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We are weeks away from MGMT‘s upcoming album, Loss Of Life. Ahead of the album, the indie duo has shared a new single, “Nothing To Declare.”

“Nothing To Declare” features the two at their highest form of self-actualization, as they’ve lived and seen through so much, they have nothing to prove anymore.

“Until I stumble like a drunkard back to town / Then I end up where you are / Keeping the sanctuary warm / Don’t ask me who I am / Don’t ask me where I was,” MGMT sings on the song’s chorus.

The song’s video, directed by Joey Frank, stars disability activist Inga Perry, who has grown a large following through TikTok by spreading awareness of issues within the disabled community. Perry, who was born with upper limb aplasia, spends a day walking through Paris, who wraps up her European excursion at the Louvre, where she sees the Venus De Milo statue.

“When I was first approached by Joey to do this project, it was the parallelism in his vision that first drew me in,” Petry said in a statement. “We listened to ‘Nothing To Declare’ as he took me through the concept of the video and I was met with the juxtaposition of beauty and melancholy. Having grown up with no arms, I have been watched my whole life. In some respects, the Venus de Milo has always felt analogous to my life, and specifically to the character I portray in this film. She’s adored, respected, and almost constantly surrounded by people, and yet she stands alone and her past is unknown. There have always been questions surrounding her arms and she has never had to answer or prove her worth. From my perspective, she has nothing to declare. Playing this character that is different, and not just because she doesn’t have arms, but by the way she handles the difference and still feeds on new curiosity was a really beautiful experience.”

Watch the “Nothing To Declare” video above.

Loss Of Life is out 2/23 via Mom + Pop. Find more information here.

Taylor Swift is many things: the most successful signer/songwriter of her generation, a box office star, a cat mom. But most of all, she’s a government PsyOp, at least according to a bonkers conspiracy theory shared by Fox News host Jesse Watters. “I like her music,” he said during Tuesday’s episode of Jesse Watters Primetime. “She’s all right, but I mean, have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?” Maybe because she’s talented? Nope. “Around four years ago, the Pentagon Psychological Operations Unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A PsyOp for combatting online misinformation,” Watters explained.

Mediaite reports that he then aired a video from the 2019 International Conference on Cyber Conflict of a woman on stage giving a presentation.

“You came in here wanting to understand how you just go out and counter the information operation,” she said. “The idea is that social influence can help — can help encourage or promote behavior change… So, potentially as like a peaceful information operation… I include Taylor Swift in here because she’s– she’s, you know, a fairly influential online person. I don’t know if you’ve heard of her.”

Once the clip was over, Watters revealed, “Yeah, that’s real. Pentagon’s PsyOp unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset.” What he left out, however, is that “the woman giving the presentation was not a Pentagon employee. Her name is Alicia Marie Bargar, a research engineer in applied physics at Johns Hopkins University.” Seems like that would be important to mention. But the haters are gonna hate hate hate, am I right?

Watters later admitted he “obviously has no evidence” that Swift is “a front for a covert political agenda,” but “we’re curious.” And we’re curious how quickly Swift’s team is going to send a strongly worded letter threatening legal action.

(Via Mediaite)

Selena Gomez is taking another social media break, after sharing the news yesterday (January 9). The announcement comes just days after the Golden Globes, where a moment between Gomez and her bestie, Taylor Swift, went viral. The two had been filmed gossiping at the event, with Swift and Keleigh Teller being shocked by what Gomez revealed to them.

Many had then tried to figure out what the three friends were discussing. The prominent theory was that Gomez had asked Timothée Chalamet for a photo, and his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, said no. However, Gomez eventually shut the rumors down.

“Noooooo I told Taylor about two of my friends who hooked up,” Gomez wrote in an Instagram comment. “Not that that’s anyone business.”

Because of this, it seems she just wants to escape the rumor attention. “I’m off social media for a while,” Gomez shared in an Instagram Story, complete with a photo of her new boyfriend, Benny Blanco. “I’m focusing on what really matters.”

