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Before we get started, figure out the pun in the band name The Mary Onettes. Okay? Done all the groaning and eye-rolling you wanted? Now we can get down to business: the Swedish indie-pop group is all set to release Hit the Waves, their third album, on March 12. Have a go at the admittedly oceanic title track below.

Record executive Clive Davis is probably best-known as the man who signed Whitney Houston to Arista when the singer was just 19. The current chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment details his friendship with Houston in his memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life, which hit bookshelves and Kindles today. Included is a 2001 letter to Houston, in which Davis pleads with the singer to examine her choices and her relationships with friends and family at the height of her drug use. More surprisingly, the executive opens up about his rumored relationships with men, with whom he began experimenting sexually after an encounter with a fan at Studio 54. Davis also reveals that he's been in a relationship with a man for the past seven years, but insists that he identifies as bisexual rather than gay. Kind of a ballsy move, but then again he can pretty much destroy the careers of a few thousand people so what does he have to worry about?

New Yorkers are up in arms this week thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s new plan to ban extra large sizes of full-calorie soft drinks from being served at restaurants, movie theaters, and other fat factories. Some people are for the ban while others think it’s facist, but what we’re busy thinking about is how soda, no matter how sugary, has contributed to culture.

Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.

Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.

● Anne Hathaway's drastic new haircut, shorn short in preparation for her role in Les Miserables, matches her drastic new diet. [Us]

● Mary J. Blige bemoaned yesterday that her pulled "crispy chicken, fresh lettuce" Burger King commercial was not the "fun and creative campaign" she had signed up for. Burger King meanwhile apologized to Blige and her fans for airing the ad "prematurely," adding that they hope to have the final spot on air soon. [Rap-Up]

Throughout her career, the late Whitney Houston left us a string of memorable performances on stage and screen, from The Bodyguard to Waiting to Exhale to the song from The Prince of Egypt.

● Looks like Drake pays homage to his heritage in the video for his next single, "HYFR" featuring Lil Wayne, with a re-enactment of his Bar Mitzvah shot at Miami's Temple Israel. According to one witness, teachers there "thought Drake was a cutie." [Miami]

● Bobbi Kristina has entrusted Oprah with her first interview since Whitney's death becasue, she says, Oprah "was loyal to my mom, and never did my mother wrong, or made her look bad. She always looked out for my mom." Their talk will air Sunday. [TMZ]