Photo: Charli xcx via YouTube She’s partying on you, with you, and in a music video. Charli XCX released the music video for her song “party 4 u,” perhaps the unlikeliest hit of the year, on May 15. In the evocative, nonlinear music video — directed by Mitch Ryan — Charli wanders around a …
Photo: Natalie Cass/Disney Most reality lifestyle shows are stuck with a necessary truth: None of these people would actually be friends, and many would never even know one another if they weren’t all cast on the same series together. On the Housewives series, there’s little defining cohesion to the group beyond “we live in …
Photo: Sabrina Lantos/Prime In fairy tales, knights sometimes wander into a village that’s being held in the thrall of a spell cast around the desires of one lucky individual. Things seem ordinary enough on the surface, but look closer and inconsistencies appear. Everyone’s too happy, or maybe the seasons are out of whack, revealing …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The collective cackle could be heard ’round Hollywood: David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery beat a resolute retreat yesterday from the controversial decision to cut “HBO” from the name of the HBO Max streaming service two years ago. They already did away with Max’s generic blue branding earlier …
Photo: Lorde via YouTube “And I throw my cellular device in the water. Can you reach me? No, you can’t,” Lorde joked on the title track from her 2021 album, Solar Power. The New Zealand singer’s mid-pandemic album centered on a kind of New Age–y rebirth, one that involved logging off. She told the …
Photo: Ursula Coyote/Max In the immortal words of Jesse Gemstone, sometimes you just want to do “car pranks” with your friends. This is what we were promised with Duster, the ’70s-set crime series co-created by LaToya Morgan and J.J. Abrams, starring Josh Holloway of Lost, and named for Holloway’s character’s muscle car. It is …
Photo: Disney I am fascinated by the weaponry of MomTok. The girlies do not wield the reality-television classics. No drink throwing. No hair pulling. No table flipping. The armory of MomTok is entirely stocked with language. Only instead of calling people cunts, they call them narcissists. Manipulators. Gaslighters. They use more therapy talk than …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Mike Coppola/MG25/Getty Images, John Shearer/WireImage Chappell Roan went from singing “God, what have you done?” to asking “Lorde, what’s going on?” In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Lorde said that Chappell — who has become a close friend of hers over the past year — has asked her about her gender …
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Photo: Disney Oh no. Here I was last episode, making an offhand reference to how cringe it is to detail some random dream you had. But little did I know just how much dream discussion we’d all be in for. Like, there is a serious chance we might end up watching a multi-episode arc …
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Photo: Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images Bruce Springsteen was born in the USA, raised in the USA, and is now righteously angry at the USA. While performing at Co-op Live in Manchester, U.K., on May 14, Springsteen proclaimed his dissent with the Trump administration over its “authoritarianism.” “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to …
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