Showing posts with label Justin Timberlake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justin Timberlake. Show all posts

Justin Timberlake goes YEARS without new music, really taking time to create classic hits, and he has another one with "Can't Stop the Feeling!"

The upbeat, feel-good track will be featured on the upcoming Trolls soundtrack, on which Justin serves as executive music producer. The song really just makes you want to get up and dance, and is perfect with summer right around the corner!

Check out the track below!


"Can't Stop The Feeling" is officially available for purchase on iTunes, so be sure to cop it! 

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Justin Timberlake is set to serve as executive producer for the music for upcoming DreamWorks Animation comedy, Trolls!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the singer/songwriter will write and perform original songs for the movie, as well as oversee creative direction for the film's music. In addition, he will also voice one of the characters, named Branch, who is described as an "hilariously hardcore survivalist who hides his surprising true colors."


“I have always envisioned bringing the two worlds of film and music together for one epic event [and] couldn’t be more excited that they will collide in DreamWorks’ Trolls," Justin said. "This film is very special, the music is going to be very special and I can’t wait for everyone to experience it all.”

“Justin is an amazingly versatile artist and producer whose unprecedented creative talents provide a unique voice and sound for our movie,” said DreamWorks Animation’s co-presidents of feature animation Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria in a statement. “Trolls is a comedy with fantastic music at its core and we can’t think of a more perfect artist to elevate this soundtrack to incredible heights.”

Directed by Mike Mitchell and co-directed by Walt Dohrn, the comedy also stars Anna Kendrick as Princess Poppy, who heads off on a great adventure with Branch. Fox has set the film for release on Nov. 4, 2016.

This is definitely a great move for JT, who is a talented musician and actor. I can't wait to see what he brings to the table (yes, I'm a big kid so I'll be watching!)

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The 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards aired on NBC last night, March 29. Of course, as previously reported, Justin Timberlake took home the Innovator Award for his creative work in the industry. However, did your favorite celebs win anything?

Check out the full list of winners below (via Us Weekly)!














Best Lyrics
"All of Me" — John Legend
"Blank Space" — Taylor Swift — WINNER
"Counting Stars" — OneRepublic
"Habits (Stay High)" — Tove Lo
"Stay With Me" — Sam Smith
"Thinking Out Loud" — Ed Sheeran

Hip Hop/R&B Song of the Year
"Don’t Tell ‘Em" — Jeremih featuring YG — WINNER
"Drunk in Love" — Beyonce featuring Jay Z
"Flawless" — Beyonce
"Loyal" — Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Tyga
"New Flame" — Chris Brown featuring Usher and Rick Ross
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Best New Artist
Iggy Azalea
Bastille
Sam Smith — WINNER
Cole Swindell
Meghan Trainor

Country Song of the Year
"Bartender" — Lady Antebellum
"Burnin’ It Down" — Jason Aldean — WINNER
"Dirt" — Florida Georgia Line
"Give Me Back My Hometown" — Eric Church
"Play It Again" — Luke Bryan

Best Fan Army
5SOSFAM — 5 Seconds of Summer — WINNER
Arianators — Ariana Grande
Bey Hive — Beyonce
Team Breezy — Chris Brown
Sheerios — Ed Sheeran
Church Choir — Eric Church
Directioners — One Direction
Selenators — Selena Gomez
Mendes Army — Shawn Mendes
Swifties — Taylor Swift


Best Collaboration
"Bang Bang" — Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj — WINNER
"Dark Horse" — Katy Perry featuring Juicy J
"Fancy" — Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
"Problem" — Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea
"Talk Dirty" — Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz

Renegade
Iggy Azalea
Charli XCX
Brantley Gilbert — WINNER
Hozier
Meghan Trainor

Dance Song of the Year
"Animals" — Martin Garrix
"Blame" — Calvin Harris featuring John Newman
"La La La" — Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith
"Summer" — Calvin Harris — WINNER
"Waves" — Mr. Probz
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Alternative Rock Song of the Year
"Come With Me Now" — KONGOS
"Do I Wanna Know?" — Arctic Monkeys
"Fever" — The Black Keys
"Something From Nothing" — Foo Fighters
"Take Me to Church" — Hozier — WINNER

Song of the Year
"All About That Bass" — Meghan Trainor
"All of Me" — John Legend
"Happy" — Pharrell Williams
"Shake It Off" — Taylor Swift — WINNER
"Stay With Me" — Sam Smith

Artist of the Year
Iggy Azalea
Luke Bryan
Ariana Grande
Sam Smith
Taylor Swift — WINNER

Image via Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartMedia


Justin Timberlake is to receive the 2015 iHeartRadio Innovator Award!

According to Billboard, the singer and father-to-be will receive the award when the iHeartRadio Music Awards airs live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on March 29 at 8 p.m. on NBC.

“Justin is one of the most dynamic artists of our lifetime, a visionary whose influence on pop culture starts with brilliant music and stretches well beyond,” said Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Platforms for iHeartMedia. “I’m amazed how he regularly breaks barriers that continue to shape and define music trends. We’re thrilled to recognize him amongst his peers—who also proudly call themselves his fans.”


