Bits About Pop: From Miley singing songs in an acoustic setting to someone from the MKS camp telling everybody to stop fretting

Roll up, roll up, get your steadily cooling BAPs here!

• Miley Cyrus will follow in the footsteps of twerk fore­fath­ers Nirvana, Neil Young and Bob Dylan by doing an MTV Unplugged thing. (Popjustice) There’s a trailer for it here as well.
• Kelly ‘Clarko’ Clarkson is having a baby girl! (Billboard)
• According to a screen­shot, Adele’s registered a new song — co-written with Greg Wells — called ‘Devil On My Shoulder’. (Wotyougot)
• Pharrell performed a bit of what is rumoured to be his col­lab­or­a­tion with Major Lazer in a live scenario. (NME)
• Former *NSYNC frontman Lance Bass has a new solo project thing. (Idolator)
• Social media non-con­form­ist and full-time authen­ti­city magnet James Arthur’s single now has some artwork to go with it. (Popjustice)
• Alicia Keys has popped a new (old) song onto the internet and is appar­ently working on a new album with the increas­ingly shy and retiring Pharrell. (Ace Showbiz)
• ‘Purple Rain’ inter­preter Ruth Lorenzo is in the running to represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest. (Digital Spy)
• A mock up of the stage Katy Perry will sing some songs on during her Prismatic tour has been tweeted by the lady herself (or at least someone from her social media team). (Twitter) It’s quite pointy.
• The former chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission has said that he and some other people might have over­re­acted to the Janet Jackson ‘wardrobe mal­func­tion’ business at the Super Bowl ten years ago. (Daily Mail)
• Bublé in a bomber jacket Nicholas McDonald has announced details of his debut album. (Scottish Daily Record)
• Disclosure and Sam Smith performed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night and a good time was had by all. (Pitchfork)
• Union J now have their own range of dolls and dressed up just like them for this slightly unnerving photo call. (Entertainment Wise)
• ‘Bridges’ hitmakers BROODS have announced some things about their forth­com­ing debut EP. (Facebook) One of those things is that it will have six songs on it, which is pretty good going isn’t it.
• A bit of the song Tegan & Sara have recorded with ‘comedy band’ The Lonely Island has arrived on the internet. (Idolator)
• That iamami­whoami song ‘Fountain’ is now listed on iTunes in New Zealand and there’s a thirty-second long preview of it too. (iTunes)
• Lykke Li and Kelis are both playing at this new BBC 6 Music festival thing in Manchester. (BBC) The National are playing too, don't worry.
• Here’s some Tinie Tempah and Labrinth-related video #content. (YouTube)
• The studio version of Stine ‘from Alphabeat’ Bramsen’s ‘Prototypical’ is now online. (Soundcloud)
• MKS: NOBODY PANIC! EVERYTHING’S FINE! (Mirror)

And just for old time's sake…

What a song.