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• BTS: Love Yourself: Tear review – K-pop's biggest band keep ploughing on

  18-05-2018 17:54
  There’s nothing in the boyband’s third album to upset the formula, with hook-heavy synth anthems and breathy ballads delivered to precision-engineered perfectionIn January, the BBC News website ran a story about a 23-year-old called Stephanie Fairfield, who had uprooted her life in Scotland and moved 5,000 miles to Seoul in order to be closer to the K-pop boyband BTS. It was news that seemed to startle even BTS’s seven members, presumably no strangers to the attentions of obses
  
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• This Woman Used Eyelash Glue To Fix Her Broken Front Teeth

  18-05-2018 17:36
  Um we're not entirely sure this was a safe solution.
  
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• Josh Ritchie Pulls Out All The Stops For Charlotte Crosby's Final Birthday Surprise

  18-05-2018 16:32
  The Geordie Shore lass was well and truly spoilt on her 28th.
  
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• From the Internet to Vampire Weekend: can a band survive when members go solo?

  18-05-2018 14:00
  When the band have a break and its individual members go it alone - things will never be the same againOdd Future are like the rap equivalent of an Amway pyramid scheme. Having started as a branding umbrella for its many members’ solo talents, it has reached the stage where the multiple groups it spawned have all started their own potentially lucrative sub-pyramids.Case in point: the Internet, who began as Odd Future’s Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians, but enlisted friends to make a ban
  
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• 7 Of The Most Inktastic Celeb Face Tattoos That Just Tattoo Us Has Ever Gifted Us

  18-05-2018 13:42
  Just Tattoo of Us starts Monday 21st May at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• 7 Of The Most Inktastic Celeb Face Tattoos That Just Tattoo Of Us Has Ever Gifted Us

  18-05-2018 13:42
  Just Tattoo of Us starts Monday 21st May at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Charlotte Crosby & Josh Ritchie RAGE At Pap For Taking Unflattering Images Of Them Without Permission

  18-05-2018 13:28
  The Geordie Shore lass filmed her body at ALL angles to disprove recent unflattering pap pics.
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Demi Lovato, Disclosure, Camila Cabello

  18-05-2018 13:08
  Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Stefflon Don and Galantis also drop new tracks...
  
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• Casual Reminder: Mental Health Illness Isn't ‘Cool'

  18-05-2018 13:07
  When did mental health become a trend?
  
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• Ariana Grande discusses Manchester attack: 'It's the absolute worst of humanity'

  18-05-2018 13:03
  Grande talks about aftermath of the bombing for the first time in a new interview with Time magazineOn the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Manchester bombing, Ariana Grande has discussed the attack on her concert for the first time. “It’s the absolute worst of humanity,” she told Time. Grande, 24, appeared on the cover of the magazine’s annual Next Generation Leaders issue and described the ongoing impact of the events of 22 May 2017, when a suicide bomber detonate
  
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• Geordie Shore 17: With thanks to...

  18-05-2018 12:41
  Don't miss brand new Geordie Shore, Tuesdays at 10pm - only on MTV!
  
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• Fifth Harmony Release Final Music Video 'Don't Say You Love Me'

  18-05-2018 12:37
  The band are officially going their separate ways after six years together...
  
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• Camila Cabello and Pharrell Team Up On ‘Sangria Wine’

  18-05-2018 12:16
  The 'Havana' hitmakers reunite for a tasty summer anthem...
  
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• Pretty Little Liars' Troian Bellisario Is Quite Clearly Going To Be At The Royal Wedding

  18-05-2018 12:09
  We're still not sure how this has happened but it has and we are here for it.
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Rita Ora, Enrique Iglesias and Elle Fanning

  18-05-2018 12:00
  Featuring the problematic, Cardi B starring bi-curious banger, an ode to mechanical booties, a Hollywood starlet making a mess of Moon RiverContinue reading...
  
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• Demi Lovato and Clean Bandit Deliver Summer Anthem ‘Solo’

  18-05-2018 11:49
  Now this is one seriously massive banger of a pop song...
  
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• Kendall Jenner Speaks Out Following Cannes Car Crash Reports

  18-05-2018 11:39
  Kendall reportedly had to skip the Fashion For Relief red carpet due to the incident.
  
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• Five Finger Death Punch: And Justice for None review – single-minded angst rock

  18-05-2018 11:30
  (Eleven Seven)The Las Vegas quintet Five Finger Death Punch are both one of metal’s biggest bands and simultaneously reviled by metal’s chin-stroking contingent. It’s easy to understand both facts on listening to their seventh album, where they are never knowingly found in pursuit of subtlety. They have, more or less, two songs: the furious and seething uptempo one in which singer Ivan Moody outlines his grievances against the world, and the colossal ballad in which singer Ivan
  
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• Ariana Grande Gets Emotional About The Manchester Bombing In Raw Interview

  18-05-2018 11:15
  The 'No Tears Left To Cry Singer' admits she thinks about it every day.
  
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• Maluma: FAME review – sexy reggaeton from fit-but-you-know-it megastar

  18-05-2018 11:00
  (Sony Latin / Relentless)The shuffle of the reggaeton beat, unchanging across the entire genre, is a great example of how restriction can open up creativity – it’s effectively the world’s most successful oblique strategy. The beat underpins numerous tracks on the third album from Colombian megastar Maluma, and he skilfully aligns to its lulling, summery rhythm: the melodies to the big genre hits such as Corazón (1bn YouTube views and counting) and Hangover twine with ser
  
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• Ariana Grande Tweets 'Please Take Care Of Yourself' After Ex Mac Miller's Arrest For 'DUI' Car Crash

  18-05-2018 10:34
  The car crash comes one week after they announced their split.
  
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• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Sparkle Hard review – fuzzy logic and killer tunes

  18-05-2018 10:30
  (Domino)Whether in Pavement, Silver Jews or with the Jicks, Stephen Malkmus has never been shy of ploughing his own musical furrow, and this seventh album with the latter is a case in point. At first, the songs don’t seem to follow logic or convention. There are no archetypal big choruses; guitar patterns hurtle around like busy mice. However, Malkmus’s fuzzy logic soon takes hold, and seemingly off-kilter arrangements emerge as highly accessible, killer tunes. Over 11 of them, his s
  
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• Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel review – sharp barbs and no holds barred

  18-05-2018 10:00
  (Milk!/Mom + Pop/Marathon Records)Courtney Barnett’s music is so full of seemingly stumbled-upon profundity that it’s tempting to believe you could have written it yourself. But as she well knows, it is deceptively difficult to sound as though you’re barely trying. “He said, ‘I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup / And spit out better words than you’,” she sings on her new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel (a request dripping with sarcasm). “But you
  
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• World album of the month: Fatoumata Diawara: Fenfo review

  18-05-2018 09:30
  (Wagram/Montuno) Fatoumata Diawara established her reputation as one of the finest, most inventive female singers in Mali on the strength of her remarkable debut album, Fatou, recorded seven years ago. She has since been involved in a variety of projects, including collaborations with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, and with fellow Malians Amadou & Mariam and Oumou Sangaré. And now, at last, comes her second solo album. Fenfo – which translates as “something to say” &
  
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• The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice

  18-05-2018 07:00
  It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At an intimate open house session, they explain why their revolutionary words are still needed
  You can trace the birth of hip-hop to the summer of 1973 when Kool Herc DJ’d the first extended breakbeat, much to the thrill of the dancers at a South Bronx block party. You can trace its conception, however, to five years earlier – 19 May 1968, 50 years ag
  
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