YouTube Viral Sensation Maria Aragon Signs Recording Deal in Philippines

"Born This Way" cover singer Maria Aragon is on her summer vacation now. The 11-year-old Canadian girl together with her parents went to Philippines - her family's native, and signed a recording contract with Star Records - the leading recording company in Philippines. It's only four months since Maria coverd Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and soon became one of the greatest Internet sensation.

Maria declared the news in her twitter. She tweeted on Friday: "I can't believe it! Thank you for everybody's support and love. Because of you I am now here in the Philippines + signed under Star Records!"

Three things are confirmed about the deal according to the statements from Maria's father – Veni Aragon:

1. The record contract is valid for two years.
2. According to the contract, Maria will record two albums.
3. Maria's cover to "Born This Way" will be included in the first album.

In September, Maria will go back to Isaac Brock School in Canada to have classes in Grade 6. Before that, she has to cancel some of her activities in Canada this summer.

Previously, Maria Aragon featured in HTC Sensation 4G commercial "You are the next...". She covered K'naan's Wavin' Flag in the commercial. Her most-viewed YouTube video, which showing her cover to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", has yielded 38 million views so far.

Britney Spears Shines at Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards

Since July 1st, the beginning of the second half of 2011, Billboard.com has been asking people to vote their favorite artists and works for its 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. Now the poll is over. Finally, Britney Spears turns out to be getting the most votes in the poll. The "Femme Fatale" singer leads the poll on 5 categories, including the First-Half MVP, Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song, Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album, Best Music Video and Best Tour. Lady Gaga is the runner-up of the above 5 awards. Besides, Gaga also won the Best Festival Performance and the Best Dressed.

The list below is the top threes in all categories of the Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. It was declared by Billboard.com. Check out the list and you can talk about your opinion of the result in the comment.

FIRST-HALF MVP:
1. Britney Spears (42.8%)
2. Lady Gaga (40.0%)
3. Adele (10.7%)


BEST NEWCOMER:
1. Wiz Khalifa (56.2%)
2. Bon Iver (15.8%)
3. Odd Future (7.8%)


FAVORITE HOT 100 NO. 1 SONG:
1. Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me" (35.6%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (34.2%)
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" (18.0%)


FAVORITE BILLBOARD 200 NO. 1 ALBUM:
1. Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale" (36.8%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (35.9%)
3. Adele, "21" (18.6%)


BEST MUSIC VIDEO:
1. Britney Spears, "I Wanna Go" (43.5%)
2. Lady Gaga, "Judas" (24.7%)
3. Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (15.2%)


BEST COMEBACK:
1. Jennifer Lopez (68.7%)
2. Lupe Fiasco (13.9%)
3. Britney Spears (6.5%)


MOST MEMORABLE MELTDOWN:
1. Chris Brown at "Good Morning America" (32.3%)
2. Amy Winehouse's Serbia concert (22.9%)
3. Odd Future at Billboard's SXSW Showcase (3.4%)


BEST FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE:
1. Lady Gaga at Radio 1's Big Weekend (35.6%)
2. Beyonce at Glastonbury (34.8%)
3. Kanye West at Coachella (13.8%)


BEST TOUR:
1. Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Tour (48.5%)
2. Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour (30.1%)
3. U2's 360 Tour (7.1%)


BEST AWARDS SHOW PERFORMANCE:
1. Beyonce, 2011 Billboard Music Awards (35.3%)
2. Cee Lo Green, 2011 Grammy Awards (9.2%)
3. Jason Aldean & Ludacris, 2011 CMT Awards (3.6%)


BEST MUSIC REALITY SHOW:
1 . "American Idol" (50.7%)
2. "The Voice" (33.6%)
3. "America's Got Talent" (11.2%)


BEST DRESSED:
1. Lady Gaga (51.2%)
2. Nicki Minaj (24.2%)
3. Britney Spears (7.7%)


MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF 2011'S SECOND HALF:
1. Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter IV" (32.7%)
2. Lady Antebellum, "Own the Night" (29.5%)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "I'm With You" (18.4%)

Transformers 3 Scenes Sample from Michael Bay's Film The Island

Director Michael Bay's Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) just premiered last week on June 29 in United States. The film has earned $97.5 million during its first weekend, topping the weekend box office and setting a new Fourth of July box-office record.

