When Rita Ora and her myriad collaborators released “Girls” in May, there was pushback and much debate over whether the song was a queer power anthem or a piece of exploitative trash. The lyrics, largely written by men, were criticized for stereotyping lesbian romance as nothing more than casual, drunk fun among…
After Rita Ora released her song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Cardi B, and Bebe Rexha singing about how they wanna kiss other girls after a little wine and weed, the track was immediately criticized for being a “harmful,” stereotypical depiction of lesbian desire. Ora responded to critics by explaining that the…
By now you may have heard, though it seems more likely that you haven’t heard, Rita Ora’s new song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Bebe Rexha, and Cardi B.
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Rita Ora has been waiting a lifetime for love... and the opportunity to actually sing the lead song on a Fifty Shades soundtrack even though she’s been in the franchise since the first movie.
After three long years of giving her all promoting the Fifty Shades movie franchise, the (sometimes overwhelmingly) multi-talented Rita Ora has been repaid with the series’ best original song since 2015's “Love Me Like You Do.” There is no way this loud, thrilling, and wildly romantic single, which also features Liam…
“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…
Well, there they are. And they’re doing something involving music. Could it be a remix of “Shape of You” or an entirely new similar sounding single from her featuring him, or from him featuring her? The looks on their faces tell us nothing at all. The mystery is killing me.
Hero alert! Like a booty-tooching, smizing phoenix in a lacefront who keeps squawking confusing orders like, “Model H2T” and, “You need to apologize to the fake kente-cloth African hat,” Tyra Banks knows that she had to be reborn so that America’s Next Top Model could live. After a one-cycle absence in which Rita Ora…
After just one season of teaching wannabe models how to brand themselves and become Instagram- and Snapchat-famous (it was kind of shocking to see how little about this past season was actually about modeling, at least in the two episodes I watched...), Pope-endorsed legend, fashion icon, Daily Mail queen, and…
Well, this is upsetting: Katherine Jackson, the 86 year old matriarch of the Jackson family has allegedly been suffering from years of abuse at the hands of her nephew and driver Trent Lamar Jackson, according to court documents obtained by People.
Tensions are formulaically rising in the America’s Next Top Model house as everyone battles it out to determine who gets to play the biggest badass role on the show. On Monday night’s otherwise boring episode—the second in the Vh1 reboot—the models engaged in a muddled argument about Black Lives Matter and the origins…
America’s Next Top Model will no longer be goofy because Tyra Banks is no longer the lead of the show—that would be Rita Ora, a face recognizable to some and not others. But even in its new form, which debuted on Vh1 on Monday night, Top Model is still self-aggrandizing in a sad way. It wants to be more important than…
Time can really throw you for a loop. We learned that Friday, when Rita Ora joined Wendy Williams on her couch to promote her new job on America’s Next Top Model. During the interview, Rita claimed that she’s a big fan of Wendy’s show. A reminder: a year ago, Wendy literally asked “Who is this woman?” when shown a…
Everything about Mariah Carey’s current How Stella Got Her Groove Back moment with backup dancer Bryan Tanaka is a treasure: apparently when he first met the elusive chantuese, he was a “sweaty mess.” The course of true love never did run smooth, it seems.
Here is your “official super trailer” for America’s Next Top Model, now featuring less Tyra Banks and way, way more Rita Ora. Bad news: It’s hosted by Rita Ora. Great news: ANTM is back, baby!
Kim and Kanye are deep inside what could easily one of the most traumatic periods of their lives, and their combined stresses have reportedly led to a complete shut down of production on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. TMZ reports Tuesday that despite plans to shoot during the holiday season, “cameras will not roll…
Proving she is one of those special artists who’s “bigger in Vatican City,” my Snapchat superstar and host of the upcoming America’s Next Top Model reboot will perform for His Holiness Pope Francis (among others) this weekend “at an event honoring the canonization of Mother Teresa.”
In today’s Tweet Beat, Leslie Jones’ running commentary continues to make the 2016 Olympics better and more interesting, Lindsay Lohan cooks something disgusting, and comedian Cameron Esposito tweets a statement about fellow comedian and former Inside Amy Schumer writer Kurt Metzger.
Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift insist that their romance is genuine, but Hiddles’ accounts of coupledom have thus far been excruciatingly bland. And when he addresses the media’s fixation on his relationship, his remarks are similarly tepid.
