Thursday, January 27, 2011

Paris Hilton's Nude Bath Clip is Most Watched

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Photos | Alicia Keys Brings Jay-Z, Beyonce To Her New York Show

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She Dumped Him! Chelsea Didn?t Let Fiddy Down Easy!

We?re not surprised, mind you, that she was a tough cookie through the break-up. She?s not really the mushy-gushy type.
But apparently 50 Cent is! Imagine that!
Sources close to the couple, who split right before the holidays, reveal to sources that after Chelsea Handler dumped Fiddy, the rapper was ?heartbroken.? He also was unwilling to take [...]

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg?s Facebook Page Hacked!

No one's safe from the hackers, not even the creator of Facebook!
Yesterday, a strange message popped up on the fan page dedicated to the man behind the poke, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Some radical decided to encourage others to follow his example and then turn the social network into a "social business." He wrote to Mark's [...]

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Kim Kardashian has Top Celebrity Bum

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Eddie Cibrian?s Ex-Wife Brandi Glanville: Where?s LeAnn?s Image Consultant?

LeAnn Rimes, Eddie CibrianLeAnn Rimes' hubby to be, Eddie Cibrian, has sought out the help of an image consultant, a source confirms to E!. Somehow LeAnn and Eddie have turned into the blogosphere's most...


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Slash Starts His Own Horror Movie Production Company!

Wow!
We'd normally write this off as a crappy retread of Rob Zombie's transition into the genre, but it seems like he actually has some pretty inneresting ideas!
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash recently announced that he plans to launch his own horror movie production company, which he's calling Slasher Films, and he already has [...]

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Candice Swanepoel: Victoria?s Secret Sexy

She?s never one to disappoint her fans, and Candice Swanepoel looks red hot in the new Victoria?s Secret lingerie photos.

The 22-year-old super-hottie bares almost-all in the photo spread, displaying the fabulous new items from the lingerie giant.

As of late, Candice has been enjoying some well-earned downtime in Bahia, taking full advantage of the beautiful surroundings.

Miss Swanepoel took to her Twitter page to share her excitement while on holiday, tweeting, ?Vacation in Bahia!!!... picture with fans.?

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An Arkansas Grocery Store Censors The Elton John ?US Weekly? Cover

Remember that beautiful US Weekly magazine coverphoto that we got to see last week that introduced to the world Elton John and husband David Furnish‘s newborn baby boy Zachary Jackson Levon? Yeah, well a grocery store chain in Arkansas called Harps believes that coverphoto of the happy family should be censored so as to “protect [...]

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Xtina For X-Factor?

A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Cheryl Cole had reportedly purchased a �2.2 million apartment in Beverly Hills, five minutes away from Fox TV Studios.
That seemed like a pretty major sign that Cole would be joining the U.S. X-Factor as a judge, but now it looks like she's got some competition…from Christina Aguilera!
According [...]

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Super Model ?Celebrity Rehab? Janice Dickinson Discusses

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Lady Gaga Engaged??

I love a monster who breaks my heart -BusyBeeBlogger Daily Stab Forget the Oscars, The Razzie Noms are out!!! Swanky Celebs Lady Gaga going to the way of Winehouse? Marrying her heartbreaker? Girls Talkin? Smack Rihanna with the Best Hair Humanly Possible Starcasm The Bachelor: How did Michelle Money get a black eye? Amy Grindhouse [...]

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Betty White?s advice for Lindsay Lohan ? ?Stay professional!?

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With more than 65 years in the entertainment industry under her belt, Hollywood veteran Betty White has plenty of wise words for hard-partying young starlets, like Lindsay Lohan, who have been criticized by colleagues for unruly behavior. ?Stay professional! Respect the business that you are in,? she told In Touch when asked about her advice for the Mean Girls actress. Betty was celebrating her 89th birthday with TV Land and the cast of her latest sitcom, Hot in Cleveland, at Le Cirque in New York on January 18. ?You are lucky to do what you love ? respect it and enjoy it.? The sassy octogenarian, who continued her birthday festivities with David Letterman on the Late Show later in the evening, is clearly adored by her TV Land castmates ? but isn?t always wholesome on set herself! ?We get to listen to her crack dirty jokes,? co-star Wendie Malick laughed.

