Category: News (Page 56 of 136)

Ricky Martin gives Bush finger, fans cheer

Ricky Martin is definitely doing better elsewhere. During a recent performance in which he sang the little ditty “Asignatura Presidente,” Martin gave Bushie the proverbial one finger salute. Unlike over here where you don’t get played on the radio for telling it like it is, the San Juan fans cheered Martin on. Quoth the singer via an email statement, “[A]s long as I have a voice onstage and offstage, I will always condemn war and those who promulgate it.”

Yeah, over here we still just burn our CDs and blacklist you from getting your songs played, because this is America, filled with all sorts of freedoms.

Foxy Brown in the clink

Time to place bets on when Li’l Kim will be back in the pokey as well. Foxy Brown was held in jail overnight in Florida on batter and obstruction of justice charges. She was currently serving three years worth of probation due to assaulting some nail stylists over a manicure. Ah, the rich and stupid. One of these days they’ll all be locked up in a nice human-sized gerbil homes with nothing but shredded newspapers and their own poopy to keep them company.

Note to country music fans: grow up already

It still seems The Dixie Chicks can’t get a break as country radio stations are still refusing to play their music. This despite their Grammy slam dunk. Look, people who have your heads buried in your behinds over this matter: it’s time to get over it and move on. If you haven’t noticed lately, the president’s approval ratings are completely in the toilet, and even many of his Republican yes men are starting to turn on him. Oh wait, I forgot. The only “America” worth living in is the closed-minded kind where everyone agrees and is still living in the backwoods Dark Ages. Being a free-thinking adult sure is a bitch, huh?

The Grammys

I’m not even going to pretend that I watched the whole thing; it’s not an elitist thing, but the reality is that I don’t really tend to listen to a lot of albums that end up being nominated for Grammys, which means that I mostly watch to see older artists popping up. That’s why the highlights of what I saw were threefold:

1. The Police doing a quite acceptable job on “Roxanne.” C’mon, baby, let the world tour stop in Hampton Roads!
2. Smokey Robinson knocking “The Tracks of My Tears” out of the park. Dude’ll be 66 years old next week, but you couldn’t prove it by looking at him OR listening to him.
3. Lionel Richie singing “Hello” and making me feel like I was a teenager again.

Yeah, that’s pretty much all I can say I full-on loved…but something I legitimately disliked was the fact that when Tony Bennett won his award for Best Pop Collaboration (with Stevie Wonder), he thanked Target for being the best sponsor he’s ever had…and you could hear people booing him! Are you kidding me? The guy’s 80 years old, he’s a legend, and thanks to the sponsorship of Target, he got major publicity for his album of duets AND a prime-time special to celebrate his 80th birthday. So what if he thanked them?

I saw it coming when it happened


Shaboogie bop, indeed.

No pun intended! But, it seems that some viewers saw Prince’s silhouetted performance during Super Bowl XLI to have phallic overtones. I’m one of those people, actually, but only becuase I saw it as good ol’ Prince doing what he does best. So he stroked his guitar off – did you expect anything less? Of course, I was also screaming things like “Play ‘Soft And Wet’!” and “Play ‘Cream’ or ‘Scarlet Pussy’, goddammit!” at the screen the whole time. A medley of his “dirty” tunes would’ve rocked. Nice do-rag, by the way, Mr. Nelson.

« Older posts Newer posts »