#1 CRUSH

June 22, 2012 – According to YouTube, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" video has over 121 million views. None of them are mine. For whatever reason — maybe it's because I can't get the FM pop station frequencies in my apartment, or because I don't watch Glee, or because I just turned 30 — I have not heard what many label as the song of summer 2012.

June 22, 2012 – When Lily Allen broke through in 2006 with her debut album Alright, Still, it was hard to read about her without finding a mention of the fact that she owed her initial popularity to MySpace.

June 12, 2012 – How will Madonna and Lady Gaga manage to keep themselves in the news on tour overseas while Britney Spears is sucking up all the attention at home by repeatedly "storming off" the set of The X Factor? So far, this dilemma hasn't actually been much of a problem.

May 30, 2012 – For reasons yet unknown, Brit pop darling Ellie Goulding recently decided to cover the Weeknd's particularly creepy (and perhaps best-known) House of Balloons cut, "High for This." The track — which was posted last night and produced by Chiddy Bang's Xaphoon Jones — has a more electronic aesthetic than the original, highlighting how insane its silky-smooth yet ultimately predatory lyrics sound when they're not being sung by

May 29, 2012 – Madonna keeps finding ever-cheekier ways to point out the obvious similarities between Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and the Material Girl's own "Express Yourself." The latest comes via freshly surfaced footage of Madonna performing "Express Yourself" during a rehearsal in Tel Aviv for her MDNA tour.

May 22, 2012 – Some lyric videos are insufferably boring. Some are actually pretty awesome. And some want you to know its creator is totally buddies with the CEO of Facebook.