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23 Awesome Pieces Of Fan Art From Willow Smith’s Instagram
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
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Taylor Swift Talking About Heartbreak Is The Realest Thing Ever
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
She just gets it.
We’re all aware by now that Taylor Swift is a genius wordsmith, able to craft lyrics that literally describe every emotional journey you’ve ever experienced.
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No matter what you’re dealing with (whether it’s heartbreak, happiness, or overwhelming love) there’s a Taylor Swift song that can pretty much understand your situation better than you ever did.
And most of the time you're like, “HOW??? How does she say what I'm thinking so perfectly?!?”
And with her latest album 1989, it’s no different. Especially with her emotional ballad “Clean,” an ode to that beautiful, enlightening moment in time when you finally realize you’re over someone.
“Clean” I wrote as I was walking out of Liberty in London. Someone I used to date—it hit me that I'd been in the same city as him for two weeks and I hadn't thought about it. When it did hit me, it was like, Oh, I hope he's doing well. And nothing else. And you know how it is when you're going through heartbreak. A heartbroken person is unlike any other person. Their time moves at a completely different pace than ours. It's this mental, physical, emotional ache and feeling so conflicted. Nothing distracts you from it.
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“The Real Housewives Of Melbourne” Make Snap Judgments About Bravolebrities
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
#Unfiltered.
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Three of The Real Housewives of Melbourne — Jackie Gillies, Chyka Keebaugh, and Janet Roach — recently stopped by BuzzFeed New York to play a game of Housewives word association, and they didn't hold back when it came to making snap judgments about their fellow Bravolebrities. Seriously, they go there.
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Chyka: “Interesting.”
Janet: “Irrelevant.”
Jackie: “Lies.”
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Tina Knowles Lawson Wrote The Sweetest Mother’s Day Letter To Beyoncé, Solange, And Kelly Rowland
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
ALL THE AWWWWS.
You might have heard of a little singer named Beyoncé Knowles and her equally talented sister, Solange.
Here they are rockin' out together because apparently there is no limit to flawlessness in one picture.
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And this is Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé’s fellow Destiny’s Child member and adopted member of the Knowles clan.
Kelly started living with the family at age 11.
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“So what?” you ask. Well, Tina Knowles Lawson, mother hen of the Knowles-Rowland trifecta, just wrote the sweetest Mother’s Day Letter for dedicated to her three girls for Timel
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Tina starts off the letter by telling Beyoncé, “I wish people could see how you are when you’re not in front of the camera on on the stage. How compassionate and kind you are to people, how you look them right in the eye when you speak to them.”
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Luna Lovegood And James Potter Might Be Dating In Real Life
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
No, it’s not Amortenia. It’s (hopefully) ~true love~.
This is Luna Lovegood, whimsical Ravenclaw and badass witch.
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And this is young James Potter, as seen in Order of the Phoenix.
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We can’t ~confirm~ for sure, but their Instagrams seem to say it all.
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Also, they may or may not have been actually dating for years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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What's your wallpaper on your phone and/or computer?
My phone wallpapers a really pretty sunset, and my laptop wallpapers palm trees in LA.
What's the one word you are guilty of using too often?
Probably dude or man.
What is the last thing you searched for on Google?
Answers for my history homework hahahaha
Who is the last person that called or texted you?
My best friend Kat on FaceTime!
What was the last awkward situation you were in and how did you handle it?
Uh my entire life…I just laugh it off and make a joke of it!
When is the last time you went to a theater?
Omg I don't even remember! I just watch Netflix hahaha.
What TV show should everyone should be watching?
Shameless duh!
And what is your TV guilty pleasure?
Keeping up with the Kardashians.
What's the first CD you bought?
Hillary Duff!
What is the one food you cannot resist?
Pizza. I'm ALWAYS in the mood for pizza.
What music are you currently listening to?
Cage The Elephant!
What movie makes you laugh the most?
Neighbors! But it also makes me cry cuz Dave Franco…
What drives you absolutely crazy?
Getting interrupted when you're talking.
What's your favorite day of the year?
Literally everyday over summer.
What was your first online screen name?
dolphingirl7 omg.
What's your favorite emoji?
The alien and the lil angel smiley emoji.
Pick one: Kittens or puppies?
