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Jennifer Aniston, sweetie, I-

Kelly is now a 5x Emmy winner and The Kelly Clarkson Show is 13x winner!

Marvel pays tribute to late trans icon and electronic music trailblazer What a beautiful homage! First the SOPHIE Bratz Doll, then the asteroid named after her and now this. We miss and love you so much, SOPHIE!

Ohh she's mad I was expecting of a dissertation about how Bey is copying her

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfNM_UusZ_X/

| New never-before-seen photo of @IGGYAZALEA and Jennifer Lopez on the set of their "Booty" collaboration.

And her $3M fund to trans youth has almost reached its goal

and for also saying 'who gives a f*ck'

Thoughts?

The phrase “dancefloor liberation” has been overused to the point of becoming a trope, but its meaning is rooted in the queer Black and brown clubs in the 1970s and ’80s, spaces that were politicized by their very existence. As the New Jersey house trio Aly-Us put it in 1992, “Why don’t you follow me to a place where we can be free.” Thirty years later, that track—“Follow Me”—retains its status as a New York summer block party classic, its piano chords and plaintive vocals evoking camaraderie and spiritual exaltation. So after more than two years of pandemic-related and politically terrifying **** circumstances, some pop stars are orchestrating a new dancefloor summer. Drake’s surprise album Honestly, Nevermind hits notes of Baltimore club and amapiano-inspired house; Charli XCX centered Crash’s dance-pop somewhere between Danceteria joints and the Tumblr matrix where she came up. But Beyoncé is a singular pop music bellwether, and “Break My Soul,” the first single from her seventh album, Renaissance, seems to hint at what’s coming, especially when taken with her cover shoot for British Vogue’s June 2022 issue, which could have been excerpted from a Rizzoli tome of photographs from Studio 54, if not for the lighting and sobriety. ”Break My Soul” is Beyoncé as an SSRI, her attempt to assuage widespread depression and crushing stress, while acknowledging the predicament in which many of her non-zillionaire listeners find themselves. She opens, rather tenderly, “I just fell in love and I just quit my job/I’m gonna find new drive, damn they work me so damn hard.” Relatable: In the first verse alone, she encapsulates the Great Resignation, the Great Unionization, and quarantine insomnia. The determined chorus—“You won’t break my soul/And I’m tellin’ everybody”—is framed so that listeners can fill it with whatever we need in the moment. NOLA bounce icon Big Freedia is sampled for the intro and verse, which grounds the song in its Black queer tradition (and also provides the very good line, “Release the trade, release the stress”). She tough-loves us out of our pandemic hovels, physical and mental, rapping, “You said you outside but you ain’t that outside” and responsibly seems to endorse continued masking, thank you Beyoncé. In the ’80s and ’90s, U.S. vocal house music grew out of and flourished alongside the AIDS epidemic. In the absence of a national memorial for those lost to COVID-19, celebrating life with this exact oeuvre is both haunting and comes with a sense of deliverance déjà vu. “Break My Soul,” co-produced by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, is a palimpsest, its evocations and sounds layered deep in the sense memories of club heads. There is the synth organ sound reminiscent of Robin S.’ “Show Me Love,” arguably the standard-bearer of ’90s pop house (and which Charli XCX also sampled on “Used to Know Me”), but also a lyrical callback to Black Box (“Everybody Everybody”), the spiritual frisson of Ultra Naté’s “Free,” and the sensual intent of Crystal Waters’ “100% Pure Love.” Most of all, though, it positions Beyoncé as a diva entering her Whitney Greatest Hits era: Having conquered virtually every other genre, it’s high time for body music. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/beyonce-break-my-soul/

No one made a thread about this. The 2.0 and 3.0 songs getting a lot more uploads, views and cheers than the 1.0 songs. INTRO ABOUT YOU NOW TOO LOST IN YOU HOLE IN THE HEAD PUSH THE BUTTON CAUGHT IN A MOMENT ROUND ROUND FREAK LIKE ME

YG = Khloe Tyga = Kim People in the comments fuming.

https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/evan-rachel-wood-sings-madonna-on-late-night.html 4:20

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Scooby-Doo's Live-Action Daphne Is Still a Feminist Icon 20 Years Later (cbr.com) What's also notable about the transformation that Daphne undergoes in Scooby-Doo is that she retains her femininity and core personality. This is not always the case with female characters who are portrayed as "strong." Throughout early film and television history, women who were written to be just as capable as their male counterparts, both physically and mentally, often sacrificed some of their feminine traits in favor of more masculine ones. Feminine qualities were not seen as strong, whether it be in terms of clothing, likes and dislikes, attitude, or behavior. Live-action Daphne further solidifies her place as a feminist icon by subverting this stereotype. Throughout Scooby-Doo, she retains her femininity to the fullest. She does not sacrifice nor show shame for her feminine qualities or having more feminine hobbies, the fact that she loves fashion, enjoys make-up, or is kind and empathetic. She shows that femininity, strength, and intelligence can all co-exist.

We need this remix NOW

Like, I'm not surprised but she really needs to be studied

"A breezy Drake dance album sounds great in concept, but the half-measure house beats and lackluster songwriting keep it from really popping off" https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drake-honestly-nevermind/ Exact same score as CLB. And just a fraction away from Views (6.8) and Scorpion (6.9).

Inspired by watching the Verzuz. I assumed Omarion was the best singer in the group bc I only know the hits, but them vocals were lacking.