One of the most toxic parts of today’s music fandoms is that it’s not enough to stan the artist. To be a true fan, you have to relentlessly despise other artists and treat everything they do with the worst-faith takes possible.

Olivia Rodrigo is the target of a couple of fandoms who just can’t accept that not only is she successful, but she is also pretty well liked. I read a comment that said it is “suspicious” that many older artists defend her. It’s easier for them to believe it’s some kind of grand conspiracy (fueled by who and what, I don’t know) than to believe that other musicians just enjoy her work.

The tech world has been trying to recreate Cher’s Clueless closet forever, so many celebrity-backed apps have come and gone. Millions have been dumped into it. There’s a new one with Stacy London as the chief style advisor. The gist is they pick up your clothes, catalogue and store them and sell pieces when you are done with them. It uses AI, of course. The reason these apps fail is what VC investors don’t understand is that getting dressed is an emotional experience for a lot of people. And anecdotally, any fashion or resale app that incorporates AI into it becomes noticeably worse.

OK, Lainey wrote about Druski this morning and one of the SNL skits this week was very personal to me. A few weeks ago at a family dinner the Gen Z kids were bullying the Gen Xers and talking about how getting fajitas on someone else’s birthday is tacky. Apparently, this is a social faux pas?! I honestly applaud SNL for their youthfulness. Embrace the future on a sizzling hot plate!

No surprise Nobody Wants This. has been renewed for a fourth season. I’ve tried to get through season three more than once and typically wander off. You know what did strike me this season? Joanne and Morgan openly talk about cosmetic procedures, which is totally normal (especially considering they work in media in LA) but then they act like working out is a foreign concept. Come on, these women would be living at the Pilates studio. The punchlines about how they would never deign to break a sweat don’t really land when you can see Kristen Bell’s six pack.

This video about the celebrity brand reckoning is really interesting – I follow this stuff pretty closely and didn’t even know about some of these. The one that really surprised me was Drew Barrymore’s Flower Beauty.

I’m not trying to start a fight about eating an egg salad sandwich on an airplane, but Stanley Tucci brought an eggplant parm sandwich on the plane and as he says, these are messy sandwiches. And you don’t want to waste any of the parm that might drop out of it because if you’ve ever made an eggplant parm, you know that dish takes blood, sweat, and tears. Every bite counts.

 

 

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