This Is Why We Love Lily Allen [20 August 2007]

From Lily's MySpace blog:

Monday, August 20, 2007

hello all

v festival was great, thanks to everybody who came ,

i just want all my fans to know this ,

I have called george bush a c**t at pretty much every show i have played over the past year , that is because I think he is one and i stand by that . You can make up your own mind as to whether you agree with me or not , thats just how i feel . Just because i hate george bush doesnt mean I hate america , quite the opposite , I think the US is a great place and I am really sad that I cant be there for my commitments scheduled for the near future . what i said about George Bush this weekend bears no relation to what happened a couple of weeks ago with my visa , that is an issue with the US immigration service . I just wanted to let you all know that my " foul mouthed tirade " so widely reported over the past couple of days is actually pretty rehearsed and ive beeen saying it long before all this visa issue .

also me raising a drink to Amy , was just that , showing my support for her . I've been around enough substance abuse and alcoholism to know that it's a serious matter , and not to be taken lightly .

im sorry, i wanted to write this because i felt like if i didn't say anything you all might believe the rubbish your being fed .

Lily

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You Maybe Should Or Should Not Hate Pete Wentz, Depending On Whether He's Your Best Friend Or Your Romantic Rival

[image courtesy stereogum]

Alternate post title: "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race". Second alternate post title: "Sugar, We're Goin Down".

[Actually, the real title of this post would make a great Fall Out Boy song title...Pete -- call us!!! -- Ed.]

So, didya happen to catch Fall Out Boy's performance at Chicago's Schubas Theatre the other night???

Initial reports after the show were that FOB bassist-and-lyricist-and-Ashlee-Simpson-uhhhhhh-"dater" Pete Wentz went all medieval-and-shit on a "fan" who heckled Pete about Ashlee Simpson or his guyliner or his punny songtitles or something. The above is supposedly a picture of the aftermath of Pete attacking said heckler with a beer bottle.

The scene -- sadly, not Pete's first concert-inflicting beatdown -- is quite adequite, doncha think???

Well, not surprisingly, Pete took to the media the next day to tell his side of the story:

"The story on the Internet is absolutely false," he wrote in an e-mail. "Yes, we were playing an acoustic afterparty for Spin. It was a good time for the most part. Yes, the guy was heckling me and the band, so were other people, most in good fun. But we get heckled onstage all the time, and while I'm a jerk, I'm not the kind of person who would ever lash out at someone simply over this...

"The truth is on the way out the door I had to pass directly next to the guy and I knew it, so I kept my head down and walked out. As I did, the guy reached out and grabbed me and said something I couldn't really hear — it was a glorious use of the English language, though," he continued. "As he grabbed me, I punched him. Yell all you want at me, say whatever, but in a situation like that I will defend myself. After that, of course, it got chaotic, [but] we have several independent witnesses that gave statements saying he grabbed me first ... I am not worried over the outcome, as I was clearly in the right. Anything anyone else is saying or writing is simply not true."

Pete Wentz Offers His Side Of The Fall Out [MTV, via stereogum]

[ah, Stereogum, you guys are SO CLEVER with your post titles -- Ed.]

[i.e., "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am" -- Ed.]

Okay, so there's a he-said-he-said thing going on here. I'm sure I know whose side FOB-singer-and-trucker-hat-and-mutton-chop-model Patrick Stump is on [actually, even though Patrick can't seem to figure out why so many people seem to dislike Pete, that link points to a very interesting interview with Patrick...seriously -- Ed.].

I can't take sides here -- in fact, Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name Of This Post So We Wouldn't Get Sued. So all of this is really prelude to...

...my Video Of The Day:


[video courtesy craigshimala.com via stereogum]

[actually, we're kinda digging FOB's cover of "Beat It". Also, the video clearly shows about a half dozen other fans vid'ding the show -- where are those vids??? -- Ed.]

Supposedly, this camera-phone video was taken by the very-same beat-down victim who left his blood on the dance floor in the photo above.

So, he got film of this, but not of his own celebrity beat down??? So, what do you think -- Sophmore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year???

Leave your thoughts in the comments.

P.S. "Craig" -- Fame < Infamy.

