Comedy A-lister Will Ferrell is celebrating his 47th birthday today! Happy Birthday Will! We thought it was a great excuse to watch the legendary drum off with Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers that took place in May 2014.
It all started with Will Ferrell making light of the uncanny similarity in looks between him and Smith while hosting a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’. This led to Chad challenging him to a drum off. Ferrell accepted the challenge with the condition that they raise money for a cancer charity.
“Hi, Chad. Will Ferrell here. I saw your video and I graciously accept your invitation to a drum battle. If we can raise $300,000 (£182,000) for Cancer For College I will face off with you in the greatest drum vs. cowbell showdown the world has ever seen. We can do it on stage at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert or in front of a mutually convenient public library. Your call. Also, would you rather fight a hundred duck sized ducks or one horse sized horse?”
Chad’s reply was memorable: “I have to comment that I think Mr. Ferrell is a delusional imposter. It seems to me that he has gone off his meds and he needs to seek professional help because I am obviously more talented and handsome than he is. You know, his cowbell work is well-documented, but his drumset skills are nominal based on Step Brothers the film. Other than wiping his testicles on the drums, which of course I give high marks to.”
Now that this challenge has been settled the look alike couple have set their sights on another ‘look alike’ drum off target – Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. “Lars gets pissed because he gets mistaken for both me and Chad Smith,” Ferrell said. “He can settle that score now, too.” Smith added, “There it is. The gauntlet is down.”
Lars has now picked up the gauntlet and is “definitely up” for a potential three-way drum-off. Now they just have to find a time and place for this unparalleled display of drummanship! 🙂
Pitbull acaba de lanzar un nuevo single en español al mercado (bueno, más bien en spanglish). “Como yo le doy” es su título y cuenta con la colaboración del rapero y maestro del reggaeton dominicano Don Miguelo. No es un lyric video que pase desapercibido, es absolutamente hot y sexy.
Se trata del segundo single del octavo disco de estudio de Pitbull, tras el primer sencillo en inglés titulado “Wild wild love” junto a las chicas de la banda G.R.L.
El nuevo LP de Pitbull, que aún no tiene título, saldrá al mercado a finales de este año a través del sello Mr.305 Inc., propiedad del propio Pitbull.
“Weird Al” Yankovic spoofs Robin Thicke’s #BlurredLines with #WordCrimes – the grammar police are here! There are no tits and arse in this hilarious spoof, instead we get dancing punctuation marks and dictionary images. Al will pull you up on all those horrible grammar errors that are so prolific in social media these days:
“It’s a good time 2 lern some grammer? / Now did I stammer? / Work on that grammar. / You should know when / it’s less or it’s fewer / like people who were / never raised in a sewer.”
The Word Crimes video follows yesterday’s epic parody of Pharrell’s “Happy”, called “Tacky” and featuring Jack Black, Margaret Cho, Eric Stonestreet, Aisha Tyler and Kristen Schaal.
Yesterday (July 15), Al released his first new album in three years, “Mandatory Fun”, and as a part of his promotional rollout, he is releasing one new music video every day. #8Videos8Days
UK pop-house producer Duke Dumont has unveiled his new music video for ‘Won’t Look Back’ – it’s a wonderful sun-kissed house sound with glorious vocals – a sublime dance floor classic!
Since the audio was released a few weeks ago as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record, ‘Won’t Look Back’ has had over one and a half million plays on Soundcloud, went straight to #1 on the Hype Machine and entered the Shazam pre-release chart Top Ten.
The music video, as seems to be Duke’s style, is completely bizarre. A crew of pogo-jumping bank robbers, wearing creepy plastic masks, cavort around the streets of LA showing off some pretty impressive pogo-stick skills. The ending, isn’t the ending….well, watch it and you’ll see!
Over the last year Duke has had two Nº1 singles – with ‘Need U (100%)’ earning him a Grammy nomination and ‘I GOT U’ feat. Jax Jones becoming one of 2014’s biggest club anthems selling over 2 million copies and topping the iTunes chart in 13 countries. It went to Nº1 on the Billboard Dance Chart, was on the BBC Radio 1 and Capital FM A-List and accumulated more than 40 million plays online.
