This is basically just another day at the office for Austin Mahone.
Austin Mahone knows better than anyone that getting mobbed by your adoring fans is just part of the hunky pop star job. (He's gotten plenty of practice already in Mexico and Japan.) That's probably why he can laugh along with the Mahomie madness, in addition to, like, surviving it. See this recent Invasion of the Austin Snatchers that the Artist To Watch VMA winner Instagrammed, which he captioned: "Lol this pic is so funny to me #mahomiesgohard."
This triptych kinda serves as a "Surviving Heartthrobbery" how-to. Step 1: Smile because, hello, it's only polite to give a friendly grin when hundreds of people simultaneously scream marriage proposals at you. Step 2: In order to get out alive, wear lots of sheddable outer layers. Step 3: RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! LEAVE YOUR ACCESSORIES BEHIND, AND DON'T LOOK BACK!
Guh, we would love to track down that handsy Mahomie up there, though. Did she manage to snag the "What About Love" singer's hat?! If not, we're kinda hoping that it's up on eBay somewhere, just waiting for us to spend our life savings on it. Hmmm, no luck yet. You don't think he wore this cap, do you? Too late, we already bought it.
When acclaimed economist (that's right, economist) Paul Krugman praises a new band, specifically Brooklyn's indie-pop quintet Lucius, you gotta sit up and listen. Like, when Krugman takes even a second away from assessing the economic state of the world at large, it must be for a good reason (but I happen to know that Krugs has a little soft spot for music -- I heard your "Rock Doctors" guest spot on "Sound Opinions," Paul!).
Anyway. As long as I'm having a fangirl moment, I'll just go ahead and join Paul, Rolling Stone, and Seventeen (to name a few) in professing my love for Lucius, who sonically embody a Tegan and Sara-meets-Shawn Colvin-meets-Fleetwood Mac vibe, a sound that's especially vibrant in their irresistible new song, "Tempest."
Listen to Lucius' "Tempest" after the jump.
Led by co-founders and lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, "Tempest" showcases the girls' lush harmonies before diving into a series of echoing synths, male backup vocals, rhythmic guitar strums, and bittersweet words. "We are two ships passing/ How long will this last /We haven't had the time to work it out/ Sitting in the back seat/ Who knows where our paths meet?/ You keep shouting 'we gotta work it out.'" Gah, be still, my breaking heart. Excuse me, time to throw my annual end-of-summer Tegan And Sarah-sponsored #feelings fest and page through my high school yearbook.
Fall Out Boy get chased by a pre-teen gang in "The Mighty Fall."
It's official: Fall Out Boy are having the roughest night of their lives. When we first met our heroes, they were on the run from 2 Chainz in "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)." But soon enough, they got caught and tortured in "The Phoenix," seduced by a hot meal and some equally hot women in "Young Volcanoes," tortured and teased in "Alone Together," and now, in their video for "The Mighty Fall," the boys get chased down and nearly beaten to death by a troupe of weapon-wielding tweenagers.
Watch Fall Out Boy's "The Mighty Fall" video after the jump.
The fifth chapter in FOB's ultra-violent "Young Blood Chronicles," "The Mighty Fall" mostly sees the boys running through the woods, trying desperately to escape some young, possibly deranged kids. This might also be the bloodiest, most violent clip in the entire series, seeing as FOB's attackers not only chase them through the woods, but the proceed to physically attack the band with axes and chains. Like, we're talking blood everywhere.
Later, Big Sean shows up to rap a verse, i.e. save lead singer Patrick Stump from some kind of boombox voodoo. And when we say "rap a verse," we actually mean straight-up snap some 12-year-old's neck (!???!). But Sean doesn't last long -- just as he's through saving Stump's life, a couple of Hot Girl Death Squad members roll up to AXE HIM TO DEATH.
Is "The Mighty Fall" some kind of "Spider-Man"/"In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you"/Green Goblin-esque metaphor? Does Fall Out Boy fear becoming irrelevant to the very population that initially lifted them to fame? Decide for yourself below, and pray to God that FOB make it through their next music video alive.
