Lady goo goo GaGa: Pop star is left holding the baby as she indulges in some retail therapy with a mystery male friend

Her avant garde outfits are enough to terrify even the most macho man.


So Lady GaGa's decision to abandon her usual outré attire for a trip out with a small baby was - dare one say it - eminently sensible.

Ambling around make-up free in studded leather vest, white T-shirt and black jeans, the chart-topping singer looked surprisingly ordinary.

Her only concession to eccentricity was a hat swap from a black woolen beanie to a straw boater with a grey wig.

The decision to adopt a more incognito approach on a shopping trip in South Gate, California, appeared to have gone down well with her young companion.

Randy Jackson Leaving “American Idol?”

Is American Idol losing its “Top Dawg?”


With Paula Abdul out and Simon Cowell in his final season, Randy Jackson had been poised to be the last man standing as the final original Idol judge to remain on the judges panel. But in what some TV industry insiders call a stunning move, Randy is reportedly being shoved toward the door as FOX struggles to revamp America’s most watched show.

Rumor on The Snitch Circuit claims the record producer and Idol judge may be let go from FOX’s reality mega-hit at the end of the season — while other reports claim Randy could join the departing Cowell on the US adaptation of Britain’s The X Factor.

Ke$ha did not vandalize the Hollywood Sign, officials confirm. Come on.



“HwOOD $IgN I$ oFFiciaLLY My bIZnatCH!!!!! Good work2allmyHoTCULpritss!! LOOK AT THE SIGN LA!” wayward drunk-pop star Ke$ha twittered at 3:20 a.m. today, and soon, the above video emerged, purportedly showing the former Ms. Sebert and her girlfriends draping a bedsheet over the Hollywood Sign and relabeling it “Ke$hawood.”

Did this really happen? Um… no.

Before I committed any journalism, I checked in with my good friend Common Sense. It’s been pouring rain here in L.A. all day, so I knew the “early morning” footage of the group stumbling out of their limo to check out their handiwork wasn’t shot anytime in the last 12 hours. Also, my more sober friends and I have tried to get as close as possible to the sign in the past, and we were stopped hundreds of yards away when a security camera started talking to us. (“Hey, you. Yeah, you in the red shirt. I can see you. You want to get arrested?”) The sign is monitored 24 hours a day — I doubt a bunch of lit-up freaks in rabbit masks could get much closer. And as anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of scale could probably figure out, it would be very, VERY hard for anyone sans ladders/cranes to cover something 45 feet tall with bedsheets.

The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps

The recent introduction of the new Apple iPad has stirred the discussion over the future of web content and application runtime formats, and shone light onto the political and business battles emerging between Apple, Adobe and Google. These discussion are often highly polarized and irrational. My hope in this post is to help provide some balance and clarity onto this discussion.

I have a particularly unique perspective, stake and role in this discussion. My first company (Allaire) was born during the advent of the Web, with the idea that a browser and HTML could form the basis for creating content-rich, interactive software applications, ones that didn’t require native code and could be platform and operating system independent. We built ColdFusion as a way to realize this vision. We later became deeply committed to the world of HTML as a developer format, acquiring and building HomeSite, what was the world’s dominant Windows-based HTML authoring application.

Facebook Takes Over Its Own Display Advertising From Microsoft, Keeps Bing For Web Search

When it comes to display advertising on its own site, Facebook is taking full control of its inventory away from Microsoft. Even prior to Microsoft’s initial $240 million investment in Facebook in 2007, the two companies had an advertising partnership giving Microsoft the ability to serve display ads on the social network. That was a three-year deal which was up for renewal. The two companies just finished renegotiating it, and Microsoft will no longer be serving up display ads on Facebook.

However, Bing will still power Web search on Facebook and will serve up search ads. The relationship with Bing will actually be expanded to be global (before it was just U.S.) and to include smart answers and other guided search features within Facebook. Expect Facebook’s Web search to start looking a lot more like Bing. As far as social search goes, however, Facebook continues to develop its own search technologies which return realtime results from your personal stream.

Motorola Droid acquires multitouch support for Google Maps

Google’s been quite busy recently, days after the monumental Nexus One multitouch update, they’ve brought out the updated 3.4 version of Google Maps that finally gives support to multitouch pinch-to-zoom, well at least in Google Maps anyway.

The Euro-bound Motorola Milestone (essentially a Droid) ships with multitouch out the window, so pinch-and-zoom on the Droid wasn’t a surprise, but nonetheless welcomed by many. 3.4 Google Maps is available in the Android Market via an update, so Droid owners, get it and start pinching.

