Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" Video: Yeah, So?

Let's get down to brass tacks, kids: Talk That Talk sucks, "Where Have You Been" is the only other good song on the album next to "We Found Love" and Rihanna needs to go on a very long vacation.

I feel like Kylie Minogue and Michael Jackson already did this video way better back in the day. It's still a decent song. But hopefully after this flops, RiRi let's this album go and takes a much-needed break. (Though, even if she does, I feel her career peaked already with "We Found Love".)

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Annie Lennox's 'Diva' Turns 20

It should be pointed out that Annie Lennox's Diva album was released 20 years ago this past Saturday (April 28), and to commemorate the occasion, Mr. XOLondon has written a luvvly retrospective piece on it for Idolator.

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Saint Etienne's "I've Got Your Music" Finally Surfaces

Waaaaaaay back in December, we were all given a first preview of Saint Etienne's upcoming eighth studio album Words And Music By Saint Etienne via a clip of new song "I've Got Your Music". The band ended up releasing "Tonight" as the LP's first official single, but now "I've Got Your Music" is finally seeing the light of day. And it's quite magical!



After going deep into '60s pop with Good Humour, experimenting on Sound Of Water, doing electro on Finisterre and trying out the whole concept album thing on Tales From Turnpike House, if feels like this is shaping up to be the first truly Saint Etienne-like Saint Etienne album since Tiger Bay in 1994.

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US Chart Roundup: Maroon 5 Are Relevant Again

Maroon 5 have been at it for so long — 10 years — that it's strange when you realize their new single "Payphone", which crashes into the Hot 100 this week at #3, is only their fifth Top 10 hit to date. You kind of forget that after "Makes Me Wonder" went to #1 five years ago, it was flop city for these guys until Adam Levine signed up for The Voice.

"Payphone" had been tops on iTunes since its release last week, and so its high chart position is no surprise. Maroon 5 managed to set a record for the most paid downloads (493,000) for a single in one week by a group. Which is absolutely fascinating.

Sorry, what were we talking about again? Maroon 5? I'm just gonna go bang my head against the wall for a few minutes. Ciao.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Somebody That I Used To Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra *2 weeks*
2. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
3. "Payphone" - Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa *new*
4. "Boyfriend" - Justin Bieber
5. "Glad you Came" - The Wanted
6. "Wild Ones" - Flo Rida feat. Sia
7. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
8. "What Makes You Beautiful" - One Direction
9. "Starships" - Nicki Minaj
10. "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - Kelly Clarkson

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It's The Wanted's "Chasing The Sun" Video

The first sign that the broads The Wanted hook up with in their "Chasing The Sun" video are up to no good is when tattoos mysteriously start appearing on each of the boy banders' hands after meeting their beautiful conquests. And when the lads start singing about staying young forever and wind up at some dark, creepy nightclub, well, you can pretty much guess what happens next: they're bitten by blood-sucking hookers.

The moral of the story: the other four of these guys should just stick to getting gang-banged by Max George on camera. That's the key to a long, lucrative career, really.

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The Wanted's "Satellite": Listen To The Other New Song On Their American EP

The Wanted's self-titled US EP — seven tracks, standard edition, and ten tracks plus two videos ("Glad You Came" and "Lightning"), special edition — was released today.

On this jam are two new tracks — "Chasing The Sun", the music video for which is premiering tonight on MTV, and the Ryan Tedder-penned "Satellite". And, thankfully, the latter is pretty decent!



Occasionally, when I'm feeling naughty, I think of defecting to Team One Direction. Then I hear "Glad You Came", or sexy trash like "Satellite" and "Chasing The Sun", and I realize that The Wanted are the only band I want so see jousting while naked in a pool of mustard.

PS The word "come" is in a lot of The Wanted's songs. Why is that?

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Ke$ha & Wayne Coyne's "2012" Sounds Like Armageddon

If you're expecting another "Tik Tok" or "Blow" to come out of Ke$ha's collaboration with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, then you're in for a real kick in the candy. Below is their song "2012." It'll basically have you wishing for the world to mercifully end before it's over.

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