On reality singing competitions, song choice is everything. Just ask Andrew Scholz. On Thursday's the 18-year-old contestant from Summerville, South Carolina, showed he had plenty of all-American good looks and good ol' Southern charm. ("You a nice, lil' corn-fed country boy," is how Kelly Rowland put it.) But when he auditioned with Alex Clare's "Too Close," which is still a little too close to those formerly ubiquitous Internet Explorer ads, he left three of the four judges cold.

"I think you're really, really cute ... but I didn't quite get it," Paulina Rubio told him, echoing the sentiments of the other female judges. Simon Cowell was the lone judge who wanted to give him another shot, and when Scholz turned around with a soft take on Little Big Town's country hit "A Little More You," the judges switched up their tunes too. "That totally changed everything!" Demi Lovato exclaimed. And like that, Scholz earned four yes votes and was on to the next round.

It's a new season at "The X Factor," and we're still not quite sure what to make of Rubio's presence at the judge's table, but all the old rules still apply. Thursday marked the season's fourth audition episode and rotated between tryouts in Charleston, New Orleans and Los Angeles.

Another golden rule of these competitions: Looks aren't everything. Pretty boy Blake Shankle, who with his impressive coif boasted he's frequently compared to Robin Thicke and David Beckham, proudly proclaimed, "My dream is for me to be the most famous guy in the entire world" — a ...

"Should I release a new single today???" Coming from Justin Timberlake, who wrote exactly that on Instagram Thursday, the answer is obvious: YES!

So JT did. He unleashed his "T.K.O." song, #4 on his The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 track list. Hours after the initial tease, the track was finally available for fans to stream on his website — just in time for the album's September 30 release.

And Timberlake wasn't lying when he said that this album would be "more dangerous" than part 1 of the 20/20 Experience, as evidenced by "TKO." The track is a Timberlake/Timbaland joint, with signature bleepy production and dark undertones, a far cry from the album's lead single, upbeat throwback jam "Take Back the Night."

Timberlake sings, "It cuts right on my eye, yeah it hurt, won't lie/ Still can't see, think I saw you with another guy/ Can't fight, knocked down, then I got over you/ Can't fight no more, you knock me out/ What am I supposed to do?" The song is punctuated by beat-boxing and Timbaland repeating the line, "Kill me with the coo-coochie-coochie-coo."

JT made his fans wait a little for the new music, releasing the track nearly twelve hours after his initial tease, by following with a new sneak peek every few hours. We got a picture of him in the studio, a bluish photograph taken through a hazy window. And then there were short videos featuring Justin vibing with Timbaland under the same blue filter.

With every tweet and Instagram, though, followers grew hungry for more.

But once ...

Sin City better watch out! Pop princess Britney Spears will soon start her Las Vegas residency, kicking off Friday, December 27 at Planet Hollywood.

Spears will take over Planet Hollywood for the next two years, playing 50 shows a year. Tickets for the residency hit the market on Friday (September 20) and the first round of dates have been announced.

Spears hasn't given too many hints as to what fans will get to see when they come out to the shows. So MTV News has put together a little wish list of what we hope to see when the femme fatale takes the stage later this year.

Showgirl Style
She appears on the artwork for her new single, in a leotard, complete with plunging neckline, sparkles and fur. Considering she'll be in Vegas, we hope she busts out a whole bunch of these looks. Though we're also crossing our fingers that she pays homage to some of her most unforgettable looks, including fresh spins on her "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time" school girl uniform and the "Oops!... I Did It Again" red cat suit.

You'd Better Work!
Weeks before she heads to Vegas, she will drop her eighth studio album on December 3. So far, fans have gotten a taste of it with "Work Bitch," her pulsing dance single. She's guaranteed to bust that track out, ut Spears also knows how to slow things down, so she might want to slip in her new ballad, "Perfume," into the mix as well.

Oops, We Hope She Does It Again
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As if we needed another example of the extreme lengths that Hugh Jackman will go to bring a role to life, he disappears into Keller Dover, a man driven to the edge when his daughter disappears during on Thanksgiving, along with another girl from the neighborhood.

