After over a decade of service to comedy and music, after two films that their fans failed to go and see, The Lonely Island released Popstar, a send-up of popstar culture.
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So, I think of you as the definition of popstar.
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VICE News went to China to visit the popstar factory.
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One last question: who is your favorite popstar right now?
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Rarely has a popstar ever burned so bright, so fast.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping arrives in theaters on June 3rd.
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Well, then you've probably never seen Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is now out in theaters nationwide.
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They're engrained in the tour cycle of being a popstar, too.
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Popstar — created by Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Andy Samberg, a.k.a.
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Popstar knows it's silly — but it also knows it's great fun.
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In the alternate universe of Popstar, who did Taylor Swift murder?
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Our biggest popstar is a small, hairy ginger man from Suffolk.
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Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer debuted Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping last year.
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I imagine it's to make him look like more of a popstar.
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With Popstar, The Lonely Island proves that they're only just getting started.
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Minor spoilers ahead if you haven't seen Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping!
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TY was photographing UK popstar Tinie Tempah when Jumoke walked into shot.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is rumbling into theaters on June 3rd.
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Cameos galore But make no mistake, Popstar is not a highbrow comedy.
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The mockumentary, out June 3, is called Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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Her character Trishii, for example, was supposed to be a Japanese popstar.
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He played a chef obsessed with raw vegetables in the Lonely Island movie Popstar.
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Billie Eilish doesn't dress like your typical teen popstar — and she has her reasons.
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Popstar Selena Gomez may have been former Disney-Channel actor Dylan Sprouse's first kiss.
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Caroline Framke: It seems like every other minute in Popstar there's a different cameo.
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Ed Sheeran has been referred to as "the biggest male popstar on the planet."
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Grammy award-winning popstar Ed Sheeran released two new songs Friday after a year off.
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The popstar is featured on the song "Cold Water" by the EDM group Major Lazer.
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Hot Rod and Popstar discounted because they were simply too ahead of their respective times.
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Still, her popstar legacy lives on every May when "Graduation (Friends Forever)" once again resurfaces.
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The company's community and artist relations teams jumped into overdrive to placate the world's biggest popstar.
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"Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
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Conner advised the team about fame and talent, and the contestants played along with the Popstar tone.
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Popstar is in every way a group effort, with songs and script penned by its three creators.
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Then, the guys turn to Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the new mockumentary from The Lonely Island.
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POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING Andy Samberg is Conner4Real, an arrogant pop-rap star surrounded by sycophants.
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But also Fetty Wap – people think it's too far out there but that guy is a popstar.
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" The popstar shared that she met her crush briefly and said, "I was like a little goofball.
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Aras' son, Emin, a man who is part-time popstar, actually grew up in across the Hudson River.
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A source close to Gomez told PEOPLE that the popstar is feeling better than she has in months.
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The popstar flew in for a date night across the pond with actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom, PEOPLE confirms.
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"My dad had a thing for Z's and zen, so he helped name me Zendaya," she told Popstar!
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Style icon/popstar/iconic Spice Girl Victoria Beckham called his designs during the show a "breath of fresh air."
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Please wait until you're done reading this article before you run off to create your own Popstar-inspired art.
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"I've been wanting to release a version of #TellMeYouLoveMe in Spanish for awhile now," the popstar wrote on Instagram.
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She's an enigmatic paradox in the form of a popstar, and one I wanted to find out more about.
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During the 2008 election campaign, the popstar released a song called "Yes We Can" in support of Barack Obama.
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Popstar Ariana Grande is offering her fans an opportunity to register to vote at all of her U.S. concerts.
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Michael, you were also featured in the "Incredible Thoughts" sequence from the end of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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To celebrate the singer&aposs 38th birthday, Insider has rounded up 26 of the popstar&aposs most daring outfits.
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The popstar checked out of the "all-encompassing wellness facility" where she was being treated Thursday afternoon, PEOPLE has learned.
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His floppy hair and mad skills on the drums are the stuff of legends (they even low-key inspired Popstar).
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Wilson and his wife, popstar Ciara, welcomed a grey Great Dane puppy to join their pack in March of 2018.
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Heck, maybe a hunky teen popstar desperately needs you to impersonate his singing partner at the upcoming Italian Music Awards.
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The popstar-turned-MP, also known as Robert Kyagunlayi, alleged some of his supporters were then placed under house arrest.
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GLAAD compliments storylines in Popstar, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and Neighbors 2, but dings the Coen brothers' Hail Caesar!
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"Objects in this picture may seem bigger than they actually appear…..," the popstar captioned in the photo, joking about her breasts.
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Also, my taste changed and I liked more alternative bands and the thought of being a popstar kinda made me cringe.
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The week's other big new release, The Lonely Island mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, turned out to be a disappointment.
