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1.) If catching a glimpse of Madonna's glitzy Super Bowl performance on TV wasn't enough, pick a date to see Queen Madge live during her world tour! (Pop On And On)

2.) One of Lady Gaga's infamous personas returns (how many are we up to now?) -- Jo Calderone is back in the spotlight in a the newest installment of her "Haus of U" fashion video series. (Pop Dust)

3.) It's been seven years since you could "Get Ur Freak On" to new Missy Elliot music, but the rapper is making a comeback with her Timbaland-produced album, Block Party, due out in June. (Spin)

+ Check out the rest of this week's 10 Things To Know Now after the jump!

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Nicki Minaj, Madonna and M.I.A. during the Super Bowl halftime show.

+ In case you missed it, we're here to let you know Madonna won the Super Bowl halftime. Watch Madge, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj slay it on an awesome LED stage. LMFAO and Cee Lo Green also performed. (MTV News)

+ Kelly Clarkson nailed a spot-on national anthem to launch the Super Bowl. She was backed by a children's choir and marching band. Check it out here. (MTV News)

+ Katy Perry was in Indianapolis for a pregame Super Bowl event. Peep her performances of "Teenage Dream," "Hot N Cold," "Peacock" and "E.T." (Idolator)

+ Snoop Dogg was his usual hilarious self on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Friday. He discussed his youth football league and recent brush with Norwegian authorities, and performed his LOL-y "Pee on the Tree" touchdown dance. (Rap-Up)

+ Grammy nominated Bon Iver will not perform at the Grammys next week, but you can still watch frontman Justin Vernon and his band's live renditions of "Holocene" and "Beth/Rest" from "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend. (Neon Limelight)

+ "Saturday Night Live" also took a poke at themselves while humorously defending their booking of Lana Del Rey. Watch Kristin Wiig's Lana Del Rey spoof during the "Weekend Update" segment. (Neon Limelight)

+ The Twister game is reportedly releasing a dance edition. Britney Spears has teamed up with the game maker, which will offer a remix of "Till The World Ends" with the game. "I think kids will love rocking the spots... as much as me and my boys do," she said. (Idolator)

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Hey, fellow Madonna fans! (That encompasses pretty much everyone, right? Or at least it should!) I'm Sam Lansky, pop thinker, and you're used to reading my regular column, Pop Think, where I write things that I think about pop music. Got it? Good.

But this week I'm bringing an extra-special post-Super Bowl dose of Pop Think that should probably be called Pop Feel, because rather than being kinda serious and cerebral like usual, I'm just letting myself be a total train wreck. Because, you guys, Madonna performed at the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show. And it made me feel a lot of feelings. So here I am, sharing them with y'all. Really, I'm just a boy standing in front of the internet, asking it to be OK with how he feels about Madonna.

You ready? L-U-V, let's go!

Madonna climbs atop LMFAO's Redfoo at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Madonna's much-touted Super Bowl performance was met with a level of anticipation sort of like if bags of free money were going to be handed out on the street, or if Hilary Duff announced she was returning to music. You know, something really BIG and EXCITING. And it definitely didn't disappoint, with Madonna giving us, if not all of her luv, at least, like, 68 percent of her available energy, which is totally fine since the other 40 percent was busy being the most important pop icon in the entire world, so I'm calling that a major W-I-N.

With that in mind, here are some thoughts and feelings that I had while watching MDNA take us to all to church, kind of:

+ There were SO MANY SPORTS!
So, I was under the impression that this was the Madonna Bowl, since what's more Super than the Queen of Pop, right? Wrong! Apparently (bear with me), Madonna's performance was wedged between several hours of sports. Sports! Can you believe it? (I couldn't.) And not even a fun sport like Competitive Real Housewives-Watching or Basicball (a game I invented where you rank the chart flops of failed R&B songbirds from decades past while sitting and drinking lemonade on a baseball diamond), but football, which looks very rough and complicated. Most frustratingly, the announcers don't seem to have a particularly nuanced awareness of how embarrassingly innuendo-laden everything they say is! Announcers: Just stop with all the "gaping holes" and "double teams." You're making everyone uncomfortable.

Read more of Sam Lansky's reaction to Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime show after the jump!

