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Estelle, Chris Brown, and Trey Songz team up on a new track, 'International (Serious).'

U.K. singer Estelle got some serious use out of her passport when she hit the States to hang with rapper/tour guide Kanye West in her smash "American Boy." Now, girl sets her sights on taking over the world, and she's bringing Chris Brown and Trey Songz along for the ride in "International (Serious)."

+ Listen to Estelle's new track, "International (Serious)," after the jump.

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The year 2011 is quickly, sadly, drawing to a close. Except it's not sad! We're moving ahead with the speed of an iPhone 4S! And before you let separation anxiety and fear of change get the best of you -- no one looks adorable pouting in a party hat -- let's take a moment to reflect on the year in pop music. Being MTV Buzzworthy, the home of all things pop, we took an exhausting, in-depth look the biggest trends in pop music in 2011. It wasn't an easy job, but... it's actually our job! So, here are the songs, sounds and stars who were all over pop music in 2011.

EPIC COVERS
+ Everyone covered and/or remixed "Marvin's Room": Drake did it first, but Chris Brown remixed it, Teyana Taylor covered it, and R&B singer Sammie covered it. Paula DeAnda put out "I Can Do Better," and even CODY SIMPSON put his spin on "Marvin's Room" with "Evenings In London." But no one did it better than JoJo. Even Drake agreed.

+ Everyone covered Lil Wayne's “How to Love”: Justin Bieber made an acoustic remix of "How To Love", Demi Lovato covered "How To Love" on VH1's Top 20 Live, pop solo singer Tinashe and R&B singer Brandon Hines (who is INCREDIBLE, btw) all covered Weezy's heartbreaker.

+ Taylor Swift covered EVERYONE: Over the course of her seemingly endless "Speak Now" tour, Taylor covered Britney, T.I.'s "Live Your Life," Eminem, Nelly, Usher, Bieber, Shawn Colvin, Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Uncle Kracker (!!!) and even Bryan Adams, often bringing out artists as surprise guests.

EPIC VIDEOS
+ Pop stars put out videos like MACHINES: Beyonce put out SIX official videos this year! Eight if you count her Live At Roseland DVD performance videos. Rihanna and Pitbull put out five videos, six if you count "Fly" with Nicki Minaj. Britney put out four videos, Lady Gaga put out FOUR videos (probably five, since "Marry The Night" is due out any minute, and six if you count her "The Lady Is A Tramp" duet with Tony Bennett, Bruno Mars released four videos, and Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj put out three videos each.

+ Everyone made SUPER dramatic, cinematic videos: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" video featured a heartbreaking ending we didn't see coming, Dr. Dre's "I Need A Doctor" video featured a car crash, death and a return to life, Britney's "Criminal" video was shot like a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde, and Rihanna's "We Found Love" terrified us in a very Darren Aronofsky kind of way.

EPIC TOURS
+ 30 Seconds To Mars played everywhere: Seriously, these guys played 135 shows in 2011 alone. By the time December 7 rolls around, they'll set a world record for most shows played within a single album cycle. Top that.

+ Britney Spears lap-danced everyone: Every seat in the house on Britney's "Femme Fatale" tour is a good seat, but one seat in particular was the best seat in the house. The chair (actually, it's a bed?) Britney put centerstage, upon which very special guests were treated to a lap dance. Very lucky fans got a lap dance from Britney, and so did some celebrity VIPs: Britney gave Joe Jonas a lap dance, Jason Trawick got a special ride, and DJ Pauly D enjoyed a lap dance from Britney too.

EVERYTHING GOT EMO AND/OR OKAY
+ Hip-hop got introspective: For every swag-brag record there were real-talk, real-problems introspective tracks, like Jay-Z and Kanye West's “Welcome To The Jungle” (and most of Watch The Throne, for that matter), Eminem/ Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters," and Lil Wayne's "How To Love," plus sad songs by Drake (most tracks, but especially "Doing It Wrong"), Kid Cudi's 2 Be Continuum's navel-gazey "No One Believes Me," and Lupe Fiasco's conscious "Words I Never Said."

+ Pop music got introspective: I'm okay, you're okay, we're all okay, okay? was a recurrent theme in pop music, from Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" to Demi Lovato's epic "Skyscraper" to  Pink's "F****** Perfect" reminded us that we all have insecurities, and that we're all perfect the way we are.

Check out more of the biggest pop music trends of 2011 after the jump!

