This Sunday (March 14), we jump the clocks forward an hour in accordance with Daylight Savings Time. Do you know what that means? It means that this weekend is one hour shorter than it should be. So you have 60 fewer minutes to cram in the trip to your local multiplex to see “Remember Me” and grab a spot on the couch to watch Pearl Jam on “Saturday Night Live.” That also means you have one less hour to catch up with all the stories you might have missed this week, including a number of looks at Lady Gaga’s new video for “Telephone” and a peek into the budding feud between Justin Bieber and Aziz Ansari’s alter-ego “Raaaandy.” Check out the rest of the week’s top links below.

» Conan O’Brien turned a woman from Michigan into an Internet celebrity with a single click of his mouse, and MTV News talked to her first to get the full story. Then he scheduled a national tour and everybody celebrated all over again.

» “American Idol” soldiered on, whittling the group down to the 12 finalists. Hopefully, we’ll be hearing some indie rock covers in the coming weeks.

» Still, if they decide to stick to classic rock, everything should sound as good as Siobhan Magnus’ cover of “House of the Rising Sun.”

» T.I. debuted a new single this week called “I’m Back,” and it’s a stunning return to form for the King of the South.

» In legal news, Lil Wayne began his prison sentence. He missed an awful lot during his first day in, and he’s sure to miss plenty more.

» Justin Bieber has entered into his first feud (though somewhat unwilling and certainly in jest) with Aziz Ansari’s alter-ego “Raaaandy.”

» Last week, we got another set of clues about the identity of Iamamiwhoami, but there aren’t any more answers. Still, there remain plenty of excellent conspiracy theories.

» David Otunga continued his reign on “WWE NXT,” and he owes much of it to idols like Andre the Giant and the Rock.

» There was a bit of tragedy amidst the fun this week, as the music community learned about Sparklehorse mastermind Mark Linkous’ suicide.

» Also in the untimely death department, actor Corey Haim passed away at the age of 38. He left behind “The Lost Boys,” “License to Drive,” “Dream a Little Dream” and Michael Damian’s “Rock On” video.

» MTV News also celebrated the life and career of the Notorious B.I.G. on the anniversary of his tragic death.

» Thanks to their new show for kids, the men of Kiss are running out of endorsements, which is why they need to invest in some medical research. Who wouldn’t want to undergo Kissmotherapy?

» MTV News sent two superfans to Las Vegas to cover this year’s 311 Day. Check out the dispatches from Lauren Black and Dave Kosin.

» Finally, take some time out to watch both Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion video trilogy and Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” and contemplate which trilogy will stand alone as the greatest.

“It’s flattering. I’m not letting anything go to my head, though. It’s definitely up for grabs, it’s still up in the air. We don’t know who’s gonna win! But it’s flattering to hear. Everyone’s really talented.”

-“American Idol” contestant Crystal Bowersox, talking to MTV News’ Jim Cantiello about her status as the current favorite on the ninth season of the show. Bowersox chatted with Cantiello during the Top 12 Party in Hollywood on Thursday night (March 11), where the dozen remaining contestants met the media and began to get acquainted with their new lives as stars in both music and television. Bowersox is a rare case in the world of “American Idol,” as she had never really seen the show prior to auditioning, so she is constantly being surprised by aspects of the show. “I had no idea what happens behind the scenes,” she told Cantiello. The resident MTV News “American Idol” expert also asked Bowersox about the group numbers that open up every show. “I may not look like I’m having the best time, but I am. I enjoy it,” she said.

So far, Bowersox has had a handful of excellent performances but may be best known for her hospital stay that nearly cost her a spot on the show. But she ended up recovering in time to tear the house down, which became her personal highlight. “My favorite performance was ‘As Long As I Can See the Light,’” she told Cantiello. “Hours earlier I had gotten out of the hospital, and I was just really happy to be healthy enough to perform that song.”

Do you think Crystal Bowersox will be this season’s “American Idol” winner? If not her, who is the favorite? Let us know in the comments!

But is it truly epic? MTV News took a look at the criteria that can turn a video from a simple accompaniment to a song into a truly transcendent piece of art.

Based on those rules, does “Telephone” join those clips by Michael Jackson, Meat Loaf, Aerosmith and Green Day as epics?

Big Name Director
“Telephone” was directed by Jonas Akerlund, and while he doesn’t have the most illustrious resumé when it comes to feature films (it consists of 2002’s barely watchable “Spun” and 2009’s unseen “Horsemen”), but when it comes to music videos, he is in an elite class of visionaries. His award-winning clips include Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” Metallica’s “Turn the Page,” U2’s “Beautiful Day,” Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Sober.” He may not have had the Hollywood success of David Fincher or Michael Bay, but he certainly is big time.

