Beyoncé wants you to embrace your inner warrior on her soundtrack contribution to the animated flick, "Epic," out now.

The song, which hit the Net on Wednesday, is an inspirational mid-tempo track featuring production from Hit-Boy and Chase N. Cash, as well as singer/songwriter Sia's lyrical prowess. It follows in the tradition of other Bey tunes that aim to remind the listener they run the world.

The song builds around Beyoncé's soaring vocals and feel-good chorus, where she tells the listener, "Fight for you and me/ Look into my eyes and believe/ Little woman we will fight, we will fight/ Little woman we will fight, we will rise."

Later on Beyoncé, who also has the role of Queen Tara in the film, tells the subject of the song to embrace who they are: "They'll burn you at the stake/ If you don't act like they want you to/ But baby be yourself/ Do good and help the world."

While fans have this song to tide them over, the singer has yet to announce when her highly anticipated 2013 studio album will be released. Fans got a taste of the release when her tropical-sounding tune, when a studio version was leaked last month, before getting taken down. And, days later when she closed out the European leg of her Mrs. Carter Show world tour, she gave audience members a full listen to the shimmering She will resume the tour on June 28 in Los Angeles while fans eagerly await more news on her follow-up to ...

Justin Bieber has been all around the world, and now he's about to head to space. The pop star has been confirmed to join a slew of other A-listers who will take flight with Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic, potentially before the year's end.

The Virgin mogul confirmed the news on Twitter, adding that Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, will also join them: "Great to hear @justinbieber & @scooterbraun are latest @virgingalactic future astronauts. Congrats, see you up there!"

The 19-year-old then shared what he plans to do when he gets there. "Let's shoot a music video in SPACE!! #nextLEVEL," he teased.

Bieber is hardly the only celebrity packing his bags to head into the final frontier on the SpaceShipTwo, which will fly 62 miles above the earth when it eventually launches. Other A-listers who reportedly have paid the $250,000 fee to board a flight on Virgin Galactic aircraft include Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher and Tom Hanks.

The first commercial flight on Virgin Galactic could potentially go to space by year's end. Back in April, the SpaceShipTwo had a successful test run in California, breaking the speed of sound.

Until then, Bieber is hard at work on his next album, dubbed his Earlier this week, the singer revealed that his next single is called but didn't confirm when fans might hear the track. Bieber has been penning songs for the "music journal" while trekking the globe on his Believe tour, which will resume on June 22 in San Diego. Given that he's about ...

Taylor Swift likes to put on a show — from her edgy , masquerade-theme performance of at the American Music Awards to her young-spirited, bouncy version of at the MTV Video Music Awards. So when it came to the 2013 CMT Music Awards, nothing was different.

The arena in Nashville, Tennessee, glowed with red light as Swift went full force into "Red," the title track off her 2012 album. She emerged onstage with eyes dark, hair light and everything else in her favorite color — you guessed it: red. A color guard zipped around stage with flowing crimson flags, red splashes painted the screens behind her and her fans mouthed along as she sang the high-emotion hit.

Swift wore a shimmery, black bustier and black shorts, deviating from the oxfords and sweaters she's been known to wear lately. And, of course, she tied everything together with a red wrap, falling behind her like a dress.

And if the song wasn't powered enough at the beginning, Taylor joined her bandmate for an electric guitar solo. Her pal plucked out a charged riff while she flung her hair, really getting into it. Swift ended the show with her classic stare out into the audience, taking everything in as her spotlight dimmed out.

What do you get when you put Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Nas and Timbaland in the studio together? Well, for now, just a picture.

Def Jam senior VP of A&R Lenny Santiago has been hitting Instagram with a few eye-popping in-studio pics lately, but on Wednesday night he may have posted the biggest. "JAY x JT x NAS x TIMBO Rat Pack sh--," he captioned a pic of the four stars laughing while seated next to some studio equipment. "For some this is 'Work' ... For us it's just Fun #RocNation."

