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Most people would probably put Katy Perry in the "so famous she can never leave her house without being bothered" category, but it seems like the "Firework" singer doesn't really care. She took to the streets of New York City this weekend with husband Russell Brand for a leisurely fall bike ride. Because yes, if I wanted a relaxing bike ride on the weekend, I would also choose the serene, calm roads of Manhattan. (That was a joke.)

Katy and Russell went incognito, each sporting sunglasses, hats and scarves, but we're guessing Katy's now famous pink hair (and probably the Mickey Mouse-inspired beanie) outed the couple pretty quickly. Also, are those leather pants, Katy? We know you're like, the queen of incredibly uncomfortable outfits, but they make these things called "jeans," and they will seriously change your life. You can bend in them! You can jump! You can sit with ease! And they're pretty great for bike rides -- look into them.

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+ Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez had quite a weekend in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They smooched at a hockey game, Bieber once again rented out a movie theater where they watched "Real Steel," AND there are reports that they ADOPTED A PUPPY. (Entertainment Wise)

+ Happy 25th birthday, Drake! The birthday boy partied it up in Vegas, and bought 200 shots and bottles for those on the dance floor at Tao nightclub on Saturday. (Rap-Up)

+ Beyoncé gets the first lady moving. When Michelle Obama was asked what she jammed to while exercising, she said, "I always love Beyoncé, so anything that's fast-paced that she's doing is good for me." (Just Jared)

+ Katy Perry and hubby Russell Brand took to their bikes and ran into Def Jam's Russell Simmons over the weekend at the Occupy Wall Street protest. (Just Jared)

+ Neil Young was joined by Beck, Mumford & Sons, Eddie Vedder and others who performed during his annual Bridge School benefit in San Francisco. Watch Young and Arcade Fire duet on "Helpless." (Rolling Stone)

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We're not quite sure if we can exactly pinpoint the "no pants in public" trend's origins, but does it really matter? Lady Gaga and Taylor Momsen are big fans of the look, and it turns out Christina Aguilera is, too. This is the second time this week that the paps have caught the "Ain't No Other Man" singer in public with no pants on! And you know what, a pants-free Earth is an Earth I can get behind. (Too many puns! Went the PG route.)

Christina was spotted looking low-key on a shopping trip in L.A. yesterday in a leather trench, T-shirt and a baseball cap, and she took the "low-key" look up a notch by leaving her pants at home. While naysayers might be all, "That's indecent exposure!" or "I have to wear pants in public, she should, too," we have to disagree. Um, have you heard the woman sing? Her voice pretty much grants her license to do WHATEVER SHE WANTS, guys! That's how fame works, duh.

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Justin Bieber recently celebrated the last night on his world tour, and he marked the momentous occasion by taking his shirt off, giving the crowd his best devil horns and appearing like a mad man. As you may have guessed, this is now our new favorite photo of all time.

Along with this photo, Justin tweeted, "#MYWORLDTOUR last night. Great night," and girls around the world now have every large-scale printer at every Kinko's in the country booked for at least the next 48 hours. How else did Justin celebrate the completion of his tour? He rented out an entire movie theater so he could treat his girlfriend Selena Gomez to a private screening of "Real Steel." Boyfriends of the world: STEP YOUR GAME UP.

Also, we must address the elephant in the room: Justin Bieber's abs. I'm just gonna say that they are there and we can all see them, OK? (Because I am not allowed to say much more than that.) Unrelated, here is a countdown until Justin Bieber turns 18.

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In his decades-long career, Tony Bennett has released more than 70 albums. Considering he just turned 85 in August, that works out to almost one album for each year of his life. But it wasn't until he released his Duets II album, featuring his greatest hits performed with marquee names such as Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Josh Groban and more that he earned his first-ever No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, becoming the oldest living act to reach No. 1. Happy birthday, indeed.

Last month before the release of Duets II, I had the extraordinary opportunity to sit down with Tony Bennett in his art studio overlooking Central Park, where we discussed his experience recording "Body And Soul" with the late Amy Winehouse in the Abbey Road Studios in London just four months before her untimely death.

She was "someone who knows how to intuitively improvise and make it believable and sing with humanity and soul and honesty, no compromising... Amy had that gift," he said. "She was the only one of all of the contemporary artists that I've met through the years... She's the only one that was able to do it."

Sadly, poignantly, "Body And Soul" became a tribute to Amy instead of a tribute to an unabiding jazz torch song. But the 16 other duets on Duets II are a masterful, otherwise celebratory collection of jazz duets once considered pop songs, made timeless by Tony's unparalleled old-school bel canto, made new paired with artists such as Norah Jones and John Mayer.

Knowing that the days of big band recording sessions are gone, and today much contemporary music is recorded piecemeal, saved onto laptops, emailed and pieced together, enabling artists to record duets without even being in the same city, much less the same recording studio, I asked Tony about the recording process.

Read more and watch Tony Bennett's interview videos after the jump.

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Sorry, but anyone whose real name is Wouter "Wally" De Backer is A-OK in our book. Known to his fans as Gotye, Wouter De Backer is just about one of the coolest artists we've come across in a hot second. His style is almost hard to define -- we could say indie folk, we could say indie pop; we could say indie alternative, but what we really wanna say is that it's just pretty effing amazing.

Born in Belgium, Gotye's parent's moved him to Australia when he was just 2 years old, and it was there that De Backer found his passion for music. He took up the piano and drums, and formed several bands while in high school. Continually fostered and supported by his parents, Gotye later experimented with tons of new sounds and eventually nailed down the signature style that has made him one of Australia's most promising exports.

