Today's Pick

The 24-year-old pop songstress Ashley Tisdale just premiered the new music video to her new single "Crank It Up" on Warner Bros. Records. Followed her lead single, "It's Alright, It's OK", it's the second release from the pop singer/actress' second studio project "Guilty Pleasure" which has been in stores since June. Tisdale's music is predominantly pop and has included ballads and rock. She decided to move to a pop rock style in her second album.
"Crank It Up" is the second single from her second studio album, "Guilty Pleasure". The song was written by Niclas Molinder, Joacim Persson, Johan Alkenäs, and features Sweden singer/songwriter David Jassy lending his vocal, will be released on October 17 as the album's second single. The music video debuted on Monday Germany via VIVA. The song is included in the German compilation album Popstar Hits. She performed the song on the German reality show Popstars. The German Maxi CD single includes two non-album tracks and will be released on October 16. The music video premiered yesterday fans via Ashley's MySpace website.
In less than a week, the 24-year-old singer rehearsed and shot the video in North Hollywood, the new video features Ashley’s good friend Wesley Quinn and was directed by the "High School Musical" alum's boyfriend Scott Speer. Ashley Tisdale is all grown up, and drills in the point that she's no longer than Disney star from 'High School Musical'. She channels her inner "black evil angel" in the video and she is also seen having a pair of black wings on her back. The Sharpay Evans of "High School Musical" series is also captured visiting and partying hard in the club.

After being in the business for 16 and a half years, the Grammy-nominated quartet, Backstreet Boys bounces back into action with their 7th album entitled, "This Is Us" will be released today through Jive Records. The album follows 2007's "Unbreakable," and features songs with upbeat music, like their latest lead single "Straight Through My Heart" produced by RedOne. Despite their fame, the boys said they have dreams and aspirations, just like anyone else.
The pop troupe, which consists of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and AJ McLean, They have 13 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and have sold 100 million albums, making them the best selling boy band of all time. The Backstreet Boys formally announced they will support "This is Us" with a major world tour. Their 26 European dates begin on October 30 in Portugal and wrap up on December 6 in Denmark. North American shows are being planned for 2010.
"This Is Us" isn't Backstreet's first album since their days on the boy-band A list. It's not even their first since the departure of Kevin Richardson, who split prior to 2007's snoozy "Unbreakable". But the new disc does mark the band's return after a decade to its old teen-pop sound, and considering these guys' combined age, the result is surprisingly unembarrassing. The 11-track album features new material that the vocal troupe collaborated on alongside songwriters and producers like T-Pain, RedOne and Claude Kelly. The strong vocals certainly don't hurt, either.
The music video for "Straight Through My Heart" was filmed on August 7 and 8 in LA, and was directed by Kai Regan. It has followed a vampire theme and has been premiered on US Weekly on August 27. The introduction says,"Day Walkers: A group who band together to protect innocent mortals or Kine against the Gentry: Vampires who hunt for prey at bars and nightclubs. Sometimes these hunters become, The hunted."

The UK POP angels, The Saturdays was just made their new single "Forever Is Over" available on iTunes now, and they have descended then mass onto twitter and are furiously pimping it out to all and sundry. "Forever is Over" is the first single from British girl pop band, The Saturdays, written by Louis Biancaniello, Sam Watters, and James Bourne of Busted fame, and produced by The Runaways, who also co-wrote and produced Keri Hilson's lead single "Energy". The song is the opening track for the group's second studio album, "Wordshaker," which is someone who twists the truth and is set to be released on today, with the album released one week later.
The Saturdays was formed in Britain in 2007, comprising Una Healy, Mollie King, Vanessa White, Rochelle Wiseman and Frankie Sandford. This lead single "Forever Is Over" finds them shifting away from glossy electropop and taking a few stiletto steps into pop-rock territory. The Saturdays have revealed their devilish side by pinching a single "Forever Is Over" from under the nose of Kelly Clarkson. It was originally penned by ex-Busted star James Bourne, for American Idol winner Kelly. But once the girl troupe wrapped their lugholes around the smash hit they demanded first dibs.
The music video for quintet's title song reflects their maturing style. It was shot on July 29. It was leaked onto YouTube on August 22, and debuted on Radio One's "Switch" next day. The clip shows the girls in a house singing and around a town. At the end of the video, the girls are seen leaving a nightclub. Rochelle Wiseman added:"We almost called it Deeper because we wanted something more grown-up".

The New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter, Ingrid Michaelson is out with a brand new music video to her new single "Maybe", the first single off her fourth studio album "Everybody", which was released on August 25 via Cabin 24 Records. The album had a brief stint atop the iTunes chart shortly after its release.
The ABC Music Lounge has an exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of Ingrid's video for "Maybe," which stars as a real-life marionette of sorts in a colorful, animated puppet show. The singer-songwriter is now also hitting the road to kick off a North American headline tour in support of her recent release, "Everybody," featuring the track "Maybe" seen below. The tour has a 43-stop loop around the continent ending in Pittsburgh on November 5.
The song "Maybe" is fresh out of the oven, and the reviews were mostly positive. Billboard stated that "The last track to make it onto Ingrid Michaelson's upcoming album, 'Maybe' gets off to a melancholy start but quickly takes off thanks to resonant lyrics. Over a radio-friendly chorus, the singer resolves to embrace the uncertainty around her faltering relationship. 'The only way to really know, is to really let it go,' she concludes, moments after hoping for a romantic comeback. The production continues to build until two-thirds of the way through the song, when it abruptly strips down to a single layer of vocals accompanied by fragile guitar strums. This 10-second ease illuminates the sincerity in Michaelson's voice. Then the optimistic hook takes off again, and it becomes clear that the song's duality is all too reminiscent of real-life affairs. Much like her approach to music, Michaelson's love story is strong, risky and mature."

