*THE SYNDICATE DOES NOT EXIST* Think of how cool and full of swag theBig Bangmembers looked in their "Bang Bang Bang" MV and then expect the exact opposite for the behind-the-scenes video of their MV filming!
The members seemed to have had tons of fun and were full of laughs on set. Especially note the beginning of the video whenDaesungandSeungriare adorably more than impressed about the bouncing car!
Half the reason we love Big Bang is how cool and attractive they look on stage and for music comebacks, and the other half is how cute and derpy they are in real life!
Take a look at the behind-the-scenes video of "Bang Bang Bang" right above!
*THE SYNDICATE DOES NOT EXIST* Hsie He-hsian (Chinese: 謝和弦, also known as A Chord or R.Chord; born April 15, 1987) is a Taiwanese singer and actor.
A Chord is known mainly for writing the lyrics of the popular song, "Gou Ai," that was written for the purpose of the Taiwanese drama, The X-Family. Currently in show of K.O.3an Guo, Pets Ceng is singing a renewed version of Gou Ai. There are also parody versions of Gou Ai throughout the K.O.3an Guo episodes, mainly starting from episode nine.
Juicy J's track"For Everybody"has made headlines due to featured guestWiz Khalifaseemingly referencing his ex-wife Amber Rose in the lyrics. Now, the controversy is bound to continue, since the track has gotten a video.
We here at Exclaim! havealready taken some issuewith the sexual politics of this slow-creeping track, and the video serves to illuminate some of the rather questionable themes. As Juicy J and Wiz rap about "hoes" with no loyalty, we see scantily-clad women appear with demonic orange eyes and vampire teeth.
Watch the clip below. Juicy J's albumPure THC: The Hustle Continuesis forthcoming.
Big Sean has revisited his recent Dark Sky Paradise LP, treating its guest-heavy track "One Man Can Change the World" to a new video.
The song was written in dedication to Sean's late grandmother, who was a renowned activist in Detroit. The black and white video is a poignant clip which sees Sean delivering his lyrics from a pulpit as some men dispose of their guns in an ice cream cooler.
Though Kanye West and John Legend are on the song, they don't appear in the video. Either way, it's a solid visual accompaniment to the song. Watch it below, where you'll also find John Legend's tour dates.
Tour dates:
07/19 Los Angeles, CA - STAPLES Center * 07/21 Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater * 07/24 St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre * 07/26 Indianapolis, IN - Klipsch Music Center * 07/28 Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre * 07/30 Pittsburg, PA - First Niagara Pavilion * 07/31 Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center * 08/03 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center * 08/04 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden * 08/06 Boston, MA - Xfinity Center * 08/07 Montreal, QC - Centre Bell * 08/08 Hartford, CT - XFINITY Theatre * 08/09 Washington, DC - Jiffy Lube Live * 08/11 Cincinnati , OH - Riverbend Music Center * 08/12 Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion * 08/13 Virginia Beach, VA - Farm Bureau Live * 08/15 Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre * 08/16 Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre * 08/18 West Palm Beach, FL - Coral Sky Amphitheatre * 08/21 Houston, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion * 08/22 Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater * 08/23 Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion * 08/25 Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre * 08/29 Fayetteville, NC - Crown Complex *
Prolific singer-songwriterJon Lawlessdroppeda new singleunder hisSwim Goodmoniker earlier this week, but he's already offering up some more new material in the form of a video for "Capital." The track comes from this year'sOut One Nightand hears him teaming up with vocalist Daniela Andrade to return to his folksier side. The accompanying visuals reveal a full band that contributes additional guitars, strings and keys to the gentle, sweet-sounding tune. The clip was shot by Toronto-based media collectiveBRBR, and you can scroll past Lawless's upcoming tour dates to give it a watch in the player below. Tour dates: 07/04 Hamilton, ON – Porcelain Records 07/11 Leith, ON – TBA 07/18 Clinton, ON – HuronSound & Arts Festival
Alejandra Omaña is a Colombian journalist who promised to pose naked if the soccer teamshe passionately supportswon a promotion to that country’s top-level professional league.
As a result, Omaña is about to become her country’s most famous journalist, and not because she is the Colombian equivalent of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
In South America and Europe, pro soccer leagues are divided into higher and lower divisions, with the top flight reserved for the best — and usually wealthiest — teams. But each year, the top teams from each division move up while the bottom teams are “relegated,” that is, dropped down.
Alejandra Omaña made good on her pledge this week to pose “balls naked”in a local men’s magazine,Soho, if her beloved soccer club Deportivo Cucuta performed well enough in the second division to move on up to the top flight.
At first, it seemed like Omaña had made a pretty safe bet and would get to keep her clothes on while still rooting for her favorite team. In a four-team playoff to determine which side would win promotion, Cucuta was seeded third.
But amazingly, the team pulled off an upset and achieved its goal of promotion to Colombia’s top soccer league — and of allowing the rest of the country to see Alejandra Omaña naked.
While the photos are mostly tastefully done, they are too NSFW to display here. But for those not offended by mild nudity, most of herSohophotos can be seen on Alejandra Omaña’sown Instagram page at this link.
