It's a big weekend for the Kardashian family. The new season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" premieres on E! Sunday, the same day of Kim's baby shower, where family and friends will gather to celebrate her and Kanye West's first baby.

"Baby shower... party! I am excited. I'm so excited," little sister Khloe told MTV News on Wednesday. Khloe is co-hosting the event with her mom, Kris; sister, Kourtney; and music manager Irving Azoff's wife, Shelli. "We've been planning it for a while, so I'm excited to get that over with too, 'cause the planning is really annoying. But I'm excited to celebrate Kim and the baby and everything."

Beyoncé and Fergie are among the rumored invitees, and Kanye just might be making a cameo at the fete. The music-box invites for the "garden chic" party made their way online last week and feature a dark-haired ballerina dancing to Kanye's 2005 Late Registration track "Hey Mama." Kim is expected to give birth in July and fans will learn the baby's gender during Sunday's season premiere.

And after the big weekend, Kanye fans will be just weeks away from Yeezus. And, as it turns out, one of the perks of being a Kardashian is an early listen to tracks off the highly anticipated June 18 album.

"I have heard some of his new music. I do love 'New Slaves'," she said of the track he previewed during the May 18 season finale of "Saturday Night Live," the same weekend Kim tweeted out a photo of the album's ...

Adam Levine is a passionate man. You can hear it in the yearning vocals of Maroon 5 songs and in the spirited banter he engages in with his fellow celebrity judges on "The Voice" every week.

But some viewers felt that Levine got a bit too emotional after Tuesday night's results show revealed that two of his team members were going home.
 "I hate this country!" Levine muttered off camera before host Carson Daly announced the voting results.

The next shot showed a grinning Levine crossing fingers on both hands as he awaited the news. Soon after, Twitter blew up with angry calls for him to be fired from the show, deported, or otherwise penalized for his seemingly unpatriotic quip.

Levine calmly responded with a simple, English lit major-worthy comment. "Joke- noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act," he tweeted.

Levine, who has only one team member left, country singer Amber Carrington, followed with the dictionary definitions of "humorless," "lighthearted" and "misunderstand." Many of his 4.3 million followers seemed to get it, with a number referring to him as "Adam the Dictionary," and one, Shanice, writing, "I love how you handle things haha."

With the heat still coming in on Wednesday morning (May 29), Levine also released a statement through his spokesperson, which read, "I obviously love my country very much and my comments last night were made purely out of frustration ... Being ...

When M. Night Shyamalan signed on to helm "After Earth," the new movie starring Will and Jaden Smith, the director had been working on a script that had already interested the likes of Bruce Willis, Bradley Cooper and Gwyneth Paltrow, even in its partially finished form.

The opportunity to work with the father/son duo meant shelving the project for some time, and when Shyamalan stopped by MTV News to talk with Josh Horowitz, he explained that his screenplays require an emotional connection to his life right at the moment he's working on them.

"The problem with me is that the screenplays are so about a moment. 'After Earth' ultimately became about a moment of having a teenage child," Shyamalan said. "It's about when you let your child become an adult, and you're scared. You can't protect them. That's where I am right now in my life. My kids are young teenagers, and I'm scared. So I make a movie about that."

The highly secretive director wouldn't divulge the story details of his current project — different from the pre-"After Earth" project he's taking an indefinite break from. But he described his idea as a "micro film" with "the catering budget" of "After Earth" and dished on its emotional hook.

"Now I'm writing a new movie for what I'm feeling right this second," he said. "It's actually about forgiveness and about [when] you've done something wrong to a family member, and you're waiting for that to be healed. That's at the center."

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Ellie Goulding may have released her cover of Alt-J's "Tessellate" relatively quietly on Tuesday morning, but the indie blogosphere instantly exploded in loud and affectionate applause. Praised for its sexy and silky sound, Goulding's version takes the British band's An Awesome Wave hit and turns it on its indie-rock head — and shows off a never-before-heard side of the Halcyon singer.

And when MTV News caught up with Goulding at this year's Hangout Festival, she made it clear that "different" is exactly what she was going for.

"I'm really excited about it because it's not what you'd expect," Goulding told us on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. "It's a completely different version of the song. ... It's not what you'd expect from me."

Unexpected, indeed. Her take on "Tessellate" abandons the get-up-and-go of "Anything Could Happen" and the steady beat of "Lights" and slows it down to focus on her sultry falsetto. And when sexy saxophone croons along with her, Goulding's pleas to "let's tessellate" become just that much more persuasive.

She admitted that she listened to the track "constantly" when An Awesome Wave was first released last May. But apart from its pure intricacy and ability, in her opinion, to "be literally in any kind of context," there may be one line in particular line that connected her to the song: "Triangles are my favorite shape/ Three points where two lines meet/ Toe to toe, back to back, let's go my love."

