#a grand total of 21 across these two eps

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Megatron Risinggggg

I know this is a children’s show, and I know that Sumdac feels super guilty for literally building his robot empire off of a member of the species who is now protecting their city, and I know further that Sumdac also isn’t the most perceptive guy to say the least.... But we’ve seen three different Decepticons now, at this point, shouldn’t he be questioning not only Megatron’s optic colour but DEFINITELY the size of the frame he just pulled out of the woods? I mean. If there’s two things we know about Decepticons it’s that they’re gigantic and that they’ve got red eyes. And literally Megs’ body has the Decepticon logo on it also. Like. Did Megs just explain this all away? You know what, I’m willing to bet that he just explained that all away. 

Y’all better be ready for the quite frankly disgusting amounts of admiration that is going to be condensed into this post most likely

Blitzwing, casually trying to steal Lugnut’s shoulder. 

WHY ARE YOU BEATING HIM UP? IS IT JUST FOR FUN I LOVE YOU

Oh god, there he is. God... Imagine fucking... having to fucking listen to Starscream... every day... for however long they were all on the Nemesis looking for the AllSpark. Imagine having to live your life like that. 

Lugnut’s talking on the phone to Megs and Starscream is that awkward person replying to the one half of the conversation.

I really love all the little robot noises they do when the bots like blink and stuff. It’s good. Good sound design. 

*Starscream scans Lugnut, lingers on his crotch for an inordinate amount of time* 

Okay, but honestly though. Tfa Star is my fave catty bitch. 

Seriously Look at how Flipping small Prowl is, i love it. Also I really love when Bulkhead and Prowl work together. Like it happens a lot, especially in first season, but I feel like no one ever really comments on it? Bulkhead kept the Dinobot secret for Prowl the entire damn season until right up at this moment (when he thought Prowl had already told Op anyways, because Prowl told him he was gonna). Bulkhead is Prowl’s voice of reason just as often as he’s Bee’s voice of reason. This should be capitalized on. 

“You might wanna go easier on the young bots” I swear, Prowl is as old as Ratchet probably, he was AROUND during the war, but no one knows hahah. He’s just like. Secret undercover older guy. Hello, fellow kids.  (Not quite to the same extreme as Shockwave tho)

Also Bulkhead defending Prowl on the whole Dinobot thing when Op is mad about it!!!!! This is important guys! Bulkhead is important!!!

“Considering your own history of mistakes Bumblebee, I wouldn’t exactly call you a great character witness.” Optimus has some serious fucking sass, oh my god. That is like, fucking, volatile levels of sass, that is WAY too much sass. How angry are you Op? LIke, I know you’re angry. But how angry are you?? Like all the time, constantly, under the surface. It’s okay, you can talk to me. How angry ARE you? 

This brings me back to the one time there was a post about how, if tfa Optimus got cloned the way Starscream had, there’d just be one clone that was just, unmitigated sass. Seriously, this boy has some underlying rage. And, well, it kind of makes sense given his history. But damn. You could use that as a renewable energy source, like shit. They were talking about Sari. 

When ya trying to be the hardass dad and it just ain’t workin

RIPS RATCHETS ARM OFF LIKE ITS NOTHING

Literally my favourite thing in the world is Megatron and Starscream being the fakest bitches at each other. Also I get why Megs was playing that game because he was the one who was A HEAD, but why the fuck did Star even bother? He could have just blasted him and been done with it. Life’s tough when you’re committed to The Drama(tm)

He interrupted his speech. I’m crying. Every single fucking time, man. 

Watching the AllSpark rebuild Megatron’s body is like fucking porn though i swear to god. And I mean like, the animation and the mechanical aspect of it, not just the fact that it’s Megs although that does not hurt. 

Me, hollering from the back row: Good shit! Good shit! That’s some good shit right there!

‘No, I can’t believe the guy i was trying to kill isn’t letting himself remain in a position where I could easily kill him!’ well maybe you should be more fucking efficient Starscream, I don’t know what to tell you

Megatron is what’s good in this world holy fuck.

I’m just gonna put both parts of the finale in one post, welcome to the longest liveblog of your life. Also are your eyes wandering back up to catch another look at that waist to shoulder ratio while you’re reading cause I know MINE ARE WHILE I”M WRITING HEYOOO

The use of perspective in this first fight scene has ALWAYS been incredible

What are Starscream’s proportions seriously. Look at the size of his fucking arms:

I’M NOT SAYING ITS A BAD THING

WHEN YOU GET PUNCHED TO DEATH BY THE FRICKEN ALLSPARK (in key form)

GOD BLESS MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES HALLELUJAH

Man, poor Omega Supreme takes so much damage in this show. Be kind to Omega Supreme. Appreciate Omega Supreme. 

Bulkhead just jumped on a plane. Where did he even get the propulsion to get that high? Heart eyes. 

Seriously though, every time Bulkhead takes out Lugnut my heart grows three sizes that day

I love that Megs just like, casually brushes Sari aside when she’s standing in front of the AllSpark. Like, he could just crush her, it would take about the same amount of effort. But he chooses not to. 

Just fucking jam the AllSpark into your spark. Why not? That looks consensual. 

Megatron you can’t just walk around with your sparkcasing open, that’s obscene. 

And then Optimus jammed the key into the AllSpark and the holy artifact overloaded so hard it exploded into a million pieces. Inside Megatron’s chest. While merged with him. That is some kinky and sacrilegious shit right there, lemme tell you.

Ahhhh, i love season 1 <3 

[sirenofthetimes]

Every Proposal on Gilmore Girls Was Absolutely Unhinged

This show was rich in couples, swimming in conflict, and desperately lacking in healthy communication. Which made for some batshit marriage proposals! Let's go:

Christopher to Lorelai in Season 1 ep. 15: Christopher Returns

In Christopher's first appearance on the show, he rocks up to Stars Hollow on his motorcycle at the end of the previous episode, out of the blue, and in this one archetypes are made clear: he establishes himself as the irresponsible deadbeat single dad to Lorelai's hardworking, mature yet still fun single mom. They have a weird dinner with everyone's parents where his parents, Straub and Francine, are shown to be even more uptight and awful than Richard and Emily can be. A lot of fighting and yelling and relitigating past choices ensues. Then Lorelai and Christopher go off to have emotional, nostalgic sex on her childhood balcony, and off the strength of that, he walks into her kitchen the next morning and blurts out that he wants to marry her so they can be a "real family". They barely see each other. They know hardly anything about each other's current lives. This is the first time he's visited the town they've been living in since Rory was a child and yet. A marriage proposal. Naturally, she turns him down, but we have not heard the last of Christopher Hayden.

