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Bummer!

A Super Bowl benefit show featuring Prince and Erykah Badu was canceled on Friday after its financial backing fell through.

The event was organized by The Goss-Michael Foundation, a group founded by George Michael and his longtime partner Kenny Goss.

However, on Friday, organizers announced that the show switched venutes shortly before canceling the event all together.

Organizer, River Alexander Group, "was unable to fund and produce the evening. Up the very last minute, they assured us the 'show would go on,'" according to Joyce Goss, executive director of the foundation.

Sources say the real problem came when organizers were unable to pay for Prince and his band to travel to the concert.

The insider adds, "Prince is extremely disappointed that the organisers were unable to bring him and his band to Dallas. They say that apparently they lost their investors and were unable to adequately fund the event."

Awww. Such a disappointment! We bet a lot of those concertgoers are upset they can't see Prince. We'd be mad too!

[Image via WENN.]

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After performing a walking striptease at Dealey Plaza in Dallas for her music video "Window Seat," Erykah Badu has paid a $500 fine and is serving six months of probation.

She was cited for disorderly conduct in April after a witness made a sworn complaint.

What did U think of the music video?

Tags: dallas, disorderly conduct, erykah badu, fine, music video, probation, window seat

Mayjah dramaz!

Despite selling out Madison Square Garden and the Staples Center, Maxwell canceled the entire second leg of his tour with Jill Scott and Erykah Badu.

No details have been given for the cancelation, but rumor has it that he walked away from the tour after being confronted about his attitude by his fellow tour mates.

Shore Fire Media released the following statement:

“Due to scheduling conflicts with the venues, Maxwell’s additional tour dates with Melanie Fiona (scheduled to begin June 28 in Greensboro, N.C.) have been postponed to 2011. Refunds have been provided to ticket buyers. New dates will be announced later this year.”

We wonder what the problem was!

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After causing quite the controversy for going nude in her latest music video, Erykah Badu pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct in Dallas yesterday.

The singer stripped down to her birthday suit for her video, "Window Seat" and she says she chose Dealey Plaza in Dallas because it's one of the most popular places in the city.

What do U think about her plea?

Tags: controversy, dallas, disorderly conduct, erykah badu, music, music video, not guilty

Lollapalooza, the famed music festival in Chicago's Grant Park, just released the lineup and it's AMAZING, including our beloved GaGalupe and Green Day!

YES!

Check it out:

Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, the Strokes, Phoenix, Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, the Black Keys, the National, Spoon, Devo, Cypress Hill, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Slightly Stoopid, Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, X Japan, MUTEMATH, Metric, Dirty Projectors, AFI, Mavis Staples, Matt & Kim, the xx, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, the Temper Trap, Jamie Lidell, Frightened Rabbit, F Buttons, Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, Raphael Saadiq, the Cribs, Minus the Bear, Switchfoot, the Walkmen, Mumford & Sons, Wild Beasts, Rogue Wave, Los Amigos Invisibles, the Big Pink, the Dodos, Hockey, Cymbals Eat Guitars, B.o.B, Dawes, Warpaint, the Antlers, the Soft Pack, Rebelution, Balkan Beat Box.

Wavves, American Bang, the Ike Reilly Assassination, Company of Thieves, Nneka, Harlem, the Constellations, Miniature Tigers, Mimicking Birds, the Kissaway Trail, HEALTH, Javelin, the Morning Benders, Foxy Shazam, Violent Soho, Royal Bangs, NEON TREES, Freelance Whales, Semi Precious Weapons, Dan Black, The Band of Heathens, Dragonette, My Dear Disco, Shawn Fisher, Neon Hitch, Skybox, The Ettes, Jukebox the Ghost, These United States, MyNameIsJohnMichael.

LOVES it!

Lolla takes place August 6 - 8.

Will U be attending?

Tags: afi, chicago, erykah badu, grant park, lollapalooza, mgmt, music

The charges have been filed!

The Dallas PD has decided to slap Erykah Badu with one charge of disorderly conduct for stripping down to her birthday suit and pantomiming being shot in the place of JFK's assassination for the singer's Window Seat music vid.

"Having a fact witness that was there is what let us file the charges," said Sgt. Warren Mitchell in a statement on Friday afternoon.

"After much discussion, we feel that these charges best fit her conduct. She disrobed in a public place without regard to individuals and small children who were close by," he concluded.

Badu has been cited a $500 fine, which the police department will mail to her home shortly.

Tags: disorderly conduct, erykah badu, jfk

As we previously mentioned, Erykah Badu filmed a controversial music video for her single Window Seat where she stripped naked in and feigned being shot similar to the JFK assassination.

Now the Dallas police department may file charges again the singer for disorderly conduct.

Watch the news report (above) for all the deets!

Thoughts???

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