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Two of today’s biggest divas, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, got sexy in the latter’s “Video Phone” clip, with Gaga even embracing her inner B for the shoot. But the duo conquer a slightly more serious theme — Lady Gaga’s fear of suffocation — on her song “Telephone,” off her new LP, The Fame Monster.

Gaga, despite her penchant for making dance-floor-friendly pop, said she actually has a hard time just letting loose and having fun. Why? “Fear of suffocation — something that I have or fear is never being able to enjoy myself,” she told MTV News. ” ‘Cause I love my work so much, I find it really hard to go out and have a good time.”

Although it may be hard to believe because of her glitzy persona, the singer insists her life does not consist of jumping from nightclub to nightclub. “I don’t go to nightclubs,” she said. “You don’t see pictures of me falling out of a club drunk. I don’t go — and that’s because I usually go and then, you know, a whiskey and a half into it, I got to get back to work.” Continue reading ‘Lady Gaga Explains Inspiration Behind Beyonce Collabo, ‘Telephone’’

We’ve been holding off on posting this until we got the official word and it looks like The Rap-Up has just confirmed it.

Alicia Keys duets with Beyoncé on “Put It in a Love Song” and enlists Drake for background vocals on “Un-thinkable (I’m Ready)” on her fourth album The Element of Freedom, in stores December 15. The 14-track set features production from Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Jeff Bhasker, Swizz Beatz, and Noah “40” Shebib. Official tracklisting below. Continue reading ‘Beyonce: To Be Featured On Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom’

With her flamboyant outfits and stage persona, Lady Gaga certainly doesn’t look like a traditional pop star. She admits that she finally feels cool with being that kooky person after years of trying to figure out how to fit in. And, as always, she says it’s all about pleasing her fans.

“The whole point of what I do — the Monster Ball, the music, the performance aspect of it — I want to create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate,” she said on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” airing Friday. “I didn’t fit in in high school, and I felt like a freak. So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don’t feel alone.”

Gaga, who sang her singles “Bad Romance” and “Speechless” off her album The Fame Monster, added that she isn’t acting the part of Lady Gaga as some gimmick. This is really her, whether you get it or not. Continue reading ‘Lady Gaga Tells Fans ‘It’s OK’ To Be A Freak’

NEW YORK — To quote a track from her just-released album, Rated R, the wait is over for Rihanna.

The singer was feted at her album-release party in Manhattan on Tuesday night as Jay-Z, Diddy and Fabolous, among others, turned out at Juliet’s Supper Club to celebrate Rihanna’s first project since her February assault earlier this year by Chris Brown.

The Barbadian beauty arrived at the festivities fashionably late, just after 1 a.m., but the cameras were at the ready, capturing Rihanna’s red-carpet strut. The fashion icon sported a shimmering gold micro-dress with long spikes sporadically jutting out all over and matching shoes.

Rihanna was quickly escorted inside where DJ D-Nice was spinning tunes ranging from Jay-Z’s “Run This Town” (featuring the guest of honor) to Maino’s “Million Bucks” and, of course, RiRi’s Young Jeezy collaboration, “Hard.”

Frequent Rihanna collaborator Sean Garrett said he was happy to support the Def Jam star. He said she took more control of this album, her fourth, and showed that she is not only resilient but also, at 21, she’s more of a woman at this point in her career.

“She was very, very picky [with this album],” Garrett told MTV News. “She was going through a lot, so I think her emotions were leaning to things that were closer to her heart as opposed to closer to the radio, to be real honest. And that’s the sign of a real, true artist.” Continue reading ‘Rihanna Celebrates Album Release With Jay-Z, Diddy, More’

As it turns out, two of the most controversial moments of Adam Lambert’s American Music Awards performance on Sunday night were total ad libs. That’s what Lambert told MTV News on Tuesday, when he sat down to discuss the show-closing set that turned him into a global Internet sensation all over again.

“That wasn’t in the original choreography,” Lambert explained of the bit where he took a male dancer’s head and shoved it into his crotch to mimic oral sex. “I was supposed to look at him, and I just grabbed him. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t think he would have been cool with it. … It might look real forceful, but we all respect each other and were doing it in the name of the show.”

Lambert also said that he didn’t know he was going to grab keyboard player Tommy Ratliff and give him a rather full-mouth kiss near the end of the run through “For Your Entertainment,” the title track to Lambert’s just-released major-label debut.

“During rehearsal, I grab him by the hair and kind of just looked at him,” he said, adding that the keyboardist is not married, as had been rumored, but is definitely straight. “He’s straight. He just, I guess, didn’t mind getting kissed in the name of entertainment on stage.”

Though everyone was talking about Jennifer Lopez’s fall on Monday morning, Lambert walked us through his own tumble, which the musical-theater veteran almost managed to play off as part of the show. “My foot got caught on the stair, and I hit the platform and I didn’t know what was going on,” he said of the fall, after which he did a forward roll, picked up a cane and fondled a female dancer while getting back to his feet within seconds. “[I thought], ‘OK, I have to get up and turn around.’ I felt like when you spray a cockroach and its legs are up in the air … At that point the adrenaline was like, ‘Oh my God, I just fell … ahhhh!’ ” Continue reading ‘Adam Lambert Explains American Music Awards Performance Frame By Frame’

The UK band, The Big Pink, stopped by Radio 1’s the Live Lounge and performed their cover of Beyonce’s Sweet Dreams. What are your thoughts on the cover?

10. “They told me at the blood bank this might happen.”

9. “This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in
that time management course you sent me to.”

8. “Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably
got here just in time!”

7. “I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement
and envisioning a new paradigm.”

6. “I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance.”

5. “I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve
work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who
practice Yoga?”

4. “Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a
solution to our biggest problem.”

3. “The coffee machine is broken…”

2. “Someone must’ve put decaf in the wrong pot…”

And the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your
desk…

1. ” … in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time… I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too”. Damn Right! What good is cake if you can’t eat it?

4. When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you’ve found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, “did ya see that?” No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!

6. People who ask “Can I ask you a question?”… Didn’t give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is ‘new and improved’. Which is it? If it’s new, then there has never been anything before it. If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn’t be new.

8. When people say “life is short”. What the hell??? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!!! What can you do thats longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks “Has the bus come yet?” If the bus came, would I be standing here???

How Much Do You Know?

* The name coffee comes from the
Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine,
and not from the town of Kaffa, in
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers
have supposed.

* There are twenty-four steps in the
“Coffee Process”.

* Our knowledge of coffee is about
1,000 years old.

* Coffee was first mentioned in
literature by Rhazes, an Arabian
physician.

* The use of coffee as a beverage is
about 700 years old.

* The most severe punishment for drinking
coffee was being sewn into a leather
bag and tossed alive into the sea.

* Pope Clement VIII was the first
to baptize coffee and make it a true
Christian beverage.

* “Coffee Smellers” were discharged
wounded soldiers employed as spies
to “smell out” unlicensed coffee
roasting during the coffee monopoly
in Germany.

* Goats actually discovered the coffee
plant. Their shepherd noticed that
they were getting very hyper; therefore, one
day, he followed their every move,
and found out that they were eating a
strange berry that was keeping them
awake all day and night.

* Monks used coffee to stay awake and

concentrate on what they were doing.