What Else?

The Fug Girls are describing Katy Perry’s Paris Fashion Week appearances as “questionable fashion choices” … which… yes, they are indeed but also, it’s not like Katy has ever been stylish. Ever. These outfits though are obviously stunts to promote her new music and I’m not sure it’s working. Does anybody care about the new music? Going topless in a fur coat is not helping the new music. (GoFugYourself)

And one of the reasons the new music might not be generating that much interest and instead a lot of backlash is because she worked with Dr Luke. As Kayleigh Donaldson writes, the rollout has been a “panicky flop sweat” and it’s hard to imagine that Katy and her team will be able to turn it around in the next two weeks or whenever the single drops. I don’t care to look it up and, again, it hasn’t been a piece of information that I’ve had to memorise because … well… the overall cultural interest just isn’t there. (Pajiba) 

It has been almost two weeks and Hawk Tuah Girl is still viral. I can’t go two minutes on any social media platform without a mention of her and spinoff rumours about her that are flying around. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, congratulations, your feeds are well curated. If you are curious, and I want you to seriously think about this, because this will change your algorithm, and you want to know what this is all about, The Mary Sue has you covered. That said, I much prefer Hawk Tuah than the cheating husband on a plane story that’s also been blowing up. On the most superficial level, that man is so unattractive, I don’t understand how this was possible. (The Mary Sue)

Prince Harry will be receiving an award at the ESPYs which is a pretty big deal and Serena Williams is hosting and she’s friends with Harry and Meghan so I’m curious if they will walk the carpet together or if he’ll go alone. (Celebitchy) 

The ESPYs honour achievements in athletics and the sport that Harry is most closely associated with is polo. A few months ago they announced that he’s producing a polo docuseries and I wrote about how I hope he allows the series to go the way of Drive to Survive, and make it gossipy – because polo people are rich horse people who are all about gossip! Like Jilly Cooper’s books and one of my 80s book crushes, the dashing and devilish Rupert Campbell-Black. Well, wouldn’t you know… Disney just released the first trailer for the series adaptation of Jilly’s Rivals. I am at once excited…but also underwhelmed by Rupert. Maybe he’ll grow on me. (Variety)