| 1. | In one of the more amusing pop culture kerfuffles lately, everyone got all up in arms about Apple automatically downloading an album from this band onto their devices - so much so that a "removal tool" had to be made available by the computer company: | ||
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U2 | ||
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | |||
| Coldplay | |||
| Maroon 5 | |||
| 2. | On the subject of computer companies and popular media, Microsoft ponied up about $2.5 billion for the rights to this widely-played, low-tech-ish game: | ||
| Minesweeper | |||
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Minecraft | ||
| Tetris | |||
| Angy Birds | |||
| 3. | But that was just the start of a turbulent week for musicians. This guy caught all sorts of hell by bitching at a group of people for not standing at his concert. So there's that. Except, oh, yeah, one of them was in a wheelchair. | ||
| Jay Z | |||
| Justin Bieber | |||
| Eminem | |||
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Kanye West | ||
| 4. | Meanwhile, this female singer thought it would be nice to visit her alma mater, prestigious LaGuardia High School...until the school asked her in no uncertain terms not to come: | ||
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Nicki Minaj | ||
| Pink | |||
| Rihanna | |||
| Katy Perry | |||
| 5. | And one of the same four females mentioned above eviscerated CBS from dropping her from its Tuesday Night Football pre-game segment, purportedly out of concern of the Ray Rice fiasco, despite the fact that she had absolutely nothing to do with the incident. | ||
| Nicki Minaj | |||
| Pink | |||
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Rihanna | ||
| Katy Perry | |||
| 6. | One final musical note, though, thankfully, something from the lighter side: Everyone found themselves chuckling over a viral story about grandmas who somehow kept tagging this old-school rap impresario on Facebook: | ||
| Easy E | |||
| Big Daddy Kane | |||
| Fab Five Freddy | |||
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Grandmaster Flash | ||
| 7. | This state can now claim hegemony over all others, as Kira Kazantsev, its representative in the Miss America pageant, walked away with the title: | ||
| Colorado | |||
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New York | ||
| Nevada | |||
| California | |||
| 8. | The stork finally came a-callin' to Eva Mendes, who gave birth to a baby girl this week. Remind us which actor, who you may have heard of, is the father: | ||
| Christian Bale | |||
| Jonah Hill | |||
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Ryan Gosling | ||
| Macaulay Culkin | |||
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And we don't think any of us will forget the time Kristen Wiig went on Ellen's show.....
![]() ...and the two delivered an brutally bad version of this popular, popular song: |
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| All of Me | |||
| All About That Bass | |||
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Let it Go | ||
| Call Me Maybe | |||
| 10. | And finally, let's hear if for this one-time reality TV star, who married this week and officially took the surname Tell: | ||
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Laguna Beach's Lauren Conrad | ||
| Survivor's Richard Hatch | |||
| American Idol's Paula Abdul | |||
| Dancing with the Stars' Julianne Hough | |||