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And Finally
Each week we carefully curate some of the stand-out stories that come across the CMU news desk, picking out the most funny, whacky or down right weird ones to include in the 'And Finally!" column.
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And Finally… The world is big enough for two musical Jellyrolls
A recently filed Jellyroll v Jelly Roll lawsuit has been settled. The Jellyroll Band from Philadelphia argued that country singer Jelly Roll was infringing their trademark. But the dispute is already over, with everyone seemingly able to comprehend that there might be more than one musical Jellyroll…
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And Finally! MGMT last band to get a Tory track-theft diss in before they were sent packing
MGMT blasts Rishi Sunak for using 'Little Dark Age' in a campaign video. "Let's all laugh at this dingus", they quip. It’s a fitting end to a fourteen year Tory musical-theft spree. From May's Dandy Warhols dispute to Truss's M People bust up, unauthorised tunes are the Tories’ swan song…
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And Finally! Would you buy MIA’s $100 tin foil hat?
MIA launched new streetwear brand Ohmni this week. It’s quite pricey but does offer “up to 99.999%” protection from “electromagnetic waves”. Can you afford not to buy a brain-protecting durag and fertility-saving trousers? This and more of our favourite funny music news stories from this week here…
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And Finally! Circling the drain - Saltburn’s bathwater-filled vinyl
In recent times we’ve reported on vinyl records filled with urine and tears. Now comes a bathwater-filled LP, which doesn’t sound so bad until you realise that it’s the ‘Saltburn’ soundtrack and remember ‘that’ scene. This and more of the week’s funniest music news stories are here…
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And Finally! BTS’s Jin trades military life for gruelling “hug event”
It only seems like yesterday that Jin became the first member of BTS to begin mandatory military service, but he’s back. He was immediately thrown back into the pop star life, hugging 1000 fans who won his embrace as a prize in a raffle. This and more of this week’s funniest music news stories await…
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And Finally! PinkPantheress wants to keep it short
PinkPantheress says there’s no point writing songs that last more than two and a half minutes, and there’s just no need for bridges. Dionne Warwick doesn’t agree, but TikTok users might just prove her wrong. Read all about this and more of the week’s funniest music news…
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And Finally! Avril Lavigne denies being a clone, says rumours of her death are “so dumb”
Avril Lavigne was again forced to deny that she died in 2003 and was replaced with a lookalike. That’s exactly what a lookalike would say though, isn’t it? Even if they do feel guilty enough to drop hints about it all the time. This and the week’s other funny music news stories await…
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And Finally! Apple finds out the hard way that not everyone thinks destruction is a form of creation
Apple put out a new iPad advert this week, which showed musical instruments, books, pots paint and more being crushed in a hydraulic press. It was supposed to depict the amazing creative things you can do on an iPad, but people just saw it as a metaphor for the tech industry’s attitude to creators…
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And Finally! Dreading accompanying your child to a Taylor Swift show? Take a course in becoming a superfan
The internet loves a photo of a dad having absolutely no fun while accompanying his daughter to a pop concert. It’s a whole thing. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Ahead of Taylor Swift’s three shows in Glasgow this June, a local college is offering a masterclass in becoming a rabid Swiftie…
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And Finally! Cotton Eye Joe is the world’s most popular song - this is not the future I asked for
Rednex this week proclaimed themselves to be record breakers, having racked up more than three billion listens of their song ‘Cotton Eye Joe’ in under a month. Sure, people were actually listening to a few seconds of a cover version in various viral videos, but maybe this is what success is in 2024…
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And Finally! Lemmy continues busy post-death schedule, as Metallica’s James Hetfield embeds ashes in new tattoo
Metallica’s James Hetfield this week unveiled a new tattoo on his middle finger, created using ink mixed with some of late Motorhead frontman Lemmy’s ashes. It will mean that Lemmy “is still able to fly the bird at the world”. Check out this and more of this week’s funniest music news stories…