Discourse & Dischord

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The Good

New Beyoncé video for Why Don’t You Love Me

That Beyoncé. Always looking so hot, dancing so nubile, making the rest of us feel like big, warty ogres lumbering around, bumping into things. Well, she’s done it again with her video for Why Don’t You Love Me. This time Sasha Fierce serves it up ˜50s style ” as in pin-up model meets sexpot housewife. Shot by Melina Matsoukas (who directed Rihanna’s Rude Boy video) as grainy, vintage Super 8 footage, Why Don’t You Love Me begs the answer, Because we’re seething with jealousy, Beyoncé. That’s why. Check it out below.

The Bad

Roger Waters’ street team wheat-pastes over Elliott Smith memorial

"Figure 8" cover

The iconic swirl mural featured on the cover of Elliott Smith’s Figure 8 got an unwelcome facial from Roger Waters’ street team this week. The former Pink Floyd front man hired street artists to wheat-paste or project images and an anti-war quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower around NYC and LA to promote his upcoming The Wall tour. The mural, located on Sunset Strip, has served as a memorial to Smith since his death in 2003 so fans were none too pleased to see it wheat-pasted. Rogers released the following statement in response to all the hoopla:

It was absolutely an accident. I didn’t want to disrespect Elliott Smith’s fans, and I’ve instructed [the team] to remove the wheat-paste immediately. It was a random pasting in the normal course of this, and I want to make it public that we had no intent to offend or cover up something precious.

We would be much more indignant about this whole thing if we had any idea what wheat- pasting was.

The Ugly

MTV releases Jersey Shore soundtrack

"Jersey Shore" cast

Looking for the perfect song to beat the beat up? Want to start a bar brawl to a sick techno mix? Need something to listen to on your iPod while you take care of GTL? Juiceheads and guidettes, MTV has heard your cries, and will soon deliver a Jersey Shore-inspired soundtrack. Pauly D and Snooki-wannabes ” rejoice!

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