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Idolator has teamed up with rap giants Jay-Z and Eminem to give away a two pairs of tickets to their sold out Home And Home show at Yankee’s Stadium on September 14th. Follow the instructions below, show us a little Facebook love and you could win!

TWO GRAND PRIZE WINNERS:

• Receive 1 pair of tickets to see Jay-Z and Eminem perform live at Yankee’s Stadium on September 14, 2010.

HOW TO ENTER:

• Head to Idolator on Facebook and add us as a friend.
• Then tweet this message — I want @idolator to send me to see Jay-Z and Eminem’s Home And Home concert http://bit.ly/aGPjAg
• Deadline to enter is THIS Sunday, September 12th at noon PST. We’ll be contacting winners via Facebook message Sunday afternoon (keep an eye on your inbox)!
• Then 2 winners will be selected at random to attend the Home And Home tour on September 14th.

RULES: Contestants must be at least 13 years of age or older as of date of entry. It is required that contestants friend Idolator on Facebook and follow Idolator on Twitter, and that the message above is tweeted @Idolator one time, on or before the deadline to enter.

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The venerable folks at TMZ are reporting that Susan Boyle “dissolved into tears” when she found out Lou Reed wasn’t going to give her permission to offer “Perfect Day” a subtle operatic touch on America’s Got Talent. She was supposedly still crying when she headed to LAX to catch a flight back to London. (She’d already arrived in L.A. when she got word the show’s producers needed permission from Reed/that he didn’t give it because he’s not a fan. Maybe he’s more into Prince Poppycock?) We all know her version of the Transformer tune would be horrible, but she probably got the horrible idea from the man himself:

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Have you found yourself wondering lately what's going on in the world of choirs? Yes, you were just saying that the other day? Wonderful, we have two to tell you about.

First, there is Scala & Kolacny Brothers, a 60-person Belgian girls' choir getting some traction on the Internet, thanks to the trailer for "The Social Network," due in theaters in October. The basic gist of this movie directed by David Fincher, from what we could suss out vis-à-vis the trailer, is that Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook to be cool but then somehow blows up the Internet or gets his precious creation taken away from him or something like that.

"Social Network" producer Kevin Spacey has said that the movie will be "funnier than people might expect." The choice of trailer music, sparkling with a certain irreverence, certainly bears that out. Over a progression of images that will surely remind you of every sordid time you found out that your ex was now dating an underfed American Apparel employee, Scala mounts a sweet songbird attack on the Radiohead classic "Creep." It's the right tone, poised between cute-overload, over-stimulus and high-concept, all the flavors that the Internet and Hollywood expertly, sometimes insidiously, traffic in.

Having a girls' choir cover a despondent '90s anti-anthem might be a nifty gimmick, but it's also soothingly pretty and a way to transpose isolation into something ethereal. Started by the classically trained Kolacny brothers, Steven on piano and Stijn conducting, the group claims more than 200 young women on its roster. They performed for the first time in the U.S. last year and will release their first CD and DVD in the U.S., "Circle," sometime this fall. A tentative track list includes covers of Coldplay's "Viva La Vida," Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" and Nirvana's "Lithium."

Closer to home, the Los Angeles Ladies Choir will be celebrating the release of its debut EP, "Sing Joyfully!," on Sunday at Family Bookstore. At their performance at the New Los Angeles Folk Festival last month, the ladies, outfitted in a bounty of lovely vintage frocks, sang Cohen's "Hallelujah," Yoko Ono's "Sister O Sisters" and originals composed by various choir members (such as Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark), often while member Ariana Delawari strummed on a guitar. The group claims some 30-plus singers, including the Sads' Aska Matsumiya; musician Kitty Jensen, who also runs the underground vintage paradise Secret Shop; and singer-performance artist Anna Oxygen.

"Sing Joyfully!," which will be released by L.A. vinyl/cassette label Teenage Teardrops, was produced by Jim Scott, who's lent his engineering/production skills to Wilco, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dolly Parton, among others.

Speaking about the new work, a collection of six songs, five of them originals penned by Stark, Matsumiya and Delawari, Stark said that it's recorded "about as
perfectly as you can record anything," but that it captures the choir in its raw, live state, flaws and all. 

