First, Lady Gaga revealed the artwork for her brand-new single "Applause" to Women's Wear Daily, and then, in her interview with the mag, she revealed a whole lot more.

Like, for example, the severity of the hip injury that forced her to cancel the Born This Way Ball and put her on the shelf for nearly six months. An initial statement from her camp said she was suffering from "a labral tear of the right hip," but, according to Gaga, that wasn't the whole story.

"My injury was actually a lot worse than just a labral tear," she said. "I had broken my hip. Nobody knew, and I haven't even told the fans yet. But when we got all the MRIs finished before I went to surgery there were giant craters, a hole in my hip the size of a quarter, and the cartilage was just hanging out the other side of my hip.

"I had a tear on the inside of my joint and a huge breakage," she continued. "The surgeon told me that if I had done another show I might have needed a full hip replacement. I would have been out at least a year, maybe longer."

Lady Gaga Reveals Her Fashion Plans For This Year's VMAs!

Gaga told WWD that, while surgery was tough, her recovery was even worse — mostly because she hadn't gone more than two weeks without performing since she was 14 years old. But she used her time away to reconnect with her Haus of Gaga crew (collaborators Inez van Lamsweerde ...

Even without the "X-Men," Wolverine had enough strength to claw his way to the top of the box office.

was the #1 movie in theaters over the weekend with an estimated $55 million haul. That total was far below some of the more optimistic industry projections and even a bit below 20th Century Fox's own conservative $60 million estimate. But while Hugh Jackman's sixth appearance in the star-making role had one of the lowest starts for the "X-Men" franchise, it will likely benefit from positive reviews and word-of-mouth in the coming weeks.

The 2009 prequel, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," received even worse reviews than Brett Ratner's franchise misstep, "X-Men: The Last Stand." The much more character-driven "The Wolverine," based on a classic early '80s mini-series by comic book legends Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, has had Jackman and fans declaring it delivers the best onscreen version of the character.

Audiences who stuck around for the credits were treated to a brief "Avengers"-style Easter egg which (spoiler alert) teased next year's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," which is currently shooting under "X-Men" and "X2" director Bryan Singer. The next "X-Men" film will unite the casts of the original trilogy with the gang from the well-received prequel, "X-Men: First Class." Jackman joined the rest of the "Days of Future Past" cast at San Diego Comic-Con, where Fox promoted "The Wolverine" as well.

Speaking exclusively with MTV News, director James Mangold revealed plans for an unrated version to reintegrate scenes that were cut to earn a PG-13 rating. "The Wolverine" made another $86.1 ...

Lady Gaga has, literally, turned her face into a canvas for the cover of the first single from her upcoming ARTPOP
 album, 


The arresting image of Gaga's faces smeared with blue, red and yellow streaks of paint and sandwiched in the folds of a white sheet, premiered on the Women's Wear Daily site over the weekend.

Shot by photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vindooh Matadin, the picture and accompanying interview are the official confirmation that the as-yet-unheard song will be the first bit of new music from the anticipated album. The song will be available on iTunes on August 19, which, Gaga revealed on her LittleMonsters community, will also be the first day fans can pre-order the ARTPOP album and interactive app.

That's six days before Gaga will make her sure-to-be triumphant stage return
 at this year's 2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on August 25.

Gaga shot the "Applause" video, directed by Van Lamsweerde and Matadin, in Los Angeles a week ago. The cover image is a still from the shoot that Gaga said shows a vulnerable part of her personality that fans rarely see.

"It's the end of the night after the show," she said of the shot, in which her hair is covered by a black head wrap. "When I look at it I see that there is a longing for the applause. I see that there is a void that is leaking onstage, that the performer is leaking, that the art is sort of becoming ...

Justin Timberlake is taking it to the streets for his new video for 
 the first single from his The 20/20 Experience — 2 of 2
 album, due out on September 30. The clip, filmed on the streets of New York, will world premiere on July 30.

But before that, starting at 7 a.m. ET on Tuesday, JT's fans will get a chance to go on a journey through the making of the video by joining an interactive hashtag campaign on Twitter supported by behind-the-scenes content enabled by Stipple, which will unlock the full video.

According to a Timberlake spokesperson, the look behind the making of the "Night" video will take fans, "on a fun, virtual journey throughout New York City, from the legendary Yankee Stadium to historic locales in Chinatown and unlock secrets of the video by touching images to gain fun facts and expand the experience on the making of the [video]."

Fans who join JT's new fan club, The Tennessee Kids can share their #TakeBackTN moments with each other. The video was directed by Jeff Nicholas, Jonathan Craven and Darren Craig for The Uprising Creative, the same company behind Timberlake's NSFW "Tunnel Vision" video.

Timberlake, who is tied with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for a leading six nominations
 at the August 25 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, is on the road with Jay Z now as part of their 
 tour.

He'll kick off "The 20/20 Experience World Tour" on October 31 in Montreal before taking the outing ...

2 Chainz takes the utmost pride in his creativity; he just hopes the lyrics on his upcoming B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time don't land him in hot water.

Deuce sat down with MTV News' Sway Calloway on Tuesday to talk about everything from his pal Kanye West to his new album — even touching on the recent rash of rappers apologizing for their song lyrics. It was something he considered when recording "Feds Watching," the first single from his forthcoming sophomore album.

On it, Chainz says that he'll "put that rocket on that mother----in' prosecutor." The song has been out since June and is climbing up the Billboard song chart. So far, no one has publicly expressed a problem with the lyric, but it was enough to make producer Pharrell Williams think twice.

