Category: Celebrity Trends
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“Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” Filmmaker Sean Wang and His Grandmas on the Joys of Unlikely Friendships
Image Source: Getty / Alberto E. Rodriguez Where I’m From: Now and Gen features in-conversation pieces between generations – like a younger woman and her grandmother – discussing a topic like beauty rituals, finances, or marriage. We sat down with filmmaker Sean Wang and his grandmothers, Yi Yan Fuei and Chang Li Hua, the subjects…
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“The Morning Show”‘s Karen Pittman Would Love to Just Act, but the System Is Broken
Image Source: Getty / Emma McIntyre In season three of “The Morning Show,” a race scandal rocks UBA, the broadcast network that serves as the show’s backdrop. The storyline sees Karen Pittman’s Mia and Greta Lee’s Stella strikingly depict the realities of women of color in largely white, corporate spaces like network television. “That’s me…
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The Real Stars of “Love Is Blind”: Those Gold Wine Glasses
Image Source: Netflix There are numerous standout stars on the newest season of “Love Is Blind” – Megan Fox (Chelsea Blackwell), AD’s mother, Kenneth’s phone, and the EpiPen, to name a few – but no star shines quite as bright as the famed gold cups. You know the ones we’re talking about: those metallic-tinged wine…
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The Undeniable Influence of Black Latine Artists on Latin Music
Black. It is the color that absorbs all colors, the shade that holds the sun’s warmth as it moves east to west. It is the color of a people, not just African but Caribbean, Middle Eastern, American, and more. But it is also music: the color at the center of the trumpet’s brass ring, the…
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How Laufey’s Chinese Icelandic Upbringing Shaped Her Unique Jazz Sound
Laufey has always felt “undefined.” Whether it was her unique, modern jazz sound or her identity as a Chinese Icelandic artist, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter and producer tells POPSUGAR she “always felt like an anomaly and a bit of an outsider in my communities.” “Being a bit different became my status quo.” The artist, who recently…
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Jennifer Lopez’s New Doc Is Less About Ben Affleck and More About Self-Love
If you had a hard time understanding Jennifer Lopez‘s recent music video project “This Is Me… Now: A Love Story,” her documentary “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” might answer some of your questions. In the doc, Lopez shares that the inspiration behind both “This Is Me… Now: A Love Story” and her ninth studio…
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Tell Me Más: Grammy-Winning Goyo’s Rise to Fame Has Been a Win For Afro-Latine Artists
In our Q&A /feature series Tell Me Más, we ask some of our favorite Latine artists to share some inside info about their lives and habits, revealing everything from their most recent read to the songs that get them hyped. This month, Grammy-winning artist Goyo, a member of legendary group ChocQuibTown, drops in to talk…
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Black Women in Country Are Grateful Beyoncé Is Entering the Genre
Tanner Adell fell in love with country music young. She grew up splitting her time between Los Angeles and Star Valley, WY, which created a stark contrast – but it was the country lifestyle, and specifically the music, that held her heart. Adell remembers falling in love with Keith Urban when he released “Somebody Like…
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Prince Royce Talks Life After Divorce and How It Inspired His New Album, “Llamada Perdida”
“I get way more scared and embarrassed having to talk about my personal life in interviews than saying it in a song,” Prince Royce admits during an interview in Los Angeles for his new album, “Llamada Perdida,” which dropped Friday. With a decade-plus career that has generally been free of controversy, the Dominican American bachata…