President of Entertainment Enterprises John Sykes added, "Even given all his success to date, I think he is only at the beginning of one of the great careers in entertainment."

Justin has been in this industry since the 90s with *NSYNC, but has really made an impact with his solo music! Congratulations to him for this honor!

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I'm still reeling off of the craziness that was last night's MTV's Video Music AwardsFrom Miley twerking to the *NSYNC reunion, there was a LOT to talk about, and my entire timeline was going off all night!

The pre-show, hosted by various MTV correspondents including my favorite Sway, had appearances from Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, Emeli Sande, Lady Gaga, and more! Danity Kane even showed up on the red carpet to make the official announcement that they are back!!! Well, minus D.Woods. She has "other projects," but she needs to put that to the side because DK is about to blow back up, and I'm so excited! Their new song, "Rage," will be released soon, and I can't wait to hear!


During the pre-show, we also saw the first Moonmen of the night given away, one to Pink and Nate Reuss for Best Collaboration on "Just Give Me A Reason," and the other to Thirty Seconds To Mars for Best Rock Video ("Up In The Air"). New artist Austin Mahone performed his hit, "What About Love," and my favorite new singer, Ariana Grande, took the stage as well! Love her voice! I do wish that her stylist changed up her outfits though. Those little short sparkly dresses are cute for Nickelodeon, but the girl is 20! Let's throw something different in! She still did an amazing job though...her vocals are incredible!



As we all as know from the promos, the VMAs were held LIVE in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center.There was no host, which was cool, because in past years, hosts at these award shows don't really get all that noticed like they used to anyway. Lady Gaga opened up the show with her newest song "Applause." Now, yes, Gaga is always a tad bit...different with her performances, but that's part of why I respect her. Though I wouldn't call myself a monster by no means, her talent and artistry can't be denied. The girl did different outfit changes on stage, giving different looks from her career so far! Overall, I loved the performance, and thought the song opened the show with a pretty big bang!

One Direction gave out the award for Best Pop Video to Selena Gomez for "Come and Get It." Other awards that were revealed (but not given stage time) were Best Art Direction (Janelle Monae for "Queen"), Best Choreography (Bruno Mars, "Treasure"), Best Cinemotography (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Can't Hold Us"), Best Direction (Justin Timberlake feat. Jay-Z"Suit and Tie") and Best Editing (JT again for "Mirrors"), and Best Visual Effects (Capitol City, "Safe and Sound").

The next performance was from Miley Cyrus, and surprisingly, Robin Thicke. Miley twerked all over the stage as she performed "We Can't Stop," and continued on acting a fool as she sang "Blurred Lines" with Robin. 2Chainz and Kendrick Lamar came out moments later to perform "Give It To U (Remix)" with Robin, but my mind was still stuck on Miley. One, who at MTV thought that it was a great idea to join Miley and Robin together?! They are two completely different artists, and it just didn't work! Robin, "Blurred Lines" is probably one of, if not the best song of your career so far (maybe behind "Lost Without You"), and you chose Miley to share your moment with? You had to have known better, and look what happened! Miley was a pure mess, dancing around, backing it up on Robin like he's not married WITH a kid! I realized though that we the public encouraged her. Her dancing to "Wop" was cute and fun, and made me like the song a little more. We basically gave her the A-OK to complete dance around like a ho onstage (sorry, that's the word that stuck with me). "Oh it's just Miley, just little Hannah Montana twerking," but she went way too far last night! Miley said in interviews before the show that her performance would be bigger than the Britney-Madonna kiss some years back, but it wasn't. It was disgusting and annoying to watch, and I actually like the girl! I know that she's trying to shed her Disney image, but this isn't the way to go. If you want people to take you seriously as Miley, you have to take yourself seriously first! Billy Ray and Tish, PLEASE come get your daughter. *rant over*


Iggy Azalea and the Queen Bee Lil Kim presented the Best Hip Hop Video to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for "Can't Hold Us!" Of course, people went off on Twitter because Macklemore and Ryan are white, and people feel like they don't represent the hip hop genre with their style of music. I don't know if I buy into the white privilege thing completely when it comes to the VMAs. Yes, there have been some questionable choices, but people expected Kendrick Lamar to win for "Swimming Pools" in this category were fooling themselves. Yes, LYRICALLY, Kendrick Lamar is better than Macklemore. There's no denying that. In terms of the VIDEO (this, after all, is the VIDEO Music Awards), Macklemore had him beat. I wish people could see that these awards are not based off artist's music, but the videos they set around their music. Check the Grammys next year. I guarantee Kendrick's coming home with a few! Until then, calm down folks!

