My latest Disney obsession Emilegend Osment is shaking off the haters after her raunchy Radar rip-off “Let’s Be Friends” flopped Stateside, and has moved on to her second US single, “Love Sick”.

Emily’s obviously realized that copying a three-year-old Britney song that barely even charted in the first place may not be a shining path to success, so this time she’s tried to craft something that’s slightly less of a blatant knock-off. “Love Sick” is a huge electro-pop number filled with arcade-style blips & beeps, an explosive pop-rock chorus and a heavy dose of the Veronica’s sophomore album, Hook Me Up. Love <3

How are all these Disney brats so amazing? First Hilary, and now Demi, Miley, Selena and Emilegend. You can keep Miranda Cosgrove, though. Oh wait, Miranda is Nickledeon, which explains why she’s boring and has crap music.

Anyway, check out a medium quality version of Emilegend’s next flop “Love Sick”, below. Please buy her album, Fight or Flight, when it hits stores in October, or else Emily will go to college to study physics and then we’ll never see or hear from her again.

It’s been less than a year since Shakira graced us with her criminally-underrated pop album She Wolf, but she’s already back and ready to do it all again with the release of her brand new single “Loca”.

The song features British rapper Dizzee Rascal, and is essentially a cover, or remake,  of El Cata’s underground hit “Ella es loca con su tigre”. With it’s sexy, Latin flavors and exotic influences, “Loca” could easily be labelled as a return to the ‘old’ Shakira, but the song’s heavy Cuban-influences and the addition of grime king Dizzee Rascal show that Shakira is still exploring new territory after fifteen years in the business.

“Loca” is fresh, fun, sexy, infectious, and all around ridiculously amazing. She really hasn’t had a single this hot since “La Tortura”.

Shakira’s new bilingual album Sale El Sol drops October 15. You can check out what is rumored to be the official album artwork above.

Take a listen to the radio rip of “Loca” below, and then tell me how much you love it in the comments.

Update: Spanish version added.

Nicki Minaj conquered the charts with “Your Love” and has every celebrity in the industry basically calling her the second coming of Jesus, so, it’s kind of like a big deal that her new single has arrived.

For her next surefire smash, Nicki has teamed up with Will.i.am for an “OMG” sized hit, “Check it Out”. It’s got repetitive, mindless lyrics, generic production, auto-tune galore, some watered-down version of what is supposed to be ‘rapping’, and yet somehow it’s more addictive than crystal meth (and probably just as damaging to the brain, too). You can attribute this to three things: Will.i.am’s uncanny ability to create earworm after earworm, Nicki’s larger than life personality, and the catchier-than-the-flu sample of “Video Killed the Radio Star” that “Check It Out” is built around.

Nicki might want to work on some original material in the future, though. “Check it Out” relies heavily on “Video Killed the Radio Star”, while “Your Love” did the same with Annie Lennox’s “No More I Love You’s”. She’s gonna have to top the charts without rehashing old hits if she wants to meet the insane amount of hype that’s currently resting upon her shoulders.

Anyway, “Check It Out” is the next big hit, it’s the jam, it’s catchy, and you’re gonna get real sick of it once radio put it on ultra-heavy rotation, so enjoy it while you can.

“Check It Out” will officially impact Top 40/Mainstream radio on September 14. It’s officially listed as “Will.i.am & Nicki Minaj”, so it appears to be a joint single for the pair. You can check out the mixtape version of the song below.

The little girl from “Leave (Get Out)” is back, and ready to show us all that she’s grown up on her new single “In the Dark” — the first offering from her upcoming debut mixtape, Can’t Take That Away From Me.

JoJo may be known for her huge voice, but on “In the Dark” she restrains herself and brings out the auto-tune for some whispered come-ons over a slow, pulsating groove. It’s the type of song that Cassie and Britney would absolutely kill for, and proves that JoJo can still deliver fantastic music without having to belt her little lungs out all the time.

“In the Dark” marks a perfect return for JoJo, and the only criticism I have is that she’s previously mentioned that her third album will be more mainstream-sounding than the “experimental” mixtape. The song is just so amazingly perfect that just the thought of her diverting from this sexy sound is not something I want to hear right now!

Take a listen to “In the Dark” via Rap-Up, below.

