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Friends: The Reunion (HBO Max feature-length special) — The whole O.G. gang is back in one place, which means that Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courteney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer), and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) are all here. Sadly, Paul Rudd is not on the scene, but there’s a buffay (get it?) of guest stars here to reinforce why this pop-culture phenomenon remains popular to this day, and why, oftentimes, friends can become your family.

Rugrats: Season 1 (Paramount+ series) — The 2021 revival of this series brings the babies back into action mode, which means that Tommy Pickles is leading his gang on a whole new set of adventures, this time in full-on three-dimensional CGI rendering. In the debut episode, dinosaurs are on the scene while Tommy helps Chuckie after his intent to appear brave does not go as planned.

Ragnarok: Season 2 (Netflix series) — This coming-of-age drama with a Norse mythology framework returns to show us more gloriously breathtaking Norwegian slices of nature. Unfortunately, not all goes smoothly, given that the residents of Edda are dealing with the effects of climate change, including melting poles, warm winters, and drastic, unpredictable changes in weather. Mysterious inhabitants turn this into a bit of a cautionary tale and a lot of entertainment.

From Cradle To Stage (Paramount+ series) — This Dave Grohl-directed series follows Dave and his mom, Virginia, meeting up with another artist and their mom each week. This week, Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile arrives with her mom, Teresa, to guide Dave and Virginia around Ravensdale, Washington. Brandi’s trajectory from a tomboy kid to an openly gay artist gets the spotlight. Also, moms rule, and so does Dave Grohl.

Madagascar: A Little Wild: Season 3 (Hulu series) — Yep, this is the series that continues those lively, circus-life movies and the franchise that will (and parents will love this) never retire. Essentially, it’s a CGI musical comedy that follows four animal lead characters who live at the Central Park Zoo while dreaming big, as one does in New York City. And of course, this is all about never, ever declining to pursue one’s dreams.

Eden (Netflix series) — A city called “Eden 3” is filled with robots who no longer have human-boss types, which means that many robots now believe that humans never really existed at all and are only a myth. Naturally, a human baby girl shows up and throws the bots’ worldview into disarray.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 9:00pm) — Benson digs into an unusual case of domestic violence involving Garland’s injured neighbor. A conflict of interest? Perhaps.

Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC, 10:00pm) — Stabler’s checking the final boxes on his quest to find out who really wanted Kathy dead while Angela’s attempting to get her kids away from Wheatley, and Bell’s family files a massive lawsuit.

Rebel (ABC, 10:00pm) — Cruz ignores Rebel’s advice and uses a perhaps-wrong-yet-familiar source to find evidence on the faulty Stonemore valve. Meanwhile, teamwork is in order to help Ziggy get things done.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Bradley Whitford, Carlos Watson

Jimmy Kimmel Live — Emma Stone, Rory Scovel, Chloe Moriondo

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Michael Douglas, Billy Porter, Mustafa

The Late Late Show With James Corden — Emily Blunt, Elle King

Flo Milli, the breakthrough Alabama artist who put the early half of the quarantine in a chokehold with her fan-favorite mixtape Ho, Why Is You Here?, is nowhere to be found on the list of nominees for the 2021 BET Awards — and now, fans want answers. While the Best Female Hip Hop artist nominees include shoo-ins Cardi B, Coi Leray, Doja Cat, Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, and Saweetie, Flo Milli’s name climbed into Twitter’s top trending topics as many wondered why she wasn’t nominated herself after dropping beloved singles like “Weak” and “Send The Addy” and featuring on Yung Baby Tate’s viral hit “I Am.” She was, however, nominated for Best New Artist.

Some fans complained that Flo Mili’s absence — as well as those of names like Chika, Tierra Whack, and Yung Baby Tate — constituted colorism on BET’s part. “If Flo Milli was yellow, then she’d be on the list,” asserted one fan. Another grouped Chika and Tierra Whack with Flo Milli, asking, “Wtf is going on???”

“Flo Milli didn’t rebrand the entire state of Alabama to get snubbed like this,” one fan said. However, another pointed out the lack of statistical support for claims of the Mobilian’s popularity. “Everyone in the quotes acting confused on why Flo Milli not nominated when y’all don’t even support her offline,” they wrote. “Her mixtape peaked at #78 and none of her singles charted. Y’all need to stop showing fake love because she is talented.”

