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(Via – Allure Of Sound)

Creepy X-Men kids and retro 80’s techno. Perfect. (Via – Allure of Sound)

1. “When I Think Of You” – Janet Jackson2. “Typical Male” – Tina Turner3. “Throwing It All Away” – Genesis4. “Two Of Hearts” – Stacey Q5. “True Colors” – Cyndi Lauper6. “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” – Glass Tiger7. “Heartbeat” – Don Johnson8. “Stuck With You” – Huey Lewis & The News9. “All Cried Out” – Lisa Lisa & …

Queen’s short list for a new lead singer includes Lady Gaga. Could Gaga go from a lady to a Queen? Guitarist Brian May has said that among the singers Queen’s considered to front the band, Lady Gaga is a top contender. “We get a lot of offers to work with other people,” May told Express. “I worked with Lady Gaga …

Re-recorded for the 20th anniversary. Meh. Wasn’t crazy about it the first time. Plus she was rude to me. (Via – Pop In Stereo)

USA Today reports that Madonna has been booked as the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl 2012. The game is Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The NFL has gone with established acts in the past few years. Since Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake appeared in 2004, halftime acts have included Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty …

We got the audio last month, today Towleroad tips us to a bootleg/leaked version of the video. UPDATE: The clip has been yanked by the Sales Prevention Team at Sony Music Entertainment.

Via the Atlantic: “Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages,” says SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in Evolutionary Psychology. That’s right–“reproductive messages,” our newest favorite euphemism. Those 174 top-selling songs were analyzed in order to determine how many sexy messages they contained in any of 18 …

Thirty years later, the Boy still has it. There are lots of remixes of this, with varying results.

Seriously?

Almost a year after her sophomore album topped every chart in the world, we finally have a production video for Adele’s tear-jerker Someone Like You. Trivia: This is the first purely vocal + piano single to reach #1 in the 53 year history of Billboard’s pop singles chart. Many similarly sparse ballads also reached #1, but according to Billboard, all …

For the fourth time, Donna Summer is among the fifteen acts nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Summer was also nominated three of the last four years, but has been overlooked despite numerous Grammy wins, including one for Best Rock Vocal Performance. Artists become eligible 25 years after the release of their first commercial full-length record. Here’s …

Yes, this is the Barbie Girl people.

Chamber music meets pop. Vocalist Shara Worden used to sing backup for Sufjan Stevens.

I suppose Canada’s Trike is poking some fun at 80s pop (talk about low-hanging fruit), but this reminds me so much of The The, I’m loving it.

After an eight year dry spell, Gloria Estefan returns with the below Neptunes-produced flashback to 80s freestyle, complete with the genre’s famously corny lyrics. Last week Estefan took some heat from activists after signing an exclusive deal with Target. Calling gay fans her “core audience,” Estefan praised Target’s efforts to right itself with the LGBT community. “I know that they …

Counter-protesting, Foo Fighters-style.

We heard a leaked snippet last week, here it is in full.