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Nicki Minaj Goes 'Jem And The Holograms' On 'Good Morning America'

by MTV Style

from http://style.mtv.com/

Nicki Minaj performing on "Good Morning America" and Jem of Jem and the Holograms.
Photo: Getty Images/Courtesy of Fanpop

Doot doot doot, Friday morning, getting ready for the weekend/relaxing our platform-weary feet and then BAM…NICKI MINAJ appears looking like a classic '80s cartoon-eating chicken with a piano ring. Hence: Apocalypse, of the best sort.

At her Good Morning America shoot today Mistress Minaj rode up wearing an INCREDIBLE outfit, which is making us shake with caffeine/how much we want to explain how MIND-BOGGLING this is. It’s like a Matryoshka doll of win—each layer gets better and better—but it's topped off with this blonde explosion of frizzy hair deliciousness that is part helmet, part dream come true, and ALL a fire hazard.

No secret that Nicki loves her Barbies, but it seems like she is also taking a cue from our girl Jem (of the Holograms variety). Whatever fictional character she’s channeling, girl looks GOOD. Like G-double-O-D. So let’s break it down, because unraveling this kind of stuff is what'll get you Pulitzers. FIRST OFF, her earrings are so dollar-store diva perfect that we are calling a massive rise in the stock price of yellow because, as Nicki aptly displays, it goes with anything. In the same polyurethane plastic, we’ve got bangles galore (clashing, of course, but not fully, because the ménage—see what we did there?—of color she wears is repped across her wrists), and if you let your eyes wander down her hands, you see a totally Jem-referencing piano ring across her knuckles. Her microphone is Barbie pink (of course) and covered in glitter like any good rock star in the pre-Reagan age would do. (IF ONLY WE COULD SEE HER NAILS. WE MIGHT COMBUST.)

Nicki Minaj performing on "Good Morning America."
Photo: Getty Images

Let us move down, to the trifecta of magic of the plastic hoopskirt, printed leggings, rain boots. (Did you just say rain boots, you ask? We did. Because, in order to entirely smell of the inside of a Mattel factory, one must have their outfit consist entirely of RUBBER AND PLASTIC). She’s got this see-through hoopskirt, which fortunately does not hide the SUPER-HYPER-GRAPHIC leggings she’s wearing, and while we are zooming infinitesimally close...we can’t see the brand. But we’d guess—and this is awesome—they must be the priciest thing she is wearing. We love the fresh-off-the-street, DIY nature of this outfit. Girl brought leopard rain boots to a Giuseppe party, and she is working it like it is her job (which it is). Oooor she's anticipating a torrential downpour with all that water-repellent gear. Either way, we are SO down.

While we can't see the reason why she chose to nom on a drumstick (one hand glitter mic, the other hand a piece of chicken), it probably had something to do with keeping it real. Because that is all we see here. Pure Minaj REALNESS.

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'Beavis and Butt-Head': 7 Things to Expect From MTV's Relaunched Series

From "Jersey Shore" to movie reviews, writer-creator Mike Judge offers a preview of what's to come.

by Lesley Goldberg
from http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/

"Beavis and Butt-Head"

 

Not much will have changed when Beavis and Butt-head returns to MTV in the fall after nearly 15 years off the air. But while the boys may still be clad in their AC/DC and Metallica shirts, they’ve got an whole lot of ammunition at their disposal when it comes to pop culture, including Jersey Shore and Twilight.

Writer-creator Mike Judge and executive producer Van Toffler offered a glimpse Friday at the Television Critics’ Association summer press tour at what could be expected from the animated hit.

1. Judge was nervous about including Jersey Shore in Beavis and Butt-head and watched MTV’s reality hit at Toffler’s recommendation. “It was paydirt,” Judge said, confessing that he’s now “hooked” on the Jersey crew. Toffler, meanwhile, doesn’t expect the housemates to ask for additional compensation when they appear in clips on the animated series. “I’d be scared to think of them with more money than they already have,” Toffler said, noting that he expects the gang to love being subjected to the Beavis and Butt-head treatment.

