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Bits About Pop: From Lady Gaga adding more UK dates to her tour to Katy Perry covering a song from days of yore

  • May 12, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

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  • Lady Gaga’s added four new dates to the art:RAVE Born This Monsters Ball show. (Facebook)
  • Here’s an enter­tain­ing chat with Lily Allen about scaring Jay’-’Z, having sex to her own songs and people accusing her of trying to be Kesha. (GQ)
  • Also, ‘Sheezus’ is Number One in the UK. (Billboard)
  • Also also, she’s announced a US tour. (Pitchfork)
  • Here’s a big dance remix of Kyla La Grange’s new single, ‘The Knife’. (Thump)
  • Pop singer Britney Spears has extended her Las Vegas residency. (Popjustice)
  • Kelly Rowland, Rita Ora and Timbaland have signed up for some Football com­pil­a­tion album thing sponsored by Pepsi. (Popjustice)
  • In fact, this Janelle Monáe song and video combo is also from that album. (Popjustice)
  • The child version of Sia from the ‘Chandelier’ video had a chat with a journ­al­ist and now it’s on the internet. (Pigeons And Planes)
  • Apparently Pharrell’s not very good at writing intros. (Discopop)
  • Diplo’s got some new TV show which will feature Sia and Ed Sheeran at some point in the future. (Idolator)
  • ‘Let Me Tickle Your Fancy’ hitmaker Jermaine Jackson’s not a massive fan of the new Michael Jackson album. (Digital Spy)
  • There’s a new One Direction film underway, by the way. (Popjustice)
  • Former JLS frontman JB has only gone and got married. (Daily Mail)
  • Clean Bandit have announced a tour of very specific parts of the UK. (Digital Spy)
  • will.i.am has tweeted some things about being kicked out of a private lounge bit while waiting for a flight. (BBC Newsbeat)
  • X Factor 'bosses' aren’t con­firm­ing whether or not Louis Walsh is coming back just yet, but probably will once they get some more column inches out of this. (BBC Newsbeat)
  • Disclosure, Justin Timberlake and Rudimental have been nominated for an award for being good at the whole live music thing. (Music Week)
  • Rita Ora’s new album features four songs produced by Calvin Harris. (Popjustice)
  • Here’s a low quality recording of Ella Henderson covering ‘Ready For Your Love’. (YouTube)
  • Bright Light Bright Light’s second album now has a picture to go with it. (Popjustice) You can also pre-order it if you like.
  • Lorde’s announced a ‘gig’ at Shepherd’s Bush Empire for June. (Digital Spy)
  • Florrie’s become Florrie on Twitter. (Twitter)
  • Big-haired song­stress Ella Eyre's first single proper will be played on the radio for the first time on Wednesday. (Twitter)
  • Katy Perry’s covered a song from 1892 for a art project thing and now a bit of it is online. (Popjustice)

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