And while much of the outcry focused on Coi Leray’s two 2021 singles blowing up, they seemed to overlook her 2020 EP Now or Never, which was supported by a number of well-received singles, and the three years of foundation building she’d done with appearances on the Spider-Verse soundtrack and breakout single “Huddy.”

Of course, invested fans can spot a snub for any given award show and this isn’t even the first time that BET has been called out in this particular field. In 2017, Dreezy called out the BET Awards for including multiple women who hadn’t even released projects in the prior year, so while there’s no pleasing everybody, there’s at least been a tremendous amount of progress made in the years since. And hey, there’s always next year.

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Following a recent series of on-air spats between Meghan McCain and Joy Behar that eventually resulted in Whoopi Goldberg exploding on McCain and ABC News president Kim Godwin reportedly ordering an emergency meeting to calm things down, McCain’s mom, Cindy, has weighed in on her daughter’s shouting matches, and she’s not a fan.

While stopping by Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show, Cindy was asked how she reacts when she sees her “tough cookie” of a daughter get into it with her co-hosts. After revealing that the family nickname for Meghan is “John McCain in a dress,” she said that she appreciates how Meghan “stands up for what she believes in,” even if Cindy doesn’t agree with some of Meghan’s views. But as for the recent spat of confrontations that required Whoopi to dress down Meghan, Cindy admits that it’s not too great to see for her as a mother. Via Mediaite:

“Yeah, from a mom – you teach your children to be polite and be nice to other people and all that kind of stuff, and it does make me cringe a little bit,” she admitted. “But again, it’s her job and it’s what she does, and it’s Whoopi’s job to keep the peace, so I understand everything that’s going on there. But as a mom, yeah, it does bother me a little bit.”

In Meghan’s defense, tensions have noticeably cooled this week on The View despite reports that Meghan allegedly stormed out of the emergency meeting on Monday. However, it’s anyone’s guess as to how long the peace will last.

(Via SiriusXM)

This summer we’re packing up some bare essentials, loading up the car, and hitting the road with our friends for our first slice of real-live, full-on summer since the pandemic started. We’re more than psyched to start exploring the world beyond our local supermarkets and since last summer was just kept to our quarantine clusters, we’re ready to make some memories with friends we haven’t seen.

What better way to remember a trip with the people you’ve missed most than by taking lots of photos to document everything? But after all that time spent in isolation our photo game is looking rusty (selfie game and Pokemon Snap skills are on point, though). So to get some tips on how to snap memorable pictures, we reached out to professional travel photographer and Nikon ambassador Taylor Jackson for tips.

Before Jackson linked up with Nikon, he was hard at work documenting his travels and piloting a series that would take him around the world. So he’s got all the expertise we need to really help bring our travel photos to life.

“Maybe five or six years ago… I thought ‘I’m going to go ahead and make my own portfolio and travel on my own budget,’ hopefully, someone will see the benefit of having their brand tied to that,” Jackson tells me over the phone. “We were fortunate enough to partner with Nikon to do what would eventually become the travel show, Around the World. They basically left us to our own devices to go out and do what we want, and come back with 10 episodes and a bunch of shorts… it was a real dream come true that they trusted us to go out and do that to come back with a series we put on Youtube.”

Jackson’s Youtube is also full of other great photo-centric content from portrait tips to photography tutorials, so definitely check that out after exploring the advice offered here. Let’s jump in!

Your photos have a tendency to look so hyper-realistic it’s almost otherwordly, what are some of your tips for capturing that otherworldly vibe in photos?

I think that most great travel and landscape photography is all about timing and being in the right place at the right time. So you, fortunately, have a lot of control over that, but it, unfortunately, involves waking up early in the morning to catch that morning golden hour sunrise or staying out during what would be a normal dinner time to get those photos at the evening golden hour.

A lot of it just comes from lighting and the right place and right time, some good fortune thrown in there as well as watching the weather and taking whatever opportunities are available.

Sometimes you get very fortunate and you’re in the right place and the right time and you have a camera, other times a lot of planning has to go into it to really make those shots come to life. A certain level of it is thanks to post-production as well, you have to know what you want the final image to look like when you start the edit to make sure that it fulfills your vision of what happened, you also have to know the possibilities of what’s possible in what you captured in the raw file.

Are there any new photo tools you’ve discovered that have really helped your photo-taking and editing process? What tools would you suggest?

For travel and landscape and if you’re out in the world working on photos, Lightroom Mobile is really useful. I’ll be taking my photos out in the field and instantly be able to do an edit. I use to have to go home sit down and… it’s a whole process, but now when I get the image that I know is the final image, I can just go in and start editing right on my phone. That speeds things up a lot.

