Listen to this week’s YouTube Music playlist here Carly Rae Jepsen, “Party for One” Sounds like: A perfectly tuned pop formula Perfect for: Celebrating being alone instead of feeling lonely Pop’s most romantic songwriter is back with a new kind of love story. On “Party for One,” Carly Rae Jepsen …
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Swamp Dogg interrupts his own booty call in the surreal video for “Sex With Your Ex,” a track from the cult soul singer’s recently issuedLove, Loss, and Auto-Tune LP. The clip follows a carnal-minded Swamp Dogg throughout his various sexual encounters –including being tied up in bed, making out on …
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Jared Polis won the Colorado governor’s race, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected governor in America. Polis, a five-term congressman, faced Republican Walker Stapleton, the state treasurer, in the race. Incumbent governor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, was prevented by term limits from running again. After announcement of the …
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A lot of movie critics didn’t love the new Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, aside from Rami Malek‘s eerily accurate Freddie Mercury – just as many ’70s music critics never warmed to Queen. But it didn’t matter:Bohemian Rhapsody had a huge opening weekend, overcoming a rocky production process that included the …
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Sarah Rosier of Ballotpedia.com can’t remember a more active midterm election than today’s. Her organization, which calls itself the “digital encyclopedia of American politics,” has been compiling election data since 2007 and has never seen more interest. “It’s the most excitement we’ve had,” says Rosier. “In terms of page visitors, …
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Last Thursday, President Trump tweeted a racist campaign ad and pinned it to the top of his Twitter profile. Aimed at drumming up fear over the migrant caravan, the spot features a Mexican man named Luis Bracamontes bragging about how he murdered two police officers, as well as imagery of …
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Ariana Grande delivers a sleek sendoff to her exes on the singer’s surprise new single “Thank U, Next,” which arrived without notice just moments before the latest episode of Saturday Night Live aired on the East Coast. Grande opens the song by name-checking four of her high-profile boyfriends – Big …
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Panic at the Disco add a rock edge to their reworked version of “The Greatest Show,” a song from the Oscar-nominated soundtrack of film musical The Greatest Showman. The band’s frontman and lone official member, Brendon Urie, stays faithful to the original’s theatrical arrangement of brass fanfare and densely layered …
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Vicky Cornell, widow of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, has fileda medical malpractice suit against his doctor,claiming that Dr. Robert Koblin “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed Cornell “dangerous mind-altering controlled substances… which impaired [his] cognition, clouded his judgement and caused him to engage in dangerous impulsive behaviors that he was unable …
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Next week, 27-year-old Safiya Wazir could become the first former refugee to hold public office in New Hampshire. In September, she defeated four-term State Rep. Dick Patten in the primary in Ward 8, an area in Concord known as the Heights. Although her race was small-scale — she received 329 …
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