Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Album Cover Has Some Nice Flesh Tone

Well, since "Judas" leaked yesterday, was subsequently rushed onto iTunes four days early by Interscope and is now the top download at the digital store, Lady Gaga decided to throw her Born This Way album cover online, to boot. It was designed by her "Born This Way" video director Nick Knight and Haus Of Gaga.

Now, I'm not going to sit here and be one of these people who claims Gaga steals ideas left and right from other artists...but do you think she was all, "Well, since nobody bought Kelis' last album..."

Full-time tweeter XOLondon tried to tell me it all started with David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album cover. But I'm choosing to believe that Gaga was all, "No, bitch—this is how you do it," after seeing Kelis' Flesh Tone art. Hell, Gaga was probably saying it to Kelis and David Bowie.

Anyway, even thought "Judas" will have only been on sale for two-and-a-half days before chart data is added up, Billboard is projecting that the single could sell between 350,000 and 400,000 downloads before Sunday night's cut-off, thus making it a contender for next week's #1 single on the Hot 100.

Even thought that trash is basically a "Bad Romance" retread, it's kinda growing on me. Kinda...

Duran Duran Wrangle Kelis, Beth Ditto And David Lynch For VEVO "Unstaged" Gig

Duran Duran, whose All You Need Is Now was released on CD this week (compact iTunes version came out in December), staged a gig at L.A.'s Mayan Theater yesterday, which was shot by David Lynch and featured guests like Kelis and Beth Ditto. Trippy clips below.

"Notorious" (feat. Beth Ditto)



"The Man Who Stole A Leopard" (feat. Kelis)



"Come Undone" (feat. Kelis)

Robyn And Kelis Do All Hearts In L.A.

Sorry things have been quiet 'round these parts for the past few days, but I've been traveling since Saturday morning. Friday night I hit up the Robyn/Kelis All Hearts Tour show in Los Angeles. Another big thank you to the guy who came up to me in line and said he reads the blog on a daily basis—I always wondered who that one person was (and here I thought it was my mom).

Joking aside, the show was stellar. It was like a giant, sweaty nightclub on the floor, and you could tell  both broads were feeling energized by the reception they got.

Here's what Robyn tweeted yesterday:

"Thank you 4 last night LA! The best show and crowd out of all the shows we´ve done here in the us so far!!! thanku thank u thank u"

We thew galleries of both Robyn and Kelis at the gig up on Idolator.

It's Benny Benassi And Kelis' "Spaceship" Video

While last year was the Year Of Lady Gaga as far as all things pop are concerned, 2010 seems to belong to Kylie Minogue.

In my book, Kelis is a very strong runner-up so far. And "Spaceship," her collaboration with Benny Benassi, Black Eyed Peas member apl.de.ap and producer Jean Baptiste (who worked on Kelis' Flesh Tone album) is easily her best video yet this year.



Flesh Tone is out in the States next week. Dance jam "Spaceship" is available on iTunes now (and does not feature on Flesh Tone).