The Patron Saint of Unabashed Fun, Kesha Rose Sebert, Is Back and “Raising Hell”
Jerod Harris/Getty Love her or hate her, there’s one thing we can all agree on about Kesha Rose Sebert: She knows how to have fun. And 10 years after she dropped one of the most unabashedly fun songs to exist—”Tik Tok”—Kesha’s lust for joy has never been more apparent than on her newest track, “Raising…
L Devine Is Defining the Pop Music Genre—By Making It Messier
Robin Pope/ZUMA Pop music can suck—like really suck—sometimes. It also can be really good—like really good—sometimes. But for too long the genre was demeaned as exclusively “the taste of 13-year-olds.” Critics were long given license to tear into the genre and its stars. In a 2014 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair poll, they asked “Which decade had the worst…
Trump Is Going Ballistic Because the Walls Are Closing In
From the day Donald Trump assumed the presidency, it’s been clear that he planned to burn it down. Not the office itself, but the system on which it is built: the credibility of the electoral system by which that formidable power is attained. The norms, customs, and processes that constrain it. And, perhaps most importantly,…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Portrayal of Julián Castro On Saturday Night Live Was Perfection
Lin-Manuel Miranda Jordan Strauss/AP Saturday Night Live has been criticized recently for its lack of Latino representation, particularly after it left out former housing secretary Julián Castro from its season opener that spoofed the Democratic debates. But this week, the show brought on Lin Manuel Miranda to play Castro in the show’s cold open last night that was based on…
Which Songs Helped You Come Out of the Closet?
Angela Weiss/Getty To celebrate National Coming Out Day, I asked the queers of the Twitterverse what music was instrumental in their coming out to the world: hey queers!! I’m really curious as to what music was instrumental in your coming out process. If you’re interested in talking to me about it for a music bit…
Where Do Our Ideas About Queerness Come From?
Mother Jones Illustration On a cold night in January 2011, 300 people piled into Hugh Ryan’s loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It was a special evening for Ryan. His Pop-Up Museum of Queer History was making its debut, right here in his living space. Together with more than 30 exhibit makers, he had curated a makeshift…