Alleged Ariana Grande Stalker Video Posted Online

Perusing Normandin's Facebook page, however, unearths video clips that be easily construed as a little less humorous. Between typical "Throwback Thursday" and travel picture status updates, he's posted a series of updates directed at Grande that include odd poems addressing his displeasure over her relationship with Detroit rapper Big Sean to video clips of him reciting raps of his own for the "Problem" singer.

Though those clips lived on Facebook before now, one rap has been uploaded by another party to YouTube, and it's quite the sight to behold. The seven-minute ode to Ariana Grande utilizes her name in the song's hook, which he performs walking around what appears to be a college classroom, reciting such lines as "I'm with you, Ari, forever and always, why punish yourself with a boy that just plays?"

Read more and watch the video here.

Jeremih Under Investigation For Alleged Trashing Of A Fuddruckers

According to local TV station KULR, witnesses say a group of men, purportedly including Jeremih, visited the hamburger restaurant on Wednesday, Nov. 5 and ordered food. Police say they were told the men began hitting on a woman who worked there, who said she felt uncomfortable and in turn told her manager, who asked them to stop.

In turn, police say the men called the manager a racist, which resulted in them throwing beer bottles at the manager. A total of $700 in damages is estimated. Read more here.

U2's Bono Enters Spotify Debate

Spoiler alert: he's not against it. "It's an experimental period," Bono told The Guardian. "Let's experiment. Let's see what works. When people pick on Spotify: Spotify are giving up 70 percent of all their revenues to rights owners," the Irish singer said. "It's just that people don't know where the money is because the record labels haven't been transparent."

Later, Bono added: "I think artists should be paid way more than they are, but the greatest way you serve your songs is to get them heard." And this is the dichotomy, whereas Taylor Swift or The Black Keys don't really need help getting their music heard, nor do they need the Spotify revenue. But Bono seems to recognize this. Read what he said here.

Taylor Swift's Shake It Off Gets 1989 Style Mashup

In a new video mash-up, a spandex-heavy Jazzercise class dances it out to Swift's "Shake It Off." And, no real surprise, this song helps a person work up a serious sweat.

Swift was even in on the joke, tweeting a link to the video with the explanation, "A sneak peak at the official 'Shake It Off' choreography for the 1989 World Tour."

Swift has no plans to follow in Richard Simmons' footsteps and take over the Sweatin' to the Oldies franchise (at least, not as far as we know), but she is helping to boost our relations with Japan.

In a post to Instagram, Swift showed herself dancing to a very different version of "Shake It Off" accompanied by a koto and bamboo flute, captioning it, "You've got to fight for your right to PARTY."

Watch it here.

Blake Shelton Releases Duet Video With Ashley Monroe

For Shelton's latest album Bringing Back the Sunshine, Monroe returned the favor, pairing up with the Oklahoma singer on "Lonely Tonight." The song is Shelton's latest radio single, and the video debuted this week on Amazon, with wider distribution to follow.

Written by Brent Anderson and Ryan Hurd, "Lonely Tonight" is a booty-call ballad between two former lovers. In that respect it's similar in theme to Kenny Chesney's 2012 hit "Come Over," though instead of a singular perspective, "Lonely Tonight" expands its scope to include voices from both sides. The main narrative has the lead character (voiced by Shelton) asking his onetime romantic partner (Monroe) if she'd like to hook up for "one last one more time," in order to ease the anguish of being alone - even if it's only a temporary salve. "I know we shouldn't, but I don't care," Monroe sings, showing that the feeling is apparently mutual. "When the sun comes up, we can both move on," they sing on the chorus, "but we don't have to be lonely tonight."

Directed by Shaun Silva, the video opens with a sweeping shot of Los Angeles at night. Shelton is shown standing on a hilltop next to his parked pickup, sending his voice off into the dark night and hoping for a swift reply. Monroe is riding in a white limo, dressed to the nines but still, as echoed in her eyes and her aching voice, yearning for a connection that has now been broken. Watch the video here.

Loretta Lynn Releasing New Album

It will be Lynn's first new album since 2004's acclaimed (and Grammy-winning) Van Leer Rose, which she recorded with Jack White. The material will focus on music Lynn's been recording with producers Patsy L Russell (Lynn's daughter) and John Carter Cash (son of the late June Carter and Johnny Cash). The sessions have taken place over the last seven years at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tenn.

Musically the new recordings cover a wide range of styles and sounds that represent Lynn's extensive musical history, including Appalachian folk and gospel songs she first learned as a girl, country standards, new interpretations of her own hits and a selection of new, original songs.

Read more here.

Willie Nelson To Host Variety TV Show

In the TV series, which is still in development, Nelson will invite musicians into Austin recording studio Arlyn Studios for one-on-one performances and interviews.

Thirteen episodes will be planned for the first season, which include sessions with Merle Haggard and Gary Clark Jr. Additionally, journalist Dan Rather will join Nelson and Haggard to conduct an interview with the outlaw country artists.

Read more here.