Justin Timberlake as The Riddler? We can totally see it.
In a recent radio interview with Fresh 102.7, Justin Timberlake was asked if he'd like to play Robin opposite Ben Affleck's Batman in the upcoming "Man Of Steel" sequel pitting Superman against the Caped Crusader. His response: "I ain't playin' Robin... I have no aspiration to ever be a superhero in a movie. Now, a VILLAIN! I'll tell you the villain I want to play more than anything because I grew up loving Batman, funnily enough, is The Riddler. The Riddler is my favorite villain... I'm ready. The Riddler. Gimme a call"
Hmmmm, interesting! Although we totally didn't get the villain vibe from our main TennMan -- especially after his total hero's welcome at the VMAs last Sunday -- we think we can totally see it! Here are seven reasons why JT is the only man for the job, should B'Affleck's Batman need to square off against The Riddler.
1.) Justin's totally comfortable in spandex.
2.) Justin knows his way around a riddle.
Check out the rest of our 7 Reasons Why Justin Timberlake Should Play The Riddler after the jump.
3.) Justin's already trained in combat.
4.) Not to mention, Justin does all his own stunts.
5.) Hey, Justin can even handle CG! Look at this flawless pantomime!
6.) Oh, and the acting. Justin can totally handle playing a crazy, tortured Batman villain.
7.) Plus, Justin's already got a set of henchmen.
So, Ben, if you're looking to include The Riddler in your upcoming "Man Of Steel" sequel, who ya gonna cast?
On the 11,929th day, Our Lady of the Perpetual Riff descended from the heavens, and from her fluttering fingers fell a gift the mortal Fighters shall treasure forevermore. In other words, Christina Aguilera released the fan-dedicated video for "Let There Be Love," and it is FLAWLESS.
Watch Christina Aguilera's "Let There Be Love" video after the jump.
Featuring cameos from her son Max, boyfriend Matthew Rutler, friends like Nicole Richie and Christina Milian, backup dancers, and about a million adorable li'l kids, Aguilera opens the clip with a brief heartfelt message: "Hey everybody, Christina here. Just thanking you guys so much for filling my life and... my heart with so much love. Continued throughout the years, standing by me -- I appreciate all your support. This one is just for you." WE WEEP.
Other words of love of wisdom abound in the VMA nominee's clip, conveyed by a variety of signs held by the video's players. "Equality," "Racism Sucks," "Amo A Mi Hijo Gay," and "No Sexism" are just a few of the "Your Body" singer's touching messages -- not to mention the "L" (for love) hand sign everyone keeps flashing. It's seriously so cute that Christina would take the time out of her busy schedule to whip up a D.I.Y. music video just because her fans wanted it. Flawlessness be with you. #Amen
+ Congratulations to the Black Eyed Peas' Fergie and her husband, actor Josh Duhamel, who welcomed a baby boy yesterday! They named their first child Axl Jack. (MTV News)
+ In more baby news, the Jonas Brothers' Kevin Jonas and wife Danielle have revealed that they are having a baby girl! The couple had planned to break the news via a Jonas Brothers app, but, when that subsequently crashed, they took to Ustream to tell their fans. (MTV News)
+ Beyoncé hit up Brooklyn's Coney Island yesterday to film a new music video. On hand were photographer Terry Richardson and her stylist Ty Hunter, who rode the neighborhood's iconic Cyclone roller coaster right alongside an exhilarated-yet-terrified-looking Bey. (Rap-Up)
+ Watch Miguel's acoustic cover of Pink's "Just Like A Pill," which he recorded during a radio show stop in Australia. While down under, he also hung out with a koala bear because #awww! (Rap-Up)
"Why don't you tell me what you said?" Handler asked about the song. "People think you were insulting rappers." Kendrick offered up the basketball/rap metaphor, to which Handler, in very Handler fashion, asked: "What the fuck do you know about basketball? Let's get real." A discussion of Kendrick's height (5'6) proceeded.
