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Who could have foreseen that a story about the musical ambitions of one of the women involved in the prostitution scandal that brought down former NY governor Eliot Spitzer would turn into a comments-box gang-bang debating the monetary value of her non-musical services? Oh, that's right. Everyone. But hey, song's at least as good as, I dunno, Ashley Tisdale? One of those Hills ladies? Something TV-related that satisfies ever-lowering expectations for radio pop, anyway. [Daily Swarm]

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Dear Stereogum, if you promise to never, ever write about hip-hop ever again (ever!)—especially with all the overwrought Wire references, factual errors about samples, misspellings (unless that errant "e" tacked onto Flavaor Flav is some Quayle-era gag I don't get), fat jokes, and ironic "z's" added to the end of words—then I promise to, I dunno, donate some of my newfound free time to the local ASPCA or a hospice or something for a little public service quid pro quo. [Stereogum]

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Music Bloggers' Inability To Not Hit "Reply To All" Remains Unparalleled

Poor Shannon at Big Machine Media. All she wanted to do was ask 340 or so music bloggers about their listening habits and preferred formats for promos, but she committed the biggest sin that one can commit when sending out an e-mail to a bunch of people: She put each and every address in the Cc: field, thus exposing these music blogs to each other in ways that left their spirits broken. So what did some of them do? Why, they indignantly hit "reply to all" and chewed her out using words like "unprofessional" and "amateur"! Surprisingly, no one hit reply to all to send a "hey dudes check out my site" e-mail, but a few of the e-mails within the thread did expose some common traits of music bloggers, which I've broken down after the jump. More »

12:15 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,647 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I'd especially like to point out how much it would suck if shannon was just a college kid with an unpaid internship stuck sending emails all day to uptight and self-riteous pseudo-taste makers. but thats just crazy talk. more »

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MTV Still Pretty Serious About Its Attempts To Get A Second Life

Yes, this ad for MTV's "Virtual Hills"—its attempt to bring the bubbleheaded fake reality show into the Second Life world it's already created for its other shows—is actually airing on the channel, "hilarious" typo-gaffe joke and all. If only they'd come up with some sort of campaign like this for the Virtual VMAs—then, maybe Kate would have run into fewer Laguna Beach beach towels, and more people who don't know a home key from a qwerty. (Although I'm willing to bet that the e-making out quotient would probably be around the same.)

Virtual Hills [VMTV; HT: Valleywag]

4:20 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By mjohnston
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"MTV Networks struck a deal with streaming video entertainment site Metacafe for a 'Virtual Worlds Virtual Music Video Contest.' Contestants will have access to audio tracks from various emerging artists as well as video clips and online editing tools to create their own music video from within one of MTV's seven virtual world environments." Suggestion: Anyone who can figure out how to recreate the winning clip from the "Make your own 'True Blue' video" contest should win by default. Reality: Anyone who actually enters this contest probably will win by default. [Billboard.biz]

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What Happens In E-Vegas Is Apparently Pretty Skanky


As part of MTV's efforts to make this year's Video Music Awards "interactive," the powers that be have set up what they're calling the Virtual Video Music Awards—basically a chance for people to create smoking-hot avatars of themselves, hang out in the virtual Palms Hotel and Casino, and maybe even e-make-out. As part of our VMA coverage, we're making Idolator intern Kate Richardson check in periodically (she's the only one of us who has a computer that can actually run the damn thing). Today, she saw how e-groupies can work their virtual magic and make her worry about the future of civilization: More »

1:28 AM on Sun Sep 9 2007
By Kate Richardson
1,984 views, 3 comments

Latest by drjimmy11: wow "virtual reality" AND Britney Spears. Tonight MTV's gonna party like it's 1999! more »

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Once More Into The Palms: We Return To The Virtual VMAs

As part of MTV's efforts to make this year's Video Music Awards "interactive," the powers that be have set up what they're calling the Virtual Video Music Awards—basically a chance for people to create smoking-hot avatars of themselves, hang out in the virtual Palms Hotel and Casino, and maybe even e-make-out. As part of our VMA coverage, we're making Idolator intern Kate Richardson check in periodically (she's the only one of us who has a computer that can actually run the damn thing). Today, she stopped by a chat for a few awkward moments and saw even more Laguna Beach towels: More »

6:13 PM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Kate Richardson
413 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tenno: Accuse the next act of ripping off Junior Senior and while they're reeling from that, just start dancing. more »

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Idolator Enters The Dark, Empty World Of MTV's Virtual Video Music Awards

As part of MTV's efforts to make this year's Video Music Awards "interactive," the powers that be have set up what they're calling the Virtual Video Music Awards—basically a chance for people to create smoking-hot avatars of themselves, hang out in the virtual Palms Hotel and Casino, and maybe even e-make-out. As part of our obsessive chronicling of all things VMA-related, we sent Idolator intern Kate Richardson into the virtual wild to check it out (she's the only one of us who has a computer that can actually run the damn thing): More »

2:15 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Kate Richardson
732 views, 1 comment

Latest by rogerniner: In space? This explains everything! MTV is being run by the Strangers, a race intergalactic mindfreakers testing and experimenting with the limits of humanity, switching us around while we sleep into a variety of different lives and guises in order more »