Melody Plant

The official remix EP for Lady Gaga’s smash single, “Paparazzi”, just dropped! Check out the tracklisting and official artwork below, then download them all at iTunes!

“Paparazzi”: The Remixes Tracklisting
1. Demolition Crew Remix (3:55)
2. Moto Blanco Remix (4:11)
3. Stuart Price Remix (3:19)
4. Filthy Dukes Remix (5:26)

Keep spreading the word about Lady Gaga’s upcoming performance at the 2009 MTV VMAs Ceremony! Grab & post the HTML codes for her official promo banners to your web page! Check out all four right here! And the polls are still open! Cast your vote for Lady Gaga to win this year’s “Best New Artist” Award!

SEX-PLICIT “LoveGame” Widget:

Heidi Montag was pretty bad when she performed her song ‘Body Language’ at the Miss Universe competition last Sunday. Actually, she wasn’t as bad as I originally thought. ‘The Hills’ star lip synched her way through her performance and was totally trying to give off a Britney Spears vibe from the MTV VMAs in 2000. Heidi is no Britney though. But hey, I give her props for trying. However, Heidi’s attempt still qualifies as embarrassingly bad. I guess the pageant organizers were trying to save up by not hiring some big name artist to perform instead of Heidi. I hope they realized what a big mistake that was.
Tags:

There’s a new 2009 MTV VMAs promo video that has come out featuring ‘Gossip Girl’ actress Leighton Meester and Cobra Starship tackling the Broadway musical ‘ West Side Story’s’ song ‘Tonight’. The video was taped at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn and made use of a vintage New York City subway car. And if you’re impressed by the dance moves, there’s good reason behind that. The moves were choreographed by the amazing Wade Robson. Cobra Starship is nominated for 2 VMAs including Best Pop Video. The band is nominated alongside Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and Beyonce. I wonder who will win.

Before the world’s current obsession with Lady Gaga, the singer told MTV News last year about her taking risks in her career. She said “Some people didn’t get it. Some people still don’t get it. I read reviews sometimes and I’m like, ‘Wow, that guy really doesn’t fucking like me.’ Like, they really don’t get it, but that’s cool. You’ve got to create some kind of stir. You’ve got to say something that’s got to upset some people, and that’s the risk-taking that makes music so fun. The real struggle is that they didn’t want to play my music on the radio. We fought and we fought and I played every club. I had chicken dinner with every program director I could get my hands on. The turning point for me was the gay community. I’ve got so many gay fans and they’re so loyal to me and they really lifted me up. They’ll always stand by me and I’ll always stand by them. It’s not an easy thing to create a fanbase. … Being invited to play [the San Francisco Pride rally], that was a real turning point for me as an artist.”

Beyonce’s little sister Solange Knowles rubbed shoulders with pregnant singer Ashlee Simpson backstage during the taping of MTV’s FNMTV last week at Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood. The 22-year old recently put on the hat of a video director when she made her directorial debut with ‘Sandcastle Disco’ which was written by Cee-Lo and produced by Soulshock & Karlin. The song is the second single off of her sophomore release ‘SoL-AngeL & the Hadley St. Dreams’ which will be dropping in stores on August 26. Her video for the song debuted on the show last Friday. Do the guests of FNMTV have to take pictures with Ashlee when they come by?

Aubrey O’Day visited MTV’s Total Request Live on Monday at the MTV Times Square Studios in New York City. The 24-year old Danity Kane member has been toning down her sexy image lately as she stars as Amber Von Tussle in the Broadway musical ‘Hairspray’. Aubrey said “I’ve learned the part in two weeks, so it’s been crazy, but such a beautiful experience and everyone has been so welcoming, and I just fit right in… It’s positive energy; it’s not negative, but definitely I have butterflies in my tummy right now. I’m just very excited to go onstage tonight and be a little snotty brat.” It’s easy for her to be a snotty brat since it’s not too far from how she really is anyway.

The reigning queen of the summer jam Rihanna was spotted out and about in New York City on Wednesday. She went over to MTV studios to tape TRL earlier this week where she claimed that her new single ‘Disturbia’ is going to be the song of the summer. Considering that her songs have had that title since 2005 – ‘Pon de Replay’ in 2005, ‘SOS’ in 2006 and ‘Umbrella’ in 2007 – there’s no reason why ‘Disturbia’ can’t rule for 2008. Add to that, the song was written by hit maker, and current boy toy, Chris Brown. It’s pretty much a certified hit.

