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2020 Grammy Nominations: Lizzo Leads the Pack


This year’s Grammy nominations, are here and one thing is clear: the Recording Academy, along with the rest of the world, has fallen in love with Lizzo. The singer/rapper/flautist has nods in eight major categories, including Album of the Year. Her viral hit “Truth Hurts” was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, capping off what’s been an incredible year for her.

In addition to Lizzo, the Academy also embraced young artists like Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X. Lana Del Rey received nominations for her album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, while Ariana Grande’s album Thank U, Next was recognized in the Best Pop Vocal category, along with Taylor Swift’s Lover. Here are a few more of the major Grammy nominations:

Record of the Year

“Hey, Ma,” Bon Iver

“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish

“7 Rings,” Ariana Grande

“Hard Place,” H.E.R.

“Talk,” Khalid

“Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus

“Truth Hurts,” Lizzo

“Sunflower,” Post Malone & Swae Lee

Album of the Year

Bon Iver – i,i

Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go

H.E.R. – I Used to Know Her

Lil Nas X – 7

Lizzo – Cuz I Love You

Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride

Song of The Year

“Always Remember Us This Way,” Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Lady Gaga)

“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

“Bring My Flowers Now,” Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, songwriters (Tanya Tucker)

“Hard Place,” Ruby Amanfu, Sam Ashworth, D. Arcelious Harris, H.E.R. & Rodney Jerkins, songwriters (H.E.R.)

“Lover,” Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)

“Norman F—ing Rockwell,” Jack Antonoff & Lana Del Rey, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)

“Someone You Loved,” Tom Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Pete Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn & Sam Roman, songwriters (Lewis Capaldi)

“Truth Hurts,” Steven Cheung, Eric Frederic, Melissa Jefferson & Jesse Saint John, songwriters (Lizzo)

Best New Artist

Black Pumas

Billie Eilish

Lil Nas X

Lizzo

Maggie Rogers

Rosalia

Tank and the Bangas

Yola

Best Pop Solo Performance

“Spirit,” Beyoncé

“Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish

“7 Rings,” Ariana Grande

“Truth Hurts,” Lizzo

“You Need to Calm Down,” Taylor Swift

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Boyfriend,” Ariana Grande & Social House

“Sucker,” Jonas Brothers

“Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus

“Sunflower,” Post Malone & Swae Lee

“Senorita,” Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

Best Pop Vocal Album

The Lion King: The Gift, Beyoncé

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish

Thank U, Next, Ariana Grande

No. 6 Collaborations Project, Ed Sheeran

Lover, Taylor Swift

Best Dance Recording

“Linked,” Bonobo

“Got to Keep On,” The Chemical Brothers

“Piece of Your Heart,” Meduza Featuring Goodboys

“Underwater,” Rufus Du Sol

“Midnight, Hour,” Skrillex & Boys Noize Featuring Ty Dolla $ign Boys Noize & Skrillex

Best Dance/Electronic Album

LP5, Apparat

No Geography, The Chemical Brothers

Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape), Flume

Solace, Rufus Du Sol

Weather, Tycho

Best Rock Performance

“Pretty Waste,” Bones UK

“This Land,” Gary Clark Jr.

“History Repeats,” Brittany Howard

“Woman,” Karen O & Danger Mouse

“Too Bad,” Rival Sons

Best Rock Song

“Fear Inoculum,” Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan, songwriters (Tool)

“Give Yourself a Try,” George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy & Ross MacDonald, songwriters (The 1975)

“Harmony Hall,” Ezra Koenig, songwriter (Vampire Weekend)

“History Repeats,” Brittany Howard, songwriter (Brittany Howard)



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The New Season of 'Black Mirror' Features Only Female Leads


If you haven’t watched Black Mirror, now is a very good time to start: The British show, now on Netflix, has four incredible seasons on the streaming platform. If you haven’t seen it, it’s set in a not-so-unrealistic future, usually with varying levels of hits-far-too-close-to-home dystopia commenting on things like dating, marriage, and, of course, governments gone awry—a Twilight Zone for 2017. And each episode is a different story with different characters, like a mini-movie each time. The six-episode fourth season, which hit Netflix on Friday, has a twist, though: every single one of the season’s main characters is a woman.

Of course, if every character was a man, this wouldn’t exactly be news. But the stats still show that women are a minority when it comes to owning lead roles on television: in the U.K., where Black Mirror hails from, of the top 50 television shows, just 18 have female protagonists. In the U.S., only 42 percent of shows have women playing a “major character,” according to a study covering 2016-2017 shows from the Center for the Study of Women in Film and Television at San Diego State University.

Apparently casting a woman for each lead role wasn’t the intention—it just kind of happened, according to The Hollywood Reporter, who talked to Annabel Jones, a co-executive producer on the show (alongside creator Charlie Brooker).

“Charlie and I don’t tend to think about the stories that way. Sometimes, it just comes out,” Jones told the publication. “But it’s great — great! — that they’re all strong female protagonists. I think what’s lovely about the show is that it’s not a strident statement. It’s more: Why not? We don’t even think about it from a gender perspective and I hope that’s progress. It’s more that we explore the best story and the best way to tell it.”

If that weren’t enough to get Black Mirror on your watchlist, the new season sounds empowering AF: “Whether they are survivors in the traditional sense or not, they each reach a moment in their story where they are challenged to reclaim their power, stand up to some level of tyranny or fight to write their own ending,” writes The Hollywood Reporter. Sounds like just what we need to close out 2017.

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A 'Pretty Little Liars' Spinoff Is Coming—and Two Leads Will Reprise Their Roles


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Pretty Little Liars fans, we’re about to make your day. A spinoff of the popular Freeform series is coming, and get this: Two of the original liars are reprising their roles. Nope, this isn’t a drill. Your tweets to I. Marlene King and company have finally been answered.

The new show is called Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and it’s based on the book series The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard (who also wrote the original PLL novels). The premise of The Perfectionists is eerily similar to PLL : It takes place in a picturesque town, Beacon Heights, and it’s filled with beautiful people—but all of this, well, perfection starts crumbling when somebody turns up dead. Sounds just like the saga of Rosewood, right? The only thing missing is a menacing hooded figure sending cleverly-worded threats via text. (Spoiler alert: That menacing hooded figure turned out to be Spencer Hastings’ evil twin Alex Drake. It’s been three months, and I’m still not over that reveal.)

Unfortunately, you won’t see Spencer in this spinoff—not to our knowledge, at least—but you will get a little more time with Alison DiLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal. Both Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish are expected to reprise their roles for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Whether this means the teenage or adult versions of Alison and Mona is still to be determined.

If you remember from the series finale, Alison is now married to Emily and has children, and Mona’s off in Europe torturing Alex and Mary Drake in a life-size dollhouse. So does this mean Alison and Mona are just going to…drop their lives and move to Beacon Heights?

The PLL gals have said multiple times they’d love to work with each other again, and this new series seems like a great opportunity to do that with little commitment. I’m predicting it now: Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily will—fingers crossed!—return for at least an episode or two of PLL: The Perfectionists. I.M.K. can be very persuasive.

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