Max to Lorelai in Season 1 ep. 21: Love, Daisies and Troubadours

This relationship was used mostly to discuss Lorelai's commitment issues, the difficulties of dating as a single mom, and have her fight allegations of her being promiscuous (which are not true, she can be very sexually conservative) by having her do something risky like try to date one of her daughter's teachers at the stuffy private school that also exists in her parents' world. So despite them having okay chemistry, they haven't really dated much and broke up after two months before getting back together shortly before the night of the proposal. Max comes by the house to pick Lorelai up and finds Luke there getting his toolbox and relaying the news that Rachel broke up with him (because she has a basic level of intuition and picked up on his feelings for Lorelai). Max and Luke have a very cringy dick measuring contest, Max (in possession of similar intuition) assumes Luke and Lorelai dated at some point but it's not season 5 yet so she's not legally allowed to admit she's into Luke. They argue, Max expresses frustration that their relationship can never seem to get off the ground, and what does he propose as a solution? Yoking their lives together in blessed matrimony. Lorelai is justifiably frustrated and tells him that's not how you propose, that a proposal is supposed to be special and grand. She lists "a thousand yellow daisies" as an example how to truly pop the question and the next day Max arranges for that famous logistical nightmare romantic gesture at the inn, then says some flowery bullshit on the phone and because it's the season finale and emotions are high, Lorelai accepts. Though later, right after her bachelorette party, she runs away and calls off the wedding. They meet a couple more times for closure, and then the relationship is truly dead.

Jackson to Sookie in Season 2 ep 13: A-Tisket A-Tasket

Sookie and Jackson's budding relationship has actually been pretty nice to watch up until this point. They have a fun balance between awkward but cute flirting and comical bickering about produce. But there's something in the area's water supply that makes people unable to clearly express their wants and needs in a romantic relationship so when Sookie doesn't respond how Jackson wanted her to to him saying his lease was up and asking her what she thought, he sulks. The sulking manifests itself in him not bidding on Sookie's basket at the bid a basket auction so she confronts him to see what's up and they actually manage to have a decent conversation about what moving in together would mean. And that could've been a nice ending for that storyline. But shacking up together? Out of wedlock? Impossible. So at their picnic for two, Jackson fakes Sookie out and says he doesn't want to talk about moving in together any more... because he thinks they should get married. Sookie, reeling from that whiplash, accepts, and since the rules of TV beta couples states they must move faster than the main will-they-won't-they couple at all times, they get married, stay married, and continue struggling to effectively talk through big life decisions,with some admittedly nice moments in between.

Lorelai to Luke in Season 5 ep 22: A House is Not a Home and Season 6 ep 1: New and Improved Lorelai

Lorelai and Luke are in kind of a weird place at the moment, with Luke upset with Lorelai for considering selling the Dragonfly to a corporation owned by one of her father's contacts, which would have her traveling and consulting instead. While she's not too serious about it, she's enjoying being courted by the company, but this is in complete disregard for the giant house Luke bought without telling her or the kids he's thinking about having that he also hasn't discussed with her so it's causing problems. This is forgotten however with the news that Rory wants to take time off from Yale after receiving some rare negative feedback, and that Richard and Emily are letting her stay with them after just telling Lorelai they would help her force Rory back into Yale. So when Lorelai walks into the diner lamenting the fact that Rory is making a decision independent from the vision Lorelai had for her life, and Luke comes forth with a nonsensical plan to, again, force Rory back to Yale, Lorelai is touched that she finally has someone on her side. And since she's a veteran of the season finale marriage proposal, she celebrates having her partner agree with her by asking him to marry her. He accepts in the next season's premiere with no hesitation, but eventually their tendency to hide things from each other to not ruin their relationship.... ruins their relationship. Shocking.

Zack to Lane in Season 6 ep 16: Bridesmaids Revisited

Zack is on a bit of a redemption tour after ruining Hep Alien's showcase in front of a major label by throwing a tantrum about Brian potentially writing a song for Lane. This random burst of jealousy sends him on a power trip that has him throwing out their set list and screaming at his band mates until a fight breaks out and the band and him and Lane split up. But when he sees Lane in the music shop some time later putting up a flier advertising her drumming services to other bands, the thought of her daring to potentially continue living her life without him spurs Zach into action. He convinces Brian and Gil to get the band back together and they're in if Lane's in. And his way of getting Lane back is to walk into Luke's while she's working, go off on some tangent about how he doesn't feel good, and propose in front of a huge crowd of gossipy small town people. Lane must have smacked her head on some antique furniture that day because although she at least stops to ask if he's thought about this, when he presents her with the pawn shop ring he got that "belonged to like an Elk or a Moose or something", she accepts and walks right into marriage and babies land and right out of development that would make sense for her character or be interesting.

Christopher to Lorelai in Season 7 ep. 7: French Twist

Ever since Lorelai walked out of her fraught engagement with Luke and into Christopher's bed, he has taken the reality of a woman coping with feelings of rejection by hooking up with the man she keeps stashed in the background for occasions such as these, and spun it into an elaborate romantic tale of two star crossed loves who waited their whole lives to be together. And when Sherry who, guided by the hands of karma, previously abandoned Gigi leaving Christopher to raise her on his own, writes a letter saying she's totally fine now trust her and wants Gigi to spend a few months with her in Paris, Christopher invites Lorelai along for a big romantic gesture trip. They spend most of it jetlagged, but Christopher remembers he's super rich now (as opposed to just being regular rich like before) and he bribes a restaurant to open early for the two of them. Lorelai, basking in the romance™ of it all, confesses her love, and Christopher pounces on that and starts in on a whole speech. Basically, even though he said he'd be willing to wait for Lorelai to fall in line with his vision, he doesn't feel like waiting any more. Lorelai, sensing where this is going, suggests they wait, as they've only been really dating for a couple of months. She also brings up Rory, figuring she'd want to be up to date and present any big changes. But Christopher waves those perfectly valid concerns away, stresses how long they've known each other, insists that they're meant to be, and fate has brought them together. And then comes out with it and asks her to marry him. Which are very intense words for Lorelai, an emotionally vulnerable woman who just broke off an engagement because her fiancé seemed overly hesitant to actually get married, to hear. We don't see her accept, but there's a scene of them returning home where he calls her "Mrs. Hayden" (as if she would ever change her name), and their marriage immediately began to fall apart like wet tissue paper.

