- No freaking way. Noted pop hack and “artist” who has a
team of superstar songwriters pen many of the tracks she sings so pathetically Rihanna has
been accused of plagiarizing a rapper on her new single. It’s astonishing to
think that someone who doesn’t seem to have an original or insightful lyric in
her body would ever be fingered for daring to lift someone else’s work without
proper credit or compensation, but Texas rapper Just Brittany is claiming that the pop singer borrowed heavily
from her similarly named 2014 track “Betta Have My Money.” Rihanna, if she did
plagiarize the song, didn’t do much work to obscure her thievery, titling her
version of the song “Bitch Better Have My Money.” . Just Brittany took to
Twitter to claim that Rihanna had "jacked" her song, but the veracity
of her claim was quickly thrown into doubt by the fact that she later deleted
the tweet. Maybe the entire claim was merely a thinly veiled publicity stunt
that Just Brittany – whoever the hell she is – knew would get her a lot of
attention even if it were totally bogus. Either way, “Bitch Better Have My
Money'” was produced by Kanye West, alongside Roc Nation producer Deputy,
Travis Scott and Wonda Gurl. It comes out as Rihanna is preparing to release
her forthcoming eighth studio album, which she claimed would be a "soulful"
new album that will sound "timeless." "I've made a lot of songs
that are just really big songs...they just blow up,” Rihanna said. "Not
that they weren't real music, but I just wanted to focus on things that felt
real, that felt soulful, that felt forever.” The thing is, all of her music is
timeless, as in there is never a time when you want to listen to it……..
- Now THIS is how you open a New York City
racetrack casino. Forget the normal pomp and circumstance of balloons,
streamers, signs and banners that you typically find adorning such events
because those trappings of ceremony are both lame and tired. What’s in – or at
least should be in – from here on out is the chair-flinging, glass-shattering
fight that marked and legend-ized (new word alert!) the grand opening of the Fat
Tuesday daiquiri bar at the Resorts World Casino at the Aqueduct track in
Queens. Yes, it’s Queens and therefore not exactly the sort of upscale, trendy
Manhattan happening one might expect, but this night was more epic than
anything on the Upper West Side thanks in large part to the three people who were
arrested or ticketed on disorderly conduct charges and several other people
were injured in the brawl. According to police, officers arrived just before
midnight to find about two dozen people elbow-deep in fights in the casino's
food court. While many people brawled and proceeded to shatter glasses over
each other’s heads and hurled the nice new chairs in the food court to take the
brawl to a new level, most in attendance chose to post video showing people
punching each other and lifting rope-line stanchions over their heads in an
all-out effort to weaponize anything not firmly affixed to the floor. The
damage was extensive, but the publicity the establishment received from this
should put it on the radar for anyone looking for a good time in the greater
Manhattan area. No word on whether any of the evening’s scheduled events were
paid attention to, but at this point it could not matter less………
- Bad news, women of Iran. One of your country’s senior Iranian sports officials says the country's authorities
have partially lifted a ban on women attending men's sports matches and while
on the surface this might seem like a positive and a sign that social progress
is being made – or at least no longer impeded to the same extent it was in
recent months, let’s take a deeper look at what this truly means. Deputy Sports
Minister Abdolhamid Ahmadi announced that Iran's State Security Council has
approved a plan by his ministry to allow women and families to attend some
sports events, but was cryptic about which events women could attend and
when. Sadly, it almost certainly means that women will have a chance to be
exposed to soccer and lets face it, soccer is not something anyone needs more
of in their life. Ahmadi cautioned that not all matches or
stadiums would allow women but offered no details about whether the change
would actually accommodate FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s plea to Iran earlier
this year to end the ban on women watching soccer in stadiums. Women have been
banned from attending men's sports matches since the 1979 revolution that
brought hard-line Islamic clerics to power, but in recent years the country has
allowed foreign women to attend matches of their national teams. Maybe Iranian
women will be mistakenly excited about the chance to attend soccer matches
until they actually endure 120 minutes of scoreless “drama” on the pitch,
filling two halves and two goal-free overtimes before a 0-0 draw brings their
day at the stadium to a close. Ladies of Iran, you’ve been warned……..
- Not that there was going to be the proverbial fight at the
bat rack to order single-game playoff tickets for the Tampa Bay Lightning this
postseason, but the line just got a little shorter. The ‘Ning, currently third
in the NHL’s Eastern Conference and assured of a spot in the playoffs, are
looking to ensure that the loud and enthusiastic masses of their postseason
foes aren't able to find their way inside Amalie Arena. Perhaps cognizant of
the fact that loud contingents of fans of teams in Chicago, Montreal, Winnipeg
and Detroit have attended Lightning games this season and of the fact that
Boston and New York fans routinely turn home games for baseball’s Tampa Bay
Rays into their own personal playground, the Lightning are dropping a ban on
single-game ticket purchases for anyone residing outside the state of Florida.
The team says it wants to "create a home atmosphere" during the
postseason and so any tickets purchased with a credit card not attached to a
Florida address will be cancelled and issued a refund without notice. Spokesman
Bill Wickett said the team doesn't "feel the need to apologize" for
limiting the number of visiting team fans in the arena and he’s right because
anyone who wants seats will find a way to get them regardless of this insipid
ass-hattedness. Someone from Chicago, Boston, New York or whatever city
provides the Lightning’s first-round foe will simply buy tickets through an
online marketplace from an enterprising Florida resident who purchased them
with the full intention of flipping them for a profit because they don’t give a
damn about hockey or who attends game. Oh, and only Lightning team attire will
be allowed in the Chase Club section during playoff games, suggesting that the
front office is both paranoid and not really confident in the team’s ability to
win games unless the conditions are as optimal as possible in the home side’s
favor. Way to focus on what really matters, guys……..
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