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Eric Schiffer in the Celebrity Spotlight

All eyes turn to Eric Schiffer as he casually steps onto the red carpet leading into one of Hollywood?s hottest nightclubs. Like clockwork, the paparazzi crowd the socialite as the sounds of camera flashes fill the night air.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Daniel Radcliffe is ?not sure? he can stop himself sleeping with dancers when he performs on Broadway

The 21-year-old actor – who is to appear in New York-based musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” from March 2011 – doesn’t want to get romantically involved with anyone in the foreseeable future, but admits he is unlikely to stick to his plan.
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Beyonce Inspired By Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill For New Album

'I'm mixing every type of genre that I love,' singer says of follow-up to I Am ... Sasha Fierce.
By Jocelyn Vena


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Recently Beyoncé revealed that she wants to make her "own genre of music" for her next album. So when MTV News caught up with the singer at the New York screening of her concert special, "I Am ... World Tour," we asked her to clarify what exactly it is that she's creating in the studio.

"Well, I wouldn't say I'm inventing a new genre," she said. "I'm mixing every type of genre that I love and I'm inspired by every type of genre."

Beyoncé went on to say that people should throw any preconceived notions about the follow-up to 2008's I Am ... Sasha Fierce out the window. "I'm not in a box," she said. "It's not R&B. It's not typically pop. It's not rock. It's just everything I love all mixed together in my own little gumbo of music."

The singer says that quite a motley crew of musicians have inspired the album. "Definitely Fela Kuti, the Stylistics. How random, right?" she laughed. "So many people ... Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, of course, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall ... all of those things I'm kind of mixing together."

For the album, Beyoncé has been hitting the studio with many of her usual collaborators including Ne-Yo, Sean Garrett and Jim Jonsin. And her mom, Tina Knowles, has given the tracks she's heard so far her seal of approval, saying, "Of course [I heard it]. It's amazing. It's so amazing!"

Are you looking forward to new music from Beyoncé? Let us know in the comments!

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It's Sunday.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Which One Is The Cardboard Cutout?

Never mind that Justin Bieber stole his 3D glasses from a candy raver circa 1997, it's a little bizarre that his magical locks made from the dreams of solid gold unicorns look positively bland next to St. Angie Jolie's high halo. Yes, that's a halo (or maybe Brad Pitt is crouching behind her with a spotlight held over his head). Angie is probably so confused when she posed for this picture at the Golden Globes. She doesn't know whether she wants to adopt him or date him.

Eat your vag out, Jenny Shimizu, because it looks like Angie's got a new lezzie of choice!

And meeting Bieber wasn't the only magical event Angie took part in that night. There was also this:

Leave it to Michael Douglas to part the emerald sea with his photobomb. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angie are trying to out-beauty one another, but little do they know that Michael Douglas took this one.

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Lil Wayne Producer Bangladesh Plans Future Collaborations With Ke$ha

'It gives her a whole new look and it shows how creative I am,' Grammy-nominated producer says of Cannibal singer.
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Producer Bangladesh's biggest break came when he powered Lil Wayne's "A Milli." Then he upped the ante on Weezy's recent release "6 Foot 7 Foot." So, what does the Grammy-nominated beatsmith have in store for the new year? More of the same, actually.

Bangladesh hopes to continue his genre-bending ways, whether it's lending rock-leaning sensibilities to Lil Wayne or injecting a pop star's work with edgy hip-hop drums. He and Dr. Luke (Britney Spears, Pink, Katy Perry) recently worked together on Ke$ha's "Sleazy," from her Cannibal LP.

"I met Luke through a mutual friend, so it was like me walking into a stranger's house," Bangladesh told MTV News. "I really didn't know what to expect. But it was all love. It was kind of like the roles were reversed, like I was the biggest producer and he just had a couple of hits. Once I saw how he felt about me, I was like man, I might be the truth. [He laughs.]"

After hitting it off, they joined forces for "Sleazy," the first of many collaborations Bangladesh is shooting for with the "Tik Tok" star.

"That's a good look, because it gives her a whole new look and it shows how creative I am," he explained. "It shows how music is changing. And it shows that I'm kind of the changer behind it. The leader. I'm trying to mix the different genres where it's still convincing, like, I believe them doing this."

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Ke$ha?s Mom Gave Her ?The Talk? At Seven Years Old!