Watch a Pitchfork.tv mini-documentary featuring Kendrick Lamar:
Looks like Jared Leto's trying his hand (tongue?) at Miley Cyrus' infamous VMA face. Who wins?!
Miley Cyrus had best get to trademarking that can't-be-tamed tongue of hers, 'cause ERRRRbody is stealing her move! OK, so maybe not everybody (yet), but Thirty Seconds To Mars singer Jared Leto looks like he's trying his best to imitate Miley's...WAIT! Do we have an official name for what Miley's signature look? Tongue-erk? Twernk? Um, help!
Anyway, now all we're trying to figure out is, does the 2013 MTV VMA Best Rock Video winner actually have a longer tongue than Miley's? Don't worry, I've got my ruler for the investigation. BRB.
Shot by famed photog Terry Richardson, the "Up In The Air" singer unofficially imitated Miley but threw in a little "je ne sais cross-eye." But the best part? Even while making a totally goofy face, Jared STILL MANAGES TO LOOK FLAWLESS! Honestly, how does Jared make everything look so perfect? The guy hangs out with gigantic spiders, and we're all, "hottest spider photo shoot ever!" Then, he chills in front of burgers and we're all, "mmm, hunks and burgers." Now, he goes cross-eyed with a Gene Simmons tongue, and we're over here putting our life savings down in a bet that he'd still whoop Tyra Banks at model face-off.
Set in a mansion at once lavish and dilapidated, the clip is a haunting look at the paranoid destruction that often accompanies massive fame and accumulated wealth.
The video's directed by Anthony Mandler who, according to his Wikipedia page, is set to work on an upcoming Britney Spears video called "Tbh" -- we assume they mean "TBA," TBD," or maybe even "All Eyes On Me"?? This has nothing to do with Jay's new vid, but we just had to share. #SorryNotSorry
Watch Jay Z's "Holy Grail" video featuring Justin Timberlake after the jump.
Taking a turn for the Howard Hughes, "Holy Grail"'s visuals serve to highlight the irrevocable changes that power can wreak: Jay watches Mohammed Ali get knocked out while frantically rapping about up-and-coming challengers to his throne, he paces back and forth in a "Freak On A Leash"-esque bullet hole-filled ballroom while worrying about his family's protection, etc.
Like the video for "Applause" by Lady Gaga (another Marina Abramovic collaborator), this highly stylized video brings us back to the documentary "Grey Gardens," but for extremely different, far darker reasons.
Anyway, we can't wait to see what this collaborative super duo drops on us next. (Like Timberlake's upcoming Jay Z-featured 20/20 Experience -- Part 2 Of 2 track called "Murder.") Till then, you know where to find us -- in a broken chandelier-filled, dust-covered ballroom in the east wing of our country estate. Duh.
Best Of Friends opt for the all-Americana vibe in their "Here We Go" video.
What happens when a couple of Warped Tour rockers trade in their amps for acoustic guitars? Best of Friends' "Here We Go" is showing us the way, with a song that draws inspiration from groups like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers. The band -- including Morgan Dorr and John Keefe of Boys Like Girls -- came together with Jamel Hawke and Ethan Dorr to write a song for fifth member Kevin McHugh's wedding. With that one a winner, the new group added Mario Fanizzi and Allyn Door -- Morgan's dad! -- making the band both Best of Friends and real family, too. Take that, Mumfords.
Watch Best Of Friends' "Here We Go" video after the jump.
"Here We Go" leaves Boys Like Girls' power-chord ways and punk-rock T-shirts behind them, going for denim button-downs and acoustic vibes. The title line "Here we go" extends into sing-along oh-oh-ohs, with the hook punctuated by the occasional "Hey!" shout. "I always that I would be a movie star," Morgan sings tenderly in the verses, but maybe he'll settle for folk hero.
