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POP UNCULTURED: A roundup of weird happenings in music for the week ending July 29, 2011

by Anne T. Donahue

Since it’s impossible to address the total madness of the music industry in only five days, Pop Uncultured saves some of the week’s strangest stories for Friday afternoon. Enjoy?

Morrissey says McDonalds is worse than the tragedy in Norway [FULL STORY]

This is what your crazy uncle Morrissey said onstage to a really large group of people: “We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Shit every day.”

And this is how his management probably reacted:

Get stoked: Pauly D is probably joining Britney Spears on the road

First of all, just be relieved it’s not The Situation. Second, did you know he also has an upcoming “DJ-centric reality show”? Hey, starving artists: I guess you’ve been doing it wrong. [via Vulture]

Wu-Tang heads to Craigslist to find an intern [FULL STORY]

So if you’re in the market to work really hard for little-to-no (probably no) cash-money, you might be able to get an internship with Wu-Tang Clan that will likely be one step above working at an actual Gravel Pit (HA!). But seriously: a Craigslist ad.

Insane Clown Posse are really into having Charlie Sheen at their Juggalo event and nobody is surprised

Maybe you were expecting this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos to be exactly like every other old year, but according to Billboard the ninjas are saying that this is “THE Gathering” because man-oh-man they’ve got Charlie Sheen in the house. Says Violent J: “My personal thinking is if everybody’s making fun of Charlie Sheen, he’s welcome with us.”

You’re darn right, Violent J. You are darn right.

Stop saying that Facebook banned the cover art of Nirvana’s Nevermind because they’re saying they didn’t

Long story short, apparently Facebook was going to ban the Nevermind album cover, but then they told NME that they weren’t because it’s not actually a big deal. “Put it this way, if a parent wanted to share some photos of a newborn with their grandparents, we wouldn’t want them to not be able to share them on Facebook.”

Is this your doing, MySpace Tom?

Worst news in the history of the world: Disturbed broke up and it’s all over [FULL STORY]

I won’t highlight the parallels between them and the Titanic, but I will say how dare they falsely advertise:

Robert Pattinson may be singing on the new Twilight soundtrack because well, obviously

Alleluia and every other word for praise in the history of praise, Robert Pattinson is (probably) going to stretch his musical wings and soar on the upcoming Breaking Dawn soundtrack because he’s clearly just an incredibly talented singer/songwriter who deserves a big break FINALLY. But nothing is confirmed, so just calm down already and channel your impatience through acoustic guitar:

Enrique Iglesias talks about his penis and not in a good way

Well, the good news is that Enrique Iglesias has now been offered a major deal to promote extra-small condoms. The bad news is he said this onstage in front of a crowd of people: “Maybe I have the Spanish looks but I have the smallest penis in the world. I’m serious.” Then he invited three men onstage to talk about losing his virginity. Then we officially thought too much about Enrique Iglesias’ penis for one day. [via Music-News]

Meanwhile, here’s something we’re allowed to laugh at:

Wes Borland is in Limp Bizkit “to stay”

NME says that Wes Borland has finally accepted that Limp Bizkit is “his band,” which is really funny because most of us are still in denial about Limp Bizkit being a band at all.

50 Cent is shelving his album because Interscope is “fucked up right now”[FULL STORY]

So Fiddy tweeted this:

And then this:

And then we all said this:

It’s “THEIR.”