2. Time stands still. Judge said he wanted new episodes to be topical – Twilight and vampire humor is included in the new trailer – but that there won’t be a specific instance where the series acknowledges the nearly 15-year gap between new episodes. “I wanted to make it not feel too forced; to make it as seamless as I could to what it was how ever many years ago,” he noted.

3. There’s plenty of ammunition for the boys to riff on. Judge said targets in the new episodes include UFC fights, Internet stuff and ... movie reviews. “We have a think where they’re kind of like Siskel & Ebert,” he said.

4. The animation process has been updated. When the original series aired from 1993 to 1997, Judge noted that Beavis and Butt-head — like The Simpsons and King of the Hill – was hand inked and painted onto cells and shot on film. That’s all been digitized now. “It still looks crappy,” Judge joked. “But I like the way it looks.” “It’s high-def, there are some differences.”

5. The boys will still be watching music videos. MGMT, Deadmau5 and Tbaby’s “It’s So Cold in the D” will be among the artists Judge noted will be getting the Beavis & Butt-head treatment.

6. Beavis, meet technology. With Beavis and Butt-head returning to a world that now features cell phones, Facebook and Twitter, Judge said he didn’t want to force “all the modern stuff on them,” but did tease to an upcoming episode where the boys work in tech support.

7. Daria might be back. MTV’s Toffler, an executive producer on the series, notes that the animated spinoff from Beavis and Butt-head that airs in reruns on MTV2 and Logo and has done well on both. “We’ve talked to the creators so there is not as long a shot as you’d think that Daria might be back on one of our channels.

Beavis and Butt-head premieres the first of its 12 new episodes on Oct. 27 at 10 p.m. on MTV.
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The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 1, 1981, MTV began to beam a budding art form — the music video — into homes across the U.S. TIME takes a look back at the most memorable clips from three decades' worth of music television

Gallery and videos here:  The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos - TIME
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MTV News Explains The Internet In 1995

youtube.com — Kurt Loder's 1995 MTV News report about "a worldwide computer network called the Internet" that's being used by "10 million people," is "definitely exploding," and features "a proliferation of special interest truck stops called websites?" 16 hr 14 min ago

15 GIFs You Should Watch Only Once

by Adam K. Raymond
from http://clutch.mtv.com/

Sometimes GIFs are so bizarre, so creepy, so surreal, that it's a good idea to only watch them once. Because after too many viewings of certain GIFs, the walls of reality start to break down "Inception"-style and you start to question whether or not this is in fact real life. But there's obviously a problem with that. GIFs are inherently on a loop. To watch a GIF only once would take some impressive dexterity with the command W shortcut (Mac users, baby!). But the way we see it, that's your problem. We're presenting you with these GIFs you should watch only once because it's an important public service. How you're actually going to go about watching them only once is something for you to figure out.

The 25 Most Influential Music Videos Of All Time

By Craig Hlavaty
From http://blogs.houstonpress.com/

​It's hard to fathom a time before music videos, and it's even sadder to remember when channels like MTV and VH1 were wall-to-wall music videos. In between there was a golden age, when with every clip that you watched could spark a revolution in you, or at least change your fashion sense. It's sad to say, but the age of music videos as we knew it has largely been over since The Real World premiered, although when YouTube took over it at least made it possible to see most any video on demand on your computer or phone.

One of the first videos that we ever loved was Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" from 1986's So album. Being three to four years old and growing up in a musical household, music videos were just like cartoons and live-action kid shows. We didn't know a boundary between Pee-Wee's Playhouse or "Sledgehammer"; later we would find out they were directed by the same person, oddly enough.

Gabriel is in The Woodlands tonight for a date with his New Blood Orchestra, touting a show with no guitars or drums, which after a year of metal, punk, and indie, is a welcome change, especially in the hands of Gabriel and company. The guy has been in our lives since we could remember, and tonight we see him live.