There's no telling what the quartet is working on and where it will end up. It has been said that Jay is putting together his 12th solo LP. In May, Lenny S. also snapped pics of Jay-Z and Drake and another of Hov and Wu-Tang Clansman Raekwon in the studio. Timberlake, of course, is slated to drop the sequel to his The 20/20 Experience in September; either of those two projects seems like a logical choice for such a high-powered collaboration.

There must have been something in the air, because Eminem linked with Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy in the studio Wednesday night as well, but that's another story — no, it's literally another story.

Hov and Timberlake struck gold when they hooked up for JT's "Suit & Tie" earlier this year, and in July the two will go out together on the Legends of Summer stadium tour. If this new pic is any indication, maybe Nas can join them for a date or two.

It isn't uncommon for artists to hold listening sessions for press and industry mainstays a week or two before their albums drop. More than just a privileged experience, the practice helps media outlets determine how to cover an upcoming release. But on Thursday (June 6), J. Cole plans to flip the script on the common practice.

Cole will be holding a private listening of his June 18 Born Sinner LP for media tonight in New York City, but he has found a pretty cool way to treat his fans to an advanced listen as well. "Born Sinner will stream 1 time tomorrow at these exact coordinates ... 8pm EST/ 7pm CT/ 5pm PST," the Roc Nation MC tweeted on Wednesday night while linking to a site with latitude and longitude coordinates in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Houston, Los Angeles and Cole's native Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The concept is similar to Kanye West's May 17 premiere of his , for which he gathered crowds in various cities and projected the clip on a number of public buildings. Cole's execution is a little more involved, however. Before fans show up to the designated locations, they must first download the LSNR application on their iPhones or Androids. "Please bring 1. iphone fully charged, 2. with LSNR app downloaded and enabled, and 3. favorite pair of headphones," he tweeted. "This is for those that can't be at the NYC listening tomorrow night."

The "Power Trip" MC has been boasting about his album for some time now, but at the same ...

Nine Inch Nails waved goodbye in 2009 as Trent Reznor turned his attention to film scores and making music with another group, How To Destroy Angels.

But the faithful never lost hope that someday, he'd return to NIN, and, in February, Reznor announced that he was reforming the group ... though only to tour. Of course, as these things tend to go, a few shows weren't nearly enough, and on Thursday (June 6), Nine Inch Nails revealed they've been working on a whole lot more than just tour routing.

NIN are back in full swing, with a brand-new single — "Came Back Haunted," which sounds very much like an updated take on something from the Pretty Hate Machine era (maybe "Sin?") and is streaming in full over on their Tumblr — a new album, Hesitation Marks (due September 3 through Columbia Records), and a full-blown arena tour, set to kick off September 28 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Yes, it's a very good day indeed for NIN fans.

"Came Back Haunted" is already available through iTunes, and fans who pre-order Hesitation Marks (NIN's first album since 2008's The Slip, which was initially released for free) through the site will instantly receive a download of the single.

And as for that tour, well, it's called "Nine Inch Nails: Tension 2013," and, according to Reznor, it's a continuation of their epic 2008 trek — "'Tension' picks up where 'Lights in the Sky' left off," he said in a statement. "This is the full-on NIN live experience, realized as we ...

This isn't the "Wizards of Waverly Place" anymore. The new trailer for Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke's action thriller, premiered Thursday (June 6), and it plants the former Disney star's feet in a world filled with fast cars, guns and intrigue.

The movie follows Hawke's character, a former race-car driver, as he races against the clock to save his kidnapped wife while not being completely sure what the bad guy is after. Along the way, he runs into Gomez; shortly after she points a gun at him, she is forced to join him on the mission at the command of Hawke's wife's kidnapper. Will he kill her at the kidnapper's request? "I'm not a killer," he says.

"Good, you will need her help if you want your wife back," the kidnapper declares, leaving viewers to wonder what she might have to bring to the equation. The trailer is then filled with car chases, more guns and Gomez looking pretty worried that Hawke still might off her. "I'm not dying for you," she tells him, as he contemplates his next move to save his wife perhaps without too much collateral damage.

This marks Gomez's latest turn in a more mature film. Earlier this year, she ran around Florida in a bikini in Harmony Korine's bad-girl flick, "Getaway" opens August 30 and also stars Jon Voight, Rebecca Budig and Bruce Payne.