Logan to Rory in Season 7 ep. 21: Unto the Breach

It's the end of Rory's time at Yale, and on the heels of her New York Times fellowship rejection, rejections from other newspapers across the country, and the fact that she rejected her one job offer for better things that did not come, Rory's future is wide open and unstable. On the other hand, Logan is completing his character transformation from irresponsible party animal trust fund kid to hardworking and responsible trust fund kid, accepting a job offer for an internet company in San Francisco. The question emerges: How will the young couple handle this next phase of their lives? And when Logan shows up at Lorelai's house in the previous episode, he comes with a solution. He wants to marry Rory and take her to California, and he wants Lorelai's blessing to propose. She gives it, though not without trepidation, and Logan does propose. In the middle of the graduation party Richard and Emily are throwing for Rory, he gets up in front of everyone and takes out the ring. Rory is caught completely off guard and takes him outside to talk about it, where he reveals that he got the job, picked out a house for them to rent, researched newspapers where she could apply to work, and even planned activities for them to do in their spare time. The original plan being that she would say yes to his proposal without knowing all this and walk blindly into her new, pre-arranged West Coast life. But Rory needs time to process the idea of marrying Logan immediately after college, and on the day of her graduation, she declines. Logan decides if he can't marry her, there's no point in being with her at all, and the two go their separate ways, to eventually meet again in a years long affair, for some reason. Though I barely acknowledge the revival.

Honestly, the only proposal that truly makes sense is Lorelai's to Luke in the revival but I won't discuss it here because a) again, the revival basically doesn't exist to me and b) they should've married during the original run of the show.

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PEMDAS -- 11•19•20

Welcome to the new PEMDAS Blog! My work on PEMDAS keeps expanding each week so it needs a bigger home. She loves The Overwhelm.

My main goal is to have a one glance spot for all things news/entertainment. I want it to contain as much detail as possible without being too cluttered. Striking the balance is hard. If you have feedback, please share it with me.

Open below for PEMDAS!

POLITICS/NEWS 

U.S. Coronavirus Numbers

More than 11,695,500 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 251,100 have died.

The number of people who have died from Coronavirus in the U.S. is equivalent to 84 times the number of U.S. citizens who died in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. It is 56 times the number of U.S. soldiers who died in the war against Iraq. It is 7 times the number of U.S. citizens who died from the flu last year.

On Nov. 18: 1,923 deaths (+52% 14-day change), 172,391 infections (+77% 14-day change)

The rates of infection and death remain disproportionately high in the Native American communities across the country. Just last weekend, 600 Native people died on the Navajo reservation.

Sen. Chuck Grassley from Iowa has contracted coronavirus. The nation mourns :-(

Global Coronavirus Numbers

The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 56,661,800 people, according to official counts. As of Thursday afternoon, at least 1,355,100 people have died.

On Nov. 18: 11,133 deaths (+13% 14-day change), 598,877 infections (+25% 14-day change)

Election 2020

President-Elect Biden claims that Trump’s refusal to concede the election is preventing him from accessing critical data about the U.S. outbreak and that this could slow the vaccine distribution process.

President-Elect Biden names Cecilia Muñoz as part of his transition team. Muñoz served as a top immigration advisor for Obama, justifying harsh immigration policies, including the deportation of thousands of Central American children and the killing of an executive order that would have halted deportations.

Nancy Pelosi is re-elected as Speaker of the House.

World News

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured an illegal Israeli settlement and said he has plans to tour another in the occupied Golan Heights. This violates multiple U.N. resolutions and the Geneva Conventions. He also labelled the B.D.S. movement “anti-Semitic.”

In Central America, at least 30 people have died from Hurricane Iota. About 160,000 Nicaraguans and 70,000 Hondurans were forced to flee from their homes.

The head of the Australian military has apologized to the people of Afghanistan after Australian special forces committed war crimes by killing 39 noncombatants in Afghanistan over the past 4 years.

A nearly three-decade-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara — what many consider to be Africa’s last colony. Fighting has broken out in several areas between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence, after the Moroccan military broke into a no-go buffer zone in southern Western Sahara.

Winners of the National Book Awards 2020

Fiction: Interior Chinatown •• Charles Yu

Nonfiction: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X •• Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Translated Literature: Tokyo Ueno Station •• Yu Miri and Morgan Giles

Young People’s Literature: King and the Dragonflies •• Kacen Callender

EDUCATION — Topic: this Candace Owens tweet

“There is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this.“

Both of these sentences separately are not true; both of them together are not true.

Here is an article about a village in China (”the East”) with women running the show.

Here is a list of several others, mostly in “the East.”

“In the west, the steady feminization of our men at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children is not a coincidence.“

First of all, Marx has not been an outright advocate for a gender-queer society.

Second of all, I think she’s right. Socialism and gender/queer theory are intertwined in so many ways.

“It is an outright attack.“

And I think she’s right about this, too. Socialism and gender/queer theory all are an attack on the cis-hetero white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

“Bring back manly men.“

Okay, this is where I think she’s wrong again.

1) "Manly men” haven’t gone anywhere...

2) Is she basically arguing that a couple of men wearing dresses means every man is no longer “manly?” This makes no sense.

3) In a society, “manly men” can coexist with “feminized” men. There is enough room for everyone. And there will always be men who want to take up the “manly” MANtle. And there will be queer/trans masc people who will want to do the same, though I’m sure Candace would hate that.

MEDIA (OTHER) 

BOOKS - Tuesday, November 24

Ready Player Two •• Ernest Cline

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (Folk of the Air) •• Holly Black

Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization •• Joe Scarborough

Bright Shining World •• Josh Swiller

Ruinsong •• Julia Ember

The Awakening (Dragon Heart Legacy #1) •• Nora Roberts

Dark Tides •• Philippa Gregory

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology •• edited by S.B. Divya & Mur Lafferty

The Thirty Names of Night •• Zeyn Joukhadar

MOVIES

Friday, November 20

Jiu Jitsu •• Dimitri Logothetis •• In Theaters

The Last Vermeer •• Dan Friedkin •• In Theaters

Run •• Aneesh Chaganty •• Hulu

Soros •• Jesse Dylan •• In Theaters

Sound of Metal •• Darius Marder •• In Theaters

The Twentieth Century •• Matthew Ranking •• In Theaters

Vanguard •• Stanley Tong •• In Theaters

Sunday, November 22

Belushi •• R. J. Cutler •• Showtime

Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square •• Debbie Allen •• Netflix

Monday, November 23

Shawn Mendes: In Wonder •• Grant Singer •• Netflix

Tuesday, November 24

Hillbilly Elegy •• Ron Howard •• Netflix

Wednesday, November 25

The Christmas Chronicles 2 •• Chris Columbus •• Netflix

The Croods: A New Age •• Joel Crawford •• In Theaters

Happiest Season •• Clea DuVall •• Hulu

Stardust •• Gabriel Range •• In Theaters

Thursday, November 26

Mosul •• Matthew Michael Carnahan •• Netflix

Superintelligence •• Ben Falcone •• HBO Max

TV SHOWS

Friday, November 20

Animaniacs •• Season 1 •• Hulu

The Mandalorian •• Season 2, Episode 4 •• Disney+

Marvel’s 616 •• Season 1 •• Disney+

The Pack •• Season 1 •• Prime Video

Small Axe •• Mangrove •• Prime Video

Voices of Fire •• Season 1 •• Netflix

Saturday, November 21

Between the World and Me •• Special •• HBO

Sunday, November 22

American Music Awards 2020 •• Special •• ABC

Host: Taraji P. Henson

Performances

Bad Bunny x Jhay Cortez

Bebe Rexha x Doja Cat

Bell Biv DeVoe

Billie Eilish

BTS

Dan + Shay

Dua Lipa

Jennifer Lopez x Maluma

Justin Bieber x Benny Blanco

Katy Perry

Lewis Capaldi

Lil Baby

Machine Gun Kelly

Megan Thee Stallion

Nelly

Shawn Mendes

The Weeknd x Kenny G

Monday, November 23

Black Narcissus •• Miniseries •• FX

His Dark Materials •• Season 2, Episode 2 •• HBO

Tuesday, November 24

Big Sky •• Season 1, Episode 2 •• ABC

Wednesday, November 25

Saved by the Bell •• Season 1 •• Peacock

The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration 2020 •• Special •• ABC

