As sure as climate change, stage mishaps happen. They happen particularly when you have elaborate stages and enjoy floating in the air above your audience as one Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson does. Last night at the Nashville stop on her Witness tour, Katy Perry was sitting on a little planet soaring through the air when she got stuck. You may be thinking: Is this yet another “joke” where Katy Perry is “not feeling so well” and has to be “carried offstage?

SPL304160_003 As in, they are trying to make her ditch her spinning peppermint bra, over concerns about the “high level of strain on her neck.” First, isn’t that what a bra is supposed to help fix? And second, how is the swirling bra the safety hazard here? Isn’t anyone worried about the breast-cannon? Katy Perry’s Insurers Saw the Bras She Wears ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK57kWloa2dgbHysrdOyZKmdoqfGtHnIp6quqpWnwG6%2FwLBkraCVYq%2BzrdJmqqGdXayyor7SZ5%2BtpZw%3D

Back when “TiK ToK” first hit, the Times singled Ke$ha out as arguably the most successful white female rapper in the short history of the field. In the piece, we hear Ke$ha fully deny being a rapper (“Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it”) and then find out she’s got altogether different origins: “There are a pair of video clips on YouTube of Ke$ha performing country-rock songs, impressively, with her brother, Lagan, in a Nashville bar in 2006, moments that are more vibrant than much of her album.

Meme superstar Keanu Reeves is known for many things — being immortal, being sad, riding a horse through Brooklyn — but his infectious laughter is not really one of them (yes, there’s that one scene from The Devil’s Advocate, where he laughs like an air horn, but that doesn’t really count). Though maybe Keanu has been hiding his chuckles from us all these years because, according to Ali Wong, his laugh is super weird.

Just a few influences and then some. Miley Cyrus has long worn her influences on her sleeve, from duetting with everyone from Joan Jett to her godmother, Dolly Parton, to covering musicians from every genre under the sun. She’s long revered the rock greats, from ’60s giants like the Beatles and the Velvet Underground to the punk and glam rockers of the ’70s and ’80s. This year, we’ve finally gotten to hear her take clearer ownership of those influences — first on covers of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and Hall & Oates’s “Maneater,” then on her Stevie Nicks–indebted single, “Midnight Sky,” and now on her long-awaited rock album, Plastic Hearts.

Every once in a while the concept of “clean comedy” will come up, though never among those of us who are passionate about comedy because to us it simply isn’t an issue. We love comedy and whether that means listening to Doug Stanhope tell a filthy hooker story or Brian Regan talking about Fig Newtons, the only deciding factor in our enjoyment is, “is it funny?” However, in the mainstream this is still a subject of fascination.

He’s the man whose name is on everybody’s lips. Kim Kardashian wasn’t dating current boyfriend Pete Davidson when The Kardashians first began filming in September 2021. He was merely Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson, who had recently ended a relationship with Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor. Here in the future, we know that after Kim appears on Lorne Michaels’s dating show — where they kissed as a joke — she and Davidson made it official amid her divorce from Kanye West.

There’s nothing more dangerous to a social climber than another social climber who knows how to play her game. That’s what Mrs. Russell discovers in The Gilded Age’s second season when her former maid, Turner, reappears as Mrs. Winterton, newly married into old money. Back in season one, Turner had a thing for Mrs. Russell’s husband, but the robber baron stuck by his wife despite her advances — though he didn’t reveal them to his wife.

This article first ran shortly before the release of To Pimp a Butterfly. In honor of Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, DAMN., out now, we’ve updated it to include songs from TPAB and onward. Its been two years since Kendrick Lamar released his expansive opus, To Pimp a Butterfly, and now he’s dropped the tightly wound DAMN., so it feels like the perfect time to reexamine some of his finest lyrical work to date (not including anything from DAMN.

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