antiMUSIC is reluctant to present "Slapped!"
with Scott Slapp. He's been bugging us to do this for a while. So we figured
what the hell, let's give him a shot at it. If he isn't assassinated by
an irate fan, Scott will check in with us every day to tell us who needs
to be "Slapped".
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Slapp of the Day: Lindsay Lohan
As always the views expressed
by the writer do not neccessarily reflect the views of antiMUSIC or the
iconoclast entertainment group
I think I'm gonna sprain my wrist today
with all the slapping I have to do. If anyone has even been ubber slapp-worthy
it 'tis little miss Lindsay "OH MY GAWD, like, um, like, you know, okay!"
Lohan. Not to say that she could take up scuba diving by attaching
air-hoses from her ears to a mouth piece, she may be a rocket scientist
for all I know, but what I do know is this girl just keeps on irritating
me.
Slappable offense number one: What's with
all the bad Disney remakes? Did we really need a new "Freaky Friday"?
Isn't this like the 15th time they remade that movie? And sorry Lindsay
but you are no Jodi Foster. I hear tell that the geniuses over at Disney
are using their latest Hayley Mills clone to remake the "Love Bug".
Someone please tell me who let the acid freaks out at Disney again.
The fricken "Love Bug"? If ever a movie was just asking to be buried in
the graveyard of cinematic shame it is this classic piece of dross.
Lindsay honey, you need to stick to new bad rip off of a dozen other films
like "Mean Girls," instead of these bad Disney remakes.
Slappable offense number two: Two words:
studio magic. It's not bad enough that you put out ultra lame Disney remakes,
you somehow caught Kelly Osbourne syndrome (a new disorder recently discovered
that makes teenage girls exposed to video cameras believe they can sign).
What gave you the bright idea that a pop music career was a good idea?
It's bad enough that we have to avoid you on HBO and the movie theatres
but now we get blasted with your halfhearted attempt at music on the radio
and every damn show that features musical guests on TV. Your music is so
bad, you make Motley Crue sound like the Beatles! I know some brilliant
bozo at the record company had a light bulb go off over his head and thought,
"you know we haven't flooded the market with enough crap, let's sign up
a teen actress and try and pass her off as a singer!" And they wonder
why their profit margins are shrinking (more on that later this week).
Slappable offense number three: Did you
see the MTV story quoted in the Day in Rock yesterday about Lindsay hiring
Michael Moore's lawyers? No? Well here is the gist of it. Her lawyers
sent out a nice little seven-page love letter to some celeb reporters warning
them that they will be in big trouble if they dare to report the "false
and damaging statements" made by her dad. Excuse me, did her lawyers flunk
Constitutional Law 101? I mean we should just ignore reporter's 1st amendment
right to freedom of the press when a teen actress/wanna-be-singer is involved.
That's much more important than journalistic freedom!
I'm not a lawyer but to my limited knowledge
of the law, it's one thing for a reporter to write something libelous (like
if I were to make up like oh my gawd, like bogus like Lindsay quotes like
you know), especially if they pull a New Republic or New York Times and
just make it all up, but it's entirely another thing to quote or report
something that someone else said. I can see if the reporter knows
going in that the quote is B.S. and writes it as fact and does not attribute
it to a quote, but to send a cease-and-desist letter to reporters that
are just reporting what someone said? That's just like Michael Moore
threatening critics with legal action if they "slander" his films by writing
anything negative about them or driving Big Mac trucks through his logic
(Big Mac because he might be hungry). The old glass houses legal
maneuver. Which makes way for the new age adage, 'those with the most money
for lawyers win!'
I do feel for you Lindsay. Having your
parent divorce is bad enough without your dad saying nasty things in the
media. I honestly do feel for you there. But isn't it your dad making the
"false and damaging statements"? The celeb media have a hard enough
job convicting Michael Jackson before his trial without having to worry
about being sued by you when your lawyers should be going after the source
of the statements (your dad). That being said, Mr. Lohan if you would
like to do an interview, I'll do my best to sneak it into publication under
my editor's nose. If I can manage that, I'll make sure to print every word!
So to sum up why Lindsay is ubber slappworthy:
Bad movies, bad music and bad legal maneuvers. Congrats, you are
the new winner of the triple slapp crown! Now go and remake "The
Shaggy Dog". Better yet, you can remake the 1998 Disney classic "My Date
With the President's Daughter". That idea hasn't been run into the ground
yet. Like, yeah, right, you know.
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