By the end of every week there are a bunch of music-related stories, cool links, videos, and other internet ditties that are a little on the trashy side.
As a remedy to this, we’re happy to introduce our new column Trash Can– our avenue for sharing the funny, the weird, and the downright tacky music stories of the week. Enjoy!
Need Life Advice? Bey Is Here To Help
Look guys, it’s not like we ever for a second doubted that Beyonce was all knowing or that her lyrical content could save lives and solve all the riddles of the universe. We know all this to be true, but someone was kind (and had enough time on their hands) and made a website to remind us of her eternal and unyielding knowingness. Affectionately and accurately titled ‘Please Help Me Beyonce‘ there’s now a site where you can select “how you’re feeling” and “what he’s done now” and a generator spits out the Bey song you need. So if you’re feeling “So fierce” and he’s “Made eye contact from across the room” it may be time for a little ‘Video Phone’. Perfect.
Miley Cyrus Wants You To Free Your Nipples
In the latest round of Miley-themed ‘ughs’ the pop star and proponent for all things twerky has urged fans and non-fans alike to consider what so many feminists fought for, this holiday season. Is she suggesting we re-read the gospel of Betty Friedan? Not quite, but she is asking us to consider the roll of the brazier, a notion that is, if slightly out dated a genuine homage to second wave feminists. In a bid to show her support for an upcoming documentary called Free The Nipple – a film that aims to look at censorship in terms of sexism- Cryus tweeted the above picture. We think it’s great that she’s engaging with complicated ideals like feminism and censorship. It’s just icing on the cake that she gets to do that while sticking out her tongue and feeding her own multi-million dollar marketing machine.
Were Def Leppard Ripped Off By One Direction?
Surely the squeaky clean Harry Styles and his boys couldn’t be involved in any sort of controversy, right? Well apparently they may in some hot water over the title track from their latest album Midnight Memories, the chorus of which sounds dangerously similar to that of Def Leppard’s 1987 hit ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me.’ Have a listen to the two tracks and make your own mind up as to whether or not the 1D fellas are in trouble.
NOTE: To save you the pain of sitting through the whole of ‘Midnight Memories,’ we suggest you skip to 1:35 and compare that chorus with Def’s
belter.
Johnny Marr Doesn’t Like Haim
It must be hard to be the quiet, illusive type to Morrisey’s eccentric asshole. In a recent interview with NME (via FACT) icona-guitarist Johnny Marr laid into a bunch of topics from streaming services to the new bands of 2013 (for the record, no to Spotify, yes to CHVRCHES and Grimes). While Marr is all about some female-fronted acts, there’s one in particular he can’t wrap his head around. When speaking of sister act Haim posing with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the muso said “It’s really simple: they made themselves look like idiots. It’s ridiculous. No-one put a gun to their head. The Conservatives tried to do the same thing with The Smiths, to re-appropriate us in a false way, to be cool by association.” Fightin’ words.
