Beyoncé And Lady Gaga Debut "Video Phone"

In a massive attempt to bring hype and shock, Beyoncé's highly anticipated music video supporting the remix version of her single "Video Phone" featuring eight new looks and glorified back-up dancer Lady Gaga has its global premiered an hour ahead of schedule across 60 channels on MTV networks.
Apparently it was Beyoincé's idea to team with Gaga for this Hype Williams-directed remix smashing new video, featuring two of the music industries biggest pop divas first ever collaboration in the music scene, is a color fest of fast edits, fashionable costumes and cool dance steps. The clip is catchy, nothing too crazy or over the top but still unbelievably sexy. The two superstars also breakout into a little choreography dressed in all white basque, eye masks and very high heels. The outfits are a mix between the two pop stars, dancing and posing pin-up style with massive toy guns and matching leotards. The best part for me is their sexy chair dance routine towards the end of the video. Overall a must watch video!
Beyoncé and Gaga hooked up a while ago, and they're both incredible performers who can actually dance and sing and write their own music. Gaga's cameo in the video was quite subdued unlike her usual self, a refreshing change. Her own gothic-pop aesthetic has grown more elaborate as her popularity has risen, said she wanted to honor Beyoncé for creating her own style, and praising the R&B performer as "a beautiful person." "I wanted to [work with her] because this was an era for her in her career where she defined herself aesthetically," she said. "And that should be applauded that a woman did that. She's so great at what she does." She added, "I want to do my version of Beyoncé. So the whole time I was learning the choreography they were calling me Gee-yonce."
In addition to making a duet on the hook and video of "Video Phone", Gaga has her new EP album, "The Fame Monster," coming out next week, November 23 with a song called "Telephone," which features Beyoncé, who will be released a live CD/DVD set "I Am Yours."on same day November 23.

Rihanna Rolls Out A Dark Tale "Russian Roulette"

Superstar songstress Rihanna debuted the powerful music video for "Russian Roulette" on ABC's 20/20 Friday. The song serves as the lead single from her fourth studio album "Rated R" will drops November 23.
The video for the ballad is far from light-hearted, and directed by Anthony Mandler, who has worked with the singer numerous times. "I think that with this song and the meaning of this song and how loaded it all is, no pun intended, how much imagery and perhaps symbolism that is loaded in this song, the only way to do it was to do something that was visually challenging," he tells MTV News.
"Russian Roulette" is dark, creepy and sometimes bloody. Jesse Williams, a familiar face from the new season "Grey's Anatomy," is the lead man in the music video as Jesse revealed in an interview with E! in late November. The video features Rihanna in a series of distressing situation, including what appears to be a gas chamber, a game of 'Russian Roulette,' a vehicular assault, an underwater shooting and a torture chamber. It involves gun play and underwater scenes in which Rihanna is pierced by bullets, her blood clouding as her body contorts. There are her shadowy tormentors, who keep her locked away and subject her to all sorts of torture including gassing her with red smoke and setting a cat on her. There are scenes of her twisting and pawing in a padded cell. At one point, she is mowed down by a speeding car. Through all of this however, she survives and her partner is killed in the 'Russian Roulette' game.
Bajan R&B singer's "Russian Roulette" portrays some seemingly real emotion as the songstress bounces back-and-forth between writhing around a padded cell, and has received positive reviews for her vocal performance and choice of lyrics. MTV News stated "it retains the same sort of attitude and atmosphere that has made Rihanna such a definitive artist." Entertainment Weekly said that Rihanna took some risks with this track and they "absolutely pay off." UK website Digital Spy stating that: "'Russian Roulette' is a haunting, tensely atmospheric pop ballad with lyrics as dark as daytime radio gets. It becomes clear that 'Russian Roulette' is a masterful return effort: brave, brilliantly-realised and bizarre enough to distance Rihanna from the pop-R&B pack. Factor in her most confident vocal yet and only her third songwriting credit on a single and the conclusion is inescapable." The 21-year-old Barbados beauty has confirmed that she will perform the song on 'The X Factor' on November 29, and will also perform the song on the American Music Awards of 2009 on coming Sunday on ABC.

Nickelback's Sad Story "Never Gonna Be Alone"

Grammy-nominated, mega platinum rock powerhouse Nickelback released their new video "Never Gonna Be Alone" on the Road Runner Records Twitter page Wednesday, and world premiered on Youtube. "Never Gonna Be Alone" is the sixth overall single by Canadian rock stars from their sixth multi-platinum studio album, "Dark Horse," produced by the legendary Mutt Lange and released on September 29. The song is a power ballad and featured on the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera: "Caminho das Indias." Canadian rockers have changed from a grunge-tinted metal band to a more melodically accessible pop-metal band. The die-hard traditional hard rockers may not be impressed with the band's more commercial direction, but new fans have been buying their latest CD, "Dark Horse," in droves.
The music video was directed by veteran producer and longtime Nickelback friend Nigel Dick and it tells an extremely sad story of a young woman who has lost her father. The video opens with the young woman in a limousine being taken to her wedding. She is holding a fake blue flower with her bouquet. As she walks down the aisle, she looks back at her mother and father, who are smiling proudly. The scene then cuts back to the woman's high school graduation, where her father is again smiling and clapping for her as she receives her diploma. The video flashes back three more times, the first with the girl's father seeing her off to her prom and the second with him teaching her how to ride a bike. The final flashback shows the father's funeral, the young woman being just a little girl. She is holding two fake flowers in her hand, one yellow and one blue. She tosses the yellow one into her father's grave. The events in the flashbacks are shown again from a different perspective, each time the girl looks up at her father and sees him disappear in a shimmer of light. Back at the wedding, the woman is still looking back, seeing her father's ghost surrounded in light. She realizes that he has still been there for her all along, even in death. The woman places the blue flower in her new husband's breast pocket, and the two wed. As they are leaving the church, the video cuts to her father once more, smiling proudly. He disappears for the final time, his daughter now fully grown up. The video is intercut with scenes of the band playing in a room with a large, light-filled backdrop.
Meanwhile Nickelback's new single "Burn It To The Ground" by Papa Roach has been chosen as the new theme song to WWE Monday Night RAW. The favorite band will also be spending November down under as they tour Australia, and will return stateside and pick up their US tour in San Antonio, Texas with holiday shows through Midwest. Breaking Benjamin and Sick Puppies will be their guests.

Hey Monday Premiered "How You Love Me Now"

The four-piece power pop punk band, Hey Monday have debut a fun new music video for "How You Love Me Now," the lead single from their debut album "Hold On Tight" on 'Seventeen.'
Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Hey Monday features a female lead singer, Cassadee Pope, a nice addition to the band, guitarists Mike Gentile and Alex Lipshaw, and bassist Jersey Moriarty - are signed to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's Decaydance Records label. Hey Monday is set to grow as they've been supporting some of the largest names on the alternative rock circuit. The first big hit "How You Loved Me Now" is circulating radio stations nationwide and the debut album "Hold On Tight" peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The video shows the band along with several other people in uniform working as employees at a beachside restaurant. As they walk out onto the terrace, a man is shown sitting with three girls and talking to them. As Cassadee walks past, he stops and gets up to talk to her. As the video proceeds, the man is chatting up several other girls while the employees, including the band, serve customers before walking away in relief. A beach olympics is held for the employees against the customers. The employees win as Cassadee distracts the same man who tried to chat her up from the start. Throughout the video, there are several scenes of the band performing in a room in front of a blue backdrop with white squiggles. The video ends with the band performing in front of a small crowd of people as the man tries to reach the front to Cassadee.
Led by dynamic frontwoman Cassadee Pope, Hey Monday are currently on the road as part of the Glamour Kills Tour along with All Time Low, We the Kings and The Friday Night Boys. The tour starts Firday from Portland' Roseland Theater, will be performing at the sold-out concert inside the Showbox At The Market in Seattle on today, and runs through December 3, and will be followed by a handful of radio shows throughout December.

Roland Emmerich Doomed In '2012' Opens Today

There is a growing legend out there that the ancient Maya predicted the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. It doesn't. But, as with other topics based on a whiff of truth and a hint of hysteria, Hollywood is all over it. The disaster-movie veteran Roland Emmerich has given movie watchers several apocalyptic sci-fi thriller films in the past in "Godzilla," "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "10,000 B.C.," and he offers another look at the end of the world in his latest exercise in global cataclysm that tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors "2012," opens theaters today.
People who view screenwriting as an art and don't particularly care about audience reaction to their films. But Mr. Emmerich , the hollywood's most successful one-trick pony, claims to favor "human stories" over spectacle, he has taken that very kind of formula writing and made a veritable empire out of it, returning every few years to destroy some corner of the earth and invent a handful of earnest heroes, wisecracking sidekicks and solemn old men to survive his newest take on the apocalypse. "2012" is crammed with state-of-the-art digital effects. A few teacups get chipped: California slides into the sea; Yellowstone Park blows straight up into the sky; disasters flattening Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue, St.Peter's Basilica and the White House; massive floods and fires; and a giraffe being rescued by helicopter. That's just the opening act.
In "2012," our premier Hollywood disastermeister Mr.Emmerich flips our entire planet on its head. Following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) uses his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this thriller.
Mr. Emmerich claims that "2012" is his final disaster movie, unless "Independence Day 2" ever gets off the ground, and the movie is nothing if not an indulgent curtain call for the man who figured out how much we like watching cinematic portrayals of our own demise. It's all the reasons we've ever loved or hated his movies, but also a reminder of why it's high time to move on. Alternately eye-popping, brain-bruising, and certifiably insipid, "2012" will absolutely appeal to anyone who enjoys watching films ironically.

