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Gene Simmons and Tommy Lee Slam Rihanna’s “Fake Bulls**t”

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Gene Simmons and Tommy Lee won’t be buying Rihanna albums any time soon.

The rockers had harsh words for the pop star, with Simmons telling a crowd during an announcement for a KISS and Motley Crue summer tour that ”we’re sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them.”

The KISS front man continues, “No fake bulls**t. Leave that to the Rihanna, Shmianna and anyone who ends their name with an ‘A.’”

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Lee, whose band Motley Crue is heading out on a summer tour with KISS, agreed, saying, “No disrespect to Rihanna, she’s a great singer, but we’re in a slump for some s**t that has some personality and appeal beyond a bunch of pop stuff that’s floating around out there.”

“I’m glad [Simmons] said that actually,” adds Lee, “because I don’t think I can bear watching another f**king award show that is just a little bit better than ‘American Idol.’”

He continues, “It’s f**king pathetic to watch people go out and f**king karaoke with a bunch of lights and video. It’s all completely watered down.”

What do you think of Simmons and Lee’s comments?

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  • Guest

    Nail on the head!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O3DCLG2RURSSDOPDWX2KAQTI7I Pittsburg69

    GENE SIMMONS IS AN (A) HOLE!!!!! FAKE!!! GET RID OF THE CLOWN MAKE-UP!!!! THAT GETUP WENT OUT WITH THE PACER!!!!! Q. HOW MANY GENE SIMMONS CAN YOU FIT IN ONE???? A. NOT MANY!!!!! FAT CLOWN!!!!

  • Guest

    Jealous old hags. Everyone has their music preferences. I don’t particularly listen to rihanna neither do I like mostly crew or kiss for that matter. I am more Adele.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1098095847 Todd J Thomas

    Telling it like it is. Autotone garbage is the norm now.

  • Concerned

    Why are they calling out RiRi…most of the artist out there right now is doing it. Hmmm! Must be jealous of her SUCCESS! #notniceboys

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/36HM4QB2UUG5V5CCCJ23NDX7QQ Tom

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  • Mimi

    I couldn’t agree more. Rihanna sings like a robot.

  • Will

    He is right.
    Today’s music is Fabricated Commercial Shit.
    That kind of music is only made for cash.
    They don’t even write their own songs.
    When it’s 20/30 Years later , Nobody knows who Rihanna was.
    Kiss is from the 70′s and everyone kows who they are.
    Thats the diverence.

  • JessMarie414

    Gene Simmons thinks he is the ultimate rock star but it’s far from the truth. Other classic rock bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and even (shudder) Def Leopard have sold more albums than KISS. Hell, even ABBA sold more albums.

  • Anonymous

    Well like it or not Rihanna creates music that alot of people want to listen to. You can either create what you want to listen to or what people want to listen to. But in the end the people will decide who is “popular” and who isn’t so it doesn’t matter anyway. Oh and if she hasn’t yet, I know she’s gonna come for them on Twitter.

  • Anonymous

    And the thing is if Simmons wants to get on Rihanna for what he deems as karaoke music…..what about KISS? They’re kinda gimmicky. Truth be told I never listened to their music bc they were before my time so maybe there is something there with them. But whatever. There is a bucket for every stone.

  • Pamerie52

    Anybody who has their own reality show should shut up originality.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_63SFUJ622FEIJ65S5YKIQG425A Sophia

    funny how almost all of rihanna’s songs end up selling milions…..

  • No Name

    I agree but all the bands you just listed have been around for 20 years because they are real musicians who wrote and performed their own stuff. They paid their dues in clubs and got signed because of their talent. No auto tune bull S@#t. Lip syncing to tracks and having 20 dancers behind them while they walk around the stage.

  • zrodfx

    She didn’t ‘create’ shit…..she is a product….no talent, as are the vast majority of ‘rappers’….they are the modern day ‘Monkees”, who did not create their own music and were slammed for it. What’s the difference?

  • Anonymous

    Well whatever you want to call it, she’s still ahead and why is that? Because people like what she has to offer. Point. Blank.Period.

  • popart

    this simple peoples they both reel old raceristicals that hate the black aspeariance . they prolly hat the godmother operah winfried to. they haters

  • Anonymous
  • VelvetStaccato

    How sad for them. There is nothing more pathetic and sad than to hear two bitter, old, junked-out has-beens criticizing today’s musicians and singers, as if anyone cares what these two think. They can’t handle that their time in the spotlight is OVAH and they need to get back to playing skeeball and canasta with their fellow old-fart peers! Gene Simmons is a pathetic excuse for a human being; he’s sexually and musically invisible and the world is a better place for it. As for Tommy, he is just a walking, hepatitis-having corpse who looks like he’s three minutes away from death at all times! Maybe Rihanna can spring for the new liver he’s going to need someday and set up a trust account for Gene to get that much-needed OLD MAN sack-lift that only a desperate hag like Shannon can appreciate! Rihanna shouldn’t put too much thought into two dudes who probably have to hire people to wipe their own asses!!!

