The Kid Laroi Is a Pop Chameleon

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. What is a Kid Laroi song? Weeks later, Laroi peaked at No. 10 on another Juice WRLD linkup, Hate the Other Side, off the rappers posthumous albumLegends Never Die. Around that time,Stereogum criticizedLaroi as a grifter on the emo-rap wave. Could the Kid Larois success foreshadow the end of the emo-tinged TikTok sing-rap kids? critic Tom Breihan wondered....

August 16, 2021 · 1 min · 140 words · Charles Miller

Let’s Talk About ThatWhite LotusEnding

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Because in this life you cant win. Yeah, you’re able to try. But in the end, youre just going to lose, big time. Because the world is run by the Man. Thats a snippet froma monologue spoken by Jack Blackas fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn in the movieSchool of Rock. On one side of her is a staffer who looks vaguely like Lani but is not actually Lani....

August 15, 2021 · 3 min · 503 words · Joshua Li

Listen to Perfume Genius’s Doleful, Doubtful Cover of ‘I Will Survive’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The lyrical content of Gloria Gaynors disco classic I Will Survive is resilient, boastful even. She doesnt need you anymore, jerkass man who left her. Its very definite: Iwillsurvive. A commercial for what, casket linings? Hadreas paired the track with an 80s soloflex commercial and footage of wildfires. This is not the first cover of the disco classic to abandon the peppy tempo of the original....

August 15, 2021 · 1 min · 102 words · Kenneth Johnson

Mike White Accepts the Criticism

TheWhite Lotuscreator understands if you feel conflicted about that ending. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. I want to know about the mural behind you!Oh yeah, thats wallpaper. Is it a fantasy world?Its called Eden, so a little bit. Theres elephants and birds. This is tangentiallyWhite Lotusrelated, right, because its all about travel and fantasy and And colonialism. They all at some point had a stamp on Sri Lanka....

August 15, 2021 · 8 min · 1703 words · Stephanie Ali

New York City Is Almost Like the Fifth Character in This Star-Studded Music Video

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. By that standard, these celebrities and artists must really, really love New York City. Joel himself doesnt make an appearance, but his daughter Alexa Ray Joel does. For Cautious Clay, its the Brooklyn Museum. For Kelli OHara, that means the Steinway piano factory in Queens. ForIdina Menzel, its an empty, blank, white room. Related Tags:

August 15, 2021 · 1 min · 70 words · Daniel Acevedo

Ryan Reynolds ConfirmsFree GuySequel With Snarky Tweet

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. !#ironypic.twitter.com/85mMxW4owx Related Tags:

August 15, 2021 · 1 min · 18 words · Anthony Garcia

WithRetreat, The OACreators Are Taking a Movement to FX

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Britt Marling and Zal Batmanglij are back at it again, making a cerebral mystery show starring Marling herself. After Netflix unceremoniously canceledThe OA,fans protested with flash mobs and hunger strikes. Knowing Marling and Batmanglij, some light time travel or trans-dimensional shenanigans feel likely. Hopefully FX will treat Brit and Zal with more care than Netflix did....

August 15, 2021 · 1 min · 74 words · Chad Valdez

Emma Stone to Return forCruellaTwo-Ella

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Cruella de Vil.Cruella de Vil.If she doesnt scare you,no sequel thing will. Related Tags:

August 14, 2021 · 1 min · 29 words · Daniel Fox

Love Island U.K.Recap: The Greatest Showman

Love Island U.K. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This recap does not cover Episode 41: Unseen Bits. If I had to pick a theme for this week, it would be maturation. Ah, the circle of life. (No, that wasnt a joke. He actually calls her an idiot.) Who will give the other boys haircuts now? At least we only have a week left, so hopefully they wont get too shaggy....

August 14, 2021 · 2 min · 368 words · Victor Smith

Simu Liu Responds to Bob Chapek CallingShang-ChiTheatrical Release an ‘Interesting Experiment’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsis going to be a lot of things. It will be Marvels first film with an Asian lead superhero. But referring to Marvels first martial-arts movieinspired by Chinese cinemaas an interesting experiment makes for a rough sound bite. We are the underdog; the underestimated. We are the ceiling-breakers....

August 14, 2021 · 1 min · 151 words · Debra Rodriguez

Dillon Diatlo Woke Up His Sleeping Dog for This Interview

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. And you cant just adopt one child, you know? You gotta get the child a friend. Then you end up adopting a whole class. you’ve got the option to find Dillon onTwitterandInstagramat @dillondiatlo. More From This Series Tags:

August 13, 2021 · 1 min · 53 words · Karen Kaufman

FromTed LassotoDownton Abbey,Jeremy Swift Orbits Around ‘Formidable Women’

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (And, of course, one of the four Diamond Dogs.) This is embarrassing, but I didnt realize until about a week ago that you played Spratt onDownton Abbey. Your physicality for both characters is so distinctive.Very true. With Spratt, I had this waistcoat that was like a corset, really. I was kind of starched for breath and it bled into the character....

August 13, 2021 · 5 min · 957 words · Cindy Hall

How Coachella Copped the Woodstock Look

Oh, you like podcasts? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The co-hosts ofThe Cut, Jazmin Aguilera and B.A. Parker, think deeply and incisively about fashion. With the additional help ofDr.

August 13, 2021 · 1 min · 39 words · Michelle Daniel