Charley Pride died of COVID one month after performing at the CMAs, which were indoors and full of people not wearing masks. They gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award and promptly killed him. Disgusting.
I gotta say, having Mark Wahlberg, who literally went to jail as a teen for committing a hate crime against a Vietnamese man, present an award to the cast of Everything Everywhere All At Once was certainly a choice
Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue (which felt a little too "tee-hee, you can't even say the Jews control the media anymore these days" to me) had a line about how Adidas dropped Kanye "immediately," which...no, they didn't? They dropped him after two weeks of public pressure
So that Louis CK statement uses the words "admired," "admiration," "power" or "powerful" in reference to him five times and includes the words "sorry" or "apologize" zero times.
I am not someone who knows much about Broadway, but I do know that Funny Girl not adding "My Man" to the end of the show when they've got someone who can sing it like this now is an extremely dumb missed opportunity
Deontay Wilder says he’s exercising his rematch clause for a trilogy fight with Tyson Fury, per
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Wilder adds that his legs were weakened by the 45-pound costume he wore to the ring.
I don't know if he still owns Paste, but if he does, congrats to the man who once yelled at me on a conference call for refusing to run a listicle of the "sexiest women in rock" and then fired me like two weeks later on now owning Jezebel 😬
New: Jezebel is coming back.
The independent publisher Paste Magazine has acquired the feminist title from G/O Media in an all-cash deal.
“We want the world to know that Jezebel is not dead,” said Paste EIC Josh Jackson.
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I had some dental work done yesterday and am on painkillers that make me drowsy and give me extremely weird dreams, and I just woke up from a nap in which I dreamt the cat developed the ability to talk and told me I should quit journalism because it's a dying industry
Between Kanye and Father John Misty, I'm bracing myself for an onslaught of takes tomorrow, but I'm kind of interested to see how many people, without a typical FJM press cycle, suddenly will be able to admit he's one of our greatest working songwriters.
Tonight, at 7 P.M. three
@JetBlue
aircrafts will conduct a flyover over Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx to salute frontline first responders & health care workers. The aircrafts will fly at approximately 2,000 ft. Please follow social distancing guidelines if viewing in public.
There's something about the combination of Adam Sandler and Shawn Mendes on SNL tonight that feels specifically designed to make me feel a million years old.
The first words in producer Avi Lerner's quote explaining why he's going to work with a known pedophile are "The over $800 million that Bohemian Rhapsody grossed...", and that should tell you everything you need to know about why and how this shit keeps happening
Grammys Boss Ken Ehrlich tells us about making up with Ariana Grande, clears up that Taylor Swift rumor and weighs in on Deborah Dugan’s explosive allegations against the academy
Everyone warned me that Everything Everywhere All at Once would make me cry, but man, I was not expecting it to be a pair of googly eyes stuck on a rock that would cause me to burst into tears
"Navient will pay $95 million to about 350,000 federal loan borrowers—or about $260 each—who were placed into forbearance programs that caused them to accumulate more debt rather than entering income-based repayment plans" ah cool, $260 for being tricked into a lifetime of debt
Ah yes, millennials, the "easy-breezy" generation whose formative years included 9/11, two wars, countless mass shootings, the worst financial disaster since the Great Depression and an escalating climate crisis
George Harrison quitting the Beatles by casually standing up, saying, “Well, I think I’ll be leaving the band now” and walking away is perhaps the most wonderfully George Harrison thing ever
The last thing I'll say about Adam Schlesinger is that in order for a song parody to work, it has to actually sound good/true to the form it's spoofing, and everything he wrote for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was SPOT. ON.
A song about children of inherited wealth who used their privilege to evade the draft while poor people got sent off to die in Vietnam IS perfect for him, but this is just a stunning oversight by whoever on his team chose it
It is outrageous that I'm watching 52-year-old Janet Jackson do non-stop, intense choreography while my feet are basically blistery stumps just from standing all day
Ellen, Jimmy Fallon, James Corden, JVN...it's always the celebrities who make their whole brand/persona "I'm so nice and positive" who are total nightmares behind the scenes
EXCLUSIVE: Production sources who worked with Jonathan Van Ness on ‘Queer Eye’ described them as a “monster,” “nightmare,” and “demeaning.”
Three people labeled Van Ness as emotionally “abusive” and having “rage issues.”
Story:
What am I supposed to do with myself for a whole week until I get to see the next episode of The Righteous Gemstones and witness this iconic Uncle Baby Billy getup
I've tweeted my Kanye take a bunch of times already, but I'll say it again: it's extremely sad that no one in his circle seems willing to get him the help he so clearly needs. But it also feels kind of gross and exploitative that outlets keep giving him a platform.
