#1 CRUSH

May 11, 2012 – Underestimate Ke$ha all you want, but it'll be your loss. Fresh off her bizarre Flaming Lips collaboration, the irrevent Nashville party-starter revealed this week her upcoming follow-up to 2010's wildly playful electro-pop smash Animal will include a collaboration with Iggy Pop.

April 30, 2012 – From pretty much the minute Beyoncé announced her pregnancy with a big ol' belly rub onstage at MTV's Video Music Awards in August 2011 to the moment she gave birth to Blue Ivy Carter in January 2012, the singer has been dogged by rumors that she wasn't really carrying her own child. There was the collapsing baby bump. The suspicious behavior at the hospital.

April 27, 2012 – Justin Bieber once wore a Kelly Kapowski T-shirt on a red carpet. If that made your Saved by the Bell-loving head spin, consider this latest development: While in London, the 18-year-old singer obliged U.K. video site SB.tv with a few bars over his main man Kanye's Watch the Throne track "Otis" (via Karen Civil).

April 24, 2012 – Over the past few months, the media has tried desperately to get a reaction out of Rihanna above the general "DGAF" baseline she's established in the wake of her choice to start hanging out with Chris Brown after the Grammys earlier this year. Recently, she walked out of an interview when the journalist asked her about her love life. MTV tried to get a rise out of her again last week, after Coachella weekend No.

April 18, 2012 – When we were in Seoul last December to report on K-pop's throbbing epicenter, we spent our first night at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena for YG Entertainment's 15th Anniversary Family Concert, a scene that would eventually became a centerpiece to the magazine story you can read in full right here.

April 9, 2012 – One Direction, the British boy band assembled out of pieces of X Factor contestants like an adorable phoenix, performed their hit single and their song that sounds like "I Want It That Way" on Saturday Night Live this weekend. You may use this space to debate whose hair did the best job. Remember, your options are Harry, Liam, Louis, Niall, and Zayn.