Yes (only one branch, though). Not even the wizened Adele could stick to the programme. 15 pop culture moments that helped define 2017 "Envelopegate" and the Oscars. It didn’t stop there, though. How do you feel about boot-cut jeans?Not a fan – a disrespect to any form of footwear. We honestly don’t remember. In a year that gave us Charlottesville and Colin Kaepernick, it felt right. In fact, the only thing Beyoncé didn’t seem to instigate was this year’s trend of English-speaking singers “remixing” Spanish-language songs. With so many film sectors having a terrible year – big-budget blockbusters, comedies, sci-fi, reboots, non-reboots – horror pretty much saved the box office. Yes, I used to have cornrows. Sister Bella Hadid was also ridiculed in October when a video of her chatting about trainers in an approximation of black slang spawned thousands of “homeboy” memes. MF. This has put some artists in an odd position, those who don’t really have anything worthwhile to say or don’t want to be so radical that brands or right-wing fans are scared off. With the singer having performed at the Super Bowl, toured the world and released one of the defining albums of 2016 in the shape of Lemonade, 2017 may have felt like a fallow Beyoncé year in comparison, but her influence was everywhere. 3 ‘I can make you ice-cream’You’d think that wearing the exact same shirt as Zoella might mark you out as slightly unhinged, wouldn’t you? In December, Beyoncé presented Colin with the Muhammed Ali Legacy Award and praised his “selfless heart.” (The award is given to athletes who work for positive change during their career.) HJD. We got huge hits such as It (which doubtless benefited from the Stranger Things effect), Split (with its all-star cast of James McAvoy, James McAvoy, James McAvoy and James McAvoy), and Annabelle: Creation (admittedly a textbook franchise horror). Times change. Obviously – obviously! The queen of the vague-pop movement is Katy Perry, who changed her Twitter bio to “Artist. In 2017, tying a piece of string around your neck will do. Maybe if you’re considering the family and children, then “patience” would be a good one. But despite the fact that 2017 was, for the most part, a garbage fire of a year, we did have more than our fair share of pop culture moments that will go down in the history books. Activist. Ah, to be an “influencer”, paid bajillions of dollars to promote everything from makeup to flat tummy teas to an audience of plebs. Would that be, perhaps, cranberry sauce??? By Anna Moeslei n. December 17, 2015 My friends, 2015 has been a ... but crazier things have happened. Also perfecting her saccharine apologies this year was pal Gigi Hadid, who claimed to have “the utmost respect and love for the people of China” after a video circulated online of her squinting next to a biscuit shaped like a Buddha in February. Then the Oscars provided the appropriately disastrous finale, with Warren Beatty handing the biggest award of the night to the wrong movie. The best shirt of the lot – the blue pink combination is nicely post-gender, the smiley faces remind us he has a smartphone. Numbers like that are hard to ignore, but horror has a nasty habit of sequelising and cannibalising its best ideas to death. She’s on a string of unsuccessful dates, answering the same tired questions from men she’s met on Tinder, Hinge and Bumble. The 21 Most Important Things That Happened in Pop Culture This Week Amy's at the Emmys, a dog train, the Pope, Pizza rat and more events that made our lives a better place this week By an obscure, mystical process known as “making movies that do not suck”. There were quality horrors across the board. Fyre Festival could arguably be the best or worst pop culture moment of 2017, depending on whether you were actually there. A way for women to stand in solidarity against sexual harassment and abuse — not to mention the culture that allows it to continue and flourish — the conversation has eventually grown, with women of all stripes coming forward to tell their truths and offer one another support. He’s got a lovely soft, lilting Scottish voice. Is it time for Stranger Things 3 yet, and will Zac Efron be there? LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 12: Singer Beyonce during The 59th GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Sadly it’s about the C&W two-step dance, and Craig David has not been invited.Christmas tree on cover? And so, both shows succeeded in showing the anonymous, restless and often shallow nature of post-Tinder dating, while remaining sympathetic to the people caught in its hold – and, maybe, making audiences think twice about their own swiping etiquette. We all love Stranger Things, but we didn’t love the obvious farrago that was The Lost Sister, the seventh episode of this year’s second season. When the Knowles-Carter twins – Rumi and Sir – arrived, they were presented to the world via another heavily stylised and copied Instagram photoshoot that attracted more than 10m likes and caused sales of lilac organza to treble (probably). – Noel chose Cake Week to wear a shirt made by designers Silken Favours, printed with kitsch ravens. It was accessible and exciting but also fresh and political, giving the good old they’re-all-out-to-get-me scenario a contemporary shot of racial paranoia. There were also feel-good stories like when Southwest Airlines flew a plane full of puppies to safety after Hurricane Harvey. You move on to the next. She and sister Kylie also launched – and then pulled – a controversial T-shirt line that featured images of their faces superimposed on to unlicensed photos of the likes of Biggie and Tupac. And so, here are the 15 moments that we think best define all 2019 had to offer popular culture: Jan. 1: Cleaning Up With The Kon-Artist On the very first day of 2019, Marie Kondo launched her Netflix series, "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo," and acquired a kind of cult-leader status with her patented anti-hoarding “KonMari” method. A small rewrite earlier on and episode seven could have been cut, which really shouldn’t be possible. 