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Just a little over a year ago, many of us marveled at the impressive manner in which Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 concluded its momentous film series. A popular children’s franchise, after some awkward first steps, had grown up and into a dark, twisted epic and concluded with breathtaking finality, its young actors finally filling out their onscreen personae as young men and women. Alas, the same cannot be said of Breaking Dawn – Part 2, the final installment in the popular Twilight film run. If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp. Forget the multiple, cascading and intertangling plotlines of the Harry Potter series; Breaking Dawn struggles to keep even just one ball in the air. It didn’t necessarily have to be like this.
After Psy's Gangnam Style, here come Korea pop princesses Girls' Generation
Psy's electropop song was a global hit. Now a nine-piece K-pop girl band have made an album in English to break out of the K-pop market
Almost two months after a portly 34-year-old armed with a catchy chorus and a comical line in choreography soared to the top of the British pop charts, the world doesn't appear to have had its fill of Gangnam Style. Psy, the Korean rapper whose viral video sensation (the YouTube view count stands at 738 million and rising) spawned myriad copycat videos by everyone from the US navy to pupils at Eton, became the first Korean artist to gain household-name status outside K-pop's main hunting ground of Asia.
It now seems certain that he has blazed a trail. Girls' Generation , a nine-member Korean girl group who had racked up millions of sales throughout east Asia long before Psy made "air" horseriding socially acceptable, are poised to release their first album recorded entirely in English.
Ach, Louis Walsh. You know the one – lisping Irishman on The X Factor, cries easily, tells contestants "I really, really believe in you … you are the real thing", puts through terrible people (Wagner, anybody?), pronounces Wagner with a W, makes his acts sing rubbish songs, votes for acts if they're Irish, responsible for Jedward's infamy. You're never quite sure why he's there, but he always is.
Walsh walks into the London hotel in a Prada suit, pink shirt, looking smarter and stronger than X Factor Louis. He sits down, grabs a coffee, starts talking and doesn't stop. A whirlwind. "What music do you like?" he asks. "I love music." And before I know it he's raced through the history of soul music, glam rock, Roy Orbison's wife Barbara, Bowie's early appearances with Marc Bolan, and the conversion of Cat Stevens to Islam. Phew! Exhausting. "I'm a fan," he says with a huge grin. "I like music even though I'm working on X Factor." He laughs at the absurdity of it all.Paul McCartney has delivered an anti-turkey Christmas message, telling people to go vegetarian this festive season.
The former Beatle appears in animal rights charity PETA's new Christmas advertising campaign, wearing an 'eat no turkey' t-shirt beneath the slogan, "celebrate life this holiday season, go vegetarian."
McCartney has also recorded a voiceover for the group's latest campaign video about the meat industry titled 'Glass Walls' after McCartney's quote, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
Speaking about what the McCartney household eats over Christmas, he says: "We eat a veggie roast at home, so if we have traditional moments like Christmas … the roast is perfect. It's completely vegetarian, but I can slice it, so I can do all my traditional dad things. We can do our family stuff with it, and it's delicious, so I much prefer that to my memory of turkey."
Paul McCartney is the latest musician to join PETA's campaign to promote animal rights. Joss Stone appeared naked in an anti-fur campaign.
When I first heard that she wrote an über long post on cyberbullying (after all October is Anti-Bullying month), I went and read it.
Several things that came from it-
When Fantasia hit the red carpet at the 2012 Soul Train Awards (November 9) in Las Vegas, mouths dropped open and there were audible gasps! Looking like a million bucks, Tasia showed off an amazing weight loss in a body hugging black dress and told HipHollywood she was focused on protecting her temple.
The Collard Greens and Cornbread singer has revised her diet, hit the gym and focused on her fitness — but what’s her inspiration? Check out our interview with Fannie and find out why she’s focused on getting it right and tight!
The 2012 Soul Train Awards will air on November 25 on Centric and BET.
Sources: http://youtu.be/Ngz7YkgSDgY; http://youtu.be/DlxgRkUZjGc
Photo Credit: Spin Magazine
If you had a burning desire to match NBA stars to their pop music counterparts, consider it completely quenched.
Spin Magazine (h/t Hot Clicks) has a list of NBA stars and the people in pop music their personalities most closely resemble.
It's a simple concept that should keep us all occupied in debate as we ponder whether Derrick Rose is really the NBA's Adele or if Carmelo Anthony is the hoops version of John Mayer.
As you can see, there is a lot here, and we give you but a sampling of the depth to which Spin Magazine goes as they match up 40 athletes with their pop doppelgangers of sorts.