Over the past year or so, the UK have been having huge success by exporting homegrown popstars like Taio Cruz and Jay Sean over to America, but it’s left the rest of Europe feeling a little jealous, so the almighty Slovakia has decided to take a crack at breaking one of their most popular acts Stateside with the multi-platinum pop duo, the TWiiNS!

The identical twins, Daniela and Veronika, had one Platinum album almost a decade ago, and have been terrorizing Slovakia with their horrendous hits like “Slip of the Tongue” ever since. They’re now primed to conquer the US, and have chosen a cover of Sabrina’s iconic 80′s trash anthem “Boys (Summertime Love)” to help them do it. “Boys” is one of the most well-known and controversial hits of the 1980s, mostly due to the fabulous music video in which Sabrina splashes around a hotel pool as her swimsuit top falls down, exposing her nipples and huge jugs as she sings, “Boys, boys boys, I’m looking for a good time!”

The TWiiNS have given their version of the classy classic a modern touch by adding that German ‘rapper’ from Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dancefloor” as a feature. You can’t get much bigger than that guy, but as it turns out, the girls have also reached out to some less successful artists to lend them a hand on their upcoming album, such as rent-a-rapper Pitbull and top forty kings B.o.B. and Jason DeRulo. You’ll be able to get your hands on Thriller 2.0. early next year. {source}

Besides preparing to rule the charts, the glamorous sisters are also ready to conquer the world of television with their own reality show, which will promote Slovakia as an ideal destination for illegal sex tourism chronicle their attempts to crack the States.

It’s so good to see talent finally about to get some recognition in America. Who needs Utada and Mariza anyway?

Check out the TWiiNS future Hot 100 smash below, and then relive Sabrina’s nipple-baring classic under the cut.

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One-time rock chick Fefe Dobson moved more into mainstream pop with the release of her last single, the techno-rock revenge anthem “Ghost”,  and now she’s taken an even bigger leap into the land of the unoriginal and radio-friendly with her latest effort “Stutterin’”.

The generic pop number was penned by Kelly Clarkson hitmaker Claude Kelly and produced by J.R. Rotem, and is clearly a move by Fefe’s label Def Jam to get the struggling singer a hit on the charts. While “Ghost” still managed to capture a little of Fefe’s rock essence, “Stutterin’” has all but eroded anything and everything that ever made her unique in the first place. It’s uninspired, uninteresting, and sounds like a Jordin Sparks Battlefield B-Side, which is funny considering that Jordin actually covered one of Fefe’s songs for that album.

In the hands of a manufactured Disney starlet or an American Idol reject, “Stutterin’” could be a nice top forty hit, but with Fefe, it’s just plain wrong.

If for some reason you actually really like this song, then you can get it as a free download on Fefe’s official website. Fefe’s third album, Joy, is due out on Def Jam records this Fall.

Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt and ex-Jupiter Rising member Spencer Nezey came together earlier this year to form their own musical duo, Her Majesty & the Wolves. The pair have been working diligently behind-the-scenes on an album, and today we’ve got the first real taste of what they’ve been cooking up with “Glaciers” — their official debut single.

The song is currently available as a free download on the band’s official website, and with it clocking in at over six minutes, it’s hard to tell whether this free version of “Glaciers” is just a remix, or the actual final edit. With huge spaces filled with no singing and nothing but trancey techno music, there’s no way that the current incarnation of “Glaciers” could be released as a pop single, but as a club-driven single, it’s perfect. It’s real dance music, and if the goal of Her Majesty & the Wolves is to reinvent themselves as a legitimate dance act then they couldn’t find a better song than the brilliant “Glaciers”.  However, if they want crossover success on the mainstream charts, then “Glaciers” is going to require a serious pop makeover, with a much shorter running time and more ‘singing’ (I use the term loosely) from Kim Wyatt.

Look out for the official “Glaciers” music video, coming soon. Download “Glaciers” for free by clicking here.

The fierce and fabulous Lolene is back on the grind, announcing today via her Twitter account that she’ll be shooting a viral video for her song “Radio”.

With it’s sleek, heavily 90s-inspired dance sound, “Radio” is one of the standout tracks from the leaked version of Lolene’s debut The Electrick Hotel. It’s an incredibly cute little dance number, and forgoes the obnoxious, in-your-face sounds of RedOne, for something much sweeter.

In addition to “Radio”, Lolene is also prepping her next official single “Lionheart”. Too bad she can’t just re-release “Boujis Baby”, which has become my #1 favorite Lolene tune since I saw it’s music video the other week!