After being previewed through a behind-the-scene clip, Jessie James' "I Look So Good (Without You)" music video has finally arrived, showing Jessie breaking up with her boyfriend. Instead of letting herself being drawn into devastation, she does her best to become herself again by hanging out with her girl friends and changing her appearance to look fresher.
"I Look So Good (Without You)" is a pop ballad song, written by herself, Rodney Jerkins and Savan Kotecha, that talks about a girl point of view, that stay fine and better (lookin' good) without her boyfriend. It was released as the second single off Jessie James's debut self-titled album on Pop stations on August 25th and on HAC stations on September 14th, according to AllAccess.com.
The song has been received positive reviews, so far. Rudy Klapper from Sputnikmusic gave a favorable review saying: "James is at her best when she's imitating Aguilera's brazen sass on the rhyming verses of 'the song,' perhaps the only tolerable real ballad on the album."
The music video was shot on August 8 in Malibu. It was directed by Chris Baldwin and features James getting through a hard time by having her girl friends around and doing a makeover. Jessie says the concept of the video is about her breaking up with her boyfriend and then trying to "become [herself] again without the guy." The music video premiered August 25 on "It's on With Alexa Chung" on MTV.

It takes an exciting new talent to breathe life into the zombie genre and show audiences something new, but first-time feature director Ruben Fleischer proves he's more than up to the task. With his directorial debut, "Zombieland," Fleischer has not just made one of the funniest and goriest films all year but has also drawn terrific performances out of his quartet of leads. Led by Woody Harrelson as a cowboy zombie-killer, the cast includes Jesse Eisenberg ("Adventureland"), Emma Stone ("Superbad"), and Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") as the sole survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
Fleischer began his career as an assistant to director Miguel Arteta on the films "Chuck & Buck" and "The Good Girl" before branching out to shoot music videos and commercials and landing a directing gig on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show." He came across Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's script for "Zombieland" when they were pitching it as a TV movie in hopes of launching a series. Deemed too expensive for the small screen, the film now hits theaters today in all its gory glory.
You’ve see zombies, but you’ve never seen them this funny. You’ve heard the buzz and by now you know that "Zombieland" is a must see, because it injects fresh life into the corpse of horror comedy. Clearly, the horror-comedy is not your average gore-nucopia, but "Zombieland" is within chomping range of brilliant, and that’s no mean feat, that's light on horror but heavy on comedy, and mostly about character-based laughs, and leaves tense, existential survival behind in favor of joyous, and the most flat-out fun horror/comedy since "Shaun of the Dead". The fun movie that will go down in camp-horror history, and also honestly it is a nice break from the recent overload of vampires. And as you might expect, "Zombieland" is easily one of the most enjoyable films and one of the biggest surprises of the year.

Miley Cyrus debuted the new music video for her hit single "Party in the U.S.A." last week, which was inspired by her favorite movie "Grease" and wanted to pay tribute to her parents' courting days. Once again the young Disney star is under scrutiny.
The song "Party in the U.S.A." is a mid-tempo song and has prominent pop rock characteristics. It was written by Lukasz Gottwald, Claude Kelly and Jessica Cornish, produced by Gottwald and released as the lead single from Cyrus' second extended play "The Time of Our Lives," it served as promotion for her Wal-Mart clothing line with Max Azria. The song garnered generally positive reviews from critics. Bill Lamb of About.com called it a "lyrically engaging song" and noted that "One of the unique aspects of Miley Cyrus' performance style among current pop artists is that she retains a country edge to her voice when she is performing straightforward pop songs." The song reached at No.2 in the Billboard Hot 100, due to strong digital sales that placed it at No.1 on 'Hot Digital Songs.'
The Grease-inspired music video, directed by Chris Applebaum, and premiered in ABC's music lounge on September 23. The video commences in a defunct drive-in theater, named the Corral Drive-In after the location of one of Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus' first dates. Cyrus arrives at the theater in a black 1979 Pontiac Trans Am. Cyrus wears shorts, a black tank top, cowboy boots, and a vest. As she exits the car she is joined by four of her friends. Other teenagers continue to arrive in vintage cars. Cyrus sings while standing in the back of a pick-up truck with a microphone in her hand and dancing with her friends. The video proceeds to Cyrus leaning against a wall which reads "Corral Drive-In". As the video progresses in both settings, an American flag unravels before a single wall in a vacant landscape and, afterward, Cyrus performs before it while being sprinkled with glitter. The video then features shots of Cyrus and background dancers at night in the theater, balancing on swings in a jungle gym. In the conclusion of the music video, Cyrus and her friends perform the song on a stage while the a projection of the the American flag and the letters "USA" flash behind them.