Over the past few years, British music fans have united to try and prevent the country's prestigious Christmas Number One single from falling into the hands of The X Factor winner. In five of the past six years, whoever won the British version of Simon Cowell's singing competition also scored the top-selling single for the week of December 25th. Hoping to avoid another X victory, a grassroots Facebook campaign has been launched to help catapult Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to the top of the Xmas charts. It's sort of like Occupy Wall Street, except it's music fans angry about the state of pop music and not the economy, and instead of camping out in city parks, they just bound together and purchase an old song on digital music services.

So far, the "Nirvana for Christmas No. 1" group has nearly 20,000 "likes" on Facebook, but expect that number to rise in the next few weeks. There is also an interesting subplot to the whole situation: One of this year's potential X winners is a

Perhaps to make everyone forget about the plagiarized choreography in "Countdown," Beyoncé has quickly unveiled another new video, this time for "Love on Top." When you're already embroiled in one controversy for stealing dance moves, it's best to follow that up with a video that's completely original. Instead, "Love on Top" is a direct homage to New Edition's "If It Isn't Love." (Whereas Knowles failed to give credit to choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaekeron on "Countdown," New Edition was named early on as an inspiration.) The main difference between Beyoncé's video and the one Bobby Brown's group made is that B's dance studio is probably worth a lot more on the real estate market.

To those looking for more evidence of a baby bump conspiracy, there's no smoking gun here, since it's evident from the belly-baring final minute that this video was filmed before Knowles announced she was pregnant. There is one problem with "Love on Top," however: The video completely eradicates the

If a band is going to release a music video for a single that was initially unveiled five months ago, it better be a damn good music video. Otherwise, what's the point? Fortunately, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' vid for "Senator," a song that debuted in early-June, delivers the goods. Here's the pitch: Jack Black, playing the glad-handing titular politician, cattle-prodding his own genitals. Playing off all the sex-related political scandals in recent years, the actor stars as an ultra-conservative candidate by day, coke-snorting pervert by night. It's like a slacker version of The Ides of March, but with the actor who was Lumbergh in Office Space in the Ryan Gosling role. Bonus: Malkmus actually appears in this video, something that was lacking from his other Mirror Traffic clips.

Based on The Projector's review of Black's new film The Big Year, you'd be better off saving your $13 by just watching "Senator" on repeat. Well, "Senator" and Airborne:

If you asked 100 British music fans what band they'd most want to see reunite, 99 of them would probably answer "The Smiths," but one person polled would most certainly respond "The Stone Roses." Congratulations to that dude: According to Clash Music, the four original members of the Stone Roses -- singer Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani, and drummer Reni -- will appear at a press conference next week to announce they'll reunite in 2012. The band last performed together at the 1996 Reading Festival, and since then they've fought off rumors of their reformation every six months or so.

The Stone Roses only recorded two albums during their time together, but their 1989 self-titled LP is regarded as one of the best British albums ever, one of the greatest debuts ever, and an indispensable influence on the Britpop era of Blur and Oasis. The NME especially has a soft spot for The Stone Roses, calling it the "Greatest British Albums Ever" (over every Beatles album), while