Lady Gaga & Beyoncé Debut "Telephone" Video

The Fame Monster is at it again. The highly anticipated wildly fierce 9-minute long music video for Lady GaGa's new hit song "Telephone" featuring pop superstar Beyoncé premiered last night on E! News exclusively and released to VEVO /YouTube immediately after its TV debut. From the moment Gaga's "Telephone" danced through the radio airwaves, her millions of monsters worldwide have been eagerly and anxiously waiting for this epic video debut. Originally, the video was slated to premiere in February, but was pushed back to March instead. Exactly one month after filming ended, Gaga announced on Twitter that the video "is coming", she explained that the video is not yet released because it is still being edited and that she wants it to be perfect.
The video, gritty, erotic and wildly fierce, this 9-minute, visually stunning, cinematic masterpiece was filmed outside Los Angeles on January 28, and helmed by famed music video director Jonas Akerlund, who once again took responsibility of translating Gaga's vision into reality. Gaga has said that the video for "Telephone" picks up where "Paparazzi" left off; she's in jail for killing her boyfriend, but she's actually having a good time behind bars and doesn't want to leave. She is constantly getting phone calls and unwanted text messages but refuses to take any while trying to party on the dance floor, until she gets the call she wants, which was Beyoncé bailing Gaga out of jail. She further commented on the video saying, "What I like about it is it's a real true pop event, and when I was younger, I was always excited when there was a big giant event happening in pop music and that's what I wanted this to be."
The two shared an electric on-screen chemistry for Beyoncé's "Videophone" music video and will undoubtedly bring forth the same energy for this new collaboration, which is bigger, better and crazier than ever and surpass its predecessor "Paparazzi." Gaga and Beyoncé looks so hot in this stills. Gaga's on-screen chemistry with Beyoncé transforms the song from a popular dance floor gem to a raw and explosive piece of art to be reckoned with. Rich with Gaga's unique dance stylings, iconic costume design and inter-galactic hairstyle and make-up, especially when you throw a dash of Beyoncé into the mix, this is far from your typical music video. The 9-minute visual extravaganza features two of pop's MEGASTARS giving it ALL they've got for their fans.

Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart 'Cherry Bomb'

Dakota Fanning and Kristin Stewart dish out an explosive dose of girl power in their newest video for the band's legendary single "Cherry Bomb," continue to channel the upcoming Floria Sigismondi-directed motion picture "The Runaways," is based on the career of Joan Jett and the real life 70s all girl rock group, "The Runaways," and tells the real-life rock saga of how Joan Jett and Cherie Currie shot to fame as the hottest all-girl band ever, which drops in theaters April 9.
Are you ready for more Runaways rock action from Stewart and Fanning? The original recording for song "Cherry Bomb" in movie was sung by the titular band's lead vocalist, Cherrie Currie (Fanning) with co-founding member and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett (Stewart) singing back-up.
We've seen the trailer, we've heard the music, and now we see the "Cherry Bomb" music video, which shows off Fanning and Stewart really are rockin' and their singing skills and sexy moves. The video is basically a glorified trailer for the movie itself, but it also showcases a bustier-clad, garter-belt-strapped, 16-year-old Fanning's eerily on-point dropkick vocal chops, and snarls out her best Cherie Currie over a montage of movie scenes. Smudged eyeliner! Feathered hair! Straddling of a mic stand! And while she doesn't seem uncomfortable in her skin, exactly, there's a vulnerability to her red-lit motions toward brazenness, especially during the "Hello, Dad; hello, Mom" parts that gives us a pang of parental panic. I just don't think I am ready for 16-year-old Fanning to be all sexied-up like this. But I think Fanning does a great job capturing Currie, and her courage to tackle such a sexual, gutsy role so early in her career indicates that she’ll more than likely transition into adult roles seamlessly.

Lucy Schwartz Debuts Colorful Fantasy 'Gravity'

