Rihanna Was Original Choice For Fun.'s 'We Are Young'

Everyone has a wish list, even Grammy-winning rock superstars. So, who was on Fun.'s pie-in-the-sky lineup when they were casting about for a female voice for their Grammy-winning smash "We Are Young"?


Rihanna, and it almost happened. "They said, 'who can we get? And I said, 'let's get Rihanna,'" explained the song's producer, Jeff Bhasker, who joined the trio's members on stage on Sunday to scoop up the Song of the Year
 honor. It might have seemed like a brash call for a band who, at that point, had put ...

Bruno Mars Returns with 'Locked Out of Heaven'

After spending much of 2012 out of the spotlight, Bruno Mars re-emerged Monday night with a YouTube video chat during which he answered fans' questions and premiered his new single, "Locked Out of Heaven." It's a lean, bouncy soul-rock cut that quickly mushrooms into a dramatic synth-pop epic -- think the Police (circa "Ghost in the Machine") infiltrating the Human League.

"Your sex takes me to paradise," Mars moans in the song's chorus, and if you were wondering whether all that grenade-catching had made a man out of him, there's your answer. Listen to the song below.

Alicia Keys Is Basically a "Girl On Fire"

judging from that dress with the illusion of nothing undernieth, the new Alicia is roaring up a storm. the new album Girl on Fire’ embodies “new beginnings, new perspectives and fresh starts”. At the same time, it ...