I guess my main unresolved question is how anyone who took one look at Billy McFarland or heard him speak literally at all didn't immediately realize he's basically three kids in a trenchcoat stacked on top of each other
idk, if I already had $500 million, I don't think an additional $35 million would be enough money for me to go perform the album I dedicated to my gay uncle in a country where being gay is still punishable by death 🤷♀️
My mind is telling me that 65 degrees in January in NYC is a sure sign that we’re all gonna die in a climate disaster very soon, but my body still is like, “LET’S PUT ON SHORTS, GO OUTSIDE AND LISTEN TO FLEETWOOD MAC”
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Beyond all the obvious reasons this is infuriating, I just want to point out that Jill Biden is 69 years old and still being called “kiddo” by patronizing shithead men
This interview is so great, and Nicolas Cage saying "what is an octopus, $80?" immediately made me think of "it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?" from Arrested Development
I don't know why I was under the impression that breaking into the office of the 3rd highest ranking government official in the nation, sitting @ her desk which presumably contains a bunch of classified shit and stealing her mail would carry a longer sentence than weed possession
NEW: DOJ statement on arrest of man who allegedly broke into Speaker Pelosi's office: "If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison."
It probably won't happen, but it would be so great if, after learning about all the horrific ways he exploits women, every music publication agreed to ignore the three albums Ryan Adams is putting out this year
@AndyHerren
Strongly agree. The way she was shitting all over Jordan and Tori's engagement and couldn't even bring herself to sit in the same room while everyone else was celebrating was so embarrassing.
Been listening to a lot of outlaw country lately, and I've gotta say, "I'm a real piece of shit, and I'm sad about it because it's too late to change" is a truly unbeatable formula for a song
Before right-wingers start using this to make their disgusting, racist “Chicago is a crime-ridden cesspool that proves gun control doesn’t work” argument: Highland Park is an *extremely* wealthy, overwhelmingly white suburb about a half hour outside the city
NEW: At least 25 shots were fired at an Illinois Fourth of July parade; a reporter saw five people bloodied: “As parade-goers fled the parade route in Highland Park, they left behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets.”
#twill
The Netflix music journalist romcom starts with the main character allegedly seeing The Postal Service in 2011, so I feel like I'm in for two hours of "WELL, ACTUALLY"-ing my laptop screen
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I'm a sucker for stories about grifters and social climbers convincing wealthy people to part with absurd sums of money, and this one does not disappoint
I didn't make a Best TV of 2017 list this year, but if I did, CT telling Terrell Owens "Well, I didn't burn $70 million" in a heated argument on The Challenge
#ChampsvsStars
would absolutely be at the top
“Kiddo” makes my blood boil because the CEO at my old job called me it a few times, and I feel like the general rule of thumb for men should be “do not call a grown woman ‘kiddo’ unless she is your actual daughter”
Dear young people, take the time to listen to Joan Jett, Blondie and other original women musicians of the gen X era. Don’t let covers songs be all you hear. Their music was groundbreaking.
I guarantee you that if Troy Aikman and every other man who says shit like this had to experience menstrual cramps ONE TIME, they would shut the fuck up
@danreilly11
It's just crazy to me that he's doubling down on his claim that she was 20, not 18, at the time, as if we can't just google their ages and do the math
I've gotta say, finding out I DEFINITELY DO NOT have leukemia after 6 months of "you most likely don't have leukemia but let's run some tests just to make sure" is a huge relief, but I don't think my doctor was expecting me to respond "oh hell yeah, it's just an iron deficiency"
"Other public figures with higher profiles and known accusers — Chris Brown, Robin Thicke, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump, to name a few — have been allowed to carry on their careers despite allegations of sexual misconduct" WHAT THE FUCK
My cousin (who is a high-school teacher) told me that an article I wrote about Bruce Springsteen inspired her to put a big cutout of him in her classroom where her students could “ask the Boss” and take scraps of paper w/ his lyrics on them. This is my greatest accomplishment
Bob Odenkirk is in the booth at Wrigley Field and he just mentioned he just shot something in town and "I can't say what it is, but there's food involved." BOB ODENKIRK SEASON 2 OF THE BEAR, LET'S GOOOOO
So not a single festival has dropped Queens of the Stone Age from their bill after that whole "kicking a female photographer in the face" thing, huh? Pretty much zero consequences on that one?
This woman on Wheel of Fortune just responded "my incredibly average husband Harold" when asked who she has in the audience and now I want to know her entire life story
I love that the Oscars are like "IF YOUR SPEECH THAN 30 SECONDS, WE'RE CUTTING YOUR MIC" but then they're also like "And now, here to perform a song from a movie that came out 18 years ago for literally no reason at all, Eminem!"