Golding is well known for her knack for triangles — just look at her arm ...

The Wanted and One Direction beef may have quieted down on Twitter, but that doesn't mean that it's over quite yet. When the soon-to-be reality stars of The Wanted stopped by "Chelsea Lately," they weighed in on the current state of affairs between the boy bands.

"We don't listen to their music," Jay McGuiness said of One Direction. Host Chelsea Handler bluntly asked if the guys hated 1D, to which Siva Kaneswaran added, "Hate is a strong word."

But, it was Max George who had the lengthiest explanation about what exactly has transpired between the two bands, who have frequently traded barbs on Twitter in the months since their feud first made headlines. It kicked off last November when George and 1D's Zayn Malik got into a heated debate, insulting one another (the word chlamydia was mentioned during the initial back-and-forth) on the site.

"There seems to be an issue," George said, with Siva pointing specifically to him. "It's not just me. It's mainly me, but it's not all me. I think there's a few questions that need to be asked of them, of a couple of them. I'm suspicious of one of his reasons."

Wondering who or what exactly George might be referring to? Well, so was a perplexed McGuiness. He said, "I'm a bit confused now, actually."

While George never went into specifics, he did get the last word on the matter: "No, I think it's him that's confused one of those guys. But they're all right. Definitely a couple of them are really sound ...

It seems like every move Justin Bieber makes lately gets him in hot water. From a verbal spat with his neighbor to being called out by former NFL player Keyshawn Johnson for speeding in a residential community, Bieber has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

But if anyone knows what the 19-year-old is going through, it's his mentor, Usher, who also grew up in the spotlight, releasing his first single at age 15. On Wednesday (May 29), the "Voice" coach stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and came to the pop star's defense.

"Keyword, you started with, 'young,' " Usher said when asked about Justin. "I think all of us, in some ways, have humble beginnings that pan out to be incredible and we hope that in his transition — as friends and family who have helped him be who he is — that he will continue to just mature."

Usher went on to tell Ellen that he's in constant contact with Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun and when he "can be of help," he reaches out to Justin directly. The singer also acknowledged that life in the spotlight these days is a lot different than what he had to deal with when he was starting out, and that makes it more difficult to make mistakes.

"In this days' age of social media, there's no privacy, and that kind of trial-and-elimination period is kind of done in front of a camera," Usher said. "It's been done and many, many other celebrities are a product of it and some come ...

All those months of teasers paid off for Daft Punk. The anonymous French duo will land the biggest debut of their career, first #1 album
 and second-best debut of the year on the Billboard 200 next week (behind Justin Timberlake's 968,000 for The 20/20 Experience) when their fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, tops the tally with sales of 339,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

The final number topped early predictions, which had Memories moving around 300,000 copies. It also beat their previous best U.S. chart showing (#4) for the 2010 soundtrack to "TRON: Legacy, " which moved 70,000 units in its debut. According to Billboard, 65 percent of DP's sales were from downloads (221,000), which also gives them the second-biggest digital week of the year behind Timberlake's 452,000.

The album's first single, 
 is also their top-charting single to date, peaking at #10 so far, with more than 350,000 downloads, plus another 710,000 in England. It is also the fastest-selling album in the U.K. so far this year. According to Spotify, one in five U.S. users listened to all of Memories in its first week on the service and every track on the disc was streamed at least 500,000 times in the first week on Spotify in the U.S.

Just behind the #2 debut from Darius Rucker's True Believers (83,000), indie rock sad sacks the National hit a new high with Trouble Will Find Me (#3, 75,000) and rapper French Montana landed at #4 with his major-label debut, Excuse My French (56,000).

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Transformers fans assumed that 2011's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" was the end of an era. The film seemed to be the finale of Michael Bay's reign as robot king, but it turns out that the blockbuster director still has at least one more round of mayhem in him. And thus "Transformers 4" was born.

The film starts shooting this summer, and Paramount has wasted no time in getting fans hyped up for the next installment in the billion-dollar franchise by releasing photos of two new Autobots. The first is a 1,200-horsepower Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse, which sources have pegged as the Autobot swordsman Drift. The other is a C7 Corvette Stingray that is most likely the Autobot Slingshot.

Drift made his debut just a few years ago within the pages of IDW Publishing's Transformers comics. Initially loyal to Megatron, the robot formerly known as Deadlock changed his ways to fight alongside the good guys as the sword-slinging Drift. If this Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse is, in fact, Drift, then the character has undergone a makeover, taking the character away from his signature white paint job with red accents.

The C7 Corvette Stingray could be the vehicle form of a G1 Transformer from the '80s cartoon, although longtime fans wouldn't initially know it. Slingshot's been a member of the Autobot combiner team known as the Aerialbots, and therefore an airplane, for his entire existence. But the abrasive Autobot was left out of the Aerialbots when they appeared in 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," and it looks ...