Fans are now trying to figure out which of Gomez’s friends hooked up. While we’ll probably never know, there is a hilarious rumor going around that two of her Only Murders In The Building co-stars could have been who she was talking about. Meryl Streep and Martin Short had been the suspected pair, but Short’s representative also shut the possibility down yesterday.

In less than a week, the first season of Love Island: All Stars will premiere for fans of the Love Island series to dive headfirst into. The All Stars season brings back some well-known names that appeared in various Love Island UK series and during an interview with The Mirror, Love Island’s Executive Producer Mike Spencer also revealed the changes to expect in the new season. The changes include the removal of Casa Amor this season and the reduction of the season from eight weeks to just five. Love Island: All Stars will be available to watch on ITV2 and ITVX, but where else can you watch the episodes?

Will Love Island: All Stars Be On Hulu?

Previous seasons of Love Island UK began to upload episodes to Hulu daily just two weeks after that season’s first episode. The same could happen with Love Island: All Stars, but that has yet to have been revealed by ITV or Hulu. In a press release officially announcing the Love Island: All Stars season, ITV wrote, ” Love Island: All Stars will launch across ITV1, ITV2, STV, and ITVX,” adding, “Love Island: All Stars will continue to resume on ITV2 and ITVX for the remainder of the series.”

With that being said, we’ll have to wait a bit to learn of any plans for Love Island: All Stars to land on Hulu or any other streaming platform.

‘Love Island: All Stars’ premieres on Monday, January 15 at 9 pm GMT/4 pm EST/1 pm PST via simulcast on ITV1, ITV2, and ITVX.

We know Olivia Rodrigo now as one of the world’s biggest music stars, forging her own rock-inspired path in the pop scene. Day-one fans, though, know that her first brushes with fame came as a child actor, leading the Disney shows Bizaardvark (from 2016 to 2019) and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019 to 2022).

While music has been her primary focus over the past few years, Rodrigo seems eager to get back to doing some acting.

During an interview at the Academy’s Governors Awards last night (January 9), Rodrigo told Variety, “I love movies, I love telling stories. I really want to do a coming-of-age thing, maybe before I’m actually of age. Maybe I am of age already.” She added, “I just love telling stories, whether than be in a song or movie, that’s really something that really excites me.”

She also noted that she’d like to collaborate with Noah Kahan, saying, “I think he’s so great and he’s very inspiring. One of these days.”

Rodrigo, meanwhile, is coming off a super successful 2023. Her sophomore album Guts was a major hit, as it went No. 1 and yielded the chart-topping single “Vampire” and the top-10 hit “Bad Idea Right?.” She’s also on the list of artists rumored to be headlining Coachella this year, although that has yet to be confirmed.

About a month ago now, Seth Meyers hosted Dua Lipa for what has become one of his most beloved Late Night segments, in which he and a celebrity guest spend some time day drinking together. At the end of their segment, it was noted that Dua wasn’t doing too hot with all the alcohol and actually had to leave the shoot early.

Well, Lipa returned to Late Night yesterday (January 9), where she and Meyers had a post-mortem on what happened and took care of some unfinished business, including getting the matching tattoos they initially planned to have done while day drinking.

Before that, though, they had an interview, in which Dua broke down what happened on the fateful day. She explained that during a lunch break, she took to the bar bathroom, where she promptly fell asleep before her team pulled the plug on the shoot and got her out of there in a wheelchair.

Later in the show, Meyers and Lipa did a couple things they didn’t get to do while day drinking. First there was the Barbie Dreamhouse shot luge, and then there was the ink. Celebrity tattoo artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy was on hand to do the deed, and while Lipa noted she already has some tattoos, this was Meyers’ first. So, he seemed relatively nervous about the whole thing, but he ultimately went through with it, matching Lipa’s small ankle tattoo of a star with one of his own, but on his calf.

