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During Saturday night's live MTV special, MC re-creates '80s -inspired 'Party on Fifth Ave' video.
By James Dinh
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Photo: Getty Images
NEW YORK — Underground-turned-chart topping MC Mac Miller was treated quite nicely by 2011, and he ended the year on a high note when he served up a performance of "Party on Fifth Ave" during MTV's "NYE in NYC 2012" on Saturday night.
To re-create the tune's '80s-inspired clip, Miller arrived on set with high energy and never ceased his interaction with the audience. Dressed in a vintage jacket, tuxedo shirt and backward cap, the Pittsburgh rapper bounced alongside his crew of appropriately dressed friends and dancers in front of the audience as he spit the DJ Mark the 45 King-sampling tune.
"There's a party on Fifth Ave., hit me if you try'n a go/ I can be there in like 20/ I'mma honk it and come runnin', 'cause we gotta hit the road/ Make you sure you got a clean shirt, clean pants, new shoes/ Or just hitch a ride there, you choose," he rapped in front of the jumping crowd.
MTV News spoke with the MC backstage during the event, where he shared his thoughts on the big night. "It's funny because, in the moment, it just feels like another day at work," the MC told us. "This is what I do for a living. But then, in actuality, stepping back and thinking about it, performing live on MTV for the News Year's Eve with millions of people watching is pretty crazy."
Asked why he chose to recreate the clip, Miller explained, "I just think it's a funny video, and I wanted to do something more than just stand up there and rap or something. We wanted to do something funky, and I wanted to keep all my homeys involved — get their faces on national TV."
Mac wasn't the only performer to rock out until 2012 as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, J. Cole and Jason Derülo also performed during the all-star Times Square event.
Miller's performance of "Fifth Ave" ends a rather eventful year for the rapper, during which he topped the Billboard albums chart with his debut album, Blue Slide Park.
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PLEASE NOTE THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL Former rebel, Gustavo Petro is sworn into office. He won what is considered to be the country's second most important political position, the Mayor of Bogota. Around 5000 people turned up to watch the ceremony in Plaza Bolivar. He won the October elections saying security, climate and education would be the first things his team would tackle. Among his campaign promises, the former M-19 rebel also said he would work towards freeing the city of weapons. Marie-Claire Fennessy, Reuters.
Jan 02 - A former M-19 rebel, Gustavo Petro, wins Colombia's second most important political position, Mayor of Bogota. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports.?( Transcript )
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SIOUX CENTER, Iowa ? Neglect by the mainstream media is so central to Ron Paul?s identity that his campaign uses it to raise money. But as his surging poll numbers in Iowa have drawn scrutiny to his incendiary newsletters, reporters are complaining that Paul is now the one ignoring the mainstream media.
It?s been hard to turn on cable TV lately without catching an interview with one of his competitors, yet Paul himself has been noticeably absent.
Continue ReadingUntil booking a Friday night interview with Bloomberg TV, he had not done a single national media interview all week ? a sudden drop-off that followed a string of testy interviews last week, during which CNN and Fox reporters probed him on his knowledge of the decades-old newsletters? content. During one exchange, he appeared so frustrated with questioning by CNN?s Gloria Borger that he removed his microphone and walked away. His campaign contends the interview was simply over.
Meanwhile, national reporters on the Paul beat are grumbling that the candidate almost never takes their questions at events anymore and has done only one press ?avail? since August ? and that ended abruptly after two minutes last week when someone asked about the newsletters.
The tightened access to reporters is fairly typical for a candidate near the top of the polls bearing down on voting day. But in a half-dozen interviews with reporters assigned to follow Paul on the trail, journalists expressed frustration about how inaccessible Paul had become ? particularly after his campaign?s loud complaints this summer about not getting covered.
?They?ve been sending out fundraising letters saying, ?We don?t get enough coverage,? but they don?t do media avails, and a lot of us reporters are frustrated,? said one Paul beat reporter who asked not to be named because the reporter didn?t have permission to talk to the press. ?He had been answering reporter questions on his way out the door, but since he has been back from Christmas, on Wednesday, he hasn?t even been doing that.?