Beyond "Here We Go," the band's dropped a handful of singles so far and played recent gigs in Boston and Los Angeles -- we'll bet our beards they'll be strumming at Lollapalooza before you know it.
Here's a picture of Adam Levine in just his underwear. The end. Game over. Bye.
Here's what my friends and I talked about over dinner last night: Is Adam Levine a boxers or briefs guy?! (Hey. We also talked about politics, so your judgey looks can just step aside.) Well, thanks to Adam's fiance Behati Prinsloo's Instagram, now we have our answer!
OK, we're being polite here. Here's how thankful we REALLY are: Dear Behati, THANK YOU FOR POSTING A HALF-NAKED PHOTO OF YOUR BOYF. (Also, we'd like to thank yoga for giving Adam those abs.)
Along with the photo, the "Love Somebody" singer's soon-to-be-wife added the caption, "70's porn called. It wants it's vibe back. Immediately."
WOOOAH, not so fast, Behati! We're pretty sure nooobody's mad at Adam's half-nakedness. Actually, once we felt physically able to look beyond Adam's completely toned torso, we had to ask: Why is Adam half-naked? Is he backstage at a Maroon 5 concert? Did he take a quick dip in a pool to cool off after sending heat toward the VMAs last Sunday night? Yeeahh, this is about to get awkward, 'cause Adam sent major Twitter shade to the VMAs this year:
Awwww, funny you say that, Adam, considering how Maroon 5 won the "Best New Artist" VMA in 2004! You want us to take that back, or...? Oh, you'd rather we hung out in your living room backstage to stare at your naked chest? Happy to oblige!
See? Robin Thicke's been a horndog long before Miley twerked up against him.
OK, so we can understand how someone miiiight have been shocked by Miley Cyrus' tongue-out twerking during her VMA performance -- if they had never seen her "We Can't Stop" video and, like, had been living under a rock since her Hannah Montana days. But Robin Thicke, Miley's partner-in-crime/ Beetlejuice stand-in? No shock there. These 2007 photos with Rihanna serve as a helpful reminder that dude's been nasty with a capital "WHOA, NOW!" for years.
Though we haven't really thought about this GQ photo spread since we covered it back in 2007, seeing early hints of the "Give It 2 U"'s kinkier side (right around the time of his American pop breakthrough with "Lost Without U," FYI) are suddenly FASCINATING in the wake of his passive participation in last Sunday's twerk-a-thon.
See the Robin Thicke and Rihanna Throwback Thursday photo spread after the jump.
Semi-related: These Terry Richardson-shot pics have gotta be some of the last before Rihanna gave herself her iconic "Umbrella"-era hair chop, back when she was in the beginning of her Good Girl Gone Bad transformation. If these photos were taken today, we feel like instead of casually slinking herself across Thicke's lap, the "Stay" singer would be at the other end of the couch, staring off and filing her nails, or something -- because, as One Direction's Harry Styles can tell you, Rihanna gives zero effs.
Not how we'd usually sit on a couch, but whatever works.
You don't know, maybe he's just helping her fix a fallen strap!
A nasty motel room? ...Maybe it's a good thing that Terry Richardson no longer uses sets in his photos.
Azealia Banks and Akon are apparently chilling after a shoot? WHAT SHOOT?
Though Azealia Banks has been a blonde for a good two weeks now (judging by her Instagram feed), we kinda forgot about it, what with her fire-engine red mermaid styling on the cover art for "ATM Jam." That's why this photo of the Harlem-born rapper/vocalist and her honey-dipped hair casually chilling with Akon took us by surprise! Well, that, and the fact that she captioned the photo: "Frizzy liZzy after a shoot w/ Akon."
What kind of shoot? Are we talking pictures, or a video?? Is Banks teaming up with the man responsible for "Don't Matter," aka the song that got us through, like, the roughest of faux-dramatic teenage break-ups?? Does Azealia think that calling her flawless self a "Frizzy Lizzy" 'cause of a coupla stray hairs will fool us into thinking she's #JustLikeUs?! THE QUESTIONS THIS PIC RAISES!