Demi Lovato' "Remember December"Clip Debuts

The Disney star Demi Lovato has a HOT new music video which promotes her latest single "Remember December" and is confirmed to be premiered today on TwitVid and Disney Channel. Lovato has posted the three "Remember December" sneak peaks to her Twitter so far. The snippet mainly takes its focus on the star of "Camp Rock" sequel when she is rocking with her band.
The electro-pop-rocker "Remember December" is the second official single off her hugely successful sophomore studio album "Here We Go Again" and will be released on November 17. The song is sonically a bit different for Lovato. The bigger, bolder sound has the potential to take her from the teeny-bopper playground and into the big leagues.
The 17-year-old pop rock singer shot the video in Los Angeles on Monday night (October 26), a few days before Halloween and recruited "Camp Rock 2" costar pals Meaghan Jette Martin, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and Chloe Bridges to channel the 80s style for the video. The glam video shows the 17 year old Disney star dressed in a leather number with studded gloves...a true rocker!
The Disney singer/actress isn't afraid to get a little angsty about love on her new single, said the track is meant for all her girls out there who need to remind guys that they messed up. "The music video relates to the song in a way that a girl has so much to say to the guy, and it feels like he's not listening, and she wants him to remember everything that they had," she told MTV News. "And so instead of having a love interest in this video, it's all about being fierce and kind of, like, taking control as a girl. It's like girl empowerment. Yeah, divas!" Lovato said the song is near and dear to her but wouldn't say just who the unlucky guy is at the center of the song. "I love this song for many reasons," she said. "It had a different sound than a lot of my songs. I related to it personally more than other songs, and I have so much fun with it. I thought if it could be a single that it would be incredible to perform it all the time."

Lady Gaga Launches Her "Bad Romance" Video

It's all the right amounts of crazy you'd expect from pop star Lady Gaga, after one day delayed to give more time to make it perfect, the much-discussed new video for her new single "Bad Romance" finally premiered on LadyGaga.com Tuesday. And needless to say, it was worth the wait.
The RedOne-produced track "Bad Romance" is the lead single from her upcoming highly anticipated "The Fame Monster" album which was meant to be a re-release of her debut album "The Fame" and will hits stores on November 23. The single was a hit even before it debuted, a testament to Gaga's global popularity and the power of her unique brand of art-pop.
The eye-catching and conceptual clip for "Bad Romance" was directed by Francis Lawrence who's also helmed clips for the likes of Britney, Justin, Gwen, Shakira and Janet Jackson, not to mention the post-apocalyptic Will Smith vehicle "I Am Legend." Gaga detailed what it was like to work with Lawrence on the project, "I knew ability as a director is so much higher than what I could. There's this one shot in the video where I get kidnapped by supermodels. I'm washing away my sins and they shove vodka down my throat to drug me up before they sell me off to the Russian mafia." When explaining her concept of the video she said "It was collaborative. He's a really pop video director and a filmmaker. He did 'I Am Legend' and I'm a huge Will Smith fan, so I knew he could execute the video in a way that I could give him all my weirdest, most psychotic ideas, but it would come across to and be relevant to the public."
The international pop diva more than lives up to her reputation for visual innovation in the new clip, which is the kind of video you just don't see very often anymore and that goes double for the anticipation surrounding it. This is officially the best video Gaga has ever done, and once you finish this five-minute extravaganza, you'll think the same. It's a testament to her brilliance as an artist that Gaga is using the "Bad Romance" video as the jump-off point for the next leg of her career. The message is clear: the old Gaga is over, here's the brand-new Gaga, the one who seems to delight in pushing the boundaries and exploring all manner of sexual proclivities. Gaga, the marketing genius of the century starts 'The Monster Ball Tour' on November 27 and it promises to be better than anything before.