She is right. Praise creative people for their specific talent. Engage with what they produce and move on. They are not your friends, you are not owed access to their lives and they don’t care about you. 

Asking for free product in exchange for promotion is standard practice for things like subscription products or seasonal giveaways on talk shows. I worked in partnerships for a big brand for many years, we were constantly approached to do this sort of thing. You usually get quoted some set of media impressions/on air…

I don’t think I can name a single song of hers but I HATE hardcore fan culture with a passion, especially the toxic sense of entitlement some people seem to have, that sense that they’re owed any kind of attention or engagement from an artist just because they enjoy their work, and will turn nasty and abusive if they…

Fault on both sides. Some fans are clearly baiting her, “tell us you love us?” Get a life, loser. But she also doesn’t have to respond, and going toe to toe in the comments with literal strangers is immaturity at its finest.

On Monday, pop artist and very famous woman,

This is pretty standard. Subscription boxes will ask for XX amount of pieces (full sized, no travel sizes!) for free, telling you about the *exposure* you’ll get. I used to work for a company with high end candles (MSRP $45/pp) and they’d want like, 2000. Uh no.

Say whatever you want about that little blue bird: it was one of the most recognizable symbols in a world with no monoculture. After the rapidly dwindling existing user base/data, that was the main value of whatever was left of the site.

The requirement that all new posts on “X” require a dick pic is just an added benefit straight from the brilliant mind of Musk.  

The replies to that tweet about the sign permit are exactly the dumpster fire I expected. 

Increasingly, whenever musk does something I think of that line from Austin Powers when Dr. Evil is talking about his father and says “he would make extravagant claims, like he invented the question mark”. Not that musk’s kids will turn into Dr. Evil, but I can see one of them saying this unironically.

It’s a corporate snuff film.

I know this is way beside the point, but how can an architect live in such a shitty house?

Maybe Beyonce understands that she does not understand a far more complex culture and conservative culture thanher own. Maybe as a black woman she has directly experienced the danger of outsiders acting as provacateurs on her behalf.

If Cher doesn’t call her gelato “CHURN BACK TIME”, then we have failed as a civilization.

Also, if you’re seeing this Cher, you’re free to use that as long as you give me credit and 1% of the profits.

Go Like This came out in the mid- 80's (I think) and I gobbled it down. A friend permanently borrowed it before I could give it the more attentive reading it demands. I still remember details of characters and sad-happy nuances, moments that shock in their hilarious innocence.

He released a 42 minute YouTube video review earlier today. I’d rather go on a dive to see the Titanic than watch it, but he’s clearly put more energy in to Barbie than he’s ever put towards getting his wife off.

I saw it yesterday and had the interesting experience of having one of my friends on one side of me and someone else’s boyfriend on the other. It was amusing to watch the movie and get hearty laughter from my (female) friend beside me while the man to my other side mostly missed the jokes but seemed to be having an OK…

I mean, that he’s not embarrassed to show his face after letting everyone know he can’t get his wife wet (and she’s faking those orgasms), is a testament to his delusions.

You know that take is going to be an on brand shitshow. It’s gonna kill them knowing Barbie is going to make twice as much as Oppenheimer. Can’t wait for the inevitable conspiracy theory.