Popstar Harlem Shakes: Cody Simpson, Jedward, District 3 and Conor Maynard take on the latest internet craze.
Harlem Shake is the latest craze sweeping the world of the internet. We’re sure you’ve all seen one of the many videos flooding YouTube. It’s been doing the rounds for about three weeks and has already become an meteorically silly success. Some popstars have already tried their hand at their own Harlem Shake videos. Here’s the ones we’ve found…
JEDWARD
The Harlem Shake is silly but its also entertaining. As professional purveyors of the silly and entertaining it was only a matter of time before Jedward got involved.
As always, we appreciate Jedward’s enthusiasm but any Harlem Shake connoisseurs will notice Jedward are clearly floating a number of rules in their ‘Shake’. They gain extra points for getting so many people involved
5/10
CODY SIMPSON
It must be pretty boring being sat in a tour-bus for weeks on end. Cody came up with a unique way of keeping himself entertained.
This is a very strong Harlem Shake with many of the ‘rules’ of the Harlem Shake being observed. Cody is the lone dancer. There is a semi-naked gentleman in the background and the rest of the dancers are uninterested until after the drop. We also think this is the one time where a tracksuit actually gets you plus-points.
8/10
DISTRICT 3
This was filmed at the District 3 showcase on Sunday. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot MP!TV’s Luke Franks dancing with the boys.
Of course, you’ll only spot Luke if you’re not completely distracted by shirtless Dan. We understand, we struggled to see past that too. Before the drop this is perfect and it gets points for shirtlessness. We love the amount of 3eeks involved though we do doubt the validity of that upside down dancer and it loses points for the bad quality of the camera.
12/10 (a 7/10 with an extra 5 points for shirtless Dan)
CONOR MAYNARD
The final word on Harlem Shakes comes from popstar-in-hiding Conor Maynard.
20/10
Winner of the best Popstar Harlem Shake video: Conor Maynard.
Here’s hoping we see some more Harlem Shake silliness from bored touring popstars soon. Your move Bieber.
MP!’s Fit Awards – The Results
The Brit Awards 2013 contains far too many dull popstars, and far too many dull categories, so we at MP! have decided to create our own awards. Rather than rewarding dullness, we’re rewarding the things that really matter – brilliant hair, dedication to hats and omnipresent nipples. We’re ready and set to announce our winners alongside the Brit Awards.
- BEST BREAKTHROUGH NIPPLE – HARRY STYLES' THIRD NIPPLE – Well done Third Nipple. You always had this in the bag. You thrashed the other nipples taking 66% of the vote. We hear the nipple is already playing an all-nighter at the Ivy – whether Harry likes it or not!
- FITTEST GROUP THAT AREN'T 1D – DISTRICT 3 – This was our most hotly contested category. Over 2000 votes in this category. First it looked like Little Mix would walk it, then Union J took the lead. But soon it was a two-horse race between District 3 and the Wanted. District 3 won with 720 votes to the Wanted's 646. Well done boys & well done 3eeks!
- BEST BRITISH HAIR – ZAYN MALIK – We'll be honest, we love Zayn, we love Zayn's hair. We're happy this happened. After a brief lead by Max George, Zayn destroyed the competition and taking 639 votes. The way that he slicks his hair leaves us overwhelmed.
- BEST INTERNATIONAL HAIR – JEDWARD – It was always going to be Jedward. Firstly, their hair is iconic. Secondly, no-one takes on Planet Jedward.
- BEST SINGLE – NIALL HORAN – Cheeky little Niall has been breaking hearts the world over this year (including that of Selena Gomez) . Winning 45% of your vote, Niall beat his fellow 1D member Harry Styles into second.
- BEST HAT IN POP – MISHA B – And what a hat! The hat itself was double nominated and battle commenced between Misha B and Little Mix's Jesy who both wore the hat. It was close, but Misha B ended up winning with 38% of the vote. Conor Maynard only got 5.6% of the vote. Perhaps switch to scarfs next year Conor?
- SPECIAL AWARD – GLOBAL SUCCESS IN HATS – OLLY MURS – Because so many of you were (quite rightly) mad at us missing Olly in the 'Best Hat in Pop' category. No-one wears them quite like Olly…
A huge thank you to everyone that voted! We had nearly 7000 votes across all the categories.
