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Dear Gossips,
A landslide! In Ireland! A decisive major to repeal the eight amendment which means that the government can begin making changes immediately for women to be able to take control of their own reproductive rights. Because of the efforts of so many people who went door to door for weeks, who gave up their own time and energy to get the word out, because of those who flew home, travelled thousands of miles, to be heard. Read Full Intro
Hot Harry’s festival weekend
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Prince Harry was in London this weekend, photographed at the British Summer Time Festival on Saturday night during The Killers show. As an aside, did you know that Mr Brightside has charted in the UK every year since its release in 2004? Every single year for 13 years. Full Story
Longer hair and a turtleneck
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I was all about Brandon Flowers earlier this year. Like crushing hard, google alerting every day. But I also told you I’m fickle. My obsessions have to be fed. My obsessions can also be killed really quickly. Like with an overuse of exclamation points. Or dirty fingernails. So The Killers also participated last night in Jimmy Kimmel’s RED fundraiser episode. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
At the beginning of the summer, I was all about Brandon Flowers. Posted about him whenever I could. Jacek would come upstairs and find me in bed, watching old BFlow videos. But I’m fickle. My crushes aren’t self-sustaining. Read Full Intro
Dear Gossips,
In the heat of an obsession, there’s nothing more satisfying than when your google alert goes off in the morning. Brandon Flowers was on BBC Breakfast today. He played a show in Leeds last night, then got up at 5am to make it to the interview, and they asked him about that, about looking so fresh when he had to sleep on the bus…which, basically, was their segue into asking him about his lifestyle – being a rock star and a family man, being a rock star and a Mormon. Read Full Intro
Every time I see you falling…
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Even when I’m 90 I will still know every single word to this song. New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, obviously. Substance! God, that album. For an entire year, I used to get ready to Thieves Like Us, pretending I was Molly Ringwald. Anyway, Brandon Flowers (you didn’t think I would start the week without him, did you?) is continuing to tour the UK – The Desired Effect topped UK sales charts in its first week – and performed last night in Manchester…with Bernard Sumner. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Last week I used Miley Cyrus as an excuse to talk about Brandon Flowers. Have I mentioned that I’m obsessed with Brandon Flowers? Anyway, in that post (click here Read Full Intro
Dear Gossips,
If you’re in Canada returning from the long weekend, we posted a few articles yesterday so please scroll down to get caught up. I had a deadline last night which seriously cut into my Brandon Flowers creeping time. Read Full Intro
Dear Gossips,
I’m sorry, I can’t stop. Last night before bed, Jacek was watching the news and I had my headphones in, cranked up loud. He was asking me something and I couldn’t hear. Then he tapped me and I still didn’t react. He finally had to shove his face into the side of my head before I noticed.
“Are you creeping Brandon Flowers again?”
What?
I’m obsessed with this album, not unlike how obsessed I was with Taylor Swift’s 1989. Because both are so unapologetically, gleefully POP. The thing with pop, and my relationship to it, is that it came first for me. It was mine. I grew up in an immigrant home. My Chinese parents didn’t have a music library. They didn’t, couldn’t, introduce me to whatever it is you want to call “classic rock”. Pop was on the radio. Pop was what was there for me to discover. Pop was the first love. And it was a door too. Because pop isn’t snobby. Pop doesn’t tell you that you can’t go and learn about punk afterwards and then move on to soul, folk, metal, and on. I’ll never not have an iPod without New Order on it. Or Duran Duran. And in this new interview Brandon Flowers just addressed rumours that he might be collaborating with one of the bands, or both. OMG.
Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. Photos and recap on Monday. Have a great weekend!
Yours in gossip,
Lainey
Miley Cyrus gives me an excuse to talk about Brandon Flowers
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As I mentioned yesterday, Miley Cyrus was in New York last night performing at the Adult Swim upfront party. Then she went out to party with Bella Hadid and Scout Willis. And her nipples were all over the place. Get over it. In other Miley news, her focus lately has been on launching Happy Hippie Foundation, a non-profit aimed to raise awareness for LGBT homeless, at-risk and LGBT youth and collaborating with other artists in a series of Backyard Sessions in support of the charity. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
I spend my nights listening to Brandon Flowers, creeping him online. Wait. Can you call it creeping when you don’t bother hiding it? Jacek will come up from the basement, see me on my laptop, and know right away. “Are you perving out on Brandon Flowers again?” YES.
It’s bad right now. My problem is bad. Especially since these new songs are SO good, particularly to those of us who grew up 80s. Erasure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran…this is actually how hard I had it for Simon Le Bon back in the day. Little 12 year old me drawing hearts all over his face. I used to write letters on official Duran Duran Fan Club stationery. (F-ck. Why didn’t I save some of that?) Brandon Flowers is taking me there. And if you’re of that time, I’m telling you, his new album will take you there too. In the spirit of the era, I’m attaching a throwback song below.
Yours in gossip,
Lainey