A seasoned flyer has explained why he always picks the "worst" airplane seat before taking off.
22.12.2023 - 17:45 / variety.com
annus horribilis like songs that promote xenophobia, racism or just overall divisiveness in the interest of trolling — so here’s a round of Fudge Rounds for strange bedfellows like Jason Aldean and Kanye West. But it’s understandable if you might think that the real scourge of the last year was the plague of songs built on lazy interpolations, which manage to ruin perfectly fine oldies as well as introduce fresh rottenness into the world.
We’re looking at you, David Guetta, Jason Derulo, et al. Is there anything much worse than a remake no one wanted — see 2023’s prime offenders, Fall Out Boy? How about the phenomenon of bad self-remakes… hello, Roger Waters? Duets Mixing sex, drugs and race into a questionable cocktail landed the combination of Travis Scott and the Weeknd on our list.
Meanwhile, all due credit is due when someone seems to be inventing a brand new subgenre of cringe as effectively as Meghan Trainor does on the unfortunately unforgettable “Mother.” Here’s a 20-song sampling of the misbegotten tracks from this past year that most made our ears bleed, or our spirits, or both. Aka “Try That in a Sundown Town.” This was a year when other country stars were making huge crossover strides, inviting curious new fans and even international markets to check out the genre.
And what was Aldean’s contribution to that welcoming wave? Releasing a hostile anthem of proud xenophobia that basically amounted to putting up a “Stay the hell away… or else” sign. His defense of the song was that no one could be against the violent crime described in some of the lyrics, but these words — which sound like they were assembled in random order in a five-minute writers’ room session — weren’t nearly coherent enough for anyone to
.A seasoned flyer has explained why he always picks the "worst" airplane seat before taking off.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is opening up about the abuse she endured at the hands of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
‘Eras Tour’ to Miami in October; I saw her in Philadelphia last year, and she truly puts on a show like none other. The bad news? I have yet to secure tickets for any of her three stops in South Florida. The good news? My parents live in Miami — meaning that even if I have to bust my budget to acquire said tickets, I’ll save on accommodations by crashing with them for free.
NME recently supported the Featured Artist Coalition’s 2023 End of Year Party and AGM at Walthamstow’s Signature Brew in London. Following on from 2021 and 2022, NME returned to support the event as well as chairing an artist-led ‘Year in Music’ panel discussion featuring Murray Matravers of the band formerly known as Easy Life, Sam Duckworth of Get Cape.
Another year, another round of adorable celebrity babies!
Travis Kelce doesn’t like losing — especially not on Christmas! But despite his best efforts, that’s exactly what happened this holiday season.
all the feels… joy, abject sadness, anxiety, liberation and, not least of all, that old pop music standby, lust. We can guarantee you won’t be feeling plasticine if you dig into Variety‘s list of 60 of the best songs of 2023, as picked by chief music critic Chris Willman and senior music writer Steven J. Horowitz.
The Color Purple is back on the big screen, this time as a movie musical, nearly 40 years after the first movie was released.
Each morning, Mia starts her day by carefully wiping down her walls and windowsills for mould.
Zac Efron is back on the big screen with his new A24 movie The Iron Claw.
The season 10 finale of The Masked Singer airs TONIGHT on Fox!
Metacritic has shared a list of the worst games released this year, based on reviews.Metacritic aggregates reviews of TV, film, books and music and then gives them an average score. As part of its end of year summary, the website has shared the 10 worst reviewed games released in 2023.“Any titles with fewer than seven reviews from professional critics are excluded,” it explained, with the list only including titles that are “major enough” to get reviewed by multiple publications.Topping the list of worst games is Daedalic’s The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum with a score of just 34 out of 100, making it “generally unfavourable”. The stealth platformer is set between the events of The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, and offers an original story for Gollum.According to the list, it’s the “worst Lord Of The Rings game adaptation in history” with reviews calling it “dull” and “tedious” as well as pointing out game-breaking bugs, terrible visuals and criticising the extensive knowledge of Tolkien’s work that’s needed to properly grasp the plot.
K-pop girl group KISS OF LIFE has covered songs by Beyoncé, Meghan Trainor and more.Belle recently appeared as a guest on a new episode of music talk show Lee Mujin Service, where she introduced her girl group KISS OF LIFE and their latest mini-album, ‘Born to Be XX’.During the episode, the vocalist performed several songs, including a stripped-down cover of ‘Plastic Off The Sofa’ from Beyoncé’s 2022 album ‘Renaissance’, which traded the original’s R&B instrumental for a simple piano accompaniment.“Say, say you won’t change / I love the little things that make you, you / Ooh, the rest of the world is strange, stay in our lane / Just you and me and our family / I think you’re so cool,” she sings.She also covered South Korean singer Lyn’s ‘Ring Tone’, snippets of BLACKPINK’s ‘Shut Down’ and LE SSERAFIM’s ‘Unforgiven’, the latter of which she helped pen. Belle also sang ‘Says It’, a track she composed for KISS OF LIFE’s recent project.At the end of the episode, she teamed up with host and singer Lee Mu-jin to sing Meghan Trainor and John Legend’s ‘Like I’m Gonna Lose You’.
Not everyone loves their day job.
Miley Cyrus to “Barbie” soundtrack standout Billie Eilish to blockbuster-tour titans Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, women rocked many of the best songs of 2023.There was even a black female songwriter — Tracy Chapman — behind a historic country hit, Luke Combs’ cover of “Fast Car.”And when the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards were announced last month, women ruled — make that, owned — the Big 4 categories: Album, Record and Song of the Year, plus Best New Artist.In fact, there is only one man — former “Late Show” bandleader Jon Batiste — among the eight nominees for Record of the Year.Still, a couple of octogenarian gents were not about to fade away: Even as both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards turned 80, the still-rocking Rolling Stones gave us a dose of testosterone.Here are the top 10 tracks that deserved their “Flowers” in 2023.After squeaking in her long-awaited sophomore set, “SOS,” at the end of 2022, SZA made like Uma —Thurman, that is — and killed it with her first No. 1 single.
Kanye West continued to give himself a bad name. Drake sunk to dragging Rihanna’s good name.And three big names — Travis Scott, Bad Bunny and The Weeknd — were a triple bust.Here are the five worst songs of 2023, from crude country and cringe rap to the Billy Joel cover that never should’ve happened.And for the 10 best songs of the year, go here.Stirring up a national firestorm in these divisive times, the country star scored his first No.
“Superman: Legacy” kicks off the new DCU on July 11, 2025. Will superhero movies still be a craze by then? We’ll see, but THR reports that DC Studios co-head James Gunn took to Threads to discuss his upcoming film.
Sharon Osbourne is reflecting on her most recent plastic surgery.
Shakira tried to get into the Christmas spirit but hilariously failed at making a gingerbread house. On Wednesday, the Colombian icon posted a video of her brave attempt at creating the delicious structure, which unfortunately resulted in broken walls and falling candy.Sharing the video with her 90.3 million followers on Instagram, the singer declared in the caption, “This is technically the worst gingerbread house ever.”A post shared by Shakira (@shakira)The video showed the gingerbread house, with walls caving in, and gumdrops falling like it had just been hit by a natural disaster.
retiring from the show, by surprise. “Say it again,” Sajak, 77, said to Tabari, who repeated her bizarre answer. Sajak appeared amused at the response, and simply replied: “Uh, no.” Ultimately, the answer that Sajak was looking for was “The Critics Agree.” Several users on X blasted Tabari over her answer.