#American Kylie Minogue fans

[samanthasgone]

Tomorrow will be 22 years ago ( October 1st, 2001 ) when Kylie Minogue released Fever.

* i remember first hearing Cant Get You Out Of Head for the first time when I was 7 years old at that time and I was hooked on her ever since then to now. Shocking to remember as a American ( US ) 🇺🇸 that I was listening to the radio and a pop station playing this song.

[penny-anna]

another major doctor who mindfuck was when Kylie Minogue did a guest appearance & all the american dw fans i know were like 'who is that'

[colorisbyshe]

Monthly Music 08/24 Hehehe

Albums/Multi Song Section:

Taemin released a mini album. Honestly, listen to all of it, even the more ballad-y fare but honestly... Sexy In the Air is a track EVERYONE should give a shot. It's what it says on the tin--sexy. Highlights: Horizon, if you like Kavinsky but want a kpop, energy-infused twist, try this out! (ITS A REACH BUT!!). Crush has some MJ-esque delivery that is very enthralling. Deju Vu is for the people who want to feel songs vibrate in their bones and in their [redacted]

Tinashe released her follow-up to the (superior) BB/Angel! My faves are No Simulation, Thirsty, When I Get You Alone, + No Broke Boys. Chill, alt R&B. Ethereal, sensual. Tinashe and Taemin should collab or at least do choreo to each other's songs tbh. NBB is a modern reimagining of No Scrubs

Foster the People is baack. BIASED REVIEW because I'm a longterm fan. See You in the Afterlife (oddly cunty??), Feed Me (cuntier except some of the instrumental could've been produced on Gene Belcher's random sound keyboard), Paradise State of Mind (Tame Impala knock off, mayhaps), & Glitchzig (discordant, extraterrestrial).

Fromis_9, a kpop group, has had a mini release. Here's a mini review: Supersonic & Beat the Heat have a throwback appeal. Simple, joyful pop with a non-obtrusive vocal power behind it. Talent wins <3

JPEGMAFIA released a new album and it's... beyond explanation? Alt hip hop with an amazing infusion of rock, gospel, dance elements. Dark, funny, slick as hell. Highlights: i scream this in the mirror before i interact with anyone, sin miedo (my fave, I think), don't rely on other men, vulgar display of power, Exmilitary (great use of samples), JPEGULTRA! (denzel!!!!!!!!! HORNS!!!!!!!!1), either on or off the drugs (one of my faves, absolutely), & loop it and leave it. If you're like "that's a lot of songs," okay well the entire album is good. 9.9/10 album

Recent Releases:

"Feel The Way" Peggy Gou. Just a solid dance track.

Ibibio Sound Machine's Black Notes is groovy and vocally ascendant.

"Leave" Low Hanging Fruits is Krock that feels straight out like... mid 2000s alt-pop rock. Just lively and lovely.

My blog title was taken from a Chase & Status song, so of course I need to shout out their collab with Stormzy, "Backbone." Just goes hard, is grimy as hell, and goes WUB WUB.

Want something that goes harder? Petit Brabancon, Japanese metal supergroup, is back and "Gankou" is... growling and intense and also just kinda fun.

Not here for music that might be a bit scary? "Edge of Saturday Night" The Blessed Madonna, Kylie Minogue is some eurodance to take the edge off.

If you like that track, try "Urallineed" by Jazzi Bobbi for some vaguely dancy indie pop. Love her voice.

This could've gone on the album review but honestly... Monkey Majik's new album is kinda Maroon 5-y and doesn't deserve a full shout out but give HYLMN a listen if you want to hear a fun, misremembered rip off of Blur's Song 2. Also, I guess the song Imposter.

"Check" by Flo is like... the kpop tracks inspired by Tinashe but... not kpop. Does that make sense? American, Fifth Harmony-esque song that feels like a kpop GG ripping off American Tinashe. A perfect feedback loop. Delectable.

"Out of Touch" Four Year Strong. Throwback, pop punk sound with a modern flourish.

"Nissan Altima" Doechii. As a Nissan driver, I had to rec this lmao. Great song, great flow, GET YA TITS SUCKED

"Tokyo" Sable Hills. Screamo :3 The guitar fucks

Older tracks: Keep Away by Carly Rae Jepsen (song to sway to), Bloom by Macico (the Japanese sound Harry styles tried to rip off), Thanks for Your Time by Gotye (dour and sensual) and Miss Fatty by Million Stylez (music to shake your ass to)

Posting this early because I know more music (Chungha, Bree Runway) is coming and uhhhh this post is already too full

[likeadaydreamorafever]

Mischa Barton: ‘The trauma doesn’t just go away overnight’

The OC made her one of the most famous stars of the Noughties. Now 37, and with a new role in Neighbours, she’s back — and this time it’s on her own terms.

There was a time, not so long ago — the Noughties — when we hunted young women until they went mad. A pack of men with cameras followed them, stalked them, waited outside their homes to take their photograph, so that people could devour their lives and their changing teenage bodies, and watch their rising panic as they cracked under the pressure we were putting them under.

“It was all very Hunger Games,” says Mischa Barton, 37, sitting in a hotel room in central London, hair blow-dried, coffee poured, legs crossed. The British-American actress was 17 when she was cast in the teenage TV drama The OC, catapulting her to worldwide fame and making her Karl Lagerfeld’s “face of a generation” — an It girl in an era of size-zero bodies, up-skirt shots and gossip blogs.

Barton was — reluctantly — a paparazzi favourite. She was beautiful, cool and sceney, with a trail of rock star boyfriends and wild child friends. She suffered as a consequence of rather than in spite of the fame. She was arrested for drink driving, spent time in rehab and was detained in a psychiatric hospital. In 2017 a video of her, incoherent, rambling and distressed, was sold to the gossip site TMZ, peddled as proof of her going off the rails. Her drink had actually been spiked with a date rape drug. That same year an ex-boyfriend tried to sell a video — filmed without her knowledge — of her having sex and being naked in her own home.

“You can go to therapy every day for the rest of your life,” she says, “but there’s just a certain amount of trauma [from] all that I went through, particularly in my early twenties, that just doesn’t go away overnight.”

Today her life is a little quieter — the paparazzi don’t yet know where her new home is in Los Angeles (though the sound of cameras can trigger a panic attack, part of her enduring post-traumatic stress disorder). The OC is coming up to its 20th anniversary, with a new generation of Gen Z fans going wild for the Y2K vibe. She has had a stint on Dancing with the Stars and the reality TV show The Hills: New Beginnings, as well as parts in horror films, indie films and now the resurrected teatime soap Neighbours.

Barton was, and still is, a valuable commodity. “They first wanted me to do an arc on Neighbours when I was in my twenties,” she says, dressed smartly in a blazer, A-line dress and preppy jacquard pumps. I’ve just finished watching the new season, I tell her. “Oh wow,” she says in her mid-Atlantic drawl, “have you actually been watching it?” Sure, I continue, it was nostalgic. “Oh wow,” she says again, flatly. “Yeah. I haven’t seen any of it.” Barton still has the cool-girl energy that drew so many people in: arch, a little judgmental, but fun. She is the popular girl at the party.

The “final” episode of Neighbours was broadcast on Channel 5 last July, after 37 years and 8,903 episodes featuring alumni including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Margot Robbie. A group of heartbroken fans campaigned for its return and four months later Amazon Prime signed a deal with the production company. The reboot features old favourites Susan, Carl and Harold, as well Barton’s new character, Reece Sinclair, the expensively dressed American hotel proprietor who is having an affair with the bellboy.

Barton spent two months filming in Melbourne, cramming lines for 5am call times. “They work crazy hard [on soaps],” she says. “Really, it was gruelling. You’re lucky to get a second take.” She did, however, rewrite some of her script. “They don’t let everybody change their lines” — she lowers her voice — “trust me. The other kids were like, oh, can I do that? And [the writers] were like, no.” She cackles. “Say your lines as scripted!”

The actress will always be known for The OC, in which she played Marissa Cooper, a rich, blonde Californian who was troubled and glamorous — and who every teenage girl was desperate to be. The first series, which aired in 2003, pulled in an average of 9.7 million viewers per episode in America and was a hit on Channel 4, and she won two Teen Choice awards.

“I don’t think I was fully prepared for that level of fame,” she says. “Because it has never been something that I have sought out. I really would much rather be anonymous.”

Still a teenager, Barton was lauded for her looks and treated, she says, as much older than her years. “You do look back and you were 18 dating 34-year-olds,” she continues. “With hindsight you’re like, yeah, that was weird.” An interview with Harpers & Queen has recently resurfaced in which Barton, 19 at the time, says she was told by her publicist to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio, who was 30, “for the sake of your career”.

She left The OC after three series — she says she was bullied on set and exhausted by 18-hour days for each 24-episode series — asking the writers to kill off Marissa as brutally as they could. She died lying in the road, dripping in fake blood, her crashed car up in flames.

In the following years Barton became a familiar face on the LA nightlife scene, all smoky eyeliner and faded band T-shirts, photographed with Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse, while dating the Kooks’ frontman Luke Pritchard, the American rocker Cisco Adler and the Roughs’ guitarist Taylor Locke. “I definitely got to tour with some cool bands,” she says, still a little thrilled by the whole thing. “I mean, I was obsessed. But I don’t know if I could date a guy in a band any more. It just sounds exhausting and dirty.” The paparazzi attention was certainly not “healthy” for romantic relationships. “Everything is just so heightened,” she says. “You depend on the person so much more, you think you’re that much more in love because they’re your grip on some sort of normalcy.”

In the gossip blogs she was considered fair game. She was criticised for losing a stone in a year, then criticised for being “bloated Barton”, with the celebrity blogger Perez Hilton often the leader of the pack. “Nothing I did was good enough,” she says today. “It was the peak of cruelty about young women’s bodies. It was wild.”

Could she leave the house without being followed by photographers? “No,” she says immediately. “I couldn’t. [The paparazzi] were doing all kinds of crazy stuff to me.” She says they tracked her car, tried to climb over the walls of her house, paid off restaurants and bought mobile phones for homeless people so they could tip them off. “I was stalked,” she says. “I did go a little bit nuts at [one] point. I just felt really helpless.”

Then there was an arrest (2007, driving under the influence, without a valid licence and possessing cannabis), rehab (court ordered) and psychiatric hospital. She said she was “depressed and overworked”, and then, she claims, pumped full of prescription drugs by her “team” to keep her working. People have got kinder about mental health, though, she says. “That’s one of the better things about society these days — people are more willing to talk about having had depression or anxiety, or it’s not so taboo.”

But it was her legal battle against her ex-boyfriend that was “one of the worst and most gruelling experiences of my life”, she says. In 2017 Jon Zacharias tried to auction off illicit videos of her to the internet’s highest bidder.

After a years-long legal battle she won the case to prevent him from doing so. “It’s shocking to realise that there is that type of darkness in the world,” she says. “And you wonder what you’ve done to attract it.”

Mischa Anne Barton was born in Hammersmith in west London, the middle of three girls, her mother a producer and photographer, her father a foreign exchange broker. She went to St Paul’s Girls’ Preparatory School before the family moved to New York when Barton was six.

She was a bookish, shy child who found respite in acting. She had her first modelling job at eight and her first professional stage role the same year. By 11 she was in Italian Vogue. By 13 she was the lead in the movie Lawn Dogs, which had dark undertones of child molestation, followed by Pups, a crime drama. “Even from a young age I was sexualised,” she wrote in Harper’s Bazaar in 2021.

After her big break in The OC she starred as the “hot girl” in various music videos (Noel Gallagher, James Blunt, Enrique Iglesias) and became the face of Chanel, Calvin Klein, Monsoon Accessorise, Neutrogena, Herbal Essences and Keds.

“I was definitely told ‘sign here’ many, many times over,” she says. “I’ve gotten a lot better with legalese. Now I will read a contract front to back.”

Do people think she made more money than she has? “Oh, I know they do.” Today you can watch The OC on Amazon Prime, Hulu and ITV. “But I say to my friends, ‘Oh cool, I just got a direct deposit for $1.50.’ And they’re like, ‘What’s that?’ And I’m like, ‘Residuals.’ ”

She pushed herself into indie films and cerebral plays, which she loved, and then appeared on the rebooted reality show The Hills, which “wasn’t for me”, she says. “It’s the fame-chasing and the posing stuff that I don’t like. I found them to be very alieny.” She says the producers tried to make out that the original cast of The Hills had hung out with the cast of The OC in the Noughties, “but that was not the case. I never saw them around. I mean, it was a completely different world, a different type of celebrity.” She looks up from pouring herself another coffee. “You know what I mean.”

Today Barton lives between New York and LA. She is steady and grown-up, but still with a streak of flightiness. Her spontaneity “is a problem”, she says. She travelled around Indonesia alone over the summer, then France, then the UK, where she has been staying with her older sister, a barrister, in Kensington.

“I’m happy being single at the moment,” she says. “Because it comes up, the whole thing of ‘Do you wanna settle down and have kids?’ I am a weirdly traditional, conventional person when it comes to stuff like that, more so than people think. But it really depends on the person you’re with.”

In the past few years there has certainly been a collective reckoning regarding our behaviour towards young, famous women of that era. But does that regret mean anything to the women who suffered through it?

Recently the FBI knocked on Barton’s door, saying they were “working on a case” and wanted to play her a series of tapes. She listened to her conversations with people from years ago, which were recorded covertly. “Who knows who was doing it?” she says. “But I was almost grateful to know that they [the FBI] were going to such lengths, otherwise you feel crazy and paranoid.”

She has also had direct apologies. In 2019 Perez Hilton told her, on The Hills: “If I could go back in time and do things differently, I would.” Barton was largely unmoved. “This bullying you did for so long to so many young girls, I find it hard to let go,” she replied. “I can’t really accept the apology entirely.”

I bring up Hilton today and she rolls her eyes. “I don’t listen to anything he says because he’s so crazy,” she says. “You can see how sorry people feel for what they did to people like Britney [Spears] then. Everyone now is like, ‘I can’t believe we did that to those poor women.’” She pauses. “People feel so entitled to you and your body and your image. It’s a strange feeling. It’s strange.”

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[commonpigeon]

im american and kylie minogue is definitely known here she had a number of songs in our top 50 although she’s not as much of a “thing” as some other stars but she does have her fans for sure its just a bit of a more niche group i guess

my american flatmate has lied to me. im sorry to all americans for misrepresenting you

[memorableconcerts]

Nick Cave The Bad Seeds - "From Her To Eternity" - Live 1989

Live 1988

Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.

Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting the Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. In 1980 they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock, and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after moving to Berlin in 1982, and Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the year after, later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands. Much of their early material is set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). In 1988, he appeared in Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored.

The 1990s saw Cave move between São Paulo and England, and find inspiration in the New Testament. He went on to achieve mainstream success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997). Turning increasingly to film in the 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western The Proposition (2005), also composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). Their garage rock side project Grinderman has released two albums since 2006. In 2009, he released his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the semi-fictional "day in the life" film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014). His more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur's 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds' 17th and latest album, Ghosteen (2019).

Cave maintains The Red Hand Files, a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. He has collaborated with the likes of Shane MacGowan and ex-partner PJ Harvey, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica ("Loverman") and Snoop Dogg ("Red Right Hand"). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.

Live 1988

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–present)

The band with Cave as their leader and frontman has released seventeen studio albums. Pitchfork Media calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography. Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequently histrionic theatrics. Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey wrote: "With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk."

Reviewing 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! album, NME used the phrase "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.[23] Their most recent work, Ghosteen, was released in October 2019.

In mid-August 2013, Cave was a 'First Longlist' finalist for the 9th Coopers AMP, alongside artists such as Kevin Mitchell and the Drones. The Australian music prize is worth A$30,000. The prize ultimately went to Big Scary. In a September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using a typewriter for songwriting after his experience with the Nocturama album, as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day".

Live 1986

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

YO PUEDO PERDONAR, PERO NO OLVIDAR..porque MIRAR PARA ATRAS O RECORDAR es lo UNICO QUE TE SIRVE COMO ADVERTENCIA..y estan SIENDO MUY APOCALIPTICAS..así es como uno está ALL ALONG THE WATCH_TOWER del cd JOHN WESLEY HARDING [un habil PISTOLERO que se reconvirtio a ABOGADO y lo mataron en EL PASO=frontera de EEUU con MEXICO o CIUDAD JUAREZ=FEMINICIDIO..y donde hay un CRISTO en una CIMA]..de BOB DYLAN [la que más toco en su vida] single entre I DREAMED I SAW ST AGUSTINE y the BALLAD OF FRANKIE LEE and JUDAS PRIEST=grupo donde un FAN sustituyo a su CANTANTE en lo que se basa la Película ROCK STAR de Jennifer ANISTON estrenada en SEP 2001 [=11_$]..

..canción popularizada por JIMI HENDRIX que murió en la misma CAMA que ELLIOT de THE MAMAS and THE PAPAS en LONDRES que murió tras cenar con PAUL MC ARTNEY Y LINDA [ella RICA por vender VEGETALES CONGELADOS para morir de CANCER] cuya multimillonaria madre se mató en el vuelo UNO de AMERICAN AIRLINES en NY.

..y canción que versiono U2 en directo dentro de su cd_pelicula RATTLE and HUM [que estrenaron en MADRID con U2 a los que se les olvidó el PASAPORTE].. tocandola en el EMBARCADERO DE SAN FRANCISCO [añadiendo que solo tiene UNA GUITARRA ROJA, 3 ACORDES Y LA VERDAD] y uniéndola a IN GOD'S COUNTRY [=EEUU] del cd THE JOSHUA TREE [VALLE DE LA MUERTE]..así que recuerdo que luego vino cd ACHTUNG [ADVERTENCIA] BABY [CARIÑO] lanzado con la apocaliptica THE FLY y que incluye UNTIL THE END OF WORLD..gira que vi en mayo 1992 PALAU SANT JORDI [con mis amigos JOSE MANUEL O CHECHU CENDAL que dias antes vio la gira de despedida de DIRE STRAITS "ON EVERY STREET" en la plaza de toros de MADRID y EL ENGLISH=JOSE MARIA GONZALEZ PLANT cuyo padre era Sobrecargo de IBERIA fusionada con BRITISH AIRWAYS poniendo de presidente al ex presidente de TABACALERA Antonio VAZQUEZ ROMERO donde sustituyo a CESAR ALiERTA que a su vez sustituyo a MIGUEL ANGEL VALLE_INCLAN padre de mi amigo RAMON VALLE_INCLAN bisnieto del famoso escritor del ESPERPENTO=ALGO ABSURDO Y RIDICULO..y autor de LUCES DE BOHEMIA protagonizada por MAX ESTRELLA] y en mayo 1993 en estadio del rio MANZANA+eRES [donde una MUJER_POLICIA A CABALLO me INCORDIO cuando MEABA bajo el TUNEL por el que cruzaba por debajo del Estadio la M_30 parte de la AVDA DE LA PAZ].. viniendo de un lluvioso concierto en OVIEDO poniendo a Kylie MINOGUE siendo entrevistada sobre que estaba Grabando su nuevo disco en las pantallas como intro de Even Better than Real THING del cd ACTHUNG BABY aunque en MADRID pusieron un combate de Boxeo...gira que como cd ACTHUNG baby empezaba con ZOO STATION [parada de metro de BERLIN donde lo grabaron tomando el ULTIMO VUELO a la ALEMANIA ORIENTAL antes de la CAIDA DEL "MURO"=

I'm ready for the laughing gas

I'm ready

I'm ready for what's next

I'm ready to duck

I'm ready to dive

I'm ready to say

I'm glad to be alive

I'm ready

I'm ready for the push, uh huh

[chorusfm]

The Veronicas – “Detox”

The Veronicas have returned with the new song “Detox.” Los Angeles, CA - December 15, 2023 - In late October, Pop-Rock trailblazers The Veronicas made an astounding global comeback with their long-awaited release “Perfect”. The “proud middle-finger lead single” (Billboard) sent fans into an online hysteria, reminding listeners how the girls have served as the blueprint for the pop-rock anthems dominating music today. The track provided a glimpse into their highly anticipated album GOTHIC SUMMER, releasing March 2024 via Big Noise. Today, The Veronicas are giving fans the next taste of their upcoming album with the release of their second anthemic single “Detox”.   "Detox” is a wild fusion of Pop-Rock, Ska, poetry and Skate Punk, fearlessly blending genres and challenging any expectations of pop conventions. The single is an exploration of the chaos and hypnosis of toxic relationships, delivering provoking lyrics like “I’m on my knees, I’ll never leave - I love my friends like I love all my enemies”. “Detox” is bound to elevate your heart rate, have you banging your head, and shouting along to its addictive hooks all winter (and summer). A testament to the girls’ historic love of genre-fusing songwriting and pushing artistic boundaries, this is the song of your “Gothic Summer”. Created with Australian Pro BMX Rider-turned-Video Director Pat Freyne, the “Detox” music video is heavily inspired by the song’s fighting energy of keeping your head above water. Featuring references to the spontaneity of Quentin Tarantino’s greatest dance scenes, The Veronicas’ Jessie and Lisa explain their vision, “We contrasted wide shots with extreme close ups, and purposefully improvised dance scenes to encourage physical and emotional mirroring in the moment. A mix of 60s choreography, fused with some Michael Jackson kicks and high energy, to encapsulate the fighting emotional volatility of the song. The video ends in a burst of underwater color and sinking euphoria upon the tempo change, giving in to the push-pull cycle of the song’s lyrics.”   “Perfect” has set the stage for the latest achievement in The Veronicas’ story, with Wonderland sharing that the track “...is a testament to their ongoing brilliance” . The song has been met with additional outstanding critical acclaim, as American Songwriter raved, “The declarative track offers a modernized, elevated version of the duo’s early, infectious pop-rock sound”, and Forbes best summed it up stating, “The Veronicas make a ‘Perfect’ comeback”. The song released just 24 hours ahead of The Veronicas’ electrifying appearance at When We Were Young festival, making them one of the most talked about performances of the weekend. They recently also shared a beautiful stripped back, acoustic version of the song for fans - watch here.   Expectations are rightly high for The Veronicas’ GOTHIC SUMMER album, out March 2024. They have continued to remain one of Australia’s most valuable exports since Kylie Minogue, with a countless number of international awards and Billboard-charting songs under their belts. The Veronicas have announced plans for a tour in the USA for Spring, with EU shows to follow in the summer. Fans can get decked out in new Veronicas merch HERE and purchase tickets to the GOTHIC SUMMER Tour HERE. --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/news/the-veronicas-detox/

[agentmarcuspike]

8 & 38? 🫶🏽💜

iiiiii!

okay let's talk about that (turns out i had a lot to say)

8: Talk about the thing you are most proud of.

i don't see myself as a particularly proud person, and i have difficulty being proud of anything. other people, maybe. people i love. i can be proud of their progress, their work, their distinctions. it's easy to say my individualism and independence, but those traits often do me more bad than good. so not something to be proud of, necessarily.

something i am proud of is how good i have become at speaking up, for myself and for others. when something is unfair or wrong, when someone uses degrading or harmful language. just a few years ago i wouldn't dare tell someone my opinions on the most mundane stuff in fear of people disagreeing with me.

but now i have no qualms confronting people, being seen as "bitchy" or "bossy" or "mean" (in situations where a man would be seen as brave and just and passionate). and i'm very proud of that growth!

38: Talk about songs that remind you of certain people.

okay some of these are gonna sound weird but 🐻bear🐻 with me (also doing real people instead of fictional ones because i'll get to that later):

hide and seek – imogen heap this reminds me of my middle school teacher, mostly because i was obsessed with the song and him at the same time. this, and the fray's "you found me" were like my soundtrack for him, because he helped me a lot through difficult times, and i guess i felt like he found me when i was hiding lmao (it was a bad time for all of us)

can't get you out of my head – kylie minogue this reminds me of my step sister. i remember she got the album for christmas, years after it came out, but she'd really wanted it, and we danced to mostly this in her room, which then became our room, which then became my little sister's room, and the grey cd player in there is the only thing i see when i hear this song.

don't forget – demi lovato this reminds me of my friend sandra (hei, sandra!). i don't even remember if she was a demi fan, but she no doubt had the style. i always wished i had the guts to dress like her, all emorock, black and red, and i suppose that reminds me of this entire demi-album. (also i don't want her to forget me tee-hee)

she's american – the 1975 this reminds me of one of my first tumblr mutuals i befriended in real life, naomi, because... she's american! and the first time i was alone in the u. s. of a was when i went to visit her.

praying – kesha can you guess? this reminds me of the guy who r-worded me and did a lot of other shitty things to me and then came out of it all doing really well, with a promotion and a new apartment, while i'm stuck with nothing but ptsd. i hope you find your peace! :)

both sides now – joni mitchell i was gonna say let's end on a "lighter note", but this reminds me of my mom because she always cries when this comes on during Love Actually. and also because it's a very beautiful song!

[ivanreycristo]

Todo esto o en lo q basó mi DISCURSO, es decir, en la FALSA MORAL DEL DINERO o el SEXO COMO UN PODER OSCURO O TESORO en manos de la MUJER quedo representado en el 1er concierto de la MI_SION [dejando a un lado los de la gira MAGIC de SPRINGSTEEN en el BERNABEU y en el MEMORIAL VETERAN ARENA de JACKSONVILLE q los enmarcó como los que me decidieron emprender esta AVENTURA o x lo que regrese a MADRID para coger COSAS Q NECESITABA y DESPEDIRME de la empresa de mi PADRE afinales de agosto 08]..q fue ver en el American Airline ARENA de Miami a "AVENTURA" [grupo de ROMEO SANTOS cuyo mayor éxito fue OBSESION..sobre el típico encaprichado con una mujer xq el SEXO es algo difícil y caro o escaso y se convierte en un asunto de VANIDAD y NECESIDAD O DESEO Q CIEGA] donde ROMEO SANTOS saco a una GORDA y cogió sus MANOS para meterselas en sus HUEVOS diciendo que no era un "MUJER_Y_EGO" sino un MUJEROLOGO xq le gustaba probar de todos los TAMAÑOS jaja..y luego salio ENRIQUE[cido] "IGLESIAS" [al q fotografié desde 1era FILA en su gira del cd INSOMNIAC y al q siguio cd EUPHORIA y cd LOVE+SEX con LOCO junto a INDIA MARTINEZ q ella metio en cd DUAL o el posterior al cd CAMINO DE LA BUENA SUERTE asi como BEAUTIFUL con KYLIE MINOGUE q ella metio en cd KISS ME ONCE] que le dio por contar en ese CONCIERTO su 1era VEZ en un PUTI_CLUB o CLUB DE CABALLEROS como fue el SOLID GOLD en la llamada CIUDAD DEL SOL=MIAMI

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Ellie goulding tour dates 2017

#Ellie goulding tour dates 2017 full

Tickets for Ellie Goulding’s UK tour go on general sale from Friday 21st September at 9am. The track was something of a flop in the UK, reaching only No.49 when it was released in 2011.