The Wonder Girls perform in Sanya with new member Hae Lim

The Wonder Girls are starting their Chinese promotions just before the release of their best hits collection album on February 12th. To kick it off they stopped by in Sanya, Hainan China for a Sony Ericsson event where exiting member Sunmi wasn’t in attendance. However, her replacement and new member Hae Lim joined in on performances with the group.


It’s a bit different seeing the group without Sunmi, sort of like when Yubin replaced Hyuna but things will work out for the best. The girls will always have my support. Thanks to wdf for the tip and check out some of the photos and fan cams below.

Jacky appears on ATV and talks about each of his new songs

Earlier, Jacky Cheung took the lead in breaking TVB’s ‘monopoly’ on singers and accepted an interview with ATV. Yesterday, he took it one step further by filming a TV special for ATV entitled <<Jacky Cheung: Private Corner>> and accepting an interview with ATV host Jerry Lam Hiu Fung.

In the interview, which was conducted at a musical equipment company, Jacky not only walks the audience through the entire process of how his album was formed – from early planning stages to selection of songs to actual production – he also goes in depth and talks about the content as well as musical style of each song. In addition to incorporating behind-the-scenes footage of the album’s production and various MVs, the musical special will also interview the creative musical crew involved with the production of the album in efforts to familiarize the audience with the unique qualities and techniques of the album from a professional perspective. The program is scheduled to air on ATV on February 14th.

Mizushima Hiro and Ayaka Named Best Newlywed Couple

Not only are they already the envy of many, but Mei-chan no Shitsuji actor Mizushima Hiro and his singer wife, Ayaka, have now been voted the Best Newlywed Couple of 2009. From a poll conducted by marriage services company O-Net, Mizushima and Ayaka easily clinched the first spot by a wide margin. Many people praised the handsome Mizushima for being caring and supportive of his wife, who is battling Graves' disease. This 'ideal husband' has set the bar high for the next generation.

In second place is Vancouver Olympics freestyle skier Uemura Aiko, who married alpine skier Minagawa Kentaro. Third and fourth places went to a pair of celebrity couples. Third is kabuki actor Nakamura Kantaro who married Death Note actress Maeda Ai. Fourth is Tokiwa Takako, who married actor and screenwriter Nagatsuka Kyozo.

Sony Ericsson Aspen caught on video, loving life with WinMo 6.5.3


Chances are we're missing something incredibly awesome being said in this foreign-language video, but we can probably guess what Mobile-review Sergey Kuzmin is saying: "I've got the Sony Ericsson Aspen and you don't. Life is grand." Okay, so maybe we're a little jealous, but at least he was kind enough to give us a brief look at the hardware out in the wild, showing off some of Windows Mobile 6.5.3's menus and sizing it up with some of Apple, Nokia, and RIM's offerings. Let's not waste any more time -- the video you seek is after the break.

Keira Knightley Elle Magazine March 2010

Keira Knightley, Elle Magazine’s March cover girl, on criticism, her upcoming projects, and the importance of honesty.


Keira On Her Character in The Misanthrope: “Jennifer’s kind of a crazy mix of being a complete bitch—confident and terrifying—yet she’s incredibly young and is probably being exploited way more than she actually realizes.”

Keira On Criticism of Her Acting Skills: “Oh, they still say that! Every time I do an interview with the English press, one of their questions is, ‘How do you feel knowing that everyone thinks you’re a shit actress?’”

Lindsay Lohan vs. Samantha Ronson: Round 37!

Stop us if you've heard this before: Lindsay Lohan has made a public spectacle of herself.

Witnesses told Radar Online that the troubled, unemployed actress was drinking, drugging and flipping out at ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson on Wednesday night.

"Sam was working her usual weekly gig DJing at Crown bar," an onlooker said. "Lindsay turned up around 11 pm and she was in the mood for trouble!

"[She] was drinking straight out of a bottle of vodka and I saw her take an orange prescription bottle out of her bag and pop a couple of pills that she said were Adderal, she even offered some of the pills to a friend that was with her."

This anonymous source went on to say that Lindsay grew "more and more worked up" as Ronson failed to acknowledge her, even as Lohan dirty danced with another girl in front of the DJ.

Finally, Samantha had enough and referred to Lindsay as a "disgrace." The Crotch of Fire's response?

