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Weekly Music Round-Up: Britney Spears On Meth, Die Antwoord Vs. Gaga, And Beyoncé At The Super Bowl

We paid attention to music news this week so you didn't have to.

So, this week happened. We were mainly concerned with CMJ, where we rushed around, didn't really sleep, threw a kick-ass party, and accidentally saw the same bands four times in three days. Now that it's the weekend, we're gonna let loose, watch music until a million in the morning, and go see Ghostface on Saturday.

But, guess what? A bunch of other stuff happened over the course of the week that had nothing to do with CMJ! I know it's crazy, but there is more to life outside of open bars and hoping your picture ends up on Brooklyn Vegan. Like…

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—Britney Spears is being accused of being an ex-meth abuser! Her ex-manager is saying that she used to do a shit-ton of amphetamines, and even dropped into the crystal sometimes. That might be true, it might not be true, but there is definitely a lawsuit happening because of her stressing her ex-manager out.

—Lady Gaga and Die Antwoord are beefing! If you need to get caught up, Lady Gaga saw the totally amazing video for "Fatty Boom Boom" that Die Antwoord made with us, where a man dressed as her gives birth to a prawn and then gets eaten by a lion, and got really pissed and tweeted about it. Sorry Gags, but you should know better than to fuck with the Zef style.

—Taylor Swift put out a song that was so good even we couldn't ignore it.

—Gucci Mane put out a new mixtape entitled Trap God in celebration of Brick Squad Day. Wiz Khalifa put one out too, presumably in celebration of his wife Amber Rose being very, very pregnant.

—Other rap stuff: Eminem turned 40 this week! I learned this because Noisey Associate Editor Sasha Hecht yelled, "Holy shit! Eminem's 40!" very loudly in our office when she found out.

Beyoncé is playing the Super Bowl. If I had to guess, this also means Jay-Z will be playing the Super Bowl. They are quickly turning into America's "cool parents."

—Flava Flav got arrested for assaulting his fiancée in Vegas, which is no good.

In Chart News, well, the charts look a hell of a lot like how they did five years ago. The best-selling album of the week was by Mumford and Sons, the second-best selling album was by fucking Macklemore. The rest of the Top Ten is as follows:

3. KISS—Monster
4. Machine Gun Kelly—Lace Up
5. Coheed And Cambria—Aftermath & Ascention
6. All Time Low—Don't Panic
7. Barbara Streisand—Release Me
8. Pink—The Truth About Love
9. Ellie Goulding—Halcyon
10. Muse—The Second Law

Looking at this list came as kind of a shock, since I never look at Billboard charts. But, the takeaway from this should be that real-life sales and popularity on a certain sector of blogs have basically nothing to do with each other: Machine Gun Kelly's fanbase consists largely of Midwestern teenagers, Mumford And Sons fans are the type of people who probably still think Rolling Stone is cool, Muse's album is just crazy and ridiculous and therefore perfect for our A.D.D.-addled generation, and I have no idea who would have bought KISS or Barbara Streisand's albums other than people with children.

And that, kids, that's pretty much what happened in music this week.

@drewmillard