50 Cent showed up at the New Moon premiere on Monday for what seems like absolutely no reason, but after seeing his unusually chipper Tonight Show appearance we think we see where he’s going. MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘Kanye West’
Headlines
Britney Spears Knows Her Fans Don’t Care About Her Actually Singing Live
Britney’s coming to her own defense, releasing a statement regarding the controversy of her lip-synching during her Australian shows. The question is, did she lip-synch the statement? MORE »
listening station
Kris Allen Continues Stealing Rap Songs as His Own
Kris Allen played an acoustic set (See? Told ya Kris should only play acoustic sets) at the Vineyard in Napa last weekend, and he played a mash-up of Kanye West’s “Heartless” and Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”. Man, when he strikes gold once, he keeps on digging.
What famous rap song should Allen tackle next? Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop”? Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”? Lil Kim’s rap verse from “Lady Marmalade”? Or do you guys prefer Kris singing his own damn songs? MORE »
Headlines
Fergie Calls Kanye West “Gay Friendly” (But Not a Gay Fish)
Not everyone is anti-Kanye West at the moment (and neither am I — he can interrupt all the doe-eyed, angelic teenage singers he wants, I’m still gonna jam out to “Robo Cop” on 808s & Heartbreak). Fergie had an interview with gay mag The Advocate and had wonderful, nice things to say about him that he’ll probably blog-scream about later. MORE »
tv party
Making A Joke About The Stale Nature Of Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes Is The New Making Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes
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 »
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 »
truthmonger
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 »
official statements
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 »