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"Popstar" takes aim at everything that is artificial and plastic in contemporary pop in a spirit of love rather than spite.
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Plus, popstar-in-the-making Jaira Burns plays new music, and Chino Amobi takes us through his post-apocalyptic soundscape, Paradiso.
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I think for the same reason why you could never find a popstar in America that would say no to fame.
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The whole thing is a great reminder of how spot-on this TMZ parody was in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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Trying again after a failure is one of the secrets to career success, according to Grammy-award winning popstar Kylie Minogue.
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Humility is a dying virtue, but The Lonely Island promises to bring it back with the movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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For my money, Mabel, a popstar for our current moment if ever there was one, has not yet put a foot wrong.
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Three days after going dark on social media, the popstar reopened her accounts Monday morning, though the purpose remains murky thus far.
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The singer, real name David Adeleke, and Nigerian popstar Tiwa Savage, won the Best Male and Female Artist in Western Africa respectively.
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At least the first two obsessions get a workout in their new movie, "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (due Friday, June 3).
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Still, in making Popstar, Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer, and producer Judd Apatow clearly did their homework in researching the genre of music documentaries.
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The most recent example of these Grindr bops is the debut single from YouTuber-turned-popstar Miss Benny (aka Ben J Pierce).
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Now, the comedy trio — Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer — is releasing its first original feature film, Popstar: Never Stop Stopping.
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It was designed by Japanese visionary Sebastian Masuda, the creative producer who has worked with Japan's most colorful popstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
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In telling this story, Popstar exhibits an intimate familiarity with the absurdity and cluelessness behind much pop music marketing and image crafting.
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The popstar recorded a video to help congratulate the Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook being crowned the NBA's most valuable player for 2017.
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Formerly a British tabloid reporter, he now runs a New York–based PR firm that represents the likes of Russian popstar Emin Agalarov.
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Hilariously, however, not everyone understood that the popstar was paying homage to the Spice Girls — some thought the song was a Grande original.
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Those who have put their name to the letter include the internationally beloved popstar Robyn, Tove Lo, First Aid Kit, and Zara Larsson.
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A surprise video message from the popstar, in which he invited Eimer to attend the Billboard Awards with him, was revealed during the festivities.
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The Lonely Island appeared on the late night show to promote their upcoming mockumentary, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which hits theaters June 3.
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On Friday, the luxury French fashion house announced that the 25-year-old popstar had been named as the new face of the brand.
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Or, even more glaringly, The Lonely Island's 2016 summer hit Popstar, which ridiculed viral music stardom in general and paid special attention to Bieber.
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Popstar begins by tracing the rise of Conner from his early days in Style Boyz to the fight that ultimately tore the group apart.
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In Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Andy Samberg plays narcissistic douchetool Conner 4 Real, a man totally enveloped in his own ego and admirers.
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Caroline Framke: So how long has this movie been in the works, and what made Popstar the next thing you wanted to do together?
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But male pop stars have just as much of a responsibilty to make themselves heard on issues like sexual assault as any female popstar.
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Kaylor also reportedly had an obsession with popstar Taylor Swift, who had been rumored to have been considering purchasing the historic mansion in 2014.
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After his run, Hiddleston, 35, a source tells PEOPLE that the actor returned to their hotel – where his popstar girlfriend had remained during his workout.
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The aftermath of the moment has been discussed at length, with the popstar getting help for her issues and becoming an advocate for mental health.
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While the singer doesn't tend to make it into the tabloids a la some of her popstar peers, she does consistently crank out joyous tunes.
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She is also the only British popstar that makes sex look genuinely sexy, and not like something weird and awkward that happens to other people.
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Popstar has tons of comedians and cameos and is just generally about Andy Samberg doing ridiculous things (the trailer has brief nudity, by the way).
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All of The Lonely Island's films have failed at the box office before being appreciated, but the biggest affront is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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If you're looking for a movie to watch this weekend, our critics say the mockumentary "Popstar: Never Stop Stopping" is one of your best bets.
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Over the years, the popstar morphed from risk-taking entertainer into a bonafide fashion and beauty icon who isn't afraid to put on a show.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping just might be the dumbest movie of the summer — which, in spite of how it sounds, is an absolute compliment.
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The Hacker News tweeted screenshots showing the tweaked title of a video from popstar Shakira, as well as the Despacito video before it was removed.
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The soundtrack inside – courtesy Kiko's iPod – spans English comic George Formby, Danish popstar Whigfield, and Manchester dance act 808 State, even though Kiko loathes saxophones.
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This year they're set to release a new movie, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping which will probably be packed full of new goofy-ass tunes.
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One could speculate about her sister Beyoncé's long shadow instilling in her a taste for quietude, for avoiding popstar exuberance with diffidence and a shrug.
