Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Mad Men, The Queen of Versailles, and Google Glass
First off, a brief announcement: As you may have heard, the Grantland Network has been cloven in twain to better serve our listeners. You can now find the Girls in Hoodies podcast on the fresh and fabulous Grantland Pop Culture channel (SUBSCRIBE NOW!), while your athletics-oriented favorites such as the Jalen Rose Show and the […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: Is This the Worst Season Ever?
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. Only four contestants remain. (Again.) But the end is in sight. One It must be asked: Is this the worst season of American Idol ever? Kang: […]
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Building a Mystery: Boards of Canada’s Promotional Mindf— and How to Like Things Now
Do you like Boards of Canada? I feel like it’s a fair question to ask, considering that if you don’t, you may not care about any of the words in the first half of this article, and if you do, you may have to think for a second about the degree to which you like […]
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Ray J’s ‘I Hit It First’ Video: Just As Meaningless As Any Other Firstie
Hey, everyone! Did you know that singer/songwriter/Brandy-brethren/I-guess-famous-person Ray J once slept with definitely-famous-unfortunately person Kim Kardashian? Without opening Wikipedia, wanna take a guess at how many years ago that was? Here, watch this short film while doing a little mental math and racking your brain for all the garbage that takes up the place where […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Hemlock Grove, Otherkin, and 50 Shades of Development Hell
You’ll have to bear with us a little this week; mere hours before we were set to talk about Reese Witherspoon’s legal troubles for at least twice as long as our Hollywood Prospectus podcast buddies (rivals? RIVALS) did earlier this week, we were informed by Grantland writer and obscure reality specialist Tara Ariano that the […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: The Fellowship Is Breaking
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. They don’t think they can make it, and with the judging panel in crisis, they may never have that recipe again. One Is there any way […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Demi Lovato, ‘Heart Attack’
Weeks on Chart: 7 Peak: No. 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100, this week Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 9 on KIIS-FM’s Playlist YouTube Hit Count: 24,166,387 at time of publication [Lyrics] Over the past year, Demi Lovato has slowly moved into the often-thankless role of the gimmick-free vocal-centric pop star, a significantly less crowded market than it was, say, 10 years ago. […]
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Here’s That ‘Famous Actor Reading the Insane Sorority Letter’ Viral Video You Ordered, Starring Michael Shannon
If you have not already had the pleasure of reading the mouth-frothingly psychotic Delta Gamma sorority letter that made the rounds last week, tie yourself down to whatever chair you’re sitting in and give it a fucking look. Marvel at the epistolary poetry, think to yourself, Gosh, this seems almost eerily destined to be read […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Daft Punk, Pain & Gain, and Summer Movies
With Emily still recovering from Coachella, and Molly still recovering from Anthony Mackie in a Dan Marino jersey, the Girls decided to ditch the map this week and free-form jazz their way through their discussion of an eventful pop cultural week. (So eventful, in fact, that we didn’t even get around to talking about Amanda […]
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5 Questions on American Idol: The First Ever All-Girl Top 5
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. The boys are all gone, dead. Long live the girls. One Is Janelle doomed tomorrow? Kang: At the start of the show, Janelle was my favorite […]
