While American pop culture is often trashed as being too focused on the foibles of Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton seems our friends across the pond have their own trailer park-ish entertainment. Seems like every other day a spat arises between a couple of Brit artists. Even Lilly Allen is getting in on the act with a mini-feud with Lady Sovereign who had claimed Allen only got a break because he father is a well known British comedian. Allen has responded saying her dad has offered to adopt the pint sized rapper to help her get "a leg up." This spat is on the heels of Lily's run in with one of the guys from Jet. Maybe Justin Timberlake really wasn't speaking about Britney when he cautioned certain people not to drink too much at the Brit Awards.

Speaking of drinking, Avril Lavigne has found a new way to enjoy her music: alcohol. Lavigne tells MTV "I wrote 'Girlfriend' when I was drunk!" And she also gushed: "I was wasted, when I sang 'I Can Do Better'. You can tell I'm drunk in it, I'm laughing." Who knows maybe her stuff will sound better to me if I'm drinking too...

Mp3 offerings:
The Basement: Do You Think You're Moving
Explosions in the Sky: Welcome Ghosts
Mouthful of Bees: The Now
Andrew Bird: Heretics
Winterpills: Broken Arm
John Butler Trio: Better Than (Real / Windows)
Antibalas: I.C.E.
Baby Teeth: The Simp
The Postmarks: My Little Heart

The Kaiser Chiefs' drummer has reportedly compared fans asking about their hit song "Ruby" to Kurt Cobain's suicide. Nick Hodgson is quoted as saying "It's like people going up to Paul McCartney and saying, 'So, Paul. You know your song 'The Fool On The Hill'? Who's this fool and where's this hill?' This is what we're up against. This is what Kurt Cobain had to put up with. And what did he do? He blew his head off?" Yeah, it's just like that Nick, except for the part about those guys being legends...

If you hadn't noticed, American Idol is now in the "voting" stages of eliminating contestants. The final 24 is now down to 20 after last night's episode. Already, as in prior seasons, there is talk of vote rigging. While it may or may not be rigged, there does seem to be something to the reports of flaws in the voting process. You can only text vote if you are a Cingular Wireless customer. A big chunk of Cingular customers are in the south, from where all five previous winners hail. Coincidence??

Labels: American Idol, Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen, Mp3s