"Immature and naive," "basic" and "sh--": That's how British singer Archy Marshall, a.k.a. King Krule, describes his single "Easy Easy," a song beloved by Earl Sweatshirt, and the same one Beyoncé officially endorsed on her Beyhive Blog recently.

"That's why I quite like it," he told MTV News on Wednesday (July 23) of the early track's raw production.

It makes sense, though, that King Krule might feel slightly "beyond" "Easy Easy" when it comes to songwriting. He wrote the song in 2007 — back when he was around 12 years old. In fact, the jam is the oldest on Krule's debut album, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, slated to drop on August 24, which happens to coincide with the singer's 19th birthday.

"I feel that the album is a very self-centered record, so I wanted to make it apparent that I'd been working on it throughout my life and it had aspects from when I was really young — from my birth — until now," Krule said. "So I wanted to cut it off at a very clear date of 19 years. That seemed the easiest way of doing it."

The record itself — like the works that Krule has put out under aliases Zoo Kid, DJ JD Sports and Edgar the Beatmaker — defies genre in a sense. It's a palimpsest of sound, including punk elements. Take for example the naive aggression of "Easy Easy," a work that recalls the ethos of bands like Minor Threat, both in the age of the artist and the mundane quality of the lyrics ...

Earlier this week, Paramore announced a run of North American dates set for October. And if you're wondering why they waited a full six months after the release of their self-titled fourth album to take their show to big venues from Atlanta to Uncasville, well, Hayley Williams has the answer:

These are the shows they've been working towards the entire time.

"We always want to outdo whatever we've already done. That being said, yes, this is a tour that we've been dreaming of for a little while and we're really excited to make it happen," she wrote in an email to MTV News. "I want to remember this tour as the tour that changed the game for us in terms of being a live band."

And that means reimagining Paramore's entire live show, beginning with the setlist and running all the way through the production, which, Williams said, is being handled in part by the band's bassist, Jeremy Davis.

"The major thing for us is remaining a rock band and pulling off a show that is about that rather than relying solely on production. However, we're pretty excited about the tour 'cause we're going to be adding a lot of production elements that we've never tried before," she wrote. "Jeremy is actually manning that ship and coming up with most of the staging and production with a guy who's one of the best in the business. The whole thing is going to be new for us, so I know it'll feel new to fans no matter how many of our shows they've ...

Be named class valedictorian? Check! Land a summer job as a lifeguard? Check! Get admitted to Georgetown University? Double-check! So what's left on 18-year-old Brandy Klark's ? Oh, not much, just learn everything there is to know about sex before freshman orientation.

That's the premise of writer/director Maggie Carey's upcoming film, which stars "Parks and Recreation" actress Aubrey Plaza as a coitus-ly clueless teen, who compiles a check sheet of all the naughty deeds she wants to do over the summer.

Some have likened "The To Do List" to a female version of "Superbad," and given its frank handling of sex (and its many, many cringe-inducing moments), it's probably an apt description.

And though the teens in the film are played by 20- and 30-something actors, the cast admitted recently during an interview at San Diego Comic-Con that even they came away from filming with a few new tricks.

"We all learned a lot of different sexual acts from doing this movie," Plaza said. "We learned what they are."

"I learned what 'bumping doughnuts' are," co-star Scott Porter offered. (For more on that, we suggest you watch the video above in which Porter helpfully demonstrates the move with his hands.)

Of course, much of the sexual onus in the film is on Plaza, who happily revealed her most embarrassing moment during production.

"Honestly, for me, just any kind of heavy breathing is not ideal," she said. "Breathing is a private thing. You don't want a lot of people around watching you breathe heavily, and I had to do that a lot. Those ...

From the sensual dance moves to the sexy lyrics, Selena Gomez shocked many as shed her good-girl image for a more revealing side with "Come & Get It."

It seems that the transition paid off because Gomez is now up for a 2013 Video Music Award for Best Pop Video with the hit single.

"VMA, that's crazy," Gomez told MTV News about her nomination. "I mean honestly, not even just because it's my song; I just genuinely think it was a beautiful video. The dancers were amazing, the dance was beautiful, the shots were gorgeous, so I'm super stoked. I'm stoked for Anthony Mandler who directed it too because obviously it was his creation."

Gomez teamed up with Mandler to create the sexy clip, which is the lead single off her just released album Stars Dance. The video has Gomez, who said Mandler let her have more "creative control" over the clip, embracing the beat of the track while braving the "earthy" elements and exuding confidence and maturity.

Gomez faces off against some tough competition in the Best Pop Video category — Bruno Mars ("Locked out of Heaven"), Justin Timberlake ("Mirrors"), fun. ("Carry On") and friend Miley Cyrus ("We Can't Stop"). If Gomez takes home the Moonman on August 25 it will mark her first time winning the trophy. But Selenators, don't expect her to come prepared.

