Here are some photos of teen stars at Monday's Teen Choice Awards.
Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick, the deliciously nasty couple on Gossip Girl, rock it out on the carpet. Leighton is the shiz!
Welsh soul singer, Duffy, made her Boston debut on Tuesday night and yours truly was there to witness it (notice the lovely photo taken on my camera phone). Duffy took to the stage for a short set that was the perfect length. Coming out in a polka dotted romper she looked like a 40's pinup. She was sporting her signature red heels that can be seen in the video for her hit "Mercy". Her voice was amazing live, better than on the record. She has a kind of awkward yet lovable dance moves personality to her. My personal favorite part of her performance besides the singing would be the many times she would swing her microphone around on its wire (sassy DIVA). She would also strike some divatastic poses. She was so cute. I love her. The thing that marks the true success of a concert especially a concert with a new artist where you only know a few songs is whether they can get you into their other songs. Duffy succeeded with this. I had listened to clips of her other songs, but that hadn't grabbed me as much as "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue", and "Delayed Devotion". Then, when she sang them, her beautiful voice turned them into yearning, soulful love songs. She sang a great version of "Rockferry", and "Syrup & Honey" was a superb, aching vocal performance. "Serious" bounced buoyantly along, and "Warwick Avenue" soared. Duffy performed "Stepping Stone", the jubilant"Distant Dreamer", and a great, upbeat B-side to "Mercy" called "Tomorrow". "Delayed Devotion" was lovely and "Mercy", the last song before the encore, made me smile with its infectiousness. She was fun having the audience respond to her saying "Hello, Boston" repeatedly because she loved saying it. A wonderful set by a rising star.
Some of the High School Musical gang appear in the new issue of Elle in a cool, reto 50's fashion shoot. Zac is looking divine as usual, Ashley Tiz is giving the divatude I love, I mean look at her standing on that car, and leaning on the fencce in her fancy purple dress. My one question: Vanessa, where are your sneakers?
I've just started getting into AMC's 60's advertising agency drama Mad Men that has been heaped with critical praise and award nominations. Season two started last Sunday. I noticed a few familiar faces as I was watching specifically that of January Jones (amazing name, blond on right) who it turns out was in Love Actually playing one of the American girls in the bar in Wisconsin who Colin meets and "befriends". On Mad Men, she is the complete opposite of her character in Love Actually. She is a seemingly normal housewife with a marriage that's falling apart. She is simply stunning in the 60's garb, but her character, Betty Draper, is very cold. I love her though.
Swedish singer Lykke Li has been gaining a following in Europe throughout this year. She has recently started to grace the US with her presence. This is the third single off her album Youth Novels, and it's called Breaking It Up. The video is kind of bizarre, all her videos are kind of bizarre, but the song is awesome with some crazy amazing chanting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQQ6Qed024&feature=user
Black Kids, a band out of Florida, burst out of the gate early this year with their super fun and dance-worthy I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You. It's very New Waveian which I love. Check it out!
