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Not since Madonna's The Immaculate Collection way back in 1990 has a woman stayed at the very top of the charts in the U.K. for nine consecutive weeks in a row. Stateside, we're a little more picky with our musical superstars, usually making them work their way up the charts. But that doesn't mean we don't love Adele, considering her stirring single, "Rolling In The Deep," off her equally successful album, 21, are both perched in the Top 10 lists on iTunes, alongside Britney Spears, Chris Brown and The Black Eyed Peas.

The singer/songwriter wore her signature all-black uniform (just listen to the music, you guys!) to perform at Alcatraz Club in Milan, where it looks like she held court over the crowd of adoring fans just waiting to hear the English songbird let loose on stage. (We never thought we'd say this either, but the girl knows how to rock a braided ponytail better than anyone, including Dee Snider.) Seriously. Just look at her. She's a portrait of holy perfection. That settles it. From here on in, she's Saint Adele.

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Every time we read a story about Selena Gomez, we're like, "Awww! We love her so much." And just when we think we can't love her anymore, a new story or interview comes out, and we become even more obsessed with her. How is this possible?

The "Who Says" singer sat down with our friends over at PopEater to discuss her new song, running into Reese Witherspoon at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and her upcoming movie Monte Carlo. First of all, Selena Gomez does an amazing Reese Witherspoon impression (seriously, watch it), and second of all, how is this girl only 18 years old?! She's so poised! And confident! And mature! She even looked appropriately dressed in all blue at Perez Hilton's Blue Ball (which I can assure would not have been the case for me or most other people at age 18).  A round of applause for Momma Gomez!

Not only is Selena super put-together in interviews and when she's out on the town, but she's doing the whole "I'm Justin Bieber's girlfriend" thing perfectly. They're both so discreet and professional about their relationship that it makes us feel like the proud older sister she never had. The proud, cool, good-looking, smart older sister she never had.

+ Check out Selena Gomez's interview with PopEater.

Tags justin bieber, Selena Gomez, We Have To Say Something

Recently, a cobra escaped from New York's famed Bronx Zoo. So that's terrifying. Everyone refuses to STFU about him, although that's kind of understood, since A COBRA HAS ESCAPED! There's a motherf***in' snake in the motherf***in' city! (Wasn't that in a movie or something? A book?) At Buzzworthy HQ, we've already "snake-proofed" the whole office (poison peanut butter traps), even if a snake making it to the 17th floor isn't "likely," according to people who don't realize that SNAKES ARE TERRIFYING.

Anyway, the slithering creature has garnered almost 200,000 followers on Twitter (throw us a bone, Bronx Zoo snake!), and dropped by MTV's "The Seven" (that's literally DOWNSTAIRS!) to fill us in on stuff we didn't know about him, from his taste in musicals, movies and TV (he watches "Skins" and "Dancing With The Stars," FYI) to his surprising connection to Paula Abdul.

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The wait is finally over. For the past few weeks, Simple Plan has been teasing us with sneaks from their upcoming fourth album, releasing 30-second song snippets and video clips that made us yell "Stop playing with us!" at our monitors. Finally, Simple Plan unveiled their first single, "Can't Keep My Hands Off You," Rivers Cuomo.

What starts off as a party-centric anthem that'd make Andrew W.K. proud turns into a romantic ode. How much do they like you, girl? Their "Blackberry's filled up with email/[Their] phone calls go straight through to voicemail." That's love right there.

Fans of the band's fusion of three-chord punk and pop melodies shouldn't have anything to complain about with this one. We can already envision the collective "woah-ohs" during each verse when the band hits the road this summer for Warped Tour.

"Can't Keep My Hands Off You" will appear on Simple Plan's still-untitled fourth album, out June 21, as well as the upcoming Disney film Prom starring Aimee Teegarden of "Friday Night Lights."

+ Listen to Simple Plan's "Can't Keep My Hands Off You" with Rivers Cuomo.

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Vanilla Ice is the ultimate Renaissance man -- rapper, actor, Ice Skater With The Stars, and (who could forget) scene-stealer in the timeless classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. And now Vanilla Ice is about to add another credit to his impeccable resume: He will play a pantomime Captain Hook in a British stage production of "Peter Pan."

If this doesn't deserve a reaction GIF, we don't know what does. Take it away, TV's Mr. Roper:

At first we were all, "LOL WUT," but then we were all, "Actually, this could be the best thing ever." There are just so many levels of WTF-ery to this proposition. First level: Vanilla Ice; second level: Vanilla Ice as Captain Hook; third, most insane level: VANILLA ICE AS A PANTOMIME CAPTAIN HOOK! IN ENGLAND!? What!!!

Say what you will about the "Ice, Ice, Baby" rapper, but you have to admit that he's had quite the career. And the fact that he's still working is pretty boss in our book. And, hello, we cannot wait to get our hands on a signed playbill from this thing. We're just not sure whether we'd frame it or sell it on eBay.

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We may be reaching minute 14 of her 15 minutes (or not, considering the lasting effect YouTube has on careers these days), but online viral phenomenon Rebecca Black is still part of the national conversation. Both hated and beloved throughout the blogosphere, Rebecca's song "Friday" became a mammoth hit, falling just short of 70 million hits on YouTube as we write this.