Windows 7 Battery Update: Still No Conclusive Findings

Microsoft and its PC maker partners are continuing to look into battery problems which some Windows 7 users have said they’ve been experiencing. So far, there’s nothing new to report, Microsoft officials said on Friday, February 5, but their investigation is continuing.

It’s still unclear exactly what is going on — whether there’s a problem with the PC batteries themselves or there is something that could be fixed via a software update/patch. Reports about what’s happening are all over the map: Some are claiming they are getting less battery life with Windows 7 than Vista or XP. Others are saying they are getting false reports that their batteries are faulty. There are a variety of battery-related complaints, some dating back to before the final release of Windows 7, in the Microsoft TechNet forums.

Given the relatively small number of reports of problems (seeing that Microsoft has sold 60 million copies of Windows 7 to date), is this just a case of normal hardware failure? From the TechNet forums, problems seem to be occurring across a variety of vendors’ systems, and aren’t just isolated to a single type of PC.

LG Arena Max LU9400 possibly pictured, Snapdragon CPU apparently onboard

We first heard about the LG Arena Max LU9400 in November last year, when some info about it appeared at the Wi-Fi Alliance website. Sadly, there were no photos of the handset back then.


But today we’ve spotted a new LG touchscreen phone, and it seems to be the Arena Max.

According to the info found at Cetizen (and the rough automatic translation), the LG Arena Max has a 3.5 inch touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

Motorola Milestone looks set for February 18 launch on Telus; AT&Ters, get your unlocking pants on


Telus hasn't yet committed to a date for the release of its mighty Milestone, but no sweat -- Best Buy's happy to commit on their behalf, pegging February 18 as the date that Canadians will have access to their most powerful subsidized Android set yet. That's really awesome, don't get us wrong -- but the other side of this win-win is that it'll be the first time that a Milestone has been available with 850 / 1900MHz 3G, meaning this thing could become a boon for anyone willing to whisk a few across the border, assuming it's not a nightmare to unlock (we doubt it will be). So yes, it's true, if you really want to wait to get your Android-powered Motorola on through AT&T proper, you can hold out for the Backflip, but considering that the Milestone's a more juicily-spec'd piece to start, you might just want to swing this way -- assuming you've got a penchant for hacking and smuggling, of course.

Yoon Eun Hye for Joinus Spring 2010 collection

Yoon Eun Hye recently took some beautiful photos for Korean Fashion House Joinus.


This is for their Spring 2010 collection and the photo shoot took place at a shipyard as Korea has become a powerhouse in the shipping industry (Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, STX Shipbuilding, Sungdong Shipbuilding, Hanjin Heavy Industries, and much more).

Yoon Eun Hye looks so beautiful and I also love the wide variety of looks in these photos, from casual to sophisticated. The shipyard backdrop is interesting as well, but it works. Check out the photos below:

Rainie Yang’s latest MV a “Tick Tock” catchier than previous dance tunes

After teasing Mandopop fans with a brief snippet and a Japanese version of the same tune, Taiwan’s pop princess Rainie Yang has finally released the full-length version of “Tick Tock” (alt. name: Youth Bucket), the first dance tune to emerge off her January 1st album release “Rainie & Love…?” The dance MV also follows the heels of previous ballad MVs “Rain Love” and “Anonymous Friend” and cutesy duet “In Your Eyes” with Show Luo.

Regarding the MV itself, viewers are treated to all sorts of eye candy. The MV initially hints at a humorous love story as Rainie tries to grab the attention of the guy playing opposite of her, but that premise is mysteriously dropped as the focus of the MV shifts to dancing quick-cuts and punchings of computer-generated floating clocks. On the bright side, you can check out Rainie sporting zany pink afro hair in western comic panel-style, which is a somewhat related in concept to her most recent heavily anime-inspired idol drama.

Actress Lee NaYoung is “Jewelry Goddess” for Cartier-High Cut Pictorial!

Actress Lee NaYoung -who recently surprised the public with her woman disguised as a man role in MBC Sitcom “Highkick Through the Roof”- shows off her true feminine side via Cartier-High Cut jewelry pictorial.


Lee NaYoung wears Cartier jewelry collection for the photo shoot giving the image of “Jewelry Goddess” to all the readers!

One of the production staff even says that he can’t stop staring at her face during the photo session.

High Cut magazine featuring actress Lee NaYoung is available for public since February 5,2010!

Go under the cut for more photos!

Taylor Swift Can't Sing? No, Duh.

You know who's a great singer? That guy you saw in the cruise ship lounge or the woman who killed at your cousin's wedding.