Los Angeles based singer Lucy Schwartz has just released the video for her latest single, "Gravity." The newest visual is a colorful fantasy told through interpretive dance and filmed under the light of an old carousel slide projector illuminates images around and seemingly through her. The 20-year-old songstress has a pretty special voice and a deft touch with balladry, as shown on her self-released EP, "Help Me! Help Me!" features track "Gravity," is now available on iTunes. Not to mention an All-American girl look that works well in works like this, her video for the song "Gravity." It's a crafty video for a crafty song and despite the fact that it's called "Gravity," the viewer actually may feel a bit lighter of spirit after watching.
What's in a name? Lucy Schwartz chose to keep her given name because she feels it gives insight into who she is as an artist. "My name, Lucy Schwartz, means 'light/dark,'" she explains on her MySpace page. "I see both sides, so when I write a song like 'Help Me! Help Me!' it might have desperate, sad lyrics, but it has the contrast of an upbeat melody. I like to mix both sides of the spectrum." Imaginative, wise, evolving: Schwartz is an accomplished recording artist, vocalist, pianist and songwriter from Los Angeles whose artistry far surpasses her chronological age of 20. As a songwriter, she likes to flirt with such dichotomies. That might explain the weightlessness of "Gravity," but as for the interpretive dancing, well, you're on your own.
Schwartz is a singer/songwriter with an "old soul" that belies her young age. Although her influences are varied, the result is a truly original and timeless musical voice. Schwartz, whose songs range between stripped-down ballads, jazz-inspired pop and indie folk, is that rare combination of talented songwriter and skilled performer. Her debut album, "Winter in June" (2007) offers a glimpse of this young singer-songwriter's burgeoning talents, and she's the 2007 WINNER of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in the teen category for her song "I Don't Know a Thing." Her songs have been featured on the film "The Women" as well as the TV series, "Reaper" and "Cashmere Mafia." Her singing can also be heard on various TV shows including re-runs of the Emmy award winning series, Arrested Development. Now it can be told, the sultry chanteuse of "Mr. F" on Arrested Development is, in truth, the voice of Schwartz. Doing things her own way is clearly Schwartz's forte.

The Epic RPG "Final Fantasy XIII" Launch Today

The most highly anticipated video game of 2010, "Final Fantasy XIII" is officially out today for PS3 and Xbox 360, the one of the most anticipated releases! Watch the New trailer video below featuring the official tracks "My Heart" for the game, from British singer Leona Lewis. The game looks pretty breath-taking to be honest. Just look at the level of detail seen in the grass textures. Stunningly beautiful graphics and a pervasively meticulous level of polish throughout only add to the experience.
Final Fantasy XIII is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix and is the 13th installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released for the PlayStation 3 in Japan on December 17, 2009. Final Fantasy XIII is the flagship title of the Fabula Nova Crystallis collection of Final Fantasy games and is the first game to utilize Square-Enix's Crystal Tools engine. The game features both futuristic and natural elements; it's set between a land of wilderness and the high-tech world above it. Following the story of Lightning, Square-Enix describes the theme of the game as "those who resist the world."
The game sold in excess of one million units on its first day of sale in Japan, and had sold 1,698,256 copies there at the end of 2009. As Final Fantasy XIII reviews rolled in over the last few weeks, critics kept employing a certain word to describe the game: "crossroads." Universal praise was given to the technical milestone for the series achieved by the game's graphics and presentation. Electronic Theatre remarked that "there are very few moments when the visual and aural superiority fails to astound," and Edge Magazine felt that Cocoon in particular was an "inspired setting... blessed with a vibrancy and vivid color that often leaves you open-mouthed." Art design also added to the positive reception of the graphics, being described as "magnificent." Further praise was given to the CGI cutscenes, and the almost seamless transition of visual quality between these and the realtime gameplay. Many also appreciated the game's soundtrack, with Masashi Hamauzu providing "a score with catchy hooks and blood-pumping battle melodies."
The game's new battle system also received near-universal praise. The increased pace of battles was appreciated, several reviews describing it as "thrilling;" Edge Magazine's description of the battle system summarized it as "uncommonly beautiful, with a background fiction as rich as its story is poor, and at its beating heart is a battle system that stands among the genre's finest." The roles provided by the Paradigm Shift feature also added depth to the battle system and contributed to the fast pace, and having the AI automate the other two party members' actions meant battles in the game "may be the most involving the series has ever seen." The story, characters and voice acting were mostly received well. Wired remarked that the story was "a little more human and less esoteric than in previous games." 1UP felt that the story was "hardly world-class writing," but that the writers clearly knew the medium well and had attempted to avoid clichés.

