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Jay-Z and Beyoncé are notorious for keeping their private life just that. Rarely do they speak about each other in interviews, and they skillfully avoid public displays of affection. So, when Beyoncé told her hubby that she loved him onstage at the Grammys on Sunday night, no one was more surprised by her televised proclamation of love than Jay-Z himself.

“I’d love to thank my family for all of their support, including my husband. I love you,” she said while accepting her Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award.

“He was shocked! He was just like, ‘What did you say?’ ” Beyoncé told “Access Hollywood” about her acceptance speech.

B, who eventually went home with six Grammys on Sunday, said that she didn’t even realize what she was saying. “I was so happy, I could’ve said anything. That’s why I ran off the stage,” she explained. “I just looked up, and he was the first face I saw. And I was like, ‘What did I just do? No, I didn’t just say that.’ ”

While Jay-Z seemed surprised she shared with the world her feelings for him, he also seemed incredibly proud of his wife’s very successful evening. “He said, ‘You have six Grammys and you smell good,’ ” she joked, deftly turning her embarrassment into a plug for her new perfume Beyoncé Heat. “This morning I woke up and they told me the fragrance is the number one fragrance in America. I had absolutely no idea.”

While a number of the names attached to the “We Are the World” remake lent their voices to the charity single benefiting Haiti, a few notables were absent from the roster, including Lady Gaga. The Grammy-winning pop singer explains that while some media reports linked her to the “We Are the World” project, she had never planned on being involved with it.

“I’ve actually been in rehearsal for my new tour, but I was never supposed to do ‘We Are the World.’ So that’s a rumor,” Lady Gaga told “Access Hollywood.” “I believe that they may have asked, yes, about it, but I was unable to do it.”

But Gaga is quick to point out that just because she didn’t get involved with “We Are the World” doesn’t mean she hasn’t done her part for the nation. “I’ve been working on my own charity projects for Haiti,” she explained. “We’ve raised over half a million dollars for Haiti already and we like to work specifically with charities that are based in Haiti itself.”

Most notably, Gaga donated all proceeds from her Radio City gig in New York on January 24, as well as a day’s sales of merchandise on her Web site, to Haiti relief, totaling $500,000. “I donated all of the proceeds from one show worth of ticket sales as well as all of the merchandise from that show and for 24 hours we had a ‘Gaga for Haiti’ day where everything that was bought on the Web site … every dollar went to Haiti,” she said. “We’re continuing to work on more projects and we’re supposed to go to Haiti later this year for a show, which is very exciting.”

On Monday night, when the “We Are the World” single was being recorded, Randy Phillips, the CEO of AEG Live and Lionel Richie’s manager, discussed Gaga’s absence. “That was one of the few disappointments because I think she’s one of the greatest new stars we have,” said Phillips, who helped organize the session. “If I have one regret, it’s that she didn’t come and do this. But you have to understand that this is a daunting thing when you think about what this was going to be. It’s hard to tell people what it is until they see it and experience it. They had issues on the last one. Bruce Springsteen was right at the last minute and that really gave it credibility and Dylan came in and stuff like that.”

Although he didn’t know the exact reasons for her absence at the time, he did note that she had been involved with Haiti relief on her own, saying, “She’s involved with Haiti. She’s done other things for Haiti. But to be honest with you, I really don’t know.”

In 1995, “You Oughta Know” introduced the world to a then-unknown Canadian angstress named Alanis Morrisette, who was very, very mad at one of her exes and wasn’t afraid to shout about it. And at Sunday night’s (January 31) Grammy Awards, Beyoncé worked the song into her performance of “If I Were a Boy.”

Co-written by Morissette and producer Glen Ballard, featuring guitar and bass from Dave Navarro and Flea (both of whom were in the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the time), the song came out of nowhere in the summer of ’95, shooting straight to the top of the Billboard Modern Rock chart and powering sales of Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill to sales of more than 33 million copies.

In the process, it also turned the 21-year old Morissette — who, before the song, was perhaps best known for a stint on the Canadian kids’ show “You Can’t Do That on Television” — into a rather unwilling spokesperson for jilted girlfriends everywhere. It also brought speculation about her love life (rumors persist to this day that the song is about former boyfriend/ “Full House” star Dave Coulier). Though Morissette has never revealed who the subject of her spite was, in 2008, Coulier said the song was about their rocky relationship.

At the 1996 Grammy Awards, “You Oughta Know” won Morissette two trophies — Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song — and Pill took home two more, for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.

Morissette would reimagine the song several times, including on her 2005 album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, and though the music may have been toned down a tad, the acrimony of the lyrics (“It was a slap in the face/ How quickly I was replaced/ And are you think of me when you f— her?) remained. Since its release, “You Oughta Know” has also been covered by the likes of Britney Spears, and Beyoncé made it a part of her “I Am … ” world tour in 2009 and her Grammy performance Sunday.

