“I gotta feeling”…
For those of you who watched the Grammy’s this Sunday, you probably already know what the top songs of 2009 were. There’s “I Gotta Feeling”, “Single Ladies”, “Just Dance”, “You Belong With Me”, “Blame It”, “Boom Boom Pow”, to name a few. If you like all of those songs, then I have the perfect video for you. On YouTube, there’s a video called the United States of Pop 2009 or “Blame It on the Pop”. It combines all the aforementioned songs and many more, but the main beat is to the Black Eyed Peas’ number one hit “I Gotta Feeling”. DJ Earworm is the mastermind behind these projects and is famous for his mashups. Along with…
Celebrate being single? I think yes.
By Ellen Cameron Staff Writer “Ellen, you’ve never been on a date. You’re a loser.” Thanks, little sister, I love you too. But that night at the dinner table is not the only time my sister Laura Lee has told me, in not so many words, that I have no life because I have no boyfriend. The emphasis society puts on teenage girls to have boyfriends is astounding. The message indoctrinated in literature from childhood fairy tales to slightly dubious teen fiction (i.e. Twilight) is clear: to be happy, you must have a Prince Charming to sweep you off your feet and into the sunset. You must be like Ariel or Cinderella or Bella or even Elizabeth from…
How MTV’s VMAs kinda got its groove back
By Chris Nguyen Features Editor After several years of pain in Miami and Los Angeles with a listless ceremony in New York in between, last night’s VMAs on MTV rebooted itself back in New York City. MTV kept the stage big, the celebrities camptastic and the performances coming. It’s far from the glory of, say Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” performance, but it did keep my celebrity-hungry brain with a lot of nourishment to keep watching. Here’s a recap of the amazingly awesome, the bad and the excruciatingly painful (I’m looking at you, Kanye!): The Good Michael Jackson tribute Madonna opened up the show with a simple and fitting remembrance of pop icon Michael Jackson. She…