It’s unlocked a lot of potential in terms of what can be shared what’s currently happening and what’s going on and not creating backend workflow that really stresses you out if you don’t take many photos and you come home and have all these photos to go through. It’s really easy to just make those selections when you’re out in the field and then they’re just final images at that point.

Your landscape and travel photography has a much different mood than your portrait work, what tools do you use to set the mood of a photo?

The lighting is so crucial to any moment, you can make something feel incredibly romantic or otherworldly, it has such a tremendous impact!

Especially around post-sunset, when it starts to get into that blue hour and the incandescent lights on buildings start to match with the sky, there are really some interesting opportunities when you start paying attention to those really dynamic times of the day. Maybe that’s only a 20-25 minute process from that golden hour to the weird blue hour, and if you really know what you want to do within that you can really create some cool and unique moments. They don’t seem like they’d exist in normal life yet they exist every day — you just have to start noticing them!

What about when lighting conditions aren’t ideal? How can you take a spontaneous photo to the next level?

It’s all about experimentation. There is opportunity within any light you’re given you just have to be aware of those and know what will work. That’s the most important thing. I’m never really in the most ideal lighting environments, especially when doing client work or out on wedding days. You maybe get 10 minutes over sunset but the rest of the day is usually in really challenging light. Knowing what’s possible and knowing to have people look towards the light or away from the light or to know when to meter for the background or meter for the people facing the camera.

There are too many variables but just experimenting and seeing what works is the best way to do it.

How much time do you typically spend in post? What are you trying to fix, how heavy is your editing hand?

I try to keep things realistic to what is in the scene. I won’t be replacing skies or anything like that, I feel like you start to get into the more artistic side of photography at that point, which is totally cool if that’s something you’re interested in. But for me at least, anything that’s happening in that scene is fair game and I’m just trying to make every element look as good as it possibly can.

In post-production, I’m usually balancing the image overall for color or for tones, for instance in the sunset, if the sky is all bright and the foreground all of a sudden gets really shadowy then I’m going to bring that up a little bit in post-production just to balance out the scene as best I can but beyond that, I don’t do anything too crazy or anything that can’t be done in-camera.

That’s my personal limit. If I can’t do it in the camera or in the darkroom then I probably don’t want to be pushing past that. But that just comes down to style, overall when you’re putting together a portfolio of work on an Instagram page, if you do all these different styles it starts to look really eclectic.

What post-production tools do you use beside Lightroom?

I’ll also edit with Instagram, believe it or not, it’s incredibly powerful now as far as an image editor, especially if you’re taking images with your phone, it’ll know how to interpret those images a lot better.

On the computer, I use Lightroom and maybe Photoshop if there are any specific edits I need to do that are more within the image, like if I need to fix a tree and I want to modify that so it doesn’t stand out, but usually global adjustments I’m all doing within Lightroom.

As a wedding photographer coming home at the end of the day and having 300 to 400 images to go through the speed of Lightroom really helps me out there a lot. When I’m doing landscape images I have more room to sit with the files, so typically a landscape image will go from Lightroom as a global edit and then end up in Photoshop for the finalization of it whereas wedding and portrait work goes through Lightroom and gets batch processed for skin smoothing and a few other small things.

It seems as if this summer is going to be the summer of road trips. For those not willing or wanting to carry all this gear with them, what are the essentials tools you would need in your photography kit if you wanted to document your adventures of the summer?

For the photography kit, I like to go as simple as possible whether I’m out at a wedding or I’m ‘out doing landscape photography. It is nice to be prepared and to bring everything with you but I find if I put myself in a box I’m forced to be creative with what I’ve got.

I would say a 50mm Prime is a great tool to have out there. When you’re on a road trip or traveling with friends and family, the best thing to come back with is a few nice landscape photos but also great photos of everyone you were there with. I think that’s what’s truly important 10 to 20 years from now so a fifty-millimeter lens is definitely something that will make those images a lot better. I like the 50mm Prime because it separates everyone from the background with this really nice depth of field that looks real and natural and it’s not something you can just replicate with portrait mode on your phone, it feels completely different.

When you actually print things out, and you should print photos, it has a completely different feeling it feels like you’re in the moment again which is so cool.

