Oprah Winfrey takes back her crown while pop chart phenomenon Lady Gaga catapults to No. 4 on this year's Celebrity 100. Pants-less pop stars, late-night warriors and sexy vampires spiced up the fame game last year, with Lady Gaga, Conan O'Brien and Twilight superstars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson joining the Forbes Celebrity 100 list for the first time. But despite their impressive debuts (Gaga hit the list in fourth place), Oprah Winfrey is the year's big winner. After being ousted by Angelina Jolie on last year's list (Jolie dropped to No. 18 this year), the Queen of all Media takes back her crown on Forbes' annual ranking of the world's ultra-famous.

Lady Gaga catapults onto our list, ranking ahead of much more established pop stars like Madonna (No. 10) and U2 (No. 7). She has a 106-date world tour and her willingness to partner with corporations like Virgin Mobile and Polaroid to thank for an estimated $62 million in earnings. What's more, her fame and theatricality have brought her gobs of press coverage, while her music videos have made her something of an Internet sensation. Proof: The fashion-forward rocker ranks first for social media and Web presence among the Forbes Celebrity 100.


Gaga is also the list's top-ranked newcomer, leading a group that includes the Black Eyed Peas ($48 million), O'Brien ($38 million) and Twilight costars Pattinson and Stewart. Pattinson comes in at No. 50 with estimated earnings of $17 million, while Stewart, who is working on fewer non-Twilight projects, comes in at No. 66 with a $12 million haul.


Gaga is #1 in Web AND Social rank. She owns the interwebz pretty much. Gaga is Beautiful. Dirty. Rich.

And the award for video of the year from the Black Entertainment Television goes to... Video Phone by Beyonce and featuring Lady Gaga.

So yeah, a white person kinda won a BET award. Does anyone else see the irony in that?

Thank you so much for my first BET award ever, with Honey B! Videophone won VIDEO OF THE YEAR! Paws up for B! X Mother Monster. posted Gaga on her twitter right after winning.


David Guetta has done some great voice tuning on the chorus.

I've heard pieces of the song before tonight but there was no real interest in the song until like five minutes ago when I YouTube'd it and saw the entire awkward video.

Guuuurl if you can't precisely repeat the dance moves you did half an hour ago please reject any attempt of a mirrored video. And make up your mind already, which one of your multiple personalities is my commander?

Anyway, good job on the chorus, love it so I'll stop right there.


The Eska Music Awards called them band of the year, I simply think OneRepublic is awesome.
Ever since I first heard Apologize I've loved them. Haven't always been the best fan, not like I'm with Gaga since our relationship is special, but I'm doing my best. Actually I think they're by far my favorite band, and I know someone else likes them a lot as well.

Just like Apologize, Marchin on has been tempered with by Timbaland, being featured both on albums, Waking up and Shockvalue 2. History repeats itself so are we to expect another video for the song featuring Timbaland? It would help promoting the song but I don't think I can stand yet another chin rubbing video so I hope not.

The song is uptempo, uplifting and helps diagnose emo people by making everyone clap, move their feet, dance [keep the rhythm]. Feel the power!

The lyrics and beat of the song made the Germans pick it as their world cup hymn. Even the single cover uses Germany's flag colors: black, red and gold.

At the beginning of the month a simple, multicolored, low budget video was shot. What makes me love the video is that, unlike most of the music videos out there, it actually follows the rhythm of the song. The video is shaped around the drums. Just watch the video and you'll see what I mean.



Lady Gaga this week becomes the first artist in digital history to have three songs top the 4 million mark. "Bad Romance" follows her first two hits, "Just Dance" (featuring Colby O'Donis) and "Poker Face." via Yahoo Music.

Remember this guy? He's in Gaga's Alejandro video. Remember him now?

He's a Russian billionaire. Yep. And claims to be Gaga's biggest fan.

Oh and did I mention he paid ONE MILLION DOLLARS to be in the video? Yep.
How's THAT for product placement?



I'm not the biggest fan of Ke$ha but this leaked song just matches the weather. Summer rain my ass. This is a level three tornado.

Oh and I'm totally reading Winnie the Pooh on my iPhone. It's the best selling iBook but you can't blame us, the book is totally for kids but my inner child likes it, eh.

There's this new song from Maroon 5 called Misery and it sounds totally like This love.

Just try and say the lyrics in your mind. Fits, right?

I doubt they'll have much success with it but I wish them all the best nonetheless. Who knows, maybe keeping the same old sound keeps people happy too.