Here are 25 of the most influential music videos of all time. This is not an authoritative list, and nothing is order, though we did put "Thriller" at the end just in case anyone skips this paragraph and decides to throw a fit. Anyhow, what are your favorites?

Peter Gabriel, "Sledgehammer"

The effects, the effects, the effects.

Talking Heads, "Once In A Lifetime"

Weirdo David Byrne comes to your living room.

Guns N' Roses, "Welcome To The Jungle"

There was hair-metal, and then these dudes show up from Planet Scum to slay us all.

The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Peter Goldman)

Trippy visuals, and some of the first tastes of psychedelia for the straights.

2Pac & Dr. Dre. "California Love"

Two of the best rappers of any generation, plus Mad Max. By they way, happy 40th, Pac, if you're out there.

Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing In The Dark"

All you needed to know about Bruce's image is contained in these few minutes.

ZZ Top, "Gimme All Your Lovin'"

From Texas blues-rock legends to bad and worldwide within three minutes. Plus, chicks, man.

Herbie Hancock, "Rockit"

Creepy robot things, and industrial bent, and a music visionary gains a new audience.

Sonic Youth, "Dirty Boots"

Before Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth was already spinning tales of grunge woe.

Metallica, "One"

Sure, "Enter Sandman" was kinda scary, but imagine being trapped in your own body like a dead star?

Duran Duran, "Girls On Film"

Decadence for the '80s, plus you know, boobs.

Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Yes, that's Allen Ginsberg chilling in the back.

Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg, "Nuthin' But A G Thang"

Every rapper afterwards had to show you his crib and how he partied.

Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing"

Computer graphics reigned, and without this video, you would have a big hole in UHF.

Britney Spears, "...Baby One More Time"

Every pop act, male or female, would be influenced by this one. The only thing that would change would be the setting and the faces.

Van Halen, "Runnin' With The Devil"

The hair-metal video template in its purest form.

Buggles, "Video Killed The Radio Star"

Prophetic.

Green Day, "Longview"

A nation of couch-sitters sat up and realized they weren't alone.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "Into The Great Wide Open"

Hello Johnny Depp, and some of the most spot-on '80s fame fairy tales.

Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

Bringing goth to the teens of America and spawning a black-clad global army.

Midnight Oil "Power and the Passion"

Few people hit so hard on consumerism as Midnight Oil did. Influenced videos from Rage Against the Machine, Neil Young, and System of a Down in the decades to come.

Madonna, "Like a Prayer"

Hello Britney, Gaga, and any other number of gals taking a hit at the Man Upstairs. Madonna made blasphemy sexy.

Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

And the gates of Seattle flew open like a dress on prom night.

Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"

Who else was making fun of '70s cop shows before this? Who hasn't been since?

Michael Jackson, "Thriller"

Zombies, Vincent Price, an epic running time, and this .gif file are all that matter.

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Vh1 Bringing Back "Pop Up Videos"

by Andrew Winistorfer
from http://www.prefixmag.com/

This is about the best news related to Vh1 programming in the history of the network: Vh1 just announced plans to bring back their seminal '90s video show Pop-Up Videos, that fountain of random-ass trivia in music video-length chunks, this fall with 60 new episodes. The best part of this news? The fact that the show will feature hip-hop videos for the first time, so expect dissections of "Big Pimpin'"(still the pinnacle of '90s rap videos) this fall. [AV Club]

Meet The Cast Of The Geordie Shore: The UK Jersey Shore

'I'm pert, I'm a flirt and I've got double F boobs': Meet Geordie lass Holly the youngest star of UK's answer to Jersey Shore

By Sarah Fitzmaurice

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

The hit U.S. reality TV show Jersey Shore has proved so popular that it is now in its fourth series and the binge-drinking, vulgar-mouthed, highly-sexed characters on the show are seemingly as popular as ever.

