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After several delays, Lady GaGa finally released her “Telephone” music video that features Beyonce. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund it appears the video is inspired by everything… from Thelma & Louise to everything else Tarantino starting with the Kill Bill films.

It’s certainly entertaining (pussy boat, Beyonce's motherfucker, etc) and yet very underwhelming, quite over produced. GaGa and Beyonce are both wonderfully talented artists however this video is about 5 minutes too long, too busy, over the top, lacks any plot, and has little connection or cohesiveness with the actual lyrics of the song.

In Gaga's effort to make it an “event” you're left feeling as though its snippets of different videos spliced together to make this one with strong lesbian undertones made just for the “controversy/water cooler chats” effect. Both ladies acting, even if it was supposed to be intentionally bad is actually beyond bad, Beyonce's speech leaves very little to be desired.

“Telephone” is certainly better than Beyonce's “Video Phone” that featured Gaga; however it’s outdone by Gaga's "Bad Romance”.

“Telephone” was hyped as something “EPIC”. The difference between this, and Michael Jackson‘s epic videos … is the simplicity, uniqueness, cohesiveness of/with the song, the truly incredible dancing that worked together to make Michael Jackson’s videos enjoyable and memorable. An epic is something that people will know and remember for generations. Michael Jackson's Thriller, Ghost, Bad, Billie Jean etc  videos will be studied and enjoyed for decades to come, Telephone will be forgotten in 2 years.

So did it live up to your expectations?

“Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” Music Video
         
 

Here's Usher Raymond‘s new video for his new song “Daddy’s Home”

the start of Usher's “Daddy's Home” song has a lot of subtle similarities to Beyonce's “Sweet Dreams” they were produced by the same producer Rico Love, with Sweet Dreams definitely being the better song, more catchy and even better video.

Has Usher got back his mojo? Not to me, nothing about this video (boring, uninspiring story line) or the song/single has longevity or “radio play” written all over it, will it work? time will tell…

Usher's album “Raymond vs Raymond” will be release March 30th.

do you love it?

Lady Beyonce has been catching some heat, critisism for her New Years performance for the son of Mouammar Kadhafi in St. Barts.

Mouammar Kadhafi is the dictator president of Libya who the US views and has pegged for being and aiding terrorists. Check out his Wiki if you want to read more about his brutal ways. Kadhafi has several sons, one of them is Moutassim Bilal “Hannibal” Gaddafi he is certifiably insane, as in evil in the same vain as Saddam Husein's sons were, terrorising women, beating them up, breaking international rules where his dad steps in and bails him out by threatening to withhold contracts and such…etc.

Anyways, Bee was paid upto $2mil to perform at a restaurant for a party hosted by one of the Kadhafi son's since she's been getting heat for that today her father manager made her PR team clap back on those accusations with this statement.

A Statement From Beyoncé’s Booking Agent ICM and Her Management Company Music World Entertainment

JANUARY 7, 2010, 9:51 pm

The party in St. Bart’s on New Year’s Eve, with Beyoncé in performance, was hosted by Muatsim-Billah Gaddafi, not his brother Moutassim Bilal “Hannibal” Gaddafi, as reported in the press.

Her agents and management firm made the decision to confirm the private performance. The annual party had a long history of booking internationally known artists both American and foreign for events around the world, including Cannes.

Past performers in St. Bart’s have included Timbaland, Enrique Iglesias and Mariah Carey. Guests at this year’s party included singer Usher, former BET CEO Bob Johnson, actress Lindsay Lohan and music industry vets, Russell Simmons, Kevin Liles and L.A. Reid.

Translation; yes we got money to perform for a maybe terrorist but to be clear it was the “good” son of a terrorist, not the “evil” one..... and anyways Bee's booking team booked her for it, she only agreed to do it or was she forced to do it? moreover, well, Mariah has done it and Enrique did too..... so there can't be that bad.

Oh well, its done can't be undone, people should move on to other things.

