This week, BuzzFeed was hard at work forcing our political opinions on everybody. When we weren’t complaining about President Obama, we were busy defending the sanctity of marriage with famed imbecile and head of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher. The Gathering of the Juggalos was also last weekend, which seemed like a good time. Then Tila Tequila was assaulted with feces and rocks and it became a GREAT time. A certain celebrity mom (who is suspiciously absent from this list) sent some embarrassing tweets to her daughter, and Rolling Stone debuted its sexy True Blood cover, which was promptly ‘shopped to make it 800% sexier. Coincidentally, that’s exactly how much slower somebody made this Justin Bieber song, making it about as intelligible as these terrible lyrics from 2010′s richest rappers. But, don’t tell Snoop we said that. We don’t want him to blow us up. Happy Trails, BuzzPokes!
In this age of the mash-up and the sample, artists are constantly suing one another for copyright infringement. But here’s a new twist on that common refrain: Playboy has reportedly filed charges against Drake. It seems the naked-lady empire owns the 1975 track “Fallin’ in Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, which they say the rapper illegally sampled on his song “Best I Ever Had.”
Perhaps even stranger than the story itself is where it first surfaced: MissTilaOMG.com, the site best known as the online home of Tila Tequila’s rantings about Lady Gaga and the Illuminati. Despite the fact that the blogger included scanned versions of the official documents, we weren’t even entirely convinced that the story was true until MTV confirmed it with Playboy’s lawyer. But before Hugh Hefner and Drake hash it out in a court of law, we’re sure the court of public opinion will want to weigh in. After the jump, listen to both “Fallin’ in Love” and “Best I Ever Had” and let us know what you think: Is Drake guilty?
This morning, part-time blogger and full-time crazy person Tila Tequila launched a Twitter tirade accusing Lady Gaga and the whole pop music industry of being part of the Monarchy of Satan. Tequila also wrote a long and confusing blog post about those turning to the devil and how she is standing up to a group of people or spirits she refers to as the “others.” As is to be expected, the post is written with about as much clarity and command of grammar as a middle-school zine, so to really understand what she is talking about is quite difficult. Lucky for you, we’ve waded through the mire and pulled out the best quotes from her rant below.
When J.D. Salinger died last week at the age of 91, the Twitter- and the literatti aligned to mourn the reclusive writer. Charles McGrath wrote a touching obit in the New York Times; Lillian Ross waxed poetic in The New Yorker and Bret Easton Ellis, tweeted, “Yeah!! Thank God he’s finally dead. I’ve been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight!!!” Ah, the Twitterverse, where Chilon of Sparta’s maxim “Don’t speak ill of the dead” doesn’t apply, as long as you can do it in under 140 characters. We turned to the Twitterverse to see how other luminaries, literary and decidedly unliterary, marked Salinger’s passing*.
Forget St. Patrick’s Day. Cinco de Mayo is the alcohol industry’s equivalent of a Hallmark holiday. Corona would like to think that May 5th is an important national holiday, but they’d also like you to think that you need a Lite version of their beer. And yet even if Cinco de Mayo is a manufactured anniversary akin to St. Valentine’s day, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use you it to douse your worries about swine flu in Mexico’s national drink: tequila. But since you won’t have the traditional mariachi band to back you up — unless you’re drinking on the subway — after a jump, a selection of songs to use as chasers. Read More »