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We don't throw around the term "panty-dropper" very often. Occasionally we use it with Usher, every now and then with Trey Songz, but almost always do we feel the need to use this term when describing the smooth and hypnotic vocals of Robin Thicke.

Robin's forthcoming LP Love After War is slated for release Dec. 6, and while we assume the disc will feature sweet, retro-tinged baby-making music, Mr. Thicke has called upon his homie Lil Wayne to add some hip-hop street cred to "Pretty Lil' Heart." (Actually, Lil Wayne's verse is kinda panty-droppy, too!) In a slow and steady swag, Weezy gets his rhyme game on: "She says she loves me/I'm convinced/I don't need a rocket scientist/To see that you and I are meant/I meant to tell you/You the reason I smile more."

Robin Thicke's verse follows Wayne, and within five seconds it's clear this dude is absolutely slaying the pop vocals game to death right now: "Tell me that I'm sexy/Like I was before/Tell me that I got it/That you want it even more/Tell me that you'll never/Ever leave me side/Tell me cause you know/I need to hear it every night." We need to keep this post SFW and everything, but suffice it to say that if you serenade me like that, Robin Thicke, I'll basically tell you any damn thing you want. Hint, hint.

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Trey Songz has been way busy, guys. In between collaborating with J. Cole on "Can't Get Enough," he's also found time to record "The Way You Move" with Ne-Yo and T-Pain AND "Out Of My Head" with Lupe Fiasco. And did we mention he's recording two brand-new mixtapes, "#Lemmeholdatbeat2" and "Anticipation II," out Nov. 1? Uhh, overachiever much?

Slated to appear on one of his forthcoming mixtapes, "Top Of The World" is panty-dropping music at its finest. In addition to Trey's sultry vocals, the track is of a classic slow jam variety, boasting smooth synths and some retro '80s-sounding drum patterns. Unlike other more blatantly sexual panty-dropping anthems (read: Sisqó's "Thong Song") Trey's is a subtle seduction. In fact, while Trey does sing about sex ("Staring at your body/Damn, your sexy body/I'm Trey, I came to play/I wanna use you as my hobby"), the overarching message in "Top Of The World" actually has nothing to do with a hookup in da club. Rather, Trey uses this song to send a message to his friends back home: "If I could/I would bring the whole hood to the top of the world with me/Here's my world for free/Tryna give you what you came to see." Aww, that's so sweet, Trey! Sharing is caring!

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Think of all the star power Ne-Yo, T-Pain and Trey Songz carry individually. Now take that and multiply it by well, three and you'll get the amount of R&B/Auto-Tuned/panty-droppin' star power surrounding Ne-Yo's most recent jam, "The Way You Move."

Featuring Trey Songz and T-Pain, "The Way You Move" is slated to appear on DJ Boy Wonda's forthcoming mixtape, "Tough Loves." A true slow jam, Ne-Yo opens the first verse and lets his smooth falsetto dominate as he sings his woman's praises: "She's super sexy/Everybody wanna know about her.../Because the way she get it in/All of the men/Even the women just try." Definitely sounds like a top-notch chick right there.

Trey Songz chimes in next and we literally CANNOT decide whether his or Ne-Yo's falsetto is more of a panty-dropper -- it's a tie! Somehow Trey manages to compare his pole-dancing woman to a club and still make it sound romantic and classy: "If this club was the sky/You're the brightest star/You ain't playing fair/Slidin' down that poll like oh, oh, oh." T-Pain's verse is up next, and as you'd imagine, he uses his signature Auto-Tune to convince his girl that he's on the up-and-up: "Just keep doin' your thing/Don't let it stop you/And if you've heard some things about me/Girl, they're all lies." RO-mance.

This "The Way You Move" chick sounds really hard to land, so while Ne-Yo, Trey Songz and T-Pain still probably have some wooing to do, we must admit -- everything does sound way more convincing when it's sung to you in Auto-Tune.

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After we teased you with the sneak peek this afternoon of J. Cole's newest video "Can't Get Enough" featuring Trey Songz (with a Rihanna cameo), we're happy to continue the party with the full-length premiere. Shot in Barbados and directed by Clifton Bell, "Can't Get Enough" is basically a full-day beach bash, and we ain't mad at it.

