She’s smizing, she’s schmitzing…it’s Beyoncé‘s new video for “1+1,” y’all!

Greased up like a cookie sheet about to get popped into the oven over at the House of Dereon, Lady ‘Yonce is looking fine, fresh and buttery yum-yum delicious in the latest clip from the 4 era.

Compared to the sheer magnitude of the “Run The World (Girls)” video/mini-epic, this shoestring budget montage of Lady Beysus throwing Tyra stares and serving drenched pleasure like an Herbal Essences shampoo outtake that just won’t quit seems a bit–err, lacking in comparison at first.

But “1+1″ is a simple, sexy song, and Beysus is A FIERCE ASS DIVA GLAMAZON GODDESS lest we forget: The bitch could work it out using a HD webcam, body glitter and some Crisco (which, oddly enough, is exactly what she’s doing here.) Nevertheless, she’s killing it with those slow-mo hair flips, and she is one sexy mama after all. Sure it’s not much of a think-piece, but…I’m kind of loving the video!

I just kinda want to run up to her quickly and wipe a little bit of that moisture off with some of Ciara‘s weave, that’s all.

HATERS TO THE MUHFUCKIN’ LEFT.

4 was released on June 28. (iTunes)

Britney. Jennifer Lopez. Katy Perry. Jessica Simpson. It seems as though every day another pop icon announces the release of their debut fragrance.

Yet much as with the Hot 100 Billboard Chart, not every pop diva will get her due recognition in the cluttered shelves of your local perfumerie. In fact, some will downright flop to the bottom.

Inspired by a tweet this morning from Kween Legendtina Q. Agholyiera in which she announced the (impossibly amazing) name of her upcoming scent Secret Potion, I thought it’d be beneficial to do a quick round-up of the lesser known fragrances set to hit the streets later this year at gas stations and health clinics nationwide.

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AMAZING SINGLE SELECTION ALERT!

Keri Hilson is set to shoot a video for “Lose Control (feat. Nelly),” one of the smoothest cuts off of her sophomore record, No Boys Allowed.

The video will be helmed by Colin Tilley, the same director responsible for such clips as Hilson’s “One Night Stand (feat. Chris Brown),” Shontelle‘s “Perfect Nightmare” and Ciara‘s “Speechless.”

Get it, Miss Keri Baby!

In a incredibly rare moment of candidness, Jive Records recording artist Ciara took to Facebook three hours ago to address the longstanding rumor that the singer had been dropped from her label.

Rumors began to swirl following the complete commercial failure of her last album, Basic Instinct, which debuted at #44 on the Billboard 200 with under 40,000 copies sold in its first week of release in December.

From her Facebook:

To my fans:

This week the net has been a buzz of the rumor that I have been dropped from my label. At this point that rumor is false.. It is true that I have asked and I pray that my label will release me. I have had some great times and success with my label, but sometimes like all great things, it’s at that point where I feel we don’t share the same views on who I am as an artist. The past two albums have been very frustrating for me. At times there were songs I chose to lead a project and I was ignored! This project, I even tried to get “Gimmie Dat” started I spent tens of thousands of my own money only to hear the radio PDs tell me my label didn’t want the song played. I even spent more than one hundred thousand dollars out of my pocket on the video to bring my vision to it and still no label support. I do understand that some labels are not financially supporting their artists and I have become one of them. You, my fans, know that I strive to do my best to deliver to my you the best songs and creative vision I possibly can. I’m dedicated to my music, performance and to my fans! I’ve tried to be a team player with the label only to have compromised what I truly believed and was not given the right opportunity to promote and inform my fans of the release of this album. I have so much of me as an artist I still want to give to the world and my fans. A release would allow me to go be creative with people who care and understand me as an artist. In a short time, I will be able to bring to you a new music energy and a visual excitement! Thank you so much for standing by me through the good, bad, and the confusion. I love you all.

Love Ciara

The struggle to find a happy medium between the label and the artist’s intent is nothing new in the industry–especially as labels continue to abuse their power in controlling the creative process. Want more proof? Look no further than JoJo‘s five year strong struggle with Blackground Records.

Here’s hoping CiCi finds her way elsewhere…and fast.

Ever find yourself asking others: “Can ya faves?”

