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With an assist from Mary Lambert and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson.
The rap duo went on to win Best Video With A Social Message later in the evening.
I love that the song has become an anthem for marriage equality. Great writing. When you listen to the words, you get a whole lot of truth.
Forward.
Openly gay NBA player Jason Collins will be introducing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at tonight’s MTV VMAs. The duo is set to perform their marriage equality anthem “Same Love”.
Macklemore told MTV News why they chose to perform “Same Love” over their other massive hits “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us”:
“‘Same Love’ has turned into a song that has been embraced by the mainstream and that was played by the radio,” Macklemore told MTV News on Saturday (August 24) after the duo’s rehearsal for the big show. “There is a lot more people that are familiar with it now than six months ago and the timing is perfect. It’s a powerful record and it needs to be heard in America right now. And equality is at the forefront of what’s going on in politics right now.”
Macklemore adds that “It’s a song that I wanted to write because I felt like it wasn’t being addressed within hip-hop music…And I think that the homophobia was still very rampant within hip-hop culture.”
He also said that the line “when I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay” is the most vulnerable lyric he has ever written.
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Will they or won’t they? Rumors are running wild that 90s boy band NSYNC will reunite at tonight’s VMAs on MTV.
Fueling the fire is a newly opened Twitter account that sends first tweet – “Mic check, mic check one.. two… is this thing on?!”
I freely admit I was a boy-band fan of the 90s. Lots of fun music came out of it, and I love that it’s coming around again now.
Watch the VMAs to see if Justin Timberlake reunites with his former band-mates.
In the meantime, check out just a couple of NSYNC’s biggest hits:
This was shown as part of the pre-show at this year’s MTV Movie Awards hosted by the fab Rebel Wilson.
MTV News host Josh Horowitz begins this “Catfish” sketch by thinking he’s going to meet Rebel Wilson for the first time after communicating with each other for a year online.
When Josh shows up at the house, Joe Manganiello shows up thinking he was going to meet Rebel while Anna Kendrick appears thinking she is going to meet Channing Tatum.
And take it to the video tape!
The MTV Movie Awards are always a wild and irreverent celebration of the films, stars, and music that capture our attention each year. And with the hilarious Rebel Wilson set to host the 2013 awards show live on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the irreverence is sure to party on.
Not only will we get an entire evening of Rebel Wilson wildness, word is we can expect the first live reunion of the Pitch Perfect cast, slated to perform an epic musical mash-up.
And then there’s the first-ever three-way “Celebrity Catfish,” where Joe Manganiello (!!!), Mark Whalberg, and Anna Kendrick are all vying for Rebel Wilson’s love. Check out the video clip above.
2013 MTV Movie Awards
April 14
9 PM
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And so ends the dark, sad journey this nation has had to endure…
From MTV:
On Thursday,August 30, MTV announced that the upcoming sixth season of “Jersey Shore” will be its last, bringing the party to a close after three years, two continents and one lil’ bambino (not to mention countless punch-ups, blow-outs and catch phrases.)
he final season of “Jersey Shore” kicks off on Thursday, October 4, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, but MTV will commemorate the end of the show with a hot tub full of farewell programming, beginning Thursday, September 6, with a one-hour retrospective, called, appropriately enough, “Gym, Tan, Look Back.”