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Katy Perry is re-releasing Teenage Dream, set will include 3 new songs

Katy Perry released her record-breaking Teenage Dream back in 2010, but the album is still going strong in 2012. Perry is determined to squeeze as much mileage as she can from the multiplatinum effort and now she's announced that the album will get a re-release, which she is dubbing Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. Katy kats can find the re-release in stores and online on March 27th.

"Part of Me," one of the three new songs included in the set, will be the album's 7th single. The other two new songs haven't been named yet. Additionally, all of the single remixes of "E.T.," "Last Friday Night," and "The One That Got Away" will be included in the set as well.

Speaking on the album's re-release in an official press release, Katy said, "This is the complete story of Teenage Dream. It was an incredible honor to tie the King of Pop's Billboard Hot 100 record, but I’m moving forward and had a few things left to get off my chest. So this is the complete special edition of my album for my fans."

Starshell is ready to be spoiled on "Birthday Girl"

After making a splash in 2010 with her Fernando Garibay-produced single "SuperLuva," Mary J. Blige protege Starshell is back on the scene with a fresh new single for the masses.

Starshell has been hard at work on her debut album, Liberation, for most of 2011. "Birthday Girl," is the latest offering from the set and it's an '80s-inspired, discofied, breezy tune.

"It's my party, I'll get fly if I want to / Cry if I want to, kiss who I want to / I'm the birthday girl," the singer boasts.

Listen to the new single from Starshell below

Madonna takes control with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. in "Give Me All Your Luvin'" video

The bitch is back. It's an Elton John song, but it's also a fitting description for Madonna's return to pop music for her 12th studio album, M.D.N.A..

The main message Madonna wants to send in her new video for her new single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is that she's still here, she's still the shit and everyone else should bow down. She makes this point quite bluntly by casting two hot young things in pop music (ok, "young" is a relative term here), Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., as her very own brown cheerleaders, in a song that chants her name ("Madonna!") no less.

After initially embracing her protege, Lady Gaga, Madonna has lashed out at the younger singer's work as being nothing more than "reductive" imitations. This meant that the Madonna vs. Lady Gaga wars were officially on. And Little Monsters might not help but wonder if the baby in the "Luvin'" video is representative of Madonna's feelings toward Gaga. She strolls the baby out, fake breast feeds it and then discards it when she grows tired of it. Kind of like saying she made Gaga and she can just as easily dispose of her.

Watch the video for Madonna's Super Bowl single below

Lana Del Rey redeems herself with Letterman performance

First impressions are unfortunately impossible to do over. And Lana Del Rey, who gave one of the drier, more awkward performances in SNL history, probably wanted to redo her poorly received performances from that night.

That unfortunately won't work, because NASA hasn't released the time machine technology that everyone knows they're hoarding. So Lana will have to settle for redemption, which is something American audiences are quite fond of anyway.

Lana took to David Letterman's late night show to perform her viral hit "Video Games," accompanied by a piano and a delicate string quartet. It was everything the SNL performance wasn't. While she's still a bit of a pussycat instead of a tiger on stage, like Adele, for example, Lana proved she could gather herself together well enough to find a key and sing on pitch. She also managed to look appropriately wounded rather than terrified-deer-in-headlights like she did on SNL.

By the end of the whole thing, Letterman was quite smitten with her and implored the rising star to come back to the show tomorrow. And the day after. Yeah, it was kinda creepy.

Watch Lana Del Rey's late night show performance below

Gotye brings Kimbra along for U.S. debut of "Somebody That I Used to Know" on Kimmel

Last year, Gotye conquered his homeland Australia with his bitter breakup anthem, "Somebody That I Used to Know." The heart-wrenching duet with rising star and native New Zealander Kimbra, who was profiled by Bark + Bite in 2010, is now making its way to the U.S. The duo from the land(s) down under made their U.S. television debut with a performance of the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live this past Wednesday.

Dividing his time between the mic and a beat machine, Gotye was unassuming in his performance and appearance as he dressed modestly in a grey button-down shirt and skinny jeans. Kimbra, on the other hand, was determined to shine brightly in her bedazzled black crystal number. Both singers were in top form vocally and they didn't miss a note in their song about the coldness of an intimate lover transitioning into a stranger.

Watch Kimbra and Gotye duke it out in their duet below

Ed Sheeran and Yelawolf: Behind the scenes of making Slumdon Bridge

Rising British acoustic soul star Ed Sheeran released the first track from his joint EP with Yelawolf and he spoke with Bark + Bite about his collaboration with the Slaughterhouse MC in our recent interview with him.

Now, the pair have released a trailer (above) that shows them working in the studio on the project. The song that plays in the trailer features Ed interpolating the classic "London Bridge" nursery rhyme into a haunted warning: "London bridge is falling down, falling down / And if it don't stop falling, then all of us will drown."

Sounds like we can expect the unexpected from these two when the full EP drops later in February.

La Roux preps sexy sophomore album for May, lines up Coachella gig

When La Roux had its breakthrough in 2010 with "Bulletproof," the world was Elly Jackson's oyster. The curiously coifed redhead curried the favor of music critics and she set the airwaves ablaze with her bittersweet, '80s-inspired, electro pop survival anthem "Bulletproof."

After the success of "Bulletproof," La Roux toured the States and collaborated with hip hop legend Kanye West. He appeared on a remix of "In for the Kill" and she repaid the favor by lending her voice to his superstar chorus on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's "All of the Lights" and pitching in along with Charlie Wilson on Watch the Throne's "That's My Bitch."

2011, however, was largely a year of hibernation and recording for La Roux. The good news is that the band is finally ready to reemerge in 2012, with Digital Spy reporting that the sophomore set will drop sometime in May this year. Also, we're apparently all in for something a little sexier this time around.

"The music is a lot sexier. A lot of music that's quite sexual is aggressive, but the music itself doesn't sound sexy - it's more people shouting, 'Look at my bum! Look!' I'm not turned on by it, I'm terrified," Jackson told NME, according to Digital Spy.

Sounds like Elly prefers her sexy with a side of mystery. So don't go getting too many ideas about her crawling around, nude and covered in body paint for the lead single's video.

In fact, Jackson recently took to her Twitter account to express disdain for the state of female sexuality in pop music while responding to a remark about Rihanna's crotch-first "You Da One" video.

Nelly Furtado hits the studio with Darkchild for new album

It seems like Nelly Furtado has been gone from the pop scene for an eternity. Her last English-language release was 2006's Timbaland-helmed Loose. That album spawned the hits "Promiscuous," "Maneater" and "Say It Right" and launched the singer on a world tour. She released a Spanish-language album in 2009, Mi Plan which helped to build the Canadian-Portuguese singer's Latin fan base, but now, Nelly is ready to launch the next phase of her pop career with a new album set to drop this summer.

The working title for the project was previously Lifestyle but Nelly has scrapped the title and says that she'll be announcing a new title shortly.

Fyi- my album isn't called "Lifestyle" anymore. I'll be revealing the new title in the coming months.. :)

— Nelly Furtado (@NellyFurtado) December 14, 2011

Interestingly, Nelly does not appear to be collaborating with her chief collaborator from Loose, super producer Timbaland. Instead, Nelly is seeking out the skills of another super producer, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. It makes you wonder if there was a falling out between Timbaland and Nelly?

Watch the behind the scenes footage of Nelly in the studio with Darkchild below