Last night at the BET Awards, some lucky fans were chosen to present the viewer's choice award. Some serious awkwardness transpired. Not only did the wrong person get it, the celebrities involved happened to be Chris Brown and Rihanna, with Drake thrown in no less. Brown owned the BET Awards, taking home four big honors, one of which being the viewer's choice award. But it wasn't given to him initially ...
The lucky fan read the winner as "Chris Brown," only to recant it and say, "I'm sorry, the winner is Rihanna." The audience grumbled. THEN, despite the fact that Rihanna's name appeared on screen one of the presenters chimed in again to award the honor to ... Drake. Drake then appeared on stage to collect his trophy, giving a short speech and describing the whole thing as awkward. To say the least. Presumably, at some point later, Brown was credited with the actual award ... but not before the entire process was thoroughly discredited.
While Eminem's "A Kiss" is sure to get people talking, Shakira's "Rabiosa" will leave tongues wagging. A great many of them, we're guessing. Shakira is known for her sexy hip-shaking, but she really ups the ante with this effort, channeling her inner pole-dancer and gyrating away! The 34-year-old Colombian singer smolders as a blonde and dons a new look - a brunette bob - in the new video, which features Pitbull. "Rabiosa" is the third single from her album, Sale El Sol. Watch/drool below:
Despite a drenching down pour, the singer surprised early arrivals at the Glastonbury festival on Thursday night with an unscheduled show before the festival even officially opened!
She then took to Twitter to share her excitement to be performing at the iconic UK music festival, tweeting:
"Umm. Today was epic!!!!I played the dance tent for the glasto thursday partiers…"
"tomorrow!!Dance tent!! again!! I've been fucking waiting my whole life for the chance to play glastonbury!!"
"My throat was bleeding.there's nothing more worth my blood than my fans. Ill scream till I bleed all summer long for u guys"
Ke$ha will OFFICIALLY kick off the festival on Friday night and we're so sad we're missing it because it sounds like she is showing ticket holders a good time!
Good luck tonight, gurl! Try not to flood those pipes with too much internal bleeding! LOLz!
Filming yourself choking a porn star and then committing suicide is sure to upset a few folks. But a British group known as Mothers Against Violence has taken criticism of Eminem to a new level. In a recent statement, the organization bashes the heck out of the rapper for his "Space Bound" music video (below), referring to the star as "evil."
"People who do this are really quite evil," the group says. "Children are influenced by the things they see. If we feed violence, it becomes strong. Like an addiction. It's all about the money with these videos. Eminem isn't thinking about the families affected. It's selfish - it comes to a point when selfishness becomes evil."
Great Britain, Britney Spears is set to give you more. The singer announced new tour dates in England this week, as she takes her latest tour across the ocean in the fall.
He certainly is cover-worthy! Enrique Iglesias looks all hot on the cover of the new issue of Siempre Hombre.
With his recent attack on the music chart with hit after hit, it’s certain that he’s getting offers left and right for mag covers and more.
He’s been called many things, and this time he gets the title of ‘El Rey Del Cachondeo’. So right on! Siempre Hombre is part of Siempre Mujer magazine and the edition only comes once a year as a flip cover for the regular mag. Even more of an honor!
Lady Gaga is going where few pop stars have gone before: The judges’ panel of So You Think You Can Dance.
Nigel Lythgoe, creator and head pundit on FOX annual summer reality series, has tappedthe “Born This Way” singer to deliver commentary and constructive criticism (with a side of quirky fashion sense) on an episode of the talent show airing later this season. Gaga joins Broadway’s Kristin Chenoweth and Carmen Electra as SYTYCD’s latest celebrity contributor — a new stars appears each week in the final round of the hit dancing competition.
Mark your calendars, Little Monsters: We all remember what happened the latest time your Mother Monster shared her expertise with talent show hopefuls:
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have reportedly been spotted lavishing the L-word on each other. The teenage couple were apparently overheard declaring their love for each other during a shopping trip to New York earlier this week. An onlooker in Armani Exchange told PopEater, "Justin and Selena were holding hands as they shopped and said 'I love you' to each other not once, but several times in public. Everyone could hear them. "I guess they want to share their love with the world... Justin's bodyguard wouldn't let anyone get too close to them, but that didn't stop them from showing off their affection for each other. They were just in their own world... dazed and in love." The romance between the pair is said to have got even more serious when Selena, 18, met Bieber's family earlier this month.
Beyonce Knowles can sing up a treat, dance like a woman with three hips and five speeds, act perfectly well, co-write songs and run a business that turns over millions. At a pinch she can probably rewire your house and de-flea your dog.
However, what she doesn't have is a sense of humour. Not a skerrick. Does that matter? Last time I looked Weird Al Yankovic was still uglier, poorer and not squiring a fellow mogul like Jay-Z.
Yes, it does matter. Not because she needs to be making jokes or cracking wise but because it would, maybe, stop her taking herself quite so seriously. It might, possibly, remind her of her strengths and weaknesses and exactly why people have bought her records.
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Beyonce's latest album dishes up heavy-handed and predictable songs.
But I doubt it, because Knowles's previous three albums have all suffered from the same issue that begins with the fact that she is not an album artist. Each one has had a handful of cracking pop/R&B singles packaged with pedestrian ballads, corporate filler and an overall attitude that you might call, to borrow a line from her fellow Texan, Governor Rick Perry, a shade of American exceptionalism.
That would explain why for the first third of this album and several times afterwards Knowles goes again and again to the well of what she no doubt thinks of as deep and meaningful, though in reality they are heavy-handed and predictable songs of indomitable spirit, empowerment and trouble-conquering. She sees herself as a soul singer in a line from Aretha to Mary J. Blige.
While she has a big voice, she is too deliberate to bring real heart to a slow waltz such as I Was Here. Even when a song such as I Miss You, which has little more than a bare electronic pulse, gives her the chance to let the song be felt, she pushes it.
Too deliberate ... Beyonce Knowles performs at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26. Photo: Getty Images
Where Knowles then strikes trouble is that the bold and brassy side of her, which produced Single Ladies and Deja Vu, is not firing on all cylinders. Party, which features Andre 3000 of Outkast, never kicks off while End of Time feels stiff-legged for Caribbean-influenced dance music. The best of them, Countdown, throws together brass band, stuttering steps, brief splashes of dancehall and electronica and celebrates its near oddness, but you can't help wondering, what if it had been really odd and boldly different, maybe even funny?
Even less successful is the song presumably intended to fill the ''girl power via hip-shaking dance clip'' Single Ladies hole. Run the World (Girls) borrows from the Timbaland/Missy Elliott bag of tricks of weird sounds, cross-current beats and spiky vocals. The effort is there but unlike Missy at her peak, it never sticks fast. Much like the album, really.
He certainly is cover-worthy!
