Represent is Loving: Mark Ronson – Valerie
Rumour has it that Amy Winehouse didn’t show up for the video shoot, so they got inventive and pulled in a whole bunch of lookalikes to mime along to Mark Ronson’s remake of Valerie featuring the MC “Wale” from DC. Labelled the “Winettes”, the ladies sang along to the original Zuton song and gave the video an authentic 60’s rock n roll feel. Or the rumours could be a whole load of tabloid junk – as professed by the RodRyan show blog and Mark knew Amy (the star of the song) would be away on holiday (we think she needs one). Who knows, but we’re loving the song and the video from visionary producer – or should that be retro-visionary – and man of the moment Mark Ronson. Enjoy....
See Rihanna & Amy prepping at MTV Movie Awards
There’s something distinctly voyeuristic about seeing an artist getting ready with the production crew in a quiet backstage area just before going onto stage with Jay-Z at the MTV Movie Awards- particularly if it’s Rihanna, the shiniest star on the pop scene, getting ready to perform her ella ella ella hitsong Umbrella. You can watch Rihanna “shaking off her nerves” before her big performance with the Jiggaman on MTV’s site right here – it’s a long video so let it load a while. You even get to see a smiley Paris Hilton bopping along to the music – maybe this was before all the jibes and digs around her her impending (today?) jail sentence that she had to listen to from the various presenters including the harsh Sarah Silverman… And for all the Amy Winehouse fans (if you’re not over her already 🙂 ), there’s also a clip of an apparently tipsy Amy hanging backstage with her newly betrothed husband (of two weeks) Blake Fielder-Civil before performing a ‘smouldering rendition of “Rehab” ‘. In the video she does look a bit shaky (doesn’t she always??) but they were definitely looking very in love and happy – which is a good thing considering the news that the performance was actually boo’ed by the audience (glad it doesn’t only happen at the SAMA’s) and they had a huge bust-up the next day or early morning at their hotel according to the dodgy Uk Mirror. Not the smiliest of performers. In terms of celebrating the actors and who won the actual MTV Movie Awards – Barry Ronge would be horrified to hear that the THIRD Pirates of the Caribbean was the big winner, with Johnny Depp winning the Best Performance. Mike Myers and Sasha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G) were also winners. More from Hollywood Reporters...
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