Kevin Hart got on stage to joke around a bit, which entertained the crowd He kept saying that he wasn't the host, but MTV should've paid him like he was! He was definitely on stage a couple of times thoughout the night! Kanye West then performed his song, "Blood on the Leaves," mostly in the dark as a silhouette. Even though I would've loved to actually SEE him, his energy on stage and the subject matter overrode that! He KILLED it! Later, Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, and Daft Punk presented the Best Female Video to Taylor Swift for "I Knew You Were Trouble." I was genuinely happy for her because I love the song and the video! However, when she accepted the award, she gave a shoutout to the unknown ex this song was about. I could make a guess on who it was, but I'll leave that be. It was just unnecessary, and disappointed the mini Swiftie in me. Ed Sheeran presented Best Video with a Social Message went to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for "Same Love." It's an amazing song and great video, so I wasn't that upset about it beating out BeyoncĂ©'s "I Was Here."
Up next was the main event, and hands down the best moment of the entire show! Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to Justin Timberlake with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Music Award! Though he said that he felt like he didn't deserve it, he truly does. When he started singing his classic songs like, "Sexy Back," "Like I Love You," "Cry Me A River," and more, I realized that his music truly is timeless! These are songs that we're going to be rocking to when where 40 and 50, telling our kids, "You don't know nothing about that!" The performance, to me, is going down in VMA history! And THEN, he brought out *NSYNC!!!!! They only performed a minute medley of "Girlfriend," and "Bye Bye Bye" and yes, you could tell who was out of shape, but that made my LIFE! I grew up listening to them, and I was so excited the whole time, screaming, singing loud, and dancing right along with them! It was the best. They really should rethink the reunion tour! Just one good time for the fans!

Best Song of the Summer went to One Direction for "Best Song Ever." NBA basketball player Jason Collins and A$AP Rocky announced the next performance. Jason, who announced that he was gay this year, was reading from the teleprompter, but A$AP was standing away from him like he was diseased, and even made weird looks. It was so awkward. I really wished that they had picked someone with a little more sense and maturity to announce the next performance. A$AP took away from that a little bit. They announced Macklemore & Ryan Lewis who performed "Same Love" with Mary Lambert. Jennifer Hudson also took the stage with them towards the end, kind of stealing Mary's shine a little bit, but it was still a very nice performance. 

Emeli Sande and Adam Lambert presented the New Artist Award to Austin Mahone. I don't know his music, because it's not for my age range, but he seems to be doing well with the tweens andDrake who performed "Hold On, We're Going Home," and "Started From The Bottom." It was a good performance (even if Rihanna wanted to act like she was so bored throughout the show).
teens. Go him! T Boz and Chilli  then announced

Best Male Video went to Bruno Mars for "Locked Out Of Heaven." Moments later, Selena Gomez then announced him singing "Gorilla," which was weird for me. It's a sexy song, but I don't find Bruno all that sexy (he's like a cute little big brother or something). It was a cool performance though, and his vocals are amazing! I will give him that!  Video of the Year went to the one and only Justin Timberlake for "Mirrors," revealing that the video was a tribute to his grandparents. His grandfather passed away in December, and he dedicated the award to his granny. Allison Williams then announced Katy Perry who closed the show with "Roar." It's a catchy song but Katy has done way better in terms of performances and songs! I'm sure this song will do well because Katy always does well, but it's not her best. Maybe I'll catch on later. That always happens with me anyway.

The show was great. Had it's stale moments, especially after the JT performance (though that should've been the end of the show anyway). However, there were a lot of great moments, and overall I enjoyed it a lot! You can check out clips from your favorite moments and performances on MTV

What did you think of last night's Video Music Awards?

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Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are denying recent rumors that they traded sexually explicit texts, photos and emails. According to Us Weekly, reps for the two said that the stories are "entirely false."

TMZ claimed Thursday that Mila's phone was hacked and that the phone carried a bunch of raunchy photos including one of the actress in the bathtub, another of Timberlake with women's underwear on his head, and another of male genitalia.

Read more after the jump!

The reps for the stars released a joint statement:

"At no time did Mr. Timberlake and Ms. Kunis exchange inappropriate texts or emails. The insistence that there is any inappropriate correspondence between the two parties is entirely false. We would like to confirm that the photo addressed in the media of Ms. Kunis was in fact not from any phone but from an inactive email account that has not existed in three years. In regards to the other photos in question, they were never exchanged between the two parties. In closing, Mr. Timberlake would like us to make it clear that while he might write songs about putting things in boxes, he never has and definitely doesn't make a habit of taking any photos of them and sending them,...Ms. Kunis would like us to add that while she is a fan of the song, she does not have nor has ever had photos of any male parts in her possession."


The end of the statements makes a joke from Justin's SNL skit, "D*** In A Box." Haha. Well, personally glad that this rumor has been put to bed. Several celebs have been being hacked, and have explicit photos out now (Yes, you Scarlett Johannson!). Can I say that I know that celebs are people too, and they have rights to privacy. (I got into this convo on one of the blog posts I did at Lovelyish.com). HOWEVER, let's not be dumb. Celebs are targets, simply because they carry the title "celebrity." Yeah, it might suck at times, but they simply can't do everything that people with normalcy can. And that includes taking sexy pics of yourself! With every step you make, there's the potential of it coming to light. So celebs ought to make their decisions keeping that in mind.

Oh, and am I the only one who secretly wishes that Mila and Justin would get together? (Sorry Jessica Biel!)