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In \"Glad He's Gone,\" Swedish pop star Tove Lo comforts a dear friend with sexually frank affirmations in the aftermath of a painful breakup. Dispensing kind advice—mostly of the pick-yourself-up, you're-too-good-for-him variety—Lo drives her point home in the hypnotically infectious, haunting hook: \"You're better off / I'm glad that he's gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">Cardi B, 'Press'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IdnRv04IZc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardi B has been a vibrant, wildly charismatic addition to the pop landscape in recent years, but \"Press\" is a one-off swat at a gossip mill that's obsessed over her personal life with relentless invasiveness. 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Liz Kennedy, a model who walked in the show, called out the brand on Twitter for glamorizing suicide and lynchings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_e9OpgGG3/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Marco Gobbetti said Burberry was \"deeply sorry for the distress\" caused, and that \"the design was inspired by the marine theme that ran throughout the collection.\" It was a confusing statement given the fact that it's difficult to find anything particularly nautical in \u003ca href=\"https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/london-fashion-week-gigi-hadid-burberry-a4069051.html\">the show.\u003c/a> (When did people start wearing fur coats on boats?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kennedy pointed out, not only did the noose evoke suicide imagery, it was impossible not to think of lynching, especially given the fact that most of the models' hair in the show had been twisted into over-the-top \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/509680882823797928/?lp=true\">laid edges\u003c/a>, a style traditionally associated with people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Many models at Burberry's 2019 Autumn/Winter London Fashion Week show had their hair styled to look like super-elaborate laid edges.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1125477688-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many models at Burberry's 2019 Autumn/Winter London Fashion Week show had their hair styled to look like super-elaborate laid edges. \u003ccite>(DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Burberry's offending look came hot on the heels of Gucci's controversial \"blackface\" sweater:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/p90007emma/status/1096191251525836800\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as Katy Perry's ill-advised shoe designs that she said were \u003ca href=\"https://www.etonline.com/katy-perry-addresses-her-fashion-labels-shoes-resembling-blackface-explains-the-designs-intent\">\"envisioned as a nod to modern art and surrealism\"\u003c/a> but ended up causing offense:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1095065949332484102\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last year, Prada used \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/Smoking-Sambo-Black-Americana-/253223424267\">\"Sambo\"\u003c/a>-adjacent imagery in both their accessories and their window displays:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1073676511541121025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/malibu1968/status/1073774837087244289\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what the hell is going on here? \u003cem>Global News\u003c/em> recently \u003ca href=\"https://globalnews.ca/news/4970809/racism-fashion-products-backlash/\">reported\u003c/a>: \"Experts say many of these fashion companies live in a sort of bubble and lack the diversity in their staff that could vet their fashions. They also blame the increasing pressures facing the industry to push products from the design board to the stores and online in weeks rather than months without taking time to thoroughly review products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feels like a major cop-out, given the close similarities in most of the offending designs, as well as the almost simultaneous timing of their releases. The last time designs this racially controversial emerged was a full seven years ago when Jeremy Scott designed an Adidas sneaker with jumpsuit-orange, slave-like shackles attached to the ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-800x457.png\" alt=\"These Jeremy Scott sneakers were pulled by Adidas after only five days in 2012.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-800x457.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-160x91.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-768x439.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-1020x582.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-1200x685.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These Jeremy Scott sneakers were pulled by Adidas after only five days in 2012. \u003ccite>(Buzz:60/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, Scott's design was an egregious one-off that never made it to mass production. But in the last six months, racist imagery in fashion is looking less like an accident or an oversight, and more like a full-blown, designer-sanctioned trend. It's impossible to know the roots of the inspiration behind the designs, but it seems deeply unlikely that the fashion world is as oblivious as it claims to be when it comes to the weight attached to this kind of imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, it's not like issues around blackface haven't been front and center recently. Last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/106813/after-wondering-why-blackface-is-racist-megyn-kelly-is-now-wondering-where-the-closest-unemployment-office-is\"> Megyn Kelly lost her lucrative job\u003c/a> at NBC after defending blackface\u003cem>. \u003c/em>Virginia's \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47193273\">governor, Ralph Northam\u003c/a>, and the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/virginia-attorney-general-blackface/index.html\">Attorney