Between discarded packaging, shipping fees, inventory shortages and damaged merchandise, returns cost retailers a fortune. In 2017, retail returns cost roughly $350 billion, and they were projected to rise to $550 million in 2020. While some returns are inevitable (with reasons ranging from defective products to late deliveries), others are …
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Happy release day to Lucy Dacus’ “Thumbs,” a song so highly anticipated it has its own fan-run Twitter account. Dacus began performing it in 2018, but politely asked her audiences not to record the unreleased track. Surprisingly, this worked, and the legend of the ballad so perfectly devastating it couldn’t …
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Same song, different verse — quite literally, it turns out. On Monday (March 8th), the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Institute released its latest report on music creator demographics, finding that women still make up meager percentages of artists, songwriters, and producers on music charts and award-nomination slates, marking “no …
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A review of the WandaVision finale coming up just as soon as I say that debriefs are for the weak… I recently wrote an essay praising WandaVision for leaning into its existence as a television show, rather than a Marvel Cinematic Universe film drawn out to fill up nine episodes. …
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HBO Max has dropped the teaser trailer for Made for Love, a dark comedy series heading to the streaming service in April. Based on the minute-long preview, the series is a romantic comedy with a Black Mirror twist: Cristin Milioti’s character Hazel Green falls in love with a tech billionaire …
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Abigail Cowen has always been drawn to magic, which explains her previous role as Dorcas on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Now she stars in Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Nickelodeon animated series and developed by Brian Young. “I loved the balance of real-life scenarios and situations and …
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Country trio Midland will return to their beginnings in a new documentary and companion soundtrack album. Midland: The Sonic Ranch reveals the trio of Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy coming together for the first time and figuring out their signature mix of country that splices together Bakersfield, George …
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Selena Gomez has shared the tracklist for her first EP sung in Spanish, Revelación. The seven-song set will arrive on March 12th and it’s available for preorder. The singer shared the song names in an Instagram post, which also features clips of her previously released EP singles, “De Una Vez” …
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Madison Beer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday to perform her new song “Boyshit,” which she temporarily re-dubbed “I Don’t Speak (Boy)” to meet the standards of network television. The performance found Beer and her band performing in a studio space set up to look like a cozy living room …
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Nomadland,Borat Subsequent MoviefilmandThe Crown were among the big winners at the 2021 Golden Globes. Nomadland picked up Best Motion Picture Drama, while fillmmaker Chloé Zhao won Best Director, becoming the first woman to win that prize since Barbra Streisand in 1983 for Yentl.Borat Subsequent Moviefilm also won two trophies, Best …
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