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Katy Perry Debuts New Single ‘California Gurls’

Admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:26:43 +0000

‘SUMMER STARTS NOW!’ she tweets about the sunshiney new track.
By James Montgomery

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Katy Perry’s cover art for “California Gurls”

Photo: Capitol

With a single tweet, Katy Perry entered the summer-jam sweepstakes, unveiling her brand-new single, “California Gurls,” to the masses. And, oh, don’t think she didn’t know it.

“SUMMER STARTS NOW!,” Perry shouted … er … wrote on her Twitter page. “WHO’S READY TO HEAR MY SINGLE ‘CALIFORNIA GURLS’ ?”

She then posted a link to her website, which now bears the slogan “Summer Starts Now!” and features a promotional image of a blue-haired Perry reclining on the beach in a bejeweled bikini. Although you can hear “California Gurls” on the site, within minutes of Perry announcing the track, it was practically everywhere on the Net, including Perez Hilton’s site and Ryan Seacrest’s blog.

Perry wasn’t exaggerating when she said the summer starts now, either. “Gurls” is a big, bright, decidedly beach-friendly pop tune, full of sunshiney synthesizers, starry, electronic whooshes and loose, funky, wah-wah guitar flourishes. As if all that weren’t enough to guarantee it instant summer-jam success, well, then wait until you hear the positively massive chorus, on which Perry sings about Daisy Dukes-wearing California gurls with “sun-kissed skin so hot [it'll] melt your popsicle.” Oh, and Snoop Dogg also shows up midway through to contribute a verse dedicated to the “toned, tanned, fit and ready” Cali girls he loves.

In short: Welcome to your favorite sun-tanning song of 2010.

Co-written by Perry and hitmakers Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Benny Blanco, “Gurls” will hit radio May 25. The tune’s debut comes just one day after snippets of it — and two other songs, “E.T.” and “In Between” — leaked online. There’s still no word on what Perry is planning to call the follow-up to her breakthrough One of the Boys album or when it will hit stores.

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Katy Perry Debuts New Single ‘California Gurls’

Admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:26:43 +0000

‘SUMMER STARTS NOW!’ she tweets about the sunshiney new track.
By James Montgomery

src="http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/p/perry_katy/calif_gurls_drops_050710/281x211.jpg"/>

Katy Perry’s cover art for “California Gurls”

Photo: Capitol

With a single tweet, Katy Perry entered the summer-jam sweepstakes, unveiling her brand-new single, “California Gurls,” to the masses. And, oh, don’t think she didn’t know it.

“SUMMER STARTS NOW!,” Perry shouted … er … wrote on her Twitter page. “WHO’S READY TO HEAR MY SINGLE ‘CALIFORNIA GURLS’ ?”

In short: Welcome to your favorite sun-tanning song of 2010.

What do you think of “California Gurls”? Let us know in the comments!

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On the Charts: Justin Bieber Back on Top, Slash Debuts High

Admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:18:23 +0000

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Justin Bieber reclaimed the Number One spot he relinquished to his mentor Usher last week as My World 2.0 ruled the chart despite a 65 percent sales decrease to 102,000 copies, making it the lone album on the Billboard 200 album chart to surpass 100K, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Usher’s Raymond V. Raymond swapped places with the Bieb by coming in Number Two in its second week with 92,000 copies. The biggest surprise on the charts however was Slash, who entered the charts at Number Three with his self-titled solo album. The Velvet Revolver guitarist sold 60,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top Five were a pair of usual suspects: Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now at Four and the 33rd NOW! comp at Five. Only one more new release managed to break into the Top 10 on a slow sales week — overall Top 200 sales were down 23 percent compared to the same week last year — and it was Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet Tour live album at Number 10.

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Lil Wayne, Eminem’s Chaotic “Drop the World” Video Debuts

Admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:18:41 +0000

Barring any more courthouse surprises, Lil Wayne is expected to finally begin serving his one-year sentence behind bars starting today. Before he heads to New York’s Riker’s Island, however, Weezy had one more going-away present for fans: his latest video off the rap-rock disc Rebirth, “Drop the World” with guest Eminem. The video was originally scheduled to premiere on MTV on March 11th, but the Internet unofficially debuted the Chris Robinson-directed clip a week early.

With its chorus “I’mma pick the world up and I’mma drop it on your fucking head,” it makes sense that the theme of the video is pure destruction. Warriors-like mobs flood urban alleyways pulverizing everything in sight for no clear reason, with Weezy F. Baby rapping unscathed in the middle of the chaos. Eminem joins the melee two-thirds of the way in to rap side-by-side with Wayne. The video ends with the entire world aflame, adding “Drop the World” to the growing number of post-apocalyptic videos to premiere in the last half year, like Jay-Z’s “Run This Town,” the Black Eyed Peas’ “Imma Be Rocking that Body” and Adam Lambert’s “Time for Miracles.”

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Even though Weezy will be spending the next year in prison, this will hardly be the last video we see featuring the multiplatinum star in the next 365 days. As Rolling Stone reported in our “Lil Wayne Goes to Jail” cover story, Wayne has filmed anywhere between 10 to 20 videos in front of a green screen in anticipation of his time away — including one for his guest spot on Drake’s Thank Me Later — ensuring we’ll have plenty of Tha Carter during his prison stint. We’re willing to bet the “Listen to Lil Wayne” shirt Weezy wears in the clip also becomes a popular fashion statement while the rapper is serving his sentence.

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Ratings: Idol Keeps Rocking; Parenthood Debuts Fairly

Admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:23:12 +0000

American Idol continued its winning ways Tuesday, while NBC’s heavily promoted Parenthood had a modest debut.

Idol drew 23.5 million viewers over its two-hour broadcast and more than doubled its competition among adults 18-to-49, pushing Fox to another overall Tuesday win.

Parenthood, meanwhile, drew 8.1 million viewers, despite NBC’s continuous promotion during the heavily watched Winter Olympics. The show retained most of its Biggest Loser lead-in (8.3 million viewers), which wasn’t much of a boost, considering Loser was down 11 percent from its last episode before the Olympics.

The silver lining for NBC, however, is that Parenthood won the 10/9c timeslot in the demo, which was good enough to move the network to third place overall for the night…

NBC Debuts New Tonight Show with Jay Leno Promos

Admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:36:23 +0000

He’s showed his softer side on The Oprah Winfrey Show and appeared alongside longtime rival David Letterman in the most buzzed-about commercial during Super Bowl XLIV. Step 3 in Jay Leno‘s return to late night: new promos.

With Leno scheduled to resume Tonight Show hosting duties March 1, NBC has unveiled…