Starcasm has some competition in the celebrity dissing game, and it comes from a most-unexpected source: Radiohead! The alternative English rockers spanked two of the largest and most famously childish egos on the planet when they spurned requests by Miley Cyrus and Kanye West to meet them backstage at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
Kanye aired his sob story during the taping of VH-1 Storytellers where he mentions that Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke had snubbed him at the Grammys and it hurt because he considers the band to be one of his few creative rivals. “So when he performed at the Grammys, I sat the f— down,” West said.
Miley cried her river of tears on the Johnjay and Rich radio show on March 3rd. The sixteen-year-old star of The Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana claims she wanted to meet with York, but her request via her manager was answered by Radiohead’s representative with, “We don’t really do that.”
During the radio interview Miley declares her love for the band by saying, “They’re like, my rock god. I am obsessed with them. This is the only person I would probably cry over. Like, I would cry.” But her one-way love affair came to a sudden stop, because she not only skipped out on the band’s performance at the Grammy’s, she also referred to them as “stinkin’ Radiohead” and flexed her tweenfluence with the statement, “I’m gonna ruin them, I’m gonna tell everyone.”
(If you can tolerate all the “like”s and the excruciating stream-of-lack-of-consciousness, here is the interview)
Somehow, I don’t think Miley Cyrus telling everyone about how she got snubbed by Radiohead is going to ruin them. But mark my words Radiohead, your impeccably cool resume of super-awesomeness cannot last forever! You will eventually make a slip, some small hiccup that deserves to be made fun of (maybe writing the score for a Broadway musical, or allowing Pete Wentz to play on stage with you, or a Cirque de Soleil show in Vegas, or appearing on one of those CSI shows, or dating Denise Richards, or promoting reusable cloth toilet paper…), and when you do, I’ll be waiting with pen an paper in hand! (Don’t think for a minute that if it’s announced that Thom Yorke is updating The Sound of Music for Broadway that I’ll be afraid to blast away with “Oholaydeeodleeolaydiohead.”)
For now, I’m gonna listen to The Bends for the millionth time.
****UPDATE 03/14/09 – Probably sensing some fun to be had, Radiohead has fired back. A statement released by the band addressing Biley Cyrus’ dejection states, “When Miley grows up, she’ll learn not to have such a sense of entitlement.” And Yorke wrote on the band’s blog, “Wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you’re not one of those people I have managed to offend by doing nothing.” Oh man! A war of words between Miley and Yorke?!? Don’t do it Thom! She’s unarmed!
For those of you that still dig Radiohead and don’t want to ruin them, check out these cool Collector’s Edition CDs and DVDs due out March 24:
The Bends [2 CDs + DVD]
OK Computer [2 CDs + DVD]
Pablo Honey [2 CDs + DVD]
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Miley and Kanye remind me of the great one…
“I’m Buhwheat!” “I’ll moo-in yo tareer.” “Do’ll neber play in dis ditty again!” “I’m Buhwheat!”
It works. Ever see Spanky or Alfalfa again?! I think not! No one is safe, not even Radiohead.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, I personally feel that Miley is a little immature to take it the way she did, but I can understand her and Kanye.
Think about it people, your favorite band (actor, actress, artist, writer, etc) shot you down because they “just don’t really do that.”?
Wouldn’t you be pissed or sad/disappointed?
It’s horrible feeling.
I love Radiohead, but I think you should be also humble and considerate to other people and especially fans feelings, since they are the ones who made you who you are today.
Way to go Radiohead it’s about time someone shot that little sh*tty pop singing ahole down. She can’t even speak right let along sing. She seems to forget that she got her talent from her mullet head dad. Achy break my eardrums. RADIOHEAD RULESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! I LOVE THOM YORKE.
well lets get one thing straight, miley cyrus and kanye west have no talent whats so ever and they’ll both never be anything in comparison to radiohead… Hail to radiohead for turning that little b*tch down!
Radiohead should really watch out. hell hath no fury like 16 year old Miley Cyrus.
Kanye is such a lil b*tch
Perhaps Radiohead’s position is based on this metric:
http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/
High SAT Scores them Radiohead-heads.
Maybe it’s because I don’t worship at the altar of Radiohead (although I certainly enjoy them more than Miley or Kanye), but I just see this as a dick move. What kind of an answer is “we don’t really do that”? Do what? Meet people?
On a different note, your illustrations are awesome!
Starcasm, couldn’t help but laugh at the picture you paint! Wow! Not only would I pay to see it, but now I’m sort of wishing it would happen! But you’re right, somebody has to be there to poke fun, even at the uber-cool among us…. if for no other reason that just to remind us that we’re all just skin and bones (and here’s hoping they give us the chance!)
Static, given Thom’s unique dance floor moves at the Grammy’s, I’d be interested to see what they could come up with for “Dancing w/ the Stars”…. no, no… I take that back! The apocalypse would surely be upon us, and I think you just described dinner entertainment in Purgatory!
I think the only way that Radiohead could slip up, is to allow Thom Yorke and Miley in the distant future to appear on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ as a couple making their dance floor moves to songs like “Idioteque” or “Let’s Dance”.
This will surely be a sign of the End Times.
zhutwasi – Alas, you may be right. But, I’m gonna be there to poke fun regardless! “Ha ha! Thom Yorke gave street cred to Denise Richards! Ha ha!” (thereby lowering starcasm’s street cred)
Maybe the slip up will be too great – of Shakespearean proportions the size of which even Yorke, Greenwood & Co. cannot overcome! I’m talkin’ a Las Vegas showing of Cirque de Soleil’s CSI the Musical starring Denise Richards Yorke with Radiohead-penned tunes performed solo acoustic by Pete Wentz and sponsored by Booty Rags.
Radiohead’s “impeccably cool resume of super-awsomeness” is now so strong that should they choose to write a score for a broadway musical, it would change the way broadway musicals are regarded by the pop-music industry, suddenly endowing musical theatre with a new level of hipness that it hasn’t been able to achieve, just as Pete Wentz, Cirque de Soleil, CSI and Denise Richards would all see their own street cred shoot up, rather than destroying the reputations of Yorke, Greenwood & Co.
And the toilet paper thing… not a bad idea, actually… of course somebody would have to invent a new toilet and sewage system that would sanitarily retrieve and recycle the material without clogging your pipes, but I for one, would much the softness of cotton to the scratchiness of paper any day!
If Kayne & Cyrus like Radiohead so much, why would they want to “ruin them” because they didn’t return the compliment? I don’t get it.
Miley really doesn’t want to ruin them. You can hear it in her voice, she’s hurt and lashing out a little but she’ll get over it.