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Rumor has it that Madonna, the 80s-era cone-bra-wearing pop-star-provocateur, is desperate to tour with Lady Gaga -- our current iteration of that particular pop phenomenon. Sure, Madonna still has some worthy name recognition in the music industry, and many, many, many people still totally adore her. But would Gaga + Madge be a little bit... much? And would Madonna possibly be at risk of coming up short in comparison with Lady Gaga? I'm just remembering their SNL duet from last fall, where the two paired up, and the results were ...  well, kind of awkward.  Of course, it's likely that the two of them would require more stage equipment known to the history of live music performances. And the result might be spectacular.

Taylor Swift is out with her latest video, Mine, which pays homage to the country star's favorite kind of old-fashioned, fairytale-ending love story. As Toby Hemingway, Swift's love interest in the video, said, "it's [an] evolving family story," about a young couple struggling to make it work over time. Swift said the story was inspired by her "tendency to run from love," and "finding the exception to that." Mine debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs Chart and No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. Check out the video here and let us know what you think!

This week, the New York Times published a profile on pop starlet Katy Perry, calling the 25-year-old singer of this summer's indisputably most-everywhere jam, "California Gurls,"  "a regular girl gone big" who has followed a specific pop playbook in order to achieve a certain amount of fame. The playbook, as it were, does not exactly follow the rules of Perry's evangelical upbringing -- and the story implies that the has combined with her background in a rather contradictory way.

Earlier this week, Jennifer Aniston went on The Daily Show to promote her new movie, The Switch, which...I secretly want to see? As soon as the actress arrived on the show, Jon Stewart brought up a distant memory from the duo's past: Back in the 90s at some point, the two went on what appears to have been a semi-disastrous date. (Which may or may not have been a date.) Aniston apparently showed up with her hundred-or-so closest friends, Stewart was sorely disappointed, and that was that. Do I smell a romantic comedy idea?

Check out a clip from the episode below:

Betty White, acclaimed comedienne of Golden Girls fame, won an Emmy last night at the Creative Arts Emmys (aka the the ceremony that honored the categories deemed too boring/not star-studded enough for primetime) for her performance last May as the host of Saturday Night Live. White, who is in really amazing shape for being 88, hosted the show's Mother's Day episode -- which served as something of a reunion for much-loved female cast-members who have appeared on the show over the past couple of decades, including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, and more. Check out one of our favorite clips from the episode below. And congrats to Dame White!

Lady Gaga is no longer just the best-selling pop singer in America -- she's also the most-followed person on Twitter. The mega-star recently hit Twitter follower number 5,726,168 -- besting former Tweet-Leader, Britney Spears, who at last count had 5,697,943. The race is still tight, however -- and with a little momentum (and maybe a publicity campaign) -- Brit might have a chance to gain some ground. But hey, after (or, preferably, before) you're done deciding between Teams Britney and Gaga, don't forget to follow us at http://twitter.com/tizapromdresses ! 

This week, America's favorite MTV reality show about unruly New Jersey youths returned on MTV. Jersey Shore, a show about very tan crew of acquaintances with a shared taste for binge-drinking and bar-brawling, has not changed so much since last we saw it. This week focused on Sammi and her neer-do-well boyfriend (named Ronnie, obvs), and Snooki and JWoww's comically ridiculous attempts to "do right" for their oblivious friends. This involved going to an "internet cafe" (oh hi 1995!) and "planting a letter."