Celebrities, Music, News, Pop Culture

M.I.A. Rips Lady GaGa a New One in New Interview

Elisabeth Dickson :: Monday, July 26th, 2010 6:30 pm

It sounds like a joke your racist grandpa tells when he’s had a few too many glasses of ‘schewitz at your seder: what do a fundamentalist Baptist minister, a Jewish comedian from Queens, an androgynous Jamaican disco queen and a Sri Lankan pop star have in common? A: Apparently, all of these people despise Lady GaGa.

M.I.A. has joined the ranks of fellow haters Jerry Seinfeld, Grace Jones, and Fred Phelps by publicly slagging on Lady GaGa in a “Time Out” interview, claiming that the 24-year old singer’s journey to stardom “[wasn't] that difficult: to go from the fucking Upper East Side to a fucking performing arts school and on to a stage at the museum of fucking wherever? That journey’s about four miles.” MORE »

Celebrity Twitter Blunders

Amy Dupcak :: Friday, July 9th, 2010 5:45 pm

Twitter has shown itself to be an extremely revealing and sometimes useful medium over the last year, though it doesn’t always reveal its “celebrity” users in the best light. Namely, tweets with grammatical errors make you look pretty stupid. I now find myself feeling pretty stupid for scouring the internet in search of the ill-conceived Tweets “celebs” are writing to their millions of followers, but my loss is your gain. Here’s a Twitter list of the “strange, yet somehow compelling” and the “downright dumb.” MORE »

Rhinestones And Raging At The Semi Precious Weapons/Lady Gaga Afterparty

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, July 9th, 2010 5:15 pm

Following the sold-out Lady Gaga show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, the VIP crowd reconvened at Good Units for a very outre afterparty. The night kicked off with a performance by Prudence, who endeared himself to the crowd with unpretentious jams and cute, owlish glasses. At about 1 AM, Semi Precious Weapons took the stage, much to the high-pitched delight of their fans (many of whom were sporting paper masks of the lead singer, Justin Tranter’s, face). DJ Lady Starlight spun between sets, making sure that the throngs of people sporting glitter and studs were moving until well into the evening. As the night wound down, one thing was clear: You can definitely rely on Semi Precious Weapons to provide a spectacle that’s just as much about cool, bizarre fashion statements as it is about music.

Lady Gaga joins the BP Boycott

Jasmine Belassie :: Monday, June 28th, 2010 5:45 pm

Musicians such as Megadeath, Slightly Stoopid and Anthrax are joining forces (coming soon to a Marvel comic near you) to form a BP boycott, and Lady Gaga is apparently leading the pack. MORE »

Pat Benatar: Breaking Ground For Female Icons

Robin Bacior :: Monday, June 14th, 2010 5:00 pm

Long before Lady Gaga or Rihanna were holding the masses eyes’ wide with their wild wear, sharp dance moves and aggressive lyrics, Pat Benatar was doing the grunt work, paving the way for girls who wanted to be rock stars. MORE »

Lady Gaga’s ‘Alejandro’ Video - Not That Gay

Carmel Lobello :: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 5:00 pm

Lady Gaga’s new Alejandro video is the latest proof to my theory that when Michael Jackson died his soul immediately entered hers. Set in what must be Mexico City from the future (BladeRunner style), the 8:44-long Steven Klein-directed video is pure big budget, MJ-style entertainment- raunchy, ridiculous, and elegant all at the same time. And sure, maybe slightly gay (although not nearly as much as everyone is saying). Just like MJ. Watch the video after the jump. MORE »

Doctor Who Makes a House Call to Lady Gaga

Shannon Hassett :: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 12:30 pm

“Doctor Who” is one of those sacred little television shows, the kind that allows for its main star to change actors every few years without losing fans and employs campy special effects in place of the available advancements. It embraces its inherent geekiness and has maintained its integrity because of it, including the use of international pop stars without scaring away a highly devoted fanbase. Kylie Minogue’s appearance on the Christmas special in 2007 brought in 13.31 million viewers, the most the show’s seen since 1979; instead of rejecting this nod to pop culture — remembering, of course, that this is scifi and what that says of its audience — fans embraced the star, evidence of “Who”‘s unusual ability to combine what are normally two separate worlds. MORE »

Should Your Music Be Top Ten?

Andrew Belonsky :: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 10:00 am

A person’s music library speaks volumes. If someone asks you about your aural collection, you don’t go straight for the Justin Bieber or Miley’s infectious single, “Party in the U.S.A.” You highlight the exceptional, the rare, “Check out this live recording of Television from Max’s Kansas City” sounds way more cool than, “This is a mass produced Black Eyed Peas’ album.” What happens, then, when your favorite band blows up? Do you abandon them all together?
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Dick of the Week: M.I.A.

