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Elite Daily • 16th March 2023

Ryan Destiny Isn’t Just Making Music For TikTok

I’ve always thought the word special was overused until I spoke with Ryan Destiny, the Justin Bieber-approved actor and singer-songwriter who describes her creative work as “special” so sincerely, so headstrong, that you can tell she really means it....

Elite Daily • 29th April 2022

Suki Waterhouse Is Finally In Charge

Suki Waterhouse is booked and busy. On a Friday morning in mid-March, she rushes to the phone and kindly prefaces our conversation by admitting she’s in the middle of something else: filming her upcoming Amazon Prime series, Daisy Jones & The Six, in...

Cosmopolitan • 9th July 2021

Dear IOC, Please Fix Yourself

Just two weeks ago, Sha’Carri Richardson was on fire at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Calling special attention to the 21-year-old sprinter was her distinct style—orange hair, fake lashes, and embellished acrylic nails. But Richardson’s was only part of...

Elite Daily • 8th June 2021

Saweetie's "Fast (Motion)" Combines Her Two Passions: Music & Sports

Saweetie knows what it’s like to be the new girl, but you’d never guess it after marathoning her music videos and discography. Her work is the sonic embodiment of attitude and electricity, packaged as fiercely feminine rhymes with fire beats that have...

Medium • 29th March 2021

Craig David was basically the godfather of the infamous Flavas dolls

In the early 2000s, the brains behind Barbie debuted a new line of hip-hop- and Black-culture-inspired fashion dolls called Flavas. The verdict? They were problematic (and swiftly discontinued after a year of poor sales). Their legacy? Not entirely...

FLARE • 21st September 2020

I Lost My Job to COVID—But Found My Personal Style Again

Scrolling through an iPhone camera roll is the 21st century version of flipping through the pages of a metal ring-bound photo album and romanticizing times that felt much simpler. In 2020, a miserable year that feels more and more like a literal...

PEOPLE • 18th July 2022

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's Relationship Timeline

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon were once considered a Hollywood "it" couple. The Grammy-winning songstress and the rapper-turned-television host were first linked to each other in early 2008 when Cannon starred in Carey's "Bye Bye" music video. The...

Medium • 3rd August 2020

How Bratz became the cool-girl blueprint

Looking back, I recall the first wave of Bratz content trickling onto social media as if it were just yesterday, although it was actually mid-2018, when FILA Disruptor IIs weren’t yet stale, and every art show I stumbled into was an unspoken...

Adolescent Content • 26th August 2020

On the commodification of an artist’s heartbreak

When Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour was released in 2018, the story of the country songstress’s heart—its splinters, fragments, and return to togetherness—became of the world. With clarity and sweetness, her voice shared stories powdered with pain, but...

Popdust • 8th October 2020

LANY Reveal Their Most Authentic Selves on "mama's boy"

According to Wikipedia, LANY is an alternative rock band. This classification feels wrong, even in consideration of how hazy and debatable the term "alternative" is in the context of music. But the pop group, based in Los Angeles by way of Nashville,...

Popdust • 7th August 2020

The Death of White Escapism in Hulu’s "Palm Springs"

"Like no place else." That's the motto of Palm Springs, according to their Bureau of Tourism, which also pridefully advertises the Southern California desert resort city as a balmy oasis with a rich heritage, iconic modernist aesthetics, and an...

Medium • 15th August 2020

Normani, babygirl, what is you doin’?

Normani, babygirl, what is you doin’? Signed with RCA Records, former Fifth Harmony multihyphenate Normani has enough star power to blow today’s one-dimensional pop newcomers right out of the water. The problem: she has very little music to prove it....

Adolescent Content • 9th July 2020

I dated someone with an OnlyFans

Around this time last year, I dated a guy who loved showing ass on the internet via cheeky mirror pics and the occasional film photograph. Cameron’s* mooning-centric Instagram feed was the result of his relatively newfound body-posi mentality; like...

Adolescent Content • 22nd May 2020

What’s in a name? A lot if you’re black.

Just a few months ago, someone from Black Twitter quipped that the reigning women of Destiny’s Child had “some really black-ass names.” The joke reintroduced an old truth: Beyoncé, Tenitra (Michelle’s first name), and Kelendria sound as black as...