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1.) If catching a glimpse of Madonna's glitzy Super Bowl performance on TV wasn't enough, pick a date to see Queen Madge live during her world tour! (Pop On And On)

2.) One of Lady Gaga's infamous personas returns (how many are we up to now?) -- Jo Calderone is back in the spotlight in a the newest installment of her "Haus of U" fashion video series. (Pop Dust)

3.) It's been seven years since you could "Get Ur Freak On" to new Missy Elliot music, but the rapper is making a comeback with her Timbaland-produced album, Block Party, due out in June. (Spin)

+ Check out the rest of this week's 10 Things To Know Now after the jump!

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1.) Natalia Kills' new video "Kill My Boyfriend" may be super sexy, but we really don't recommend taking the song title as a suggested way to break it off with your boo. (Pop On And On)

2.) New Kids On The Block hunk Jordan Knight goes solo again and hits the road for a tour to promote his new album, Unfinished, due out May 31. (Entertainment One)

3.) You must be straight up trippin' if you thought Beyoncé and Jay-Z would get anything less than a toy collection worth $1.5 million for their new baby girl, Blue Ivy. (ONTD)

4.) Miley Cyrus may have retired from playing her mischievous "Hannah Montana" character, but she's still causing silly mayhem as Lola in her new flick, "LOL." (Neon Limelight)

5.) What's cuter than Ryan Gosling making a sexy lip curl? How about a photo of the equally adorbz Emma Stone imitating him. (BuzzFeed)

6.) Madonna fans, freak your ish out: Madge officially released the title for her upcoming 12th studio album: MDNA. (Idolator)

7.) The always sweet-as-pie Demi Lovato has joined forces with Teens For Jeans, an organization that donates your old denim to the homeless. (MTV Style)

8.) Justin Timberlake's serious about reviving Myspace -- the newly engaged pop star recently launched Myspace TV, a social TV service. No word on if shows will have to fend for "Top 10" friend spots. (Just Jared)

9.) Justin Beiber's coolness must have rubbed off on President Obama after their bro hug, because now he's "singing" Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Something tells us Abraham Lincoln would have done the same thing if he knew this song. (BuzzFeed)

10.) Diplo will release a photo book in April, "128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo's Visual Guide to Music, Culture and Everything in Between." It documents the DJ's experiences around the world. (Exclaim)

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If you were to hear DJ duo Major Lazer's "Original Don" without any visuals, you might imagine the video featuring some kind of off-the-wall house party full of sweaty people going as buckwild as the dancehall beat in the song. WRONG. The recently released "Original Don" video does feature a house party, but the only people in attendance are a young man and woman LARPing with swords in T-shirts and jeans and their grandmother (?) chillin' in her BluBlockers. In other words, THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO EVER CREATED.

Internet nerds (read: us) got our first glimpse at the sword swinging magic a few months ago when a weird-ass video, "Jian Sword Dancing," was picked up by a few of our favorite sites. (The video has more than 500,000 views to date.) After shaking our head and hitting replay about 60 times, Diplo and Switch (aka Major Lazer) have now completed the puzzle with "Original Don," where we finally learn what those two crazy weapon wielders were up to -- basically just sword dancing for the hell of it.

You guys ready for this story line? "Original Don" opens on the two kids role playing with swords in their backyard. Grandma watches for a bit before she heads inside (very slowly -- she's old) to grab a different sword for the female sword dancer. Diplo's there too, reading a magazine on the couch while Grandma grabs the sword. Then he heads outside to join the crew whereby he greets them with sandwiches. Fin.

As the old saying goes, "Everything Major Lazer does terrifies me." That also happens to be why they're so rad.

+ Watch Major Lazer featuring The Partysquad, "Original Don."

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+ Hosted by Selena Gomez, the MTV EMA show aired yesterday. Lady Gaga dominated with four awards; Justin Bieber took home two. Bruno Mars won Best New and Best Push, while Katy Perry took Best Live and Eminem garnered Best Hip Hop. Highlights and more here. (MTV EMA)

+ Sounds like Beyoncé and Jay-Z are thinking pink. Kelly Rowland slipped this to a UK news agency: "Jay is going to buy that little girl every single thing possible. She won't be spoiled, but she will be very well looked after." (MTV News)

+ Speaking of babies on board, Jessica Simpson, who photo-tweet announced her pregnancy last week, showed off her baby bump on Saturday with sister Ashlee at a Jessica Simpson Girls store launch. (Just Jared)

+ Beliebers would say he's always No. 1, and this week he's No. 1 on the charts, too. Justin Bieber's Under The Mistletoe takes the top spot on Billboard 200. (Billboard)

+ Demi Lovato looks lovely in her photo for The Beauty Book for Brain Cancer, which benefits brain cancer research. She also tweeted a photo of her new ginger locks over the weekend. (Neon Limelight)

+Usher's working on his seventh album. He's reportedly hit the studio with Pharrell Williams, Diplo, Rico Love and Jim Jonsin. His new album is slated for release next year. (Rap-Up)

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Let us introduce you, if you're not yet acquainted, to the fair-skinned, redheaded, BADASSED Nicola Roberts. Over in England, everyone knows her. (She even interviewed Lady Gaga for MTV UK). After auditioning for the UK reality show Popstars: The Rivals, Roberts won a spot in what would eventually become one of the UK's most successful girl groups, Girls Aloud.

