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Last week we showed you an acoustic sneak preview of Justin Bieber's "Baby," the first single off his upcoming My World (Part II). Even in its stripped down form, it was a classic breakup jam; a tear-stained love letter to a girl who didn't recognize the good thing she had right in front of her.

Now we get the full studio version of "Baby," complete with a verse from Ludacris. If you find the references to other songs (like Jay Sean's "Down") and all the "oh!" ad libs familiar, it's because they're two staples of Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, who wrote and produced the song.

The Luda verse is somewhat nostalgic, with the Atlanta rapper recalling his first love. It dovetails nicely; Bieber singing about first love as it happens, while Luda looks back on it fondly.

My World (Part II) is due out in the spring.

+ Listen to Justin Bieber's "Baby," featuring Ludacris, here.

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Tags Jay Sean, justin bieber, Ludacris, Song You Need To Know, The-Dream

Ari Shine has rock and roll written all over him. Really. He's got the Rush song "Free Will" tattooed across his knuckles. So you know this cat is serious.

He's also seriously talented. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter is a multi-instrumentalist, playing all the parts on his two albums, Rocket Summer and A Force Of One.

Shine's sound is a contemporary take on a classic template: literate, tuneful power-pop in the vein of Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello and The Kinks.

MTV Iggy caught up with Shine and chatted with him about (among other things) his early, early days gigging around L.A. as a teenager, negotiating the tension between writing with one eye on success and one eye on aesthetics, and the challenge of re-inventing the three-minute pop song over and over again.

Check out the MTV Iggy video as well as a great performance of Shine's "Here With Me" below.

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Bill Kaulitz fans already know that every time the Tokio Hotel lead singer steps out in public it's a fashion show. But this morning, Bill Kaulitz finally starred in a real fashion show, walking the runway like a pro in Dsquared's fashion show in Milan. While I wasn't there personally, I can safely assume that Bill Kaulitz needed no training -- dressed in a feathered cape and leather pants like the born-again dark angel of rock, Bill Kaulitz took the stage via an elevator, tuh-WERKED it, and fully upstaged a team of medieval hockey players and models in hot pink pleather Oxford shirts.

Do I even need to point out the cuteness of Bill Kaulitz walking a fashion show by twin designers (DSquared is named for twins Dean and Dan Caten)? Or the you've-made-it-ness of coverage in Women's Wear Daily? I don't, right?

Check out more photos of Bill Kaulitz in the Dsquared show in Milan, and check out Bill and Tom Kaulitz on the cover of the style issue of German GQ. And watch Bill discuss the possibility of a fashion line in this Buzzworthy Blog interview.

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You may not know Ming + FS by name, but there's a good chance you've heard them before. The duo's laid-back, instrumental drum and bass has percolated through numerous TV shows, including CSI: NY and CSI: Miami, and even a Nissan commercial. So, if there's something vaguely familiar about that combination of rubbery horn stabs and laid-back snare that pops up during tonight's premiere episode of The Buried Life, there may be a reason.

The track "Simple Mathematics" (from the Om Records album The Human Condition) is about "making hard trick seem easy," explains Ming. "When the elements of a song, as disparate they may seem, fall into place, the symphony created is one that only a brilliant equation can represent ... or not." (If anyone wants to write that equation in the comments, please feel free.)

As The Buried Life crew schemes a way into the Playboy Mansion, Ming + FS ripple along. It's a place Ming, for one, is happy to be. He digs the concept for the show and has long been trying to live life to fullest -- or "Live hard, die trying" as he translates it.

"I've been knocking things off my bucket list since I knew what a bucket list was."

What's been on that list? Jumping a bike over a pit of fire. Playing the Coachella festival. Leaping out of an airplane. Swimming with dolphins.

The latest addition is a little more domestic: "I just got married, so having some kids might be next."
In the meantime, he's been busy, having recently finished a remix of "Telephone" for Lady Gaga, and working on new material by 33Hz and Youth Group's Toby Martin. Hopefully, he'll finish up his solo album ("a combo of indie rock and electro dance music with a bunch of great guest vocalists") this year. Listen carefully to the first episode of The Buried Life and you can still hear one of his classic productions.

The Buried Life premieres tonight -- Monday, Jan. 18 at 10pm -- on MTV.

More songs from Episode 1 of The Buried Life:
Javelin -- "Tryouts"
Othello feat. DJ Vajra -- "Same Team Suckas"
The Wylde Bunch -- "Tale Of Two Cities"
Passion Pit -- "Swimming In The Flood"

Tags Lady Gaga, Ming & FS, The Buried Life

Meet the fresh-faced young guys of Nickelodeon's new how-stars-are-born show, Big Time Rush. The show follows the fortunes of four best friends from Minnesota as they move to California to make it in the music biz as the Next Big Boy Band.