It has recently been announced that Janet Jackson is selling out by starring in an MTV reality show. The untitled project which has already started casting will feature Janet as she mentors a group of aspiring singers and dancers. The project will be filmed in the coming months as she prepares for her world tour. One of the show’s producers says “It’s really about finding who’s the next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher. And we’ll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn’t typically find it from. We’ll go to YMCAs, church groups, local community centers and try to cast the show.”

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz has confessed that he was once so depressed that he tried to commit suicide. In an effort to encourage students suffering from mental illness to get help, Pete, Mary J. Blige and Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan front the Jed Foundation’s ‘Half of Us’ campaign which is aimed to cut student suicide rates. The 3 musicians sat down for interviews detailing their darkest hours which appear on MTV’s college channel mtvU. Pete confessed to being so messed up and taking a bunch of prescription drugs in a parking lot. Suicide is never the answer. Get help if you’re feeling depressed.

Ever since she went crazy, Britney Spears’ record label has been mum. But not anymore.

MTV News was able to get an interview with label rep Allan Mayer. He says, “It’s not Jive’s place to fashion a public-relations campaign with respect to Britney’s personal issues, but Jive does care about her and does support her. We’re not pointing fingers — because the media and the paparazzi wouldn’t exist if there weren’t an appetite for it. But there’s no question that when you have someone at this level of celebrity, they become like cartoons or soap-opera characters, and we forget that they’re human beings. People say that’s the trade you make, that you have to give up your privacy or the ability to lead a normal life, but sometimes you make that bargain before you realize what it entails and it’s too late. Britney’s a grown woman, and she makes her own choices, and we respect that. But she’s been at a disadvantage [without a consistent team], and obviously that makes it harder to cope.”

Drop her!

Shakira already knows how to put out a hit record – but now she’s tackling an even bigger subject: the history of western civilization. Isn’t this piece of news something so different from what we all have being listening, viewing, reading for so many days now. News of the MTV VMAs where singers just boozed, parties, broke relations, fought with each other, gave bad performances bla bla bla. With so much happening isn’t it so cool of Shakira to sit down and learn something that’s worthy of a mention. While everyone else has been at the beach, the MTV Awards and the Emmys, Shakira’s been studying History of Western Civilization all summer at UCLA. I think this is absolutely cool thing that she has enrolled herself into, instead of wasting time and energy of wasteful matter she’s decide that there is time for better things in life and she is utilizing that time for something good, babes you rock!

That’s the question everyone in the world including celebrities and fans are asking of Britney Spears, that couldn’t she manage to put one stage performance something that she is know to be strong at, just more time. You want the truth? The Honest truth? Pains pills and/or prescription medication. That’s likely what went wrong. Depression, Post Partum Depression, Pipolar Manic Depression. Britney Spears is almost assuredly mentally ill and her substance abuse is simply an attempt to cover it. She’s an emotionally unstable wreck, propped up on medication just to pay the bills of all the handlers/parasites/enamels that are leeching off of her to the tune of $700,000 a month. This is just like Anna Nicole. It really, really is. Much like Lindsay Lohan, Britney has to get into some fairly serious trouble with the law, without killing herself or someone else in the process. It’s really the only chance she has left. She’s severed ties with all the people who actually care about her and are only listening to her handlers, who continue, of course, to insist to her that nothing’s wrong. At least Lindsay still listens to her family. Britney won’t. This is sad. And tragic. Very tragic

Britney Spears spent her weekend in Las Vegas, where she has been rehearsing her performance for the MTV VMA’s on September 9th. According to sources, Britney spent all day Friday rehearsing and then that night she went and partied with P. Diddy at Pure nightclub. Hey, now that’s what I like, you work and like Britney rehearsed all day and then when work is done for the day you party hard as well to enjoy and celebrate the day’s work. That’s the culture I have been brought up on and that’s the way I think it should be. No work just partying all the time and killing life without doing anything meaningful and substantial is worthless fun. I’m really looking forward to the MTV VMA’s tomorrow. While I don’t really ever watch MTV and I dislike the majority of the type of people who will be there, I really want to see Britney’s performance.

She needs to stop making excuses about her idiot boyfriend and get away from both him and the drugs. Long ago I have said that the regulators of music industry need to put a brake on the work that these music artist and movies stars do on an year to year period. At times they are not working for years on the trot which is good like a much needed break. But when they are set to release an album and they start with the promotions that’s the time when they are exhausted like Amy was reported to before she checked into the rehab. In other words I think exhaustion today is a synonym for drugs. They need a stress buster and drugs work well for them. Look at what state she is as of today, she can’t give a live performance. But since she is a star singer she is being written about. Why doesn’t someone pick her up and dump her in the garbage tin outside her own house and get her thrown away at a remote destination. So by the time she walks back home some of that exhaustion is turned into legs paining.