Vanessa Carlton had a job up until today. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she is now unemployed like pretty much everyone else right now. No, she wasn’t laid off from her singing gig due to company downsizing. She dropped the f-bomb while performing during the EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival ‘Beats and Eats’ Concert series. Yeesh. That’s gotta be rough.

Carlton slipped up during her first of three performances scheduled for today. Obviously she was warned by Disney brass to watch her mouth because there aren’t supposed to be a whole lot of four letter words at the happiest place on earth. She made it all the way through her second set without a problem, but during her third performance of the day, it must have slipped her mind because she swore again.

Disney promptly asked her not to return and is instead replacing her with a local band.

Congratulations to Tiffany and Crystal, the winners of our Vanessa Carlton CD contest.

Crystal says:

Vanessa Carlton is great because…

A) she is not: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan
B) she has not slept with: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.

Tiffany says:

Vanessa Carlton is great because……she’s hot, plain and simple….and let’s face it, she’s got a different sound about her that I can’t help but adore.

Vanessa’s new CD, Heroes and Thieves, came out today. I’ve been listening to it on Rhapsody, and I must say, it’s really quite good.

Stay tuned, because we’ve got another contest coming up this afternoon!

Her new album, Heroes and Thieves, comes out tomorrow. I’m honestly a little obsessed with the first single, “Nolita Fairytale.” I ran the video for it last week, and this week I’m bringing you a special behind the scenes clip.

But that’s not the best news!

The best news is that two lucky people will be receiving a FREE copy of Vanessa’s new CD.

Here’s how you win:

Send an email to me, at evilbeet@gmail.com. The subject line should be “Vanessa Carlton Contest.” And in the header, simply fill in the blank:

Vanessa Carlton is great because _________________.

You can be funny or sincere, it doesn’t matter. You can write a sentence or a paragraph, doesn’t matter. We’re gonna be judging this shit pretty haphazardly anyway, since that’s kind of how we do everything around here.

Winners will be announced tomorrow evening. Get your responses in by 2 pm PST on Tuesday pretty please.

I feel like I should hate it. And yet I don’t.

Maybe the dress is just fine. Maybe I just feel like Vanessa Carlton is someone who should be generally loathed. Maybe every time I see her I just think to myself, “You know, I liked it better when they called it Alanis Morissette.”

But the ultra-long dress with the ultra-low neck?

I kind of dig it.