The Music 5 & 1 11.14.11: The Bieber Babe Massacre Edition
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 11.14.2011
Roselyn Sanchez takes on Lena Olin in Vs, Jay-Z has a major T-shirt blunder, Kanye West earns some good publicity, the dangers of dating Justin Bieber are revealed, Lady Gaga wants to adopt, Britney Spears' dad makes good money, Fergie is your "& 1" Model of the Week and more!
STUFF I WANT TO TALK ABOUT
This week I wanted to throw out my support for a great cause. Readers of the 5 & 1's may know actress and model Andie Beaven, a good friend to many of us here at 411mania. Andie is a lovely woman who is fantastic to know and talk to, and if that doesn't make her cool enough she's also trying to raise money for a good cause. The St. Gemma's Hospice in Leeds, England provides medical and nursing care for people with life threatening illnesses such as cancer, as well as support for their families. Andie is raising money for the Hospice via print sales of one of her photos on her website, the sample of which you can see below. It's a great photo and it's for a good cause; if you want to buy one (or more!), check out more information on her website here or buy clicking the image itself!
Cheryl Cole has done it! In her fourth and final step to get into Music 5 & 1 infamy, Cheryl crushed country music's Faith Hill by a 133 - 66 margin to make her way right into the Hall of Bang! Congratulations to Cheryl on making it in, and to celebrate, here is a pictorial of the Hall of Bang winner herself!
With the table cleared due to Cheryl's ascension, we have two newcomers to Vs this week! The first is a woman who is known more for her acting that her music but did release an album a few years back in the lovely and talented Roselyn Sanchez! Going up against Roselyn is a woman who earned major infamy at the beginning of the decade for being one of the two underage faux-lesbians from Russia's best-selling group of all time in t.A.T.u., Miss Lena Katina! Which of the two will take their first step toward the Hall of Bang? Vote below!
Roselyn Sanchez Vs Lena Katina
VOTE BELOW!
If there are any future participants that you would like to see in Vs, let me know either in the comments section or by email!
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Being a Music Zone, you would think that we have a lot of people who love to talk about music. You would not be wrong. As such, when an album comes out that we have something to say about, we just can't help ourselves. We call that the Review Section…not the most original name, but it gets the point across! Anyway, the review section is a great place to find new music as we cover all sorts of genres and styles, from mainstream artists to lesser known acts. Here's an overview of our latest reviews.
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violence Begets Violence(7.0) "Vinnie Paz and Jus Allah almost managed to fill the void left by Stoupe's departure, however a lack of focus and some disappointing production hurt the effort overall. While this album will satisfy most Jedi Mind Tricks fans, it will does not live up to the groups previous efforts." - Bill Wannop
Everlast - Songs For The Ungrateful Living(7.0) "Everlast returns with his latest solo album and managed to completely change his sound again, opting for a more country/blues type record. The end result is a mixture of sounds, all of which are decent, but none of which is really exceptional. Everlast managed to do a bunch of things well, instead of focusing on doing one or two things great." - Bill Wannop
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu(9.5) "Challenging, demanding, unconventional, and audacious, Lulu is the album no one asked for and everyone should hear. One of the year's best.." - Chad Nevett
Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park(6.0) "Mac Miller released his debut album, which was mostly a disappointment. Surprisingly the album is not all about teenage partying, and tries to be more serious. The album would have been much better had Miller stuck to what he does best, and that is create party tracks and having fun with his music. The end result is somewhat of a mess of an album that has decent production but is limited by Millers lyrical ability." - Bill Wannop
MUSIC VIDEO A-GO-GO
This week I wanted to go with a video that I posted once before in the Hush-Hush News Report, but is such an instant parody classic that I had to give it some more love. The members of Team Unicorn are Clare Grant, Michele Boyd, Rileah Vanderbilt and Milynn Sarley, actresses you might recognizes from roles in such shows, films and projects as The Guild, Sons of Anarchy, Walk the Line, Black Snake Moan, Frozen, Hatchet, Attack of the Show, CSI: Miami and many others. They're also full-on gaming geeks and can speak fluently about everything from Star Wars, Sailor Moon and Halo to Voltron, Pulp Fiction, World of Warcraft, Akira, the Wheel of Time series and more. The group reached instant internet fame when they released their first parody song, "G33k & G4M3R Girls," last September. Check it out below!
