Listen Up- Madonna, Monica and Brandy and more

February 15, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell

Melanie Amaro, winner of the inaugural season of the US X Factor, was featured with Sir Elton John during the Super Bowl in the elaborate Pepsi commercial. First, nobody bought Elton John as a king- a queen maybe after all his recent sniping at Madonna. Second, why would Melanie Amaro’s first single Respect be the song that Aretha “The Queen of Soul” Franklin popularized?  If anything this is disrespectful not to mention lazy. Not sure I want to hear any original music from Amaro now.

Nearly 14 years after their hit duet, The Boy is Mine, Monica and Brandy have joined forces again for another duet, It All Belongs to Me. While the song has recently leaked, it’s been reported that the track will be featured on both singers’ albums in different versions. If this is true, there’s no mention which version has leaked but when the dueling divas start listing all the s**t that belongs to them, it’s obvious that these young women have all grown up. You can keep the boy . . . the house now that’s a different story!

L-U-V! If there has been one thing every gay boy has been talking about over the last two weeks, it was Y-O-U Madonna! Between the elaborate and most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever, the pre-orders for MDNA and the announcement of a world tour, Madge proves once again that Lady Gaga may have been born that way but only because she was born in 1986 when Madonna was topping the charts with Papa Don’t Preach, Live to Tell and Open Your Heart. Sorry Gaga, Madonna will always be our mother.

Adam Lambert recently dropped the video for his latest single Better Than I Know Myself. I’ll admit I was a bit harsh on this track when it first dropped but it has grown on me. The video features the two sides of Adam Lambert. The makeup wearing, trench coat wearing, I eat rainbow-colored kids for breakfast side and the I actually can polish up to a well-groomed guy side. I’m over the whole look at me I’m Glambert, so I sure hope we see more of the latter when Trespassing drops later this spring.