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After a series of videos ranging from playful to seductive, Rihanna showed her vengeful side in the recently premiered "Man Down," her fifth single from her 2010 album Loud.

Shot on location in Kingston, Jamaica, the video opens with the singer gunning down a man in a busy train station before flashing back to the previous day. After hanging out on the beach and walking around the city, the Barbadian singer meets a man at a club, only to be assaulted by him later that night. The video echoes the traditional reggae song, with Rihanna singing, "What started out as a simple altercation/Turned into a real sticky situation/Me just thinking on the time that I'm facing/Makes me wanna cry."

"Man Down" was directed by Anthony Mandler, who's helmed more than a dozen Rihanna videos, including "California King Bed," "Take a Bow" and "Only Girl (In the World)." "["Man Down"] is just one of those songs that demands a strong narrative and visual, and let's just say she let me go all the way," Mandler told MTV earlier this month. "[It's] something that's dramatic and shocking and intense and emotional and uplifting and enlightening."

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"American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery, the baritone-voiced country prodigy from Garner, North Carolina, celebrated his very American win by doing what Americans do when they celebrate: going to Disney World. The 10th winner of "American Idol" is pictured here riding in a motorcade being driven through the Disney World theme park with his new showbiz pals, Mickey and Minnie Mouse. That'd be cool if they all hung out after, don't you think? Like, Scotty just calls Mickey to come over and play Xbox. Epic hangout.

After the motorcade through the park, Scotty sang his hit, "I Love You This Big," to a large crowd before giving some advice to the crowd about "Idol" auditioning, mentioning he was "bagging groceries just three months ago." Really! Apparently, Scotty used to bag groceries at a Lowes grocery store (check out the photo below) in Garner before getting whisked away to Hollywood for "American Idol." This is the same guy whose friends told him to shut up when he'd sing. Tough crowd, eh?

Do you think they kept his old job for him at the grocery store? I'm just saying, there's a job opening in Garner, North Carolina, right now if anyone wants it. Can you just imagine if he was as talented at bagging groceries as he is at singing? You guys, we might have lost a truly legendary grocery bagger!

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A lot of people love Katy Perry. And why wouldn't they? Her catchy tunes and over-the-top outfits are pure pop confection. However, some of her fans love her a little bit more than others. And some love her a lot more. Like, wallpaper-your-room-with-her-face more. English teenager Jack Moore falls into that latter category.

Filmmaker Olly Newport's mini-documentary "Katy & I," captures Jack's unending Katy Perry obsession. "My room is covered in pictures of her... some people say it's creepy, but I like it," he tells Newport. "My friends call it the serial killer room, like in movies where serial killers have lots of pictures of their victims, that's what my room's like. [nervous laughter]" Whatever makes you happy, kiddo! (Scans room for sharp objects, backs away slowly.)

A quick glance at Jack's last.fm page shows that he at least has some variety in his listening habits (other artists he likes include Lily Allen and Florence and the Machine), which is encouraging. "I Kissed a Girl" is a great song and all, but I think anyone would go criminally insane if that was all they listened to for enough days in a row. ("Waking Up In Vegas" however...)

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Selena Gomez has been on our favesies list for a while, but she really seems to be inching herself closer to the top these days. It seems like just yesterday that she was holding hands with Justin Bieber in Hawaii (wait, that was practically yesterday). And now she's all growed up, looking hot and retro on the cover of her latest single, "Bang Bang Bang." Where does the time go?

Selena tweeted a pic of the cover art for her upcoming single over the weekend, and when we saw it we were basically like one of those cartoon dogs that like, pop their eyes out and drop their jaws. You know, the ones that say "Aaaah-ROOOOH-gah!" when they see a pretty cartoon girl? Anyone else do that? Is this the weirdest paragraph you've ever read?

Anyway, what we're trying to say is that Selena Gomez looks great, and she's handling that whole 18-year-old "not a girl, not yet a woman" phase of life really gracefully. And if you saw photos from my first year at college, you would agree that is not an easy task. Well done, Ms. Gomez!