"It's more the sound of friendship, community and healing energy than it is the sound of a perfectly executed choir," Stark said. "It's like a documentary recording; it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but that's what makes it amazing."

In addition to releasing "Sing Joyfully!," the choir has been busy with the Voice Project, a nonprofit organization that facilitated an exchange between the LA Ladies Choir and the Gulu Women's Choir of Uganda. The choir gave the Ugandans one of Delawari's songs to perform, and in exchange, the Los Angeles singers have been teaching themselves a song from Gulu in the Acholi dialect about leaving the refugee camps and the difficulties of returning home to villages ravaged by Africa's longest-running conflict.

"It really connected with us because they're singing songs about healing, forgiveness and reconciliation in their region," Stark said.

The choir also gravitated to the open concept of musicianship in the Ugandan culture. "They don't have a concept of being a musician or not being a musician," Stark said. "To be human is to be a musician."

The LA Ladies Choir will perform the Gulu Choir song at the Roosevelt Hotel at 11 p.m. tonight.  The Family outing will also include a live performance from the group.

– Margaret Wappler

The Voice Project performance at the Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd.,  9 p.m. tonight. Release party for LA Ladies Choir at Family Bookstore, 436 N. Fairfax. 5-9 p.m. Sunday. 

Photo credit for LA Ladies Choir: Aaron Rose.

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2010 MTV VMA Predictions: Who Will Win Best Female Video?

We’re counting down to Sunday’s 2010 MTV VMAs with our picks for the top categories, and we’ve got to give it up for the ladies—four of the videos up for Best Female Video are also nominated for Best Pop Video of the Year. Let’s all give a round of applause to the XX chromosome for dominating the pop music scene, as well as its genre of video. Well done, ladies! Now, jump below for our thoughts on who will and who should walk away with the moon man for Best Female Video—and keep all comments to yourself until we’re finished, Kanye.

BEST FEMALE VIDEO NOMINEES:
Lady Gaga — “Bad Romance”
Ke$ha — “Tik Tok”
Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg — “California Gurls”
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga — “Video Phone (Extended Remix)”
Taylor Swift — “Fifteen”

THOUGHTS ON THE NOMINEES: We have a feeling “Video Phone” racked up so many nominations just so Beyoncé could somehow be involved. (We just wish they would have honored Bey’s infinitely more enjoyable clip for “Why Don’t You Love Me” instead of her far more mediocre phone-related  collaboration with Gaga.) And Ke$ha should just be happy to be invited to the show. We’d say it was a three-horse race between Gaga, Perry and Taylor, except we know the MTV VMAs are about having moments, not actually awarding who had the best video. So, in that case…

WHO WILL WIN: Taylor Swift is a shoe-in. This is the only major category she’s up for, and MTV loves spreading the wealth. (Katy Perry will get her due for Best Pop Video—at least, that’s what we’re betting on.) And even if Lady Gaga made one of the best videos of ALL TIME!, Taylor is still getting this award for the second year in a row. Call it MTV’s “We’re Sorry Our Security Wasn’t Tight Enough To Stop Kanye From Ruining Your Moment” apology gift to Ms. Swift. Plus, the opportunity to cut away to Kanye’s face as Taylor takes the stage is far too TV-worthy a moment to pass up.

WHO SHOULD WIN: The “California Gurls” video was all sorts of fun, and was certainly parodied to death in pop-culture. But “Bad Romance” squashes all of these videos in regards to originality and cultural significance.

What do you folks think? Will Taylor be able to make her Best Female Video acceptance speech uninterrupted this time around? Vote!

Which clip should win Best Female Video of the Year at the 2010 MTV VMAs?

• Beyonce feat. Lady Gaga, “Video Phone (Extended Remix)”
• Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg, “California Gurls”
• Ke$ha, “Tik Tok”
• Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”
• Taylor Swift, “Fifteen”

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Tie a guitar string around your finger as a reminder to stop by Idolator this Sunday, September 12 at 8 p.m. EST for our MTV VMAs live blog coverage! Let’s all roll our eyes in unison at the inevitable (and contractual) Jersey Shore cast cameos sprinkled throughout the show!

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