Posts by Emily Yoshida
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The South Korean Air Force’s Les Misérables Parody Is Today’s Most Important Les Misérables Parody
First off, just want to make sure this is 100 percent clear: Despite the fixation on backbreaking manual labor, the above video comes to us via South Korea, not its northern, MJ-loving counterpart. Now, on to the video: You know last summer when you were watching the second European trailer for Les Misérables on YouTube, […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Taylor Swift, ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’
Weeks on Chart: 15 Peak: No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100, January 12, 2013 Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 1 on KIIS FM’s Playlist YouTube Hit Count: 45,262,468 at time of publication
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The Saddest Thing That Happened on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Last Night: It’s Maloof-a-licious
“I hope Brandi is having fun in Vegas; I have a business to run.” Adrienne Maloof wanders down the drafty, eerily quiet halls of the office building, double-checking her phone to make sure that she has the correct address for the California Accessory Group. This isn’t where they had her go the last time she […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: Why Has This Season Been So Good So Far?
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. It’s been good so far! They’re as surprised as anybody! One Do we have any theories about why this season is so good so far? It’s […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Justin Bieber Featuring Nicki Minaj, ‘Beauty and a Beat’
Weeks on Chart: 15 Peak: No. 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100, January 5, 2013 Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 6 on KIIS FM’s Playlist [Lyrics] Back in October, I discussed how the video for the third single off Believe, Justin Bieber’s 2012 “big boy” album, managed to soften my heart toward the increasingly obnoxious heartthrob for its five-minute run time, but only through […]
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The Saddest Thing That Happened on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Last Night: ‘I’m Going to Do … My Nose’
“I’m so excited I finally get to, like, hang pictures in my own house again.” Even if we hadn’t seen the title card, in which she flips her hair and shrugs self-effacingly in a tight black dress as her name swooshes by, we’d know from the scrubby brown hills of the San Fernando Valley and […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: Is Nicki Minaj the Greatest Judge Since Simon?
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. Join them on their journey, they’ll need fresh meat when things go in a cannibal direction. One Is Nicki Minaj the best non-Simon judge the show’s […]
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Why J.J. Abrams Is a Bad Choice for Star Wars
Well, the wait is over: The Wrap (followed by pretty much everyone else in the entertainment press) has just reported that J.J. Abrams will be your Star Wars Episode VII director. After a volley of intriguing (David Fincher?), eyebrow-raising (Ben Affleck!?), and straight-up geek-bait (Brad Bird?!?!) names took their turns dancing around the Internet rumor […]
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Five Questions on American Idol: New Judges, New Season, Same Suicide Mission Deep Into the Heart of Musical Darkness
Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken by The X Factor, to tackle another season of American Idol. Yes, it’s definitely time to start worrying about them. One What are your first impressions of Judge Mariah, who is ostensibly the […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: The Lumineers, ‘Ho Hey’
Weeks on Chart: 31 Peak: No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100, January 5, 2012 Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 3 on KIIS FM’s Playlist [Lyrics] One topic that people seem keen to write about in 2013 is how the pop climate has suddenly shifted to become friendly for more melodic, actual-instrument-playing music; a shift that has allowed for a song […]