Hosts: Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, Trevor Jackson

Sneak peek of Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure attraction and of Pixar’s Soul

VIDEO GAMES

Friday, November 20

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity •• NS

Katamari Damacy REROLL •• PS4, XBO

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin •• PS4, NS

The Skylia Prophecy •• NS

Monday, November 23

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands •• PC

Tuesday, November 24

Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues •• NS

Football Manager 2021 •• XBX, XBO, PC, Mac

Just Dance 2021 •• PS5, XBX

Wednesday, November 25

Out of Space: Couch Edition •• PS4, XBO, NS

Star Renegades •• PS4

Vigor •• PS4

Thursday, November 26

Maid of Sker •• NS

DIRECT ACTIONS/DONATIONS 

Give $5 to... Unicorn Riot: on-the-ground journalists covering and capturing footage of the revolution!

ALBUMS 

separated from her twin, a dying android arrives on a mysterious island [EP] •• Ada Rook

distanceless gentleness

time dilation

total memory failure

otherworld

Self Help •• Badge Époque Ensemble

Sing a Silent Gospel (ft. Meg Remy & Dorothea Paas)

Unity (It’s Up to You) [ft. James Baley]

Cloud

The Sound Where My Head Was

Just Space for Light (ft. Jennifer Castle)

Birds Fly Through Ancient Ruins

Extinct Commune

BE •• BTS

Life Goes On

내 방을 여행하는 법

Blue & Grey

Skit

잠시

병

Stay

Dynamite

Hypoluxo •• Hypoluxo

Seth Meyers

Ridden

Nimbus

Tenderloin

Appetizer

Night Life

Pointer Finger

Shape Ups

Shock

Sweat

Harmony •• Josh Groban

The World We Knew (Over and Over)

Angels

Celebrate Me Home

Shape of My Heart (Duet with Leslie Odom Jr.)

Your Face

Both Sides Now (Duet with Sara Bareilles)

She

The Impossible Dream

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

It’s Now or Never

I Can’t Make You Love Me

The Fullest (feat. Kirk Franklin)

Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞ •• Kali Uchis

la luna enamorada

fue mejor (w/ PARTYNEXTDOOR)

//aguardiente y limón %ᵕ‿��ᵕ%

¡aquí yo mando! (w/ Rico Nasty)

vaya con dios

que te pedí//

quiero sentirme bien

telepatía

de nadie

no eres tu (soy yo)

te pongo mal (prendelo) [w/ Jowell y Randy]

la luz (Fín) [w/ Jhay Cortez]

ángel sin cielo

III •• Lindstrøm x Prins Thomas

Grand Finale

Martin 5000

Small Stream

Oranges

Harmonia

Birdstrike

Good News •• Megan Thee Stallion

Shots Fired

Circles

Cry Baby (ft. DaBaby)

Do It on the Tip (ft. City Girls)

Sugar Baby

Movie (ft. Lil Durk)

Freaky Girls (ft. SZA)

Body

What’s New

Work That

Intercourse (ft. Popcaan)

Go Crazy (ft. Big Sean & 2 Chainz)

Don’t Rock Me To Sleep

Outside

Savage Remix (ft. Beyoncé)

Girls in the Hood

Don’t Stop (ft. Young Thug)

Copycat Killer [EP] •• Phoebe Bridgers x Rob Moose

Kyoto (Copycat Killer Version)

Savior Complex (Copycat Killer Version)

Chinese Satellite (Copycat Killer Version)

Punisher (Copycat Killer Version)

Euphoric Sad Songs [EP] •• RAYE

Love Me Again

Change Your Mind

Regardless (ft. Rudimental)

Secrets (ft. Regard)

Natalie Don’t

All Dressed Up

Please Don’t Touch

Walk on By

Love of Your Life

Dimensional Stardust •• Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra

Sun Core Tet (Parable 99)

A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles Reeling

Galaxy 1000

The Careening Prism Within (Parable 43)

Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)

Parable of Inclusion

Dimensional Stardust (Parable 33)

Minerals Bionic Stereo

Parable 3000 (We All Come From Somewhere Else)

Autumn Pleiades

While the World Was Burning •• SAINt JHN

Sucks to Be You

Switching Sides

Freedom Is Priceless

Gorgeous

High School Reunion, Prom (ft. Lil Uzi Vert)

Monica Lewinsky, Election Year (ft. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & DaBaby)

Roses (Remix) [ft. Future]

Pray 4 Me (ft. Kanye West)

Quarantine Wifey (ft. JID)

Time for Demons

Ransom (ft. 6lack & Kehlani)

Back on the Ledge

Roses (Imanbek Remix)

ALIAS •• Shygirl

TWELVE

SLIME

FREAK

TASTY

LENG

BAWDY

SIREN

Coping Mechanisms •• Tayla Parx

Sad

Dance Alone

System

Stare

Fixerupper

Bricks

Residue

Justified

NonChalant

Nevermind

Last Words

You Don’t Know

LIVE DRUGS •• The War on Drugs

An Ocean Between the Waves (Live)

Pain (Live)

Strangest Thing (Live)

Red Eyes (Live)

Thinking of a Place (Live)

Buenos Aires Beach (Live)

Accidentally Like a Martyr (Live)

Eyes to the Wind (Live)

Under the Pressure (Live)

In Reverse (Live)

