Blog Posts by Lyndsey Parker

Last week on Nashville Star, either Laura or Sophie (sorry, I get those Olsen Twin lookalikes confused all the time--it was the one without braces) rolled her eyes while judge Jewel was critiquing yet another one of the teen duo's cringe-inducingly trainwrecky performances.

In case you missed the eyeroll that made heads roll, here it is again. And again. And again..

Well, last night, these eyerollers rolled right off the Nashville Star set. Apparently voting viewers weren't too thrilled with Laura & Sophie's bad attitude (or, um, bad singing), and therefore L&S were eliminated.

Actually, the person least thrilled with Laura & Sophie's errant eyeballs was judge John Rich, who spoke to them so sternly last night, I half-expectedly this MuzikMafioso to jump onstage and administer a good ole fashioned spanking, right then and there. The way he blasted the girls made his scolding of the much less culpable Diana Degarmo on Gone Country look like a mushy, fatherly pep talk.

"It's hard for

Some people may think the Flaming Lips are an odd addition to the VH1 Who Rock Honors bill. After all, the other tribute acts--Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Tenacious D, and Incubus--are more mainstream, VH1-friendly marquee names.

But anyone familiar with Pete Townshend's musical tastes knows he still has an appreciation for the avant-garde and under-the-radar (Gaz Coombes from Supergrass made a stupendous surprise appearance at Saturday night's Rock Honors taping, too). And anyone familiar with the Flaming Lips knows that there's no better band out there to recapture the freaky-deakiness of the Who's fabled theatrical period. (The Lips performed a Tommy medley on the show, which airs on VH1 this Thursday night.)

In part 3 of his one-on-one Yahoo! Music interview on the VH1 Who Rock Honors set, Wayne discussed just what the Flaming Lips' wacked-out pop & circumstance has in common with the Who's early career, how the Lips got involved with this awesome event, and what VH1 viewers can

Apparently Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips had a pipedream that involved Amy Winehouse filling the Tina Turner "Acid Queen" role for their recent VH1 Who Rock Honors "Tommy" medley performance. We at Yahoo! Music cannot think of a more perfect example of typecasting than that, or a scenario in which Amy's knock-kneed, wackjobby wobbliness onstage would be more appropriate.

Sadly, it was not meant to be: Such a collaboration was not realized when the Lips paid homage to the Who at last Saturday's allstar VH1 Who Rock Honors concert (which airs this Thursday). But the unaccompanied Lips still got to fly their freak-flag high in honor of the Union Jack-flag-waving rock icons, quite brilliantly and bizarrely representing the more theatrical and mystical side of the Who.

In a one-on-one interview his trailer on the VH1 Who Rock Honors set, Wayne hallucinated with Yahoo! Music about what the Lips' proposed Winehouse duet would've sounded like. He also discussed his band's special connection

On Saturday, July 12, at UCLA's Pauley Pavillion, some of America's greatest rock 'n' roll bands gathered onstage to pay homage to one of Britain's greatest rock 'n' roll bands: The Who.

At the VH1 Who Rock Honors charity concert extravaganza, which airs on VH1 this Thursday night, the Foo Fighters (awesomely and unexpectedly joined by token Brit Gaz Coombs of Supergrass), Incubus, Tenacious D, and Pearl Jam all performed Who hits, followed by a sensational show by the Who themselves.

Of course, guests of honor Daltrey and Townshend easily upstaged all of the "opening acts" half their age, but aside from them, there was one other band that stole the show--or at least best captured all the pinball-wizardry of the Who at their most iconically unhinged and OTT.

Who, you ask (heh heh)? Oh, just that wacky pack of gong-banging, puppet-wielding, fake-blood-spraying Oklahoman oddballs, the Flaming Lips.

And you know any band that attracts kooky comedienne Margaret Cho and her

You've gotta hand it to Madonna for managing to stay in the headlines after a quarter-century in the biz. Whether or not you dig her music, you must admire her ability to market herself, especially when she maintains her constant visibility via hookups with other celebs. Of course, such collabos yield mixed results: For instance, her recent pairings with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, and Pharrell on her new album Hard Candy have been quite successful, while her "artsy" naked photos romping with Vanilla Ice and her Rotten Tomatoes-worthy Swept Away box-office bomb with (soon to be ex?) filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie were more ill-advised past collaborations.

But either way, when Madonna takes on a sidekick, people notice. And this week, she's keeping some very interesting, headline-grabbing company.

First of all, as gossip continues to circulate regarding the supposedly inevitable end of the Ritchies' eight-year marriage, 49-year-old Madonna has been spotted in New York chilling with

I don't know about you, but my prom suuuuucked.

At the time I was caught up in a very 90210-esque Brenda/Dylan/Kelly love triangle (I'm a little ashamed to admit I was the "Kelly"...but give me a break, I was stupid and 17), and due to some unfortunate assigned-seating error, my poached boyfriend "Dylan" was seated directly in between me and "Brenda."

AWKWARD!

So Brenda shot icy stabbling glares at Dylan all night and flirted exaggeratedly with her date in an attempt to make him jealous; he subsequently GOT jealous; that got ME jealous; I marched out in a huff while Dylan and Brenda reported to the dance floor to p-push it way too real-good to the ex-girlfriend-inappropriate "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa; I sought comfort in the bottom of a bottle of Bartles & James; and all our poor mutual friends seated at our table just stared blankly down at their plates of stale Salisbury steak and prayed for this entire fiasco to come to a conclusion.

Is this TMI?

Well, I honestly would have

Tonight the top 10 So You Think You Can Dance finalists were unveiled--an important turning point in the competition not only because it was the last chance for the judges to have any say in who stays and who goes, but also because these top 10 dancers are the ones who will participate in this year's SYTYCD tour.

So with 12 dancers remaining on this all-important judgment night, that meant half of the contenders--or three couples--were on the chopping block this evening. One of the bottomed-out couples was no big surprise, but the other two at-risk couples were definitely more unexpected.

First, the non-shocker: Comfort and Thayne were in the bottom three. I predicted as much last night. Comfort was definitely out of her depth during that Mandy Moore routine, and she was unpredictably disappointing dancing in her specialty genre of hip-hop, too. And her partner Thayne, with his supposed tree-like personality, has never been a favorite with the voters, so it was understandable that he

Is it just me, or does Jennifer Hudson look, um, DIFFERENT on her debut album's cover?

Seriously, not since Ann Wilson was electronically compressed from a size 16 to a size 2 in one of Heart's '80s music videos have I seen such a glaring example of what appears to be some sort of digital diet. Because unless Jennifer has been on Beyonce's pre-Dreamgirls lemon-and-cayenne-pepper fasting plan for the past six months, this album art does NOT accurately represent the real Hudson from the neck down.

So, this looks like one extreme Photoshop makeover. But why? Jennifer looks great the way she is. Do the suits at RCA Records really think she'll shift more units with her head digitally decapitated and then Frankensteined onto some skinny mystery body? And do they really think her fans are unobservant enough to overlook such a radical renovation of her famously full figure?

You know, Effie would not stand for this, and neither should Jennifer. Neither should her fans.

And if this really is