Tag: Music (41-50 of 64)

May 20 2012 12:19 PM ET

'Saturday Night Live' recap: Jagger rocks out, and Kristen Wiig bids farewell

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All year, SNL viewers have had one burning question on their minds. And tonight, we finally got an answer: So that is what Chris Kattan looks like now.

Oh, also: Kristen Wiig really is exiting the show. I hate to see her go, but loved watching her leave — that concluding sendoff sketch might have been the sweetest thing on Saturday Night Live since Steve Martin said goodbye to Gilda Radner.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. The Kristen Wiig Farewell Tour kicked off with a Lawrence Welk Show reprise that gave Wiig’s tiny-handed Dooneese one last time to shine (at least, until Wiig returns as a guest host). Though this sketch has been well and truly run into the ground since its first appearance in 2008, Wiig’s commitment always makes it work — and last night, she got an extra boost from surprise guest Jon Hamm as suave Italian crooner Gionni Prosciutto (a clever tweak on Jon Hamm’s John Ham). Watching these two make beautiful music together almost makes me wish their characters in Bridesmaids could have worked things out. Not watch this video? Now you’re just being fusilli:

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May 16 2012 02:40 PM ET

Jennifer Lopez unseats Lady Gaga on the Forbes Celebrity 100

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According to the just-released Forbes 2012 Celebrity 100 List, Jenny from the Block is back. She handily defeated Lady Gaga, last year’s No. 1, as well as Oprah Winfrey (No. 2), Britney Spears (No. 6), and Steven Spielberg (No. 10). Lopez’s resurgence can be credited to her gig as a judge on American Idol, as well as her Kohl’s clothing line, her top-selling fragrances, her endorsement deals with L’Oreal and Gillette, and the two movies she has coming out this year.

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May 9 2012 01:00 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: What's YOUR go-to song for a dance party of one?

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Fair warning, don’t click through if you don’t want to hear a SPOILER from New Girl‘s finale. Last night’s season-ender centered on whether Nick (Jake Johnson) would vacate the loft to live with his on-again girlfriend Caroline. After packing up the moving van and taking all the roommates on an odyssey of togetherness, everyone returned home to the loft without Nick. But then! Nick returned and with a fitting fanfare: AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.” The roommates each rocked out in their respective rooms, and it was a wonderful close to a strong first season.

But New Girl wasn’t the only recent show to feature solo dancing. The April 29 episode of Girls found Hannah (Lena Dunham) pepping herself up, appropriately, to Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” These two scenes got us thinking about our own favorite solo dance party jams. For me, it’s Simply Red’s “Sunrise (Love To Infinity Radio Mix).” Sometimes a girl just needs to bounce around.

What gets my esteemed colleagues going? And what Celine Dion song made not one but two appearances on the list? Click through to find out, then share your favorite below! READ FULL STORY »

Apr 30 2012 01:16 PM ET

PopWatch Confessional: The entertainment that introduced you to heartbreak

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The thing about the fairy tales we’re told and the Disney movies we watch as children is that while they may start off with a tragedy, there’s always a happy ending. Over the weekend, the 1991 movie The Man in the Moon was on cable, and I was reminded how much it scarred me as a teen. If you don’t remember it, Reese Witherspoon stars as a 14-year-old who replaces her crush on Elvis with a crush on the teen farmer next door, Court (Jason London). Just as he finally accepts their age difference, he meets her older sister and falls for her. Then, distracted by postcoital bliss, he falls off a tractor while reaching for his hat on a tree limb AND DIES. Clearly, I had not seen the trailer for the movie, which gives that away. I was devastated. It hurt my soul…each and every time my sister and I watched it on HBO because we, too, had a crush on Jason London.  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 25 2012 12:29 PM ET

Obama talks Jon Stewart, Mick Jagger, and his burgeoning musical career ('I can sing') in new 'Rolling Stone' interview

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Barack Obama let loose with Jimmy Fallon last night, gamely slow-jamming the news and making cracks about not legalizing weed to a crowd stuffed with college students. But the president’s a bit more buttoned-up in a new Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner — well, at least until the conversation turns to a certain legendary soul singer.

The 6,500-word piece tackles everything from Obama’s views on marriage equality to the Keystone pipeline to turmoil in the Middle East. But we know what you’re really interested in: More scoop on 44′s famous take on Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” Apparently, the singing was inspired by the president’s deep aggravation: “It was my fifth event of the day,” he explains to Wenner. “It’s about 10:30 at night, and we go up to the Apollo. I wanted to hear Al Green. The guys who were working the soundboard in the back, a couple of real good guys, they say, ‘Oh, man, you missed the Reverend, but he was terrific, he was in rare form.’ So I was frustrated by that.”

But just as searing post-breakup pain leads to awesome post-breakup jams like “Since U Been Gone,” Obama used his frustration to fuel his musical outburst: “I just kind of broke into a rendition of ‘Let’s Stay Together.’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, so the president, you can sing, man. You should do that onstage.’” Though senior adviser Valerie Jarrett was against the idea, press secretary Jay Carney told Obama to go for it.