Do you often lurk in the shadows, waiting for the perfect opportunity to jump out, slay and subsequently snatch wigs?

Well, worry no more: There’s a place for you.

Introducing my latest, greatest find ever: Stan Wars, a complete resource for anything and everything stan-related. The comprehensive website features any and all of the required information necessary for stanning for any up-and-coming pop star. (Unless, of course, you’re stanning for a basic bitch–you might want to take the quiz to find out.)

From the website:

Welcome to Stan-Wars.com, a comprehensive guide to worshipping people you don’t know, who live a lifestyle you can’t afford, supported by an industry you don’t understand.

Everyday, on internet servers and mobile devices all around the world, wigs are snatched, font is enlarged, and blood pressure is raised over female pop star stan wars.

It’s not enough that we give them hundreds (or thousands) of our dollars every year, we must also form internet militias, bashing anyone who does not believe that our favorite artist is the greatest thing since free porn.

And while the entire website is an incredible helpful tool to navigate the oft-turbulent seas of standom, it’s the Stanipedia, a .GIF-happy Wikipedia portal devoted to furthering your knowledge about the amount of wigs your fave has firmly clenched between her fingers, that truly takes the cake.

Do you go hard for Britney like me? Great! You’ll learn all about our shared mental condition: Britlexia, a learning disibility which “impairs a stan’s ability to understand simple logic and read basic English.”

Or perhaps you’re also a member of the Rihanna Navy? Perfect! You’ll learn about Ri’s infamous climb to fame when “she swam to America on a Thursday and had a #1 single on Friday.”

Or what about Christina? Well, err…okay! Perhaps you’ll recall The Bionic Massacre.

And then there’s other standoms, such as Ciara (“born Cedric Marcellus Harris in 1985 in Dallas, TX”), whose stans are often referred to as “African’t Americans. They’re like Britney Stans only they’re darker, they have no album sales to brag about, and there’s only 2 of them.”

This website has obviously become an instant MuuMuse Approved favorite, and all your friends, faves and haters need to know about it.

So for now…

STAY MAD, PRESSED AND OBSESSED.

For an album called No Boys Allowed, there sure are a lot of boys that came to play inside Miss Keri Baby‘s clubhouse.

Though she’s tried at length to explain her new album’s title–that No Boys Allowed a “no bitch ass-ness” kind of empowerment collection about ditching the little boys and uplifting women, it’s hard to drive that point home when the album’s guest-list is exclusively filled with men–especially when one of them is Chris Brown.

But putting the album title-content conflict aside, Miss Keri Baby has produced a worthy follow-up to her excellent and underrated 2009 debut, In A Perfect World… with No Boys Allowed, released on December 21.

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Still hot from the Internet-killing, bandwidth-shattering success of yesterday’s Top 40 Albums of 2010 list (including a most major of giveaways, in which I’m giving away ALL TEN ALBUMS that made the Top 10 of the list–you still have time to enter up until January 2!), I now present MuuMuse’s Top 50 singles of 2010.

There were a lot of good songs released during the year. A lot of them didn’t end up making the list. It’s entirely unjust and profoundly disturbing to think about, but what can you do?

I don’t feel like explaining my choices…SO I WON’T. Why? Because I am such a fucking rebel. GO TIME!

LET’S GO!!!1!!

Miss KERI Baby–look what you gone did!

Keri Hilson is breaking out the big guns (literally) for “The Way You Love Me,” the third single off of her upcoming sophomore studio release, No Boys Allowed. (WATCH)

Backed up by a bad ass crew of bitches including JoJo, Dirty Money‘s Dawn and Faith Evans, Miss Keri Baby thugs her way through a most scandalous, swagga-riffic covert operation.

A little bit CiCi, some parts Gaga/Beysus “Telephone,” the video for “The Way You Love Me” finds Keri going harder and grittier than ever before, slithering up against a vault’s open door and growling some truly filthy come-ons in the process: “I got that kind of pussy that keep you off the streets,” she brags.

Is it a very sexy upgrade to her No Boys Allowed image as of late? Well, yes. But I had no doubt that Miss Keri Baby was really a dirty bird underneath just waiting to spread her wings and grind.

“This ain’t no pretty girl rock,” Hilson snarks during the video’s extended introduction. You got that right.

No Boys Allowed will be released on December 14. (iTunes)