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The Bachelorette Recap: A Shocking Return! A Bromance Ends!

This week on The Bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe faced drama on multiple fronts as the stakes continued to rise for the remaining contestants. Some of these developments were teased long ago by The Bachelorette spoilers , while others managed to take us (and Kaitlyn) aback … Watch The Bachelorette Season 11 Episode 5 Online Picking up in the middle of the previous episode’s rose ceremony cocktail party cliffhanger has become the norm on The Bachelorette . Gotta keep us guessing? Waiting in breathless anticipation? Not really necessary when we already know The Bachelorette spoilers (follow link above!) and come on, it’s not exactly Breaking Bad . Anyway, Kaitlyn promptly dispatched Clint, who got pretty defensive about … JJ. “This isn’t about your relationship with JJ,” Kaitlyn replied. “I’m taking steps back, and you’re not talking about how much you care about me … you’re talking about JJ and how the guys are jealous.” Then, the Bachelorette bromance turned south in a hurry when JJ felt that he had something to get off his chest regarding Clint as well. JJ told his former partner, and we quote: “There’s an emotional energy that gets taken away and as your friend that needs to be said.” A full-on lovers quarrel followed. At least it felt like one. These two men may not have been romantically involved, but emotionally, the way they poured their hearts out in this standoff? Intense! That gay Bachelorette promo tease was pretty lame on ABC’s part, but at least we understand where they got the idea now. Just saying. As Tanner pointed out to us after this unraveled, “I think Clint was more sad to have JJ turn on him than to have Kaitlyn send him home.” Sometimes, breaking up really is hard to do. So much so that Kaitlyn decided against a rose ceremony – such a downer – and brought all the remaining suitors with her to New York. There, producers made Jonathan, Justin, Ben Z., Corey, Ryan, Tanner, JJ and Shawn rap battle with the aid of mentor Doug E. Fresh. At one point, Kait called it “the worst rap battle I’ve ever seen. I don’t think there’s ever been a rap battle with two guys in khaki pants.” View Slideshow: Kaitlyn Bristowe: The Bachelorette 2015! Indeed. Meanwhile, Ben H., Ian, Joshua, Chris and Joe had to audition for Aladdin on Broadway, singing “A Whole New World” to Kait. Aladdin is a Disney production, as is ABC. The cross-promotion never stops. On a more positive and random note, Ashley Iaconetti was in the house … oh and so was Nick Viall. Nothing really random about that, though. Nick Viall and Kaitlyn Bristowe , who he was crushing on, had been hollering at each other. Online, that is. Ever since he got dumped by Andi Dorfman, he became smitten with Kaitlyn … or just getting back on TV. Who knows. In any case, Nick was “kinda bugged” by the idea that Kaitlyn might get engaged to someone else, and decided to rejoin the show. “Last season was not really that fun for me,” said Nick, somewhat dubiously as he did get to make love to Andi Dorfman at least once. Just saying, man. It could’ve been worse. Having your heart broken on TV sucks, yes, but at least he made a real impression on a gorgeous, intelligent, well-rounded woman. Would he get the chance for Round 2?! Kaitlyn pondered his request to come aboard, and even asked the guys, who were predictably not thrilled with having to share Bristowe. She gave Nick a kiss, told him she had to sleep on it, then after doing so, obviously told Viall he’s in after getting advice from Ashley S. You know. Crazy girl from last season. Crazy but an actual hairstylist in Brooklyn, at least, who gave Kaitlyn romance advice as well as did her hair for her date with Jared. Talk about multitasking right there. The episode in true cliffhanger fashion with Nick entering the guys’ hotel, saying, “What’s up, guys?” Insert Nick punchline at your leisure. View Slideshow: The Bachelorette Season 11 Cast!

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Foster The People ‘Experimenting’ With Torches Follow-Up

Band broke through to the big time in 2011 with ‘Pumped Up Kicks.’ By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias Foster the People’s Mark Foster and Cubbie Fink Photo: MTV News Foster the People were one of 2011’s biggest breakouts, first scoring a massive crossover hit with “Pumped Up Kicks,” then nabbing a pair of Grammy nominations and finally, landing current single “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)” in a high-profile ad campaign (and accompanying it with a really excellent video, starring Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe). So, as the year comes to a close, we asked the guys in Foster to try and sum up the past 12 months, which saw them rocket from little-known L.A. rock outfit to internationally famous buzz band. And, as you can probably expect, for a band that’s basically lived on the road in 2011, most of their milestones have to do with the size of the stages they’ve played on … and the audiences they’ve played for. “It’s funny, in January we started a residency at the Echo, which is this club in L.A., and we played every week for about a month, and that kind of kicked it off. The first week, it was half full … it only holds 300 people, I think there was like 125 people there,” frontman Mark Foster laughed. “And then cut to four months later, doing Coachella in front of 15,000 people, and then cut to three months after that, playing Lollapalooza in front of 50,000 people. It’s just been wild man, seeing the world and seeing the progression of things. … It’s crazy to think about. I feel like we have 10 years of memories packed into this one year.” While they’ll continue to tour in earnest in 2012, most of the year will be dedicated to writing and recording the follow-up to their Torches debut. Not surprisingly, Foster said the band’s new stuff has been heavily influenced by their time away from home. “We’ve gotten to write some stuff on the road so far, but haven’t really gotten to dive into it too much yet,” he said. “We’ve just been kind of throwing everything against the wall, idea-wise, like, ‘We should try this and we should try this,’ all these different boundaries to work within, because sometimes it can be really daunting I think, if you don’t have certain boundaries when writing a song. “There’s definitely musical elements that we’ve talked about — you know, really leaning on the percussive nature of what our live show has turned into this year, and bringing that more out into the second record — just kind of experimenting, doing some different, weird studio tricks; just having fun with it. But you never really know until you get under the hood, so we’ll see what happens when we start.” Are you looking forward to the next FTP album? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists Foster the People

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