2011 MTV European Music Awards (EMA's)

2011 MTV’s European Music Awards (EMAs) was a huge success that was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland last Sunday. Lady GaGa bring home four major awards and performed during the event in Odyssey Arena. Alongside with GaGa, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and Thirty Seconds To Mars won two awards each.

Here are the lists of winners:

Best Song :          Adele – Rolling in the Deep

                                Bruno Mars – Grenade

                                Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor

                                Katy Perry – Firework

                                Lady GaGa – Born This Way (WON)

Best Video:        Adele – Rolling in the Deep

                                Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise

                                Beyonce – Run The World (Girls)

                                Justice – Civilization

                                Lady GaGa – Born This Way (WON)

Best Male:          Bruno Mars

                                David Guetta

                                Eminem

                                Justin Bieber (WON)

                                Kanye West

Best New Artist:               Bruno Mars (WON)

                                                Far East Movement

                                                Jessie J

                                                LMFAO

                                                Wiz Khalifa

Best Pop:             Britney Spears

                                Justin Bieber (WON)

                                Rihanna

                                Lady GaGa

                                Katy Perry

Best Rock:           Coldplay

                                Foo Fighters

                                Kings of Leon

                                Linkin Park (WON)

                                Red Hot Chili Peppers

Best Alternative:      30 Seconds to Mars (WON)
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes

Best Hiphop:  Eminem (WON)
Jay-Z & Kanye West
Lil Wayne
Pitbull
Snoop Dogg

Best Live Act:   Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Katy Perry (WON)
Lady Gaga
Red Hot Chili Pepper

Best World Stage Performance:                30 Seconds to Mars (WON)
Arcade Fire
The Black Eyed Peas
Diddy - Dirty Money
Enrique Iglesias
Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
My Chemical Romance
Ozzy Osbourne
Snoop Dogg

Best Push Act:                   Alexis Jordan
Big Time Rush
Bruno Mars (WON)
Far East Movement
Jessie J
Katy B
LMFAO
Neon Trees
Theophilus London
Wiz Khalifa

Biggest Fans:     30 Seconds to Mars
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga (WON)
Paramore
Selena Gomez

Best Female:     Adele
Beyoncé
Jennifer Lopez
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga (WON)

Aside from western artist, Asia’s Kpop group (my favorite) Big Bang were nominated for Worldwide Act    category.  Big Bang amazed the audience by winning the awards. The Worldwide Act category celebrates diversity and the breadth of all the music that MTV has to offer by nominating incredible artists from all corners of the world.

There were two rounds of voting.  First, each region had an opportunity to vote among MTVs choices for the seven artists that best represent the region.  In the Asia Pacific category, in addition to Big Bang,Exile (Japan), Jay Chou (Republic of China/Taiwan), Gotye (Australia), Sia (Australia), Jane Zhang(China), and Agnes Monica (Indonesia) were nominated.

After weeks of voting  Big Bang won for the Asia Pacific region and advanced to the finals along with Abdelfattah Grini (Africa/India/Middle East), Lena (Europe), Restart (Latin America), and Britney Spears (North America).

Due an impressive amount of voting by VIPs and fans all over the world, Big Bang won the coveted award.  They will have the honor of being the first ‘Worldwide Act’ award recipients.

Congratulations Big Bang!                            

 

Album Review: LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking

They shouldn’t be sorry for rocking the party. LMFAO music is the hardcore electro-club banging music. LMFAO is an American electro hop duo that formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. The members consist of DJs Redfoo (Stefan Kendal Gordy), born on September 3, 1975 and SkyBlu (Skyler Husten Gordy), born on August 23, 1986. They are the son and grandson, respectively, of Motown record label founder Berry Gordy, making them uncle and nephew. The name LMFAO is initials for "Laughing My Fucking Ass Off" and is pronounced letter by letter.

Redfoo and SkyBlu both grew up in the Los Angeles Neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. LMFAO released Party Rock EP on the iTunes music store on July 1, 2008, and released their full album on July 7, 2009. The album charted at number 33 on the Billboard 200 and number two on the U.S Dance Chart. Their first single was "I'm in Miami Bitch", which was released in December 2008, and peaked at No.51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.37 in Canada Weeks. The song was signed to CR2 recordy television show ‘Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami’ and "Get Crazy" was used for Jersey Shore in 2009.

Sorry For Party Rocking album is consist of 10 electro rock beat tracks. Everybody will groove on the electro and techno synthesizer riffs atop smooth but urgent disco beats. What formulates LMFAO job better than most alike’ aimed groups is their enthusiastic sense of consciousness as exactly what they are. They create feel-good party tune with a club vibe, but oppose rehashing old hits for cheap recognition. Their music is the hard core of electro-clubbing tunes. You can’t help but groove and dance to their beats. I assure you, this tune will give you sweat!

Most of their songs were written about party going and celebrate a feel good life. Most of the lyrics were naughty but the beats are dramatically addictive. Track "Sexy And I Know It" manages to sound over a boom-stomp bass and beat combo and burping synch that drops my boredom. The song feels like a modern, less obnoxious, talking up their physique between the hilarious hook, "I got passion in my pants / And I ain't afraid to show it / I'm sexy and I know it". Their easy going performance goes a long way to create the celebratory atmosphere they are after, even on their beat stomping ode to basketball, "Take It To The Hole", with a rapid-fire appearance from Busta Rhymes. 

The echoing storm of bass and icy sheets of sync of restlessly shifting "Party Rock Anthem" and the grubby speaker box melody of "Sorry For Party Rocking" deliver the party promised in their titles, as they wager, "Let's go drink for drink / A hundred bucks, she won't outlast us". "All Night Long" is a killer throwback to the drippy R&B ballads of the eighties, losing none of their goofy charm, "She's outa space like Anikan / Body like a mannequin / Sipping on a girly drink". Piercing auto-tune backing vocals from Natalia Kills "Champagne Showers", but the thrusting synch and pulsating dance beat make it another dance hit waiting to happen, on an album overflowing with them.

This album of LMFAO is indeed an explosive collection of fuelled dance hits. LMFAO prove more than capable of delivering pop hits with the best of them.