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Haley Scarnato Kicked Off “American Idol,” Beatles Settle With EMI, Snoop Not Going To Jail This Time

4/12/07, 9:05 am EST

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  • Haley Scarnato, best known for being the girl in short shorts whose name no one can remember, was booted off Idol last night. Can’t say we’re bummed about this one.
  • What may be the tracklist for Paul McCartney’s forthcoming new album (coming out on the Starbuck’s label) has leaked online. The album, apparently titled Memory Almost Full, features twelve tracks, all of which are described briefly on the site.
  • Janet Jackson may have to testify under oath in a case being brought against her and her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, by a fan, Leonard Salati, who alleges that two of Jackson’s bodyguards choked him after he attempted to pass Miss Jackson a note at a club in February, 2004.
  • The Beatles have finally reached a settlement with EMI in the unpaid royalties dispute. “I can confirm that we have reached a mutually acceptable settlement and that we are not going to say anything more than that,” an spokesperson for the label said. Abbey Road on iTunes here we come?
  • Snoop Dogg took the not-interested-in-going-to-jail route yesterday when he pled “no contest” to gun and drug charges that could have earned him serious jail time. Instead, the rapper, agreed to five years of probation and 800 hours of community service.
  • In other legal news, two separate New York State judges issued bench warrants for the arrest of DMX, who was due in court to face a pair of traffic cases, and whose lawyer admitted he has no idea where the rapper is.
  • The RIAA continues to terrorize/extort settlements from students involved in the dark underbelly of illegal downloading by pressuring more and more universities to pass out prelitigation settlement letters to certain pirates/students.
  • The Police have been invited to play a show in Cuba this December, which would be cool even though we aren’t allowed to go.

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lik roper | 4/12/2007, 9:55 am EST

i like it in the butt!

lik roper fan! | 4/12/2007, 10:07 am EST

You’re funny!

Snoop Dogg | 4/12/2007, 10:45 am EST

No one gets off as much as Snoop does unless he rats people out. Nothing worse that someone that plays a thug on tv.

Grand | 4/12/2007, 11:04 am EST

Maybe its because I was very young when the Police were in their heyday or maybe it is just because I see Sting as a new age artist or maybe its because I have little respect for artists that gouge their fans with outrageous ticket prices, but I was never excited about the reunion and I am tired of hearing about it and I don’t get what is so great about the Police. They wrote some catchy tunes, but so did the Lovin Spoonful, and I can’t imagine this much excitement for the Lovin Spoonful.

Elliot | 4/12/2007, 11:57 am EST

Send one of us Canadians down to cover the police…
Plenty of rock journalists in the great white north who can do Cuba legally.

Spaceboy | 4/12/2007, 11:59 am EST

I picture the RIAA as a group of grumpy old men that sees technology advancing and the world changing, and they dont know what to do about it; so they go around threatning young people and try to make them scared of them. Note to RIAA: the times they are a changin’. the days of record/cd buying are fading fast. Adapt and change with the times!

AI SUCKS | 4/12/2007, 12:09 pm EST

Who cares about American Idol. Over-masterbated 15 y/o music no nothings? Whatever happened to the good old days of Rolling Stones when it was about music and NOT ABOUT THE BUSINESS BEHIND MUSIC. Stones has sold out if you ask me. We need another music revolution.

abandonedstation | 4/12/2007, 12:39 pm EST

who the hell is going to buy any beatles albums off iTunes? You have either bought the albums already, downloaded them illegally, or don’t like the beatles (which is a whole other problem).

Why the hell is a tracklisting leak big news? How much can song titles ‘reveal’? Besides that, too bad Paul’s album is for the Starbucks label. We’ve had to accept great music being used in more and more commercials, but this really seems to rubbing our faces in it. The album should be called ‘Memory Almost Full… with a delicious grande frappuccino!’.

Snoop Dogg’s making a plea, while DMX is completely AWOL. Who’s the real thug? Not that that’s anything to be proud of. The more important question when you get right down to it is: Who’s going to jail? After thinking about that, who cares about being a thug?

RIAA suing college kids? Yeah, it sucks, but let’s be honest: Illegal downloading is killing music. Yeah, it’s hurting the suits in the record companies, but what hurts them also trickles down and affects the artists. Fewer and fewer of them can survive living on smaller labels, which are victim to illegal downloads as well. How bad is it? iTunes – which is supposed to be the great hope – recently reached a total of two billion paid downloads (taking four years to do so). Unfortunately, one billion songs are downloaded illegally every month.
How do you compete with that? You don’t. You die. Be prepared to live in a world where artists have more incentive to tour than writing and releasing songs.

ashley | 4/12/2007, 1:08 pm EST

janet jackson! Are you kidding me. she sucks.

banana hammock | 4/12/2007, 2:21 pm EST

lik roper is my terd pusher ;)

the real lik roper | 4/12/2007, 2:47 pm EST

ps – i didn’t write “i like it in the butt”, but it doesn’t piss me off because it just adds to the complexity of my enigmatic image…

the real real lik roper | 4/12/2007, 2:57 pm EST

i do write i like it in the butt cuz i DO like it in the butt!

lik roper | 4/12/2007, 3:13 pm EST

there is no way to replicate the real roper as his words are of such complexity and his thoughts contain such utter depth and meaning that your average terd pusher cannot fathom them, let alone copy them – therein lies the magic of ‘the real lik roper’…

(accept no substitutes)

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