The music industry has changed, but apparently people still buy albums. And Miley's "Bangerz" has officially had the year's biggest sales week for a woman.

Miley Cyrus in a thong. Ke$ha in a thong. Rihanna in a thong. Lady Gaga in a thong. Miley Cyrus in pasties. Nicki Minaj in pasties. Miley barebreasted, Rihanna topless. The young women on today's pop charts are stripping down, right before our eyes. And you know what? It's not very interesting.

We here at Jezebel are capable of a little self reflection. We know that we can be over the top with our love of Beyoncé sometimes. How could we not be when she's the greatest fucking performer to have ever opened her mouth and made noise come out of it? Look, see? We're doing it again. Like I said, it happens and we …

There are so many reasons why this video of YouTube singer Tasia Ann Thomas should be annoying — she's alone in her bedroom, singing to a webcam, wearing a cropped denim vest over another crop top and she opens with a song by fun. — and yet somehow she pulls the whole thing off and makes us like her.

Despite what you may have heard from the Circle Jerks, Rick Ross and the insistent warbling of Ke$ha, not all pop stars live by the motto "die young." But a study looking at the careers of 1,400 rock and pop stars — famous between 1956 and 2006 — found that solo artists were twice as likely to die prematurely when…

Taylor Swift's fourth album, Red, is out today. The bubbly blonde is expected to sell millions of copies with her now-standard girlish, diary-like lyrics. As Ramin Setoodeh writes for The Daily Beast:

In the video for Lady Gaga's "Judas," Jesus has cornrows. The disciples are a leather-clad motorcycle gang. Gaga wears a bikini top featuring nipple-hiding crosses, and folks are anointed with holy water and beer. But as Gaga tells E!:

DJ Earworm's Ke$ha-heavy abomination, chock-full of Auto-Tune, stutter-beats and repetitive wailing is oddly compelling. But we don't agree with YouTube commenter randomguy734: "PUT THIS SONG IN ITUNES WE WILL ALL BUY IT THUMBS UP IF U WANT IT IN ITUNES!!!!!!!!:)"

Okay, not really. The part of Neil Young is being played by Jimmy Fallon. Still hilarious.

One Call's "BlackLight" stars Kendall Jenner, Kevin McHale (Artie from Glee) and Ashley Benson from Pretty Little Liars. If Kendall's writhing upskirt shots don't make you sad, maybe the Auto-Tune will? A warning: Watching this may make you feel old.

Kanye West's film, Runaway, is 35 minutes of lurid fantasy, complete with a model covered in feathers, a giant papier-maché bust of Michael Jackson, tutu-clad ballet dancers and an inter-species sex scene. What does it all mean? We have answers.

You know how Taylor Swift says that all of her songs are about her relationships? Her new song, "Dear John," seems to detail what went down between Taylor and John Mayer. And it doesn't end well.

Taylor's band, Pretty Reckless, released a new video (the second one) for the song "Make Me Wanna Die." Lingerie, guitars, cemeteries… All the stuff you loved when you were seventeen.

After the VMAs, Gaga sat down with Ellen — who is vegan — and attempted to rationalize why she was wearing a hat, dress and shoes made of meat.

In Eminem's new video, which depicts a dysfunctional and violent relationship, Rihanna — herself a survivor of domestic violence — sings "I like the way it hurts," as Megan Fox literally plays with fire.

What the fuck. Didn't it occur to Chris Brown — or anyone around him — that the concept behind his short film "12 Strands" is problematic?

Sean Lennon Tweeted: "With gaga at mom's house, she's belting on the white piano..." We'd like to think Yoko Ono joined in for an "Alejandro" duet.

As one ONTD commenter notes, "It sounds like background music to a Japanese workout video." [ONTD, NY Mag]