Here they are: worse even than INSIGNIFICA, these are announcements of things that should inspire fear, loathing or projectile vomiting rather than amusement or amazement:
Okay, the Freebird/Dolly thing struck me the same way as the collaboration between Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan and Luciano Pavarotti: “Why?”
The Kardashian coven: as far as I recall, it all started with the “leak” of a video of Kim Kardashian fucking her boyfriend. Once you’ve done that in front of a camera, all the rest is simple.
As for the Crocs announcement… I hear hoofbeats.
About the Parton/Skynyrd collaboration; maybe they like each-other?
For those who haven’t been following, here’s how I see the Dolly take.
She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She tried to decline it, because she isn’t a rocker.
They (the Hall and her fans) convinced her to accept it, so she did. But she decided to earn it after-the-fact, and vowed to produce a rock and roll album.
Since she is such a genuinely nice person, and much beloved in the industry, collaborators came from all over to work with her. She’s done a bunch of covers since, often with the original artists.
Nothing would surprise me.
I guess the limiting factor is that Kim Kardashian has SOME kind of marketable skill besides knowing how to operate a video camera. Otherwise, all those porn star women wouldn’t find their careers capped when they record their variations of “Debbie Does it With a Dachshund” or whatever.