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Billboard Music Awards Fug: Jennifer Lopez


“HOLA LOVERS. I have a secret. It is why I wear windows for clothes all the time. Do you want to hear? Come close: I am bored. I miss Marc. It is so BLAH when I do not have to make weapons out of toothpicks, or build up immunity to rat poison so that my blood is always murder-y.”

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Fug The Show: Beyonce’s “Mrs. Carter” Tour


I think we can all agree that if Beyonce had given up singing for figure skating, the costumes would have forced everyone else on the ice to step up their games. We can also all agree that the last costume in this slideshow — which wants you to think it is Not Safe For Work — is totally creepy for that exact reason.

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Good Girl Gone Fug


Certain things are delicious in their consistency: The sun sets in the west, the tides go up and down, and Rihanna wears booty shorts.

I am concerned that there are two strange-handled weapons sheathed in her boots. But what’s REALLY hilarious is the shirt over this ensemble. It comes down as far as the shorts do and we can see right through it. So what’s the point, exactly? I guess it’s opaque in a few (small) parts. So basically, she’s completely comfortable with nipples, 99.9 percent of her thighs, and whatever butt cleavage is collaterally exposed, but her collarbone is her breaking point?

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Grammys Mostly Well Played, On A Purely Sartorial Level: Rihanna


Man. She melts your heart, and then she steps on it.

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Fug the Halftime Show: Beyonce at Super Bowl XLVII


It was entertaining to look at, I guess, but I feel like… with the exception of “Single Ladies,” when you see Beyonce live, are you really there to watch a bunch of dancing? Or do you want to hear her show off that she’s the best singer on the planet? Obviously this means I’m getting old, but for me the repetitive, seen-it-before choreography and occasional live singing over a backing track feels like stuff you do when you need to a) make sure your voice survives a two-hour-plus concert, or b) distract people from the fact that your pipes aren’t that strong. Neither applies here. And especially for all the defensiveness on the subject, I just wish she’d gone with less prancing and instead laid down a major, unforgettable, thorough schooling in How Live Singing Is Done, Fools. Because: YOU ARE BEYONCE, and you CAN.

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Fug the Concert: Lady Gaga


Because on Inauguration Day, nothing says HOORAY FOR DEMOCRACY like Lady Gaga a) spanking someone while wielding (and possibly desecrating) a flag, and b) EMERGING FROM AN INFLATABLE VAGINA.

It’s not a GOOD inflatable vagina — can you believe we live in a world where the quality of one’s blow-up bits is analyzed? –but it’s there, and you may want to skip to slide three if you don’t want to know and/or you’re at work.

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