"The Voice" kicked off its sixth season on Monday (February 24) with bigger voices, elaborate bribes and even sharper claws as Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Shakira and Usher pulled all the stops in order to win over the contestants.

The world's unknown desire to see country star Blake Shelton sing Shakira's hit "Whenever, Wherever" was fulfilled as the Emmy-winning singing competition opened with the four coaches performing a medley of each other's hits. But even though the well-established artists showed why they're the ones the coaching gig, the night belonged to many hopefuls who hit the stage eager to show their talents.

She Came In To Wreck The Competition
The bar was set ridiculously high when 19-year-old Christina Grimmie hit the stage for her blind audition. The New Jersey native, who already has a respectable 2 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, managed to get three of the four coaches to turn their chairs immediately. Although Usher labeled Grimmie as "phenomenal" and said that he "plans on winning" with her, she landed herself on Team Adam.

What The Blind Auditions Are All About
Openly gay hopeful Kristen Merlin, 29, admitted that a show like "The Voice" was exactly what she needed to showcase her talents before she is "judged by her looks." The Massachusetts native's energetic and heartfelt rendition of Sugarland's "Something More" resonated with Shakira and Levine, the female coach even going as far as to dance while Merlin performed. Levine praised the hopeful for her strong vocals, but in the end, the country-at-heart contestant chose to be on Team ...

Whoever thinks "X-Men" isn't sexy hasn't seen Jennifer Lawrence's latest photo from

One of two new stills shows Lawrence opening her coat to show off a '70s-style little black dress as Raven Darkholm, a.k.a Mystique, the shape-shifting bad girl.

In another photo, we see JLaw back in blue body paint (a look we've seen before) with a gun in hand.

And while we think she looks stunning in both photos -- blue or not -- Lawrence told MTV News back in 2011 that she was a little hesitant to take over the role from swimsuit model Rebecca Romijn for "X-Men: First Class."

"It would have made my job a lot easier if she wasn't the most gorgeous person in the world," Lawrence joke. "I was like, 'Really?' "

Even if it was intimidating, the actress told us her passion for the franchise made her decision a "no-brainer."

"It is huge, but the movies are fantastic and I watched them and became a huge fan," she explained. "After reading the script, I really loved the script and I loved the character and I was already a fan of the director, [Matthew Vaughn], and I was already a fan of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, so then it became a little bit more of a no-brainer."

"X-Men: Days of Future Past," which hits theaters on May 23, also stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and more.

The fans spoke, and "Glee" listened. For the 100th episode of the Fox show, Gleeks were asked to choose their favorite "Glee" covers to appear in the landmark episode, and Monday (February 24), those jams have finally been revealed.

The campaign to choose the tunes, billed as "Glee 100th Gleeks Choice: You Vote. We Remix," closed at the end of 2013, with fans whittling the list down from 30 tracks to their final picks. Those songs will populate the milestone episode, in which Principal Sue Sylvester finally succeeds in shutting the glee club down once and for all.

They'll also be released as an album titled Glee: The Music Celebrating 100 Episodes in March.

The list, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, features a ton of memorable jams that will be remixed come #100.

For example, remember when Blaine and The Warblers took on Pink's "Raise Your Glass" back in 2011, officially spawning viral sensation Kellen Mirador Sarmiento — a.k.a. "The Mini Warbler"? Well, in the 100th episode, Will Schuester and washed-up glee star April Rhodes will tackle the celebratory jam. We await future memes with bated breath.

And wasn't it awesome back in 2010 when the "Glee" kids busted out a jazz-inspired rendition of Britney Spears' "Toxic"? Well, this time, a similar cast (Brittany, Santana and Quinn) will take on the jam, the style of which has not yet been revealed.

Naturally, the final jams also includes Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," which has been covered multiple times on the show, perhaps most notably by the Cory Monteith, who died last summer. ...

In mere days, Lo-Fang (a.k.a. Matthew Hemerlein) will head out on tour with 2013's biggest up-and-comer: Lorde. Handpicked by the artist formerly known as Ella Yelich-O'Connor, Lo-Fang is amped to head out on the road with the 17-year-old wunderkind -- in part because the two are, in a way, cut from the same cloth.

"She's awesome. She's totally rad," Lo-Fang told MTV News. "I think there's a real difference between our music, but there's also a similarity in terms of... clearly there's a lot of soul and artistic merit in what she's doing, but it's distilled in a way to speak to a lot of people and that takes persistence as well as talent. Hopefully she heard some of the same work ethic in what it is that I'm doing."

Lo-Fang first caught the attention of the Grammy-winning singer around the end of 2013, when Lorde listed his single "#88" as her #2 song of the year. The jam comes off of the multi-instrumentalist's debut record, Blue Film, which is due out Tuesday on 4AD.

Sardonic and dark — yet possessing of a wry kind of levity not exactly native to the classically trained set — Lo-Fang exists in the same kind of reflective shadowland as Lorde.

You can check out the two in action come March, when they hit the road together

There are very few shows that stoke as much conversation as HBO's "Girls" (well, few shows that don't involve naked, antler-wearing corpses, at least). Every week, we turn to real New York women to share their thoughts on the latest episode of "Girls." Even though the show is about the lives of New York women of a certain age, most of the commentary we hear is from, well, not those women.

This week, Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein, a 30-year-old creative living and creating in New York, joins the Girls on "Girls" circle to talk about this week's episode, "

Who Are You?
I'm Alyssa. I'm 30, a classically trained singer, published poet, and all-around ambitious, creative creature. Been in the city almost eight years.

For those of you who can't wait another moment for next month's A Great Big World are here to help you out.

Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino are on tour through the end of next month, and when they stopped by MTV News recently, they said parts of their show may remind you of a Jim Henson character.

"It's an energetic show," Ian told MTV News. "We're very emotive and I've been compared to Animal from 'The Muppets.' And Chad jumps a lot. We used to have a trampoline."

"But they took it away," Chad chimed in.

Giving Christina Aguilera Singing Advice 'Freaked Out' A Great Big World

They're planning on bringing gymnastics back to the stage show, but in the meantime they're getting plenty of exercise -- both cardio and strength training.

"Whenever we have big stages, like, that just allows us room to just, just go crazier. And Ian, Ian gets a little violent with his keyboard and his keyboard bench."

"No violence," Ian replied.

"No, not violence, but aggressive. Just happiness," Chad laughed.

Interested in seeing AGBW on tour? Here are some of their upcoming dates:

» 3/16 — Corpus Christi, TX @ Brewster Street Ice House
» 3/18 — Dallas, TX @ House of Blues: Cambridge Room
» 3/19 — San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
» 3/21 — Orlando, FL @ Universal Studios (free with park admission)