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Bits About Pop: From One Direction singing with puppets to Lady Gaga being organised for her tour and in no way hedging her bets

  • January 23, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

BAP-2014Come feast on our delicious news-based BAPs!

  • A bit of One Direction singing a re-worked version of ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ with the cast of  Sesame Street in now online. (YouTube)
  • CALVIN HARRIS IS DOING A SITCOM WITH WILL SMITH. (?!) (Popjustice)
  • Bastille have ‘scored’ their first US Top Ten single with ‘Pompeii’. (Billboard)
  • Apparently Justin Timberlake turned down an offer of per­form­ing at this year’s Grammys. (Hits Daily Double)
  • Ellie Goulding’s got a new song on the soundtrack to some film. (Instagram)
  • Sam Bailey’s recorded a duet with Michael Bolton for her new album and she cried while singing it or something. (Mirror)
  • Ridiculous summer banger ahoy: Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez have recorded another song together, this time for the Fifa World Cup 2014. And it's written by Thomas from Private! (Popjustice)
  • In other J.Lo news, she’s popped a new, quite boring song onto the internet. It’s called ‘Girls’. (Popjustice)
  • Here’s MNEK doing a ‘stripped down’ version of ‘Ready For Your Love’ by Gorgon City featuring himself. (YouTube)
  • There’s a lyric video for that Sia featuring Angel Haze song. (YouTube)
  • Lorry lover Tanika’s popped a new song online. (Soundcloud)
  • Jennifer Hudson’s Pharrell-produced, T.I-featuring new single ‘I Can’t Describe (The Way I Feel)’ now has a video. (Vevo)
  • Increasingly irrit­at­ing semi-retired pop herbert Justin Bieber has been arrested again. (Billboard)
  • Buzzfeed have made a list of things they like about ‘viral’ video soundtrack artist Betty Who. (Buzzfeed)
  • Kian from Westlife’s solo album will sound a bit like Westlife but “more rocky” (as if that’s even possible). (Digital Spy)
  • Here’s a picture of Aluna of AlunaGeorge fame standing near Diplo. (Facebook)
  • And finally, Lady Gaga’s posted a picture of a fairly basic-looking folder con­tain­ing some things to do with the artRAVE Ball thing. (Popjustice forum)

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