Nicki Minaj Vs Steven Tyler: Battle Of The Dolls

It now seems that Steven Tyler was fired from American Idol, rather than his desire to get back to Aerosmith. He and Jennifer Lopez were replaced with Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj on the self-deflating show that no longer produces top sellers, and now he's saying what I always thought was true of these shows, namely that if Bob Dylan would have applied to such a show in the 1960s, they would have turned one of the best songwriters of all time down because his voice isn't powerful and radio-friendly.

Except Tyler said it specifically about Minaj, and she responded by calling him ''racist''. And now Twitter is aflame.

Video Of The Week: Aerosmith

Aerosmith were in town last weekend. I didn't go, a bit because I'm not too big a fan (I despise everything they made post-1995, for one), it was actually held in a suburb and also because there's a chance I wouldn't have been able to afford it.

By many accounts, they did their best despite having become a caricature of themselves, and rocked out to their 1970s material first and foremost, forgoing their recent decade of ballads and ill-advised attempts at ''blues''.

But between their 1977 heyday and their second golden age (87-89), most people forget the era where Steven Tyler wore eyeliner and Joe Perry wasn't even in the band anymore...

This piece of cheese is here to remind them of those times, and I chose a video with ''special effects'', too, to show that the Alicia Silverstone era wasn't the only one in which Steven Tyler and the boys dabbled with technology...



In all honesty, the guitar riff wasn't too bad, but the lyrics reek of cheese and the ''rock-and-roll'' song structure kind of makes me gag. And the production renders the whole thing Poison-like. And they were also in town a few days ago, with Def Leppard.

Maybe I'm dead, and this is Purgatory.

Cabbage Patch Steven Tyler

When artists get their own dolls, it usually means they're having the honour of having Todd McFarlane making one of his hyper-realistic toys.

Not Steven Tyler.

He's going to be... a fucking Cabbage Patch Kid:

If, like me, you have trouble identifying him, he's the one... in the middle. The white-trash prostitute with the brown hair and blonde streaks dressed like Elvis-meets-cowboy. Wow.