Hurricane Harvey may also have hurt ticket sales

Leaving this poor woman’s speech out of this, but the VMAs rebranding as “woke” is just coming off so...awkward.

tasteless to have her give Traffic a lifetime achievement award IMO

I don’t like that movie and I’ve been hoping more critics would acknowledge its racial problems, I also get why one wouldn’t want to be screening it in the immediate aftermath of that Nazi rally. That said I think it’s the wrong approach to suggest that it should somehow be taboo to screen that movie because it’s…

“the Orpheum Theatre has decided, after 34 years of including it, to not show the 1939 film at this year’s Summer Movie Series”

“Also, most albums are now Friday releases, which the 10th doesn’t fall on.”

Nobody enjoys gratuitous sex more than me but damn was Enterprise really bad at shoehorning it in.

It’s catchy but it’s dumb. Like, really dumb.
- The AV Club

As long as there’s no episode where they travel to a planet of stereotypes and learn an obvious lesson... ohhhhhh.

Finally my Sarek pon farr fanfic has a chance at becoming canon.

Well, the Marvel Netflix shows are TV-MA without any nudity, hard language, or (much) gratuitous violence, so I don’t think this means much. Hell Luke Cage even had censored versions of the rap songs on the soundtrack made specifically for the show

There’s no way Taylor Swift takes drugs. I don’t think she has sex either.

AV Club
hugely miscalculated, corporate cynicism

In these desolate times, it’s good to know some things haven’t changed. Never leave us, Reposted.

Pretty sure this is an effect of the post-“Blurred Lines” lawsuit paranoia, where people of Swift’s commercial caliber know any conceivable similarity to an existing song, however negligible, is fodder for a lawsuit. So you get out ahead of it instead.

I think the last paragraph here really cuts to the heart of the matter: If your primary interest in Taylor Swift is following her various feuds, resentments, and carefully constructed think-piece-baiting narrative, then this song is gold. If your primary interest in Taylor Swift is the fact that she is sometimes…

Yes. Yes you can. Let the hate flow.

It would be awesome (or at least interesting) if she was owning being evil with her snake emoji persona and her revenge lists, but she’s at the same time saying she’s the victim? Taylor got caught lying about giving Kanye consent to mention her in his song, which reinforces all sorts of terrible race and gender…

I too am disappointed that this is the direction she went with. I don’t even hate the song, I just hate that it didn’t bring the fun back to pop music in the way I thought it would. But seriously, who makes fun pop music anymore. Carly Rae Jepsen, you might be our only hope.

I listen to this while taking a shit