She led off the shoot with a suggestive shot in which she wears the distinctive black-and-red jersey sported by Deportivo Cucucta soccer players.
She pulls up the jersey to reveal the hashtag “#CucutaAsciende” — that is, “Cucuta promoted” — across her stomach in Magic Marker,leaving no doubtas to why she chose to pose naked.
“I got carried away by the emotion of feeling part of a movement that dresses in red and black,” she said in the magazine. “That’s why you have these wonderful photos.”
Omaña went on to call Cucuta’s quest for promotion and her own experience posing naked as “an unforgettable journey that I now scratch off my list that I had to do during the course of my life.”
Her experience comes just six months after a“model” stripped nakedat the championship game of the Australian Football League.
While the experience of posing naked may indeed be unforgettable, especially in the age of the internet when nothing posted online can ever truly be forgotten, Alejandra Omaña also promised to be “more cautious in my betting” next soccer season, when she predicts that her beloved Cucuta will win the Colombian championship.
A wide celebration by a female footballer has landed her in trouble.
Danish national playerNanna Christiansenwas celebrating the double trophy win by her clubBrondbyin Denmark when she posed with naked women exposing their bare bottoms.
The photo was posted by her club colleagueTheresa Nielsen on Instagram.
Both players have been reprimanded by his club and the photo has been taken down from the Instagram page.
You may never look at Gummy Bears in the same way after watching this video.
It's all a bit weird but people don't seem to be able to stop watching and the footage has since gone viral,
In theYoutube videocurvy model Golden Moeras, who's dressed in a bikini, leans against a wall while a giant air-gun shoots hundreds of the chewy sweets at her bum.
Slow-motion footage shows the sweets bouncing off her pertbacksideas she squeals with delight.
Ouch! Woman's bum is shot with Gummy Bears
She runs over to the camera to watch back the film, saying: "That's so neat."
And her unusual modelling assignment has provoked a wave of online comments.
One YouTube user said: "I would eat those gummy bears off the floor."
Another added: "My God, this is bootiful!"
But others were less impressed, with one user saying: "$50,000 camera and this is what you come up with."
So far the video has been viewed more than 1.8m times.
It was shot bymyrulesmedia.comand you check their Instagram account @myrulesmedia.
"Just last week we met Ninja from Die Antwoord!” Lupe Fuentes tells me over barbecue at a Brooklyn restaurant. “I love people like that who don't give a fuck. Do whatever you love regardless of what people think."
If you've used either The Pirate Bay, XTube, RedTube, or any combination of adult video and torrent websites between 2012-13 (don't lie, you have) and you didn't have a pop-up blocker installed on your browser, there's a good chance you sawthis music videoby an EDM-pop group called the Ex-Girlfriends. Maybe you immediately closed the window because you were more concerned with diddling yourself. What you should have done (like me) was research what the fuck you just spent four and a half minutes watching, and postpone pounding off until later. There's something strangely captivating about "We Are The Party:" it sounds like a pop hit engineered for maximum exposure, in the style of "Like A G6" or "Party Rock Anthem," but the absence of a multimillion-dollar budget makes it feel weirdly homegrown. The best indication of this is Danny Trejo dancing in a rabbit suit throughout the whole video. That woman (teenager?) singing looks familiar though, doesn't she? As if you've seen her somewhere on the Internet before. You have, and I'm not going to link to any of her videos because you're probably at work.
Although she's now retired from the industry, Lupe Fuentes' career in adult film was nonpareil. After launching an amateur website in 2007, she secured a contract with the largest adult media company in Europe and shot a handful of movies. Fuentes moved to the United States from Spain and continued working there, to great success—after starring in over ten films she's been nominated for (and won) multiple adult film awards, and she's worked with photographers like Terry Richardson and Joan Crisol. She even has aReal Doll(which, for those unfamiliar, is a life-size silicone sex mannequin) fashioned in her likeness. At 4'9", it's not difficult to surmise what's made Fuentes stand out. In 2010, a fan carrying DVDs of her work was detained at U.S. Customs in Puerto Rico and charged with illegal possession and transportation of images involving minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. At the defense lawyer's request, Fuentes flew there and testified in his defense, providing identification and dates of production for the DVD to prove that she was over the age of 18 when it was shot. Unsurprisingly, it's brought her career a certain level of infamy, as well asrepeated guest appearances on Howard Stern's radio show.
It's not uncommon anymore for actors and actresses (of all types) to transition into DJing, but Fuentes' unique background, as well as her near-obsessive devotion to music, might give her career the boost it needs to head in new directions.
