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Kanye West just debuted both his new album T.L.O.P. (a.k.a. The Life of Pablo, formerly known as Waves and Swish) and “season three” of his Yeezy fashion line with a lavish two-hour event that confused the hell out of everyone who wasn’t physically inside Madison Square Garden with him. (Based on what we saw of the…
When Kanye West premiered his new album The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon, one line seemed to jump out of the stadium and onto computer screens around the world. It’s part of “Famous,” a clanging, dense new track: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that…
If it weren’t so sad, this bollocks would have made my day. https://t.co/UHAg2pMTxL pic.twitter.com/ruOfIjr3eh — Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) February 11, 2016 It’s best to try to ignore tabloids if possible, but every now and then, it’s important to remember the intense scrutiny and unnecessary pressure that they place upon actors — especially women actors, and…
The R-rated Deadpool film was released today, and surprise! It’s worth seeing. The film spent a significant amount of time in the show business version of development hell, and it took someone leaking early test footage before the movie itself was given a green light and a budget. So who the hell leaked it? “I’ve been…
GettyIt looked like Kanye West and Taylor Swift found peace between each other at the 2015 Grammy Awards. But maybe not. When the rapper released his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” on Thursday at a performance, he dropped one lyrical bombshell in particular — what seemed like a sneering dis of Taylor Swift in the lyrics. On…
A report casts “significant doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” SoundCloud struck a landmark deal with Universal Music Group last month, but its latest financial filings suggest the company is in dire financial straits. As Music Business Worldwide reports, the company’s recently published financial report for 2014 reveals that its overheads have increased faster than its revenue…
Wed Feb 10 11:29:51 EST 2016 A Hollywood producer has created a new feed featuring actual female introductions from scripts he’s read. 00000152-cbbe-d726-a377-dbbfab6a0000 size is: article-large MGM Denise Richards in “The World Is Not Enough,” playing a scientist. READ MORE: Reality Checks: Is the Documentary Industry Unfair to Women? Producer Ross Putman has started a…
For a long time now, Kanye West has existed simultaneously as a rap musician, an outspoken social critic (“George Bush doesn’t care about black people”) and a frequent and much-followed Tweeter. He veers from the mild (his love of fonts, praise for his wife, frequent photographs of fashion fittings) to the boastful (his new album is not the…
Photo Fall Out Boy performed at Pandora Holiday, a concert sponsored by the music service, at Pier 36 in New York on Dec. 10. Credit Theo Wargo/Getty Images Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company, according to people briefed on the talks. Pandora is working with Morgan Stanley…