Future and Drake Release Full Stream of Never Satisfied

Today brings the full version of "Never Satisfied," which towers over the original at four-and-a-half minutes. On the extended cut, Future sings backup while Drake goes hard, rapping about hitting the strip club - "that's my me time/ see I can't get much bigger" - and opens up about his fears: "we still be on a roll like we scared of going broke."

There's just one question raised by the outro: Will Drake and Future be starting a supergroup? Their own take on Watch the Throne? Drake teases that possibility: "Me and my boy Future could probably start a group/ on some K-Ci and JoJo bulls**t."

Stream the track here.

alt-J Release Second Video For Left Hand Free

The second video takes a slightly different tack, making the setting more controlled - where the first was in the wild outdoors, the second is a pool party. Minus the treatment of the film (akin to an Instagram filter) and the overwhelming presence of one-piece swimsuits on the women, this could easily be part of a Katy Perry video.

This video, however, does eventually come to a storyline. Midway through we are alerted to the presence of a dark helicopter overhead, followed by the revelation that this party has armed guards. Total and unexplained chaos breaks out as the video closes, in a hail of gunfire.

Watch the video here.

Lady Antebellum and Gavin DeGraw Added New Year's Rockin' Eve

The country trio and the singer-songwriter will perform live from downtown Nashville, the performances being broadcast during the show. Meanwhile, Seacrest will be on hand in New York's Times Square with a performance from Taylor Swift. We have a feeling she'll be playing "Welcome to New York."

"We're so looking forward to celebrating New Year's this year in our hometown," Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott said in a press release. "It's such a magical time of year, so getting to be home with our friends, family and all of Nashville downtown on Broadway will be such a fun way to ring in 2015!"

Read more here.

Weird Al Does Radioshack Commercial

As for why Yankovic teamed up with a company who's on the brink of absolution, according to some? Maybe it's nostalgia; after all, the holidays always do bring out that feeling.

Yankovic's spot is filmed like his very own Radioshack music video. In it, Al plays a zealous singing employee walking a customer through the store's "toyland." Comparisons to Willy Wonka are inevitable, not just in the way that Al guides her through the Radioshack, but also because he's wearing a similar purple-colored blazer.

Just don't ask him for batteries. That's a whole other game (and ad) entirely. Watch the ad here.

All About That Bass Fuels Star Wars Parody

"All About That Base" makes the connection that "bass" and "base" are almost the same word, and that the Death Star is a base, and boom, you have a parody. It's like magic.

"I'm all about that base, no rebels," the song proclaims, because rebels want to destroy the base, obviously. "It's pretty clear this ain't no small moon," the song says about the moon-like base, "but it can shatter, shatter, and bring your planet to doom."

The video combines the dancing cheerleaders with the Star Wars imagery to create a worthwhile mashup that absolutely no one knew they wanted until it actually arrived. Thanks, Nerdist. Watch it here.

ScHoolboy Q Releases Hell Of A Night Video

This appears to be a direct homage to Earl Sweatshirt's iconic 2011 video for "Earl," which starts the same way. Q wanders around the house, each room providing a new freakshow: a guy getting a tattoo, the hallucinatory scene expanding and contracting in Q's bugging mind.

A red-headed guy with braids receiving oral sex while reading the newspaper on the toilet. Girls in Spring Breakers masks. A guy pulling out a bloody tooth (another overt "Earl" reference).

Q wanders dazedly throughout the increasingly horrific landscape, bugging all the way. Watch the video here.

Five For Fighting's John Ondrasik Talks New Song For Hawaii Five-O

Now, Ondrasik has helped the CBS series Hawaii Five-O celebrate its one hundredth episode, which aired Friday(November 7). The song that he wrote for the occasion, "All For One," aired in its entirety on the episode.

"As a fan of the original show - I'm old enough to remember the original show," he says, referring to the show's original run from 1968 through 1980, "I was intrigued when [executive producer] Peter [Lenkov] pitched me on writing an original song for the 100th episode. He told me about his idea - they didn't have the script quite done yet. But I thought it was very unique, and he wanted a song that reflected the, as he would say, "ohana" vibe of his show-the family vibe. And I thought I could do that. I sat down at the piano and wrote a song that talked about the relationship these characters had formed." here.

Nicki Minaj Proclaims The Importance Of Her The Pinkprint Album

"You should always be competing," she explained. "You should always be trying to show that you're the best. My album is going to be important to hip-hop."

Minaj also provided some context for the aesthetic choices in her video for "Anaconda": "I went overboard with the video to show that I'm not going to hide," she added. Read more here.

Shawn Mendes Releases New Track Something Big

The chorus - "Something big, I feel it happening/ Out of my control/ Push and fall and it's grabbing me/ Feel it in my bones" - is one of the more uplifting ones to come out of this year.

But the title of the song could be said of his career. After dropping some compelling covers of The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather," Beyonc�'s "Drunk in Love," and Oasis' "Wonderwall" and creating a following for himself on Vine - that includes 3 million fans and counting - the artist is quickly rising.

Listen to the song here.

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