Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he contrasts the Britney Spears cover stories in the new issues of Rolling Stone and Blender:
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The latest on the Grammys, according to Entertainment Weekly: The Feb. 10 gala will go on, strike or no strike; while it's still unknown whether members of the Screen Actors Guild will participate, on Tuesday two other music unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the American Federation of Musicians, said that their members should participate in the program. The resulting show will probably be low on the banter—and the 50th-anniversary pomp, unless Clive Davis goes off on an unscripted monologue about how he was involved in every one of the music biz's good old days—and high on the paparazzi/rubberneckers, because Amy Winehouse has apparently gotten rid of her visa problems, thus clearing her way to attend the event. But!
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Ed. note: Last night, the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., hosted "The Music Of Seal On Ice," which would bring together the songs of the deep-voiced, Heidi Klum-attached crooner and the ice-skating prowess of Brian Boitano, Todd Eldredge, and Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman (who look like they're attacking Seal with Ina's skate above). And lucky for us, former Idolator guestblogger Maria Sciarrino happens to be an expert on both figure skating and pop music, so we bundled her up and sent her down to the nation's capital for a report on just what would happen when one tried to combine a Seal concert with a few jumps and spins on the ice.
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So Janet Jackson's new single "Feedback" debuted on the radio today, and given that I spent a good chunk of last night listening to the excellent—and chock-full-of-Janet—Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis four-disc box set, I was pretty psyched to hear it. But alas, this 
Stereogum released the results of its reader-voted "2007 Gummy Awards" today, and once again the winners in "Ms. Indie Rock" prove that when it comes to wank-mining material, your average indie-rocking male is looking for (gasp!) a skinny white girl with a shaggy haircut. Emphasis on the "skinny." And did we mention the "white"? Aside from a few notable tokens exceptions, there are enough pointy elbows and too-sad-to-leave-the-house complexions here to fill up a year's worth of American Apparel advertisements. Way to reject mainstream standards of beauty, dudes! The guy hotties list also features many downy, bony gents, yet somehow offers a slightly wider range of body types than the chick list's parade of waifs. The full lists are after the jump, but first our thoughts on the least sexy year-end round-up of 2007.
THE GOOD: Not even going there.
THE BAD: Sure, you could pen a 10,000-word rant on how this list of female fantasy objects reflects indie rock's insular ideals even when it comes to sex, but we'll just say that sexism, stereotyping, and body image issues will no longer be a concern in indie culture when a lady who looks like Dan Deacon makes it into the Top 20.
THE WHAAAA? R&B queen Sharon Jones deserves to be on this list if anyone does, but aside from wrecking the curve in terms of both age and ethnicity, who in their right mind would class Ms. Jones as an "indie rock" hottie? (Also whoever voted for Natalie Portman needs their life changed with a boot in the ass.)
So when Maura dropped the Grammy bomb on y'all a little earlier, the full list had yet to become available thanks to the Grammy Web site choking, which means we missed out on the all-important music video nominees! We like to think the fact that the award probably won't even be handed out during the broadcast is a tribute to the fact that the videos themselves were barely aired outside of YouTube. (I hadn't even seen two of them until a few minutes ago.) Still, we wondered, have you seen these videos (if not, they're after the jump)? And more importantly, which do you think actually deserves the nod in this less-relevant-than-ever category for the always-relevant Grammys?
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The rumor that there was a sex tape featuring Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz must have thrilled that cougar-mom who was waiting in line at Sam Ash a few weeks ago, but sadly for her, it isn't real. Which is to say that the footage does really feature him, but he's in "character," acting alongside Bonnie Muirhead, a.k.a. Bonnie from Hell's Kitchen, in a scene from his pal's film Goodnight Moon. What does it say about my blase attitude toward these OMG SEX TAPES that my first thought upon reading about this wasn't "how stupid can people be to think that a sex tape with a soundtrack and multiple camera angles is real??", but "Aw, man, Julia was robbed"? Anyway, the offending scene is after the jump, so as not to get the few of you who are actually at work today fired.
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So there's a Fergie sex tape. Purportedly. We're not gonna link it because it's A.) clearly not her and B.) we care about you and most importantly C.) it's something like No. 8 on Google Trends right now. But mainly because it's not really her. Apparently any leathery woman drinking Moet from the bottle in a fedora is easily mistaken for Fergie? Before we watched this—it begins on the toilet—we assumed a fake Fergie sex tape would be the most unerotical, non-Scott Stapp/Kid Rock sex tape featuring a musician possible. Fake or real. But now we're not so sure. Especially considering there are so many objectionable male musicians. So we polled the biggest celebrity sex tape obsessive we know to come up with this list.
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