Do you think Beyonce was wrong to perform for a dictator/terrorist's son or do you think bloggers/media are being unfair to Beyonce?

PS: how come Jay-Z's name was left out of the list of people who were at the party? just asking…

Rihanna rocked a 2 Million dollar New Year’s Eve Concert In Abu Dhabi

RiRi sang performed for over 10,000 fans who had paid $110 each to crowd onto the lawns outside Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace to watch the two hour gig.

During the concert, RiRi sang all her big hits, including SOS, Don't Stop The Music and Hate That I Love You, she closed the show with her mega-hit Umbrella.

You can watch some fan taken videos of RiRi's performance here 

It also seems RiRi's Rated R is doing quite alright sales wise; the album sold 209k worldwide this past week bringing the album sales to the 1 million mark, having been out for only five weeks thats quite the accomplishment given that the singles she's released so far didn't do as well as her ealier album singles did. Her next single is rumored to be “Rude Boy”.

Lady Gaga's had a New Year's party in Miami that outsold all other celeb bashes according to the NYpost.com. Well Duh, LG is currently THE HOTTEST act in town so that's to be expected for now until someone else emerges in a few months? a year?

Anywho, LG's party had all the usual young Hollywood in attendance that don't warrant mentioning here..... Gaga sang 4 of her mega hits that included Bad Romance from her Fame Monster album

She is special. Quite EXTRA.

Beyonce also had her own 2 million dollar(?) performance at Nikki Beach Restaurant on St Barts for the Roman Abramovich's party which apparently for the Son of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. 

Among the crowd watching Bey's show were her husband Jay-Z, Usher, and Jon Bon Jovi.

 Back in NY Black Eyed Peas with Fergie, Keri Hilson, Robin Thicke performed at Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve party 

Keri Hilson sang her new single “I Like” as well as performing her two hit singles “Turnin’ Me On” and “Knock You Down”,

Black Eyed Peas performed their hit “Meet Me Half Way” and Robin Thicke sung “Sex Therapy”.

Click below to see all their performances (video) 

Seems most stars spent their New Years in St. Barts, Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z partied the new year in amongst other stars like Usher.

Beyonce looks beautiful, radiant even, her hair is on point, she's glowing. I see Usher standing on the side like a stan for Beyonce, lol.

Jay's hands looking so huge from this camera angle…

Beyonce aka Sasha Fierce “I Am …” concert in the Spain sold out just hours after tickets went on sale for the event. The concert willl be held in the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain. The VIP passes, priced at $1, 600 TT ($254 US) sold out in record time, the rest of the tickets went just as fast. Beyonce will be performing in the 25, 000 person venue on February 18th, 2010.

In other Beyonce news, Lady Gaga is working on a concept for the video for their collaborative song “Telephone”. Gaga talked about the video recently while participating in the Itunes Celebrity Playlist Podcast saying:

“I’m in the middle of writing the treatment for the video (‘Telephone’) so I have the song on my mind and I have been speaking with everyone that I’m working on the video with and pitching to everybody the treatment that I’ve come up with and it’s very, very exciting. So to all my little monsters who are listening I can’t wait for you to see it.” {Source}

It will be interesting to see this video, their ‘Video Phone’ collaborated video was highly anticipated however didn't do that well ending in a bit of a disappointment not quite matching the hype before it was released.

However these two ladies are currently the hottest music stars, hopefully the “Telephone” video will do better than “Video Phone” did. My favourite song/video collaboration so far for Beyonce has been the “Beautiful Liar” with Shakira.

Thoughts?

Beyonce was a huge Michael Jackson fan as she's said in many interviews, she considered him her idol and she has gone on to copy a lot of things MJ in her live performances, choreography and songs..... Now a new Beyonce song has leaked online titled “Black Culture”, that heavily samples the Michael Jackson classic “Don’t Stop Till’ You Get Enough”.
 

Check it..

Not sure how new this song is, sounds like an initial recording (i.e. unfinished) that was a leftover…from I Am.. sessions or something…

your thoughts? love it or not?