So it was only a matter of time before the concept was picked up over here and following success of The Only Way Is Essex and the imminent arrival of the Chelsea set to our screens, MTV have looked to the North for their latest reality TV offering.

Pert and a flirt: Holly is the youngest cast member of the latest reality TV show from MTV Geordie Shore

So who are the Geordie Shore cast members who have opted to live together in a bid to bed more randoms and drink their Stateside counterparts under the table?

Meet the youngest member of the crew fake tan addict Holly who introduces herself on camera by grabbing her ample chest and saying: ‘I’m pert, I’m flirt and I’ve got double F boobs.’

Not only does the 18-year-old have a pneumatic chest but her party tricks include downing a shot from her cleavage and according to MTV’s site she: ‘often rounds off the night by getting into a scrap.’

Wrinkle fear: Jay is scared of the ageing process and is rarely seen without his top off

Muscle lover: Charlotte- Letitia, who won't kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: 'Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot'

And flex: Gary claims to be 'mint' in bed but will he impress the ladies on screen?

THE GEORDIE DICTIONARY

Spice boys – pretty boys

Tash on – snogging

Swilling – throwing a drink over someone

Soound as a poound – good/approved

Purely belter – really good

It’ll be proper mint! – it will be great

ahfancyhor or ahfancyhim – I fancy her / him

Alreet marra? - you alright mate?

Ah wes palatick – I enjoyed myself

And in keeping with the buff bodies seen on Jersey Shore the U.K’s answer to muscled men comes in the form of 25-year-old Jay who says his biggest fear is getting wrinkles, his mantra for life is ‘whoever’ and ‘wherever’.

Next we have 20-year-old Charlotte- Letitia, who won’t kiss anyone without a six pack and admits: ‘Girls call me a slut, ex-boyfriends call me a psycho and my mum calls me an idiot.’

Work-shy James, 20, admits that the hardest graft he has ever done is his hair, and his quest in life is to go out and pull as many girls as possible.

Joining them for the girls is 21-year old ‘tomboy’ Sophie and Vicky,23, who according to the website likes shopping and the gym, which are the only two of her activities which don’t involve alcohol.

And to bump up the testosterone in the house cheeky chap Gary, 23, who claims to be ‘mint’ in bed joins 26-year-old Greg who dresses to impress.

Party people: Work shy James and Vicky love nothing better than a night out on the Toon

Angels of the north: Ladies man Gary and tomboy Sophie are up for anything for a laugh

Plush pad: The eight-strong Geordie gang will live together in a house which boasts modern furniture and plenty of shag-pile rugs

And judging from some pictures inside their new pad don't look to shabby with sneak pics revealing ultra-modern furniture, shag pile rugs and plenty of shiny surfaces to allow the boys to check their refection at all times.

The antics from these ‘angels’ of the North will be shown on MTV from 24 May.

The Lingerie Football League will be coming to a TV set near you

Posted by: A. Isaac
From: http://guyism.com/2010/

Friday Night Lights has now taken on a whole new meaning. Beginning next Friday, the ever adventurous and wardrobe malfunction-laden Lingerie Football League will call MTV2 its home.

So if you previously spent your Friday’s dreaming of women in bikinis wrestling and pulling each other’s hair, then yea, consider this your 4th dream layer in Inception.

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A. Isaac A. Isaac is the Sports Editor of Guyism.com

Les Grossman Dance - Tom Cruise Rocks the 2010 MTV Movie Awards

BehindTheScenes73 — June 07, 2010 — http://www.behindthescenestv.net Tom Cruise reprises his Les Grossman dance with Jennifer Lopez for the 2010 MTV movie awards

Tom Cruise and Will Smith Open MTV movie Awards

From: http://www.snowspotmedia.com/

Tom Cruise jumped into his Les Grossman persona from Tropic Thunder to start off the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. The Fresh Prince himself, Will Smith, made a guest appearance with his son, Jaden . The scene takes a violent turn. GET DA AMBERLAMPS!!!

