Menya 'Can't Hurry Love' in new video! Watch the premiere now!

ScopiSat fave Menya is about to embark on a big tour, and thus will likely not be recording much for the next couple months.  To tide us over, though, they've been kind enough to do this RATHER NICE cover of The Supremes' 'Can't Hurry Love.'  As with many of their songs, Menya have done a video to accompany it.  We think you'll like it, mostly because it has MENYA in it and AN ACTUAL HIPPO. 



We were right, weren't we? 

Yes.  We were.

Maroon 5 are back in 'Misery' - watch a video for the new single now!

Maroon 5 burst on to the scene a few years ago, did a duet with Rihanna, and have quietly become sort of a mainstay of the music world.  It's a good thing, too, as it's allowed them to stick around long enough to give us 'Misery,' which is more than a bit similar to their smash 'This Love' but more pop-py and perhaps even better.  It comes from their new album, called 'Hands All Over,' which Rolling Stone describes as their "brightest record yet."  Translated, that means us pop fans are going to LOVE THE SH*T OUT OF IT.

The track just debuted, so there's no official video yet, but luckily some guys have put a very good one together using nothing but a video camera, some douchy "eccentric guy at the party who has a fro to get laid" consignment shop clothes and - we're guessing - frequent use of the word "bro." 



'Hands All Over' is out September 21 and is likely to be VERY GOOD

WHY DOES THE SITUATION HAVE A SINGLE? Listen to the premiere now!

I think you'll all join us in a collective "WTF" about the new The Situation "single" called, imaginatively, 'The Situation.'  It features Fatman Scoop, who the world was clearly clamoring to hear more from, and some fist-pumping, eyebrow-threading, muscle-juicing beats that wouldn't sound particularly out of place in a Miami nightclub in 2002. 

Sure it's terrible, but come on, we still TOTALLY WOULD. 



We actually looked for a release date for this gem but apparently no one actually cares.

Christina Aguilera's 'Bionic' is an EPIC FAIL

Oh, Christina.  How it has all gone so very, very wrong.  First the lead track 'Not Myself Tonight' sputtered just about everywhere it was released - it only made it to #23 on Billboard's Hot 100, and even in the UK the track struggled to a disappointing #12 - and now any hopes of the campaign being saved by the album release have been dashed, diced, and spat upon by a troupe of Lady Gaga drag queens with murder on their minds.

Yes, we've seen some rather lackluster album debuts recently, but 'Bionic''s 111,838 even throws under Mariah's disastrous 'Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel' which debuted with 180,000 in the U.S.  In a sad coincidence, both records bowed at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200.    'Bionic' fared a little better - chart wise at least - in the UK, where it scraped to the number 1 position.  It certainly did better than 'Memoirs,' which tanked outside the top 20, but Christina's accomplishment is somewhat tarnished by the fact that it had no competition and sold only 23,000 copies.  In a country that still buys records by the bucketload, that's pretty dismal.  Like, 'MacGruber' dismal. (EDIT - it only gets worse, as this week the album plunged from 1 to 29. Yes.  29.)

So today, as you are celebrating your fathers, take a break from all that masculine energy to spare a thought for Miss Aguilera, who is probably crying into her macrobiotic what germ as we speak.

Chalk this up to a terrible choice of first single (didn't we learn anything from Kylie's '2 Hearts'/'X'??) and Christina's refusal to give the public what they want.  Her fan base has matured, and as much as she wishes she was still 'Dirrty,' we have plenty of electro-skanks already.  What we don't have plenty of are seriously talented vocalists who can literally rule a tune like 'You Lost Me.'  Let's hope her label chucks it out as the next single and turns this ship around.

Miley performs 'Can't Be Tamed' on Letterman - is anyone blown away by how good she is? Watch now!

It's no secret we love 'Party In The USA' because it is amazing.  We also love 'See You Again' because it is a brilliant pop song.  As for Miley herself, however, we've always had sort of mixed feelings.  Could 'Can't Be Tamed' be a turning point in our feelings about the teen sensation? 

With the recent up-skirt picture controversy (thanks, Perez Hilton - always a class act) there has been much discourse about whether Miss Cyrus is growing up too fast and ruining our youth.  The answer to both is probably a RESOUNDING YES, but when corruption looks and sounds this good, who cares?



Somehow when we least expected it, Miley turned into a VERY GOOD little pop star.  The album 'Can't Be Tamed' is out June 21, and the single is out now. 

More tracks from Kylie's new album - listen to 30 second clips of every song!!

A new Kylie 'Aphrodite' sampler has emerged, and this time we are treated to 30 second clips of EVERY TRACK on the album.  Surprisingly, there are actually a few more downtempo numbers, not just the high energy club bangers we were led to expect.  And unlike 'X', it sounds like one cohesive project that has a great chance to go down as a defining pop album.  


The album pre-order has been knocking around the top 70 of iTunes' U.S. chart all week, and in the U.K. the single is at number 3, weeks before its release.

N.E.R.D. are back - preview their new video with Nelly Furtado!

N.E.R.D. have been off the scene for a while, so ScopiSat did some nosing around (read: wikipedia-ing) to see what they had been up to. The answer is "nothing particularly interesting" but we did find out that as a band, N.E.R.D. have not been nearly as successful as we assumed. The group has never (!!) had a top 100 Billboard single (excluding dance charts) and while their first two albums went Gold, their last has only sold about 250,000 in the U.S. Then we remembered that N.E.R.D. is actually just a side project and two of the three members are actually THE NEPTUNES who produced EVERY NUMBER ONE HIT in America between 2001 and 2006. So they're doing fine.

Anyway, N.E.R.D. has a new song out with Nelly Furtado and they made a video for it. Here's a preview.



The new album is out Sept 7

Katy Perry shows us her 'California Gurrls' in new video - watch the premiere now!

Ah, always classy, this one... True to form, Katy's got all sorts of debauchery and nonsense up in her new video.  There are COLORS and BOOBS and COLORFUL BOOBS and Jell-o for some reason.

It's actually quite fun, and matches the unapologetically pop sound of the track perfectly.  It's also one of the few songs we don't mind having a completely pointless rap on.  Somehow the whole thing just....works.



Out now in the US and from June 21 in the UK.