SINGLES

NEW

“Revolutionary Love” •• Ani DiFranco

“Dido’s Lament” •• Annie Lennox

“My Head & My Heart” •• Ava Max

“Endless Me, Endlessly” •• Baio

“What Do You Say When I’m Not There?” •• Baio

“45” •• Bleachers

“chinatown” •• Bleachers x Bruce Springsteen

“Thousand Pills” •• Boldy James x Stove God Cooks

“gf haircut” •• dad sports

“Scratchcard Lanyard” •• Dry Cleaning

“Angel Rock” •• Dua Saleh

“Best Rapper in the Fuckin World” •• GoldLink

“Anywhere” •• Hannah’s Little Sister

“Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)” •• Jason Derulo x Nuka

“Pick Up Your Feelings” •• Jazmine Sullivan

“Daddy Boyfriend” •• Jessica Lea Mayfield

“Emotional Abandonment” •• Jessica Lea Mayfield

“Hitman” •• Kelly Rowland & NFL

“Summertime The Gershwin Version” •• Lana Del Rey

“Undone” •• Lande Hekt

“Man’s World” •• MARINA

“Prisoner” •• Miley Cyrus x Dua Lipa

“The Lighthouse Keeper” •• Sam Smith

“Is It Just Me?” •• Sasha Sloan x Charlie Puth

“Shameika Said” •• Shameika x Fiona Apple

“Monster” •• Shawn Mendes x Justin Bieber

“Hey Boy” •• Sia

“nhs” •• slowthai

“Plead Insanity” •• Spring Silver x Sad13 x Bartees Strange

“feel good” •• Tierra Whack

“Peppers and Onions” •• Tierra Whack

“Flawed” •• Wale x Gunna

“Tried to Tell You” •• The Weather Station

REMIXES

“Valley of One Thousand Perfumes (Orchestral Version)” •• Mary Timony

“Lifetime (Planningtorock ‘Let It Happen’ Remix)” •• Romy x Planningtorock

“Boys Who Don’t Wanna Be Boys (U.S. Girls Live from The Peppermint Lounge Remix)” •• Seth Bogart x U.S. Girls

COVERS

“Waverly” (Samia cover) •• Anjimile

“Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” •• Betty Who

“Deacon Blues” (Steely Dan cover) •• Bill Callahan x Bonnie Prince Billy x Bill McKay

“Christmas Will Really Be Christmas” •• Black Pumas

“Clementine” (Elliott smith cover) •• Bonny Light Horseman

“The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” (Roberta Flacke cover) •• James Blake

“The First Noel” •• Jazmine Sullivan x Cory Henry

“A Dreamer’s Holiday” (Perry Como cover) •• Julien Baker

MUSIC VIDEOS

“JUMPING SHIP” •• Amaarae x Kojey Radical x Cruel Santino (dir. Remi Laudat)

“34+35″ •• Ariana Grande (dir. Director X)

“Shameika” •• Fiona Apple (dir. Matthias Brown)

“Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun” •• Kevin Morby (dir. Johnny Eastlund x Dylan Isbell)

"Star” •• LOOΠΔ (dir. MOSWANTD)

“Waverly” •• Samia (dir. Samia Finnerty x Matt Hixon)

“Kerosene” •• Yves Tumor x Diana Gordon (dir. Cody Critcheloe)

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– Muse :: 15-17 Sept – Julia Michaels :: 17 Sept – Khalid :: 17-21 Sept – George Ezra :: 25 Sept – Hozier :: 30 sept - 5 oct – John Mayer :: 13-14 Oct – Ariana Grande :: 15-16 Oct – Gary Numan :: 24-25 Oct – Of Monsters And Men :: 29 Oct – 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' :: 29 Oct – Lizzo :: 6-7 Nov – Metronomy :: 7-8 Nov – Bombay Bicycle Club :: 8 Nov ARIANA GRANDE: Ariana Grande has captured the hearts and minds of the masses by her unique ability to turn darkness into lightness. In an unparalleled move (as far as we know) by releasing two albums back-to-back before a tour, the Sweetener + Thank U, Next Tour is generating demand like no other. After a three-day concert series at the O2 already in August, Live Nation (the promoter) booked Grande in for two additional dates in October, in their words "due to phenomenal demand".

18:00 Tue 15 Oct, 18:00 BST Wed 16 Oct at the O2, London, Tickets range £66.45-£124.75, browse tickets here >>

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB: London's own Bombay Bicycle Club has reunited after a hiatus and an era of solo projects. These North-Londoners are an essential part of our early-2010s-indie-wave-era playlists that we had to make ourselves on iTunes because it was before Spotify even was a thing. A new album has been announced to come out in January 2020, so if you're excited to hear what's coming – Brixton will be where it's at.

19:00 Fri 08 Nov at O2 Academy Brixton Tickets are £38.10, find here >>

GARY NUMAN: Only for the initiated, Gary Numan is playing Camden's legendary Roundhouse. This is for the person who doesn't just love 80s synths, but the original 80s synths as Numan has a fair claim to being the first electro-pop superstar influencing the likes of Prince, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Depeche Mode and many more. He's closing his 40th anniversary Revolution tour so expect some moody bangers and eccentric attire, not just from those on stage but the attendees as well.

19:00 Thu 24 Oct, Fri 25 Oct at Roundhouse Tickets range from £29.70-£49.50, browse here >>

GEORGE EZRA: George Ezra is like, yet another guy with a guitar but he does it so well. His songs are so happy and catchy and if you're ever in a bad mood just go find yourself all of his clips from the Glastonbury set which he slayed – or better yet, see him in person at the Royal Albert Hall.

18:30 Wed 25 Sep Royal Albert Hall Tickets range from £33-£77, see tickets here >>

KANYE ORCHESTRA: Kanye West's masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album performed in full by an orchestral collective known as Re:imagine at the iconic XOYO club in East London. Yes they do the rap bits. Yes, it's good. They also do these live orchestral renditions of iconic soundtracks, albums and artists including but not limited to the best of Destiny's Child/Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Dr. Dre and Daft Punk. But Kanye. Damn.

19:00 Tue, 29 Oct at XOYO London Tickets are £17.16, see here >>

HOZIER: Hozier captured the world's stage with 2015 Grammy-nominated Take Me To Church. His soulful style translates to a magical experience on stage, where people often walk out feeling like indeed they have been taken to church. As a relatively new artist with a pretty rapid rise to success, Hozier seems excited to perform on stage and interacting with his audience live. A true performer and artist par excellence.

19:00 on Mon 30 Sept, Tue 01 Oct, Thu 03 Oct, Sat 05 Oct at the London Palladium. Tickets range from £40.15-£62.15, browse tickets here >>

JOHN MAYER: John Mayer may be a bit of a throwback for some, but tell us who writes more beautiful songs. We'll wait. If you haven't cried in your kitchen over Daughters or been equally disappointed in yourself as Mayer is waiting for the world to change while waiting for the bus are you even alive.

18:00 Sun 13 Oct, Mon 14 Oct at The O2 Tickets range from £53.65-£97.60, browse tickets here >>

JULIA MICHAELS: Julia Michaels, or as we dubbed her back in the day as the idol of your idols is a force of nature. Today's hitmakers including Selena Gome, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears – idolise her on account of her exceptional knack for writing hits. By the time she transitioned into being an artist in her own right the industry was already in love with her, she got a Grammy nomination for her first-ever release, a 5 track EP, and has toured the world with the likes of P!NK and Niall Horan. Her sound? Confessional, introspectional, and dare-we-say-it, millennial.

