Above, a preview of a promo for this week’s Saturday Night Live, which will feature Taylor Swift performing and hosting. Why do I have a feeling that Swift’s eye-rolling at Bill Hader’s insistence on making a Kanye joke doesn’t necessarily mean that there won’t be three or four or 10 references to the notorious Video Music Awards incident during the 90 minutes of this week’s program? Oh right, because of SNL’s writing staff, which never met a joke it couldn’t bludgeon to death. [MTV] MORE »
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The Jonas Brothers’ Non-Breakup: A Comment Section Reacts
Rumors that the Jonas Brothers were breaking up, fueled by the boys going in different directions during some recent downtime, were summarily squashed by the brothers via a MySpace blog post last night. The post did note that Nick Jonas is going to release a Nashville-recorded solo album, Nick Jonas & The Administration, early next year. (”If I was to describe the sound to someone,” wrote Nick, “I would say its [sic] ‘heart & soul’, because the music that I make is from my heart, and the lyrics I write are from my soul.” Thanks for clearing that up!) And as such, it garnered pages and pages of heart- and support-filled comments from the JoBro faithful, who apparently wanted to live up to the “best fans in the world” tag that was bestowed upon them in the blog post: MORE »
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Have You Taken Time Out Of Your Day To Be Nice To Your Local Popstar?
In the wake of yesterday’s horrifying incident in London where an apparently lovestruck (??) fan punched the excessively inoffensive Leona Lewis, the British pop-clearinghouse Popjustice has released a manifesto declaring that we need to enter a new era of being nice to pop stars, and resisting the reflexive snark that has taken over so many corners of the Internet. “It should be possible for popstars to sign copies of mediocre books without fear of being hit around the head by a bellend,” writes Popjustice, “and it is the absolute right of anybody to go about their daily job without fear of being punched, unless they are Perez Hilton.” Well all right then! How can you be nice to a pop star today? Popjustice has a couple of ideas. MORE »
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Ugh, this whole John Phillips thing (short-short version: his daugher Mackenzie, formerly of One Day At A Time, went on Oprah to say that her late father, formerly of The Mamas & The Papas, had sex with her the night before her 1979 wedding, and carried on an affair with her that went beyond that) is so gross. So, so, so gross. A friend asked if he’s officially the worst person in rock-music history as a result of these revelations, and I don’t even know how to answer that. Thoughts? [Oprah.com / AP] MORE »
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Impromptu Miley Cyrus Show Inspires Dozens Of Crab-Leg-Munching Tweens To Bust Out Their Cameraphones
Miley Cyrus is filming the flick The Last Song–”A drama centered on a rebellious young woman who is sent to spend the summer with her estranged father,” according to IMDB–in Savannah, Ga., and while she was hanging out at the local seafood emporium StingRay’s, some friends convinced her to join the establishment’s roster of live entertainment. So she treated the crowd to two tracks: The Tim McGraw/Faith Hill duet “It’s Your Love,” and the above song, a new track that seems to be called “I’ll Never Fall In Love With You,” based on the old “the most repeated words in the song are the title” maxim. When Miley was done, she was swarmed by about 50 girls and their parents, according to reports. Which made her kind of claustrophobic! MORE »
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Wavves And Susan Boyle Appear In Their Own Versions Of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here”
Nathan “Wavves” Williams and Susan “Conventionally Unattractive People Can Have Good Voices Too” Boyle both stumbled along the path toward celebrity this week. Williams, whose lo-fi star has ascended almost as quickly as the backlash against him, saw his drug-fueled antics onstage in Spain last week result in music-blog chatter and a canceled European tour; Boyle–the early favorite to win the Simon Cowell vehicle Britain’s Got Talent–capped a week of British tabloids chronicling every bad word she said with a second-place finish on the show. Shortly afterward, she checked herself into a UK hospital because of “exhaustion.” Sure, Wavves (and its attendant backlash) is relatively small-potatoes compared to Boyle’s lauding by the likes of Oprah Winfrey and hounding by the British press, but yet again, one is forced to wonder why anyone wants to be famous at all. MORE »
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Dear Lady GaGa: Sorry, But You Do “Look Like The Other Perfect Pop Singers”
Look, I know that your whole schtick is that you’re “in on the joke” regarding the dubious honor that is “celebrity” in this degraded age–the videos featuring reality-show castoffs that leave recreations of the crash that killed Princess Diana on the cutting room floor, the palling around with the noxious-yet-known Perez Hilton, the whole thing, the extensive library of quotes about not wearing pants. But dressing up in bubbles, lipstick, and not much else for the freaking cover of Rolling Stone and then blathering about how you don’t look like a pop star? You’re just doing this to get peoples’ noses out of joint, aren’t you? MORE »
