The latest foray into the terrible world of Terry Richardson was a hoax. An online forensic expert says the Facebook account from which the text was sent to model Emma Appleton, offering a Vogue photo shoot in exchange for sex with Richardson, is officially fake.
Here's what Beyoncé's "Partition" would sound like if Beyoncé had student loans: "Sallie Mae pay off my tuition please…"
Beyoncé did a very Prince-like thing: She conducted a feature interview with Out magazine via email. Still, the writer got a trip to see her perform in Glasgow, Scotland and the chance to hang out with her Parkwood entertainment business crew (which he calls her “inner sanctum”) as trade.
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OK, stop screaming at me through your computer screen and calm down for a second. After a week of fans having a collective meltdown over the ending to How I Met Your Mother, it seems producers may be taking note. Sort of:
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Yes to all of this.
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Photography is the science and art of creating images using light. But if you've ever seen oddly-colored pictures of Gabourey Sidibe, Lupita Nyong'o or Beyoncé, you know that when it comes to dark skin, photography has issues.
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Everyone's favorite Spring Breakers star/MFA student James Franco was up to some sketchy shit two days ago. Namely, he attempted to pick up a 17-year-old girl via Instagram direct message.
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The title— In N Out Mission — is a little clunky, but the rest of this In N Out-tailored parody of King B's Partition is on fucking point.
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Because you can always use a little bit more Beyonce in your life, here is a trippy alternate version of the video for "Grown Woman." Better watch quick, because it's already being disappeared off the Internet by lawyers!
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A gentle wind blows flaxen locks. Sad notes plink from the keyboard. She speaks: "Tonight is the last show of the Mrs. Carter show. We started a year ago… and I want to say this has been such a journey… I am so lucky […] I'm giving y'all the ugly cry."
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Well, it's come to this: Skidmore College will be offering a course this summer on "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media."
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BETRAYAL ALERT. Drop everything! Sound the alarms! Light the beacon of Amon Dîn! According to radio host Troi Torain, noted just-born wrinkle-free pre-teen heartthrob and patron saint of spring chickens Jay-Z has been lying to us about only being medium-old this whole time, and is SECRETLY ACTUALLY AN EXTREMELY OLD…
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Everyone wants Beyoncé to endorse their products—like Toyota, naturally!
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Designer clothes! Many sequins! Beyoncé! Friday! You know what to do: hit play.
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Something awesome happened in New York last night: literature goddesses Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie united in feminist power and rose into the heavens … but before they did, the pair sat down for a long chat at Harlem's Schomburg Center.
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It turns out that hit pop songs aren’t so random and when we say we’re "not really listening to the lyrics" we, in fact, are.
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Solange Knowles is back and as colorful as ever in Harper’s Bazaar this month. The singer-songwriter and sartorial It Girl is giving face and fashion so tough that I almost got excited for spring ... until I remembered that it will be 32 degrees in New York tonight.
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I've been thinking a lot about Sheryl Sandberg's new #BanBossy campaign over the last week or so since it debuted. I've read the thinkpieces both for and against, and even the ones that fell in the middle of the road. And after considering all of the very valid critiques, I've realized why this campaign bugs me so…
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Two male members of famed a cappella group Pentatonix took the daunting task of covering Beyoncé's latest album upon themselves, and the results are better than any Upworthy headline-style opening sentence could possibly convey.
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"We never talked when we had sex, what’s with all this talking?"
