It's not entirely clear how or when R. Kelly's hip-hop opera "Trapped in the Closet" became a Zeitgeist. Part music video, part soap opera, it—while verging on self-parody throughout—has spawned parodies by everyone from South Park (which used it to make fun of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, among others) to Weird Al (who used it to make fun of fast food. Oh Weird Al!). What is clear is why it's been embraced by seemingly......

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it's a double-ticket),......

When Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett, a.k.a. violinist for every cool band in the country, finally made his way onto The Boat's tiny stage during his video launch party last night, he noted ruefully that a long line-up is usually the sign of a bad concert. It certainly was a bad concert for the hundredish folks who stamped their feet to keep warm out in the cold on Augusta for over an hour and did not......

TOist tipster Rachel Kagan alerted us to Eric ''the suburban homeboy' Schwartz's Heeb Hop parodies and we laughed so hard we nearly gave our breakfast bagel back to the world. Schwartz's Hanukkah Hey Ya is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again. There's a whole history of frightening Weird Al-style Jewsic out there, and Torontoist rues the day Shlock Rock assaulted our hometown. Memories most painful. But anyone who beatboxes around......