Classy Broad Katy Perry Wants Her Next Album To Sound Like Ace Of Base

I've had a somewhat of a hot N cold relationship with Katy Perry from the get go—basically, if Max Martin and/or Dr. Luke ain't writing and producing the songs, C-YA, baby.

So consider me ecstatic to read this article at MTV News yesterday wherein Katy reveals: "I'm kind of thinking I want to do my record like a mesh between 'Lovefool' by the Cardigans and ['The Sign'] by Ace of Base. I want to make songs that people want to hold hands and roller-skate to."

That, Katy, sounds like a plan. The latest chart position (#85) for "Starstrukk," her song with 3OH!3, on the other hand, does not.

And speaking of the Billboard Hot 100, Black Eyed Peas have now logged 13 weeks at #1. Yes, 13. That's one week longer than "Boom Boom Pow," the previous #1 single in the country. That means BEP have spent 25 weeks at the top of the chart in 2009. That's almost half a F-ing year! The band's "Meet Me Halfway" debuts at #75 this week.

Thankfully, there's some news that doesn't make me want to crush my head in a vice grip, Scorsese-style! Lady GaGa uses her talent, originality and unrivaled beauty to hookerpult "Paparazzi" up from #18 to #7. Papa, papa-sexy!

Meanwhile, British singer Mr Hudson is making leaps and bounds here in the states, albeit from singing the chorus of Alphaville's "Forever Young" on Jay-Z's "Young Forever"—which this week is up from #75 to #41.

And then there's good ol' Leona Lewis, whose "Happy"—which, let's be honest, couldn't possibly sound like any more of "Bleeding Love" carbon copy—debuts at #50. She's no doubt getting a boost from performing on VH1's Divas Live last week, though I wish her rendition of "True Colors" with Cyndi Lauper had been made available on iTunes, instead.

Finally, LMFAO's somewhat decent (though quite frankly, it's a tad snoozy at this point) "La La La" debuts at #61.

Hoo-razzy.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "I Gotta Feeling" - The Black Eyed Peas *13 weeks*
2. "Run This Town" - Jay-Z feat. Rihanna and Kanye West

3. "Down" - Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne
4. "You Belong With Me" - Taylor Swift

5. "Empire State Of Mind" - Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys
6. "Party In The U.S.A." - Miley Cyrus

7. "Paparazzi" - Lady GaGa
8. "Forever" - Drake feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem *new*
9. "Use Somebody" - Kings Of Leon
10. "Watcha Say" - Jason DeRulo