The search for the ever-elusive "bop" is tough. Playlists and streaming-service suggestions can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This week, in honor of Pride Month, we've been celebrating Queer Music Week by looking at the top queer ant..

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There's nothing like several dirty martinis to help "clear the air". Case in point: Snooki and Angelina finally burying the hatchet over the infamous wedding toast. First, it was Deena and JWOWW, and right now tonight's Jersey Shore: Family member Vacation saw the original meatball herself inviting Angelina to lunch for a series of heartfelt apologies and clinking of the glasses —..

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By Harron Walker Teddy Geiger entered March of last year the same way she spends most of her time: squirreled away in the studio making music with other artists. She was playing around with some old, unfinished demos she recorded over a decade prior, back any time once she was living in Queens in the early years of her career. The musical group she was working with, the indie foursom..

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Oh, we've "missed you," Kristin. While in tonight's brand-new Hills episode, the Laguna Beach gal had a brand-new beginnings with the MTV crowd. The mother of three was "back in LA, bitches" for four days (visiting from her Nashville homebase) -- so it was only suitable to pop some bubbly and party with some old pals at a "Sexy in the City"-themed party. With a lot of hugs and dunzos..

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Miley Cyrus and Maren Morris are digging the “Dancing Queen” while in Pride Month. On Wednesday (June 23), Miley posted a sneak-peek clip of her and Morris performing a cover of the iconic ABBA hit for the Miley Cyrus Presents Stand By You concert. Both are donning matching a magenta wardrobe, and Cyrus refers to her singing partner as “Queen Maren” at one point. https://twi..

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Kail opened up about being diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) throughout tonight's Teen Mom 2 episode. "I go through weeks and some days months doing the correct thing, and I'm not dropping a solitary pound," she stated in a diary cam pre-diagnosis. "I also have heavy periods, and then I can't sleep. There's just so several things I can't control." The changes in her bo..

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By Lucas Villa In Latin rap, a genre largely dominated by cishet male artists in the spotlight, Villano Antillano resembles the communities still in the shadows: the LGBTQ+ community and girls. The Puerto Rican rapper, who is transgender and nonbinary, centers her local community in her playful new music video for the thumping track "Muñeca," shining through with every color of the ..

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Olly Alexander is getting the queer party started. On Tuesday (June 22), the Years & Years soloist and It’s a Sin star dropped his new magical cover of the iconic Lady Gaga hit “The Edge of Glory.” The new version comes three days ahead of the individual anniversary release of Born This Way Reimagined: The Tenth Anniversary. https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=sLeHpCrsDVo&..

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By Max Freedman We so often think of music as a free-flowing expression of one’s innermost emotions — yearning, love, grief, dismay — that it’s jolting to hear Lucy Dacus speak about it as roughly the opposite. “There are a lot more facts in this,” the Richmond, Virginia-based 26-year-old says of her third album, Home Video, a variety of crystal-clear, folk-inflected rock..

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By Hugh McIntyre “Where do I belong?” This question opens Rina Sawayama’s touching and heartfelt “Chosen Family,” and it also is one that far also several LGBTQ+ people have had to ask themselves as they navigate existing authentically in a global that still largely sees them as “other.” The query pops up constantly in the lives of these who identify as piece of the co..

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Get prepared to go "awww"...All because of some adorableness. https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=pgyCLZpD8W0&feature=emb_titleMTV today reported a new spin-off of Ridiculousness, through the an all-new comedy clip show, Adorableness, hosted by comedian James Davis (Hood Adjacent) and featuring panelists Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother), Ross Mathews (RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Dul..

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Four years soon after her critically acclaimed album Melodrama, Lorde finally returned earlier this month to bring hippie, summer vibes courtesy her new single “Solar Power” — and also more anticipation for her fans. On Sunday (June 20), the 24-year-old New Zealand singer dropped a mysterious clip on her website to tease her upcoming new and third album Solar Power. https://twi..

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