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+ Adele returns to the stage on Feb. 12 for the first time since her vocal cord surgery, which forced her to rest her voice for several months. "Ima be, Ima be singing at the Grammys. It's been so long I started to forget I was a singer!" Adele tweeted yesterday. Welcome back! (MTV News)

+ Katy Perry is in talks for a film, and better yet, it could be in 3-D! Paramount, the folks who did "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," apparently want to take a similar approach for a Perry concert film. (Billboard)

+ Madonna revealed the cover for MDNA. Peep the artsy, vibrantly colored glam art here. (Neon Limelight)

+ Get a sneak peek of the stage setup for Madonna's (and Nicki Minaj's, M.I.A.'s, LMFAO's and maybe Cee Lo Green's) Super Bowl halftime appearance this Sunday. (Idolator)

+ LCD Soundsystem shows contain plenty of percolated beats so it stands to reason that frontman James Murphy would want to get into the coffee biz. He says he plans to make an espresso blend. "I thought it would be fun," he said. "I have beans that I like." (Billboard)

+ While Diddy hasn't made an official statement on his forthcoming music cable channel, he tells MTV News that some plans are being made, saying, "We're coming with a new energy; we're coming with something that people are going to want to tune in to see." (MTV News)

+ Seems the cast members of the "The X Factor" U.S.A. don't have the X Factor for sticking around. Mentor/judge Nicole Scherzinger departed as did host Steve Jones, and now mentor/judge Paula Abdul confirms her exit as well. (MTV News)

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+ Peep the cast of "Glee" taking on Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Their next episode, airing Tuesday, will pay tribute to Jackson. (Just Jared)

+ Rihanna has signed on to star and executive produce a U.K.-based TV show where undiscovered designers compete to dress musicians and celebs. Rihanna will wear a finale outfit at a concert in London. (MTV Style)

+ Beliebers are some generous folks. Several Justin Bieber fan sites, along with Brush Buddies and nonprofit Together We Rise, have joined forces to make a charity single, which will benefit his "Believe" charity drive. (MTV News)

+ Michael Jackson was honored with his glove and shoe footprint cemented outside Grauman's Chinese Theater yesterday. Justin Bieber and members of Jackson's family were in attendance. (Idolator)

+ The reported musical talent to join Madonna at the Super Bowl halftime show is growing. In addition to Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., murmurs of Cee Lo Green and LMFAO are also making rounds. Madge, we're available, too, if you have any room. (MTV News)

+ Adam Lambert shares the sentiment behind Trespassing single "Better Than I Know Myself": "[It's about] that moment where you're like, 'I need you, I love you,' where you have to reassure your partner." (MTV News)

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Let's all hear it for irreversible eardrum damage! In the bangin' first single off his rabidly anticipated new record, Fortune, Chris Brown commands us to crank up the volume -- then repeats that demand over and over and over till we're all like, "Dude, it can't go any higher!" But we kinda get what Breezy's driving at. With its mercilessly pounding jungle beats and super-sick synth, "Turn Up The Music" deserves to be played at maximum decibels.

Written and produced by The Underdogs (the duo brought us Chris's sexed-up "Take You Down") and Fuego,  "Turn Up The Music" is a dizzying, electro-influenced track that's undeniably dance floor-ready. And while the "If you're sexy and you know it, put your hands up in the air" refrain is a fun nod to LMFAO, the real power's in Breezy's relentless calls to action: "Turn up the music, 'cause this song just came on/Turn up the music if they try to turn us down/Turn up the music, can I hear it till the speakers blow?/Turn up the music, fill your cup and drink it down." Occasionally backed by some blissed-out chanting, those party-starting rallying cries nail the music-as-salvation message like only the most powerful of pop idols can.

+ Listen to Chris Brown, "Turn Up The Music."

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I'm not even sure why the internet is still alive right now given the fact that three of the biggest artists in music just put out a new record. Flo Rida, T-Pain and LMFAO (otherwise known as "guaranteed, go-to No. 1s") all appear on Flo's latest, "Run To You." Not sure a track's been this stacked since "Lady Marmalade."

"Run To You" has "3 a.m. dance marathon" written all over it. Think Flo's "Right Round" plus DJ Khaled and T-Pain's "All I Do Is Win" and a heaping dose of LMFAO's "Sexy And I Know It." (So basically the best song in the world.) Over a trancelike beat, Flo brags about how attractive and well aerated he is: "You already hot, I'm already hot/No sweat, no Under Armour." T-Pain serves up the chorus, reminding us he can hook up with any chick he wants ("Somebody gon' get it, oh, oh, oh"), while LMFAO ruminate on the toils of having round-the-clock babes at their disposal: "I know what you wanna do/When I wiggle, wiggle, wiggle in my Underoos.../Never should’ve let you bounce on my pogo/Now you wanna be my Yoko Ono."

Real talk, I'd wanna be anyone's Yoko One if they stood to make as much dough as these three do when this record hits No. 1. Got my mind on my money, OK?

+ Listen to Flo Rida featuring T-Pain and LMFAO, "Run To You."

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I wanted to hate Paris Hilton's 2006 debut single, "Stars Are Blind," along with the rest of you. But also along with the rest of you, I didn't. I actually loved it and downloaded it and listened to it many, many times. Loudly.

Now it looks like Paris' musical stylings will be shuffling their way back into our lives -- the heiress has reportedly been working on new tunes with LMFAO for her upcoming album. If the palpable friendship between Paris and RedFoo in this photo from Sundance is any indication of their studio time together (Oh hai, Kaskade), then these two probably churned out a top-notch club banger. Listen, I'm not comfortable with it, either.

We already knew Paris was tapping producer Afrojack for some club beats on new material when we heard her most recent demo, "Good Time" (which we also didn't hate). And given that LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" was on every Best Of 2011 list ever, we bet RedFoo has some secrets for getting their collabo with Paris' heard... 1,000,000 times over. We are both excited and ashamed to admit we will probably love the music headed our way. Sorry we're not sorry.

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Happy New Year, guys! Were you in Times Square with us ringing in 2012 during MTV's "NYE In NYC"? Or were you in Vegas with Bruno Mars? No? Well, sorry about that/sorry for rubbing it in. But I'm sure you had a fine time getting puked on wherever you celebrated the end of 2011, too. (JK, there was no puke during my New Year's Eve. Just lots of crying girls. Always crying girls.)

In case you spent the last 10 seconds of 2011 in your grandma's basement or delivering a baby or something else boring like that, never fear -- we've got photos of all the cool things our favorite pop stars were doing during their New Year's celebrations so you can live vicariously through them! And we don't know what better way to start off a new year than by looking at pictures of people with lives you want to live! (It's called "The Secret." Look it up.) Check out a few of our faves below, and peep HOW OUR FAVORITE POP STARS CELEBRATED NEW YEAR'S PHOTO GALLERY for all the action.

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Not everyone had a noisemaker and a crown to ring in the new year. Taylor Swift spent the last few days of 2011 on a cold winter beach somewhere with nary a streamer or champagne bottle in sight. Taylor tweeted this photo explaining, "Nothing quite like a freezing cold, wintery beach." Deep-zees.

+ Read how else our favorite pop stars celebrated New Year's after the jump, and see them all in our POP STARS CELEBRATING NEW YEAR'S PHOTO GALLERY!

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Now that you've got the invite to MTV's "NYE In NYC 2012" official New Year's Eve celebration, live from the MTV Studios in Times Square, with performances by Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Jason Derulo, Mac Miller and J. Cole, hosted by Demi (yes, she's pulling double duty) and "Teen Wolf"'s Tyler Posey, it's time to get the party started by voting for the ultimate new year's dance anthem.

One of the hot dance songs below will be featured in a special new year's surprise during the show. We can't tell you what that surprise will be (that's why it's a surprise), but we're giving you a say in picking MTV's new year's dance jam. So vote for your favorite song from 2011 -- from Britney's postapocalyptic "Till The World Ends" to Pitbull's dance floor-filler "Give Me Everything" to Rihanna's bittersweet "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris. Tune in to MTV on Saturday, Dec. 31, at 11 p.m. ET to see the winning song in action. You've got until Thursday, Dec. 29, at noon ET to vote.

+ Vote for your favorite song of 2011 for MTV's 'NYE In NYC 2012.' Tune in New Year's Eve to see which song won!

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