Some people have a lot of personal or family adolescent traditions, customs centered around summer camp reunions, Hebrew school, or post-soccer ice cream treats. I only have one personal tradition, and it’s watching a four-minute-and-23-second musical YouTube montage of the romantic odyssey of two characters I don’t…
“Your Song,” the catchy (and honestly quite cute) Ed Sheeran-penned first single off Rita Ora’s forthcoming album that is somehow her first LP, finally has a video, and I’ve watched it three times so far this morning. Not because I find it to be a particularly exceptional (or even good) example of the medium, but…
“BOOBS” is, I suppose, the thing you’re supposed to take away from this new NSFW video for Teyana Taylor’s slow jam “Drippin.” But I don’t know, what leaves me reeling is how terribly mastered the sound is on this thing (the bass is so distorted it crumbles instead of booms)—it’s so bad that I initially assumed this…
Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) released the music video for “Die 4 U” Tuesday, and it’s an overwhelmingly eerie and beautiful collection of images that, like all good videos, instantly becomes part of the song’s DNA. What I’m trying to say is that I will not be able to listen to “Die 4 U” (an ode to erotic…
In the 1991 comedy Soapdish, Sally Field plays Celeste Talbert, a middle-aged soap opera star at the peak of her career whose life suddenly turns upside down when her daughter (that’s a spoiler, but who cares) lands a high-profile role as her co-star while her coworkers secretly begin plotting to have her written off…
After teasing new music for months, our 20-year-old mother from New Zealand had returned with a new single and video—the first from her upcoming sophomore album, Melodrama.
Noga Erez’s first single and video, “Dance While You Shoot,” offered promise and perspective from a women who’s familiar with the precariousness of the state. Juxtaposing violence, or the threat of it, with splashes of pink “blood,” not to trivialize its result but to make it starker, the Tel Aviv musician placed a…
If I had directed the clip for Mariah Carey’s new single “I Don’t,” it would have been one unbroken take of the diva preparing to and then lighting a wedding dress on fire. I think it would have been interesting to watch her negotiate her existence as a creative force with an element as powerful as fire (and it could…
During her 12-year tenure at Fox News, Megyn Kelly became a high-profile figure at an organization that quite effectively, if inaccurately, framed itself as the lone truth-teller in a biased and insidiously “liberal mainstream media” landscape, one that Kelly is about to join in a broad new position with NBC News.
In China, there’s something known as “pengci,” which is basically when someone runs in front of a moving vehicle, pretends to have been struck by it, and “demands compensation” from the driver. While NPR reports “the advent of dash cameras has helped shame the guilty parties” and decrease the popularity of pengci,…
This is a video of a raccoon named Buriburi sitting down like a human who’s had a day and eating a persimmon (minus the seed) in three elegant bites as its owner captures the entire moment on video. It was brought to my attention via this tweet, and I have watched it approximately 15 times in the past few minutes.
Grimes has just released the music video for “California,” the third track from Art Angels to be set to visuals after the dual video “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream” and “Kill V. Maim.” Directed by Grimes and her brother Mac Boucher, the video draws on the same tensions as the song itself: whimsy and…
Kentucky’s new governor Matt Bevin, whose political views and personal affect are a cross between Ted Cruz and a labradoodle, has posted a video of himself marching through Kentucky’s empty House chambers to prove that Democrats aren’t working on the budget.
Here is a video of Sen. Bernie Sanders, 74, running to catch a train. Bet he will be feeling the “bern” tomorrow.
Promoting her new vinyl box set Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule, musician Neko Case has released a music video for “Man,” a song originally recorded for her excellent album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.
Sure, we all love Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impressions, but come on, weren’t you hoping that one day the tables would turn? No?
President Obama and French President Hollande gave a joint press conference at the White House today at noon to discuss the war against ISIS, but the real excitement began well before they arrived, when the camera made completely accidental love to CNN’s Jim Acosta for approximately 30 minutes.
Angie Stone has no problem calling herself a “has-been,” even though that term might as well be a relic itself. In music at least, it’s much easier for veteran singers to reclaim their former fame (Madonna, Janet Jackson and Missy Elliott recently), as long as the music is good. Still, when it was time to consider…
Erin and Sara Foster, well-connected siblings and stars of VH1’s surprisingly great Barely Famous, gave Vanity Fair an irritable tour of Erin’s Beverly Hills townhouse (“It’s an apartment,” Sara corrects Erin. “I just don’t want to look like a liar when you guys come in and see that it’s clearly not a townhouse”).
The Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based nonprofit that challenges racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, released a vivid retelling of America’s direct transition from slavery to mass incarceration.
