Miley Cyrus/Twerking is the Fail of the Year (2013 RefinedHype Awards) Posted by Lucas G. on 12/18/13 | Filed under Top Stories, Humor, Opinion, Debates, Fails, RefinedHype Awards

It's that time of the year when everyone does their "Best of the Year" lists, but how many of those can you really read? So around these parts we do things a little different. Ladies and gentlemen and intelligent animals with the ability to read things on the interwebs, welcome to the 2013 RefinedHype Awards!  Here are the rules. First, this isn't a democracy, it's more like a benevolent dictatorship. I chose the nominees after careful consideration drinking. But instead of whining that your favorite rapper/song/whatever didn't make it in, I'm allowing write in votes. Whoever gets the most votes wins that category, even if y'all override my nominations with a write-in vote. Period. I'll announce all the winners on Wednesday, December 18. And I'll be explaining the criteria and nominees for each category every time. Got it? Good.  

As much as we love seeing booty, we also have room in our hearts for flops, fuck-ups and fails. So now it’s time to make your choice for who or what was the biggest fail of 2013. The nominees are all thoroughbreds and I expect a tight race. The fails of 2013 are….

UPDATE: The results are in. Scroll to the bottom for the winner/loser. 

Miley & The Twerking Phenomenon

You know if RefinedHype is putting anything booty related in the Fail section there is trouble. What started out as a cool way for girls to shake their butts transformed into a internet sensation where kids were suspended from school and Jimmy Kimmel was in on the action. Of course none of this would be possible if it weren’t for all the hard work of the posterchild for the twerk movement, Miley Cyrus.

Twerking was just the beginning. Miley left a wake of destruction in her twerking path which included a step into the hip-hop world. In addition to a balls crazy video (and this one too), Miley perfomed with a singing cat, dressed up in a tupac/Biggie dress (and subsequently smoked a joint on stage), and of course the infamous foam finger incident. Miley went from Disney channel sweetheart to hated twerker in about two seconds flat and had one of the failest of years ever, non-musically of course (like it or not she slayed when it came to the music).

Kanye - The Fails

Only someone with an epic year like Kanye cold be both a fail and an awesome; he has to be the favorite for both right? It started out awesome, Kanye’s epic rants, a new album, and a marriage to Kim K (and a voice change), but somewhere along the line it all went downhill. The first fail of the year for Kanye was naming his baby North West and selling $250 white T's, the second was when he got into a hugging match with the paparazzi (a fail on both parties), but the real failing occurred months later, well except for the whole walking into a sign thing (that shit was an epic fail). The first few rants were amazing bundles of crazy-genius (see the awesomeness of 2013) but it went south fast. The descent started with the Zane Lowe interview and officially jumped the shark this fall around the time of the Jimmy Kimmel saga (episode 1 & 2) #nodisrespecttobenaffleck. While the rest of us were pretty much done with Kanye rants, he still had more to say, especially if you were Sway (see above). 

Kanye was so extra in 2013 it was sometimes hard to actively root for him (see Charlemagne Tha God). It has gotten so bad we had to put a ban on posting any Kanye interviews. So that’s where we stand now. You know if a website is opting to skip out on Kanye pageviews because it has just gotten to be too much, something is wrong. Only Kanye could have a year this epic and full of music, awesomeness, and fails; it only adds to the legend that is Kanye West.

The Fat Guy Who Yells

There are few things in this life that Nathan hates more than the Fat Guy Who Yells, so I thought i would be best if he took the reigns on this one....seriously the passionate hate he has in his heart is bordering on insanity.

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First, I resent being called borderline insane - fuck your borderline. Still, check out the year The Fat Guy Who Yells had; it was probably way worse than you realize. We're talking a sham marriage proposal to Nicki Minaj, a song that took a giant poop on both Pac and Biggie's legacy, a balls crazy plea to the iTunes CEO to add the world's most powerful servers, a marketing campaign that centered around looking like he had a migraine, and, oh yeah, his "Suffering From Success" album flopped. I mean flopped. I mean SOLD 9,000 COPIES SECOND WEEK flopped. 

Nathan S. out. 

Harlem Shake

Remember the Harlem shake? Probably not, but it definitely was a big part of early 2013. What started as a quirky internet meme (well a song really) quickly spiraled out of control. It was funny at first, with videos like this and these ones but got way too out of control; even The Miami Heat were doing it and if The Heat do anything it is automatically douchey (I’m surprised they didn’t come in late an leave early like their fans seem to do).

While most of us were over this before it began, it didn’t stop anyone and everyone from doing their own versions which were unfunnier by the video. Oh yeah, the most fail worthy part of all…IT’S NOT EVEN THE REAL HARLEM SHAKE!

Rob Ford's Existence

The only person who can rival Kanye’s craziness and delusions of grandeur is Canadian Mayor Rob Ford. He had a spot as a fail a few weeks back but only begins to cover the craziness. In addition to all the other craziness like sayign he eats pussy at home (see above), he also attacked a female Councillor and was in a mayoral first, denied allegations he tried to buy the video of him smoking crack. That last link has the pefect timeline of this year in Rob Ford.

May 2013: Media report they have seen a video apparently showing him smoking crack cocaine
May / June: Mayor denies such footage exists, but multiple Ford staffers resign
August: He is apparently intoxicated in an official appearance at a street festival. Later, he tells media he has smoked "a lot of marijuana"
October: Alexander Lisi, a former driver for Ford, is arrested on drug charges; police say they have the drug video
5 Nov: "I have smoked crack cocaine," the mayor admits, saying he did so "in a drunken stupor"
7 Nov: A second video surfaces showing Ford drunkenly threatening to kill an unspecified person
13 Nov: He admits to buying drugs in the past two years; allegations emerge linking him to cocaine and prostitution
14 Nov: Ford makes lewd comments about oral sex and says he might have driven while drunk

You know when you make Marion Berry look like FDR, you are doing something wrong. The Kanye pick might be more sexy, but if you are picking your fail based on sheer amazing absurdity, Rob Ford might have to be your pick.

You want to make Kanye the first ever winner of two completely conflicting awards? Or maybe mayoral shenanigans is your thing. Let your voice be heard. Voting is closed. 

And The Winner/Loser Is......Miley Cyrus

Just how crazy is Miley? Well, she is so balls crazy (and fail-worthy) that she beat out a crack smoking, woman pushing, pussy eating elected official for fail of the year.  Granted, she had the help of a phenomenon that swept teenage-white-girl-nation, but the two go hand in hand. A team effort that wrangled 35.5% of the votes. Will Miley be back in '14 to defend her title? We can't say for sure but yes...absolutely yes.

Other Categories:

Booty of the Year
Non Hip-Hop Song of the Year
General Awesomeness of the Year
Producer Of The Year
Crew of the Year
Banger of the Year
Song of the Year
Rapper of the Year
Album of the Year