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The biggest comeback of Melodifestivalen-2013 - Army Of Lovers reunion hasn't ended up with a proper success, the band hasn't qualified to the final with their new single "Rockin' The Ride" but expectedly has made a lot of buzz in media finally replacing La Camilla with Dominika and announcing release of new compillation "The Big Battle of Egos".
Except old hits and "Rockin' The Ride" compillation will include covers of Malena Ernman's "Tragedy", BWO's "Love Came Crashing Down" (as "Crashing Down") and the next single "Signed On My Tattoo" featuring Gravitonas.
Right now band is still active with promoting the first single and Alexander Bard expectedly supports new release with a bunch of mixes from Soundfactory, NORD and Madax that you can check here.

Trio of La Camilla, Dominika Peczynski and Martin "Miss Inga" Johansson has got the official name Happy Hoes and presents already the second single - "We Rule The World".
La Camilla has got loads of promotion participating in Let's Dance so it's time to use it releasing new stuff. Later this year La Camilla will publish her autobiography "Adjö Det Ljuva Livet" which is said to be out also as audiobook and music fans get a new dance track already out on iTunes.
Sound of the new single is pretty far from "Don't Try to Steal My Limelight" though, it starts with almost "Popular"-like electro-pulsating verse blossoming in a sweet sing-a-long chorus which is more home disco-party than a big club-anthem. Also nice to hear La Camilla doing Army Of Lovers-style sexy La Camilla-rap. Caramba!

Army Of Lovers' La Camilla and Dominika Peczynski performing together on the stage! Just idea of it should already sound all sorts of fab for any Army Of Lovers' fan!
Recently girls joined Miss Inga to perform their latest collaboration "Don't Try to Steal My Limelight" at QX event in Stokholm and we completely forgive them miming all the way, you know how great they still can do it after watching the video and it was definitely pleasant to see again.

Yesterday we've told you about new single "Don't Try to Steal My Limelight" of Miss Inga featuring Dominika and La Camilla from Army Of Lovers - release that has turned to be like thousand times better than we could even expect and today we get a premiere of new video that looks just like we wanted - colourful (in a way of Army Of Lovers' "Let The Sunshine In"), filled with girls making funny faces and loads of computer graphics. We're in love with it even more now!

Great thing (one of great things) about Army Of Lovers is that it never disappears completely and its members stay in the spot constantly though the band was reformed almost 10 years ago.
For example Alexander Bard was on fire of creative activity (as every of last 20-30 years) with his new project Gravitonas in 2010. Jean-Pierre Barda was working in his beauty salong and sometimes (like few days ago on Love Generation twitter) you can find remarks of some artists visiting it. Michaela De La Cour worked on her solo-stuff, releasing new music and going abroad with performances. But who was in the biggest spot in the end of last year was Camilla Hennemark! First it all started from publications about Camilla as the only one star agreed to participate in new star-rehab tv-show (her depression, drug-addiction and financially catastrophical problems were discussed in press many years before) but then came the real hurricane when Swedish journalist Thomas Sjöberg has published book "Carl XVI Gustaf – Den motvillige monarken" ("Carl XVI Gustaf: The Unwilling Monarch") about private life of young King leading quite wild life (check bigger description of story here) where La Camilla was described as royal lover back in 90s and though publicity was shocked it was definitely hour of La Camilla! She's got a real media rush with interviews, visiting foreign tv-shows and sure not to reject all this rumours written in book (check few German interviews here and here and try to say La Camilla's smile isn't priceless!!!). However in a few months all this buzz has gone and now we are left in a waiting for La Camilla to come back with new scandals, though better we'd get her with some new music stuff.
Long time I didn't tell you about some nice mash-ups so here's great reason to tell!
If you're fan of Alexander Bard's project you should visit youtube-channel of Maxim Andreev to check some truly great videomixes, mashups, etc. for Army Of Lovers, Alcazar, BWO, Vacuum and Gravitonas is on the way to appear there. Here's one of examples - mash-up of "King Midas" and Eric Prydz's "Pjanoo", isn't sexy Jean-Piere's vocal works brilliant with instrumental of modern club classic export hit of Sweden? And doesn't whole "there was a king with magic hands..." lyrics sound with a new sarcastic sence when you look at this video? Check this terrific mix and loads of other interesting works here!

Michaela de la Cour doesn't need special presentation being one of Swedish music legends. Sure you know this blonde Army Of Lovers pop-queen breathing glamour and extravagance. After a long silence Michaela has started her comeback in 2009 with brand new pop-rock track "Back on Earth", self-ironic and sexual video and absolutely amazing mix from Adam Rickfors. How pleasant it was to get recently another new track from Michaela and this time it's amazing club track with filtered robo-vocals (in a manner of "Back on Earth") in electro-sound verses and refrain turning to a huge club-delight anthem. You can check sample of this track on Michaela's myspace as well.
UPD: In 2 days we've got the title "HomoSapien", full version of the song and the video and it's not less lovely in a full pack!

Talking about other Army of Lovers news. New project of Alexander Bard - Gravitonas announced few days ago that its first album is scheduled for September but already on August 18 we'll get "The Hypnosis EP" containing four tracks and new maxi-single "Religious" on August 25. Hope another new track "Shameless" I've been talking about little earlier will also be on this EP.