"No, I'm not good at writing speeches down because if I do, then it gets in the way," Gomez said about whether she plans on penning an acceptance speech. "I'm not even planning ...

Birdman and Rick Ross don't play when it comes to their money, and on their latest paper chase, the two friends bring out the big guns.

On Saturday, Stunna and Rozay got together in Miami to shoot the video for their new collaboration "50 Plates," a new song off Birdman's Rich Gang compilation album. Baby's hitting "RapFix Live" on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET to promote it.

"I think it's one of the hottest songs on the CD, which all of them hot," Birdman boasted while the MTV News cameras rolled.

"With '50 Plates,' that's a term — that's actually a street term for a certain way you get money," Ross added, trying to explain a bit of the song's cryptic meaning.

On the song's hook, the Maybach boss raps "I'm dying to fill this empty safe," while he peppers his slow-rolling verses with plenty of gunshot and money-machine sound effects. "We dying to fill this empty safe, that's something that I'm pretty sure everybody that's trying to get money and stand on their own two has said to their selves or most definitely relate to."

Video director Dre Films was tasked with bringing the song's menacing film to life, so he flipped over a few trucks, outfitted Rick Ross, Bird and Ace Hood with hockey masks and bulletproof vests and then supplied them with prop machine guns. It was an attempt for the Maybach Films director to remake one of his favorite films of all time. "We just trying to do it blockbuster style with this one and pay homage to ...

Just days before the cast of HBO's "True Blood" descended upon San Diego to sink their teeth into Comic-Con, news broke that the sexy series would return for a seventh season — no mean feat considering it recently lost one of its key players. (And, no, we're not talking about you, Russell Edgington.)

"It's really rare territory for HBO," star Joe Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux, told MTV News of the renewal after executive producer Alan Ball's departure. "Usually when the showrunner stops doing the show, the show stops. I mean, you don't do 'Deadwood' without David Milch. You don't do 'Sopranos' without David Chase. We're moving on. We're powering through."

Much of that "powering through" can be credited to the smooth transition from Ball to new showrunner Brian Buckner, who's been with the series since the beginning.

"He was brought in during season one to take over the show for season two. Alan was only going to be on for one season and leave, but he was having so much fun and the show did so well that he stuck around," Manganiello explained. "So Bucky, as we call him, had to wait five seasons. So it's in good hands. He knows what he's doing."

In fact, Manganiello said he couldn't be happier with his character's new attitude since taking over as Shreveport packmaster — especially since it has meant fewer critical phone calls from his real-life father.

"I'm glad that he's not taking anybody's crap anymore," Manganiello said of Alcide. "There's only so many times you can get punched, shoved, cheated on, ...

If Justin Bieber is looking for some sage advice from some slightly more seasoned pop stars, the Jonas Brothers have some words of wisdom for the singer, who has been the subject of countless tabloid rumors and speculation over the last few months.

Between the never-ending interest in his on-again, off-again relationship with Selena Gomez and that recent video of him urinating into a mop bucket in NYC, the JoBros weighed in on it all when they stopped by Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" on Tuesday.

Joe's thoughts on the matter were pretty simple, "Boys will be boys, I guess."

The show's host, Andy Cohen, noted that the group's youngest member, Nick, 20, hasn't publicly exhibited the same types of bad boy behavior as Bieber. "I'd like to think of myself as a man, he's a ... he's a couple years younger," Nick joked about Bieber, 19. Although he did have some encouraging words for him as well.

"Here's what I'll say is that everyone has to go through a period of growth," Nick added. "I think he's in that period now. I wish the best for him 'cause I do think he's a talented person. But he just has to get through a season of growth."

During his "season of growth," Bieber is prepping the release of new music, which, according to his manager, Scooter Braun, should silence the critics and end the Bieber has teased out his lead single, over the course of the last few weeks through an ad for his latest ...

You know you're a boss when your new album loses more than three-quarters of its first-week sales and still tops the charts, beating out four new titles.

That's the kind of swag Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail has, even after shedding 76 percent of its first week business and moving 129,000 copies in week two, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. That gives the Roc Nation boss nearly 658,000 in two frames, putting him well on the way to matching the one million units given away by Samsung five days before MCHG officially hit stores.

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Either way, it was more than enough to best singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles' The Blessed Unrest (#2, 68,000) and the 24th edition of the Kidz Bop series (#3, 62,000). The other new faces in the top 10 belonged to rapper Ace Hood, who slid in at #4 with Trials & Tribulations (34,000), the soundtrack to the Disney Channel TV movie "Teen Beach" (#8, 25,000) and Cody Simpson's Surfer's Paradise (#10, 24,000).

Elsewhere in the top 10, Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience bounced up four spots to #9 as sales picked up by 33 percent to 24,000. In a switcheroo, Daft Punk dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in two months, falling five spots to #14, as sales of Random Access Memories were down 19 percent to 19,000. Also dropping out of the top 10 was Kanye West's Yeezus, which dipped 12 to #18, as sales were off ...