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.
Ariana Grande Accused Of Flexing Diva Muscles, Taking Mariah Comparisons To Next Level
Expressionless porcelain doll whose hands might, actually, be, stuck, to, her, face, Ariana Grande, is ready for her close-up. But wait, can you just tilt the camera slightly this way? A little more. That’s too much. Nah, you’ve lost your chance. We’re done here.
That’s the kind of experience the Australian media had with the Maltese Shih Tzu show dog lookalike when she visited the country for a press tour in support of her new album, My Everything.
The 21-but-potentially-12 year old singer has been called the D-word by various Australian media outlets for storming out of a photoshoot and cancelling all other scheduled arrangements – in the words of The Herald Sun, old mate frappuccino threw one “one Grande hissy fit and dummy spit”.
It all started when the singer gave out her list of last-minute instructions to reporters which included pretty standard pop star requests, like not asking about any ex’s or embarrassing kids shows they once starred in and are now trying to Break Free from.
However, it was the media’s inability to abide by her very particular requests about photos that eventually tipped her over the edge.
In a photoshoot with mX, the photographer was told to take pictures of the 5-foot ponytail strictly from her left side only and with cheekbone-enhancing light reflectors.
Grande reportedly inspected each individual photo as they were taken, and after 20 minutes without a new profile picture-worthy shot, she got up walked out of the room with her hands still probably glued delicately to her face.
The incident has marked a PR blight on Grande’s publicity trip, with many old fans claiming the teen star has become who she really are: Mariah Carey 2.0.
Still, it’s not like this makes her an evil person. Imagine having those really gross tagged photos on Facebook of the right side of your face aired to the whole world. That wouldn’t be very nice.
Katy Perry Shades Taylor Swift Using A Mean Girls Quote
This week’s fresh-off-the-BBQ beef has been served, and it features two former pals who once took really awkward photos together at awards ceremony so we probably should’ve seen it coming: Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.
T-Swift recently talked to Rolling Stone about her new single ‘Bad Blood’, explaining that it was written about a fellow popstress she has not very good blood with. As it reads in RS’ cover story:
“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” [Swift] says. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?'” Then last year, the other star crossed a line. “She did something so horrible,” Swift says. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.'”
It swiftly had people trying to figure out who the song’s antagonist was, until a matter of 12 hours later a hooded Katy Perry called out from the back of the gymnasium, She doesn’t even go here:
Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing…
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) September 9, 2014
And thus, beef confirmed. Stay tuned as more chapters get added to this Burn Book.
Behold The Poignant Horror Of #DadsAtOneDirection
Nashville Scene photographer Angelina Costello recently had the wondrous task of taking snaps at a One Direction concert, but it wasn’t her pictures of Harry & The Other Four that caught the internet’s eye: it was when she turned her lens inward towards the crowd, in particular, to the dads chaperoning their screaming pre-teen daughters, that things got v real.
Basically you haven’t seen shame until you’ve seen grown men suffering in silence at 1D. These snapshots would be kind of heart-breaking if they weren’t so hilarious.
The funnest part is trying to imagine the dark internal monologues going on behind their blank stares. For instance,
“Where did I go wrong?”
“What did my little Annabel just say about Harry?”
“I’m kind of liking this.”
Keep these brave souls in your emoji prayers tonight. #PrayForOneDirectionDads 
Nicki Minaj Teaches Models At NYFW How To Do The Anaconda
Nicki Minaj, Undisputed Queen of the Trash Can (and that’s a compliment) is at it again: and by at it again, I mean really just doing anything that’s even slightly more exciting than breathing because at this rate I’ll use just about any excuse to write about her.
This week Minaj graced New York Fashion Week with her presence, and while she was there, kindly decided to bestow some of her Anaconda wisdom onto some runway models desperately in need of her help.
Minaj’s anaconda intervention was filmed in a series of Vines by Vogue, and it’s pretty great viewing. Behold:
Are you taking notes? That’s how it’s done.
Channing Tatum And Diplo Are Bros Now, Team Up For New Bro Anthem
Giant neck Channing Tatum and Lorde’s mate Diplo have taken out the honours in this week’s Unlikliest Bros To Collaborate On New Viral Video category.
Their prize-winning song is an instructional video about the greeting your fellow bro by performing a light phallic brush which they’ve catchily dubbed the Dick Graze.
Meet 2014’s Dick In A Box.
