Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Kimye, Pop War Rankings, and Hello Ladies
We kick off this week’s pod with a general Girls in Hoodies blessing of the union of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, orchestral arrangements of Lana Del Rey songs be damned. Then it’s time to go deep on the current status of the Q4 pop wars, which this week were shaken up by an unexpected […]
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Tom Hardy Will Play Elton John in Rocketman
Tom Hardy sure wants to be just about anything but the dreamy action hunk his physique seems to be crying out to play, and good on him for that. He had the interesting luck to spend the biggest movie of his entire career thus far behind a face mask; now he’ll be slipping into a […]
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Arcade Fire’s ‘Afterlife’: No Longer Thinking About Death
“Reflektor”, the debut title track of the fourth album from Montreal alt-rena rockers Arcade Fire, certainly sounded like a new direction for the band, but longtime fans knew that was the same old ArcFi under James Murphy’s funkified production and inexplicably infuriating papier-mâché heads, singing in French falsetto about the kingdom of the dead and […]
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Rose Byrne Set to Ride Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy’s Lady Comedy Winning Streak With Susan Cooper
On Friday it was announced that Rose Byrne is in talks to reunite with Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and star Melissa McCarthy on Susan Cooper, a female-centric action comedy and potential franchise in the vein of Feig and McCarthy’s summer hit The Heat. The Wrap describes the new project, which was first announced this summer, […]
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Katy Perry’s Prism Is Streaming; Don’t Lie, You Care
On the most recent Girls in Hoodies podcast, I aloofly declared that I wouldn’t get around to Katy Perry’s new album Prism for “a while.” Life is full of beauty and I have time for only so much, you know? Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch called my bluff, and 36 hours later the conciliatory Edible […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Frasier, Eastbound & Down, and Katy Perry
Our original plan had been to just talk about the ’90s NBC sitcom Frasier straight through this week’s hour for no particular reason, but the nostalgia gods granted us the humblest of current-day reasons to do so: this cast reunion in Entertainment Weekly! Seriously, though, we do spend a lot of time on the couch […]
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Trailer: Haters to the Perfectly Framed Center
Wassup, Wes Siiide! Really excited to share the new trailer for The Grand Budapest Hotel with you all today. Wes Anderson was one of my favorite filmmakers when I was a teenager, so I feel like I already have a lot emotionally invested in this movie. Watching his films just makes me feel like a […]
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You Are Not Prepared for Snooki’s Routine on This Week’s Dancing With the Stars
You remember our friend Nicole Polizzi, right? It’s been awhile, I know. A lot has changed, for better and for worse. Her son, Lorenzo, turned 1 this summer. She has lost weight. She still has a show on MTV, but nobody really cares. The boardwalk where we used to watch her and her roommates cavort […]
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The YouTube-ified Hot 100 Is Definitely Broken
According to Billboard, the Hot 100 chart ranks “the week’s most popular current songs across all genres.” How it has calculated that popularity has changed several times since its inception, most recently in the February decision to factor in streaming play alongside radio play, digital downloads and physical purchase [cue sound effect]. The YouTube change […]
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What I Learned About Grand Budapest Hotel From Its Poster
Wes Anderson has finally reached the point in his career when he can make a movie about a building and not have to apologize for it, as evidenced by the just-released poster for The Grand Budapest Hotel. This is great news for the Andersonians and terrible news for Sofia Coppola — just goes to show, […]