MP! chats to Will Best!
*ringgggg!!* ooh that’s the MP! phone – and the lovely Will Best is on the line…
Hello, Will! Are you looking forward to T4 On The Beach on Sunday?
I’m nervous but getting more excited every day. We had a big meeting about it this morning to go through ideas and the games we’re going to be playing. I think it’s gonna be bloody hilarious!
What can we expect to see?
T4 is about popstars, music and playing ridiculous games. Every week we play a game with a really tenuously punned title, to get either us or the popstar to look stupid! That’s going to be a big part of T4 On The Beach so we’ll have popstars firing things into the crowd from giant catapults and popping balloons between each other’s chests. I may be dressed up as a dog.
What kind of dog?
Oh, just a general dog costume! Pudsey and Ashleigh are going to be there. When I was little I used to do dog agility courses so I may be competing against a real dog while dressed as a dog myself.
So is this T4′s Got Talent?
Exactly! Pudsey’s Got Talent and then T4 Has Zero Talent.
Will Pretends To Have Talent?
Yeah, exactly. Matt might be dressed in S&M gear…
Wow. Moving on, which of the acts are you looking forward to seeing?
Labrinth because he’s amazing live, he runs around playing five instruments at the same time! I’m a big fan of Rita Ora. She’s a lovely girl, very nice to talk to and to look at(!) and I think she’ll do an amazing performance.
Rita is signed with Jay-Z’s label in America. Do you reckon Jay and Beyoncé might turn up?
They’ll probably be backstage. I’ve invited them and they’re certainly gonna try and pop down, sure. We get on pretty well!
Perhaps Beyoncé will serve ice creams.
Yeah, well she’s gonna bring the baby and they’ll just be hanging out. Most of those sorts of big names will be hanging out backstage but they just won’t want to be on the stage. It’s about letting the Brits shine on the stage but backstage of course Kanye will be there with Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z and Beyoncé. Just our mates, basically, you know?
The line-up is pleasingly British: Rizzle Kicks, Stooshe, Conor Maynard, Tulisa, Little Mix… what does this say about UK pop in 2012?
We don’t need American acts because British pop is just so strong. Look at The Wanted going off and absolutely smashing it in America!
Cover Drive promised MP! they would bring the Barbadian sunshine to the beach.
Well they’ve been told that if they don’t then they can’t play! That’s a condition for them.
That’s in their contract?
Yeah!
Edward Jedward famously broke his leg on the T4 On The Beach stage. Which popstar is most likely to end up with an injury this year?
Jamelia did herself an injury one year and chipped her tooth backstage with Olly Murs, and Peter Andre injured himself on stage as well, so it literally could be anyone!
We hear that yesterday you were talking balls with Adam Lambert. Care to explain?
Yeah, we were talking about fanclubs. Adam’s fanclub are called the Glamberts. I have a fanclub called the Besticles, but there’s only two of them and you know, they’re always hanging around. It was that kind of “hilarious” testicle-based banter.
Well as long as the Besticles keep you warm at night, Will.
I keep them warm! It’s a hands-on job.
Haha! So what else are you up to?
I’m very busy! It’s a bit surreal. The Crush is a monthly show on 4Music that I guest-present with a different popstar each time. The Love Shaft is a dating show for E4 that is set in a lift. That’s going really well. I get loads of tweets saying things like, “Will, this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen but I bloody love it.”
High praise indeed.
It’s the sort of show that’s made by the contestants. Some incredible people have taken part! We had a girl on there who didn’t know what a sandwich was. She didn’t understand the concept of a sandwich!
Are you still doing any modelling?
When you say “still”, er, I’ve not really done modelling! I worked in the Abercrombie & Fitch shop for a brief period. I have, bizarrely, been signed to Premier Models, in their ‘Special Division’, which is for people who could in no way actually be models but because they’re on telly somebody might want to take a picture of them.
So if the weather’s nice on Sunday will you be whipping your top off on the T4 stage?
I really hope not.
What about letting the Besticles get some sunshine?
