News update

Taylor Swift to use 3D technology

Posted on January 12th, 2010 at 11:11 am by MTV Asia

Taylor Swift - Photo by: Jason Merritt

Taylor Swift is now a Global Brand Ambassador for Sony products. She made a surprise appearance at Sony’s exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show conference in Las Vegas on her way to the People’s Choice Awards last Wednesday.

Specifically, Taylor is excited to use Sony’s 3D technology and told the audience she will be using the product to document her upcoming tour, which kicks off next month. As of yet, there is no news as to whether the footage she captures will be made available to the public.

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Jennifer Lopez's Nearly-Naked Catsuit Gets Catcalls

By Stephen M. Silverman

Saturday January 02, 2010 10:30 AM EST

Jennifer Lopez

Mike Coppola/Getty

Two days into the New Year and the revealing catsuit Jennifer Lopez wore on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve to sing "Waiting for Tonight" is still causing eyes to roll – in both awe and anxiety.

Though the ABC show's host Ryan Seacrest let the 41-year-old singer know that her outfit "made my year," Alicia Lundgren, a 24-year-old dancer from Philadelphia, told Jenny from the block's hometown paper, the New York Daily News, "There's too many wrinkles. It looks like elephant skin."

Not all the remarks about the ensemble were catty. Some prompted catcalls, including a "Wow" from Jason Ray, 24, a legal assistant from near Times Square, where Thursday's festivities – and the fashion display – took place. "I think she looks good after having twins!" he told the newspaper.

Underneath the sheer garment, Lopez sported little beyond her spangled red-soled Louboutin heels.

And her famous caboose? The News determined it seems to have shrunk. "Did she get butt surgery?" asked a Tweeter.

See what other readers have to say about

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January 04, 2010

Lady Gaga, 'New Moon' Rocked Our 2009

By Gil Kaufman (MTV.com)

Despite our best efforts, we here at MTV News are creatures of many and varied obsessions, and 2009 offered plenty of fuel for our fanatical fires. Over the past 364 days, we've feverishly monitored Twitter feeds to find out about everything from the latest Tiger Woods girlfriend count to the breaking updates on Michael Jackson's death and what Disney movie an under-the-weather Miley Cyrus is watching at any given moment.

2009 was the year that the nonsense word "gaga" became more than just a bit of baby-talk and when a "new moon" was not just something to stare at on a cold winter's night.

New Moon
It's hard to put into words just how jacked up we were for the sequel to the first Twilight movie. We obsessed over the various trailers for the vampire-vs.-werewolf flick, dissected every frame, and asked Twi-Hards what they thought. We would not let it go when it came to searching for definitive proof that Robsten (stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) were indeed an item, and then we got all distracted by the many, many, many shirtless photos of new breakout hunk Taylor Lautner.

And that's all before the movie actually hit screens in November and smashed records with a $142 million opening weekend. And, of course, we're going to do it all over again this year in the ramp-up to Eclipse.

Lady Gaga
When January dawned, if you were aware of MTV's Woman of the Year, Lady Gaga, at all, it was likely because you spent a lot of time in dank dance clubs and had started hearing her first single "Just Dance."

But within months, the most outrageous pop star since Madonna had us all transfixed with her signature mix of dark disco, futuristic fashion and provocative stage shows. Gaga became an instant global celebrity seemingly overnight, but it's hard to remember someone who has taken to the spotlight as quickly and as effectively as the former bar singer born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.

She wowed us with her virtual death at the VMAs, did it again at the AMAs with a bizarre, bottle-smashing piece of performance art and raised more than eyebrows with the provocative video for the first single from her recent The Fame Monster EP, "Bad Romance."

In between, she went from opening for the Pussycat Dolls to collaborating with fellow buzz act Wale, reaching out to her fervent gay following often, hooking up with Beyonce, getting props from Madonna and ending the year with the over-the-top Monster Ball tour.

Add in a hookup with Adam Lambert, a visit with the queen of England and a Billboard record for becoming the first artist in the 17-year history of the Pop Songs chart to land four #1 singles from a debut, and you have a pretty good year for Ms. Gaga.

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Elton John Says He's Helping Eminem Fight Drug Use

By Stephen M. Silverman

Saturday January 02, 2010 07:00 AM EST

Eminem (left) and Elton John

Kevin Mazur/WireImage; Dave Allocca/Startraks

Elton John is there for Eminem, who is battling a drug problem.

"I've been helping Eminem over the last 18 months and he's doing brilliantly," John says, reports the British Press Association.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 in the U.K. on Saturday, Sir Elton, 62, who has freely spoken about his own past issues with substance abuse, said: "I'm there if people want my help. If people ask for help you tell them where to go but there's no point advising people if they don't want to do it."

In May, Eminem admitted he'd suffered from a devastating drug addiction that led to him downing as many as 20 Vicodin, Ambien and Valium in a day.

"The numbers got so high," he told Vibe magazine, "I don't even know what I was taking.

Following his first stint in rehab in 2005, the rapper, 37, said he nearly overdosed after an acquaintance gave him unidentified blue pills, which a doctor later told him were actually methadone.
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Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, Others Make Top Twitter News In 2009

By Jayson Rodriguez (MTV.com)

In 2009, the world of Twitter was abuzz with celebrity activity. Some artists often shared feelings that didn't always jibe with their public personas. Whether it was Chris Brown publicly pining for his former flame Rihanna, or Miley Cyrus being self-conscious about her appearance, the freedom of the micro-blogging site eventually was lost for some celebrities, replaced with what seemed to them like a swarm of Twitter paparazzi - RSS feeds replaced cameras, and bloggers had plenty of content to drive traffic to their own URLs. Some celebrity tweets became headlines.

But while Brown and Cyrus ended up canceling their accounts, others became emboldened by Twitter.

Take Pink, for example, who never seems at a loss for words. She promptly responded to Kanye West's Video Music Awards stunt of interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech.

"Kanye west is the biggest piece of sh-- on earth. Quote me," the rock chick wrote.

And she wasn't the only one annoyed with his antics. Katy Perry may have even one-upped her musical counterpart.

"F--- you Kanye," she wrote. "It's like [you] stepped on a kitten."

John Mayer, Ricky Martin, NBA star Chris Paul, Ryan Seacrest and a host of other people also logged on to take their shots at Kanye.

"OMG" moments, however, weren't limited to the VMAs. Events like the MTV Movie Awards and the passing of pop icon Michael Jackson also brought out the best in Twitter.

The Gloved One's passing, in fact, was among the biggest trending topics on Twitter all year. News of MJ's death rattled the site. Twitterers found themselves locked out of the site as the company's servers weren't able to handle the surge of traffic.

In the past 12 months, it's like a new Titanic-sized living room was created where instead of your crazy uncle saying inappropriate things at the most inopportune time, it was Diddy. People like Ashton Kutcher now lead the day's conversations on Twitter. For better or worse, Twitter took over in 2009, and as the new year rolls along, expect more of the same.

Miley Cyrus, who once tweeted simply, "TWEET! TWEET! TWEET! I JUST TWITTERED. I LOVE TWEETIN'," may have left the popular service, but here's hoping more artists embrace it and fans keep following them and speaking their minds.

And you don't even have to be stuffed in a locker to do so.

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