Pop Corner: Hailee Steinfeld loves herself, Taylor Swift loves Kanye and Jedward love everybody

Brighten up your Monday with a five-minute pop-gossip break...


Track of the week: Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld

Mates with Taylor Swift, an Academy Award-nominee, and a star of

Pitch Perfect 2

? Step forward, miss Hailee Steinfeld. This is no vanity project, Hailee’s been working with Mattman and Robin (Carly Rae Jepsen and more), and the end result is a Scandi-pop beauty. There’s a la la la bit, a line that shouts “I love me!” and an overall blissful sense of just doing whatever the heck you want. All in all, we’re very impressed. perfect summer pop song.

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Hero of the week is Ashton 5SOS, who tweeted some solid advice to his fans. He noted that "some days your head will be a whirlpool of depression and anxiety! In those days you gotta breathe & focus on everything great in life! You aren't on your own!!! You can find the greatest things in life in the smallest and simplest things, you just gotta take a moment."

Meanwhile, Jedward are eternally grateful for their fans. They tweeted, "We have changed some people's lives and gave them a purpose to shine and helped them see their inner awesomeness!! Love you all. Every song we create is an emotion that belongs to u so u can apply the lyrics to your life we've expressed these feelings to help you grow. We have learned so much stuff - it's all about gathering experiences that shape who you are! We have our own lane in the music scene that rocks."

Zero of the week is pop-star beefs, as Taylor Swift is happily now friends with Kanye. She told Vanity Fair: "I feel like I wasn't ready to be friends with him until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn't ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me – so it was the same issue (...) And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I've accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid's doing."

Now click here to learn more about what happened when Taylor Swift met Vanity Fair.