Musician Mark Foster of Foster the People performs onstage during Tesla Worldwide Debut of Model X on February 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
Foster the folks frontman Mark Foster penned a runaway hit with "Pumped Up Kicks," arguably the catchiest song ever written a couple of college shooter. Naturally, fans were interested by the musician's reaction to the present week's shooting at Ohio's Chardon highschool, that left three students dead.
Also in music news, stars say goodbye to The Monkees' Davy Jones, Jennifer Lopez apologizes to Diddy, John Mayer unveils the old-timey cowl art for his new album, and more.
• Foster the People's Mark Foster spent a lot of of his Tuesday urging his many thousands of Twitter followers to treat one another with compassion. It all come into being with a series of tweets concerning Monday's Chardon highschool shooting:
The recent shooting at Chardon highschool breaks my heart. My thoughts and prayers leave to the families of the victims and also the community.Foster replied to some fans' queries before he tweeted, "If you are on your thanks to college straight away, I challenge you to ask that child who invariably sits alone at lunch, to eat with you."
I don't shrewdness we have a tendency to stop this type of issue however one thing has to happen. folks ought to embrace one another with love and style.
School will be a brutal place of isolation and loneliness. everyone has to grasp deep down that they're loved for who they're.
Violence breeds violence. Love breeds love.
Later that evening, Foster wrote, "If you're taking an image of yourself doing one thing inspiring caring, or simply a decent deed for somebody, and tweet at us, we'll follow you." He then clarified, "It has got to be awesome though," explaining, "This starts NOW! No past footage of fine deeds. that is simple. Get inventive. everyone wins."
At present, the Foster the folks account follows 259 folks, so that they should have exceptionally high standards for sensible deed-dom.
• Davy Jones, jockey-turned-teen idol, died of a heart attack Wednesday morning at his home in Florida. Jones, best known for taking part in the shortest and cutest member of The Monkees on tv and, later, on stage, played a large role in such a large amount of of our childhoods across many generations, attributable to the resurgence of the band's popularity within the Eighties.
Among the celebrities to inquire into Jones' passing were Kevin Bacon ("When i used to be a child I wished to BE Davy Jones. massive a part of what led me to showbiz. R.I.P."), Billy Corgan ("Sad to listen to of the passing of Davy Jones! Met him simply last year, was terribly kind to me. Monkees ought to are in R 'n R HOF years ago") and Harvey Levin ("I was a large Monkees fan. Was goofing with somebody at home last month singing Day Dream Believer"). Yes: Even the dudes loved this guy.
Jones' former bandmate Micky Dolenz merely wrote, "I am in a very state of shock and disbelief straight away...My heart and prayers leave to Davy's family."
• Jennifer Lopez and Diddy had an instant on Sunday, and it absolutely was awkward. Us Weekly reports that Lopez and her ex-flame chatted at vainness Fair's star-studded post-Oscars bash, where she was overheard apologizing for not responding to his calls or texts.
Kudos to Jennifer for creating nice and every one, however we're betting there are several, many girls that Diddy has deleted from his contacts list over the years. Karmically, this is often most likely no massive.
• John coulder can unharness his fifth full-length studio album Born and Raised on May twenty two, with the album's initial single, "Shadow Man," released March half dozen. the quilt art has an antique feel that reminds us of Taylor Swift's highly stylized music video for "Mean." Hmm.
