This is the best thing I will read all week and Sunny Choi is my new obsession! I’ve spent much of this morning watching videos of her breaking and will probably keep going once I’ve wrapped for the day. She is the first B-girl to be chosen to represent the United States at the Olympics. A year ago she was a creative executive at Estée Lauder before giving that up to pursue break-dancing full time. A B-girl with a business degree, we love to see it! (The Cut)
Nicole Kidman is so f-cking badass on the cover of the new issue of ELLE. I love this outfit, I love her seated slouch with her legs spread, although if I had a tiny nitpick it would be the way her hands are positioned – it looks weirder and weirder to me the more I fixate on it. Nicole has been filming Babygirl the last few months, I think production may have just wrapped recently. It’s an erotic thriller and I hope that’s the vibe of her fashion around the time she starts promoting it. (Go Fug Yourself)
Lately whenever intimacy coordinators are mentioned, it’s always some actor, or Jennifer Aniston, talking about how they didn’t need or want them. Now it’s Ewan McGregor coming out in support of intimacy coordinators, even when he’s shooting a sex scene with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. And I appreciate his point about it being for everyone on set – not just the performers but also the crew. (Pajiba)
Dakota Johnson is talking about books and press tours and how she can’t take them seriously and, well, that’s kinda why she’s so hilarious and entertaining on a press tour. You know what is serious about her press tours though? At least the last one for Madame Web? The fashion! And we are grateful! (Celebitchy)
Justin Timberlake’s new album, Everything I Thought It Was, isn’t selling all that well. His tour, however, is selling well – because people want the old sh-t, so I’m curious to see how much of the new material he’ll perform when he’s on the road. Touring is where artists make money, so JT will be fine in one sense, and he’ll have millions to console himself with over the fact that, well, he’s just not much of a cultural impact anymore. Anyway, remember that hilarious review in Consequence of Sound when he released the first single off the album? The thesis in that article was that JT benefitted from Pharrell and Timbaland in their prime during his solo breakout era and it misled everyone into thinking he was the sh-t. Pitchfork has now published their review of Everything I Thought It Was and that’s coming up again:
“…hindsight suggests that despite his talents as a performer, Timberlake was also simply in the right place at the right time to benefit from Timbaland’s mid-’00s hot streak, or snag the Michael Jackson rejects that made up his 2002 debut Justified.”
And that’s just the beginning. This piece in Pitchfork is unforgiving and impatient with an artist who has been so generously forgiven and taken up so much cultural patience. (Pitchfork)