Check out Azealia Banks' "Little Miss Prairie" photo after the jump.
However, none of those questions were: "I wonder what Azealia Banks would look like if she were a character in the The Handmaid's Tale?" -- but thank god she answered it anyway!
She's giving you dystopian feminist sci-fi!
Captioning the photo "Little Miss Prairie," it sounds like the "Yung Rapunxel" rapper channeled her inner Laura Ingalls Wilder when she got dressed that day. TBH, we would love to read a rewritten Little House On The Prairie book where the series' author is subbed out for Miss Banks. We'd expect it'd look a lot more like the wild west-y "Liquorice" video, and Nellie Oleson woulda watched her effing mouth if she knew what was good for her.
The last couple of years have seen an influx of subscription-based music distribution platforms from labels like Domino and Mad Decent, wherein listeners pay a fee to receive releases on a regular basis. Nicolas Jaar is joining that wave with Other People, a "serial label" that delivers music digitally to subscribers each Sunday.
The first release, which is available now (to both subscribers and non-subscribers alike), includes the first 11 minutes of the new album from Darkside, Jaar's project with Dave Harrington. Next week's issue, which will only be available to subscribers, is a compilation titled Trust featuring new music from Jaar, Harrington, and ten other artists. Find subscription info and more here.
Listen to the first 11 minutes of the Darkside album:
*NSYNC channel their inner Freddie Prinze, Jr. with a game of "hack-EE sack."
So, *NSYNC and Justin Timberlake's epic VMA reunion on Sunday night -- life-changing, right? We're pretty sure that the only people not seriously shaken by it were, well, the boy-banders themselves. Just check out these pre-show photos that Lance Bass posted to Instagram, captioning, "Tradition continues with a hacky before the show."
It's nice to know these painfully attractive men were having such a lovely little game of hacky sack mere hours before they absolutely wrecked us with their late-'90s nostalgia overload! Seriously, we're literally still scooping our blown minds off the walls and floors (it's like the worst person at carving pumpkins ever tried to carve all the pumpkins), and we're guessing that Taylor Swift and her secret *NSYNC rhinestone tattoo aren't faring much better.
Check out more photos of *NSYNC backstage at the VMAs after the jump.
It's weird, though, that the boys of *NSYNC would consider the bean-filled bag-kicking game to be fun and relaxing. When we think "hacky sack" and "late-'90s," all we conjure up is the unbearable duress of having to choose between going to Dartmouth or going to Yale.
Switching the cuteness tone from "Ahh!" to "Aww!", Bass uploaded the above photo of him and his boyfriend Michael Turchin (GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH THIS MAN RIGHT NOW, P.S.) in front of a Moonman visual. "For the first time ever I got to perform w *NSYNC as an out entertainer and was thinking of this man the whole time."
We're not crying. We've just got naturally slick corneas, ya see! #DontCryOutLoud
Both versions will include a bonus collection of 11 previously unreleased demos on mp3. The demos will also be available as a stand-alone release called Transatlanticism Demos. Listen to the demo version of "Lightness", above.
Death Cab will perform Transatlanticism in full at Bumbershoot in Seattle on September 1.
Miley puts her unicorn slippers on one foot at the time #JustLikeUs. Wait.
We know that the name Miley Cyrus is pretty synonymous with half-naked twerking, tongue wagging, and foam finger grinding right now, but we'd like to take a sec to highlight another side of Miley -- the one that loves wearing the cutest pajamas EVER! Just brace yourselves for cuteness overload, and check out the patterned sleepwear that she wore to the airport to catch a New Jersey-bound flight. (Quick Fact: Only celebs are allowed to do that, NOT YOU.)
The unicorn is back in slipper form! We repeat: UNICORN SLIPPERS! Here we thought teddy bears were Miley's only plush obsession -- WRONG! Excuse us while we bow down to these slippers forever because we have officially found our new spirit animal.
