Ariana Grande was only teasing her fans earlier this week when she revealed a pink-hued album artwork for her September 3 debut, Yours Truly. But the fun and games ended late Thursday when she released the official black-and-white cover.

The new art features the singer in a frilly top, standing in the light, her eyes closed and her head tilted seductively to the side. As for that other shot of the singer kneeling in roses? Well, she's got other plans for it.

"Alright I'm done messing with you all although I have to admit it was pretty fun," she said. "Those other photos are all part of the album packaging."

The new image has garnered reviews like "perfect," "so beautiful omfmgk" and "literally can't stop crying. I wanna hug u Ariana." Though some fans felt that the cover is "basic" and looked too much like her art for her new latest single,

Fans only have to wait another month to hear what Grande has in store musically on the release. And, she told MTV News that the album will finally show the world who Ariana Grande is, after spending the last few years rising to fame on Nickelodeon series "Victorious" and "Sam & Cat."

"What they can expect is to get to know me, finally... Now they get to know me as Ariana," she said. "I'm very excited for that. It's very personal. It's super personal and it means a lot to me. It's incredibly emotional and sentimental."

Forget the summer of 2013; we already know the score: Robin Thicke 1, World 0. The year's real showdown is looming on the horizon ... when two of the biggest stars on the planet go head-to-head in a battle for pop supremacy.

We're talking, of course, about Katy Perry vs. Lady Gaga. The A-POP-calypse.

They'll both release albums within three weeks of each other — Katy's Prism is due on October 22, Gaga's ARTPOP on November 11 — and though you could just chalk those dates up to the traditional fourth-quarter rush (when labels stack their biggest releases to capitalize on the holiday season sales bump), there are some who see them as something more.

Forget about mere coincidence or corporate strategy ... this could be personal.

"The timing is probably intentional," Nicole Sia, SPIN's managing editor said. "I just watched Katy Perry's 'Part of Me,' and there's a scene at an awards show where Katy's presented an award, and she's backstage and Gaga walks by and is like 'Congrats,' but is throwing shade in a way. So I think it's going to be a showdown."

Of course, personal vendettas aside, there has to be a winner. And just who will come out on top is a matter of much debate. The stats certainly seem to favor Gaga — she's sold more albums and singles — but one also needs to consider recent history, which seems to favor Katy. After all, she's coming off the historic success of her Teenage Dream album, ...

Lindsay Lohan's dark, noir thriller, is out this weekend. And despite some Lohan-heavy, drama-related headlines during the film's production, the actress, fresh off a court-ordered three-month stint in rehab, is garnering generally positive reviews.

In the film, Lohan plays Tara, a Hollywood social climber trapped between a dysfunctional relationship with trust-fund kid and wannabe Hollywood producer, Christian (James Deen), and a former flame, struggling actor Ryan (Nolan Funk). It was directed by "Taxi Driver" scribe Paul Schrader and penned by .

The movie takes a look at the seedy side of Hollywood and the lengths people will go to try and make it in the business. The movie also puts a spotlight on the social boundaries put on technologically driven modern romances, leading to some especially eyebrow-raising sex scenes between Lohan and Deen. Given how much was written about the film even before critics got a peek at any frames, what are they saying now about Lohan's performance?

Far From Perfect
"The undimensional and unambitious character conceptions offer very little for the actors to work with; they have no humor, no worthwhile insights, no detectable, relatable humanity. Nor are there significant dramatic opportunities to test either Lohan, who comes off OK but unexceptionally, certainly compared to some of her earlier roles, or the less familiar names." — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

Signs Of Life
"Of course, many people of my generation will flock to this movie to watch Lindsay Lohan. She's the best thing about this movie, along with a monologue from James Deen peppered with the ...

Although she is pop's bad girl, Rihanna is no stranger to the world of electronic music. From her mega-hit to working with David Guetta and Nicky Romero on Unapologetic, RiRi has been experimenting with powerhouse EDM producers.

MTV News caught up with Nicky Romero at the Tomorrrowland festival in Belgium, where he informed us that his professional relationship with Rihanna is far from over. "We actually produced the record called 'Right Now' on her album Unapologetic. So I made that one together with David Guetta and now we're working on a follow-up."

The production on the track will be "out of the box," he told us, adding quickly with a smile, "In a smooth way."

Nicky Romero has been busy at work with many other projects as well, mainly finishing up his "Legacy" record with Krewella, who, according to Romero, "saved his life" on the project with their top-of-the-line vocals. The young DJ also has an album on the way featuring the likes of Fedde Le Grande and the aforementioned David Guetta.

As for Rihanna, she is currently finishing up her two-month Diamonds world tour alongside her DJ opening act GTA. The group, consisting of Matt Van Toth and Julio Mejia, generally stick to clubs and after-hour spots when performing, but found Rihanna's audiences to be "f---ing amazing."

After years of wondering when we'd see a sequel to "James Cameron's 2009 megahit that went on to become the biggest movie of all time, we finally got an answer for when moviegoers will return to the exotic planet of Pandora.

Actually, we got three answers.

That's because Cameron's plan to make two sequels to "Avatar" is now a plan to film three movies simultaneously. The director and 20th Century Fox announced plans today to bring on three teams of writers to collaborate with Cameron separately on "Avatar 2," "Avatar 3," and "Avatar 4," due in theaters December 2016, December 2017, and the third at some point the following year. The current plan is to get the scripts in good enough shape to film all three at the same time.

We heard yesterday that Josh Friedman, a writer for TV spin-off of Cameron's "The Terminator," "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," was being hired to help the director finish the script for "Avatar 2," but now the plan involves two additional movies and two more writing teams, Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver ("Rise of the Planet of the Apes") and Shane Salerno ("Savages").

"Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience," Cameron said in a released statement. "In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's' world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. And to help me continue to ...