Jennifer Lopez Pays Ellen A Visit

Jennifer Lopez was guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show today, continuing the promotional tour for her new album Love? The two talk about her title as People's Most Beautiful Person, her role as American Idol judge, and her new album including a brief clip of the "I'm Into You" music video.

In other J.Lo news, the new album exceeded early week predictions of 60-65k copies for first-week sales as the album pulled in 80,305 copies, according to Hits Daily Double. Check out the interview.

Common's White House Invitation Criticized By The Right

Fox News has never had a longstanding rapport with the hip-hop community. From criticisms about Snoop Dogg to a direct verbal confrontation between Bill O'Reilly and Ludacris on television, Fox and rap go together like oil and water. So it is no surprise that another rapper has the right-leaning network up in arms. The surprise is who and why this particular rapper is drawing scathing criticisms.

The victim of Fox's wrath is Common. One of the most socially-conscious and least contentious rappers, Common has been invited to a poetry event held at the White House by Michelle Obama. Right-wingers have criticized both the rapper and the White House for what they believe is a poor choice. Pajamas Media, a conservative blog, has identified the lyrics of the rapper as "racially-tinged" and "misogynist."

"I Wanna Go" To Be Britney Spears' Next Single

Britney Spears earned herself chart toppers on the albums and singles chart this year and with the top three success of "Till The World Ends," Jive Records has lined up the official third single from Femme Fatale. The dance-pop record "I Wanna Go" has been chosen, a song very similar to the previous electrodance tracks that have received the single treatment thus far.

Although I enjoy the track, it would be nice to see a bit more variation with the single choices. Every preceding album of Britney's had substantial variation with the song choices (e.g. "Circus" and "Womanizer" from Circus and "Me Against the Music" and "Toxic" from In The Zone were all sonically and thematically different songs). This song just seems like an extention of all the other party songs released from the album. I think "He About To Lose Me" would have been the best choice considering the song is very current and not as overproduced as some of her songs on her new album. The downside is that the song was included on the deluxe version of the album only (a decision I have yet to understand).

Listen to the "I Wanna Go" and "He About To Lose Me" below. Which one is better?