Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
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New York, United States
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I Have Finally Solved the 2-Year-Old Mystery About Who Stole My Office Chair (True Crime)
An urgent true crime story—but not a cold case—finds a long-awaited resolution → Read More
Billie Eilish Returns With Something Altogether Weirder
In this particular case, "weirder" comes in the form of a nice, plinky bit of whisper-singing about love lost, using porn as a distraction, and also, therapy → Read More
May Jean Smart and Michaela Coel Win All the Emmys
Emmy nominations are out but these two should be the unequivocal winners → Read More
Missy Elliott's City Girls Video Is the Ultimate Summer Treat
Plus new videos from Billie Eilish & Peggy Gou: New music Fridays → Read More
Who Directed These Impressive Wind Gusts at Cannes?
My kingdom for a wind gust to appear like this while being photographed → Read More
Welcome to Jezebel's Himbos Week
Celebrating the beautifully scrutable world of the fairly appreciated himbo → Read More
Megan Thee Stallion Just Dropped the Hot Vax Summer Anthem
Mariah Carey, Doja Cat, Stevie Nicks, and more new music examined in our highly accurate rating system → Read More
Billie Eilish Has Absolutely No Time for Crap Dudes
Mais oui: Billie Eilish, “Lost Cause” - Mrs. Eyelash’s unbothered approach on a track about a shitty dude is exactly the level of emotional output any young person having this much fun with their homegirls should put into a shitty dude. The clip and its party vagaries almost feel like the song is an afterthought, a half-important internal monologue in which she is merely reconfirming her own… → Read More
I Can't Stop Thinking About the Bonkers Angelina Jolie Firefighter Movie
In Those Who Wish Me Dead, Hollywood’s latest piece of auteur thriller cinema, Angelina Jolie portrays an existentially depressed smokejumper—a particular type of firefighter specializing in first-response to wildfires—who is deemed too traumatized by an incident in which she witnessed three people die to continue performing her duties. Rather than being sent back out in the field, the Deputy… → Read More
Big Freedia's Lady Gaga Cover Is More New Orleans Bounce Than Judas
Let Freedia reimagine every album ever: Big Freedia brings her chaotic New Orleans bounce energy to Lady Gaga’s “Judas,” making the song more Freedia than Judas, and I love it, but they’d take away my crawfish access back home if I ever besmirched the Queen of Louisiana.-Emily Alford → Read More
All the Sparkliest, Most Joyous Fashion On the 93rd Academy Awards Red Carpet
Holy god, I cannot express how thrilled I am to see fancy clothes again in the wild, slash on my television. Pomp, bureaucracy, and mediocrity of the Oscars system notwithstanding let’s just take a little visual joy where we can get it. Steven Soderbergh is a producer of tonight’s festivities and so there is a mild chance at least something will be a little good-weird, but the anticipation of… → Read More
Ariana Grande Will Not Be the Weeknd's Cartoon Fantasy
Yeah, this will work—“Save Your Tears (Remix),” The Weeknd featuring Ariana Grande: Yes, it is bad that the Weeknd’s creative choice for this video was to set it in a cartoon factory where the only product is Ariana Grande. It’s not even bad, just confusing. Still, if you ignore the video and pay attention to the song, you’ll be much better off. It’s a nice, smooth, glossy little number of the… → Read More
Megan Thee Stallion Took a Nice Trip to the Strip Club With About 57 of Her Closest Friends
Yurp: Megan Thee Stallion f. Lil Durk, “Movie” - Aglow with the bisexual lighting schemes of P-Valley and almost confrontational in its no-apologies celebration of both the strength and athleticism of strippers and the fact of an ass itself, “Movie” is serving us pure 2:15 a.m. debauchery of the sort that has been inaccessible to most of the U.S. for a year. (Or at least inaccessible to those of… → Read More
New York Politician Defends Free Speech By Wearing the Ugliest Shoe I Have Ever Seen
Two important cultural conversations have taken hold of the nation in recent weeks, and while they may seem disparate, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) has found the place where they intersect. Those questions are of course: 1. What is everyone wearing for vaccine summer after a year of sweatpantsed isolation, and 2. Is the Dr. Seuss estate’s decision to cease publishing a handful of unpopular and… → Read More
There's Already a Strong Contender for Song of the Summer
The HOT HOT summer blueprint: Bree Runway, “HOT HOT” - Bree Runway has fucking done it again. “All Night” was perfect, “ATM” was immaculate, and “HOT HOT” is so good I’ve run out of adjectives to summarize it in one word. It’s maybe disingenuous to claim a summer jam in March, but it better be this, when clubs open this summer (god willing) and I glue my pussy to the dance floor. → Read More
Unfortunately, We’ve Been Forced to Contemplate Boris Johnson’s Sex Life
Boris Johnson, somehow the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has spent decades carefully curating a bumbling and disheveled image as an effective visual trick to obscure the utter inhumanity of his policies (and the poshness of his pedigree). If the media is focusing on an unkempt shirt or hairdo that barely survived a head-on collision with Dippity Do, so the logic goes, they will spend… → Read More
Justin Bieber's Love Song Is Probably Not Going to Make Civil Rights Anthem History
Yike: Justin Bieber, “2 Much” - Martin Luther King, Jr.’s voice being the first thing you hear when you turn on the new Justin Bieber album is not something I expected today to give me, but here we are. That would probably seem weird enough in the wokest of Bieber tunes, but “2 Much” is a romantic piano ballad that has little apparent engagement with social justice. (By the way, the King quote… → Read More
Doja Cat, Queen of TikTok, Spider-Crawls All Over Her Cool New Track
Y!: Doja Cat, “Streets” — There’s a meme on TikTok, which involves the chorus of Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulders.” The first verse plays through, and then the bass drops and it turns steamy and seductive. No wonder the queen of TikTok Doja Cat used it for the intro to her extremely fucking cool new single, “Streets.” → Read More
The Big Interview Is Here: An Open Thread
The interview that has the Palace shook beyond belief has finally arrived: Meghan and Harry in what’s said to be a “shocking” conversation with their similarly mononymous neighbor Oprah. As Kelly Faircloth laid out in a must-read piece this week, “right now the whole institution is reverting to centuries-old patterns, and the entire world is watching Tudor-level court intrigue unfold in… → Read More
Welcome to '90s Week
Cultural nostalgia recycles itself every two decades, so the conventional wisdom goes, and in February 2021, the influence of the early 2000s is everywhere: it’s present in the latest cut of jeans and the music of Lil Uzi Vert and perhaps in the relationship of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. But the hyperspeed of the social tech era has rendered this rigid cyclical concept of nostalgia… → Read More