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News-making profiles of Colbert, Rogen, Sweeney, SZA and the Clipse? If we did any more to break Twitter this week, we’d be Elon Musk. —Alex Pappademas, culture editor |
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It’s Friday, it’s November, we’re already all out of the discounted Halloween candy we bought on the morning of the 1st, and the sun goes down at, like, 3PM now, but that doesn’t matter. There’s an electricity in the air. You can feel it. Walk the streets and you can hear it: The buzz that only cultural-zeitgeist-dominating magazine journalism can produce. This week we started rolling out the stories from GQ’s 30th annual Men of the Year portfolio, an even-more-deluxe-than-usual affair shot entirely at the world famous Chateau Marmont by the great Tyrell Hampton and reported by GQ’s all-star staff. Trust us, you’re going to need to obtain a physical of this issue, so that you can hold it in your hand, so that you can then drop it on the floor in disbelief when you see how much we packed in here. In the meantime, we’ve got links to five incredible profiles from MOTY 2025, featuring the movers and shakers who moved and shook the culture this year.
We’ve got Stephen Colbert in the Chateau pool with a doobie and talking to GQ’s Zac Baron about what it’s like to have the number-one show in late night cancelled out from under you for what sure seem like weird, Trumpy reasons (our words, not his.) We’ve got Sydney Sweeney talking to GQ’s Kat Stoeffel about what it’s like to become a culture-war flashpoint just for endorsing a jeans brand. We’ve got The Studio co-creator Seth Rogen joking-but-not-joking to Baron about the “crushing pressure” that comes with winning a record-breaking number of Emmy awards. And we’ve got two bangers from GQ’s Frazier Tharpe—SZA on diving into the “fun as shit” creative process of making a new album and whether today’s kids are too online to understand “the many facets of yearning,” and Malice and Pusha T of Clipse looking back on the year they returned to dominate rap with Let God Sort ‘Em Out (and produced more beef than Argentina.) There’s more where these came from, but we’ll get to that next week.
In the meantime, we also kept putting out the usual fusillade of quality content every dang day. We talked to journalist and Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh about getting indicted for protesting outside an ICE facility in Chicago and with YouTube music critic Anthony Fantano about how his workout routine “helps him stay serene amidst a storm of people getting mad at him about Wet Leg.” We recommended seeing Dijon live as soon as possible, lamented how the wholesale gamblingfication of sports has ruined the sports-bar experience, defended “Bohemian Rhapsody” against its benighted haters, and bid a not particularly fond farewell to Ridiculousness, which for years has been MTV’s most popular show by virtue of being its only show. Don’t let the doorknob hit you, Rob Dyrdek, and as for the rest of you, thanks as always for reading all this stuff, and we’ll see you back here next week. —AP |
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