On Thursday, I spoke exclusively with Tyler, the Creator and Odd Future manager Christian Clancy about the Mountain Dew ad.
Maya Women reversing that White Settler-Colonial Gaze.
exotic white ppl we see u
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REMINDER: The Head on the Door is the best Cure album (Related)
VOGUE JAPAN JANUARY 2013
How To Vogue For Vogue
Model: Joan Smalls
Photographer: Terry Richardson
Stylist: George Cortina
Don’t know how I missed this one but I knew it was coming! Joan Smalls x House of Xtravaganza
VOGUE x VOGUE
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LEYOMI’S DRAMATICS
the house down
This is the best song and video I’ve heard/seen in awhile—a softer take on the “o, you don’t know my cru?” song, via social media lyrics, but also addressing the grime bandwagoners and general wackness of trendhopping. Also, Iron Man costume. Came out in February so #latepass tho I swear I’m not a grime bandwagoner! #downsince02ish
Ian Isiah’s first foray into the world is a sexual simulacra dipped in crystal that looks like where Prince might have gone if he hadn’t found god and renounced sex and was also gay and into humping an ambiguously female performance artist named Boychild. (“M1ndfvck… m111111ndfvck”) He has songs that are longer and showcase more of his singing, but boo likes to make an entrance. I had him on my radio show last December, you can hear a bunch of those in the archive here.
I don’t really “do” Madonna’s garbage-disposal/regurgitating-bird take on vogue and “Vogue” (unless it’s MikeQ on the remix) but I used to have the 12” </old> and the “Strike a Pose Dub” still sounds great. (And relevant, shout to “Love Break,” which Shep Pettibone sampled for “Vogue” and which has a wild reverse cymbal hit you could analogue to the Ha if you’re getting nerdy [I should have added that to my EMP Paper, 2 L8 NOW]).
Anonymous asked: Music writing: any essentials for not being terrible at this/making a buck/doing you?
OH HI! Well, mainly I think “doing you” is the most important thing: MAINTAIN YOUR VOICE! Don’t copy anyone else, because the whole point of “criticism” qua criticism is having your own unique and incisive point of view to add to THa cULTcHa. As for not being terrible: READ AND LISTEN TO EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET YR HANDS ON, know your history. Making a buck will ideally come after that but creating a strong internet presence (website, twitter, tumblr, with all yr work on it) will help you as you pitch your way through this cruel, cruel world. Good luck!
doimoveyou asked: If you're the Julianne Escobedo Shepherd who wrote that article in Spin about RuPaul, I have one word: Kudos. One of the best profiles I've read in a long time, and a well-constructed piece of journalism. Fucking amazing.
HI! I AM! Thank you so much! I am really proud of that one, and really excited about it even still. (Also, stay tuned for my extended Q&A with the one and only Michelle Visage, who I want to be when I grow up.) If anyone else is reading this and feels like reading a 5000-word profile of RuPaul Charles, HERE YE BE.
