The headline (and subhead) indicate this is a list of the absolute worst of the season, but the introduction seems to indicate it’s more a collection of oddball and misfit songs that aren’t necessarily bad, and the list itself seems to take examples from both camps. It’s really quite confusing.

That would be a shame; those text messages that the defense released, that they claimed would show that Jabbari disavowed the assault, actually fit perfectly in the narrative of Majors being an abusive manipulator, and I expected much the same from the purported video.

While it’s mostly been rehabilitated, I think his reputation is still somewhat worse now than it was before his domestic assault conviction in 2009. (Has it really been only 14 years? It feels like a lifetime ago.) And no doubt reconciling with Rhianna helped the process along.

Thanks; I’ll try to make sure to use “alleged victim” as appropriate when discussing situations like this.

I so wish a reporter had asked him which Bible passages he chose to read during her testimony, and what he got from them.

I’m just waiting for the defense to show the video footage that they say exonerates their client.

Yeah, poor slob. Couldn’t dance well enough to break into the family business.

I hadn’t heard of that film before so I had to look it up, and now I know I need to see it before I die. It sounds goofy and weird in all the right ways.

I eagerly await Swift’s self-penned revision of that book, Taylor’s Version: Taylor’s Version.

Their latest piece on the trial is actually very skeptical of Majors.  I haven’t been following the site closely, admittedly, but the past few articles I’ve seen there about this matter have been really straightforward and not just assuming this is another case of a white woman lying to get a black man in legal…

If you can read about this case and think it’s a “normal relationship”, I pity you.

Good point; I would like to ask, given your experience, what would be the best term to use in place of “accuser” for articles such as this?

No, but it’s a better song, especially if you’re talking about Juice Newton’s cover.

There ought to be a presumption of innocence in a court of law. In the court of public opinion, anything goes.

Depending on the angle and the video quality. Either it was mentioned in the opening remarks yesterday, in which case I’m surprised that mention wasn’t carried forward into this article; or it wasn’t mentioned, in which case I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t mention it and that the omission wasn’t remarked upon by…

At the risk of sounding hopelessly square and plebeian, I actually like Lee’s recording; it’s just an unpretentious ditty of people having fun, and it’s over in two minutes. Pretty much the platonic ideal of a secular Christmas song.

Yeah, that really threw me as well. I don’t know how anyone can watch Home Alone and forget this scene, which is a marvelous capsule of the sheer ridiculousness of the movie:

I’d pay to watch that!

It’s really kind of remarkable how often evangelicals do or profess things that run directly counter to Jesus’s teachings.

Why are so many people replying to the stereotypical MAGA troll, driving his collection of warmed-over cliches copied from his puppet masters to the top of the comment section?