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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Making A Joke About The Stale Nature Of Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes Is The New Making Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes
Charts
Jay Sean: What Goes “Down” Might Come Up
This week’s installment in the sorta-halfhearted scuffle between songs that are biding time at the top of the Hot 100 until the Black Eyed Peas return to the No. 1 slot for the kajillionth week this year: Jay Sean’s “Down” reclaimed the top spot after last week’s No. 1, Britney Spears’ Real Dollish “3,” sagged in sales by 33% and fell to No. 5. (It’s gaining in airplay, though, so don’t count her out just yet.) Rounding out the top 5 is a trio of familiar tunes to any chart-watcher: Jason DeRulo’s “Whatcha Say” (No. 2), Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.” (No. 3), and the Jay-Z/Rihanna/Kanye collab “Run This Town” (No. 4). [Billboard] MORE »
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Kanye West: Not Dead
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmonger, I’ll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Kanye West is dead, killed in a “bizarre car crash in Los Angeles.”
TRUTH THRESHOLD: Sigh. You guys. MORE »
everybody's a winner
Are The American Music Awards Really “Punishing” Kanye West? (Probably Not, No)
Here is what happens when you let your “content” be ruled by the twin towers of cheap snark and search-engine optimization: You get idiotic blog posts like this one at infotainment clearinghouse E! that claims that Kanye West was shut out of the nominee field at this year’s American Music Awards because of people still being peeved about the whole Video Music Awards debacle in which he ran on stage while Taylor Swift was accepting her award for Best Female Video. Because hey, it’s fun to pile on celebrities and tut-tut your outrage in their general direction, right? Luckily (at least in this case), the American Music Awards are supposedly not determined by such emotional concerns—instead, as the press release accompanying yesterday’s nominee announcement noted, “Nominees were selected from data supplied by The Nielsen Company’s Broadcast Data Systems, which monitors radio airplay performance, and Soundscan, which tracks retail music sales.” So let’s go to the numbers! MORE »
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Kanye West Keeping Relatively Quiet (For Now)
It would appear from his blog that Kanye West is going to be pretty tight-lipped about last night’s abrupt cancellation of his tour with Lady GaGa; instead of any all-caps official statements, today he and his ghost-bloggers have gone back to posting design porn on his site. Oh well, at least his Web team got rid of all those now-out-of-date banner ads… [kanYe West: Blog] MORE »
Cancellations
Oh Wow: The Kanye West/Lady GaGa “Fame Kills” Tour Is D.O.A.
Holy crap, turns out the rumors about the Kanye West / Lady GaGa arena tour being off were true; Live Nation has announced that the tour’s been canceled, and that refunds will be issued. (Well, you got this one, MediaTakeOut.) More to come, I’m sure… [ABC / Earlier; HT: AV Club] MORE »
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Is Lady GaGa Going To Choke On The “Fame Kills” Tour?
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmonger, I’ll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Despite defending the high-strung MC over his weeks-old Video Music Awards outburst, Lady GaGa has had it with Kanye is pulling out of her “Fame Kills” jaunt with Kanye West.
TRUTH THRESHOLD: Well, even Ryan Seacrest is falling for it, so it has to be true, right? MORE »
buy download kill
Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda
Tomorrow’s release-date schedule is pretty glutted with albums that—gasp!—might get people to actually spend money on music, from Madonna’s latest greatest-hits collection to new albums by the spunky likes of Miranda Lambert and Paramore. In order to help you navigate through this week, might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title? My personal preferences after the jump. MORE »
The nimbus of his fame
Kanye West Is The Best Self-Promoter / Celebrity Theorist Of All Time
Let’s say you’re an international music superstar who’s been suffering through a run of bad press recently, and you’re about to go back into the spotlight with a big, splashy arena run. How best to a) promote your tour, b) send out a message that being a celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and c) retain your artistic integrity? How about a 30-second shot of your (female) tourmate’s torso, which is nude but for a strategically placed hand or two? After all, if there’s one thing that can eradicate the ADD nature of modern humans’ brains, it’s the promise of nipple! The slightly NSFW clip after the jump. MORE »
the nimbus of her fame
Taylor Swift Is Sick Of Talking About The Video Music Awards, But Lil Mama Sure Isn’t
Unsurprisingly, the news cycle of Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards stretched into a second week, with some morning-radio DJ pressing and pressing the issue during an interview with Swift while she primly asked him to please talk about something, anything else. He, being of the clueless mook ilk, refused, so finally, instead of letting him finish—during which the DJ was apparently going to ask Swift for a psychological evaluation of the design-conscious MC—she basically handed the phone to her publicist and said “you deal with him, because I sure don’t want to anymore.” This is the same young lady who everyone felt needed rescuing a scant eight days ago? Seems like she has at least some moxie. Clip after the jump. MORE »
