Ten minutes into our interview, Héloïse Letissier, the French singer who performs under the name Christine and the Queens, starts apologizing to me. She’s worried she’s not making any sense in English as she talks about writing “Tilted,” which TIME recently named one of the best songs of 2015. It’s an unnecessary apology—she’s actually just said something profound about thinking of our identities and emotions as a kind of performance, and it takes a second to soak in. Read More...
January 3, 2017 10:27 AM EST
“War never changes,” intones Ron Perlman at the outset of one of Bethesda’s war-torn futuristic Fallout roleplaying games. Also unchanging: the occasional conflation of made-up media depicting a news-reported activity with the real thing.
To wit, CNN seems to think the hacking mini-game in Fallout 4, the one with the retro terminals and Matrix-y code green-on-black code curtains, is the best way to illustrate Russian cyber-nefariousness. Read More...
"Your sister is dying and she’s struggling and where are you? You think you are so fabulous, but you are a witch!" Morgan tells the outlet. Morgan further claims that their sister, Alison Carey, fears she is close to death and is deeply hurt that Mariah has never visited her during her time in hospital. It’s this reason, coupled with Carey’s alleged refusal to support her, that prompted Morgan to criticise her publicly. Read More...