In addition to the summer action flick, Gomez will also drop her new album, Stars Dance, on July 23. She recently revealed a track list for ...

They are besties on the road who hang out at glitzy award shows, like Wednesday's 2013 CMT Music Awards. But in their just-released new music video for Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are stripping down all the glamour of pop-star life to pay homage to the simple pleasures of a sun-drenched suburban childhood.

The clip follows a fair-haired little girl as she hops on the school bus. When she gets to school she meets a ginger-haired little boy and immediately they become friends. Their innocent friendship mimics the lyrics of Swift and Sheeran's duet about a butterfly-inducing courtship.

The two schoolmates do typical elementary school activities with one another (build forts, make arts and crafts), but along the way there are hints that they just might be kid versions of their super-famous adult look-alikes. The little girl wears frilly dresses and tries out red lipstick, while the little boy strums the guitar and gets fake tats. Could it be they are, in fact, Taylor and Ed before all the fame and fortune?

Watching the video, it would seem like fans are being treated to some kind of origin story about how Taylor and Ed ended up being pals as adults. But there's a twist. Each of the pop stars is the parent to one of the two young BFFs. After the school bell rings, the two kids run out and give hugs to their respective parents, who share a quick glance and then go their separate ways.

Taylor Swift, Hunter Hayes Light Up The CMT Music Awards!

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Before reuniting with the gang from 2010's hit comedy "Grown Ups," Adam Sandler sat down with MTV News' Josh Horowitz to premiere a clip from the sequel on MTV, and he stuck around for a 30-minute interview on MTV.com.

Over the course of their chat, Sandler covered a broad range of topics, including Shaq's tongue, Justin Bieber's abs and the location of his extra set of nipples, but for your convenience, these are the five things we learned during "MTV First: Grown Ups 2."

Taylor Lautner Plays Basketball On Sandler's Court
MTV News was lucky enough to sit down with Sandler on his production company's basketball court, which he calls "Happy Madison Square Garden." The court has seen some famous faces stop by to shoot hoops, including, recently, Sandler's "Grown Ups 2" co-star Taylor Lautner. "I couldn't believe it," Sandler said. "He was so nice, such a great kid, smart. I love him."

Shaq Licked The Entire Cast Clean
At least that's what Sandler claims happened on set while the former NBA superstar was filming his cameo. Shaq plays an old friend of the gang who became a police officer. He was kind enough to film a video question for "MTV First," and Sandler couldn't say enough nice things about him. "Shaq, by far, was our favorite guy," Sandler said. "Unanimously, every comedian in the movie said Shaq was funnier than them."

The Jump From The Trailer Was Based On Real Life
In the previews for "Grown Ups 2," a frat bro played by Lautner forces Sandler and the gang to jump off a cliff ...

Hunter Hayes promised fans a crazy show at the 2013 CMT Music Awards, and "Crazy" is what they got. Hunter's second single that is.

Hunter took the show outside Bridgestone Area while the sun was setting in Nashville, Tennessee, hand-slapping his fans as he strode up to the stage. As he sang the opening lines of "I Want Crazy," he jumped in front of Hayniacs in a tight-fitted white T-shirt and jeans, guitar-pick necklace dangling from his neck.

The "Wanted" singer launched into the chorus, with his fans bouncing and bobbing in heart-shaped sunglasses. Two, red H's flashed behind him as the band rocked out. Hunter waved his arms in between guitar licks and sang confidently: "Are you with me baby? Let's be crazy."

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Hayes took a break from Carrie Underwood's Blown Away Tour to grace the CMA stage. And amid his lengthy Coffee House Experiences meet-and-greets and going on the road for the 12th annual CMT on Tour, he's dropping his debut album on June 18. For his chunk of the CMT tour, starting Oct. 10 in Knoxville, Tennesee, Hunter will hit up 21 stops in 24 cities with Ashley Monroe, wrapping up Dec. 7 in Kansas City, Missouri.

And if Hayes' CMT Music Awards performance is any indication of what's to come this fall on tour, we're sure country fans will be ready to get crazy.