While headliners at last weekend’s Splendour in the Grass festival, Kanye West and Coldplay, would have walked away with tidy sums and an adoring crowd ringing in their ears, for the vast majority the equation didn’t seem to stack up.
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Kanye West’s Monster misogyny
In Kanye West’s ‘Monster’ video zombie women hang from the ceiling in fetish gear. Such misogynistic images provide easy and obvious targets for feminist culture critics — and for good reason, writes Zoe Krupka.
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Josh Groban sings the best tweets of Kanye West
From New Yorker cartoons to reenactments by children, Kanye West tweets are a never-ending source of comedic inspiration. The latest, and possibly the greatest, is a series of his tweets sung by Oscar and Grammy nominee Josh Groban.
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Kids reenact Kanye’s tweets
Following in the footsteps of The New Yorker cartoons, which illustrated Kanye West’s tweets, kids in America have reenacted his 140-character words of wisdom in a bunch of short films.
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The federal election as explained by Kanye West
In a moment of genius, Lorelai Vashti combined photos of Tony and Julia on the campaign trail with tweets from newest Twitter superstar Kanye West. This is why the internet is brilliant.
Kanye West tweets make perfect captions for New Yorker cartoons
American rapper Kanye West has recently joined the twitterverse, and his egocentric observations turn out to make perfect captions for New Yorker cartoons.
The biggest PR blunders of the year
A US PR company has compiled a list of the biggest PR cock-ups for 2009, including the boy scout spork, Domino’s Pizza YoutTube grossout and, of course, Kanye.
The top internet memes of 2009
Balloon Boy, David after the dentist, the Three Wolf Moon tshirt, Susan Boyle, Kanye West at the VMAs… so many memories. Mashable looks back at 2009 through internet memes.
Newsweek‘s cut-out-and-keep Halloween masks
Stuck for a Halloween costume this year? Newsweek makes some news-worthy suggestions and even provides masks you can print out and wear, including Balloon Boy, Bernie Madoff, Lady Gaga or, for a team effort, Kanye West and Taylor Swift.
Why the wrong person always wins
As Kanye West highlighted at the MTV video awards — “Imma let you finish…” — the ones who most deserve an award are never the ones who win it. So why do we still care who wins?
Kanye’s outburst gives MTV.com solid gold traffic
MTV.com has spun video footage of the Kanye West Video Music Awards meltdown into record web traffic figures. Significantly, they managed to keep the video off YouTube.
Obama calls Kanye West a jackass; internet explodes
US President Barack Obama labled rapper Kanye West a “jackass” in off-the-record “banter” with journos yesterday. But one reporter just couldn’t help Tweeting it. Cue internet meltdown.
Kanye’s guide to empire building
Rapper Kanye West is a shrewd businessman with a record label, shoe lines with Nike and Louis Vuitton, philanthropic causes and more. Fast Company wraps Kanye-isms for business success.
