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Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Chappell Roan Bests Her Own Chart Record With One Of Her Oldest Songs
Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' hits 53 weeks on the Hot 100, becoming her longest-charting song, ... More beating "Good Luck, Babe!" by one frame. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 26: Chappell Roan performs during the 2024 Boston Calling Music Festival at Harvard Athletic Complex on May 26, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by) Most songs never spend a full year on the Hot 100, as the lifespan of an individual track on the tally can be relatively short. Many tunes debut, linger for a few frames, and then vanish for good. Those that are able to maintain a presence in listeners' ears, minds, and hearts for a year are rare. Oftentimes, by the time a track reaches that milestone, it's already on its way out – but that's not the case for Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club.' 'Pink Pony Club' Passes One Year on the Hot 100 The tune celebrated its first year on the Hot 100 just last week, and it hasn't budged since. This frame, it holds at No. 11 on Billboard's ranking of the most consumed tracks in the United States. As it holds, the years-old track earns a special spot in Roan's discography. With 53 weeks to its credit on the Hot 100, 'Pink Pony Club' is now officially the Grammy winner's longest-charting song ever. Last time around, that title was shared with 'Good Luck, Babe!' as both had managed exactly one year on the roster. 'Good Luck, Babe!,' which helped introduce Roan to the masses and make her a star, dropped off the tally after 52 frames. 'Pink Pony Club' looks like it will remain for weeks or even months longer, as it currently sits just one space below the top 10. Sales, Streams and Radio 'Pink Pony Club' is performing exceptionally well across all three consumption metrics that feed into the Hot 100. The tune jumps to No. 4 on the Digital Song Sales chart, making it the fourth bestselling track in America at the moment, more than half a decade after it first dropped. The tune also rises to No. 11 on the Radio Songs list and holds at No. 16 on the Streaming Songs tally. Continued airplay at pop radio is largely to thank for the tune's ongoing success, but Americans are also buying and streaming it in large numbers. Chappel Roan's Long Road to the Top 10 The fact that 'Pink Pony Club' is still present on the Hot 100 after so much time is incredible. Whenever any tune makes it to a year — and beyond — on the list, it's a major feat, but Roan's track required a particularly long road to get to this place. The singer-songwriter originally released the tune in 2020, but it didn't become a true hit until earlier this year. Roan highlighted the cut during her performance during the Grammy Awards, where she took home Best New Artist, and following that showing, the cut was pushed to radio and became a much bigger smash.
Daily Mirror
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
ITV The Masked Singer winner's 'must-see' film is now available to stream
Frozen fans can now relive the magic of the West End musical, starring Samantha Barks The Masked Singer winner Samantha Barks' "must-see" film is now available to stream. Samantha famously clinched the title in the sixth series of the popular ITV singing contest in February, with Gregory Porter and Marti Pellow coming in second and third place, respectively. Concealed behind the memorable Pufferfish mask, Samantha delivered a variety of pop and musical theatre classics. Viewers will recall her captivating performance of Chappell Roan's Good Luck, Babe, Teddy Swims' Lose Control, and Don't Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl. In the grand finale, Samantha performed a breathtaking duet with McFly's Danny Jones, belting out Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler, reports Surrey Live. Samantha first shot to fame in 2008 as one of the finalists in I'd Do Anything - the BBC talent hunt for a fresh face to play Nancy in the West End revival of Oliver! Since then, she has graced the stage in several hit musicals, including Cabaret, Chicago, and Pretty Woman. After portraying Éponine in Les Misérables on the West End, producer Cameron Mackintosh selected Samantha to reprise the role in the 25th Anniversary Concert of the show, and in the 2012 musical film. Her rendition of On My Own remains one of the most celebrated performances to date, even making it onto the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release. Most recently, she played Elsa in the West End production of Frozen, which ran from August 2021 to September 2024. Frozen enthusiasts can now experience the enchantment all over again as the stage production, captured at the stunning Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, is available to stream. The acclaimed Broadway and West End musical, which draws inspiration from Disney's hit film, was recorded early last year and made its debut on Disney+ today (Friday, June 20). Samantha takes on the role of the enchanting Queen Elsa, with Laura Dawkes portraying her lively younger sister Anna. Completing the principal line-up are Jammy Kasongo as Kristoff, Craig Gallivan as the lovable Olaf, Oliver