Lady Gaga Says She Was Raped

"I went through some horrific things that I'm able to laugh [at] now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy and emotional therapy to heal over the years," the singer said. "My music's been wonderful for me.

"But, you know, I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19. I went to Catholic school and then all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?'' I was very naive."

"I wrote a song called 'Swine.' The song is about rape," she said. "The song is about demoralization. The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release. I said to myself, 'I want to sing this song while I'm ripping hard on a drum kit, and then I want to get on a mechanical bull'--which is probably one of the most demoralizing things that you can put a female on in her underwear--'and I want this chick to throw up on me in front of the world so that I can tell them, you know what? You could never, ever degrade as much as I could degrade myself, and look how beautiful it is when I do.'" Read more here.

Meek Mill Released From Jail

The rapper, who's been incarcerated since being sentenced for a parole violation on July 11, will be coming home just in time for the holidays, originally according to tweets from Fox 29 reporters.

The news has since been confirmed via a post to rapper Trav's Instagram page, which showed the rapper out of jail. Meek Mill was first expected to be released back in August, after he had served a month, when his team appealed and requested early parole, but that action was rejected by the presiding judge. Read more here.

Kanye West Plans North American Tour?

SPIN points out that listed is the Kanye West Tour Experience, which comes courtesy of Roc Nation. A starting bid is listed at $15,000 and gives the highest bidder an opportunity to be the rapper's VIP guest for his "upcoming North American 2015 tour."

The prize includes two VIP tickets, a private meet and greet, a pair of Yeezys, autographed memorabilia and some limited edition tour merch. Read more here.

Charli XCX Releases 'Breaking Up' Video

The same can be said for the music video for her new single, "Breaking Up." Opening with a scene of the pop star enduring her basic bro/college football star bragging about how the hottest girls at school are vying for his attention, the video finds XCX giving him the brush off and hopping in a limo with her crew for a night of fun at a local bowling alley, where she performs the track with her band.

The fun and colorful clip plays like a tribute to the popular Delia's catalog from the '90s with eye-popping animation and flashback fashions. The boorish boyfriend is hardly off the hook, coming back at the end of the clip to beg for the singer's forgiveness. Watch it here.

Lucy Hale Announces 2015 Headlining Tour

In an interview with Rolling Stone Country, the singer expressed her excitement to be headlining her first tour. "We've done a radio tour and radio shows, but now we get to do actual shows and do the entire album for people who have been supporting me," Hale said. "We're keeping it short and sweet. We're going to where my music was played on radio and when we stopped for a radio tour, people came to the shows."

The singer admitted that performing live is nerve-wracking for her. "It's the most vulnerable you get," she said. "It gives people more leeway to judge you and judge what you're doing. When you work on an album, you put your blood, sweat and tears into it and you want people to appreciate it."

Read more and see the tour dates here.

K. Michelle Streaming New Album 'Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?'

The 12-track project features a wide variety of styles from Michelle, including neo-soul on 'Love 'Em All" and 'Maybe I Should Call," country on 'God I Get It," and the album's emotional centerpiece, 'Drake Would Love Me."

This last track is a gospel belter, based on the conceit that Drizzy would treat K. Michelle better than her current beau. 'My second album is absolutely amazingly scary good, juicy, yummy," explained Michelle in an interview with Rap-Up TV. 'I wanted people to know that I am a musician. This album is so musical. I feel like it's so ahead of its time."�

Check it out here.

Mary J. Blige Releases Brutal Video For 'Whole Damn Year'

But, that doesn't tell the whole story of the new album. Blige showcases the other side of the coin on her new video for track "Whole Damn Year," a more traditional sounding ballad that sticks more with what we would expect with Blige. This isn't a bad thing, as a range of sounds makes for a complete listening over the course of the record.

"It took a whole damn year to repair my body," Blige sings on the standout track while the video splices black and white footage of the singer with scenes of dramatized abusive. Read more here.

Prince Covers Beatles Classic With Jazz Party's House Band

Attending the low-key evening as just a guest initially, apparently the jazz party was just too good for Prince to be a bystander. Soon enough, he jumped on stage and joined in for a rendition of The Beatles' classic "With a Little Help from My Friends," Consequence of Sound reports.

Which, you know, is appropriate, as Prince is the friend and he is helping out the house band and� well, you get it. Stay tuned for the next classic rocker to perform out of the blue at a random event. They say these things happen in threes.

Watch it here.

Maddie & Tae, Cole Swindell Added to New Faces of Country Music

The annual showcase will be held Feb. 27, 2015, at the Nashville Convention Center, where the five acts will close the three-day seminar. While dinner tickets for the performance are sold out, seating-only admission is still available and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ballard's current single "Sunshine & Whiskey" just reached No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. It follows his previous No. 1 "Helluva Life," which hit No. 1 earlier this year.

Hunt, too, is no stranger to the top of the charts. After writing hits for Keith Urban ("Cop Car") and Kenny Chesney ("Come Over"), he gained his first No. 1 as an artist earlier this fall with his debut single "Leave the Night On."

