So remember all that hoopla about this year’s Video Music Awards not being rerun, like it has been in previous years, thus forcing that sliver of the populace who still cares about music to turn in for a one-time-only viewing on Sept. 9? Yeah, well, that’s a marketing hook that’s only technically true, thanks to the whole “user-generated content” idea being so in vogue these days.
The kind of line that can be taken so many (very wrong) ways: “Investigators said a chunky textured substance seized from the bedroom of rapper DMX was not an illegal drug.” More »
File this one under: “Shit we never, ever thought we’d ever have to say. Ever.” But we are not Ted Nugent. Really. Apparenly this week’s spate of Nugent-related coverage has made some people (or at least one person) confuse Idolator with the Nuge himself. Despite the fact that our coverage was overwhelmingly negative. Downright mocking, in fact. And, you know, the fact that we’re a music blog, not a crossbow-wielding, arch-conservative, classic-rocking maniac. One man’s emphatic (if totally misdirected) plea to tips@idolator is after the jump:
El “Eldra” Debarge was arrested in L.A. this weekend on charges supposedly relating to domestic violence, though no one is really sure why because the police ain’t talkin’. More »
A female Morgan State student is suing Weezy F. after she was mowed down by the crowd at a concert when Wayne (or his bill-handlers) “threw money into the crowd during the rapper’s performance, a stunt known as ‘making it rain.'” (What, no “on them hoes,” Associated Press?)
The streaming-audio site Deezer–which drew the ire of Universal Music Group for not asking permission to host its songs on the site–is down for “special maintenance.” Someone’s in trou-ble! More »
In an interview with Newsday, 50 Cent not only proclaims Eminem “the biggest rapper on the planet” (Curtis, of course, is No. 2), he professes ignorance about the other threat to his run on the top spot come Sept. 11:
Britney Spears’ real comeback single makes its way out to the Internet just in time to beat Kanye West and 50 Cent at the “whose-leak-is-bigger-than-who” game. Good thing someone out there had enough sense to prevent her from popping out another weepy phone-call ballad…
ARTIST: Britney Spears
TITLE: “Gimme More”
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 30, 2007
ARTIST: 50 Cent
TITLE: Curtis
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 30, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 11, 2007
Last night I found myself in a large Times Square games-and-fried-stuff emporium for some skee-ball and beers, and I was somewhat surprised to hear “Chewing Gum” by Annie, a fluffy pop confection that made a bit of an Internet splash a few years ago. More »