Like many other pop superstars, Rebecca is now undergoing the treatment in which someone has slowed down "Friday" by 500 percent, meaning it barely crawls along, sound like a cacophonous, avant garde orchestral performance piece (but, to be honest, so does everything when it's slowed down 500 percent). When you hear a song like "Friday" -- which is, technically, an ode to "fun fun fun fun fun" -- reproduced at a snail's pace, it suddenly makes it sound like a classical wall of sound, ornamented with echoes and luscious, ethereal harmonies reminiscent of more hipster fare like Grizzly Bear and Sigur Ros.

Just don't tell Grizzly Bear and Sigur Ros.

+ Listen to Rebecca Black's "Friday" slowed down.

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Katy Perry's song "E.T." is about exploring an otherworldly love (and the pursuit of otherworldly pleasures). And her brand-new "E.T." video, featuring Kanye West, is an abstract, exoteric exploration into the unknown. You might find sunglasses, you might fall through a black hole and you might find love.

Katy Perry's "E.T." video is, well, a concept alien to what we might've expected from a Katy Perry video. Gone are the cheeky latex dresses and tongue-in-cheek winks. No shaving cream bras or pissed-off, middle-finger-waving Gummi bears. Floria Sigismondi (Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People," Christina Aguilera's "Hurt," Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole") created what feels far more like a sci-fi, deep space sojourn than a music video.

Swirling, celestial bodies create the backdrop to Katy Perry's many alien life-forms -- draped in billowing fabrics with highly stylized looks that reference everything from Queen Amidala to Avatar to "Alien Nation" to Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle to Winona Ryder as Spock's mom in the latest Star Trek movie to a she-gladiator -- falling through space, landing on the surfaces of new planets that seem to exist in the future (and, from the looks of worn-out tires and other detritus, seem to have harbored the waste of this lifetime's consumption).

Katy's ultraserious, highly cinematic approach to the video, as well as Kanye's in-your-face intensity (there's a foreboding aura to the whole thing, even as he raps about his desire to "probe you") make "E.T." her most mature video to date. Katy Perry's still a girl who likes to play dress-up, but she's shown us that costume changes don't always mean high camp, and that with every video she makes, she's capable of taking us to a different dimension.

+ Watch Katy Perry's "E.T." video, featuring Kanye West. And don't miss Katy Perry's "E.T." video, featuring Kanye West, tonight on MTV at 7:53pm ET, followed by MTV News' live "MTV First" interview with Katy Perry on MTV.com!

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Snoop Dogg showed up for "The Late Show With David Letterman" at the Ed Sullivan Theater this week rocking a red athletic jumpsuit, a varsity jacket boasting his initials, and -- hold up -- a shower cap? Apparently, it was to protect all the product in his hair (oooookay?), although that doesn't manage to stop us from scratching our own heads about this wacky style choice.

The thing is, once you wear a monochromatic tracksuit, you immediately lodge yourself in dangerous territory, considering it brings to mind several things, including Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester on "Glee" and the elderly (and it doesn't help that his sunglasses resemble the same wraparound frames that our Nana wore after her cataracts treatment). But throw on a shower cap, and now you've entered a brave new world, one that elicits images of both adorable babies in bathtubs and the mustachioed middle-aged ladies who sling those gloppy mashed potatoes onto your tray in junior high.

That being said, obviously Snoop did something right, considering his performance of "Boom" got a lot of white folks to clap their hands all at the same time! Together!

+ Watch Snoop Dogg perform "Boom" on "The Late Show With David Letterman."

+ Watch Snoop Dogg perform live at MTV Spring Break 2011.

+ Watch Snoop Dogg talk Charlie Sheen and grandmas.

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+ A preview of Katy Perry's "E.T." video is out just before the premiere tonight on MTV, and OMFG! Watch it here. (MTV News)

+ The Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen wasn't always covered in black eyeliner and patent leather. Check out vintage Taylor Momsen from her early "Gossip Girl" days. (Buzznet)

+ The Japanese edition of Britney Spears' Femme Fatale has an extra track that we didn't get here in the U.S. No fair! Check out the bonus song "Scary" here. (Idolator)

+ "You shouldn't just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour," Miley Cyrus said about "Friday" singer Rebecca Black. We're not sure you want to fight with this girl, Miley -- Lady Gaga's in her corner. (PopEater)

+ "I'm so excited and so thankful," Taylor Swift said about reaching the 20 million mark in worldwide album sales. Taylor was also, as usual, very surprised. (ONTD)

Tags Britney Spears, Buzz Bites, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Rebecca Black, taylor momsen, Taylor Swift, The Pretty Reckless

As part of MTV's Indie Music Month, we're premiering videos from some of the most exciting artists in the indie music scene. Our (sniff) last video for Indie Music Month is also one of the weirdest, as veteran Sacramento, California, rock group Cake indulge their animation bug in the sad, bizarre clip for "Long Time."

In the video -- a short animated film, really -- a boy and his beloved monkey are en route to the guillotine and must find a way to escape before it's too late. It's a cross between Tim Burton and those design-your-own-avatars in Wii, and it's a gorgeous piece that quickly takes a dark, morose turn.

Leave it to Cake to get us more emotional and weepy over animated figures than most videos with actual human beings. But actually, if we had a monkey that could juggle and had the foresight to escape the back of a moving van, we'd be bummed at the thought of losing him too.

The video for "Long Time" was created by Parisian CGI team Callicore Films and is the second single off Showroom of Compassion, the group's sixth album.

+ Watch Cake's "Long Time" video.

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