Today, Meshell Ndegeocello is debuting on Jezebel the video for her twangy cover of Ralph Tresvant’s simmering new jack swing classic “Sensitivity.” In a quietly radical decision, Ndegeocello keeps the gender-specific nouns of the original song in place, so that she sings things like, “You need a man with sensitivity,…
Quavo and Nicki Minaj have released a very colorful video for their duet “She for Keeps.” In it, Quavo wears a fanny pack and raps about things he enjoys about his object of desire: “Like the way she take them pictures, it’s the angle (flash) / Like the way she keep her business all personal.” He also likes her body…
Earlier this week, Justin Timberlake released a trailer for his upcoming album Man of the Woods, which seem to cast him as a rugged wilderness man, especially if your idea of a rugged wilderness man is a less cerebral and more smug, but just as earnest, Bon Iver.
If you’ve watched even one tiny second of The Crown, Netflix’s sweeping costume drama about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, then you’ve tried to speak in Queen Elizabeth’s plummy, posh, fancy-as-fuck accent more times than you’d like to mention.
Sometimes it’s nice to unplug your brain, set it in a bowl of ice water, and take a small mental break from the various horrors currently setting the world on fire.
If you have not watched the first season of The Good Place, I wouldn’t recommend watching this video. If you have, please, join me.
Here’s an idea that seems so deeply satisfying, I’m bummed I hadn’t thought of it before: smash a piñata with the head of Pepe and the hair of Trump while eating birthday cake. Like, right?
Pop stars (and their teams) know that a great video can elevate a song, and so it’s particularly heartening to see Björk remains in command with that aspect of pop stardom, even as her hooks evaporate and the case for calling her music pop becomes increasingly difficult to argue. That’s to say that Björk’s tuneless…
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…
