Ed Sheeran turned Friday into a real sobfest.

The British singer continued with his new music Fridays with the release of “All of the Stars,” which will run during the credits of the “The Fault in our Stars,” starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort.

“I can hear your heart on the radio beat/ They’re playing ‘Chasing Cars’/ And I thought of you/ Back to our time/ How you and I used to be,” he sings, remembering listening to Snow Patrol with a lost love.

The video features clips from the movie and a wall filled with positive affirmations like “Don’t panic” and other inspirational quotes from John Green’s novel. Ed sits on a couch, singing the song’s final lyrics “I can see the stars from America.”

Watch and listen and try not to cry.

Here’s the track list for “The Fault in our Stars”:

» Ed Sheeran — “All Of The Stars”
» Jake Bugg — “Simple As This”
» Grouplove — “Let Me In”
» Birdy & Jaymes Young — “Best Shot”
» Kodaline — “All I Want”
» Tom Odell — “Long Way Down”
» Charli XCX — “Boom Clap”
» STRFKR — “While I’m Alive”
» Indians — “Oblivion”
» The Radio Dept. — “Strange Things Will Happen”
» Afasi & Filthy — “Bomfallarella”
» Ray LaMontagne — “Without Words”
» Birdy — “Not About Angels”
» Lykke Li — “No One Ever Loved”
» M83 — “Wait”
Bonus track: Birdy — “Tee Shirt”

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Down on the West Coast, they got a sayin’ — but there’s no time for that right now. We’ve got to talk about Lana Del Rey‘s Ultraviolence album cover, which the reigning queen of sway-pop confirmed via Twitter on Friday (May 9), following a reported leak from Universal Music Group’s intranet.

Clad in a semi-transparent, white V-neck tee, the “West Coast” singer’s gaze will pierce you right to the shallow, shallow depths of your unsalvageable soul. The visual is so powerful — arresting, even! I can almost hear her voice echoing faintly in my head, as she scathingly mutters: “I told you it was coming, you little bitch.”

This news comes on the heels of the Ultraviolence track list, which was revealed on Thursday. No release date has been set, but as they say on the West Coast. … Actually, wait, I don’t think they have any sayings about Lana’s release date. There or anywhere. That would be weird.

John Walker

With Reporting By Josh Horowitz

Robert Downey, Jr. has mastered just about everything imaginable. But according to “Chef” director and star Jon Favreau, there’s one thing the superstar, who has a brief but memorable turn in the new movie, needs to work on.

“Downey’s not a cook,” Favreau told MTV News. “He’s a singer, he’s a writer, he’s an artist, so he’s definitely a jack of all trades.”

Ok, so Iron Man’s no Iron Chef. Who in the star-studded cast, which also includes Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo, and Dustin Hoffman, is best in the kitchen?

“John’s worked the hardest,” Favreau said. “He staged in kitchens in New York, and I was training here. And so together, we were able to look like we could work a food truck.”

The two kids from Queens the best cooks in the cast? That actually doesn’t sound too surprising. And Favreau said that for him, cooking was something that’s now taken on a much bigger role in his life.

“For me, I’ve really taken it on as a hobby now,” Favreau explained, “and I’m going to keep going with it.”

Check out “Chef,” in theaters today (May 9).

Craig Flaster

J.Cole caught his big break when Jay Z signed him to Roc Nation in 2009, so two albums into his own career, Cole found the right moment to pay it forward. He recently inked a deal with Interscope to launch his own label, Dreamville Records, headed up by a new artist named Bas.

Bas has already dropped two volumes of his Quarter Water Raised Me mixtape series, but his first official label release was the April EP Last Winter. The project’s title was inspired by the brutal New York winters that Bas spent recording in his parents’ basement, so MTV News took a trip out to Queens to learn more about the Dreamville signee, in that same basement where he recorded. Check it out above.

Nadeska Alexis

Need someone to feed the streets? That’s Jeezy, OK?

On Friday (May 9), the Atlanta rapper dropped new solo music for the first time in months, with the release of “Me OK.” The track, produced by Drumma Boy, is a vintage Jeezy record in its’ sound and style. Many of the rhymes find the 36-year-old in his prime trap-rap-slinging form, but he also serves up some words about his current label situation.

“When L.A. Reid was in office made some history up in Def Jam/ If Jizzle ain’t droppin, n—a, what the f–k is Def Jam?/ I know you heard how your boy bossed up at Atlantic/ Boss sh–, might just drop my next album on Atlantic,” he raps in the song’s second verse.

Including his 2005 debut, Jeezy has dropped four albums on Def Jam, which remains his current label home (his most recent was TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition in 2011). But in 2012, he was appointed Senior Vice President of A&R at Atlantic Records.

There’s no word on when we can expect Jeezy’s new album, but this song might be the beginning of that rollout.

Adam Fleischer

The rumor of a “Lethal Weapon” remake got me thinking. I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore when a well liked, recent-ish movie gets the reboot treatment.

So why not just start preparing for some of the most beloved movies in recent memory to become remakes in 20 years? It will honestly save a lot of heartbreak later on in life.

So join with me, as I take a look at the movies that are almost definitely getting future remakes.

