Australian popstar Kylie Minogue gave fans a sneak preview of her new single "All the Lovers" this morning.

Have a listen to the teaser (and really, it's just a tease — purely instrumental, no vocals):

Apparently Kylie's official website couldn't handle the influx of visitors, Kylie tweeted this morning:

 

Is it just me, or is everything about this woman adorable? 

"All the Lovers" is due out in June. Here's the artwork for her new album, Aphrodite, to be released in July: 

Kylie.com has more details: 

The album, Kylie's fifth studio album on Parlophone, sees her celebrate her dancefloor roots and features Stuart Price as executive producer. The list of songwriters includes Kylie, Stuart Price, Calvin Harris, Jake Shears, Nerina Pallot and Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley. 

He's an odd duck, that Adam Lambert.

Just a week after he responded to OUT magazine's accusations of playing it straight with the standard "I'm a performer, not an activist" stance, he caps off last night's American Music Awards show with this spectacle:

And America was shocked (SHOCKED!) at such a display, with a lively (and, of course, homophobic) discussion over on Entertainment Weekly.  To spare you some time, the comments boil down to "Adam Lambert has ruined his career by being too sexually provocative and not focusing on having stronger vocals."

And they may be right -- as you'll see from the following examples, being sexually suggestive and having a weak voice has killed many a pop career:

Best of luck, Adam -- you're gonna need it!

 

Okay Twilight fans, stop hyperventilating over tomorrow's release of New Moon and please explain something to me.  You've got the half-naked wolf pack and sexy costars Peter Facinelli and Kellan Lutz pretending to be lovers in front of the cameras:

With all that eye-candy, why then does everyone focus on spindly bedhead boy Robert Pattinson?  I mean, good Liza, have you seen the magazine racks this week?  He's on every cover!  And you know it's getting bad when you spot this next to Macleans:

Looks like I'm not on Team Edward.  But then what do I know?  I look at this new video from goofy power-poppers Valley Lodge and dream of furniture better than my Ikea:

Well, maybe some fantasies are better left alone.  Kind of like how Utah Senator Chris Buttars just used the right-wing's favourite paging-Doctor-Freud catchphrase:

"I don't mind gays. I just don't want 'em stuffin' it down my throat all the time."

Ahem.  I guess he's more of a Jacob man.

But for a fantasy world you'd really want to live in, we turn again to Dolce and Gabbana, the only men brazen enough to use a threeway to sell watches:

 

As the same-sex marriage debate heats up in Washington DC, New York blogger Joe Jervis posted some hilariously awful footage of one particular Bible-thumping loon and said:

"Yes, she is horrible, but I don't know when I've laughed so hard. Somebody please remix this lady."

Well, I'm no DJ, Joe, but -- with huge, huge apologies to the Pet Shop Boys -- here's mine (turn on the annotations for the amazing Gallery Guy):

He's certainly getting a reaction. The Queerty blog yelled, "We love you Adam, but no. NO. NO!"  Entertainment Weekly said, "it’s a little more, um, out there than the pensive-yet-ultimately-benign images we’ve come to expect from Idol runners-up."

Many others have pointed out the obvious glam links to early David Bowie and/or Michael Jackson but let's face it -- your average Wal-Mart shopper is going to see only this:

 

But hey, it's no more outré than the great gay T-shirts American Apparel is now selling.  Lambert deserves a big pat on the back for putting himself out there like that -- hopefully his sales won't be as disastrous as the movie that will carry his theme song:

Let's face it -- even when they're not wiping their boogers everywhere, straight men can be very confusing.  They'll say they're very uncomfortable with being hit on by a gay guy but then turn around and drop their pants for ESPN, the sports magazine with enough female fans to make up 17% of their readership.  That's like appearing in Chatelaine because you want to appeal to truck drivers (17%!).

But if "The Body Issue" convinces members of the Edmonton Oilers to pose for shots like this, well, I'm not complaining:

(Lord knows we've certainly seen sillier attempts to appeal to the ladies and not-the-gay-men-no-sir-not-at-all: the immortal boyband era is summed up with '30 Ridiculous Pictures of the Backstreet Boys.'  Does what it says on the tin.)

But for an extreme example of a straight guy wrestling with the divide between respecting human rights vs. his own homophobia.  Buju Banton, dancehall reggae star and target of worldwide murder music protests, finally met with gay activists to discuss how not to be a hatemongering thug but still couldn't agree to a single one of their ideas, probably because he is a hatemongering thug.

Meanwhile, Moscow is home to my favourite example of such schizophrenia -- the city is pushing to close its oldest and most popular gay bar in a morals campaign while its homophobic mayor Yury Luzhkov just teamed up with Hillary Clinton to unveil a park statue dedicated to poet Walt Whitman (Whitman!).  This from the country that gave us vodka, Tchaikovsky and Nicholay Petrov?

Sometimes such a divide can work though -- like in this Guardian UK article that manages to be both an intriguing look at current record industry woes and a bitchy slapdown of Perez Hilton.  It can be done!

But in the end, we're all divided in some way or another. This blog, for instance, loves to celebrate queer Canada but can't quite bring itself to proclaim Toronto YouTube performer Tonetta the next big thing.  Perhaps you won't be so conflicted: