Found 57 posts tagged as "Controversy"
Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Front has reportedly threatened to sue Madonna, should the singer bring a video image depicting Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead to France.
The fleeting image was shown during Madonna's Tel Aviv concert last Thursday as part of her MDNA world tour. This is reported by both The SUN and The Telegraph, though interestingly, the image on the Telegraph website does NOT appear in the video as far as I can tell. I have gone through it about ten times, in slow motion, so I'm not sure where it came from. What does appear is the above image.
One Direction is suing One Direction!
OMG, you guys. I'm so confused!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Simon Cowell's record label, Syco Entertainment, and Sony Music have just been hit with a $1 million lawsuit that says the boyband du jour -- which Simon created on the UK show X Factor -- is infringing on the rights of another group, also called One Direction, based in the U.S.
Naomi Wolf is mad at Katy Perry for putting out what Wolf calls Marine "propaganda" and is calling for a boycott of the "Teenage Dream" singer.
Katy's most recent video, for the song "Part of Me," shows Katy discovering her boyfriend is a no- good-two-timing jerkwad, leaving him, chopping off her hair and joining the Marines. The video is shot on a real military base and uses real Marines, with whom Katy trained during filming.
Cee Lo Green isn't too sorry that he dropped an eff bomb and flipped off the crowd at a fundraiser for Barack Obama last week. You should know him by now!
The Voice judge and Gnarls Barkley singer was performing his hit song "Forget You" at the $500 minimum dinner, when he decided to slip into the non-radio-friendly version, which of course goes "F--- You."
Susan Boyle says she’s unfazed by insults directed at her by Ricky Gervais.
It seems the British comic hurled some nasty remarks at Susan back in October, when he said in a routine, According to E! Online, that she’s famous because she looks like a “mong.”
The term “mong” is or has been used in the UK as a pejorative slang term for people with Down Syndrome. (It’s the short form of “Mongoloid,” which was apparently used by John Langdown Down, who first characterized the chromosomal condition, to reference the “epicanthic folds” seen in the eyes of those with the condition as well as those of Mongol people. “Mongoloid” was used to refer to people with Down Syndrome until about the 1970s, when it was deemed unacceptable and insulting. [I just looked in up])
The Los Angeles radio personalities who called Whitney Houston a “crack ho” will take “cultural sensitivity training.”
John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of KFI AM 640’s “The John and Ken Show," found themselves in a vat of hot water after one of them mocked Whitney and referred to her as a “crack ho” in the wake of her death last month.
Musing about what it might have been like to be a friend of colleague of the star’s during the time that she was struggling with her addiction issues and displaying reported erratic behaviour, the host said:
"So, she’s cracked out for 20 years and we heard about how obnoxious she was at these parties....Blew through her money, ruined her voice...How much of a pain in the ass do you think she was? Can you imagine? You’re Clive Davis and she hasn’t had her head screwed on right for 20 years and at some point, you’re just sick of it all, and so is everybody else...It's like, 'ah Jesus, here comes the crack ho again. What's she gonna do? Oh, look at that, she's doing handstands next to the pool. Very good, crack ho. nice.' After a while, everybody's exhausted. And then you find out she's dead? It’s like, really? Took this long?" (Hear the audio clip here)
Christian groups are reportedly slamming Johnny Depp and Babybird for a song about Jesus in a strip club.
According to Starpulse, the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family are angry over the song "Jesus Stag Night Club" by Depp and the British indie rockers. The song tells the tale of a Christ-like figure hanging in a gentlemen's club.
Miley Cyrus is caught in another scandal! Oh, the drama!
It seems the former Hannah Montana's friends threw her a birthday party for her 19th last week at which they** presented her a Bob Marley-themed cake. I don't know if that actually means what it sounds like it means, but when presented with it, Miley commented, "You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake," adding, "You know you smoke way too much f--king weed!"
So, the video made its way online and the media went bananas, so Miley's reps jumped in to state that it was all a joke. "The cake was a joke and Miley was being sarcastic. It is all being completely taken out of context," a rep told Access Hollywood.
Of course, it's not the first time Miley has been in a smoking scandal. Last year, that video of her smoking what she claimed was the legal hallucinogen salvia, also surfaced online. (BFF Kelly Osbourne references the incident in the below video). Jeez. Miley needs better, more discreet friends.
Osbourne later took to Twitter to defend her buddy and call out whoever released the video. "After @MileyCyrus salvia incident we started calling her bob miley as a JOKE!" Kelly tweeted. "the cake was also A JOKE! It makes me sick that Miley's so-called 'friends' would sell her out and lead people to believe she is someone that she is not!"
Watch the video after the jump.
**ARF101: Thank you SO much for pointing out that I made a typo!!!
Young Money rap star Nicki Minaj has a punch line on her Pink Friday song “Did It On ’Em” that offended Cher when brought to the icon’s attention.
“If you could turn back time, Cher/ You used to be here, now you’re gone, Nair,” raps Nicki on the tune.
One of Cher’s followers heard Minaj’s song and tweeted the 65-year-old Oscar winner: “@cher did you know thatb**** @NICKIMINAJ dissed you in her song DIDITONEM.”
Cher responded to the fan: “Ive see lots of people come & go! No biggie!”
Performance artist/musician Marilyn Manson has unveiled a typically spooky and unsettling new video directed by Transformers star Shia LaBeouf. The clip for “Born Villain” – posted below - features some nudity, gloomy sets and lighting, what appears to be scenes from a traveling freak show and – gasp – our man reciting lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Sure, why not.
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