19:00 Tue 17 Sept, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire Tickets are £26.80, find tickets here >>

KHALID: Yours truly first came across Khalid in the live arena, when he opened for Lorde on her Melodrama tour at Alexandra Palace in North London. Without any knowledge of his music, he totally won me over with his charm, sultry beats and catchy melodies. He's very young, only 21 years old, but already has two full-length albums out with Grammy nominations and RIAA accolades to spare. Started on SoundCloud as many of his generation have and now has over 55 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

18:30 on Tue 17 Sep, Wed 18 Sep, Sat 21 Sep at the O2, Tickets range from £42.25- £57.75, browse tickets here >>

LIZZO: If you only go to one of these, please go see Lizzo. Her trajectory is so interesting, her album Truth Hurts went to number 1 in the US two years after it was initially released. Her almost uncomfortably frank manner is so irresistibly charming, her songs are bops and her stage presence is mesmerising. Ask Glastonbury. Ask the VMAs, ask whoever you want – see Lizzo on this tour, because on her next one she'll be selling out arenas.

19:00 Wed 06 Nov, Thu 07 Nov at O2 Academy Brixton Tickets are £40.90, find here (and take me with you) >>

METRONOMY: If you love electronic-funk-indie-pop-rock and haven't seen Metronomy live already, you're in for a treat. Their live show in Brixton in 2017 gave the fans what they wanted, packing as many of their songs into the set as possible before getting cut off by the strict London curfew. The Line of The Best Fit review from the night put it very simply: "Metronomy are just a really cool live band." after expressing how it is a band that simply "excels at live shows". I was there and I agree.

19:00 Thu 07 Nov, Fri 08 Nov at the Roundhouse Tickets are £31.72, find here >>

MUSE: Muse is known as one of the best live bands in the business, it's that simple. This is confirmed by going to experience them live in person and the collection of industry awards for Best Live Act including from NME, the Q Awards, and the Vodafone Live Music Awards. If you've been to a Muse concert you already know this and if you haven't, maybe it's time to go.

18:00 Sat 14 Sept, Sun 15 Sep, Tue 17 Sep Tickets range from £51.50-£137 and there are VIP packages available, see here >>

OF MONSTERS AND MEN: Of Monsters and Men, most known for their mega-hit Little Talks which can still be heard on the radio and in American shopping malls, are back with a new album and a subsequent tour. One could call them emblematic of the Mumford & Sons-esque era of heys and hos and joyful guitar slamming and happy harmonies. It's impossible to not smile, or getting a bit closer to your date during these Icelanders' live performance.

19:00 Tue 29 Oct at Eventim Apollo Tickets are £34.39, see here >>

Disclaimer: ticket prices were collected from the respective ticket sources and were true as of 05 Sept, but it is not up to us if they change so please don't sue us if they are now different.

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21 Things To Do in Dallas This Week

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Wednesday

Need a ladies night? Or a men’s night? Or just a night to get totally wasted and scream and holler when you see men taking off their clothes? Chippendales is coming to town just in time for bachelorette party season. Or a way to unwind after the stress of the holidays? Or it’s cold outside and you miss the sight of shirtless men? Whatever floats your boat or makes you hoot and holler, see it all (well, mostly all) at 8 p.m. Wednesday at House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St. Tickets start at $25 at livenation.com. Paige Skinner

Thursday

Rover Dramawerks picked Muriel Resnik’s Any Wednesday for its 19th season opener, which you can catch at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at 221 W. Parker Road, Suite 580, Plano. Playgoers 55 years ago (any readers still around?) may remember the play on Broadway with Sandy Dennis and Gene Hackman. Jane Fonda starred in the movie. Familiar plot: Married business tycoon visits mistress in office-paid-for apartment every Wednesday. Complications ensue when client and tycoon’s wife mistakenly get sent to the apartment. Carol M. Rice directs Mark Massey, Jade Reyes, Eddy Herring and Lucia Welch. For info and tickets, roverdramawerks.com or 972-849-0358. Thursday and matinee tickets are $18; others are $24; teacher/student/senior, $20. Reba Liner

It’s been about eight months or so since Justin Timberlake appeared in town, gracing the same American Airlines Center stage that he will again command Thursday night. Such is the magnitude of his star power. After all, there are very few artists who could return to the same scope and size of venue in such a short time. On that last appearance, JT took the sold-out crowd on a journey through his vast solo catalog of hits, enthralling the audience with his slinky dance moves, buttery smooth falsettos and charmingly, magnetic charisma. His shows also skew heavily toward the mom demographic. Much chardonnay will be sold and much is likely to be spilled as the gaggle of 30- and 40-something ladies will undoubtedly raise their glasses high in the air as they swoon and sway to his every move and note. If you’re there, feel free to join in. If you’re not in attendance, your social media feeds will keep you updated minute by minute. 8 p.m. Thursday, American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave., $49 and up at ticketmaster.com. Jeff Strowe

Toro y Moi, along with Neon Indian and Washed Out, was a forerunner of the chill wave movement about a decade ago. But, like many in the scene at that time, he’s moved on from the sound, as is evident in his new album, this year’s Outer Peace. One critic described the album as "new disco," while others label it as a funk album rooted in the present. 7 p.m. Thursday, Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Ave., sold out. Diamond Victoria

Friday

Ella is a girl with a dopey fairy godmother who “blesses” Ella with obedience, which means whatever anyone tells her to do, she does. Even worse, she ends up with a stepmother and stepsisters who know about her quirk and are happy to take advantage. Throw in a handsome prince and adventures with ogres and magic, and you have a twisty retelling of Cinderella. See a song-filled version of Gail Carson Levine’s Newbery-honored fractured fairy tale as the Dallas Children’s Theater stages Ella Enchanted: The Musical at 5938 Skillman St. Friday’s performance is at 7:30 p.m., and the show runs through Feb. 24. Tickets, $15-40, can be found at dct.org. Patrick Williams

Did you know that comedian Iliza Shlesinger got her start here in Dallas? You didn’t? How dare you call yourself a resident! Shlesinger was born in New York, but she grew up in Dallas and took her first steps onstage as an improv comedian before heading off to college and a lucrative stand-up comedy career. She returns to her homeland for a show at The Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St., at 7 p.m. Friday. Shlesinger cut her teeth in stand-up at The Hollywood Improv and quickly caught on with her unique take and skill. She found fame as the first female comedian to win the NBC reality competition Last Comic Standing and began regularly touring theaters across the country and the world. Tickets are between $32 and $209 depending on available seating and can be purchased at theatredallas.com. Danny Gallagher

