lifestyle THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014 Music & Movies Justin Bieber is 2014’s most tweeted-about artist eyonce’s surprise self-titled album was, unsurprisingly, 3. Harry Styles 1. Pharrell Williams-Happy the most tweeted-about album of 2014, but overall, 4. Liam Payne 2. John Legend-All Of Me BJustin Bieber generated the most buzz in the music 5. Ariana Grande 3. Nicki Minaj-Anaconda crowd on Twitter, according to a comprehensive new report 6. Demi Lovato 4. Ariana Grande-Problem from the social media platform. However, despite Bieber land- 7. Lady Gaga 5. Lady GaGa-ARTPOP ing the number one spot on number of tweets generated, it 8. Beyonce 6. Magic! — Rude should be noted that members of One Direction-Niall Horan, 9. Louis Tomlinson 7. Demi Lovato-Really Don’t Care Harry Styles and Liam Payne-nabbed the second, third and 10. Taylor Swift 8. Beyonce-Drunk In Love fourth spots on the list, respectively. 9. One Direction-Night Changes Katy Perry, however, garnered the most followers. The Top music artists who experienced the most 10. Little Mix-Little Me songstress gained 13 million followers this year, bringing her to Twitter follower growth in 2014: a whopping 60 million, more than any other musician. 1. @KatyPerry: gained 13 million followers 2014’s most-tweeted-about albums: Following her in gained followers is Bieber, who brought on 11 2. @JustinBieber: gained 11 million followers 1. Beyonce, “Beyonce” million more followers to reach 56 million, and Taylor Swift, who 3. @TaylorSwift13: gained 10 million followers 2. 5 Seconds of Summer, “5 Seconds of Summer” gained 10 million followers to reach 46 million. The three are 4. @ArianaGrande: gained 9.5 million followers 3. Taylor Swift, “1989” the most-followed musicians on Twitter. 5. @JTimberlake: gained 9.1 million followers 4. Michael Jackson, “Xscape” The report also pointed out that music was the most tweet- 6. @SelenaGomez: gained 7.9 million followers 5. Ed Sheeran, “X” ed-about topic of the year, with hip-hop, R&B and pop 7. @DDlovato: gained 6.2 million followers 6. Chris Brown, “X” being the genres tweeted about the most. Top music-related 8. @Rihanna: gained 6.2 million followers 7. Coldplay, “Ghost Stories” trends include #vote5sos, #MTVHottest, #VoteDemiLovato, 9. @BritneySpears: gained 6.1 million followers 8. Rick Ross, “Mastermind” #MTVEMA and #LHHATL. In the realm of music events, the end 10. @OneDirection: gained 5.5 million followers 9. The Vamps, “Meet the Vamps” of the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bruno Mars and the 10. Ariana Grande, “My Everything” Red Hot Chili Peppers generated the most tweets per minute, 2014’s most tweeted-about fan armies seeing 229,533 tweets per minute. 1. Beliebers — (Justin Bieber ) The top 30 US music-related trends and hashtags: Following that in tweets per minutes is Imagine Dragons 2. Directioners — (One Direction) 1. #vote5sos and Kendrick Lamar’s performance during the Grammys 3. Animals — (Ke$ha) 2. #MTVHottest (171,593), Lorde winning best pop solo performance at the 4. Lovatics — (Demi Lovato) 3. #VoteDemiLovato Grammys (152,888) and Lorde’s performance at the Grammys 5. Sones — (Girls’ Generation) 4. #MTVEMA (146,083). Coachelle was the most tweeted-about music festi- 6. Rihanna Navy — (Rihanna) 5. #LHHATL val, followed by, in order, Tomorrow World, Warped Tour, 7. Mahomies/Mahonies — (Austin Mahone) 6. #SXSW Glastonbury and Lollapalooza. 8. Swifties — (Taylor Swift) 7. #EMABiggestFansJustinBieber See the key lists from the report below: 9. Aliens — (Tokio Hotel) 8. #VMAs 10. Selenators — (Selena Gomez) 9. #RickyChat 2014’s most-tweeted about artists: A sampling of 2014’s top tweeted-about songs: *Note: This 10. #GRAMMYs—Reuters 1. Justin Bieber data is based on Tweets mentioning the song and terms about 2. Niall Horan the artist. Sam Smith tops MTV’s 2014 best artist list his year’s breakthrough new singer, Sam from his debut album, “In the Lonely Hour.” featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Arnett and Smith, went from an artist to watch to But Smith could not beat Iggy Azalea’s catchy Elizabeth Banks. The lists are selected by MTV TMTV’s best artist of 2014 and beat out hit song “Fancy,” which topped the list for MTV’s executives based on influence and pop culture megastars like Beyonce and Taylor Swift. The 22- best songs of 2014 and whose video was nomi- impact. — AP year-old Smith performed his soulful song, “Stay nated for four awards at the VMAs. MTV’s best With Me,” at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards movie of 2014 was “The LEGO Movie,” a kid flick Hozier’s ‘Take Me to Church’ is top Spotify 2014 single he breakout hit “Take Me to Church” by It includes a clip of a gay rally in Russia, the young Irish