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+ Just because your last name is Ronson doesn't mean you have to look like Bert from Sesame Street, date celebrities and live your life in the tabloids. Remember Mark Ronson? (Sunday Times)

+ Britney Spears threatened to cancel her current Circus tour because some wacko is harassing her via phone and mail. Thank GOD I saw her last Friday, ya'll! (MTV UK)

+ For all the times I ever lusted after Jesse Metcalfe, I take it all back.  (Perez Hilton)

+ Do people really believe that Michael Jackson is actually going to play 50 shows at the O2 Arena in London? FIFTY?? (Popnography)

+ Who wants to do a shot of Justin Timberlake tequila?? Me neither. (Just Jared)

+ I just threw up a little bit in my mouth after seeing this picture of Beyonce's chicken cutlets. (Pretty Boring)

+ However, Katy Perry is the picture of melon perfection and you KNOW it. (Rad Report)

Tags Beyonce, Britney Spears, Jesse Metcalfe, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Mark Ronson, Michael Jackson

Throaty Australian-born belter Gabriella Cilmi grew up on a steady diet of bold, personality-driven classic rock. She names Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and T.Rex as her influences. When you hear the wallop of her voice -- and I do mean a literal fist-in-the-gut wallop -- and witness the leggy, theatrical electricity of her performance, those names start to make a lot of sense. Others that come to mind are Amy Winehouse, Alanis Morissette and Macy Gray.

Cilmi's explosive, disco-ready second MTV single, "Save The Lies," already owns in her native Australia. It's also made the rounds in Europe, where it has also just completely dominated. Why is it that we get this legit talent last?!? Regardless, when you watch the swagger-soaked video, you'll agree that Gabriella Cilmi was well worth the wait.

Finally, speaking of "worth," Cilmi's got that in droves, too. This past Saturday she joined Jack Johnson, Kings Of Leon, Wolfmother and many others in playing "Sound Relief," a monster concert whose proceeds all go to a relief fund for victims of a raging Australian wildfire that's already claimed more than 200 lives. Watch the video for "Save The Lies" below and visit the Australian Red Cross to see how you can contribute to their efforts.

Tags Alanis Morissette, Amy Winehouse, Gabriella Cilmi, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Macy Gray, T.Rex, Wolfmother

(Credit: Wendy Hope)

Jim Jones is all sorts of talented. The MC/mogul has appeared in multiple films, did a cameo on The Wire, has four full-length albums under his belt, a handful of mixtapes and at least as many beefs (Jay-Z, Tony Yayo and even fellow Diplomat, Cam'ron, to name a few).

The New York City hustler who co-founded Dipset with Cam'ron and Juelz Santana has gone quickly from high-ranking Blood to hip-hop hype man, to Warner Brothers A&R man, to solo MC, to video director to co-CEO of Diplomat Records and on and on and on. Dude just makes things happen. And he's in good company. Whether or not they all still get along, Cam'ron, Juelz Santana and Jim Jones are all stirring up enough buzz to give rap's biggest names a run for their money right now.

But it doesn't end there for Jim Jones. The professional hype man is going above and beyond with the promotion of his March 24 release, Pray IV Reign, and staging an off-Broadway musical called Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside The Life And Mind Of Jim Jones. The play, which already saw a limited run in November, will be performed during the week of the album's release. Jim Jones plays himself among a cast of about 20 trained actors. Has that ever been done before? Not to my knowledge.

Finally, with his acting chops already well-proven, Jim Jones dropped by MTV to film a series of exclusive Featured Artist clips. His role as a tough-talking business man isn't much of a stretch, but you definitely won't see the valley-talking Hills spoof coming.  Along with a trip to Jim Jones Industries, check out two interview clips, a Jim Jones freestyle, an exclusive "acoustic" performance of "Na Na Nana Na Na," a new photo gallery AND a "Family Tree" video playlist curated by Jim Jones himself!

Dig into that Jim Jones overload while I catch my breath a minute.

Tags Cam'ron, Jay-Z, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Tony Yayo

Today there was a big Jonas Brothers press call (how else do you think all magazines and Websites get the same celebrity news on the same day at the same time? Press calls!) where the guys, who I assume are very tan from their trip to the Bahamas, got on the horn and revealed some news about their upcoming world tour and their upcoming album. The most important Jonas Brothers new you need to know...

