With the MTV Video Music Awards coming up Sept. 13, Taylor Swift, who’s set to perform for the first time at this year’s bash in New York City, is looking for fashion inspirations.

“I think with the VMAs it’s all about color and being risky,” Swift says in an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the country starlet’s West Side Story-themed VMA promo, which will start airing on MTV on Friday night.

Whose style standard is she following?

“I think Rihanna has always been amazing at the VMAs,” she says. “Everything that she’s decided to do as far as fashion on the red carpet, she takes chances.”

Swift, 19, knows what she’s performing at the show – a fresh version of her song “You Belong With Me” from her hit album Fearless – but her outfits are another story.

“I actually have no idea what I’m going to wear for my performance,” she says, “or the red carpet so I better get on that.”

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Tomorrow MTV will air a special new episode of “Real World: Cancun”.

The special episode will tackle the very serious subject of self mutilation as Real World roommate Ayiia is caught cutting her self after a roommate fight.

MTV is about to bring a rockin’ night to the City That Never Sleeps!

Following last year’s show in LA, the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will grace New York’s Radio City Music Hall before a live audience on September 13 at 9 pm. British bad boy comedian Russell Brand will once again host the iconic music show, and teen star Taylor Swift will perform hits off her multi-platinum album Fearless.

“I’m so excited that MTV and the VMAs have invited me to perform, because I think this year’s show will be unlike anything they’ve ever done!” Taylor gushed.

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Controversial comic Russell Brand is set to host MTV’s annual Video Music Awards Sept. 13 in New York City, the network confirmed in a statement Tuesday.

Assuming hosting duties for the second year in a row, Brand — who is currently filming the sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall — was welcomed back with open arms, despite causing controversy at last year’s event by ribbing the Jonas Brothers in his opening monologue.

During the show’s open, Brand (a confessed former sex addict) repeatedly joked about the Jonas’ purity rings, saying they should take advantage of their celeb status to get lucky. He later apologized.

“We are thrilled that despite numerous death threats from Jonas Brothers fans, Russell Brand has accepted our offer to put his life on the line and host the VMAs again this year,” MTV’s General Manager, Stephen Friedman, told Usmagazine.com in a statement.

Country teen queen Taylor Swift will also appear on the live broadcast, performing a never-before heard version of her hit “You Belong With Me.”

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Audrina Patridge is moving beyond The Hills, but she’s staying at MTV.

“It’s like my home,” she tells People of the network that picked up her new show, which will cover her life after The Hills.

“I’m going to be a producer on my new show with Mark Burnett,” she said Tuesday at the Reebok “EasyTone” Footwear Celebration at a private home in Beverly Hills. “We start filming at the end of the summer.”

Audrina has said the show will be “spicier, edgier, older,” and will focus on “new love” and “romances.”

One of those romances may very well be with her ex, Australian BMX rider Corey Bohan, who joined her recently on a Mexican vacation.

“When I start filming my show that kind of stuff will be on it,” she said of their trip.

But are the exes officially back together? “Corey and I have an amazing time together. My family loves him. We’ve been spending a lot of time together,” she said. “I’m not jinxing anything because as soon as I say anything, I swear it goes bad. And then it like flips around and you’re like, ‘Why did I say anything?’ We’ll see what happens.”

Audrina is taking a similar approach to upcoming episodes of The Hills, which will star Lauren Conrad’s Laguna Beach nemesis Kristin Cavallari.

“I know she’s in it now,” she says of Cavallari. “But it’s a matter of how she fits in, and we’ve only filmed a couple times and I really don’t know [if she'll be the focus].”

But it sounds like there may already be drama brewing. “I don’t really know her. I don’t talk to her,” Audrina says. “Like, I really don’t care.”

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Kristin Cavalleri and Brody Jenner film scenes for “The Hills” at Enoteca Drago in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

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