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.
No-One Can Understand What Iggy Azalea Is Rapping About In This Vine
Drop what you’re doing and give your full, undivided attention to this Vine of Igloo Australia rapping live that is currently making the internet lose its shit, precisely because no-one knows what she’s trying to say.
We’ll play a game: if you can decipher three of the noises Iggy is making with her mouth that are supposedly words from the English language, you get a gold star.
… Excuse me?
Just to confirm, what you’re hearing is not your four-year-old cousin on Christmas Day making noises with his new toy gun – that’s actually Iggy Azalea rapping/spitting/coughing a verse from her song ‘D.R.U.G.S’.
This is apparently what she’s meant to be saying: ‘Pitchfork point better pass me the joint/ Gotta twist this beat I’ma sprang my joint/ Straight crack rock, go to the pop-pop/ Pumo jiggy rap city, no tiggy’.
Instead, she sounds a bowl of Rice Bubbles popping in milk.
Wiz Khalifa Doesn’t Know Taylor Swift, Reveals He Has Been Living Under A Rock
Taylor Swift’s hater-repellant anthem ‘Shake It Off’ was kind of a big deal in 2015. I mean, it sparked its very own political movement here on our shores. But not everyone caught Swiftamine last year.
Enter rapper Wiz Khalifa, who was caught out during a game of Catch Phrase on Jimmy Fallon as one of those rare breeds of people who don’t know Swift’s legendary, chart-topping banger.
Walking out on stage looking like he might’ve just had a cheeky nap in the green room, Khalifa does a complete blank space when actor Miles Tiller asks him to name a Taylor Swift song; pulling a face so anguished you’d think he’d just been asked to name a song by Rita Ora.
How DARE you.
The Complaints About This Year’s Superbowl Are Hilarious
Every Superbowl there’s a handful of special snowflakes who dust off their typewriters and send in their sternest, most horrified complaints about all the ungodly sins that go down during the halftime show. Last year it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ nipples that had conservative Sallys reminding us to think of the children, whereas this year it was the lyrical content.
As Dead Spin report there were only 34 official complaints sent into the FCC, but luckily for us the ones who bothered seemed to put in the effort to be particularly backwards. Yay, middle America!
On Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’: “A massive fine is order to prevent viewing public from ever again seeing a young female singing on a family venue ‘I kissed a girl and I liked it.’ Action must be taken to correct this in the future. DO SO!”
On #APersonNamedMissyElliot: “During halftime of Sunday’s SuperBowl on NBC, a person named Missy Elliott repeatedly yelled the term ‘give me some new shit.’ A later song by her featured Ms Elliott saying ‘big cock,’ ‘pussy,’ and ‘shaving my chocha.’”
And just in general: “… this SuperBowl halftime show is not legal. Sexual harassment. Undiagnosed insanity.”
Meanwhile, not a single complaint about Left Shark. No wonder.
The Justin Bieber Roast Finally Happened, And The Burns Were Aplenty
Hopefully Justin Bieber’s publicist let him know that his path to attempted vindication via a Comedy Central roast was never going to be easy.
While the episode won’t be aired until March 30, Buzzfeed reported on some of the burns that went down – and they seemed scorching. The huge roster of comedians and personalities – which included Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, Snoop Dogg and extremely vocal unBelieber Seth Rogen – definitely didn’t hold back.
Host Kevin Hart set the bar quickly, announcing, “Tonight we’re going to give what his parents and the legal system should have done years ago. We’re going to give this boy an ass-whoopin’.”
From there, Jeff Ross made jokes about Bieber’s ex (“Selena Gomez wanted to be here, but she’s dating men now”), Natasha Legerro questioned the intellect of his followers (“Justin’s fans are called Beliebers because it’s politically incorrect to use the word retards”), and Hannibal Buress made it clear why he was there (“They say that you roast the ones you love, but I don’t like you at all, man. I’m just here because it’s a real good opportunity for me”).
In fact, Buress went even further to remind everyone not to get distracted by a very clear PR stunt to fix the pop star’s broken image.
“Actually, you should thank me for participating in this extremely transparent attempt to be more likable in the public eye,” the Broad City actor said, pausing for a break before adding: “And I hope it doesn’t work.”
Montaigne Made A Hilarious Greg-ified Parody Of Her Own Song
Earlier this week we named Montaigne as one of the 17 Aussie ladies making pop music cool again. The singer-songwriter has been gaining steam with her baroque pop ballads, but the singer’s current Triple J hit ‘I’m A Fantastic Wreck’ was gaining attention for a different reason, with plenty of listeners telling the station they’d been mishearing the chorus as ‘I’m a fantastic Greg‘.
Now, because Montaigne is a musician of The People, she created this brilliant parody of her own song dedicated to all the different Gregs of the world. Behold:
