Queens of Pop & Weekly Culture Drop
Vol. 1 Issue 22 – 24th August 2024
Short n’ Sweet
As an ode to Sabrina Carpenter releasing her latest studio album, let’s keep this edition Short n’ Sweet, cut the Nonsense in these Fast Times, so you can quickly glance over it with your morning shot of Espresso.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have filed for divorce after getting married in 2022, again.
Chappell Roan joined Olivia Rodrigo on her Guts tour stop in LA, they sang ‘Hot to Go!’ (choreo included obviously) and joined this TikTok trend.
And I guess it was bring your favourite redhead to work day as Taylor Swift too surprised fans for her record-breaking 8th and final show at Wembley by performing ‘Florida!!!’ with Florence Welch and debuting the music video for I Can Do It With A Broken Heart featuring BTS footage from tour rehearsals.
A24 has released the trailer for Y2K, a disaster-comedy-horror, taking place on the last night of 1999 where the Y2K bug takes over the world. Starring Rachel Zegler and Jaeden Martell.
Two beloved shows, My Lady Jane and The Acolyte have been cancelled after one season each.
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has launched his YouTube channel and amassed more than 10 million subscribers within 24 hours and 30 million in 2 days.
Glen Powell stars in and as Chad Powers, Hulu’s new comedy series about a former hotshot college quarterback desperate for a second chance.
A tech billionaire’s superyacht drowned on the Italian coast. While tragic, you’re not alone in feeling a sense of deja vu as last summer another billionaire, part of the Titan submersible expedition, went missing as the vessel imploded.
In May this year, Microsoft Word quietly fixed its default paste option, now the ‘merge formatting’ option is default instead of ‘keep source formatting’, and people are discovering it now.
The new Bridget Jones movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, will be releasing in theatres on Valentine’s Day 2025.
Arijit Singh has become the most followed artist on Spotify globally.
See the first trailer for In Vogue: The 90s, a Hulu documentary about the famed decade at the biggest fashion magazine, coming this September 13th.
Coldplay and Maggie Rogers performed Love Story at their show in Vienna as a tribute to the Swifties whose Eras Tour shows got cancelled after a terrorist attack scheme was uncovered.
At the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris showed up in a Chloe suit jacket that Internet sleuths discovered was listed as “Coconut Brown” on the website. Well Played.
Speaking of, as Fall/Autumn approaches, dark brown is the colour of the season. And bubble skirts are back in style too.
“This is the skin of a killer, Bella”, Hayley Williams dedicated ‘Decode’ to “Mr. Waterhouse” aka Suki Waterhouse’s partner aka Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen of Twilight.
Indigo Airlines has launched a feature that allows female travellers to see the gender of other passengers while choosing seats, to sit next to other women.
Travis Kelce is in his acting era as he is set to star in the movie Loose Cannons along with booking a cameo in Happy Gilmore 2. Meanwhile, he has reportedly surprised Taylor Swift with 51 boxes of red roses as she wrapped up her 51-show European leg of The Eras Tour.
Is London the new Los Angeles? Gracie Abrams was spotted with Paul Mescal (currently filming The History of Sound with Josh O’Connor) at Mitski’s concert, and Doja Cat and Joseph Quinn were pictured on a romantic stroll.
Francis Ford Coppola's epic Megalopolis’ trailer was recalled as it included fake quotes by famous critics.
Ed Sheeran joined Niall Horan’s concert in Dublin, playing Lego House, and One Direction’s Little Things together.
The “Nobody will remember:…” tweets are popping off.
Netflix is set to adapt the classic ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. Also on Netflix, Anya Taylor Joy will star in the series adaptation of ‘How to Kill Your Family’.
Meryl Streep and Martin Short sweetly soft-launched their relationship at the premiere of the new season of Only Murders in the Building, which returns on August 27th.
The trailer for the 2-part documentary about the visionary behind the cult classic TV show The Sopranos just dropped, available to watch on September 7th.
If you’re looking to catch a psychological thriller this weekend, Blink Twice is now playing in theatres. Directed by Zoe Kravitz, starring Channing Tatum.
Sabrina Carpenter’s new album Short n’ Sweet (rumoured to be have digs at Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello👀) is out now, along with the music video for Taste, featuring Jenna Ortega!
