Slightly off-topic, but this saddening article which is also about the movie world reminds me how I miss thedissolve.com. I haven't found a profound movie site surrogate since its end (rogerebert.com and indiewire.com don't come close) and the comments were also as human and elaborate and fun as SG's. Can't you do create something as awesome as Stereogum and call it Cinegum or maybe, um, Gumundermovietheaterseats?
This video is hopelessly overstuffed. There are too many ideas and references (Madonna's "What It Feels Like For a Girl" video, Lady Gaga's "LoveGame" video, Beyoncé's "Formation" video, the Coco Chanel perfume ad with Vanessa Paradis, etc.) inside of it. If she narrowed it down to the idea with the several "old Taylors", it would be a much more interesting music video.
"Harry Styles becomes the second One Direction alum to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, recording 230,000 equivalent units and 193,000 in pure sales of his self-titled debut album — notably beating Zayn Malik’s opening numbers for last year’s Mind Of Mine, not that anyone is keeping track. In fact, per Billboard, it’s the best first-week sales total for a UK male in the US since the dawn of the SoundScan era in 1991, besting Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour. "
Wait, seriously, have you all forgotten about Ed Sheeran already? Just because he has red hair he is still considered an Englishman and not an Irishman...
"÷ debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 451,000 (!!!) album-equivalent units, of which 322,000 were pure album sales." (Wikipedia)
I wanted to conclude that comment with a heart symbol made with < and 3 after "Sister" but, unfortunately, that didn't work. You got no heart, Stereogum!
Man, I really want to like her but the things that happen to her (I don't want to say "things she has said/done") make it difficult for me to root for her. She has charisma, talent and intelligence. She just needs to grow a thicker skin.
The music video for Let It Happen and especially this one perfectly visualize the musical transition from Lonerism to the poppier Currents. It is still a somehow psychedelic trip and little bit weird, but at the same time a glossier video financed by a bigger budget. Awesome visuals!
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