Posts by Emily Yoshida

January 15, 2013
The Saddest Thing That Happened on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Last Night: Cleanse Masters

This is Yolanda. I haven’t been able to think of a succinct way to sum up Yolanda’s damage until last night, so thank you, Kyle Richards, for the phrase “Dutch Martha Stewart.” That’s pretty dead-on, as long as we’re talking ’90s Martha Stewart — before the trading scandal and house arrest and sense of humor. […]
January 9, 2013
Overplayed Song of the Week: Will.i.am Featuring Britney Spears, ‘Scream and Shout’

Weeks on Chart: 5 Peak: No. 12 on Billboard’s Hot 100, This Week Current Radio Play Frequency: No. 8 on KIIS FM’s Playlist [Lyrics] As ubiquitous as Will.i.am may seem, he hasn’t been a part of the central pop conversation in the past year or two the way a Ke$ha or a Drake has been — it’s been four […]
January 8, 2013
The Saddest Thing That Happened on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Last Night: Give Me a Ring Sometime

It’s a new year, full of new beginnings and possibilities, it’s supposed to get into the 70s today in Southern California, and it’s the first time in what seems like a rhinestoneless eternity that we’ve come together to discuss our dear Hometown Housewives of West Los Angeles County. So, what has everyone been up to […]
December 21, 2012
The Great Les Misérables Geek-Out

On Christmas Day, in the year of our Lord 2012, Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical Les Misérables arrives in cinemas across the nation. Grantland staffers Rembert Browne and Emily Yoshida chose to open their presents early this year, and have already seen it in special Hollywood-type screenings. You may think that is […]
December 20, 2012
Judging The X Factor: The Semi-Star-Studded Finale Spectacular We’ve All Been Waiting For!

For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. The big purple spaceship finally crashed across the finish line last night. Here’s the report from the wreckage.
December 18, 2012
K-Pop, EDM, and Baby Brosteps Toward a More Global Pop Landscape

On February 12, 2012, I happened to watched two events in the span of an hour that wound up epitomizing my year in pop music. I had met up with some friends to watch the Grammy Awards, but about an hour in we started to get a little bored, paused the DVR, and started down […]
December 18, 2012
Q&A: DJ Earworm on His New Year-End Mash-up, and Reading 2012’s Pop-Music Tea Leaves

Jordan Roseman, a.k.a. DJ Earworm, posted his first mash-up of Billboard’s Top 25 songs on YouTube in 2007, in what was at the time a one-off experiment to see how many songs he could fit together in one track. Five years later, his annual “United State of Pop” mix is a year-end viral staple, with […]
December 14, 2012
Watch the Cast of The Vampire Diaries Read Smutty Fanfic About Themselves

As Grantland’s resident ’ship captain, I often feel pulled in two directions. One part of me feels it’s my duty to let you guys know about every important development in the fanworks community; the other part feels I should at least pretend to only like Important TV shows like Homeland and Mad Men and The […]
December 13, 2012
Judging The X Factor: Imagine All the People, Singing for Their TV Lives

For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. They now realize the show is never going to end, and they’re slowly coming to terms with their hilarious fate. Tate Stevens Lisanti: Check it out, […]
December 12, 2012
The Overplayed Song of the Year Death Match: ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ vs. ‘Call Me Maybe’ vs. ‘Gangnam Style’

In the world of overplayed songs, a lot is gained via hindsight. It’s easy to say you hate-hate-hate that Pink song when it’s tearing up the charts, but by the end of the year its offensiveness may be but a faint, forgivable whisper next to the more lasting legacy of its pop superiors. With that […]

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