[Ed. note: we at DHMBIB are not FOB or Pete Wentz haters. and if you don't believe us, stay tuned over the next few weeks, as we'll be writing about the best CDs of the first half of '07 [*cough*]Infinity On High[*cough*]]

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BREAKING: Rich Trying To Get Richer At "You"r Expense

[graphic courtesy news.com]

We haven't been paying much attention to news today -- we're just so gosh darn excited about seeing DIANA ROSS on American Idol tonite -- so we haven't heard if there's any big news regarding copyright-infringement-on-the-internets lawsuits. If we hear anything, we'll have to digest it before we can post about it.

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This Week In Lily Allen: 27 February 2007 Edition

[image courtesy idolator.com]

Lily Allen is just cute as a button [guv'na]!!!

DHMBIB <3's Lily Allen!!! Lily was anointed the indie-music-bloggosphere's biggest crush last year, and now she's crashing our shores.

Just cuz, I'm devoting a "This week In..." entry to her.

* BREAKING: Lily Allen Doesn't Care About Corrine-Bailey-Rae-Named People, Lady-Sov-Named People:


[image courtesy myspace.com/lilymusic]

[Ironically, as I blog this, I'm watching Ellen DeGeneres dance around her set to Kanye West. How meta.]

12 February 2007:

Lily Allen: "Corinne Bailey Rae? I think she's a bit boring, sorry. She's a lovely girl but I don't think her music stands out and I'd be a bit annoyed if she won Best Female Artist [at the Brit Awards, the British Grammys]."

22 February 2007:

Lady Sov: "I'm not hating on her but someone like Lily Allen, just 'cause her dad's famous, doesn't have to work as hard as someone like me. You get some of the media hating people 'cause they're 'chavish' but she's the biggest chav going." [In the same interview, Lady Sov also called CBR "boring" -- Ed.]

22 February 2007:

Lily Allen: "Dear Lady Sovereign: In response to Miss sovereigns comments, I've spoken to my Dad and he says he'd be happy to adopt you if you think it will give you a leg up." [sic]

[Ooh, snap!!! -- Ed.]

* BREAKING: Lily Allen Doesn't Care About iTMS Bully People:

"...iTunes [is] kind of bullying people into corners by making sure they have extra, you know, extra songs so they can put them on the front page. And they won't [advertise] your album unless you kind of give them extra material and so on. And we've kind of been backed into a corner. We want to do this remix, but the remix isn't ready, but they need it delivered by today and blah blah blah. So I said, 'Okay, fine, give iTunes the rubbish remix, and then what I'll do I'll get the people remixing it to do a good remix and then we'll give it away for free on MySpace."

[Sound Opinions, via Idolator]

* BREAKING: NBC Uni Doesn't Care About "You"-Lily-Allen-Loving People:

Lily Allen was the musical guest on the 3 February 2007 show of Saturday Night Live. Lily's performances made it up to YouTube -- where, of course, they no longer are, because NBC Uni C&D'd YouTube. And, of course, guess which other site they're not on -- that's right, kids: NBC.

[NBC's SNL site lists the 3 Feb 2007 episode as the "next" episode. Douchebags.]

But a trailer is still on YouTube:



*****


[Smile, Lily!]

*****

Here is the "rubbish remix" that those bullies at the iTMS insist you *must* hear:

Lily Allen - Smile (Mark Ronson Remix) [mp3, via YSI]
Lily Allen - Smile (Mark Ronson Remix) [mp3, via zShare]

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This Week In Tonight In American Idol: 20 February 2007 Edition

At the very last minute, I decided I would live-blog American Idol tonight. Sue me.

8:00 PM: Ryan Seacrest tells us that "tonight, You take over". You again. I'm getting tired of You.

For background and ID info on our "semifinal 24", check here. We start with the men -- the women come up tomorrow.

8:02 PM: Ryan tells us that if we don't understand his explanation of how the next 3 weeks will work -- men and women compete among their gender groups, and 2 of each will be eliminated each week until we're down to 12 finalists [6 men and 6 women] -- we can "rewind" and hear it again, then "fast-forward" past the introduction of the judges. In case you took Ryan's advice, Simon tells the contestants that they should "sing well". Too bad he didn't give the same advice to Taylor Hicks last season. [Ooh, snap!!! -- Ed.]

8:11 PM: First up is Rudy Cardenas. Rudy performs "Free Ride" by noted Albino-American Edgar Winter. I've always hated this song, but Rudy's performance is passable. Randy calls it "corny". Paula calls it "fantastic". Paula is drunk medicated. Simon says Rudy does not have a "distinctive voice". Randy agrees. Paula repeats the word "fantastic" 3 times.

