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Just like there’s a fine line between parody and homage, there’s just a tiny stripe of neon separating “Yay, the ’80s!” from “Oy, the ’80s.” Katy Perry crosses both barriers in her “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” video, which is like a game of Girl Talk come to life in the least fun way possible.

No Doubt have been stingy with details about their first album in a decade, but EW did leak one detail from a big interview with the band scheduled to run later this week: Gwen Stefani is done playing pop star. Calling her solo career — which included 2004′s Love. Angel. Music. Baby., 2006′s The Sweet Escape, and two tours in 2005 and 2007 — a “moment in time,” Stefani explained, “It went on a little longer than we all thought it would, because it was inspired and you have to go with wherever you’re at in that time in your life … [But] everything works out how it should.”