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With the smell of prom still lingering in the air, I got to thinking about my own high-school dance experiences. Truth be told, my prom sucked but I had a couple deece homecomings. However, unlike most of my gal pals who relished the whole pre-dance tradition of shopping for a dress, getting your hair did, drinking alcohol-free Zima in a Hampton Inn hotel room, I wasn't interested in anything other than the night's soundtrack.

If your high school was anything like mine, then you probably had the same DJ at every dance, and he insisted on only playing songs from the Billboard Top 40 -- and that was totally fine with me because, at the time, I lived and breathed pop music. (I can't tell you how many hours I spent glued to my dual cassette boom box, recording songs off the radio to make my monthly mixes. Ah, the good ol' days.)

In 1994, I was 15, and I remember being completely excited -- and petrified -- when the DJ would roll out a slow song. Would my crush ask me to dance? Would he put his arms on my neck or around my waist? Would he try to touch my butt? These were BIG questions in the life of a high-school sophomore, and the answers would eventually unfold while some of the sappiest (and age-inappropriate) ballads played in the background. (Yes. Waist. Sort of.)

Grab your Binaca pocket spray, perform a pit smell-check and make sure there's a balloon-size space between you and the music of R. Kelly, Boyz II Men, All-4-One and Jodeci.

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1.) R. Kelly's "Bump N' Grind (Remix)": I didn't care too much for R. Kelly's album version of this song, but the remix was my slow-song jam. My friends and I wouldn't so much dance to this song as we'd find a male partner, lean on them and sway around for three and a half minutes. (Very romantic, don't you think?) At the time, I'm sure I thought R. Kelly was sweetly singing about wanting to take a trip to over-the-clothes Dry Humpville; taking a look at the lyrics 15 years later, I'm not so sure. Example: "So show me some ID before I get knee-deep into you." Not only is that the most uncomfortable sentiment ever, but if it wasn't a prediction of the R&B crooner's future legal trouble with underage girls, I don't know what was.

Listen to "Bump N' Grind (Remix)"

2.) Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love To You": Again, another song that was completely inappropriate to play at a high-school soiree but one that always brought hormone-fueled bodies to dance floor. (Sidenote: Boyz II Men was the third concert I ever saw and when they played this song, the Boyz... er, Men would traipse around the stage in their oversize suits and hand out red roses to the girls in the audience. Swoon.) These days, the only time I hear this song is when I'm in the grocery store. I'm not sure why, but the opening chords still give me butterflies. Maybe it's because I think Dan Netzer is going to creep out from around the cereal aisle and FINALLY ask me to dance. A girl can dream, can't she?

Listen to "I'll Make Love To You"

3.) All-4-One's "I Swear": All-4-One might've been one of the fugliest groups I've ever seen, but they sure knew how to sing a corny love song. Sure, it wasn't an original -- country artist John Michael Montgomery first made the ballad a hit only a couple months earlier -- but it was new to anyone who didn't watch CMT on a regular basis, which was everyone I knew except my friend Cristen, who had recently discovered Garth Brooks and insisted on playing "Calling Baton Rouge" on repeat every morning on the drive to school.

Listen to "I Swear"

4.) Jodeci's "Feenin": Nothing gets the blood pumping like hearing JoJo and K-Ci's falsetto wails bounce off the moist walls of a packed gymnasium. According to Urban Dictionary, "feenin" is defined as "craving for intensely, mostly for a person" and, hell, isn't that what high school's all about? Feenin, stalking. Tomato, tomahto. Oh, Jodeci. You could always express what my teenage heart could not.

Listen to "Feenin"

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In case you didn't know, The-Dream (love the hyphen!) is a highly accomplished producer and singer-songwriter, with megahits like Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" under his belt. He's got a great solo career going for him, too -- last year's Love King earned Best New Music bragging rights on the famously picky Pitchfork. This summer, you're about to hear perhaps one of his best tracks yet: Beyoncé's "1+1."

The song is already getting a lot of attention after Beyoncé's hubby Jay-Z released some hauntingly brilliant cell phone footage of Beyoncé practicing it in her dressing room before a recent "American Idol" performance. But our friends over at Idolator have pointed something out: "1+1" is actually an original song by The-Dream entitled "Nothing But Love." And it's just as good, if not better than the original!