You know who's not? Taylor Swift.

Look, we get why Swift's record label is touchy on the subject, but if you're not in the business of protecting a multimillion-dollar business, then there's no debate and there's no reason to get defensive: Swift can't sing. And so what?

When it comes to what counts—what really counts—in pop, Swift is as pitch-perfect as Beyoncé. She's got the look, hooks and, in the recording studio, the sound that sells.

The truth is, Swift can work at becoming a better live singer, but a Juilliard-trained vocalist cannot work at becoming a better package. You either have been touched by magical fairy dust or you haven't. The talented guy on the cruise ship, the fabulous wedding singer or maybe Carly Smithson could tell you the same.

You're forgiven if you can't I.D. Smithson without the aid of Google. She was a season seven American Idol finalist. Huge voice? Yup. Great voice? Yup. Great product? Well...before Idol, she released a major-label album that went nowhere. On Idol, she topped out in sixth place.

'Idol' producers want Howard Stern to replace Cowell

"American Idol" producers are eager to hire Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell as the show's tough-talking judge, sources tell Page Six.


An insider said that producers of the hit Fox show say Stern, America's highest-paid radio personality, is their top choice to take over from Cowell, who leaves at the end of this season. They approached the King of All Media after he repeatedly mentioned on-air that his exclusive Sirius XM Radio deal expires next January and he was open to other offers. Cowell was paid $50 million a year.

A source connected to "Idol" said, "It's one of the few shows that could compete with Stern's $100 million-a-year Sirius contract, and 'Idol' bosses think he'd be even nastier than Simon.

That catsuit's Rated R! Rihanna surprises fans with daring outfit at pre-Super Bowl concert

She's become famous for her eccentric stage fashion, and last night Rihanna didn't disappoint as she took to the stage in in Miami, Florida.


The pop star paraded around on stage at the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam in a peculiar one-shoulder, one-leg catsuit that featured white trimming.

Her black strapless bra was on show, and she completed the look with fishnet tights, black leather gloves and huge blonde quiff.

The ensemble was created by styling duo Mariel Haenn and Rob Zangardi, who regularly work with Rihanna on her costumes and red carpet attire.

She stormed the stage with a medley of her hits, including Wait Your Turn, Disturbia and Russian Roulette.

The Barbadian star is one of a host of celebs who singed up for the concerts, including Timberland, who joined her onstage during the set.

Apple Takes the Word Android Out of iTunes App Description


Oh yes, here is a new chapter in the Apple vs Google war. iPhone app developer Flash of Genius claims to have received this mail from Apple demanding to take down any mention about Android in their app description:

IE more popular than you think, researcher says

Since many enterprise users run multiple browsers, IE's use is under-reported

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is used much more often than most assume, a researcher asserted today.

According Devil Mountain Software, nearly 57% of the 23,0000 PCs in the company's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet) run at least two browsers: IE and either Mozilla's Firefox, Google's Chrome, Opera Software's Opera or Apple's Safari for Windows.

New mining of XPnet's data has revealed a more precise accounting of the multiple-browser phenomenon in the enterprise, said Craig Barth, the CTO at Devil Mountain.

More than 32% of the machines that Devil Mountain monitors run both IE and a version of Firefox, said Barth, making Mozilla's browser the top No. 2 browser in corporations. Google's Chrome is the No. 2 second browser: 18% of the systems run both IE and Chrome. Opera and Safari are far behind Firefox and Chrome, running in conjunction with IE on only 4% and 3% of the machines, respectively.

Barth argued that the numbers challenge the conventional thinking regarding browser usage share, as regularly spelled out by the likes of NetApplications.com, a California company that measures traffic to some 40,000 Web sites to determine each browser's share of the total.

G-Dragon’s answers for investigations to ‘Shine A Light’ concert

It has been known that Big Bang G-Dragon has given the explanation that he did not know that his concert performance was sexually too explicit during the investigation for his latest concert.


G-Dragon has been summoned for investigation by the police on 4th February in Seoul Eastern District. And during the investigation, he was asked about the performance during his concert which was criticised to be too sexually explicit, and his explanation was “I didn’t know that it was sexually explicit.”

This was revealed by a police officer to Newsen. Also when asked about the fact that it is illegal to perform ‘She’s Gone’ since it has been deem inappropriate for youths, G-Dragon’s answer was “I don’t know.”