But we're curious as to whom the "Wrecking Ball" singer is talking to on the phone. Maybe it's Kanye West inquiring about their rumored "Black Skinhead" remix. Or, perhaps it's Britney Spears giving Miley some props for keeping their Bangerz collabo a secret for so long. No wait, maaaaaybe (and just go with us on this one) it's one of those Boo bears from her VMA performance in tears because he just found out that Ms. Cyrus is cheating on him with some adorable unicorn slippers. (Like any relationship, plushie monogamy requires lots of communication.)
It's OK! Billy Ray is not mad at Miley's VMA twerk game!
Calm down, concerned mothers and fathers everywhere! Take a chill pill, Parents' Television Council! Lower your weapons, um, non-foam-finger-wagging teachers and principals! Miley Cyrus' dad and achey-breaky heartbreaker, Billy Ray Cyrus, is officially A-OK with and not mad at Miley's VMA twerk-a-thon X1000. Do you hear me? He has zero problems with his former Disney princess mashing her butt against Robin Thicke, or anything/one else! How do we know this? Easy. Miley posted Billy's reaction on her Twitter:
"Mile, if twerkin woulda been invented.... And I had a foam finger.... I woulda done the same thang you did." - DAD
Mayday Parade deal with spectral issues in their new track, "Ghosts."
Pop-punk bands are typically good students of music history. (I mean, you kind of have to be in order to pull off the deceptively simple genre without seeming cliché.) But for a lot more bands than you might think, that historical perspective inevitably comes back to classic Brit stadium rockers Queen. And for good reason: Queen rule. (It worked wonders for My Chemical Romance in their "Welcome To The Black Parade" period.)
Today, Tallahassee's favorite pop-punk sons Mayday Parade channel the spirit of Freddie Mercury & Company in "Ghosts," the first song off their upcoming album, Monsters In The Closet.
Listen to Mayday Parade's “Ghosts” after the jump.
Chopping out three or four chords and shouting out punchy choruses is great and all, but every now and then you need to flex your chops and head in a proggier direction. That's certainly true on Ghosts," which begins with theatrical chorals and harmonized guitar that seem pulled straight from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
That's not to say this track doesn't feature plenty of the quintet's familiar straight-ahead energy; "Ghosts" is a pogo-worthy sprint for the bulk of its near five minutes, with call and response and gang vocals giving the track its charge of shout-along spirit. But this time around, the song's youthful pop-punk spirit is bracketed by string passages, piano, and the aforementioned multi-tracked singing, which elevate Mayday Parade to the next level of musical maturity.
Yeah, yeah, the dreaded m-word can often mean a band is reaching beyond its grasp. But "Ghosts" and the tracks on Monsters In The Closet (whose recording we checked in on a little while back) are a logical piece of their musical progression. Singer Derek Sanders went into more detail in a recent interview about the recording process:
"We've kind of grown up together and matured as people and musicians, as a band, the way we play and write together has changed over time," he said. "But in general it's just the same basic idea. We try to write the best songs we can and then go record them. Don't really overthink too much other than that. There's nothing we specially try and change from one album to the next, you know? We try to find the best way to make everything work together for the whole experience. That's the biggest thing I guess, each time you get more comfortable in the studio.”
Sanders sounds a lot happier here than he does in "Ghosts," where he's dealing with a pretty incessant specter. "There's a ghost in my bedroom, it haunts me at night," he sings. "I've asked him to leave but he keeps stopping by."
How rude!
Bass player Jeremy Lenzo explained more about the track in a press release: "This song has to do with your inner demons, and it portrays that in a literal sense by referring to them as ghosts and how they are always with you."
Monsters In The Closet, Mayday Parade's fourth album, is out Oct. 8 on Fearless Records, after which the band will embark on the Glamour Kills Tour.
Check out the frenetic lyric video for Azealia's "ATM Jam."
