Ke$ha Touched By Fan's Tattoo

Singer tells MTV News about gay fan inspired by her song 'Animal.'
By Gil Kaufman


Ke$ha
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Ke$ha knows all about the perks of being a headliner. On her Get $leazy Tour, the singer gets to call all the shots, blast her fans in the face with tons of glitter and handpick which dudes she wants to party and share the stage with.

But it's not all backstage shenanigans and groupie love. When MTV News sat down with the "Blow" singer in New York earlier this week before her gig at Roseland Ballroom, Ke$ha said that amid the nightly onstage parties there have also been some poignant moments on her first headlining outing.

"Best moment? There are so many. Every night's amazing. I have kids outside right now chanting my name and it's awesome," she said of the first leg of the tour. "There was one night a fan came onstage, I invited him onstage, and he had a tattoo of the dollar sign. I was like, 'Oh, that's awesome! Badass. You're part of the cult, man.' "

And then, she said, he began to cry and explained that he was able to come out of the closet to his friends and family thanks to her song "Animal."

"And I'm standing onstage about to sing a song about growing back a pair of testicles ["Grow a Pear"] and I had tears rolling down my face and chills all over my body," she said. "Because that's really the reason I do music, to inspire people to be themselves."

Ke$ha has been a vocal supporter of the "It Gets Better" video project, which aims to help gay, bisexual and transgender youth find hope in the face of teasing and bullying.

The "Get $leazy" juggernaut continues on Saturday night with a show at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.

Are you planning to see Ke$ha on her Get $leazy Tour? Tell us in the comments.

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Cee Lo's 'Cry Baby' Video: Jaleel White Takes It Frame By Frame

Former 'Family Matters' star talks playing Cee Lo, supposed Drake cameo and Bobby Brown dance moves.
By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Kara Warner


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Cee Lo Green has definitely mined a very specific retro 1950s vibe in the videos he's released so far from his Lady Killer album. But when it came time to work up a clip for "Cry Baby," he picked a guest star who is best known for his work in the 1990s as the ultimate über-nerd.

Yes, Jaleel "Urkel" White is all grown up now and looks nothing like his four-eyed goofball character from "Family Matters." He's also a much better dancer then you might have remembered. Like the other Killer videos, this one opens with the title in squiggly "Fame" script and zeroes in on an idyllic, color-splashed urban scene, in which White is sitting on a stoop breaking up with his girl.

White said he flexed his improv muscles during the emotional scene, coming up with all kinds of funny takes in addition to the "two trains passing" one eventually chosen by the director. "You're breaking up with a girl ... and my best line didn't even make it," recalled White, who said his manager insisted he take the gig when the call came in to cast him as Cee Lo's doppelgänger in the clip. "I was like, 'Baby, we squirrels in opposite trees. You gotta find another nut!' "

The sad split soon turns more joyful, as White spins to the camera and stars lip-synching the bouncy tune's lyrics with a big smile on his face as his girlfriend ("Big Time Rush" star Tanya Chisholm) looks on dumbfounded. The entire video was shot over one very long day, and White said he did a lot of improvising over the course of the 13-hour grind.

"I learned the entire choreography in about four hours Sunday night, the night before we shot," he said of the intricate bobby-sox dancing he does in the second section while backed by a group of four male dancers. And yes, he noticed that one of the dancers, Joe, looked a lot like rapper Drake. "We kind of said it on the set a little bit too," he said of the resemblance, which turned into an Internet meme when fans began speculating about whether Drizzy had made a surprise cameo.

By the third section of the video, White — dressed in plaid pants, a cardigan, black tie and white shirt — is shimmying alongside four female dancers. He admits he probably messed up the choreography in this section "a million times," but he's confident director Mickey Finnegan bailed him out and chose the best take. "That's where editing helps you ... I mean, these are all professional dancers. They just pick up steps really quickly. They kept telling me I did a great job. That just fueled my fire and made me want to keep up with them."

And, professional that he is, White used an old musical-theater trick and snuck some glances at his fellow dancers in the big street-hoofing number near the video's end to make sure he was getting his steps right. "I'm watching them too, just to make sure my steps are on," he said.

As the song builds to a dramatic climax, White falls in and out of step with his crew as they spin, jump and boogaloo all around him. "The whole thing was just an ode to the '50s," he said of the sock hop, "Grease" street-dancing vibe.