Whoa! That's a bit young for that, isn't?
According to Ke$ha, she knew "everything about sex" before she was seven years old as told to her mom had no qualms about laying it all out there. Supposedly, her mother's openness to discuss the subject at such a young age was to encourage her daughter to always [...]

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And The New Miss America Is?

Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan!
At the tender age of 17, Teresa became the youngest woman to be honored with the title of Miss America since 1921 at Saturday's pageant.
Charming her way throughout the entire competition, she won the judges over with her winning smile, grace and perhaps even her flawless rendition of "White Water Chopsticks" on [...]

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Let Pink Is The New Blog Send You To See ?No Strings Attached?

She just won a Golden Globe — but not for this film. But that doesn’t mean her performance in No Strings Attached, where she plays Ashton Kutcher‘s “friend with benefits”, isn’t award caliber! Yes, I’m talking about the newly pregnant Natalie Portman. And that’s why Pink Is The New Blog teamed up with Paramount Pictures [...]

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Monday, January 17, 2011

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New BFF alert - Slash and Betty White!

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Two unsuspecting celebrities have developed a unique friendship after bonding over their love for animals: Slash and Betty White! The odd couple met through their involvement with animal activism in LA, and both the Guns N' Roses rocker and the 88-year-old Golden Girls alum are slated to participate in The Humane Society?s Diamonds Not Fur benefit this spring. ?Slash and Betty White are both big animal advocates and we?re excited to have them at the charity event,? Katie Clearly, host of Diamonds Not Fur, tells In Touch. ?It?s really cute, they have become good friends." Apparently, animals can bring all walks of life together!

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Meet Daphne

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

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The Jonas Brothers paid tribute to the late John Lennon on YouTube to celebrate his 70th birthday

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Nick, 18, said: “We grew up listening to the Beatles in our home, John Lennon specifically. And his words, [...]

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Completely Gratuitous

Nothing like starting off your day with a little Matt Boner Bomer!
Matt is sexifying the pages of InStyle Magazine this month, chatting about his work on White Collar and letting his hair reach new R-Patz-esque heights.
We love it. We love him. He's all grungey and messy and perfect.
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Friday, January 14, 2011

QOTD: Kanye West Remakes A Classic Line

And even though this has nothing to do with Taylor Swift, I'm sure she's still crying on top of pink lined notebook paper while writing Innocent: The Sequel. Expect it to debut at #1 the same week Kanye's next single comes out. Damn.

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Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Win Grammy Album Of The Year

Raising Sand, from Led Zeppelin vet and bluegrass superstar, wins five Grammys on Sunday night.
By James Montgomery with MTV News staff


Alison Krauss and Robert Plant accept the award for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards on Sunday
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"I'm bewildered," Robert Plant said onstage as he accepted the Grammy Album of the Year award with Alison Krauss on Sunday night. "In the old days we would have called this selling out, but it's a good way to spend a Sunday."

He was probably one of the few who were surprised, because Raising Sand, which won five trophies at Sunday night's show, is in many ways the perfect Grammy album. It features two respected veterans, a critically lauded producer, some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of time-tested standards.

You're probably familiar with Robert Plant from his Led Zeppelin days, and you might be aware of producer T-Bone Burnett's work on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack (it won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002). And if you don't know who Alison Krauss is, she possesses a haunting set of pipes and is one of the meanest fiddle players in the world. Oh, and she's won 21 Grammys, more than any other female artist and the seventh-most in history.

Really, she's the key to Sand's success, and not just because of her voice (or her fiddle playing). She and Plant first met in 2004, at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to legendary bluesman Leadbelly, and the former Zeppelin man was amazed by her knowledge of American Roots music — so much so that they began kicking around the idea of recording an album together. Three years later, Sand was released.

And while Plant possesses the more famous voice, the album's finest moments radiate from Krauss. Whether she's getting bluesy on Little Milton's "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson" or entwining with Plant's husky voice on songs like "Please Read the Letter" and Roly Salley's winsome "Killing the Blues," she more than carries her end of the bargain.

And perhaps that's also due to producer Burnett, who handpicked the 13 songs the duo cover on Sand. His arrangements are sparse — giving the two voices ample room to breathe — yet dense, warm and crackling at the same time. It's a testament to his work that he's often given just as much billing as Plant and Krauss on the project ... and it's certainly justified.