Check out the clips above.

With the new year comes plenty of resolutions we all vow to keep up with the best of intentions. But by February 1, our resolve has often waned as life gets in the way and things go back to how they were. What we all need a little more of is motivation.

When we participate in something collectively, it’s easier to meet goals and maintain the enthusiasm to get things done. While the support of a friend or two is great, imagine having the power of an entire online community cheering you on and offering advice along the way.

This is where the Daily Decluttering Challenge Facebook group comes in. This online community offers easy-to-implement advice for decluttering, organizing, and cleaning up your home and your life with support from 125,000 members.

“By building a network of people who can support and encourage you along the way, you can make progress towards your goals faster and more effectively. Remember, no one achieves success alone, and having a strong support system can make the difference in a goal set versus a goal achieved,” says Kristin Burke, a goal achievement coach.

In addition to tips for tidying up around the house, members share advice on how to tackle one thing at a time, where to donate excess items, and what they do to exercise more willpower to avoid buying new things.

For anyone hoping to declutter their lives in the new year, this Facebook group has the perfect challenge to get you started.

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Beginning in January, members kicked off 2024 by focusing on junk mail, emails, and drawers for the first week. Then they will move into different areas of the house, breaking it up into one room a week. There will also be 17 different community chats that offer additional tasks to challenge you every 2-3 days and encourage you to keep going and know you’re not alone.

Here are a few tips from Stacey Smith, the group admin, to get you started:

1. Start small. Set a timer for 15 to 20 minutes and see what you can accomplish during this time.
2. Focus on a single area at a time. A lot of the group members recommend focussing on a flat surface area, such as your bedside table or an area near where you sit. Keeping a space decluttered that you always see can inspire you to take the next step.
3. Take pictures of your progress. You don’t always notice the progress that you’re making, so taking a before and after photo of your decluttering projects can help you see the transformation you’re making.
4. Break up your tasks. If you get overwhelmed, take a step back and break your project up into smaller tasks. For example, if you’re working on a junk drawer, start by getting rid of all the trash and broken items first so it becomes more manageable.
5. Don’t worry about how long it takes you. If it takes you a week to clean out a single drawer, that’s OK. It isn’t a race. The clutter didn’t happen overnight, so you can’t expect to have it cleared out overnight, either.

If you’ve got decluttering on your list of 2024 resolutions, this Facebook group is for you. Don’t be one of the 43% of people who quit their resolutions by the end of January. Instead, let the online peer support keep you motivated for January and all year long.

Frasier Crane began his TV life ignominiously. The character that came to define Kelsey Grammer’s life was initially little more than the dorky, snooty, socially awkward psychiatrist Shelley Long’s Diane Chambers had started dating at the top of Cheers‘ third season. Diane, of course, still much preferred Ted Danson’s Sam Malone, but Frasier proved an endearing character, and the showrunners kept him hanging around Cheers right through the end. Diane made a few appearances on Frasier’s titular spinoff, though usually only in dreams. And now that the good doctor has his fancy new reboot, he’d like her back once more.

Per Entertainment Weekly, Grammer appeared on Kelly Clarkson’s daytime chat show, where he confessed that he “would like to see Diane come back.” It wouldn’t be just a novelty. He thinks Frasier and her have some unfinished business, that he needs to “put something to bed” with her, so they “end up with a nice thing between them.”

Though Frasier bounced back from Diane but good, marrying (for a time) Bebe Neuwirth’s far more similar — and far more uptight — Lilith, it was always clear Frasier never totally got over her.

“When I first got the role, the key to Frasier for me was that he loved her with his whole heart, that he loved with all of his being. And that actually defined who he is,” Grammer reflected. “He’s been that way ever since. He just goes in wholeheartedly with everything — and that’s what makes him funny.”

So will Frasier and Diane meet once more to bury the hatchet for good? Possibly! Long’s turns as Diane is one of sitcom history’s all-timer runs, and it’s always a treat to see her.

