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Is Nicki Minaj A Good Fit For Britney Spears' Tour? Experts Weigh In
'If people are going mainly for Britney, they will be excited to see Nicki as well and vice versa,' one insider tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena
Nicki Minaj and Britney Spears
Photo: Getty Images
After lots of rumors, it was officially announced Tuesday (April 12) that Britney Spears would be bringing along Nicki Minaj (as well as up-and-comers Nervo and Jessie and the Toyboys) on her Femme Fatale tour, kicking off this summer.
The Spears/Minaj matchup may not initially make sense, given their very different styles, but according to industry insiders who work on booking talent for venues throughout the country, this really is a match made in heaven.
"Bringing [together] two genres of music — one icon and one rising icon — is great for the music business. The combination of Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj on tour together is great for the music industry [and] shows its growing diversity," Matt Levine of Brandsway Creative, a branding and marketing group in New York City, explained to MTV News. "It gives concertgoers the opportunity to see two independently creative females excelling in their craft and showcasing their talent."
Dawn M. Britt, the director of public relations for the Venetian and Palazzo hotels in Las Vegas, said seeing these ladies on tour together screams girl power.
"Both Britney and Nicki give off a very 'girl power' attitude, and combining the Femme Fatale and Barbie themes is a smart marketing tool with the all-female tour," Britt explained. " ... Nicki is a mainstream rapper and collaborates with a lot of pop artists. Their audiences overlap enough that if people are going mainly for Britney, they will be excited to see Nicki as well and vice versa."
Britt said this tour makes tons of sense as it combines "two of the biggest names in music right now. Britney is a legend and in the midst of a huge comeback right now with her new Femme Fatale CD," she said. "Her recent performance in Vegas was a huge success and really got people excited for the tour. Nicki has been making a name for herself the last few years and is in high demand for collaborations and appearances."
Gary Bongiovanni, editor in chief of Pollstar, explained that Nicki is a good fit for the tour since "that tour likely needs a strong support act, and Nicki is not a bad choice. Options at this late date had to be limited." He added that since Spears is launching a new phase of her career, "Fan response on an act like Britney ... is always a question mark until you put the first shows on sale and the public answers the demand-level question with their wallets."
What do you think of the Britney/Nicki combo? Let us know in the comments!
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Cameron Diaz Says Her 'Bad Teacher' Character 'Just Doesn't Care'
'She doesn't want to be a good teacher,' actress tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher"
Photo: Sony
For those who've been keeping tabs on Cameron Diaz's very R-rated upcoming comedy "Bad Teacher" — particularly the film's naughty red-band trailer — this is not the sweet and wholesome Diaz we've come to know and love via "There's Something About Mary" and "Charlie's Angels."
In "Bad Teacher," Diaz plays disgruntled educator Elizabeth, who, when not smoking "medicinal" marijuana in the parking lot, passing off the advances of the school's gym teacher (Jason Segel) and grading papers ("Are you f***ing kidding me?" she writes on one student's exam), keeps herself busy by seducing the new substitute teacher Scott (Justin Timberlake).
When MTV News caught up with Diaz recently, we asked her to talk about her character's "problems," and it turns out that the film's title is perfectly appropriate in this case.
"She's not a good teacher," Diaz said. "She is the opposite of good. She is a bad teacher. She is bad at teaching. ... She just really doesn't care. She doesn't want to be a good teacher, and so therefore, being a bad teacher really doesn't mean anything to her either."
Diaz said her character's professional ineptitude stems from a place of total misery.
"She's miserable. She's not happy with her world, and she doesn't pretend that she is," Diaz explained. "Her pain is real. She's living a very painful existence, so there's no humor to her in this."
With regard to the research the actress put into the role, Diaz revealed she took a few things from a bad teacher she once had.
"I had a really, really bad teacher. I'm not naming names. That teacher knows who that teacher is, and that's about it," she said. "I think that this person actually cared about being a good teacher, but just happened to be terrible," she added with a laugh. "We've all had those teachers. Teaching is not everybody's calling."
