Katy Perry went full retro tween for the artwork for her single "Roar" — plastering an image of herself with Lisa Frank-esque flair. But for the lyrics video for the single itself, she "taps" into 2013 teen culture — literally. The whole clip is composed of texts and artfully arranged emojis.

"Roar" is the first single off of Perry's upcoming album, Prism, which drops in October. The singer has been teasing the album and single for weeks — rolling a gold-plated Prism semi-truck around town, dropping a kitten-packed teaser for and throwing a funeral for her "Teenage Dream" persona after setting her "California Gurls" wig on fire. The takeaway from all this gold-plated fanfare? Apparently, the candy-coated Katy Perry of old is dead, and a new, darker iteration is set to take over.

of this new sound/persona — an "I am woman, hear me roar"/"Eye of the tiger" jam that's perfect for scoring any and all fighting montages on the cinematic horizon.

In the lyrics video, however, Perry chooses to text rather than flex. The vid features a lengthy text conversation between a passel of friends, typing out the lyrics to the song via words and emojis. A woman — seemingly Perry — wields the phone, tapping out the jam while doing mundane activities like eating, rolling in the passenger side of her best friend's ride and, um, something that 75 percent of Americans are also guilty of.

Perry dropped the video on the same day (August 12) that her Prism truck hit New ...

Has the a-POP-calypse been averted?

It seems that no matter how much the media wants to pit them against one another, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are determined to keep things copacetic ... as they spent the weekend bonding over the leaks of their respective singles, professing their mutual admiration, and calling for an end to the sparring between their fervent fanbases.

Yes, it was basically like the Camp David Accords, only with less Jimmy Carter.

It all started when Gaga learned that a snippet of her comeback single had hit the 'net, setting off a string of ALL CAPS missives ("YOU JUST COULDNT WAIT THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ONE SATURDAY") and threats to leakers out there. Of course, she took solace in the fact that Katy was currently suffering through a similar situation — her new single, leaked in full — and decided to extend an olive branch to her supposed foe.

Gaga also began tweeting a series of messages aimed at quelling the conflict that had been brewing between her Little Monsters and Perry's Katy Cats, pointing out that, despite their differences, both fanbases were united by their passions. And that sentiment struck a chord with Katy, who retweeted one of LG's messages to her fans.

And so far, all this reaching across the aisle seems to be working: the Monsters and the 'Cats are embracing each other, and calling for an end to their bloggy battles.

But can this fragile peace remain intact? We'll find out over the ...

Matt Damon has officially left Jason Bourne in the dust thanks to which gave the 42-year-old star his biggest opening weekend since he left the franchise following 2007's "The Bourne Ultimatum." The R-rated sci-fi flick was #1 with $30.5 million over the weekend, overcoming three widely released newcomers in the process.

defied industry expectations by beating Disney's "Planes." The R-rated marijuana-centered comedy earned $38 million since opening last Wednesday night, with $26.6 million of that made since Friday. Disney's "Cars" spinoff, featuring Dane Cook in the lead voice role, was #3 with an estimated weekend take of $22.5 million.

That left #4 to "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters." Its $14.6 million weekend was less than half its predecessor, "The Lightning Thief," which oddly enough was less faithful to the young adult book series than the latest installment.

Original, non-sequel science fiction material can be a hard sell to moviegoers outside of that particular niche. Set in a dystopian future where the rich live in a Utopian space station while the underclass toils away below, "Elysium" didn't match the opening weekend debuts of Tom Cruise's "Oblivion" or director Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim."

"Elysium" was more popular than Will Smith's critical and commercial bomb "After Earth," but it failed to live up to the opening weekend of filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's first film, "District 9." Blomkamp's freshman film opened with $37.5 million in 2009, against a $30 million production budget. It went on to earn $210 million worldwide.

Damon lavished praise on Blomkamp at San Diego Comic-Con, where he told MTV ...

Planning for a world tour is hard work — just ask Selena Gomez.

For the past two months, the "Come & Get It" singer has been perfecting every dance move, every wardrobe change and every beat of music for her Stars Dance World Tour, but now the time has come to put the finishing touches on the project, and MTV News was given an exclusive invite to witness it all.

"It's one of the last days putting it all together so it's kind of a little hectic, everyone is putting on wardrobe trying on outfits, dancing in the outfits going over the numbers nonstop," Gomez said at one of her final dress rehearsals at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. "It's the last couple of days we're buckling everything down."

During rehearsal, Gomez gave us a front row seat as she belted out the words to her song, "Undercover," off her chart topping album Stars Dance.

Dressed down in black sweat pants and a white T-shirt, Gomez gracefully moves about the stage showing off her dance moves. And even though it was only rehearsal, one can tell that the Stars Dance tour takes on a much different feel then her previous 2011 tour, We Own the Night.

"I have a little more say. I'm wanting to control the show more from the content to the choreography to everybody a part of it," Gomez said. "If anything my music is escalated and I just wanted to make it bigger and better than the last one, so it's all happening."