J. Cole says filming "Can't Get Enough" was "a fun experience," and we can certainly see the fruits of his very intensive labor paying off in the clip (that was sarcasm). All the party video staples are in place: bikini-clad women, slo-mo dancing, a beach bonfire and of course, a boat! And... that's basically all there is to report, folks. J. Cole even says so himself: "There's no concept or story line whatsoever. It’s just mad sun, beaches and beautiful women. It’s just all beautiful visuals and fun." Though, we should mention the Rihanna cameo -- she's smoking a cigar and dancing at the bonfire. IN SLOW MOTION. Again, not mad at it.

"Can't Get Enough" is the second single off of J. Cole's debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story, due out Sept. 27.

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Rapper J. Cole has already been teasing hip-hop fans with Any Given Sunday, a weekly series of releases that have included remixes, Ustream updates and extra tracks not appearing on his upcoming debut album, Cole World: The Sideline Story. Having wrapped up filming in Barbados for his latest video, "Can't Get Enough," featuring Rihanna and Trey Songz, the rapper gives us another 30-second tease below before premiering the full video later tonight.

In the Clifton Bell-directed preview clip, Cole is having more fun than you, bumming around the Caribbean island eating fresh fruit, sailing with bikini-clad women and making "Yeah, I know this is cool" faces at the camera. As day turns to night, a bonfire replaces the sailboat as the main background prop for Cole's dancing harem, while Trey Songz and Rihanna coolly puff on cigars in the latter's home country. Cole, we're assuming our Barbados invite got lost in the mail, but next time, hit us up if you need some company.

+ Check out the sneak peek of J. Cole's "Can't Get Enough" video below and tune in tonight to MTV2 at at 10 p.m. ET to catch the premiere!

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Love is a powerful drug. It's been known to transform enemies into friends, sorrow into joy and, in the case of Lupe Fiasco, old ladies and cops into your girlfriend. At least, that's what happens in his new video for "Out Of My Head," the third single off his latest album, Lasers.

The video opens with Mr. and Mrs. Fiasco in bed together, clearly happy to be starting their day with a snuggle. Lupe leaves her as he goes out into the world, but she remains in his mind's eye. Pretty much every woman he sees turns into her! Did his girlfriend get a job as a cop, or is his mind playing tricks on him? When he reunites with his lady love later, we find out his day was actually terrible -- he got peed on, ticketed and sized up like he was a common criminal -- but none of it mattered, because he was thinking about her the whole time, with Trey Songz smoothing things out on the hook.

Watch Lupe Fiasco's "Out Of My Head" video below and marvel at love's ability to turn even the crappiest of days into a walk in the park. (The sexy, sexy park.)

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"Sex Faces," the new Ludacris record featuring sex inventor Trey Songz and Lil Wayne, is about as solid a track as we've heard from these guys in a hot minute. Contrary to popular belief, "Sex Faces" isn't the lead single from Luda's next album, but rather a song created exclusively for the Rap-A-Lot Records 25th-anniversary compilation.

With a title like "Sex Faces," one can only imagine the imagery laced throughout the lyrics. And unsurprisingly, "Sex Faces" delivers in this arena! Ludacris sings, "I met this chick in Mo city/her name was Lexus/ass outta control and her chest was reckless/in the back of my mind I just wanted to sex this." He then goes on to encourage behavior that suggests said woman really loves garden hoses and golfing! There was also a lady who enjoyed finery like jewelry made of pearls! Ludacris is into well-rounded women and lavishing them with nice gifts, you see.

Even though there aren't any words you can't say on television, the song gets nasty, going on and on to enumerate the many women Ludacris, Wayne and Trey Songz have had intimate dealings with and the many ways in which they're talented and/or creative. So basically, it's like an "Area Codes" update.

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Lupe Fiasco brought in Trey Songz to sing the funked-out hook on his new song, "Out Of My Head," and MTV brought the two of them together to perform it live for the first time at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards.

Triggaman, dressed in a white leather jacket, started off the performance with his signature soulful sound and then conceded to Lupe Fiasco, clad in all black, committed yet cavalierly spitting game and then segueing into "The Show Goes On," the latest single off his third album, Lasers. Perseverance in the face of adversity is the common refrain of both Lupe's track and the song it samples, Modest Mouse's "Float On," and the combination is a complexly layered, quasi elegiac hip-rock song that revels in minor-chord anxieties, intensified by the live electric violin and a truly talented backup singer. Lupe and Trey Songz's live pairing plus the backing of a fully loaded live band made this one of the best collaborations of the night -- besides Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner's dude-on-dude free love fest.

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