8:17 PM: During the first commercial break after the performances have begun, we get a commercial for AI. We hear Chris Daughtry's "Home" as the background music. My sister predicted in response to one of my earlier posts that "Home" would be the AI official "You've Been Whacked!!!" song this season. I think she's right.

8:20 PM: Our first commercial for the series finale of The O.C. Does anyone still care about this show??? Memo to Fox -- why waste an AI lead-in on a fucking series finale???

8:22 PM: Next up is Brandon Rogers. He performs a very lame version of Michael Jackson's "Rock With You". Randy calls it "pitchy" and "not your best performance". Paula reminds Brandon he's not a background vocalist anymore. Simon calls the song "too safe" and says he's much better than his performance.

8:27 PM: Next up is early-favorite Sundance Head. Sundance performs "Nights In White Satin" by the Moody Blues. I've always thought this song was vastly overrated as a "classic rock" song, but I'm sorta [but only sorta] heart-ing Sundance's take on it. Randy -- correctly, alas -- calls it "pitchy" and "off". Paula says Sundance "picked the wrong song". Simon says Sundance was "like Dad at a wedding". He notes that Sundance didn't bring the "rough, bluesy" style he showed earlier. He calls the performance "flat".

I personally hope Sundance survives his subpar performance this week -- I think he has potential in this competition.

8:37 PM: Next up is Paul Kim. During the performance, Paul does something that has never been done on AI before at least 3 different times -- he performs barefoot. Paul performs "Careless Whisper" by George Michael. Another song I never really liked, but I'm really heart-ing Paul's rendition. Randy doesn't like the performance as much as I did, but sees "a lot of potential". Paula says Paul "oversang the song" and was "pitchy". Simon suggests that Paul put his shoes on next week. He calls the performance a "copy", "third-rate" and "not overwhelming".

Never been done before, that whole barefoot thing:



[Paul Kim's gay barefoot performance of a George Michael song looked something like this. Except he was standing. And he didn't have these weird drum guys. And it wasn't as good as this.]

Ryan joins Paul on stage -- without his shoes. Randy asks Ryan why he is without shoes. Ryan responds: "I just got a new pedicure and I wanted to show it off". Ryan Seacrest is approximately as gay as George Michael, Clay Aiken, and Paul Kim.

8:44 PM: Next up is Justin Timberlake-wannabe Chris Richardson. Inexplicably, Chris performs "I Don't Wanna Be" by Gavin DeGraw. Which was a losing pick for Bo Bice back in AI4. Randy misidentifies the song as "an Edwin McCain song" but calls it "the best performance of the night." Paula loves it too. Simon says Chris's voice sounded "small" and "below standard" but predicts the girls will vote him through.

8:55 PM: Next up is Nick Pedro. Nick Pedro famously made it to the Hollywood round of AI5 but "withdrew" just before the door hit him in the ass on the way out. Nick performs "Now And Forever" by Richard Marx. But not very well. Randy didn't like it at all, calling it "pitchy". Paula agreed, saying he didn't have the "magic" from his audition. Simon says, "I didn't think it was that bad, actually." Simon agrees that Nick wasn't as confident as he'd been during the auditions, but predicted he'd make it through this week.

9:04 PM: Next up is Blake Lewis, who performs "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane. Randy expresses surprise at the song choice and calls it "pitchy" but says he liked it. Paula also thinks it was an odd choice but liked it. Simon says Blake is the first singer tonight to "sound like someone from 2007". Simon calls it the best performance of the nite.

9:13 PM: Next up is Sanjaya Malakar. Wouldn't it be interesting to see Sanjaya win -- he's very good -- and see the producers struggle with how to promote him??? Also, FWIW, Sanjaya is the youngest male in this year's competition. Watch for the "age factor" to be important -- both on the stage and off -- this season.

Sanjaya performs "Knocks Me Off My Feet" by Stevie Wonder and does a great job IMHO. But Randy hates the performance and says the song is "too big for you." Paula also thinks he failed to match Stevie's level. Simon calls it "dull" and "the worst performance of the night". All of the judges agree that his age is not a factor in their opinions. Which simply confirms that the judges got Nigel's memo, and that AI is looking for older performers who are more mature and actually connect with the music they are performing.

