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The Week in Gossip: Politics, Pistols, and a Bunch of B.S.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Tempting Timberlake directs his fans to “Vote in the Box.” All of Hollywood is partaking in this movement to sway young peeps to exercise their democratic right to vote; most celebs just cross their fingers and cuss a lot to get the point across. But when JT croons, all the girls swoon, so he rocked an off-the-cuff version of his Emmy-winning SNL ditty at a Vegas “Last Chance for Change” rally last weekend.

KILL YOUR SATURDAY NIGHT PLANS. Sarah Palin is set to appear on SNL this weekend. “It would be fun to meet her, imitate her and keep on giving her new material,” said Palin about potentially sharing the stage with Tina Fey. A certain someone obviously doesn’t realize that the world isn’t laughing with her—just at her. But we’ll keep the vice-presidential nominee in the dark for the time being. I mean, that’s where she’s most comfortable, yeah?

Quote of the Week: “If she wins, I’m done . . . And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth,” said Tina Fey to TVGuide on the topic of Sarah Palin. Whether Fey’s “leaving Earth” would be prompted by the demands of having to impersonate Palin week-after-week for the next four years or the mere idea of a Palin vice-presidency is left to our interpretation, but for the sake of being objective, I’ll tell you—she means the latter. (more…)

Music News You Can Use: Guys Owned This Week’s Tidbits

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

The Beastie Boys want you to “Get Out and Vote!” The longtime rap trio is headlining a political tour and has added dates to the six swing states. Other headliners include Sheryl Crow, and Tenacious D. Think they can swing the vote? Check out the dates and ticket info here.

Kanye West is so politically incorrect. The rapper has posted a blog about his latest single “Heartless,” which includes a download of the unmastered version, and a very, um, racy collection of photos from the music video shoot. I’m decisively meh about the robotish song, but speechless on the vid. Oh, and by the way, vocoders suck.

The dudes from Franz Ferdinand are back! They have finally released the title and track listing of their third studio album, scheduled to be released January 27. Tracks for the album, titled Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, will be showcased on their upcoming Australian tour. For more info, check here.

Radiohead reveals stats from In Rainbows. About one year after releasing their latest album as a digital “pay what you want” download, Radiohead has finally dropped some numbers on how successful their business-model experiment was. Which makes me wonder, how much did you pay?

And finally, drum roll please…enough about the guys in the music biz, who’s Guy-less now? Bah-dum-bumph…

…ahemA-Rodahem.