There is a story behind Amaluna, the Cirque du Soleil show making a stop at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, 1000 Lone Star Parkway. Here goes: Queen Prospera rules over a magical island populated by all women until a group of men wash ashore shipwrecked. Her daughter … OK, look. It’s Cirque du Soleil. You know, lots of brightly colored leotards and amazing acrobats dangling from straps above the audience, flying through the air launched from seesaws to the sound of mildly weird new-agey music. There are two shows Friday, at 4:30 and 8 p.m. Adult ticket prices start at $63, with discounts for children, and an assortment of special packages are available at cirquedusoleil.com. The circus continues with shows until March 3. Patrick Williams

As do many institutions at their silver anniversary, sports-talk station KTCK-AM 1310 and 96.7 FM “The Ticket” is getting nostalgic for the 25th iteration of its signature P1 fan festival. Along with celebrity guests Troy Aikman, Jay Novacek and Daryl “Razor” Reaugh, Ticketstock 25 has a Ticket Time Tunnel, where Tier One hosts discuss the history of the station in panel discussions, and there’s an interactive Ticket Hall of Fame with memorabilia, audio, Marconi Awards and retro Ticket merch. As usual, the Timewasters will perform Saturday at 6 p.m., this year from a greatest-hits set list, with Fox 4 sports anchor Mike Doocy — the ultimate good sport and straight guy during his frequent guest-hosting appearances — as emcee. Ticketstock 25 is Friday and Saturday at the Plano Event Center, 2000 E. Spring Creek Parkway. Doors open at noon both days and admission is free. Visit theticket.com for the full schedule of on-air roundtables and gotta-be-there-to-hear-’em Ticket Time Tunnel panels. Jesse Hughey

In the sage words of the world’s pre-eminent British girl band: spice up your life. Winter doldrums be damned, things are getting hot at ZestFest Jan. 25-27 at the Irving Convention Center, 500 W. Las Colinas Blvd. This three-day celebration of all things bold and piquant is packed with cooking demonstrations; celebrity chefs like Jon Bonnell, Eddie Deen and MasterChef champ Shaun O’Neale; gourmet vendors to help you level up in your own kitchen; live music; plus food samples and beer tastings aplenty. For those of us with stomachs of steel and something to prove, there’s a jalapeño-eating challenge and the annual “Atomic Wing” contest. Pack your antacid and plan a full day on Friday from 1 to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Admission is $15 at the door, though kids 10 and under get in free. For more info, check out zestfest.net. Jennifer Davis-Lamm

Creator and headliner of last year’s inaugural I Am Dallas Hip Hop event, Mozez Tha Great performs his long-awaited EP Undefined in its entirety as part of a stacked bill at The Prophet Bar on Friday night. Mozez has gone through his fair share of setbacks over the years regarding his music career. A few years ago, Undefined was ready for release, but when an engineer who was commissioned to mix and master the album took off with Mozez’s money, its completion got delayed. Catch Mozez along with several other of Dallas’ best up-and-coming hip-hop artists. With Lou Charle$, Mokah Soulfly, Smoothvega, Drama Tha King and Raw Elementz, 8:30 p.m. Friday, The Prophet Bar, 2548 Elm St., $10. Diamond Victoria

Thursday is on a small run of dates where they play two of their classic LPs, Full Collapse and War All the Time, front to back. Though they have a rather extensive back catalog, these are the two records that changed their fortunes and gained a huge audience. The first night — Friday night — is devoted to Full Collapse, the record that broke the band out of the New Jersey scene and into the national spotlight. The next night is devoted to War All the Time, the major-label debut that brought the band to larger acclaim. Normally shows like these happen in New York, LA or Chicago, so Dallas is very lucky to have these dates. Thursday is not really an active band as compared with the 2000s, so you should strongly consider going if you’ve never seen this powerful and legendary band before. 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25-26 at Trees, 2709 Elm St., $29-$36 at ticketfly.com. Eric Grubbs

Saturday

Sport is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment,” according to the Google search we just did. By that definition, cheerleading is 100 percent, no doubt in anyone’s mind, a sport. Backflips are physical. Somersaults must be learned and perfected. And competitive cheerleaders, well, compete. See them do that Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27 at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas, 650 S. Griffin St at National Cheerleaders Association National Championships. Tickets start at $20 at eventbrite.com. Paige Skinner

Finnish vocal ensemble Rajaton joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the music of megastar pop group Abba, who are enjoying a much deserved critical reconsideration. Expect orchestral renditions that shine new light on the Swedish artists’ soaring, emotionally raw classics, including “Mamma Mia,” “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen” and more. There are three performances: at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25-26, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27. All performances take place at the Meyerson, 2301 Flora St. Tickets start at $20. More info at mydso.com. Jonathan Patrick

The Boy Who Would Be Captain Hook is a funny and moving play about a boy who was born without a right hand. When doctors fitted him with a prosthetic hook, he was sidelined at recess until the other kids asked to play Peter Pan with him. Of course, he played Captain Hook — until he grew tired of it. The Boy Who Would Be Captain Hook takes a look at David Harrell’s childhood living with a disability as he tells the story of how he wished to change his own narrative and not be just the boy with a hook. The play is at 3 p.m. Saturday at Charles W. Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson. Visit eisemanncenter.com for more information and tickets ($25). Paige Skinner

KNON is the nonprofit, listener-supported community radio station that has been showcasing the blues in DFW for 20 years. From the up-and-coming, 11-year-old Jack Barksdale to headliners like the award-winning blues elders in Gregg A. Smith and the Blues Revue Band, the 20th annual KNON Blues Festival will be two days packed with Texas talent. Before hosting festivals, KNON released compilations of blues music from all over DFW. The radio station has brought blues a long way over the years and shows no sign of stopping. The festival will be held at Poor David’s Pub, where blues has been put on display in Dallas for over 40 years. Keeping up with what is seemingly a festival tradition, Dickey’s Barbecue will be available for $10 a plate. 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27 at Poor David’s Pub, 1313 Lamar St., $20-$150 at eventbrite.com. Jacob Vaughn

Blake Ward is one of the busiest DJs in Dallas, with four different weekly events and recently having taken up the management of his new Four Four Booking agency. He has a long-standing Saturday night Glamorama gig at Beauty Bar. As far as promotion goes, Ward is relentless, a perfect example of how to connect, inform and grow a DJ audience. 9 p.m. Saturday, Beauty Bar, 1924 N. Henderson Ave., free. Wanz Dover

Sunday

International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Name doesn’t ring a bell? Then mark the day with a visit to the Dallas Holocaust Museum and Center for Education and Tolerance, 211 N. Record St., Suite 100. Remember, those who forget the past are … well, just doomed. The museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, and admission is $10 for adults, with discounts for kids and seniors. Find more information at dallasholocaustmuseum.org. Patrick Williams