#Ellie goulding tour dates 2017 full

The track is the first to be revealed in full from Ellie Goulding’s second album Halcyon, which is set for release on 8th October, 2012.īut while the young star is ready to move on to album No.2 in the UK, the last single from her debut album, ‘Lights’ is still in the US Top Ten. Ellie Goulding concert in Bergenhus Festning, Bergen, date: june 2017. ‘Anything Can Happen’ is released on 30th September. Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora are working the red carpet The 30-year-old entertainer and Rita, 26. Subscribe for updates from Ellie Goulding and get concert alerts when they play near you. See all upcoming Ellie Goulding tour dates, concert details and more. No stranger to pop blondes, Elliot is responsible for Kylie Minogue hits including ‘2 Hearts’ and ‘All The Lovers’ and also worked with Ladyhawke on her debut album. Ellie Goulding & Rita Ora Arrive in Style for Brit Awards 2017: Photo 3863896. Ellie Goulding Tickets and Tour Dates - Buy tickets for Ellie Goulding concerts near you. Ellie Goulding - Holding on for Life (Live) Delirium World Tour (Comerica Theater - Phoenix. Goulding recently revealed her new single ‘Anything Can Happen’, a soaring slice of electronic pop produced by Jim Elliot of Kish Mauve. Ellie Goulding - Paradise (Positivus festival 2017 live). Dates in Liverpool, Nottingham, London, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester then follow before the tour comes to a close on December 18th in Southampton. She releases new album ‘Halcyon’ in October, will hit the road in December with a gig on the 7th in Bristol kicking the tour off. May 31 – Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland.Ellie Goulding has anounced details of a UK tour set to take place in December, including a date at Birmingham’s o2 Academy. Ellie Goulding New Single Burn: LISTEN to Song AUDIO, Release Date from Halycon Album 2013 Rerelease, Tour Dates. Singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding has announced a massive 2016 North American tour supporting her upcoming album Delirium.Her Delirium tour kicks off April 1st in Vancouver and continues through most of June with nearly forty cities on the itinerary. Ellie Goulding concert tour schedule, albums, and live concert information. March 13 – Manchester O2 Apollo, Manchester Ellie Goulding tour dates and concert tickets. Sigrid plays the following UK, Ireland and European dates in 2022: The royal introduced her to Jopling in 2017, after they befriended each other at Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton in 2011, where Goulding performed. “Mirror” was written for early evening festival slots that have become Sigrid’s definitive stage, and the thousands of fans who will “feel the bass in their chest” says Sigrid, adding, “I walk into the studio and know I want to make a big chorus!” “Mirror is a track evocative of Sigrid’s calling card of zooming in on the personal whilst speaking to the universal: “I love who I see, looking at me in the Mirror.” Get Ellie Goulding tickets at, your cheap Ellie Goulding tour Concert schedule ticket broker online. how he was turned down by Rita Ora AND Ellie Goulding. 53 on the UK Singles Chart following a successful appearance on Later. announce that I will be doing a UK tour in March 2017. Although Ellie Goulding signed to Polydor Records in July 2009, her debut single, 'Under the Sheets', was released through the independent label Neon Gold Records, appearing digitally in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2009. Since arriving onto the world stage in 2017 with “Don’t Kill My Vibe,” the 24-year-old has toured the globe, amassed over 1.2 billion streams, and sold 1 million album units, laying the foundation for highly anticipated new music. When does James Arthur’s 2017 UK tour start Dates, venues and ticket prices. This is reinforced by the jewelled crown on Ellie’s head. Moreover the text is written in a gold colour connoting wealth. This also makes them stand out to the audience more from background. “I feel lucky to have that thing where I know that I’m really good at this.” In this apps you can get info about Ellie Goulding biography, Tour Dates, with links to social media singer, Facebook, Twitter, play music with stream online and lyrics on songs Ellie Goulding. The tour dates are all in capital letter reinforcing their importance. “It’s the part of my job where there’s a part of myself that comes out when I play live – it’s my superpower,” she added.

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Street Fighter

When the first Street Fighter film hit in 1994 (trailer) my hype level for it was through the roof! Fighting games were on fire in the arcade and 16-bit systems at the time, and Street Fighter II was still a hot commodity. The trailer had then 11-year-old Dale craving to be there opening weekend because the costumes for most of the characters looked spot on. That preview included a montage of the “World Warriors” showcasing their vintage special attacks and poses. Guile’s Flash Kick and M. Bison enthusiastically proclaiming “GAME OVER!!!” in that trailer guaranteed I would be in the cinema for it. I was such a dork for this movie in my old journal at the time that I would keep a tally of the number of times I would see the trailer during commercial breaks on television leading up to the film……seriously. There were only a couple of video game movies out by this point. The genre did not have the disastrous reputation that it does today, so suffice it to say, I was amped up going into the film…..and pretty peeved coming out of it because of how it treated a few characters compared to the game and because there was not an actual fighting tournament in it. In 2009, I revisited it when an “Extreme Edition” hit home video with extra features, and my opinion on it softened a bit seeing it with a fresh set of eyes. I re-watched it last week with the new “Steel Book” Ultimate Edition released on BluRay last year. All these years later, and now I seriously love the film!

Well known Belgian, Jean-Claude Van Damme is leading this film as the American fighter, Guile, fresh off Van Damme’s slate of action hits like Hard Target and Double Team. Director Steven de Souza stated in interviews that they had a throwaway line of dialog explaining how Guile covered up his Belgian accent by saying it was actually a southern accent and he is actually from the United States, but it wound up on the cutting room floor. His adversary is the dastardly lead Street Fighter II boss, M. Bison, played by Raul Julia in what would be his final performance. As I alluded above, 11-year-old Dale was furious there was no fighting tournament. Instead, the film is all about M. Bison holding numerous “Allied Nations” employees as hostages in the fictitious world of Shadaloo, with various other Street Fighter combatants serving under him like Dee Jay (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.), Zangief (Andrew Bryniarski), Sagat (Wes Studi), and captured scientist Dhalsim (Roshan Seth). An awkward scientist’s attire is Dhalsim’s costume here, and Bison is forcing him to perform mutation experiments on Guile’s captured comrade, Charlie, and transform him mid-movie into the green-beast we know from the games as Blanka. I can go into the nerd gaming lore on how all kinds of wrong this is relating to Blanka, and Dhalsim’s character’s in the game, but I will actually give the filmmakers credit all these years later because it kind of actually plays well with an adult set of eyes because it would be pretty damn odd diving into Blanka’s actual video game origin story on the silver screen while trying to give equal time for the huge cast.

