THIS is the essence of ‘cancel culture.’  It’s not the metric of whether someone ACTUALLY suffers, or ACTUALLY disappears penniless.  That is the aspiration.  The culture of THAT ASPIRATION is the ‘culture’ of ‘cancel.’  No matter how much time passes, no matter the setting, if you see a mention of an enemy, insert…

Jfc Kylie we get it, you don't like Biden. But demonizing him in every fucking article isn't doing you or anybody else any favors.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t help that, at a fundraiser this week, he said, “I’m a practicing Catholic. I don’t want abortion on demand, but I thought Roe v. Wade was right.”
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It’s also hard to grasp how Biden will really run on abortion when he avoids saying the word and, by his own admission, doesn’t like it.

Tina Fey’s response to said racial insensitivity accusations, in a note to the network asking them to pull the episodes in question: “I understand now that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on…

Both my father and father-in-law, who consider themselves enlightened, well-read liberals, regularly listen to this dweeb’s podcast:

“If I were a white woman, my name would be Melissa McCarthy....”

That interview doesn’t exactly scream Mo’Nique is easy to work with. 

I don’t know much the situation, but it reminds me of the Raylan Givens quote from Justified:

Shannon Sharpe is slowly but surely becoming this generation’s Marc Maron

Classic anti-Serb bigotry. A peppering of selective quotes and drumming up of anti-Russian hysteria when you have videos of countless American politicians shaking hands with Putin. But the accusation of ‘supporting genocide’ has to be the most bizarre of them all. 

But hey, HBO will generously pay for this unilateral…

>“Black artists, specifically women, can put NUMBERS on the score board, generate entire cultural movements, outperform, and out-talent and still be placed beneath white mediocrity. it’s really a sad thing to witness”

Lol...off topic, but gotta admit your screen name gave me a little chuckle. Nice.

I have to wonder if Swift’s win for Album of the Year was more of an acknowledgement of her pervasive pop-culture dominance more than any particular musical merit (and I’m not trying to be a hater - I think Midnights is a pretty uneven product as a whole, but I think some of the songs are very good).

And if that’s the…

I worked with her team on a project a few years back and I can anecdotally confirm that your first point is true. I did not work with her personally but with her manager and mother, and there were definite vibes of “fuck it she can’t do anything right.” They were insanely protective of her in a way I felt wasn’t…

I’m very happy about “Fast Car”. I myself have grown from a clueless 80s kid thinking “Oh no it’s that boring slow song” to “How dare anyone try to approach that masterpiece”. I still don’t understand what Combs thought he was bringing to the song, but I’m glad to see Chapman get her resulting due and that he seems to…

And though becoming the first person to win AOTY four times is a unique achievement, it’s also entirely not unique because she’s done it three times before.

Yep.

Yeah, like...she’s a billionaire. She has legions of parasocial relationship-nurturing fans willing to get their (online, natch) knives out at a moment’s provocation. She’s amassed a shit-ton of plaudits, and is on her way toward becoming one of the (if not “the”) biggest musical artists in the history of recorded…

Huh. K.

The musicians ARE the music industry. Further proof of absolute irrelevance.