Ormson playing Hans, and Richard Frame as the Duke of Weselton. Audiences can expect a dazzling display of music and magic on stage, complete with awe-inspiring surprises and top-notch special effects. In addition to the beloved original songs, the show introduces 12 new musical numbers. In a conversation with the WhatsOnStage podcast in March, Samantha expressed her delight at the prospect of her 20-month-old son, Rafael, being able to see her performance on Disney+. "It's really exciting. It was a really beautiful moment when we found out we were going to do that because you're doing a show like Frozen, which means so much to me professionally and personally," she said. "Having Raffi, I was thinking, 'Oh, he'll never see it'. And then you find out you're going to be filmed for Disney Plus, and it's like, 'Wow, it'll live on forever'. My nieces can watch it everyday and Raffi can watch it if he wants to." The West End production has been showered with accolades, as one theatre-goer exclaimed: "Magnificent is an understatement. I was overwhelmed with emotion at the whole thing, loved every minute." Equally impressed, another remarked: "I was blown away by the West End production. The singing is stirring, the orchestration is phenomenal, the visual effects are stunning! I was moved to tears," while someone else proclaimed: "It's the best stage musical. A truly must see production of this generation." Frozen the Musical is available to stream on Disney+
The Review Geek
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Pit Babe (Thai BL) – Season 2 Episode 7 Recap & Review
When it Rains… Episode 7 of Pit Babe Season 2 begins with the X-Hunter team celebrating their win at a bar. Noticeably missing are Babe and Charlie, who are still at the pit. Of course, we all know what is keeping them busy there. The others think that Babe and Charlie are making up, but they are wrong. Although Charlie is no longer angry, he wants to take some time to figure things out. In reality, Charlie simply wants to protect Babe and the team. Sadly, Babe thinks that Charlie is still mad at him and tries to coerce him to stay. Elsewhere, Willy meets with Toni to inform him that he has not been able to kidnap Charlie. Toni is unimpressed and reminds Willy that he gave him a second chance to be his perfect lap dog. He hits Willy on the face with his walking stick. In a flashback, we see Willy nearly dying in a street fight, but Toni stepped in to save him. Presently, Willy agrees to get Charlie for Toni. Back at the garage, Charlie arrives a bit late for practice and announces he is quitting the team to focus on the lab. The news catches everyone off guard, especially Alan. Later, Jeff follows Charlie to his place to get to the heart of the matter. Charlie tells him about Willy working for Toni and Toni's plan to capture him. Charlie is also concerned since Toni plans to kill everyone around him. Jeff is understanding but asks Charlie to reconsider his plans to be the lone hero. That night, Babe is unable to sleep in his house and sleeps at Alan's house. Babe begs Jeff to look into his future, but Jeff refuses. The following day, Alan goes to vent at Kim's house. Kim and Kenta try to calm him down. They notice that Alan has an injury and advise him to take it easy. Kenta gets a call from Pete, asking to meet. Once they meet, Kenta expresses his distrust in Chris, but Pete says he is not trying to replace Way with Chris. The topic turns to the data on the USB drive Kenta stole from one of Toni's buildings. According to Pete, there is a man who was captured by Toni, but he returned home mad. Kenta promises to look into it. Kim questions whether Kenta is jealous of Chris or looking out for Pete. In the meantime, Charlie goes back to Babe's place to pick up the last of his belongings. As expected, Babe is hurting, watching his man leave. He begs him to stay and tries to change Charlie's mind with kisses. Although difficult, Charlie resists Babe's tempting kisses and leaves after explaining that he loves him but needs some space. He makes sure all of Babe's details are in order and asks him not to drink too much. My heart was breaking in this scene! Meanwhile, Kim and Kenta follow up on the lead from Pete. They find the man, Kawin, who was once captured by Toni. Upon seeing them, Kawin gets scared and tries to run. They follow him and try to calm him down. However, Kawin is afraid and lashes out. Kim quickly moves to protect Kenta, and they overpower Kawin. Kawin tells them about his experience and mentions a demon snake. Even though Kawin barely said anything helpful, Kenta gets a clue from his rantings. Back at the garage, Alan announces that Dean will replace Charlie. Dean is happy to get a chance to prove himself again. On the other hand, Babe notices that Jeff is avoiding him. He corners him and asks what is going on. Jeff, unable to lie, tells Babe that Charlie is staying away to protect everyone from Toni. Babe heads straight to Charlie's house and finds him cooking. He embraces Charlie and asks him to stop resisting him. He reveals that he knows Charlie is trying to protect them, but it is not up to him to decide what to do. Babe makes Charlie promise that they will handle Toni together. Babe starts another seduction game with Charlie. You can literally see Charlie hanging by a