"It actually was brought up. Pharrell brought it up, and then the label brought it up," 2 Chainz told Sway. "Anything dealing with harming someone like that — an official — they not goin' for it. It's almost a cuss word; you almost can't say it, because this is a government official."

There's another lyric on B.O.A.T.S. II that has Chainz worried: "I said, 'I blew myself up like a Unabomber,' " he explained, revealing a song lyric on an unspecified song.

Chainz says the lyric isn't intended to praise Ted Kaczynski — the infamous "Unabomber," who was responsible for over a dozen public bombings and three deaths — but rather to give the rapper himself a pat on the back for pulling himself up by his own bootstraps. "My creative side ...

Ariana Grande declared her crush on Mac Miller on "The Way," but on a new track, "Right There," she's got love for Big Sean.

The singer revealed to MTV News that she's hooked up with the G.O.O.D. Music MC for the track, which she considers "kind of like the sequel to 'The Way.'"

"I love it. I can't say it's one of my favorites on the album because they're all my favorites, but it's really cool and he killed it. I love his verse."

Grande and Sean have been pals for a while, but she was waiting for the perfect song to take their musical friendship to the next level.

"We wanted to have writing sessions and, like, jam together but we never found the time and we never found the right song," she said. "We were talking about a few other songs together but it just never worked out and it never was the right moment and then finally 'Right There' came along. And we were like 'Oh this is it'."

In addition to being his friend, the singer and "Sam & Cat" star is a longtime fan of the Detroit MC. "He's one of my favorites; I love him," she shared. "I can't even tell you how many of his verses in his songs I've memorized."

Well, there is actually some footage of her handful of homages to Sean floating around the Web, including her rapping "Guap" and his verse in Justin Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me." But, she says, hands down her favorite Sean verse ...

BOOM, Belgium — One of the most exciting places to be at Tomorrowland on Saturday (July 27) was Laidback Luke's Super You & Me stage. DJs lined up to play there had to follow one key rule: transform into a superhero!

Before their back-to-back sets, MTV News caught up with Laidback Luke and Martin Solveig to get the inside details on everything from those unique costumes to what special surprises they had planned for the show.

"This year I really wanted to push a little bit," Solveig told us of his look. "I picked out my own character, which is a kind of Super Solveig ... with a costume. I've been working very seriously on the video and on the costume."

Though Solveig has a bunch of collaborations in the works, he didn't want to share any names yet. He did, however, open up about his collabo with Luke. "The serious premiere is now, is like in a couple hours [at Tomorrowland]; I'm going to open my set with a track," he teased before his performance. "So no more mystery, no more surprise, you know? It's called 'Blow,' and it has a whole story around it. The story is, 'How do you want me to grow, if you don't let me blow?'

"And then I have a concept for the video, which is ... going to be a bit confusing if I say [it] like this but it includes elephants and antiperspirant, which is very useful at this exact moment," Solveig attempted to explain.

"We are going to fix the whole antiperspirant problem for ...

When your primary superpower is stabbing people with six razor-sharp knives, it's impossible to make a bloodless film. Director James Mangold discovered that while working on the fifth film starring Hugh Jackman in the titular role of the hirsute berserker.

And with Mangold's desire to do a back-to-basics film about the brawling mutant following 2009's unfocused "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," he knew that meant getting violent.

"I was amazed that the trims we made to get a PG-13 were not devastating to the movie," Mangold told MTV News' Josh Horowitz. "The movie is mostly old-fashioned sword warfare — and arrows — so in many ways we dodged the kind of intense violence of guns."

The film is based on the character's first ever solo outing, 1982's "Wolverine" by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller. In the comic book limited series, Wolverine travels to Japan to reconnect with a woman that he's fallen in love with (Mariko Yashida) and gets caught up in a war between a clan of ninjas and the Japanese crime syndicate known as the Yakuza. Wolverine's claws clash with ancient katana blades in the story, just as they do in the big screen adventure. But not everything made the final cut, Mangold reveals.

"Obviously when you get to the length we had, there will be some extras that people will see, in some kind of unrated version of the movie coming out." The film as it stands takes the hero physically further than any other; Jackman's jacked beyond belief and Wolverine's body count rises higher than ever before. The thought of ...

BOOM, Belgium — Spirits were unsurprisingly high on the first day of Tomorrowland, which kicked off officially on a rainy Friday.

With tickets having sold out at a rapid clip, the 180,000 festivalgoers who snagged admission had every reason to be amped about gaining entry to Europe's largest EDM event. (Those lucky enough to board one of the 29 Tomorrowland-themed flights that landed at the Brussels terminal got the festivities started early.) But dance fans that couldn't make it to Boom could still get in on the action as DJs and attendees shared their personal experience for friends and the world on their social feeds.

MTV News is on the ground and we got you a snapshot of some of the best moments from Day 1!

With its 2013 theme pegged as The Arising of Life, Tomorrowland was getting lots of love on kickoff day. We know this if only because of the sheer number of hearts that were included in tweets. (Even DJ Otto Knows showed his sweet side!)

And we can't blame them: The Tomorrowland grounds are incredibly beautiful as MTV News learned when Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike gave us a sneak peek at the highly anticipated designs for the event's 15 unique, fantasy-themed stages. In fact, with more stages than you can count on two hands, the biggest problem for festivalgoers was probably choosing which DJ sets to attend.

We also spent a good chunk of the first day in the artists' compound speaking to acts like Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Nervo, Hardwell, Crookers and Tiësto. Aoki's ...