Beyonce Responds To 4 Album Leak

'While this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive response,' she tells MTV News in a statement.
By Gil Kaufman


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Beyoncé is taking a glass-half-full approach to the leak of her entire 4 album three weeks before its June 28 release date.

In a statement released to MTV News on Wednesday (June 8), Beyoncé lamented the early arrival but said she's making the most of the eagerness of her fans to get their hands on her first new batch of songs since 2008's double-disc I Am ... Sasha Fierce.

"My music was leaked and while this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive response from my fans," the singer wrote. "When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs."

Beyoncé fans were psyched Tuesday when her collabo with Andre 3000, "Party," leaked weeks before the new album was due. It was one of several leaks the album has faced over the past week. A short time after the Kanye West and Consequence-produced "Party" slipped out, another song, "Countdown," which samples the Boyz II Men tune "Uhh Ahh," also surfaced, followed by the entire album.

While B's team scrambles to take down the offending links that have popped up all over the Web, some online rogues have taken to Twitter to put up links, making it harder for the label to track down the music. Fans have already gotten a number of listens to tunes from the disc, including the uptempo dancehall first single "Run the World (Girls)," the lush ballad "1+1" and the second official single "Best Thing I Never Had." Another tune, "End of Time," which samples late Afrobeat superstar Fela Kuti, has also leaked online.

Have you heard any of the leaked album, or are you waiting for the official release? Let us know in the comments.

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Ryan Reynolds: 'Green Lantern' Is 'Better Than I Had Hoped'

After initially lukewarm reception to first trailer, Reynolds was relieved to see fans' reaction to footage at WonderCon.
By Eric Ditzian


Ryan Reynolds
Photo: MTV News

Ryan Reynolds might not have been freaked out about the initially lukewarm reception that greeted the first "Green Lantern" trailer, but he was certainly frustrated. After that footage dropped in November, there was precious little new multimedia to offer the public and prove that Warner Bros. really did have a winning comic book adaptation on its hands. "I just want it out there faster than Warner Bros. can unfortunately produce it," Reynolds told us in late March at CinemaCon. "If anyone's rushing it, it's me."

It was a few days later at WonderCon, though, that Reynolds felt the tide begin to turn — not only for fans, but for himself. "The first time I saw it was just breathtaking. I think the first time it hit me that we really did it right was in WonderCon," he told us recently. "I'd been shooting in Africa at the time, so I flew back just to be there, and I was exhausted, and they put up this 10 or 11 minutes of footage, and you could feel it going like a wave through the audience."

Reynolds walked away from the convention with a startling realization: "It's better than I had hoped."

The 34-year-old actor may not have known exactly what to expect. Though he has been familiar with the comic book his whole life, he told us back in 2009 that he only "fell in love with the character" when he met with director Martin Campbell and heard the pitch for the film. Since then, he's slogged through a lengthy shoot and a marathon post-production schedule during which so much of the film's CGI-heavy world was created. To begin, all he wanted to do was learn exactly what it takes to make a summer blockbuster. Reynolds ended up walking away with the certainty that "Green Lantern" is a kick-ass movie.

"For me, going into it, my expectations were really just to learn — not just about the character but about filmmaking like that. I was just so blown away to see what they accomplished juxtaposed with what they shot," he said. "We were shooting in a blue-screen stage with nothing to interact with at all. And these incredible artists that they hired — Grant Major from 'Lord of the Rings' and Ngila Dickson as well, from the same franchise — they just created an entire living, breathing universe around us. That was amazing to see."

Check out everything we've got on "Green Lantern."

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Coldplay, Led Zeppelin Album Covers Featured On New British Stamps

Album art from Pink Floyd, Blur and David Bowie also included.
By James Montgomery


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Photo: Royal Mail

On Thursday (January 7), the U.K.'s Royal Mail unveiled a series of 10 new stamps, honoring the most iconic album covers of the past 40 years.

The albums featured in the new series are the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed, Led Zeppelin's IV, David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The Clash's London Calling, New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, Primal Scream's Screamadelica, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, Blur's Parklife and — the most recent album on to make the cut — Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head.