Lest you start thinking that Lady Gaga's the onlymermaid in town, Azealia Banks, the queen of the Mermaid Ball, has returned this week with the lyric video for "ATM Jam" featuring Pharrell. The follow-up to "Yung Rapunxel" and third single off of the Harlem-born rapper/vocalist's Broke With Expensive Taste, the track plays to both artists' strengths, focusing our attention on the piston-like beat and playfully staccato delivery.
The clip's so good, in fact, that it almost makes us forget about the fact that we've been waiting for Azealia's debut album for longer than your average Jessica Simpson pregnancy feels like. (But srsly, this is starting to get into Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy territory.)
Watch Azealia Banks' "ATM Jam" video featuring Pharrell after the jump.
Though you'd assume that the point of a lyric video's supposed to be, ya know, the lyrics, this Adam Fearon-directed clip definitely follows the style-over-functionality approach of Katy Perry's emoji-filled "Roar" lyric video or Gaga's dragged-out one for "Applause." A typeface that's like a cross between "Metal Gear Solid" and "The Matrix"'s respective fonts may not be super conducive to reading, but damn if it doesn't look cool.
...Especially when it's overlaid with eye-popping '90s screensaver-esque backgrounds featuring dollars with Azealia's face on 'em (Bank$ Buck$?) -- kinda like she's taking the seapunk look of 2012's "Atlantis" onto dry land. Obviously, this just makes reading the lyrics even more of a challenge, but c'mon, Azealia's one of the trickiest MCs on the mics today.
From casually slipping into French to swapping the meter mid-verse, how many of you would've been able to parse out lyrics like "Hyphy-cheeky-cheddar-checker get her own cheese/ That's a chicken with her head off/ That's that b**** that won't be with her/ Official with that with that whole steez/ Flighty-fleety-feather-witch that whip that long weave n****" without looking them up? Oh, BTW, she spits that verse in, like, eight seconds. It's OK, come clean. #HilaryDuff
Kiernan Shipka might've just become the queen of our world.
See Kiernan Shipka strutting around like she's the queen of the neighborhood? We got news for you: SHE IS. By all that is photocopied and distributed throughout the greater Olympia, Wash. metropolitan area, we are literally SO overjoyed to see the "Man Men" actress acting all casual while wearing this Riot Grrrl tee. (Maybe she caught our Kathleen Hanna and GrimesVMA livestream interview and was, like, #inspired?)
Knowing that a 13-year-old is getting super into crucial third-wave feminist music from the early '90s -- we die. Then again, Sally Draper always was a little Pacific Northwest...
Totally! Gaga deserves all of the "A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E" and all of the "F-O-O-D" and "B-E-E-R-" and "A-L-S-O-P-I-Z-Z-A" after blowing the roof off of Barclays on Sunday. (She's got that flawlessly globe-ular, gold-dipped butt to maintain, after all!)
...and ordered up some fish and chips like a true local. We gotta give it up! Should you find your Yankee self hungry and in London, here's how to order up the classic British dish like a true Londoner, Gaga-style.
1.) ANNOUNCE YOUR ARRIVAL: "Excuse me kind sir or madam, but I would like the fish and the chips!" Throw in a coupla "Oi say, oi says!" for good measure.
2.) ORDER CLEARLY + CONFIDENTLY: Take your time, and don't get overwhelmed by all those extra Us on the menu. They're more afraid of you than you are of them.
See more photos of Lady Gaga ordering fish and chips in London after the jump.
3.) WAIT PATIENTLY: While your order is getting fished and chipped, figure out a fun way to pass the time productively. Lady Gaga has decided to hold an impromptu walk-off... with herself. Chantay! #SnatchYourOwnWeave
4.) FEED: Eat up! Congratulations, you've successfully ordered fish and chips as inconspicuously and British-ly as possible -- just like Lady Gaga! See? We can't even tell which person is Gaga in this "Where's Waldo"-esque photo! Cheers.