Whereas Beyoncé takes "1+1," which will appear on her new album, 4, in a much more belty direction (we actually prefer the much simpler version she sang in her dressing room, to be honest), The-Dream makes it sound almost like a breezy Prince jam circa his Purple Rain era. Need to check it out for yourself? Listen below. Peep the linkage below. Which one do you prefer?

+ Listen to Beyoncé's "1+1"
+ Listen to The-Dream's "Nothing But Love"

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Pour yourself a tall glass of Crystal Pepsi, maybe bust an Arsenio Hall arm-pump and apply a second coat of that brown lipstick to celebrate, because Singersroom is reporting that SWV (Sisters With Voices) are prepping a new album! Is the excitement causing you to sweat out of your color-blocked button-up T-shirts, Hammer pants and Starter jackets or WHAT? Just don't ruin your mall-bangs over it, 'kay?

The trio -- Cheryl Gamble, Tamara Johnson and Leanne Lyons are Right Here with a new deal inked with Mass Entertainment and E1 to record their fourth studio album. The group disbanded in 1998, and after 13 years off the scene, we can't wait to see what SWV2K11 looks like. The girl group is also working on their very own documentary about their success, failures, break-up, and inspiration.

Nineties nostalgia officially reigns in 2011 -- we're wearing our Dr. Martens, holding onto some NKOTBSB tickets and spraying our hair with some Studio Line by L'Oreal Pumpin' Curls in anticipation.

Now excuse us, this SWV new album news has made us Weak in the Knees (we can hardly speak...). What's your take on the SWV comeback?

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We The Kings, the best thing to come out of Florida since orange juice and space shuttles, have released a video for their new song "Friday Is Forever," and it's a fairly straightforward "driving around and chilling" video, with one twist: they're on a boat, motherf***r! "Friday Is Forever" is the lead single from the band's forthcoming third full-length, and it's a smooth confection of laid-back beach pop fit for lazy summer days and nights. "Friday is forever, we belong together, so come on, come on don't you say never," the ginger-haired Travis Clark croons convincingly, while smiling at people from atop his whimsical perch. This is all well and good, but where are they going in that thing?

Not the high seas. Much like in Rebecca Black's infamous "Friday" video (to which comparisons are inevitable), the boys end up at some kind of outdoor party where they're the main act. I'd be remiss not to mention that We The Kings already embraced Rebecca Black with a goofy video mashup of their respective weekend anthems. And why wouldn't they?

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Lil Mama is a busy lil' lady! In addition to performing her judging duties on "America's Best Dance Crew," she's also been in the studio working hard on new material. On her latest song, "On & On & On," she displays the same playfulness with language that made her first big single, "Lipgloss," a hit, while simultaneously stepping up the intensity to something a bit more grown-up and aggressive.

"I met a lot of girls tryna stop my flow/Met a lot of girls tryna stop my dough/Stop my flow, no you can't do" she raps, and then proceeds to do many dazzling verbal tricks to prove her point. In the great hip-hop tradition proving one's dominance via complex bragging, Lil Mama spares no bravado to spare, positioning herself in the hall of fame of rap greats by singing Biggie's hook and replacing his name with her own. Yes, Lil Mama went there.

In addition to the song, Mama filmed a cute making-of featurette, which shows her alternately strumming an acoustic guitar and recording with laser-like focus.

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Paramore just revealed 30 seconds of a brand-new song entitled "Monster," set for release on the upcoming Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon soundtrack. It's a pretty moody but altogether rocking new song, with epic guitar work and a powerful chorus. This isn't the first time Paramore have released new material on a soundtrack, having already scored a huge hit with "Decode" on the Twilight soundtrack.

"Monster" will be Paramore's first official single since Josh and Zac Farro quit the band last year, firing back at the band with an acrimonious blog post from Josh describing (at length) why they left the hugely successful band. During the chorus of "Monster," Paramore frontwoman Haley Williams sings "I'll stop the whole world from turning into a monster." Sounds like she's exorcising some old demons.

The full-length version of "Monster" will stream on Paramore.net starting June 3. Look for the iTunes release date of "Monster" June 7. The Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon soundtrack is out June 14.

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