I know that art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different. | | | | | Famous is as famous does. (Peter Hutchins) | | | | |  | “I know that art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different.”
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| | rantnrave:// I bet the people hating KANYE's new video because of the nudity would take a picture of the DAVID statue; if they saw it. A moody, quasi-religious tableau of naked, vulnerable, strangely peaceful bodies at rest. When you marry boobies and fame you’ve hit the jackpot. A meditation on celebrity by a celebrity which will immediately be surrounded by meditations on a meditation on celebrity by a celebrity by noncelebrities, until more celebrities weigh in, at which point noncelebrities will meditate on that. “It’s a comment on fame.” Under the sheets, WEST seems to be saying, celebrities are just like us. But topless TAYLOR SWIFT? There are some icky voyeuristic things happening here that we need to unpack. It’s icky to the extreme. I can't watch it, don't want to watch it, if it feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies. These white feminists go out of their way to ignore rape by white males. But they are mad at KANYE. It’s hard to imagine how this jibes with WEST’s stated mission to advocate for respectful treatment of celebrities. Why was every impulse to ridicule these people, some of whom (I won’t name names) made my skin crawl, being tempered by a rising sense of empathy? Slumbering gods, they were, but also like babies or small children at the height of vulnerability. "MATTHEW BARNEY is my JESUS." Yes, it was my painting. It had been sampled, or “spliced,” into a new format and taken to a brilliant and daring extreme! As I sat through those interminable minutes of snoring and fake plastic body parts, all I could hear was BILL MURRAY's voice in my head: “I’m a God -- I’m not the God. I don’t think.” KANYE prob thought he shook up the world with that video last week. Remember that? | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| From trumpets at the walls of Jericho to pop songs as torture in the Iraq War, sound can make an effective weapon. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Hatemongers Jungle beats hypnotically hammer as Hitler's words flash across the screen: "I shall annihilate everyone who is opposed to me." In this music video, the track's heavy baseline pulsates, and instantly, you're flying above a bombed-out Berlin circa 1945. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Beyoncé’s new tour finds her at the height of her artistic powers. What makes her sound, her dance moves, her image and her feminism so distinctive? | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| He has said celebrities shouldn't be "treated like zoo animals," and yet here are nine minutes of naked Taylor Swift. | | |
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 | Facebook |
| I know that art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Geoff Taylor, head of the UK label trade body BPI, explains the negatives -- and surprising positives -- to the UK's recent, world-changing referendum. | | |
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 | Vibe Magazine |
| For Eryn Allen Kane it was like hearing the voice of God on the phone. It was the spring of 2015, and the Detroit-born newcomer's presence had been requested by music royalty: Prince Rogers Nelson. As she sat nervously in the main recording studio of Paisley Park, the surreal moment hit her. | | |
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 | Complex |
| BET set the standard for the tribute with the network's salute to Prince. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Volbeat talks their stateside crossover after new album 'Seal the Deal and Let’s Boogie' debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 48,000 copies in its first week. | | |
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 | Medium |
| For one of the richest, most valuable companies in the world, a few extra or less dollars here or there probably doesn't mean as much as it would to someone else: a working musician, for example. "But about a few billion dollars more or less?" | | |
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 | The Fader |
| Just miles from Twitter’s national headquarters, young rappers from the city’s forgotten precincts are trying to make their voices heard. | | |
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 | Daily Dot |
| As the heat climbed toward 90 degrees, MC Ashley Griffin stood in an outdoor tent Friday afternoon during Korean culture festival KCON in Newark, New Jersey, to speak to a unique audience: K-pop fans over the age of 30. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| Watch a few of our favorites here. But be forewarned: There’s a lot of Don Johnson singing. | | |
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| Complex |
| When Gerald Maxwell Rivera arrived on the music scene, a writer at VIBE did him the disservice of dubbing him "the next Prince." That was a lot for any artist to live up to, but his 1996 debut Urban Hang Suite has endured as one of the essential artifacts of the so-called neo-soul movement along with such diverse talents as Erykah Badu and D'Angelo. | | |
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 | NPR |
| You might remember the hair band Winger and its MTV hit "Seventeen." The band's namesake, bassist Kip Winger, has another side: classical composer. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| The band’s audience accessories illuminated the crowds at Glastonbury -- but how do they work, and what’s next for crowd interaction? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The song is expected to be officially freed in July. | | |
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 | Clash Magazine |
| High profile DJ joins the campaign to promote UK nightlife. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Rich Colon is 50 years old, an age when thoughts of mortality creep into men's minds and invitations to join AARP start appearing in their mailboxes. Faced with midlife crises, some men buy sports cars, join the Hair Club or start to prowl nightclubs. | | |
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 | The New York Observer |
| Tim Heidecker looks ridiculous at The Standard, sitting in the salmon-colored sofa he's taking interviews at all morning and wearing an L.A. Dodgers hat. There are times when Heidecker looks silly on purpose, like when he's appearing in one of his many short-form absurdist comedy-variety programs, but this is not one of those times. | | |
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