Bits About Pop: From Stine of Alphabeat’s solo plan to Adam Levine re Noel Edmonds: “I’m a fan”

These Bits About Pop are fresh out of the pop oven. Beware, they’re hot (actually some have cooled off a bit but approach with caution anyway).

• While Alphabeat have a bit of rest, Stine Bramsen’s decided to carry on with this pop malarky with her new single ‘Prototypical’. (Popjustice)
• A lyric from the new Kylie single has ‘appeared’. (Popjustice). There’s also (finally) some concrete news on the album and the single (it’s out March 16). (Popjustice)
• In other Kylie news… Blimey. (YouTube)
• In more Kylie news, her next single (after the one we haven’t even heard yet) will feature a man who isn’t Pitbull, Robin Thicke or Jay'-’Z. Jason Donovan? (Popjustice forum)
• Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more Kylie news, there is appar­ently a col­lab­or­a­tion (called 'Beautiful') on the new Enrique Iglesias album. (EFE)
• The literally not very good ‘cover art’ for Katy Perry's 'Dark House' has been 'unveiled'. (Popjustice)
• Video evidence of Chvrches covering Janelle Monae’s ‘Tightrope’ in a live scenario (in front of Janelle Monae herself) has surfaced. (Pitchfork)
• REJOICE: Furby enthu­si­asts Stooshe are back in the studio! (Twitter)
• Record label advocate Lily Allen’s new single is called ‘Air Balloon’ and will be played on Monday on Radio 1 (aka what no one is calling Shakiranna Day). (Popjustice)
• Lily’s also been accused of breaking the embargo regarding Sam Smith ‘topping’ the BBC Sound Of poll, which is a bit much con­sid­er­ing it was our exclusive but what can you do. (NME)
• French tele­vi­sion has banned a four month old Miley and a three month old Britney video. (Billboard)
• Ella Eyre has covered ‘Black and Gold’ (seriously though, what a tune) in the Live Lounge. (YouTube)
• Here’s an inter­est­ing feature thing Little Boots did with the Sunday Times that wasn’t online but now is about her exper­i­ences in the music industry so far. (Official website)
• Beyoncé (or rather someone from her social media ‘team’) has popped the video of Cheryl Cole dancing to ‘***Flawless’ on her official Facebook page. (Facebook)
• Also, in other Beyoncé news, Busta Rhymes and the record industry’s best friend Azealia Banks have created an unof­fi­cial remix of ‘Partition’. (Soundcloud)
• Pixie Lott’s ‘Nasty’ was played on the radio this morning and then uploaded to the internet and then written about as a news story. (Digital Spy)
• ‘Creative power­house’ Justin Timberlake is the new face of some tequila brand. (Chicago Business)
• Jessie J is no longer sup­port­ing Robin Thicke on tour because she needs to focus on making the American version of ‘Alive’ semi-decent. (MTV)
• Lea Michele’s full ‘cleaning out the loft’ video for ‘Cannonball’ has arrived. (Popjustice)
• Nicholas McDonald’s album of covers will be out in roughly eight weeks' time. (Twitter)
• Hold on to your hats, Rylan has something music-related on the way. (Digital Spy)
• Seeing her fans cry made Foxes realise she was a popstar. (Evening Standard)
• Nicki Minaj has ‘uploaded’ a video of herself rapping in ‘Spanglish’ on Instagram. The song isn’t for her album though, so it might have been a pointless exercise. (Instagram)
• Finally, Adam Levine has been enjoying a bit of Deal Or No Deal during Maroon 5’s current UK tour. (Twitter)

And just for old time's sake…

What a song.