We love it when our friends become successful. Especially when they graduate from playing the dingy, sticky-floored bars to stadiums and multi-platinum, worldwide stardom while upending the music business with a loud, don’t give a f— sound that nobody’s ever heard before.

So you can imagine how the fine gentlefolk of Seattle felt on September 11, 1992, when Nirvana came back home to play their first hometown show since conquering the planet with their 1991 breakthrough, Nevermind. The Seattle Center Coliseum show (with openers Helmet and Fitz of Depression) had Seattle residents super-psyched when MTV News came around to ask about the local boys done good.

In addition to speaking to a woman who claimed to be Kurt’s cousin and childhood Big Wheel-riding buddy, Kurt’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, popped up and mused about her conflicted feelings about her son’s stardom. “I have mixed emotions about it,” she said. “I’m glad he made enough of a success to make a living but some of it is too much for him, I think.”

Nirvana, who were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, played in front of 15,000 fans that night.

Check out the video below and look for Hacky Sack Guy, who pretty much sums up the whole “whatever, nevermind” sentiment of the day.

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The summer Olympics are awesome, and the winter games are no joke either. But if you’re like nearly half of the world’s 7.2 billion population, chances are you will watch some of the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer championship at some point over the next month.

We’ll say that again: HALF OF THE GLOBE’S POPULATION.

Needless to say, footy is kind of a big deal. Which is MTV did a survey of just how excited young people are about the tournament and, well, they’re psyched to say the least.

The Best?
1. 61 percent of millennials we talked to in Australia, the U.K., France, Latin America (Argentina, Colombia and Mexico), Germany, Italy, Southeast Asia (Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore) and Spain think the World Cup will be more exciting than the Summer or Winter Olympics.

2. 74 percent of American millennials feel like the World Cup is an important event for uniting the world’s people.

3. Half said they’re more interested in the World Cup than their elders.

Feeling Cocky
4. Which country feels like they have the best chance at winning the whole thing? Germany, at 76 percent.

5. Defending champions Spain are right behind at 69 percent.

6. A Latin American country hasn’t hoisted the winning trophy since 2002, but respondents from the host region had a 60 percent confidence rate that this is their year.

Not So Much
7. As cocky as those countries are, some nations are not so sure. Respondents in the U.K. and France were pretty sure they were going to go home losers by a, respectively, 51 ...

There are few things in life more embarrassing than having your dad bust out his lame dance moves at a party. I mean, seriously dude, do you have to?

But, Sunday is Father’s Day, so sometimes you have to cut the old man some slack and let him throw out his back while trying to show you how he used to Cabbage Patch back in the day. Jimmy Fallon knows your pain, which is why on Thursday night he put on his best dockers, dad ‘stache and blue collared shirt and presented “The Evolution of Dad Dancing.”

With some help from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the dorkiest dads ever took us through such legendary moves as: The Belt Grabber, The Lawn Mower, The “Oh, Stop It! I’m Not Embarrassing You,” The “Don’t Make Me Turn This Car Around” and, of course, The This Bridge Is Closed, which Christie did not like. At all.

Check it out:

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Ask any garage-rocking musician what they wish for the most and, besides riches/fame/money/cars and other material possessions, it’s probably a chance to talk to one of their musical heroes and get some tips on how to really make it in the music business.

Enter VH1′s “Make a Band Famous,” , which will kick off with a 24-hour livestream event at 8 p.m. tonight (June 11) hosted by All-American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter. One of the best parts of the 24-band competition show will be the panel of celebrity mentors on-hand to offer advice to the bands. The list includes: Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy, Daughtry singer Chris Daughtry and platinum-dipped singer/songwriter Bonnie McKee (“California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream”).

They’ll work alongside the group of big-name judges: international pop star and Grammy nominee Natasha Bedingfield, Justin Timberlake/Maroon 5 musical director Adam Blackstone, YouTube singing sensation Kurt Hugo Schneider and Rooney singer/composer/producer Robert Schwartzman. Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz (who will appear on the show alongside Benji and Joel Madden, Ed Sheeran and Colbie Caillat) have already warned the acts that this competition will not be easy.

“We’re going to randomly dissassemble the bands and put them together like a crazy collage, we’re going to make 12 bands and make six bands,” Stump said. “We’ll call them ‘superbands.’” Viewers will be able to watch it all, including performances, interviews, live views of the green room, the judges’ opinions and the groups’ anxiety as they compete ...

There are things we know about 5 Seconds of Summer: they love banana pranks, look good in fake superhero costumes, have a thing for Ewoks and they are massive Green Day fans.

Which is why we’re not surprised that for the new issue of Kerrang! magazine, they joined former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero, Falling in Reverse, You Me At Six, Bowling for Soup, Rise to Remain, New Politics, Escape the Fate, the Blackout and others for a track-by-track cover of Green Day’s American Idiot album.

And they crushed it.

And fans, of course, lost their damn minds about it.