+ The Jonas Brothers' new album and the follow-up to A Little Bit Longer, will most likely be out June 15! The album title is still under wraps. (Until it isn't.) As Diddy likes to say, GET READY!

+ The Jonas Brothers 2009 world tour's gonna be in the round, which means every seat's gonna rule! No word on whether or not foam will be involved.

+ The Jonas Brothers aren't on Twitter (yet... BOO!), but... Garbo, John Taylor, and Jack Lawless are. Frankie Jonas = probably not on Twitter. (Yet!)

+ Nick said he wants to go to college some day, maybe at Northwestern. (This just in: Northwestern apps increased by 17 billion!) But we already knew that Nick Jonas <3s Chicago. Refer back to August 9, 2008, Day 2 of MTV's "Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile," when the Jonas Brothers were driving to Madison Square Garden with their parents, and Nick told us he wants to live in Chicago someday. See people? I am A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JONAS BROTHERS KNOWLEDGE!

Tags Frankie Jonas, Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas, Twitter

I recently discovered Brokencyde -- think "Nookie"-era Fred Durst getting his hand caught in a garbage disposal, then pulling it free and, with his good hand, pouring battery acid all over it, and then lighting it on fire, and then putting it back in the disposal... except with WAY more neon -- and I've watched the shoestring budget (though that might be a generous statement) for their "Freaxxx" video (warning: F-bombs, possible choking, O.E.) about five or six times. (I played it for MTV Multiplayer blogger Tracey John, and her exact words were "Worst thing I've ever heard in my life. Hands down.")

Still, I'm inexplicably, simultaneously mesmerized/ entranced/ reviled by it. But despite my multiple viewings, there are a couple of things I'm still trying to wrap my brain around -- that is, the pieces of my brain that haven't hocked themselves out of my ears like a giant mind loogie.

1.) LOOK AT SE7EN'S HAIR! And TELL ME he's not wasting some Bill Kaulitz flavor. Also, has Se7en ever made himself puke from screaming?

2.) HOW DOES BROKENCYDE AFFORD A RANGE ROVER? I'm gonna go ahead and assume it was donated (can't knock Eat Cake Films' hustle!). They look like they slept in a Dumpster behind a Taco Bell. And I say that with nothing but mad love for the 7-layer burrito.

3.) GET CRUNKED UP! HOW much Crunk do these dudes consume in an average day?

4.) SPELL CHEYK! Why does being electro-skr33m0h 0tt0matically make u a bad splr?

5.) MY OWN PERSONAL LEVEL OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Yes, Brokencyde is an awesomely vulgar attack on good taste, but they're on the Saints & Sinner Tour with Hollywood Undead and Senses Fail, and they're doing the Vans Warped Tour this summer, which has gotta be better than a summer in Albequerque. Meanwhile, while Brokencyde's off promoting their upcoming album and criss-crossing the country, I'll be spending my summer sitting at a desk behind a computer, so maybe the joke's on me. Also, Brokencyde, if you're reading this, I kinda want the graffiti pig t-shirt. GeTt FR33KEEY! You know... or not.

Tags Bill Kaulitz, Brokencyde, Fred Durst, Hollywood Undead, Limp Bizkit, Senses Fail, Tokio Hotel

Japan, that mysterious international capitol of design, technology, sci-fi-fashion and modesty, doesn't always get the most flattering shake out here in the cowboy West. Just look at the classic Vapors video, "Turning Japanese." It's enough to make Lost In Translation blush (and I gave Nicole Scherzinger hell for her bindi?!?). But that Grand Canyon of a cultural divide that's inspired so much misguided mockery, has also spawned some of the sincerest flattery.

We've got a new video playlist called "Big In Japan" up over at MTV.com, just in time for cherry blossom season. Check out Japanese-inspired videos from Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Coldplay, Gorillaz and Gwen Stefani, as well as a handful from artists like Tokio Hotel, Tokyo Police Club and Japanese Motors. (Get it?) It's the opposite of horbs.