thread. He asks Babe to leave after dinner, but Babe refuses. In fact, he heads to the shower and comes back with wet hair and only wearing a towel. He asks Charlie to dry his hair, and needless to say, things get hot and heavy quickly. I mean, Babe knows he is Charlie's weakness, and there is only so much temptation Charlie can handle! As they make sweet love on the couch, Jeff calls Charlie, but no one picks up. It turns out that soon after Jeff said goodbye to Alan, who was heading to the hospital, he had another vision. This time, Jeff starts to have a blurry vision. He attempts to drive himself to safety while calling Alan. By the time Alan picks up his call, Jeff is driving with no idea where he is. He gets into an accident, and the scene cuts to Jeff lying in a hospital bed. After their lovemaking, Charlie sees the missed call and calls back. Alan tells him that Jeff is currently in the hospital, and they rush there. Upon arriving, Jeff wakes up and seems frazzled. He tells them that he is seeing double vision. Babe, Charlie, and Alan walk outside his room to discuss Jeff's condition. Alan explains that he is supposed to have surgery for his chronic spinal compression in his neck, but that can wait. He wants to look after Jeff until the lab can figure out a way to save him. Babe advises Alan to look after himself, as he is the glue that keeps them going. All this time, Charlie sits, lost in his thoughts. The episode ends with Charlie walking into Jeff's room and siphoning his powers to save him. Jeff wakes up and tries to stop his brother. Unfortunately, it is too late, and they both pass out. The Episode Review PitBabe has done it again. This episode hit us with all the feels. From Charlie and Babe trying to fix their relationship to Jeff being overwhelmed by his powers. Of course, that sweet moment between Kim and Kenta also had us blushing. I know some of you are disappointed with Charlie for seemingly taking Babe back. However, you need to understand that after calming down, Charlie forgave Babe. Charlie's main concern right now is keeping everyone safe. At the end of the day, Charlie loves Babe and will do everything to protect him. It is sad that Charlie never puts himself first, and he should learn to. Unfortunately, in this situation, that is not his priority. One of Charlie's annoying yet noble traits is that he is selfless. As for Babe, he has probably learned his lesson. He has seen that he can't live without Charlie. This is why he is ready to give up everything to fix things with Charlie. In Africa, we have a saying that translates to – You shouldn't interfere with the business of two people who have slept under one blanket. In Charlie and Babe's case, let's roll with this for now! This episode also gave us a bit of background on Willy. Once again, Toni found a puppet to do his bidding. It is unclear why Willy seems scared of Charlie. Nonetheless, Toni is hounding him to get Charlie, and Willy is about to become another villain of circumstance. Of course, we have to circle back to why Charlie saved Jeff. This was the only way to keep Jeff safe until they found another option. So far, the skill-nullifying drug production is still ongoing. The results have been disappointing, and Jeff would have gotten worse with time. The only concern now is how these new powers will affect Charlie.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Federal Prosecutors Are Starting To Sound Like Campus Activists About Sex and Consent
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is now embracing ideas about coercion and consent that rose to prominence on college campuses during the Barack Obama administration. That's the implication of the OneTaste case, in which a jury has returned a guilty verdict against Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, who stood accused of a conspiracy to commit forced labor during their time with the sexual and spiritual self-help organization. I have written many words about this case already, and I'm going to try to refrain from rehashing all of the details in today's newsletter. (If you're new to the case and want to dive deep, here you go. If you want a couple of overviews of how the trial played out, see here and here.) What I want to focus on right now is the larger implications of this case. They're not pretty. If these ideas about coercion and consent didn't start on the college campuses of the 2010s, that's at least when they became fully institutionalized —adopted as not just the framework favored by activist students and women's studies professors but by college administrators and the Title IX offices they were beholden to. There was affirmative consent, sure, but also a broader suspicion of consent as a worthwhile standard, or at least a willingness to dismiss it for more arcane ideas about sexual permissibility. Suddenly it wasn't enough to say no and it wasn't even enough to say yes—one had to consider a complex set of power dynamics, alcohol consumption levels, subtle nonverbal cues, and so on, to determine if consent counted. It stopped just short of taking astrological signs into account. We went from a reasonable corrective (acknowledging that sexual assault needn't necessarily involve force or violence) to women getting support for claims of sexual coercion and violation even when they seemed