"I guess it's my take on Cee Lo," said White, who, coincidentally, has a gravelly talking voice that is eerily similar to the Gnarls Barkley and solo star. "You'll have to ask Cee Lo what it's like seeing me be him."

The whole thing comes home with some freestyle dancing, which White said he was fully prepared for given his experience as a " '90s kid" dancing in his church basement. "I just kind of went full Bobby Brown on them right there," he said of his smooth, shoulder-rocking New Jack moves.

"We shot it all in one day and it was just ... magic," he said.

Give us your review of the "Cry Baby" video in the comments below!

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Anne Hathaway's 'Dark Knight Rises' Prep: YouTube Cat Videos?

'I actually had this moment when I convinced one of the assistant directors on the London portion of the film to get a cat with me,' actress tells MTV News.
By Eric Ditzian


Anne Hathaway as "Catwoman" in "Dark Knight Rises"
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If you're not happy with that early peek at Anne Hathaway's Catwoman, perhaps you should blame Keyboard Cat.

Because as the "Dark Knight Rises" actress revealed in Interview magazine, she prepped for the role by turning to feline-focused web videos, after her initial plan to adopt one of the furry creatures fell through.

"I actually had this moment when I convinced one of the assistant directors on the London portion of the film to get a cat with me, the idea being that we were going to get a kitten from a rescue shelter, and he was going to live with me, and I was going to observe it, and when I left London, I was going to give it to her," Hathaway explained. "Then, thankfully, her husband pointed out that that was a terrible idea on so many levels, not least of which being that it would probably be really confusing to the cat."

She added, "So I turned to YouTube instead and got a National Geographic video on cats."

OK, so while the influence of OMG cats and talking cats and cats that wrestle watermelons may not be discernable in the first look at Hathaway's Catwoman, there's no denying the reaction to her "Dark Knight" debut was mixed. But when the 28-year-old actress revealed what it takes to fit into that suit, you had to give her a round of applause.

"I'm a vegetarian, and right now I'm living on kale and dust," she said on "Chelsea Lately" on Wednesday, adding that it takes three people to squeeze her into the costume. "Catsuit's unforgiving."

And since the production lasts for months and months, she's had to maintain that strict diet and those intense workouts, lest her Catwoman come in for even more unwanted attention. The key to making it all happen is that, after initially hating hitting the gym, she finally enjoys getting in her workouts.

"I think I'd never really gotten over the hump," she said. "There's a workout hump where you're so weak that you hate everything. Everything's painful and you look like an idiot. The gym that I work out at, I was literally working out next to a pregnant Jessica Alba and she could do more pushups than I could."

Check out everything we've got on "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Kim Kardashian: "I'm Totally Calm" About My Wedding

Kim Kardashian: "I'm Totally Calm" About My Wedding

Her Aug. 20 wedding is just one day away -- but you won't find cold feet in Kim Kardashian's designer heels! At the Wednesday night launch party for the Kardashian Kollection (the sisters' Sears fashion line), Kim, 30, told People that she had zero pre-wedding jitters.

"Everyone says you'll freak out, but I'm totally calm," said the reality star, who will marry NBA player Kris Humphries on Saturday. "I think that freak-out moment kind of already passed."

Kim may be calm, but one member of the wedding party is already nervous: big sister Kourtney, 32. The one sister who's never been married herself, Kourtney sent this tweet from her bridesmaid dress fitting on Wednesday: "I feel like I'm drunk and about to faint!!! And I'm sober as a leaf. Wedding anxiety! And I'm not even the bride!"

Maybe Kourtney is just experiencing performance anxiety on behalf of her 1-and-a-half-year-old son Mason, who's supposed to be the ring bearer. "I was telling Kim that I think I am going to have a heart attack! We'll see what happens," she told Hollybaby at the launch party. "He is 20 months old... We'll see if he behaves!"

Little sister Khloe, who married her own NBA player (Lamar Odom) in 2009, is taking a more thoughtful approach to the big day. "Someone told me that, at your wedding, take your husband and stand in a corner and just kind of be quiet and look and enjoy the presence of all of it," Khloe, 27, said to People. "I really appreciated that, because it goes so fast. It's kind of nice to take five minutes for yourselves."

Sounds like the two sisters are striking a nice balance for Kim -- one to psych her up, one to calm her down! And she's sure to appreciate it on the night before her wedding, which she anticipates she'll be spending in the Kardashian home. "We haven't planned it," admits Kim. "But...I'll definitely be with my family."

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