by Abby Devora 8 mins ago

With additional reporting by Janelle Myers

She Really Does Care
Demi Lovato has been feeling so much love from the Lovatics that as a thank you she is giving away her album Demi for free. She’s teamed up with Google Play to deliver hits like “Really Don’t Care” and her cover of Ed Sheeran’s “Give Me Love” in digital form for nothing at all. Get it here.

‘What You Waiting For?’
What I’m waiting for is a whole lot of music from Gwen Stefani, who said that she’s coming out with a No Doubt album AND a solo album with some help from fellow “The Voice” mentor Pharrell Williams. The two are hitting the studio together to work on her personal material, and Pharrell said, “When I tell you she’s killing it, it’s another level. Gwen is somewhere else.”

Avicii Cancels Tour Dates
TomorrowWorld attendees won’t be seeing Avicii behind the DJ booth, because he’s canceling all his tour dates due to health issues that are related to earlier surgeries to remove his gallbladder and appendix.

He’s Got One Less (Legal) Issue
Justin Bieber has less to worry about now that assault charges against him have been dropped in relation to an alleged attack on a limo driver in Toronto in late December of last year. However, he still has to turn up to court in a few weeks to face charges of assault and dangerous driving from ...

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by Gil Kaufman 11 mins ago

No, I love you more! While some pop stars are busy taking shots at each other and writing songs about fellow singers who’ve done them wrong, Sam Smith and Ariana Grande are all about the love.

We already knew Sam was a huge Beyoncé fan, but apparently he’s seriously digging Ariana’s My Everything. So much that the two exchanged gushing compliments on Tuesday (September 9) morning and we think a collabo needs to happen now.

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And then Ariana returned the compliment.

by Josh Wigler 1 min ago

With Reporting by Josh Horowitz

Watch out, Marvel Universe: Ms. Banks wants to save you.

Elizabeth Banks, the actress behind the glamorous Effie Trinket in the “Hunger Games” series, could have made her first Marvel appearance in “Guardians of the Galaxy,” director James Gunn‘s space epic that’s still lighting up the box office after many weeks in theaters. Speaking with MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival for her new movie, “Love & Mercy,” Banks revealed that she approached Gunn, a friend of hers and former collaborator on the thriller “Slither,” for a role.

“I wanted to play Gamora,” she said, “and then he didn’t want to cast me. And I totally get it, because Zoë [Saldana] is great!”

Apparently, Gunn wanted to go “in a different direction” than casting Banks as Gamora. Even still, Banks has nothing but kind words to say for both “Guardians” and its director — and its star.

“It’s so entertaining,” she said of the movie. “[Gunn] is one of my favorite people in the whole world. I knew he was going to knock it out of the park, and he did. And Chris Pratt? He was premo. He’s the new Harrison Ford.”

So, what of the future? Given that Marvel is on her radar, can we expect to see Banks in a “Guardians” sequel? She certainly knows there are other Guardians out there, even though there’s only one on her mind: “I would just want to do the Groot.”

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by Maurice Bobb 23 mins ago

The models at this past weekend’s Alexander Wang show came dressed to kill, but did they come ready to work those buns, hun?

You be the judge.

While backstage at Wang’s New York Fashion Week spring 2015 RTW show, Nicki Minaj taught four models how to do the choreography from her very provocative “Anaconda” video.

Flanked by two beauties on each side, the “Pills & Potions” MC proceeded to instruct her students on the finer points of raising and splitting their legs in the air and, of course, twerking.

Oh my God, Becky, look at Irina Kravchenko, Ewa Wladymiruk, Valery Kaufman and Aleah Morgan shake what their Mommas gave them!

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by Rebecca Thomas 1 min ago

While we’ve established that Taylor Swift will not be coming for any of her exes on her 1989 album, the “22″ star did admit to a lyrical lashing that has left us basically incapable of concentrating on anything else.

In a revealing new interview with Rolling Stone, Taylor tells the writer that a song titled “Bad Blood” — the “angriest” on 1989, the mag contends — is a collection of all of the shelved mental burns she thought of but never managed to lob at a certain female musician-turned-frenemy.

“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ ” Swift recalled. Then last year, “She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’

Related: Taylor Swift’s Rolling Stone Interview: The 7 Biggest Reveals

What’s more, Swift recounted that the beef wasn’t even about a boy — just business. And it was one feud she just couldn’t shake off. Taylor said the woman, whom she declined to identify, “tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational– you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

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by Matthew Scott Donnelly 21 mins ago

Cats have nine lives, but what’s the word on werejaguars?

On tonight’s “Teen Wolf” season finale, Kate Argent, who’s been determined to off Scott McCall, took her master plan to Mexico with the Alpha Wolf and Kira as her kidnapped bait. By turning Scott into a Berserker with the power of La Iglesia on her side — thus, rendering him completely unrecognizable — Kate hoped Liam and Malia would see him as just another enemy and do her dirty work for her. But Kira was able to warn Scott’s pack before it was too late, and thanks to Liam, whose plea helped break Kate’s spell, Scott tore off his villain’s mask and became Beacon Hills’ resident hero once more.