Kids Reenact MTV’s Hit Series "Jersey Shore"

Dr. Dre Invites Jay-Z To Rap On Detox

'Jay, come holler!,' Dre says.

By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Matt Elias

Songs that leaked from Dr. Dre's Detox recording sessions earlier this year revealed that Nas and R. Kelly are among the artists in consideration to appear on the long-awaited opus. And T.I., Lil Wayne and Drake are among the MCs believed to be ghost-writing for the album.

But if Dre gets his way, a certain renowned Brooklyn rhymesmith will be pulling double-duty on Detox, both writing and delivering a guest verse.

"Well, actually, Jay-Z's just been in the studio doing some writing," Dre told MTV News on Friday while promoting his new Beats by Dr. Dre/ HP notebook collaboration. "Hopefully I'll get him to perform on the record. Jay, come holler!"

Detox is the follow-up to Dre's 2001 album and will complete the trilogy that began with 1992's The Chronic.

In May, a snippet of a Detox track was released on a Dr. Pepper commercial that features Dre. The song, tentatively titled "Sh-- Popped Off," features production similar to a track that leaked in February with Tip referring Dre.'s vocals. "It's the D.R. ... Made the West side worldwide, no PR/ Gangsta-rap God, I'm the end-all, be-all/ California love from the Bloods to the C-Dogs."

Earlier this month, Dre told ABC News he'd like to finally put the finishing touches on Detox by the end of this year in time for a 2010 release. "Hopefully, I'll get it done at the end of this year, and we can hear it next year," the normally press-shy producer said.

New MTV Show Strips, Injures Teen Girls

Written by Kyle Buchanan

To mark the new Age of Obama, MTV announced late last year that it would overhaul its slate to be “aspirational, enterprising and empowering.” This, then, must explain why it has commissioned a reality series called Fashion Strip which forces teen girls to take their clothes off in front of an audience and then literally drops them down a chute (spraining the ankle of one contestant) when they dress poorly. A Movieline tipster attended the taping of Fashion Strip’s pilot and detailed the beyond-parody shenanigans:

The (insipid, yawn-inducing) judges for Fashion Strip are Eva Pigford, Traver Rains from Heatherette, and some blonde “stylist to the stars” whose name I’ve already forgotten. The show claims to be a “fashion Price Is Right” in which audience members are chosen by the panel of judges based on their outfits to be contestants on the show. So that was probably the main draw for the 70 or so people who came to the taping— but the five contestants weren’t even from the audience, they were just some girls who had been pre-cast by the producers.

First, the contestants were asked questions by the judges about their outfits, and then judged down to the smallest detail following the golden Idol standard of judge personalities (blonde stylist = Paula, Traver = Randy, Eva = Simon). The two contestants with the lowest scores (determined by the producers, who were not even trying to be inconspicuous about the rigging of this show) then must stand on two platforms beside each other, with the robotic elfin glamazon host, Playboy playmate Lauren Michelle Hill, in between them.

Next, the audience decides who gets to stay, and who “gets dropped” with their AT&T mobile phones! Except, not really— they just shoot a bunch of insert shots of us pretending to text while looking up at the girls with sinister expressions, and then they drop whoever they want. And by drop, I mean drop. The stage opens up without warning and the girl falls screaming to a giant coffin beneath the stage, never to be seen or mentioned again. Lauren Hill then simply turns to the remaining girl and warmly congratulates her for surviving this round.

Calling the four remaining contestants onto the stage, Hill then emotionlessly commands them to strip. Feigning shellshocked disbelief, the girls pause for a second before taking off all their clothes down to their lingerie. Hill takes a minute to analyze their undergarments (everyone’s bra matches their panties, so that’s good. oh, I like your tiger print), before hundreds of garments drop from the ceiling onto the contestants’ naked bodies, and they’re forced to bend over and pick through the clothes to put together the outfit for their next challenge: a (hypothetical, he’s not there obvs.) first date with Robert Pattinson! “Your outfit is perfect for a candlelight dinner, or seeing a crazy rock band at the pub,” complimented Traver Rains.

