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Beyonce’s Pregnancy Announcement at MTV VMAs Sets New Twitter Record

by James Plafke | 9:31 am, August 30th

Whether or not you still watch MTV, a channel where one of those three letters stands for “music,” but didn’t play music videos so it had to launch a secondary channel in order to do so, they still have an award show for music videos, the Video Music Awards, something that seems worded a little backwards now that I just typed it. During the show the other day, at the end of a performance, Beyonce announced that she was pregnant. Sure, she might’ve used a hugely public media vehicle to announce something fairly personal to a bunch of strangers, and the last time a megastar did that, the world was not pleased with the ego required to do such a thing, but hey, we can’t help but care about celebrity baby bumps, as shown by the record-breaking 8,868 tweets per second traveling throughout Twitter after the announcement, knocking off the previous record holder, the 2011 Women’s World Cup Soccer Final’s 7,196 tweets per second.

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Five Tarantino References Worth Catching in Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Music Video

by Robert Quigley | 11:52 am, March 12th

So: After endless anticipation, Lady Gaga‘s music video for “Telephone” is here, featuring Beyonce. True to form and expectation, it’s really weird: In a good way, though, IMO.

For one thing, “Telephone”‘s nonmusic/music ratio rivals Martin Scorcese‘s 18-minute music video for Michael Jackson’s “Bad”: the thing is nine-and-a-half minutes long, with about three minutes of highly stylized female prison drama and Lady Gaga naked-making before you hear a single note.

But then… there’s the stylization itself. Lady Gaga told E! that “There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video;” while there are other influences swimming around in there (we’d like to propose Twin Peaks), the Tarantino shines through the most.

You may recall that Beyonce’s “Video Phone” started off with a reference to the slow-mo walk in Reservoir Dogs; where’s the Tarantino in “Telephone”?

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2010 Grammy Nominees Don’t Just Sing: a Rundown of their Voiceover Work

by Susana Polo | 2:39 pm, January 31st

From the blog Whose Voice is That? comes a truly extensive post on tonight’s Grammy nominees, or at least those who also have voice acting credits. WViT’s list covers a number of areas within our geeky purview, including David Bowie, Yogi Bear, Mos Def, Metalocalypse, and more.

Our three favorite new bytes of knowledge are:

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