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Lonely Island—the crew that made Saturday Night Live a viral video juggernaut with its digital shorts—has a new movie: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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Daniel alleges that, after his alleged run-in with the 43-year-old popstar, he communicated the exchange to Belafonte the next time he saw him.
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The artwork for the single features Perry, 34, perched on a shiny motorcycle, serving the cool popstar looks fans have come to expect from the songstress.
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The Lonely Island trio of Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone make their big screen debut on June 3 in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping!!!
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We can only hope that her Annette role will require her to play a wildly famous and beautiful popstar, because then she will win an Oscar.
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If Popstar is a solid encapsulation of what made the Lonely Island great, it's also a sign that the trio's best days are probably behind it.
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The Wack Album, released in 2013, was the group's spottiest, and Conner's songs in Popstar don't peak as high as a Lonely Island fan might wish.
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There would be busts of Elvis, Michael Jackson, and Madonna, of course, but presiding over this entire domain of fame would be Poppy, the ur-popstar.
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A distinctly R-rated trailer for The Lonely Island's Popstar came out last week, and this week the film is returning in a much cleaner version.
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The premise of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is exactly what you would expect from a music biopic, documentary, or, as the case is here, mockumentary.
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The singer, real name David Adeleke, beat out artists including Nigerian popstar Tiwa Savage, UK's Stormzy and DR Congo's Fally Ipupa to win the coveted award.
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Like any Lonely Island production, Popstar contains tons of cameos, pop culture references, and left-turn jokes as Conner steadily makes his way to rock bottom.
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Lest I make it sound like Popstar becomes a somber meditation on What It Means to Be Famous and the Dangers of Hero Worship, don't worry.
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We see Lady Gaga, her bound wrists undergirding her raised legs, or the Icelandic popstar, Björk, who waxes eulogistic about Mr. Araki in a video here.
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By critiquing what it means to exist in the highly controlled body of a female popstar, virtual or real, the performance-installation questions appropriation and exploitation.
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Calling someone a snake is hardly a social media invention, but employing the snake emoji as a form of memetic harassment started with popstar Taylor Swift.
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He was dating fellow popstar Britney Spears, sang lead on a majority of the band's songs, and was the most conventionally handsome member of the group.
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The Other Two is as if "Back Home Ballers" got a plaintive year-long rewrite, or if Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping got an injection of pathos.
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"I'm So Humble" features Adam Levine's hologram in the Popstar trailer — but Tuesday's episode of The Voice had Levine performing with Samberg as Conner4Real live in 3D.
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The weekend's other new release, the music parody "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping," collapsed at the box office, scraping together a disastrous $4.6 million from 2,311 locations.
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Both "In My Shoes" and "Popstar Shit" will appear on Fudge's upcoming debut album, Lady Parts, which is scheduled for release on September 9 via LEX Records.
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This is exactly how I feel about the fact that "Bad Liar," the newest release from Selena Gomez, 8/10 popstar and #aesthetic maven, samples Talking Heads.
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Urban Outfitters has also partnered with teen popstar Billie Eilish to release a Singles Day capsule collection and is offering 30 percent off all sale products online.
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Subverting expectations of the young popstar corrupted by the industry, Violet keeps her style throughout the competition, never once subbing in her trademark sneakers for sky-high stilettos.
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He is "The Young Pop", the magazine says in a riff on the title of a new television series about a fictional pope and on Renzi as popstar.
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Hundreds of Twitter accounts from media outlets to celebrities including popstar Justin Bieber, were hacked Wednesday, branded with the Turkish flag and messages being sent out in Turkish.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is far from a perfect film, but it may be the ideal delivery device for the group's particular brand of pop-culture absurdity.
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Sometimes, I like to imagine a parallel universe in which I never became a writer, but became a famous popstar instead, because it would be so much cooler.
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It will follow the capers of a teen popstar called (what else?) Cooper James, who moves in with his accountant and his girlfriend (played by Damon Wayans Jr.
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In titling his latest album "TrapStar Turnt PopStar," Allen has signaled a full embrace of his singing abilities, which will be on display at this Friday night performance.
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Popstar builds its story around Conner (Samberg) and his friends Lawrence (Schaffer) and Owen (Taccone), who once formed a popular and influential rap group called the Style Boyz.
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Shigeto Malik Ninety Five Malik Ninety Five - "Right Now" Malik Ninety Five - "Teen Spirit" Malik Ninety Five - "When I'm Around" *World Premiere* Malik Ninety Five - "Popstar" *World Premiere*
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Caroline Framke: So you guys know something about creating videos that the internet appreciates, and now with Popstar you've combined that skill with Conner's bubble of pop stardom.