9:24 PM: Next up is Jack Osbourne Chris Sligh who performs "Typical" by Mute Math. The performance is good, but I think it's a bad song choice. Randy calls it a great song choice and loves the performance. Paula agrees. Simon hates it -- both the song choice and the performance -- which validates my existence. Simon also picks a fight with Ryan and calls him "Sweetheart", which Ryan does not respect. Chris comes back with "I guess I could've sung the Teletubbies". Uhhhh.....

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I had never heard of this band Mute Math before tonight. They're from New Orleans, and they seem to be Killers-wannabes. Here they are performing "Typical" on The Jimmy Kimmel Show:



9:34 PM: Next up is Jared Cotter. Jared tackles "Back At One" by Brian McKnight, which is pretty ballsy. And I'm not a big fan of his performance. Randy calls it "alright" but "not your best". Paula says "there's more to you". Simon calls it "unadventurous" and "nasaly". Simon says he needs "to take a few more risks than that".

9:39 PM: Next up is A.J. Tabaldo, who performs "Never Too Much" by Luther Vandross. Again with the ballsy choices. The performance is good, though. Randy calls it "pretty good", but says A.J. "didn't bring anything new to it". Paula says he did a great job. Simon calls it "good, nothing great, nothing terrible". He also calls it "a theme-park performance".

9:49 PM: Our final performer of the nite is Phil Stacey. Phil is the guy who missed the birth of his child so he could make the auditions. Phil performs "I Could Not Ask For More", which, completely in spite of the fact that it was written by the craptacular hack Diane Warren, I think is actually a good song. "I Could Not Ask For More" actually was an Edwin McCain song. It was also covered by "country" singer and "Dancing With The Stars" veteran Sara Evans [a love for the music of Sara Evans is, I GUARAN-DAMN-TEE YOU, the only quality I share with Tom DeLay]. Randy says it was the best vocal performance of the nite. Paula agrees that after a rough start, he really hit it. Simon agrees the start was shaky, but that he made it "okay", but "didn't nail it". Simon predicts he'll make it through.

9:52 PM: Ryan gets in the first "Britney Spears is bald" joke of the season by commenting that Phil Stacey was "going with the Britney Spears haircut".

9:53 PM: Ryan asks Simon why he was so negative tonite. Simon responds that he doesn't believe in lying to people or patronizing the audience. "It wasn't the best set of performances tonight." But here's your money shot of the nite...Simon: "I'm not going to lie to people. You can do that on your radio show, Ryan." Ouch!!!

*****

Overall, I'd say it was a pretty mediocre nite. If I were forced to predict who will get the boot on Thursday, I would say.... The bottom four will be: Sundance Head, Sanjaya Malakar, Nick Pedro, and Chris Sligh. Of the four, I think Sundance and Nick are the most likely to make it through.

*****

Just because, I leave you with Sara Evans's excellent cover of "I Could Not Ask For More"...

Sara Evans - I Could Not Ask For More [mp3, via YSI]
Sara Evans - I Could Not Ask For More [mp3, via zShare]

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BREAKING: NBA doesn't get this whole "You" thing

In the time between my tracking down the limited availability of weekend musical performances online and my checking on the live-ability of my post, I found this with respect to my Xtina clip from the NBA All-Star Game:

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by National Basketball Association"

And because the NBA is so You-savvy, the video is not even available on their site.

Fucking douchebags.

Please trust me -- Xtina rocked and ruled.

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This Week In Christina Aguilera & Christina-Aguilera-Wannabes

You really disappointed me this weekend.

Over the weekend, I started thinking about how this was the best time of the year for big-time music stars. There are all sorts of opportunities to make high-profile appearances. Just in the last three weekends, we've had the Super Bowl, the Grammys, the Daytona 500, and the NBA All-Star Game. Next weekend is the Oscars. All of these high-profile teevee/entertainment events provide an excellent opportunity for big-name music stars to reach mass audiences to plug their new projects shill for Oscar votes or record sales entertain us with their great art.

But I rely on You to record all of this for me so I can mooch off Your hard work and link to it.

Yes, I know. You think I could just do this myself. I know what You're thinking -- it's just as "easy" for me to record this, edit it, upload it to YouTube, etc., as it is for You. Except: 1) I don't have cable [or satellite, or carrier-pigeon-TV, thank goodness for that], which means I only get to see a handful of channels at home 2) with my crappy antenna, which doesn't produce good video, and 3) I'm usually not home when these events occur, because I want to see them clearly with friends, etc. So, You see, I can't really do this myself. That's why I rely on You to do this for me.

That's why I'm so disappointed in Your [lack of] efforts this weekend.

I was thinking over the weekend I would do a "high points and low points of musical performances over the weekend" post. But I can't find several of the key performances on YouTube or anywhere else. Big & Rich singing the National Anthem at the Daytona 500? Nope. Toni Braxton performing at the half at the NBA All-Star Game? Nope.

So, clip-challenged because of YOU, I decided to work with what I could find. So I present: This Week In Christina Aguilera & Christina-Aguilera-Wannabes...

* CHRISTINA AGUILERA

Regular readers of this blog should not be surprised that I have declared Christina Aguilera's half-time performance at the NBA All-Star Game to be the best of the weekend. Coming off her bringing-the-house-down performance at the Grammys one week earlier, Christina humbled Toni Braxton -- her "opening act" -- on Sunday nite with her performance of "Ain't No Other Man" and "Candy Man". Fortunately for You, someone else got the whole thing up on YouTube:

[Spoiler alert: Xtina was rocking platinum-blond hair and bright red lipstick during this performance.]



Yes, Xtina is singing live. And she obvs don't need no ProTools help. Unlike...

* KELLY CLARKSON

Well-known American Idol 1 winner and Xtina leech wannabe Kelly Clarkson was the "featured" pre-race performer at the Daytona 500 on Sunday afternoon. Apparently, there is a difference between the "studio" KC and the "live" KC. Kelly performed three songs -- the predictable "Since U Been Gone" and "Miss Independent", and, sandwiched between them, a new song called "One Minute". Kelly's performances of "Since U Been Gone" and "Miss Independent" were predictably jump-up-and-down-and-throw-your-hands-in-the-air-errific, but not equal to the "recorded" versions we all know and love.

And no thanks to You, only her performance of "One Minute" has made it to the internets.

What's that smell??? Smells like teen spirit record company viral marketing to me:



But I will give Kelly Clarkson mad props for this: she managed to grow 9 inches of hair in only 24 hours -- compare and contrast the Sunday video above with this photo from Daytona Saturday:



P.S. I actually liked Kelly's outfit on Sunday. I hope she remembered the sunscreen for her back -- she strikes me as the pale-skin-burns-easily type.

ciaobaby

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BREAKING: Most People Are Bad Singers, Refuse To Acknowledge It; Rupert Murdoch Still Smarter Than You

American Idol has returned!!!

AI vets know that this part of the season highlights the worst of the worst. Indeed, it was the train-wreck failed auditions that originally hooked people on AI in the first place [remember back in '02 when AI watchers -- especially those who tuned in after hearing their friends describe Simon's sharp-tounged put-downs of the losers who had no clue they couldn't sing -- were disappointed that the remaining contestants' reasonable vocal skills were not prompting much biting criticism from the judges???].

As AI has evolved over time, and grown into a cultural phenomenon that leaves network execs at networks not named "FOX" shaking in the corners of padded rooms, both the judges and the potential "contestants" have gotten savvier about 1) delivering what the viewers want in the early weeks [audition train-wrecks and put-downs], and 2) how to make the most out of their one chance at 15-minute-fame. Thus, we get auditioners that are either delusional about their lack of talent, or deliberately bombing hoping to be the next William Hung -- or both [Troy Benham, the "Urban Amish" guy who claims never to have seen AI, and to not even have "broadcast television", but who somehow manages to be on MySpace -- I'm calling you out!!!] -- along with judges who are overly critical of marginally-talented performers [seriously, I didn't think Jessica Rhode -- the Jewel fan who kicked off the Minneapolis show by singing "Who Will Save Your Soul" to her idol -- was really that bad, and certainly not "that bad" enough to deserve the evisceration she got from the judges].

If you are even remotely interested in what happens on AI, you don't need me to link to the multitude of reviews of the first two installments of AI6. But I will link to maybe the most interesting resource -- and perhaps the most linked-to out there -- about the first two nights. Eric over at deathbycamera has done some awesome work tracking down the MySpace pages of some of this year's contestants -- winners and losers. Please note -- depending on when you check these out, some of the profiles may be already gone [including, sadly, the profile of the afore-mentioned Jessica Rhode, who listed among her "music interests" some band called "The Google Dolls"]: Minneapolis; Seattle.

deathbycamera's work got me thinking about AI in the MySpace era. Although MySpace has been around for a couple of years now, deathbycamera's work is the first I've seen connecting the contestants to MySpace profiles. Which got me thinking.