Speaking of this stacked cast, for the protagonists, aside from Guile, serving under him in the Allied Nations is Thunder Hawk (Gregg Rainwater), Cammy (Kylie Minogue), and Captain Sawada (Kenya Sawada)-who is a character created just for this movie. Sawada was later inserted as a playable character in the video game based on the film…that is based on the game and deliberately titled, Street Fighter: The Movie--just watch this video, it can explain it much better than I can. Two fighters more popular among fans of the video game, Ken (Damian Chapa) and Ryu (Byron Mann), have lesser supporting roles here as they are con-artist weapon dealers who later get teamed up against their will with Sagat and Vega (Jay Tavare). The last squadron of good guys is the trio of Chun-Li (Ming-Na Wen), Balrog (Grand L. Bush – who gave a random viral speech about his memories on the film in 2015), and E. Honda (Peter Tiasosopo). This motley trio is an innocuous TV news crew, but all three coincidentally have their own martial arts background that lines up with the game canon, and Chun-Li wants to avenge her father’s death when M. Bison steamrolled through her village. When Chun-Li confronts Bison with this, Julia absolutely nails it with his delivery of the meme-worthy “It Was Tuesday” line….if you have no recollection of this, well then click or press here to see this iconic moment in cinema history!

Speaking of, Raul Julia is sublime in his performance as M. Bison. He cheeses up his performance just right in his delivery as the master crime lord. Bonus feature interviews detail how he went method for studying for the role going so far as to research Mussolini speeches to mimic body language cadence. Other actors interviewed stated how Julia was visibly sick and downtrodden off-camera with cancer but wanted to do this film for his kids who loved the game. When the cameras were on, his colleagues stated how he was a total pro and how he went out with an aces performance that still lives on to this day! I love the costume he adorns that is incredibly faithful to the game, outrageous cape and all!!! Most other fighters either have game-appropriate costumes or receive their appropriate gear at some point in the movie. Honda is the perfect case where after an amusing Kong/Godzilla duel homage with Zangief, Honda’s gear is battered so much that he dons it like his traditional sumo gear in the game! Some cast members like Dee Jay and Dhalsim don’t don their proper gear, but the filmmakers and costume department get it right for the most part! For better or worse, the fight choreographers work in plenty of the roster’s iconic moves like Guile’s aforementioned Flash Kick, Bison & Honda’s torpedo dive, and regrettably meek renditions of Ryu’s Hadoken and Ken’s Shoryuken.

The film has a rather convoluted plot, but it essentially stumbles its way into a cohesive mess by the end. The Allied Nations crew teams up with Chun-Li’s TV squad and eventually Ryu & Ken to invade M. Bison’s fortress. Van Damme does an admirable “so-bad-it’s-good” portrayal of Guile, and he has a main event-worthy clash with Bison in the final act to close the film. All the fights inside Bison’s fortress with all the cast members are an admitted dumpster fire to keep up with, but an enjoyable one nonetheless! I tip my hat to the crew for the monumental task of trying to grant adequate screen time for this ensemble cast. At the time of the film’s release, Super Street Fighter II was a fairly new entry in the series at home release, so I was surprised to see Dee Jay, Cammy, and Thunder Hawk all featured, but Fei Long is mysteriously absent. However, it may make sense in recent years after finding out how litigious the estate of the Bruce Lee family is. This Ultimate Edition Steel Book has a ton of bonus materials. I would be remiss not to mention how awesome the steel book case is, and the gorgeous art that adorns it. Another cheeky bonus is an actual, physical “Bison Dollar” that plays a small-yet-vital part in the film!!! The folks behind this steel book BluRay went all-out with new bonus materials. There are roughly 75 minutes of new video interviews and features. A couple of the highlights are a 20-minute interview with writer/director Steven. E. de Souza, titled, Making Street Fighter. There is roughly an E. Honda’s 100-hand Slap’s worth of new production anecdotes from Souza. Some quick highlights are how $10 million of the $32 million budget went to Jean Claude Van Damme & Raul Julia alone. Additionally, here we find out JCVD was his backup option after Sylvester Stallone and how he originally wanted Stephen Wang as Bison, but was surprised Julia jumped at the role and could not turn him down.

Also amusing was how Souza stated how they kept toning down the violence and blood in the fights to get to a PG-13 rating but eventually overdid it and the MPAA rated the movie G. Hence, they went back and had JCVD whisper in a curse word to get a PG-13 rating. Lastly, it was fascinating to see in this interview how Souza was pretty introspective all these years later, being appreciative of fans coming around and telling him how much they love the movie in recent years after all the initial negative press. Other notable new extras are interviews with the composer, Graene Revell, and how he was competing to get his soundtrack done and released before the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, which went on to much bigger success and still resonates today. They tracked down Ken Masters actor, Damian Chapa for a new interview with fond reflections of his kids loving that he did this movie all these years later. The actress who played Chun-Li, Ming-Na Wen, also had a new interview, with the standout moment being how she was in the scene with Raul Julia for the iconic “It was Tuesday” line. While they could not track JCVD for a new interview, they did have a historian interviewed detailing his humble Hollywood beginnings to his breakout success, and eventually how Street Fighter was the beginning of a downward spiral for him.

There is also roughly a half hour of archived extra features from the aforementioned “Extreme Edition” DVD, but the archived commentary track with de Souza also is carried over and worth your time and has a lot of takeaways from how the production shifted from Thailand into Australia due to filming conditions. This “Ultimate Edition” is a stacked BluRay, and well worth tracking down If you have any nostalgia for the 1994 classic!!! The intricately detailed steel book and physical “Bison Dollar” are just the icing on this delicious cake of camp theater fan service!! I think it is a safe bet the reboot follow-up Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li will not receive this treatment as it is as awful today as it was in 2009. By the way, the pic above this paragraph is the ultimate fan service to end the movie with each fighter’s appropriate victory pose!!!! Many, many thanks, Steven E. de Souza, for this iconic closing shot!!!

Here I am reflecting back on Street Fighter in a clip on the podcast “Big Screens & TV Streams.” Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street 1917 The Accountant Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Avengers: Endgame The Avengers: Infinity War Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve The Clapper Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed I & II Deck the Halls Detroit Rock City Die Hard Dirty Work Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Grunt: The Wrestling Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Hell Comes to Frogtown Hercules: Reborn Hitman I Like to Hurt People Indiana Jones 1-4 Inglourious Basterds Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Justice League (2017 Whedon Cut) Last Action Hero Major League Mallrats Man of Steel Man on the Moon Man vs Snake Marine 3-6 Merry Friggin Christmas Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpions Revenge National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets Nintendo Quest Not for Resale Old Joy Payback (Director’s Cut) Pulp Fiction The Punisher (1989) The Ref The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VIII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery Serenity (2005) Scott Pilgrim vs the World The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Slacker Skyscraper Small Town Santa Speed Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Sully Take Me Home Tonight TMNT Trauma Center The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild The Wizard Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Days of Future Past Youngblood

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This is kind of old news but I just remembered about it. I always thought the "Brown Wiggle" part was pretty damn funny (and presumably something Rakete himself was comfortable with - it sounds as if he picked it himself) but I also understand why not everyone liked it (it's also kind of questionable how the Orange Wiggle role has been shared by two Black American guys [Al Roker - yes, that Al Roker - and Lee Hawkins] - I realise they're running low on well-known colours, but surely they could come up with something else in addition to Orange - Indigo Wiggle? Pink Wiggle is already taken, I don't think anyone would have the gall to usurp Kylie Minogue). There hasn't been a Green Wiggle, as far as I'm aware, in the band's history so it still means Rakete has a unique niche.

also remember the time people were sending the Wiggles death threats over their New Zealand tour

New Zealand: we're lovely until we're really fucking not

I'm not a proper Wiggles fan, I just continue to be perplexed and entertained by them as a phenomenon.