However, some footage of Transformers 3 are found in Michael Bay's 2005 action film "The Island". YouTube user Cinefilo found this and made a short video comparing the similar scenes of the two films. The video was uploaded to YouTube on June 30 and has quickly become viral on the Internet. This is the video (download it with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader):


It's too obvious that Michael Bay has reused footage from The Island to Transformers 3. From the video, we can see that mainly two scenes of Dark of the Moon sample from The Island.

Scene 1: the truck (on the left) and the smashed car (on the right)

Scene 2: the rolling car and the smoke

Personally, I don't mind if Michael Bay samples a few scenes from his own film. Anyway, it's a good way to save time and money on filming a new scene. After all, Transformer: Dark of the Moon is a good film that has received generally negative reviews, which praising the film's excellent 3D visual effects.

Rihanna - Man Down Lyrics

Red hair diva Rihanna just released the music video for her latest single "Man Down" hours ago. "Man Down" features Rihanna's favorite genre - Reggae and has the West Indian accent. The visuals take shooting a man as background storyline, which is a bit violent and gangsta. Just as what Rihanna has tweeted in her twitter about the video yesterday:"Its #Gritty #GULLY #Emotional #JAMRock Very strong underlying message 4 girls like me! #listentoyomama."

You can download Rihanna - Man Down music video from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader. Here is the video:


Here is the lyrics of Rihanna's Man Down

I didn't mean to end his life
I know it wasn't right
I can't even sleep at night
Can't get it off my mind
I need to get out of sight
Before I end up behind bars

What started out as a simple altercation
Turned into a real sticky situation
Me just thinking on the time that I'm facing
Makes me wanna cry

Cause I didn't mean to hurt him
Coulda been somebody's son
And I took his heart when
I pulled out that gun

Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum
Man Down
Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum
Man Down

Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station
In front of a big ol crowd
Oh Why Oh Why
Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station

It's a 22
I Call her Peggy Sue
When she fits right down in my shoes
What do you expect me to do
If you're playing me for a fool
I will lose my cool
And reach for my fire arm

I didn't mean to lay him down
But its too late to turn back now
Don't know what I was thinking
Now hes no longer living
So Imma bout to leave town

Cause I didn't mean to hurt him
Coulda been somebody's son
And I took his heart when
I pulled out that gun

Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum
Man Down
Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum
Man Down

Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station
In front of a big ol crowd
Oh Why Oh Why
Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station

Look I never thought do it
Never thought do it
Never thought do it
Oh gosh
What ever happened to me
Ever happened to me
Ever happened to me
Why did I pull the trigger
Pull the trigger pull the trigger BOOM
And end a nigga end a niggas life so soon
When mi pull the trigger pull the trigger pull it pon you
Somebody tell me what I'm gonna what I'm gonna do

Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bum
Mi say wah man down (A weh mi say)
Rum bum bum bum rum bum bum bumm rum bum bum bum
When mi went downtown

Cause now Imma criminal criminal criminal
Oh lord a mercy now I am a criminal
Man Down
Tell the judge please gimme minimal
Run out a town none a dem cah see mi now

Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station
In front of a big ol crowd
Oh Why Oh Why
Oh mama mama mama
I just shot a man down
In central station

Okay, let's back to the "Man Down" video. Did you understand the story in the visuals after watching it? "Man Down" music video begins with a shocking scene: Rihanna pulls the trigger of a gun at a man's head at a crowded train station. Then the man falls down and is dead. The video continues to narrate why does this happen and take us back to the previous day. Rihanna is seen happily riding her bike, talking and saying hello to her friends in the residential area of Jamaica. She also covers some scenery spots of the beautiful country. The singer then enter a nightclub jumbled with dancers and gangsters. She dances in the club and as is so attractive that a man come to her and flirt with her. Then she leaves the nightclub. But the man follows her and rapes her out of the club. That's why Rihanna kills the man at the beginning of the video.

Wow, what a sad story! That dude deserved to die!

Finally, let's share some basic information of Rihanna's "Man Down". The song serves as the fifth single in her fifth studio album "Loud" and was released on May 3, 2011. The video was shot in Jamaica in April 2011 and premiered on 106 & Park on May 31, 2011. Anthony Mandler directed the visuals.

Boring Day

Damn it! Today is so boring! Nothing special happens in YouTube or Pop Culture. I just wanna lay in my bed to sleep all day long. I swear I won't write anything today.


I have collected some fresh videos and news as you can watch them below. And you can download them to your computer for off-line viewing with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. Hope you like them. Have fun!

