Two Songs To Spend Cash On For World AIDS Day

Today is December 1, which means it's World AIDS Day. The video for The Killers' fifth annual holiday Product RED campaign charity single "Boots"—which was lensed by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess—is due to premiere today over on the Starbucks site (the coffee company will donate 5 cents for each view of the clip today to the campaign).

UPDATE: here's the video (direct from Starbucks, so the views count toward the donation). This actually brought a tear to my eye. 



You can purchase the "Boots" single from iTunes. Also available for purchase is Annie Lennox's "Universal Child" single off A Christmas Cornucopia, the proceeds of which go toward AIDS charities.

Today Lennox wrote the following on her site:

"Today is a special day - It is World AIDS Day and the 3rd Anniversary of The SING Campaign. I'm happy to tell you that we have come a long way in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The new Global Report from UNAIDS shows that fewer people are becoming infected with HIV and that we have broken the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic."

You can read the full thing here.

It's Kylie Minogue Performing On NBC's 'Christmas At Rockefeller Center' Special

A bunch of pop dames like Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Susan Boyle, Sheryl Crow, Annie Lennox and 10-year-old Pittsburgh native (hometown represent!) Jackie Evancho crooned away  during the annual NBC Christmas At Rockefeller Center tree-lighting special.

And, yeah—Mimi was totally lip-syncing. But I love her pregnant ass anyway.

It's JoJo's New Jam "In The Dark"

Something about JoJo's brand new jam "In The Dark" reminds me of Annie Lennox's 1992 Diva track "Stay By Me." Maybe it's the haunting vocals and slow drum machine groove mixed with the tinkling piano?



Now this is the type of sexy, mature track you want to hear from a 19-year-old former teen-pop singer transitioning to adulthood—intelligent, sultry and melodic. Not like the verbal porn that amateur ho's like Xtina and Britney have tossed out before.

And speaking of ho's and porn, here's Annie's "Stay By Me":



JoJo's "In The Dark," produced by Jordan Gatsby, is from her upcoming mixtape Can't Take That Away From Me, which will be released exclusively on Rap-Up.com on September 7.