Duke has a really busy summer ahead of him with loads of festival appearances including Lovebox, Lollapalooza and Creamfields, along with his own Blasé Boys Club residency at Sankey’s in Ibiza.
Lebanese-British singer-songwriter MIKA is back in the spotlight with his new single #BoumBoumBoum. For the non-French speakers, it’s about a couple that like to make love everywhere possible. To make love is to do ‘boum boum boums’. 🙂
In this video Mika is the world’s sexiest time traveller – duelling bad guys in different countries and centuries in this brilliant new video. There are duels in the Wild West, duels in 1700 France and James Bond-esque scenes. The whole video is a mini action movie – thoroughly enjoyable and very entertaining. The song is damn catchy too!
Boum Boum Boum was written by Mika with the collaboration of Doriand and it’s the first we’ve heard of Mika since he finished promoting his last album “The Origin of Love“ in 2012.
The song is the first taste of his upcoming 4th studio album (no title, yet), scheduled for release in early 2015 via Universal Music.
If the British funk-soul collective ‘Jungle’ aren’t on your music radar, then adjust your sights! The British music press have dubbed them “the most exciting band in the world” and not surprising really – nominated for the BBC Sound of 2014, and a United States tour that sold out before they even had an official record out in America!
Their latest video, the incredibly infectious and joyful “Time”, is an appropriate teaser for their forthcoming self-titled debut album, Jungle, out Monday July 14, and tipped to be one of the hottest releases this year. Co-directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch, along with founding member Josh Lloyd-Watson, the video sees two middle-aged man engaging in bouts of manic, joyful dancing. The dancing is indeed wonderful – a cross between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and the fight scene in “Beat It.”
Co-founder Tom McFarland talked to Rolling Stone about why the band doesn’t appear in their videos. “I’m quite a shy person,” he said. “A lot of new artists feel like they need to be very visible and have an opinion on things. But after years and years and years, after you’ve released great album after great album, that’s when you’ve got your platform to say what you want. With the visual side of things, we just loved the idea of people dancing to our music, and we found some really cool people who could do that incredibly well, in a really rare way.”
Jungle is out through XL on July 14th, and can be streamed via iTunes for the duration of the week leading up to its release.
John Legend has premiered his music video for “You & I (Nobody in the World)” – it celebrates women’s natural beauty, scars and all – promoting a positive body image.
Directed by Mishka Kornai, the video captures close-ups of different women from every age, race, shape and size.
There are a few stand out moments – a woman showing her baldness from chemotherapy – a young girl with Down Syndrome – an older woman who crus as she reveals the results of a mastectomy. Yep – you might be reaching for the tissues.
“We live in a world where egregious injustices occur regularly against girls and women. We have a responsibility to take action and disrupt the conditions that allow for such tragedies to occur,” Legend said. “Through #OperationGirl we hope to amplify the voices and impact of the many organizations doing great work on behalf of girls and women.”
You will notice quite a few famous faces in the video, including Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox, Tatyana Ali and John’s wife Chrissy Teigen.
Legend’s current hit ‘All Of Me’ is currently in its 25th week on the UK singles chart at number 11 and has over 155 million view on YouTube.
Summer hits are blasting on the radio and what we’ve dreamt of all year has finally arrived. To get you in that beach-loving summer mood (if you aren’t in it already), we’ve compiled a playlist of music videos filmed on the beach. If you haven’t yet booked your summer beach destination flights yet, these videos might inspire you to book away!
Nicole Scherzinger shows off her incredible figure in her new music video ‘Your Love’. Filmed on the beach in Malibu, California, Scherzinger playfully dances around in a pair of denim hot pants, strikes graceful and sexy yoga poses in the sand in a black cut-out swimsuit, wears a multi-coloured outfit as she dances around fire-throwers, and poses in a white bikini in the middle of a circle of flames. The video gives off a hot, tanned, and carnival-esque kind of feel. Boys – the former Pussycat Doll won’t let you down!
Lana Del Rey’s dark black-and-white clip offers hazy shots of the Californian coast, with crashing waves and burning palm trees. The clip perhaps narrates the story of a romance now gone forever, as the footage jumps scenes between a blonde bad-boy-type embracing the singer on the beach, to the singer riding in a convertible next to a mysterious older man, as she takes long drags from her cigarette.
