Monday, August 26, 2013

VMAs 2013: Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke performance draws negative reactions from fellow celebrities

The too-hot-for-TV performance ended up being one of the most buzzed-about moments of the show, even among celebrities watching at home.

Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke's jaw-dropping combined performance of "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines" during the Video Music Awards was the talk of the town on Sunday night , but a lot of the chatter about the 20-year-old singer's stage antics wasn't positive, even among her fellow celebrities.
She had a helper at the VMAs: Robin Thicke. After performing her edgy hit, ‘‘We Can’t Stop,’’ she sang the first verse of Thicke’s ‘‘Blurred Lines’’ and then grinded on the R&B singer in a nude bikini. The wild child also slapped a girl’s butt onstage.

Call it the ‘‘Blurred Lines’’ music video 2.0., which aired live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a first time.

‘‘Amazing. I thought it was awesome,’’ Selena Gomez said of Cyrus’ performance backstage. ‘‘I love Robin Thicke, too, so I like that they collabo’d.’’

Artist to watch winner Austin Mahone also seemed to enjoy the performance: ‘‘I thought it was pretty creative. I thought it was pretty cool.’’

Twitter said early Monday that Cyrus was mentioned 4.5 million times on the social network site, ahead of Timberlake’s 2.9 million mentions. Cyrus and Thicke’s performance led in tweets per minute peaks with 306,100.

Though they were attention grabbers and nominated for four moonmen each, Thicke and Cyrus walked away empty handed Sunday night.

Timberlake earned three awards, including video of the year and best male video for ‘‘Mirrors.’’ Days ahead of the VMAs, his rumored reunion with ‘N Sync dominated headlines, and he and his former band mates delivered at the awards show.

As Timberlake performed a medley of his solo hits, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick emerged from the bottom of the stage in suits to sing some lines from their hits ‘‘Girlfriend’’ and ‘‘Bye, Bye, Bye.’’ Gomez, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and possibly the entire venue were giddy as the boy band danced like they did a decade ago. Even rappers Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J admitted on the red carpet they were excited to see ‘N Sync hit the stage.

‘‘Half of the moonmen I’ve ever won, I won with those four guys right there,’’ Timberlake said of his band mates when he accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. ‘‘So above all else, I’m going to share this — we can keep it my house — but I’m going to share this award with them.’’

Cyrus wasn’t the only pop singer with edge at the VMAs: Swift also turned heads. The 23-year-old, who won best female video, appeared to utter an expletive to Gomez when Swift’s rumored ex, One Direction member Harry Styles, was onstage. The boy band also earned boos when it won best song of the summer for ‘‘Best Song Ever,’’ beating out Gomez, Thicke, Cyrus, Daft Punk and Calvin Harris.

Rapper A$AP Rocky also provided an awkward moment Sunday when standing next to NBA player Jason Collins, who were both announcing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ performance. Collins, who recently said he was gay, spoke about coming out as A$AP Rocky looked uncomfortable.

‘‘The next artist is a good friend of mine and he stands up for everything he believes in as far as everybody being equal, color, homosexuality,’’ the rapper said as he pointed to Collins in another awkward moment.

But that was followed with touching performance of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ same-sex anthem ‘‘Same Love.’’ It featured the song’s original vocalist, Mary Lambert, as well as Jennifer Hudson. The video won best video with a social message, while their hit ‘‘Can’t Hold Us’’ won best hip-hop video and best cinematography.

‘‘I never dreamt I would be on a stage accepting an award, any of the awards, in particular for that song,’’ Macklemore said of ‘‘Same Love’’ backstage. ‘‘It’s much bigger than the music. It’s equality, so that was the most special for me tonight, but all of them were incredible.’’

Bruno Mars, who won best male video and choreography for ‘‘Treasure,’’ twirled with his two moonmen backstage, while Gomez admitted she thought Thicke’s ‘‘Blurred Lines’’ should have won best pop video instead of her seductive ‘‘Come & Get It.’’

Lady Gaga kicked off the awards show in a less dramatic fashion compared to her past performances. She did change her clothes — and hair — various times onstage while dancing and singing her new hit ‘‘Applause.’’ She finished in a thong, revealing her toned body.

Katy Perry closed the VMAs under the Brooklyn bridge in a boxing ring, singing her smash hit ‘‘Roar.’’








Friday, August 23, 2013

Lady Gaga fashionable dresses to success

It’s an intriguing sign of the times that the ‘we-can-do-anything’ millennial generation has chosen shape-shifting performance artist Lady Gaga as its pop princess. 
Lady Gaga wears a bubble dress and performs on a 'bubble piano' 

The singer's latest look sees her dressed in monochrome, her face smeared with bright paint



The 'meat dress' Lady Gaga wore to MTV's Music Video Awards in 2010

At the 2011 Grammy awards, the singer crossed the red carpet in a translucent egg

She presented herself as a half-human, half-motorcycle hybrid on the cover of her last album, Born This Way, hissing red-lipped at the lens like a vampire, while her provocative barrage of otherworldly costumes has included the notorious ‘meat dress’ she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in 2010, crafted from flank steak. 

Time named it the top fashion statement of that year; it has its own Wikipedia page

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

‘Star Wars’ episode 7 to release on December 2015

The upcoming ‘Star Wars’ instalment, to be directed by JJ Abrams, is reportedly up for a December 2015 release, instead of May.

With all previous six instalments having been filmed in Britain and released in May, many people believe that the upcoming 'Star Wars' chapter will continue the tradition.

However, according to a report, this upcoming film might be the first to break the history despite the fact that the production will still take place Britain.

The highly-anticipated film will see the return of some original cast members, including Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original trilogy, admits he wants to take part in it.

"Unfortunately Darth Vader was killed off. But it would be nice to come back and do another character, because no one's ever seen my face. I was never unmasked," Prowse said.