  • VelvetStaccato

    Dude, Kiss sucked SO bad that they HAD to do what artist today do to garner attention; they slathered on makeup and acted like pure idiots to deflect from the fact that they SUCKED as musicians!! They were nothing more than a glorified garage band! Hiding one’s lack of talent doesn’t come any faker or less original than the standard they set!

  • VelvetStaccato

    Maybe but Gene Simmons can’t sing AT ALL!

  • GooglyMoogly

    KISS was before my time as well, but I still listen to their music, The Beatles are before a lot of people’s time and they still listen. So no excuse that they were before your time for not listening to them.
    Also, gimmicky or not they’ve been around a long time. Rihanna has been around a fraction of that time and she’s just as ‘gimmicky’ by parading around half naked, the wild changes in hair color.
    Music is all about being a ‘gimmick’ now a days.

  • Guest

    Nothing is faker than Gene’s nappy wig. Does he even brush that tangled mess?

  • bondbabe

    Good lord…put away the itunes, go back to class and pay attention. Your spelling and grammar are atrocious (that word means, really bad).

  • bondbabe

    If you’re going to relate who Gene and Tommy have/had as partners and diss them for it, perhaps you need to think a second before you prop Rihanna up too high on the pedestal…Chris Brown anyone?

  • MyKinKStar

    Say whatever you want about KISS, but they too have endured. The played up their music with the makeup gimmick, but it served them well. Everyone knows them and knows their music too, even those who aren’t fans, because their music is all around. Rocking and Rolling All Night!

  • Cammie

    Who f*cking Cares!!!!!! Get a life all of ya!

  • MyKinKStar

    Please, everyone is not a racist!

  • MyKinKStar

    Actually, it’s his own hair and not a wig.

  • MyKinKStar

    So agree with them, because all the music out there sounds the same, with the fake computer sounds and constant bass beats. Mostly it’s annoying. Call KISS a gimmick all you want, their music is real and all different AND people (fans or not) know it and sing it easily. Yeah, both Gene and Tommy have been a’holes once or twice before – perhaps more than that actually, BUT they are right on with this comment. Music today SUX and will not be remembered past next month!

  • Shitake_shroomz

    I think it’s terribly unprofessional for Gene to be bashing other music artists. I think he’s probably a bit bitter about the fact that he’s getting older and his music isn’t as popular as it was back when he was in the limelight. That being said, it’s nice to find a music artist that performs well on both CD and live in person (which I heard Rihanna DOESN’T). I like songs with substance. I like music with substance. There have been KISS songs I’ve loved, there have been Rihanna songs I’ve loved. Music is music. It doesn’t bode well to diss one or the other just because a certain genre isn’t your preference.

  • popart

    if they no raceristical why they dish the riana no way ? it simple it cuz they old an all old peoples have raceristicalness tendons in they selve. the jerry attics peoples be growd that way to hate all peoples of color. you know that be so an it true

  • Jennifer

    Really? I think it’s sad and lacking in class for celebs to be dissing each other. I guess these two has-beens have found that the only way they can call attention to their tour is to get some press slamming other, more current artists. Try to make a graceful exit, Gentlemen (and I use the word loosely in this case).

  • Guest

    Lies. Google him. He’s completely bald..and gross.

  • Nicety

    This from a man who made a career out of the measurement of his tongue instead of his non existent talent.Then there is the scripted reality TV show about his mid life crisis.He has been nipped and tucked so much he looks like a shrunk steriod version of George Hamilton.As for Tommy Lee the poster boy for STD’s.His true claim to fame is all the women he has screwed.He is a walking talking dictionary to every STD known to man and probably some that haven’t been invented.He is so skanky and riddled with STD that not even a free hooker would do him.These two are real class acts and we know you can’t spell class without ass which these two are perfect candidates.I admit Rihanna has her problems but everytime these two open their mouths they show what real idiots look like.
    If Simmons wants to do something of relevance he could go into plumbing and use that brillo pad to unclog some toilets.As for Tommy Lee he will always be relevant as long as their are STD’s in the world.
    To all the parents with daughters make sure you tell them to always be safe if they don’t want to catch the Tommy Lee.If they ask what that is tell them to take their pick of any STD out there.None of this is said on Rihanna’s behalf I am just tired of these washed up has beens that will do anything for attention.They had their time and she isn’t doing anything that isn’t being done by a thousand other artist.It doesn’t make it right but that is show business and their wasn’t any need to single her out like she is the only one.

  • Guest

    Shocking that most of the people defending Rhinana are women, who have historically had poor taste in pop music.

  • Xedos

    he must have red the article in billboard that in the last 10 yrs the chart has be rule by people of color or duets with people of color and a white artist these guys has been irrelivant ever since soundscan started to track music sales. the chart can’t be rig anyone to make them famous. ever since soundscan came it rock died. hip hop,pop and in the 90′s rnb rules the chart.