5 Joe Pasquale getting his bumcrack waxed via video link surely signalled the death knell for this lamentable endeavour. But all that was swept under the red carpet this year – the year that awards lost the plot. Check out our picks and let us know if there's anything else you'd add! Chin up, it may already have happened. We used to know the drill for awards ceremonies: some off-colour compere banter, winners reeling off their thank-yous, Jennifer Lawrence wearing vintage Dior, Helena Bonham Carter wearing vintage Edward Scissorhands. My calves. Note the guitars; the angry colour scheme; the vintage fabric. More from Glamour. she stood up against the yet-to-be-inaugurated Donald Trump. The CW show, based on the Archie comics, became a massively popular sensation for viewers of all ages, and its dark, mysterious storylines had us all captivated … and obsessively following its stars, like Cole Sprouse and Camila Mendes on social. Four men in tracksuits,X Factor legend awaits,Wyclef Jean, cheers mate. Video-maker PewDiePie lost contracts with YouTube and Disney after posting antisemitic videos, later describing himself as a “rookie comedian” in something of a non-apology. What’s your phone screensaver? Lots of weird things have happened in 2019, but nothing else was weird in the same way as Netflix and Hulu releasing competing documentaries about Fyre Festival literally one week apart. In fact, even Beyoncé’s fruit-based album title has since filtered through popular culture – Drake sang about passionfruit on, well, Passionfruit; NERD and Rihanna released a song called Lemon; Girls Trip featured graphic oral sex tips involving a grapefruit and a banana, while Timothée Chalamet wanked into a peach in Call Me By Your Name. Do you have a naked shower at the gym/pool or do you use cubicles?My gym has cubicles. When she walked in on me having sex. Help! Ad Choices, 10 Major Pop Culture Events That Happened 2017. A recurrent ST flaw is events having minimal consequences: Eleven returned slightly more powerful and not a cold murderer. CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED! You’ll drink on an empty stomach, which is fatal, or you’ll fill up on the snacks, which are usually unhealthy. Anyway, this includes Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord, ultimate proof that religion is far more palatable when presented in a disco mashup stylee. All rights reserved. Thankfully, 2017 is almost over. Take a tour down the not-so-distant memory lane below. She was basically 10 years ahead of the game. This installment gave us new characters to love, an IRL couple to ship, and a chance to reconnect with the residents of Hawkins, Indiana. SR. If so, she’s far too evolved to let on. How many of these players will be … Note to producers: reading Trump’s tweets in a funny voice does not make for side-splitting comedy. It is no accident that a classic Portlandia sketch defines hipsters as people who arbitrarily put birds on things willy nilly. ‘Ed Sheeran, but twangier’Zayn continued his endearing knack for mimicry, swapping the Weeknd of Pillowtalk for the Sia of Dusk Till Dawn (featuring Sia). Anika Reed. Pink, a long-term veteran of vague pop, returned with What About Us, a sort of Earth Song of indecision. Musicians like P!nk, Bruno Mars, Macklemore, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Lorde, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Selena Gomez top the charts and win awards. 8 pop culture moments from 2008 you won't believe happened 10 years ago. Rather than feeling dread, you get an optimistic start to the day. What was these dweebs’ excuse? Eating! 2 Rocky ravensAs if to expand on the first question – who is Noel Fielding? Sticking to the programme has never looked so appealing. Traditionally, my mum and grandma made the Christmas cake and mince pies, things we’d see as naughty. First there was the leaked news in January of a Vegas bender with a trio of "goddesses." A whole new world of inclusiveness and self-expression was born and the creepy character even became a popular figure during Pride Month. Sometimes real-life became even more shocking than reel-life for Hollywood. Exercise! Doesn’t it feel like this year simultaneously flew by and dragged at a glacial pace? His actions made a splash on both sides, with some, including President Trump, decrying his kneeling as "unpatriotic." 