I'm sure you all know that AI is the highest-rated show on television. Tuesday's AI6 premiere was the highest-rated show in the key 18-49 demographic -- over 37 million viewers -- since the Friends finale in May 2004. But MySpace's traffic is even gaudier than that. Reliable MySpace data is hard to come by, but it is estimated that there are approximately 150 million MySpace accounts.

MySpace, you may recall, was originally designed as a community site for musicians / bands to connect with their fans unfiltered by big record companies and big radio, etc. It still is a must-have-a-profile site for even the biggest names in the business, due to its large user-base of fans who are already used to accessing music in these "non-traditional" online venues.

This large collection of musicians and music-lovers proved a potential rival to the success and influence of AI. Imagine for a moment, if MySpace had decided to organize its own AI-style "competition", it could have quickly cultivated a contestant-space [remember -- You are the Person Of The Year, for good reason] and created an audience that would have made AI's numbers look like the audience for an overnight infomercial on the H&G channel. Imagine further, if MySpace had partnered up with someone else who knew a thing-or-two about marketing music-and-lifestyle to young people [do I have to spell it out??? it rhymes with emteevee...] -- well, that's formidable competition right there.

Okay, so all of that bloviation gets me to what I've been thinking about today:

1) Did Rupert Murdoch buy MySpace because he saw it as his most immediate potential threat to his American Idol cash cow?
2) Was Rupert Murdoch being penny-wise-and-pound-Australian-dollar-foolish in not picking up YouTube, his longer-term, potentially-tougher threat to his American Idol cash cow?
3) If Viacom/MTVN had picked up either MySpace or YouTube when they had the chance, would Tom Freston still have a job???

Discuss...

Bonus gettin'-all-meta-meta-and-shit link: 'Idol 5' runner-up Katharine McPhee to appear on 'Lonelygirl15'



Katharine McPhee is not Kelly Clarkson.

[still waiting for the CD -- only a week-and-a-half to go...]

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Okay, I Think You Have Just Jumped The Shark

You. You're starting to piss me off, being everywhere and everything all the time and shit.

I thought it was pretty cool when You were named Time's "Person Of The Year" -- that's, like, even better than winning a Golden Globe!!!. Then, You were named FOXSports.com's "Fan Of The Year" -- and I didn't even know you were a sports fan!!! Okay, so then You were named Spin's "Artist Of The Year", and I felt a little light-headed just being around You and all the attention You were getting. But when I found out Ad Age had named You the Agency Of The Year, I started feeling queasy and a little bit angry -- I knew You would soon be a full-of-yourself twatwaffle.

And now You've really gone and done it.

I heard from a friend today -- not from You, of course, because You've become a stuck-up douchebag who's "too busy" to hollaback to your peeps from the block, of course -- that Paper has put You in charge of their First Annual Beautiful Person Contest. And not only that -- I heard that You've actually got a decent shot at winning:

"Hey, you. Yes, you!...Do you have what it takes to be a PAPERMAG Beautiful Person?"

Fuck You!!!

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See, This Is Why You Are The Person Of The Year

So, Fall Out Boy were in Albuquerque NM on Saturday night. At one point during the show, FOB roadies were pulling people up on stage to join the band. Eventually, venue security decided that there were enough people on the stage, and one Security Dood got into a fight with a Roadie Dood over the whole thing. A near brawl ensued, and Pete Wentz himself got right in the middle of it to put a beat down on the buzz-killing Security Dood.

18-year-old Josh, a/k/a binxxxthesynister, a/k/a "You", was there and caught the action on his phone:

I Got My Ass Kicked By Someone In Fall Out Boy...


Congratulations You, you've done it again. And you've provided us with our Video Of The Day!!!

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Which "Taking Back Sunday" song are you [not "You", but you]? According to Josh's MySpace page, he is "You're So Last Summer"...Awesome...

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Nobody Puts Milhouse Pete Barney In The Corner

This picture is not Fall Out Boy bassist-lyricist-has-anyone-figured-out-why-he's-the-most-famous-one Pete Wentz, who some people think looks more like Lacey Chabert than a character from The Simpsons. It's also not Fall Out Boy guitarist-what's-his-name-oh-yeah Joe Trohman, who some people think does look like a character from The Simpsons. In fact, it's Bart Simpson's best friend, Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten, pictured here in costume on the set of the film "Radioactive Man", which was filmed in Springfield and for which Milhouse was cast to play the part of Radioactive Man's boy-wonder sidekick, Fallout Boy.

