This morning,
Today sat down for a chat with Delilah DiCrescenzo, the young Olympic hopeful who inspired the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and who'll be attending the Grammys next month as lead singer Tom Higginson's date. Even though she has a boyfriend! Who, she claims in her delay-plagued chat with Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, is actually
completely fine with her going on said date, although one wonders how much he was gritting his teeth when he reiterated that fact. DiCrescenzo is, bless her heart, saying that her Grammy appearance will be a good opportunity for her to humanize track and field before this summer's Olympics in Beijing, although one does wonder if her definition of "humanize" means, in part, "getting a sweet correspondent's gig if the whole running thing doesn't work out come Olympic Trials time."
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Ever wonder what it's like to write a saccharine-sweet acoustic guitar pop song comparing a girl you allegedly like to the consumerist cesspool that is Times Square, then be destined never to match its success again? Well, if you're a 13-year-old boy at the mercy of your well-meaning mother, you can now approximate this experience by shopping at Kohl's, which now has via the Plain White T's-inspired clothing line Urban Pipeline on its racks. Part of the same cringe-worthy campaign as the hoodie-stricken Avril line ("Inspired by the artists...worn by you"), the Plain White T's line features only the finest in bro training wear, plus the obligatory formal t-shirt.
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The LA Times profiles the label behind Hilary Duff and Hannah Montana, Hollywood Records. A division of the Walt Disney Company and written off for dead a few years ago, the label has used the synergy of "tween" television stars, the Radio Disney brand, and elaborate 21st-century hypnotism techniques to grab an almost-scarily impressive market share—and it'll only get bigger once that Queen and Paul Rodgers album comes out. [