Meant to honor "the most potent graphic images of modern times, many of which have provided a visual soundtrack to people's lives," the series is the end result of a lengthy research process by the Royal Mail, who looked through thousands of album covers by British artists before deciding on the final list. And, during a Wednesday night BBC Radio broadcast, it was revealed that the queen herself actually approved each design.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page — who helped design the cover for IV — was on hand to celebrate the release of the stamps and recalled the mysterious nature of the album's iconic imagery.

"Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him," he said. "That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."

Of course, any great honor is befitting of an equally great contest, so, on the same day the stamps were made available to the general public, Coldplay decided to give one of their Rush of Blood stamps away. In a message on their official site, the band held a contest to send one lucky fan "a letter using a Coldplay stamp, postmarked with today's issue date."

"We visited our local post office earlier today and bought some of the Coldplay stamps," the message read. "Very nice they are too."

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Kim Kardashian's "Other Man" Admits He's Never Actually Met Her

Kim Kardashian's "Other Man" Admits He's Never Actually Met Her

If you claim you've had an affair with someone, that would imply that you've actually met them... right? Bret Lockett, the NFL player who claims that Kim Kardashian cheated on fiancé Kris Humphries with him, told CNN that he may have exaggerated their "physical relationship"... because he and Kim never actually met face-to-face. Watch the video below!

Apparently, when Lockett said that their relationship was physical, he just meant that they were having phone sex. At least, we think that's what he means. Lockett, 24, isn't making his story any more believable with his insistence that the details are private -- because, let's face it, the moment you sell the story of your affair to In Touch is the moment it stops being private. (And that's what started this whole thing in the first place.)

Amazingly, Lockett is sticking to his story of their "five month affair," claiming that he and Kardashian, 30, would have met except that "she was very busy." (Well, yeah. When is she not?) He claims that Kim requested his number through her close friend Lauren London -- but London denies the story and, in an interesting twist, her attorney has written a letter to In Touch stating that "someone has been impersonating Ms. London for some time now."

Is it possible that Lockett was duped by Lauren London's impersonator? Was he communicating by phone with someone he only thinks is Kim Kardashian? Maybe it's all a big, embarrassing misunderstanding. Or maybe someone is just flat-out lying.

As for Kardashian, she's had her lawyer send Lockett a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he retract and apologize for his story. But she has other things to focus on -- like welcoming her new fiancé into the world of reality TV stardom.

"I don't think he would have planned to be in a relationship that has cameras around and stuff like that, but he's done such a good job," Kardashian told People of Humphries, who made his reality TV debut on Sunday night's season premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

"We definitely wanted to make sure that we really got to know each other first before we even had him on camera," she adds. "We took a few good months just to ourselves to make sure that everything was really just strong between us."

Guess that worked out, huh?

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Jack White, Karen Elson Divorcing -- and Celebrating with a Party!

Jack White, Karen Elson Divorcing -- and Celebrating with a Party!

We've heard of throwing yourself an engagement party or a birthday party. But a divorce party? Former White Stripes frontman Jack White and wife Karen Elson are doing just that: celebrating their sixth anniversary of marriage by getting divorced. And they're throwing a joint bash in Nashville, Tenn., this Friday night to honor both landmarks!

According to People, the invite to the party reads: "Karen Elson and Jack White kindly request (your) presence... at a party to celebrate their 6th anniversary, and their upcoming divorce with a positive swing bang humdinger."

The invite also warns, "This is only for close personal friends and family. So please no plus ones or dead beats."

A rep for the couple released a joint statement which reads, in part: "We remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents to our wonderful children Scarlett and Henry Lee. We feel so fortunate for the time we have shared and the time we will continue to spend both separately and together watching our children grow."

The statement goes on: "In honor of that time shared, we are throwing a divorce party. An evening together in Nashville to re-affirm our friendship and celebrate the past and future with close friends and family."

White, 35, and Elson, 32, were married in Brazil in 2005, and live in Nashville with their kids Scarlett, 5, and Henry Lee, 3. White is best known as the frontman for the musical duo The White Stripes, with other ex-wife Meg White comprising the second half of the band. He's recently also been a member of The Raconteurs and The Dead Whether, and dabbled in other musical projects (including Van Lear Rose, his chart-topping collaboration with country music legend Loretta Lynn). Elson, meanwhile, is a musician and model, and manages a clothing boutique in Nashville.

The couple is certainly raising the bar for amicable celebrity divorces!

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