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Unless, of course, you like watching a bunch of musical theater dorks rapping to kids about how they have "mad skills," in which case, yeah, it's a little bit awesome. More »
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Researchers studied rap videos and found that they sexualized women, placed too much emphasis on their physical appearance and treated them more as decorative objects rather than "active agents." Uh, doesn't that hold true for most of pop culture and advertising? It's so annoying how rap and hip hop are always being called out for that, when there are plenty of equally (if not more) offensive other influences in the media. Anyway, after interviewing over 500 African-American women (ages 14-18), researchers found that the young women who spent more time watching rap videos were more likely to "binge drink, have sex with multiple partners, test positive for marijuana and have a negative body image." Is it just me, or does that just sound like the life of a majority of teen girls, regardless of race or music video preference? And sure, the negative body image stuff is always bad, but the rest of it actually sounds like tons of fun to me. More »
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OK, we're totally peeing our pants (or more accurately, the muumuus we blog in) from laughing so hard at Heidi Montag's song Body Language." It's pretty much exactly what we expected to hear from The Hills star when we first learned she had her sights set on a singing career: A played-out '80s sample, computerized vocals, shitty hook, etc. But, holy shit, we did not expect to hear Spencer Pratt rapping on the track! It's awesomely bad in every way. Produced by Grammy Award winning producer/composer David Foster (who also happens to be Brody Jenner's stepdad), the song, which samples Yaz's "Situation," was played on Ryan Seacrest's radio show this morning. Even Seacrest made fun of Pratt. Spencer, dear, that's when you know you suck. Apparently, the song that was leaked is not an official single. Heidi claims that they were just fooling around in the studio and Spencer's rap was just a joke. Well, it certainly made us laugh. After the jump, check out Heidi's "Body Language." More »
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