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Hard to believe the riverfront mansion only has 4 bedrooms, but inside, it's extremely popstar-friendly with arcade games, a gym and even an old school jukebox. Outside?
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T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and recent (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), unapologetically silly comedies (Popstar, Talladega Nights), and recent seasons of highly bingeable TV (Pretty Little Liars, iZombie).
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If the group's newly released, uncensored trailer is any indication, their second feature film effort, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, might accomplish what Hot Rod could not: commercial success.
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In 2005, News Corporation bought Myspace's parent company for $580 million before selling it to online advertising company Specific Media and popstar Justin Timberlake for $35 million in 2011.
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The actress and one-time popstar tells PEOPLE that one of the ways she likes to unwind after a long day of shooting This is Us is through singing.
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My suspicion is that Dapaah's catchphrase-riddled tune was inspired in part by a musical number from one of the best comedies of 2016, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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Andy Samberg, actor and one-third of the musical comedy group, revealed the film's title — Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — and a poster for it on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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We're also discussing the new Lonely Island movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Showtime's own literary offering Penny Dreadful, and our personal gripes with the book world's biggest names.
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It was Romanian popstar Alexandra Stan who dropped the mysterious Mr on British shores, thanks to her catchy slab of easy to swallow Eurodance named after the man himself.
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Packed with hilarious Lonely Island original songs, literally dozens of cameos, and shrewd comedic observations about the nature of pop music and stardom, Popstar is a comedy worthy of adoration.
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Back in 2002, no one knew if winning "American Idol," a singing competition to find the world's next big popstar, would translate into real-world success, least of all Clarkson.
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"Justin felt the timing was right for Hailey and him to take the next step in their relationship," a source close to the 24-year-old popstar told Fox News.
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In 2010, he joined forces with Luci van Org, an ex-popstar whose catchy confection "Mädchen" still makes the rounds on radio stations, to create the theatrical/musical duo Meystersinger.
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" Midway through, the song moves through an improvised limbo and coalesces into a different tune: a march with lyrics about a messianic "blackstar" who also declares "I'm not a popstar.
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Which brings me to Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the Lonely Island's cinematic mockumentary opus lampooning the music industry (and, more specifically, Justin Bieber's own tour doc Never Say Never).
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There is a moment in Andy Samberg's new comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping that defies comedy expectations and/or R-rated vulgarity — depending on your level of cinematic sensitivity.
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Last night, House of Matriarch founder Christi Meshell revealed that the popstar would be releasing her own custom fragrance with the brand, and it would be out later this year.
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The Lonely Island are leaping back onto the big screen with the musical mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and the movie's celebrity-packed first trailer was released this morning.
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One senses that Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer didn't completely trust that silliness to stand on its own, but it's only when Popstar reaches for something deeper that it really falters.
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Spin described it as "Tommy Wiseau filming a part for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping", which I completely agree with but only in context of an argument for its brilliance.
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"'Popstar' takes aim at everything that is artificial and plastic in contemporary pop in a spirit of love rather than spite," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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Titled "Harleys in Hawaii," the artwork for the single features Perry, 34, perched on a shiny motorcycle, serving the cool popstar looks fans have come to expect from the songstress.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian popstar Kylie Minogue has invited weary Britons to forget politics and "call on your friends in Australia" in a tourism campaign launched in Britain on Christmas Day.
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The closest thing we had to a superstar whose public identity was purely presented as Latin American was Mexican popstar Selena, and she was brutally murdered by her manager in 1995.
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Mexican-American popstar and Fiesta de la Flor headliner Becky G is from LA, but she credits Selena with influencing her style and paving the way for Latina singers like herself.
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Everyone from former UFC featherweight champion, Jose Aldo to previously scheduled opponent, Rafael dos Anjos, to high profile Mayweather hanger-on and sometimes popstar, Justin Bieber has given their thoughts already.
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Well, Poppy is: a cult leader, trapped in the internet, a popstar signed to Island Records, kawaii, possibly underage, an art project, and the best marketing scheme that has ever happened.
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Her 2011 track "Call Me Maybe" was her biggest and pretty much only hit for four years, then she reinvented herself as the queen of Emotion and became the connoisseur's popstar.
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But I remember it was like… a Northern girl growing up in a town like Widnes doesn't get to be a popstar or play Wembley stadium, because it just doesn't happen.
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Then again, last year was downright dismal for studio comedies (with the notable exception of Popstar), especially the R-rated variety, and Snatched lands more of its jokes than it flubs.
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You probably know Katy Perry as the global popstar behind some of your top-played belt-out radio anthems, but did you know that she also designs some of our favorite footwear?
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Hiding underneath this cheeky photo is a singer who's famous for her smooth singing ... see if you can uncover the mystery of which famous popstar is hiding under this eyebrow-raising shot.