• World First BMX Triple Backflip - Jed Mildon May 28, 2011

Craziest cyclist ever called Jed Mildon who made the world's first Triple Backflip through the two-wheeled action-sports industry.



• Team Hot Wheels - The Yellow Driver's World Record Jump

Another world record for distance jump in a four-wheeled vehicle.



• Cat mom hugs baby kitten

A Mama cat hugs her babay cat while they're sleeping:




Memorial Day 2011

It's Memorial Day today, the last Monday of May. Do you know the meaning of this day? Or just be happy enjoying your three-days holiday? Every year in the United States, there were ceremonies held to remember the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. Here is the video that captures the emotions of Memorial Day 2011.



Miami Beach shooting - Memorial Day weekend 2011

What did you do in this Memorial Day weekend? Residents in Miami beach are just crazy! Shooting, bullets fired and cops everywhere in Miami beach. Watch the video below to know what had happened there.

The Edge of Glory Single Cover Unveiled

The Edge of Glory - the third track from Lady Gaga's Born This Way album is set to release on May 9, 2011 at 3PM (EST), just two weeks before Born This Way album's May 23 debut. Tomorrow you can download the song from iTunes. Official artwork of The Edge of Glory was just revealed as the picture shown below:


Mother Monster announced this on Twitter to officially begin the countdown for her upcoming Born This Way album's release. Gaga tweeted:

Out tomorrow 1pm PDT. Another shot before we kiss the other side. I'm on the edge of something final we call life. http://twitpic.com/4v2we4

Little monsters now just put your paws up for debut of The Edge of Glory.

Just three days ago, Lady Gaga released the music video for Judas - the second single in Born This Way album. So far the video has drawn 10 million views on YouTube.

Off topic:

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Fox News Says Obama Is Dead Instead of Osama (YouTube Video)

Breaking news seem to emerge one after another this week. We might still immerse ourselves in the great excitement of Osama Bin Laden's death, which was announced by President Obama on May 1. You'll soon be flabbergasted by this news - Obama is DEAD!, as announced by Fox news.

"President Obama speaking from the East Room of the White House", an anchor called Will Thomas from Fox News says as the president walks away from the podium, "telling the nation and the world that President Obama is, in fact, dead."

In fact, it's the anchor's unfortunate mistake. The unlucky anchor was for Fox News Channel and was live on the air when the news broke. It has been recored to a video clip and uploaded to YouTube. Here is the clip dubbed 'President Obama is DEAD!!?? FAIL!' which can be downloaded by Leawo YouTube Downloader tool.


From the video, we find that the female anchor was stunned at the male anchor's gaffe. She whisperd a quiet warning to him though he continues before realizing what he said.

This short video clip has quickly yielded 1 million views on YouTube during the past four days and become viral on the Internet. From the video description, we know that it was uploaded by the user titled 'peetagts', who has a channel on YouTube with the same name serving totally 11 videos, having 41 subscribers and 1,2 million total upload views.

According to the media, Fox news has been known for carelessly making mistake and twisting the facts, like switching poll numbers so they match their agenda, or making 'typos' like declaring an absurd politician is a Democrat, when in fact he is a Republican.

Google Goes Gaga - Google Exclusive Interview for Lady Gaga Video Watch and Download

Yesterday, 'Born This Way' singer Lady Gaga was at Google's Headquarter in Mountain View, California to have a personal interview with the search giant Google. VP of Google's consumer products Marissa Mayer conducted the interview, in which Gaga talked about her live, her upcoming album 'Born This Way', her opinion of the latest YouTube viral video Friday and Rebecca Black, and answered the questions from her fans. BTW, Gaga was in the Bay Area for her show at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Video of the hourlong interview has been posted to YouTube in the Google Talks channel. The video has drawn half a million views during the past two days. For a clear view of the interview, you could download Google Goes Gaga video from YouTube with this free YouTube video downloader.


The video begins with an intro with Gaga's songs as backgroud music. Using Google Insights, the intro shows how popular Lady Gaga is on the Internet: 'Lady Gaga' is one of the most searched queries in the world, she has been one of the fastest-rising searches in 2009 and 2010 on Google, and Gaga's video "Bad Romance" alone has had 360 million views on YouTube.

Then Gaga walked into the stage with her super high-heeled boots and sat down with Marissa Mayer, and the interview began. In the interview, mother monsters has answered questions that had been gathered from her little monsters over three days via YouTube. She also talked about how she writes her songs, what she likes and dislikes, her faith, her tattoos, her history and so on. She also talked about the 'Friday' girl Rebecca Black.