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At this point, the potential pitfalls of childhood stardom are legion in Hollywood. For every seemingly well-adjusted A-lister like Justin Timberlake or Dakota Fanning, there are just as many Drew Barrymores, Britney Spears' and Michael Jacksons who struggle to make the transition from cute kid global adoration to awkward teen and adult.

The latest example is troubled actress Amanda Bynes, 27, whose career began with commercial work at age seven and took her through stage musicals and starring roles in the Nickelodeon shows "Figure It Out," "All That" and "The Amanda Show" in the mid- and late-1990's. But after a solid run in TV and films ("What a Girl Wants," "Robots," "Easy A"), Bynes hit a rough patch that took her through citations for DUI, hit-and-run, marijuana possession and, last month, an involuntary psychiatric hold
 after she reportedly set a fire
 on a stranger's driveway.

As we await word on what is next for Bynes — who's involuntary hold has been extended to 30 days — MTV News looks back at the rough patch that led up to the actress' latest legal entanglement.

Summer 2010: After changing up her until-then family-friendly image and appearing in lingerie in Maxim magazine in February, Bynes announces in June that she is retiring from acting. "I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it," she tweeted. Though she changed her mind a short time later and unretired, Bynes' vow to take some time off has lasted for three years.

March 2012: Following a long radio silence broken by the occasional tweet, Bynes debuts her new ...

It was a pretty lousy weekend for Katy Perry.

On Friday, her gold-plated Prism truck got smashed up in a Walmart parking lot. On Saturday, her hotly anticipated single leaked. And then, on Sunday, she scrapped plans for the song's very public unveiling at New York radio station Z100 and announced that it would be available for download at iTunes.

Still, as you can probably gather from the lyrical content of "Roar," she wasn't about to let any of that get her down. Sure, in the past, she's sang about self-empowerment ( for example) and overcoming adversity (), but on the whole, her brand of pop has generally lacked in import — she's the California Gurl, remember? — and purpose. That fun-filled formula has worked out pretty well for her up to this point ... though it all changes right now.

Because "Roar" is Perry's most purposeful single to date. It is the empowerment anthem to end all empowerment anthems, five-plus minutes of uplift and inspiration and more mantras than a guru's guidebook. She is a champion, she has the eye of the tiger, she is thunder and she is going shake the earth beneath your feet. She is fed up and she is not going to take it anymore. She's paraphrasing Malcolm X, for crying out loud.

It's not exactly clear who Katy is standing up to in the song — Critics? Anonymous Internet commenters? Russell Brand? — though that's probably the point. There wasn't one specific catalyst behind her transformation ...

In a night where we saw Harry Styles twerk, crazy red-carpet outfits, a tearful tribute for Cory Monteith by Lea Michele and rockin' performance by Demi Lovato, many celebrities went home with surfboards at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards. MTV News rounds up the winners that were announced from the big night. See 'em below!

Acuvue Inspire Award
WINNER: Nick Jonas

Ultimate Choice Award
Ashton Kutcher (16 lifetime Teen Choice Awards)

Choice Movie: Drama
WINNER: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
»Argo
»Les Misérables
»The Great Gatsby
»The Impossible

Choice Movie Actor: Drama
WINNER: Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
»Ben Affleck, Argo
»Bradley Cooper, The Words
»Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby
»Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

Choice Movie: Comedy
WINNER: Pitch Perfect
»Identity Thief
»Peeples
»The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
»Warm Bodies

Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
WINNER: Skylar Astin, Pitch Perfect
»Jason Bateman, Identity Thief
»Steve Carell, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
»Nicholas Hoult, Warm Bodies
»Craig Robinson, Peeples

Choice Movie Actress: Comedy
WINNER: Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect
»Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect
»Melissa McCarthy, Identity Thief
»Kerry Washington, Peeples
»Olivia Wilde, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Choice TV Show: Drama
WINNER: Pretty Little Liars
»Gossip Girl
»Nashville
»Revenge
»Switched At Birth

Choice TV Actor: Drama
WINNER: Ian Harding, Pretty Little Liars
»Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl
»Joshua Bowman, Revenge
»Lucas Grabeel, Switched At Birth
»Nick Wechsler, Revenge

Choice TV Actress: Drama
WINNER: Troian Bellisario, Pretty Little Liars
»Blake Lively, Gossip Girl
»Vanessa Marano, Switched At Birth
»Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
»Emily VanCamp, Revenge

Choice TV Actor: Fantasy/Sci-fi
WINNER: Ian Somerhalder, The Vampire Diaries
»Jensen Ackles, Supernatural
»Stephen Amell, Arrow
»Jared Padalecki, Supernatural
»Paul Wesley, The Vampire Diaries

Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-fi
WINNER: Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries
»Katie Cassidy, Arrow
»Ginnifer Goodwin, Once Upon a Time
»Kat Graham, The Vampire Diaries
»Kristin Kreuk, Beauty and The Beast

Choice TV Show: Comedy
WINNER: Glee
»The Big Bang Theory
»Modern Family
»New Girl
»Suburgatory

Choice TV Actor: Comedy
WINNER: Jim Parsons, The Big ...