Every week there’s a bunch of music-related stories, links, videos and other internet goodies that are a little on the trashy side, but for whatever reason get everyone in the office talking.

This is what the Tone Deaf Trash Can is all about: it’s our avenue for sharing the funniest, weirdest and downright tackiest music stories of the week to help you keep up to date with the best (and worst) things happening in pop culture. Don’t feel guilty – you’re allowed to enjoy it.

Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda Video Suffocated The Internet With The Weight Of A Thousand Butts

You can stop holding your breath. It finally happened. After weeks of anticipation, Nicki Minaj finally unleashed her ‘Anaconda’ video, and it has the Internet feeling all kinds of ways, but mainly parched and/or very thirsty.

If you haven’t watched it for yourself yet, it’s basically a five-minute celebration of those two flesh mounds at the base of our spine. You will found out that The Butt can do things you never thought possible. If a .GIF could tell a thousand words, this is one of the many scenes that has raised the temperature underneath the world’s collective collar:

No Drake, I can’t tell what’s happening here either. No-one can. We can only sit,

And try to reflect,

The Killers Covered ‘Fancy’ Through The Art Of Interpretive Dance

It’s the song that has wormed its way into everyone’s head and still refuses to get out – and it looks like even The Killers have been infected by Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX’s immortal pop hit, ‘Fancy’. Headlining V Festival in Staffordshire, England over the weekend, The Killers treated their fans to a very different interpretation of the song – involving, yes, interpretive dance. “We’ve sort of been working on something and we wanted to show you a little bit of it, if you don’t mind hearing it,” frontman Brandon Flowers announced to the crowd, before letting out that all-too-familiar dun-dun-dun… du-du-dun-dun-dun keyboard line and singing Charli XCX’s chorus. But it was drummer Ronnie Vannuci who stole the show, dropping a magical – no, mystical – interpretive dance number and letting the whole crowd feel it. First thing’s first they’re the realest:

Grizzly Bear & Baths Members Live-Tweeted The Little Mermaid And Ruined Your Childhood

Yesterday Grizzy Bear’s Ed Droste and Will Wiesenfeld of Baths answered the age-old question: what do musicians get up to in their downtime? Why, they watch old Disney classics and live-tweet their musings to forever change the way you once saw the world. Droste and Wiesenfeld, along with their buddy Braden Graeber of @hiperstermermaid Twitter fame, re-watched The Little Mermaid and realised that some things weren’t the way they seemed back when they were younger. Some of the highlights from the live-tweeting point out that your younger-self might not have noticed that Ariel is a fork-obsessed hoarder, the shellfish are kind of racist, Flounder “is fucking pointless”, and the takeaway message kind of really stings.

 

And the final, soul-crushing blow:

No, I’m fine. Really.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Racist’ New Video Pissed Off A Lot Of People, Including Earl Sweatshirt

Taylor Swift made her return to pop music this week with her new single ‘Shake It Off’ – a parody-esque song about shaking off the h8rs that in a somewhat ironic twist has gained her a whole new army of them, including – but not limited – to Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt.

The video has mainly come under fire for its portrayal of people of colour in a new controversy that bears an uncanny similarity to Lily Allen’s film clip for ‘Hard Out Here‘.

‘Shake It Off’ sees Swift switching between characters including a cheerleader, ballerina and even a fake Lady Gaga, but it’s the scene where she fronts a team of twerking women that drew criticism from Earl Sweatshirt, and many others:

Shots. Fired.

In the end, though, Nicki gets the last laugh. Compare and contrast:

Miley Cyrus Built A 5ft Tall Bong Out Of Her Fans’ Presents

She’s been missing from the Trash Can for a few weeks now, but in case you were worried about 2013’s most unavoidable person, Miley is doing just fine. She’s still just being Miley – and by that, we mean constructing giant human-sized bongs out of her gifts she’s received from her still largely pre-teen audience.

Again, just being Miley.

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