Some Gaga revelations from the interview:

She loves yoga very much
She likes the YouTube viral video 'David After the Dentist'
Gaga knows Rebecca Black but doesn't know the song 'Friday'
All of Lady Gaga's tattoos are on the left side of her body
Her entourage taunts her with food; her security peeps kind of hate her
Kids that used to bully her in school contact her for concert tickets now
Gaga does the same vocal exercises she's been doing since age 11
Lady Gaga would like to take her fans "away from the computer."
Despite writing the song "Paparazzi," she doesn't hate them

The 83rd Oscar Awards Winners Full List

Hello, movie lovers! The 83rd Oscar Annual Academy Awards has just been handed out at Kodak Theatre. Many stars have arrived at the top class film awards ceremony. All the winners have been announced as shown in the list below:

1. Best Picture - The King's Speech

2. Best Actor - Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"

3. Best Actress - Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"

4. Supporting Actor - Christian Bale, "The Fighter"

5. Supporting Actress - Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"

6. Director - Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech"

7. Foreign Language Film - "In a Better World," Denmark

8. Adapted Screenplay - Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"

9. Original Screenplay - David Seidler, "The King's Speech"

10. Animated Feature Film - Toy Story 3

11. Art Direction - Alice in Wonderland

12. Cinematography - Inception

13. Sound Mixing - Inception

14. Sound Editing - Inception

15. Original Score - "The Social Network", Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

16. Original Song - "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3", Randy Newman.

17. Costume Design - Alice in Wonderland

18. Documentary Feature - Inside Job

19. Documentary (short subject) - Strangers No More

20. Film Editing - The Social Network

21. Makeup - The Wolfman

22. Animated Short Film - The Lost Thing

23. Live Action Short Film - God of Love

24. Visual Effects - Inception

Off topic:

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Eminem Joins the Billion YouTube Views Club

Congratulations on Eminem's achieving the 1 billion YouTube views milestone earlier this morning. Eminem's YouTube VEVO Official Channel has gained 1,001,007,298 views so far.

The fame rapper is the third person ever to reach the 1 billion milestone, the other two 'billionaries' are Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Eminem is also the first rapper to achieve the 1 billion YouTube views. Lady Gaga is the first person to hit the milestone, while Justin Bieber is the second one. Justin Bieber's music video 'Baby' is the most-viewed video ever on YouTube, with 0.46 billion views.

Eminem has been nominated for 10 awards in the 2011 Grammy Awards, but finally only won 2 awards of them. However, Eminem is still making major advances among music artists. Since the release of hist most recent album 'Recovery' in June 2010, Eminem's popularity via social media has climbed dramatically in the past 9 months. His most popular YouTube music video 'Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna' currently has 0.29 billion views.

The fourth billion YouTube views artist will be Rihanna, enjoying 979,000,000 views so far.

2011 The 53rd Grammy Awards Winners Full List

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards was held last night (February 13, 2011) on at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. 109 Winners has all been awarded in the ceremony. The country music trio Lady Antebellum swept five awards including 'Record Of The Year', 'Song Of The Year', 'Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals', 'Best Country Album' and 'Best Country Song'. Unsurprisingly Lady Gaga won the 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance', and Bruno Mars won the 'Best Male Pop Vocal Performance'.

Below is the full list of 109 winners in all 32 genres of the 2011 Grammy Awards.

General
1. Record Of The Year: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
2. Album Of The Year: The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3. Song Of The Year: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady
Antebellum)
4. Best New Artist: - Esperanza Spalding

Pop
5. Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
6. Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
7. Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Hey, Soul Sister (Live) - Train
8. Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Imagine - Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
9. Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Nessun Dorma - Jeff Beck
10. Best Pop Instrumental Album: Take Your Pick - Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
11. Best Pop Vocal Album: The Fame Monster - Lady Gaga

Dance
12. Best Dance Recording: Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna
13. Best Electronic/Dance Album: La Roux - La Roux

Trad Pop
14. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Crazy Love - Michael Bublé

Rock
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Helter Skelter - Paul McCartney
16. Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Tighten Up - The Black Keys
17. Best Hard Rock Performance: New Fang - Them Crooked Vultures
18. Best Metal Performance: El Dorado - Iron Maiden
19. Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Hammerhead - Jeff Beck
20. Best Rock Song: Angry World - Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)
21. Best Rock Album: The Resistance – Muse