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The "Broken Flowers" producer posted photos on Twitter and Instagram with the Canadian popstar, and songwriter Nate Company, with the caption revealing they were recording music at Nashville's Blackbird Studio (via FACT).
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It has truly shaken me that anyone who was once a popstar would wear this shirt, which so loudly screams "chill dude called John's idea of dressing up for an engagement party".
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MELBOURNE, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Australian popstar Kylie Minogue has invited weary Britons to forget politics and "call on your friends in Australia" in a tourism campaign launched in Britain on Christmas Day.
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The movie of the week for February 11 through 17 is Popstar (2016), which is available to stream for Cinemax subscribers and digitally rent on Amazon, YouTube, iTunes, Vudu, and Google Play.
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The group's latest project is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a transgressively hilarious feature film about a performer named Conner4Real (played by Samberg, with Taccone and Schaffer playing his original musical partners).
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Released two and a half years ago in France, the tweaked 2016 UK reissue of Christine aka Héloïse Letissier's debut showcases the potential subtleties in popstar stance and an allegedly simplistic genre.
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Labour used a track by Lily Allen, a sympathetic popstar, to accompany a heart-warming video about how wonderful Britain might be if only it weren't run by the wrong sort of people.
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That's a lot of comedy cred, and it makes it easy to assume Brigsby Bear is another goony SNL spinoff comedy, or something larger-than-life and confrontationally absurdist, like Lonely Island's Popstar.
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Directed by Schaffer and Taccone, Popstar follows a predictable path as Conner's sophomore disc, CONNquest, gets ready to drop, quickly fading from the charts and leaving our vapid hero at an existential crossroads.
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"Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" features Andy Samberg in a fake documentary that mocks boy bands, while the reptilian superheroes in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows," face an apocalyptic villain.
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But even while Conner keeps proving the stunning depths of his immaturity, and his songs become strings of nonsense words set to a thumping EDM beat, Popstar is deceptively smart and satisfyingly weird.
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But with Popstar — the group's second feature film, after 2007's Hot Rod — the Lonely Island parlay their knack for creating punchy music videos into a truly weird and very funny pop mockumentary.
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Bjork and Beyoncé have shunned "likeability" in favour of purging their feelings into a fully-realised piece of art, stomping all over everything society tries to tell you a female popstar should be.
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I know you guys were influenced by a few contemporary documentaries, but while watching it, I was wondering what has happened between This Is Spinal Tap and Popstar to make this feel urgent?
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As if to celebrate, Charli XCX—Proper Popstar and superlative wearer of PVC – has blessed us with three (3!) new songs from her upcoming mixtape, due to be released this Friday, March 10.
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"It's definitely a surprise for people when they hear that my product lines are sold all over the world," she said in an interview with popstar Kim Petra for her December issue cover story.
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Instead, Popstar is a gleeful smorgasbord of dopey jokes set in and around the pop music world, playfully goofing on the divas, the pretentious, and the pathetic hangers-on that fall into its orbit.
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From "D— in a Box" to that full-frontal scene in Popstar, Andy Samberg is no stranger to a little raunchy comedy – but don't expect him to ever actually go pantsless on camera himself.
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Maybe Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer didn't completely trust that silliness to stand on its own But it's hard to not forgive Popstar for its flaws, if only because its ambitions are so inherently silly.
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The weekend's only other new wide release, "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (Universal), a $21 million comedy starring Andy Samberg and produced by Judd Apatow, was dead on arrival, taking in about $4.6 million.
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Phoebe Poole, 18, who was holding a placard saying "never gonna give EU up" in reference to a song by 1980s popstar Rick Astley, was not old enough to vote in the 2016 referendum.
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I spoke with Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer on the phone this week to talk about Popstar, what it takes to be famous in 2016, and whether the Mona Lisa is really all that great.
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Popstar achievement unlocked," Lorde tweeted before sharing that her inspiration for her current album actually began two years ago when she'd tweeted, "Hey, men – Do me and yourselves a favor, and don't underestimate my skill.
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You know how some of us spent a few months last year pretending to really believe that Hannah Diamond was going to be a legitimate popstar rather than a Dazed feature in a funny hat?
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That's not to say it always does, but on Monday, Swedish popstar Tove Lo showed up to perform her single "Disco Tits," and the results were a reminder of what studio performances can still offer.
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So, we're talking about this autobiographical stuff, which is fascinating to me because in the new movie Popstar, we've got one guy who was part of an ensemble, who breaks away from the other two.
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In Popstar, the immensely talented trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone team up for a musical mockumentary stuffed to the gills with absurd humor and crazy cameos, and the result is raucously entertaining.
