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  • Steven Page: Just About The Last Person You’d Expect To Be Busted For Drugs

    Never thought you’d hear the words “Barenaked Ladies” and “drug bust” in the same sentence? Well…

    Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Steven Page. Photo courtesy of TheHypo
    BNL lead singer Steven Page

    Steven Page, lead singer of Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies was busted last Friday for possession of a controlled substance in Syracuse, NY (Syracuse? Really?). Cops, suspicions aroused by a car with one door open (?), found married dad Page (whose band just released a children’s album, for crying out loud!) along with two women (??) in a nearby apartment with cocaine and pot. I wonder if the ladies were barenaked??? BWAHAHHAHHAHHA…

    (For those who aren’t really up on their BNL, they are the guys who sing “One Week”, and “If I Had $1,000,000”. Of the group’s two main singers, Steven Page is the fairer, sort of chunky one with the big voice, while Ed Robertson is the darker, more nerdy-sounding one)

    But anyway, I won’t say anything bad about Steven Page. I’m actually extremely fond of BNL..well at least I was until that “Barenaked Ladies are Men” crap. They’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen (and the only rock band I know who could get away with a cover of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious”, as they performed the night I saw them). But seriously…who’d have thought that the singer of songs like “Be My Yoko Ono” and “Brian Wilson” was capable of Winehousity??

  • Friday Throwback – Ooh La La (I Can’t Get Over You)

    In the comment section of one of Money Mike’s latest posts, I made reference to a young R&B group from the early 90s named Perfect Gentlemen. They were put together by Maurice Starr and put on tour to open up for the New Kids On The Block (thanks Wikipedia).

    (By the way, I swear that when it’s all said and done, we’re going to have the most New Kids/New Edition mentions of any blog on earth.)

    Mike told me that we might be the only two folks reading the blog who even remember the group. I said that I’d have to change that. I’m changing that. I apologize for the quality of the video. It’s all that is out there right now.<p>

    – That dude was dunking on a 7 foot rim.

    – Look at that puffy little duck tail.

    – The charm to this song was the hushed singing/talking that made you feel the pain of teenage heartbreak.

    – Ok, maybe the true charm to the song is the “Ooh La La, ooh la la” part. That’s definitely the part I remember.

    – For the longest time, I didn’t know that they sang, “I can’t, can’t get over you.” I thought it was, “I can’t get it over you.” Where were lyric sites in 1990 when you needed them?

    – “I had a dream, me, myself, and I. You were my girl and of course I was your guy.”

    – I wish I could get my hair to have levels like that.

    – When she kissed the window and left the lipstick mark and then he touched it with his cheek, you have to admit, that was legit cute.

    Sadly, it looks like Perfect Gentlemen is no more. There will be no more “Ooh La La”, but someone needs to sample that chorus.

  • MHW Liveblogs The 2008 BET Awards

    If I was Don Cornelius, I’d be really mad at the BET folks. In 2001, the cable network introduced it’s own show that essentially took the Soul Train Music Awards out of business. The shows themselves have been a mixed bag. There have been a couple of major moments-Michael Jackson & James Brown dancing together, Jay-Z & Beyonce tearing up “Crazy in Love”, a Destiny’s Child mutual lap-dance extravaganza on “Cater 2 U”. However, there have been just as many forgettable performances from (name untalented rapping one-hit wonder here). This year’s show promises to be a typical mixed bag. On the plus side, performances from Usher and Kanye West, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Al Green. On the bad side? Lil’ Wayne. And I’m sure there’ll be a T-Pain performance somewhere. Keep your eye here, as we’ll be updating every half hour or so.

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