Alternative
22. Best Alternative Music Album: Brothers - The Black Keys

R&B
23. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Bittersweet - Fantasia
24. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: There Goes My Baby - Usher
25. Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Soldier Of Love - Sade
26. Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Hang On In There - John Legend & The Roots
27. Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
28. Best R&B Song: Shine - John Stephens, songwriter (John Legend & The Roots)
29. Best R&B Album: Wake Up! - John Legend & The Roots
30. Best Contemporary R&B Album: Raymond V Raymond – Usher

Rap
31. Best Rap Solo Performance: Not Afraid - Eminem
32. Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: On To The Next One - Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
33. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
34. Best Rap Song: Empire State Of Mind - Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Alicia Keys, Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh
35. Best Rap Album: Recovery – Eminem

Country
36. Best Female Country Vocal Performance: The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
37. Best Male Country Vocal Performance: 'Til Summer Comes Around - Keith Urban
38. Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
39. Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: As She's Walking Away - Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
40. Best Country Instrumental Performance: Hummingbyrd - Marty Stuart
41. Best Country Song: Need You Now - Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
42. Best Country Album: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

New Age
43. Best New Age Album: Miho: Journey To The Mountain - Paul Winter Consort

Jazz
44. Best Contemporary Jazz Album: The Stanley Clarke Band - The Stanley Clarke Band
45. Best Jazz Vocal Album: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee - Dee Dee Bridgewater
46. Best Improvised Jazz Solo: A Change Is Gonna Come - Herbie Hancock, soloist
47. Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Moody 4B - James Moody
48. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Mingus Big Band Live At Jazz Standard - Mingus Big Band
49. Best Latin Jazz Album: Chucho's Steps - Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers

Gospel
50. Best Gospel Performance: Grace - BeBe & CeCe Winans
51. Best Gospel Song: It's What I Do - Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)
52. Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: Hello Hurricane - Switchfoot
53. Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: Love God. Love People. - Israel Houghton
54. Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: The Reason - Diamond Rio
55. Best Traditional Gospel Album: Downtown Church - Patty Griffin
56. Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Still - BeBe & CeCe Winans

Latin
57. Best Latin Pop Album: Paraiso Express - Alejandro Sanz
58. Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album: El Existential - Grupo Fantasma
59. Best Tropical Latin Album: Viva La Tradición - Spanish Harlem Orchestra
60. Best Regional Mexican Album: NO NOMINEES
61. Best Tejano Album: Recuerdos - Little Joe & La Familia
62. Best Norteño Album: Classic - Intocable
63. Best Banda Album: Enamórate De Mí - El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario

American Roots
64. Best Americana Album: You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples
65. Best Bluegrass Album: Mountain Soul II - Patty Loveless
66. Best Traditional Blues Album: Joined At The Hip - Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith
67. Best Contemporary Blues Album: Living Proof - Buddy Guy
68. Best Traditional Folk Album: Genuine Negro Jig - Carolina Chocolate Drops
69. Best Contemporary Folk Album: God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise - Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs
70. Best Hawaiian Music Album: Huana Ke Aloha - Tia Carrere
71. Best Native American Music Album: 2010 Gathering Of Nations Pow Wow: A Spirit's Dance - (Various Artists)
72. Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: Zydeco Junkie - Chubby Carrier And The Bayou Swamp Band

Reggae
73. Best Reggae Album: Before The Dawn - Buju Banton

World
74. Best Traditional World Music Album: Ali And Toumani - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
75. Best Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart , Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks - Béla Fleck

Childrens
76. Best Musical Album For Children: Tomorrow's Children - Pete Seeger With The Rivertown Kids And Friends
77. Best Spoken Word Album For Children: Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies - Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton

Spoken
78. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling): The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook) - Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver &
Sigourney Weaver)

Comedy
79. Best Comedy Album: Stark Raving Black - Lewis Black

Musical Show
80. Best Musical Show Album: American Idiot (Featuring Green Day) - Billie Joe Armstrong

Film/TV/Media
81. Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Crazy Heart - (Various Artists)
82. Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Toy Story 3 - Randy Newman, composer
83. Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: The Weary Kind (From Crazy Heart) - Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett, songwriters (Ryan Bingham)

Composing
84. Best Instrumental Composition: The Path Among The Trees - Billy Childs, composer (Billy Childs Ensemble)

