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POP UNCULTURED: A roundup of weird happenings in music for the week ending August 19

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?

If you watch True Blood, you’ll get to hear a Taylor Swift song during a sex scene
Because Taylor Swift clearly conjures up images of vampires, werewolves, Anna Paquin and orgies (that’s what the show’s about, right?), the country songstress will be providing a tune for an episode of True Blood, that will play during a “racy, sexy, scene.” Let’s assume it’s not “Love Story” and leave “Fifteen” far enough alone. [via Rolling Stone]

The stork dropped another baby on Kevin Federline’s doorstep
A super-enthusiastic congratulations goes out to Kevin Federline who just had his fifth child at the hands of girlfriend Victoria Prince on Monday. While Us Weekly reports that mother and baby are doing well, women of the world have been warned that Federline’s super-seed is likely an effect of channeling this man:

He got older. So did they.

Anne Hathaway is a rapper now
A lot of paparazzi are following Anne Hathaway these days, so she chose to steer attention away by rapping in the “style of Lil Wayne“:

Though for the record, it’s got nothing on this:

#FreeAnnie [via People]

A Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) [FULL STORY]
Brought to us by the letters R, A and D.

Taylor Momsen is a legitimate musician now
Thank goodness we all invested in those platform shoes and pleather corsets because Taylor Momsen told Elle that she has “quit acting forever” because “all she wants to do” is dance be in a band. Praise all of the lords, because I for one was sick of this:

And am totally championing this:

Word on the street is that Kanye will be re-recording Back to Black
While we’re taking the Mirror’s report with a grain of salt, rumour has it that Kanye is recording a tribute to the late Amy Winehouse, which, according to a source consists of “Kanye singing from the heart – with synthesisers.”

An 11-year-old mayor-for-a-day renames a street after Justin Bieber [FULL STORY]
This week, a coup was staged and for 24 hours, a small town in Texas was high-jacked by an 11-year-old with one agenda and one agenda alone: name a street after Justin Bieber and do not pass out if he comes to visit. Mission: accomplished.

(The) Game thought it’d be funny to prank the Compton police [FULL STORY]
First of all: “The Game” is now “Game for whatever reason. Second of all, the rapper tweeted about needing an intern and posted the Compton’s police number instead of his own. WHAT A FUNNY GUY, RIGHT? Right?

Jay-Z claimed Beyonce was the second coming of Michael Jackson [FULL STORY]
In an interview with a Miami radio station, Jay-Z got his blaspheme on by saying that Beyonce is “like the second coming” of Michael Jackson because “what [he’s] learnt from her is similar to what [he] learnt from [Michael Jackson].” Okay, then. Yikes. So it was hush pizza, then.

Hanson starts beef with Kings of Leon [FULL STORY]
Someone’s been drinking the Haterade because Isaac Hanson felt the need to call Caleb and co. “pricks” for bailing on their North American tour a few weeks back. WHERE IS THE LOVE?