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.
Relax, Mums Of Australia: Taking Your Kid To A P!nk Concert Isn’t Child Abuse
Not a single fucking day goes past without me thinking about the fact that P!nk sold out 18 Road Laver Arena shows in the same tour.
But in news that might shock the Australian mums who at this stage are almost single-handedly funding P!nk’s career, their idol’s Iconic Trapeze Concert Extravaganza has actually been at the centre of a mean custody battle, with a father accusing his ex-wife of abusing her position as a parent by taking their 11-year-old daughter to P!nk’s Truth About Love tour.
Citing “lyrical profanities” and the “sexually suggestive” nature of the singer’s concerts, the father was trying to make out that taking your child to watch P!nk swing on two bits of rope while singing ‘Get The Party Started’ was an example of bad parenting.
However, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Lawrence R. Jones was full #TeamP!nk, ruling that the mother “did not subject the child to any unreasonable risk of harm, or compromise (her) health, safety or welfare” by taking her along to the show.
He even added: “To the contrary, when all the smoke from the custody litigation clears, it will be self-evident that all which happened here is that a young girl went to her first rock concert with her mother and had a really great time.”
In other words, rock on \m/
Let’s hope one day this family’s portrait can go back to that. :'(
Kendrick Lamar Releases The First Bad Thing Of His Career: A Salad
What do you do when you’re fresh from dropping one of the year’s most acclaimed records? Why, you team up with a health food chain to make your own salad, silly!
sweetgreen, a place where American people can buy their overpriced quinoa, have been trying to steal/cash in on Kendrick’s vibe since 2013 when they started selling obnoxious t-shirts with the slogan, “Beets don’t kale my vibe”. I know, I’m rolling my eyes too.
But now that King Kunta is playing at sweetgreen’s annual Sweetlife Festival, the unfortunate pun has turned into an actual salad that people take photos of and tag #cleaneating on Instagram. Or eat. I don’t know what people do with salad.
The Beets Don’t Kale My Vibe (ugh) ingredients list reads as follows: “shredded local kale, roasted chicken, goat cheese, organic wild rice, and flash roasted beets, which are marinated in balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and a hint of honey.”
If you’re seriously saying you’d order that at a cafe over poached eggs with sides then you’re a fucking liar. Also, where’s the yams?
Sorry not sorry Kendrick. This is a flop.
Hello There, Hi, So Mariah Carey’s New BFF Is A Dolphin
Say what you will about Mariah Carey’s relevance in 2k15, but one thing that you can never take away from her is her official title of being the most fabulously OTT pop star of all time.
Case and point: the diva talking about her “new best friend” named Osbourne, who just so happens to be a dolphin. Because of course it is.
Yes, this story might essentially just be a six-second sound byte of Mariah talking about a blossoming friendship with the world’s most intelligent cetacean mammal. Sue me. But it’s also much more than that. Actually, maybe it isn’t. And you know what, that’s fine. I’ve arrived at peace with that. Let’s just enjoy it for what it is: Mariah Carey is friends with a dolphin.
Do you think she sings to it? She definitely would.
Courtney <3 Is Being Sued By Her Own Biography Ghostwriter, More Like Courtney </3
Getting someone to write a book for you is not as easy as it looks.
Courtney Love is getting sued by the ghostwriter she hired to write her biography, after she allegedly failed to pay him in full more than a year after he submitted his 123,375 word manuscript for the book.
Anthony Bozza has filed a lawsuit against the rawk kween, arguing he’s due an additional $200,000USD in damages, having been promised getting some royalties from the sales of the book which at this stage doesn’t really seem like happening.
Love told the Daily Telegraph earlier this year that she wasn’t happy with the way she was portrayed in Bozza’s biography, saying “it’s like me jacked on coffee and sugar in a really bad mood”.
Basically, borezo Bozza’s biography was an ugly pic and now she’s untagging it.
The Game Has Been Doing The Same ‘Freestyle’ For Five Years
Not everyone can freestyle:
But it’s not just white girls appropriating black culture who can’t spit off the fly. As it turns out, even “respected” big name players in the rap game like The Game, who named himself after the rap game, can’t hack the game of rapping they call freestyle.
The rapper in question has been caught out by attentive users on Reddit’s hip-hop thread for recycling the exact same 16 bars of “freestyle” over the course of five years, going as far back as 2011.
How he thought he could get away with this is a mystery. The Game, do you have internet access? Are u okay? Also, I’m not a rapper, but if you’re going to repeat the same “freestyle” over and over again, wouldn’t you at least make it good?
Compare the pairs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LYodr8ZZDQE#t=31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_6MwLNOwWkE#t=34
Snitched out.