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There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator who recently won reelection in what can only be described as a rigged vote and who has overseen a deadly three-year crackdown on the popular uprising in his country that has killed 100,000 and displaced millions.

Clearly he’s not going away and that’s frustrating. “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver feels powerless in the face of Assad’s iron-fisted rule, so he did the only thing he can reasonably hope to do to at least tweak the Syrian strongman during his Sunday night HBO show: he made fun of his terrible musical taste.

You see, Assad, once a promising optometrist and volleyball lover who was pressed into the family business by his brother’s death in 1994, was outed in leaked e-mails two years ago as a lover of pop music. Among his favorite iTunes downloads? “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO and … wait for it, “I’m Too Sexy” by bald and beautiful British 1990s one-hit wonders Right Said Fred.

“Yes, he’s a monster, but he’s also a moron,” Oliver said. “Which is why it’s so frustrating that we’re powerless to do anything to hurt him. If only there was something, however small, that we could do … I guess we could find something he loves and turn it against him. We could track down, let’s say, Right Said Fred, and we could, hypothetically, fly them all the way over here from London to perform a specially rewritten anti-Assad version ...

Psy did the “Gangnam Style” thing and made 2 billion people very happy. It was cute, silly and fun to dance to at weddings and your 5-year-old niece’s birthday party.

But now the South Korean superstar is ready to seriously party, like, adult style. And when it’s professional tipping you’re after, the first (and probably only) person on your list should be Snoop Dogg.

“What I thought was I should refresh myself, and people, that I’m doing something different, so I thought about maybe changing genres,” Psy told MTV News about the retro 808 hip-hop style beat on his just-released single, “Hangover.” When he wrote the track, Psy was searching for a catchy hook, and, shocker, he came up with the perfect one the morning after a night of serious “over drinking.”

The video opens with Psy waking up in a trashed room, then running to the toilet to relive the previous night’s revelry, with Snoop popping up out of the bathtub to help his pal get the poison out. The brain wormy dancehall-style hook and the Jason Derulo-style honking horns combined with Snoop rhythmic back slapping and the sight of the two friends brushing their teeth together suggests that Psy may have hit mega-click gold again.

Psy said he felt confident that he’d nailed the booming 808 beat and the “hangover, hangover, hangover” hook, but something was missing. Oh, right, Snoop. “After that hook part was done, right away I thought about Snoop Dogg,” he said. “He’s hanging over every ...

When she’s picking fights with 1990s girl groups or wearing see-through dresses, Rihanna is a lot of things. One of them, now, is the world’s coolest auntie. That’s the new title bestowed on Rih Rih on Sunday when she posted a series of snaps of her holding her newest, youngest fans.

And, because it’s Rihanna, the first glimpse she gave us was PG-13.

Of Course She’s Hands-On

Where Does This Baby Like It?

AWWWWW

#1 Auntie

Just Can’t Get Enough

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We are an extremely forgiving people. Especially when it comes to our favorite stars. Race your car at high speeds through the neighborhood, get a DUI, pee in a mop bucket, throw eggs at your neighbor’s house, insult a former president, or share a stripper’s… “assets” with a friend, and there are legions of devoted followers out there willing to to give you another chance.

When a second video emerged this week of Justin Bieber using racist language and repeatedly dropping the n-word, his celebrity friends lined up to express their support for the singer. Even former N.W.A member Ice Cube seemed willing to forgive and forget. Still, there are others who are not so quick to forgive, like Lupe Fiasco, who compared Justin Bieber’s remarks to those of Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

“It’s an absurd thing — you get somebody who we ‘like’ who says it, and says it even more ‘racist-ier’ and we don’t bat an eyelash at it,” Lupe Fiasco said.

Will America be quick to forgive Justin Bieber, and can he and his image rebound from not one but two damning videos?

“This is kind of different from his other mistakes,” said Risa Heller, a public relations and crisis communications expert who’s worked with disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner and former Elmo puppeteer and voice actor Kevin Clash.

“Drunk driving or reckless behavior… a lot of young celebrities make a lot of public mistakes and people say, ...

As more details emerge from a shooting at Seattle Pacific University in which a gunman killed one student and injured three others, one student is being deemed a “hero” for quickly bringing down the shooter.

Senior engineering student and campus security monitor Jon Meis, 22, sprung into action and likely saved the lives of other potential victims with his quick thinking. Meis, described in the Seattle Times as a “quiet, gentle, outdoorsy… young man of deep Christian faith and dedicated student on the cusp of a promising life beyond college,” was sitting at a desk in the lobby of Miller Hall when the shooter opened fire.

When he stopped to reload, Meis sprung into action and pepper-sprayed the gunman, then tackled the unnamed assailant and held him down until police arrive to handcuff and arrest him.

His roommate said Meis carries pepper spray with him because he likes to be prepared wherever he goes. Though Meis and his family have not commented on the incident so far, plenty of fellow SPU students and other grateful people did and they often used one word to describe him: hero.

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