Some of the "High School Musical" stars have a song (or an album) in their hearts.

After appearing in "Spring Breakers," Vanessa Hudgens recently surprised fans when she dropped the scandalous track And her pal Ashley Tisdale is also feeling inspired to make music again.

There's a good reason why the former "HSM" starlets are back in the studio. "I think music, for us, is a big part of us, me and Vanessa," Tisdale told MTV News. "We love it. We obviously came from 'High School Musical,' so we miss it."

In the four years since Tisdale dropped her last studio album, Guilty Pleasure, she's focused more on her film career, including her latest release, But now she's ready to create jams instead of films, and she thinks she's lived just enough life the last few years to put those experiences to music.

"It's so funny. I've been asked that question a lot, and I've just always been somebody who needs to be inspired, obviously, to do something," she said. "I don't just want to do it just to do it. But I have been missing music, so I think I'm going to be going to the recording studio, like, next week."

So what should fans expect from Tisdale on her next album? Well, that's just what she's trying to figure out.

"I'm still feeling it out," she said. "I want to surprise people a little bit, something different from what I've done before. I started actually last year recording, but you know, I'm just still trying to find exactly what ...

Public Enemy
It's fitting that PE are the fourth hip-hop group inducted into the Hall of Fame, since their pioneering sound, vision and lyrical influence have helped shape rap for more than three decades. The Long Island crew, led by literate rhymer Chuck D and outrageous hype man Flavor Flav, exploded the possibilities of the genre with such songs as "Bring the Noise," "Don't Believe The Hype" and "Fight the Power," melding politics with cries for social justice over a squealing, frantic bed of chaotic noise from DJ Terminator X.

On the 25th anniversary of the landmark album It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Flav told MTV News that it was, "A combination of the street versus the natural elements that try to do the right way in life: anti-drugs, anti-alcohol." Since Flav did not abstain from those substances, when those two worlds collided it was a vision that no one else could understand or replicate.

"Fight the Power" is central to Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and was #322 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The group's influence was huge in hip-hop, but spread well beyond, touching rock groups such as Rage Against the Machine and Anthrax.

Will be inducted by: Spike Lee and Harry Belafonte.

Heart
Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson set the tempo in the 1970s for generations of female rockers thanks to their iconic hits "Crazy On You," "Magic Man" and "Barracuda." They also played a role in helping birth the 1990s grunge revolution with their Bad Animals recoding ...

On Wednesday, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis premiered their epic video, which follows the dynamic duo on a journey across land, sea and air, aboard everything from planes and boats to dogsleds and camels.

Yes, it's definitely a very big deal, the rare clip that actually lives up to the advance billing — just days before "Can't Hold Us" premiered, Mack & Lew promised a video that would be one shot over 16 days, on 6 continents and cobbled together in hotel rooms around the globe.

Of course, almost two months ago, Macklemore & Lewis invited MTV News out to the campus of the University of Southern California, where they were shooting a scene from the clip that didn't involve a single biplane or boat ... instead, it was just Ryan Lews, flinging himself through the air and into the waiting arms of some frat guys. Over and over again. And now that the scene in question has made the final cut, well, we figured we'd bring the action to you right now.

"We've put a lot of planning into this," he laughed. "I'm jumping out of this window four times, and there's a whole bunch of frat dudes that are hopefully going to catch me."

As you are probably aware, the frat guys did their job ... though that may have something to do with the fact that, besides being students at the University, they were also fans of the duo, and they definitely weren't going to let Lewis drop.

"A music video like this, we conceptualized it, we hire ...

There are many signposts that mark an artist's arrival: a Grammy, an Oscar, multiplatinum albums, hit movies and TV shows and critical acclaim. The acts that made it onto Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World list have all of that and a little something else that sets them apart from the pack.

Which is why Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake, Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Beyoncé, Jay-Z
and Christina Aguilera take their place on this year's list alongside such politicians, fashion and technology titans as Michael Kors, Elon Musk (PayPal), President Obama, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Pope Francis.

Here's what the magazine's celebrity profilers had to say about them.

Beyoncé
"When all the work is done, she can step onto a stage and draw every single person in the audience into an intimate experience. No one has that voice, no one moves the way she moves, no one can hold an audience the way she does. And she keeps growing and evolving in the ways that she expresses herself as a singer, as a performer and now as a mother." — director Baz Luhrmann

Frank Ocean
"Frank is brilliant. The day I started writing with him, it was clear that he has a very interesting mind and a distinctive way of expressing himself. He was fearless and innately creative. ... I think Frank's career will be defined by his fearlessness and his artistic freedom. He has the talent, the ability and the brilliance to have an impact for a long time. He will follow his muse wherever it goes ...

There's a new breed of comic-book flick heading to theaters this summer, and it's arriving in the form of "Jeff Bridges.

The trailer packs in a lot of information in a briskly paced three minutes, so here's a bullet-point guide to this summer's freakiest crime-fighting force.

High Concept
The trailer does a solid job of compressing the source material's out-there concept enough to not overwhelm the trailer. Mary-Louise Parker does the heavy-lifting as Proctor, injecting a bit of charm into the explanation of Reynolds' grim new occupation. "You have skills that we want," she explains. She represents the R.I.P.D., the afterlife's police division charged with arresting the soul's that escape judgment. This concept is unlike anything else in theaters this summer, making the film's originality stand out from the crowd of sequels.

Heavy on Humor
For a film focused on death, Bridges and Reynolds sure do bring the funny. Sure, it's a dark style of humor, but Bridges is clearly enjoying his turn as a character that seems a bit like the bombastic cousin of "True Grit" character Rooster Cogburn. Reynolds employs his should-be-trademarked incredulous stare well here, casting a suspicious eye to all of the over-the-top proceedings. The trailer has as many sight gags and witty one-liners as it does escaped souls.

Effects Extravaganza
The film's likely to draw comparisons to "Men in Black," another film focused on an unknown peace-keeping unit. But whereas the men in black hunted rogue aliens with inhuman features, the R.I.P.D. come face to face with fugitives who just look a bit left of human. With elongated mouths, hulking forearms ...

Rap's Cheech and Chong is ready for a reunion. Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y hopped online on Wednesday and announced that their long-awaited, collaborative project Live in Concert will be released for free online on April 20, the unofficial stoner holiday.

"We've been talking about Live in Concert for a year now," Curren$y said while on a live YouTube stream. The tape that was originally supposed to drop on August 9, 2012, but has been delayed due to sample clearance issues. "There were some hurdles, a little red tape we had to cut through in the music business that happens to keep us from getting sued."

Staying true to form, the duo, who released their first collabo tape How Fly in 2009, smoked weed throughout the 16-minute broadcast and even treated fans to a tag-team rendition of Max B's "Porno Music."

After their expletive-filled rap, Spitta joked about losing sponsorship dollars, an obvious poke at the Rick Ross/Reebok ordeal. "I'm probably gonna lose my Sea World endorsement. I just signed a $20 million deal with them," he said in jest.

Last July, Curren$y visited and told show host Sway Calloway that the seven-song project was completed over the course of two days and they got as creative as they wanted to be.

"When me and [Wiz] work, there is never a structure to it," he said. "So, some stuff might be 11 minutes, some songs might be 30 seconds. But in that 30 seconds, you would've got like two hours' worth of game."

What is your favorite Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y ...