CNN is finally addressing the fact that they totally eff’d up with their Sunday afternoon story that they in fact banned Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s new video “Telephone” because it was deemed to racy.
While nobody mentioned Gyantunplugged.com as being the blogger to bring the erroneous story to their attention, It’s nice to know that a bloggers power can be used for good.
Props to Tuma @MTV for assisting me in clearing the air.
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GU.com reported that Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s video had pushed the envelope so much with their newest collabo “Telephone,” that MTV chose to ban the visuals. However, it seems that the worlds most trusted news organization got it COMPLETELY wrong, which was discovered when I posted a story on it Sunday night:
“MTV did not ban Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s ‘Telephone’ video — in fact, we premiered it on Friday, March 12, on-air and online at MTV.com, two days before this story was falsely reported,” said MTV Executive Vice President of Music and Talent Amy Doyle. “Fans can continue to catch the video as we repeat it on-air and online.” Music videos generally air on MTV weekdays between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m.
It’s a good thing MTV cleared that up and quickly because that would have made the channel completely irrelevant. Hell, that video better win Best Video of The Year! It’s so weird it’s perfect for the award.
Hey whatever happened to video vanguard award. Props to Tuma at MTV Jamz for sending this over.
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Update** Apparently CNN has gotten it ALL wrong. MTV Jamz posted the following message on their twitter page moments after I posted this blog. Read it here
MTV is proving that is no longer relevant when it comes to pushing the boundaries and cultivating pop stars.
The word has been handed down from the higher up’s that Lady GaGa’s new video “Telephone” featuring Beyonce will not air the reality based network. No reason has been handed down yet, but many feel the overtly sexual and provocative visuals are too much for its audience. It should be noted that ‘Telephone’ has garnered 13 million hits on youtube alone since hitting the web Thursday, March 11th.
This is particularly shocking seeing as though the Viacom owned channel was instrumental in developing the likes of Madonna, Salt & Peppa, and Britney Spears — all who’ve pushed the boundaries in their own right.
MTV has once again showed that they’re way too comfortable in their reality dominated programing to angry advertisers or demographics,
Check out the old broads at CNN argue what effect the ban will have on Beyonce’s squeaky clean image.
Epic Fail MTV. [Source]
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Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s much anticipated new visual collabo has dropped. It’s technically not supposed to drop until 11:30pm tonight, but you know how we bloggers do.
LaGaga addressed the rumors that she has a d*ck within seconds of the video, and definitely showed that she loves her..um diverse audience.
Personally, I wasn’t impressed. If anything I’m completely confused. I found myself perplexed by the all the lesbian action, Tyrese’s role was equally confusing.
But shoutout to the P*ssy Wagon homage from Quinton Tarantino “Kill Bill”.
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I have a whole new respect for Lady Gaga. Not so much for what she said in the interview, but how she fought fate so that she didn’t incur a wardrobe malfunction on Oprah.
If you watch closely you can see Gaga looking intensely upset. But at least she won both the battle and the war of nudity.
GAGA FOREVER!
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I realize not everyone is on this Lady Gaga train, however I still thought I’d update you.
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Just days after the obscure [Kid Cudi] busted a fan in the face his fist for tossing a wallet he’s been dropped from Lady Gaga’s hot new tour.
According to a press statement from his team (posted on Dat New Cudi) this fan ruckus is unrelated to his departure from the tour.
“Kid Cudi has decided to take an early leave of absence from Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour, in order to balance his schedule surrounding the recording of his next album and acting commitments.”
Yea right..
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The new premium video channel site Vevo officially launched tonight and everybody and their momma was in the building. Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, that damn Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Young Jeezy, Rihanna, the old ass heads from the music biz Clive, Tommy, LA and Jimmy and a whole lot more.
Check the flicks.
Mimi and her boobage. Oh and fly ass boots.
Ciara made a rare appearance. Word is she’s hard at work on the follow up to her failure, Ciara: The Evolution. Not really feeling the dress. But whatever.
The old geezers in the game. Two of which are no longer trailblazers making their labels any money.
Mary and 50 Cent
Lady Gaga looking crazy as usual.
So there’s Q-tip.
50 Cent and Nick Cannon posing for the camera.
Mimi and Riri in a loving embrace.
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After a week of estimations, erroneous stories and Rihanna discounts, the final numbers have been released for this weeks music sales and it looks like Simon Cowell is laughing all the way to the bank.
His star off the hit family reality show, “Britain’s Got Talent” Susan Boyle has the number one album in the country selling a staggering 670k units. Boyle’s, I Dreamed a Dream shattered Eminem’s previous year-high mark for first-week sales of Relapse, which moved 608k back in May and also beat Ashanti’s record for a debut album by a female, set back in April, 2002.
The controversy over Adam Lambert’s debut album, For Your Entertainment didn’t seem to compromise his position on the charts, as the staunch homosexual made an impressive cannon ball like splash with 198k copies.
America still seems to be Gaga for Lady G, as the androgynous songstress managed to secure not one, but two albums in the top ten. Her eight-song, Fame Monster effort for Interscope debuts at #4 with 181k, while the newly released deluxe edition of Fame is up a whopping 398% to #7, with 144k.
However the biggest loser of the week definitely goes to Def Jam Princess Rihanna. With arguably the most press received by any star in 2009, her new album Rated R couldn’t touch Susan Boyle’s numbers – which some would say makes it a failure- came in at a disappointing 5th place with 180k units sold.
This is a particularly damaging blow as word is rapidly spreading that IDJ/Def Jam head LA Ried will be ousted by years end for severely under performing as of late.
With brand new releases from Alicia Keys, Chris Brown and Andre Bocelli on the horizon,I think it’s safe to say that Rihanna will be bumped from the top ten come this time next week.
Personally, I loved “Rated R”. I was never a Rihanna fan until I heard it. But it’s clear that though she garnered critical acclaim from the project, the theme proved to be too dark for consumers.
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