Well done.

Nicki Minaj went from being our favourite new artist, and great credible new rap star, to the most irritating woman in pop. Really quickly. Her second album, whilst packed full of decent and listenable tunes, was so generic, pandering and free of the hyperactive clever-clever rhythms and rhymes that made us fall for her in the first place, that we handed in our fan membership and abandoned ship for good.

Well maybe we were too hasty because the lead single from the rerelease of her second album (yes, really) is a bizarre, structurally odd, electro hip hop banger replete with her best video since "Super Bass". So maybe all is not lost. Maybe she can reign it back in. We'll see. But for now we quite enjoy this.

CASSSAAAAAAAAY

Cassie has premiered her new single, "King of Hearts" and if you click 'below the cut/jump/hedge/battleline/shelf/ledge/seam/beam' you can give it a quick swizz and listen for yourself.

Earlier in the ongoing, grinding, never-ceasing stream of misery and serendipity that we call Time, Cassie released a video preview (which you can ALSO catch below, if you click 'read more'). It featured a hob, dangerously flambéing itself, a latex outfit that barely concealed Ms. Cassie's areola, some hair being whipped about, some other stuff concealed in a blurry montage of sex and technology (sexnology if you will).

The song itself is fun and frisky. It doesn't sound like much else (certainly nothing 'in the charts') right now. It is memorable, hooky, dancey, twisty, turny and blippy. Cassie, Queen of Indie R&B aficionados' hearts, is back. And we couldn't be more excited!

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FINALLY

Cassie, the Indie Quirk Queen of R&B etc. is back. Back with something. We don't know what it is. A trailer? A promo. A buzz. Thing. Something.

WE'RE EXCITED ANYWAY. All hail Cassie.

We hope this is indicative of Cassie's new direction in music...

We hope that now she's shaved her hair off and started wearing big tshirts with skulls on, she'll start releasing albums in the style of Hadouken!

Either that or she'll start being more like Kelis.

We'd rather the Kelis one than the other one. That was just for comic effect.