VanNess Wu says God is better than sex

Is God really better than sex?.....A big YES if you ask Van Ness Wu because it is even written on his shirt. He, along with other believers, attended The Festival of God`s Power Conference yesterday at the Taipei Arena. Van Ness Wu was baptized two years ago and spoke frankly about the changes religion has made in his life at the event.

Van Ness Wu revealed that he has had six girlfriends in the past and lost his virginity at seventeen. However his first night was not spent with his girlfriend, as he embarrassingly explained, “Maybe (I) was naïve, and had drank a little as well. The person was just a friend, but not someone I loved...I’m very regretful, even after I get married I will still regret it.” He added, “This is not something good, kids should never do this.”

Van Ness Wu didn’t deny his relationship with Vivian Hsu like previously, because he doesn’t like to lie after becoming a Christian. He also disclosed that after Vivian Hsu, he dated someone outside of showbiz for a year. As for the reason for their breakup, “I was focusing on my career at that time and wasn’t prepared to be in a relationship. It was the wrong timing.” He said he has been single for three years, which means this relationship was likely to have started a few months after he broke up with Vivian Hsu.

UK firm brazenly debuts iTablet

I bet a vein is pulsing on the forehead of Steve Jobs right now in Cupertino. Sure, he and Apple decided to call the long anticipated tablet launched this month the iPad rather than the iTablet, which had been rumored. I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t take offence to the new X2 tablet that has been unveiled.



X2 has dropped the iTablet on the world running Windows 7 and an Intel 1.6GHz processor. The thing will be offered in two screen sizes including 10.2-inches and 12.1-inches. Both screen sizes are 35mm thick, which is more than twice the svelte iPad’s 13.4mm girth.

As It Celebrates Its Sixth Birthday, Facebook Surges To 400 Million Users

It’s been six years to the day that Facebook launched, and the company’s massive growth is showing no signs of slowing down. Minutes ago, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a note to the site’s blog celebrating the milestone. In it, he says that Facebook will cross the 400 million user mark this week. And it’s been less than five months since the social network hit 300 million.

To celebrate, the company is holding its own version of a party — it’s Hackathon time. That means all of the company’s engineers are about to embark on all night coding sessions. Previous Hackathons have given birth to things like Facebook Video and its new HipHop PHP converter. Zuckerberg also says that we’ll be seeing some new product launches tonight (we’ll be covering them as soon as each goes live).

In light of the event, here’s a collection of screenshots of Facebook profiles and homepages from the last few years (Facebook actually put most of this gallery together in honor of its fifth birthday, but it’s always fun to look back at how far the site has come). Also note that the last screenshot in the timeline has its days numberd — Facebook is currently rolling out another redesign.

Gia Allemand: The Bachelor Hopeful, Maxim Model

Gia Allemand is vying for Jake Pavelka's heart on The Bachelor, but she vied for men's attention in a different way when she posed for these racy Maxim pics!

It turns out Gia, one of Jake's final four remaining women this season on the reality show, wasn't kidding when she lists her profession as "swimsuit model."

Apparently, Gia Allemand stripped down for Maxim a few years ago after breaking up with her previous boyfriend, injury-proned MLB pitcher Carl Pavano.


Here's Pavano's previous "catcher" as you've never seen her ...

Lindsey Vonn Sports Illustrated Winter Olympics Edition [COVER]


Sports Illustrated christens Lindsey Vonn the “Best Woman Skier Ever” on the cover of the mag’s special edition Olympic Preview Edition, out this week. But the 25-year-old slope slayer, and the publication, are coming under fire from women’s rights activists who are uncomfortable with the “objectifying” pose the Olympian struck for the S.I. cover shot.

John Mayer ‘Brags About Hooking up With Taylor Swift’

JOHN Mayer has told pals he hooked up with Taylor Swift when they were both in Nashville, Tenn., on January 24.

Life & Style magazine claims the couple — Taylor, 20, and John, 32 — met up several times, in public and private, and were first seen getting cozy in a recording studio.

“She was sitting on John’s lap, her arms were around him, and she was talking in his ear,” revealed a source.

“They were acting like teenagers.”

On the same night, the duo reportedly dined at the restaurant Cabana and were joined by friends afterward. They left alone and went back to The Hermitage Hotel, where they arrived in the loading dock to avoid being spotted and were escorted to John’

“Taylor spent the night and enjoyed mid-morning room service before leaving his suite the next day,” said the source.

Original Xbox Loses Live

On April 15th, Microsoft will pull the plug on the Xbox Live service for all original Xbox games—which affects both Xbox 1 games played on both the original Xbox and the Xbox 360.

