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 | |||