There are plenty of songs for Christmas, but what about New Year's Eve? Of course, there's Auld Lang Syne... and we could even add in U2's "New Year's Day." But there have to be more, right?

What songs come to your mind when you think of the end/start of a year?

Do we include Prince's "1999"? What about Kool & The Gang's "Celebration"?

A few quick items to rant about:

Miley Cyrus has announced that she's going to remake Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Mother of all creatures great and small, someone please make it stop. She's not talented. She's popular because of some show on Disney where little kids who haven't developed musical taste watch TV and think that everything put in front of them is "good music." Leave the '80s hair bands alone and write your own shitty music.

Speaking of which — "Nodding my head like yeah, moving my hips like yeah..." - what in the blue hell does that mean? I understand that if you nod your head, you make the motion like you're saying yeah... but no 16-year-old (she just turned 17) should be singing about moving their hips... and especially not on stage in hot pants. I guess she went to the Brittney Spears school of whoring yourself out. It's only a matter of time before she attacks the paparazzi with an umbrella and shaves her head.

All of this is almost as bad as Rolling Stone magazine putting a 17-year-old guy (Taylor Lautner) in a wet t-shirt on their cover. Anyone else feel a little uncomfortable and creepy about that?

Ranting over... for now.

I'll throw the target immediately on to Britney Spears, since she's the most famous lip-syncher of all. Here's the debate — should lip-synching pop stars be forced to tell fans that they will not be singing live at concerts?

I'm not sure it would stop the people who enjoy the concerts, but it would be a nice admission. Last month, fans in Australia walked out of a Spears concert after it became clear that she wasn't singing.

To those fans, I say, "Really?!? You thought she was going to sing live??" What's strange to me is that most artists don't get any heat for it until they're "caught." No one cared that Ashlee Simpson or Milli Vanilli was doing it until their tape skipped/played the wrong song.

Who else does it? It's hard to say, but you can easily put a bet on most pop stars that are doing choreographed dances on stage. The artists are usually so focused on dancing and wearing themselves out that they are too out-of-breath to sing.

I've noticed that there is a lack of band introductions these days...

Sure, some bands do it old school — Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Al Green, Janelle Monae and others will have their band play first before being introduced and hitting the stage.

The Evening Muse, depending on who's at the soundboard or hosting the show, will usually introduce the act hitting the stage.

Kiss is known for their "You wanted the best, you got the best," introduction that they've been doing for years. Does John Mayer, Jane's Addiction, Brittney Spears, Metallica or Harry Connick Jr. need to let you know who they are? If not, at what point is a band or artist famous enough to skip the intros?

However, a lot of places and people just don't say a word. The lights go out, the lights come back on and the band is on stage as the first notes ring out. Sure, nine times out of 10, it doesn't matter. The headliner is a big band and you already know who they are. But what about the opening acts? What about the people who are just there to see a new band and have no idea who they're watching?

Most bands, even when not "introduced," will let people know who they are at the same time they tell you there are CDs and t-shirts for sale in the back of the room. What's your preference? Should a band be introduced before hitting the stage? Should they leave it as a mystery? Should they only say it at the beginning and/or end of the set?

You know why they call it "pop" music? If you said because it's "popular," you're mostly right. I tend to think it's also because the music goes, "pop." As in — here one day and gone the next.

The only difference between a one-hit wonder and a majority of the crap (and most of it is crap) filling top 40 music these days is that one-hit wonders disappear and those with more stick around a little bit longer.

For example, how many of these hit songs from 2007 are you still listening to?

- Beyonce's "Irreplaceable"

- Nelly Furtado's "Say it Right"

- T-Pain's "Buy U a Drank"

- Mims' "This is Why I'm Hot"

- Akon's "I Wanna Love You"

My guess is none — and not because you thought they sucked in the first place. If you used to listen to those all the time, chances are that you've moved on to the next radio hit and left the others in the past. Hell, Beyonce's "Single Ladies" is probably over and done with by now — if not for the fact that it's repetitive and annoying as hell.

Just something to think about...