"The Weary Kind" Changes Ryan Bingham's Life

The little song that could win a very big Oscar! The Texas Country/Americana rodeo bull rider turned singer Ryan Bingham's work on the award-winning movie "Crazy Heart" soundtrack "The Weary Kind" has taken his career to a new level. The song just won Oscar's Best Original Song with legendary T-Bone Burnett last night, follow his Golden Globe award for the same song on January 17. The whole experience is far removed from Bingham's previous life. Believe it or not, just a year ago, the 28-year-old singer and his band were on the road playing gigs all over the country and living out of their van.
If you haven't seen Best Actor Winner Jeff Bridge's brilliant portrayal as the revered down-and-out, country singer Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart," stop what you're doing and go to your local theater and see this movie. The film's soundtrack is a mix of classic country and new tunes written specifically for the film by Bingham, who and his Dead Horses serve as Bridges' backing band in the film as well. Bingham said, during a recent stop in Chicago. "It was a wonderful experience working with everyone involved with the film, and this is a great payoff."
It's been a whirlwind few years for Bingham who has spent most of his life on the road, first on the rough-and-tumble rodeo circuit, then moving from town to town on the equally volatile roadhouse musical circuit. Those travels have given him plenty of material to draw from and plenty of reason to stop for a moment to dig in his heels and take a stand. "With all that's happened politically and economically in the last couple of years, I felt like there was a lot to say," Bingham explains. "As a young person, I felt like it was time to get involved, to write something that wasn't just about Saturday nights in bars. And as far as Dylan? Things that were happening back then are still happening. Things keep repeating themselves."
Burnett first heard of Bingham through filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who suggested he check out the work of the younger artist. Burnett liked what he heard, so he and director Scott Cooper suggested Bingham attempt to write a song for the movie. Bingham went on the road with his band, the Dead Horses, and returned with a rough draft of "The Weary Kind." Bingham's whiskey-soaked vocals perfectly fit the movie, and the song takes you straight into the heart of the movie's main character and his weathered voice makes the emotion of the song inescapable and you feel like you've walked in Bad's shoes. Bingham knows how to make the lyrics of his Texas inspired songs seasoned and full of life. Now, teamed up with his band The Dead Horses, I'm sure to see more great things from this outlaw of an artist.

Lil Wayne And Eminem Unveil "Drop The World"

It seems like the entire world has been waiting for rapper megastars, Lil Wayne and Eminem, to team up for an epic hot verse-spitting track. It's finally here! The dream collaboration of Rap moguls has been expressed in video form, for their single "Drop The World," which was supposed to be premiered March 11 on MTV has been debuted days earlier than the schedule. The single is the third official single off Wayne's seventh and also first rock-inspired studio album "Rebirth," and it's rock feel is depicted accurately in this earth shattering video.
Wayne and Eminem both were featured together on Drake's hit "Forever" with Drake and Kanye West, so it was only a matter of time before the two would pair up again. The song is an angry message toward critics and haters of the duo's careers, while the Chris Robinson-directed video sees how Weezy and the Slim Shady appear on the street and spit their verses and among a gang of people around them running wild from every direction. Broken glasses shatter on the ground and fire set ablaze, giving a chaotic scene. It shows a warzone-like atmosphere, as if the world was coming to an end. The clip is filled with a ton of digital destruction and mayhem, similar to an average action movie and just without the traditional jailbreak scene.
The video was filmed on the eve of the Grammys, Robinson described the shoot for the video as "Just energy. It was a one-day shoot, and Wayne was on the set for upward of 14 hours." "You got two guys who are basically huge supernovas coming together, and the way that the song is constructed is great," Chris Robinson tells MTV News. "Because unless you see it coming, you don't know Eminem is on the track. The first two hooks and the first two verses are all Wayne, and it's kind of a surprise when Eminem comes through, and we matched it visually how Eminem enters the piece."

Goldfrapp Launch Their Colorful "Rocket" Video

The British electronic music duo Goldfrapp have debuted a synth dance video Friday, in support of their leadoff synthpop single "Rocket" from from the synth-pop duo's forthcoming fifth studio installment "Head First" which is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. stores on March 23 via Mute. The song was recently praised by Adam Lambert for having great tune "in terms of nodding to that '80s sound but doing it in a contemporary way."
It sounds like it's back to business as usual for Goldfrapp after the pastoral-electronica of Seventh Tree, although "Rocket" certainly has more of an '80s pop edge to it than the band's past glories. There's plenty of phallic imagery in the video, which should keep anyone happy who has fantasized about Alison Goldfrapp and a big pink "Rocket."
It's that age-old tale: the really bad break-up where, after a few spats and some spilled tea or whatnot, you bind your ex-lover in duct tape, kidnap them, hitch a 18-wheeler with a massive rocket, strapping them onto the side of a gigantic rocket ship with the help of a few super sexy space nymphs and, without any remorse, send them hurtling into the stratosphere never to be seen or heard from again. The video directed by Kim Gehrig, brings that vengeful sentiment to hilarious, neon-colored life. In it, finds singer Alison Goldfrapp (vocals) enlisting the aid of a pack of new millennium Robert Palmer girls to help carry out her dirty deed. She's taking behind the wheel and sending a man to the outer space in a middle of Mars-like desert, and dances under a sky that looks a lot like the one gracing their album cover, while Will Gregory (synthesizer) plays a lazy gas station attendant. Fun little music flick saturated with color and attitude.
The thing I appreciate about Goldfrapp, aside from their incredible production and the way that they make music sound, is that they put a lot of thought into their material conceptually. Goldfrapp will be performing "Rocket" live on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on March 26. The show will be available to view for 7 days on the BBC iPlayer for anyone who misses it.