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By Laura Ferreiro

A woman is escorted from an airplane for refusing to stop singing a Whitney Houston song.

As it turns out, it may be easier to get kicked off an airplane than you think. In addition to wearing improper attire, swearing loudly and fighting with fellow passengers, singing a famous song – badly – can have you escorted off by officers during an emergency landing.

This is what happened when a woman refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Will Always Love You" on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York on Thursday.

According to the Daily Mail, the woman was escorted off the plane in handcuffs. Because of her disruption, officials diverted the six-hour flight and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City.

"American Idol" Season 12 is at long last limping to its May 16 finish line, and while either Kree Harrison or Candice Glover will make a fine winner, there are many shocked people out there who think third-place finalist Angie Miller was robbed.

However, I think there are a few other contestants who really got robbed this season--contestants who, unlike Angie, didn't even make the top 10. Let's hope some of these singers audition for "The Voice" (or "The X Factor," or "The Glee Project," or "The Sing-Off") in the near future…

Last night on "American Idol," Angie Miller went home in third place--a major upset, since she'd never been in the bottom two or three before, and many pundits (including me and my "The Day After" co-host, Matt Whitfield) thought she had a very good chance of winning the entire competition. Judging from how crestfallen the normally confident Angie seemed upon hearing the news, I don't think she saw this coming, either.

By Jon Wiederhorn

Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paul McCartney (Hulton Archive)

Back in the late '60s, a super group was bandied about that would have been bigger than the short-lived 1969 Blind Faith, the English blues band that featured Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech.

That same year, Jimi Hendrix reached out to Beatles bassist and vocalist Paul McCartney about coming to the studio to join him and trumpet legend Miles Davis and virtuoso jazz drummer Tony Williams.

In a telegram Hendrix sent McCartney to the Beatles’ Apple Records building in London on October 21, Hendrix wrote, “We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend in New York (sic). How about coming in to play bass. Stop. Call Alvan Douglas (sic) 212-5823323. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."

By Jon Wiederhorn

(Getty Images, WireImage)Countless pop songs have been called infectious or contagious. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong went one step further and called Korean superstar PSY an actual disease.

“The dude is the herpes of music. Once you think it’s gone, it comes back. #herpes #flareup #pleasegoaway," Armstrong wrote on Instagram Tuesday. He also posted a picture of PSY, whose international hit “Gangnam Style” remains an epidemic.

When Asked to reply to Armstrong’s dig during an interview with Fuse News, PSY said, “Herpes? What is herpes?” When told it’s a “sexually transmitted infection,” PSY, whose command of English is limited and who didn’t seem to understand the insult replied, “Oh, hmm. I kinda like it. It's cool.”

In addition to being unaware of the definition of herpes, PSY didn’t know who Armstrong was.

Vintage glamor, incalculable luxury, tragedy, and fleeting youth: Everything that is The Great Gatsby and everything that is Lana Del Rey. The polarizing chanteuse recently released the official music video for her original song "Young and Beautiful" for the highly anticipated Gatsby film that hits theaters today.