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Kicking off the work week with an early morning on-set, Blake Lively was spotted shooting scenes for "Gossip Girl" in New York City on Monday (March 5).
The Serena van der Woodsen actress was joined by the lovely Liz Hurley as the pair strolled down the Big Apple streets as cameras captured their each and every move.
The workday comes as "Gossip Girl" is currently on hiatus, but the drama will return with a new episode titled "Con-Heir" on Monday, April 2 at 8/7c on The CW.
With a preview found in the video player below, a synopsis via the show's website reads: "Dan feels honored when he learns that Upright Citizen's Brigade is performing excerpts from his book, Inside. Blair tries to prove Serena's suspicions wrong in order to save their friendship."
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'I've listened to their music since I was a child,' says the R&B diva, who recorded 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Whole Lotta Love.'
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Larry Carroll
<P>You wouldn't peg Mary J Blige as the black-light-and-tapestry sort, but, as has become readily apparent in recent weeks, she absolutely loves Led Zeppelin. In early February, reports began circulating that Blige had re-recorded Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven," working with Travis Barker, "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson and guitarist Steve Vai on the track, which is slated to appear on the international reissue of her <i>Stronger With Each Tear</i> album, due Monday. </p><div style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float:left;"></div><p> But after she had recorded "Stairway," Blige continued to get the Led out, covering <i>another</i> Zeppelin classic — the thunderous "Whole Lotta Love" — for the album too. And when MTV News caught up with her on the <i>Essence</i> Black Women in Hollywood red carpet, she told us all about channeling her inner Robert Plant for the tracks, a process that came much easier than you'd probably imagine. "I did Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' and 'Whole Lotta Love' — it's crazy," she said. "I am a Led Zeppelin fan. I'm not going to say I've been to their concerts, but I've listened to their music since I was a child, and it's always moved me, especially 'Stairway to Heaven,' and 'Whole Lotta Love' is just fun." Blige also said she recorded another new song — a "club record" called "I Can't Wait" — for the re-release. And while it's only slated to hit shelves outside the U.S., she hopes her fans will get a chance to hear all the new songs pretty soon. "I want y'all to hear it," she laughed.</p>
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'My goal is to migrate the cultures,' Swizz tells MTV News about his new partnership with Korea's O&Media.
By Nadeska Alexis
Swizz Beatz is famous for having his hands in a few different projects at once. In addition to outside-the-box ventures like working with Christian Louboutin to scoring the music for Paris' Crazy Horse cabaret, the producer is currently focused on developing his joint venture with O&Media, which aims to introduce Korean pop music, or "K-Pop," to mainstream America.
"My goal is to migrate the cultures," Swizz told MTV News. "It's not about me being a feature or just producing K-Pop music; it's about migrating musical cultures around the world. And I just felt like starting with K-Pop, starting in Asia and opening up different outlets to something cool and new."
To spearhead this project, Swizz teamed up with popular Korean entertainment group O&Media. "That partnership has been coming about for a couple of months now," he said, detailing the progress they've made together so far. "We have a TV show component, a tour company component, a production company and a label. We're just active as the tunnel for artists that want to do things in the West, or artists in the West that want to do things in Asia. This is about a whole migration of cultures coming together under our umbrella to have an outlet to express themselves."
Part of Swizz's goal is to use elements from each music culture to help grow the other. "They still do artist development [in Asia], where back here in the States, the labels and our culture lacks artist development," he said. "Nowadays, an artist can go into the booth, put out a song the next day, and that person thinks that they're a superstar. But within the K-Pop movement, artists actually go through artist development. They take music classes that allow them to be ready for when they do become that big star.
"I think that introducing different cultures of music can help everybody out, and that doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing hip-hop or R&B music," he added. "I have love for all genres of music, because it's all art, and I just want to take the boundaries and lines of segregation and make them invisible."
In the simplest terms, the super-producer wants the love to be spread evenly across the musical world. "When we go to these different countries — Korea, Japan, China — as artists from the United States, we get treated like kings," he said. "We get treated like real stars. And I feel that when they come over to the States, as successful as they are, they should get treated the same."
What do you think about Swizz's K-Pop efforts? Let us know in the comments!
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It's been months since he publicly talked about his estranged wife, but sources tell People magazine that Ashton Kutcher has visited Demi Moore in the hospital.
The "Two and a Half Men" star is said to have checked up on his ex since her health crisis started back in January because "he knew it was important to her daughters," says the source.
Moore has three daughters with her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, and, although the "Punk'd" star showed some love on their behalf, "they are not getting back together," the People insider adds.
34-year-old Kutcher has been keeping busy preparing for a new season of "Punk'd" - which set to begin airing on Thursday, March 29 on MTV at 10/9c.
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'My first single is going to be amazing — everyone's going to love it,' Bieber tells MTV News about the Believe track.
By Jocelyn Vena
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<P>Justin Bieber wants to be your "Boyfriend." Well, at least he does on the lead single off his new album, <i>Believe,</i> set for release later this year. He announced the single's name and release date, March 26, when he stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," in an episode airing on Thursday (March 1), his 18th birthday. <center></center> "My big announcement is that on March 26, my first single is coming out and it's called 'Boyfriend,' " he said about the song, co-written by Mike Posner. "The song, it's basically I'm talking to this girl, [saying] if I was your boyfriend, I would never let you go. We wrote it, and the verses I'm talking/ rapping and then on the hook I'm singing. It's a really awesome song." While the single announcement served as a surprise for fans, manager Scooter Braun had his own surprise for the teen star. Braun gifted Bieber with a car, the sporty, electric Fisker Karma. Ellen had something special for him, too: a window sun visor with a photo of the two of them on it, as well as an Ellen bobblehead. MTV News caught up with Bieber this week, and he answered many of his fans' questions and talked about his new album. "This new album is crazy. I've spent the most time on it creatively just writing myself and being involved in the whole process. It's something that comes from my heart," he explained of the 2012 release. "I hope all my fans and all my Beliebers like it. With my new album <i>Believe</i> there's so many different songs and so many different styles. It's really versatile and fun. My first single is going to be amazing — everyone's going to love it." <b>Happy 18th birthday, Justin Bieber! Now that we've counted down the superstar's 18 greatest moments, stick with MTV News as we celebrate the milestone all day.</b></p>
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Fed Up (featuring Usher, Young Jeezy, Drake, Rick Ross)
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