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Under, uncover 12 fresh songs presently on substantial rotation in EW’s music department — and stream them by way of our Spotify account.

Nicki Minaj, “Pound the Alarm” The best trunk rattler to blast from your pink Barbie Bentley, with booming synths that build to a brain-numbing epiphany: “Music. Can make Me. Higher.”

Gotye, “I Feel Better” Is the “Somebody” in his present No. 1 smash “Somebody That I Utilised to Know” secretly the Doobie Brothers? Because this groovy, imaginary — Massive Chill — soundtrack throwback entirely sounds like it.

enjoyable., “Some Nights” Exciting. know that not every single July night appears like an LMFAO video — sometimes you just drive close to hunting for a fro-yo place. But people nights nonetheless want multitracked-to-infinity shout-alongs.

Electric Guest, “This Head I Hold” The Danger Mouse-created L.A. soul duo’s new single, all winking falsetto and retro swagger, establishes “hammock funk” as the very best new micro-genre of the season.

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Twenty years ago, when Madonna was at the best of her game, she published her provocative art book “Sex.” In it, she integrated photos of herself in numerous states of undress and wrote about the art of seduction. Her tips incorporated sporting great perfume, garter belts but no underpants and that “on each and every date you have to say 1 truly disarming factor.”

Decades later on, the now-53-year-old confirms, for greater or for worse — Okay, worse — that Madge of the Dance Floor is practically nothing if not steady. On her 12th studio album, “MDNA,” she follows the assistance she laid out at her peak. Madonna is garter-belt sexy for “Girl Gone Wild,” metaphorically takes off her undies on “I’m Addicted” and tosses off half a dozen generally “disarming things” about her private lifestyle (therefore the reason that this has been dubbed her “divorce album”).

But the Madonna of nowadays has lost the art of surprise, and the shock and awe she employed to inspire with every new move have gone the way of her bullet bra and taffeta skirts. Much more essential, Madge appears to have lost her capability to create in that magical space that pushes pop forward although remaining entirely of the second.

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The cover of the deluxe edition of ‘MDNA,’ Madonna’s very first studio album in four many years.@lizrosenbergmedia.com&gt

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Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, 15, has been gradually edging her way into the spotlight by attending New York’s Famed LaGuardia Substantial College, co-designing the Materials Woman line with her famous mom, and acting in an on-line sweepstakes viral video for the brand.

Right now marks yet another move forward — “Lola” sings back-up on “Superstar,” the latest track to leak from MDNA (out March 26). Hear a snippet of the song beneath.

Generally Madge-ian lyrical complexity aside (“you can have the password to my phone”?), “Superstar” is a beautiful homage to li’l Lo that traces straight back to Madonna’s 1998 anthem of new motherhood, “Little Star.” It fits squarely in the mid- to uptempo variety created for blasting in earbuds and out auto windows as spring transitions to summer season, and inviting Lola onboard tends to make complete sense for where Madonna is going with her sugary, youth-centric Hard Candy follow-up.

That stated, “Supertar” does not have the hookiness of album-leader “Give Me All Your Luvin’” nor the chart-dominating, juiced-up club-thump of “Girl Gone Wild.”

What do you feel, music fans? On a sliding (and grinding) scale of “American Life” to “Masterpiece,” where does this new track fall? Can it stand out on this wildly anticipated album, or will it fall into other songs’ shadows like its predecessor “Little Star” did on Ray of Light?

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With all due respect to all these involved in the original composition of this year’s Oscar-nominated songs, the Bret McKenzie-penned “Man or Muppet” and the Brazilian-tinged “Real in Rio,” producers have done viewers a favor in trying to keep the songs off the telecast.

When music gets tangled up in award exhibits, the results aren’t constantly quite. Remember all individuals all-star Grammy mash-ups? But with only two songs nominated for an Oscar this year, the show’s producers have thrown it in viewer’s faces: “This is all voters could come up with?” 

It wasn’t for a lack of alternatives. A complete of 39 tunes have been up for consideration for the greatest authentic song Oscar. Up to 5 songs can get nominated, and academy rules make certain there will either be zero songs or a minimal of two. This year, the field pits “Guy or Muppet,” from Walt Disney Pictures’ “The Muppets,” against “True in Rio,” from the 20^th Century Fox film “Rio.”

Complete COVERAGE: Oscars 2012

What follows is a search at who stands to win, how this occurred, who should have been nominated and what, if anything, should be performed to modify the process so more songs are considered.

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