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Courtesy of NME.com – ‘Wavin’ Flag: The Celebration Mix’ will be used globally during the tournament

K’naan’s song “Wavin’ Flag” has been named as the official anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

A remixed version of the track called “Wavin’ Flag: The Celebration Mix” will soundtrack the campaign, which kicks off in South Africa on June 11 next year, reports Cbc.ca.

The news comes as officials in Cape Town prepare to make the draw for the tournament’s qualifying groups on December 4.

Last month New Order bassist Peter Hook said John Barnes was willing to re-record his famous rap (as featured on the England team’s official song, ‘World In Motion’, in the 1990 campaign) for use in next year’s competition.

In other K’naan news, the rapper has been confirmed to appear on Keane’s new EP, “The Night Train”.

For more on K’Naan, check out his NME.com page.

Taylor Swift is self-designing her new Nashville apartment in a way you might never imagine — unless you’re a 20-year-old with more money than you know what to do with. The country-pop star is having a moat-like pond built around her living room fireplace, and she says she’s considering adding a few exotic koi fish to the opulent centerpiece. While that kind of decor might not be so hard to imagine, the Disney-gone-surreal accoutrements are a little beyond what one might find in someone’s home — even when that home is a 4,062-square-foot penthouse.

Swift gushed to Rolling Stone this week about her renovation plans for the luxurious 18-story Adelicia apartment building. They’re imaginative, to say the least:

”You step on a stepping stone in the pond in order to get on a spiral staircase, which takes you up to the human-sized bird cage observatory,” Taylor told the magazine. “They’re delivering a human-sized birdcage, which I’ll put a brass telescope in. The ceiling of my living room is painted like the night sky.”

Swift can certainly afford whatever she can dream up, home-decor-wise. The singer and actress, who stars in next month’s chick flick “Valentine’s Day,” was ranked No. 69 on Forbes Magazine’s Celebrity 100 last year, having taken in an estimated $18 million in earnings. And this is an especially good week for Swift, whose fittingly named ”Valentine’s Day” soundtrack single, “Today was a Fairytale,” is selling like crazy on iTunes. If history holds, Swift’s sales will skyrocket yet again after this Sunday night’s Grammys broadcast, where she’ll be performing the song — and hoping to turn her eight Grammy nominations into trophies.

Guests entertained in Swift’s new apartment “fantasy world” might include singer-and-Twitterer John Mayer, who was spotted with Swift and friends at a Nashville restaurant earlier this week.

While Swift’s living room sounds like something that needs to be seen to be believed (and hopefully she’ll give a tour when it’s finished), between the water, the fireplace, the fish, the stepping stones, the staircase, and the birdcage, let’s just hope nobody gets hurt.

Until that fateful day when Swift takes us on a MTV Cribs-like video tour of her new digs, we can keep our peepers busy with the trailer for ”Valentine’s Day.” The movie arrives in theaters on February 12.

Photo credit: Tom Gatlin of Tom Gatlin Photography, Nashville, TN.

Courtesy of NME — Frances Bean Cobain sings as part of a “gang” on Dresden Dolls side-project

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter Frances Bean is to make her singing debut on a track also featuring My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Andrew WK, and Weird Al Yankovic.

Seventeen-year-old Cobain sings on “My Space,” which will appear on the eponymous debut album by Evelyn Evelyn, who are made up of Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer and Seattle musician Jason Webley.

Other acts on the track include Tegan & Sara, ex-Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicolay, Margaret Cho, Eugene Mirman, and various members of Mindless Self-Indulgence, reports Twentyfourbit.com.

The album Evelyn Evelyn is due to be released on March 30.

In December, Courtney Love lost custody of Frances Bean Cobain.

For more on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, check out their NME.com page.

The late Michael Jackson has a prominent role in the revamped version of “We Are the World.”

Lionel Richie, who wrote the original charity anthem with Jackson, says the King of Pop can be seen in the new video for the track, singing with his sister Janet.

“We left the original footage of that part, but now he is singing with his sister,” Richie said.

“It’s something we wanted to see, but his mother requested it too, for Janet to sing with Michael,” said Quincy Jones, who produced the original track and helped orchestrate the re-recording. “It was perfect. It was meant to be.”

The video is set to make its debut Friday during coverage of the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics. “We Are the World — 25 for Haiti” features 80 artists, including Pink, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Kanye West and Jennifer Hudson.

Proceeds from sales of the song will benefit earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.