to willingly go along with sexual activity at the time but later said that they weren't enthusiastic enough about it and a partner should have known that and stopped. Basically, it was only consensual if a woman felt deep down in her heart, during and after, that everything had been OK. We saw this idea migrate from campus newspapers and Title IX offices to the broader world during the #MeToo movement. It's perhaps best exemplified by a story about the actor Aziz Ansari. A young woman went to dinner with him, then back to his house, and later excoriated him in Babe magazine for not reading her cues about not wanting to fool around and allegedly pressuring her to do so. The piece called it sexual misconduct and a violation. But when the woman explicitly told Ansari no, he stopped, per her account of things. And when she wanted to go, she left. The Babe article provoked a huge debate about whether this sort of thing—which in another era we might have just called a bad date or caddish behavior—was a form of sexual assault and where responsibility lies here. Are sexual partners supposed to be mind readers? Do women have any responsibility for explicitly making their wishes known? Obviously, not all or even most campus sexual misconduct or #MeToo stories were like the Aziz Ansari story. But there were enough that it was clearly not an isolated idea or belief system. It was a new paradigm—and one sold, perversely, as empowering to women. That was a lie. Broadening the parameters of nonconsensual sex like this does women a disservice, portraying us as somehow having less agency and less moral culpability than male peers (which could have consequences far beyond the bedroom) while also telling women that it's normal—desirable even—to just shut up and go along with unwanted or uncomfortable activity in the moment and then object afterward. Rather than encourage women to be bold and unflinching in expressing what they want and don't want, it encourages putting out with a promise that later they can get their vengeance in public opinion or in court. We're uncomfortable as a culture with "assigning women complete sexual responsibility, even though we want them to have complete sexual liberty," said Kat Rosenfield on a recent episode of the Feminine Chaos podcast. Rosenfield and her co-host were talking about the murky way we sometimes talk about women's actions when allegations of sexual misconduct are concerned. People can do a lot of "squirming around to try and make a choice that was made [into] not actually a choice," said Rosenfield. And once you're in that mode, you end up with some real mental shenanigans around consent. The OneTaste trial shows that these ideas have now crossed over from college values or cultural vibes to legal standards adopted by federal prosecutors with the power to help put people in prison. In the OneTaste trial, prosecutors elicited testimony after testimony from "victims" who admit they consented to various sexual activities, from orgasmic meditation (a core activity in OneTaste courses and communes) to random hook-ups to relationships with OneTaste community members, investors, and students. They not only did not say no, they affirmatively agreed to these encounters or even initiated them. The repercussions they now claimed to have feared if they didn't do these things—many of which were core parts of the intentional communities and/or classes they chose to partake in, applied for, paid for—were things like social disapproval or missing out on opportunities to move up in the OneTaste ranks. Some were not even employees when the activities in question took place, and even among those who were, much of the action they talked about took place in contexts outside their employment. Prosecutors argued that Daedone's ideas (like daily orgasmic meditation being good for you, orgasm as a way to clear out bad energy, and the importance of being open to sexual encounters that might be out of your comfort zone) and Cherwitz's encouragement or shunning amounted to a form of coercion that rendered these women's seeming consent invalid. We're supposed to ignore the fact that these women admittedly never told Daedone or Cherwitz, let alone their sexual partners, that they were uncomfortable or didn't want to do these things. We're supposed to ignore the fact that contemporaneous accounts of these acts—emails, texts, journal entries, social media posts—often showed sunny feelings about what was going on. And we're supposed to ignore the fact that these women didn't report any crimes or labor violations at the time and are only testifying after being approached by FBI agents a decade or two later. The defendants are being held accountable for how these women feel—or at least told FBI agents who were making promises and extolling their victimhood that they feel—about 10- and 15-year-old sexual activity that everyone seems to have been perfectly fine with at the time. We're looking at campus kangaroo courts come to a federal courthouse, with U.S. attorneys fully embracing ideas about consent that were weird and radical just a decade or two ago. I'm sure this will be cheered by some people. I find the prospect offensive and dangerous. It's a total affront to due process, giving people little notice about how to avoid liability (since consent in the moment