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Lady Gaga Will Rock the VMAs
Ramin Setoodeh 9/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
The MTV Video Music Awards have always been a stage where stars are born—or reborn—with controversy. Madonna made a splash at the first telecast in 1984 when she writhed around in a wedding dress, crooning the lyrics to "Like a Virgin." Britney Spears gave her debut performance there at 17, and PETA groaned when she shimmied onstage with a python at the 2001 awards. And nobody—or was it everybody?—complained when Britney and Madonna shared a kiss in front of the cameras. But at this year's awards, on Sept. 13 in New York, the crowd will go gaga for a musician named ... Lady Gaga. And the 23-year-old pop sensation will likely deliver a sizzling performance that cements her newly minted status as one of music's most daring stars.
‘Britney Spears Saved My Life’
Jessica Bennett 7/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
Lynsey sits in a bright pink room talking about some of the darkest moments of her life. She was suicidal, and she spent time in a London hospital recovering from severe depression. Now 23, she is a dance instructor in North London and works during the day in a local dentist's office. She is pretty, poised, and intelligent, and she's a Britney Spears fan. Actually, she's a superfan—she says Spears helped her recover.
He Never Made Me Moonwalk
Seth Colter Walls 6/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
I grew up in the '80s, the heyday of Michael Jackson pop. But I never really dug him. I can get into some of the music—the old Jackson 5 singles, the Quincy Jones–produced solo records—but even that requires ignoring the Jacko mythology before I can enjoy it for its own sake. He was impossible to escape, even in the tweedy environs of my parents' graduate-school crowd. I remember that the neighbors' children whose parents refused to buy a television somehow still knew the lyrics to "Bad" as they skipped across the community playground. That impressed me, even if I didn't particularly feel like singing along.
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Domestic Abuse Myths
Raina Kelley 3/9/2009 12:00:00 AM
While we can argue about how much of all that is true, it really doesn't matter. This sad story doesn't have to be verifiable for it to potentially warp how Rihanna's hundreds of thousands of tween fans think about intimate relationships. We've all heard that this should be a "teachable moment"—a chance to talk about domestic violence with our kids. But children and teens aren't just listening to your lectures, they're listening to the way you speculate about the case with other adults; they're absorbing how the media describes it; they're reading gossip Web sites. When you tune into to all the talk about Rihanna and Chris Brown, it's scary how the same persistent domestic-violence myths continue to be perpetuated. Celebrity scandals may have a short shelf life, but what we teach kids about domestic violence will last forever. So rather than "raise awareness," here are five myths that anyone with a child should take time to debunk:
MUSIC
All the Pretty Verses, Indie Style
Seth Colter Walls 3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
You may think this month's most powerful new album from a singer-songwriter belongs to Kelly Clarkson. Not quite. Though the talented "American Idol" alumna has just given us "All I Ever Wanted," her new songs fall short of the mark set by "Middle Cyclone," from Neko Case. "Cyclone" is a platform for Case's voice, an instantly recognizable instrument that could win "Idol" in a walk, if its owner wouldn't detest the very idea. Though her music does crack with an addictive, sugar-buzz quality that matches the highs derived from bubblegum, it is decidedly not pop. Case is an indie artist—the kind who writes songs titled "I'm an Animal" or uses a tornado as a narrator. And yet her style is instantly appealing, blending Patsy Cline's rich country tone with the gale-force intensity of the original blues shouters, plus a jazz chord or three. If that sounds suspiciously ornate for indie music—well, you haven't been listening to the new notes from the underground.