Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Pharrell Williams 'Happy'

    Pharrell Williams’s 24-Hour Music Video: Your Happiness May Vary

    It is a cold, overcast, rainy day in Los Angeles today, so when Rembert Browne sent me a link to a website called 24hoursofhappy.com, which turned out to be “The world’s first 24 hour music video,” brought to us by none other than arguable 2013 pop-cultural MVP Pharrell Williams, I was like All right, let’s […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: EastBound 2, Gaga, and R. Kelly

    With Molly on pod leave for the week, Tess and Emily bid farewell to Eastbound & Down — clearly reluctantly, because we’re already longing for a version of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” video starring Kenny and April. We then dig into the video and the strong reactions it has elicited, defending it against the haters […]

  • Black Mirror

    Black Mirror Episode 2, ‘Fifteen Million Merits’: The Rebellion Show

    For six weeks, I will be responding to the British sci-fi series Black Mirror, which originally premiered on Channel 4 in 2012 and is currently making its debut on North American television via DirecTV. These are not meant to be strict recaps, but there will be plenty of spoilers, which, trust me, if you plan on […]

  • Almost Famous

    If Nothing Else, This Insane Reddit Groupie Thread Is a Great Source of Fan Fiction

    Every once in a while, a Reddit thread comes along that not only has wide enough appeal to get play in Twitterland and Facebookville, but is able to take on a life of its own, a wriggling amoeba that divides and grows ad infinitum into a beautiful sea beast. Yesterday, Redditor Bhighkin posted a not-so-innocent […]

  • Black Mirror

    Black Mirror Episode 1, ‘The National Anthem’: Pig Bang Theory

    For six weeks, I will be responding to the British sci-fi series Black Mirror, which originally premiered on Channel 4 in 2012 and is currently making its debut on North American television via DirecTV. The entire series is currently available on demand for subscribers, but I will be writing about each episode as it airs […]

  • My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Lady Gaga, Bronies, and Internet Fandom Culture

    We’ve been talking about Lady Gaga’s third studio album, Artpop, for what feels like years by now, and for a while it seemed pretty touch and go — would it break out of its egg fully formed, or be weighed down by its own pretense, a beautiful but flightless bird? Well, we finally sat down […]

  • Black Mirror

    A 100 Percent Spoiler-Free Guide to Why You Should Watch Black Mirror Tonight

    I have given myself the unenviable task of encouraging you to watch the U.K. series Black Mirror, which makes its long-awaited legal-platform debut on DirecTV’s Audience network. (If you don’t have DirecTV and are interested in watching it, I’m sure you can or have already found a way around that.*) The show originally debuted last […]

  • Attention, Robin Thicke: Lily Allen Has a New Song and Video

    With today’s official release of Lady Gaga’s tepidly received Artpop and the generally disappointing feeling of having opened all our presents and not gotten what we really wanted, Lily Allen has come to the rescue with her comeback single, “Hard Out Here,” the accompanying twerk-happy video, and a very important message for Robin Thicke. Whether […]

  • Lorde

    ‘She’ll Grow Out of It’: The Lorde Backlash

    I hate to start this off with a comparison between Lorde and her female contemporaries illustrating why she is so [gasp] different and refreshing and authentic because that’s exactly the kind of rhetoric that is starting to dig her backlash grave among both tweens and contrarian critics. But if nothing else, the one interesting thing […]

  • Cameron Diaz in 'The Counselor'

    Cameron Diaz Did All of Her Original The Counselor Dialogue in a Rihanna Voice

    This is real, this is not a viral vid, this is a thing that happened. According to The Hollywood Reporter, some spoilsport Fox execs demanded that Cameron Diaz’s originally recorded dialogue in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor be dubbed over with something a little more sane-sounding, because lines like “The hunter has a […]

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