Time to cowabunga your way into a music video about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Yup, given that there’s a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and that it opens this Friday (August 8), there’s never been a better time to set these ninja moves to harmonies.

Get amped for the Michael Bay-directed movie by watching Pentatonix’s musical ode to the film in the form of the song and video for “We Are Ninjas.” The video premiered tonight on MTV and you can watch it below for sweet harmonies about pizza, saving the day and some seriously choreographed dance scenes.

The whole thing was filmed at Paramount Studios, so how did they achieve the street-like feel? Plenty of fog, streetlights and filming at night.

“The ideas is we’re kind of riffing of the turtles,” said director Melissa Bolton-Klinger in a behind the scenes clip. Dark alleyway scenes, kind of West Side Story meets ninjas.” Sounds about right!

BRB, ordering a pizza and loading up old episodes of TMNT on Youtube to prepare. Maybe the mutants will head to Broadway next? If so, Pentatonix should definitely be involved so we can have more odes to pepperoni.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Things for 5 Seconds Of Summer are really picking up speed this summer… see what I did there?

Anyway, the Australian pop punk quartet are nominated for a VMA in the Artist To Watch category, and though they’ve got some stiff competition in Charli XCX, Fifth Harmony, Sam Smith and Schoolboy Q, they seem very intent on taking home the award.

Just take a look at them focusing all their intellectual powers on how much they want to win a VMA!

Can you read their minds? Did you hear that explosive desire: “I just want to blow the roof off!” Sure, they laugh it off after all that psychic tension, they’re total goofballs.

But that doesn’t mean these guys aren’t deadly serious about their musical future. They’re currently on tour with One Direction, which means things are only going to keep getting bigger for them.

Watch their performance live at the VMAs on Sunday, August 24. The show begins at 9 PM, 8 PM Central.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Hey Justin Bieber? What’s up? How was Ibiza? Oh you met Kanye? Wow, that’s awesome! Oh yeah, I heard about the fight with Orlando too. Kind of a bummer. Too bad you had to leave today. That must’ve been sad.

So what’s up with all these random stills you’ve been posting on your Insta? They kinda look like, yeah, almost like they’re screenshots? From like a video or something.

Do you have new music or a new video dropping soon? Is that what you’re cryptically trying to tell us?

Whose legs are those?

What kind of cereal is that?

I know this is a reach, but that girl’s hair kinda makes her look like Lorde. Is it Lorde, or is she just a girl with really enviable curls? Are you guys going to work together? What do you think about “Royals” anyway? Pretty good jam huh?

Well anyway, thanks for talking. Sorry you couldn’t tell me more. I’ll just keep an eye on your Instagram like I always do. Oh and next time you’re headed to Ibiza, LMK, I’d love to come with! Talk soon.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

There’s two things that are almost equal amount of cute on the Internet Scale of Cuteness: a puppy and a baby. Now, cats have their own domain as well and we’ll give them that. But puppies and babies have this sense of innocence and sweetness that makes them endlessly irresistible.

Which is why watching this Pitbull puppy named Clyde climb up and cuddle with brand new baby Eisleigh is almost too much for my heart to handle.

It may be only a fifteen second clip, but it’s enough to call the entire universe and our role in it into perspective. This ten week old baby and eight week old puppy are so adorable and so in love that it seems like we have reached the pinnacle of cute internet culture.

Could the relationship between this delightfully cute odd couple be our crowning moment??

I’ll say it: Clyde and Eisleigh are the reason that the internet was ever created. It’s all downhill from here folks. So put that video on repeat, make some gifs, and get to weeping. Which second is your favorite? Mine’s right around 11.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

The Westboro Baptist Church is an organization built on hate. The church is well-known for picketing popular musical acts who embrace and support messages of, you know, awful stuff like compassion, equal rights for gay and straight couples, and general respect of everyone’s human rights.

Recently, the group announced their plans to picket Panic! At The Disco‘s Kansas City, Missouri show tonight (July 20).

On Thursday (July 17), the church members even went so far as to record a homophobic parody of Panic! At The Disco’s 2006 single “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” off the record A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out , dubbing their version “You Love Sin What a Tragedy.” You can listen to the terrible rendition at their website: godhatesf-gs.com.

Their song blatantly mocks queer sexuality, even including slurs in its lyrics. Panic! At The Disco frontman Brenden Urie has opened up before about his own fluid sexuality—though he’s now married to wife Sarah Orzechowski.

But today on Facebook, the band found a great way to troll these trolls. In a Facebook post the band wrote: “Today the Westboro Baptist Church is going to picket us. For every member of WBC that actually shows up we will donate $20 to Human Rights Campaign ‪#‎pride2014‬.”

As of now, the post has over 18,000 likes. We’re guessing that’s probably more than the number of picketers who show up at the show tonight. They also tweeted their plan, ...

21-year-old Skye McCole Bartusiak died on Saturday (July 19) in her Houston home. She was found in her bed in the garage apartment next to her parent’s home by her boyfriend. Skye has suffered from epileptic seizures since she was a baby, and though cause of death is still unknown, it’s likely she died from an attack.

