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Chris Brown Skewered for Lip-Syncing Awards Song

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:03:34 CDT

Chris Brown just got a little less popular. Singers including Pink and Joe Jonas are lambasting him for lip-syncing "Turn Up the Music," the song he performed at the Billboard Music Awards program. "One day if I lip-sync, I hope I do it as well as him," snorted Pink in...

Britney Bombs at Billboard Music Awards

Mark Russell — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:19:17 CDT

Britney Spears had two big appearances at last night's Billboard Music Awards—and "it wasn't good," snarks Matt Cherette for Gawker . The show opened with Rihanna performing her song "S&M" (complete with, oddly, "a bunch of random hands trying to caress" her crotch), who was joined by Britney half-way through....

'Wardrobe Malfunction' Case Bound for Supreme Court

Nick McMaster — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:22:01 CST

The FCC is continuing to push the "wardrobe malfunction" case and has turned to the Supreme Court, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The agency is attempting to have its $550,000 fine reinstated against CBS for Janet Jackson’s disrobing during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. A federal appeals court threw...

Thicke's Blue-Eyed Soul Hits Big Across Racial Divide

Victoria Floethe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:57:01 CDT

In a society that says white men can't dance, Robin Thicke has surmounted the race barrier: His single, Lost Without U , topped Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 11 weeks last year, outperforming songs by Beyonce, Usher, and Alicia Keys. "Eighty or 90% of my fans are African Americans, mostly...

Appeals Court Rejects FCC Decency Rules

Dustin Lushing — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:32:49 CDT

Networks that accidentally air profanity got a major break from a US appeals court yesterday when the court shot down an FCC regulation that punishes them for airing even "fleeting expletives." The court said some of the FCC's indecency rules were "divorced from reality" and sent them back to the...