Liz Phair Roofied And Forced To Participate In Matrix Parody

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Liz Phair Takes The Really, Really Wrong Pill [Now I Really Don't Know Who Liz Phair Is]
Published 9/4/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... the period when she was under the influence of the Avril-approved songwriting borg The Matrix by, uh, starring in her own version of The Matrix. I'm going to say, in fact, that anyone who sits through all three minutes and however many seconds of the above clip is hereby excused from—nay, not allowed to even consider—sitting through Perry's performance on Sunday, if only because I care about the mental well-being of each and every last one of you. [via Videogum] ...

WTF: Liz Phair: Some Strange Record Promo Thingy About The Matrix
Published 9/5/2008 by Mark Richardson at Pitchfork Media - Today
... Get ready for the longest three and a half minutes of your day. I'm not sure what this is, exactly, or who would have wasted money to film it, but the upshot seems to be that Liz Phair is having a laugh at her pop crossover moment by clumsily riffing on the songwriting/production team the Matrix, who worked with her on her self-titled album, and the film of the same name. If that's the case, some actual laughs would have been nice. (Videogum via ...

Cyndi Lauper Roofied And Forced To Participate In Fake Infomercial
Published 9/19/2008 at Videogum
... First, AOL's Department Of Internet Humiliation came for Liz Phair with that Matrix parody, and now they've struck a more ambitious target: Cyndi Lauper. We'll never know how many Ambiens they had to feed Cyndi to get her to do this fake infomercial for something called "Cyndi Lauper Blows The 'Bone" (trombone, get it?), but nothing on the internet has ever made me want to politely avert my eyes out of respect like this "parody" gone terribly, terribly made by an intern who is also the boss's nephew kind of horribly wrong: ...