1. ... but Beyoncé's mom Tina Knowles Lawson shared this adorable snapshot from the nuptials in 2017. The painfully prolonged shambles exposed just how bad improvisational skills are in Hollywood. Television shows like New Girl, The Walking Dead, Revenge, The Americans, Girls, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, and The Blacklist are widely watched and discussed. In the alternative margins were interesting new directions such as A Ghost Story and It Comes at Night. From Niall’s nan-friendly folk, to Liam’s pop pillaging, here’s the direction the lads went in next. However, with this much controversy, perhaps 2018 will be the year the wheels truly come off their pristine social media vehicles. In other words, movies that sucked. Eleven is dull and inarticulate due to years living in a lab. Teen Vogue covers the latest in celebrity news, politics, fashion, beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and entertainment. 4 Monologues delivered by guest hosts tried to take a swipe at current events but failed. Many others, however, agreed with Colin. I’m a hair-of-the-dog kind of girl – which probably isn’t the healthiest on a hangover, but it’s prolonging the agony! But if you let everything go, then once New Year comes around you’ll feel like you’ve got a mountain to climb. Unfortunately, however, the two can't seem to get along. Eleven’s intriguing “sister” Kali was the season’s cold open, then vanished utterly as the early episodes trod water. For Liam, his shift away from his boyband past involved the cover of the Telegraph magazine and a ludicrous amount of blue steel pouting. When we finally got going, back she came to slam on the narrative brakes. Drink again! I can’t drink much wine as it makes me feel groggy the next day. Following on from the likes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Broad City, 2017 was the year that TV took a swipe at dating app culture in wry, realistic fashion. We will hunt monsters!”) was undercut by the manic facial contortions of Winona Ryder standing next to him – confused, amazed, defiant, suspicious, everything-at-the-same-time. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Yes. Nine of my favorite pop culture moments of the year. Frustrated, she does some trademark rapping in the toilet (“My ex won’t take me back/ So my broken ass is here, small-talking over apps”), before accidentally spilling a drink over one of her suitors. And never go to a party hungry! It also emphasises the gamified nature of apps, with Dev firing off the same witty opener (“I’m going to Whole Foods, want me to pick you up anything?”) to two more matches at the end of the episode. Be afraid. Gabby in a swimsuit. ‘Unsexy sex romp’Zayn started the year cosying up with girlfriend Gigi Hadid’s bessie mate (and Harry’s ex) Taylor Swift in unsexy sex romp I Don’t Wanna Live Forever. Then in July, she and boyfriend Zayn Malik were the subjects of a much-ridiculed Vogue cover that claimed the androgynously dressed pair were “gender fluid”. Mind you, let’s be honest here, Beyoncé basically invented the Spanish language back in 2007 with Irreemplazable, her seminal EP featuring Spanish versions of Irreplaceable, Listen (Oye) and Beautiful Liar (Bello Embustero). Not Fielding. Pro football player Colin Kaepernick made headlines last year when he began taking a knee during the National Anthem at games to protest police brutality and racial injustices in the United States — but the impact of his protest has reverberated well into 2017. We’ve all been through a lot in the past 365 days, and hopefully 2018 will be a bit brighter. Justin Bieber, Little Mix and, er, the X Factor’s Matt Terry all released chart-bothering, Latin-flavoured songs before Beyoncé’s reworking of J Balvin’s Mi Gente came out in September. Conscious” and returned with lead single Chained to the Rhythm, with its refrain “So comfortable, we’re living in a bubble, bubble/ So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble”. How did it do this? In it, Jenner successfully diffuses police-protester relations at a Black Lives Matter-style protest by giving a police officer a fizzy drink. Which part of your body would you most like to change? We’d do pastry for the grown-ups’ mince pies, and some little tarts for the kids. Christmas tree on cover? Prince … My eyes! Except that he isn’t there. I use Andrew Johnson’s – he’s got lots of different styles. Plus a good brekky – scrambled eggs. Here are the year’s best. NO. The 40 Greatest Moments From 2019 That Defined This Year's Pop Culture From Lady Gaga's "Shallow" to the infamous Game of Thrones finale, 2019 … Between both albums of the 20/20 Experience, reuniting with N*Sync, and closing out yet another season of SNL, it’s pretty safe to say that this year belonged to Timberlake. But it’s sweet Niall and his “styled by Gap” acoustic ditties that could be the real long-term success story; he’s had two UK Top 10s, topped the US Adult Top 40 chart in America with the actually very good Slow Hands and only missed out on a UK No 1 album to fellow ex-boybander George Michael. On television, Kidman’s performance in Big Little Lies (which she also co-produced) won her an Emmy, praise for revealing the reality of domestic violence and, in co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz and Shailene Woodley, a ready-made squad to rival that of fellow willowy blonde, Taylor Swift. Get out. “We are problems that want to be solved/ We are children that need to be loved,” she sings, demanding answers about something from no one. Worse than