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  • 27
    Nov
    2012
    9:47am, EST

    Cee Lo, Muppets get in the holiday spirit with 'All I Need Is Love' video

    By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor

    Cee Lo Green. Muppets. What more do you need? Well, according to "The Voice" coach and musician, "All I Need Is Love," the title track to the awesome music video in which he stars alongside everyone's favorite cloth creatures.

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    The video, which popped up Monday on YouTube via PitchforkTV, features Cee Lo pulling up in front of the Muppet house (dressed in an odd, if festive, red pleather coat) after getting lost on his way to an Atlanta Christmas party. Naturally, the Muppets invite him in and chaos (including flying fish and the appearance of Santa, played by "The Office's" Craig Robinson) ensues. Other things to look for include:

    • a smartphone Kermit case held by Walter (of last year's "The Muppets")
    • the Muppets' "Mahna Mahna" tune sampled in
    • a Muppet of Cee Lo himself
    • a possible recreation of the Last Supper in one scene (suggested by Lee Mills at MySpace)

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    It's a ripping good nearly seven minutes (be sure to stick around for the credits, with more Muppet mania), and just the way to kick off the holiday season. (And for those who want the song all by itself, it's from Green's "Cee Lo's Magic Moment" Christmas album.)

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  • 20
    Mar
    2012
    11:15am, EDT

    Limbaugh calls Obama a hypocrite over Cee Lo song

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    Cee Lo Green in 2011.

    By Courtney Garcia

    Rush Limbaugh is now arguing that his comments about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke comments were overblown, and he is pointing to another incident that he claims is being ignored.

    Cee Lo Green sang his Grammy-award winning song, "F--- You!" at a March 16 Atlanta campaign event for President Obama.


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    While there is a more radio-friendly version of Green's hit, "Forget You," that does not use the F-word, the singer performed the original version at the event.

    “Cee Lo showed up before Obama came out and spoke at this fundraiser and dropped the F-bomb in his song while Mr. Civility is backstage, waiting to go on I guess,” Limbaugh said on his Monday radio program. “This is getting nowhere near the attention it should get in the media. Mr. Civility, Barack Obama, is not being asked about this at all.”

    According to the Atlantic Wire, Obama had yet to even arrive at the event.

    Limbaugh feels Obama should be just as concerned about his daughters’ exposure to the graphic content of the pop song as he is the radio host calling Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute."

    Obama recently told reporters he felt compelled to personally call Fluke on behalf of his daughters, Malia and Sasha.

    Said Limbaugh:“His daughters, Malia and Sasha. He thought about them. What about this guy Cee Lo Green? And Cee Lo Green can sing what he wants. I don't care. But here it is at an Obama fundraiser on the same stage Obama will take not long after Cee Lo Green sings the tune. Yep.  Double standard, single standard, whatever. Pure hypocrisy. I know. But the point is it isn't getting any press, nor is it getting any condemnation. But don't doubt me when I tell you it's noticed. It's noticed.”

    Green expressed a semi-apology for singing the uncensored version of his song via Twitter on Saturday. The note came in response to a fan named Ronald Crow, who tweeted, “You have no class at all, very disrespectful tonight. #The Voice should be ashamed of you right now.”

    Replied the pop singer, “@thecrow365 well (they're) not! And it was a mistake sir. All of you heard the song a thousand times so don't get all saint on me.”

    Is Green's performance on the same level as Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke? Tell us on Facebook.

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  • 1
    Jan
    2012
    3:57pm, EST

    Fans angry that Cee Lo changed 'Imagine' lyrics

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    Cee Lo Green performing "Imagine."

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    The lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" are well-known to generations of fans, and when Cee Lo Green changed them while performing in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, not everyone took it well.

    Instead of singing "Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too," Green instead sang, "Nothing to kill or die for, and all religion's true."

    The Huffington Post reported that Green then tweeted an explanation, saying ""Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all." That tweet has since been deleted from the singer's Twitter feed.

    Comic Colin Quinn tweeted of the change, "Cee Lo covered Imagine but at least he 'cleaned it up a little.' I did the same thing when I changed NWA to 'N-word' WA."

    Actor Michael McKean was even more succinct, using a play on the title of the cleaned-up version of Green's own hit. "Dear Cee Lo: Forget you," McKean tweeted.

    Some Twitter users noted that they felt Green's version of the famed song was poorly sung. He was also criticized by some for singing the song, which includes the lyrics "imagine no possessions" and "no need for greed or hunger" while dressed in a full-length fur coat and jewels.

    Others defended Green, with Twitter member J.W.J. posting "Nothing could be sillier than defending the sanctity of a pop song -- especially one as dull and schmaltzy as 'Imagine.'"

    "Imagine" has been criticized before for the "no religion" line, but it holds a vaunted place in musical history. In 2004, Rolling Stone named it No.3 on the list of the magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, calling it "an enduring hymn of solace and promise that has carried us through extreme grief, from the shock of Lennon's own death in 1980 to the unspeakable horror of Sept. 11."

    Green wasn't the only modern star singing a familiar tune as 2011 turned into 2012. Justin Bieber sang The Beatles' "Let It Be" (with aid from Carlos Santana) but appeared to keep to the actual lyrics.

    Take a listen to Green's version of "Imagine" (Green begins singing around the 4 minute mark) and tell us what you think on Facebook.

     

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Gael Cooper is the movies editor for TODAY.com and a pop-culture junkie. She is the co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?" and "The Totally Sweet '90s."

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