Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 10/8/13

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Lawdy, lawdy, Lorde!

Original Version
1. Lorde – “Royals”
2. Katy Perry – “Roar”
3. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
4. Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
5. Lady GaGa – “Applause”
6. Drake ft. Majid Jordan – “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
7. Eminem – “Berzerk”
8. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”
9. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
10. AWOLNATION – “Sail”
11. Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness (Remix)”
12. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
13. Paramore – “Still Into You”
14. Justin Timberlake – “Take Back the Night”
15. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
16. Imagine Dragons – “Demons”
17. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
18. Zedd ft. Hayley Williams – “Stay the Night”
19. Selena Gomez – “Slow Down”
20. One Direction – “Best Song Ever”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. We Can’t Stop
2. Sail
3. Wake Me Up
4. Royals
5. Demons
6. Berzerk
7. Blurred Lines
8. Summertime Sadness (Remix)
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Same Love
11. Hold On, We’re Going Home
12. Safe and Sound
13. Roar
14. Slow Down
15. Stay the Night
16. Applause
17. Take Back the Night
18. Still Into You
19. Counting Stars
20. Best Song Ever

SNL Video Recap October 5, 2013: Miley Cyrus

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SNL Recap October 5, 2013: Miley Cyrus

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VMA’s Backstage
Some of the lines were perfectly obvious, but the apocalyptic framing device added cleverness. And, boy oh boy, do Vanessa!Miley and Real Miley have quite a nice rapport. B+

Miley Cyrus’s  Monologue
Thank GOD that promise of no twerking turned out to be false. B-

50 Shades of Grey Screen Tests
It looks like Noël Wells is already well on our way to inheriting the prolific impressionist mantle from Phil Hartman and Bill Hader.  But Taran’s Christoph Waltz won this round.  Not as good as the Back to the Future screen tests, but better than Top Gun. B+

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VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 10/5/13

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Jorma Taccone crying = hilarious.

Original Version
1. Katy Perry – “Roar”
2. Lady GaGa – “Applause”
3. Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran – “Everything Has Changed”
4. Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness (Remix)”
5. Lorde – “Royals”
6. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
7. Passenger – “Let Her Go”
8. Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc – “Wake Me Up”
9. Paramore – “Still Into You”
10. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
11. Gavin DeGraw – “Best I Ever Had”
12. Zedd ft. Foxes – “Clarity”
13. Robin Thicke ft. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – “Give It 2 U”
14. Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding – “I Need Your Love”
15. Imagine Dragons – “Demons”
16. Emeli Sandé – “My Kind of Love”
17. P!nk ft. Lily Allen – “True Love”
18. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
19. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
20. Haim – “The Wire”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Clarity
2. Wake Me Up
3. Royals
4. The Wire
5. Demons
6. Give It 2 U
7. I Need Your Love
8. Summertime Sadness (Remix)
9. Wrecking Ball
10. Same Love
11. Roar
12. Applause
13. Safe and Sound
14. Still Into You
15. Let Her Go
16. My Kind of Love
17. True Love
18. Counting Stars
19. Best I Ever Had
20. Everything Has Changed

Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 10/1/13

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Good golly, Miss Miley.

Original Version
1. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
2. Katy Perry – “Roar”
3. Lorde – “Royals”
4. Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
5. Eminem – “Berzerk”
6. Lady GaGa – “Applause”
7. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”
8. Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness (Remix)”
9. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
10. AWOLNATION – “Sail”
11. Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive”
12. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
13. Paramore – “Still Into You”
14. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
15. Robin Thicke ft. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – “Give it 2 U”
16. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
17. One Direction – “Best Song Ever”
18. Zedd ft. Hayley Williams – “Stay the Night”
19. Big Sean ft. Lil’ Wayne and Jhené Aiko – “Beware”
20. Selena Gomez – “Slow Down”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. We Can’t Stop
2. Sail
3. Wake Me Up
4. Radioactive
5. Royals
6. Berzerk
7. Give it 2 U
8. Blurred Lines
9. Summertime Sadness (Remix)
10. Wrecking Ball
11. Same Love
12. Roar
13. Slow Down
14. Stay the Night
15. Applause
16. Safe and Sound
17. Still Into You
18. Beware
19. Counting Stars
20. Best Song Ever

SNL Season Premiere Video Recap September 28, 2013: Tina Fey/Arcade Fire

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SNL Season Premiere Recap September 28, 2013: Tina Fey/Arcade Fire

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They’re all just twerkin’ 9 to 5.

