Bieber, Ellen and Scooter check out the new Fisker Karma Hybrid
The World took pause yesterday as Justin Bieber celebrated his 18th birthday and ushered in a new World record for the number of social media message in a 24 hour period.
Bieber also spent the day with Ellen DeGeneres and received the coolest gift anybody could ever receive – a new car!
But not just any new car – Bieber scored a brand new totally hybrid electric and gas Fisker Karma $100,000 environmentally friendly car.
The 2012 Fisker Karma Hybrid Electric/gas car
The Fisker's wood and leather interior
Fisker command center and front seat
Justin’s gift was purchased by his manager Scooter Braun and his mentor and friend Usher Raymond.
Scooter told the audience,
"You work really, really hard. And I always yell at you, ‘Don't get anything flashy!’ We're not about that. Be humble, be humble. And I kind of broke my own rule. We wanted to make sure, since you love cars, that when you're on the road you are always looking environmentally friendly. And we decided to get you a car that would make you stand out. I think you know where I'm going, and you're kind of freaking out right now. That's a Fisker Karma."
With that, the curtain opened revealing a brand new 2012 Black Fisker Karma. Ellen tossed in a few extra gifts like a sun shield and Ellen bobble head for the dashboard.
The Fisker Karma is manufactured by Fisker Automotive and is a hybrid gas/electric car – meaning you can run on electricity or on regular gas.
It all starts with 959 lb/ft of torque, instantly available at 0 RPM.
In Sport Mode, the Karma's power management system utilizes a lithium-ion battery system along with a 2.0 liter 260 HP 4-cylinder direct injection motor to accelerate the Fisker Karma from 0-60 mph in 6.3 seconds with a top speed of 125 mph.
Okay, we’ve been watching Austin Mahone for the last year - watching him slowly improve his covers and voice quality over time.
While we we’re impressed in the early days, he seemed a bit timid and a bit unwilling to totally let himself get lost in a song. He seemed a bit shy.
But a couple of months ago, Mahone started using either reverb, compression, or a delay with his video recordings and it stepped up his game by a mile.
A big fat Texas style mile…
There was a HUGE improvement over his earlier videos.
And tonight, Austin Mahone just released his latest cover which is “How to Love” by Lil Wayne – a song that’s been covered by a lot of singers including Justin Bieber.
And we got to say that Austin’s version just blew us away. In fact, we think that his version of “How to Love” may very well be the video that finally gets him noticed.
For those of you who aren’t musicians, “How to Love” is a very hard and somewhat technical song to play and sing.
It is NOT for the timid and shy – and he NAILED it.
Austin Mahone has grown up. He has improved. He now seems able to quickly learn any song he wants, and compile a very professional sounding video with just the right amount of effects to make it sound great.
That may not sound impressive until you realize he is NOT in a $10 million dollar digital studio with sound technicians and guru mixers.
He does it in his bedroom!
You have to listen to it to see what we mean….
As much as we hate to admit it, we like Austin’s version better than Lil Wayne’s.
Now, that brings us to Justin Bieber…
Justin also covered the song and it WAS in a $10 million dollar studio. While Justin’s version was powerful, we think Mahone’s was almost as good but in a more pleasurable, romantic, and “pure acoustic” way – without all the HIV drama and hip/hop rap that’s in Lil Wayne’s music video.
Anyway, we think that this cover is the one that some producer for Ellen, L.A. Reid, or some other Indy label or A/R person is going to hear – AND THEY’RE GOING TO TAKE NOTICE AND COME KNOCKING.
Did you hear that Austin?
You better sit down and take a deep breath because it may be awhile before you have a chance to rest those tired feet once they find you.
Get ready – we think you just recorded the video that’s going to make you famous.
We hope we’re right. We first wrote about Austin in in July when we we’re blown away by the fan following he had accumulated via social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and his Blog.
Mahone seems to be hitting on all the right cylinders, and doing everything right in the social media world. He has a great voice and the ability to pick up various music styles quickly.
We’re afraid the only thing left to happen now is for his fans to help get him noticed by an important person or music label so he can get famous and start recording his own music.
Austin on the beach
Personally, we can’t wait.
And we know about 500,000 other people who will be beating down the doors of the record store to buy his first album.
Hear that L.A. Reid? Hear That Ellen? Hear that music industry people? Hear that A/R scouts?
We’re just saying – you better snap this kid up because he is going to leave you in the dust if you don’t get him a deal fast.
And Austin, when you hit it big - please don’t forget about us small, yet humble blogs that helped get your story out.
Greyson, who was discovered by Ellen DeGeneres after posting a YouTube video singing Lady Gaga, took to Vevo “Area Codes” last week to give his fans a personal video tour of his hometown Edmond Oklahoma.
His tour started inside his house where he shows us his two pianos – his childhood piano and the one that Ellen bought him.
Chance also talks about his discovery by Ellen, and shows us the very Church in Henderson Hills where he played the now famous “Paparazzi” by Lady Gaga that started it all and propelled him into the limelight.
Greyson says he is an avid collector of old school vinyl records and takes about 50 of them on the road with him while on tour.
Watch Greyson Chance Hometown Tour on Area Codes
Greyson also visits the Children’s Miracle Network hospital where he makes a donation of $10,000 and talks to several patients and doctors.
He gives us a view of the Ford Center where he was asked to perform the National Anthem and says he always listens to “Escape” by Journey before he goes on stage.
Chance has a new album coming out in August called “Hold on till the Night” and has recently released a new music video for his single “Unfriend You”.
This comes on the success of his first single “Waiting Outside the Lines”.
Greyson is currently on tour with Miranda Cosgrove and Cody Simpson and frequently calls in to the Ellen show to give his fans an update on what he is doing.
It has also been announced that he will be taking a recurring role on the television series "Raising Hope" next season - his first journey into the world of TV.
This is a story of how two people find true love – through a movie trailer.
Matt and Ginny were in love.
Matt wanted to surprise Ginny with a fantastic marriage proposal – so he came up with a brilliant idea.
Matt made a fake movie trailer and asked the local theater to run it while his girlfriend was there with her brother - while Matt waited outside. Once the trailer finished, he jumped into action and asked her to marry him.
In the trailer Matt films himself asking Ginny’s father if he can take his daughters hand in marriage.
Matt is not a big-wig Hollywood producer, but rather a humble insurance salesmen, but his sense of film techniques is amazing.
Ginny’s brother duped her into going to see “Fast Five” and she had no idea what was about to happen.
Matt had even wired the theater with cameras so he could capture the her reaction.
Ellen DeGeneres had the happy couple on her show Friday and the YouTube video of Matt’s proposal has already received over 14 million hits.
This is the greatest proposal video of all times, and is the cutest thing InfoStar has seen in a while.
There have been rumors, and we have seen snippets.
We have all heard the song a hundred times already, and yesterday the official Lady Gaga music video for her latest single “Judas” was released on YouTube and Vevo.
The traffic was initially too much for YouTube to handle and there were times when the video was unavailable or ran slow. In just 24 hours it has been viewed almost 3 million times. The video site Vevo was also overwhelmed for the first 12 hours after the release.
And for good reason. It is awesome.
While less bizarre than “Born This Way”, it does hold on to that religious overtones that Gaga herself has been putting out there for the last month.
It has crowns of thorns, bikers named John and Peter, crosses, a huge cast of dancers, lots of weird makeup, guys kissing, and an interesting part where Miss Gaga explores her fetish of water.
Or only criticism is that you can clearly tell she is lip-syncing through some parts of it due to the extreme camera angles and close-ups.
We also still think it sounds a lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself". So much in fact, we think the allegations of plagiarism may hold some merit.
But overall we love it.
Watch Lady Gaga Official “Judas” Music Video
Gaga also visited with Ellen DeGeneres last week for her first live performance of “Judas” that gave us a sneak peek of what to expect with the new video.