Was he nervous about taking on a classic in front of the man who made it famous? Of course not — this is No-Drama Obama we’re talking about. “I can sing,” he says. “I wasn’t worried about being able to hit those notes.” READ FULL STORY »

Apr 24 2012 02:40 PM ET

'Bachelorette' producers choosing Emily Maynard's theme song: Speak now, or forever hear Cher's 'Believe'

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Bachelor/Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss is making a decision that will affect us all: choosing the song for Emily Maynard’s season. Earlier today, Fleiss tweeted that they are “closing in” on a song and asked fans what they think of Cher’s ”Believe.” (It’s nice of him to ask, since we will be hearing it as often as “This Year’s Love” played during Bachelor Ben Flajnik’s “journey.”) I love that song, too, and see how the chorus — “Do you believe in life after love” — could fit Maynard, who had to pick up the pieces after losing the love of her life in a plane crash days before she learned she was pregnant. But when I think of Maynard, I don’t think of an Auto-Tuned club dance mix. The audience needs to know that she has a new energy, but you want to keep us thinking of her as sweet and genuine.

Let’s offer some other suggestions. Mine: Celine Dion’s “A New Day Has Come.” Watch the video below. Read the lyrics here. Two key passages: ”Let the rain come down and wash away my tears/Let it fill my soul and drown my fears/Let it shatter the walls for a new, new sun/A new day has come” and “Where it was dark now there’s light/Where there was pain now there’s joy/Where there was weakness, I found my strength/All in the eyes of a boy.” (Also, “I can’t believe I’ve been touched by an angel with love” — I’m just saying.)  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 18 2012 03:42 PM ET

Ted Nugent's Greatest Hits: His 10 Most Outlandish Quotes

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Many people have a crazy passionate conservative older relative who sends semi-coherent emails ranting about the traitorous crimes of President Obama and his minions. For those who don’t and feel like they’re missing out, there’s Ted Nugent. In 2012, Uncle Ted is more famous for offensive insults than anything he accomplished musically. Tomorrow, according to Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze, he’ll meet with the U.S. Secret Service after he hurled a veiled threat at President Obama during a recent NRA convention in St. Louis. “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year,” he said. Watch it below: READ FULL STORY »

Apr 3 2012 10:23 AM ET

The Fray's 'Rainbow Connection'-style national anthem: Love it or hate it? -- VIDEO

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Unless you’re the late, great Whitney Houston, it’s tough to perform a “Star-Spangled Banner” that people actually like. Take risks, and you’ll sound too screechy; concentrate on bombastic vocals, and you’ll mess up the words; play it safe, and some may accuse you of being boring. So we can hardly blame The Fray for trying to curry favor by mashing up two things Americans love more than anything: patriotism and the Muppets.

The Grey’s Anatomy-approved band was drafted to perform the national anthem at last night’s NCAA basketball championship game. But instead of doing a traditional, rousing rendition, Isaac Slade and co. delivered something gentle and jangly — sort of like Francis Scott Key meets “The Rainbow Connection.” See their performance below.

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Mar 11 2012 11:00 AM ET

'Saturday Night Live' recap: Host Jonah Hill gets a little help from his friends (Tom Hanks and Stefon)

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Maybe Jonah Hill just got lucky. If his most recent turn as Saturday Night Live host had been during any other week than the post-Lindsay Lohan debacle he might be catching far more heat for last night’s rocky episode. Then again, even in comparison to Lohan’s episode, which had unfairly high expectations to begin with, Hill likely still wouldn’t rank as one of the season’s worst. (Anna Faris and Charles Barkley still have, er, bragging rights to that.)

That’s not to say it will even come close to a season best. The episode, through no fault of Hill’s, got off to a rough start when they squandered Taran Killam’s talents by having him loudly play Rush Limbaugh for a baffling opener. Wasting the opportunity to really lay into Limbaugh regarding his controversial statements about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, SNL instead opted to make rape jokes (didn’t they learn from last week’s disastrous ‘Scared Straight’ bit?) and repeatedly list absurd fictitious sponsors. SNL probably should have taken a cue from The Daily Show and not go so easy on the guy.
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Mar 8 2012 10:54 AM ET

Dionne Warwick's final conversation with Whitney Houston: 'She had everything in the world to live for.'

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It’s been almost one month since the sad passing of Whitney Houston, and now the legendary singer’s family is beginning to open up. While Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina (who, as its been reported, was left everything in her mother’s will) and her brother Gary Houston and sister-in-law Patricia Houston sat down with Oprah Winfrey for a chat on Oprah’s Next Chapter (the episode airs on OWN this Sunday), the Grammy-winner’s cousin, singer Dionne Warwick talked to Good Morning America on Thursday.

“I spoke to Whitney the day that she passed,” Warwick revealed during her interview, “I spoke to her that morning.” The 71-year-old said that Houston asked if she’d be at Clive Davis’ Grammys party, which Houston was also going to attend. Warwick told GMA, “She said, ‘You’re here, aren’t you? You’re coming to the party, aren’t you?’  I said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to be there’ and she said, ‘Thank you, I want you to be here. You’ve got to be here for me.’” (Tragically, Houston was found dead in a bathroom at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel, hours before the pre-Grammy celebration.)
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