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Mischa Sunday Telegraph Interview

Why Mischa Barton said yes to surprise role on Neighbours

She was the star of the hottest teen drama of the noughties, but The O.C’s Mischa Barton shocked everyone when she signed on to the revival of Aussie soap Neighbours. Now she exclusively reveals to Stellar why she gave up work in the US for a show she’d never seen in suburban Melbourne.

After starring in the hottest teen drama of the noughties and being idolised for her every fashionable move, Mischa Barton surprised everyone when she signed up for some suburban drama on Australia’s most famous cul-de-sac in a revival of Neighbours. But then the British-born, US-based actor – who started her career on the stage and in soap operas – has never relished the role Hollywood chose for her. In an exclusive interview with Stellar, the 37-year-old recalls being cast in The O.C. because she “wasn’t anything like the other young blonde girls going in and trying out” and reveals how she’s taken charge of her own narrative.

Craning her neck forward, Mischa Barton lets out a squeal of excitement as she hears the first bars of Neighbours actor Stefan Dennis’ 1989 single ‘Don’t It Make You Feel Good’ emanate from a mobile phone. “I’m adding that to my playlist!” she exclaims with a throaty laugh, before plotting how she will tease Dennis on the Neighbours set the next day, her first suggestion being that she might just broadcast the tune loudly in her dressing room.

While Barton was a fan of Kylie Minogue before joining the Neighbours cast, she was far less familiar with the era-typifying swerve into pop music made by Dennis (who has been playing the show’s “villain” Paul Robinson since 1985), let alone its reputation for turning out future Australian music superstars. As such, she can confidently say it’s “very, very unlikely” that her 10-week stint on Ramsay Street was motivated by a secret desire to follow in the footsteps of Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem or even Dennis.

So if not music, then what did prompt the former star of the early 2000s teen drama The O.C. to say yes to a stint in suburban Melbourne working on a show that she has never seen, and that has no cultural footprint in the US, where she lives?

Certainly for Network 10, adding Barton to the cast was a shrewd move to create buzz when the series returns later this month, resurrected just over a year after its 37-year run came to an end and also airing for the first time in the US and Canada via Amazon’s streaming service Freevee (as well as streaming in Australia and New Zealand on Amazon Prime). For Barton, who wasn’t yet born when Neighbours debuted in 1985, it was a serendipitous chance to try something new, as well as reconnect with some old friends in Australia.

When Stellar spoke to Barton in June, a week before she returned to the US, she explained the role had “come at a really good time, because while I was loving living in New York, there’s a writers’ strike on. And it’s [Northern Hemisphere] summertime. So there’s really not that much work going around for a lot of my actor friends.”

Of course, the Hollywood actors’ strike – which was called in mid-July – has also compounded the issue for Barton’s fellow actors. However, practicality and picket lines aside, the real lure for Barton was the role of Reece Sinclair, a wealthy American who arrives in Erinsborough under the guise of doing business – but in reality, has a much more personal agenda to fulfil. “And then she falls for a guy,” Barton says with a smile. “It actually just felt like a very good fit for me in terms of a role I could really play. And I don’t always feel that way with television.”

Her sentiment is understandable given the 37-year-old’s most high-profile project since leaving The O.C. in 2006 was her surprising gear-shift into reality TV on The Hills: New Beginnings. A sequel to the popular MTV series that followed the daily lives of TV personalities Brody Jenner, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, it was sold to her as an opportunity to let people see “the real Mischa Barton”. Ultimately, she felt let down by the process.

“Would I do it again? Probably not something like The Hills,” Barton tells Stellar. “I think they’re even continuing to try to do it, but it just wasn’t really all the things that were promised around it, like clearing up any misconceptions or getting people to know you. There are just people putting

on too many fronts and they’re not being themselves. So if people aren’t being themselves, it’s impossible because I’m used to having a script. That middle ground is just too trying for me. It’s partially scripted but it’s not, but they can’t really say that. So it wasn’t my favourite experience.

“But I’ve never been attracted to that kind of fame, either,” she adds. “It’s not something that I chase. I actually veer away from it.”

Fame has long been an uncomfortable by-product of Barton’s chosen career. Asked whether she’s grateful to have become a celebrity in an era when smartphones couldn’t capture her every move, Barton sighs wearily. “You can always play the grass is greener thing, and I just don’t feel that way,” she says. “I mean, in a sense, it would have been much easier for me if there had been social media to combat all the ludicrous stories in the press. Now, kids can really show their own narrative. You can use your own social media to be whoever you want to be.”

She qualifies her reply after a brief pause: “At the same time, I don’t really love social media. So I’m fine with having come up in a time when it wasn’t around and things were, in one sense, a lot simpler.”

That’s why, rather than opting for a luxury hotel suite, Barton relished staying in a relatively humble cottage nestled behind Melbourne’s bustling Chapel Street for the duration of her time filming Neighbours. There, she could cook meals for friends, do her own laundry and, when her schedule allowed, walk to the Prahran Market to pick up fresh fruit and veg. She also found time to indulge in a bit of shopping, and admits that she would be going home with far heavier suitcases than when she arrived. “I really liked a vintage store I found there,” she says of Chapel Street, which is known for its eclectic mix of high-end boutiques and second-hand clothing markets. “I did a lot of damage in there.”

Filming in Australia meant such excursions could be enjoyed without being recognised or photographed, and added a layer of protection for Barton, who has learnt the tricks to staying incognito – the easiest being to steer clear of bars and clubs where people inevitably want selfies.

Avoiding unwanted attention wasn’t always so easy. When The O.C. first aired in 2003, it catapulted Barton and the rest of her young co-stars into a searing spotlight of adulation and attention. For someone who had been acting steadily since she was eight – making her screen debut in the US soap opera All My Children in 1994, and going on to appear in two of the biggest films of 1999, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Sixth Sense and Richard Curtis’ hit romance Notting Hill – the sudden and frenzied interest in both The O.C. and her personal life was a shock to the system.

“I was 17 or 18 and it was a very specific kind of fame,” Barton recalls. “Most actors, they can work their whole lives and have a very normal level of notoriety or fame. But, for some reason, The O.C. was just one of those things. It was a time and a place, and it just took off in a very different direction. It was kind of an uncontrollable beast. But I’ve been in this industry for a long time and managed, for a large portion of it, to get away with just living a very normal life.”

Both Barton and her character, rich girl Marissa Cooper, became fashion icons of the time, with the actor regularly centre stage on red carpets and front row at fashion weeks, while young girls everywhere mimicked her onscreen style of low-slung jeans and spaghetti-strap tops.

