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you tell them, mariah!

But he was performing the song as a message to her, essentially calling her a bitch.

i dont think Christina needs to 'settle down' from being treated so passive aggressively on the show. hopefully Adam will learn his cocky ass a lesson from it though.

mte. the song as it was originally performed by jay-z is a metaphor, but tony lucca is a white man, and he obviously directed it at her.

IA except I think he should be held accountable for his actions

04? For some reason I thought it was way older

wow, I thought it was released in the 90's.

First of all, I'd like to address the fact that "99 Problems" was originally released in 2004. I feel fucking old. Ew. Yuck.

damn, i'm with you. all these people replying thinking it was older lmao. i'm forever stuck thinking 99/00 is only a few years ago.

Ugh, fuck Adam and Tony. I'm glad their little stunt blew up in their faces.

omg you have all the deets! sounds like shit hit the fan.

Could you see how the other two judges reacted to everything?

I have this fantasy of sorts where Tony was literally the only person who liked Adam and vice versa lol

Did he call her a cunt like the reports are saying? Ooh sorry...I think this was in rehearsals.

Edited at 2012-05-09 05:19 am (UTC)

Ugh that is such shit. I don't really like Christina but no one deserves that kind of bullshit.

what does the audience do when they're fighting? what about the judges? i'm glad xtina and ceelo called out adam for his shady bullshit.

ugh so much bullshit I can't even spill more deets tbh.

preach

Exactly.

Those comments are making this article even more relevant lol

These comments are proving the article right, and that's the funny part.

EXACTLY.

Thank you. This is so hard for some stupid people to understand.

No one said it does. But her attitude explains why people react so negatively towards her.

Honestly you're closer to what I thought. I could barely make out the lyrics half the time. Any interpretation I've had is really illuminating my blondness.

Like you said, the usage of bitch in the song is problematic on its own, but for this performance, the clear intent was to call Christina out as a bitch.

Yeah but even with that the problem with the song itself is that something associated with females is being used to refer to several bad things. It's still offensive even within that context. But it is clever which was what Tony's entire performance lacked for sure.

From the few times I've listened to it, I felt it was about Jay having much bigger fish to fry than "bitch problems" regarding his woman, like having to deal with racist fucks wherever he went. Which is kind of funny considering he enforces one method of prejudice (misogyny) while complaining about another method of prejudice (racism) being lodged against him. But maybe that was his intent?

Or maybe its just about having an incredible amount of swagger. #speakingoutofmyass

Yeah ia, this was one of the few performances I watched and when the article started popping out I was doubtful the song choice was intentional but then watching the actual performance and seeing how so much was left out and rearranged there really was no doubt it was intentional.

I mean you can argue he tried making it his own but he could have done that with ANY other song, that this song had that underlining message (so convenient) and they took advantage of it is what bothered me.

OMG I DIED

Well, there seems to be this back-and-forth argument of who is the "worst" of Tony, Adam, and Christina, and some have come to the conclusion that Christina has fed just as much into this as the boys have and she's a passive aggressive bitch, so some of their baiting is warranted.

I just can't agree with that. Everyone knows Christina has not been above the petty baiting and sniping that's gone on here (see: the "Britney cover band" dig a million years after the fact), but her actions are more understandable, and the false equivalency that's been deemed from certain people is grating and inaccurate. Look, if you go back to the beginning, this all started because Christina said she finds Tony one-dimensional. That's a fair criticism and it wasn't personal. Would it have been hard feedback to take with dignity, sure. But the way Tony and Adam have responded to it has irked me from day one. I don't know if they were insecure or doubtful of Tony's own abilities and talent to prove her wrong, but instead they felt the need to hit back with the Britney cover, then a pointed "How Do You Like Me Now" cover, and then it culminated to this "99 Problems" cover. Christina contributed to it reaching that boiling point but Adam/Tony retaliated with unequal force in such a gross and tacky way.

tl;dr Christina took potshots at Tony's image and celebrity connections, Adam and Tony reappropriated a rap song about racial issues to drag Christina in a misogynistic manner. They're not the same and there's no reason it should have reached that point. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

(Sorry this is so long but I've kept my mouth shut until now, but some of these comments are just drenched in ignorance and bigotry.)

Edited at 2012-05-09 05:43 am (UTC)

This is what bothers me so much, is that she really did speak and choose her words as nice as possible (because you know her ass could have very well been mean about it), yet people still react like she's the biggest bitch in the world for even saying something. It's really effed up.

people are so hard on Christina, honestly, it's depressing. She was completely in the right from day one about Tony, and Adam I think goaded Tony into milking it nonstop to get attention.

Icon love tbh

I love my bb slayang

mte

mte. to quote something someone said on here earlier, wtf does tony lucca know about being stopped by a cop for going 55 in a 54?

He did Hugo's version of the song, and Hugo is on Jay-Z label so jay-Z obviously had no problem with that interpretation of his song.

exactly. at this point i'd rather he sing ~you're so vain or some other shit. this was definitely not the right choice.

but more importantly he just needs to stop

Edited at 2012-05-09 05:51 am (UTC)

THANK YOU

I realized that a few years ago and I kind of have never felt the same about him since.

Oh wow. I've never actually listened-listened to his lyrics.

awww how qt, threatening to hit a woman!

he's such a piece of shit.

he did that too? o lawd. he is so awful.

He is scum

While i can't say "i was in the room this is true" and he's def got some sketchy ass misogynistic lyrics. Harder to breathe was supposedly written about their record company giving them shit about "songs about jane" Not to say he's not an ass but I'm sure he's put more out there than this song.

i'm hating Adam after this incident, but harder to breath isn't about a woman, its about their record lable fyi

actually, nevermind, he said this was about his record label so this argument isn't really working

Edited at 2012-05-09 01:55 pm (UTC)

omg youtube is full of comments like "well look at christina's dirty video, she's degrading women!!11111"

i cant facepalm enough.

I saw that. I wasn't surprised that they defended Adam and Tony. Neither of them seem like they would be supportive of women in general. Kathy Lee was even more intoxicated than she usually is during today's episode. Maybe she thought up the dirty comparison.