Obama Press Conference
With  all the guests that Obama was bringing on to tell their stories, I thought this was going to be one of those every-cast-member-appears sketches, what with the huge cast and all.  But it ended up only covering about 60%.  There seemed to be a fair amount of applause for Beck Bennett – did people recognize him from the AT&T commercials?  Or was that just premature applause for Aaron Paul?  I had heard speculation that the cold opening would cover Ted Cruz, or maybe Breaking Bad – what do you know, they were both right!  Cecily’s appearance here was the first of several times this episode I was upset we’ll never see her again as a guest on the Update desk, with the complaint of a broken iPhone 5S a rather Girl at a Party-esque problem. B-

Tina Fey’s Monologue
I like a well-crafted pun, delivered with conviction (or a terrible pun delivered with conviction), so Tina’s fake recurring characters were a quick delight.  And I also like deconstruction, so Tina explaining that new cast members have to pay their dues as backup dancers to the host was better than just another plain old song and dance monologue.  And those outfits made it clear that we are living in a post-Magic Mike world. B+

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VH1 Top 20 Countdown – 9/28/13

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My brother’s not a fan of all these inspirational female pop songs.

Original Version
1. Katy Perry – “Roar”
2. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
3. Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness (Remix)”
4. Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran – “Everything Has Changed”
5. Lady GaGa – “Applause”
6. Zedd ft. Foxes – “Clarity”
7. Passenger – “Let Her Go”
8. Calvin Harris ft. Ellie Goulding – “I Need Your Love”
9. Lorde – “Royals”
10. Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc – “Wake Me Up”
11. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
12. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
13. Paramore – “Still Into You”
14. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
15. Bruno Mars – “Treasure”
16. P!nk ft. Lily Allen – “True Love”
17. Gavin DeGraw – “Best I Ever Had”
18. Robin Thicke ft. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – “Give It 2 U”
19. Maroon 5 – “Love Somebody”
20. Emeli Sandé – “My Kind of Love”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Clarity
2. We Can’t Stop
3. Wake Me Up
4. Royals
5. Give It 2 U
6. I Need Your Love
7. Summertime Sadness (Remix)
8. Same Love
9. Roar
10. Applause
11. Safe and Sound
12. Still Into You
13. Let Her Go
14. Treasure
15. My Kind of Love
16. Love Somebody
17. True Love
18. Counting Stars
19. Best I Ever Had
20. Everything Has Changed

Saturday Night Live Season 39 Host and Musical Guest Predictions

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Saturday Night Live premieres its 39th season tonight, and once again, I have made my predictions for who the host and musical guests will be this year.  I am following the rules of the SNL message board I frequent, which means 30 picks in each category, and the predictions were due after the guests for the first three shows had already been announced.  In past years, I had organized my host picks into categories (TV stars, movie stars with a movie coming out soon), and I still did that when making my selections this year, but ultimately I just don’t know.  This year’s guests could be everybody or nobody.  Here’s my guesses, in alphabetical order.

Hosts
Alison Brie
Ty Burrell
Stephen Colbert
Bryan Cranston
Benedict Cumberbatch
Miley Cyrus – already announced
Claire Danes
Lena Dunham
Chris Evans
Michael Fassbender
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey – already announced
Zach Galifianakis
Andrew Garfield
Jon Hamm
Tom Hanks
Chris Hemsworth
Josh Hutcherson
Hugh Jackman
Tatiana Maslany
Matthew McConaughey
Joel McHale
Chloë Grace Moretz
Amy Poehler
RuPaul
Andy Samberg
Kerry Washington
Shaun White
Bruce Willis – already announced
Shailene Woodley

Musical Guests
Arcade Fire – already announced
Avicii
Beyoncé
Capital Cities
Chvrches
Miley Cyrus – already announced
Drake
Eminem
Garbage
The Gaslight Anthem
Grouplove
Icona Pop
Imagine Dragons
Kings of Leon
Lady GaGa
Lorde
MGMT
Janelle Monáe
Nas
The 1975
Katy Perry – already announced
P!nk
Queens of the Stone Age
Rihanna
Rick Ross
St. Vincent
Taylor Swift
Robin Thicke
2 Chainz
The Weeknd

Fuse Top 20 Countdown – 9/24/13

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It’s about time Rick Rubin appeared in front of the camera, and it’s also about time more people became aware of the inimitable “Sail.”

Original Version
1. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
2. Katy Perry – “Roar”
3. Lorde – “Royals”
4. Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
5. Lady GaGa – “Applause”
6. Eminem – “Berzerk”
7. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”
8. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
9. Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais – “Summertime Sadness (Remix)”
10. Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive”
11. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert – “Same Love”
12. One Direction – “Best Song Ever”
13. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
14. Paramore – “Still Into You”
15. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
16. Phillip Phillips – “Gone Gone Gone”
17. AWOLNATION – “Sail”
18. Zedd ft. Foxes – “Clarity”
19. Big Sean ft. Lil’ Wayne and Jhené Aiko – “Beware”
20. Robin Thicke ft. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – “Give It 2 U”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Clarity
2. We Can’t Stop
3. Sail
4. Wake Me Up
5. Radioactive
6. Royals
7. Berzerk
8. Give It 2 U
9. Blurred Lines
10. Wrecking Ball
11. Summertime Sadness (Remix)
12. Same Love
13. Roar
14. Applause
15. Safe and Sound
16. Still Into You
17. Beware
18. Counting Stars
19. Best Song Ever
20. Gone Gone Gone

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