Recalling her time in the fashion spotlight and the pressures to look a certain way in Hollywood, she says she’s “learnt how to get away from it. I don’t really live in LA anymore, so I don’t put myself under that constant scrutiny and pressure. I’ll only dip into [the Hollywood scene] when I feel like it’s healthy and something I want to do.”

Even so, Barton recalls how a “bizarre amount” of people found it hard to separate the British-born and New York-raised Barton from the quintessential Californian teenager she portrayed. “People were obsessed with Marissa Cooper,” she says. “I’d get sent a lot of [scripts] that are rehashes of her. And I was always like, ‘Do you not realise that’s actually not something I like to play?’ I didn’t really enjoy having to play that character. I had to find my own version of Marissa and I think the real reason I was cast is because I wasn’t really anything like the other young blonde girls going in and trying out for it.”

Barton left the show in its third season in 2006, when Marissa died in a shocking car crash. The series’ creator Josh Schwartz recently told Vanity Fair that he regretted killing off her character, saying he wished he’d found a way to give Barton “the break she needed and wanted that still would’ve allowed for that character to return”.

Fans say The O.C. never recovered from Barton’s departure, but the death scene – in which Marissa’s body is carried from the flames by her longtime love Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) – is etched into TV history.

“I’ve only just rewatched that scene recently,” Barton admits. “I never watched it after I did it because there was really no reason to, but I just did the podcast [Welcome To The OC, Bitches!, hosted by her former co-stars Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke, who played her best friend Summer Roberts and mother Julie Cooper] and we rewatched it together, and it was weirdly emotional. I was like, ‘Oh, I forgot the car is on fire.’ And I forgot there’s no music playing for once in the show. It was done in a really interesting way.”

Despite the enduring affection the public still has for the series, Barton isn’t sure that a reboot of The O.C. would work for audiences today. “It’s not like it hasn’t come up before, but obviously, I’m dead,” she says with a smile. “Honestly, it’s more likely to work as an offshoot of it or something based around those characters that’s not exactly the same, rather than trying to simply resurrect them. You’d have to think outside the box if you want to resurrect The O.C. culture or characters.”

And while The O.C. featured former Neighbours co-star Alan Dale, who played his screen dad and is one of his good mates, Dennis had never seen the US series. He was only aware that Barton – or, as he knew her, “the vomiting girl from The Sixth Sense” – was coming to Ramsay Street.

“[I thought], ‘Oh, here we go, they’ve cast a Hollywood hero to show us how it’s done,’” Dennis admits to Stellar. “There was a cautious shyness initially as she was alone on the other side of the world, thrown into a building full of people she didn’t know and working day-by-day in a show she didn’t know or understand the way it worked. This cautious shyness was misread by me. I now like to think we have cemented a long-term friendship.”

Another castmate, Annie Jones (who rejoined the show in 2020, reprising her 1980s character Jane Harris), was equally impressed by Barton, enthusing that she brought a “beautiful, serene calmness to the set. It’s great for the show to have someone of Mischa’s calibre on it. She was gorgeous. Everyone loved her.”

And while Barton may be back in the US as Neighbours returns to air, she tells Stellar she remains excited that – unlike her very final departure from The O.C. – the door has been left open for a return. And the plot wheels are already turning in her head, as Barton teases, “Reece might pop up on FaceTime from New York.”

[path-of-my-childhood]

Taylor Swift headlining Glastonbury isn't outrageous; it's outrageous it took this long to invite her

By: Neil McCormick for The Telegraph Date: December 16th 2019

Oh dear, here we go again. Taylor Swift is headlining Glastonbury festival and some people are a bit upset because - let me see if I have got this right - she’s a girly girl who plays girly pop music. For girls. Or something like that.

The 30-year-old American pop star will close the 2020 festivities with a Sunday night set on the Pyramid Stage. Given that all 134,000 tickets sold out in half an hour in October before any artists had even been announced, you might think festival goers would be excited at the prospect of being entertained by one of the biggest musical superstars in the world right now, who has won 10 Grammys and was this year voted Artist of the Decade by the American Music Awards.

But apparently not.

On the reliably combustible Twitter, fans were threatening to eat their tickets and throw themselves out windows. A Twitter user answering to the handle @TheVillaDecree helpfully summed up the problem in one grammatically suspect tweet: ‘Where the proper modern rock?! Very disappointed.’

Where the proper modern rock, indeed?

There persists a strange notion in some quarters that Glastonbury is an ancient and venerable institution dedicated to the worship of men with guitars, and that to allow this hallowed stage to be trod upon by anything other than a hairy rock band is an act of spiritual sacrilege.

That was essentially what Noel Gallagher was trying to express back in 2008, when he objected to rap superstar Jay Z’s headline set on the grounds that “I’m not having hip hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” But, of course, Jay Z performed a fantastic set for a huge audience and even amusingly played one of Noel’s Oasis songs to rub it in.

Last year, by universal critical and popular acclaim, the stand-out headline performance was delivered by another rapper, Stormzy. He made history as the first British black male to headline Glastonbury. It was treated as a historic moment. But as a representative of the music Britain actually listens to now, that helps shape and reflect the consciousness of the young people who most obsess over it, you could argue that Stormzy did not need Glastonbury as much as Glastonbury needed him. Because pop culture is ever-changing and a music festival as ambitious and wide-ranging as Glastonbury needs to change with it or be left behind. And this year Taylor Swift is very much part of that change.

Swift will be only the sixth female solo artist to ever headline Glastonbury festival. On its 50th anniversary. Think about that. A festival that has been running for five decades, with three major headliners each year, has only managed to make top billing space for a handful of women.

They were Suzanne Vega in 1989, Sinead O’Connor in 1990, Kylie Minogue in 2005, Beyoncé in 2011 and Adele in 2016. We should add to that list pop duo Shakespears Sister in 1992, rock band Skunk Anansie in 1999 (fronted by Skin) and Florence + The Machine in 2015 (with the proviso that Florence Welch only got the headline spot because American rock band the Foo Fighters pulled out).

If you really want to express outrage about something on Twitter, that might be a place to start. Women have been marginalised in music for as long as there has been a music business, and Glastonbury’s paucity of female headliners is just another reflection of that. I wonder how much of that has been caused by a bias against the very idea that there is a kind of female pop music that just isn’t worthy of the serious attention and reverence accorded men with guitars?

But pop is the sound of our times. Not modern rock. Not old school rock. Not rock at all. And female artists are making some of the most imaginative and adventurous pop music that has ever been heard. And right there at the head of the pack is Taylor Swift, a witty, emotional singer-songwriter who uses confessional, diaristic songcraft to turn the narratives of her life into huge anthems that have reverberated around the world.

She sells in multi-millions and streams in the billions. She has been among the top 10 touring artists worldwide this decade, which would suggest she knows how to put on a show. The question isn’t whether she deserves to be at Glastonbury, the question is why Glastonbury has taken so long to invite her?

She is going to smash it. And hopefully the next time a major female superstar deigns to grace Glastonbury festival with her presence, it will not be seen as something to moan about on social media, but just show-business as usual.