Haha! I will be wearing a mankini but it’ll be a very small one so there’ll be one Besticle each side of the main thong.
Might we even see the love shaft?
Hahaha! If you’re very, very lucky. Only people right at the front would be able to see the love shaft, unfortunately.
If you were going to show the love shaft to any popstar on the T4OTB bill, who would it be?
Most of them have already seen the love shaft. Maybe I’d show it to Dappy and say, “what do you think? How do I measure up?” I’ve spent hours on photoshop trying to recreate the Dappy photo on myself. It’s actually harder than it looks…
Maybe try the stretch effect. It’s great to see newcomers on the T4 On The Beach bill, like Josh Osho, Lawson and Lonsdale Boys Club.
We’re here to help at T4. We start careers… and then end careers with serious injuries!
Edward Jedward is still psychologically recovering.
In that case we’ll get Jedward back and injure them again. We’ve done a lot of polls on the T4 website but I couldn’t find “which popstar would you like to seriously injure?” for some reason.
Probably for the best! Any other goss?
Not really, we’ve talked about my balls and my general crotch area. I think that’s pretty much everything we had to cover, right?
Right! Thank you very much, Will. We had the Best time talking to you!
T4 On The Beach takes place this Sunday 1st July in Weston-super-Mare. Tickets are on sale now. Visit www.channel4.com/t4.
A photo of Jedward looking a tiny bit attractive
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Jedward have released the artwork for their third (!) album Young Love, released June 4. They’ve ditched the quiffs, donned the denim, and pulled their best smouldering facial expressions. Are we the only ones coming over a little flustered? The record features their Eurovision hit ‘Waterline’ (it’s quite good), and if you’re Irish you can grab it on the slightly earlier date of June 1.
Jedward are back in pants! It’s the ‘Waterline’ video!
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Those clever Jedward chappies have impressed us by not only directing and editing their new music video for Irish Eurovision entry ‘Waterline’ but by having the sense to include more footage of them larking around in their pants. And the songs their best yet too. *Gold star for Jedward*
MP! Procrastinators: Spot Jedward!
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Can you spot them? Leave your guesses in the comments below if you think you’ve got it…
Jedward’s Big Adventure featuring Sian and Jess Parade – watch now!
Take a pair of popstar twins that spend their free time dancing in their underwear, add two girls from Parade that spend their free time trashing boy band dressing rooms, drop them in the Jurassic Coast and what have you got? It’s episode three of new TV show Jedward’s Big Adventure, featuring special guests Sian Charlesworth and Jess Agombar. There’s a bit where the girls are rudely awakened by Jedward, there’s a bit where one of Jedward get covered in beans and there’s a bit where everyone pretends to be a giant creature with big teeth.
Is it the best 30 minutes of pop TV so far this year? Yes. Is it the best 30 minutes of pop TV ever? We’ll let you be the judges of that. Click here to watch Jedward’s Big Adventure on BBC iPlayer.
Jedward – ‘Waterline’ amazing song alert
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Jedward have done something more shocking than that time they stripped off and danced in their underwear for 3 minutes and 17 seconds. They’ve made a song worthy of their amazing pop star personas. Listen to ‘Waterline’ below:
This week’s Pop Diary – Parade, Jedward, Olly Murs, Jacqueline Wilson
Your next 7 days sorted courtesy of MP! Welcome to the Pop Diary.
ON SCREEN:
Jedward: Jedward’s Big Adventure, showing every day at 4:30pm on the CBBC Channel, sees them competing with celebrity guests (including Sian and Jessica Parade on Wednesday) to be the best tour guides at famous tourist attractions across the UK. Have they been studying the history books, or will they jump into a performance of ‘Lipstick’ to save their blushes? Either way, you know it’ll be television you can’t miss.
Other highlights: One Direction are on Blue Peter; Daniel Radcliffe is on Graham Norton.
Jedward’s Big Adventure: POP DIARY
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Jedward go head to head with celebrity guests to decide who is the best tour guide. Sound daft? See for yourself when the show starts on February 6th at 4:30pm on CBBC. They’re not in the first episode, but Jess and Sian from Parade will also appear later in the series. We’ve listed this on our pop diary. Hit like below if you’re going to tune in.