Melodramatic Plot
There is more drama in the two minutes before the song even starts in “Telephone” than in many artists’ entire video catalogs. Gaga goes to jail, fights with inmates, mixes some poison, kills Tyrese, makes some sandwiches and drives off into the sunset while trading hard-boiled lines with Beoyncé. With performances this operatic, “Telephone” has drama to spare.

Big Hollywood Star
OK, so this is where it gets a little sketchy, as “Telephone” doesn’t really feature a big Keanu Reeves-style cameo. (Sorry, Tyrese.) However, it does feature Beyoncé. Sure, she’s on the song and basically shows up as a collaborator, but are there many stars on the planet bigger than Ms. Knowles? Anyone else would have simply been eclipsed by her and Gaga’s collective star power.

Length
This is pretty automatic, as “Telephone” is nearly 10 minutes long. To put that in perspective, that’s not quite as long as the full version of “Thriller” but slightly longer than “November Rain.”

Is Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video truly epic? Let us know in the comments!

In 20 years, frontman Eddie Vedder doesn’t appear to have aged very much. He still has that youthful glow and a hunger in his eyes, and he has constantly experimented with his look. There was the flannel-fueled early grunge era, the shorter hair of the late ’90s, the awesome-looking Mohawk from 2002 and a number of different paramilitary incarnations.

But how has Eddie Vedder really evolved since 1991? Check out the photo gallery below, which features promotional and performance shots from Pearl Jam’s entire existence in the spotlight. Watch as Vedder goes from a smooth-skinned singer to a number of different beard variations, and watch out for the special cameo from Neil Young.

(Click here for more photos of Eddie Vedder throughout Pearl Jam’s long and storied career!)

Which version of Eddie Vedder do you prefer? Let us know in the comments!

It was a remarkably taxing trip, as the climbing crew fought inclement weather, fatigue and altitude sickness and had to constantly ward of frostbite, hunger and dehydration. The whole trek was captured on film, and the special documenting the trip will be airing this Sunday (March 14) at 9 p.m. on MTV.

“Even with as many grandiose illusions that I have had, this has gone beyond my wildest dreams and expectations,” Kenna said once he reached the top of the mountain. “The influencers, educators, staff, crew, and publicists have literally braved this on behalf of the world and, in a personally meaningful way, on behalf of my father.”

It was an especially important project for Kenna, as his dad nearly died of water-born diseases in his youth. It opened his eyes to a worldwide crisis, as over one billion people do not have access to clean drinking water.

“I also can’t be more thankful for all the people that followed us, donated and have fought the global clean water crisis with us,” he added.

For more on “Summit on the Summit,” check out the project’s official Web site, stay tuned for more updates from MTV News and be sure to tune in Sunday (March 14) at 9 p.m. on MTV.

At the same time, it does conjure up memories of Guns N’ Roses‘ “November Rain,” a similarly lengthy video that acted as the second entry in a trilogy of cinematic clips. (”Telephone” also acts as a sequel to “Paparazzi” and sets up a third clip at the end.)

When Guns N’ Roses released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II back in 1991, frontman Axl Rose wanted to create something truly unprecedented when it came to music videos. He collected three ballads from the two albums (“Don’t Cry,” “November Rain” and “Estranged”) and crafted something of a narrative. Though the story is told out of order, the trilogy casts Axl as a vaguely fictionalized version of himself and the struggles he has with the woman in his life (played by then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour). Over the course of three videos, they have a fight, Axl takes a lot of pills, Seymour dies in the rain (somehow) and everybody ends up sort of sad and depressed at the end.

Unfortunately, while the narrative made a bit of sense through “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain,” it totally falls apart during “Estranged.” It’s possible that the sudden unavailability of Seymour (she left Axl before the third video could be filmed) threw monkey wrench in the scenario, though it’s also possible that Axl was facing the collapse of his band and simply forgot where the story was going. Or perhaps he never knew where it was going in the first place. Regardless, the video for “Estranged” does make reference to the other two clips but is mostly remembered as the video where Axl is (apparently) kidnapped by a dolphin.

So far, the story told during the series of Gaga videos is much more straightforward: Gaga gets involved with a man (”True Blood” star Alexander Skarsgard) and kills him in “Paparazzi,” then goes to jail for it and breaks out to extract some form of revenge in “Telephone.” There are plenty of other references to other Gaga videos in “Telephone” as well (like the cigarettes from “Bad Romance” and the dogs from “Poker Face”). It seems as though Gaga may have better luck in her trilogy than Axl did, but until we see the third one, Rose remains the video trilogy king.

What do you think of the “Telephone” video? What should be Gaga’s next video? What do you think of Guns N’ Roses attempted trilogy? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that’s why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.

