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Sinéad O’Connor has a 1,000-word warning for Miley Cyrus
Since Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” video was released last month, there have already been countless revisions and reinterpretations. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Cyrus revealed that her...
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Here’s the Miley/Sinéad mashup you knew was coming
So far, Sinéad O’Connor’s open letter to Miley Cyrus has inspired hundreds of responses and Twitter arguments, and generally just added more grist to the Miley Cyrus publicity mill. On one level, the...
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Mumford & Sons is the best thing that ever happened to ‘Wrecking Ball’
On their own, Mumford and Sons's "Little Lion Man" and the newest single from Miley Cyrus have almost nothing in common. But once you take away some vocals, some instrumentals, and put them together,...
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Construction workers disapprove of Miley’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ video
Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day's must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines. In case you missed it, here’s a...
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Blind girl from the Philippines totally redeems Miley Cyrus’s ‘Wrecking Ball’
Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” has seen its share of covers. Just search for the song on YouTube and you’ll come across versions from every 15-year-old across the U.S. Here's the only one you need to...
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Rigging Time’s Person of the Year poll? All in a day’s twerk
When I heard that Time magazine was running another online voting component with its prestigious Person of the Year poll, the first thing I thought was, "Not again." Didn’t the news magazine learn...
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You haven’t seen ‘Wrecking Ball’ until you’ve seen it on Chatroulette
Trolling people on Chatroulette has now become a post-modern pastime, and YouTuber Steve Kardynal elevated it to an artform with his past performances of Carly Rae Jepsen and Katy Perry songs. His...
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The top 10 must-watch YouTube videos of 2013
This year, YouTube’s influence was found not so much in specific personalities, but in pop-culture virality and suspension of disbelief. The parody video was unstoppable, namely the countless takes on...
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Do not let Ron Jeremy hit you like a ‘Wrecking Ball’
Ron Jeremy might have gotten a late start to the “Wrecking Ball” cover game, but what a finish. The former porn star is the latest to cover the Miley Cyrus song, and it’s easily the strangest we’ve...
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We can’t stop listening to crappy song covers played on the recorder
The recorder is the worst instrument of all time. While there is no way to empirically prove this, I feel like it’s objectively true, and that most people with ears would agree. I cannot think of a...
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