And the bad news kept coming for Kate, who discovered The Calveras — a clan of werewolf hunters determined to exterminate her — had finally found her at the ancient church. Kate and her Berserkers put up a good fight against Araya’s henchmen, but Derek, who found his powers unexpectedly restored, helped The Calaveras out by tearing her apart. Kate tried to make a run for it, but Chris Argent, who finally decided he couldn’t turn a blind eye to his sister’s misdeeds any longer, put a bullet through her chest. Kate was down, but still not out.

In one final, impassioned address, Kate begged Chris to understand her actions. She explained that she held Scott and his pack responsible for ...

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by Adam Fleischer 18 mins ago

Two years after handing down sweeping sanctions against Penn State’s football team, the NCAA relented on many of the restrictions on Monday (September 8). The penalties — imposed following a sexual abuse scandal that rocked the football program — were initially supposed to last for four years, but were lifted two years early.

In addition to a ban on postseason play and loss of scholarships, Penn State was ordered to pay $60 million — said to be as much revenue as the football program pulls in annually — to “external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims.” That money was supposed to go into an NCAA endowment, but on Monday, the athletic association announced that it would be redirected to a Pennsylvania endowment, overseen by the state.

Jerry Sandusky, an assistant football coach at Penn State for three decades, was convicted In 2012 of sexually assaulting 10 boys; the 70-year-old was found guilty on 45 counts. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years behind bars.

Just a month later, the NCAA handed down sweeping sanctions against Penn State’s football team. But by Monday, they had reversed course.

So, why is the NCAA changing its tune now?

For one, those directly involved in the sexual abuse scandal have since been dismissed by the school, and Penn State has shown “progress toward ensuring its athletics department functions with integrity,” as the NCAA put it. Those factors may have contributed to the NCAA easing their ...

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by Maurice Bobb 24 mins ago

Wale channels his inner R. Kelly on his new Jeremih-assisted single, “The Body.”

The track, which is heavily influenced by the Pied Piper’s 1995 hit, “You Remind Me of Something,” is fueled by its hypnotic, erotic beat and the clever automotive analogies the MMG rapper uses to describe his love interest.

“You remind me of my Jeep, I wanna ride it/ You’re something like my car, got the keys to them, need the keys to you,” Jeremih sings on the hook.

Simply put, the Gifted MC’s woman’s got a body like a Benz that he wants to take for a spin.

“A good woman is scarce to us, and I wasn’t prepared to love/ I know it sound crazy but your miles scare me/ I’m just here cause your character good,” Wale raps.

If this first official single from the upcoming The Album About Nothing LP — which features a collabo with funnyman Jerry Seinfeld — is any indication, Wale’s new project is shaping up nicely.

by John Walker 28 mins ago

Sure, it’s been a couple days since Rihanna, photographer Ellen von Unwerth, Nicki Minaj, Kim Gordon and more were all sitting within note-passing distance of one another, front row at Alexander Wang’s New York Fashion Week show, but you know what? I’m still obsessed, and I don’t care who knows it.

This blindingly perfect assemblage of A-listers at the Spring 2015 Ready-To-Wear show — which also included Miguel, Tyga, Rih Rih bestie Melissa Forde, Die Antwoord, costume designer Heidi Bivens and Lauren Hutton — was basically the modern-day equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” In fact, why not take the obvious next step and combine the two?

Throw in a little after-party Miley Cyrus, and voilà!

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Etch this on my tombstone. Tattoo it onto the inside of my eyelids. Contact the Department Of Energy and alert them to a newly discovered source of renewable fuel, because this unholy image is giving me liiiiiiiife.

by Jessie Peterson 28 mins ago

While it may be hard to get the imagine of Katy Perry clad in head-to-toe denim at the VMAs out of your head, there was a time when the most recent memories we had of her were in a pizza bathing suit, in her video for “This Is How We Do.” Thankfully, today Katy and her team released a behind the scenes video featuring the making of “This Is How We Do,” which gives us the deets on the pizza bathing suit and more. So much more.

Katy’s two primary inspiration sources for the video? Her love of “Tumblr and modern art museums.” Hey, Katy, we love both those things too–wanna hang and scroll through Tumblr sometime?

If you’ve seen the video, you know that Katy’s attraction to modern art is abundantly apparent. She reveals (while wearing her Mondrian croptop and skirk, natch) that she’s recently been “very drawn to modern art.”

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Here, she bathes in a tub full of pearls, in an short black bob, which Equal parts Coco Chanel and Louise Brooks. How does Katy feel about this look? “Like a real G.”

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Her canary yellow ensemble may be from Christopher Kane’s 2014 Resort collection, but the styling and hair are very ’60s mod. The opening sequence of Katy as a portrait in a modern art gallery is a recreation of legendary hair stylist Vidal Sasson’s ...

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