Monday

Who doesn’t love The Bachelor? You? OK, no one asked you. Jeez. Well somebody loves it, because the entire franchise has spanned more than 40 seasons and people keep watching. This season, four Dallas women are vying for virgin Colton Underwood’s love and cherry as America watches. If you don’t have anyone to watch it and cringe over it with, then head to Steam Theory Brewing Co., 340 Singleton Blvd., Suite 100, at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, to bond with fellow Bachelor lovers at the Bachelor Nation Watching Party. Visit steamtheorybrewing.com for more information. Paige Skinner

Tuesday

Namo in West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave., is hosting a sake-tasting class from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Those attending will get six hand rolls matched with sakes from TYKU Sake, whose reps will be on hand to tell you what to look for in the traditional Japanese wine made from rice, water, yeast and koji (a kind of mold used in Japanese cuisine). Tickets are $50 at eventbrite.com. Patrick Williams

Wednesday

The Disney empire is a vast, all-encompassing thing. They’re the masters of the Ice Capades, one of the biggest names in Broadway and have a virtual lock on the kids pajama market. Now, their reach expands to the world of a cappella singing. Yep, the domain once reserved for Ivy League a-holes in striped jackets is now replete with mouse ears: meet DCappella, Disney Music’s a cappella super group. Assembled by Deke Sharon, who’s like the Lou Pearlman of the a cappella world, these seven men and women don’t need backing instruments. It’s just their sweet, sweet voices and sculpted eyebrows up onstage, belting out all your favorite Disney tunes at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, 1001 Performance Place, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30. Tickets to see the Disney-fied vocal acrobatics are $19.50 to $54.50 at axs.com. Jennifer Davis-Lamm

In Incognito, playwright Nick Payne tells three different stories to better explore the human mind. One is about Thomas Stoltz Harvey stealing the recently dead Albert Einstein’s brain. The other is about a man named Harvey undergoing brain surgery, and the third is about Martha, a clinical neuropsychologist making some changes in her life after her marriage falls apart. See the play Jan. 30 through Feb. 23 at Bryant Hall, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Tickets start $25 at secondthoughttheatre.com. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Paige Skinner

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niykee signed to her first record label when she was just eighteen years old after moving to new york with her manager. the men at the label saw two young girls (her and her manager) and thought that they would be easily manipulated and taken advantage of. niykee released her first ep under the label, with the label trying to change her image, photoshopping her photos to make her look thin despite how proud she was of her curves, etc. but niykee was so excited to finally release some music officially rather than just on youtube or soundcloud, that she overlooked this. but things started to get worse. the label continued trying to change her, they even told her to fire her manager and use one that they picked for her and niykee absolutely refused, her manager being the only person who believed in her, and as far as she was concerned, her savior from the life she would have been living if she had never swooped her away from her painful existence in chicago. when the label realized that niykee was not as easy to manipulate as they had bargained for, things got really ugly. by the time niykee was halfway through her 19th trip around the sun, her label had basically put her on a blackout. they refused to approve any of her music for her to release it for money, so she was only able to release music on soundcloud and youtube. they told her that she needed them to pay for producers, so niykee buckled down and learned to produce herself to prove to them that she didn’t need them. niykee’s die hard followers made releasing all of her music for free something niykee didn’t entirely mind, but there was one thing that niykee couldn’t do without funding. and that was go on tour. niykee had never toured before, having incredible anxiety that terrified her of stepping on stage. (niykee never wanted to be a performer, she just wanted to be a songwriter but when she saw the way people related to her songs when she was a teenager posting them online, she knew she had to try and be something for these people). niykee knew she wouldnt feel confident without months of dance lessons and backup dancers with her, something that made the prospect of going on tour even more expensive.

before her 20th birthday, niykee and her manager moved away from new york and to her managers hometown, malibu. they stayed with her managers very wealthy parents for a few months before they moved into their own place. being a social media star, niykee was doing club appearances and hostings that her manager booked, with nothing to do with her record label or even really with her music, but having to make money and promote herself somehow. also taking any chance to spend time with her fans even if it wasn’t preforming to them.

niykee met the owner of a club in miami where she did appearances frequently, and the club owner saw a young, promising, playboy model, instagram star, singer, and took a liking to her. he asked her on a few dates, and while niykee definitely wasn’t the type to say yes to this, she saw it as an opportunity to maybe play a few shows at his clubs without the expense of having to travel too far. niykee went out for a few drinks with the man and they continued to talk a bit. he was about ten years older than her, but niykee didn’t really care because she didn’t intend to date or sleep with the man. but soon niykee found out that not only did he own a couple of clubs in florida, but he owned about twelve in total all across north america. niykee realized how much money the man had, and well, desperate times call for desperate measures.

niykee started to date the man (secretly, because they both agreed that it’d be better if no one found out due to their age difference, niykee not wanting her fans to know she was seeing a man she had nothing in common with who was 15 years her major and him not wanting potential business partners to know he was dating a 19 year old). the man spoiled niykee, and he really had no clue that she didn’t actually like or have feelings for him. he knew about her problems with her label and the lack of funding and support they were giving her and he helped her out immensely, he paid for the best choreographer in florida to work with niykee for about six months, something that was incredibly expensive and about a year later, niykee was suiting up to go out on her first headlining tour. she had 2 backup dancers booked and was currently in the middle of rehersing with them, and her manager had booked the entire tour herself without the labels help, and the two of them were promoting the tour entirely themselves, and miraculously, every single date of it sold out. 

but there was still the issue of where the money to actually go on the tour was going to come from? how were they going to print all their merch, pay for transportation, hotel rooms, food, pay the backup dancers, pay a merch guy/girl, etc? niykees manager had no idea, but niykee, willing to do just about anything to make sure her and her managers plans worked out and that she never disappointed her loyal fans, had a plan up her sleeve.

by this point niykee had distanced herself from the older man and had started dating someone her own age, the older man texted and called her all the time, trying to convince her to see him but she had no problem ignoring him. niykee still had the older mans online banking information memorized, from watching him log into it on his phone or computer over the months when they were together. she logged into his account, and e-transfered 20 grand to herself. the man had so much money in the bank, that she didn’t think he’d ever notice 20 grand (we’re talking a few million). and she was right, he didn’t notice. niykee went on tour with the money, and thought she’d never get caught. the tour niykee had been on finished in december, when niykee turned 21, and it wasn’t until that spring during tax season, a year into her relationship with her new boyfriend when the older man was filling his taxes and his accountant asked him what that 20 grand was used for. he looked at it, traced the email it was transfered to (it was just a random one that niykee used in case he did see the transaction but he still managed to get it traced to her.) and realized what niykee did.

the man started blackmailing niykee, telling her that if she didn’t start sleeping with him and basically doing everything he told her to, he’d turn her in. niykee had to break up with her current boyfriend despite being very in love and happy with him, and the older man has basically owned her ever since.