"That had nothing to do with me. That guy was a fucking moron. Why would he attack me and not Liam? C'mon. That's all I wanted to say to him afterwards: 'Leave me alone. I write the fucking songs. Fuck up the guy over there with the glasses'."
- Noel talks about the assault on him in 2009 and shows that there's no love like that of a brother.
BUBBLING UNDER You know what time it is, folks...these are the stories that I found worth touching on but didn't quite make the Top Five and thus become little bites of snark as opposed to a full course of it.
Chris Brown Says "So Long, and Thanks For All The Complaints"
Okay, maybe he didn't say that, but I'm sure he was thinking it. After a prolonged feud with his neighbors, Chris Brown has moved out of his condominium in West Hollywood. Chris was the target of a number of complaints from his co-inhabitants of the complex, who claimed that he had parked in handicapped spots, played his music way too loud throughout the night and vandalized property. Chris has denied all of the allegations, but the neighbors still say they're "ecstatic" to see him go. Chris has yet to sell the condo and no one seems to know what he's going to do with it, but if Good Morning America's studio is any indication I'm betting he won't be getting his security deposit back.
"But it's just one little fisthole!"
Sleep Tight, Sing Right, Don't Let the Bed Bugs...Oh, Too Late
It's gotta be rough being a contestant on The X Factor. To start off, you're already one foot in the hole by knowing that you're on the show that isn't even doing as well as The Voice did, much less American Idol. Second, you have to spend the day on pins and needles wondering if Paula Abdul is going to have a flashback, think she's in 'Nam and start shooting everyone thinking they're all Charlie. And if that wasn't enough, now they have to deal with bed bugs. Four of the contestants for the show woke up this week to find that they have been serving as dinner for a bunch of the little nasties. An investigation of their room revealed a massive infestation, which prompted producers to move them to new accommodations and deal with the hotel. If I were the hotel manager, I would have sensed an opportunity for some reality show cross-promotion and brought the cast of Survivor: Wherever the Hell They Are This Season in and let them chow down. Hey, I've only ever watched small clips from that show and I've seen them eat far worse.
Coincidentally, Paula thought she was arguing with Simon over a giant
singing bed bug's performance in this photo. She loved its voice.
Justin Bieber Wants You To Buy His Snake
To be fair, it's for a good cause. Justin Bieber is auctioning the snake he brought as his date to the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards to raise money for charity. The Justinator showed off the baby boa constrictor, named Johnson, at the award show in August and now he's donated it to a celebrity auction with the proceeds benefiting Pencils of Promise, an organization which funds schools in the poorest parts of the world. Johnson is expected to bring in $1,000 in the charity, and while I laud what is possibly the youngest Lamborghini owner in the world for helping out such an admirably charity, I think that equally important to note here is that Justin Bieber had a pet snake named Johnson. Let that percolate in your brain for a few moments and see if you get as horrified as I did.
Buyer Beware: odds are he slammed Johnson into the door a time or two.
Ozzy Osbourne Will Not Die
You know, I was going to make a joke about how Jack Osbourne clearly plans on dying young, but maybe he's got a point. Jack told Star Magazine that his dad Ozzy is pretty much indestructible and that he'll die before Ozzy does. "Motorbikes can't kill him, drugs can't kill him," said Jack. "He's one of those guys who's going to be like, 900 years old, and still complaining about everything and laughing. We joke that he is going to outlive me." Really, if snorting ants and doing more drugs than the collective populations of several small countries in Europe hasn't offed him, then maybe he's in line to see in the Apocalypse alongside Keith Richards, an army of cockroaches and a stack of Twinkies. At the very least, if he makes it past 100 with the lifestyle he's lived than we'll know he earned that Prince of Darkness title with the cost of his eternal soul.
To be fair, Ozzy wasn't using his soul much so it's a fair trade.
This Just In: Don't Ever Work For Nicki Minaj
If there is one job in the world that I don't envy, it is that of a personal services employee in Hollywood and L.A. Case in point: Nicki Minaj's employees. Nicki raised some eyebrows recently after she went on a rant against a former maid at the end of October, reportedly losing it and firing her after she asked for an autograph. Now a celebrity facialist has accused Nicki of ranting at her as well. Dawn DaLuise, who owns her own "skin refinery" in downtown L.A., says that Nicki flipped out on her in the middle of a session. "After I waxed her eyebrows and lip, she started screaming 'Who the fuck do you think you are?'" said DaLuise. "'Look what you did to my damn face! You think this sh*t is worth 170 dollars?'" Dawn also said that when she arrived at Nicki's condo during a previous session, Nicki's "eyes were dilated, her wig was falling off, her face was covered in red sores and she was perspiring heavily." As it turns out the woman incorrectly identified Nicki; it was Christina Aguilera and that she had a chicken wing around her neck. Hey, when you gotta eat. what's wrong with having it on a string around your neck?
"Not a damn thing!"
It's time to crank this mother up to 11 as we take a look at some random stuff from the last week and one smoking hottie.
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Jay-Z is in a Wall Street State of Mind
There have been a lot of people in 2011 that have made contributions to qualify for "Terrible Business Idea of the Week." You have Netflix deciding (and then aborting) a plan to split their company in two just after a price hike and not properly explaining how it would work, the producers behind the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Darkactor death trap Broadway musical, Bank of America's genius move to charge a $5 debit card fee that saw customers flock away from the company, the financiers behind Conan the Barbarian, HP's bomb of a Touchpad, Target's "designer clothes" debacle and much, much more. One person I didn't expect to hit that list was the king of hip-hop, Jay-Z. But much to my surprise, Jay placed himself firmly amongst those treasured blunders this week as he found himself in the midst of a pretty nasty controversy regarding Wall Street.
Jay made buying this "Target designer jacket" look like a good business idea
in comparison. Think about that for a moment.
How did Jay step into such a mess, you ask? Well, it all has to do with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Just in case you haven't looked at any news anywhere in any particular category for the last couple of months, there's been an ongoing series of demonstrations that began in New York City's Wall Street financial district since mid-September. The movement, which actually began in Kuala Lumpur in June and was titled Occupy Dataran, has spread to cities in multiple countries around the world and is protesting social and economic equality around the world, personified by corporate greed and corruption. Keep those goals of the movement in mind, they'll be important to this story in just a few moments.
So as this movement has made headway and gathered steam and media attention, several celebrities have weighed in on the topic and lent their support. Granted, that support has typically been limited to moral support (with some exceptions), but it has helped the movement gain momentum. With music names like Kanye West, Radiohead, Arlo Guthrie, Lupe Fiasco and Joan Baez chiming in their voices in support of the movement, our aforementioned hero-turned-villain of this particular news story Jay-Z decided to follow suit. Just not in the wisest of ways. Instead of writing a song, performing, speaking to the protesters, actually paying for something or anything of that nature, Jay decided to start making T-Shirts with the message "Occupy All Streets."
Now at this point in the story I'm thinking, "Great idea, Jay. What a cool way to show your support for the movement and give people a way to show their support if they can't actually be there." Occupy Wall Street supporter and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons even tweeted in support of the idea, saying Love Jay-Z's t-shirt. Glad i got mine today." But here is where the wrinkle comes into play, as Jay was charging twenty-two bucks a pop for the shirts and when asked about whether any of the money was going toward the movement, a rep for Rocawear issued the following, carefully-worded statement: "The 'Occupy All Streets' T-shirt was created in support of the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement. Rocawear strongly encourages all forms of constructive expression, whether it be artistic, political or social. 'Occupy All Streets' is our way of reminding people that there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street. At this time we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement."
To those who need some PR Speak-to-English translation, that's "Hell, no."
"Yo Russell, just think of how much money we can funnel into the Illuminati with this!"
Please note that I'm not making any argument for or against the movement here, as this isn't about the protests themselves. But really, did Jay accidentally slam his head on his solid-gold headboard when he woke up earlier this week? I get that producing these shirts costs money and that Jay isn't all that different from many celebrities in support of the movement in terms of wanting to shell out his own cash to show his support. That's totally his choice, as it is all people. I'm even willing to grant the possibility that Jay figured he was providing another outlet for the message to get across, which justified charging a bit for them. But if he was trying to promote the movement in his own way, the proper way to do so would have been to sell the shirts at cost or even a lowered price of nine or ten bucks instead of charging more than you end up having to pay for your average T-shirt at even specialty stores these days. This would be a crass move if some enterprising man off the street decided to start silk screening shirts as mementos; coming from someone who is reportedly worth $450 million--thus making him not just one of the now-famous 1% but probably one of the 0.5%--it reeks of the kind of poor business strategies that Reed Hastings can even recognize as stupid from several miles away.
Needless to say, the whole thing has heated up quickly and blown back on Jay in a major way. Occupy Wall Street leader Grim was quoted as saying, "Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum. To attempt to profit off of the first important social moment of 50 years with an overpriced piece of cotton is an insult to the fight for economic civil rights known as #occupywallstreet." As of Saturday, Jay had removed the shirts from Rocawear.com after only a day, but really it was about twenty-four hours too late. Obviously the man will do just fine and come out of this (hopefully) a little smarter, but I actually kind of hope that we see a tiny bit of lag in Watch the Throne ticket sales because of it. Kind of hard to justify spending as much as $250 a ticket for an arrogant jackass and a business idiot, no matter how good they are at rhyming words real fast.
On the plus side, he still has this to go home to.
Kanye West Has a Good Publicity Week
While his Watch the Throne partner was weathering the storm of bad business moves, Kanye West was enjoying a rare bit of good, solid press for something other than his music. The notoriously egotistical and open mouth, insert foot-prone rapper earned himself some very good charitable buzz as he treated an entire hotel staff to a free trip and tickets to the first stop on the Watch the Throne tour in New York City last Sunday. Kanye apparently felt he was treated very well by the staff of the Mercer Hotel and Mercer Kitchen in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo and wanted to repay that quality service and hospitality in a way that the staff would never forget. Kanye even went so far as to supply a party bus for the staff that took them to and from the show. According to a staff member at the Mercer, "Kanye personally thanked each team member for attending. The seats were amazing and he was such a gentleman."
Now, we all love to make fun of Kanye for being an arrogant douche nozzle, and a lot of the time that reputation is well-earned. I've gone on record before as saying that I can't stand the man as a human being even if I am a fan of his music, and generally I stand by that statement as the number of times that he's done something ridiculously celebutastic or said something that redefines the word "stupid" far outweigh the times he's shown was a good guy he can be. That being said, you can't not give Yeezy some props here. Under no circumstances did he have to do something like this; he's a huge music superstar and like Jay, whatever stupid feuds he causes or boneheaded decisions he makes, people will buy his music and come and see him on tour because he's that good. So with that being the case, it pretty much comes off as an honest attempt to show some appreciation to some of the little people who have served him well and for that, he deserves some credit.
"Does that mean I'm not a douche for wearing this?"
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, 'Ye."
As if that wasn't enough, he got himself injected into the most famous divorce going at the moment, but in a way that just makes him a little more bad-ass as his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose pretty much came out and stated that Kanye had tapped none other than Kim Kardashian. The whole thing began back in the summer of 2010 when Kanye was on the set of one of Kim's 4,537 E! reality shows, this one being Kourtney and Kim Take New York. Kanye was snapped hanging with Kim in various spots and rumors popped up implying that the two had hooked up, but no one was talking and by the strength of both celebs' publicity agents, the whole thing was quickly swept under the rug. Amber, however, apparently didn't get clued in as when she was asked about the two on a recent episode of The Wendy Williams Show she said, "I mean, Come on, like, you know Come on! We'll keep it cute." According to my Amber-to-English translation manual, that means "Yes, but I retain the option to deny that I ever said yes."
Seriously, I give Kanye a lot of crap and I'm not the biggest Kim fan in the world, but you have to give it up for him. It's also worth re-mentioning that this was in the summer of 2010, before Kim met her future ill-fated marriage partner Kris Humphries so under no circumstances was this any kind of scandalous relationship, just a short one. Basically, Kanye was hitting it with Amber, moved on to UK glamour model Shay for a quick few "dates," then hit it with Kim before dating Selita Ebanks and then finally in March it was Albanian Miss Universe Angela Martini. Let's not split hairs here...a douche he may be, but Kanye West is the Man.
This is Shay. Damn that Yeezy's luck.
Further Proof that Dating Justin Bieber is Bad For Your Health
Well okay, it may not be the actual dating of Justin that's harmful, though I won't deny the possibility that the Biebs emits some sort of radioactivity that kills the brain cells of teenage girls. But at this point it's tough to deny that being romantically involved with the second-strongest argument against YouTube (behind only Rebecca Black) is an act that comes with some serious risks, as another Bieber ex-girlfriend found themselves on the end of a death threat. Caitlin Beadles, who dated Justin back in 2009 and saw the Biebs come to his side when she got in a nasty boating accident some time after they broke up, found herself the target of a developmentally-disabled (and apparently deranged) fourteen year-old girl. The girl opened up a Tumblr account lovingly titled KILLSGANDCB--in other words, "Kill Selena Gomez and Caitlin Beadles"--and through it she quite psychotically messaged Caitlin threatening to kill her. Among the gems on the social media site were claims that she had cameras trained on Caitlin 24/7, that she knew where Caitlin lived and that she planned to skin her alive...and this was all in just one message. The message ended by saying that Caitlin would never know that she was coming until she "wakes up on the other side of her bed with a knife."
Now, I want to acknowledge that this may seem like a coincidence that Justin Bieber's exes and girlfriends are finding themselves in the paths of crazies, but I refute that possibility. I've been writing the Music 5 & 1 for fourteen weeks including today, in that three and a half months, three separate Bieber girls--Caitlin, Selena and Jasmine Villegas--have found themselves getting taking legal action against psychos threatening to go all Voorhees on them. There are almost enough to make up the cast of a new horror film and if I were Mariah Yeater, I would shut up and sit down about that whole BS baby accusation before I earned a supporting role in said film.
The stars of Lionsgate's next film, Bieber Party Massacre.
I know I'm making jokes here, but that is no disrespect for what is obviously a very scary situation for all involved. Stalking is not a funny situation but by making a few jokes I can take the edge off of the whole situation a bit; by no means am I attempting to minimize the seriousness of this. This is unfortunately a side effect of being in the spotlight alongside of someone with as rabid of a fanbase as the Biebs, though I'm certainly not saying that they should just expect such things to happen. It actually comes off as somewhat worrying; I'm kidding about Bieber girl slasher flicks but odds are that there's someone out there who's psychotic enough to give serial Bieber-lover murder a try. Luckily all of these people are very aware of the dangers and steps have surely been taken with all involved to make sure that nothing happens. But seriously, if I hear about another fourteen-year-old threatening to skin someone alive, I may just lose my tenuous faith in mankind.
Selena would like to welcome Cait into the ever-growing group
known as SABB: Scared-Ass Bieber Babes.
And So the Monster Army Begins...
You know, when I picture the hypothetical end of the world, I tend to think of some deranged military general finding a way to start thermonuclear war, an asteroid the size of Lower Mongolia colliding with the Earth, an airborne version of Ebola sweeping through the population, the always-popular Zombie Apocalypse...things like that. The rise of the Monsters, however, is not one I've ever considered and I feel dumb for not having done so. It's just so perfect...the legion of Lady Gaga's children rising up to take over the world and tear it apart while Mother Monster herself provides the Apocalypse's soundtrack with an album that is finally as important as she's always wanted her music to be. The simplicity is horrifically beautiful if you think about it.
Well, that eventual apocalypse got a step closer, as reports have emerged stating that Lady Gaga is planning to adopt a string of orphans from around the world. The Pretenticon apparently is planning to start off with adopting three Indian orphans and then start collecting others around the world, presumably all the while looking for Pikachu as her most powerful weapon.
"Gotta catch 'em all, and I'll kill anyone who gets in my way!"
All kidding aside, this is apparently something that Gaga's been wanting for some time. According to one of those ever-reliable 'sources,' "She's always wanted to adopt, ever since she was a little girl. She tells friends she feels she was put on this planet for a reason and since achieving fame she sees it as a sign that she has to give back the good fortune she's received. She's already set up her Born This Way Foundation in India and visited two orphanages while she was there last time. The plan is to adopt three Indian orphans before adopting more from around the world. She wants at least one American child, too. She's not being one of those celebrities who get sucked into third world adoptions only to forget about her own country."
I know some people are going to complain about this, and I have absolutely no freaking idea why they will. If Gaga wants to adopt children, more power to her. I'm an adopted child myself and I can say with confidence that adoption is a great thing. I've known people who have called out Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and such for adopting children from other parts of the world, saying that it's just a vanity thing for them to have a baby of another skin color like some sort of fashionable accessory, and I don't buy it. Adoption gives a child who is in a particularly bad position a new chance at life and you have to appreciate people--celebrities or not--for opening their lives in such a manner. The only concern I would have is Gaga overdoing it and ending up with like twenty kids that she can't handle on an emotional level, but I don't think she's that short-sighted. Obviously she'll be able to financially support any number of kids, but there is of course an emotional support that she needs to be able to provide too. But with it just being a few, I say "Good for you, Gaga."
On the down side, Madonna's about had enough of being copied by Gaga.