The 2010 Grammy Awards may be over, but MTV News will have much, much more from the show, including reports on your favorite nominees, party photos, behind-the-scenes video and much more from the big show!

In a phone interview with Ryan Seacrest on Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM on Friday morning (February 5), Lady Gaga talked about the next phase of her Monster Ball Tour — which begins in England on February 18 and carries on through Ireland, Australia and New Zealand before concluding in Japan on April 18 — her dazzling performance with Elton John at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, and even Ozzy Osbourne.

Typically for Gaga, the show will be a completely different production from the one that recently concluded in the U.S. “It’s a glam, drug-addict opera that’s pretty amazing,” she said excitedly. “It’s still called Monster Ball, but it’s more of a musical and less of a concert. It has a New York theme, it’s a story, and the story is that me and my friends are in New York and we’re going to the Monster Ball, and we get lost,” and the adventure continues from there. “It’s got a kind of ‘Wizard of Oz’ influence.”

The show’s overriding theme, she said, is that “Everything will set you free and all the things you don’t like about yourself won’t matter anymore.”

	52nd Annual Grammy Performances

She also spoke briefly about her show-opening performance with Elton John at the Grammys, noting that he loved the big green glasses he wore and the performance. “He was so excited,” she said. “He was up for anything.”

Of course, Gaga also won two Grammys. “It was such a huge night for my fans and for me. I’ll never forget it.”

While Gaga has garnered thousands and thousands of fans over the past year, she was shocked to learn who one of them is: Seacrest played back a quote about her from Ozzy Osbourne, who appeared on his show recently. Continue reading ‘Lady Gaga Talks Monster Ball’s Next Phase, Elton John Grammy Performance’

“So this is it,” Ellen DeGeneres said, staring into fellow judge Simon Cowell’s eyes as they sat down for the first day of Hollywood singing on Tuesday night’s (February 9) “American Idol.” “I come on, you leave.”

And with that, that newest member of the “Idol” panel quickly made her mark on day one of work, immediately putting to rest weeks of chatter about Cowell’s imminent leave-taking at the end of this season and establishing what seems like a good-natured, jokey tension between the two new co-workers.

DeGeneres tried to put the nervous singers at ease from the moment she first stepped onstage at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theater, telling the 181 wannabes, “I don’t know how you feel right now. … When people say, ‘What do you know about music?’ I’ll tell you what I do know: I do know what it’s like to stand on a stage and try to please an entire roomful of people. … That is a hard thing to do.”

Though she got to sit down while the singers took the stage, DeGeneres made her presence felt, tossing off funny asides and coherent, helpful advice while flashing just enough of her signature wit to bring a fresh feeling to the judges’ panel. Continue reading ‘How Did Ellen DeGeneres Do During Her ‘American Idol’ Debut?’

The Great Gatsby was one of the most impressive books I’ve ever read, however, I have to admit that when I first read the book I thought that it had no meaning because I had no background information about nor the author, neither the era that he wrote about. Being informed about the former I realised that the book has some autobiographical points and then the book was more enjoyable to read.

The story is about the love which has became an obsession between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Actually Daisy only loves money and a comfortable life, moreover she is a really shallow person, the only that she can do is being a little beautiful fool.  Gatsby is a rich and handsome man who does everything to become rich, both legal and illegal ways, and eventually he is the ‘great’ Gatsby.

As I said in the beginning if you have some ideas about the era you can understand the book better. Since I love that era I searched for that and found out so many things and they helped me  a lot to get the book.

After watching the move and reading the book I thought about one thing, is it good to be shallow? Okay, the first answer comes to your mind is ‘nope!’ but if you think a little bit you are going to see my point. I mean, we are not shallow people we know much about life, we have responsibilities and we are aware of these. On the other side of the coin people don’t really know what are they doing.  They just live and be happy with what they are given. This brings me back to the debate topic that we were dealing with two week ago. ‘The  more you know, The more you fear’.. Isn’t it true?

Finally, I’m so glad that we read this amazing novel, watched the movie and analyzed it. It was a great opportunity to learn something new and I’m sure that I did. I want to thank our great teacher who wants us to read such important novels and helps us to understand it.

BTW yesterday I bumped into a group on facebook called ”My English Teacher finds more deep meaning in a book than the author” I guess I gotta be a member

ET can confirm exclusively that Beyonce will perform at the 52nd Annual Grammy’s.

An inside source tells ET that Beyonce, who holds the most nominations at 10, will take the stage and perform a number.

The Grammys are set to take place on January 31, 2010.

Source: Beyoncefan