Dover goes through a haunting transformation, barely sleeping and drinking heavily. The turn developed, as Jackman told MTV News' Josh Horowitz, from his own research into the families of abduction victims.

"The more I researched this — I read a lot of stories, I saw a lot of videos of endless parents doing those press conferences. It's happening now. Gosh, the whole Ariel Castro case has just played out in front of us all," Jackman said. "This stuff goes on. It's happening right now. Not that I expect people who have been through this to watch the movie — I felt a responsibility to not sensationalize that story, not just do a classic revenge torture thriller, but actually to delve into the realities of it."

Through this research, Jackman stumbled upon the idea of incorporating sleep deprivation into the character. Both Keller and his wife (Maria Bello) struggle with resting after the disappearance of their daughter, both dealing with the exhaustion in different ways.

But parts didn't require any research at all, but came from Jackman's own life. A father himself, Jackman says he tries to always keep a positive outlook on things, but the harsh reality does need to be considered, as his experience with "Prisoners" taught him.

"I want [my children] to go out into the world ...

Long before he was Jake Gyllenhaal the "movie star," the actor was Camp Walt Whitman's self-proclaimed "canoe master."

The 32-year-old actor opened up to MTV News about his years spent at the New England sleep-away camp, including his first kiss. Listen up!

"OK, I'll say it: my first kiss was with Emily Simon. I'll say it. I'll say that right now. Well her name is Emily Simon. It was a very special moment so why wouldn't I [say it here]; it's respectful of both parties," he recalled, before joking. "I was, like, very young. I'm not gonna say the age, but I was like very young. I was 28 years old, man."

In addition to reminiscing about Emily, he also recalled Kit Kats and Snickers being his candies of choice and that he had a part in the camp's production of "The Music Man."

This week, Gyllenhaal is back on the big screen. And although his "Music Man" days are behind him, he's starring in the Denis Villeneuve-directed thriller, "Prisoners." He previously told MTV News about how he chooses his acting projects these days.

"It is a mystery in a way. I've had this privilege of being able to act since I was very young. I had this long career. I'm at the age where I think most of my contemporaries are beginning their career," he said. "I think of it in the same way. I think of it as a beginning too, understanding who you are as a man, understanding who you are as an artist or whatever ...

If you were ever wondering what kind of music Katy Perry puts on when she wants to get in the mood, well now you know. The singer revealed what gets her hot during her iTunes radio guest DJ stint.

"Who doesn't love Drake? Drake is so sensitive but yet still so cool. It's a very hard balance to find sometimes. Emotional guys that are sensitive but strong and Drake is definitely that kind of guy. And he really hit home for on this next one called 'Hold On.' I think it's beautiful. It sounds a little bit like kind of old vibey Lionel Richie [or] The Weeknd. It's sexy as hell" Perry said. "And I listen to it with my boyfriend [John Mayer], so I would suggest listening to it with whoever you wanna make out with."

In fact, she included his Nothing Was The Same smooth jam on her playlist, among other tracks by HAIM, Iggy Azalea, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Robyn and Lorde. She sang Lorde's praises, calling the 16-year-old an "old soul" and someone who will change pop culture.

Previously Perry dished to MTV News that it was R&B superstar Miguel that got her into a romantic mood when she was hanging out with Mayer.

"Oh my god, Miguel. I am such a fan of you," Perry gushed as she shared a kiss on the cheek with the singer. "I hope you win everything," she added, before revealing whom she has to thank for getting her into his smooth breakout hit "Adorn." "I love your song ...

The Wanted have been patiently waiting more than two years for their third album, so they were unsurprisingly disappointed when they had to push back the release date.

But when the boy band stopped by MTV News, they said Word of Mouth will be well worth the wait.

"We had a very busy year. We decided to do a TV program [E!'s "The Wanted Life"], which took up a lot more schedule then we thought, and then all this stuff that we planned to do kinda had to move back as well," Jay McGuiness explained. "And then we thought the album was good to go, and last minute a few quite cool gigs and a couple other things popped up that we thought, 'It's probably worth waiting for the album a little,' I mean, the fans have waited a few years, so what's a couple of weeks?"