Tags Alphaville, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Gorillaz, Gwen Stefani, Japanese Motors, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, The Vapors, Tokio Hotel, Tokyo Police Club, Tokyo Rose

(Credit, all photos: Mark Seliger, Vanity Fair)

West Side Story, which just returned to Broadway (!!!!), is one of my favorite movies in the history of film. Jennifer Lopez's too. And you know how on America's Next Top Model, how they're always like "noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker"? PLEASE. Mark Seliger, who shot an updated West Side Story pictorial for this month's issue of Vanity Fair, is an effing genius, and that word is used too lightly in general, and it's not even a strong enough term for how amazing this spread and its stars are.

I mean LOOK at Jennifer Lopez as Anita and CAMILLA BELLE as Maria! I'M DYING. Super foxy Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro is Bernardo, and Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian!) is the bright-eyed Tony. ("Keeler! Keeler! Keeler! Keeler!") And if you look WAAAAAAAY upstage and to the right, um, YES, that's Robert Pattinson. In the blue dress, foreground? Ashley Tisdale. Drake Bell's breaking my heart there in the glasses. ("Jai Ho," Drake Bell!) All that's missing is a Jonas Brother or two. (They'd make excellent Jets, no?) Stay cool!

Tags Ashley Tisdale, Ben Barnes, Camilla Belle, Drake Bell, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Seliger, Robert Pattinson, Rodrigo Santoro, Twilight

Ashley Tisdale isn't "back," because that'd suggest that she went away. The only places she went were back in front of the camera to shoot High School Musical 3 and They Came From Upstairs, back into the studio to record her upcoming album, Guilty Pleasure -- a more rocked-out effort (my psychic powers point me toward something along the lines of Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and Katy Perry, with a bit of an urban edge) featuring the single, "It's Alright, It's Ok" -- and to a really, really good colorist who graduated her from a most un-Sharpay blond to a super sexy, definitely not high-school-aged brunette.

Ashley's stopping by MTV this Monday, March 23rd, and I'm gonna get the chance to ask her your fan questions. So, what do you want to know about her new look, sound, and her album, Guilty Pleasure?

Leave your questions for Ashley Tisdale in the comments, 'kay?

Tags Ashley Tisdale

+ Fresh off the plane from her recent visit to Australia, Taylor Swift just posted a homecoming video on her MySpace page, and it's so sweet it'll have you slipping off into a sugar coma. Picture it: She's holding a koala bear like it's a baby ready to be burped, and, it pulls her in for a closer hug because, you know, she's THAT sweet. (MySpace Music)

+ Just because she's sweet, however, does NOT mean that Taylor Swift wants to talk about sex. (People)

+ Hot off the heels of last fall's collabo with Eminem, Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 are lacing one of the tracks off the rapper's upcoming album titled Relapse. (Blogamole)

+ Is Fantastic Four actor Chris Evans finally getting serious about his career? (MTV Movies Blog)

+ Please God will someone cut off both of Heidi Montag's hands at the wrist so that she can't put a set of headphones on in a recording studio ever again. (Hollywood Tuna)

+ If you ever wondered what Zac Efron looks like covered in mud (you know, if you were ever just bored with nothing to do except wonder about things), Interview magazine's got your back. Oh. and Happy St Patty's Day. (Interview)

+ Mix your own Daft Punk song. You too, Kanye! (Najle)

Tags Calle 13, Chris Evans, Daft Punk, Eminem, Heidi Montag, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron

As you probably already know, Jadakiss's new album, The Last Kiss, used to be called Kiss My Ass. Angry! Know why? Well apparently Jadakiss has been having a frustrating year. Not only do we have video of the man explaining what's got him so hostile, we also got him doing your favorite feature, "The 5."

Jadakiss did us the favor of narrowing the "hunormerormous" number of factors that went into the creation of The Last Kiss down to five. Among them: South Beach. Wasn't that one of Kevin Rudolf's "5," too?

Due out April 7, the new record features the already burning singles, "By My Side" and "Can't Stop Me." So, little math here -- we got one exclusive interview (after the jump!), five things on "The 5" and two singles in circulation. That's eight of the hunormerormous reasons you need The Last Kiss, right here at your fingertips. Look!

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Tags Jadakiss, Kevin Rudolf