It's Summer Movie Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most anticipated films of the coming months. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "Captain America," "The Hangover Part II," "X-Men: First Class," "Cowboys & Aliens" and more.
Check out everything we've got on "Bad Teacher."
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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Ke$ha Extends Get $leazy Tour
'I'm pulling out an ass-ton more glitter with blue lipstick to spare,' singer says of added North American dates.
By James Montgomery
Ke$ha
Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Ke$ha's Get $leazy Tour doesn't wrap until May, but the singer is already making plans for a return engagement, announcing a second leg of the jaunt scheduled for this summer.
Ke$h is adding more than 30 North American dates to the $leazy trek — beginning on July 26 in Harrington, Delaware, and wrapping on September 20 in Phoenix — giving fans even more opportunities to watch her guzzle blood from a human heart! Party-meisters LMFAO and prodigiously filthy rapper Spank Rock will join her on most dates.
"My spring tour sold out so fast, which is amazing, but I want to get to party with errryone. If you are part of my family, my cult of rowdy misfits, come join us!" Ke$ha said in a grammatically adventurous statement on Monday (April 4). "I'm pulling out an ass-ton more glitter with blue lipstick to spare and I'm ready to party with all y'all all summer long. Sh--'s gonna be hot as a mofo ... Miss this and you be missing the biggest dance party of the year!"
Indeed. Tickets for most of the new dates will be available beginning April 8 through LiveNation.com, but members of Ke$ha's brand-new official fan club, the Family, will have first crack at tickets starting on April 5. For more information, check out KeshasFamily.com.
Ke$ha released her remix album, I Am the Dance Commander + I Command You to Dance, last month, and she is currently crisscrossing the continent on the first edition of Get $leazy. She'll head overseas for a run of festival shows before returning to North America to begin round two.
The dates for Ke$ha's Get $leazy Tour, according to RCA Records:
»July 26 - Harrington, DE @ Delaware State Fair
»July 28 - Columbus, OH @ Ohio State Fair
»July 30 - Duluth, GA @ The Gwinnett Center
»July 31 - Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
»August 2 - Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
»August 3 - Austin, TX @ Cedar Park Center
»August 4 - Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
»August 7 - Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheater
»August 9 - Raleigh, NC @ Raleigh Amphitheatre
»August 10 - Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre
»August 12 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
»August 13 - Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC @ International Balloon Festival
»August 14 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre
»August 16 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
»August 17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Festival Pier at Penn's Landing
»August 20 - Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
»August 21 - Fairfax, VA @ Patriot Center
»August 23 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Lawn at White River State Park
»August 24 - Chicago, IL @ Charter One Pavilion
»August 26 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
»August 30 - St. Paul, MN @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium
»August 31 - Council Bluffs, IA @ Mid-America Center
»September 2 - Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
»September 3 - Denver, CO @ 1st Bank Center
»September 6 - Calgary, AB @ Saddledome
»September 7 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
»September 9 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
»September 10 - Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theatre
»September 11 - Portland, OR @ Theatre at Rose Garden
»September 14 - San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
»September 20 - Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
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Usher - Lil Freak
- Artist: Usher
- Label: LaFace Records, JLG
- Director: Anthony Mandler
- Album: Raymond V. Raymond
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Usher, Ke$ha And More Help Dance Music Go Pop In 2010
But is it here to stay? Our music-industry experts weigh in.
By Akshay Bhansali
Ke$ha
Photo: Andreas Rentz/ Getty Images
In 2010, pop princesses, R&B icons and chart-dominating newcomers all danced to the same beat. Not only did dance music go pop, but pop music caught the club-music bug.
Between Katy Perry's "Firework," Ke$ha's "We R Who We R," Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)," Enrique Iglesias' "I Like It," Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" and "OMG" and countless other singles, established artists definitely looked to dance beats for surefire hits. And two of this year's biggest success stories in music were Jason Derülo and Taio Cruz; could there be a soul left in this country who hasn't heard "Dynamite" or "In My Head"?
