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TikTok often takes a sound and completely transforms it, and sometimes that happens because people misheard a lyric or misinterpreted the tone. This week’s sound is yet another example: Here’s how a line from FKA twigs’ “Cellophane,” sung as Miss Piggy, became a long-nosed dog meme on TikTok. The sound The audio going around TikTok …
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There are two kinds of people in this world—those who Google “nightlife” when they’re exploring travel destinations and those with no desire to venture anywhere after 10:00 p.m. Nothing against those folks who enjoy spending after-bedtime hours in crowded nightclubs, but “nightlife” just sounds like torture to me. Even during my somewhat wild college days, …
BMG Rights Management, the label behind The Black Eyed Peas‘ second-stage career explosion and owner of much of the group’s publishing, is suing MGA Entertainment, the company behind the Bratz dolls, over a parody of “My Humps,” which MGA used to promote a line of pooping unicorn toys. I’ll give you a second. The toys, …
One of the biggest pops from the audience during my opening night screening of Avatar: The Way of Water had nothing to do with Pandora. Instead, it happened before the movie even began: when the words “directed by Greta Gerwig,” all written in pink, appeared on screen. Folks, our first look at Barbie, the most …
Getty Image “Weird” Al Yankovic doesn’t only do parodies, but parodies are what he’s best known for. None of them, though, are mean-spirited. He’s a nice guy, and he tends to ask permission first. Sometimes they say no. Eminem turned him down. Sir Paul McCartney wouldn’t let him record “Chicken Pot Pie” (his take on …
It seems as though everyone knows who Prince was. His music crossed generations and had most of the world belting out tunes like “Raspberry Beret” and “1999,” but it turns out there was one celebrity that had to keep their hands off of his songs. “Weird Al” Yankovic explained on “The Drew Barrymore Show” that …
After proudly declaring that “comedy is now legal on Twitter,” Elon Musk is taking a harsh stance on parody accounts. Specifically, he’s displaying some pretty thin-skinned behavior about people parodying himself, with Twitter suspending several verified users who changed their display names to “Elon Musk.” So far, Musk’s tenure at Twitter can best be described …
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It’s been nearly three years and just as many booster shots since the COVID pandemic turned the world upside down. As many businesses — at least those that made it through the global shutdown it caused — have spent the past year reopening and adjusting to life in a post-COVID world, some of us are …
‘The Simpsons’ parodies ‘Death Note’ in this year’s “Treehouse of Horror.” The yearly special features Halloween-themed shorts involving the Simpsons. Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/the-simpsons-death-note
Getty Image Fans are getting creative with their fun spoofs of Taylor Swift‘s Midnights cover art. As the excitement surrounding Swift’s 10th studio album is still high, several fans and public figures have shared their fun imaginings of the Midnights artwork. Even if you’re not a Swiftie, you’ve probably seen the album’s standard artwork, which …
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Saturday Night Live is back, baby! And it’s time for a whole new season of hilarious sketches for us to lose our minds over. This week’s episode paid tribute to Nicole Kidman’s iconiqué AMC ad where she claims, “Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.” View this video on YouTube AMC / Via youtube.com …
Adam Levine made a non-apology yesterday after multiple women came forward with DMs he sent them. In an Instagram post, he said he “crossed a line” but didn’t cheat on his wife, who is currently pregnant with their third child. “In certain instances it became inappropriate; I have addressed that and taken proactive steps to …
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