Modern Beauty Trends: In: Kardashian “Family Feud”

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

In: Kardashian “Family Feud” | Out: Jennifer Lawrence’s Time

Madonna is not here for the new age of manufactured pop music. Jennifer Lawrence isn’t here for Phantom Thread.
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Phantom Thread, According to Jennifer Lawrence

Watching Every Single Oscar-Nominated Film

The Oscars are this Sunday, meaning you have precious little time to catch up on all the nominated films, if you haven’t seen them already (thankfully, a few are available on streaming, and many are now rentable on iTunes). But don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s somewhat of an open secret that not all Oscar voters actually see all the films, which is something Jennifer Lawrence recently admitted. She’s been a voting member of the Academy for seven years, but in an appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, she said she turned off six-time nominee Phantom Thread after just three minutes. “I couldn’t give that kind of time. It was three minutes, and I was just [oof],” she said. “Is [Daniel Day-Lewis’s character] kind of like a narcissistic sociopath, and he’s an artist so every girl falls in love him because he makes her feel bad about herself, and that’s the love story? I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know. I’ve been down that road, I know what that’s like, I don’t need to watch that movie [laughs].” To be fair, that description of Day-Lewis’s character is apt for the first three minutes, if not the entire first act. Then the film firmly shifts itself to the point of view of Vicky Krieps’s character, and she’s the one who makes him fall in love with her by making him feel bad about… Well, let’s just say she makes him feel bad and leave it at that. Perhaps Lawrence might have been into the movie if she had stuck with it. Still, there’s only so much time in the day.

Celebrity Family Feud, Suddenly

The Hiltons

It’s easy to forget that Celebrity Family Feud is not just a Saturday Night Live skit, but rather an actual TV show of its own. Indeed, the Steve Harvey–hosted show has actually booked one of the biggest celebrity families in existence, the Kardashians, and the episode is quickly turning into one of the most-talked-about game-show episodes in years (unless, of course, you count the “Snatch Game”). Reportedly, the show was supposed to pit the Kardashians against the Hiltons, but the Hiltons pulled out. So producers decided to make it the Kardashian-Jenners vs. the Kardashian-Wests, with Kim and her husband, Kanye, joining three friends (including Jonathan Cheban) as they face off against the rest of the Kardashian family. According to Page Six, Khloé and Kendall end up playing the Fast Money round and do great. And if you’re wondering whose idea this was, apparently it was all Kanye’s. “Kanye said he’s waited his whole life for this moment, Family Feud,” Kim told her SnapChat audience.

New Music From Madonna?

Modern Songwriting Camps

Often, our reactions to Madonna’s use of social media is not unlike our reactions to our own mothers’ use of social media. Which is to say, “OMG! Stop! You’re not supposed to do this on here! It’s embarrassing!” Unlike our own mothers, though, Madonna is a true pop icon, and her candidness on social media gives us a glimpse into her process. A few weeks ago, she hinted that she’s working on new music for the first time since the release of 2015’s Rebel Heart. But a comment she left on her manager’s Instagram makes us think it’s not going so well. Manager Guy Oseary posted a tribute to the 20th anniversary of her album Ray of Light, a critical highpoint in Madonna’s oeuvre, and Madge herself commented by lamenting the bygone days of producing pop music. “Remember when i made records with other artists from beginning to end and I was allowed to be a visionary and not have to go to songwriting camps where No one can sit still for more than 15 minutes,” she wrote. Indeed, it’s become common practice for record labels to assemble a bunch of writers and producers in a house for a few weeks to collaborate and churn out a record for a pop star. This is part of the reason we get pop songs with nine listed songwriters and four producers. This is not, traditionally, how Madonna has worked. Most of her classics were created in one-on-one sessions, and apparently she’s not into the new model. Still, she seems determined to give the world something soon. She closed out her rant by promising, “coming soon.”

Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert

@Bat_Gio

W Contributing Fashion Editor Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert was so inspired by Gucci’s severed heads on the runway that she became an early adopter of the latest trend sweeping Instagram: the #GucciChallenge.