To date, Sand has sold more than 1 million copies, heaped tons of acclaim and actually earned a Grammy last year — "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" took home the award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

One expert was surprised not by the album's success, but by the fact that it's actually quite a good album.

"At first, the album seemed like a vanity project. ... Two names, clearly a one-off record, didn't have to be any good, you know?" New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica said. "Led Zeppelin fans would buy it because of Robert Plant, Alison Krauss would get a check. But it actually turned out to be a really thoughtful, really good record. So when you combine all that with the fact that the Grammys love to lionize one of their own, I could really see it taking home some awards."

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?Outrage? Over Zebra Shooting?And Sarah Palin

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Eva Mendes says the only thing she demands in a man is that he ?bathe every once in a while?

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Snooki ? new year, new season, new love!

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Dimmu Borgir Release Live DVD; Plus Led Zeppelin, Brujeria, & More News That Rules, In Metal File

'It shows the intense live side of the band, as opposed to the perfection and the cleanness of how we sound on our albums,' guitarist says.
By Chris Harris


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On October 14, Dimmu Borgir — who just happen to be Demi Lovato's favorite black-metal band — will release a a three-disc DVD/CD set called "The Invaluable Darkness," the band's first visual offering since 2002's "World Misanthropy." Boasting live footage shot last year, during gigs in Norway, Germany and England, "The Invaluable Darkness" demonstrates the unbridled furor of seeing Dimmu live, guitarist Silenoz said.

"It shows the honest rawness and atmospheric darkness of our concerts," the Norwegian told Metal File last week, after dismissing recent online rumors that his band's next LP would be coming out through Roadrunner Records. "Basically, it shows the intense live side of the band, as opposed to the perfection and the cleanness of how we sound on our albums. It's just a different side to the band, basically."

Dimmu Borgir began thinking about "The Invaluable Darkness" two years ago, but didn't start capturing footage until last summer, Silenoz explained, adding that the band will use its current stint on the Blackest of the Black Tour — which got underway Thursday night in Miami Beach, Florida, and also features the tour's founder, Danzig, along with Moonspell, Winds of Plague and Skeletonwitch — to promote the DVD. Dimmu Borgir will not, however, use the tour to write material for their next LP.

"It's our first time on Blackest, but Glenn [Danzig] had wanted to bring us out before [on the tour], but we weren't available until now," Silenoz said. "We've done Ozzfest before, but we're looking forward to this tour more. We did the main stage on Ozzfest, playing in f--_ing broad daylight. This tour will let us play in bigger places, but at the same time showcase more of what the band's about, visually. We are going to concentrate on the tour for now. Some years ago, we tried putting [material] together on the road, but once we got home, we listened back to it, and were like, 'What the f--- is this?' So, we just scrapped it all. We find it's so much better to totally focus on one thing at a time, and then, when that's over, you move on to the next [thing]. We don't really feel like we need to rush things, anyway, so we'll just take our time, and it's going to be what it's going to be."

Dimmu Borgir hope to reconvene in late December to begin writing the follow-up to 2007's diabolically titled In Sorte Diaboli. "We have some ideas floating around already, but we haven't arranged any material yet," he said. "We'll start doing that once the touring for this DVD is over." The band's frontman, Shagrath, is also due to marry soon — he's engaged to actor Nicolas Cage's ex-girlfriend, Christina Fulton, so that may have an effect on when Dimmu finish their next album, which Silenoz said could be out this coming spring.

"I'm sure [Shagrath] won't let anything get in the way [of] the band — I think, I hope," the guitarist said. "We don't need a Yoko [Ono] situation."

While Dimmu have been at it going on 15 years now, Silenoz said he doesn't think their forthcoming material will be much of a departure from their previous black-metal offerings.

"And we have always been about more than just that term, 'black metal,' " he said. "Luckily for us, the older you get, the less concerned you get with the categorization and putting labels on your music. Things start getting more and more limitless with us, and we know that we operate within certain frames. But we try not to analyze things too much, because it's just going to be working against you in the end. When we write new stuff, we don't think about what we should write — we just get together, and put material together, and if we like it, we keep it. That's the formula, if we even have a formula."