I meet Lupe at the Vice offices in Williamsburg on a miserably gray February afternoon. Fuentes is on a full press gauntlet today—she just got in this morning on a severely delayed red-eye flight from LA, and later she's meeting her publicist and debuting a new track on the XM Radio show BPM. Despite little sleep and a full schedule, though, she's eager to tell me about the winding journey of her career. She was born in Cali, Colombia, and moved to Madrid at the age of nine. From the time she was a tween, Fuentes was already involved in what she calls the "open lifestyle" of the city's nightlife, namely its all-night discotecas (in Spain you're basically force-fed wine from age two, so this is completely normal). In the early 90s, Madrid was fully embracing the dance crazebakalao. It's a homonym for the Spanish word for codfish,bacalao, which is slang for how the style was being freshly imported at the time.Bakalaois a Valencian take on Belgium'sNew Beat, the terrible genre of dance music that spawned the abject horror that is Euro House. Bakalao is a moderate improvement on New Beat because it's in Spanish, and because the DJs who spun it blended it with pop and rock music as well. However, it also spawnedMákina, which in turn generated some of thecorniest dance musicin the history of Western Europe.
Madrid clubs that playedbakalaotwo decades ago were pretty much identical to modern-day Bushwhick warehouse parties:way too many 90's clothes,uncomfortably loud music, and an abundance of shitty drugs. This is where Lupe got her first introduction to clubbing, and it's not hard to see how it influenced the music she made while she was in the Ex-Girlfriends—the MIDI keyboard riffs, pounding EDM basslines, wobbly breakdowns, and heavily synthesized vocals are all steroid-enhanced versions of the same songs pumping out of speakers back then. It's probably not too different from what you'd hear in Madrid's clubs today, either; if Fuentes planned on taking her career in a musical direction, this was the way to do it.
Despite having moved across the world with her family to try and find better working opportunities, Lupe grew up surrounded by poverty, and was even homeless for a brief time. "Throughout that, house music has always been a constant in my life," she says. When Fuentes wasn't attending Spanish raves, she was pursuing a burgeoning modeling career as a means to support her family. She dropped out of high school to pose for magazines, make TV appearances, feature in ad campaigns, and model for fashion lines, all of which eventually gave way to her successful career in adult film. "I was going through a lot of life changes then," she explains, before declining to go into specific details about what made her leave the adult film industry. Lupe's career renaissance happened almost on accident: She was in the studio with her husband and manager Evan Seinfeld (formerly the bassist and vocalist of Biohazard), recording an album for his new project,Attika 7. The album's executive producer MUDROCK (Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack) is a huge K-Pop fan, so for two months Lupe watched him alternate between working on a metal album and "going to his laptop to watch K-Pop videos...it was just really funny because we watchedGirls Generationand2NE1, and when I saw that, I fell in love with those videos, because the production value was so high and slick. The music was so fun and had so much attitude that I decided to create my own project like that." She began working with a number of producers and songwriters in LA, where she learned Pro Tools and how to work studio equipment. She formed The Ex-Girlfriends with other LA-based musicians and friends, and they recorded an album together and put out two videos that garnered millions of views on YouTube. The positive reception led to a headlining spot on Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare tour. "From all the stuff I learned from all the people I was working with, I started producing my own stuff." Less than a year and a half after forming The Ex-Girlfriends, Lupe decided to pursue music on her own.
Her stint in The Ex-Girlfriends, as brief as it was, was part of a lifelong dream. "Music has always been my passion, like since I was a little kid. I used to try and make songs with my friends, and it didn't work out that well at that time," she reflects. "But I experimented, and four years ago I really tried to start doing it seriously, and focus one hundred percent of my time to it." Now she samples other vocalists, including a gospel church singer from Compton. She also practices DJing every day, having hooked up Evan's PA equipment to a pair of CDJs in their LA home. She cites Fedde Le Grand, Junior Sanchez, and Erick Morillo as major influences. She also wants to respect her roots—"I want to have an organic sound, with Latin undertones." Earlier, Lupe mentionsCelia CruzandGrupo Nicheas idols growing up. "I would say that my sound is really funky, and I like taking stuff from the past and putting it in a modern sound...but my sound is definitely deeper."
So far, Lupe's DJ career has been off to a fast start. Earlier this month, she played her opening gig atExchange LA, and next month she's headliningDrai's Afterhoursin Las Vegas. She hopes to go back to Spain one day and play in all the clubs she heard about growing up. "I would definitely like to go back to Ibiza...[clubs] like Pacha and Space are ideal. It's really funny because I used to go there [to party], and now I could go back to play." She also looks forward to helping fix DJ culture's gender inequality problem. "The DJ world has been a boys club, for sure," she says. "But I feel like in the past few years, more and more female DJs and producers have come into the scene and made a name for themselves, and I think that's continuing to change...there are so many talented people now! People like Nervo are really big and super talented, and it's not like the stuff I do, but I can appreciate what they do. There are more doors opening." In the meantime, she's getting involved in LA's club scene, although she admits that after Madrid's 6am bar times, "it's a little wack" to return to that comparatively tame nightlife. She's friends withRoger Sanchez, and she runs into new artists all the time.
As Lupe enters the third phase of her career, and continues to put the first behind her, it seems entirely possible that she'll succeed here, too. Whether Fuentes' past work in adult film is a footnote or part of her appeal is irrelevant, really: she works incredibly hard at everything she does, and the results haven't just been dumb luck. Fuentes is poised to approach DJing with the same spirit she's given everything else in her life, and if her fascinating past is any indication, she'll likely make waves.
