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Beyoncé's Label Blocks Her YouTube Channel

For Sony, piracy is piracy no matter where

(Newser) - If you want to watch a Beyoncé video, one place you shouldn't be headed is Beyoncé's own YouTube channel. In an apparent piracy crackdown, Sony has blocked her videos; visit the channel and you're likely to see a message: “This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who...

Singer 'Streaks' Through Dallas in New Video

Erykah Badu's naked romp wasn't staged, she says

(Newser) - Erykah Badu's video for "Window Seat" is all over the net, and it's causing a stir for more than the smooth groove. In the clip, Badu strips down to nothing as she walks down a street in her Dallas hometown, and if the singer's Twitter feed is to be...

Lady Gaga Video Has Lots of... Product Placement
 Lady Gaga Video 
 Has Lots of... 
 Product Placement 
see the miracle whip?
Mar 15, 2010 9:48 AM CDT

Lady Gaga Video Has Lots of... Product Placement

From Miracle Whip to a dating site, which paid and which didn't

(Newser) - It made headlines for its salacious, possibly-banned-from-MTV content—but Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video is also garnering attention for its remarkable number of product placements. “If Michael Jackson was making 'Thriller’” in this day and age, “he would do this, too. These million-dollar music videos have...

MTV Denies Banning Gaga Vid

Fox, CNN report 'too provocative' ban

(Newser) - Is MTV growing chicken in its old age, or was it all a big misunderstanding? Fox News and CNN reported that the steamy new Lady Gaga-Beyoncé music video (watch here ) for Telephone was too hot to handle for MTV, which reportedly pulled it Saturday. But MTV officials immediately denied...

Gaga Puts Mixed-Gender Rumors to Bed in Steamy Vid

G, Beyoncé in a lather in prison babes video

(Newser) - Lady Gaga lays to rest rumors that she's mixed gender and replaces them with visions of masochistic lesbian love in her latest eye-popping music video. "I told you she didn't have a dick," one buff female prison guard tells another after stripping Lady G in a cell in...

New 'We Are the World' Video Debuts

Recording will raise money for Haiti earthquake relief

(Newser) - The 25th anniversary remake of "We Are the World" made its debut during the Olympics opening ceremonies last night, and blogger Sgt. Tibs of Chicago Now thinks it generally hits the mark. "Singers that made me go 'Wow!': Celine Dion and Jennifer Hudson," he writes, and...

MTV Loses 'Music Television' From Its Logo
MTV Loses 'Music
Television' From Its Logo
TRUTH IN BRANDING
Feb 9, 2010 6:16 PM CST

MTV Loses 'Music Television' From Its Logo

After all, music videos aren't even an afterthought now

(Newser) - In a move likely only to surprise anyone just out of a 25-year coma, MTV is dropping the words “Music Television” from the channel’s logo. MTV has been mostly music-video-free for some years now, giving over its airwaves to reality standbys like The Hills, The Osbournes, and its...

My New Vid's Not Satanic: Jay-Z

Rapper, director deny On To The Next One contains occult images

(Newser) - With the conspiracy-theory corners of the Internet gnawing through the idea that Jay-Z’s latest video, for the single On To The Next One, is chock-full of Satanic imagery and the symbols of Freemasonry, the rapper and the vid’s director are laughing it all off. “That’s crazy...

Viral Music Videos We're Suckers For

Our favorite ways to while away the hours...

(Newser) - Having a tough time adjusting to working five-day weeks once again? So are we. To ease the post-holiday pain, three music videos that are hard to resist: One that's stunning (there's just something about little voices singing grown-up songs), one that's clever (two Yale students take an impressive turn as...

2009's Most Viral Videos
 2009's Most Viral Videos 
Year in Review
Dec 13, 2009 1:20 PM CST

2009's Most Viral Videos

Music videos rule the charts, user-generated stuff absent

(Newser) - Viral videos went corporate in 2009, with nary a user-generated video cracking the top 10 in Visible Measures’ ranking, based on views on 150 different platforms. The list is almost entirely music videos, which are essentially ads for albums, TechCrunch points out. The only exception is the top video, the...

Ken Ober, Host of MTV's Remote Control, Dead at 52

Cause of death still uncertain

(Newser) - Ken Ober, who hosted MTV’s 1980s game show Remote Control, died Sunday at 52; a rep says the cause is still unknown, but that the actor and stand-up comic complained of a headache and flu-like symptoms Saturday. The show—at the time a relative rarity, given that the channel...