Dimmu Borgir are definitely getting older — guitarist Galder will be missing Blackest because of a recent addition to his family, and Susperia's Cyrus will be filling in for him; while former Vader drummer Dariusz Brzozowski takes over for Hellhammer, who had to leave the band in 2007 after sustaining a neck injury that's now limited the use of his right arm. As Dimmu has gotten on in years, Silenoz admits they have failed to keep pace with some of the more extreme black-metal acts that have followed in their wake.

"We helped open doors for the more extreme bands out there," Silenoz said. "I'm sure we helped open doors for bands like Watain, [insomuch as] people that had maybe started listening to us first then went on to the more extreme stuff. Let's face it — we're not as extreme as Watain and other bands like that, but we're fine with that."

The Blackest of the Black Tour continues through November 10 in San Francisco.

The rest of the week's metal news:

Dimmu's tourmates on Blackest, Winds of Plague, have announced ex-Azusa drummer Art Cruz has joined their ranks — he replaced Jeff Tenney. According to the band's blog, "Art has already added a new spark to the band and has provided us with a solid backbone that will allow us to continue our rampage stronger than ever." ...

What the world really needs is another Led Zeppelin box set, so, on November 4, Rhino Records will issue the Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection Mini LP Replica CD box set. For just $200, you'll get 1969's Led Zeppelin, 1969's Led Zeppelin II, 1970's Led Zeppelin III, 1971's Led Zeppelin IV, 1973's Houses of the Holy, 1975's Physical Graffiti, 1976's Presence, 1976's The Song Remains the Same, 1979's In Through the Out Door and 1982's Coda, as mini-LP replicas, with artwork from the original U.K. LP sleeves. Now, you know what you can get your dad for Christmas. ...

Former Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach and current Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz have teamed up for a new project they're calling Times of Grace, and they've already started working on material for their debut album. According to Leach, "We have two songs to go and we will be finished with all of the vocals. Adam has taken lead vocals in three songs as of yet and he is doing a great job. We also worked on a track yesterday that is so epic — we trade vocals and do two different melodies at the same time. This album went from a melodic metal album to an epic mix of metal/rock/pop/shoegaze and punk. So all of your metal expectations will be incorrect — we are pushing genre boundaries." To quote "Meet the Parents," we'll look forward to that, Greg. ...

The Funeral Pyre and Early Graves will be hitting the road together next month, starting November 7 in South Lake Tahoe, California. Dates are booked through November 21 in Hollywood. ...

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Katy Perry on the December 2010 cover of <i>Maxim</i>
Photo: Maxim

Everyone knows that Katy Perry is besties with Rihanna, so it might not be too surprising that Perry has only the kindest words for fellow female pop contemporaries Ke$ha and Lady Gaga, even if she has been critical of one of those women's artistic choices in the past.

"I love what Gaga is doing, and I love what Ke$ha is doing," Perry says in Maxim's new issue, for which she also serves as the cover girl. "I've known Ke$ha forever. She's actually in the 'I Kissed a Girl' video."

But, Perry isn't just dishing on her fellow lady celebrities, she's also showing some love for the fellas, one of whom she married in the fall. "I've said Justin Bieber [was my celebrity crush] quite a few times, but I think I'm over it now. I think it's probably safe to say I married my celebrity crush," the singer shares about husband Russell Brand. "Don't barf on this magazine."

Earlier this year, Perry was chosen to top Maxim's 2010 Hot 100 list, and she admits that the honor has really given her cred all over the place.

"It's a worldwide thing — the rest of the world makes it their standard," she says. "It's one of the questions they ask me in all interviews now, even in places where Maxim doesn't exist. I'll go to Timbuktu, and they'll be like, 'You're the #1 hottest,' and I'm like, 'Maxim said so, but thank you so much for saying so in Timbuktu.' "

So, what does Perry think makes ladies sexy? A fun-loving attitude, obviously.

"The way she presents herself and the air she has about her. You can feel her power and her confidence," Perry explains. "Also, the way she uses her ability to communicate, her brain and personality. I think that's really sexy because you all know the hottest woman can be the biggest bitch, and that's not cool."

Still riding high on the success of her Teenage Dream album, Perry shows no signs of slowing down, with a 2011 tour and a role in the "Smurfs" film on the way.

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