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It compiles many lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both "best of" lists and "worst of" lists. Its "best of" lists typically alternate popular choices with more obscure selections, while its "worst of" lists are generally dominated by popular fare. In each issue, there is a review of an artist's entire discography, with each album being given at least one paragraph. ''Blender'' is criticized for being overly opinionated and at oftentimes being blatantly rude and delivering mediocre journalism. ''Blender'' teamed up with VH1 to create the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs", at which, " We Built This City " by Starship was at number one. Seth MacFarlane , the creator of the hit TV series '' Family Guy '', stated that Blender had suggested that there were tensions between him and '' The Simpsons '' creator, Matt Groening , which MacFarlane has denied. According to some news articles the magazine is very similar to the British '' Q Magazine ''. In an interview in 2004 , Christina Aguilera stated that the magazine had fabricated some of the things she had said in interviews for a 2003 feature and re-worded some of her phrases to make them seem more harsh. Avril Lavigne appeared to pose topless in the June 2007 issue of U.S. magazine Blender. {Link without Title} She later said to MTV that she was actually wearing a tubetop and the magazine just covered it with the banner to make her look topless.[44 ''Blender'' is published by Dennis Publishing . It began in 1994 as the first digital CD-ROM magazine by Jason Pearson, David Cherry & Regina Joseph, acquired by Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, U.K. it published 15 digital cd issues, and launched on the web in 1997. It started publishing a print edition again in 1999 in its current form. Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats (which are only now, almost 15 years later, starting to be adopted as basic multimedia structures), as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included: Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Toyota and Nike. EXTERNAL LINKS
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