Everyone Suddenly Hates Ellen

I may just be me, but I feel like you have to put some serious effort into hating Ellen DeGeneres. I can't think of another celebrity that may be harder to just...hate. Be annoyed with, sure, I can see that, but hating Ellen DeGeneres just seems beyond impossible. I think she's great and has a rare quality in being who she is as a celebrity: she's just nice (and modest, funny and generally interested in people). To me, Ellen is like this really funny neighbor or friend of your parents who you're always excited to see stop by. She's not exactly your friend and you're quite sure what she's doing these days, but you really just like hearing her talk and joke.

However, I am not the music industry. And the music industry suddenly hates Ellen.

According to Rolling Stone, a "handful of the bigggest record labels" are suing The Ellen DeGeneres Show for using hundreds (possibly over a thousand) of songs without gaining permission or broadcast copyrights during Ellen's various dancing sequences. Apparently, representatives were curious as to why the show didn't simply just ask if they could use the songs for mindless dancing, and the members of The Ellen DeGeneres Show's production team told the labels that they didn't "roll that way."

The twist is that the papers for the lawsuit were filed the very same day that Ellen was announced as the newest judge for American Idol.

It seems like Ellen periodically just gets slapped with crap. She got crap for coming out as a lesbian, she got crap for when she gave a dog to her hairdresser, she got crap when she crossed the WGA picket line to save her show and, most recently, she got crap for being the new judge on American Idol.

The only ironic thing is, among this crazy massive music industry lawsuit, what would probably make Ellen the happiest is dancing to fun songs, but, if she does that, she'll be sued by the exact forces that are making her unhappy. It's quite the quandary.

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