Wren Graves – Consequence

If You Thought Celebrity Couple Coverage Was Dumb Before, Just Wait Until the 2024 Election

Wren Graves — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:30:06 +0000

Trumpland declared a "holy war" on Swift, Biden wants her vote, and conservatives think the Super Bowl is rigged. It's only getting dumber.

If You Thought Celebrity Couple Coverage Was Dumb Before, Just Wait Until the 2024 Election
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Justin Timberlake’s New Song “Selfish” Is the Latest Turd in a Ten-Year Run of Shitty Music: Review

Wren Graves — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:48:05 +0000

Justin Timberlake has always kind of sucked, at least on a personal level, and his new song, “Selfish,” is just the latest turd to be floated across the surface of his long-stagnant career. It’s not just sanitized, Bieberized, blue-eyed R&B; it’s treacly schlock. The lyrics are cliche heaped upon cliche,…

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Oliver Stone Implies Ryan Gosling and Keanu Reeves Are Making the World a Worse Place

Wren Graves — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:17:33 +0000

Stone says Gosling in Barbie contributed to the "infantilaztion of Hollywood," while John Wick proves "the world has degenerated into non-logic.”

Oliver Stone Implies Ryan Gosling and Keanu Reeves Are Making the World a Worse Place
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Chaka Khan Is Done Touring: “I Got This Rich-Ass Life”

Wren Graves — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:59:17 +0000

You couldn’t pay Chaka Khan to put up with life on the road, the 70-year-old icon confirmed to Rolling Stone, saying she “will not do another tour” because “I got this rich-ass life.” Khan, a 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, drew a distinction between herself and the kinds of…

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2023 Corona Capital Festival Rocked by The Cure, Blur, and Pulp: Photo Gallery

Wren Graves — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:21:27 +0000

Corona Capital 2023 went down November 17th through the 19th at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. Across three balmy November days and chilly desert nights, The Cure, Blur, Pulp, and more proved why Corona is one of Mexico’s hottest festivals. Photographer Debi Del Grande captured those acts and others,…

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Sex in Cinema: The Hays Code, Censorship, and Film’s First Culture War

Wren Graves — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:01 +0000

Welcome to Sex in Cinema Week, Consequence‘s deep dive into movies, the Hays Code, and what society labels taboo. Check back throughout the week for essays, interviews, and lists examining censorship of movie sex scenes and the creativity it inspired in filmmakers. American cinema can be divided into three eras…

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The Haunting of Britney Spears

Wren Graves — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:00:48 +0000

So far, as Britney Spears tells it, she has only managed to forgive one estranged family member: June Spears Sr., her long dead grandfather, who looms over nearly every page of her memoir, The Woman in Me. Toward the book’s end, Spears writes, “I’ve had dreams in which June tells me…

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Monday Night Football’s “In the Air Tonight” Cover Is So Bad I Don’t Even Want to Hear the Drums

Wren Graves — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:33:04 +0000

The new Monday Night Football theme brings you closer to the action by making you feel like you just got slammed in the head.

Monday Night Football’s “In the Air Tonight” Cover Is So Bad I Don’t Even Want to Hear the Drums
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Bradley Cooper Is Gentle While the Makeup Team Goes Hard in Trailer for Maestro: Watch

Wren Graves — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:54:37 +0000

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan are as gentle as can be while the makeup team goes hard in the official teaser trailer for Maestro. A biopic of the great American composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper, who also directs), Maestro chronicles the musical titan’s decades-long partnership with his wife Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein…

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Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off North American Tour with World-Class Performance in Chicago: Review

Wren Graves — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:26:04 +0000

Oh, you thought Bruce Springsteen was done? When the applause began, the chords of his first song, “No Surrender,” were still ringing through Chicago’s Wrigley Stadium. Of course Springsteen was done. On the opening night of his North American tour (get tickets here), after the 73-year-old had played through the…

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Lollapalooza 2023: What You Missed on the Livestream

Wren Graves — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:39:45 +0000

Chicago rose out of a swampy divot between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River Basin, and during Lollapalooza 2023, to the swamp it did return. Thursday and Friday paired scorching temperatures with a kind of muggy humidity that would have allowed you to grow orchids in your underwear, and while…

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TOMORROW X TOGETHER Make History at Lollapalooza 2023: Recap + Photos

Wren Graves — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 07:51:37 +0000

After the rain stopped around 4:00 p.m. I noticed the first handmade signs emblazoned with the letters MOA and held by people sitting on comfy blankets with no intention of moving. By the time Sylvan Esso took Lollapalooza’s Bud Light stage at 4:45 the front rows were already packed with…

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10 Hip-Hop Albums Cypress Hill’s Sen Dog Thinks Every Music Fan Should Own

Wren Graves — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:55:15 +0000

He also shares his hilarious first encounter with Tupac, meeting Digital Underground, and West Coast rap's lost gems.

10 Hip-Hop Albums Cypress Hill’s Sen Dog Thinks Every Music Fan Should Own
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Why Musicians Aren’t Striking

Ben Kaye, Jonah Krueger, Wren Graves and Liz Shannon Miller — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:48:36 +0000

Liz Shannon Miller (Senior Entertainment Editor): Esteemed colleagues, it’s time for another Consequence Chat — because as I’m sure you’re aware, it’s been a wild time here in Hollywoodland, as major film releases happen to coincide with the shutdown of all of entertainment production. The WGA and SAG are now…

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13 Bluey Episodes That Explain Why I’d Die for Those Dogs

Wren Graves — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:00:02 +0000

Editor’s note: This ranking of the best Bluey episodes originally ran in January of 2023 and has been expanded with the release of a new batch on Disney+. Still, many episodes remain unavailable in the US and large parts of the world, which is why some of our favorite installments — here’s…

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