Unsurprisingly, Gotye's current album, Making Mirrors, is causing quite a stir both Down Under and in the States. The standout track, "Somebody That I Used To Know," is a painfully beautiful song (and video) featuring Kiwi artist Kimbra that speaks to all the crap we have to go through after a tough breakup. We're not the only ones obsessed with this song either: "Somebody That I Used To Know" has received mad celeb endorsements including shout-outs from Ashton Kutcher, who tweeted about the video, "This is kinda fantastic," and Lily Allen, who also sang the song's praises.

"Somebody That I Used To Know" is featured on Gotye's latest album Making Mirrors, out now via Eleven Music.

+ Watch Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" and hear more of Gotye's tunes on his Facebook page.

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It's a Young Money party, y'all! Drake and his Young Money boss Lil Wayne have partnered on a super-sexy slow jam, "The Real Her." Slated to appear on Drake's forthcoming album, Take Care, "The Real Her" kinda reminds us of the softer, sweeter side of Drake we first met when "Best I Ever Had" came out. As he did on his recent song "Make Me Proud," Drake, led by a melodic piano line, once again uses his verses to support women and sing their praises: "People around you/Should really have nothing to say/Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way.../Just met her/Already feel like I know the real her/You got that s*** somebody will look for/But won't find." Even when he curses, dude is mad poetic.

A clear and crisp Wayne comes in next and shows off his vulnerable side, singing about a girl who just may not be into him: "'Cause to her I'm just a rapper/And soon she'll have met another/So if tonight's an accident/Tomorrow we'll recover/And I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by its cover/I don't want be in the blind/but sometimes I Stevie Wonder about her."

"The Real Her" is set for release on Drake's upcoming album Take Care, due out Nov. 15.

+ Listen to Drake Featuring Lil Wayne, "The Real Her."

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You already know that Joe Jonas is MTV.com's POSTED artist for October, right? Which means we have tons of info, interviews and videos surrounding the release of the singer's debut album, Fastlife. So check out new videos below that show Jonas detailing what's on his "bucket list" and explaining the meaning behind the phrase "Fastlife."

While "going on vacation" seems like a strange "bucket list" answer, Joe redeems himself with a list of extreme sports such as skydiving and bungee jumping. There's also a Machu Picchu request, which, if fulfilled, should be accompanied by a MTV Buzzworthy film crew and reporter (cough, cough).

Jonas also details the meaning behind his album title, noting, "It explains my crazy busy life. I don't even know where I'll be tomorrow. That's mostly my schedule. It all depends on realizing that this is a blessing having fun. There's so many people that don't have this opportunity, and I'm lucky enough to be doing this for a living."

Get your Joe Jonas fill all this month at Posted.MTV.com.

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Look, we're not quite sure why Justin Timberlake feels the need to pussyfoot around and delay his big music comeback. Everyone wants it, nobody's happy when he's not singing, blah, blah, blah. And it's not even like he's totally out of the musical spotlight either! He taunts us! This summer, he sang like, 15 beauteous seconds in his "History Of Rap Part II" with Jimmy Fallon, and today he kinda sorta does the same thing by rapping in the video for FreeSol's "Role Model."

Shot in black and white, the video opens with a shot of Justin looking super effing hot. The beat comes in, and it's a grungy, grimy and angry hip-hop track, which serves as the perfect backdrop for Justin's blazing rhymes: "Come here, baby/Tell me what you're doing with him/I bet you won't be/When you catch up to my rhythm.../Don't be fooled/I ball like a Laker."

For the rest of the video, Justin walks around like a boss smashing things, tearing down fences, making "I'm a rapper now" hand gestures and lighting random stuff on fire. He meets up with FreeSol in an abandoned warehouse, where they both proceed to hit the crap out of the walls with hammers, flirt with babes, and watch as the remaining residents in town go nuts, destroying everything in sight. Admittedly, I'd much prefer to watch Justin sing a sultry pop ballad to me a hot girl, but I will literally take any Timberlake I can get!

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While Kelly Rowland's BFF Beyoncé is off being a super workaholic pregnant person, Kelly has been off filming videos for tracks from her Here I Am album, the latest of which is a trance-like club joint, "Down For Whatever." The song is about as clubby as we ever thought a Destiny's Child would get -- no, literally this record is like, straight from the clubs in Ibiza, guys. The beat is thumping, and amid about 10,000 synths, Kelly's booming R&B vocals resound.

In the video, Kelly dances alone on a podium in a hot leotard, sky-high rhinestone stilettos and a chain/metal headdress/face necklace thing (we have no clue, but it's rad). As the colorful lights surround her and flash in a seizure-inducing strobe light pattern, Kelly is content to chill by herself and sing seductively to the camera about doing uh, well, whatever to and for her man: "There's no place I wouldn't go/Tonight I'm ready to take it anywhere/I'm amazed by you/You bring out a side I didn't know.../I'm down for whatever/I'm down for whatever/When it comes to you."

Kelly pauses for a quick outfit change and slips into a zebra print leotard paired with a bedazzled hat that reminds us of the studded admiral's hat in Bey's "Love On Top" video (twinsies!). Then there's some more sexy dancing, winks at the camera and the final shot is basically a nude Kelly Rowland, save for a barely there black leotard, walking away from the camera. Kelly Rowland IS here, y'all.

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