As Elon Musk’s Twitter deal comes to a close, the self-anointed “Chief Twit” posted an open letter to advertisers promising that the social media platform won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape” once he officially takes the reins. “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of …
Read More »Harry Styles Transforms Into a Brawny Merman — Complete With a Tail! — in 'Music for a Sushi Restuarant' Visual
Little Mermaid, who? Harry Styles has shared the visual for his Harry’s House opener “Music for a Sushi Restaurant,” and if you’ve ever wondered if the singer could pull off a full beard and a merman’s tail, the answer is yes. Styles transforms into a brawny merman who has washed …
Read More »Quiet Firing: When Leaders Do the Bare Minimum
Most articles verse on quiet quitting. Contrary to what one might think, the definition of “quiet quitting” is not “doing the bare minimum so as to get fired” but actually “not taking on much more work than you have to — especially without extra pay.” When we shift from one …
Read More »Is Andrew Tate Really Paying All of Joe Exotic's Legal Bills?
Is there a monthly book club for toxic masculinity that we don’t know about? That’s the only way this next sentence makes any sense: Viral misogynist, podcast host, and streamer Andrew Tate (and his less famous brother Tristan Tate) say they’re covering all legal fees for currently incarcerated Joe Exotic, …
Read More »The Art of Collabs and Strategic Releases in the Music Industry
When your collaboration can make or break another’s product, you have achieved the top of the musical food chain. The road to this position is not quantified in dollars but rather from the influence of your work, as fame remains a question of reach and authority above all. Dropping a …
Read More »From Pottery Barn to Le Creuset, Brands Are Making Grown-Up Merch for 'Harry Potter' Fans
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Harry Potter series embodies magic, mischief and mayhem and this fantastically absurd world is only set to expand as the years go on. The first books were …
Read More »The Revenge of Tim 'I Told You So' Ryan
LIMA, OH. — A typical Democrat wouldn’t be here. It’s the final stretch of his Senate race, and Tim Ryan is spending one of the campaign’s last Saturdays in Allen County, where Trump won by a mammoth 40 points two years ago. Most in his party believe the white working-class …
Read More »Meet Giovannie and the Hired Guns, the Mexican-American Band Signed to a Country Label Playing 2000s Pop-Punk
When Giovannie Yanez was writing the brooding ballad “The Letter” for the new album by his band Giovannie and the Hired Guns, he kept hearing the voice of Seventies country crooner Freddy Fender in his head. Yanez wanted to sing a verse of his song in Spanish and he figured …
Read More »Kanye West Returns to Instagram to Declare He Lost '$2 Billion in One Day'
Kanye West returned to Instagram Thursday after an eventful and career-ruining three weeks to proclaim that he lost “2 billion dollars in one day.” After scrubbing his Instagram page of almost all the posts that preceded his restriction from the platform earlier this month — only a photo of his …
Read More »In His New Book, Dylan Is an Unexpected Music Critic, And A Master Gaslighter
In the way it avoided a conventional timeline or stories behind the making of some of his best-loved albums, Bob Dylan’s 2004 book Chronicles: Volume One wasn’t a remotely traditional memoir. And let’s not even start on the whirligig prose in his Sixties head-scratcher Tarantula. Next to them, his third …
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