The guys did admit that they are getting back in the studio, but aren't adding any other songs into the mix because they feel they are finally at a place where they are putting their best material forward.

"I think that we weren't ready a year ago. It just wasn't ready; the songs weren't finished," Siva Kaneswaran said. "We want to put out the best us and we are ready now and every song is so personal and we've all aged as writers, and it's very mature... and it's the best album yet."

And even though it may be their best yet, there is something that won't be on the album: collaborations. The ...

Justin Timberlake has a few tricks up his sleeve going into this weekend's iHeartRadio Music Festival. And some of the rabbits he's pulling out of his top hat are unreleased tracks off The 20/20 Experience -- 2 of 2 out September 30.

"It's gonna be fun to play this year. Well I have not put the set list together yet because, as you know, I procrastinate on things like that. We're looking at playing some new material from the second half of this record," the "Take Back The Night" singer said of the follow-up to March's The 20/20 Experience in an interview with Ryan Seacrest on Thursday.

Timberlake has already teased to MTV News that the second half will be the "more dangerous" older sister, saying, "The first half the sun is out the second half the moon is out, I don't know."

In addition to new music, Timberlake will soon hit the big screen in "Runner Runner" alongside Batman himself, Ben Affleck.

"It's an exciting movie it's a lot of fun too. I got excited when I first read the script because it reminded me of a certain genre of thriller that you and I probably grew up with," he said of the film, which hits theaters on October 4. "The characters are really intelligent. It just felt like a nice little twist but also an homage to the thrillers that I love growing up. And then Ben Affleck signed on. We had a lot of fun shooting it. It's smart and it's got ...

Chris Hemsworth is trading in Thor's hammer for a Formula One race car in the upcoming drama directed by Ron Howard. Based on a true story, the film follows the rivalry between drivers James Hunt (Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) during the 1976 season.

While the risky sport required a certain amount of mettle from its entrants, Hemsworth insists Hunt was anything but a superhero. In fact, as movie-goers will see in the film, the driver suffered from such intense pre-race nerves, that he often vomited right before the starting flag.

"This guy had an incredible amount of cockiness and confidence, but there was a conflicted, anxiety-ridden kind of human there, and he was scared to death about racing because there was a 20 percent chance you'd die when you got on the track," Hemsworth explained. "Four or five of the guys would die in a year in the '70s and prior. So he lived with that — they all did — that looming threat. Some of the guys, Niki Lauda would study the fear and face it head on. James would distract himself from it. He'd drink and smoke and party to avoid the issue. Then he'd throw up before he raced."

Though Hemsworth confirmed that he isn't much of a "chucker" as he put it, he did admit to feeling a certain level of anxiety before auditions — or baring his bottom on screen, like he does in "Rush."

"It wasn't my idea. It was on the page," Hemsworth insisted, with a big grin. "It's an indication of ...

We thought that there was nothing that could get us more excited for the final two episodes of "Breaking Bad." The drama has been on a killer hot streak in the back half of the fifth and final season, peaking with last week's emotionally charged hour. There was no reason to expect anything different from the final two — that is, until co-executive producer and writer Peter Gould tweeted about a new development.

"I checked & it's official," Gould tweeted. "Last 2 #BreakingBad eps are 75 minutes each w/commercials. Set your DVRS accordingly. Better still, watch live!"

That's right! For its last two episodes, "Breaking Bad" will be super-sized. Even after everything that went down in the last episode, two hour-long episodes weren't enough to finish the story of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. But what is there left to happen that could be so important as to merit longer episodes? Let's take a swing at it.

Minor spoilers ahead

We last saw Walter hopping into that magical red minivan that promises a new identity and a life free of whatever horrors you're running from. As hinted by the cold opens during this season, it appears that Walter ends up with hair, a beard, and new glasses in New Hampshire, the state that appears on his new driver's license on his 52nd birthday.

It would appear — especially considering the title "Granite State," New Hampshire's official state nickname — that the next episode will cover the period between Walter's sudden departure from New Mexico and his return.

The title of the last episode, ...