The second challenge was “the little black dress— Katy Perry style” in which the girls were provided with identical black dresses they were asked to accessorize using Katy Perry’s style as inspiration (spoiler: the winner of that round pierces a bunch of colorful hoop earrings into her dress and then puts an ugly pink feather on her head. it was hideous, yet the judges loved it. blonde stylist lady: “It’s very Andy Warhol, very Stephen Sprouse. That’s very in right now.”)

At one point, the girl who was “dropped,” a sorta plus-size girl who the judges repeatedly berated for having gigantic breasts, was seriously injured (I mean, how could anyone not be? they’re falling unexpectedly in high heels, as per Eva Pigford’s fashion rules— any girl who wears flats is not going to get the menz! Though I question Pigford’s authority in that arena, downlow dyke that she is). All we heard was a scream and then an anguished admonishment: “This is the most boneheaded idea EVER!” (touché) The production halted for half an hour as a fleet of medics convened around the poor girl, who’d sprained her ankle and was unable to move from her padded coffin below the stage. Amazingly, after they had cleared her out, they asked the audience “who wants to be dropped?” to fill time in between segments and almost every person in the audience volunteered! Kids today… they’ll do anything to get on TV!

The final challenge was to dress yourself (and a “boyfriend” from the audience of your choice, but not really— producers’ choice) as characters on Gossip Girl. The poor latino contestant who has never seen the show (judges’ verdict: “Your outfit is too ‘downtown’ and not ‘uptown’ enough for Gossip Girl”) was thrown to her doom and the blonde FIDM student, who was proud to flaunt her knowledge of every minute detail of that show, which is the reigning barometer of youth culture and fashion, allegedly, won a $5000 gift card to H&M! But more than that, she won validation from our three self-professed style gurus.

Haha, remember when movies and narrative TV shows tried to parody the reality craze by portraying fictional reality shows that were totally humiliating, unsafe, and would never receive a greenlight from a major network in a million years?

Good news, guys! We’re there!

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus Trailer: Something's Fishy

Written by S.T. VanAirsdale

“That’s a pretty expensive joke!” writes a commenter at MTV Movies, which this week unleashed the trailer for a Z-grade monster flick known as Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. The mini-sensation has grown formidably on the strength (or, rather, the weakness) of spellbindingly primitive CGI and a redoubtable power-tandem of Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson. And while there can be no doubt about the inspiration-by-the-ounce that went into the rendering of a great white gnawing on the Golden Gate Bridge, are we in the minority who will doubt it’s anything but an MTV stunt? But for what?

Don’t bother piecing together a story out of this; it’s hard enough to write about beyond wondering its provenance. If there is an actual 90-minute feature to stretch this into, then it comprises a fistful of bites (ahem) and shots crafted seemingly with just a trailer in mind. Gibson is awfully game for a scientist on the trail of such dark, deep-water nemeses (“Thrilla in Manila!” she cries). And Lamas… well, you know. If you were casting your shark vs. octopus pseudo-opus, who would be at the top of your list?

But if it’s fake, it’s a hell of an elaborate ruse. See the film’s IMDB and Amazon pages, the latter of which will actually sell you this DVD on preorder for May 19. Except that MTV lists the street date as May 26 — a few days before the MTV Movie Awards. And cult filmmaker Jack Perez (who directed no less than the pilot for Xena: Warrior Princess but is here credited by several sources as “Ace Hannah”) previously shot the 2004 horror comedy Monster Island for… MTV Productions. And why would MTV have an exclusive on a straight-to-DVD genre trailer anyway? So many questions — none more pressing either way than, “Does Lorenzo survive?” Gibson alone shouldn’t reap the big sequel payday.

