Ailbhe Malone is wearing pants – it’s a fashion statement

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Porcelain Heart– Nicola RobertsWhile everyone's busy flapping their hands over Nicola Roberts' stellar debut single ( Beat of My Drum), we'd like to direct everyone to its equally excellent B-side. Channelling Pet Shop Boys and a little bit of ABBA, this is electropop at its finest.

50 Centis gunning to cover all his bases – starting with literature. The singer plans to release a book documenting his time as a schoolyard bully. No really. "I had a strong desire to write Playgroundbecause I wanted to explore how a kid becomes a bully," he says. "I drew on events from my own childhood and adolescence, but was excited to see the story take on its own life. Now that I have a teenage son, it is my goal that this will have a positive influence on all teenagers."

It looks like Katy Perryjust got served, by none other than Kathleen Hanna. (Younger Pop Corner readers, Kathleen Hanna used to be in a band called Bikini Kill and was at the forefront of a movement called Riot Grrrl. It is definitely worth a Wikipedia search.) Responding to CNN's question about whether pop singers promote gay empowerment through their music, Hanna fumed: "None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art . . . A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco, though that first Ke$ha song, TiK ToKwas good. But I Kissed A Girlwas just straight-up offensive . . . It's disgusting."

Are you stuckfor an outfit for Oxygen this year? We might be able to help you out. Well, not us per se, but a mate of ours. Gaga's mulled over doing a Mugler and starting her own fashion line. She says, "I really, really have such admiration for fashion designers and I'm such good friends with them. I'd love to have a fashion line when I stop making music for a while, for a year, but that's not going to happen soon. I'm in love with songwriting right now."