Infect me with your love, and fill me with your poison



Random song by Katy Perry popped on the interwebz and it's amazing. Been listening to it for the past hour. On repeat.

For some reason I find it very Gaga. It somewhat sounds like Bad Romance in my mind. Imagination went wild and made me picture Katy and Gaga together dancing an aggressive version of the dance in the video, this part:



Silly me, here's the song.

Magic mirror, on the...everywhere, who is the glitter-y-est one of all?



I'm sorry but there is no way that this video can help her promote the song. Frame sets change way too fast, leaving you puzzled. Whoever told you it was a good idea obviously lied to you dear.


Lady Gaga's Alejandro video broke the world record for reaching 20 million views on YouTube in the shortest amount of time.

Oh and she's in the July issue of Vogue, with Oprah.


Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now.
Wish. Right. Now.
Wish. Right. Now.

The video is out and I'm off to find a remix without B.o.B's rap and a lot of Hayley. Her voice sounds amazing.

The video has a cheap production and a clever post production. But the bokeh effect is totally right.


Huge contrast between the Alejandro video and the California Gurls one.

Katy Perry's video is sooooo colorful and sweet. No hidden meanings or anything, straight forward nudity. Simply shooting the video must've been incredibly fun.

Only downside is that it doesn't have an incredibly memorable/unique/fun dance session.


Remember him? Now you're gone. All I ever wanted.

He has a hyper period about two years ago and now he's ready for a comeback. Kinda.

Here's his new video for Saturday.




Slowly but surely we will get to hear all the songs off Kylie's new album, Aphrodite.

This particular song doesn't really fit the album, sounding more like the last decade's albums, to be read as: It sounds like a guitar poked Wow. Would've been nice if it remained 'first row' all the song. I still like the song.



Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two years you probably know all the previous Gaga videos posted.

Each day represented a step in time. On the first day I posted the latest video, Alejandro. On the second day I posted the other 2010 video, Telephone. The third day represented '09, while yesterday, the forth day, represented '08.

What I wanted to prove is that everything Gaga touches turns into gold but that her fans have great power as well. The little monsters got Alejandro on Billboard's top 100 without official support. Just wait and see Dance in the dark hit the charts.

However, Gaga did not support Beautiful, Dirty, Rich. ABC made a video for it but Gaga never released it as a single, she probably made the right choice by releasing Poker Face instead. But I think it still deserves out attention:



Kylie is teasing us with even more songs. She sang Get Outta My Way, Cupid Boy, Too Much, Can’t Beat The Feeling, Put Your Hands Up and Aphrodite at Splash in New York.



Aphrodite Megamix by TPBSecretLeaks


Released over nine months ago, Silly Boy by Eva Simons made a big splash on the internet.
Rumored to be a demo for Gaga, the leaked version got over 10 million views on YouTube.
And since it then marked the end of the summer break, this year it shall mark the start of it!









Happy 10th Birthday Roxy!

Best totally green screen video ever?

Even though the whole set is literally a couch, a coffee table and their logo with two wolves, with occasional appearances of a car or a blackboard I like it.

It's the complete opposite of something like Gaga's videos with lots of hidden meanings.

Funny and colorful video with a catchy songs are , in my book, a win. It simply works!



Let's do things differently this time, first watch the video then read my take on it, I don't want to influence you (too much, ha!). Comprehensive analysis of the video after the break.



Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, lust and sexuality. Kylie takes the position of Aphrodite, which is also the name of the album the single is extracted from. Starting to get it?

All the lovers is a hypnotizing song, sang by Kylie in the position of a love goddess, hence the human pyramid. The size of the pyramid increases as the song goes on.

Can't you see that this is getting higher, higher, higher, higher?
And I'll take you there, I'll take you higher, higher, higher higher!

The presence of a diversity of human races in the video show that the spell is universal.

White is the symbol of purity. Everyone is wearing white underwear, their normal clothes being either very dark or plain black.

Kylie is wearing both white and black, the greatest visual contrast that can be obtained, perhaps symbolizing the discrepancy between humans and gods.

The white dove symbolizes peace, harmony and faith (religious connotation). It is set free at the end of the video, perhaps meaning that the believers are free.

Behind the running white horse hide light, sun, day, vitality, illumination, resurrection, as it is the messenger of birth. The strength of the horse probably being the strength of the spell.

The white elephant purifies and harmonizes the bond. And since it does not exist (not white enough) it was recreated a balloon, flying high in the sky while taking the role of a messenger.

Did you get it? Did the elephant bring you the message?

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