In addition to the teenaged country sensation wrestling onstage by Teddy Pinned-Her-Ass-Down, tonight’s CMT Awards–which start at 8 p.m. ET–will feature a supporting cast worthy of at least a very special episode of The Love Boat behind host Bill Engvall: Bill O’Reilly! Darius Rucker! The Nuge! Randy Jackson! Rascal “Heart Attack On A Plate” Flatts! And… Luke Wilson? Wow, I guess Idiocracy really did do a number on his career. [CMT.com] More »
So in response to/as a way of giggling over Jay-Z’s musical rant against AutoTune, a new blog counting off the reasons that the vocal-manipulation technique should be abolished has started. It already has eight reasons, including its opening the door for a potential robot takeover and manipulated Bible verses! It also takes on one of the people that Jay absolved because of his ability to write a melody, which I’m sure he’ll quibble with, but at least it’s funnier than Wyclef Jean’s Nick Cannon-assisted parody of the blipped-voice genre. [Death Of Autotune via Ian] More »
Perhaps to celebrate that his very Autotuned voice was spared by Jay-Z’s attempt to go all killing-spree on the technology, T-Pain posted a picture of a 10-pound, 197-karat, $410,000 chain to his Twitter account on Sunday, referring to himself as “Señor Recession Proof” while he did so. And in a sign that he probably won’t end up like Scott Storch, he later defended his choice to buy the chain with the assertion that his five-year-old–one of three children he has with his wife–already had a $4 million trust set aside, so why not do something stupid with what I guess is his walking-around money? A larger picture of the chain after the jump. More »
