(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100) 2011 feels like centuries ago when you’re talking about the music industry. Then, Ed Sheeran released his No. 5 Collaborations Project independently, featuring him collaborating with English grime artists, and hit No. 2 on the iTunes albums chart without any promotion. Since then, he’s gone on to…
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Getty Images Earlier this year, Halsey described her impending third album as “a loud one,” and she really wasn’t kidding. “Nightmare,” the first taste of her new era, crash-landed last week with the force of a woman scorned. It’s a sharp, furious, and empowering anthem about what it’s like to be a woman in the…
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Henry Lau’s Journey To Hollywood: It’s A ‘Really Important’ Time For Asian Representation
by AVAHenry Lau doesn’t know what time it is. But to be honest, who could blame him? The 29-year-old performer has been living and working across multiple timezones — in Canada, South Korea, China, and the U.S. — since 2007, when the then-teenage Chinese-Canadian singer/violinist debuted as part of Super Junior-M. And after leaving his longtime…
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Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About ‘Soul-Breaking’ Bullying She Still Experiences Today
by AVAStranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is working to help end bullying — partly because it also happened to her. The 15-year-old star, who portrays Eleven in the massively popular Netflix series, was crowned Unicef’s youngest Goodwill Ambassador in 2018 following the work she’s done in the past with anti-bullying campaigns. Unfortunately, her support for…
The CW / Getty Images By Lauren Rearick Prepare your television viewing schedule accordingly, because the Riverdale universe is getting a little bigger. Earlier this month, the CW confirmed it’s officially picking up the debut season of Katy Keene. The series, which is slated to premiere in the fall, is a Riverdale spin-off centering on…
Game of Thrones is over for good, and for the most part its cast is satisfied with how their characters ended up. Though fans have been divided over the way the series came to an end, even taking to the internet to beg for a “remake” by way of petition, it’s all over. It’s not…
Getty Images By Josh Calixto By now, BTS’s perpetual success in the U.S. has become a familiar routine: They break a longstanding chart record or two; they win a major award; they make TV appearances on shows that seemed untouchable just a few months ago; they sell out their world stadium tour; they draw comparisons…
YouTube/Epic DJ Khaled had a busy weekend. In addition to dropping Father of Asahd, his eleventh studio album, Khaled spent all day Friday releasing brand-new, expensive, star-crammed videos for the album’s tracks “Higher,” “Just Us,” “Celebrate,” “Jealous,” and “Holy Mountain.” And because Khaled wouldn’t be Khaled without his trademark penchant for dogged self-promotion, there’s even…
Getty Images Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost will soon be tying the knot. The pair, who have been dating for two years, confirmed through Johansson’s publicist to The Associated Press that they’re officially engaged. Getty ImagesAccording to ScarJo’s rep, there’s not currently a date set for a wedding, but aside from that we basically have…
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images By Christianna Silva On Friday, March 17, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Equality Act, a sweeping policy that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other pieces of federal legislation to include protections for LGBTQ people. The bill, which passed 236-173, would make discrimination on the basis…