Paul campaign Chairman Jesse Benton denies that the campaign is dodging tough questions, pointing out that nearly half of the weeklong stretch without national media interviews was taken up by the holidays.
?We have had many requests, but Dr. Paul?s priority has been spending time with his family over Christmas and talking to Iowa and New Hampshire voters and press,? Benton said.
That stretch will end on Friday night, when he will sit down with ?Political Capital with Al Hunt,? and more definitively on Sunday, when he will perform a hat trick by appearing on ?Fox News Sunday,? ABC?s ?This Week? and CNN?s ?State of the Union.?
But campaign reporters are unlikely to get many more opportunities to ask questions. Paul will tape his appearances on these shows from his home in Texas, where he will be spending the weekend away from the campaign trail before the Tuesday caucuses.
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NEW YORK ? Forty years ago, Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special was created to give young people an alternative to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo.
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the last half-hour of 2010 and first half-hour of 2011 were more than NBC and Fox's audience combined, the Nielsen ratings company said.
The show isn't designed to be a recap of the year in music, but that's almost what it turns out to be, Klein said.
In all, 29 separate musical performances are planned.
This year's headliner is Lady Gaga, who gets the prime slot in Times Square in the moments before midnight. Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Hot Chelle Rae, Florence + The Machine, Gym Class Heroes, Nicki Minaj and Taio Cruz are among the other featured performers from New York and Los Angeles. Beyonce is scheduled to perform from London, where she's on tour.
It may not seem so from that lineup, but Klein said booking the show is a challenge because performers frequently are offered some of their most lucrative gigs of the year on New Year's Eve. What Clark has to offer is exposure to a large audience not often seen this side of "American Idol."
And it's unique. Klein remembers Jennifer Lopez's exhilaration a few years back after performing in Times Square despite wearing a skimpy outfit and being pelted by freezing rain.
"No matter how much I can try to explain to people what it's like to be in Times Square live, I can't do it justice," he said. "You have to experience it once in your life."
During the first two hours, ABC will show clips of performances from past New Year's Eve specials, which Klein describes as a fascinating trip through hair, clothing and musical styles. Stars of Clark's first "Rockin' Eve" included Al Green, Helen Reddy and Three Dog Night.
New Year's Eve also marks the annual appearance of Clark, once a ubiquitous presence on television. A stroke makes it difficult for Clark to communicate, but he doesn't want to miss this show, Klein said.
"Dick is still Dick Clark," he said. "His communication is a little bit more difficult, but he's still involved in contemporary music. He listens to a lot, he knows a lot, he's still involved in the production. This is very important to him. This is one of his children."
Among the other big broadcasters, NBC and Fox will both be in Times Square on New Year's Eve, too. CBS hands its late-night schedule to its local affiliates.
Highlights of other New Year's Eve offerings:
_Carson Daly is host of a two-hour NBC special, sandwiching local news. The show is heavy on NBC personalities, with a comedy performance from Jimmy Fallon, a review of the year in music from NBC News anchor Brian Williams and performances by Fallon's "Late Night" band, the Roots, and Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton of "The Voice."
_Comic Rodney Carrington and "Pawn Stars" Rick Harrison and Austin "Chumlee" Russell host "American Country New Year's Eve Live" on Fox. Country stars Toby Keith and Joe Nichols are among the performers in a 90-minute special that switches between New York and Las Vegas.
_MTV's Times Square studio is the site of that network's New Year's Eve party, with Demi Lovato and "Teen Wolf" actor Tyler Posey as hosts. Lovato, Selena Gomez, J Cole and Mac Miller are among the performers.
_After 12 hours of counting down the year's top music videos, BET presents its "106 & Party" special at 11 p.m.
_Two news networks are also marking the occasion with specials. Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly are live in Times Square, and the network will have performances from country artists Big & Rich and Trace Adkins. On CNN, Anderson Cooper and comic Kathy Griffin have developed their own strange kind of chemistry, and will be back. Promises the outspoken Griffin: "By the time I'm done with him, Anderson's hair is going to be even more gray."
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