In these exclusive interviews, we get to know Kendall, James, Carlos, and Logan. We also get a peek inside Carlos' wallet, Logan endures some good-natured razzing, and the guys discuss getting recognized for the first time as Big Time Rush. The guys also share their musical favorites and influences (unsurprising: Justin Timberlake, surprising: Taking Back Sunday).

Enjoy these video interviews and be sure to tune in for the premiere of Big Time Rush TONIGHT -- Monday, January 18th at 8:30 on Nick.

Tags Big Time Rush, iCarly, Justin Timberlake, Taking Back Sunday, The 5, video

(Credit: Liza Chrust, MTV)

The VH1 Critics' Choice Movie Awards are live tonight at 9pm ET/PT, with host Kristin Chenoweth, live from the Hollywood Palladium.

Now you may not care that the movie Nine is up for Best Sound, but if you're a Jonas Brothers fan you may care that Nick Jonas And The Administration are the house band for the evening.

Tune in to watch the red carpet and the show -- Death Cab For Cutie is performing, Adam Lambert, Zac Efron and tons more celebs are presenting, but, most importantly, Nick Jonas And The Administration will be performing.

Watch the red carpet at 8:30. The show starts at 9!

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In the wake of this week's tragic events in Haiti, we leave you with this heartfelt message from actress/singer/Buzzworthy favorite Selena Gomez, who also serves as an ambassador for UNICEF.

As you already know, Haiti has been brought to its knees by a horrific earthquake. In the below video, Gomez encourages you to stop what you're doing, go to UNICEF's site and see what you can do to help. And  we second that.

There has already been a great outpouring of support from both celebrities (George Clooney and MTV are organizing a telethon to be held on January 22nd) and everyday people like you and me. But more help is needed.

To get involved with UNICEF's Haitian earthquake relief efforts, visit them online here.

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Two artists, one a boy, one a man, both who call Atlanta their stomping ground, share a manager (Scooter Braun) and like to do gross stuff and laugh about it.

We could only be talking about two people: Frat-rapper, Asher Roth and his lil' homie, teenage heartbreaker Justin Bieber. These two recently appeared on the new gross-out MTV gameshow (of sorts), Silent Library.

We hit you up with some clips from the Roth-centric episode (on which Bieber and Harlem MC, Jim Jones were guests), wherein such stomach churning acts as drinking liquified Chinese food and licking tartar sauce out of a doll's hair take place in a hallowed place of learning.

Now we go behind the scenes and get a little Monday morning quarterbacking from Bieber and Roth, as they breakdown exactly what they were thinking while ingesting that stuff, and how they managed to (in most cases) stay silent throughout the ordeal.

Head over to the Silent Library HQ to check out full episodes and other clips.

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Purple Star Wars Storm Trooper T-Shirt? Check. Dog tags as bling? Check. Guy who looks like he just mugged a lumberjack for all his threads playing acoustic guitar? Check and check! You're work here is done, Swagger Coach, Ryan Good.

Here we have everyone's favorite pop-soul munchkin, Justin Bieber, giving all his many, many Youtube acolytes a sneak peek at his new single, "Baby." Now, the studio version of the track features ATL big-mouth Ludacris, so one would have to think it differs greatly from this campfire singalong version we get here. So consider this a special occasion.

"Baby" fits nicely into the Bieber canon; a heartfelt, tuneful, soulful plea to a girl to smell what the Bieber is cooking. Don't know why I just made a reference to the WWE's The Rock, but it seemed to fit.

The single, which will hit iTunes Monday, January 18th, is the first track to be released from J.B.'s upcoming My World (Part II), which is due out in March. Kid can't even grow facial hair and he's already putting out sequels. No one on the corner has swagger like him.

Tags justin bieber, Ludacris, video

Man, it really is Ke$ha's world, folks. We are just subletting. Let's crunch some numbers: her debut album, Animal? Number 1 on the Billboard album charts. Her debut single, "Tik Tok?" Number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Her follow up single, "Blah Blah Blah?" Debuted at number seven. And she's presenting at the Grammys.

Ke$ha's already inspired a parody video. Now she's got Miley Cyrus' little sister Noah lip syncing to her song on YouTube, and I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time before you start seeing gals rocking her eye-patch style makeup look and crazy fallen-eagle feathers in malls all over the blessed nation of ours.

So prepare yourselves for the victory lap in the form of endless TV appearances. Wednesday night the California trash-pop star hit Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform "Tik Tok." Gone was the eye makeup, but she more than made up for it with the industrial amount of glitter applied all over her body and, oh yeah, THE NATIVE AMERICAN HEADDRESS.

What's kind of cool about this clip is the fact that, despite being the most popular person in the world right now, Ke$ha's still keeping it pretty gully with a minimal band featuring her side-hawked hype-woman and biker gang bass player. Never forget where you come from, y'all.

Watch Ke$ha's performance of "Tik Tok" from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, as well as future hipster icon Noah Cyrus' take on "Tik Tok."

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