If you have a list somewhere that's titled "People Who Somehow Always Make Things Unsexy," you'll want to bust that out. Jeopardy host Alex Trebek is about to be written into a blank space on that list. Sure, he's sexy in his own Canadian game show host kind of way, but when Trebek has to read out the lyrics from Mötley Crüe's "Girls Girls Girls" for the "Hard Rockers" category…that's when things get a little stale. It's a pretty funky, hot song. But our host managed to give it the Trebek Treatment™ with his monotone delivery, and now we'll never be able to watch Jeopardy the same way again after hearing him drone "Girls, girls, girls, long...
- 2/4/2015
- E! Online
Brad Paisley, Zac Brown Band and Toby Keith are among the artists who will be traveling to China Grove on a Long Train Runnin’ for a cover album of Doobie Brothers songs. Just like Hollywood loves sequels, country artists love to pay homage to pop artists, whether it be this new edition or the very popular salute to Lionel Richie a few years ago, or “Common Thread: Song of the Eagles” project 20 years ago. And don’t forget, there’s even a country cover album to the songs of Motley Crue coming. Here’s one very big reason they are so popular: Much of the country audience today was raised on these songs when pop radio was very melody driven. When pop radio switched to a more urban and beats sound, many of these listeners flocked to country, which had developed its own country pop hybrid with acts like Rascal Flatts,...
- 2/28/2014
- Hitfix
Shout at the devil ... for the last time ... TMZ has learned, Mötley Crüe is calling it quits after 33 years.The iconic heavy metal band -- famous for hits like "Kickstart My Heart" and "Girls Girls Girls" -- just announced their retirement at a news conference inside Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood.The stage was set with headstones, symbolizing each of the band's members -- singer Vince Neil, guitarists Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars, and drummer Tommy Lee.
- 1/28/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
It's not easy to fall on your ass on stage and make it look kinda cool ... but Vince Neil might have pulled it off last night in Las Vegas. Neil was performing "Girls Girls Girls" in his strip club when he bit it big time trying to jump on the stage. But ever the pro, Neil figured since he was down on the ground, he'd just crawl to the front of the stage ... where a...
- 4/15/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
In this media-saturated age, it's getting harder and harder to shock people, especially with music videos. But every once in a while, a clip comes along that really turns heads and gets the band in question a load of (perhaps unwanted) attention. Such is the case with Florida pop-punkers Mayday Parade, whose video for "Kids in Love" has raised a whole lot of eyebrows with its graphic depictions of sex, drug use and violence. The video — which somewhat resembles the "Europe montage" from "The Rules of Attraction" — has been banned from YouTube and has also earned the group a bit of backlash from their fans, who have called it "pointlessly explicit." "The negative reaction, it bothers me," Mayday Parade frontman Derek Sanders told MTV News' James Montgomery on Wednesday (April 28). "I hate to see people say they've lost respect for us or that they're no longer going to be fans of our band,...
- 4/29/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
If you're in Los Angeles, swing by Nikki Sixx's house to wish him a happy birthday, as the Mötley Crüe bassist turns 51 years old today. Of all the self-destructive rock stars who emerged from the '80s hair metal scene (and there were no shortage of casualties), Sixx's survival is nothing short of miraculous. While most of his bandmates in the Crüe were content to drink too much Jack Daniel's and crash expensive cars, Sixx spent most of his quality time experimenting with heroin. According to his excellent book The Heroin Diaries, Sixx believes he overdosed at least six times in his life, with one of those incidences coming on December 23, 1987, when he was legally dead for two minutes before paramedics revived him with a pair of adrenaline shots directly to his heart (this incident is memorialized in the Crüe hit "Kickstart My Heart").
But Sixx is sober now,...
But Sixx is sober now,...
- 12/11/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Lady GaGa claimed her fame through debut album "The Fame". On the effort which has been released in the U.S. since August 19, she embraced pop culture and invited her fans to an electro-techno roller coaster ride of music.
"'The Fame' is about how anyone can feel famous," GaGa spoke about her debut record. "Pop culture is art. It doesn't make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over 'The Fame'. But, it's a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle."
Since hitting the selves, GaGa's first LP peaked at number 1 on Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart and climbed to number 17 on Billboard Hot 200 albums chart with 24,000 copies sold in its first week of sales. The album was led by a self-penned song "Just Dance" where she teamed up with Colby O'Donis.
"'The Fame' is about how anyone can feel famous," GaGa spoke about her debut record. "Pop culture is art. It doesn't make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over 'The Fame'. But, it's a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle."
Since hitting the selves, GaGa's first LP peaked at number 1 on Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart and climbed to number 17 on Billboard Hot 200 albums chart with 24,000 copies sold in its first week of sales. The album was led by a self-penned song "Just Dance" where she teamed up with Colby O'Donis.
- 11/17/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Hearing about Jennifer Montgomery’s Deliver, an all-female remake of John Boorman’s 1972 Deliverance, having its world premiere at BAMcinématek this evening, I got the same feeling I had when my friend Rose told me about her sister’s all-female, Motley Crue tribute band Girls Girls Girls. How exciting! Upending and giving the finger to notions of gender and sexuality always gets me all hot and bothered. As did watching Burt Reynolds strut his sexy stuff in Boorman’s original (with its screenplay and book by that ornery southern, man’s man James Dickey). So who would take on the Burt Reynolds role of Lewis – the dude who stands apart from the rest of his male bonding, canoe trip comrades? Yes, Jon Voight as family man Ed, Ned Beatty ...
- 10/22/2008
- by Lauren Wissot
- Spout
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