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Six Extremely Detailed Descriptions Of Rock Musicals We’d Like To See

Scenes From American Idiot, The Musical

Scenes From American Idiot, The Musical

There’s been a lot of talk in the Risky Fuel household over the years about things like Pippin, Cabaret, and Hair. All of it by Sarah.

She’s moderately obsessed with musicals and has crafted a number of fake ones in her head. It would seem the enablers at AUX TV thought it would be cute to set her loose and reveal some of these ideas. The result: storylines for musicals about Bon Jovi, Arcade Fire, Rush, The Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre, Joel Plaskett, and the topper, a gay love triangle called Heavy Metal: The Musical set to Judas Priest songs.

You can read all about said musicals by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

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How Kidz Bop De-Pervertizes Katy Perry Lyrics

Kidz Bop 21 is free of ANYTHING that would scare your kids

Kidz Bop 21 is free of ANYTHING that would scare your kids

There’s a thing called the Kidz Bop series and it’s a really big deal. Basically, producers get a bunch of next generation Disney kids together and they sing reworked versions of popular Top 40 radio hits with all the sex, drugs, violence, innuendo, negativity, religion, and any other potentially controversial language smoothed out of the songs and usually replaced with the words “dance” or “dance, yeah!”

Sarah spent an unnaturally long time listening to the kidz-ified versions of songs by LMFAO, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Rihanna and a pile of others on the recently released Kidz Bop 21. She then compared the kidz versions to the originals to find out how youth-friendly they’ve been made.

You can read about her results over at the AOL Music Blog by clicking here.

 

 

 

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People Who’ve Bombed On Saturday Night Live Besides Lana Del Rey

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Kesha, Lana Del Rey and Coldplay

The internet is still reeling in shock that their new two-hit queen Lana Del Rey is, well, an imperfect performer.

The wannabe ’70s lounge kitten rather incapably ran through her songs “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” on Saturday Night Live last week, leading to all sorts of hatin’ and internet backlash. It was all quite satisfying for Sarah, who had stamped her with the don’t-believe-the-hype tag early on, but it got her thinking, “Who else has super-bombed on Saturday Night Live?”

She hunted them out — folks like Kesha, Coldplay, Sinead O’Connor, Cypress Hill, Frank Zappa, Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson—  and wrote a story about it for the AOL Music Blog. You can read it by clicking here.

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Lamb Of God Singer Hates SOPA

Lamb Of God (Randy Blythe is bottom left)

Lamb Of God (Randy Blythe is bottom left)

You’ve heard about this SOPA/PIPA thing that’s broken Wikipedia, right? Well it’s some pretty Big Brother stuff that basically amounts to government and corporations trying to control the internet.

Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe likes freedom. Which means he really doesn’t like SOPA and PIPA. He said as much when Aaron interviewed him about it at Spinner.

You can read the article by clicking here.

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Youtube Hits Walk Off The Earth Talk About Their 5-Players-1-Guitar Goyte Cover

Walk Off The Earth

Walk Off The Earth

If you haven’t seen the spectacular video of Burlington band Walk Off The Earth covering Australian band Goyte’s song “Sombebody That I Used To Know” as a five people hammering away at a single guitar simultaneously, well, you probably don’t have any friends on the internet.

Said video’s gone super-viral, like 19 million viewers viral. So Aaron tracked down Sarah Blackwood, one of the singers, and asked her what it was like making this unique video.

You can read the story at Spinner by clicking here.

Walk Off The Earth’s now-famous cover song:

 

 

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