The Music 5 & 1 1.16.12: The 99 Problems But a Chick Ain't One Edition
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.16.2012
Avril Lavigne takes on Esther Baxter in Vs, Jennifer Lopez is accused of supporting terrorism, Rihanna is in her own league, Tila Tequila goes kosher, Madonna stirs up controversy ahead of her new album, Jay-Z cuts a bad word out of his vocabulary, Sophia Marie is your "& 1" Model of the Week and more!
STUFF I WANT TO TALK ABOUT
Welcome back to the Music 5 & 1, boys and girls! I am Jeremy Thomas, back once again after my personal business last week. Thank you very much to Adam Hill for covering for me last week and showing why he will ALWAYS be the true master of the Music 5 & 1! It's gonna be a busy week this week, but I always try to make time for my 5 & 1 peeps so let's get right into the girls and gossip, shall we?
Avril Lavigne continued her road to the Hall of Bang--albeit in a squeaker--as she got by Nayer with a 73 - 70 margin, the closest vote we've had during my tenure on the 5 & 1! The road isn't getting any easier for the Sk8r Girl though, as for her third step toward the Hall she takes on hip-hop model Esther Baxter, who you've probably seen in videos by everyone from Kanye West and Will Smith to Ghostface Killah and Ja Rule! It's gonna be one hell of a fight; who've you got in this one? Determine who survives to next week by voting below!
Avril Lavigne Vs Esther Baxter
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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.
Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires(4.0) "Snow Patrol are a mildly likable crew, who have a decent knack for a lush love song. It's pretty unfortunate to hear this album, then, because it sounds like they don't have much to say beyond their usual shtick, and they obviously wish they did. You won't be too turned off if you're a fan, but this isn't going to bring in anyone new or anything. Y'know, I'll let you guys in on a little secret, as someone who reviews music: it's never the bad albums you truly hate to come across; it's the dull ones." - Wyatt E.
MUSIC VIDEO A-GO-GO
With news that Guns N' Roses are possibly getting back together, I thought it would be a good time to celebrate one of their greatest videos (and one of the greatest of all-time to boot). Ladies and gentlemen..."November Rain"
CRAZY GALLAGHER QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The days of Oasis and Blur were the last great assault on the charts by alternative music. Christmas Top Of The Pops was dreadful. Every song sounded like it came from the same field of music. There was a rap in there somewhere, everyone sang in a transatlantic soul voice and it was rubbish. The Britpop thing was vastly different. We were all great live bands, and that's gone now."
- Noel summarily dismisses Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, The Strokes, the White Stripes, Gorillaz, Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem, My Chemical Romance, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, 30 Seconds to Mars, Cage the Elephant, Audioslave, Foster the People, The Decemberists, Breaking Benjamin, Interpol, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Lostprophets and a whole host of other bands while saying they all sound alike and suck live.
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. And I have committed myself this week to no news about Beyonce giving birth...
Blue Ivy Has Her Own Stream of Marijuana Named After Her
...dammit. Well, I tried, but this was too good to pass up. The newest member of the Carter clan has inspired a new strain of marijuana known as "OG Blue Ivy." At this point, none of the multiple weed dispensaries in Hollywood have been given a cease and desist by Jay-Z or Beyonce, but you know it will happen. Either that or Jay will get an assault charge when Snoop Dogg tells him "Yo, I just smoked your daughter." Either way, it'll be entertaining.
Beyonce says I'm going to hell for that joke. I say,
"I saw Obsessed, how much worse can hell be?"
Jay-Z Says He'll Never Say "Bitch" Again
Well, that commitment's going well. I promise this is the last one though. Jay-Z swears he's never going to use the word "bitch" in his songs again because of Blue Ivy and has even written a poem promising not to do so:
Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich, I didn't think hard about using the word bitch.
I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.
I never realized while on the fast track that I'd give riddance to the word bitch, to leave her innocence intact.
No man will degrade her, or call her name. I'm so focused on your future, the degradation has passed.
I wish you wealth, health and insight. Forever young you may pass. Blue Ivy Carter, my angel.
It's a great sentiment, don't get me wrong. But the question arises of how he's going to perform any of his previous songs, as they pretty much all have the now-offensive word in them. No problem; it's been predicted that from now on, "Bitch" will be replaced by the much-more radio-friendly "chick." Note that the N-Word, by all accounts, is still fair game. Yeah, that's MUCH less degrading.
"Stop using n***a? Chick, please."
Lily Allen Has News For Breast Feeding Fetishists
It's been a while since Lily Allen's been in the 5&1...oh wait no, it's only been since Adam subbed in for me last week. My bad. Anyway, she's back for week two, this time talking about a particular talent she has. Lily was asked by a journalist over Twitter what her "milk pressure"--in other words, how far she could fire off her breast milk from the source--was. Lily responded with:
are you talking about my let down reflex? if so, pretty good, yes 10 ft sounds about right
You know what, I have a lot of questions I might ask Lily Allen if I had the chance ("What the hell is your beef with Girls Aloud about, anyway?" or "Did you really think it was smart to copy text from a 50 Cent interview for a blog against stealing people's intellectual work?" are good examples), but "How far can you make your breast milk fly?" is not on the list. And while I am admittedly not up on my knowledge of the ins and outs of breast feeding, how the hell did she figure this out? Was the baby in the playpen and she was on the couch and thought, "Eh, I'm not feeling like getting up?"
It's okay Lily, you don't have to explain. I don't really wanna know.
British Prime Minister Calls Katy Perry's Music "Appalling" David Gordon may not always be a man of popular opinion; frankly, no politician is all the time. But I think there's one thing we all agree on: Katy Perry's music is an irritating earworm. Gordon told the Telegraph during an otherwise non-music focused interview that he can't stand the songstress, whose music is popular among his kids. He called Perry and Bruno Mars"appalling" but noted that they are "starting to infect my iPod." So Katy breaks up with Russell Brand and in a week, the Prime Minister of the UK is trashing her. That's some serious national solidarity.
In related news, Brand is no longer the only
UK citizen that Katy's infected.
Snoop Dogg Launching His Own Cigar Line
You have to hand it to Snoop Dogg. Most people, on being arrested for their umpteenth marijuana possession charge, would delay the announcement of their new smoking product. But Snoop doesn't let a little legal problem get in the way of business; hell, this is the guy who evaded police who were after him for a freaking murder charge long enough to accept an MTV Music Video Award. Not a Grammy; an MTV Music Video Award, the Ke$ha of award shows. So it probably doesn't come as a surprise that the man announced his new line of Executive Suite cigars five days after getting busted at the US-Mexico border for drug possession. The brand will first launch with their cigarillos, which will run $0.99 for a pack of two. Way to make the Swisher Sweets they sell at 7-11 sound high-end by comparison, Snoop.
When you're as stoned as Snoop,
you don't need a decent cigarillo to stay high.
It's time to crank this mother up to 11 as we take a look at some random (DEFINITELY non-Beyonce) stuff from the last week and one smoking hottie.
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The Madonna Album Hype Controversy Machine Heats Up
There is one thing you can be sure of when it comes to pop music, and that is this: if there is controversy surrounding Madonna, it's because she's manufactured it for an album release. Take the release of her upcoming disc, for example. Madonna had two pieces of controversial news hit this week about it, the first of which arrived when she insinuated that she expected it to leak well ahead of its as-of-yet unspecified release date. When asked about the release date by Graham Norton she quipped, "It's soon. It depends how quickly people hack in to my server and leak it. Can people wait? It's terrible."
Now, Madonna. Listen, that may be good for a laugh in front of the studio crowd, but really it just comes off as a bit whiny. Everyone knows that their music is going to leak at some point. And I mean everyone. Lil Wayne and others have learned how to spin it positively, even if they don't like that it happens. The way she comes off here (and granted there's a lot of tone missing in the statement so she may have been taking a humor tack) is that of being whiny, which is not what you want to do in such a situation. I have all due respect for the Queen of Pop's musical track record, but when people want to give her crap about the way she is as a person this is the kind of stuff they can point to. Also, for someone who had a well-publicized backlash for flooding file-sharing sites with fake tracks to protect 2003's American Life, jumping back in the piracy game is probably not something she wants to do.
This is the only time "Madonna" and "piracy" are
words I want to hear together.
The Material Girl wasn't done with the controversy there though. In addition to potentially pissing off hackers, Madonna found herself on the wrong side of an anti-drug group for the name of the album, namely MDNA. The issue, for those unaware (e.g. CM Punk) is that MDNA is remarkably close to the acronym MDMA, a.k.a. methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a.k.a. the psychoactive hallucinogen known as ecstasy. The London-based nonprofit group Cannabis Skunk Sense, which has the silliest name ever for an anti-drug group (yes, I know Skunk is a type of cannabis, it's still silly-sounding), called out Madge for the name with the blistering slam of making an "an ill advised decision." Ill-advised? Christ...listen, I know that understatement is an art form across the Atlantic (all love to our UK and European brethren), but if you're gonna call someone out for something you think they did wrong, and then call them out. Take a hint from Ricky Gervais or The Gallaghers and come up with something stronger. I hear the C-word is popular. If you just call it "ill-advised," then over here in the US it sounds like you have a minor quibble with it. You know what I mean?
