The Promotional wheel for Lady Gaga continues, as she has released a promotional single ‘The Edge of Glory’ to iTunes yesterday. The track serves as one of the few promotional tracks leading up to the release of her upcoming album, “Born This Way”.
“The Edge of Glory” serves as one of the better singles, consisting of lightly-layered synths infused with a Kelly Clarkson-style electric guitar and a saxophone breakdown. The single is actually better than “Born This Way” and could have served as a better lead single over “Born This Way”.
Lady Gaga has also decided to strike while the iron is hot, as she announced that a new promotional single, ‘Hair’, will be released to iTunes on May 16. The song was produced by Gaga collaborator RedOne.
Both of these songs serve as one-track previews before the whole album is revealed on May 23. Little Monsters will be able to use the “Complete My Album” option if they purchased the promotional singles, as well as ‘Born This Way’ and ‘Judas’, at a reduced price, while we still wait on that “greatest album of the decade”...
Rihanna is ready to continue with her reign on the charts and she’s making sure that nobody dares to stand in Her Majesty’s way!
Moments ago, she finally premiered the music video for her new guitar-driven single ‘California King Bed’, off of her fifth album, “Loud”. The single will be released to radio only on May 31, but should be able to at least chart on the Billboard charts.
Rihanna has produced yet another visually-engaging video. With each era, Rihanna seems to be getting better, visually and vocally. It’s like she could effortlessly blind us with her beauty. The video is basically a collage of Rihanna beauty shots, with emphasis on the despair lurking in Rihanna’s eyes when the bed, which her partner lays on, shifts away. Her emotions are at full force as she steps down from her throne and when the screen turns into Black and White. It’s almost like a beauty ad, but with a heavenly and sublimed feeling to it.
Watch as Rihanna graces your ears and eyes with her ‘California King Bed’ video.
Yes, I know that I am late with this one, but better late than never.
Lady Gaga has finally premiered her new video for the Biblical-inspired single “Judas”. The video was directed by the Lady herself, alongside her choreographer Laurieann Gibson. Starting off with bikers riding along the highway, the video tells the tale of Lady Gaga, playing Mary Magdalene, having a relationship with a modernized Jesus. However, when he finds out about her relations with Judas, she is stoned to death
I actually loved this video! The cinematography looked like it came straight out of ‘The Village’ setting. It was strange, haunting, engaging, and quite intriguing. It also tried to cause controversy, but without being blasphemous. However, my concern with the video is that they focused more on sub par choreography, which I think Gaga nailed, and less on the actual story, which made the storyline a bit complicated to understand. However, a great video was made.
By the way, am I the only one who loves this song and video? I didn’t fall for the hype, so I guess I’m safe to say that I’m anticipating this album.
Lady Gaga revealed on Twitter the “Born This Way” tracklisting. The standard edition will contain 14 songs, while the deluxe edition will include 5 more tracks. These tracks are "Born This Way Country Road Version," "Judas DJ White Shadow Remix," "Marry the Night Fernando Garibay Remix," "Scheibe DJ White Shadow Mugler" and "Fashion of His Love Fernando Garibay Remix."
DJ White Shadow, one of the album’s producers, spoke to MTV News about the album. "I don't even know how to explain it. [Born This Way] is not a pop album; it's a pop masterpiece of music. If there was no category of pop music, you wouldn't call it pop music,".He added: "She thinks of sh-- that I can't comprehend," he said. "It doesn't make sense to me, and I'm a creative person. ... Working with her is totally different than anyone else I've ever done anything with. She's the most hands-on person I've ever run into. She could walk into Steve Jobs' office and tell him he's doing Apple wrong, and he'd listen. As a producer, it's super cool to be with somebody who generally cares and is fully involved."
The video for “Judas” will debut on Thursday, 05 May. The long-form video, which was co-directed by Gaga alongside her choreographer, Laurieann Gibson, will premiere on E! at 7:00 pm EST. The biblically-themed visual stars Lady Gaga as Mary Magdalene and Norman Reedus as Judas Iscariot. How interesting…
Let’s hope that people get bored of all of these gimmicks and that she’ll finally choose her talent over gimmicks. I really loved her, but I’m starting to lose interest in her as an artist. I’m hoping the album is just as great as her previous two.
On July 1, fans of the robotic series will be able to lubricate their coochies when it get’s released. To please your appetites, the new full trailer of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” has been revealed.
The cast shown in the 3D clip includes Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Frances McDormand, Patrick Dempsey and Hugo Weaving.
Watch the clip below in order to experience some intense, mind-blowing scenes.
Looks like Jenny is finally back to snatch ‘em wigs again! The video for Jennifer Lopez’s latest single “I’m Into You” finally premiered two days ago on “TODAY” show. The new album, “Love?”, is out now, so you people better go out and support Mrs Lopez. I’m hoping that she has an American Idol performance to broaden her chance of hitting #1.
Wow! Jennifer has really been drinking from the fountain of youth. I have no idea how she has kept her youthly beauty for years now, but whatever she’s doing is working. It seems like this women ages backwards. The video consists of Jenny frolicking around with her Cuban male model, William Levy, and glamour shots of Jennifer, displaying every aspect of Jennifer’s luscious body. Thank God Lil Wayne didn’t make a cameo appearance. The video was clearly focusing on Jenny and things would have felt out of place with Wayne’s presence.
"We did it in Mexico in Chichen Itza. It was really beautiful. I've never been," said Lopez. "It was funny because over Christmas, I had my whole family at my house, and every day my cousins and my aunts and everybody tuned in to this thing [telenovela] to see this guy ... I called my cousins and they were like, 'It's William Levy. You've got to get William Levy!' "
Watch Mother Latina in her “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” inspired-video and watch her break it down to a snippet of her song “Papi”.
Nintendo seems on planning to release remake ‘Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D’ on June 17 in Europe and June 19 in North America and has also revealed a trailer for the game.
Although long-time fans of the N64 original game won’t find anything different, and no footage of the ‘Master Quest’ or ‘Boss Challenge’ modes has been revealed, you’ll still be able to see Link’s new sleek design look, as the game’s visuals have been worked on in order to give it a modern day feel. The footage also includes 3D debuts of Ganondorf and Sheik, as well as the games’ bosses Dodongo and Volvagia the dragon.
Let’s hope that people really miss this game and are willing to buy a remake. Watch the trailer below.
Remember yesterday when I made the post about Rihanna’s music video and my idea for it? Well, it seems as if one of her team members decided to search the internet, raid my blog, and decided to use my idea. I couldn’t have been more happy that that they’re using a reddish tint in the video. The picture shots Rihanna laying over a male model's body.
The video was shot in Los Angeles during March and will serve as the sisth single from her four million-selling fifth studio album, “Loud”. The song will go for Top40/Mainstream adds on May 31st, so you better request the song so that Rihanna and hit #1 on the chart. This song seems to be the modern day “Big Girls Don’t Cry”.
Finally achieve the success that he deserves, Chris Brown is giving the green light to release his next single “She Ain’t You”, off of his fourth studio album, “F.A.M.E”. The song has so far peaked at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #13 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop songs.
It would have only been expected that he tribute Michael Jackson in this music video. The fedora hat and the dancing screamed MJ, but that’s a good thing. I really enjoyed the simplicity of the video and I’m glad that the director didn’t go overboard with any special effects. The video actually kind of represented a Michael Jackson Wii game, if I must say so.
You actually see Chris Brown hovering in the air at the beginning of the video before finally coming down to Earth, followed by lighting backgrounds in a room and bubbly lights and butterflies flying around after the chorus, almost to represent the fantasy childlike nature of Michael Jackson. I even saw some Ne-yo “Closer” aspects and choreography after the second verse of the song.
This video actually reminded me of Michael and what a great loss the world experienced. I’m still affected by it, even thou I never even knew him personally, yet his music made it feel as if he were talking through it to us.
Anyway, “F.A.M.E.” is out now. You can buy the album and the single over at Amazon.
That Rihanna reign just won’t let up! The Barbados Beauty has officially confirmed that the video for her new single “California King Bed” will premiere in less than ten days. No director has been confirmed as of yet, but as Toya would say, we would expect Melina or Anthony Mandlar to do it. Well, we all know how great their videos for Rihanna are, so we can’t disagree, now can we?
This is part of her duel single release consisting of this song and “Man Down”, which has been confirmed to be directed by Anthony Mandler. A picture of Rihanna was pictured on the video’s set over in Portland, Jamaica. This would be the perfect surrounding for the reggae-tinged song.
I’m hoping that the visual for “California King Bed” consists of radiant tints and lots of silky sheets. Then after the opening guitar strums, the sheets unveil Rihanna’s face, backed up by some sunlit lightening. Throughout the video, close-up shots of her and her lover are placed on the camera and there are shots of them caressing one another. During the video’s course, she imagines her lover laying gently besides her, stroking every aspect of his face, and before the start of the chorus he disappears and she erupts with emotion. Before the bridge, flashbacks of them together flicker and it’s revealed that he passed away. However, we return to the introduction of the video, only to find out that she had been dreaming.
Well, it could have been a good idea. Let’s wait and see what Rihanna will do when the video for “California King Bed” premieres.
over at Amazon.