Daily Addictions – Weekend Edition

Bar Refaeli in lingerie will knock your freaking socks off (Click here)

Candice Swanepoel looking ridiculously pretty in pink (Click here)

Wow, Abigail Clancy’s bikini pictures are hotter than hot! (Click here)

Hayden Panettiere in a tiny retro-style bikini? Yes please! (Click here)

Here’s one of the cutest College Babes on the planet (Click here)

Katy Perry’s booty is undeniably really, really hot (Click here)

Gwen Stefani is looking cuter than she ever has (Click here)

Eva Green gets very sultry in lingerie and on a bed (Click here)

Here’s are the Toughest and Hottest Babes on TV (Click here)

Elsa Benitez has the grooviest mid-section of all time (Click here)

Kristin Cavallari shows off her killer long legs once again (Click here)

Wow, stop the presses! Who the heck is Elena Barolo!? (Click here)

Claudia Toth is hands down the sexiest female athlete (Click here)

Jessica Biel versus Jennifer Garner? Pffft, no contest… (Click here)

Katy Perry & Russell Brand: Art of Elysium Engaged

Newly engaged couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand stay attached at the hip (and lap) for The Art of Elysium’s 3rd Annual Black Tie “Heaven” Charity Gala on Saturday (January 16) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Ms. Kitty Purry chose a white one-shoulder evening gown from Hussein Chalayan, Alexandre Birman heels and a Judith Leiber clutch.

“That was lovely,” Katy tweeted after the event. “Thank you @TheArtofElysium you make a difference in peoples lives.”

25+ pictures inside of Art of Elysium engaged couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand…

Rachel Bilson & Topher Grace: Art of Elysium!

Rachel Bilson pairs up with actor Topher Grace at The Art of Elysium’s 3rd Annual Black Tie “Heaven” Charity Gala on Saturday (January 16) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 28-year-old actress wore a gorgeous white Chanel dress, clutch and matching floral earrings. She completed her look with black YSL shoes.

Back in 1998, Rachel did a guest spot on Topher’s hit TV series, That 70’s Show.

Ms. Bilson was also seen mingling with singer Katy Perry and actress Amber Heard.

How Your Celebrity Sausage Gets Made: The Ka$e of Ke$ha

Thousands of young, impressionable girls move to Los Angeles hoping to make it big every year. Why did Ke$ha break through? And what does it say about us as a culture that she did?

As you probably know, Ke$ha is, as The New York Times‘ Jon Caramanica put it, “a burgeoning pop star” who is also a “pioneer” for her integration of rapping and singing (and, as former Idolator editor Maura Johnston pointed out, yodeling). She’s a post-racial, post-genre, post-postmodern pastiche with some very catchy hooks, thanks in large part to her mentor and producer, Dr. Luke, who also wrote hits including “Right Round” (the Flo Rida song featuring Ke$ha), Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” and Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the U.S.A.”

In September, Maura wrote that Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” was “going to turn into the ‘I Kissed A Girl’ of the fall/winter.” She was right. How did she know?

“The persona Ke$ha affects on ‘Tik Tok’ is like this perfectly bubbleheaded party-girl type, a persona that i think allows for recession-era escapism,” Maura told me when I asked her how she knew that Ke$ha would be the breakout star of the winter. “It’s ‘relatable’ in a way that you or I, being older, might find a little uneasy.” (You can say that again.)

According to her official bio, Ke$ha was raised by her mom Pebe Sebert, a punk-rock songwriter, in Nashville—along with her brother, Huffington Post writer Lagan, who we covered yesterday). And indeed, as recently as 2006, Ke$ha and Lagan were performing country tunes in Nashville’s hipster dive bars together. So how did she go from this:

To this:

Ke$ha plays up the idea that she’s a wild child—two oft-repeated stories, both of which are repeated in her official bio, involve her breaking into Prince’s house to give him her demo, and throwing up in Paris Hilton’s closet—but she was an honors student who would’ve gone to Barnard if she hadn’t dropped out of high school at the behest of Dr. Luke and fellow producer Max Martin, who wrote Britney Spears’s “…Baby One More Time.”

But even if she doesn’t come by her persona organically (and really, who does these days?), it’s still become one that critics and bloggers can’t stop parsing. I traced the evolution of Ke$ha’s prominence in the press; until August, she was a footnote on the credits to “Right Round.” That was when Women’s Wear Daily did a short profile of her, and quoted Ke$ha—whom they were still referring to by her given name, Kesha Sebert—as saying that Martin and Luke liked her because “I don’t give a f—k and I’m completely irreverent.”

She was also championed early and often by Oh No They Didn’t, the gossip blog hosted on LiveJournal that has a rabidly committed fan base. Her next big mainstream media piece came in October, when The Guardian (U.K.) featured her as a “New Band of the Day.” Paul Lester noted: “Maybe she really is raunchy, but just in case we doubt it Ke$ha takes pains to telegraph her bad-girl credentials. In fact, her whole shtick appears to be predicated on the idea that she’s a rebel in American Apparel.”

And that was the image she was undoubtedly trying to portray when, at an afterparty for the Q Awards in London at the end of October, Ke$ha peed in the sink at a pub with Lily Allen and a bunch of “music industry bigwigs” and journalists looking on. It was an incident that possibly backfired, since it barely got any press outside of Britain—she wasn’t well-known enough yet that her wild n’ crazy antics were noteworthy. (Now we’ll be on the lookout, though.)

By December, when she performed at the Z100 Jingle Ball, she was officially famous.

We wonder what happens now. She’s sold around 160,000 copies of her debut album, Animal, which came out January 5—not too shabby these days. Is she going to have a reawakening and return to her country roots? The Awl posited that she’s the Britney Spears of this generation, but I don’t think that’s quite right; for one thing, she’s legitimately smarter than Britney. She’s much more aware of her antics than Britney and exploits her sexuality in a different way—she’s cute, sure, but there’s something tomboyish, almost asexual, about Ke$ha. (She also had a childhood, which probably counts for something.)

Katy Perry: Cameras Have A Tan Mode?!

Katy Perry and her boyfriend, British funnyman Russell Brand, happily show off their love and hold hands as they leave his home in London on Friday night (November 6).

Earlier today, the 25-year-old songstress wrote on her Twitter, “I said ‘Geez you guys are so tan in these pictures!’ He said, ‘I have my camera on tan mode!’ THEY HAVE A TAN MODE OPTION ON CAMERAS?! WTF?”

Which camera has a tan more? We need one stat!

Other pics include Katy and Russell arriving for The Late Late Show at RTE Studios on November 7.

Has Steven Tyler Quit Aerosmith????

Multiple reports are claiming that Steven Tyler has quit his position as lead singer of the legendary rock band, Aerosmith!

Old Man Tyler encountered a slew of injuries this year, including a broken shoulder in August after tumbling off the stage while performing, and guitarist Joe Perry says the two weren’t in contact for a full month after the accident!

Perry has informed reporters that Tyler has “quit as far as I can tell.”

He continues: “I don’t know any more than you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band. I don’t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don’t know.”

Sorta sketchy!

Perry explained that Tyler has been avoiding the group’s phone calls for months now, but Joe has “learned to live with it.”

“Frankly, the last few months I’ve been wanting not to rock the boat. I don’t want him cancelling any more gigs,” tells Joe. “We just kind of didn’t want to call him out or anything and get him anymore pissed off, for whatever reason. So we just let things lie.”

Perry says Aerosmith has all plans to continue without Tyler and are looking for a new singer, not to replace Steven, rather to “move the Aerosmith… vibe up a notch.”

What do U think???

Can it even be considered Aerosmith without Steven Tyler???

[Image via WENN.]

Katy Perry with Russell Brand’s name on her ass

Katy Perry wore no less than 5,000 different outfits at the MTV EMAs last night, so here she is in a little lingerie number with Russell Brand’s name on her ass which is probably the hottest thing a girl… …read full story

Fashion Face-Off: Katy Perry vs. Blake Lively

You wouldn’t think Katy Perry and Blake Lively would have similar styles, but go figure: Both babes recently donned versions of the same lacy, floral print dress.

Blake wore it…

Katy Perry Supports Russell Brand’s Soccer Team

Katy Perry arrives at boyfriend Russell Brand’s home in London on Friday (November 6).

The 25-year-old singer had just returned from hosting the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin, Germany. During the show, Katy wore a corset and hot pants in the colors of Russell’s beloved West Ham United soccer team. (The back of her underwear reads “Rusty” — Rustyrockets is Russell’s Twitter handle.)

Russell tweeted, “Wow. Now MY GIRLFRIEND has worn a West Ham basque while hosting the EMA’s. What a day!I might revive Gandhi and ask if he wants to be mates.”

He added, “Yes I will be taking her to a game [on Sunday] – West Ham Vs Everton. And, before it begins, no I won’t be taking her up the Arsenal. x” Always the jokester…

Daily Addictions – Weekend Edition

Pania Rose in lingerie will make your face melt (Click here)

Katy Perry drops some European cleavage (Click here)

Audrina Patridge in a super tight tanktop is shwingtastic (Click here)

WWE’s Maryse unleashes her bodacious hotness (Click here)

Whoa, Jen Kraus leaves very little to the imagination (Click here)

Hilary Duff is either very cold, or very excited (Click here)

Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer is out. Of. This. World (Click here)

Diane Kruger looking drop dead sexy from head to toe (Click here)

Lindsay Lohan is stretching the hell out of her tiny top (Click here)

Megan Fox in a flimsy t-shirt just made my day (Click here)

This College Cutie will make you run to class! (Click here)

Super cutie Mila Kunis never disappoints (Click here)

Dalila Martinelli is here to heat things up (Click here)

Hilary Rhoda is refreshing and very easy on the eyes (Click here)

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