Honestly though, I don't mind about that so much as I think this is much ado about nothing. I understand what they're saying and I have no doubt that Madonna did it, if not on purpose, at least consciously. But let's be frank, someone who was going to do a bit of tripping out was going to do so whether Mads referred to it in her album title or not. And also...well, it is a shortened version of her name too. So let's just chill out. I'm sure Madonna can find us a couple good pills for that, right?
She has them in her purse. You don't want the ones
she stored in elsewhere on her person.
I Tried and Failed to Avoid Making a "Ex-Shikslut" Reference Here
Usually when Tila Tequila is referenced in any opinion column on 411mania, it's with a level of disdain typically reserved only for Lindsay Lohan and Courtney Love. Certainly Tila hasn't done a lot to endear herself to anyone with any semblance of sentience since she burst upon the scene ten years ago. She generally acts like an idiot, takes credit for huge swaths of mainstream acceptance for the LGBTQ community that she doesn't have the right to lay claim to, she plays the "I'm bisexual--no, I'm a lesbian!" game more flagrantly and poorly than anyone, she looks increasingly skanky on a regular basis and acts worse. Hell, she's so unlikable that she managed to be considered the villain after a bunch of Juggalos threw rocks, bottles, human excrement and a watermelon fermented in human urine at her. That takes some serious skill to pull off.
That being the case, one can understand why several people (or possibly several hundreds of thousands of people) rolled their eyes this week when Tila announced she was converting to Judaism. As time passed, I started to become more and more fascinated with Kabbalah, the culture, and the way of life of the reform Judaism religion...I feel Orthodox is a little hardcore for me at this stage," Tila told TMZ. Because when you want to make a serious religious change, TMZ is the first that should know, right? I was as ready to pass this off as a waste of digital ink as anyone, until it was pointed out that not only does she say she's converting...she's actually doing it.
Some people think she's hot. I'm not one of them, but enjoy anyway.
Yes, as it turns out Tila is actually, seriously studying at a synagogue in New York in order to begin the conversion process, and even skipped Christmas in order to "focus on change." She added that she doesn't think she'd going to go Orthodox and stay Reform, as Orthodox is "a little hardcore for me at this stage." Joke writers around the world spontaneously combusted due to overload upon reading that joke, but luckily for you and I, I am much better at it. Or I'm just not funny...but either way, still alive!
Now as I said, I know a lot of people are going to crap all over this--hopefully in the non-Juggalo way--and accused Tila of staging another publicity stunt. And if it comes out that she is doing that, I'll be neither surprised nor even disappointed...you have to have respect for someone to be disappointed by them. But let's face it, Tila's never been a big planner and I don't think she'd waste valuable time she could be near-flashing cameras at sleazy Las Vegas nightclub parties just for a sham. There have been no reports of her goofing off or even skipping a class, so I'm assuming it's going good and you know what, if it's legit then good for her. I'm always supportive of people trying to better themselves however they see fit and if this means she's gonna tone it down, she's bettering herself. I am, however, disappointed. Not one sexualized kosher joke, commenters? For shame!
Really, that joke was staring you guys in the face.
J-Lo Hates You Because of Your Freedom
File this under "unexpected headlines of the week." Jennifer Lopez is under fire for being the spokesperson of a company that is being accused of supporting terrorism. The singer/actress path down the road to Al-Qaeda began when she signed on to become the spokesperson for car company Fiat, an act that has angered the United Against Nuclear Iran advocacy group. Guess what their mission statement involves? According to UANI, Fiat's subsidiary Iveco sells and distributes trucks in Iran, a portion of which have reportedly been used as a means to relocate missiles and to "stage gruesome public executions." Because of this, and because J-Lo is promoting the parent company, UANI has concluded that Lopez is promoting a terrorist company and is calling for her to step down.
The Back-Up Plan: J-Lo's last confirmed act of terrorism.
Of course, this is not the first time that J-Lo's association with Fiat has caused controversy. In late 2011, she was taken to task for filming a Fiat ad that tried to pass off Los Angeles for the Bronx, all while she talking about how the Bronx was "my world" and how it inspired her to "be tougher, to stay sharper, to think faster." Apparently it made her so tough that she's afraid to actually visit her old neighborhood. Classy movie, Jenny from the (Beverly) Hills.
In all honesty, I'm less offended by her faking New York City than I am with her promoting Fiat in general. Certainly I'm not claiming that she should be showing love to terrorism. I'm left-wing, not insane. What I'm saying is that while she should have probably been more thorough in researching Fiat before she signed on, it's a mistake that could have easily been made by many people, and frankly has been. Lopez isn't the first person to endorse Fiat, after all, and many other companies and the celebs that endorsed them have been placed in similar positions.
To be fair on the other side as well, UANI isn't exactly accusing Jennifer of loading up her Fiats with IUD's and driving them into military installations. The organization makes clear in its open letter, "UANI recognizes that your endorsement of Fiat does not represent a sign of your support for the Iranian regime and its abhorrent practices. With that said, however, it is important for you to know that as its spokesperson, you are now the face of Fiat, and are therefore synonymous with a corporation that is undermining U.S. foreign policy and international security through its willingness to do business with the leaders of one of the world's most dangerous and repressive regimes." So at the very least, it seems that UANI is willing to be reasonable...at least up to the point they issued the letter and gave Lopez six days to end her association with the company, an act that would pretty surely result in a breach of contract lawsuit without a lot of legal precedent that Lopez's lawyers will probably need more than a week to sort out.
I'm not saying UANI is in the wrong or that J-Lo's in the wrong. Hell, I only have UANI's assertion that Fiat is even in the wrong here; the best evidence that UANI has offered is a Wall Street Journal article stating that Iveco trucks sold for civilian purposes have been appropriated by said terrorists and used in those abhorrent ways. (Also, UANI's ad against Fiat from the 2011 New York International Auto Show was...well, a bit inflammatory.) What I'm saying is that some cooler heads need to prevail here, and I kinda hope they do.
At least we can be sure she's hasn't gone full-bore and put on an explosive vest.
Rihanna is Humble and Not at All Arrogant
Dammit, Sarcasmatron! So yeah anyway, Rihanna raised the eyebrows of more than a few people by saying that there is no one in her league. I'm not summarizing there...that's basically a direct quote. Though I'm sure it needs some context, let's se--oh. No, she basically says that there is no one with her particular style who is competition to her. "There's nobody really in my league," she told Look magazine. "There's competition everywhere. The whole music industry is competition. There are people who like other artists, those who like me and others who like both. Beyoncé is a great artist and I feel honored to be mentioned in the same sentence, but we're different performers with different styles."
Really, Rihanna. I mean...REALLY?
So let me break this down. First off, we need to figure out what she thinks "her style" is. Clearly it's not R&B, because she says she's not like Beyonce. I would imagine it's not pop music, otherwise her best friend Katy Perry is gonna have some pointed words for her, not to mention Adele, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson and a ton of other singers. Soooo...what, Dance Pop sung specifically with a Barbadosian accent? If that's the case than I would say that she's probably right; I can't think of any other singers exactly 100% like her who are in her league. But if we're getting any wider on our criteria, she's doing the open mouth, insert foot thing pretty heavily.
And listen, Rihanna fans (if there are any of you that read this), I'm not saying that she's a terrible pop singer. I think she's incredibly mediocre, but she's not terrible. But the fact remains that by any criteria you can imagine, the only way "No one's in my league" can be interpreted is "Everyone else is far above my league." Despite releasing more singles per album than anyone I can think of and being on a number of songs that compare with the ever-present Pitbull and Lil Wayne, she still couldn't sell a comparable number of albums to a ton of other pop stars. She doesn't write her own songs, her producers Auto-Tunes the hell out of her work and frankly, even with all of that Talk that Talk was a piece of crap album. I don't hate Rihanna, but even her fans have to admit that the above statement approaches Kanye West levels of arrogance.
"Crap, they're onto me...time to look hot!"
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.
Ani DiFranco's seventeenth studio album ¿Which Side Are You On? releases on Tuesday. Check out the title track below:
The latest song from Mary J. Blige, "Mr. Wrong" featuring Drake, is online. Check it out:
Van Halen's first new song in eight years is now available. Check out "Tattoo" below:
Now it's time for the reason you're here, the "&1 Model of the Week".
For this week's Model of the Week, we're gifted with the appearance of a model who's appeared in videos such as Fat Joe's "If It Ain't About Money" featuring Trey Songz. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to the lovely Sophia Marie!
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Posted By: mblund (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Avril
Posted By: The Clap (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 11:45 PM
avril
Posted By: Guest#1750 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 11:56 PM
LOL @ "no contest here, Avril destroys"
With and without makeup, Esther >>>> Avril. Not only does Esther have a great rack, legs, hips, and ass, but a nice face too. If you're into Avril, either you are inclined to date/snatchup very young girls, or ambiguous looking chicks, ones who you're not sure whether they're a male or female cause of the body type. Ironing board flat on both sides.
Posted By: SS87 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 01:23 AM
LOL @ "no contest here, Avril destroys"
With and without makeup, Esther >>>> Avril. Not only does Esther have a great rack, legs, hips, and ass, but a nice face too. If you're into Avril, either you are inclined to date/snatchup very young girls, or ambiguous looking chicks, ones who you're not sure whether they're a male or female cause of the body type. Ironing board flat on both sides.
Posted By: SS87 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 01:23 AM
Easy now, I was just stating my opinion based on my personal taste. I have a thing for rocker type chicks. Sorry you couldn't agree, prick
Posted By: mblund (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 02:22 AM
Esther. all the way Esther. I am not turned on by certain types of girls like say "punk" girls (or a girl pretending to be punk) or "valley" girls. I am turned on by girls with big boobs, tight round ass and pretty face. Esther is all of those, Avril is none of those.
Posted By: TheR (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 03:46 AM
"The days of Oasis and Blur were the last great assault on the charts by alternative music. Christmas Top Of The Pops was dreadful. Every song sounded like it came from the same field of music. There was a rap in there somewhere, everyone sang in a transatlantic soul voice and it was rubbish. The Britpop thing was vastly different. We were all great live bands, and that's gone now."
Noels is talking about Top of the Pops Christmas special. Here is a summary: "With two Number 1 hits in his back pocket Elliot Gleave better known as Example gets the party started. Hackney rapper Professor Green and the lady with the voice Emeli Sande perform one of the songs of the year Read All About It and man of the year, 20-year-old Ed Sheeran performs his thoughtful hit The A Team. Platinum-selling Brit winner Will Young offers up a track from his recent number 1 album - Echoes. Essex boy and cheeky chappy Olly Murs is joined by Brighton boys Rizzle Kicks to perform his summer smash hit and Rizzle Kicks also entertain us with their own catchy radio anthem Down with the Trumpets."
I'm no defender of the Gallaghers, but Noel was railing on shitty British Pop Music, not that list of every band you know. Read the quote before getting on your high horse. Summarily.
Posted By: Context (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 05:10 AM
Ill vote for ANYONE over Avril. Her shitty attitude and wanna be rocker ways destroys any inherent hotness. However knowing the lack of taste around here, she will be in your Hall in no time.
Posted By: CottonMouthWolf (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 08:26 AM
Avril is the exact type of person that little emo boys hurt right (or left) wrists hands too.
Unfortunately she isn't hot, her personality SUCKS, and can't even be considered a rocker girl.
As Eddie once said about Good Charlotte (and it fits about this girl)..."They just sound like a popsicle shoved up someones ass"
Yeah that's about right...and her "hotness" is about the same. Take Esther all day and 3 times on Sunday.
Posted By: Guest#5013 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 08:54 AM
Esther... Not even remotely close
Posted By: Guest#4238 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 09:51 AM
Avril
SS87 is crazy-- that brown girl is fugnacious
Posted By: Guest#2004 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Esther wins. It's no contest. She's shaped like a woman. Avril is shaped like a 15 year old girl.
Posted By: Monty (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Avril.
Posted By: Guest#7422 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 12:28 PM
This has got to be a joke. I might've said this before, but that is the dumbest, worst question ever. Esther vs Avril?!?!?! Hmmm, an insanely super hot woman vs some dirty chick that looks like a 15 year old boy???
Watch Esther's 2 scenes in Petey Pablo's "Freek-a-Leek" video (maybe the hottest thing ever), and if you pick Avril, you are 100% gay.
Posted By: matrix1004 (Guest) on January 17, 2012 at 12:43 AM
I have a thing for rocker type chicks. Sorry you couldn't agree, prick
Posted By: mblund (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 02:22 AM
Nothing wrong with rocker chicks. I just prefer females who look like females. Whatever floats your boat though.
Posted By: SS87 (Guest) on January 17, 2012 at 01:44 AM
@SS87
So if Esther was a "rocker chic" or a poser like Avril and dressed per that genre and Avril was into that "hiphop thing" and dressed in that way and danced in HipHop videos would your opinion still be the same and vote accordingly?
Posted By: Slick (Guest) on January 17, 2012 at 02:42 AM
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"Snow Patrol are a mildly likable crew, who have a decent knack for a lush love song. It's pretty unfortunate to hear this album, then, because it sounds like they don't have much to say beyond their usual shtick, and they obviously wish they did. You won't be too turned off if you're a fan, but this isn't going to bring in anyone new or anything. Y'know, I'll let you guys in on a little secret, as someone who reviews music: it's never the bad albums you truly hate to come across; it's the dull ones." - Wyatt E.