The love went both ways, with dance music's biggest stars finding mainstream success this year. Dance-music maestro deadmau5 took up house-artist duties at this year's VMAs, and Swedish House Mafia and Usher teamed up for a medley of their gems at the American Music Awards.
So how did this happen? We caught up with some music-industry experts to get their takes.
"You definitely saw tempos go up this year," Jon Caramanica of The New York Times told MTV News. "And I think what you had are a lot of producers who are really familiar with nightclub stuff. They are familiar with Europe. Things are happening on a more global scale now."
"I think everything from Europe, and sometimes even Asia, it comes to America, and we just adopt things a little bit slower," said Jared Eng of JustJared.com. "I think it was just a change. People like different types of music at different times. And dance was of this moment."
Noah Callahan of Complex magazine added: "I think 2010 saw the merging of the pop and dance genres. Pop artists realized that there were best practices that could be borrowed from dance music. And, ultimately, [all] pop music that has been made in the past 20 years had ended up being remixed for the club by dance artists. I think they basically just cut out the middleman and went straight there."
Dance music being introduced into the hip-hop and R&B realms was particularly notable this year.
"I think David Guetta kind of at the end of last year and the beginning of this year spearheaded it," said freelance writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. "He produced a lot of tracks. I think as trends go, people revile 'unst-unst.' But it's just coming back around. Big-room techno was a way for people to get decadent in a year that no one could get decadent."
"You have someone like will.i.am, who's like, 'Well, I spent all this time in Ibiza, and this is what they are doing,' and he wants to find a way to bring that into his music," Caramanica said of the Black Eyed Peas mastermind. "R&B especially became dance music. And especially with your Jason Derülos, Taio Cruzes. Guys like that would have literally been blocked at the border two years ago. That would not have made it through customs. And now all of a sudden they have #1 songs. I think will.i.am had a lot to do with that last year."
Elliott Wilson of RapRadar.com added: "It's actually even affected hip-hop. I was talking to Q-Tip, and his next record, I feel like that's gonna kind of go in that vein. I know that was also Jay-Z's thought process with Blueprint 3 at first, that he wanted to make a little bit more of a world music [vibe], a little more dancey. I think the kids today want to go to the clubs. They wanna have a good time. They wanna dance. So I think the artists of today are trying to kind of feed that audience."
"I think it's caught on this year because the people who've done it have been successful," offered Clover Hope of Vibe magazine. "Like 'OMG,' with usher, he didn't have success until he made a dance record. He had 'There Goes My Baby' and these really, like, adult-contemporary records that didn't really catch on. And then once you see that everybody is doing it and that people are liking it, they are like, 'OK, let me just try this out.' It's like Auto-Tune. Like, 'Let me see what I sound like on a record by David Guetta.' They end up liking it and doing more of it."
So does the club-music trend have staying power. According to our tastemakers, not so much.
"I do think it's a blip," Caramanica said. "I don't think that's gonna be something that lasts in America. I think this is gonna be a moment we'll all look back on and go, 'Wasn't that weird when Jason Derülo and Taio Cruz had #1 records?"
"At some point, these R&B artists will get kind of sick of it and be like, 'Let me go back to my soul background,' " Hope said. "When you actually have to say something, dance doesn't really lend itself to substance. And I think that R&B artists, they really want to talk about love and in a deep way, and to do that, you need to do, like, a soul or a traditional R&B record. I want to say that it's kind of a fad."
"I think music is very cyclical," Eng offered. "So I think dance music might be here for a little bit, but I'm sure it will phase out at some point."
Wilson called dance music "the sound of today. I think that people want more aggressive, faster beats, and I think that that probably has legs until at least next summer."
What do you think? Is dance music here to stay? Let us know in the comments!
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