LONDON (Reuters) – MUZU.TV, an Irish-based video website, has signed a licensing deal with the agency behind the world's leading independent music labels, giving it access to footage from the Arctic Monkeys to Radiohead.

MUZU.TV, an Irish-based video website, has signed a licensing deal with the agency behind the world’s leading independent music labels, giving it access to footage from the Arctic Monkeys to Radiohead.

It’s a familiar narrative: wunderkind with a gift for music takes it seriously, and lands a major-label deal before he gets his driver’s license. Usher, Chris Brown and Britney Spears all fit the formula. Now, Justin Bieber can add his name to the list.

NEW YORK (Billboard) – It’s a familiar narrative: wunderkind with a gift for music takes it seriously, and lands a major-label deal before he gets his driver’s license.

Lady Gaga, other pop music stars never break character — Lady Gaga wants you to know she is not a Method actor. The 23-year-old ingenue behind hits such as “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi” does believe in cultivating what thespians call “theatrical truth.” But while devotees use the exercises developed by the late Lee Strasberg and others to go deep into character and pull themselves out again, …