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Popstar and 10 Cloverfield Lane are the only bright spots I can see on the first half of the calendar, and there were many long, boring months between those films and last month's god-send, Arrival.
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Considering how busy this cool couple is — she's a highly sought after actress and he's a popstar currently on tour — we're sure it's only a matter of time before we see them stylishly twinning once again.
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As good as the food looks — and seriously, who doesn't want to eat a shrimp curry that looks like Planet Popstar — the real question is what kinds of new skills you can gain from eating it.
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In the running for the latter, she beat out Dave and J Hus, both of whom would almost certainly have been more befitting of the "Breakthrough" descriptor, as Dua's a fully fledged popstar by all accounts now.
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Wearing an outfit reminiscent of her A.I. character from the song's music video, the popstar and producer Zedd hit the red carpet ahead of the iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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In this new mode, she has become part-time popstar, full time Instagram user – the latter of which she uses as a beacon of stringent motivation, a vessel whereby she 'grams all the good things in life.
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To celebrate the compilation's release, PC Music took over Berghain with a rare showcase of its acts on Thursday, including performances from label mastermind A.G. Cook, diamante bubblegum popstar Hannah Diamond and bleepy budget airline pastiche EasyFun.
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The singer — who rose to fame after fellow Canadian Justin Bieber tweeted about her in 2011 — may not be entangled in high-profile popstar Twitter battles, but she's certainly able to stir controversy with less than 140 characters.
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The film project is reportedly in collaboration with The Lonely Island, the group responsible for the parody film Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and instant-classic Saturday Night Live digital shorts "Lazy Sunday and "Dick in a Box.
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Though T-Mobile drew the most attention on social media with celebrity-studded ads that included popstar Justin Bieber, the brands that sparked the most conversation among viewers were those that leaned into subjects of diversity and immigration.
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Andy Samberg plays a former teen rapper fallen on hard times, in "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (June 3), a satire on musical celebrity, directed by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, who co-wrote the script with Samberg.
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In a visit to Clarkson's new NBC syndicated Kelly Clarkson Show, Aguilera, 38, revealed that she refrained from touring for years because she wasn't sure how to navigate being a popstar and a mom at the same time.
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From Coinage: The Real Cost of Going to Coachella Justin Bieber Cady Eimer made a collection of "One Less Lonely Prom" videos in the hopes that the then-teen popstar would break out his tux for her 2012 prom.
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And, maybe most of all, it was Nadine Coyle, grimly determined to Be a Popstar no matter how much she had to lie on the telly: silly, far more dramatic than it ever deserved to be, and unbelievably entertaining.
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After six days of deliberation, Embiid announced to the Twitterverse that he was "moving on from kk to Rihanna," setting off a three-plus year back-and-forth ( largely without the forth) between the popstar and the Sixers center.
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When the album finally arrived after a four year wait, it felt like a mission statement, whereby Rihanna became the kind of deeply versatile popstar who can make an amazing, cohesive record just as well as she racks up chart hits.
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Popstar, directed by Taccone and Schaffer, is the story of Conner4Real (Samberg), the world's biggest musical star who has ascended to solo icon status after a break from his three-piece ensemble outfit Style Boyz (sound like anyone you know?).
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VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Argentine popstar Lali Esposito has channeled her long experience of fame to play a young woman who ends up in the public eye for the wrong reasons, in "The Accused", a movie that premiered in Venice this week.
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If you are a Lonely Island interview completist — and, judging by the group's YouTube comments, some of you are — you may have noticed they've been talking about Jimmy Fallon a lot during the press tour for their forthcoming movie Popstar.
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At the least, it's a unique blend of humanity, where it isn't surprising to see a new-age fairground manager riding a ten-foot-high flame-shooting tractor in walking distance of planet earth's biggest popstar singing about her devastating heartbreak.
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So when a teenage Taiwan popstar was forced to apologize for waving the Taiwan flag on South Korean TV, many people in Taiwan were angered by what they saw as one of their own kowtowing to the growing influence of China.
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Caroline Framke: One thing I really liked about Popstar — and that strikes me as deceptively hard to pull of — is that it includes a lot of smart songs that are supposed to be actively terrible in the reality of the movie.
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The popstar attended the Mardi Gras World in New Orleans on Saturday, where she told Entertainment Tonight the key to juggling her busy career — including her Witness World Tour as well as her new American Idol hosting gig — is being unattached romantically.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said that there had been a "serious incident" at a venue in the northern English city of Manchester where U.S. popstar Ariana Grande was performing on Monday night, after witnesses reported hearing a loud bang at the arena.
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In addition to not receiving a single Oscar nomination (not even for the brilliant Michael Bolton–featuring "Incredible Thoughts"), Popstar also ate shit at the box office, which is a shame because it deserves to be seen by everyone at least once.
