It’s obvious bad karma for a music blog to wish for a major label to drop a copyright infringement lawsuit on a blogger for posting song leaks, but in this case we’ll make an exception, because Brtiney Spears’ corporate overlords are attempting to pop Perez “Blood-Engorged Tick” Hilton for forcing them to release Blackout before the world had time to prepare for it.
Last week we came across the news that candy-haired shitshowmeister Perez Hilton’s exclamation point-filled praise helped land Sounds Like This, the new album by Eric Hutchinson, in the iTunes Store’s top 10. More »
So shortly after my personal plea to Beth Ditto went up yesterday, someone posted a thread to the I Love Music message board under the heading “Has Anyone Here Interviewed Beth Ditto In the Last Six Months.” And apparently the person looking to “purchase an interview for publication” is Urb editor Joshua Glazer (or at least some joker pretending to be Urb editor Joshua Glazer):
Look, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt with the NME cover. Your heart was probably in the right place. But this? Perez Hilton? This has to be a gag, a sloppy Photoshop job on a slow news day from those jokers at Urb, slapping the logo on something they filched from Last Night’s Party and then passing it off as a “contest” to choose the cover for the magazine’s next issue. Right? Just look at the washed-out digi-cam quality of the photographs and the crude cut-and-paste job (especially noticeable around your noggin’). Totally a joke. Right? Please? The other photo is after the jump, along with some choice quotes from the contest’s comments section:
This week’s Newsweek has yet another article on the
alleged musical tastemaking ability of gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who–when he isn’t MS Painting coke-noses onto wire photos or crowing about his public appearances–seems to fancy himself as a sort of DJ. We’re all too familiar with his gushing prose about music artists (today, he’s freaking out about Lil Mama’s “Lip Gloss”) , and according to Newsweek, the desperate-for-any-recognition-at-all music industry is thrilled by his ability to pick anything resembling a hit:
He’s actually more of a fanatic than a fan. Hilton was so devoted to the pop singer Mika that he started blogging about him (“Mika’s music is just as hot as his model looks. However you describe it, it’s f—ing fierce!”) months before the release of Mika’s debut CD, “Life in Cartoon Motion.” In fact, he posted about Mika more than 20 times. The result: in the first two weeks, the CD sold 50,000 copies. “For a brand-new artist, that is unheard of without traditional airplay,” says Monte Lipman, president of Mika’s label, Universal Republic Records.
– If Billy Joel and his daughter can bring down Perez Hilton’s shitshow, we will never, ever complain about any part of his catalog again–even “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” More »
Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie and Perez Hilton share a moment–and a similarly Monchichilian expression–on the red carpet during Saturday’s MTV Australia Music Video Awards. Boy, she forgives easily, don’t she? More »
Celebrity bloglodyte Perez Hilton does more than just violate copyright law and incur bad karma–he also “writes” about new music. Can you pick which barely contained blurb is a fake? UPDATE: Something went nutty with our poll, but it’s all fixed now. More »
When professional blogger (and full-time turdsmith) Perez Hilton isn’t busy violating photo-copyright laws, he’s writing breathlessly exclamatory reviews of his favorite bands. Can you guess which quote actually belongs to Perez, and which is a fake? More »
If you’ve never read the celeb-sucking Photoshop shitshow that is PerezHilton.com, consider yourself lucky; you might still be able to reproduce. More »