singer Hozier that has where President Vladimir Putin has signed Tbeen adopted as a protest song against into law a ban on the spread of “gay propa- gay discrimination in Russia was the most ganda” among minors which is widely regard- streamed single on Spotify in 2014, the online ed in the West and by critics as discriminatory. music service said yesterday. The anthem-like “Take Me to Church” was first released by tune, which also has been nominated for Hozier, 24, on an EP (extended play) single in song of the year at the 57th Grammy Awards, 2013 and rose to number two in Ireland. has had more than 87 million streams to date It later became the first track on his long- on Spotify. awaited debut album “Hozier” released by It has also logged more than 40 million Island records in September and which views for the video version on YouTube, debuted at number one on the trade publica- Spotify said in a press release. The video, in tion Billboard’s rock album chart. The song took which Hozier, whose full name is Andrew off in the United States after Hozier sang it on In this Dec 5, 2014 file photo, Sam Smith performs at In this Dec 5, 2014 file photo, Iggy Azalea performs at the KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball at the Hozier-Byrne and who is a native of County “The David Letterman Show” in May and again the KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball at the Staples Center in Los Staples Center in Los Angeles. Wicklow, does not appear, portrays a homo- in October on “Saturday Night Live”. — Reuters Angeles. — AP phobic backlash against a young gay couple who have to flee an angry mob in Russia. Former Miss America, Mary Review Ann Mobley Dies at 75 ‘Exodus’ plagued by casting, script issues ary Ann Mobley, actress and former Miss America, has died in Beverly o what do we owe the second coming of the biblical touch of camp, a necessary ingredient to any successful bib- Hills after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 75. Mobley, a epic? A genre that was once as moldy as stale com- lical epic. Scott ought to have kept it up. However, the direc- Mnative of Mississippi, was crowned Miss America in 1959. After study- Tmunion wafers has been reborn this year, first with tor of “Gladiator” and “Blade Runner” isn’t known for his light- ing acting with Lee Strasberg, she appeared on a 1963 episode of Aaron Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” and now with Ridley Scott’s ness of touch, but rather a monochrome masculinity. His Spelling’s “Burke’s Law,” which led to a breakout role opposite Elvis Presley in “Exodus: Gods & Kings.” The resurrection is partly to capital- “Exodus” is action-heavy and more interested in the sheer “Girl Happy” in 1965. She and Elvis also starred in “Harum Scarum” later that ize on the faith-based moviegoing audience and partly computer-generated scale of the airy Egyptian palaces, the same year. Her other notable film roles include “Get Yourself a College Girl” and because the Bible offers stories suited to this blockbuster grotesque visitation of plagues (from the bloody Nile to the “Young Dillinger.” era, offering both spectacle and name-brand familiarity. locust swarms) and the mass movements of the Hebrews. In addition to her film career, Mobley appeared on several television shows, More than 50 years after “The Ten Commandments” sandals Yet after Seti’s death and Ramses’ ascendance to the throne, including “Perry Mason,” “Fantasy Island,” “The Partridge Family” and “Diff’rent are back in style. We can only hope the trend will culminate “Exodus” seems to lessen in scope, turning into a mano-a- Strokes,” and was a recurring panelist on game show “Match Game.” She also in a seemingly ordained bit of casting: Someone has got to mano drama between the stepbrothers Ramses and Moses, performed on Broadway and traveled to Africa and Southeast Asia to make This September 10, 2010 file photo shows make a Jesus film with Jared Leto. who’s exiled after the discovery of his Hebrew birth. documentary films about homeless and starving children. Actor Gary Collins US actress Mary Ann Mobley attending But big-tent Old Testament tales are no easy sell in times For an epic, there are, at best, only two clearly seen char- and Mobley were married in 1967 after meeting on the set of “Three on a the Eighth annual “What A Pair” celebrity marked by both religious discord and secular disbelief. acters in “Exodus,” with supporting players like Ben Kingsley Couch.” They had one daughter. Collins died in 2012. — Reuters concert. “Noah” was interesting because it saw the arc-builder as (as a Hebrew elder), Sigourney Weaver (as Seti’s wife) and hero of environmentalism, a protector of both morality and Aaron Paul (as a Hebrew slave) all but inconsequential.