archiveFebruary 2021

Taylor Swift. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for MTV) Taylor Swift is dropping “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)”, a re-recorded take on her hit single, before an update to her 2008 album Fearless. Swift appeared on Good Morning America to make a special announcement Thursday (11 February), announcing that the new “Love Story” would be...

Danny Elfman explores the horror — and the comedy — of the pandemic lockdown in his new video for “Love in the Time of Covid.” Directed by German filmmaker and photographer Sven Gutjahr and Elfman’s creative director Berit Gilma, the video stars a demon in isolation looking for love on...

Morgan Wallen has broken his silence eight days after a video surfaced that shows him using the N-word. He says that moment came at the end of a 72-hour bender, and in a video message to fans posted on Wednesday night (Feb. 10), Wallen apologizes and gives an update what he's been doing to change;...

If you're still a bit surprised that Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are somehow the perfect match, the two stars themselves are right there with you.Blake spoke to Today's Natalie Morales on Wednesday, Feb. 10, where he discussed the recent Super Bowl ad that he and Gwen appeared in for T-Mobile. In the spot, Gwen...

Abaca Press / Alamy Stock Photo Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from prison after 1,001 days. Hathloul was arrested in 2018 after openly calling for an end on the ban against female drivers in the deeply conservative Kingdom. She also spoke out against its controversial...

(Photography: @realgeorgesully/Instagram)Toronto-based fashion entrepreneur George Sully is launching the award in collaboration with his foundation, Black Designers of Canada By Meaghan Wray Date February 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter Inclusion, representation and Black excellence are the cornerstones of celebrated designer George Sully’s newly announced initiative. In collaboration with his own foundation,...

Gina Carano has been dropped from The Mandalorian, Variety reports. Lucasfilm said the actress is not currently employed by the company after she drew criticism for “abhorrent” social media posts. Carano portrayed Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who became a Marshal for the New Republic, in the first two...

David F. Sandberg decided to go by Logan rules for Shazam!, imagining that the events of Man of Steel and Batman v Superman had really happened prior to Billy Batson’s origin story, but there was also the side of the world where action figures and such were made as a...

Alexus Braxton. (Facebook) Alexus ‘Kimmy Icon’ Braxton, a Black trans woman and “beloved daughter”, was found dead 4 February amid a surge of unrelenting violence that has left LGBT+ activists drained and alarmed. Braxton, 45, was killed in Miami, Florida, in an apartment complex in the northern Andover Lakes Estates...

In December I told you about the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Longlist. As promised, they have now released their finalists. The virtual Literary Awards Ceremony will be held on April 8, 2021. This $75,000 award is given to “a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and...

A week after being recorded on video using a racial slur, Morgan Wallen has issued a lengthy video statement in which he addresses the controversy, says he’s spoken to leaders in the black community, shares that he’s attempting to get sober, and admits that “my words matter.” He also delivered...

FanRoom Live joyously presents Ice T & Coco on Thursday February 11th, 2021 at 8:30  PM EST in a RARE Pre-Valentine live meet and greet and video chat. The couple will be talking about Love and Relationships and “How to Make It Work” while listening to Love Music from the sensational ZIEME....

Jason Isbell has announced that he's donating any payments he receives from Morgan Wallen's Dangerous: The Double Album, which contains a version of Isbell's "Cover Me Up," to the Nashville division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).The singer-songwriter's decision comes after Wallen was caught on video using a...

Since releasing "Blurred Lines" in 2013, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have faced controversy for all sorts of reasons.In 2015, the two musicians were ordered to posthumously award Marvin Gaye a songwriting credit on the song, after a federal jury found them responsible for copyright infringement.  The songwriting process was also a topic of...