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+ It's a girl!!! Congrats to Beyoncé and Jay-Z on the birth of daughter Blue Ivy. Bey's sis Solange, Rihanna, Diddy, Young Jeezy, Russell Simmons and other celebs tweeted their love. "Welcome to the world Princess Carter!" wrote Ri. (MTV News)

+ Katy Perry tweeted about her split with Russell Brand. It's the first time she's publicly addressed they're divorcing. She thanked supporters and also tweeted, "Concerning the gossip, I want to be clear that NO ONE speaks for me." (MTV News)

+ Watch Kelly Clarkson's powerhouse performances of "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)" and "Mr. Know It All" from "Saturday Night Live." (Neon Limelight)

+ "The Voice" panelists Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton will be joined by celebrity advisors Ne-Yo, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Alanis Morissette, Robin Thicke, Jewel, Lionel Richie, Miranda Lambert and Kelly Clarkson this season. (Rolling Stone)

+ It's 2012 -- time for another installment of "Weezy's Sports Corner." Lil Wayne launched eight new webisodes, where he chats about pro sports, college sports and skateboarding. 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith is his guest. Peep 'em here. (Rap-Up)

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Way back in 1995 when Avril Lavigne was still in grade school, there was another feisty Canadian female burning up the charts. Her name was Alanis Morissette, and her hit single "You Oughta Know" turned her from a little-known L.A. transplant into a girl power icon and '90s poster girl overnight.

The first single off her first album for an American record label (Maverick, the only label that didn't pass on her), "You Oughta Know" quickly gained national popularity, going into heavy rotation on MTV and inspiring a generation of young girls to get angry (like, fling your hair around menacingly and scream in your car angry) at the men who'd wronged them instead of just sitting around moping. The high contrast video of Alanis freaking out in the desert helped underscore the song's emotional rawness, as did bitter, explicit lyrics like the oft-censored line about you-know-what in a theater. The weird rumor that the song was about actor Dave Coulier, best known as Uncle Joey from family sitcom "Full House," only increased the song's notoriety.

Alanis went on to release five more singles off Jagged Little Pill, staying on the Billboard charts for more than a year. She also cleaned up at the 1996 Grammy awards, taking home nods for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song (both for "You Oughta Know"), as well as Best Rock Album and Album of the Year. Although nothing she's done since has matched the insane international success of Jagged Little Pill, she's done pretty well for herself, releasing four more studio albums, recording a great episode of "MTV Unplugged" (which she later released as an album) and acting in various movies and TV shows, including Dogma (in which she literally played God), "Weeds" and "Sex and the City." Not too shabby!

Watch the video that started it all below, and get angry at your crappy ex and/or Uncle Joey all over again.

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+ Calm down, people! Lady Gaga's "Judas" is NOT an attack on religion. "I respect and love everyone's beliefs. I'm a religious and spiritual person who's obsessed with religious art," Gaga explains. (MTV News)

+ Rihanna's long mermaid braid is back, and sources just confirmed that yep, she can do no wrong. (Neon Limelight)

+ Beyoncé covered "God Bless The USA" and finally, a version that doesn't make us want to hit "Snooze." The song was recorded in 2008 and recently released to raise money for the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund. (TheFABlife)

+ Selena Gomez & The Scene have released the name of their third album -- Outside will drop June 28 while the band is on tour this summer. (PopCrush)

+ Is there a new pop diva in the works? It's been reported that Madonna and her daughter Lourdes have collaborated on a track that will be featured in Madonna's upcoming movie, W.E. (Monsters And Critics)

+ Remember how you were like "WTF??!" when you found out Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" was about Full House's Dave Coulier?! Well, Dave Coulier finally (kind of) confirms it. (ONTD)

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Is the name new mom Alanis Morissette gave her new baby boy, Ever Imre, supposed to be "Ironic"? The former "You Can't Do That On Television" star and her husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway welcomed their bouncing baby boy during Christmas. We're so excited that the famously angsty best-breakup-lyrics scribe has settled down and is starting a family. But what on earth is that name about? Like, both halves of it, but especially the latter.

Our hard-hitting baby-name research tells us that Imre is a name of Hungarian origins and that it's generally used as a boy's name. And that it was NOT in the top 1,000 names in 2010. You should totally turn to ourbabynamer.com for all your pressing baby name questions, clearly. "You Live, You Learn," right, Buzzworthy readers?

Is it because Alanis herself had trouble finding "Alanis" paraphernalia as a child? Is it because Mario resents his nickname? Either way, we think Ever Imre "Oughta Know" that name may be his own little "Jagged Little Pill" to swallow day in and day out on the playground.

What do you think, guys? Are we crazy? Or is this veering a little bit into Bad Celebrity Baby Name Town, where you'll find that Shannyn Sossamon's kid Audio Science is mayor? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.

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Rihanna: singer, dancer, actress, fashion icon, redhead and...sister?! Yup, Rihanna has a little bro! Who knew? Not many people, which seems to be the impetus behind Buzzfeed's feature about overlooked or relatively (get it?) unknown celeb siblings.

First things first: Rihannas little brother, Rajad Fenty, is pretty adorable. And in the above photo of the pair, RiRi sure seems happy to be spending a little quality time with him. Other musicians with siblings we didn't know about include Justin Bieber's little sister Jazmyn, John Mayer's brother, Carl (Carl!) and Alanis Morissette's brother, Wade.

Perhaps most interesting about this gallery are the similarities between certain pairs of siblings. Don Swayze is a spitting image of his late older brother, Patrick. While Dan Heder is literally identical to his twin brother, "Napoleon Dynamite" actor Jon Heder.

Check out Buzzfeed's gallery of celebrities and their siblings while you anxiously await Rajad Fenty's debut album!