You take a lot of really great night photos, what tips and advice do you have for people who want to capture images at night with the same kind of vivid color and detail

Night images rely the most on your technology. You can do an okay job with the phone, but if you have something like the Nikon Z6II, the files that come off that camera give you almost unlimited freedom with what you can do, within reason. So with night shots I would really heavily on what’s possible in post-production, you can see the scene in real life but the way it captures it might not be there yet and it just needs a little finesse in post-production.

That’s something that helps enable that process, a great camera that produces great raw files.

When international travel opens up again where is the fit place you’re excited to go take some pictures?

Tokyo Japan. I check every other day to see if Japan is open to foreign visitors. It’s an amazing city, I saw the movie Lost in Translation a bunch of years ago and fell in love with Japan because of that, and then as I got there I realized the experience can be really similar your first time. You go to Shinjuku and you see the lights and all the noise but by day three or four you realize a little bit more about what the city actually is like.

It’s the calmest quiet place in the world. You’re in a major city but the noise floor is so low you could hear a pin drop in subway traffic.

It is very strange and very surreal, I get completely relaxed and calm when I go there. Also, being from the Toronto area, I’m 12 hours flipped, so my workday is through the nighttime there — I have the full day to explore and I’m not getting hit with emails and notifications because everyone I know is asleep. The culture and the people are amazing, the food is incredible, its a place I’ve been a couple of times every year for the last 10 years now.

I saw that you went to the real-life Mario Kart circuit in Tokyo, what was that experience like?

It’s crazy that that existed! It may or may not come back but I’m hoping it does its the craziest thing. You’re in street-legal go-karts in open traffic but you’re only maybe a foot and a half off the ground, you’re literally in a Mario Kart but you’re also in traffic with large trucks and taxis, it is absolutely crazy they are allowed to do that.

It’s so much fun you drive around with a couple of your friends in a group of maybe 6 or 7 karts, you get to select your costume before you go or you can bring your own costume, and you just drive around. There is a chase vehicle if you don’t want to drive, it’s a Tuk-tuk they brought in from Thailand, I think it’s the only tuk-tuk in Tokyo that I’ve seen. Even not driving the Mario kart is so much fun — it’s a weird experience that I’m happy exists somewhere in the world.

Who knew that in the year of our lord Olivia Rodrigo 2021, dating apps would be the battleground on which vaccinated singles and anti-vaxxers would wage their final war?

In case you missed it, President Joe Biden’s been working with popular dating apps like Tinder and Bumble to encourage young singles to get their shot. These platforms provide incentives for members who can prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. Sure, the real perk of getting jabbed is that your risk of contracting a deadly virus (that’s killed hundreds of thousands in this country alone) lowers exponentially, but hey, millennials and Gen-Zers want to get laid too. Win, win.

Except now, the anti-vax community is taking a page from Biden’s social media marketing push by offering up their own dating app specifically for singles who don’t get the COVID-19 vaccine. No, really. It’s called “Unjected” — we know, the jokes write themselves — and it claims to be a service created by two mothers in Hawaii who “believe in true science & the scientific method.”

According to the platform’s website, its creators believe that “Covid-19 vaccines are shedding dangerous spike proteins” and that “those who have chosen not to be a part of the trials have documented adverse events after being exposed to the Vaccinated.” Fact check: this is obviously not true. Still, the ladies want to offer a safe space for unvaccinated individuals to “come together uncensored through business, friendship or love.” Because, you know, public spaces like grocery stores and that annual family barbeque is now going to be off-limits unless you’re fine possibly dying from a completely preventable virus.

This is an actual graphic from Unjected’s Instagram page:

And so is this:

Now look, we can’t really tell if this is a parody, or just an idea so absurd, so devoid of brain cell function that it just reads like a parody. Also, anti-vax rhetoric is becoming increasingly dangerous for society as a whole, so we don’t want to downplay the seriousness of how harmful this kind of thinking really is.

But dammit, some Twitter comebacks are just too good to ignore.

Eric Carle may be best known for his beloved children’s classic, “A Very Hungry Caterpillar,” but he actually created more than 70 children’s books in his 91 years of life. His unique paper collage illustration style makes his books distinctive and instantly recognizable. With his passing this week, the world has lost not only an artist but a simply lovely human being, according to a delightful viral story shared by writer Lara B. Sharp on Facebook.