When I started doing this a few months ago, I told "you" -- not " 'You' ", or " 'You' ", or " 'You' ", or even " 'You' ", but one or two of "you" -- that some day I would tackle the burning question: "What's the deal with Fall Out Boy's 80's-pop-culture-obsession in their band name and song titles???" I mean, for example, "Pretty In Punk", "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More 'Touch Me'", and "Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner", not to even mention the band's NAME [ahem, "Fall Out Boy", which really is a mid-90's pop culture reference, but close enough] or their [awesome] cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".

Alas, I'm afraid this will not be that some day, as it seems that not even Pete Wentz can answer that question. Famously [or is that "apocryphally"???] the band took its name from a suggestion yelled out at one of their early shows, maybe-or-maybe-not because what's-his-name-oh-yeah Trohman resembles Milhouse, even though the band [supposedly] didn't understand the [admittedly-very-obscure-Simpsons-geeks-only] reference at the time.

No, alas, this post will hook into something else not even only peripherally FOB-related -- that one of FOB's song [as previously noted] has something to do with "Baby In The Corner".

"Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner" is, as I'm sure my readers know, one of the awesome cheesy awesomely-cheesy lines uttered by Patrick Swayze in that classic 1980's coming-of-age film, "Dirty Dancing". I have wine-cooler-impaired fond memories of that film, and I'm aware that it is the favorite of at least one of DHMBIB's loyal readers.

All of that bloviation is really just an elaborate set-up for a quick post about tonight's [Monday 1.8.2007] episode of the best sictom on network teevee [last item], "How I Met Your Mother". Tonight's story: Robin's teenage [16, I believe] baby sister is visiting BigSis in New York and is "traveling with" her boyfriend of two months [!!!] who "happens" to have family in town. BabySis tells Robin that she plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend that night, which freaks Robin out and prompts all of the characters to relive their own when-I-lost-it memories. Famously-womanizing Barney tells everyone that he lost it when he was "17 -- 16 -- 14" at "a summer camp" in "upstate New York" where he was "teaching...dance". Here's the memory as flashback'ed by Barney:



A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it...

[Seriously, how does HIMYM keep raising the bar like this??? It's got to be embarrassing for the producers of the other sitcoms on the teevee. And seriously, doesn't Jennifer Grey look great???]

As I write, the ep is not online yet at Innertube, but is sure to be within 24 hours. So if you're interested, keep checking back. But at the risk of spoiling it for you, I'll tell you that Barney eventually reveals that he didn't lose it until he was 24 [I can totes relate]. Of course, the story is appropriately hilarious, but if anyone stumbles upon this blog who is facing these issues from either Robin's POV -- or from that of her "Baby" sis, or, heaven forbid, from BARNEY'S POV -- there may actually be some valuable life lessons we can all draw from this ep:

* don't do it [first] with someone you've known for only two months [BabySis]
* don't do it [first] in the dorm [Marshall]
* don't do it [ever] in the bottom bunk -- with someone else in the top bunk [eww, Marshall!]
* don't do it [ever] at a mythical summer resort in upstate New York back in the late-50's-early-60's [Baby, and Baby's sis]..[which you can't, because, well, ya know...]
* don't ever succumb to peer pressure
* don't set it up via SMS [yes, it's 2008 2007, but still...let's bring SexyBack, please...]
* and under no circumstances should you update your MySpace page about the deed before you do it -- Robin's BabySis, I'm looking at you [yes, they name-checked MySpace tonight too]...

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Hey, Rob, wasn't this post supposed to be about Fall Out Boy? Alright, fine -- here's Pitchfork's review [from Monday] of the new FOB single/video ["This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"]. Summary: the video is awesome...the song -- eh...And here's Stereogum on the single almost two months ago...

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I recently found out that Blogger has a character-max-limit of 200 in the "labels" [tags] field for posts. Which means I won't be able to label/tag this with all of the labels/tags I would like...Hmm...

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BREAKING: Website Allows Average User To Post Videos And Stuff

Hey, have you guys heard of this site called YouTube? That site's just craaaaazy, man. It's got all these videos and shit that people have uploaded. Is that possible, cuz that just sounds crazy!!!

Anyway, I found this crazy video over there, and even though it's been on the site since February 20, 2006 -- this YouTube site has been around for a year? that's just crazy!!! -- I just saw it. And I'm making it my inaugural "Video Of The Day".

Enjoy.



[Okay, that was clever. As you can imagine, after hearing the audio again, the Tubes have conflicting transcriptions of the lyrics. The consensus looks something like this. YMMV.]

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New Year's Leftovers Are Fucking --

A mega-post full of leftovers and quick takes...As always, in no particular order...

* "Livin' in the shadow of someone else's dream...": From the "Great Moments In Contextual Advertising" department...Ashlee Simpson has her first NipSlip-caught-by-the-papz moment, and Google AdSense is still hating on her -- note big sister Jess's ProActiv ad in the top right [SFW; NipSlip cropped out...phtpthtphtht]:



[The NSFW version of this pic can be found, among other places, here]

So far, there is no truth to the rumor that Papa Joe Simpson ordered Ash to flash the goods to goose Jess's page views [what with Jess's career in free-fall these days, and all]...

There's also a "Grey's Anatomy" joke here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look for it...

* And speaking of Jessica Simpson...no, not really...: Ex-Mr.-Jessica-Simpson Nick Lachey's new sweetie and MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo used the word "fucking" during MTV's New Year's Eve countdown show. No, not while describing her and Nick's New Year's resolutions. The actual line in context: "But you know what we're going to do right now? We're about to fucking --". It's about 17 seconds into the clip here:



I feel sorry for poor Vanessa, as she's clearly quite embarrassed about her slip-up. But I snicker at the "those teevee people are still corrupting our youth" media coverage of this incident, even among the "new media" types who should know better.

First, let me just clarify that the FCC regulations that got Bono in trouble for saying the same thing a few years ago do not apply to cable networks like MTV. Second, I refuse to believe that any viewer of MTV's MTV Goes Gold: New Year's Eve 2007 -- or for that matter, any show at all on MTV -- would in any way be offended by hearing this.

When this "controversy" first broke a couple of days ago, MTV publicists issued the requisite mea culpa, explaining that, yes, the show was on a "standard industry 5-second delay", but that "due to the censors being drunk on cheap champagne 'human error'" the slip was not caught.

No, Vanessa Minnillo will not be fired over this "incident". And frankly, given MTV's obvious "eh" reaction to the whole thing, and the FCC's lack of jurisdiction over these things, I wonder why MTV feels any obligation at all to keep the f-bombs off the network.

* vh1.com partying like it's 2003: See if you can pick it out...



* There's a whole post's worth of material in this picture alone: Which post I'll probably be writing soon. Is vh1.com saying that the subtext for the "Best CDs of '06" debate is, "Who was the Producer Of The Year -- Timbaland [JT, Nelly] or Danger Mouse [Gnarls]?" And what would Pharrell and will.i.am have to say about that???



ciaobaby

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META: Area Music Blogger Gazes Into Navel With Rose-Colored Glasses, Sees Rose-Colored Lint

This is left over from the end-of-the-year holiday crush, but I'm still over the moon about the whole thing.

Like lots of bloggers, I'm always interested to know if anyone out there is actually reading my precious ramblings, or even gives two shits about them. I admit to occasionally doing a Technorati search to see if any other blogs are linking to me [currently, sadly, only my MySpace blog links over here]. And I'm always scanning through my blog to look for any comments that have appeared since my last visit. [Do I need to tell you how many comments I've received at either of my blogs? Do I???]

I know that there are people who are reading, but I have been wondering who might be reading, other than the friends and family I know about.

I recently posted [no links, peruse the archives if you're interested] and jokingly suggested that some well-known music blogger[s] may have stumbled upon my blog and may have been lurking. [BTW, I totally approve of such behavior.] I dropped in some fun "bait", hoping that might lure someone to say hello.

Recently, I received a message from someone[s] -- and I won't reveal who -- who said yes, indeed, she/he/it/them have/had been reading. This was the most exciting news I've received since I've started doing this.

So, if "you" are still reading -- and I don't mean " 'you' ", but "you know who" -- THANK YOU! Thank you for reading, and thank you for reaching out to me. You have affirmed my faith in bloggeranity, and made me the happiest blogger that I personally know.

ciaobaby

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