“Magic Mike”
Sure, there’s a sequel on the way, but give it a decade or two. The remake for Steven Soderbergh’s stripper drama will come. Some exec will have a hot, young star they want to showcase in a big way, and soon enough we’re watching a trailer with the throwback tune “We Found Love.”

“Drive”
Of course the Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn existential crime movie doesn’t need a remake, but that’s why it will get one. The (real human being and a real) hero will be a fast-talking wheelman that operates by a strict set of rules. There will be at least ten chases, and the graphic violence will get downgraded to a pleasant PG-13. Sorry, Christina Hendricks’ exploding head.

“13 Going on 30″
A teenage boy in 2013 has a crappy birthday and wishes to be a thriving 30-year-old. He gets his wish, but the year 2030 isn’t quite what he hoped it would be. The new “Call of Duty” game doesn’t use ...

There would be no “shocking twist” on Thursday night’s (May 8) “American Idol.” The “big cut” would determine who faded into history and who earned the coveted home visit.

And when the beignet dust settled and the final four were cut down to the top three, it was a pretty straight line to the semi-finals… which ran right through (and over) one of the season’s most unpredictable finalists.

We’ll tell you who went home… after, well, this sentence. Here’s how it went down.

No Surprises

Jena Irene and presumptive champion Caleb Johnson were ushered through pretty early in the episode. No shocker there. But when it came down to split up the final two contenders, it was no surprise when Jessica Meuse’s number came up. That meant that sensitive crooner Alex Preston would get his shot at the title.

Meuse was sent packing after going 1-for-3 on Wednesday night, striking out on her first two songs and finally connecting on Lady Gaga’s “You & I,” at which point America might have already made up their minds.

P-P-P-Poker Face

Meuse, who got dinged repeatedly this season for not showing enough emotion, went down after failing to ignite a cover of original “Idol” Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You Been Gone” and Pink’s “So What” on Wednesday. “It wasn’t right for you,” Jennifer Lopez said, echoing Harry Connick Jr.’s sentiment about both of Meuse’s first two selections.

The Slapout, Alabama, singer/songwriter with the pink streaks in her hair and her heart on her sleeve had a solid run on the show. ...

Katy Perry‘s Prismatic World Tour opened last night in Belfast, and some Lady Gaga fans were calling her out on Twitter for using some Born This Way Ball elements in her show. And now Mother Monster herself has a little something to say.

“It looks like green hair and mechanical horses are the thing now,” Gaga tweeted on Thursday (May 8).

It’s true; during her set, Katy did wear a green wig and rode onstage on an Egyptian horse, although they were not exact replicas of Gaga’s. She also strapped chairs to her body in Gaga fashion and sang atop an egg-like dress.

Now, of course, we can’t say that the tweet was directing at Katy, but after observing last night’s evidence, it might be safe to assume.

Emilee Lindner

By Maurice Bobb

Sorry, trap fans, but as far as 2 Chainz is concerned, hat tricks are reserved for hockey, not hip-hop. Despite rumors to the contrary, the title of Tity Two Necklaces’ third LP with not be B.O.A.T.S. III.

“Somebody else said it,” Chainz told MTV News about his new album, when he sat with us to discuss his new EP, Freebase . “We not gon’ even call the next album B.O.A.T.S. It’s gon’ be a whole new campaign. I can’t wait to come back in and unravel that and show y’all what’s up with that.”

According to the “Trap Back” MC, his next studio project will transport listeners back to the trap, where he made his bones as a frenzied lyricist bent on superstardom come hell or the hot water needed to cook freebase cocaine.

“It’s actually piggy backing off Freebase,” Duece said of his yet-untitled next album. “The title of my third album won’t be Freebase but it’ll piggy back off this lifestyle, off this culture and it’s gon’ be fun doing that, too. I’ve already been working on material for that as well.”

Recording material for an EP and an LP at the same damn time could be very confusing, sonically, but for Chainz, it’s all about which one of his pure-energy rap personas comes permeating through the gritty, percussion-laced beats spitting catchy narratives about crack sales in the trap.

“My next two albums are very conceptual,” he said. “They deal with timelines in my life, so when ...

By Maurice Bobb

Watch out Diddy, Dr. Dre will be taking over that No.1 spot on Forbes’ list of “Hip Hop’s Wealthiest” if Apple’s closes in on its plan to acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion.

According to a New York Times report, a deal could be announced as soon as next week.

If this transaction does go through (sources warn that it could still fall apart), it would mean a major break in Apple’s acquisitions strategy. Thus far, the Cupertino, California-based tech juggernaut has focused mostly on buying technology providers to incorporate under its own umbrella.

Purchasing Beats would signal a major paradigm shift for Tim Cook, CEO of the iPhone maker. Under the late Steve Jobs’ tenure, Apple was unwilling to acquire established brands. Now, the company has been forced to go outside its once transformative technology labs to remain cool and make an impact.

Beats, which was founded in 2006 by the legendary producer and Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine, features the immensely popular premium headphone and speaker line, as well as the recently launched Beats Music , a streaming music service that competes with Spotify and Apple’s iTunes.

Carlyle made a $500 million investment in Beats back in September of last year and valued the company at more than $1 billion.

“In terms of acquisitions, Apple has been very, very light in their activity,” said Richard Lane, an analyst at Moody’s analyst Richard Lane told the Financial Times . “I don’t think they’ve spent $1 ...