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Satirists as prototypical nice Jewish boys (even if only two of the three members are Jewish), Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone made their name sending up celebrity culture and popstar ego, but they did it without leaving their targets burnt.
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To capitalize on what we can only assume is their vast store of social savvy, WIRED asked the guys, who also wrote/directed/star in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, for their hottest tips on making the Internet your own personal fiefdom.
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From the opening moments of her first record, Arular, she's been telling her story: that of a young Tamil refugee trying to find (and make) her place in the world, as a popstar but also, more importantly, as a voice for political change.
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The Weeknd, a popstar so unbelievably forgettable and without distinguishing presence the only two things people ever say about him are (a) something about his hair or (b) that he maybe sounds a bit like Michael Jackson, if you squint your ears.
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The very funny mock-rockumentary Popstar, which is trailed by the absurb but completely dead-on subtitle Never Stop Never Stopping, follows Conner, a harmless man-boy whose emotional lodestar is his pet turtle, as he tries to get ahead of the news cycle.
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From the punch drunk minds of the Lonely Island — the comedy trio made up of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer — Popstar brings a giddy jolt of earnest enthusiasm to the mockumentary genre, even as it gleefully tears celebrity culture a new one.
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Music's biggest awards show happens on Sunday night, which means the evening's performances, upsets, and embarrassments will be a big part of the pop culture conversation for at least a few days — and Popstar offers a hilarious lens through which to view that conversation.
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However, gay men still make up a whopping 24 percent of these characters, and of the 210 LGBTQ characters that GLAAD identified (up from 240 the year before), 14 of them were back-up dancers in one musical number in The Lonely Island's summer comedy Popstar.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping looks to bring the Spinal Tap treatment to these movies, as the Lonely Island guys present the inspiring faux-true story of Connor (Andy Samberg), a clueless, talentless chart sensation who's surrounded by his posse of hangers-on, family members, and publicists.
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Sometimes it's made bearable by the person being featured (thank God for Madonna putting her leg through a sunroof, to be honest), but largely it's just an opportunity for Corden, who clearly wants to be a popstar unbelievably badly, to show off his average singing ability.
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"Popstar" reverses the idolatry, which is hilarious on its face and also a gesture in the direction of some of the cultural taboos and conundrums that stretch back through the history of American popular music from Eminem to Elvis Presley to the arrival of the banjo.
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Although Andy Samberg's upcoming musical comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping pokes fun at the extravagant lifestyle, behavior of and concert documentaries about music's rich and famous – like Justin Bieber – it doesn't make the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star any less of a fan of the Biebs' musical talents.
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Like a trip that's entered into a moment of romantic serendipity, where everything goes right and all the colours refract in the most resplendent way possible, it's a creative aesthetic that's bound to lead the British popstar on a road that deserves to be headed toward global stardom.
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A man will kick a ball, several truck loads of nachos will be crushed into little crumbs on the floor, and some popstar or band or singer-songwriter will give a relatively lukewarm performance during the halftime show, which is forgotten almost immediately after the event finishes up.
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An interesting tidbit in a New Yorker profile from 2013—the year before Kesha accused Gottwald of rape—notes that, unhappy with merely writing songs for pop stars, Gottwald was actively looking for a young female popstar who he could sign a deal with and write exclusively for.
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He's the Younger Brother of Comedy Writer/Actor/Director Jorma Taccone Probably best known for writing Saturday Night Live sketches with The Lonely Island comedy troupe (including Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer), Jorma Taccone is also the co-writer and co-director of comedies like MacGruber and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
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But even though everyone fell in love with her charming (and Golden Globe-nominated!) performance in La La Land, Stone has been showing off her musical chops for years, starting with her secret reality show past, to her stint on Broadway, to her performance as a Gaga-esque pop star in Popstar.
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The movie features a who's-who of funny people, from Tim Meadows to Maya Rudolph to Jason Sudeikis, and although directors Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (The Watch, MacGruber) haven't had much big-screen commercial success, Popstar is the sort of stupid/smart combo they pulled off so well with Samberg on SNL.
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Cowritten and costarring Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, Samberg's partners in the comedy band Lonely Island, Popstar loses some momentum along the way – Conner is basically just a pop Candide, thoughtless, naive and cheerful while bumping into and tripping over obstacles that even (to grab a name from the air) Justin Bieber might be expected to eventually anticipate.
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If you've found yourself crying with laughter over a late-night viewing of Step Brothers—or, if you just need a brief escape from the crushing mundanity of daily life and want to find solace in the image of a penis-less Andy Samberg—then Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the only film you need.