clearly doesn't matter). And unlike on college campuses, the arbiters of these disputes now have the power to help put people in prison for long stretches. It creates a dangerous situation not only for people who engaged in sex acts with someone claiming, decades later, that their consent was invalid but also for anyone who might be said to have "conspired" to have encouraged these sexual encounters or to have "participated in a venture" that received any benefit from them. It opens the gate to forced labor or sex trafficking prosecutions based on sexual regret. It's also one more step in the total infantilization of women, negating the gains in sexual and social autonomy that we've won. This situation where we expect all the rights of adulthood but none of the responsibility can't last. We're going to start seeing—we are seeing—rights chipped away at, too. At a time when many are keen to use sexual "harms" to justify everything from online censorship to limiting LGBTQ expression, curtailing reproductive rights, and encouraging women to give up on college and just have babies, no feminist, friend of women, or woman who cares about her own bodily autonomy and ability to consent should be cheering this safe space–ification of the DOJ. • The slippery slope of age-verification laws for adult content is on full display in France, where the "government is considering designating X as a porn platform — a move that will likely have the platform implementing strict age verification requirements," per Politico. It's not hard to imagine the same thing happening in the U.S., rendering laws aimed at carding people who visit porn websites as a backdoor to either require age verification for social media, too, or make social media websites ban sexually oriented content and accounts of any kind. • President Donald Trump is expected to once again extend the deadline for TikTok parent company ByteDance to sell the company or be banned. "Remember when TikTok was supposedly an urgent national security threat that required emergency legislation? Funny how that 'emergency' keeps getting 75-day extensions," Techdirt Editor Mike Masnick writes. That "should tell you everything about how 'urgent' this national security threat actually was." • "It would help immensely if the critiques of porn, did not confuse 'sex' with 'porn.' The push to be 'sexy' and sexism are not rooted in one form of media," comments Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, in response to a New Yorker review of the new book Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves. "But linking both evangelicals and anti-SW feminists is the idea that sexist evil can be traced to one tantalizing source. To do that, in these sexual monotheories, porn has to be a monolith. That it presents women one way (submissive) and with one look (skinny, with big tits). Antiporn texts depend on a charicature [sic] of porn, a flattening of sexual speech, in order to establish a clear directional effect on culture." As to the idea that focusing on consent in porn is somehow insufficient, Stabile posts: says: "We focus on 'consent'…because it's how we restrain the urge to police other people's fantasies and sexualities. Because saying 'your articulation of sexuality' is damaging to ME, is the same impulse that underlies anti-LGBTQ censorship." The post Federal Prosecutors Are Starting To Sound Like Campus Activists About Sex and Consent appeared first on
The Review Geek
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Pit Babe Season 2 Episode 6 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
Pit Babe Season 2 Pit Babe season 2 picks up two years after Tony's death. The racers find themselves dealing with the rise of a new power. As they work on destroying the people behind the recent conspiracy, Charlie and Babe's relationship is tested. On the other hand, Alan and Jeff also try to adjust to the new dynamics of their relationship. Based on the trailer, we are in for a wild ride that will have us questioning everything we thought we knew about our favourite racers. If you've been following this one, you may be curious to know when the next episode will release. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about Pit Babe Season 2 Episode 6, including its release date, time, and where to watch it. Where Can I Watch PitBabe? Pit Babe Season 2 is available to stream on Channel One31 and iQIYI. It is unclear if the episodes will also be available on CHANGE256's official YouTube channel. If so, expect the episodes to be divided into four segments. Pit Babe Episode 6 Release Date Episode 6 of Pit Babe Season 2 will release on Friday 6th June at 9:15pm (IST) / 2:15pm (GMT). We can expect English subs from the YouTube release date and also from when it goes live on iQIYI. Expect Episode 6 to be roughly 50 minutes long, which is consistent with the time frame for the rest of the show. How Many Episodes Will Pit Babe Season 2 Have? Pit Babe Season 2 will have 13-episodes, unlike season 1, similar to the last season. With that in mind, we've got 7 more episodes to go after this one, guys! Expect the story to continue developing both central characters as the romance and drama bubbles up and unfolds. Is There A Trailer For Pit Babe Season 2? There is indeed! You can find a trailer for Pit Babe Season 2 below:
