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Nicki Minaj Throws M.I.A. Under The Bus Too

Feb 14th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Forgetting that Madonna flips people off and swears during every performance, everyone is taking it in turns to vilify M.I.A. for the Super Bowl middle finger. Madonna even phoned in to On Air With Ryan Seacrest to bemoan how ‘Irrelevent, negative, and teenage’ it was for M.I.A. to pull focus by flipping off 111.3 million people during the show broadcast with negligible delay to prevent such things from happening. And now Nicki Minaj has done the same while pretending she doesn’t bring dildos on stage at her own concerts: ’My first feeling was disappointment, only because of my respect for Madonna,’ said the rapper. ‘I’m a coocoo lady too, but I’d never be able to do it off the strength of Madonna. I just hope they don’t penalize Madonna… Madonna knows the artist that MIA is, and it was Madonna’s decision to take that risk with all of us. [Madonna has] done some crazy things becoming the icon that she is so that’s why she was able to forgive MIA. I love MIA. But me personally I wouldn’t do it off respect of Madonna, because I wouldn’t want any backlash on her.’

Five photos of Minaj wearing one of her three wigs in Beverly Hills this weekend.

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M.I.A. May Have To Pay Fine For Middle Finger

Feb 7th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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I have mostly ignored everything except the Super Bowl fallout because I’m in England and, honestly, no one here really cares. I watched Madonna’s half-time show online a few hours after it aired. If only because I was nervous about her hips and the risk of her slipping over in those heels. It was shaky there, for a time, right? All that thrusting and the wobbling somewhere in the middle (I added the video below, even though it’s hard to see through the smoke and mirrors). Anyhoo, no one really talking about Madonna’s performance because a featured vocalist flipped the bird and over-shadowed the whole thing. It was a tacky, basic move. But it worked, evidently. Because everyone except me jumped on it. I would have just ignored it, honestly, except I’m tickled by this update: TMZ.com claims that, contractually, were NBC fined, M.I.A. herself would have to pay for the offending middle finger. Yep, tickled. The last fines (which were later dropped) were for the Janet Jackson slip for which the FCC fined CBS $550,000.

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Madonna Thought This Outfit Was A Great Idea

Jan 24th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Here’s an outfit Madonna wore on purpose to the Weinstein Company with The Cinema Society & Forevermark premiere of W.E., held at the Ziegfeld Theater NYC January 23. I don’t know if the cape and fingerless gloves from the previous outfit have mutated, but anecdotal evidence leads me to believe… YES!!!

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Taylor Swift Covers Vogue February 2012

Jan 17th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Taylor Swift’s Vogue February 2012 cover has been released following a leak this weekend. It’s all bangs, and thick-knit sweaters, and giant, distracting hats, and nostrils, and eyeliner. And her mouth’s open. But I’m so pleased they angled up her nose to circumvent the squinting, I’m going to let the slack-jaw slide (it’s not super mouth-breathery like Jennifer Hudson’s Vogue cover or Justin Bieber’s People cover). Her interview’s below. It’s exactly what you’d expect, except for the blessing to dig through her garbage because privacy is for chumps. CHUMPS.

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Golden Globes: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt & More

Jan 16th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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I only covered the people I cared about in this post, since there was too much MEH and shrapnel for one person to comfortably wade through in one night. So, I’m adding the night’s photos with my usual blithe commentary about the best and worst dressed. In this case, the night was sponsored by Brad Pitt’s pimp cane as the tour continues. The red carpet: Pitt looked to have a little trouble walking, I guess the problems of a pimp are weighing him down (?); Angelina Jolie wore a white and red Atelier Versace gown, FYI; George Clooney and Stacy Keibler will be arm-in-arm until next year’s upgrade; Ricky Gervais hosted and took a few potshots at Kim Kardashian and… whomever she married; Debra Messing should have worn colour; Kelly Osbourne needs to not match her hair and dress, YEESH; Claire Danes looked plain, but rather classic;  Sarah Michelle Gellar… there’s no nice way to say this, but her daughter, Charlotte, helped pick the Monique Lhuillier gown and it looked like it too; Sofia Vergara, please and thank you; Nicole Richie is rather shiny and try-hard, but still one of the night’s better looks; Elle MacPherson wore a bad prom dress; Freida Pinto looked unusually wide, in that unflattering green; Emily and Zooey Deschanel posed together, Zooey’s dress *shudder*; Evan Rachel Wood looked like a mermaid/ peacock hybrid; Seth Rogan loves boners; Gerard Butler was dapper, but ill-groomed; Rooney Mara looked goth and hungry; Kate Winslet, lovely but for that belt thing; Mila Kunis also wore black, don’t know if want; Natalie Portman, quite lovely; Nicole Kidman’s breasts were an illusion; Reese Witherspoon wore a dress as tight as possible to dispel preggo rumours; Diana Agron’s dress scares me; Lea Michele’s dress was cheap, clingy, and try-hard; Emma Stone’s colour choices were great; Jessica Biel had darker hair and no engagement ring; A Gawker.com writer tweeted that Madonna’s dress was so clingy, a designer friend said, because ‘she thinks she’s sample size’; Joseph Gordon Levitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, bow ties, you’re welcome; Jessica Alba, sporadic bedazzling; Charlize Theron, too much; Kate Beckinsale, also lovely; Salma Hayek, shiny boobs; Julianne Moore, also in MEH black; Heidi Klum got a blowout; No, Busy Phillips, no; Michelle Williams might have leprosy. Below are 65 photos in the same order.

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Madonna Passive-Aggressively Mocks Lady Gaga

Jan 16th, 2012
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Madonna remains the queen of ice-cold passive-aggression, in the most significant act of chiding since the hydrangea incident. Remember, Madonna reamed some poor dude out for daring to be polite and bring her flowers? After which time she declared flower genocide and mocked the incident once more in that weird apology video where she missed the point that an actual human’s feelings may have been hurt. Well, it kind of happened again except during a sit down interview with Cynthia McFadden. Earlier this week, during a Newsweek interview, Madonna mocked Gaga ripping-off Express Yourself with Born This Way: ‘I thought, this is a wonderful way to redo my song. I mean, I recognized the chord changes. I thought it was… interesting.’ Asked by McFadden what she thought of Gaga’s ‘borrowing,’ Madonna gave the below response. That, basically, Gaga is a basic copy pasta who ‘borrows’ too often. ‘I certainly think she references me a lot in her work. Sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well-done,’ she said. ‘[Other times] it feels reductive. Look it up.’

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