Alanis Morissette shared the video for “Ablaze” on Tuesday, featuring heartfelt moments with her family at home. The song, a track from her latest album Such Pretty Forks in the Road, is an earnest tribute to her children: “My mission is to keep the light in your eyes ablaze,” she sings …
Read More »John Oliver Examines Whitewashed U.S. History in the Wake of George Floyd
John Oliver spends much of his time on the Last Week Tonight discussing the inequalities currently present in American systems. But on Sunday night — with the country still reeling from the killing of George Floyd — he devoted an entire segment to U.S. history and how whitewashed the teaching …
Read More »Watch Tucker Beathard and Lindsay Ell's Duet Version of 'Faithful'
Tucker Beathard has reimagined his recent song “Faithful” as a brooding duet, with singer-guitarist Lindsay Ell joining him in the studio for the collaboration. The track appears in its original solo form on Beathard’s upcoming album King, set for release on August 21st. Beathard leads off the tune with some …
Read More »The Go-Go's Deserve Your Respect — A New Documentary Explains Why
Do not ask the Go-Go’s what they thought of their infamous 1997 episode of VH1’s Behind the Music. They did not like it. “We really were unhappy,” frontwoman Belinda Carlisle says. “It dwelled more on the darker moments and all the negative stuff. We were kind of embarrassed and very, …
Read More »Drake and J. Cole's Loosie-Filled Attempt to Age Gracefully
Drake and J. Cole are getting up there. At 33 and 35, respectively, the two titans have more in common now than they did during the decade they were critically and commercially pitted against one another. Both are relatively new fathers and closer to their forties than their early twenties. …
Read More »Watch Phoebe Bridgers Kiss Her Future Self in 'I Know the End' Video
Things get weird in Phoebe Bridgers‘ new video for“I Know the End,” the closing track off her new album Punisher. Bridgers has rocked the skeleton suit several times over the last few months, but now we’re gifted with an entire room of them, hung up neatly with gray hoodies — …
Read More »Oprah Winfrey Preps New Apple TV+ Interview Series
Oprah Winfrey will host a new interview series, The Oprah Conversation, on Apple TV+. The program, per a press release, will feature discussions with “today’s foremost newsmakers, thought leaders and masters of their craft.” The show, filmed remotely, will debut Thursday, July 30th at 7 p.m. ET with an episode …
Read More »Olivia de Havilland, 'Gone With the Wind' Actress, Dead at 104
Olivia de Havilland, the two-time Oscar-winning actress who starred in films like Gone With the Wind and The Snake Pit, has died at the age of 104. The actress’ publicist confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that de Havilland died Sunday of natural causes in Paris, France, where she lived for …
Read More »Jessie Ware Delivers Classic Disco Glamour for 'What's Your Pleasure?' Video
Jessie Ware becomes a Studio 54 goddess in the video for her single “What’s Your Pleasure?” She released her album by the same name last month. In between solo scenes of Ware vamping and showing off some big, teased-up hair, she’s also joined by a crew of back-up dancers. During …
Read More »How Janicza Bravo Took a Wild Road-Trip Story From Twitter to the Big Screen
When Janicza Bravo took over Zola — the screen-adapted story of a Detroit stripper’s disastrous road trip to Florida, originally told in a viral Twitter thread — she inherited a script written by two white men. Her first impression? “It felt very masculine. It was leading with its dick,” Bravo …
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