The rapper Eminem has finally released a video for “Space Bound” that co-stars porn actress Sasha Grey. This latest release from his album Recovery was directed by Joseph Kahn and shot over three days in Los Angeles.  The video is the fourth single from Recovery, following ‘Not Afraid’, ‘Love the Way You Lie’ and ‘No Love’.

As it happens with his video “Love the way you lie” with the singer Rihanna, this one also features an intense love story line with a bad ending. This time Eminem portrays two opposite versions of the same character, one is self-controlled and the other is completely mad.

In the video, one of the Eminem´s character decides to pull a gun to his head when he realized that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. That bullet later travels through the other Eminem’s head as well.

The song producer Jim Jonsin, who also has produced songs for Beyoncé, Lil Wayne and others, has recently admitted at the MTVnews website that his collaboration with Eminem was unlike any of the Detroit MC’s previous tracks.

“We touched on something that I haven’t done anything like that before,” Jonsin told MTV News last year. “It’s unique in a way for myself. It’s a place I’ve been wanting to go, and I’m so happy he allowed it to go down. He played a huge part in the record. Without him on it, it’s not the same. I don’t wanna give up too much about what it is and what direction.”

In addition, the hip-hop artist has just become the first artist ever to sell one million digital copies in the U.S. of an album. The singer´s website has just posted that the “Grammy Award-winning Recovery surges past the one million mark this week”.

“Recovery selling one million digital albums is an incredible achievement by an incredible artist,” says Interscope Records’ Vice Chairman Steve Berman in the Eminem´s official website. He also adds, “I have had the pleasure of working with Eminem throughout the course of his career, and I’m delighted to be a part of yet another milestone on his amazing journey.”

Recovery debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart (Eminem’s sixth album to do so), as well on as the R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap Albums charts, marking the beginning of a triumphant comeback for the artist. The best-selling album of 2010 in the U.S. and the best-selling digital album of all-time, Recovery has now sold more than 5.7 million copies worldwide Propelled by its No. 1 singles “Not Afraid” (which earned Eminem a Grammy Award for “Best Rap Solo Performance”. and two MTV Video Music Awards, it has sold more than 3.4 million downloads in the U.S.)Also “Love The Way You Lie,” featuring Rihanna, which spent seven consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and has sold more than five million downloads in the U.S. and 9.3 million downloads worldwide.

Eminem is going to return to the UK in August to headline V Festival that will take place on two sites, one in Chelmsford and one in Staffordshire. Artic Monkeys, Rihanna, Plan B, Dizzee Rascal, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers and Pendulum will also play at the August event.

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Hugo Chavez is back to Caracas after his cancer operation in Cuba one day before Venezuela´s Independent´s Day. This surprising recovery is “a miracle”, according to some of his ministers.

After one month and two operations in Cuba… Hugo Chávez is back to Venezuela! The commandant- President has suffered an emergency operation in La Havana, Cuba, due to a pelvic abscess but he is just in time for the 200 anniversary of his country.

The Venezuelan President,  found out that he had to be intervened immediately and to have the operation due to a brain tumor, when he was visiting   Brazil. On June 10, the commandant has been hospitalized in La Havana to recover himself of both operations. Since then, there have been many rumors about the health of Hugo Chávez and therefore the stability of his Government.

Hugo Chavez is running for reelection as a president next year , and according to Luis Vicente León, a political analyst “ this was a completely predictable event”,  “he needed to immediately eliminate pessimism among his followers and avoid internal power struggles.” It has been twelve years since he won the power in the Bolivarian Revolution.

Superman or showman?

On Monday early morning, Hugo Chavez appeared on the state television VTV in one of his tracksuit arriving at the airport of Maiquetia, near Caracas. There the vice-president Elías Jaua and his Elder brother, Adán Chávez, were waiting for him.
Video: President Chavez Returns to Venezuela

Then, it was Twitter´s turn: “Good morning, my dear Venezuela!”-  Mr. Chávez wrote on Monday 4th on his account @chavezcandanga to almost 1.7 million followers – “Thank you, my God! It is the start of the Return!”.

This return, described by some of his ministers as “a miracle”, has an important and symbolic meaning because just one day after, on Tuesday 5^th, it´s Venezuelan Independence Day, and it will be the second century anniversary of the country.

This 56 year-old-Superman reappearance seems to be a part of the publicity campaign of the “comandante”. Mr. Chávez is well known by his commanding- nationalism and socialist-inspired welfare projects and  most of all  by his showman style. Show must go on? What do you think about HugoChavez? And about his government?

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