Author: Captain Capm (Page 45 of 118)

Arctic Monkeys, others find Live Earth concert “hypocritical”

The Arctic Monkeys don’t think they have much to say in regards to global warming. Other musicians are feeling the same way in regards to the Live Earth show. But I’d just like to pull one quote from the piece that I find important here:

And the singer from 80s pop sensations The Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role-models.

“I’ve always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don’t,” he was reported as saying by British music magazine NME.

To that, I can only happily say, “Take that, Bono.”

Bowie and Cher!

Cocaine took David Bowie a lot of places in the ’70s. One such place was on Cher’s TV show at the time. This bizarro medley starts out with the then-current “Young Americans” and then freaks out completely, as if the coke was in control of the band. Hilarious, and somehow once again Bowie survives the disaster cleanly. Hell, the Young Americans album was his own calculated raping of plastic white soul, so appearing on Cher’s show was just another step to his next big thing.

Lou Pearlman – former king of crap, now king of fraud

Attaboy, Louie! We always knew you were slimy underneath it all. Former boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman has been indicted on three counts of bank fraud, and one count each of mail and wire fraud. Allegedly Pearlman defrauded 1000 or so investors out of $315 million. Not only that, but various banks are claiming he owes them around $120 million. It’s a great day for Lou, and an even greater day for those of us who never liked the boy band schlock he was seducing the media with for way too long.

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