How To Get Rich: Celebrity Parenting Edition
You have to hand it to Jamie Spears. Not only does the guy have some fairly good genes, he knows how to rake in the cash through those genes. Jamie reportedly made bank for managing Britney Spears' Femme Fatale tour, getting awarded $537,987.37 for his services on the tour. Jamie reportedly "did the job of five people on the tour," which impressed the judge in charge of Britney's conservatorship so much that not only was he awarded that six-figure sum, he also allowed Britney's manager Larry Rudolph to give Jamie a fifth of the 10% commission due to his efforts on the tour. According to those reports, that's lining Daddy Spears up for a seven-figure payday when everything is tallied up.
Now, in most cases I would be throwing a fairly critical eye in the direction of a father getting rich off their daughter's career. We've seen a ton of such situations where the father was being pretty sketchy, including Billy Ray Cyrus, Mathew Knowles, Joe Simpson and many more. Need I really mention the Lohan clan? But I will give Jamie a ton of credit here because from the sounds of it he's actually busting his ass and doing his job instead of being a train wreck trying to hang onto fame and stay in the paparazzi spotlight. Even with his big-ass payday, Jamie apparently saved Britney over a million bucks in terms of salary and had a positive impact on the tour. That's not something you can really hate on.
Michael makes this same face every time he has to do actual work for his money.
Jamie is reportedly asking that the judge in charge of Britney's conservatorship extend his fee of $16,000 a month indefinitely, and to be honest I don't see why they shouldn't do it based on the admittedly-limited information we have, at least until they finally decide to give Britney control over her own finances. That's really the only thing I'm questioning in all of this; I know that Britney is a busy girl and all, but you would think that at some point someone would sit down with her for an extended set of lessons on how to manage her own money and not drain the bank dry with Big Mac meals or bad weaves. The girl seems to have gained a new sense of stability in her life over the last several years and that's great to see; a lot of people pegged her as destined to become the train wreck that Lindsay Lohan actually ended up becoming and she seems to have gotten nicely back on her feet. I know that some people just don't aren't good with finances and Britney may be one of those people, but I would hope the effort is at least being made. Other than that relatively minor concern, I have to say good on Jamie Spears here, and we can hope that other celebudads follow his example.
She may not be good with money, but she does manage her assets well.
New Music Monday
This is the home of some of the best new music that will soon be available, where you get to hear the hottest new tracks and find out about forthcoming albums and videos as well.
Gym Class Heroes are back with their first album since 2008's underrated The Quilt this week, releasing The Papercut Chronicles II, the sequel to their breakout album. Here is "Ass Back Home," one of the singles off the album:
Also, Chris Brown released a new song on Friday. We love to make fun of him here in the 5 & 1, but check out "Strip" anyway!
Everyone's favorite sex shop visiting pop star Rihanna released a new single last week from her upcoming album Talk That Talk. Here it is, titled "You Da One":
Finally, the king of water sports himself R. Kelly is back with a new track titled "Shut Up." Frankly, I wish that he'd follow his own advice but listen for yourself if you dare:
Now it's time for the reason you're here, the ‘&1 Model of the Week'.
A lot of people consider this week's "& 1" to be overrated in terms of hotness level, and I think those people are nuts. Her face isn't quite what it used to be but it's hardly terrible and the body more than makes up for it. With that in mind ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Fergie as your "& 1" Model of the Week!
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"Vinnie Paz and Jus Allah almost managed to fill the void left by Stoupe's departure, however a lack of focus and some disappointing production hurt the effort overall. While this album will satisfy most Jedi Mind Tricks fans, it will does not live up to the groups previous efforts." - Bill Wannop
"Everlast returns with his latest solo album and managed to completely change his sound again, opting for a more country/blues type record. The end result is a mixture of sounds, all of which are decent, but none of which is really exceptional. Everlast managed to do a bunch of things well, instead of focusing on doing one or two things great." - Bill Wannop
"Challenging, demanding, unconventional, and audacious, Lulu is the album no one asked for and everyone should hear. One of the year's best.." - Chad Nevett
"Mac Miller released his debut album, which was mostly a disappointment. Surprisingly the album is not all about teenage partying, and tries to be more serious. The album would have been much better had Miller stuck to what he does best, and that is create party tracks and having fun with his music. The end result is somewhat of a mess of an album that has decent production but is limited by Millers lyrical ability." - Bill Wannop
