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.
We Are All North West Crying At New York Fashion Week
It finally happened: baby North West has had e-fucking-nough.
Enough of the Artistry, enough of the #fashion, everything.
The fed up compass direction was snapped chucking a dummy spit whilst sitting on her mum’s lap front row at Alexander Wang’s runway show at New York Fashion Week.
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The 1-year-old was wearing a bullet proof vest designed by her father and was sitting next to very done looking Anna Wintour and Beyoncé, so as far as baby tantrums go it was pretty stylish.
It all but confirms what everyone bar Kanye has long suspected – that a 1-year-old who has only just wrapped her head around the concept of solids probably doesn’t give too many shits about “artistry” or being cultured.
In short: a baby, who is a baby, cried like a baby.
Yeah. Let’s move on.
Watch Lou Reed Call The Beatles “Rubbish” & The Doors “Stupid” In This Newly-Animated Interview
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the legendary Lou Reed – man who (justifiably) held his nose at a permanent upwards tilt to the peasants below – didn’t really care for anyone else’s music but his own.
Still, this newly-animated American PBS interview gets bitchier than expected. Even for Reed’s standards.
For instance, if you thought he might’ve liked The Beatles, you should probably think again.
“No, no, I never liked the Beatles,” he says. “I thought they were rubbish”.
And the shots didn’t stop firing there.
Broadly describing his fellow contemporaries as “painfully stupid and pretentious”, Reed argues “the other stuff couldn’t come up to our ankles, not up to my kneecap, not up to my ankles, the level we were on, compared to everyone else.”
In case there were any doubts about who Reed was making reference to, let him clarify that for you.
“What I mean by ‘stupid,’ I mean, like, The Doors.”
But don’t worry – as the frontman admits, “I know it sounds pretentious”.
The full five-minute video, meanwhile, has a heap of other great one-liners from the rebellious avant-rock forefather that aren’t beefing with other rockstars.
“I write a song called ‘Heroin’, you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something”.
Bravo, sir.
Brave Man Raises $20,000 After Promising To Solely Listen To Nickelback For An Entire Week
Nickelback are the Tony Abbotts of the music world: they pander to the lowest common denominator, they’re offensive, and making fun of them is a treasured national pastime.
Enter Jesse Carey: the latest to jump on the oft-ridden Nickelback hate wagon, though this time it’s for a cause better than flame-bait.
Carey is raising money for Charity: Water – an international organisation which helps build water wells in developing countries – by subjecting himself to listening purely to Nickelback for a week.
Carey’s initial goal was to raise $10,000, but at the time of publishing he has already doubled his goal by raising $20,452 with 40 days of the campaign still left to go.
168 hours of Nickelback, or 127 hours of this:
It’s a tough choice.
Good luck, Carey.
Madonna Allegedly Banned From BBC Radio 1 For Being Too Old/Irrelevant/Both
It’s a tough time to be Madge.
The once reigning Queen of Pop has just released her new album Rebel Heart, and it looks like it might be going down as a flop in a similar fashion to its forgettable 2012 predecessor, MDNA.
Not helping the cause is BBC Radio 1, who have attracted controversy and allegations of being “ageist” after they snubbed the record’s lead single ‘Living For Love’ from their rotation playlists.
The song’s omission triggered a debate about whether the song was snubbed because it was shit, or if it was because of Madonna’s age, and in that case, the indicator of a greater issue at play.
In a statement, Radio 1 said “tracks are chosen on musical merit and their relevance to our young audience on a case-by-case basis, and while around 40% of the country’s 15 to 29-year-olds tune into Radio 1 each week, an artist’s age is never a factor.”
Decide for yourself and listen to ‘Living For Love’ below.
This 2-Year-Old Is A Better DJ Than You’ll Ever Be
Let’s face it, the internet loves it when infants do something with a higher level of skill than the average grown adult. It’s strange, because usually I don’t really like my inflated ego getting bruised, but I don’t seem to mind if it’s by someone who still measures their age in months.
Meet DJ Arch Jnr, a little tacker who is just a few months older than old mate North but is already going viral on Reddit for his legitimately impressive DJ skills.
The two-year-old prodigy from South Africa has been hailed as “better than David Guetta” by a guy called /dev/null/ on YouTube, which doesn’t really say much, but I think it was meant to be a compliment.
In the words of Paris Hilton, one of the Top 5 DJs in the world, DJ Arch JR is killing it.
Just think: at this age you were still three years away from struggling with the recorder. Bless.
… And A Bonus GIF of Bieber Getting Egged
Just in case you’re having a bad week.
