For a second you think you are looking at a Beyoncé video: black and brown people gaze intently at you, while lounging on the branches of a tree in white, marigold and red flounced skirts. Looking closer, your eye discerns some hanging in distinctly uncomfortable back-breaking poses. ...
r for Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats” dropped in July, I screamed – partially in shock that the thing even existed, partially in terror at the digitally altered cat-human creatures that were on my screen....
You might recognize sisters Aly and AJ from one of their acting projects. Maybe “iZombie” and “The Goldbergs,” if you’ve been watching cable in the past few years; “Phil of the Future” and “Cow Belles” if you were a Disney kid in the 2000s. ...
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on December 2, 2019. Republished with permission.
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is King is 27 minutes of Kanye speaking to the church of
Kanye. This is supposed to be a gospel rap album. Instead, this is an album
about a born-ag...
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