mention Iggy Azalea's golden Pucci dress. While she changed from the iridescent gown to the black, feathered frock for the main show, we loved seeing the Pucci in person. As you well know, the alabaster-skinned, platinum-haired Australian native has a ridiculously bodacious body, and it was as if ...

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