CMT Awards were broadcast last night. My favorite categry is of course the Nationwide Insurance On Your Side Award which I think recognized the best actuarial skills. OK, I kid. It's for Best New Live Act, which is an equally strange category. Hunter Hayes won it. Nice.
Here are the other winners from the music and video categories:
The internet streets are buzzing that a Daft Punk is shooting in Manhattan. Right now.
Times Square and the midtown district is also home to bootleg characters of all varieties — I enjoy anti-semitic Elmo — so maybe this is just proof that Daft Punk are so famous that tourists instantly recognize their images and are willing to pay a few buck$ to get their pictures taken together.
A beautiful b&w study of motion that's as beguiling as a Rorshach Test.
Raquel Aly, director: "The first time I heard Phaeleh’s 'Whistling in the Dark' I was immediately moved by the track's capacity to instill a dark and sinister playfulness as well as a beautiful sense of longing which lapses into despair. And yet there is an elusive promise there. Something that teases and invites. I immediately recalled Norman McLaren’s 1960’s experimental masterpiece titled ‘Pas De Deux.’ His was the technique I wanted to explore, while creating a video as surreal and ghostly as the music. Giving some of the footage the kaleidoscope treatment, created a warped though balanced symmetry. Though I prefer the Directors-cut, I admit that blurring the dancer in the original release version, breathed a foetal mystery into her dance. And of course the black moor gold fish. There is something fantastic and primordial about this elegant creature. I couldn’t get enough of him"
There's a strong tradition of spelling in rap songs, which means its perfect for The Lonely Island to lampoon. Here Andy Samberg unveils his new name letter by letter, which spells out something gross.
