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Islamic leaders in Malaysia are still trying to ban Rihanna from performing in Kuala Lumpur. She’s already promised to tone down her performance and adhere to their rules, so why all of the drama???

Now the Pan-Malaysian Islamic (PAS) party says that her performance, which is planned for February 13th, would be an insult to Asian values.

The PAS has urged the authorities to reject Rihanna’s application to perform there. The organization is basically saying that ticket buyers are contributing to our economy here in the states.

A source says, “Whether Rihanna realizes it or not, we know that the taxes she has paid also contributed to the war in Gaza.”

WTF? Really???? Obviously, she couldn’t call up George Bush and tell him not to use our tax money anyway he wants.

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Kai Kalama was auditioning for the judges, singing The Platters song, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”. He did a decent enough job to get through to Hollywood.

My favorite moment was when Kara DioGuardi snapped at Simon when he asked, “yes or no?” He interrupted her while she was trying to speak and she was having none of it.

Beautiful. We need this sort of Type-A behavior to keep Simon in check. Ha.

Lily Allen is taking aim at celebrity blogger Perez Hilton and describes him as a “woman hater”.

Lily says that she supports equality for gay people and says, “I just feel you have no right hate anyone because of how they’re born. I think if you’re a human being with a heart in your chest, you’re the same as everyone else.”

Of Perez, she says, “I find him quite annoying…as a gay man you should be championing young girls that are going out there and doing their own thing and not slamming them for owning their sexuality and calling them sluts. When he’s happy he’s good and when he’s sad about himself he’s really horrible – about everyone. He’s a woman hater but I think that’s something to do with his own self-loathing. So much of what he does is bullying.”

On a side note, WTF is on her head?

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This thing is weird and mesmerizing at the same time. Loves it. Relax some and have a listen.

Via The Listenerd

Beyonce sang Etta James’ song “At Last” to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle. She did an amazing job singing this classic song.

Have a listen for yourself:

Beautiful. Good stuff. And she looked so proud to be there, too, didn’t she?

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Lady Gaga is making the rounds and gaining even more popularity as of late.

Here’s Gaga doing her most famous song on a show called Sunday Night Project. She still sounds great live. And I’m not sick of her, yet, and I’ve heard “Just Dance” 800,000 times already.

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Teen trio The Jonas Brothers have released their official video for “Tonight” via their Youtube channel.

The video is all just clips of previous performances, but I think they would’ve done better to put a real video together for the song. Just my opinion. What do you think?

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File this under: Oops! Dumb!!

Lily Allen accidentally sent a text message of herself topless to Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson.

Ricky said, “I got this weird text the other day from Lily Allen of her topless. And I’m looking at it going ‘why has she sent me that?’!” A minute later, she followed up the message with, “Sorry – wrong Ricky!”

Ricky said that he later asked Lily about it and she said, “That was really embarrassing. I was completely topless.”

Lily Allen also covered The Clash’s “Straight To Hell”, which you can listen to below:

Love her music. Thank God she’s not a one-hit wonder.

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Ashford & Simpson were popular in the 80′s due to their song, “Solid”. Now, in honor of Barack Obama being elected as our 44th President, they’ve released “Solid As Barack”.

Everyone’s trying to jump on the Inauguration bandwagon. They’re releasing this song as a free download here. Check it out if you’re so inclined.

Amy Winehouse is STILL in St. Lucia (must be nice!) and was taped singing “Puppy Love”.

Have a listen:

It’s good to hear that girlfriend still has a voice! Now get thy butt to the studio and put out a record already!

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Who knew Robert Pattinson sings? Not I, apparently. He contributed two songs for “Twilight“, “Never Think” and “Let Me Sign”.

He sounds as pretty as he looks. He’s got a little bit of a John Mayer sound to him. Check out more of Robert Pattinson’s music here.

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