Arranging
85. Best Instrumental Arrangement: Carlos - Vince Mendoza, arranger (John Scofield, Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest)
86. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Baba Yetu - Christopher Tin, arranger (Christopher Tin, Soweto Gospel Choir & Royal

Packaging
87. Best Recording Package: Brothers - Michael Carney, art director (The Black Keys)
88. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package: Under Great White Northern Lights (Limited Edition Box Set) - Rob Jones & Jack White III, art directors (The White Stripes)

Notes
89. Best Album Notes: Keep An Eye On The Sky - Robert Gordon, album notes writer (Big Star)

Historical
90. Best Historical Album: The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) - Jeff Jones & Allan Rouse, compilation producers; Paul Hicks, Sean Magee, Guy Massey, Sam Okell
& Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (The Beatles)

Engineer
91. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Battle Studies - Michael H. Brauer, Joe Ferla, Chad Franscoviak & Manny Marroquin, engineers
(John Mayer)
95. Best Engineered Album, Classical: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka, engineers (Giancarlo Guerrero &
Nashville Symphony Orchestra)

Producer
92. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Danger Mouse - for Broken Bells
96. Producer Of The Year, Classical: David Frost – for Britten's Orchestra (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Remixer
93. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Revolver (David Guetta's One Love Club Remix) - David Guetta & Afrojack, remixers (Madonna)

Surround Sound
94. Best Surround Sound Album: Britten's Orchestra - Keith O. Johnson, surround mix engineer; Keith O. Johnson, surround mastering
engineer; David Frost, surround producer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)

Classical
97. Best Classical Album: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
98. Best Orchestral Performance: Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina - Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Terrence Wilson; Nashville Symphony)
99. Best Opera Recording: Saariaho: L'Amour De Loin - Kent Nagano, conductor
100. Best Choral Performance: Verdi: Requiem - Riccardo Muti, conductor
101. Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24 - Mitsuko Uchida (The Cleveland Orchestra)
102. Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra): Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement - Paul Jacobs
103. Best Chamber Music Performance: Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - Parker Quartet
104. Best Small Ensemble Performance: Dinastia Borja - Jordi Savall, conductor
105. Best Classical Vocal Performance: Sacrificium - Cecilia Bartoli (Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico)
106. Best Classical Contemporary Composition: Daugherty, Michael: Deus Ex Machina - Michael Daugherty (Giancarlo Guerrero)
107. Best Classical Crossover Album: Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns - Lucas Richman, conductor

Music Video
108. Best Short Form Music Video: Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
109. Best Long Form Music Video: When You're Strange - (The Doors)

Source is Grammy.com

Lady Gaga Releasing 'Born This Way' Tomorrow

Hello, little monsters! You must have known that Mama Monster (Lady Gaga) is going to release the new single 'Born This Way'. It has rumored that the song will be released on February 13. But it's not true. The latest music news reports that the song will debut tomorrow (February 11) - just two days before the Grammy Awards. So, are you excited? Or just as Gaga tweeted 'Can't wait any longer'?

The accompanying official cover has already been unveiled for the upcoming single - just as the picture shown above. Approximately two weeks ago, the official lyrics of Born This Way was also released via Gaga's Twitter. Sources said that Gaga will perform the track for the first time at the Grammy Awards ceremony at the Staples Center, where the 24-year-old talented pop star will probably shock everyone with her outrageous costume.

And don't forget, Born This Way album is debuting on May 23, 2011.

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Lady Gaga Reveals 'Born This Way' Official Lyrics on Twitter

Lady Gaga has finally officially released the lyrics of 'Born This Way' after several teasing lyrics was posted to tease her Little Monsters earlier in daytime. I love the lyrics so much as it teaches me a lot. Looking forward to the song audio and video; it must be a great hit.

Born This Way will be a single in Gaga's upcoming second studio album 'Born This Way', which will hit shelves on May 23, 2011 by Interscope Records. The single is scheduled to be released on February 13, the day before Valentine's Day.

Born This Way is an encouraging song. In the song, Lady Gaga tells us that "I'm beautiful in my way, cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track. Baby I was born this way". Gaga announced the song lyrics on her twitter. "Are you ready for the full lyrics?! Can we trend #bornthiswaylyrics!? It has been in my heart for over a year. I'm so excited to share it", she tweeted, "It's #1 worldwide! That was fast! You're so radical! Here you [go] Monsters, this one's for you."