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, May 28th, 2010 2:35 pm

M.I.A. (or Maya, or /\/\/\Y/\, or 8====D), you dick! Over the course of the past year or so, M.I.A. has been many things: political pundit, designer of weird, geometric leggings, pregnant, champion against the ginger race — you get the picture.

Recently, she’s done many things in what appears to be part of another personal pursuit — becoming completely fucking obnoxious. MORE »

Incredible 13-Year-Old Upstages Lady Gaga

Amy Rose Spiegel :: Friday, May 14th, 2010 3:45 pm

Beautiful piano arrangements and unexpected, lilting vocals are not what I think of when I hear Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.” That is, not unless it’s being performed by 13-year-old Greyson Michael Chance. He’s a musical prodigy with a Disney-ready, stage-mom-approved name, and he’s surely on his way to superstardom. MORE »

Have You Ever Noticed Andy Rooney Complains… A Lot?

Matt Kiebus :: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 5:00 pm

I can’t stand Andy Rooney. I’m willing to go out on a limb and say I’m not alone in that respect. Each Sunday night on 60 Minutes the old cranky man will, without fail, manage to make my want to throw my shoe through the television. He is bitter about everything in today’s culture. His segment of the show is about a minute and a half of airtime to discuss his grievances with the most minute and inconsequential aspects of his everyday life. He somehow believes that he is an “average American,” and therefore people care about his observations on life. The last time I checked the average Americans haven’t been giving their social commentary every Sunday on national television for the past 32 years. MORE »

Free Comic Book Day

Amy Laviero :: Friday, April 30th, 2010 2:30 pm

Although Record Store Day has come and gone, there are more festivities to be enjoyed this weekend with Free Comic Book Day! FCBD is celebrated on the first Saturday in May when comic book shops around the world release limited and special edition issues printed specifically for the event. Most issues are short previews of upcoming stories. For this year’s FCBD, S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders, wrote a special edition biography comic called Fame, which features Lady Gaga. To check out a full list of available titles and locations, visit FCBD’s official website.

Listen to M.I.A.’s New Song, “Born Free”

Amy Laviero :: Friday, April 23rd, 2010 3:15 pm

Although there is no official information on the track, a new M.I.A. song leaked today. “Born Free” is a refreshing departure from her most well known single, “Paper Planes,” which catapulted on the charts after being featured in the Pineapple Express trailer. I guess she got sick of sounding like Lady Gaga. Like countless other artists, M.I.A. announced a faux retirement just a year ago. However, news has it the new single will be featured on her third studio album, out June 29. The song, which features muddled vocals set over heavy drums, clocks in at over four minutes; a bit long for a punk-inspired song. Click through to listen. MORE »

M.I.A. Really, Really Hates Lady Gaga

Amy Laviero :: Friday, April 9th, 2010 4:45 pm

To celebrate their re-launch, British-based music magazine NME has ten different covers this week, each with an exclusive interview. Featured artists, including Jack White, Florence and the Machine, LCD Soundsystem, and Rihanna, all discuss “the state of music today,” and where they think the industry is headed. M.I.A., however, seemed more intent on bashing Lady Gaga than anything. In the interview, M.I.A. calls Gaga a “mimic.” “She’s not progressive…none of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is,” rants the “Paper Planes” singer. “She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know?” Throughout the interview she continues to bash Gaga’s sound, image, and the countless product placements in the “Telephone” video. I was skeptical when M.I.A. said “she sounds more like me than I fucking do,” although I suppose she has a point. Click through to watch Wale’s video for “Chillin’” featuring ~~M.I.A.~~ Lady Gaga. MORE »

MTV Disconnects Gaga’s Telephone

Shannon Hassett :: Monday, March 15th, 2010 12:10 pm

Lady Gaga knew exactly who she was referring to when she named her album Fame Monster, and it wasn’t just the papa-paparazzi. MTV — proving that there’s no limit to the shameless mooching of couture coattails — has done the unthinkable. This past weekend, the network recognized the continued existence of music videos. The cause? Banning Gaga’s latest effort, of course, which is confusing for a number of reasons. For starters, MTV hasn’t aired an actual music video in about fifteen years, making its cheap grab for publicity all the more transparent. The video is a glorified commercial (product placements include Heartbeats Headphones, Virgin Mobile, Chanel, Diet Coke, Plenty of Fish, Hewlett-Packard, Chevy, Little Debbie, Polaroid, Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip), which is exactly the type of gauche advertising MTV prides itself on. If you thought the Italian American fallout was bad, have fun with the 15 million fans about to boycott for their fearless leader.