While You Were Sleeping, Lady Gaga Had An ‘artRAVE’
It was a rave with art in it. Also, Sofia Coppola directed a Phoenix clip, Lorde covered Tears For Fears, and Jennifer Lawrence did Jennifer Lawrence things.
Lady Gaga’s ‘artRAVE Party’ looked interesting
When Lady Gaga launches a new album, she doesn’t just announce it on Twitter or head into her local Kmart for an autograph session – she hires out a warehouse on the Brooklyn piers, dons a creepy white gimp mask, and performs in the wee hours of the morning in front of a giant sculpture of herself clutching a blue ball, custom-made by Jeff Koons. Apparently, she also gives concertgoers free grilled cheese sandwiches, which is nice.
If you’ve got 70 spare minutes, you can watch the whole ‘artRAVE Party’ on YouTube. In the meantime, here’s a bit that will give you nightmares.
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Lorde covered Tears For Fears for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack
It’s the ’80s band’s huge hit ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World‘, but not as you’ve ever heard it. It’s creepier, much creepier, like a murderous stalker was breathing it down your telephone line while standing out in your front yard on a rainy night. Sorry, we don’t wanna hear it ever again.
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Sofia Coppola directed a new video for Phoenix
Wife-and-husband team-ups, yeah! It’s a moody black-and-white clip for the Bankrupt! track ‘Chloroform’, and it features pretty young people crying glamorously while watching the French band perform live. In an interview with MoMA, Coppola revealed that the clip was inspired by this Joseph Sterling photo from the book The Age Of Adolescence, so eat shit you philistine.
Unfortunately, I lack hacking skills, so click here to watch the thing at MoMA PopRally.
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Here’s a sweet video of Jennifer Lawrence being all Jennifer Lawrence-y
She wandered off the red carpet at last night’s London premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to comfort a sobbing fan. The gesture worked really well with her new Princess Diana haircut.
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