Rolling Stoneの May 2023 の目次

“YOU EVER SEE somebody and you’re like, ‘They look crazy’?” It’s 4:30 p.m., and Bhad Bhabie, a.k.a. Danielle Bregoli, is cross-legged on her massive gray velour couch in her brand-new Los Angeles home, surrounded by a three-foot-tall stuffed Pikachu and plush flower pillows. “You ever think about why that person look crazy?” she says. “It’s called ‘sonder.’ Say you’re walking down the street, and you pass people, and you can imagine people’s lives. You’re thinking, ‘What does this person want? What trauma has this person went through? Was this person ever married? Do this person got kids?’ When I learned that word, I was thinking, ‘Oh, shit, it makes sense.’” Bregoli is talking about what she learned after she and her mother went on Dr. Phil in 2016 for…

AS THE blond, willowy daughter of a New Jersey construction magnate, Alix Earle, 22, doesn’t seem like an everywoman on the surface. Yet, since her TikTok debut in early 2020, viewers have flocked to the University of Miami senior, who’s opened up during her Get Ready With Me videos about everything from her cystic acne to her anxiety to her messy house to her former relationship with MLB player Tyler Wade. Earle has achieved It-girl status, landing splashy brand deals (Tarte, Rare Beauty, GrubHub) and collaborating with A-listers like Selena Gomez. Products Earle recommends sell out so fast that it’s been called “the Alix Earle effect.” Here, she schools the masses on how to become a TikTok superstar. PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS When she started posting on TikTok, Earle…

IT’S A BREEZY Monday afternoon in New York, and Keke Palmer — actor, director, singer, dancer, professional multitasker — is doing an interview while working on her latest gig: being a new mom. The wind whips through her hair as she pushes her baby down the street, Zooming from her phone. “I’m doing the mom thing,” she says in her signature lilt. “Baby is good, but it’s definitely a lot of pressure to be responsible for someone’s life. I’m tryna to make it, just like your ass is.” That’s generous, but let’s be honest: Keke Palmer has already made it. While best known for her role as fast-talking horse handler Emerald Hayworth in last year’s Jordan Peele horror movie, Nope, Palmer, 29, has been kicking around Hollywood for 20…

The internet takes no prisoners — when you screw up, it’s open season for dunks, drags, mocking memes, and targeted takedowns. It doesn’t matter if you’re a hot celebrity with 5 million followers or a random schmuck tweeting from the bus: On social media, anyone can be canceled. Your only hope is that what you did is more “cringe” than controversial, allowing you to coast back into relatively calm waters. On the other hand, some creators have managed to survive one incendiary scandal after another, immune to both scolding and shame. Here’s a breakdown of the past year’s biggest blowups and how the offenders fared. CRINGEY COASTING CANCELED CONTROVERSIAL ADAM LEVINE Thanks to the Maroon 5 singer’s flirty DMs with influencers, “That body of yours is absurd” is now…

KESHA FINDS A NEW FREEDOM Amid ongoing legal struggles, the singer’s fifth LP is some of her most daring music yet By BRITTANY SPANOS Kesha Gag Order RCA FOR ALMOST a decade, Kesha’s career and life have been in a state of purgatory as she’s been locked in a legal battle that has at times left her with a precarious future. On the two albums she released in the midst of endless court hearings, she put up an empowered front, searching for hope in the face of uncertainty. Gag Order — a brilliant name for her latest album — says “screw that.” On her fifth LP, Kesha is tired, angry, and vicious. There’s a lot she still can’t say, but she unspools as much of her feelings as she…

BRIDGET EVERETT still has restaurant stress dreams. Never mind that she is a writer, star, executive producer, and the driving force behind Somebody Somewhere, the critically acclaimed, cult-favorite HBO show about a directionless woman who moves back to her hometown in middle age (Season Two premieres April 23). When Everett sleeps, it’s the screaming customers and missing orders from her days as a server that haunt her. “It’s really weird, because of all the things that you could have a stress dream about, producing a television show — it’s so fucking stressful,” she says. “But what I dream about is ‘Where’s my fucking food?! Where’s my goddamned spicy tuna roll?!’ When you’re doing that for 25, 30 years, it’s in the bones.” It’s a rainy, cold February evening, and…

