Drag Race RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Premiere Shows Real Potential Translating a show across the pond is often a tricky task. Despite a shared language and history, British and North American audiences have different senses of humour, use different cultural references, and even have different sensibilities. Jokes that are acceptable on one side might offend the other. This makes it By Prem • Oct 04, 2019 02:58 pm
Books Jonathan Van Ness’s Memoir and the Power of Vulnerability Every time I go to a party (so like once a year), my ice breaker is usually, “which one of the Fab Five is your favourite?” It’s like a personality quiz for your friends. If you don’t watch Queer Eye, I leave immediately. If your favourite is Antoni, By Prem • Sep 24, 2019 11:10 am
TV Updates A Late Week of Lilly Singh This week marked the debut for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, the former YouTuber, replacing Last Call with Carson Daly, which occupied the slot since 2002. Lilly’s show is fresh and original. She upholds some of the popular late night traditions, like the monologue, but she puts a By Prem • Sep 20, 2019 11:26 am
Douchebags Lil Nas X Holds His Own Against Kevin Hart Tuesday’s episode of The Shop is in the headlines because of a conversation involving Lil Nas X and Kevin Hart. Check out the clip: I love @LilNasX so much pic.twitter.com/8EVbE7QHPf— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 4, 2019 SIGH. A little context here. At the end of June By Prem • Sep 05, 2019 10:59 am
Music JoBros return to the VMAs Back when the Jonas Brothers first announced their reunion with the release of Sucker, I was skeptical of its success, the need for their reunion, or whether they’d last at all. I even posed the question, “are we really going to still be talking about the Jo Bros by By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 01:56 pm
Music Lil Nas X Spans Generations Which demographic does the MTV VMAs appeal to? I watched the show with my cousins and their children, so we had an age range of like 7 years old to late 40s, with myself right in the middle. That meant that I heard the question “who’s that?” directed at By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 10:16 am
Music Miley Cyrus’s Surprise Performance at the VMAs 2019 I have been obsessed with Miley’s “Slide Away” since she first released it a week and a half ago. It’s catchy as hell, I’ve been listening to it on the drive to and from work, which is partly a depressing way to start your day, but it’ By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 09:32 am
TV Updates RuPaul’s Drag Race Announces Another 2 Seasons Yesterday, RuPaul released a video on VH1’s YouTube channel confirming that both All Stars Season 5 and RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 would be airing “soon.” I’m a huge Drag Race fan, as you’re probably aware. I just saw Miss Vanjie live over the weekend (yes, By Prem • Aug 20, 2019 11:42 am
TV Updates Are You the One? – The First Actually Queer Dating Show I know I’m really late to this party, but if you haven’t been watching this season of Are You the One?, you are seriously missing out on the best reality TV right now. It’s been a hot minute since both Love Island UK and Love Island USA By Prem • Aug 19, 2019 03:32 pm
Music Shawmila’s Strategy for the VMAs On Saturday, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello shared another behind-the-scenes video of “Señorita”. I know nothing has been officially confirmed, even though they’ve kissed in public like a bajillion times, but watching this video convinces me that they were definitely f-cking before, during, and after “Señorita”. Part of me By Prem • Aug 19, 2019 11:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews PS I Still Love You… on this date Tomorrow, it’ll be exactly a year since the release of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before on Netflix, which seems unreal because I feel like I’ve been waiting for the sequel, PS I Still Love You, to arrive for decades. Good news! We can all start By Prem • Aug 16, 2019 02:56 pm
Music Lil Nas X covers TIME "Old Town Road" has now been #1 on the Hot 100 for 19 weeks, having already beaten the previous record held by both “One Sweet Day” and “Despacito” at the end of July. But just beating the record is seemingly not enough. Next week, OTR seems like it’ By Prem • Aug 16, 2019 12:02 pm
Break Ups Miley and Liam: 2013 All Over Again? It has been a several days since Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth announced their separation. Now, the story is being spun every which way in order as every speculates about what happened. Vanity Fair even posted an entire article about how Stonehenge factors into the equation. It’s understandable to By Prem • Aug 14, 2019 10:45 am
Priyanka Chopra Priyanka Chopra Called a Hypocrite at LA Beauty Con LA BeautyCon took place this weekend. It’s a three day convention for makeup artists and beauty enthusiasts. I know we’ve put this to rest, but I wonder if people brought up the James Charles and Tati Westbrook feud from back in May. Neither of them was on the By Prem • Aug 12, 2019 03:26 pm
BFFs 10 Biggest Moods from #DrunkTaylor In case you missed it, on Saturday, Taylor Swift had a party to celebrate the music videos for both “ME!” and for “You Need to Calm Down” at Beauty & Essex in Los Angeles. Attendees included Hayley Kiyoko, Laverne Cox, and even RuPaul’s Drag Race’s A’keria Davenport. By Prem • Aug 12, 2019 01:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Eurovision the Right Movie for 2019 Audiences? I first learned about Eurovision two years ago while working in England for the summer. Not many people are familiar with Eurovision on this side of the Atlantic, and so for those who don’t know, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual, international music competition where artists from various By Prem • Aug 09, 2019 11:21 am