With the Oscars in the rearview mirror, you may think that the awards season is officially over. But there is one last show that needs to be dealt with, and that is the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. The show, hosted by “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” star Kevin James, airs on Sunday, March 27 at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon. (Of course, the MTV Movie Awards are just around the corner, so don’t put away your black tie just yet.) This year’s KCAs will celebrate such kid-friendly stars as the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Miranda Cosgrove, Selena Gomez and SpongeBob Squarepants. The show will also feature performances from Rihanna and Justin Bieber, the latter of whom showed up at Nickelodeon’s upfront presentation in New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday (March 11). He signed a handful of autographs for fans and hung out with “iCarly” star Cosgrove.

He wasn’t the only star out meeting the people on Thursday, as Beyoncé attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new New Jersey Nets arena in Brooklyn with husband Jay-Z (who is a partial owner of the team) and Kelly Clarkson made her way to Johannesburg, South Africa, to talk to the press there. Click here for these photos as well as the complete “Spotted!” archive, which features nearly 400 candid shots of stars like Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Diddy, Jessica Simpson and Ryan Seacrest!

Like any trip to the local multiplex, “Remember Me” requires some appropriate music to get you into the mood. Memory is clearly a big deal among musicians, as there are dozens of songs that deal with remembering. Of course, there are some cornerstones, like Sarah McLachlan’s immortal graduation and TV finale song “I Will Remember You” and the incarceration-can’t-keep-me-down T.I. track “Remember Me.” Plenty of these songs deal directly with relationships, like Jeff Buckley’s “Forget Her,” Poison’s “I Won’t Forget You” and Carrie Underwood’s “Don’t Forget to Remember Me.” And in case you need a little more rage before going to see a Pattinson movie, there’s always Slipknot’s “Before I Forget” or Armor for Sleep’s “Remember to Feel Real.”

Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” kicks things off, as it’s a breezy, funky latter-day MJ track that is dedicated to carrying relationship memories with you. Also, it’s a fantastically epic clip featuring cameos from Eddie Murphy, supermodel Iman and basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson (among others).

We did not see that coming. After a pretty good run last week predicting which “American Idol” contestants would be eliminated, MTV’s “Idol” brain trust got thrown for a loop on Thursday night (March 11) when all logic was tossed aside and America saved two of the wounded lambs while sacrificing two arguably strong contestants who might have surprised us in the Top 12.

After going 4-for-4 last week, I got blanked three times, incorrectly predicting that Paige “Smile” Miles would go down hard, along with old-before-her-time teen Katie Stevens. Instead, we saw Lilly Scott and Katelyn Epperly sent to the showers, a prospect I did not see coming.

On the boys’ side, I also got blindsided by nervous nelly teen Aaron Kelly getting a trip to the Top 12 over possible darkhorse (and equally panicky) Alex Lambert, who seemed poised for a slow-burn rise through the finals. The tossing of Todrick Hall, however, was no surprise.

“American Idol in 60 Seconds” chief Jim Cantiello (who was 2-for-4 last week) also went 1-for-4, losing his shirt on Stevens, Miles and Kelly but correctly predicting Hall.

Then there was MJ’s Big Blog founder MJ Santilli, who got totally blanked, going 0-for-4 after tagging Miles and Kelly and making bold forecasts about the imminent demise of judges’ fave Lee Dewyze and Texas singer Lacey Brown.

A rough week all around.

After two weeks, the standings so far:
Gil Kaufman: 5-of-8
Jim Cantiello: 3-of-8
MJ Santilli: 2-of-8

Come back next week to see which finalists will be the first to go home and to see whether or not I can continue to reign supreme.

How did you do this week picking “Idol” eliminations? Who would you have sent home? Leave your comments below and let us know!

Such is the case with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, known professionally as the Neptunes. At the beginning of the millennium, they were an unstoppable force on the radio, crafting funky, Prince-inspired, chart-crushing beats for the likes of Jay-Z (“I Just Wanna Luv U (Give It 2 Me)”), Nelly (“Hot in Herre”), Britney Spears (“I’m a Slave 4 U”) and Mystikal (“Shake Ya Ass”). Flush with cash and looking to expand their horizons, Williams and Hugo formed N.E.R.D., a sort of funky alt-rock band who dropped their first album In Search Of… on this day in 2002.

The album, full of hardcore twitches and stoned ballads, was originally released in 2001 with mostly electronic instrumentation, but the group decided to with a more “live” sound and re-recorded the entire thing. When it finally did hit stores, it got rave reviews and established Williams and Hugo as multi-talented musicians eager to stretch out.

In Search Of… gave rise to some big hits for the group (including “Rock Star” and “Provider”) and subsequent N.E.R.D. albums have veered even deeper into prog rock and strange experiments. Still, the group will forever have a place with the immortals because of “Lapdance,” the raunchy, political, swaggerific first single.