Read more here.

Travis Scott Taps Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan For 'Mamacita' Video

He's joined there by fellow ATL rappers Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan, as well as a squadron of nearly naked women wearing little more than high-visibility gear and neon body paint.

At least they're safe from traffic. Scott eventually escapes his imprisonment and joins Thug and Quan, prancing around the parking lot. The girls twerk in the background, directing the action with orange cones. Thug, in particular, seems packed to the brim with join de vivre as he jumps on and off the convertible.

Eventually they're joined by T.I., who makes a brief cameo during a game of dice. Travis is currently in the studio preparing his debut album Rodeo for release sometime in 2015.

Watch the video here.

Run the Jewels Go NSFW For 'Oh My Darling (Don't Cry)' Clip

Directed by Timothy Saccenti, who has directed visuals for artists like Animal Collective, the clip finds El and Mike standing back to back in a red-lit room. They dip in and out of focus, faces warping and smearing through funhouse mirror effects. Nude dancers contort around them, and flickering lights lend the tableau a sense of queasy motion.

If you're interested in watching, do so--just know that it may be NSFW for some. The duo just concluded their American tour last Sunday; catch them throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the next few months.

Watch the video here.

Chanel Tap Pharrell and Cara Delevingne For 'Reincarnation' Video

In it Coco Chanel, played by Geraldine Chaplin, visits a Salzburg hotel and finds unlikely inspiration for the design of her now very famous Chanel coat.

"It was really the moment to show the roots where the jacket came from, inspired by the lift boy in a hotel near Salzburg in the early '50s when she made her comeback," Lagerfeld explained in a behind the scenes interview from the video set.

Lagerfeld masterminded the design and shooting of the film, which looks like a high-fashion take on Wes Anderson's aesthetic, and tapped Pharrell for his musical talents and to take the starring role as the inspiringly outfitted boy in question.

"We're in his office and he's explaining this whole entire thing," Pharrell said in the clip. "Then he says, 'It's Austrian, so I want to hear Austrian music, but with your twist at the end okay? You see, you see?' And I'm like, 'Sure.'"

Delevingne takes a different role, playing a very naughty bar maid who gets up to every kind of mischief. Her transformation into a royally outfitted lady, who dances and sings with Pharrell, is pure Chanel.

"When Pharrell called me up and was like, 'We're going to do a song for it as well,' I was so happy I think I screamed down the phone at him," Delevingne said with a laugh. "And within five days I was in the studio recording it with him."

Chanel's Metiers d'Art 2014/15 Paris-Salzburg collection is revealed today at the 18th century Schloss Leopoldskron.

Watch it here.

David Guetta, Tiesto, Hardwell Lead Ultimate Music Experience 2015

"2015 will indeed be the biggest and best UME weekend to date since its inception five years ago," Paul Magee, CEO of Global Groove Events, told Billboard.

"We have three of the biggest heavy-hitters in the world headlining which includes Guetta, Hardwell and Tiësto. Due to an already high ticket demand, we've added an impressive pre-party, also at the Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark."

Read more here.

Jessie Ware Releases 'You & I (Forever)' Video

In her new video for "You & I (Forever)," Jessie Ware and a cast of couples (and a few singles) take to a device that is over a century old to give us a view of modern love.

The video's director, Adam Powell, chooses to take us back to those 1889 vibes by putting treating the video to be grainy and black and white. Ware is featured from the side, lip synching in vibrant, warm color. As usual for her she dons a sartorially standout outfit, where her elegant shoes and hair pop while the white button down shirt and army green pants fade. It's a masterful execution of what high-low fashion is meant to accomplish.

Meanwhile, inside the grainy photo booth footage we are treated to visages of many couples, of all sorts. Straight, old, LGBT, young, mother and child, and a few singles who are simply interesting characters--along with Ware and her husband Sam Burrows. It rings a bit the film Amelie, where the photo booth in a train station plays a pivotal role, second fiddle only to the story of love.

Watch the video here.

Pharrell Guests In Gwen Stefani's 'Spark the Fire' Video

So it's only fitting that they're working together once again on the No Doubt frontwoman's comeback. Their new single together, "Spark the Fire," has surfaced, and it's a throwback to their classic collaborations. The video, following the single's premiere on The Voice Monday night (Dec. 1), is also out now.

The Pharrell-produced track, filled out to the max with soft bells and a jangly beat, has Stefani proclaiming, "OMG, OMG, I'm back again" and "Finally remembering what is me/ That is what happens when I get with P."

She also namechecks the Rolling Stones with the line "hey, get off my cloud." She toured with the band last year on what was then reported to be their last tour.

In the video, Stefani is flanked by phone text bubbles, cartoon emoji-like objects and even, briefly, Pharrell's disembodied head. Watch it here.

The Killers and Jimmy Kimmel Have New Christmas Song

A clip of the band in the studio premiered last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! which shows the late night host coming by to help frontman Brandon Flowers and the guys hit all the right notes.

