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AILBHE MALONE tells it straight to Adele

AILBHE MALONEtells it straight to Adele

TRACK OF THE WEEK: Home Run by Misha B.

Welcome back, Misha B. The most exciting X Factor contestant since Cher Lloyd, Miss Misha B's ready to make her entrance. Home Run was produced by wünderkind MNEK (he produced The Saturdays' All Fired Up) and has hints of Grace Jones and dancehall. Unfortunately there;s no rapping section, but for that, we still have Misha's Week One performance of Rolling in the Deep. iti.ms/Mc4N7h

- Speaking of Adele, the girl can dish it out, but she can’t take it, it seems. Speaking to NBC, Adele seemed disgusted by the idea of any of her boyfriends doing an “answer” song to one of her tracks. The Someone Like You singer declared, “I’d f****** s*** myself. I’d be mortified.

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“But also, if they wrote songs about me, they’d be: ‘This songs about Adele.’ I’ve never given any names ever, but everyone’s going to know this songs about me. No-one actually knows who my songs are about.”

- In an upcoming issue of Esquire, Rihanna talks about why she’s working with Chris Brown. And, needless to say, logic does not prevail. “I thought people were gonna be surprised that we finally did a record together, but I didn’t see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know? In my mind, it was just music.”

When asked if she could see why people might be worried that she was dating Brown again, Rihanna continued, “I think a lot of people jumped to an assumption that was incorrect and they ended up looking stupid.”

- Time for this week’s Horan-watch, and it seems the Prince of Mullingar’s been in demand. Skyscraper songstress and X Factor USA judge Demi Lovato commented, “I would snog Niall. I do have a little crush on him. I love Niall, he is so cute. I hear he’s really sweet and he’s a cutey-pie.”

Perhaps he could teach her the finer points of Navan slang. After hurting his hand recently (he’s forever hurting himself, isn’t he?), he tweeted, “struggled playin guitar with my gomey thumb!”