Perpetually aggravating singer Katy Perry is once again hosting MTV’s European Music Awards, which take place tomorrow night and which this year are being held in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall separating the city’s western and eastern sides—i.e. the Cold War’s most potent symbol of the Iron Curtain—falling. Here’s hoping that she’ll reprise the most memorable part of her hosting stint from last year’s awards, and ride a dildo that’s shaped like a hammer and sickle in order to celebrate. One thing’s for sure: Celebrities who attend the awards are getting a bunch of expensive crap for free, further honoring capitalism’s complete insanity of right now democracy’s triumph! MORE »
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Katy Perry To Host Celebration Of Berlin Wall’s Destruction
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Bill O’Reilly Takes Jay-Z’s Bait
Jay’s dis of Bill O’Reilly on his new single “Off That,” as predicted from the moment it first dropped, garnered a free plug for Blueprint 3 on last night’s O’Reilly Factor. Never let it be said that Jay’s desire for maximum bloggability doesn’t extend to the political end of the ’sphere! [YouTube via Rap Radar] MORE »
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Virginia’s Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Was Born To Run
A brief list of musical artists who Creigh Deeds, the surprising victor in yesterday’s Democratic primary for the Virginia governor’s race, rode to victory according to his Twitter account: MORE »
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Flavor Flav And The Pirate Bay: The New Faces Of The New World Order
At Saturday’s Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, Flavor Flav took a moment at the end of Public Enemy’s Roots-and-Antibalas-aided performance of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back to ask the crowd, quite seriously, if we would vote for him for President someday. The “YEAHhhheehhhhhh…” in response sounded like a balloon being slowly de-heliumed, and he quickly abandoned that line of questioning. And yet, I have to wonder: Who would I rather have in a position of authority–the man responsible for unleashing Tiffany Pollard on the world, or a member of the copyfighting, Pirate Bay-sympathetic Pirate Party, which won a European parliamentary seat in elections Sunday after garnering seven percent of the vote from Swedes who went to the polls? MORE »
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Not All Of Oklahoma Is OK With The Flaming Lips
When the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” was named as the official rock song of Oklahoma, I was a little surprised and impressed; after all, an act like the Lips would seem to offend the occasionally delicate sensibilities of the sort of person who aspires to state office. Well, as it turns out, Michael Ivins wore a hammer and sickle T-shirt to the state Capitol the day the state Senate announced the Lips’ honor, which didn’t sit well with some of the more conservative members of the Oklahoma House. And then Wayne Coyne added an f-bomb to his acceptance speech. MORE »
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John Rich Might Be The Future Of Country (For Better Or Worse)
Country music as a popular entity hasn’t seem to care much for political or social issues much since the rash of tracks issued in the wake of 9/11, which makes John Rich’s “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” a bit of a surprise. At the very least, it’s enough of one to make the music section of the New York Times. MORE »
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Anderson Cooper Thinks 50 Cent And The Republicans Are Losers
After last night’s State Of The Union stand-in, the anchors on CNN got into a little discussion of the hip-hop horseraces of 18 months ago, and how they paralleled the bickering between the Democrats and the Republicans over Barack Obama’s various initiatives. Yes, that’s right: The 50 Cent/Kanye West beef made it to Anderson Cooper 360, with Kanye taking on the role of Barack Obama and 50 Cent serving as a stand-in for the Republicans. While Curtis has claimed allegiance with the GOP in the past, he may not be too happy with the reason Cooper gave for lumping the two parties together. (Hint: It’s not because of their shared affinity for Vitamin Water and/or unfettered capitalism.) The excerpted transcript after the jump. MORE »
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MTV’s Inaugural Ball Tries To Recapture The Spirit Of ‘93
If you’ve turned on MTV at any point in the last few years, you probably saw a show about the social lives of rich teenagers; if you turned up just for the special events, they were generally stripper-themed. But if you happened upon the channel around 10 p.m. last night, you would see people repairing homes in New Orleans and building a computer lab in Kenya, all part of the channel’s coverage of the official Youth Inaugural Ball. What gives? MTV’s bread and butter has been resolutely aspirational, from My Super Sweet 16 to The Hills, but mere hours after a new president was sworn in with a speech about service and responsibility, the channel had footage ready to roll of kids pitching in and helping out. The crash format change hearkens back to an earlier era in the MTV’s history—an era that, coincidentally, included Bill Clinton’s inaugural ball. MORE »
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Are You Ready For Governor McGraw?
The idea of former Senator Bill Frist becoming governor of Tennessee in 2010 is a distressing thought to Tennessee Democrats, the party at large, and those of us still bitter over the crackdown on Internet gambling. (How am I supposed to place my wasted bets on the U.S. to win the World Cup now?) So, it’s time to bring out the big guns, and even Rep. Harold Ford Jr. cannot match up to the starpower of Mr. Faith Hill… I mean, Tim McGraw. MORE »
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Will Obama Bring Change To Country Music?
I know what you were thinking on the night of Nov. 4: What will this definitive Obama victory mean for the state of modern country music? Thank goodness pop critic David Browne is on the case, and presenting his findings in The New Republic. MORE »
