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Some interesting new photos that look like Lady Gaga have been floating around the net since yesterday. The strange photos were posted by her stylist, Nicola Formichetti, and are to appear in the September issue of Vogue Hommes Japan. I wondered what all the commotion was about, so I had a look at the photos [...]

Lady Gaga performed a brand new song at Elton John’s annual White Tie and Tiara Ball last night. The song, entitled, “You and I,” is a welcome departure from what we’re used to hearing from the pop star. It’s a “rock and roll tune,” says Gaga, “which means it will most likely never get used [...]

I thought dudes this age were supposed to be worried about breaking their hip, not busting a hip-hop dance routine.
I love the fact that he absolutely owns the two whippersnappers that try and share some of his spotlight. They sure look like idiots.
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The much-hyped video for Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” featuring Snoop Dogg, has debuted, and if you’ve got a sweet tooth, you’re in the right place.
The video depicts Perry frolicking through a utopian candy land board-game-come-to-life setting, under the watchful eye of the candy land overlord, Snoop Dogg. The storyline goes something like this: Katy finds [...]

Got a better caption? Lemme know in the comments.
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This week, Steve Jobs awarded a prize to the person who downloaded the 10 billionth song from iTunes. It wasn’t Lady Gaga or Beyonce, though, and the prize didn’t go to a download-happy Jr. Highschooler. The winning song was “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash, and it was downloaded by a 71-year-old grandfather, [...]

Billboard’s got some amazing year-end round-ups right now, and looking at them inspired us to see what else was out there. It turned out that everyone is doing it, so why shouldn’t we? In the spirit of comprehensive coverage, here are the Top 10 Top 10s for music in 2009:

Billboard’s round-up of round-ups. Charts, stories, [...]

Lady GaGa’s Bad Romance is topping the MetroLyrics charts this week, and it got us thinking about famous “bad romances” from real life and the media. Here’s our top five list, and you can tell us where you think we missed one:
5. Bella and Edward, New Moon: If you’ve read the Twilight series you already [...]

There’s a moment in even the best road trip when sitting in a car starts lulling you to sleep. Especially when you’re driving in the winter months and it gets dark between 5 and 6pm. The night sky passing by the windows and the sound of the wheels on the road are so soothing that [...]

Paramore’s song Ignorance is featured on the MetroLyrics home page this week on the Billboard chart, which is topped by Lady GaGa’s Paparazzi. After reading the lyrics to Ignorance, I wondered how difficult it would be to link the two in a lyrical game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Here we go:
Degree ONE- From [...]

Kanye West has has a colorful year, what with getting spoofed as a gay fish on South Park and interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs. He’s back in the headlines now for pulling a 14-minute video directed by Spike Jonze from his Website and allegedly being dead. Pulling the video was probably a [...]

MetroLyrics is excited to join the conversation in the blogosphere with this shiny, new blog. We hope you’ll join us here as we go in-depth with songwriters for the stories behind the songs you love and a look at the song-writing process. We’ll showcase top songs and top artists. We’ll break our own news and [...]