Monday, 7 May 2012

Bieber Feeverr


A proud mother innocently wanting to share videos that she had filmed of her son’s outstanding performances with family members located in different states, decided that the most appropriate way to do so was to post them on YouTube.

This was the beginning of the now well-known Justin Bieber’s career. Scooter Braun, now Justin’s manager, “accidently” came across one of Justin’s YouTube videos and was instantly impressed urging wanting to locate Justin and express his interest in offering him a record label.
Justin, 13 at the time of his discovery, flew out to Atlanta with his mother to record a demo and ‘get down to business’. Within a week of his arrival, Justin sung to singer/songwriter Usher who was lost for words at his natural talent resulting in a joint venture between the Raymond Braun Media Group and Island Records.

Justin Bieber has since attracted over 2 billion views on YouTube, gathered over 40 million Facebook fans, and it will be safe to say that his internet popularity has skyrocketed. His top album “My World” has sold over 3 million copies!!

Below is a video of Justin’s first ever youTube video!! ENJOY :) - 

The Lonely Island

The Lonely Island are a comedy troupe originally from Berkeley, California -- now based to New York City. The band is comprised of five members:

  • Akiva "Kiv" Schaffer
  • Jorma "Jorm" Taccone
  • David Andrew "Andy" Samberg

Whilst the band gained notoriety on Saturday Night Live, they gained prominence on YouTube with their music parody video, "Lazy Sunday". Following the success of "Lazy Sunday", the group continued to make videos featuring well known celebrities in each one. These videos include:

The Lonely Island have also been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for I'm On A Boat and won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for Dick In A Box. With such accolades and two albums behind them, The Lonely Island are certainly a YouTube artist to keep an eye on. For now though, enjoy the following video:

Jack Sparrow

Ellen's Dance Dare



Everyone knows her, and everyone knows her antics as well. Known for her sense of humor and love of pranking, Ellen DeGeneres has come out with another trending activity that is taking the internet by storm: Dance Dares. The idea is to be filmed dancing behind someone. The only catch is, you can't get caught! People are doing dance dares everywhere: in the street, in the office, at their coffee shop, on stage,  anywhere! Ellen is calling on her viewers, audience and celebrity friends to do dance dares! The results are hilarious. A good one to watch is Emma Stone's dance dare when she appeared on Ellen's show just a month ago. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvvkrMWcno&ob=av3e) Other famous celebs that have done it include Taylor Swift and Zac Efron.
We bloggers here at The Stars of YouTube encourage YOU to go out and have a crack at it! It's so much fun and hey, you might even get on Ellen for it! :)
Have fun and get dancing!