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- Psy's 'Gentleman' video smashes YouTube records
- Deftones basist Chi Cheng dead at 42
- Justin Bieber in hot soup over note left in Anne Frank guest book
| Psy's 'Gentleman' video smashes YouTube records Posted: 15 Apr 2013 02:19 AM PDT SEOUL (AFP) - Gangnam Style star Psy's new music video had received more than 50 million views on YouTube by Monday, re-writing the video-sharing site's records for single-day hits. The dance video to Gentleman, the South Korean singer's long-awaited follow up to Gangnam Style, was only posted on YouTube on Saturday. In the first 24 hours, it racked up around 20 million hits, destroying the previous record for single-day views of 8.0 million, set by Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber's Boyfriend video in May 2012. Now that record looks set to be stretched again, with the view count about 40 hours after release standing at 51 million. "51million views in 40hours!! My God~!!!" the 35-year-old star exclaimed on his Twitter account. The video shows Psy, wearing his signature sunglasses, dancing at various locations in and around Seoul including a high-end clothing store, restaurant, swimming pool and a library. The storyline features the singer teasing and playing practical jokes on women, such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit or untying a woman's bikini top at a swimming pool, before meeting his match. It was the video of Gangnam Style, and in particular Psy's signature horse-riding dance, that pushed him to global stardom last year after it was posted on YouTube and turned into a viral sensation. A satire on the luxury lifestyle of Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, it has become the most-watched YouTube video of all time, registering more than 1.5 billion views since it debuted last July. Gentleman was ranked in the top 10 songs on iTunes stores in a number of countries Monday, including France, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden. It also topped the chart in Finland. Critical reactions to the song were mixed but the video -- showing the quirky singer's signature self-mocking humour as well as the new hip-swivelling dance -- left many fans satisfied. "The song isn't all that great but let's face it. The video is actually hilarious," wrote one Youtube commentator. "I just love the fact that neither he nor the dancers are taking themselves too serious, but seriously enough to pelvic sway with perfect synchronization," wrote another. |
| Deftones basist Chi Cheng dead at 42 Posted: 14 Apr 2013 10:58 PM PDT REUTERS - Alternative metal bassist Chi Cheng of the Deftones has died, four years after a car accident left him a coma. Cheng died on Saturday after being brought to a hospital emergency room, according to a website set up to raise funds for the stricken musician. He was 42. "I know you will always remember him as a giant of a man on stage with a heart for every one of you," his mother wrote in a statement on the site. "He left this world with me singing songs he liked in his ear." No cause of death was given on the site. It was not immediately clear where Cheng died. Cheng was seriously injured during a head-on car collision in Santa Clara, California, in 2008. Cheng was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle, local media reported at the time. "Rest in peace Chi Cheng," wrote the band's lead vocalist, Chino Moreno, on his Facebook page, where more than 2,000 messages were left by fans eulogizing Cheng. The Deftones, an alternative metal band out of Sacramento, California, was founded in 1988. The band won a Grammy for the Best Metal Performance in 2000. |
| Justin Bieber in hot soup over note left in Anne Frank guest book Posted: 14 Apr 2013 08:36 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teenage pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have been a "belieber," the popular term for his fans. A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the museum said Bieber had visited the previous night and stayed over an hour, along with a group of friends and guards as fans waited outside to "see a glimpse of him." "In our guestbook he wrote: 'Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber,'" the museum said in the Facebook post. Regarding that last sentence in the guest book, a large share of the hundreds of commentators on the museum's Facebook post reacted negatively to Bieber's choice of words. "Anne Frank a belieber? That is by far one of the most self-serving things I've ever read, like ever," Facebook user Tania Saez Pinto wrote. "I think she would be smart enough not to buy his records," Facebook user Menachem Rephun wrote on the page. Media commentators also joined in the fray. Scott Simon, host of U.S.-based National Public Radio program Weekend Edition Saturday, said on Twitter, "Anne would be wise enough to just laugh." Anne Frank, who died at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, is one of the most well-known and celebrated Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Readers around the world have read her diary, which was first published in 1947 and details the deprivations and personal triumphs she and her family experienced in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. A representative for Bieber declined to comment. Some commentators on social media sites commended Bieber for caring enough about Anne Frank's story to visit the Amsterdam museum, which is built into the house where she and her family hid before their arrest. And the museum itself in its post about the visit from Bieber, a Canadian-born sensation whose hit songs include Baby and U Smile, did not criticize him. Annemarie Bekker, a spokeswoman for the Anne Frank House, said museum officials were "a bit overwhelmed" by the negative reaction to Bieber's statement. "He's a 19-year-old boy taking the effort to come and see the museum, and we'd like to point that out, and I think it's quite innocent what he put down," Bekker said. Bieber is on tour in Europe. |
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