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Lopez and Fonda then talked directly, in a conversation that is included in Lopez’s new documentary, “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” one component of a self-financed $20 million three-part multimedia project examining Lopez’s life as a serial romantic. “I want you to know that I don’t entirely know why, but I feel invested in you and Ben, and... See more

Donald Glover does not dabble. He has maxed his stats in every category. Naturally, Bando Stone isn’t only an album but also a feature-length movie with a postapocalyptic sci-fi setup. (The first and only trailer to date didn’t reveal a release date, and the promotional website for Bando Stone only says it’s “coming soon to IMAX.”)

NEW DELHI—One of the most lavish weddings in recent years wraps up in India this weekend, after giving the world an eye-popping look at the spending power of a fabulously wealthy billionaire family—the Ambanis.Anant Ambani, 29, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, head of industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries and India’s richest man, is marryin... See more

Part of what makes fall so accessible to Gen Z is that you can create content about it from inside your bedroom, with a string of orange LEDs, a hot beverage, and a few pumpkin throw pillows. Summer doesn’t offer the same accessibility: Conjuring summer on the feed means vacations (costly) or bathing-suit content (not everyone’s thing). Fall is a g... See more

Rogers was one of the first pop stars to achieve fame by unintentionally captivating the Internet, and, strangely, she was also one of the last. These days, virality is not so much a lightning strike as a marketing scheme, reverse engineered by executives and masquerading as serendipity. A. & R. representatives often scout new talent by dissect... See more

“The internet has broken the distance that a lot of artists used to have,” Charli xcx told The Observer ahead of the release of Brat . ​“What gets me interested in an artist is when they have – not really a backstory, it’s more like lore ...”

In that moment, she defined the common thread between 2024’s biggest pop successes. From Brat summer to Tay... See more

It’s not just a culmination for Roan, but a mainstream moment for a concept mostly known to queer theorists and Tumblr addicts up to this point. Compulsory heterosexuality, coined in 1980 by Adrienne Rich, is a term describing the societal imposition of heterosexuality on women. Online sapphics of a certain age might know the concept because a Goog... See more

What set Roan apart was how unapologetically fun and silly her music was; there’s not another pop musician right now on any level of fame that will open an album with a song called “Femininomenon” and include the line “get it hot like Papa John” in the chorus. Her lyrics were frank about her sexuality, particularly in a viral line from Midwest Prin... See more

In her new memoir Consent , writer Jill Ciment revisits her celebrated memoir of 20 years ago, Half a Life , about her marriage to the man she met when she was 17 and he was her 47-year-old art professor.

“Should I refer to him in the language of today — sexual offender , transgressor , abuser of power ?” Ciment asks, referring to her late husband,... See more