By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | June 26, 2024
You’d think Drake would have gone into hiding after being brutally murdered by Kendrick Lamar, but nope, he attempted to fire back with a diss track featuring — dear… dear God — the AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur. Dude. Now the entire music industry is on top of Drake, starting with Sheryl Crow. (Rolling Stone)
The Justin Timberlake PR blitz has arrived. (Lainey Gossip)
Taylor Swift was cool with Sabrina Carpenter’s SKIMS campaign. (Celebitchy)
Are Republicans noticing they’ve hitched their wagon to a complete loser? (Wonkette)
Kayleigh wrote about how Taylor Swift finally became one half of a bona fide power couple thanks to her romance with Travis Kelce. (Daily Beast)
You’ll have to wait for The Acolyte’s sick-ass villain to become a sick-ass toy, and no, I didn’t just scream “Why, God?!” at the neighbors. That was you. (Gizmodo)
Is Drake running the marketing department at Toys ‘R Us now? (THR)
From Jen: R.I.P. Bill Cobbs. (What I’m Reading)
Jimmy Pesto Sr. will plead guilty for taking part in January 6. (Vulture)
If anyone cares, HBO’s Harry Potter series has tapped His Dark Materials showrunner, Francesca Gardiner, and Mark Mylod from Succession will direct? WTF? (TVLine)
Letitia Wright would really like to come back as Black Panther, please. (Variety)
ASKReviews combined Pride Month and Audiobook Month with Nicola Coughlin’s narration of Juno Dawson’s The Shadow Cabinet. “Overall, I think this is the type of fantasy book I can get into - there’s some world-building but not so much that I have to draw my own map and create a glossary to understand what is happening.” Have you listened to any good audiobooks this month? (Cannonball Read 16)
From Kayleigh:
Watching Bill Hader lose it in a Jiminy Glick interview is my new favorite thing pic.twitter.com/I3EjjrU3m6
— Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) June 25, 2024