Besides prepping new music vids, Lolene is also recording brand new songs to be included on the final version of The Electrick Hotel, which had to be moved back after it leaked online in it’s entirety, and the second single “Rich” received no promotional support from the label. Personally, I wanna see Lolene in the clubs performing and getting her tunes to the top of the Billboard Club/Dance charts with some more killer remixes.

Check out “Radio” below.

Most of you probably know actress Kat Graham from the CW’s Vampire Diaries, but she also has a second career, moonlighting as an aspiring pop star and producer in her spare time.

Kat’s released a few small singles here and there, but for her latest effort she’s gone and tackled one of my favorite 80s tunes by covering the Paula Abdul classic “Cold Hearted” (now with the added “snake” on the end). Kat’s given her version a significant overhaul, keeping the 80s vibe but also revamping it with a little electro, and completely re-writing the verses, only keeping Paula’s hook and bridge in place.

It’s a great cover, and made even better by the fact that Kat produced it herself, but I do have one complaint — she ditched the rap! Anyway, I hope Kat starts a trend and we get more and more of these hot young things covering Paula’s classics. There’s a lot of great tunes that singers today could be rehashing and ripping off from those 1-and-a-half albums that Paula was flawless for.

Random Paula trivia: “Cold Hearted” was the third consecutive #1 single from Paula’s debut, Forever Your Girl, which topped the US charts and sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

Check out Kat’s “Cold Hearted Snake” below, and then look down a little further for Paula’s classic.

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The Holy Princess of plastic Pop has returned! Yes, earlier today a brand new Heidi Montag song made it’s way online via Piggy Hilton, titled “Bad Boys”. While the song is a completely unfinished demo, the potential for another Superficial-style mega-smash can clearly be heard.

Showing her vast knowledge of musical history, Heidi delves deep into the annals of pop to sample Tony Basil’s iconic 80s classic “Mickey” for the intro to “Bad Boys”. She then covers the song in a thick layer of her trademark autotune, name drops the paparazzi (again), and works her musical magic over a gritty, almost industrial pop beat that Christina Aguilera would’ve killed to have on Bionic.

Who owns the throne? You do, Heidi!

The plastic princess is currently working on her sophomore album with producer Steven Morales, which is due for release either late this year, or early next. You can also catch her on the new cover of Life & Style magazine talking about how regrets her stunning surgery.

Anyway, check out “Bad Boy” below. Can you imagine how amazing it will be when it’s mastered and finished? Hail Heidi!

British pop tart Pixie Lott is squeezing every last drop out of her double-Platinum debut album Turn it Up, with an upcoming re-release and a brand new single “Broken Arrow”.

“Broken Arrow” was written and produced by Toby Gad, who has crafted Pixie another one of his trademark pop-rock ballads. As with almost all of Pixie’s music, “Broken Arrow” doesn’t stray outside the lines of your typical formulaic, made-for-radio numbers, and really, any manufactured pop star could’ve sung it. However, it is good for what it’s supposed to be, but Shontelle did it much better on “Impossible”.

Besides inflicting listeners with that boring Toby Gad tune, Pixie has gotten something right and decided to release her hit “Boys & Girls” over in the US for her first Stadeside single. The song gave Pixie her second UK #1 last September, and as of yesterday, it’s now on US iTunes to purchase. I’m no Pixie fan, but “Boys & Girls” is easily the best, and catchiest, single she’s released so far, and the Diane Martel-directed video is super fabulous.

Listen to “Broken Arrow” below, then jump lower to peep the “Boys & Girls” video.

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Taylor Momsen ended her rumored feud with Rhianna yesterday by covering one of the Bajan beauty’s tunes with her band The Pretty Reckless for a live session on Radio 1.

The band kept things interesting by singing Rihanna’s smash duet with Eminem “Love the Way You Live”, but mashing it up with “Islands” by indie-band The xx. The results are, well, pretty amazing.

The Pretty Reckless aren’t the only ones to cover The xx’s “Islands” lately, with Shakira recently recording her own, dance-i-fied version of the track, which is rumored to appear on her upcoming bilingual album Sale el Sol.

Anyway, Taylor’s debut Light Me Up will hit UK stores at the end of the month, followed by the US in early September. Leads single, “Miss Nothing”, is out now.