Look … if Kanye West wants to be a bitchy crybaby about his lack of MTV awards in 2007, that’s fine with me. Really.
But when you say you’re “never comin’ [back] to MTV,” and when you get all vulgar about it, you’d better mean it.
Oops!
F*ck MTV! Tell ‘em what the f*ck I said! …
I’m never coming to MTV!
Y’all find Britney! Get Britney!
Get a real f*ckin’ artist! Get Britney f*ckin’ Spears!
… and it’s well worth listening to in its entirety, by the way! Fun stuff.
So yeah … Kanye suddenly had a change of heart and decided to scream his trademarked epithets at the MTV video awards. How nice and thoughtful.
I’m not sure what’s funnier: The fact that Britney completely cleaned his clock again, or that his “favorite” song was recorded just two weeks ago. Can you say “flavor of the month club”?
Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash is a legend in his own right, but calling modern musicians “sell-outs” looks a little petty.
“I think what was great about Guns N’ Roses is that we made it on our own integrity and we didn’t give up anything to anybody and made it on our own merit. The early gigs didn’t pay well at all. We actually looked forward to getting paid after a gig, but it was usually for the beer. I kept a straight job for a while.”
He says of fame-hungry modern rockers: “Everybody else is making compromises and concessions so that they can make it big and get their picture on the cover of Teen Beat or Us Weekly or whatever, you know, so, so…There’s a sort of, kind of, selling out to that.”
To that, The Audio Perv replies with a bootleg video of Slash performing “Sweet Child of Mine” with… Fergie. Of all people.
Even better is that lawyers for Guns ‘N Roses are suing the makers of video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band for more money, forgetting that Slash is front-and-center on the packaging for Guitar Hero 3 — and I’m sure richly compensated for that honor. The sour grapes are news to us, since he played “Welcome to the Jungle” at a GH3 press event in January.
What was that about compromises and concessions?
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First, a little bit of history:
- Paris Hilton headlined PETA’s “worst-dressed” list for 2005 because she wore lots of fur coats.
- In February 2006, anti-fur PETA activists pelted her with “flour bombs” (like a water balloon with a puff of smoke instead) after she appeared in Julien Macdonald’s show at London’s Fashion Week.
- Sometime in the next three months, PETA got to her. By May, Paris had sat down with Heather Mills and watched the group’s anti-fur videos, and started saying that she would no longer wear fur. Paris even told Pam Anderson that she might want to start being an anti-fur spokesperson.
- In June 2006, Paris’ spokesman Eliot Mintz told TMZ: “Paris does not wear fur, nor will she wear fur described as artificial fur knowing it came off the backs of animals.”
- More firm quotes followed. To World Entertainment News Network: “I am not going to be wearing fur anymore.” To China’s Xinhua news agency, about the meeting with Heather Mills: “From that point I’ve never worn fur and I never will.”
- Mills herself claimed last year that Paris was “an absolutely lovely girl and actually quite bright” (which should be the first sign that something is amiss, but I digress…) “After she had used a box of tissues she said, ‘I will never, ever wear fur again and I will hand all my fur over tomorrow’, and she did.”
Which brings us up to the present day. Berglund of Copenhagen, a famous furrier in Denmark, announced proudly on its website last month that “Paris Hilton ordered 3 jackets … at her recent visit.” And unless I’m misunderstanding something, Paris was also wearing Berglund furs in a December 2007 issue of Star magazine.
Here’s a lovely MSN StarLounge story with a slideshow of Paris Hilton’s many Danish furs (that first one sells for over US $45,000). Now why on earth can’t you find this anywhere in the English-speaking world? Does anyone out there read Danish? I know that their coins have holes in the middle, and their pastries don’t. That’s about it.
Everybody repeat after me: Celebrities who say they’re too “moral” or “ethical” to wear fur coats or eat meat are not to be trusted. They all float back to earth eventually — as soon as they realize that they’re not that special, or that PETA is a corrupt bunch of opportunistic leeches.
Sean Diddy Combs (can we agree to call him that?) recently made an online video to rant about the cost of fuel for his private jet. His diamond shoes must be too tight too.
He went on to say he’d degraded himself to flying coach on American Airlines:
“Even your boy is being affected by gas prices!” Sean “Diddy” Combs said in the video, which was filmed at an airline gate as he entered a plane. “As you know, I do own my own jet and I have been having flying back and forth to L.A. pursuing my acting career. Now, if I’m flying back and forth like twice in a month, that’s like $200,000 or $250,000 round trip. I’m back on American Airlines right now. OK? Your boy Diddy right now is on American Airlines.”
Green bloggers rejoiced at his announcement, thinking maybe this also meant Diddy was paying attention to his carbon footprint.
Not so much. Turns out Diddy has never owned a private jet, according to federal records.
One private aviation source scoffed: “It’s my jet this, my jet that. I have list of every plane with the name of the owner, and he’s not on it.”
Heh. But what I don’t get is why Diddy would lie. He’s been in the business long enough that he has established street cred, unlike, say, Akon and we all remember what happened when those exaggerations came out.
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