May 1: The Met Ball celebrates the launch of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watch your step, Paz! May 3: Scary Spice: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Beastie Boys’ first album in four years, is released today. May 4: Kylie Minogue plays Hammerstein Ballroom, which is probably the size of her dressing room in England.

No stranger to fast-fashion designer collaborations, Topshop is back in the swing of things with its current partnership with David Koma. You may recognize his designs from paparazzi pics of Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Kylie Minogue. Koma’s avant-garde garments feature futuristic tailoring and unconventional lines. As if Topshop sales weren't competitive enough already, the collection contains just 5 designs, with only 30 items per piece.

You've no doubt already frantically consumed our Kylie Minogue cover story and photoshoot, so here's another exclusive tidbit to enjoy. It's a montage music video of candid Kylie, captured during the photo shoot by photographer Simon Emmett. Click through to enjoy the goodness.

"Never let people know how much you know"

The day after Christmas, I discovered Ke$ha's "TiK ToK." I listened to the tune once. Then again. And again and again. Then I finally set my iTunes on "Repeat One" and listened to nothing else for a few hours. With lyrics like "Before I leave, I brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack" and "Now the dudes are lining up 'cause they hear we got swagger / But we kick 'em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger," I easily identified with Ke$ha's teenage angst. So did all of America, apparently. Pop poetess Ke$ha has emerged in 2009's eleventh hour as a very viable threat to Lady Gaga. But alas, some pop songs were built--by geniuses no less--to be broken down and picked apart. Before this year, you actually heard "TiK ToK"--or at least its signature riff--in a Kylie Minogue stomper that bowed earlier this century.

Christmas is that magical, precious time of year when many of us will make up for months of missed calls home by buying totally useless crap for the people we love. Yes, Christmas is magical. Our pop stars think so, too. In the spirit of giving, they will take time-honored Christmas classics and then cover them in a last-minute seasonal cash-in. No contemporary carol has been reinvented more than late great Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby." Today, we get to hear another desperate remake of Kitt's jingle, this one by beleaguered Brit band Sugababes. Following covers of the tune by Madonna, Kylie, Shakira, and even Taylor Swift, it not only sounds redundant, it seals the song's fate as the Gayest Christmas Carol Ever.

● That report of Lindsay Lohan and Gerard Butler getting it on in Morocco was shot down by Lohan, and Butler is threatening legal action against the British papers who printed the story. [GossipCop] ● Where do you go after getting publicly fired from your show? Disneyland! Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz took little Bronx to the happiest place on earth to lift her spirits. [PopSugar] ● Rihanna says of all the media attention she received after the Chris Brown incident: "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears." [USA]

If you're unaware who Calvin Harris is, you've probably already been cutting a rug to one of his slick mixes. Like his upgrade of Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas" for example. It's also likely that you've caught wind of his recent studio escapades with Jake Shears and Kylie Minogue. So you'd think with all that, plus a #1 album in his homeland, the man who created disco would be stomping around with a god complex. Instead, Harris channels charm and humility when discussing lofty topics like plans for the future and more importantly, the impending apopalypse.

So sometime in between charting her North American take-over and crystallizing her next gem with Calvin Harris and a Scissor Sister, Kylie Minogue took a little time out to dabble in Bollywood. She was recruited to the tune of about $1 million to perform a four-minute tune composed by Slumdog Millionaire's A.R. Rahman.