Here is the lyrics for the song

Intro
It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
'cause you were Born This Way, Baby

Verse
My Mama told me when I was young
We are all born stars
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir
"There's nothing wrong with lovin' who you are"
She said, "Cause he made you perfect, babe."
"So hold your head up girl and you'll go far,
Listen to me when I say"

Chorus
I'm beautiful in my way
Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way
Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself and you're set
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way

Post-Chorus
Ooo there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Ooo there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Ooo there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way

Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Don't be!

Verse
Give yourself prudence
And love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth

In the religion of the insecure
I must be myself, respect my youth
A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (hey hey hey)
I love my life I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (love needs faith)
Repeat Chorus and Post-chorus

Bridge
Don't be a drag, be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige chola descent
You're Lebanese, You're Orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
Cause baby you we're born this way
No matter gay, straight, or bi
Lesbian, transgendered life
I'm on the right track baby
I was born to survive
No matter black, white or beige
Chola or Orient made
I'm on the right track baby
I was born to be brave

Repeat Chorus

Outro/Refrain
I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way hey!

I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way hey!

Josh Groban Sings The Best Tweets of Kanye West in Jimmy Kimmel Live (Download Video)

Josh Groban, distinguished for his soulful crooning; Kanye West, famed rapper, singer. So what's connection between the two men? If you have watched the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on Jan 3, you should know what I'm going to talk about.

In ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on January 3rd, Josh Groban showed us a special performance - he sat at his piano to sing some memorable tweets of Kanye West. The video of the performance was posted on YouTube the next day and has quickly become a viral Internet video of the week. As to now, the hilarious video has racked up nearly 1.3 million views.

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"After seeing Josh Groban's self-effacing cameos on the first season of 'Glee', we figured he's the sort of guy who doesn't take himself too seriously. Now, after seeing his stunt on last night's (Jan. 3) episode of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', we can see he doesn't mind poking fun at other artists as well", - specifically Kanye West.

Sources said that Josh Groban's performance is an advertisement for his new album – "The Best Tweets of Kanye West", a fictional album containing 752 medleys of West's Twitter musings, including one-liners like "French fries are the devil." Instant classic.

"It was an honor to sing these," Groban tweeted after the episode aired. " I sincerely hope he (Kanye) doesn't lash out at me with sick floetry." Groban tweeted after the episode aired.

Below is the interview to Josh Groban recorded by ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.

Whose idea was this skit? Is this something Jimmy came to you with?
JOSH GROBAN: Any talk show host can have you on to sing your song of the moment, but from day one, when nobody else was giving me couch time, Jimmy was finding me fun things to do — whether it was buying pot brownies from Snoop Dogg at the AMAs or giving me such a glorious moment in the 'F—ing Ben Affleck' video. He always let me express the funny bone a little bit…So his team basically said, "If you're coming on again, would you be open to doing another skit?" I said, "Sure." They came back with about five different ideas. The most obscure was, I think it said, "Something musical with Kanye's tweets." In theory it sounded funny just because his tweets are so funny. So they set up a piano and a mic and a little white backdrop. I dressed in my Sunday best. [Kimmel's] amazing production team put together this hilarious infomercial around what was essentially just me sitting there and improvising these things. We would pick our favorites and I would just play the first melody that came to mind. That's basically what you're seeing.

How did you pick which tweets to immortalize this way?
When it comes to Kanye's tweets, it's like, how do you pick the prettiest child? They're all gems. In the end, I think probably it was the ones that created the best melodies. There were a few that we did that didn't make the edit. But we've recorded all 783 of them. You're just going to have to buy all 48 CDs.

Seriously?
No, I'm just kidding.

I figured.
That would be awesome.

Had you been following Kanye's tweets on Twitter before this?
Yeah, I had read all of these before. I've followed him for almost the whole year.

What's the response to the skit been like?
It's cool. Even Kanye retweeted it. Hopefully he gets the joke. Nothing about it in my mind was meant to be mean-spirited. I never like to make less of others, especially in the entertainment industry. I know how it feels, and it's not cool. Whenever you want to jest about someone or something, you want to make sure that it's in a way where they should be in on the joke. Really, we wanted to make it more a celebration of how entertaining he is. More, "Isn't this wonderful? And if I can lend my voice to them, great," kind of thing, rather than anything negative. But I expected it to get, like, 20,000 views. I expected it to just be a funny little thing and move on to my next song. I've gotten more texts from my friends than I normally do on my birthday!