This includes wearing the appropriate ugly sweater, making sure Flowers is singing into the mic and accurately telling this particular lump of coal's story. "Imagine you're an old Jewish grandmother," Kimmel suggests to Flower so he gets the pronunciation of the name just right.

Kimmel gets to play Santa Claus, while Flower makes it clear Joel isn't so bad, singing, "He just wants to keep Santa warm/ And make the elves cozy." Maybe it wouldn't be that bad to get a lump of coal in your stocking after all.

Watch the video to see the making of the song and the Rankin/Bass style music video here.

Nick Carter and Jordan Knight Reflect On Regrettable Fashion Choices

When we had Carter and Knight in the studio talking about their latest project, we asked them to take a walk down memory lane and explain to us some of their fashion looks over the years. From shirtless overalls to tons of khaki, here's what the guys had to say when discussing their fashion evolution.

"I never, ever have thought that I actually was very good at style and dressing myself," Carter admits when he's given some photos of his earliest looks. "Now more than ever I let my wife help me out a lot. Some things like this, I have no idea what that is. I look like the guy from Puddle of Mudd."

He's talking about an outfit he wore to the Festivalbar Music Festival in Turin, Italy back in 2005. During his performance, the Backstreet Boy showed his dark side with a skull woven onto his button-down dress shirt.

Carter once again questions an outfit he wore to the 2004 MTV Movie Awards. During his walk on the red carpet, the Backstreet Boy showed off some skin in his ripped bell bottom jeans. He also sported a khaki button-down shirt. "I don't know why I'm wearing bell bottoms, to be quite honest."

"We could have been Nick & Knight in the early 2000s," Knight quips when he finds himself sporting a khaki shirt back in 2001 during MTV's 20th Anniversary at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.

So what was Knight's signature look in the '90s? Well, he had a few. Turtlenecks, leather and overalls.

"The turtleneck, everybody wore turtlenecks," he admits. "I could have jumped in Backstreet here. Woah! Beeper."

He is of course referring to a beeper clipped on an all-leather ensemble he wore back in 1999, when he showed up at a Virgin Megastore in California to promote his debut solo album Jordan Knight.

More including photos here.

Mary J. Blige Discusses New Collaborative Album 'London Sessions'

Released Tuesday (Dec. 2), the album is also notable for how quickly it came together, with Blige and her collaborators cutting it in a mere 20 days (10 writing, 10 recording). "Once I started writing with these artists and producers, we just clicked," Blige tells Radio.com.

Frequent collaborator Rodney Jerkins was on board for the ride, too, producing several tracks. Still, Blige's gamble with an album that mixes soul tracks, deep house and guitar-based pop songs is one of the riskiest of her career. "I considered it to be a leap of faith," Blige explains, "because this is something different than I would normally give [my fans]."

Blige speaks to Radio.com about what motivated her to record The London Sessions, her thoughts on her collaborators and how she knew Sam Smith was going to be a star from the jump.

Radio.com: Do you consider The London Sessions to be a stretch outside of your musical comfort zone?

Mary J. Blige: I considered it to be a leap of faith, The London Sessions, concerning my fans because this is something different than I would normally give them. That's the only thing. As far as my comfort zone, I was very comfortable singing every last one of these songs and coming up with the ideas. The only thing that was a little nerve-wracking was wondering if and hoping that my fans would like it.

There are a lot of different sounds on the album: orchestral or guitar-based arrangements next to Disclosure productions next to Rodney Jerkins productions. Did you worry about how to sequence them to fit together?

When I was recording the album, I wasn't really worried about how to fit the songs on it. I was just recording them as I felt them. My husband [Kendu Isaacs], who is a producer and my manager--he does so many things, we do it together. We sew it together together, but he does the bulk of tying the album together, making it a cohesive piece of work.

Radio.com: You worked with a lot of new songwriters, producers and people who you haven't collaborated with before on this one. Was there a learning curve?

Mary J. Blige: The reason we recorded the album so quickly together was that once I started writing with these artists and producers, we just clicked. Working with Sam Smith, Emile Sande, everybody--it was so amazing because everyone had so much in common. It made the album really fast to finish and as beautiful as it is.

Radio.com: Did you find you had a lot in common musically with the guys in Disclosure?

Mary J. Blige: Yeah, my whole reason for gravitating towards them was the fact that they had so much knowledge of the music that my generation grew up on. The deep house--I was too young to go clubbing, but I used to hear it on the radio, and they captured it 100%.

Their hip-hop history and their musical history is just like [shakes her head], "You guys are too young. What are you, like aliens or something?" [laughs]. It's just amazing.

Radio.com: What made you want to push yourself in this direction?

Mary J. Blige: I've been doing what I've been doing consistently as an artist for 20-something years. I reached the point where I felt like I needed to grow and do something different, something outside of the genre that I was in and touching people. I have more fans than just the fans with whom I've grown up. As an artist I wanted to grow and give them that.

Read the full interview here.

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