Best-known for her role as Mel Gibson’s daughter in the 2000 film “The Patriot,” Bartusiak also appeared in “The Cider House Rules,” “Don’t Say a Word” and other movies, as well as TV shows like “24″ and “CSI.”

“We lost our girl,” her mother Helen McCole Bartusiak told CNN. “She was a kind and really beautiful girl.”

The investigation into Skye’s death is ongoing, but she had been reportedly struggling with epileptic seizures again after a long hiatus. Epilepsy attacks can be completely random — and fatal — if the victim’s airway passage becomes blocked, or if they are alone during the attack.

“We think she had a seizure and choked and nobody was there,” her mother said. “They were working on her for 45 minutes and could not get a heartbeat. I’ve done CPR on that kid more than one time and it just didn’t work this time.”

Helen began to perform CPR on Skye before the paramedics arrived, but sadly, it was too late to restore a heartbeat. CNN reports that on Sunday morning, her mother was looking through photos of Skye’s wonderful life in order to find some images for the funeral. ...

A few days ago, the “Straight Outta Compton” casting notice hit the internet, and the racially insensitive and stereotypical language incensed more than a few people. Now, the agency, Sande Alessi Casting, has issued an apology for the language in their call.

Kristan Berona of Sande Alessing wrote in a Facebook post: “I would like to sincerely apologize for recently posting a casting announcement that used offensive language to recruit women for a film our agency is working on. My intention was not to offend anyone and I’m deeply sorry for not realizing the insensitivity in its content.”

Universal Pictures, the film’s studio, issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter about the casting notice. Apparently, the studio was not affiliated with the notice, and didn’t approve or know about the call before it was sent out.

The statement read: “Universal Pictures and the filmmakers for ‘Straight Outta Compton’ did not approve and do not condone the information in this casting notice. We regret and sincerely apologize for being in any way associated with the offensive descriptions it contained.”

For those who missed the outrage, the call divided women by attractiveness from A through D, and included racial descriptions alongside these rankings. It also included a call for male “street thugs” that definitely reinforced stereotypes about who thugs are and what they look like.

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Believe it or not, it’s already been almost a year since Royal Baby madness descended upon us!

Thankfully, Prince George seems to be growing up just fine, despite his high profile position. The royal couple released this photo of George walking just a few days before his first birthday on Tuesday (July 22) and have promised two more to come on Monday night.

So adorable! Those little overalls? And look at all that blonde hair! Is it disrespectful to want to pinch the cheek of royalty??

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The photo was taken when the young prince was visiting the “Sensational Butterflies” exhibition at the National History Museum in London with his parents Prince William and Kate Middleton, aka the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The first ever portraits of Prince George—taken long before he could walk—were shot by Kate’s father in the Middleton’s backyard in Berkshire. It’s hard to believe how much he’s grown after only a year!

Can’t get enough royal baby coverage? Well then, stand by for those two more additional photos on Monday night.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

What happens when you combine two of the sexiest forces in the known world? Looks like we’re about to find out. Taking a break from the staggering whirlwind of her and husband Jay Z‘s “On The Run” tour, Beyoncé posted a brief clip of a “50 Shades of Grey” teaser on her Instagram last night, simultaneously igniting the power of both the BeyHive and the explicit book’s rabid fanbase.

The book by E L James is racy enough that’s it’s already been pulled from library shelves, and as it is converted into a film version, some experts wonder if is too steamy for an R rating and should be bumped up to NC-17.

But Bey doesn’t mind, and from the slowed down, breathy rendition of her signature “Crazy In Love” “uh-oh” it looks like the film might be using a version of the track in its soundtrack.

According to Beyoncé’s Instagram, the full trailer drops this Thursday (July 24), so be on the lookout for that! It’s practically guaranteed to be a #NSFW affair.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Adam Levine, 35, and his bride-to-be Victoria Secret model Behati Prinsloo, 25, have officially tied the knot! In a ceremony today (July 19) at Flora Farms in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, E! exclusively confirmed that the pair exchanged their vows and are now well on their way to becoming an old married couple.

Levine wore a fitted tux and Prinsoloo wore a gown by Marchesa. The wedding party consisted of Coco Rocha, a fellow model on the bride’s side and Jesse Carmichael, Levine’s bandmate from Maroon 5, who served as the best man.

Instead of gifts, the couple ask that guests make donation to the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

The celebration began last night with a beachside party for about 100 guests. The guests were shuttled from their hotel to El Dorado for a party that took place in front of Mike Meldman’s home. Guests for the pre-wedding festivities included Jason Segal, Jonah Hill and Erin Heatherston. During the reception, Stevie Nicks also performed for the newlyweds and their guests. The pair have planned a honeymoon in South Africa.

The couple began dating approximately two years ago shortly after Levine split from his former girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna. After getting together, the pair called things off for a few months before reconciling, and deciding to get married. About a year ago, Levine proposed to Prinsloo—even asking for her father’s permission! Awww, adorable.

Congratulations to the beautiful couple!

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