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.

Iggy Azalea’s Dad Wrote A Not-So Fancy Children’s Book About The C-Bomb

First thing’s first, she’s the realest, but before she dropped ‘Fancy’ and let the whole world feel it, Iggy Azalea was just a normal little girl living in the quaint little town of Mullumbimby. So, naturally, it seems somewhat of a mystery how she managed to transition from country gal to a chart-topping, some might say foul-mouthed rapper.

Maybe it has a little something to do with the fact her father, Brendan Kelly, is a children’s author who has written night-time novels with names like The Ugly Dickling, The Perfect Poo, and perhaps his most-acclaimed, The Runt Who Said Cunt. Yeah, maybe that’s where some of Iggy’s lyrical inspiration comes from.

In fact, as Pedestrian report, Iggy Iggs told Complex back in 2011 that her dad “made me look at [art] as a teenager. He would give me books and he would give me quizzes… As a kid, I always hated his guts. I would be like, ‘Ugh, Dad is giving me this book. He’s going to make me answer questions about it… My dad was kind of like my art coach.”

As James explains in the reading video below, the hilariously-titled The Runt Who Said Cunt “is about a little piglet who saw a word that rhymed with ‘grunt’.” You can watch the full thing below – it might be the best thing since Go The Fuck To Sleep.

Kanye West Accused Of Dissing Jay Z During Recent Performance, Is This The End Of Kan-Jay?

 

There’s been rumours going around the mill for quite some time now that everyone’s favourite bromance, Kanye West and Jay Z, or #KanJay, may not be going too smoothly. The gossiping reached boiling point last week when a potentially jealous Jay skipped his best man’s quaint little Kardashian wedding in Florence, and now the latest development – taking place at Kanye’s recent show in Texas – has the ‘he-said-she-saids’ escalating even higher.

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As The Guardian reports, keen listeners at the concert noticed that on three separate occasions, West seemed to strategically avoid dropping Jay’s name in his usual Hova-referencing lyrics, seemingly as a passive-aggressive stab at his (ex?) BFF’s wedding no-show.

For example, on ‘Cold’, Yeezy skipped a beat on the line, “Lucky I ain’t had Jay drop him from the team“, and a similar thing then happened during Yeezus cut, ‘Blood On The Leaves’. While Kanye usually raps, “I don’t give a damn if you used to talk to Jay Z / He ain’t with you, he with Beyoncé, you need to stop actin’ lazy“, he once again paused on Hov’s name, then slightly altered the following line, “You need to stop acting lazy“, to “You need to stop actin’ crazy“. – Oooooh.

Is this really the end of Kan-Jay? (If you listen carefully, that noise you can hear is a bunch of schoolchildren chanting fight fight fight.)

Hugh Jackman Tries To Rap At The Tonys, Looks Like Huge Jackass 

Everyone has wanted a pair of Wolverine claws at some point in their life. If you haven’t already, you definitely will now. Namely, so you can claw your eyes out after watching the cringe-fest that is Hugh Jackman rapping at The Tony Awards.

This week Australia’s golden boy of Hollywood and Broadway clocked up his fourth time hosting the Tonys, and while the singing-dancing-acting triple threat mostly lived up to high expectations, it was his attempt at rapping that has left the longest, scarring impression.

For one of his skits as MC, Jackman invited rappers LL Cool J and T.I. onstage with him to perform a bizarre rap-ified rendition of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, that, yes, Jackman tried his hand at that rapping thing those darn kids are all doing these days.

While we give him props for having a go, sadly it fell flat like a dad joke at Christmas.

Mummy, why is Wolverine doing that? Why won’t he stop?

Lorde Steals Pharrell’s Giant Hat Steeze, Sparks ‘Who Wore It Better?’ Debate

It looks like Pharrell’s ubiquitous giant Vivenne Westwood cowboy hat (that at this point may or may not be attached to his head) has a new rival.

Yesterday Lorde took some time out from doing, well, whatever a world-conquering 17-year-old pop witch does, to show off a new hat that has reportedly sent shivers down Pharrell’s stylist’s spine.

Pictured above, Ella tweeted a picture of herself wearing a Charlie Chaplin-style bowler’s hat with a circumference noticeably larger than Pharrell’s now very wimpy-looking headgear of choice. Yes, that’s right, Lorde has beaten Pharrell at his own game. Really, you could almost say she’s flipped the hat game on its head.

The burning question now, obviously, is who wore it better?

Bieber Gets Baptised And Saves A Child’s Life, Definitely Not A PR Campaign

Would you believe, exactly one week after incriminating video footage was released showing Justin Bieber singing about killing people and joining the KKK, that a story has now come out in New York Magazine claiming Bieber’s music saved a 14-month-old child from a debilitating disease?

And then, in an even better twist, it’s also being reported by The Independent that the 20-year-old has suddenly become religious – attending church services, studying bible passages and even being baptised in order to purge him of his sins. We’d say you can’t make this shit up, but actually, that’s exactly what PR camps are paid to do.

Sorry, Biebs, but not even divine intervention can save your reputation in our eyes.

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