Puppies.
New York or Los Angeles?
LA!
Comedy or drama?
Comedy!
Bacon or Nutella?
Neither.
Coffee or tea?
Tea.
'80s or ‘90s?
80's cuz im shooting a movie that takes place in the 80's this summer!!
Britney or Christina?
Britney.
NSYNC or BSB?
NSYNC.
Beyonce or Rihanna?
Beyonce.
Hannah Montana or Lizzie McGuire?
Hannah Montana.
Catch Emma in EPIC and in Shameless season six premiering in 2016!
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Earlier this year, on Valentine’s Day, much of the internet was enamored of Drake. The Toronto rapper’s commercial mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which had been released with little warning two nights before, was played more than 6.8 million times on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming service, more than doubling the previous single-day streaming record. Like a capricious lover, however, that same record would soon move on to another. Almost exactly one month after Drake’s mixtape, and a week ahead of schedule, Kendrick Lamar crashed streaming servers with a surprise release of his own — his second major-label album, To Pimp a Butterfly, which demolished the record set by If You’re Reading This by racking up an unheard of 9.6 million streams on its first full day of release.
These twin high-water marks, set by two of hip-hop’s most dynamic figures (and occasional rivals), say a lot about the state of the genre, which is flourishing after a relatively fallow 2014. But they also say a lot about the state of streaming, which is not only distinguished from other music platforms in that it's growing rapidly, but in that the type of music that is driving its growth is rap and R&B.
According to Nielsen Music, a plurality — 29% — of all on-demand streaming in 2014 was of hip-hop and R&B. This includes activity on services like Spotify, YouTube, Rdio, and Rhapsody, but not Pandora or SoundCloud. Hip-hop and R&B’s share of streaming put the genre ahead of rock (25%), pop (21%), EDM (7%), and country (6%). And data provided by Nielsen to BuzzFeed News shows that the trend held for the first quarter of 2015, with hip-hop claiming a 25% share of streaming, compared to 23% for rock and 20% for pop.
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Over the past six months, four of the top five most streamed albums on Spotify globally belonged to hip-hop (Drake, Lamar, J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, and Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise), with only One Direction’s Four preventing a sweep. And last month, the Spotify record for most streamed song in a single week went to the rapper Wiz Khalifa, whose hit “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth received 21.9 million plays from April 6–12.
Hip-hop’s lead in streaming is remarkable, considering that the genre has historically lagged behind rock and pop in other metrics used by the music industry as barometers of success. When it comes to album sales, for instance, hip-hop and R&B was still a distant second to rock in 2014, accounting for 14% of sales compared to rock’s 33%, according to Nielsen Music. In song downloads, hip-hop and R&B came in third place behind both rock and pop.
As the music industry has shifted to a more streaming-focused model, with both physical and digital music sales continuing to decline, there are signs that hip-hop artists are reaping the benefit. More than a third of the 14 albums to top the Billboard 200 this year, which last November began to include streams as a factor, came from the hip-hop category, including the aforementioned albums by Drake, Lamar, and Big Sean, plus the Empire soundtrack and Wale’s The Album About Nothing.
“These artists are doing phenomenally well,” Dave Bakula, SVP of industry insights at Nielsen, told BuzzFeed News. “And it’s something we’ve seen for as long as we’ve been tracking [streaming] — R&B/hip-hop really sets itself apart.”
Of course, the million-dollar question is: Why? It’s not easy to say, conclusively. Unlike, say, vinyl, which is today marketed toward older consumers and leans heavily on the classics (4 out of 10 of the top-selling vinyl albums last year were released before 1985), streaming services have long been billed as genre-agnostic musical utopias: all of the music, all of the time. To explain how hip-hop and R&B came to rule such a platform, we talked to industry experts and came away with three theories.
The Youths
The first and most obvious answer has to do with age. Streaming is the youngest of the platforms and, as with most nascent technologies, its user base is similarly young. According to a study by GMI Market Research provided to BuzzFeed News, the average age of users of major music platforms is as follows: Spotify, 28; Pandora, 32; iTunes, 34; SiriusXM, 42; terrestrial radio, 43. “If you’re 18 years old, you probably don't have any memory of purchasing music via download or physical product,” said Ken Parks, chief content officer at Spotify. “But you probably do spend a lot of time listening to music on platforms like ours or YouTube.”
