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Artpop is def better than PlagiaRISM and Wiggerzzz.
And it's def better than The Filler.
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Sexxxxxxx Dream Itunes Festival >>>>> Album version.
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Yup! Everyone agrees!
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Kourtney Kardashian is sexier than Kim imo. Kim is cool and all but Kourt is just better. She's the smartest and has the best relationship too. I like her deadpan expressions and how she doesn't feed into the crazy mom's foolishness.
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Yes she is fab and def my favorite. I'm a lot like her actually
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Madonna and the 99c deal will be the only reasons anyone remembers Born This Way, single or album. 
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Yup! Everyone agrees!
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I know two people who don't. 
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O eli great timing, I need that Holiday jingle bell remix you showed me yonks ago.
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No, you don't.
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@Sammi: the world is finally waking up to the obvious. Poor delayed and idiot woman who wrote the article though.
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The Telegraph: How Scarlett Johansson got interesting
Scarlett Johansson only used to play cartoonish vamps, but recently something's changed. Anne Billson salutes the blossoming career of an actress with oomph
It's not Scarlett Johansson's fault that I used to hate her. Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution, there was a fateful week in 2006 when I couldn't go near a cinema without her face looming up. Here she was as a student journalist in Woody Allen's Scoop! There she was as a girlfriend in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia! And there she was again, a magician's assistant, in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige!
I was sick of the sight of her, particularly as she was miscast in all three films, though in Scoop and The Black Dahlia (for which even the actress admitted she was "physically wrong") she was far from being the only bad casting choice. But it was as though the Lords of Hollywood had decreed she was the Girl of the Moment, and thus had to play every female character that came along, whether it suited her or not.
But there was something missing in her performances. In the hardboiled world of The Black Dahlia, she was like a schoolgirl modelling the contents of her grandma's wardrobe. Was it the va-va-voom figure, the joyously pneumatic alternative to the usual stick-insect school of starlet, or the voice, a husky femme fatale drawl which sounded as though she smoked 60 Chesterfields a day, which blinded film-makers to the fact that she was still girlish and jejune, without the life experience to give depth to those juicy roles they were bestowing on her? After all, they might have reasoned, she was already a veteran. She'd been acting in films since the age of nine.
Born in New York in 1984 to a Danish-born father and an Ashkenazi mother, Johansson made her screen debut in Rob Reiner's North. A few years later, Robert Redford, who directed and acted with her in The Horse Whisperer, famously declared that she was "13 going on 30". The Coen brothers evidently agreed, casting her as the innocent-looking schoolgirl pianist whose lewd advances towards Billy Bob Thornton cause him to crash his car in The Man Who Wasn't There.
But in 2001, fine as she was as Thora Birch's best friend in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, it was Birch whom everyone was tipping for the brilliant future. Which just goes to prove William Goldman's maxim that, when it comes to predictions about the movies, "nobody knows anything".
Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's arthouse hit, changed everything. Johansson held her own opposite Bill Murray, but it helped that Coppola had cast her astutely, as a slightly naïve young wife, and created an indelible image with the film's opening shot of the actress's derrière in see-through knickers.
She gave a watchful performance as the painter's model in Girl with a Pearl Earring, though the film was too hung up on its own prettiness to care, but in Match Point, her first film with Allen (who described her as "sexually overwhelming"), she was cast as an impossible-to-play cartoon vamp who morphs overnight into a pathetic ninny, and Michael Bay's The Island reinforced the impression there was less to her than met the eye.
After that 2006 ScarJo overdose, she was more interestingly cast as the less vampish of the sisters in the disappointingly bland The Other Boleyn Girl; upstaged by her co-stars in Vicki Cristina Barcelona, the most tolerable of her three films with Allen; going straight from yoga class to swimming-pool without showering (a fitness club faux pas! Not that the film notices) in the ensemble rom-com He's Just Not That Into You.
And then... something happened. Scarlett Johansson became interesting. Of course it was hard to resist her as Black Widow, cracking wise and kicking ass in skin-tight black leather in Iron Man 2 and Avengers Assemble – the latter film, especially, allowing her to shine in a testosterone-heavy line-up. She'll be playing the character again in next year's Captain America: The Winter Solider, though it's symptomatic of the Marvel Universe that we have yet to see a film called Black Widow.
But, more tellingly, in We Bought a Zoo she brought such unexpected depth to a bland girlfriend role it made you wish you were watching her story, not Matt Damon's. Her sassy Janet Leigh was one of the highlights of Hitchcock, her brassy controlling Barbara is the highlight of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon, and her extraordinary performance in Jonathan Glazer's controversial Under the Skin (opening in the UK in March 2014) is clearly the work of an actress who is endlessly curious, a good sport, and willing to take risks in her career.
Perhaps it was her work in live theatre that gave her that extra oomph. She won a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Catherine in A View from the Bridge in 2009 ("Ms Johansson melts into her character so thoroughly that her nimbus of celebrity disappears", wrote Ben Brantley of the New York Times), and earlier this year played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, again to good reviews.
Or was it hanging around with musicians in her recording career, which shows more evidence of good taste (one of her two albums was a collection of Tom Waits cover versions) than of singing ability? (Though I should add I would rather listen to her than to anything by Lily Allen, Rihanna or Adele.) Might it have had something to do with her private life, in which I have little interest, though the internet informs us she was briefly married to Ryan Reynolds, and has dated Benicio del Toro (17 years her senior) and Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett?
Or is it simply that the actress named by Esquire this year as "Sexiest Woman Alive" finally grew into the figure and voice for which she had previously been just a little too young? That voice especially – she's such obvious casting as Samantha, the Siri-like operating system in Spike Jonze's Her (opening in the UK in January), it's hardly surprising Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with it. She has already directed one short, and there's a feature directing debut on the cards, an adaptation of Truman Capote's Summer Crossing. But whatever the reason for her blossoming, and whatever she does next, I'm looking forward to it.
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Work Butch: 2/5
Perfume: 2.5/5
Alien: 2.6/5
Passenger: didn't-finish-listening/5
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Kourtney is everybody's least favorite.
Khloe > Kim > Kourtney
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Her downfall will be britney breakdown sized big
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I hope not 
The media is SO malicious towards her lately though.
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Lady Gaga draws in Saturday Night Live viewers while Artpop sales flop
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No one take Duca's ratings seriously, he gave Take Back The 7 minutes of my life I wasted listening to this Night a 5/5.
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Lad Gag's dumbest mistake was leaving dance-pop for EDM. That she doesn't even make sound good.
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I'm ready for their mainstream exposure.
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No one take Duca's ratings seriously, he gave Take Back The 7 minutes of my life I wasted listening to this Night a 5/5. |
I could listen to it for hours.
when the horns kick in >
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Duca, how much does she has to sell next week to beat MDNA's record?
Can she have a +86% drop?
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It has been a rough year for Gaga. That's what she gets for releasing BTW though. If only she followed up TFM with ARTPOP instead of BTW.
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Sahn's/Remixed's true identity.
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The uncensored version of "Bound 2"
Kim's **** flailing around on the bike 
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