Sign Language Performances Make Every Eminem Song Better

GIF The music of Eminem is extremely good, but do you know what’s better? Watching videos of people performing his songs in American Sign Language. These videos perfectly encapsulate the edginess of Eminem’s musical genius, while conveying important information to the hearing-impaired. This is the magic of YouTube. People confidently doing weird shit. I’m inspired….

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This guy made a Beastie Boys remix album using only Daft Punk samples – Dancing Astronaut

Have you ever wondered what it would sound like to create an entire album of Beastie Boys remixes comprised entirely of Daft Punk samples? Probably not. But two years ago, one particularly creative Canadian producer by the name of Coins sat down in his studio to accomplish this very task. Titled Daft Science, Coins’ ambitious project strips down multiple Daft Punk…

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A tale of two ‘Formation’ videos and the problem with Amy Schumer – The Washington Post

Amy Schumer accepts the Critics’ Choice MVP award at the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Jan. 17. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Update: Schumer posted a note to Medium Thursday night saying the video was “never a parody.” “It was just us women celebrating each other,” she wrote. “The video Beyoncé made was so moving and I wouldn’t ever…

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Beyoncé’s True Political Statement This Week? It Wasn’t at a Clinton Rally – The New York Times

close story-meta-footer Photo Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, with Beyoncé and Jay Z at a rally in Cleveland on Friday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times I feel bad for anyone who still hasn’t learned to speak Beyoncé. Her language is the body. It’s stagecraft. It’s Instagram posts. She doesn’t speak; she signifies. And…

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Drake and Taylor Swift Should Get Married

Drake is a Canadian rapper who believes in true love but consistently falls victim to treacherous women who tend to hold his emotions captive. He fears he’ll forever be rich and lonely. He may or may not believe he’s Jamaican. Taylor Swift is a conniving white American singer from Pennsylvania and a slick human machine…

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Uber, But for Millennials Who Want Orchestras in Their Living Rooms | WIRED

It was a Wednesday night in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and 40 people—mostly millennials—sat cross-legged on a cramped living room, drinking craft beers and taking off their jackets to reveal the flannels underneath. Around 8pm, the introductions and recommendations for farmer’s markets died down, as Sam Bodkin stood to announce the night’s entertainment: two violinists, one cellist,…

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Beyoncé’s Type of Feminism Is Not Mine” – The Culture

Before Beyoncé used a snippet of a TED Talk from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her hit song “***Flawless” in 2013, Adichie was an acclaimed author. She’d already published Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle award.But, somehow, her accomplishments are always linked to popstar. That became a point…

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