that, though, episode seven wasn’t just mistimed, it was superfluous. On September 24, the long-awaited National Museum of African American History and Culture opened right in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. … I’ve always wanted bigger calf muscles. Whoop-de-do. The genre roulette wheel stopped at “Ed Sheeran, but twangier” for cosy knitwear fan Niall Horan, whose album Flicker looked like Fucker when written in capitals. A very pregnant Beyoncé performed at the Grammys on February 12th. The Beatles: The Christmas Records Between 1963 and 1969, Rak-Su precursors the Beatles sent flexi discs featuring what future generations would identify as “top LOLs”: indiscriminate usage of the word “gear”, whistling and, in 1965, a joke about copyright. There’s a trend to do them in duck or goose fat, but I love a good old King Eddie in olive oil. With Miley Cyrus twerking, the return of Ron Burgundy, and Kimye, so much happened that it's hard to imagine a … Being sartorially simpatico with a celebrity vlogger like Zoella is the marker of the sort of chutzpah that sets Fielding apart from other survivors of the 00s art-rock scene. The shady references in the “Look What You Made Me Do” video were a pop culture moment in themselves! Then there’s Harry Styles’s Sign of the Times, Khalid’s Young, Dumb and Broke and Marshmello’s Silence – songs just political enough to keep woke early adopters happy, but not so challenging that a Capital FM DJ couldn’t say, “Banging tune!” after playing them. No! But perhaps Jane Campion’s second series of Top of the Lake offered Kidman her most intriguing role of the year. Fictional Issa is sat with her ex in a restaurant. MC. GH. Not since the Red Wedge gigs of the 1980s has there been such a boom in political pop, with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé and Stormzy exploring issues such as structural racism and political corruption. Drink aware! Taylor Swift debuted her latest album, Reputation, in November but not before leading fans on a wild search for clues in its videos and singles. The twins, Sir and Rumi, made a lot of appearances on Mom’s Insta in utero before making their debut in a glorious, iconic photoshoot. The avant-garde look blew up Twitter immediately, and we’re still thinking about its intricate details even months later. Louis sang a couple of words near a mic being held by Bebe Rexha on Back to You, while Liam appeared on a Zedd song and danced weirdly near a non-plussed Quavo on debut solo single, Strip That Down. Then onwards to the Côte d’Azur in May, where Kidman was dubbed Queen of Cannes before her private jet had even touched down. Horror movie “star” the Babadook became an unlikely queer icon thanks to Tumblr, and everyone was Baba-shook. If only it were all that simple, Kendall! Ed SheeranScore: 1 out 3Next time people ask what the monarchy has done for us lately, remind them that we live in a world where Ed Sheeran – a man who looks as if he was teleported to pop stardom through a magical cupboard in his bong-strewn bedroom – has an MBE. 2013 was a good year for pop culture. Submit. The Nightly Show’s was especially weird, however, such as the desk that doubled up as a shelving unit, complete with wilted plant. But crucially, only if you want it to be. Courtesy of YouTube/Moviecliptrailers, Wikimedia Commons. This morning I was thinking: “Energy and strength.” A positive mantra. That escalated into a bizarre series of rants and petulant behavior. Accepting her 8,000th Golden Globe, she stood up against the yet-to-be-inaugurated Donald Trump and his mocking of disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski, and the audience stood up in approval. As it’s Christmas, strangers who would never speak to you will say hello! But despite the States’s widening divisions, audiences had no problem identifying with a black man surrounded by creepy racists. The future-era-defining insemination was communicated on 1 February via a style magazine-ready photoshoot – since parodied and copied by fans and D-list celebrities alike – that received more than 11m likes on Instagram. SR. 1 Chatshows are notorious for squint-inducing sets – part lap-dancing nightspot, part suburban soft play. While the organisers were hit with legal action, the influencers – who hadn’t signalled that their social media posts were adverts – got out unscathed. European cinema gave us the likes of Personal Shopper, Raw and Thelma. This homage – let’s call it Diet Lemonade – was also employed by Fergie, whose blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Double Dutchess collection was released as a visual album, while returning warbler Jessie J also mimicked Lemonade’s spoken-word interludes on the overwrought trailer for her new album, ROSE – or Realisations, Obsessions, Sex, Empowerment. Still, it’s all about silhouette these days, and it’s wardrobe choices like this that we’ll remember when the robots take over and stuff. What happened: Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway walked onstage with the wrong... Ariana Grande's benefit concert. Teen Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Movement is Katy Perry, who has every reason to rebel against acceptance-speech protocol by now said USA Today ”. And children, then “ patience ” would be a good one with! 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