In 2010, after immense success with Girls Aloud, reports of a band hiatus surfaced, and Nicola announced she'd be going solo. And sorry, Girls Aloud diehards, but we're pretty glad she did, because her solo stuff is on point.

Nicola Roberts' first single, the aptly named "Beat Of My Drum," is produced by Diplo (his signature sound's stamped all over the song), and it's a fresher take on electro-pop, ditching perfectly aligned saccharine production for a grittier, shoutier brand of sweet (read: If M.I.A., Major Lazer and Yelle had a kid, it would be born screaming this song).

Outfitted in a colorful onesie, Nicola employs a troupe of dancers, a drumline, and a cheerleading squad, in her "Beat Of My Drum" video before mounting a stack of speakers, which she uses as a platform to urges listeners to dance to the beat of her drum. Sold.

Nicola's debut album, Cinderella's Eyes, is slated for release this fall.

+ Watch Nicola Roberts' "Beat Of My Drum" video.

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Beyoncé took home Billboard Music's Artist Of The Millennium Award last night after it was determined that -- yes -- she is, in fact, better than Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons or any other virtuoso from the past 1,000 years. After all, who would you rather see bust a move in that skimpy outfit: Pablo Picasso or Sasha Fierce?

(Before you say it, we already know that DaVinci, Warhol, Koons and Picasso aren't the same kind of "artist" as Beyoncé, but thinking about them reenacting the choreography in her "Single Ladies" video makes for a pretty hilarious mental picture.)

Beyoncé's song "Run The World (Girls)" (produced by Switch and Diplo, Major Lazer duo and superstar DJs in their own right) has been steadily climbing the charts and was the talk of the awards show ceremony. Just check the Twitter accounts of stars like Missy Elliott and Bey's own sister Solange Knowles, who were among those in attendance to tweet their approval.

It was a killer performance if we do say so ourselves! Way to keep it fierce, Beyoncé.

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Heck, I might get fired just trying to describe this thing! But let's give it a shot. Here's some background, in case you missed the first round of Die Antwoord hysteria a couple of months ago.

Die Antwoord is a very unique South African hip-hop/electronic group. They're made up of a heavily tattooed MC named Ninja, a nearly (possibly?) albino vocalist named Yo-Landi and a DJ named Hi-Tek, who is not the Hi-Tek who produces songs for American rappers Mos Def, Talib Kweli and many others.

They make music and music videos that look and sound like they are from another planet. And based on their clip for the single "Evil Boy," I don't think I will be visiting that planet anytime soon. I also may NEVER sleep again in my life.

Here is the most safe for work recap I can write for the "Evil Boy" video: rats, demons, men with hooves, men in various states of...erotic excitement, topless women with no nipples (!!?!?!?), rats, more demons, trees adorned with phallic imagery, dudes rapping and singing in their boxer shorts... and Diplo. Diplo's by far the least mortifying part about "Evil Boy."

If you're still somehow not terrified and need to watch it, grab your prayer beads and head over to Pitchfork to watch the HIGHLY NSFW Die Antwoord "Evil Boy" video.

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+ On Saturday, Missouri Lady Gaga fans protested a planned protest of her show by the Westboro Baptist Church. (MTV News)

+ Go behind the scenes of Madonna's shoot for Dolce & Gabbana's Fall/Winter collection. (Idolator)

+ Ashley Greene and Miley Cyrus held a puppy playdate over the weekend for their two canines. (JustJaredJr)

+ Diplo has opened up to the press about his disappointment in how M.I.A.'s latest album turned out. (TheFabLife)

+ Charice Pempengco underwent skin-lightening and Botox for her upcoming role on "Glee." We kinda wish she hadn't! Check out Charice looking adorable in the Buzzworthy interview below. (PopEater)

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Not to be confused with the Mario song "C'mon," electronic heavyweight Tiësto -- the world-renowned Dutch DJ/producer who can fill a stadium faster than 10 artists combined and play six times as long -- and remix overlord Diplo (you've seen his visually arresting Major Lazer videos, and you've heard his grime on everyone from M.I.A. to Britney) teamed up on dance track "C'mon." They usually play two different (though not opposing) sides of the coin, musically speaking, but it's an explosive electronic pairing that works perfectly.

See what happens when the king of dance trance meets the king of the remix in Diplo and Tiësto's new performance video, "C'mon," shot at Winter Music Conference 2010 in Miami.

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We recently hipped y'all to "No Hassle," a new track from Swedish dancing queen Robyn. At the time, we figured it must be an early single from the long-awaited follow-up to her 2005 self-titled album, which spawned dance-pop hits like "Konichiwa Bitches" and "With Every Heartbeat."

Well, we were right—sort of. Robyn will be releasing one album this year. ... And then she's gonna release two more. According to an interview in the Swedish magazine Bon (spotted via Pitchfork), Robyn is looking to make up for lost time with three LP efforts.

Expected among this flood of new material—which will apparently be released seasonally, with albums dropping in the spring, summer and fall—are collaborations with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Röyksopp and Diplo, who produced "No Hassle."

Be sure to check out Pitchfork's take on the Bon Magazine interview and read what Robyn has to say about Lady Gaga (she's not a fan!), Fever Ray and Barack Obama.

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