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![Rock of Aged: Music fans now have more than sympathy for old devils
Why, as a culture, are we now paying deference to those we’ve been encouraged to disdain? Maybe we’ve lowered our expectations, or maybe the press, whom wild hearses once couldn’t drag away from an ageist pun, have finally decided that denigrating veteran rockers is old-hat: http://natpo.st/192qTHd
[Illustration by Kagan McLeod]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f2adff2ebba2a4100309c186c6b3ea3/tumblr_mo8l9mrMol1r59dcio1_1280.jpg)
Rock of Aged: Music fans now have more than sympathy for old devils
Why, as a culture, are we now paying deference to those we’ve been encouraged to disdain? Maybe we’ve lowered our expectations, or maybe the press, whom wild hearses once couldn’t drag away from an ageist pun, have finally decided that denigrating veteran rockers is old-hat: http://natpo.st/192qTHd
[Illustration by Kagan McLeod]
Graphic: Bieber Versus Bieber
When Justin Bieber burst onto the scene in 2009, he was an uncontroversial, shaggy-haired, prepubescent 15-year-old. He’d been discovered on YouTube by some big music stars, and with his debut single ‘One Time,’ he was, for a brief moment, a shining example of young Canadian talent. The Stratford, Ont., -raised singer quickly became the most famous person on the planet.
Since his humble beginnings, Bieber sold out a Madison Square Garden concert in 22 minutes, amassed nearly three billion YouTube views, sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, and became the focus of intense public scrutiny. From ‘Baby’ to ‘Boyfriend,’ mop-hair to gel-hair, purple hoodie to leather, dog tag to gas mask, the evolution of Bieber from ‘cuddly’ to ‘gnarly’ in these short four years has gripped the world. Which Bieber do you prefer?
After decades of excess, Rod Stewart is finally ready to settle down: Despite Rod Stewart’s well-known love of hard living, fast cars, and obliging blonds, his new album, Time, offers a picture of domestic bliss. On the song Beautiful Morning, he even croons about the joys of pulling off the road with one’s sweetheart and “into Starbucks for a doughnut and a coffee.” READ MORE: natpo.st/10mTscq
Illustration by Kagan McLeod
Kris Kross’s Chris Kelly, half of teenage rap duo, dies in apparent drug overdose at age 34
Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic Jump, died at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. He was 34.
“It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose,” said Cpl. Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police.
Justin Bieber visits Anne Frank museum, says he hoped Holocaust victim ‘would have been a Belieber’ if she lived
Justin Bieber has visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and the museum says the Canadian pop star wrote in the guestbook that he hoped Frank “would have been a Belieber” if she had lived.
Museum spokeswoman Maatje Mostart confirmed Sunday that Bieber visited Friday evening.
“Belieber” is what Bieber fans call themselves. Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who hid with her family in a small apartment above a warehouse during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Her family was caught and deported, and Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
The diary she kept in hiding was recovered and published after the war, and has become the most widely read document to emerge from the Holocaust. (Walter Bieri/The Associated Press; NIGEL TREBLIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Unpacking Accidental Racist by LL Cool J and Brad Paisley, line by excruciating line
In a development absolutely no one could have predicted, country star Brad Paisley and career initial enthusiast LL Cool J got themselves into some hot water Monday with the release of their song Accidental Racist. Hailed as everything from a “real, horrible song” to as bad as a song about the Holocaust, the track’s been able to unite people of all colours over how terrible it is. Others find it at least ironically funny, since it is basically doing for Paisley and Cool J’s reputation as sensitive men whatSouthern Man did for Neil Young among people for whom y is not only sometimes a vowel.
All right, so it might be bad. But do Paisley and LL Cool J at least address the problem they’re trying to? Or are they just a couple of accidental racists themselves, accidentally being racist all over this accidentally racist song? We decided to take a page from our poetry professors of years past and go line by line through the song, to see if we can understand what all the fuss is about. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Republican lawmakers wonder how Beyoncé and Jay-Z got to go on a Cuban holiday
Two Republican lawmakers are questioning how Beyoncé and Jay-Z circumvented a policy that restricts Americans from travelling to Cuba.
According to CNN, the American musicians were seen celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana last week.
Americans are barred from visiting Cuba unless it is for educational reasons. (Ramon Espinosa / The Associated Press)
Morrissey vs. Kimmel, Round 2
After The Moz cancelled his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! over fellow guests Duck Dynasty, Kimmel lobbed some gentle barbs Morrissey’s way: natpo.st/ZM0xYL
Scenes from a Life: k.d. lang
A four-time Grammy Award winner and Officer of the Order of Canada, Alberta’s k.d. lang will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame this April at the 2013 Juno Awards. Outspoken, iconic and a post-punk queer icon with a near-perfect mezzo-soprano voice, the 51-year-old has sang alongside everyone from Tony Bennett to Roy Orbison and, with Hallelujah, introduced Leonard Cohen to a new generation of fans. Here, the activist, one-time Vanity Fair cover model and proud alumni of Glee breaks her monumental life down into a series of game-changing scenes: natpo.st/Xz6ohb
Adele performs the theme to Skyfall onstage during the Oscars Sunday. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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