GALE IS A WHIRLWIND of energy. Within seconds of meeting her, the 30-year-old Puerto Rican singer-songwriter dives into effusive stories about where she’s been traveling and what she’s been listening to lately. She’s happy to share some new song ideas — she’ll even tell you if you have lipstick on your teeth. There’s an open-book quality to Gale, who has turned heads writing for acts like Juanes and Christina Aguilera. After scoring hits and a Latin Grammy, she’s ready to drop her debut album, Lo Que No Te Dije, this spring. It’s a glowing LP that highlights her knack for pop melodies and confessional lyricism. “I love opening a portal to vulnerability,” she says. “I want to be a badass bitch, but I want to be an honest, vulnerable,…

“I WISH WE could talk about race more,” says Theo Von. “I feel like, especially as a white male, to raise your hands to ask a question is like you’re that nervous kid in the back of the class.” This hot take — it’s hard out there for a white guy — is the sort of musing Von is known for. But before you think you’ve got him deciphered (see the many Reddit threads like “Theo Von is a right wing nut job”), he wants you to hear him out: “I understand that, in other points of time, [other] people couldn’t raise their hand. But that doesn’t mean that people don’t have certain feelings about it.” The 43-year-old comedian and host of the podcast This Past Weekend is tucked…

IN THE EARLY DAYS of chicago house music, nobody hustled harder than Vince Lawrence. ➤ Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was urbane and in the know: He liked Izod shirts, white K-Swiss sneakers, and straight-leg jeans; he ran hip parties, loved import records from Europe, and aspired to make music of his own. A lot of what he and his friends were into, he remembers, “came from us reading GQ and wishing we were rich.” ➤ Around then, there was a specific vibe at Chicago’s high school parties, downtown gay clubs, and on local radio — underground but not exclusive, sophisticated but not so preening that nobody wanted to dance. It was “house” culture,…

MORE THAN A THOUSAND acts came to Austin in mid-March to try to win new fans at the SXSW music festival — and you could find some of the biggest, hottest names in town at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, the downtown venue where ROLLING STONE put on a four-night Future of Music showcase. (Full disclosure: ROLLING STONE’s parent company, P-MRC, acquired a 50 percent stake in the SXSW festival in 2021.) It was a star-packed, genre-hopping celebration of artists who are defining the sounds of tomorrow — from major talents on the cutting edge of hip-hop, Latin pop, and reggae to loud and wild acts making their name in punk, indie pop, and more.…

FEW SMASHING Pumpkins fans realized it at the time, but the group’s 1995 double LP, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, was the start of a loose storyline about a character known as Zero, who was reborn as Glass on 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God. Two decades later, Billy Corgan is revisiting the whole saga on the triple album Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, where the central figure — now known as Shiny — has been exiled in space. “For a while I thought this new album was never going to happen because the band’s enthusiasm was suspect,” Corgan says. “But the pandemic was a watershed moment for me. I thought, ‘What’s happening in the world, I have no control over. At least I control the world…

AT FIRST, THE signs were subtle. There was the “I am cringe, but I am free” meme, and the T-shirts from Gen Z e-commerce brand OGBFF emblazoned with “Too cringe for NY, too based for LA.” Niche creators like Neve Pratt (awkward dad-joker) and Michael Thomas White (heartfelt himbo) began to amass cult fandoms by being authentically themselves. So-called POV TikTokers such as Devin Caherly and Emma Norton, who act out imaginary skits and were once viciously bashed by commenters, are now being embraced by the entertainment world, getting brand deals, and walking red carpets. Suddenly, the internet has become pro-cringe. Cringe content — any video, photo, or text post that expresses a deep earnestness and sincerity — comes in many varieties. There are the overly expressive thirst traps,…

In the early days of social media, people scoffed at the idea that posting content could be a way to make a living. Today, the creator economy has exploded, with YouTube, TikTok, and OnlyFans stars earning as much money as bankers, doctors, and lawyers. “[The industry] is at the point where there are more road maps, there’s more credibility,” says Samir Chaudry, one half of Colin and Samir, whose YouTube channel features creators going deep on their craft. “It’s an honest, real career.” So how, exactly, does it work? Chaudry and his partner, Colin Rosenblum, break it down.…

Your new movie, You Hurt My Feelings, centers on a novelist having a crisis of confidence after she overhears a scathing critique by her husband. Is there a piece of negative criticism that’s stuck with you? I got a bad review very, very early on in my career from [TV critic] Tom Shales in The Washington Post, and it was particularly stinging to me because my family lived in Washington, D.C., and I spent half of my childhood in D.C. It was for Saturday Night Live. And you know what? He wasn’t wrong. Louis-Dreyfus’ latest movie, ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ is out May 26. Despite their big argument in the film, your character, Beth, and her husband seem to have a healthy relationship. You’ve been married for 36 years.…