You mentioned that Kanye retweeted it. Has he reached out to you beyond that?
No. I'm sure he's probably asking around to figure out just who the hell I am. So no reach-outs yet.

If he ever does get in touch, would you be interested in making music with him?
Oh, absolutely. I would never do something like this if it wasn't for somebody that I completely respect. He's an unbelievably brilliant musician. It's fun for me to see, not only with Kanye, but in hip-hop in general and the way music is right now, genres are melding like never before. Jay-Z's performing with a rock band, Kanye's experimenting with classical music and ballet dancers. It's amazing to see how art and culture and pop culture are becoming intertwined. To even think about a record store having the words "rock" and "pop" and "easy listening" — it doesn't mean anything anymore. Everybody's doing everything. So I'm always open, and it's always been fun for me to collaborate with people that have been unexpected.

Given the response to the skit, do you think there's any possibility you'll ever pursue this project further?
I think sometimes when you've done something that people connect with, sometimes it's better to leave it as the thing it is and let it live in infamy rather than gild the lily. We'll see. If something really funny comes up in the idea room and we think of something else, we'll follow it up. Otherwise we'll just let it have its life.

Download Repeal DADT message from Gaga video from YouTube

Repeal DADT message from Gaga – a new YouTube video sensation. The video has quickly attracted more than 200,000 people's attention in just one day! The video is about Lady Gaga, Human Rights and Discrimination.

In the video, pop singer Lady Gaga once again spoke to us that she wants to put and end to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which was made by Congress.

Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) is the common term for the policy restricting the United States military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted gay, lesbian, and bisexual servicemembers or applicants, while barring those who are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service.

- According to Wikipedia

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In September this year, Gaga spoke in a speech and cited a recent slew of gay teenage suicides to call for the DADT's repeal.

"Kids are being led to believe that it's OK to hate and condemn based on our differences," Lady Gaga said in the video, "and this recent horrific news of gay suicides is really proof of our social repression and ultimately government repression that is killing our youth. We have to end this law because it reinforces discrimination and it's setting a bad example."

In the video, the pop singer also reminds us that the DADT law is unfair and unjust as everyone is born equal and should have equal rights and opportunities in all things in the world.

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Download Justin Bieber dies on South Park (720p) from YouTube

Justin Bieber died yesterday!!%^$$#&*

Oh, my God! Is that true? The popular 13-year-old American singer is dead?

Don't worry. It's not true, LOL. But Justin Bieber is fictionally killed by Eric Cartman in South Park in a YouTube cartoon video clip. (You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it to your computer.)

We know that Justin Bieber is very popular on YouTube. His video song 'Baby' is the most-viewed video ever on YouTube; and the total views of all his videos on YouTube has just reached 1 billion on Tuesday.

It’s interesting to see the 'Justin Bieber Dies' fever on YouTube. Yesteray, a cartoon video 'Justin Bieber dies on South Park (720p)' was uploaded to YouTube, so far this video has received 40,470 views and 1,534 comments.

This YouTube video describes that the young singer Justin Bieber is killed on his live concert by a monster in South Park. Certainly it's just a comedy video. The video is made by Cthulhu and Eric Cartman, who are the forces to destroy the Bieber fever; and it's a response to Bieber's most popular music video 'Baby'. Up to now, 2591 people have rated this video – 2394 like it against only 197 dislike.

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Justin Bieber becomes the second person reaches 1 billioin views on YouTube

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After Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, the 16-year-old singer and Internet sensation becomes the second person who reaches 1 billion view counts on YouTube this Tuesday. Lady Gaga reached the 1 billion views milestone about two weeks ago.

From Justin Bieber's official YouTube channel, we can see that there are currently totally 1,009,684,480 views from all his uploaded videos. Bieber also announced this in his Twitter account:"so i wake up today to almost 15 million on facebook, Over a BILLION VIEWS on YOUTUBE, and 6 MILLION OF THE GREATEST FANS ON EARTH ON TWITTER!!!! THANK U. This is crazy...My Hometown only has 30,000 people total! NUTS"

Justin Bieber's video 'Baby' is the most viewed video ever on YouTube with 379,808,890 views currently, more than Gaga's most viewed video 'Bad Romance' at 303,710,763 views. Want to download Justin Bieber's video 'Baby' from YouTube to your computer? You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. It can download all Flash videos from YouTube. You can also use it to convert YouTube video to other video formats for viewing YouTube videos on portable devices. It is free.

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