Every week there’s a bunch of music-related stories, links, videos and other internet goodies that are a little on the trashy side, but for whatever reason get everyone in the office talking.

This is what the Tone Deaf Trash Can is all about: it’s our avenue for sharing the funniest, weirdest and downright tackiest music stories of the week to help you keep up to date with the best (and worst) things happening in pop culture. Don’t feel guilty – you’re allowed to enjoy it.

Azealia Banks Vs T.I. Twitter Beef Smelt Like “Syphllis-Lipped Rectum-Vomit”

It’s been a while, but it finally happened: Azealia Banks is back. Not with her long-awaited, three-years-in-the-making debut album, of course, but with yet another braincell-killing Twitter beef. On Banks’ radar this time? T.I.

Banks and T.I.’s clash has been simmering since 2012, mainly because T.I. was working with Banks’ other, confusingly similarly-named sworn enemy, Iggy Azalea. Then, following the release of the duo’s brand new collab single, ‘No Mediocre’, Banks reignited tensions with an opportunistic low-blow directed at T.I.’s wife. Most of the tweets have since been deleted, but seeing as screenshot is a thing, they’re now here for all your cringe-viewing pleasure.

Ignoring the fact that last one sounds like the kind of brutal name-calling that went down in Grade 1 English, Banks went on to tweet about the time she stood next to T.I. backstage at Kanye’s show “ON PURPOSE… to see if [he] would do anything” but he apparently “had nothing to say.”

T.I. then responded via the other medium of choice for 21st century rap game warfare, Instagram, and cranked things up a few notches with perhaps the most hyphenated insult/threat of all time that may or may not include the phrase, “ungly-ass (sic) Gremlin-baby”. You can’t make this stuff up.

The fight eventually ended just before our short attention spans could stop caring, with Banks threatening legal action, ominously tweeting, “You’ll be back in Jail soon.”

Ultimately though, the surprise winner of this bout is T.I.’s wife, who posted this photo on Instagram that basically says everything we’re thinking. However, given the fact Banks has recently shot a new music video, we suspect this could be all part of a PR ploy to get her names in the headline in time for a new release. Given her track record, though, we’re not getting our hopes up too much.

Sia Gets Into Her Own Twitter Beef With A Laundromat, Things Get Dirty

Never come between an international fame-shy popstar and her threads, because they could use their 500,000-strong army of social media followers to generate the worst word of mouth you could imagine. At least that’s the lesson a New York laundromat learned this week when they tried to get messy with Sia’s dry cleaning.

As the story goes, old mate Sia Furler visited the Metropolitan Garment Cleaning in Queens, but when they “ruined” the 38-year-old’s goods and weren’t very nice about it, our home girl came out swinging from the chandelier, from the chanDeliEhEEEERE:

Sia then took on the smart suggestion from one follower to “Tweet the Yelp link so we can descend en masse”, and the rest, as they say, was history. Having aired Metropolitan Garment Cleaning’s dirty laundry to the whole world, their Yelp score quickly plummeted to one-star with a flurry of angry and hilarious Sia fan reviews (although they’ve since deleted the bad reviews and replaced them with good ones #notsuss).

Sia has since moved on to bigger and better things, like casually singing for President Obama at a New York gala celebrating the LGBT community (pictured above).

The Lana Del Rey Song Generator Is Hilariously Accurate

Part of Lana Del Rey’s polarising public image is exactly that – her meticulously managed, highly stylised image that’s like a hybrid mix of Nancy Sinatra and Jessica Rabbit with a vignetted Instagram filter laid over the top. After a while her melodramatic lyrics can become pretty predictable and for that, we either love it or hate it; it’s the age-old debate Tone Deaf recently settled in our ‘hit or shit’ review of her new album, Ultraviolence.

But if you’ve ever wondered exactly how Lana goes about constructing her dreamy, vintage aura – now her code has officially been cracked.

VFiles launched a Lana Del Rey song generator that churns out ultraviolently-accurate results. It works by partnering an opulent word with something morose, so you end up getting song titles like ‘Warhol Rapture’, ‘Nutella Heroine’ and ‘Grand Canyon Massacre’, all of which could easily pass as old school Lizzie Grant B-sides. Have a play for yourself.

This Guy Edited Himself Into A Britney Spears Video And Redefined Fierce

This week the internet met its newest unlikely hero in the form of Gal Volinez, a young video editor hailing from Tel Aviv.

Volinez uploaded a superbly on-point edit of Britney Spears’ 2013 single ‘Work Bitch’, painstakingly editing himself in copying Brit’s choreography in each frame of the video. The delivery is absolutely ‘***Flawless’, and the whole thing has us feeling pretty inferior about our solitary bedroom dance moves.

Watch the hilarious results below and get ready to scream ‘Yaassssssss’. Hats off, Gal.

5 Seconds Of Summer Are Single-Handely Boosting Underwear Sales

When you’re a teenage guy and a member of the second biggest boy band in the world, you’d probably think a perk of the job would be making people throw their undergarments at you à la Beatlemania. For Australian chart-toppers 5 Seconds Of Summer, though, it seems they’ve had the complete opposite effect – they’re making people put them on.

The boy band’s breakout single ‘She Looks So Perfect’ – the one that has been in the US Billboard charts for 9 weeks counting and is always playing on at least one major radio station at all times – has unintentionally reaped major benefits for clothing brand and provider of hipster clothes worldwide, American Apparel, thanks to a bit of accidental product placement.

Since the song’s release and that inescapable chorus that goes something like, “You look so perfect standing there/ In my American Apparel underwear,“ American Apparel have experienced a 10 per cent rise in sales of their classic Y-front briefs.

American Apparel spokesperson Iris Alonzo said she has “no idea if it’s attributed to the 5 Seconds of Summer song”, but considering the kind of mind control powers boy bands tend to have over their impressionable tween fans, we can hazard a guess it probably is.

At this rate 5 Seconds Of Summer could probably sell 12-year-olds organic liquid fertiliser, to be honest. But don’t give them any ideas.

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