Pop culture is best when it’s at its worst – when headlines are so bad they’re good.
The Tone Deaf Trash Can is where we take some time to celebrate the funniest, weirdest and tackiest stories in music.
Don’t feel guilty – you’re allowed to enjoy it.
Let Jamie-Lynn Show You What Happens When You Bring A Spears To A Knife Fight
If you don’t know, now you know: don’t fuck with Britney Spears’ little sister.
Jamie-Lynn was just trying to eat her pita roll at a Pita Pit restaurant in Hammond, Los Angeles last month when she was rudely interrupted by her friend getting in a brawl.
The 23-year-old would simply not have it – she just bought her grilled chicken pita and she was going to eat it in peace, dammit – so she got up and did something about it.
Literally, no word of a click-bait lie, What She Did Next Will Shock You.
ICYMI, that’s Zoey 101 casually as hell walking to the kitchen, picking up a fuck off big knife, and scaring off the bad guys without breaking a sweat.
When would your fave?
Someone Made A Taylor Swift Vs Hottest 100 Mashup That Shouldn’t But Also Needs To Be Heard
The whole #Tay4Hottest100 debate has been trouble since it walked in, and almost two weeks on from that initial Buzzfeed article it continues to snowball on its ugly path of think-pieces, petitions and Facebook debates that at this point seems like it will never end.
What was life like before it? What will life be like after? Dark and even darker, probably.
But before this whole phenomenon becomes something we cringe at in December when looking back on The Year That Was, let’s flog this still very lively horse a few more times, shall we?
Enter Perth school teacher and DJ, Jaymee Franchina, who invested 72 hours of his time creating a mash-up mix of Taylor Swift and some of the most popular Hottest 100 tracks from over the years.
The result sees vocals from 15 Taylor Swift songs placed over the top of Triple J classics like ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Paper Planes’ and ‘Royals’. Not many people are brave enough to make it through the full 33-minutes, but those that have reportedly come out the other side as full-blown converted Swiftys in case they weren’t already.
Explaining on Facebook why he made the ‘Everything’s Taylor’ mix, Franchina said he “would rather have her in the triple j Hottest 100 then (sic) any arrogant producer that has made one good song and thinks that they have the right to be rude and obnoxious to others.”
Morrissey Just Cried Ebola To Avoid Signing An Autograph
Did you know some people are better than others?
Guy who would just throw the worst dinner parties, Morrissey, has reportedly used ebola – you know, the virus that has killed 8,626 people primarily in West Africa, aka not a very good thing for Western people to make light of – as an excuse for not signing an autograph for a fan.
According to a Morrissey fan, who posted the story on fan site Morrissey-Solo, the morose singer refused to do an autograph because he claimed to have ebola. Yep:
“I met morrissey tonight but unfortunately his bodyguard would not allow me to take a picture and when I asked morrissey for his autograph he told me he couldn’t because he has ebola…. typical morrissey answer… still exciting though”.
Credit to the fan for not being too defeated by the whole thing – shit, they even found it “exciting”.
Oh, Morrissey. Isn’t he just the sweetest?
(h/t Stereogum)
SNL‘s Parody Of Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein Ad Is Pretty Much Perfection
Though I’m still convinced Justin Bieber is a parody of himself and that he’s just trolling us in some kind of Shia Lebouf-esque high concept commentary piece about fame, SNL‘s resident Bieber impersonator Kate McKinnon has done the thing again and has brilliantly parodied music’s most spoofeable figure – this time in response to that Calvin Klein deal.
It portrays the ad for exactly what it is – a big, Photoshop-enhanced baby with tats trying to act older than he is to sell some undies.
“Clothes for my big weiner” really says it all.
As long as this dude exists, Kate McKinnon will never be out of a job.
Got Money? You Could Go To Prom With RiFF RaFF
Do you find RiFF RaFF dreamy? Do you just swoon over those kissable, razor-sharp crocodile teeth? Does the thought of him calling you a “chubby little fuck factory” really get you going? Great – this one’s for you.
Jody Highroller is offering to take you to prom in style – we’re talking Lamborghini arrivals and a penthouse after party – all for the cool price tag of $28,000.
So forget that holiday you were saving up for. This could change your life.
Not sold yet? Watch this and envision yourself in Katy Perry’s denim shoes.
This could be us but you playin’
