LOS ANGELES ? JoJo has certainly grown up somewhere between releasing “Leave (Get Out)” back in 2004 as a 14-year-ancient and her very NSFW remix of Drake’s “Marvin’s Room.”

As soon as JoJo dropped the sultry, feisty track, redubbed “Marvin’s Room (Can’t Do Better),” earlier this summer, blogs and music lovers went crazy over her mature voice and even more mature romantic content. In the song, she coos lines like “F— that new girl that you like so terrible/ She’s not crazy like me, I bet you like that.”

Much like the Drizzy version, JoJo’s version is a swirling ode to drunk dialing that special someone, and the longing of the track seemed to resonate with persons ? which is the most surprising part to JoJo, considering she drops a few F-bombs.

“I was shocked!” she told MTV News on Sunday night on the VMA black carpet about the overwhelmingly clear reaction to the remix.

So how did she end up recording her answer to Drake’s track? “Well, one of my friends was like, ‘Jo, you gotta hear this new Drake song!’ I loved it, and I thought Drake was really emotional and honest,” she clarified. “I was like, ‘This a splendid record,’ so I had a small time in the car ride [on my way to the airport]. So I wrote my version in the car ride, and I landed in L.A., I went to the studio, I recorded it, and the next day I place it on the Internet, and people really, really loved it. And I was really shocked, ’cause I was frightened to use the F-word, and I didn’t know how people would respond to it.”

The track, produced by Jordan Gatsby and featuring words from Travis Garland, is not only fan-approved, but also approved by the Canadian rapper himself.

“He said I killed it and that he was really pleased with everyone’s response,” she said of Drake’s reaction. “It meant a lot coming from him. It was all out of respect.”

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Kelly Clarkson dropped her new single, “Mr. Know It All,” on her website this week. It’s the first track off her Stronger album, due in October.

The song is an obvious Clarkson joint: feisty and straightforward, with a strong melody and a sing-by the side of chorus. The midtempo breakup tune is about a girl letting her guy know that despite thinking he’s got it all figured out, he doesn’t.

On the chorus, she blasts, “Oh, you reflect that you know me/ Know me/ That’s why I’m leave-taking you lonely/ Lonely/ ‘Cause baby you don’t know a thing about me/ You don’t know a thing about me.”

She’s equally feisty on the bridge when she sings, “So what, you’ve got the world at your feet/ And you know all about all/ But you don’t/ You subdue reflect I’m comin’ back, but baby you’ll see.”

The track was written by Brett James (who has a country history, having written for Carrie Underwood), Ester Dean (Beyoncé, Usher) and Dante Jones. Brian Kennedy (Chris Brown, Rihanna, Backstreet Boys) also co-wrote and produced the track.

Stronger is Clarkson’s fifth album release. It’s the follow-up to 2009′s All I Ever Wanted. “Usually, on most albums, I’ll fight and be like, ‘No, this needs to be the single.’ There’s no real fighting on this,” she told EW.com about the album. “The mark and I, we like all of them. We’re just going to see what everybody digs.”

She extra of “Mr. Know It All” that she “can’t wait to perform it. It’s all I am as a woman and a singer. I like telling men off!”

In early 2011, Clarkson teased her influences for the album on Facebook. “This album was influenced by Prince, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Radiohead and there’s a small bit of a country vibe/influence on a couple of songs,” she said.

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Lady Gaga was fully committed to her male alter ego Jo Calderone during this weekend’s MTV Record Music Awards. Not only did the pop star perform her latest single, “Yoü and I,” in character to open the show, she spent the rest of the night in Calderone’s black suit and signature sneer.

Gaga is easily one of the most vocal lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates in the pop world. She actively campaigned against the “don’t question, don’t tell” policy, has spoken openly and often about the importance of marriage equality and gave a rousing speech in Washington, D.C., last year as part of the National Equality March. So what is the LGBT community saying about Gaga’s gender-bending VMA performance?

“I thought it was splendid,” John Polly, editor of Logo’s pop culture blog NewNowNext.com, tells MTV News. “Gender issues are often the most challenging for people, so I liked that she dove into it and stuck with it throughout the show.”

Murray Hill, a well loved drag-king comedian in New York City and host/creator of “Mr. Transman,” a female-to-male competition, agreed. “There is barely any visibility for FTM, drag kings and lesbians on television. There is a huge imbalance,” he said. “For Lady Gaga, the largest pop star in the world, to go on TV with millions of people watching in drag as a man and then to really say ‘lesbian and transgender’ live is undeniably powerful and makes change. She ups the visibility huge time and gets the language into the mainstream.”

Polly commented on the integrity with which Gaga has approached her role as a gay-civil rights advocate and thinks that she might not have intended to make a statement about transgender individuals with her performance at the VMAs, but that it was perhaps perceived that way because of the political role she has adopted in additional LGBT struggles. “I reflect it complements [her promotion],” he said, “but I don’t know that it was even a statement on the LGBT community; it’s just a character she wanted to play. But since we don’t see [drag kings or female-to-male transgender persons] much, we perceive it that way.”

While there has been backlash against Gaga in some sectors of the gay community, particularly among activists who see a disconnect between the pop star’s candid activism and the fact that she is not gay herself, Hill feels she deserves recognition for being an entirely pro-LGBT voice in the music industry, which sometimes suffers from instances of homophobia.

“Lady Gaga has only spread a clear and accepting thought for all kinds of queer people,” he said. “She does this through her work, which is entertainment. There is a lot of homophobic despise spewed in the music industry and in the world. I’m grateful she is using her voice to spread the like.”

Indeed, Polly told us that most of the reader feedback he’s seen on AfterEllen, Logo’s lesbian appeal website, has been clear and that he in person found the performance to be a “fun challenge” for the “Born This Way” singer.

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