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09 Jan 2012 11:01

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Culture: Dear Beyonce, Jay-Z and new baby: You’re angering other parents

  • They just used the hospital like it was their own and nobody else mattered.
  • New father Neil Coulon • Speaking out against Beyonce and Jay-Z’s entourage, because it was preventing him from seeing his own prematurely-born twins. The famous couple, who welcomed Blue Ivy Carter into the family on Saturday night, asked for a strong amount of privacy from Lenox Hill Hospital, forcing the hospital to block off the neonatal intensive care unit and putting a number of other rooms on lockdown. This probably was not the best way for the hospital to handle this situation, to put it lightly. source

28 Mar 2010 22:48

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Music: Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” easily replaced by Korean girl on iPhones

  • She shows you how she does it, then she does it. And then you watch it and it makes you feel inferior. Don’t you feel inferior? We know we do.

27 Mar 2010 17:10

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Music: YouTube idiocy: Beyonce accused of violating her own copyright

Dear Sony, and heck, YouTube: Do you actually read the DMCA complaints before submitting them? source

12 Mar 2010 10:54

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Music: Lady Gaga’s new video, “Telephone” might as well be porn

  • We’re not sure what offends us more about this video – the obvious advertising (we counted Diet Coke, Virgin Mobile, PlentyOfFish.com, Little Debbie, Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip), the use of trash as clothing accessory, the use of Quentin Tarantino’s famous “#*#*@ Wagon,” the awful dialogue between Gaga and Beyonce halfway through the video, the bizarre shot of Gaga making a sandwich, Beyonce’s dreadful “I knew you’d take all my honey, you selfish mother(#(&@#” line, the fact that Lady Gaga poisoned a room full of people, or the fact that the title font is the same font as our logo font. Actually, that last part offends us most.

01 Feb 2010 09:01

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Music: A handful of quick numbers from last night’s Grammy adventure

  • six the number of awards Beyonce took home; that’s better than everyone else
  • 20 the age of Taylor Swift, the youngest winner of an “Album of the Year” honor, ever
  • 2004 the year the Zac Brown Band released its debut; they won Best New Artist source

31 Jan 2010 20:38

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03 Dec 2009 03:29

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Music: A quick rundown of the Grammy “Album of the Year” nominees


  • Obvious

  • Lame

  • Huh?

  • Obvious

  • Obvious
 

27 Sep 2009 12:23

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Offbeat: Here’s a baby dancing to Beyonce, because why not?

  • This dancing baby is good, and Imma let her finish, but Beyonce danced to this song first!

01 Sep 2009 10:28

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Music: Jay-Z: Huge Grizzly Bear fan. Who’da thunk it?

  • The thing I want to say to everyone – I hope this happens because it will push rap, it will push hip-hop to go even further – what the indie-rock movement is doing right now is very inspiring. It felt like us in the beginning.
  • Jay-Z • Regarding Grizzly Bear specifically (he was recently spotted at a show with Beyonce) and indie rock in general, and how what they’re doing inspires rap. He says that if they can break really big (well, Grizzly Bear did go top-ten on the Billboards earlier this year) “it will force hip-hop to fight to make better music.” • source

26 Apr 2009 21:18

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Culture: Box-office: Obsessive “Obsessed,” sleepy “Soloist”

  • $28 million The box-office take of “Obsessed,” starring Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter – big, but not huge, stars
  • $9.7 million The box-office take of “The Soloist,” starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. – huge stars source