Demi Lovato joins the Vamps as they hit the beach in Malibu, California, in their ‘Somebody To You’ music video, directed by Emil Nava. The video features Laura Marano (actress), playing a fan watching the British boy-band perform on the beach.
Directed by Hype Williams, the music video was shot in black-and-white on Golden Beach, Florida. Critics praised the video’s sexual nature and simplicity, featuring husband and wife, Mr. & Mrs. Carter, singing together and looking madly in love. Beyoncé said the shoot was the most organic video she had ever done. Adding: “the shoot was extremely effortless and spontaneous and we completely captured the energy of the song… I wanted to carry this idea of being in the moment and making mistakes”.
The video features Italian model Raffaella Modugno dancing with Pitbull on a beach in Exuma Islands in the Bahamas. Most of the video was filmed on Big Major Cay, also known as Pig Island or Pig Beach, due to it being populated by swimming feral pigs. There are several legends as to why the pigs are there… could they have survived a shipwreck? Were they put on the island as part of a business scheme to attract tourists? As well as pigs the video also features The Bloody Jug Band performing as the bar’s house band. Kesha and Pitbull filmed the video at different times, with Kesha filming her scenes one week before Pitbull filmed his. “Timber” peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 consecutive weeks.
Directed by Mark Klasfeld and filmed in Acapulco, Mexico, the music video shows Flo Rida surrounded by several babes in bikinis on a beach. The video’s paradise setting shows a picturesque teaser of what a luxury holiday in Mexico would be like. Are you tempted?
Jennifer Lopez looks stunning in her ‘I’m Into You’ video, filmed in Chichen-Itza, Mexico. While one of the scenes captures JLo standing on the steps of an ancient Mayan pyramid, another shows her dancing with a group of girls. The superstar also shares a steamy and sensual moment on Tulum’s Turtle Beach with Telenovela star/Calvin Klein model, William Levy, where she reveals her famous curves and beauty, wearing a diamond dress.
Directed by John Urbano, the video was shot on a beach in Malibu, California, with intercutting scenes of the British boy-band driving an orange camper van along the coast. The final chorus shows the band sitting around a fire with girls, lighting sparklers and taking photos. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video.
Directed by Paul Hunter on the beach in Malibu, the video features the band performing the song and burning palm trees. The video alludes to Baywatch, with beautiful women in sexy red swimsuits looking out for Courtney Love, as she walks into the sea in a skin-coloured bikini under a see-through gown.
The music video for David Guetta’s third single features model Kelly Thiebaud, who plays a young girl who goes to the beach and dreams about meeting a handsome surfer. The video was filmed in Los Angeles, California.
Rihanna looks so innocent in her early days, wearing a short white skirt and a cropped tee, in the music video directed by Marcus Rayboy on a beach on the coast of Malibu, California. Speaking about the development of the shoot, Ri-Ri said: “The water was so cold… but oh my gosh, we had so much fun… We were bumping each other off the jet skis and just had a ball”. The good-girl-gone-bad continued by saying “this video is about having fun, giving off the vibe from the Caribbean… we did some mermaid looking stuff down on the sand… and I’m just performing to the camera as if it were my boyfriend”. So sweet!
The 17th year of The World Bodypainting Festival (WBF), Austria’s unique annual event, saw up to 30,000 artists, performers, and visitors descend on Pörtschach to celebrate a weekend full of art, music, creativity, and a weird and wonderful explosion of colour.
Artists from over 40 countries attended the famous festival, founder of the modern bodypainting art movement, to compete for World Champion titles in Bodypainting and to build amazing installations, sculptures and eye-catching performances into the landscape of the city.
Working up to the main event, the WBF week’s tradition is to begin with the ‘WB Academy’, where some of the most talented teachers in the bodypainting field hold workshops and seminars to share their knowledge and experience. Artists, photographers and models, no matter their level, can take part in a wide array of classes that include bodypainting, airbrush, facepainting, special effects, beauty and fashion make-up, photography, digital art, modelling, and more.
Festival week attracts more than just the artsy type. Lake Wörthersee is a little hotspot for the crowd that likes to party. Live international bands, street musicians, and DJ’s, performing on different stages and areas of action, attract a huge number of international visitors, many of which put extreme effort into blending in (or standing out) with the city streets, wearing fantasy costumes, incredible make up and masks.
However, the most amazing part of the festival is the main event, which took place between Friday 4 and Sunday 6 of July, this year. “Bodypainting City” transformed itself into an extraordinary and vibrant Open Air art park, with artist focusing their work on this year’s two themes: “Pop Art” and “Artificial Intelligence”. Partially clothed, or sometimes fully nude, bodies of models are used as canvases, for painters to create and exhibit their new and vivid works of art and to share their imaginations and creativity with the world. Visitors are left stunned by the bold array of colour, texture and design applied onto the models’ bodies.
The festival includes many awards, such as: the World Bodypainting Championships, the World Facepainting Award, the World UV Bodypainting Award, and many more.
Some of the greatest events of the festival are:
The World UV Bodypainting Award Models glow in fluorescent colours as they perform under UV black light, as 15 selected artists communicate their stories via the use of colour, sound and dance. Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco received first place this year, making history again, winning in four categories for four years consecutively.
The Installation Art Award The top dogs in the world of bodypainting exhibit their installations in different locations around the city. Artists combine colour and surrounding to nude, or partially nude bodies, applying skilful technique to their living canvases, and covering them with thin layers of colour and design. It’s absolutely stunning and fascinating for visitors to watch as they wander around the city.
The Body Circus Held in a castle known as Schloss Mossburg (built in 1541), The Body Circus is known for being the “most bizarre and unforgettable club effect imaginable”. The location, music and extravagant fashions create an unparalleled artistic atmosphere there. It’s wonderful, artistic and intense.
The Colour Splash/The Original Paint Party On the final day, the WBF traditionally holds a colourful aftershow party, known as “The Colour Splah” or “The Original Paint Party”. Those who attend the event splash paint fireworks onto each other’s flesh, turning the whole event into a rainbow colour rave, filled with smiles and delight.
People were left mesmerised by the incredible art displayed at the WBF 2014. Check out the picture gallery below to get a glimpse of the colourful action.
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Glastonbury wouldn’t be Glastonbury if it weren’t for the horrendous weather conditions. The mother of UK festivals saw just under 180,000 dedicated music fans camp out on Worthy Farm in Somerset to watch over 2,200 music, theatre, cabaret, poetry, and art performers spread their magic over 100 stages, despite heavy rain, lightning bolts and mud, mud, mud! Festival organisers were off to a bad start as they were forced to bring the festival to a halt, cutting power to stages and bringing Rudimental’s dance set short, due to lightening striking the Pyramid Stage before 6pm on the opening day. Musically, though, there was no such thing as the calm after the storm.
Some of the weekend highlights included: An outstanding performance by Dolly Parton, singing some all-time classics (‘Jolene’, ‘9 to 5’, ‘Islands In The Stream’, and ‘I Will Always Love You) to what was the biggest crowd of the weekend. The 68-year-old country singer was so darn good, she was accused of miming… an accusation she rebuked by telling the sun: “My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake, but what’s real is my voice and my heart”. Isn’t she just great?? Parton was presented with a surprise award for having sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
After having been thrashed by critics before even taking the stage on Saturday, Metallica, the first heavy metal band to ever headline Glastonbury, showed the crowd what they were made of. After lead singer James Hetfield howled: “Do you want heavy? Metallica gives you heavy, baby!” the metal giants delivered a thunderous and dynamic two-hour set.
The weekend saw other great performances by Arcade Fire, who brought the party back to life by creating an electric atmosphere hours after the power cut; George Ezra, with his divine and powerful voice; Ed Sheeran, who saw a 195% increase in streams 24 hours after his solo acoustic set; Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, with their insane finger acrobatics and lively performance, and much, much, more.
Celebrities such as Rita Ora, Bradley Cooper, Nikki Hilton, Stella McCartney and Florence Welsh, amongst others, were spotted taking in the eclectic mix of music, arts and fun over the dirty, muddy weekend.
Here’s our list of top 10 performances at Glastonbury (in no particular order):
