LADY GAGA FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE EXPRESS YOURSELF & MADONNA'S BROTHER LASHES OUT

Was it Satre or Baudrillard who said that everything in Art had already been said, and there was nothing left to do except appropriate and recycle other peoples work? Whichever it was, we can apply that same arguement to the drama and criticism swirling around GaGa's new single Born This Way.

Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone has recently lashed out about Lady GaGa; in an interview with Radar Online he said "All I can say is "What the F**K!"" and 'It sounds just like Express Yourself - I can't believe it to tell you the truth."

The similarities between GaGa's single and Madonna's iconic 1989 Express Yourself are more than obvious, but nowhere in recent press and interviews has Lady GaGa even acknowleged this, or mentioned the influence or inspiration of Madonna on her own music.

The two artists are known to be friends (going out dancing together) but who know's what Madonna will think of Born This Way. Anyone remember Madonna's track She's Not Me from the Hard Candy album?

Below are two short interviews recently filmed with GaGa where she talks about where the inspiration for the song came from and what she thinks it's about ...

Go towards the light GaGa, towards the light ...

EIGHTH BRITNEY TEASER

There have been seven days of Britney so far, and to promote her new single Hold It Against Me and its soon to be released video, here's the eighth teaser clip.

Who's being punched in the clip? GaGa? Christina? Or Britney's evil alter ego???

The video premieres Thursday on MTV.

BORN THIS WAY PREMIERES

Like a Pop nuclear bomb being dropped onto the music scene, Lady GaGa's long anticipated

Born This Way has a dramatic impact ...

It's taken me at three plays to even begin to formulate an opinion - this is almost completely not what I was expecting. Even though I'd read rumours of Madonna & 90s beats, I was still expecting the fierceness, the darkness and the camp vampire-esque gritted teeth I've come to associate with GaGa, instead we get a punchy middle-of-the-road Mardi Gras anthem about being true to yourself with some Express Yourself and Holiday dance beats thrown in here and there.

This is it.

Starts promising, with GaGa's typical sinister voiceover intro, but then it just descends into disco chaos. Some pluses for the deep electro synths, and just the lyrics to the chorus alone (the "drag- queen" verses grate on me as soon as I hear them) with "God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way"  are incredible, but these could have been delivered SOOOO much better which in the end has left me a little dissapointed.

I was hoping for something along the EPIC line of this little taster we had a few months ago..

Well, who knows, maybe its a grower.

TRACK LEAK: DR BIEBER

For all the Bieber fans out there - and I know theres a few - here's a new track which has surfaced online. It doesn't seem clear yet whether it's a leaked single, an album track or a demo.

Dr Bieber is gonna' cure the fever.

LADY GAGA COVER ART FOR BORN THIS WAY

Here we have the cover art for GaGa's long awaited record Born This Way.

Due to be premiered at this week's Grammys, it seems like an eternity since we heard anything new from Pop's biggest artist.

What clues can we pick up from this image? That she's unclothed and showing she's proud to be who she is? We should be proud of who we are? Fierce and wild, an animal let loose? Free monsters??

We will find out in three days...

GLEE MASHUP: YEAH YEAH YEAHS vs MICHAEL JACKSON

Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is one of my FAVOURITE pop/rock/dance records - in fact I love it so much I never talk about it, just so I can keep it a secret all to myself, like a favourite club or beach that you want nobody else to discover - and so I was shocked to find out Glee have done a mashup with Michael Jackson's Thriller.

By far the Heads Will Roll sections sound fantastic, and the Thriller parts are so-so. Well done those preppy kids for covering the Yeah Yeah Yeahs so well, but damn them to hell for exposing one of my favourite hidden gems! Now every preteen kid will be singing this!!!

MYA DOES DANCE

It seems like everyone who's anyone is hitting the dancefloor with their own up-tempo electro track at the moment, and next up is MYA.

Boardering on one-hit-wonder, MYA has had a couple of big hits Ghetto Superstar, Case of the Ex and the Lady Marmalade colloboration (all of which were AMAZING records), but for someone who's been on the music scene for such a long time she hasn't done much else. She may be more big in U.S. but here in the UK, MYA has a looong way to go before she reaches the Rihanna or Beyonce levels, and with comeback tracks as weak and vaccuous as this, I think its easy to see why.

Have a listen and see what you think...

Love Is The Answer (feat. Mya) by alwayssAboutMusics

FURORE AS BBC RADIO RENAME RIHANNA'S S&M AS "COME ON"

Ever the PC purveryors, the BBC have decided to rename Rihanna's single S & M as Come On, much to the annoyance of RiRi herself.

Several words have been dropped from BBC Radio One's PG version, such as "sex" and "chains". Radio One have said "'During daytime hours, as younger audiences are listening, we are playing the radio edit which is called 'Come On'. This is due to the strong nature of the content in the original version of the track. However we will continue to play the original track in specialist shows with an appropriate introduction."

Rihanna has had to say on her twitter "Are you f---ing kidding me??? I'm on it!" and asked by fans if she was OK with this she said "Absolutely Not!"

JESSIE J SCORES FIRST UK #1

Congratulations to Jessie J who last night knocked Ke$ha of the UK top spot and claimed her first number one record with Price Tag. Her debut single Do It Like A Dude only made no. 2.

I still think the song is quite average but it's still an achievement for a great new UK artist.

CHRISTINA FLUFFS AMERICAN ANTHEM AT SUPERBOWL

Its been a tough time recently for Xtina, what with the under performance of Bionic, divorce from her husband and then average performance of movie Burlesque - and things don't seem to be getting any better...

All over the press today is her live performance at yesterday's American SuperBowl (I'm sure you all know what a huge deal this is in the U.S.) where she fluffed the line "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming" and replaced it with an improvised "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming".

About 0:50 through ...

People in the press are calling this a DISASTER and Christina is said to have been devasted. She's since issued the statement "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through".

Can't help but feel sorry for the Aguilera, as we all slip up now and again - and she did hammer home the performance with some incredible notes - but if you're going to go on the SuperBowl and sing the national anthem, live to MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, at least know the words.