· EXCLUSIVE: Feast Your Eyes On The Amazing ‘Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus’ Trailer!! [MTV]

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Outkast To Deliver Two Solo Albums And Another Group Effort in 2009

'Y'all gonna get three records from the 'Kast next year,' Big Boi says.

By Shaheem Reid

ATLANTA — Big Boi is getting his second solo album, Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, back on the good foot. The street-embedded member of Outkast says that despite a delay, his record is still coming.

"The South got something to say, and we gonna keep on talking," he told us recently in Atlanta. The roll-out plan for his LP seems to coincide once again with that of his partner, Andre 3000, and the 'Kast have been putting their heads together in preparations.

"Me and 'Dre were on the conference call [recently]," Big explained. "He's working on his album; my album is done. We're gonna wait until the top of the year — January or February — to put it out. Then 'Dre is gonna come hit y'all, and [then] we're gonna do the Outkast album. So y'all gonna get three records from the 'Kast next year."

Besides being holed up in the studio working on these records, Daddy Fat Sacks has also been spending time on the set — he's due to appear on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" next Tuesday, November 25. He plays a rapper — Gots Money — who gets greedy. Instead of just relying on the loot he gets as an artist, he decides to get involved with an animal-smuggling ring — when the cops catch him, he turns sides and works undercover for the authorities.

Now, we have heard about the 'Kast pulling a trifecta of albums before, and it hasn't materialized — but it might actually happen this time. Andre 3000 told MTV News' Mixtape Monday in September he had finally started work on his album.

"To be honest, I work best when people doubt me," 'Dre explained. "Our whole Outkast career has been built on people doubting us. [Hip-hop fans] up North hated on us from the get-go. We wouldn't be Outkast if people didn't understand what people would call weird. You know, none of that would've happened. Actually, if you see me, tell me I'm wack. That's the best thing you can do for me. You know, if you want a greater album, say that. Say that!"

It Never Stops - Six More Beautiful Watchmen Posters!

by Alex Billington

Oh my goodness.. It looks like Watchmen has decided to go head-to-head with Star Trek this week! I thought seeing two new awesome Watchmen posters in one month was already enough, but I guess not. In anticipation of the new Watchmen trailer hitting theaters this Friday in front of Quantum of Solace, Warner Brothers has debuted six new stunning character teaser posters. There is one for every major character - The Comedian, Rorschach, Nite Owl, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre, and Ozymandias. Whoever is doing the marketing for Watchmen deserves to be promoted - these are as gorgeous as every other poster we've seen so far. I don't think I need to say any more - just drop what you're doing and take a look!

I'm really not sure what it is today with posters, because this is the third article we've written about posters in one day. But you know what, screw it, because these six and the Star Trek posters all look amazing - so I've got nothing to complain about. I need one of the Comedian and Rorschach posters on my wall right away - they look absolutely fantastic! Stay tuned for a lot more Watchmen coverage coming all week in addition to the new trailer. Click each photo to be taken to the source site for high res versions.

Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder (of Dawn of the Dead and 300) and is written by David Hayter (The Scorpion King, X-Men, X-Men 2) and Alex Tse. The film is an adaptation of Alan Moore's highly acclaimed award winning graphic novel of the same name. Watchmen officially arrives in theaters everywhere on March 6th, 2009. Stay tuned for even more Watchmen coverage, photos, and more right here at FS.net!

Rick Astley Wins Best Act Ever!

The fans show they’re ‘Never Gonna Give (Him) Up’…

The ultimate power of the audience vote was underlined when Rick Astley scooped Best Act Ever.

Rick was not available to attend the Awards.

In his absence the Award was picked up by Katy Perry and Perez Hilton who charmed the audience with a quick dance routine to his famous track Never Going To Give You Up.

In a statement Astley said: "I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.

This is the first time I have been nominated for the EMAs and I would like to thank everyone who voted for me."