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New, previously unheard music from Mozart (!!!) has been discovered in the Leipzig Municipal Library, after some 230 years!
Sabrina Carpenter has kicked off her Short n’ Sweet Tour featuring sparkly fits, delightful animations and videos, spin the bottle, handing out fluffy handcuffs, and no more custom outros for her song Nonsense.
Lady Gaga has released new music in the form of a companion album for her new movie, Joker 2. ‘Harlequin’ features 13 songs and is out now! She has also teased that the first single from her 7th studio album will be out sometime in October.
Lorde and Addison Rae joined Charli xcx and Troye Sivan on their Sweat Tour!
Haven’t you heard
Chappell Roan has cancelled yet another concert, this time citing mental health reasons.
American rapper P Diddy was arrested on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, sexual assault and misconduct.
Jeremy Allen White was spotted kissing The Bear co-star Molly Gordon post an apparent fresh split with singer Rosalia.
Lana Del Rey got married to alligator tour guide, Jeremy Dufrene.
F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has been let go from RB mid-season and will be replaced by development driver, Liam Lawson.
John Mulaney took up a gig at an event for Salesforce’s employees only to roast them and the tech/AI industry.
Fashion, Style, Beauty
Glossier has come out with 2 new fragrances, the Glossier You Rêve and Glossier You Doux, in line with their existing 'You’ perfume.
French hair pins are the latest accessory to have a revival. An essential to get the most perfect, effortless updo.
Statement glasses, especially rectangular, black-framed ones are in!
The beanbag seating at Bottega Veneta’s Milan show was a hit.
Paris Fashion Week is in full swing.
Watch out
Trailer for The Last of Us Season 2.
Marvel’s Thunderbolts* trailer is here including this hilarious official synopsis of the movie — Marvel Studios and a crew of indie veterans who sold out present Thunderbolts*, an irreverent team-up featuring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits.
Trailer for the John Wick spin-off, Ballerina, featuring Ana de Armas.
Trailer for ‘Dream Productions’, the spin-off series from the creators of Inside Out.
Elizabeth Olsen is allegedly set to return as the Scarlet Witch in multiple Marvel projects.
Mike Faist has been cast opposite Florence Pugh in Netflix’s East of Eden.
Much to the Internet’s dismay, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have been cast as Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The criticisms include both actors having a serious case of “iPhone face”, being too famous, not having “Psychologically Tortured vibes” and Heathcliff being whitewashed.
Shooting for the People We Meet on Vacation movie has begun as set photos show Emily Bader and Tom Blyth recreating the book cover on a beach in Spain!
Online chatter
Moo Deng may have made his debut on Vogue’s Instagram, but there’s a new beloved of the Internet. Say hello to Pesto the Penguin at Melbourne’s Sea Life Aquarium. The King Penguin chick is giant, fluffy and feathered, wobbling around his enclosure, towering over his mates. He is fed 25 fish per day and weighs 21kg at 9 months old!
A Bridgerton-inspired ball in Detroit turned out to be a scam for attendees who paid close to $300 to attend it. The event had cheap backdrops, a single violinist, undercooked food and no representative from the organiser. There was also entertainment straight from the Regency Era — a pole dancer. Welcome back, Wonka experience in Glasgow.
Korean baseball cheerleaders doing the “Pikki Pikki” dance have gone viral, with Olivia Rodrigo recreating the TikTok too, among others.
The new “she deserved the purse” TikTok trend sees women leaving money in the baby supplies aisle at supermarkets in the US, after a video garnered millions of hits showing an abandoned purse left between baby formula and other such necessities, seemingly as the mother may have chosen to buy items for her baby rather than a purse for herself.
The NSYNC Bye Bye Bye dance reached new levels of fame after the opening sequence of the new Deadpool movie. It is now also an emote on the game, Fortnite.
The creator who came up with the dance for Charli xcx’s song ‘Apple’ got to attend the Sweat tour and had the spotlight on her as she became “the Apple girl” of the night. While the video shows another girl interrupting her, the creator claims its all good between them.
YouTube channel Jubilee’s video “Can 1 Woke Teen Survive 20 Trump Supporters?” is concocted for Internet virality as its the perfect pot stirrer for both sides of the political spectrum.
A video from ‘99 of Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue, Plum Sykes, has resurfaced on Twitter and is dividing people on office wear, but her uppity accent also lead people down her rabbit hole-shaped ancestry where they discovered that she’s a descendent of Mark Sykes of the Sykes-Picoult Agreement, which basically created the Middle-East as we know, including separating Palestinians from their own land. That’s a connection no one saw coming from a video talking about a Dolce skirt.