Spent a few hours in New York with Hozier, an intensely thoughtful artist who is navigating pop stardom with a rare and intentional guiding philosophy: โDoes it move me or not?โ
If the answer is no, his response is simple: โLet somebody else do it.โ
๐:
After five incredible years Zayn Malik has decided to leave One Direction. Niall, Harry, Liam and Louis will continue as a four-piece and look forward to the forthcoming concerts of their world tour and recording their fifth album
watching troye sivan become a grammy award nominated artist when you were present and seated when he was covering heartbreak girl and getting his legs waxed on youtube a decade ago is a deeply insane experience
super unsettling to me that we're losing so many archives of pop culture history during this particular period of people thinking that having a twitter or tiktok account makes them a music business expert and culture historian without actually knowing much of anything at all
just had the sudden realization at nearly 5 in the morning that harry styles is an actual like international superstar rapidly approaching music icon status and not just some guy that i know who used to be in a band i listened to and who now occasionally plays some cool songs
As the plot develops, the importance of context and perspective shifts the tone from an undertaking of power and control to prophesied corruption and dread
I wrote about
@halsey
's If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power IMAX film for
@billboard
#iichliwp
Frank Ocean's statement on his
#Coachella
performance:
"It was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos. It isnโt what I intended to show but I enjoy being out there and Iโll see you soon."
More:
I wrote about the perpetual cycle of men normalizing the online antagonizing of women like Megan Thee Stallion in the face of abuse and the realities of that misogynoir that follow women into our day-to-day lives, far beyond social media
for
@TeenVogue
The world that
@Paramore
created on This Is Why has been my musical home for this entire year โ feeling overwhelmingly grateful for this conversation I had with Hayley Williams about the anxiety and existentialism of it all for
@rollingstone
๐
๐:
there needs to be a national appreciation day for the girls that handle concert ticket purchases for their friend group no one person should have to bear the weight of the ticketmaster queue anxiety alone
meet me @ the altar's tiktok posts and vlogs from this 5SOS tour remind me so much of the way 5SOS used to post on keek and vine when they were touring with one direction, it's such a pure 2013/2014 energy i have to stop and watch every single one
wh*te m*n getting on twitter to talk about not needing twitter to get writing opportunities in journalism a week after a wh*te m*n had an entire vogue interview about how he had no concert photography experience before going on tour with one of the biggest pop stars on earth
I interviewed Luke Hemmings about the self-imposed pressure that came with making his debut solo album, his relationship to songwriting and embracing not being in control โ or, facing the things we turn away from
@Luke5SOS
for
@Billboard
gutting editorial to create a "next-generation content and shopping experience" when there's already way too much content, no one has money to shop, and the quality of almost everything is garbage anyway
right
BuzzFeed has sold Complex for $108.6 million and will lay off 16% of its remaining staffers in a restructuring designed to get back on financial track.
no thoughts in my head just every single song on harry's house playing on loop at the exact same but for some reason the cinema bridge is like 20% louder than everything else
the digital ink on my offer letter is dry, so probably a good time to announce that i'll be joining the
@RollingStone
news team next month as a full-time staff writer
respectfully this app is going to have to burst into literal flames for me to leave i've been documenting my entire internal monologue on here since age 13
"Surviving can at times seem like the hardest possible things to do ... and it isn't always something people get right the first time around. But remember,
@Truman_Black
has called for truth to be prioritized."
I reviewed
#ABIIOR
by
@the1975
for EM.
mtv news was the first publication to ever pay me for my writing and work with me consistently while i was still in college and i've gone back to and referenced the work i did there as recently as literally last week and now it only exists in pdfs which i really really hate
the amount of terminal 5 slander in the replies, you're all absolutely correct and actually we should collectively petition for the entire building to be bulldozed
โeveryone has their fav venueโ okay but everyone also has their ENEMY venue. im talking the fucking trenches. the venue where you walked out after a gig and SWORE youโd never go back (you definitely did go back). the venue that made you question your entire concert-going career
At 16, Lorde captured coming-of-age melancholy with striking, and seemingly timeless, emotional resonance on "Ribs"
For Pure Heroine's 10th anniversary, I spoke to fans about finding comfort in that and feeling nostalgic for moments that haven't passed
i adore harry with my entire heart and am genuinely so excited to be able to spend years of my life with harry's house but yes there is absolutely a conversation that needs to be had about the grammys sidelining black music, and beyoncรฉ's specifically, in these major categories
In this moment, I remind you of wise words from
@bylarisha
, " โIf Renaissance doesnโt win, I think it will be a massive blow to what little credibility the Recording Academy still has as an institution that engages with Black music on any meaningful level.โ
3 years ago today, Ariana Grande released โ7 rings.โ
The second โthank u, nextโ single went on to become the longest-running
#1
hit of 2019 by a female artist, with 8 weeks atop. It earned one of the biggest streaming debuts of all time and scored two Grammy nominations.
for my
@billboard
debut:
i wrote about One Direction's historic careerโfrom beginning to end, and afterโahead of their 10 year anniversary with the help of some fans who were there for it all
this is my favorite thing i've ever written
some of these people already barely read and have to use every sliver of brain power they have to even begin to comprehend the idea of media literacy which is bad enough but whats worse is there . not being anything for them to read to begin with . like the libraries are burning
7 years ago today,
@OneDirection
released โMade In The A.M.โ
It marked the groupโs final album before their indefinite hiatus and was met with praise from music critics. The LP topped charts in various countries and spawned the hit singles โDrag Me Down,โ โPerfectโ & โHistory.โ
muting this bc some of y'all are in my mentions doing a lot right now i thought the space was funny so i listened for a few minutes and dipped, really nothing to be spamming me over โ hope y'all had fun though!
"from the producers that brought you after" perfectly explaining why this sounds like a frankensteined combination of 10 different one direction fanfics from 2012
Coming-of-age stories, unsettled grief, chilling thrillers โ all themes that fiction authors communicate in 80k+ words and Taylor Swift packs into 3-minute songs
I spoke to 6 novelists, from Emily Henry to Riley Sager, about her influence on their work
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield to star in โWE LIVE IN TIME.โ
Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being described as a funny, deeply moving and immersive love story.
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โEvery place youโve ever been will never stay the same, and neither will you.โ
I wrote about the grand return of Harry Styles on "As It Was" โ a synth-pop dream that uses his newfound wisdom to let go of the inevitable and embrace change
for
@billboard
In the midst of my post-love on tour withdrawals, I wrote about spending five nights at MSG in October basking in the brilliance of Harry Styles
The first in my pop column for
@thefader
When Kanye dropped out of Coachella, Doja Cat seemed like the most obvious replacement
The Weeknd got the spot โ but headlining or not, Doja Cat threw the hottest party in the valley
for
@thefader
, i spoke with her creative team who made it happen
so excited for all of the grammy award nominated black women this year โ sza, victoria monรฉt, coco jones, halle bailey, ice spice, janelle monรกe, rihanna, hayley williams
not this tit for tat from the same person who came online during the blm protests last summer just to say he doesn't feel the need to speak on issues just bc he has a platform and everyone else is speaking on them, embarrassing
I tell fans to put a cellphone light in the air yโall start a million man March.โ๐พ
I told you yโall digested that wrong ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธbut I ainโt gone lie Iโm impressed.
Now show this same amount of support when a racist cop kill one of our black assโฆYA NOT ๐