March 19, 2025

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Miley Cyrus To Start A ‘Movement’ In Upcoming MTV Documentary

Miley Cyrus has been making headlines for months now, but chances are, you don't know the whole story.

That will change on October 2, when MTV premieres "Miley: The Movement," a one-hour documentary that follows Cyrus as she records her Bangerz album, and delves deep into her transformation from Disney icon to boundary-pushing pop star. And, as you'd probably expect, she's taking fans everywhere.

"I want all my fans to come with me; to the studio, on the road, at performances," Cyrus tells MTV. "There's going to be a lot of ups and downs, and it's going to be completely insane. You've gotta be a part of the movement with me."

Last week MTV News gave fans an exclusive sneak peek of the doc, debuting a scene in which Miley addressed the critics of her VMA performance and stated, matter-of-factly, "I don't pay attention to the negative."

"I've seen this play out so many times," she said of the criticism. "How many times have we seen this play out in pop music? Madonna's done it. Britney's done it. Every VMA performance, that's what you're looking for; you're wanting to make history."

What else will she reveal? You'll have to tune in to find out. "Miley: The Movement" will premiere Wednesday, October 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV!

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Janelle Monae Still ‘Pinching’ Herself Over <i>Electric Lady</i>

Janelle Monáe made her mark with her signature tuxedo-glam style, a funky sound and futuristic lyrics. Now the "Q.U.E.E.N." is back and she wants you to join the "experience" that is Electric Lady.

On her 19-track sophomore effort, Monáe continues the journey of her alter ego, Cindi Mayweather, who was first introduced on her 2007 EP, Metropolis, and appeared again on her debut, The ArchAndroid.

This new album, out Tuesday (September 10), also pulls from a variety of different genres — from R&B and rock to hip-hop and jazz — for an album the singer describes as "undefinable."

"This album isn't to be marginalized. It is of hope, of inspiration and of love," Monáe told MTV News when we spoke to her after her New York Fashion Week performance for designer Rebecca Minkoff's show. "It is to encourage a million electric ladies to build and come into existence, and 'electric lady' does not have a particular skin color or hair texture but our communality is community and wanting to nurture the community and knowing that we have to be the change."

Monáe, who's also a face of COVERGIRL, revealed that she was extremely involved in the production process of Electric Lady, bringing in an orchestra, live strings and horn players, as well as a host of star-studded collaborators, including Erykah Badu, Miguel, Solange Knowles, Cee Lo Green, Big Boi and, one of her "musical heroes," Prince.

"I'm still pinching myself," Monáe said of working with those artists. "I'm just in disbelief that I've gotten the opportunity to work with these incredible ...

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Meek Mill Let Kendrick Know He ‘Means Business’ On ‘Ooh Kill Em’ Dis

For the hip-hop community, Kendrick Lamar's "Meek Mill was named on the track though, and after finally snapping back at K.Dot on "Ooh Kill Em" this weekend, the MMG rapper told MTV News that he just needed to find time to record — but it was coming.

"The day I dropped it was the day I finished it," Meek said, explaining why the response was a bit delayed. "I've been working on my mixtape, Self Made Vol 3. and trying to get music for my album so I didn't really have time just to focus on dis raps."

Meek and his producer Rio settled on a beat sampled from Dr. Dre and Eminem's "Forgot About Dre," which inspired a bit of Shady flow. "Rio sent me the beat, it was a west coast beat — the 'Forgot About Dre' beat — and it just made me think about that so I ran with the Eminem flow from there and I just talked my talk."

"Kendrick made a statement where he wanted to be competitive, so I made it competitive," Meek added. "It's a lot of people who he said their names but a lot of people like to play chess and poker, etcetera, and I'm just having fun. I could do that all day, so I just wanted to start it off and let him know — let's play. I like having fun, I love to rap, so it's fun to me."

In his response, Meek definitely takes issue with Kendrick dubbing himself "the king of New York," rapping, "Man, ...

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Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’ Video Angles Mirror At Modern Life: Watch Now!

Arcade Fire's musing about music in the Internet age, "Reflekor," got a second video Monday (September 9) when the Anton Corbijn-directed vid for the first single off the album by the same name hit the Web.

The black-and-white video comes hot on the heels of an obtuse, interactive version created by Google Creative Labs, which also dropped Monday. The linear iteration, however, is no less dense.

After transforming his band into papier-mâché approximations of themselves — via the giant bobbleheads from their "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" video — lead singer Win Butler herds Arcade Fire into the back of a truck, taking the wheel along with his wife, Régine Chassagne.

