“P.S. I also hate that when you watch a trailer on YouTube there’s a whole ad for the trailer at the beginning of the trailer. I know I’m watching the trailer! I clicked on the trailer for god’s sake!”

Dude, PREACH. I do not need a trailer for the trailer! This is the most annoying thing on the planet.

Yep, generally speaking, AI has a notorious race problem. Mostly because it’s based on racist/exclusionary data sets:

I don’t know,“Here”didn’t give me that vibe at all. Maybe I’m looking at this through a narrow lens, but I feel like most white artists try to seem “blacker” when they are trying to appear edgy or cool (see: JT, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Arianna...), whereas “Here” (and most of Cara’s super-earnest music) is…

I thought she was black until two seconds ago, but I attributed that solely to her skin tone. I don’t see her playing up the racially ambiguous thing in her music, videos, or performances — are you getting that from another source (I guess I haven’t watched her interviews...) or are you just mad that you guessed her…

She actually corrected that misconception herself in an SNL skit. But she has steadily blurred those lines in the years since.

This is the first time I got that the line “L.A. told me...” was referring to a person and not a place. Based on that alone, I’m tempted to forgive her for every stupid thing she did during the release of her first album. BUT Stupid Girls was on her FOURTH album, so that slut-shaming and holier-than-thou bullshit is al…

A while back, I saw a post in the comments section here saying Halsey is basically today’s Pink. I thought they meant that musically, but now I’m wondering if they also believed that she, like Halsey, was light-skinned? 

I was very impressed with her interview. Watched it with my (Arab) husband, and he quickly went from “Well, why do porn if you don’t want to be known for doing porn?” to completely sympathetic when she mentioned she was in the industry for all of FOUR MONTHS. Her notoriety is completely out of line with what she…

Yep. I actually like Ari’s Boyfriend, but it’s nobody’s song of the summer. Truth Hurts, Old Town Road, and Bad Guy are the only acceptable choices on that list.

...Was he not a hologram?

...I actually like your “Skimpy” better. At least it’s kind of cute.

My husband and I decided to try and switch to a Mediterranean-style diet. Shouldn’t be too hard, since we’re Middle Eastern, but it will be hard to cut back on refined sugars, red meat, nightly binges on spicy chips... Anyway, chopped up a bunch of veggies last night for replacement snacks and today I’ll be attempting…

I have no useful advice or insight (no kids, not for a lack of trying). But I’m just in awe of your self-awareness, which I really feel is half the battle. You are in touch with your feelings (which, as other people have been mentioned, may be elevated because of your hormones) and aware of the challenges you are…

Your post just reminded me that I don’t know how to replicate my decided-upon signature. It looks fucked up every time. *facedesk*

Had to dig out my login for this one, because oh boy do I have too many of these to contribute...

Not an authority on this, but in another write-up of this interview, I saw that she mentioned working hard to make sure her kids are part of the black community, not separate from it. So that may or may not have impacted her choice of schools for them.

Other American (women) politicians have been willing to speak up on Palestinian statehood. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib come to mind...If you can’t speak truth to power, what are you even doing?

Domestically, she’s great. She’s only my second choice because I prefer Bernie Sanders when it comes to changing the U.S.’ one-sided approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has only become more important under Trump. I’m Palestinian-American, so Warren’s comments during the (most recent) war on Gaza are a…

I know I shouldn’t still enjoy this show, but damn it, I do. The other day I watched an episode from the original series and I was SHOOK by how much these people have changed and (dare I say it) grown over the years. I used to watch it just to mock them, and now I actually feel like they’ve grown into an interesting…

Yeah, that really threw me as well. The phrasing “trans female” makes me think he might have actually MEANT trans men.