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News for the week of 02.02.04 - 02.08.04
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Feb 6, 2004
Thwarted Super Bowl Streaker: "Janet Screwed Me!"
from the CURSE YOUR BOOB JANET! IT'S HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER! dept.
In all the frothy furor over Janet Jackson's single breast, Irish serial streaker Mark Roberts is pouting because his penis didn't get the attention he thought it rightly deserved. “I was there, naked, apart from a plastic American football over my nether regions held on with Sellotape, doing a Riverdance in the middle of the Super Bowl, and nobody was coming after me," fumed Roberts. What is this country coming to? ACKNOWLEDGE HIS DICK!
posted by kittydeathstar at 06:44:46 AM | More Music News »
Feb 5, 2004
Breast Flash Ballyhoo Hits Home: JC Chasez Censored! NO!
from the First They Came For The Breast Flashers, Then The Boy Banders... dept.
I've been ignoring this story for the most part, thinking it had nothing to do with me. How foolish I was. The farrago over Janet Jackson's Super Bowl boob flash has claimed it's first casualty. Play the taps for one JC Chasez. Don't you dare ask who, you know he's the "talented" one from N'Sync! In what was clearly petty conservative fearmongering, Chasez has been banned from performing during the halftime festivities in the upcoming Pro Bowl telecast in Hawaii. Chasez would have been shakin' his sweet booty to his tune "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)" (fuck you Rimbaud, that's poetry). "We thought it was over the top," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It was because of the song, and how we believed it was going to be choreographed. We wanted to go in a different direction." It feels like I'm caught in a nightmare I can't wake up from!
posted by kittydeathstar at 06:33:57 AM | More Music News »
Feb 4, 2004
When Grammy Voters Want To Rock, They Put On Some Nickelback...
from the BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BOOBY? MY GOD THE HUMANITY! dept.
...or Evanescene, or Foo Fighters, or Audioslave, or Matchbox Twenty! Which is to say that if the urge to rock ever even approached them cautiously they would flee screaming like wee little girls into the comforting arms of the last Sting album. It's just beyond lazy and cowardly (two words that come to mind when I think of Audioslave, by the by). If you want the full list of depressing nominations, up to and including an almost lemming-like rush to embrace Outkast (watch out fellas, these industry fools are the kiss of artistic death), click on the link. I just don't have the strength to type the word "Beyonce" fifty million times.
posted by kittydeathstar at 06:51:13 AM | More Music News »
Feb 3, 2004
TiVo Is Big Winner In Super Bowl Halftime Show
from the Millions Of Twitching Fingers, Poised Shakily On Buttons dept.
According to Popdirt, if the den is a (self-)rockin' don't come a knockin': "The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used TiVo's unique capabilities to pause and replay live television to view the incident again and again. Overall, the halftime extravaganza had a powerful grip on viewers." Powerful grip on viewers? More like the viewers had a powerful grip on their...
posted by kittydeathstar at 11:44:58 AM | More Music News »
Feb 2, 2004
Britney To Ditch Bad Pop Music For Bad Acting
from the Catch Me In Freejack dept.
Apparently even Britney's own "people" are now acknowledging the miserable failure of her "In The Zone" platter, and the word on the street is that Britney is putting aside singing to take up acting. Heh. For the next couple of years. Heh heh. Her next project, sure to be a double entendre goldmine, is a role opposite Tim Allen in the new comedy "In The Pink."
