It’s been twelve years since Trouble in Paradise, and Elly Jackson has decided that the wait is over!
Babyline is the second single off Old Flames, La Roux‘s fourth album, out November 6, and it arrives with the kind of bright, unbothered synth work that made everyone fall for her in the first place. She’s called this record the sound of ending up “happier, lighter, braver”.
Check out Babyline above! Thoughts?
For the uninitiated, Mortville is the gloriously grimy shantytown at the center of 1977’s Desperate Living, the Pope of Trash’s fairytale for perverts, ruled by the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, populated by wrestlers, murderesses, and a woman who eventually gets what’s coming to her in the most anatomically memorable way possible.
It remains the only Waters film without Divine, and somehow it out-filths the competition anyway. Iconic real estate. So the idea of him strolling back into that trash-heap kingdom, at 80, has us feral. Check it out above!
A young singer with dreams of stardom writes a pop song so infectious that it puts her in the crosshairs of an ambitious dancer.
Check out Episode 1 above and find Episode 2 after the jump!
Davina and Kianna return on Lushious Massacr‘s next episode of DRAGVESTIGATIONS. See what trouble she’s been up to lately during Pride Month, above!
Interior Motives brought Hamzah & Martin from Slushy Noobz onto the show for a full Canadian Edition, and the hosts are doing what they always do: staring at someone’s bedroom and fridge photos and trying to guess their whole life from them. Check it out above!
Mitch and Greg of ASAPScience‘s SideNote podcast just dropped an episode on gay cruising, tracing the practice from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics through Renaissance-era crackdowns to modern hookup apps. There’s also a genuinely wild 1970s sociological study in there, which found that many men seeking anonymous public encounters were otherwise living outwardly straight suburban lives.
The science portion makes the case that while same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom, cruising is a uniquely human response to social oppression and shame. Interesting! Check them out above!
Civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo has published a data analysis of New York Times trans coverage, and the findings are getting a lot of attention. According to the analysis, something shifted editorially around 2022 — stories that had previously centered trans people’s lives and rights started giving way to a steadier diet of medical doubt and political conflict framing. GLAAD and other advocacy organizations say they saw this coming and have been raising the alarm for years.