So say you downloaded an Xbox Originals game onto your Xbox 360. That game will still play just fine, but don't expect to go online with it. The same general rule applies to every vintage Xbox title no matter the grander Xbox platform.

But by cutting off these older titles (aka pissing off a bunch of Halo 2 fanatics), Microsoft will gain much more flexibility with the Live platform through announcements coming "in the next few weeks."

Symbian tablets & netbooks “very likely” in next 1-2 years

Symbian has gone open-source, and talk is now of what sort of devices we could see the OS turn up on. According to Symbian Foundation chief executive Lee Williams, particularly likely are Symbian-based tablets; speaking with ZDNet UK, Williams revealed that the Foundation has had several inquiries from companies looking into tablet-style devices running ARM chipsets.



“A lot of companies are experimenting with PDA-tablet-style form factors, also for stereo systems, and internet-connected devices running low power on primarily ARM architecture — we do get occasional interest for a few of those” Lee Williams, CEO, Symbian Foundation

Nokia themselves showed off one such concept device late last year, as part of their “Vision of 2015″ video which you can see below. Williams reckons we will likely see Symbian tablets in the next 1-2 years, and the thought of a Tegra 2 or OMAP4 based device does have us salivating.

Samsung plans to overtake HTC in smartphone sales this year

We already know that Samsung hopes to sell 270 million phones this year, 100 million of which may be touchscreen devices.


But Samsung’s ambitions don’t stop here. The South Korean company also plans to increase smartphone production and overtake HTC – currently the world’s fourth largest smartphone maker (after Nokia, RIM and Apple).

At the moment, Samsung is the world’s fifth smartphone manufacturer with a 3% market share. The company intends to sell about 18 million smartphones by the end of 2010 – up from 6 million in 2009.

Samsung's transparent OLED laptop could hit retail, IceTouch PMP will get the ball rolling


So um, remember this crazy 14-inch transparent OLED display Samsung was showing off perched atop a laptop at CES? Yea, that might be in the shops within the next 12 months. If that doesn't get you tingling with excitement, we don't know what will. Samsung will start its big push toward translucency with the IceTouch PMP, which we found to have a gorgeous 2-inch display in our earlier hands-on, but it's already working away in the labs on turning the prototype above into a concrete retail product. The IceTouch is slated to make its US arrival early in the first half of this year, priced at around $332. European availability is as yet uncomfirmed, but the Korean's company is being very ambitious about its technology, suggesting that windscreen-mounted SatNav units could be next on the agenda and ruling nothing out as it strives to bring its transparent AMOLED displays into the mainstream.

JJ Lin’s new MV “X” brings together both sexy and eerie visual concepts

JJ Lin’s latest album “100 Days”, finally gets its own MV after being a favorite amongst many of his fans. The theme of the song itself may sound anti-war to listeners of the song, but the Singaporean singer wanted to express that life is like a war where pressure is the enemy and the fight exists in order to achieve that balance in life. This interpretation by one of Mandopop’s top veteran talents definitely adds an extra layer to the hauntingly addictive beats and powerful lyrics in the song.

For his latest MV, JJ plays host to a female “love interest” donning a sexy black dress, with imagery that hints at a romantically ambiguous premise that may be slightly connected to a graffiti message of “I can see through you” at the MV’s start. The plot isn’t brought into detail as the earlier MV for “Jia You”, but instead leaves the plot vague and focuses more on the visual concepts. This part the MV does well, albeit in an unexpected manner. At first, the MV introduces a sexy feel as the female co-star caresses JJ and poses in various steamy stances. By near the second half of the MV though, we’re introduced to an eerie visual element as we suddenly witness an X-ray view of their skeletal structure that remains prevalent throughout the rest of the MV. Pretty much two contrasting styles put together in one MV.

Zhang Ziyi embroiled in donation scandal

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is suspected of delaying the release of donation funds she had garnered for victims of the 2008 Szechuan earthquake during her fundraising activities at the Cannes Film Festival that same year.

Zhang's fiance, multi-millionaire Vivi Nevo, had reportedly set up the Zhang Ziyi Foundation on her behalf in the United States to conduct fundraising activities for the earthquake victims.

Citing information from Nevo's close friend in Hong Kong, Chinese media reports alleged that the Foundation's donation funds, earmarked for the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, were channelled into Zhang's personal overseas account and remained there for almost 18 months after her fundraising efforts at the film festival.

The actress had actively sought donations during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival to aid victims of the deadly 8.0 earthquake in Szechuan, China.

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