Sharp wrote:

“Eric Carle, the incredible children’s book author, has passed away…

Many years ago my chonky cat Julian — I called him The Shmoo — was let out of my apartment by an irresponsible and perhaps, in hindsight, diabolical landlord of my rent-stabilized apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was absolutely devastated, of course, so I posted homemade fliers: Have You Seen My Cat? — with several of The Shmoo’s photos, and offering a substantial reward, ALL over the neighborhood.

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The SchmooLara B. Sharp

Shortly after my fliers were up I received a phone call from a very concerned man telling me that HE was going out to look for my cat. Every day, for five days, morning and night, this unknown man called me to ask after my lost cat, and every day he reported back to me about his own search… He was so unbelievably kind to me, while I sobbed into my landline telephone… I told him that I had no education, and no career, and no family, and a boyfriend who was all Boy, and No friend… The Shmoo, my rescued dumpster cat, was my Everything… I talked and talked and talked about myself, and he endlessly listened…

Eventually, my extremely overweight cat was returned to me from the kitchen of the Italian restaurant a block away. He spent the whole time there, eating ravioli and meatballs. Aside from being four pounds heavier and stinking of roasted garlic and stewed tomatoes, he was fine.

The SchmooLara B. Sharp

The first person I called with the great news was the nice man on the phone!

He was as happy as I was about the return of The Shmoo, and he asked if he could meet him… Normally I’d be like, ‘Nah bro, you ain’t gettin’ my address’, but this unknown, older gentleman was so kind and so supportive of me – like the dad that I’d never had – that I said I’d love to meet him, and have him meet my fat, beloved kitty…

When he arrived, because I knew he loved cats, and not much else about him, and because I wanted to express my gratitude, I gave him a huge stuffed cat from FAO Schwartz as a gift, and after he met The Shmoo, as he was leaving, he handed me a thin envelope…

Inside, was a beautiful book, called ‘Have You Seen My Cat’, and it was signed by the author, Eric Carle.

The sensitive, selfless person who listened to my sobbing, for days on end, called me twice a day, and physically searched all of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for my chubby lost cat, was the famous children’s book author Eric Carle.

The revelation was so stunning to me that terminal shyness set in, and I never phoned him again.

To be treated like a daughter, when I’d never had a father, and by such an important person, who cared so much about a kitty that I loved so dearly, meant more to me than I was able to express at that time…

All these years later, it still means just as much. Many years later, when The Shmoo eventually passed away, I had him cremated with an Eric Carle postcard of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

I’ve never told this story before, because it was so precious of an experience that I kept it to myself.

I’m sharing it today, because I have so much love for him, and I always will, and because I can’t stop thinking of him. I will never, ever forget him.

For five whole days, I had the world’s greatest dad.

‘Have You Seen MY Eric Carle?'”

People are loving Sharp’s story, as it gives us a glimpse into the private character of the man most of us only know through his kids’ books. What a lovely tribute to an author who not only brought joy into the lives of millions of families with his books, but who also took the time to help a stranger who needed support.

Rest in peace, Mr. Carle. Thank you for making our world a bit brighter while you were here.

There are few things more frustrating than going through the job interview process and not being told how much the position pays. It takes a lot of time and effort to update a resume, write a cover letter, and fill out an application. After that, there could be multiple interviews.

So, for an employer to make someone go through all of that effort only to find out that the pay is insufficient is seriously unprofessional. However, it happens all the time.

Companies that refuse to disclose a salary or hourly pay in a job posting are also perpetuating racial and gender pay gaps because people who already work for the company have no idea what the new employee is getting paid.

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Employers that claim to believe in diversity and inclusivity surely are not walking the walk if they are hiding what they’re paying new hires.

Writer Matt Wallace sounded off on his frustration with companies that don’t disclose their salaries in job postings and he got a lot of agreement.

Seriously I’m sick to my fucking gills of job postings, especially freelance , that list NINE GODDAMN PAGES of educ… https://t.co/3AwP954KNa

— Matt Wallace (@MattFnWallace)
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And for folks applying for those vague-ass gigs: When they preemptively hit you with, “So what are you looking for,… https://t.co/eETVQCrbFC

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So why are some employers less than transparent about compensation throughout the interview process? One reason is that withholding salary information gives employers better negotiating power. It also allows them to avoid competition with other companies in the same industry.

Keeping quiet about money also avoids competition between current and new employees, especially in a tight job market.

“In certain labor markets or in a tight labor market situation, employers may have to pay higher salaries to attract new employees than existing ones (a situation known as salary inversion). This can cause resentment among existing employees,” Professor Eddie Ng, the James and Elizabeth Freeman Professor of Management at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, told Bored Panda.

Wallace’s tweets inspired a lot of people to share how they handle salary negotiations with new employers.

Unfortunately, employers are going to continue to keep potential new hires in the dark over compensation for the foreseeable future. But there’s a growing movement to make it illegal for new employers to ask about your salary history. So when you do get the chance to discuss money, ask for as much as you can. In about half the states in the U.S., your pay history is no longer holding you back.

2004’s Dawn of the Dead and 2021’s Army of the Dead are two of director Zack Snyder’s three highest rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes, which is definitive proof that he should only make zombie movies (no one on the internet will be upset with this opinion). It’s fair to wonder with the similar titles and subject material if one is a sequel to the other, but Snyder says they’re not.

“I developed it right after Dawn, but not as a sequel,” he told Screenrant. “I wanted to do this other evolution in it of the zombies, so I needed another trope. I needed another origin story in order to make this other thing work, so I was like, ‘Okay, it can live in its own universe.’ And now we’re building this universe like nuts, so we’ll see. It’s kind of fun.” That being said, Army viewers have spotted a possible connection to Dawn.

Around the 30-minute mark of the Netflix movie, Marianne Peters, played by “sexy AF” Tig Notaro, is scrolling through her phone when a story about the United States nuking Las Vegas on July 4th catches her eye. Right below it, however, is this headline: “New Information Released About ’04 Zombie Outbreak In Milwaukee.” Dawn of the Dead takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was released in — you guessed it — 2004.

I already checked: Leonidas from 300 does not appear in a post-credits scene.

(Via Bloody Disgusting)

Ellis first cemented herself as a songwriter who pens lush bedroom pop songs that dissect big questions on her debut album. Titled Born Again, the effort focused on the intersection of music and spirituality. While it’s been just over a year since her debut full-length release, Ellis is gearing up for another project which she further previews with the gossamer single “What If Love Isn’t Enough.”

Over comfortingly warm guitar chords, the song questions Ellis’ views on romance. Her honeyed vocals melt over the dreamy instrumentals, lilting lyrics about second-guessing herself in the face of love. The track offers another preview of her upcoming EP Nothing Is Sacred Anymore, which she first announced last month with the shimmering track “Hospital.”

In a statement about the song’s meaning, Ellis says the song title is a nod to a question she tends to ask herself:

“I mean, this is a question I’ve asked myself a bunch, usually when I’m being a little bit dramatic which happens to be often. But I’ve also seen relationships fizzle out even when two people seem to really love each other. We place so much emphasis on love but I guess I just wonder about all the other stuff needed to make it last forever. I’m a hopeless romantic at heart but sometimes I’m just hopeless.”

Listen to Ellis’ “What If Love Isn’t Enough” above.

Nothing Is Sacred Anymore is out 6/25. Pre-order it here.

“The Mount Rushmore of [blank]” has become a common framework people like to use to establish who are the best or most important figures of a certain field. For example, The Rock once shared his list of people who would be on his personal Mount Rushmore of wrestling. Now there’s a Mount Rushmore of 2010s rap making the rounds, and Nicki Minaj (who was not included on it) has some thoughts… or rather, one concise but open-ended one.

This afternoon, the Twitter account for Spotify’s popular RapCaviar playlist shared a rendering of a 2010s rap Mount Rushmore, and the graphic features Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and one blank spot. The tweet asks, “Who takes the fourth spot on the Mount Rushmore of the 2010s?” Minaj saw that list and had a simple response, replying on Twitter, “Wow.”

Of course, “wow” could mean a lot of things. Perhaps Minaj is upset that she wasn’t one of the initial three rappers chosen. Aside from her own exclusion, maybe she doesn’t agree with RapCaviar’s picks. Or, maybe seeing Drake, Lamar, and Cole all together gave her perspective on how great hip-hop was in the 2010s and she was responding to that with awe. Whatever the case, the image certainly got a reaction out of Minaj.

It’s not hard to make a case for Minaj to appear on this Mount Rushmore. Her four studio albums (all released in the 2010s) have all been certified Platinum at least once, her first two topped the Billboard 200 chart, and her most recent two achieved chart peaks at No. 2. During the decade, between her own songs and featured appearances, she had 16 top-10 singles, including top-3 highlights like “Super Bass” and “Anaconda.” She also racked up ten Grammy nominations during the 2010s and has been dubbed by many as the “queen of rap.”