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‘Britney Spears: I Am the Femme Fatale’ Trailer — Watch It Now!

Pop star gives fans an intimate look at her life in the special airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.
By Jocelyn Vena


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This Sunday at 9 p.m., “Britney Spears: I Am the Femme Fatale” makes its world premiere on MTV. In the special, the singer offers an intimate peek inside her world, taking fans behind the scenes of her big nightclub show in Las Vegas and chatting with MTV News correspondent Sway about her life and career.

The MTV special follows Britney as she makes her way into the studio to listen to “Big Fat Bass,” produced by Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am, who tells Spears, “I did some tweaking to the ‘Big Fat Bass’; the bass is even bigger.”

Spears later explains the difference between recording tracks versus performing them live. “When you’re in the studio, you’re just really focused, you’re really in your head and in your ears and on the notes,” she explains. “And when you’re performing, it’s more a connection on the outside and more of — like a tiger and more in your body.”

The pop star says it’s fans who fill the audience at those live shows who get her excited to perform. “When they’re screaming like that, they just hype you up,” she says, “and make you feel larger than life.”

Spears has been a public figure since she was on the “Mickey Mouse Club” as a kid, and in 2011, she turns 30 years old. In the special, Spears admits that she wanted to be a famous performer since she sported a schoolgirl uniform in her ” … Baby One More Time” video nearly a decade and a half ago. “I think I hoped I would be [doing this],” she says. “I genuinely love what I do. This is what I love to do.”

Don’t miss “Britney Spears: I Am the Femme Fatale” on Sunday, April 3, at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

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“Grey’s Anatomy” Musical Event Details

Switching things up a bit, the cast of ?Grey?s Anatomy? will debut a special treat to viewers later tonight (March 31).

After seven years in the making, the medical drama will air its heavily hyped episode, centering on Tony-winner Sara Ramirez’s Callie Torres, who experiences her surgery following a near-death car crash through such songs as Brandi Carlile’s “The Story” and Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars.”

Ramirez said this about the timing of show’s vocal event: “[Creator] Shonda Rhimes and the writers toyed with the idea of having Callie sing spontaneously in a scene [for a long time], and I’m kind of relieved that it never happened before, because it just didn’t make sense to me for her character to just sing out of nowhere.”

As for what to expect? Grey’s Jessica Capshaw divulged to press, “[Viewers] get the idea of us in scrubs, snapping our fingers down a hallway like West Side Story, but that’s not what it’s like at all. We had the read-through and people were blown away — there were tears and goose bumps. By the end of it, all of us were like ‘I hope it’s fantastic, I think it’s fantastic!’”

You can catch the stars in full song and dance when the episode airs tonight at 9pm est on ABC.

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Lady Gaga Releases Country Version Of ‘Born This Way’

New take on hit song, dubbed ‘The Country Road Version,’ features slide guitar, mandolin and harmonica.
By Gil Kaufman


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You can take all those Madonna comparisons and throw them out the window of your Ford F-150 truck, because on Thursday night Lady Gaga released a new version of her global smash “Born This Way” that featured a totally unexpected spin.

After tweeting to her Little Monsters that she was preparing to release “Born This Way (The Country Road Version),” Mother Monster dropped the tune at midnight PT on Friday (March 25) via her Twitter account … and it did not disappoint.

The new rendition of the hit opens with ominous, swirling guitars and then introduces a fuzzed-out slide guitar and harmonica wheeze, with all of the thumping disco beats replaced by restrained brush drumming and a more laid-back vibe. Once it kicks into the first chorus, the song continues to take its time, choogling along on live-sounding, laconic drumming and lots of soulful harmonica.

Just before the three-minute mark, Gaga mixes in some new lyrics, drawling, “If I wanna make it country, baby, then it’s OK, cuz I was born, I was born, I was born this way,” over picked mandolin. “From London, Paris, Japan back to USA/ I was born on the road, I was born to be brave,” she adds, as the song breaks into full-on country-rock mode reminiscent of late-period Bon Jovi in the final minute.

Meanwhile, the original, non-boot-scooting version of “BTW” notched its sixth week in a row at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts this week, which is what Gaga said prompted her to drop the surprise remake on her fans.

Earlier this week, Gaga revealed that she’s almost done recording her Born This Way album, telling fans via Twitter, “In Nebraska, finishing up record today … I’m so proud of the album: I keep dancing+drinking: metal/techno rock journey of a woman on the run.”

Plans are now being worked up for the tour in support of Born This Way (due out May 23) and Gaga’s first swing at directing, a collaboration with her creative director, Laurieann Gibson, on the video for the album’s upcoming second single, “Judas.”

What do you think of Gaga’s twanged-up version of “Born This Way”? Share your opinions in the comments.

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