  • Xedos

    who create rock and roll, RNB, BLUES, HIP HOP, and Jazz? all created by blacks stolen by whites.

  • Peaceoutalyssa

    There cool :D

  • Nicety

    How can you throw even go there when Tommy Lee has been arrested for the same thing as Chris Brown.Just because you seen one and didn’t see the other doesn’t make it any better.If I am not mistaken Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson kept going back to each other also.Not that CB & Rihanna are back together.My point is you can’t throw out CB without pointing the finger at Tommy Lee.Both Tommy Lee and Gene Simmons has sexed anything that had a hole.This is not propping Rihanna this is just stating facts.Simmons has always been an arrogant dried up California Raisin.

  • http://twitter.com/superbenA2002 Ben Arrowood

    I agree. Most pop stars can’t sing. They go up on stage, the girls go up on stage 1/2-3/4 of the way naked and lip synch to a computer loaded up with MP3s of their Auto-Tuned to death studio recordings connected to the sound system. I heard a leaked untouched copy of a Kesha song on Youtube and she stinks without Auto-Tune. Here is a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVjy2zyQ7Oo

  • http://www.facebook.com/RTCastleberry R.T. Castleberry

    LOL. Well, coming from a guy who used to wear clown makeup and spit fire, this is pretty funny. But he’s also absolutely right. How many modern singers, like Madonna,Rihanna, Spears, Pink, Beyonce or Mariah could do a great concert by just standing in front of a mike and a band and SINGING?

  • Anonymous

    Fame whore trying so hard to be white.

  • http://bloggers-heart-books.blogspot.com/ Jay

    I don’t know if that Kesha video you linked is fake or not, but she’s actually not that bad live. Her song “Goodbye” is a live acoustic song and she doesn’t have the most amazing voice, but she’s pretty good and way better than she is with all the auto tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Wof32u1-Q

    Her Bob Dylan cover is pretty decent too and it’s just a raw version done herself without any editing (she actually cries while singing it making it even more raw sounding): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCEV7ZSNFo

  • MyKinKStar

    He doesn’t have to sing, he’s in a band! Plus he has never represented himself as a singer. Big difference! The whole reason KISS was put together at all was to give fans the kind of musical performance they said they would like to see – that no one else was doing. It’s what they’re good at, for what it’s worth! I was never a fan, but their music was everywhere and still is, so it’s hard to not know it and sing along no matter how bad it is!

  • MyKinKStar

    You are missing the point. They have never sold themself as anything more than loud ranting musicians, with a makeup gimmick. KISS was put together as a show and it was – it still is.

  • MyKinKStar

    Bahahaha! Rag magazines/papers/websites make all kinds of money off people like you, who believe that shit.

  • Rihanna sings live on tour. I witnessed it from the front row. And KISS sucks. Disappointed in TLee. TLee & Rihanna were two of my favorite celeb meetings :( He should be bagging on Katy Perry. Eek.

  • I’m a female that was indifferent to Rihanna. I had an opportunity to meet her and watch her in concert last summer from the front row and she completely changed my mind. She sang live and danced her a$$ off for over 2 hours. There are also artists whose music I never came to like but can receive props for working hard onstage. You can separate musical taste from the actual person’s work ethic.

  • taffie

    Rihanna has neva said she writes her own songs, she gives credit 2 the writer when its due. some pple can write songs bt aint so gud at singin/performin them, and the other way round. When mo pple work on a song, then mo pple have jobs. Its onli fair in my eyes. Every1 needs a job As 4 ese 2 old man, bye

  • bondbabe

    When was he arrested for assault or battery? He was arrested for instigating a riot in 1997 in North Carolina. A WHOLE lot different than beating up somebody. Don’t make things up.

  • Nicety

    December 1994 and then again February 1998.He even served time for it no contest.Do your homework before assuming someone is lying.

  • Dainty

    But he is kinda right, I don’t like paying so much money to see these artistes and not get the real deal. Only a few artistes give you your money’s worth and actually sound good live. I love and appreciate real singers and even more the ones who sound really nice live on stage. And whether you like a popular singer or not, if they suck live, they just suck. That is all! People are too easily amused these days, I not. I love singers like Whitney, Amy Winehouse, Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Pink. And not a lot of female singers’ voice can even match to them no matter how much money they make!

  • Mlkusmc

    Gene told it like it is. There hasn’t been any good rock&roll since Nirvanna brought grunge. The one they left out was lady gagalot. All that’s out their now is a bunch of no talent hacks that do either hip hop or rap . All the posters on here raggin on Gene are probably young females and the guys
    must bruthas.

  • deesspop

    you smart kinkyladystar i lissen to you an most a time when i lissen to you i acree with you. you nice to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Martina-Gunarova/100002916294918 Martina Gunarova

    You can’t even write! Before you post your opinion, do you mind to check what you wrote???? It does not make any sense, and if you are not 10 years old, I can’t understand how can you go through school with this kind of English? Am I racist too? Of course I am , cos I criticize you. Get a life!

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