Where Are Justin Bieber's Taylor Swift, Kanye West Collabs?

Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, tells MTV News unreleased tunes 'didn't make sense' for Believe.
By Jocelyn Vena

<P>Justin Bieber enlisted all types of artists to work with him on his latest musical endeavor, Believe. While many of those hip-hop leaning collaborations made the album, there were a number of other duets that got left on the cutting-room floor.</P><P>So, what exactly happened to those tracks? MTV News got the full scoop from Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, during a recent interview.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Scooter Braun On The Evolution Of Justin Bieber" id="vid:791929" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>Bieber shared the studio with country cutie Taylor Swift to work on a song. In fact, his lady love, Selena Gomez, even had some high praise for the never-released track. In the end, the Swift tune just didn't fit in with the final vibe of the album, Braun explained: "It didn't go on <i>Believe</i>, because there's another record they want to work on. So, it just didn't make sense at this time, and the song they did just didn't make sense on this album."</P><P>In addition to Swift, Bieber was also trying to make something happen with Maroon 5 leading man Adam Levine. "We talked with Adam Levine about doing stuff," Braun recalled. "And he wanted to, but with everything else, we could just never get the studio time in together."</P><P>Then there was the highly anticipated collaboration between Bieber and Kanye West. Despite being pictured in the studio with Yeezy, in the end, Bieber's track with the rapper "didn't make sense at this time," Braun said.</P><P>While whatever those two cooked up in the studio might forever remain a mystery, Bieber recalled just what Kanye had in mind for the pop superstar's musical evolution. "Basically, he was just talking about going out of the box and doing things that are different," he said. "And he's like, 'I want to just make you cool.' He wants to just basically do records that people wouldn't necessarily think I would do."</P><P><i>Which Justin Bieber collaboration do you hope is released someday? Tell us in the comments!</i></P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Justin Bieber Proving His Haters Wrong With 'Good Music'" id="vid:793035.id:1687833" width="415" height="255"></div><p></p>

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Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones Unveil Supergroup

Them Crooked Vultures make their debut with a post-Lollapalooza set.
By James Montgomery

<P>Officially, Lollapalooza ended Sunday night in Chicago's Grant Park, with dueling sets from the Killers and Jane's Addiction. Unofficially, it ended <i>very</i> early Monday morning, across town at venerable rock club the Metro, with a surprise show by Them Crooked Vultures.</P><P>To the unfamiliar, the Vultures might seem like an odd choice to close out Lolla weekend ... until you realize that they're made up of Foo Fighters frontman/ former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age mastermind Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones. And their gig at the Metro was their world premiere.</P><P>According to some reports, the Vultures actually turned <i>down</i> Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell's request to replace the Beastie Boys as headliners at the festival, opting to debut in front of some 1,100 super-psyched fans at the Metro, rather than 75,000 in Grant Park (tickets for the gig were announced via Foo Fighter/ QOTSA fan clubs). Meaning that, in a lot of ways, this was the most sought-after ticket in town.</P><P>Taking the stage just after midnight, the Vultures &#8212; Grohl on drums (of course), Homme on guitar and vocals, Jones on bass and keys and frequent QOTSA contributor Alain Johannes on guitar &#8212; ripped through 12 songs in 80 minutes, all taken from their upcoming debut, which may or may not be called <i>Never Deserved the Future,</i> and may or may not be hitting stores on October 23 (early "promo" videos touting both those facts were revealed over the weekend to be hoaxes perpetrated by QOTSA fans).</P><P>The songs, with appropriately Homme-ian titles like "Scumbag Blues," "Mind Eraser (No Chaser)," "Caligulove" and "Interlude w/Ludes," sounded pretty much how you'd expect, given the band's pedigree. They rocked, hard &#8212; Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot described them as "fresh, invigorating and just plain nasty" &#8212; delving off into psychedelic, reverb-filled excursions and exploring proggy territory, "both of the old-school Yes variety, and the more modern Tool flavor," according to the <i>Chicago Sun-Times'</i> Jim DeRogatis.</P><P>It's not known if Monday's Metro performance was a one-off event for the Vultures &#8212; there have been whispers of a full-blown tour, but a spokesperson for Homme had not responded to MTV News' request for comment at press time. Nor was it clear whether or not they'll have an album out in October.</P><P>Early Monday, a Crooked Vultures Twitter account, which had previously posted links to the band's official-looking Web site and the Metro's online ticketing site &#8212; posted a link to what appears to be the group's first bit of official merchandise: a <i>Deserve the Future</i> T-shirt. Cost: $30.</p>

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By Jocelyn Vena

<P>Justin Bieber just might be bringing his pals The Wanted out on the road with him when he kicks off his Believe tour in the fall. The guys teased the tour in a new interview.</P><P>The Wanted's Jay McGuiness shared that he and the boys may once again hit the stage with Bieber in an interview with the Daily Record.</i> "Hopefully with Scooter now as our manager, things will really take off," he said. "He bends over ¬backwards for us. We are quite messy characters and although we are still messy, he is making us presentable to America.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Justin Bieber Never Gave The Wanted Advice" id="vid:732653" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>"He's hooking us up with Chris Brown and Justin Bieber," he added. "We're planning to tour with Justin. We have started writing in the last few months and some stuff there is Justin-worthy."</P><P>The Wanted opened for Bieber on his massive <i>My World</i> tour, and they told MTV News earlier this year that despite the 18-year-old's unprecedented rise to fame, he didn't offer them any advice as they embarked on their own road to celebrity.</P><P>"I think he's too humble for that, in that way. ... He's not someone that really gives advice, because I think he just appreciates what happens to him rather than thinks he's God," Max George said. "And so, I mean, we don't really talk music. When we speak to him, it's more we talk about football or basketball."</P><P>McGuiness added, "I think he knows that we know how to do what we want to do in the same way that we could never tell him how to do what he does, 'cause he does it a lot better than we ever could."</P><P>Bieber will kick off his Believe world tour in September. While he <i>may</i> be joined by the Wanted for it, he will definitely be joined by Carly Rae Jepsen, who nabbed an opening spot on the jaunt. And Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, explained that this tour will take things "to a completely new level."</P><P>"By the end of 2013, we're gonna hit the whole world," Braun said. "He has been watching a tremendous amount of Michael Jackson concerts from the '80s and '90s. And he has been talking to me about how Michael incorporated magic and pyro and reveals and he wants to bring in that. Still do that acoustic thing, but he wants to take it to a whole new level."</p>

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