The new Frasier streams on Paramount+.

(Via EW)

History is full of great stories about bitter battles between loyal opposition. In basketball, there was Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. In the ’80s, harsh political battles were fought between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill. But all of these rivals respected their opposition as competitors in their respective fields. Now, a year-long battle between a cleaning crew and a street artist can be added to history’s legendary battles between loyal opposition.

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Mobstr is a London-based street artist famous for the sarcastic typographic-based graffiti he’s written across London’s walls and billboards. His cat-and-mouse relationship with an unidentified city worker began on July 17, 2014, and would continue for an entire year.

“I cycled past this wall on the way to work for years,” Mobstr wrote on his website. ” I noticed that graffiti painted within the red area was ‘buffed’ with red paint. However, graffiti outside of the red area would be removed via pressure washing. This prompted the start of an experiment. Unlike other works, I was very uncertain as to what results it would yield.”

Watch the video below and see what happens:

This article originally appeared on 09.23.17.

Gordon Ramsay is not exactly known for being nice.

Or patient.

Or nurturing.

On his competition show “Hell’s Kitchen,” he belittles cooks who can’t keep up. If people come to him with their problems, he berates them. If someone is struggling to get something right in the kitchen, he curses them out.

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His whole TV persona is based on being the world’s worst boss.

Ramsay went on Reddit and allowed users to ask him any question they wanted.

So when a fellow cook asked him a sincere, deeply personal question about what to do when you’ve hit a roadblock in your career, you could probably guess what was coming.

Indeed, I thought the guy was making a terrible mistake pouring his heart out to a chef as notoriously tough as Ramsay:

“My hopes and dreams are nowhere to be found as I scale and portion salmon after salmon, shelling pods after pods of broad beans.
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Sometimes I look out the tiny window and I can see people walking around the streets, enjoying the sunlight, while I’m here, questioning my dedication to this art as I rotate stock in the cool room, getting frost bitten, but the fear of the chef stops me from stepping outside to warm up.
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The closest thing to feeling any kind of joy I get is those rare moments when I walk through the dining room near the end of service to get some coffee for everyone, and there will be a few diners left, idly sampling those little petite fours that we’ve painstakingly ensured are all perfectly round, identical, and just plain delicious. Then, one of them will stop the conversation they’re having with their company, look up from their food and say, ‘Thank you, chef. This is delicious,’ and making the previous 14-hours of sweat and tears kind of worthwhile.

My question is, how did you deal with it? How the fuck did you deal with all the bullshit, Gordon?”

But the way Ramsay responded? Totally amazing. And completely unexpected.

Turns out, real-life Gordon Ramsay? He actually can be a really kind, big-hearted dude.

He’s sympathetic to the guy. Not just because he’s a good person. But because he’s been there.

Working in restaurants is a tough, tough business. As of 2012, the average salary for cooks was less than $23,000/year. And those who are just starting out often have to work unglamorous, tedious jobs that no one else wants to do. Ramsay didn’t have fancy culinary school training. He rose up through the ranks putting in long hours for low pay in kitchens all over the world. That’s why he gets it.

Which brings up another point.

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When we go out to eat, we, as a culture, tend to behave … how should I put this?

Let’s go with “not like perfect angels.”

Of course, no one likes getting the wrong order. Or waiting a really long time for a meal. Or eating something that doesn’t taste the way you expect it to.

But it’s important to remember that the people behind the food, like Ramsay’s anonymous letter-writer, might be working 14-hour days. Or might be a recent immigrant who speaks limited English, trying to support a family thousands of miles away. And possibly making very little money. And sure, they screw up sometimes. But we all screw up at our jobs sometimes.

Because they, like the rest of us, are human beings.

Which is why saying…

“Thank you, chef. This is delicious.”

Could mean everything to someone.

This article originally appeared on 04.22.15