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On Lorde's Melodrama, he helps to craft a clear, painstakingly realized trip from heartbreak to acceptance—a traditionalist break-up album colored by Lorde's contemporary perspective—while on Taylor Swift's Lover, one of his most recent projects, he strikes a smart balance between the rootsy Swift that diehard fans love, and the giant, laser-eyed popstar she has become.
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Drawing from the storied history of music docs and histrionic celebrity meltdowns, Popstar tells a simple but familiar tale: A pop star achieves astonishing success, loses everything, learns a lesson, and then joins forces with perpetually brow-furrowing crooner Michael Bolton to sing a duet about saving the world with the power of his incredible mind.
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When Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping came out last June, it bombed at the box office but still garnered critical praise: "It's a celebration of the curious authenticity — the innocence, the sweetness, the guiltless pleasure — of music whose badness is sometimes hard to separate from its genius," A.O. Scott wrote in his New York Times review.
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The song is both a pastiche of traditional Spring Festival stresses, and a rip-roaring anthem to individualism, ending with the defiant chorus: Encore The success of "Survival Guide" -- called "What I Do Is For Your Own Good" in English -- is even more surprising given its source, not some Chinese popstar or viral video factory, but a traditional chamber choir.
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But then I watch music videos like BANKS' "Gemini Feed" (below) and remember that in order to be a popstar you have to make doing things like rolling around on a pile of old ropes look sexy, or at least interesting, and I would look fucking ridiculous if I did that; people would think I was having a major quarter-life crisis.
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Where: 800 Congress (March 93, 12AM-1AM), The Gatsby (March 16, 11-11:40PM) Hometown: London, UK Why: Just when you thought PC Music might be reaching their 15th minute of fame, the collective's most-distinguished associate Sophie teamed up with the British popstar for the infectious Pulp Fiction-sampling "Trophy," off the latter's recent EP of the same title.
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It's essentially The Thick of It if one of the characters was a world-famous popstar-turned-deluded fashion icon, and while that's a funny concept as it is, VB takes it by the horns, doing her best David Brent, showing no vanity whatsoever, and self-parodying in a luxurious dressing-gown with the aplomb of me tweeting about eating pizza in bed.
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She also wants to make you cry, as she sings on her new summer-love anthem "I Wanna Break Ur Heart" — and the budding popstar just might manage to do all of the above with her eponymous debut EP, which serves up bubbly Carly Rae Jepsen and Kim Petras style '80s synth beats and a host of sassy breakup bops for you to blast in the car.
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This approach to the world can prevent you from feeling bowled over or unprepared when you're hit with a question you may not immediately be able to answer—for example, last year, when I was an on-camera music news host faced with having to interview Teen Popstar #462 on a red carpet, whom I knew to be very famous, and whose name I had completely forgotten.
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Back in July, at San Diego Comic-Con, The Verge spoke with Into the Spider-Verse's three directors — Bob Persichetti (Puss in Boots, The Little Prince), Peter Ramsey (A Wrinkle in Time, The Rise of the Guardians), and Rodney Rothman (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) — about what it took to deliver the film's iconic look, a blend of hand-drawn and digital animation techniques that birthed a whole new kind of cartoon.
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The magnum opus of musical-comedy stalwarts the Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer), Popstar is a proudly goofy riff on Spinal Tap, applying the mockumentary format to the rise-and-fall-and-fall-some-more fame narrative of Conner 20163 Real (Samberg), whose floundering solo career forces him to reckon with his legacy as a former member of the defunct '90s rap group the Style Boyz (whose other members included include Taccone's Owen and Schaffer's Lawrence).
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The second half of the episode is mostly given up to developments for lifelong second bananas like the Hound and Littlefinger: Brienne knocks her squire about, Jorah Mormont shows up in an Oldtown leper tank, Petyr Baelish chews up some scenery opposite Sansa, who is not having it ("No need to finish—I'll assume it was something clever"), and Arya chows down with moonlighting popstar Ed Sheeran, Pete Postlethwaite's son Billy, and what I assume are the surviving members of the Decemberists.
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And near the climax of the film, when Ally has fully embraced her Tango-haired popstar self, there are delightful shades of Gaga's early career: hearing her do glossy pop on tracks like "Heal Me" – and especially "Hair Body Face" with its big launch into the chorus and hooky "I got my hair, body, face" line – feels like a fun throwback, and a reminder, like last year's "The Cure" was, that this is the sort of shit Gaga still revels in.
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You'll be asked to protect a world-famous popstar from the zombie extras out to maul him, help a young boy recover the hot new RPG that was stolen after waiting hours in line, assist a young tech-head in repairing his state-of-the-art shoulder phone (a device I didn't even know existed until I saw it in this game), promote a Yankii band, and enlist the services of a character whose primary business is selling illegal unlimited-use phone cards—among numerous other potential sidestories.
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