From Will Smith to Rae Sremmurd, hip-hop has always been fueled and supported by young people, so it makes sense that a platform with a young user base would see a lot of activity in that genre. “Many 18- to 24-year-olds, which is really our core audience, eat, sleep, and breathe hip-hop,” said Parks. So who’s streaming all of that Wiz Khalifa? Probably not your mom.
Mixtape Culture
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Hip-hop, more than any other genre, has a strong tradition of free music. Years before the rise of ad-supported, on-demand streaming in America, rappers big and small were keeping mixtape sites like Datpiff and LiveMixtapes flush with quality content at no cost. When Spotify arrived in 2011 with the promise of making all music available for free, it’s easy to imagine hip-hop fans among its earliest and most avid supporters. “People our age come from an era where you can just go to a mixtape website and download everything for free, so that's just what we're used to,” said Tyler, the Creator, whose April album, Cherry Bomb, was the most streamed album on Spotify the week of its release. “Hip-hop fans want the shit right then and there or they’ll download it somewhere else for free. They’re like, ‘What the fuck do I look like buyin’ it?’”
It’s worth remembering that Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late mixtape broke on-demand streaming records only after being pulled from traditional mixtape destinations like SoundCloud and LiveMixtapes.
Social Media Behavior
The portability of links to songs on YouTube or Spotify means it’s much easier to share music than ever before, and activity on streaming services often follows social media conversations. According to an unpublished “Music 360” study by Nielsen provided to BuzzFeed News, hip-hop and EDM fans are the most likely to talk about music with friends, including on social media. In a survey of over 2,500 music listeners, 27% of hip-hop fans strongly agreed with the statement “I often discuss music with my friends,” compared to 28% of EDM fans, 21% of rock fans, and 17% of pop/top 40 fans. “I think the social nature of the fan base is a factor here,” said Bakula.
Nielsen’s study of hip-hop fans jibes with earlier research about African-Americans and social media use. A 2014 study by the Pew Research Center found that fully 96% of black Americans between 18 and 29 use social networking sites, compared with 90% of white Americans in the same age group. Smartphone ownership among 18- to 29-year-olds showed a similar gap: 85% of black respondents said they owned a smartphone compared to 79% of white ones.
Among the many ways that the rise of streaming is disrupting the business and culture of music, one of the most significant may be upending paradigms of access and visibility. Originally conceived as the defiant music of outsiders, hip-hop, now more than ever, is poised to become the default. If streaming is the future, than, for now at least, the Drakes and the Kendricks, and the J. Coles of the world are its heirs.
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Cher’s Tweets About Meeting Kim And Kanye At The Met Gala Are Perfect
Posted: May 8, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
ALL HAIL CHER.
Obviously queen diva Cher was at the Met Gala this past weekend, where she met Kim and Kanye.
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ICONIC I SAY.
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Cher’s Tweets About Meeting Kim And Kanye At The Met Gala Are Perfect
Posted: May 7, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
ALL HAIL CHER.
Obviously queen diva Cher was at the Met Gala this past weekend, where she met Kim and Kanye.
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ICONIC I SAY.
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Ed Sheeran Nearly Started Crying After Adorably Helping A Guy Propose
Posted: May 7, 2015 in EntertainmentTags: entertainment
“Baby we found love right where we are.”
Ed then passed the mic to the savvy dude, who perfectly began his speech with, “I’m just ~thinking out loud~ here…” Which, obviously, immediately had the audience screaming with excitement.
I'm just thinking out loud here, but you know I've met a lot of people in my days, and to come across someone so amazing, so talented, so beautiful inside and out that there was no way, no way I was gonna let her go. I thought to myself I better grab her, and hold on for dear life. But not with conditions, rules or regulations. But with a ring. A ring around her finger that represents the ring around my heart. And just then I realized that she loved me just as much, and thought I was just as amazing and beautiful as her. So God created everything on this green earth, but he only created one perfect answer for one perfect question. Baby, we found love right where we are.
Ed Sheeran himself then started to lose it, clapping and cheering for the couple as the guy got down on one knee, asking his girlfriend to be his wife:
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