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Cady Groves might look like your typical American Apparel pinup girl, but this Oklahoma native is more interested in heartfelt rock songs than tri-blend pocket jumpsuits. (Sorry, Dov Charney.)

When asked to describe her sound, Groves has said, "If Miranda Lambert, Paramore, The Dixie Chicks and Taylor Swift all had a less-talented baby -- that would be me." We can't say we disagree with the comparisons -- but we'd fight her about the "less-talented" part because lady can sing sweeter than honey, and her introspective lyrics remind us of a young Alanis Morissette.

If you missed Groves when she opened up for Buzzworthy faves like Never Shout Never and The Ready Set, catch her on the Bamboozle Roadshow this summer because she'll be performing alongside All Time Low and Good Charlotte.

Check out the videos for "Real Like Me" and "One In The Same" below. Cady Groves' The Life Of A Pirate EP is out now.

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Back in 1990, gas was around $1.20 per gallon, Miley Cyrus wasn't even born yet (!!!) and Spice Girls' Mel B still had hair on both sides of her head. Those were the days!

In celebration of our favorite (and most recent) decade, we thought it was time to scribble up a list of our favorite '90s-est videos. So pause that episode of "Seinfeld," put on your Hypercolor tee and crack open a can of Crystal Pepsi. It's time to party like it's, um, 1990!

1.) Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991): The task was simple: Set up a mock pep rally with all sorts of grunge misfits and a creepy-looking janitor, tell Nirvana to play and try to lip-synch accordingly, and press 'record.' To this day, people still might not understand what Kurt Cobain was singing -- something about mosquitoes and Taquitos?? -- but, almost 20 years later, the clip still remains a '90s-era classic.

2.) Snoop Doggy Dogg's "What's My Name?" (1993): For better or worse, our urban vernacular would never be the same after the introduction of Snoop-a-loop and his unique doggy style. The Dr. Dre protégé was a mere pup when he filmed this video in the early '90s, but aside from his receding cornrows and a slight pimp cup gut, he looks almost exactly the same.

3.) Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" (1995): When Alanis Morissette first came out with this blurry and completely aggro clip, she was nearly dismissed as being an angry-chick one-hit wonder. However, angry chicks flocked to the song in droves because they related to the tune's fury and Alanis' candor -- even if she allegedly wrote the song about her sour romance with Dave Coulier from "Full House" -- making her an icon for bitter Betties everywhere. Suck on that, Uncle Joey!

4.) Hanson's "MMMBop" (1997): When Hanson skyrocketed to the top of the charts with this nonsensical lil' ditty, it seemed like they came from out of nowhere. (Technically, they came from the middle of nowhere, as insinuated by the band's first major-label album, appropriately titled Middle Of Nowhere.) Before a baby-faced angel named Justin Bieber was even in preschool, the brothers Hanson were driving the girls crazy with their innocent-looking punims, nonthreatening demeanor and obscenely catchy pop songs. Hell, judging from the response they got a couple weeks ago at The Bamboozle, not a whole lot has changed -- except the whole puberty thing.

5.) Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" (1999): Sure, when I was in college, many local fraternities used to play this song on repeat for hours on end as a way to torture their pledges, but at the time of its release, this song was rad. No, really. Stop laughing. It was! Not only were The Backstreet Boys the biggest band on the planet, but this slick and polished big-budget clip would single-handedly increase the sales of knee-length trench coats and private jet hangers. (OK, that's just a guess, but the video did inspire one bitchin' pop-punk parody.)

+ Who'd we forget? Let us know in the comments!

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It's a cruel, cruel world out there, and no one is more aware of this than celebrities. How would you feel if you spent countless hours and dollars and effort primping and perfecting your appearance? Hiring David LaChapelle or Steven Klein to shoot you and then having them use computer software to make you look like a blemish-free God? Only to have the one picture of you looking like the "before" shot in a Proactiv commercial? Or the one freakin' time you decided to just put your hair in a messy bun before going to The Coffee Bean be the image that winds up on the world's go-to information source, Wikipedia?

You would probably feel upset. But then you would go roll around in a pile of money and feel better. Which means we, the lowly public, can enjoy this Idolator-assembled collection of celebrity Wikipedia photos gone wrong, without feeling guilty.

Inside the flipbook you'll find shots of Taylor Swift looking like she's made out of wax, Alanis Morissette looking like a Edmonton hockey mom and Fergie looking like she just stumbled out of an all-night poker game in Vegas.

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Lourdes just over a year old when Madonna went to the 1995 MTV VMAs, yet already Madonna had the stern scolding thing down to art. And that matronly voice of authority would come in handy at the VMAs that night, when she had to lay the smack down on (a possibly not-so-sober, if I may be so suggestive) Courtney Love, who completely and totally hijacked her VMA red carpet interview with Kurt Loder.

Watch this vintage VMA video -- it's long, but it's a great from the crate, and it's totally worth it to revel in Madonna and Courtney's bitter exchange, which ends in Madonna killing a dangerously bottomless Courtney with kindness. (Albeit that rare Madonna brand of bitchy kindness.) And to watch Courtney throw a powder compact into the interview pit. And to watch Courtney Love and Madonna's fashion turf war. And to watch Courtney Love's SUPER awkward exchange with Tabitha Soren. And to watch Courtney Love ramble on and on about Michael Stipe, ambulance drivers, astrophysics, and Birkenstocks. And to watch Courtney slither and writhe around on the ground. There's even a weird exchange about Alanis Morisette. Every time I watch it, I discover a new gem, though my favorite is "Courtney Love is in dire need of attention right now." And Madonna's inability to decide upon mock-British accent or Jersey Girl. (So she goes with both.)

Taste the faux sincerity. Enjoy the crazy.

+ Don't miss the 2009 VMAs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 13 at 9pm!

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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.

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