Beyonce, Gaga Video Surprisingly Tame
 Beyonce, Gaga Video 
 Surprisingly Tame 
VIDEO REVIEW
Nov 17, 2009 10:53 AM CST

Beyonce, Gaga Video Surprisingly Tame

Lady Gaga looks surprisingly low-key in Beyonce's 'Video Phone'

(Newser) - The weirdest part of Beyoncé’s collaboration with Lady Gaga for the “Video Phone” video, which premiered on MTV early today, is Gaga's cameo—"mostly because it's shockingly normal," writes James Montgomery. "It's definitely not the Gaga we're used to seeing," nor the Beyoncé...

Best Videos of the Decade
 Best Videos of the Decade 
Nov 12, 2009 1:33 PM CST

Best Videos of the Decade

Music industry may be changing, but the format is alive and well

(Newser) - The "aughties" saw a breakdown in the traditional music business and the outlets for music videos. But that doesn't mean people didn't make good ones—maybe they're even better for it. Steve LaBate runs down the best since 2000 in Paste. A sampling:
  • Outkast, "Bombs Over Baghdad": "
...

Totally Crowdsourced Song Hits YouTube

Totally Crowdsourced 
 Song Hits YouTube 
WATCH THE VIDEO
Nov 9, 2009 12:34 PM CST

Totally Crowdsourced Song Hits YouTube

BBC's ChartJackers raising money for charity with 'I've Got Nothing'

(Newser) - Four teenagers are trying to break into the UK charts with no experience, no money, and no musicians...but with a lot of help from YouTube. They put together an entirely crowdsourced music video using contributed YouTube comments for the lyrics, a YouTuber-written melody, and a band, producer, and actors...

Ledger-Directed Rap Video Debuts

 Ledger-Directed 
 Rap Video 
 Debuts 
WATCH IT
Oct 30, 2009 10:40 AM CDT

Ledger-Directed Rap Video Debuts

Actor worked with Australian singer, a childhood friend

(Newser) - A music video, one of a few directed by Heath Ledger for little-known artists he liked, made its online debut yesterday. Australian rapper N'fa Forster-Jones, a childhood friend of the late actor's, posted the video along with a behind-the-scenes look at the project, the AP reports. "Every day I...

Jiggy Beyoncé Baby Goes Viral

Cory busts a move

(Newser) - Oh baby, it's so hard not to move watching Beyoncé tear up the screen in her Single Ladies video—even if you are wearing a diaper. Baby Cory knows. With a couple of squats, a few leg jiggles and a wag of the head he's gone viral with his dance...

Kanye Wigs Out During Taylor's MTV Award

'I'm sooooo sorry,' he writes on blog after crazy rant

(Newser) - Crazed hip-hopper Kanye West stormed the stage last night during Taylor Swift's speech accepting her MTV award for Best Female Video to plug Beyoncé's video. Giddy country-music sweetheart Swift was mid-sentence when West, spotted earlier swigging cognac, yanked the mike from her to rant to a stunned audience. West...

Most Controversial Music Videos
 Most Controversial 
 Music Videos 
OPINION
Sep 12, 2009 8:14 AM CDT

Most Controversial Music Videos

Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, incestuous Gainsbourgs make list

(Newser) - With MTV's Video Music Awards set for Sunday (not that you'll see many videos on the channel these days), Oddee.com takes a look at some of the form’s most controversial:
  • Closer, Nine Inch Nails: To go along with the explicitly sexual lyrics, this 1994 piece includes a monkey
...

Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye Take on the Apocalypse

Three of hip-hop's biggest team up in video for new single

(Newser) - Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West romp around a post-apocalyptic New York in the much-anticipated video for “Run This Town” off Jay-Z's upcoming Blueprint 3, reports MTV.com. The clip portrays the three as "warlords in a 23rd-century turf war," writes James Montgomery, but that's beside the point....

Dark, Whimsical Ledger Music Vid Debuts

Takes a stand against illegal whale hunts

(Newser) - Modest Mouse has debuted Heath Ledger’s whimsical-yet-dark video for the song “King Rat," the AP reports. In the video, which takes aim at illegal whale hunts, Dr Seuss-like animated whales and dolphins go on a bloody hunt for humans, notes Vanity Fair. Watching it might require a...

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