The band plays dutifully in the back of the moving truck as Butler and his wife drive through the dark woods, the frontman singing about falling in love "alone on the stage/in the reflective age" — a sentiment perhaps pertaining to his relationship with music in a time when all bands are merely "reflecting" each other and what culture wants. Chassagne then chimes in with a phrase in French, which translates to something like: "Between the night, night and dawn/Between the kingdom of the living and the dead."

That phrase sets the dark tone for the rest of the video, which finds the crew tooling through the nighttime woods, a man made of mirrors following close on their tail as they stop to pick up a coffin decorated with broken CDs. The band ends up in a field, where the mirrored man apparently lives in a mirrored house, ...

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Lil Wayne Chats Up Katie Couric About Retirement

Lil Wayne has a special relationship with Katie Couric. Back in 2009, the pair hung out, bowled
 and talked about what it means to be a gangsta.

The unlikely friendship continued on Monday (September 9), when Wayne (who Couric called "hip-hop's mad genius") sat down with the former network news anchor on her syndicated "Katie" talk show to discuss why he dropped out of high school, his dangerous addiction to syrup and why he's really, really ready to call it a day on his rap career.

Since their last talk, Wayne did a stretch in prison on gun possession charge, so naturally Couric was curious how the other prisoners treated the rapper. "It's jail," he answered when asked if the other convicts were excited to see such a famous face. "So, for the first 20-30 seconds you're like, 'Oh my God that's really him,' then ... the reality of where you're at clicks right back in."

Couric, or ("Miss Katie" as Wayne referred to her the first time around), also asked about how Weezy's children are doing, which caused the Young Money boss to shake his head a blush a bit. "My oldest is my beautiful daughter she's 14, Reginae. She's awesome, she's a firecracker," said Wayne, who dressed conservatively in a white t-shirt, khakis and a "trippy" baseball hat. "Personality out of this world." He called his three sons his "everything" and reiterated that he wants to retire in five years when he turns 35.

"Whatever they want to do," he said about his plans to spend time with ...

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Justin Bieber’s New Music, Movie Coming Soon — But How Soon?

Beliebers won't have to wait much longer to hear new tunes from Justin Bieber. Manager Scooter Braun confirmed that new music will drop next month.

Scooter took to Twitter on Monday (September 9) to hype up releases from his artists, including The Wanted's delayed release date. During the Twitter flurry, he revealed that Bieber "gives u some new music in October until December and then a special movie on Christmas," he shared, teasing that the long-in-the-works documentary, "Believe," may also be released by the end of 2013 that is "...provided we finish the movie on time [director] @jonmchu."

Though no specific dates were revealed by Braun, Bieber has been long teasing new music from his for months, even giving fans a small taste of its lead single, in a commercial for his latest perfume, The Key, and in an a capella Instagram video.

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Previously, Braun had told MTV News he thinks that "Heartbreaker" will end the "witch hunt" of the teen star and added that "he wants to speak for himself."

He continued, "For this project, we want to do things a little bit differently. And there are more songs than 10 or 12, so if you have more music and you have more things you want to express, you gotta think out the box, and [think like] 'How do I get this out there in a unique way where it gets directly to my fans and I can express myself through music directly to them?' ...

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One Direction Sequel? Tom Felton Is Down To Play Niall, ‘Of Course’

Sure, One Direction's 3-D documentary, already had their real-life cast, but there's one Hollywood A-lister who would've loved to assume the role of 1D singer Niall Horan. That guy is none other than "Harry Potter" baddie Tom Felton.

It all started after Horan told Yahoo! last month that he'd love to have the actor play him in a fictionalized account of 1D's life.

Felton heard his call loud and clear.

"I heard this. I read this. Niall is one of the wonderful members of One Direction," he explained to his "Therese" co-star Elizabeth Olsen while chatting with MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival. "They are awesome. They are a dominating force."

So, should the script come his way, would he ever really consider it? "Of course! Oddly... what's really sweet is the rest of them have said like Tom Cruise, Leonardo [DiCaprio] and then Niall said Tom Felton. He's blonde, yeah. I could dye it, whatever," he said. "It's very flattering and I'm a big Directioner."

Until that movie gets made (or not), 1D's mentor, Simon Cowell, recently told us that he would consider green lighting a , under the right circumstances.

"Yeah, for sure. We'd love to do another movie with them," Cowell said last week. "But they've got this massive tour next year, so we've got to work into their schedule, hopefully." (1D still have more dates on their Take Me Home tour lined up through October before they launch their globe-spanning Where We Are tour in April.)

In addition to some heavy box-office play, 1D ...

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