General, Mark Herring,\u003c/a> have both dealt with recent blackface-related controversies, stemming back to the '80s. The same goes for Florida's Secretary of State, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/\">Michael Ertel,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/\">Republican state representative, Anthony Sabatini\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently so many politicians dealing with blackface controversies that \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> went to the trouble of writing a skit about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrpQVSVa2QI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One might argue that the offending fashion houses have their roots in Europe and therefore have little interest in or understanding of both American politics and our country's history with slavery. But as long as Prada, Gucci and Burberry have offices and multiple stores on U.S. shores, there's really no excuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racism is certainly not an America-specific problem. Though the number of hate crimes being reported here has been rising steadily since 2015 (with nearly 60 percent of those occurring \"because of bias against race, ethnicity or ancestry bias\"), the same can be said of \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/659157/hate-crimes-recorded-by-the-police-italy/\">Italy\u003c/a> (home of Prada and Gucci) and \u003ca href=\"https://fullfact.org/crime/hate-crime-england-and-wales/\">England\u003c/a> (Burberry's home base). Both countries saw the number of reported race-related hate crimes literally double between 2012 and 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An apologist might try and make the argument that these designers are merely reflecting the fraught times we live in, holding a mirror up to a society that has seen a resurgence of race-related violence and far-right politics in recent years and reminding us of a recent past when blatantly racist imagery was commonplace. But if that were the case, wouldn't the fashion houses have used that as a justification during their apologies? Wouldn't they have articulated their good intentions when called out for their bad behavior, rather than acting like they hadn't noticed what they were putting out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prada, Burberry and Gucci can feign ignorance around the intentions of these designs as much as they want. But in the end, these fashions are as coded as the language used by politicians when they reference \"thugs\" or when upper-class white people speak of things that are \"urban.\" These kinds of coded messages only feel subtle to the people they don't apply to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what feels like direct opposition to the protesters who have recently felt the need to create \"Make Racism Wrong Again\" hats, these design houses seem to be going out of their way to bring racist imagery out of the bowels of history and back into the land of mainstream acceptability again. To believe that it is somehow accidental isn't just a major disservice to communities of color, it's an assault on our intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So what the hell is going on here? \u003cem>Global News\u003c/em> recently \u003ca href=\"https://globalnews.ca/news/4970809/racism-fashion-products-backlash/\">reported\u003c/a>: \"Experts say many of these fashion companies live in a sort of bubble and lack the diversity in their staff that could vet their fashions. They also blame the increasing pressures facing the industry to push products from the design board to the stores and online in weeks rather than months without taking time to thoroughly review products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feels like a major cop-out, given the close similarities in most of the offending designs, as well as the almost simultaneous timing of their releases. The last time designs this racially controversial emerged was a full seven years ago when Jeremy Scott designed an Adidas sneaker with jumpsuit-orange, slave-like shackles attached to the ankles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-800x457.png\" alt=\"These Jeremy Scott sneakers were pulled by Adidas after only five days in 2012.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-800x457.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-160x91.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-768x439.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-1020x582.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM-1200x685.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-19-at-3.24.40-PM.png 1247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These Jeremy Scott sneakers were pulled by Adidas after only five days in 2012. \u003ccite>(Buzz:60/YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, Scott's design was an egregious one-off that never made it to mass production. But in the last six months, racist imagery in fashion is looking less like an accident or an oversight, and more like a full-blown, designer-sanctioned trend. It's impossible to know the roots of the inspiration behind the designs, but it seems deeply unlikely that the fashion world is as oblivious as it claims to be when it comes to the weight attached to this kind of imagery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, it's not like issues around blackface haven't been front and center recently. Last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/106813/after-wondering-why-blackface-is-racist-megyn-kelly-is-now-wondering-where-the-closest-unemployment-office-is\"> Megyn Kelly lost her lucrative job\u003c/a> at NBC after defending blackface\u003cem>. \u003c/em>Virginia's \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47193273\">governor, Ralph Northam\u003c/a>, and the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/virginia-attorney-general-blackface/index.html\">Attorney General, Mark Herring,\u003c/a> have both dealt with recent blackface-related controversies, stemming back to the '80s. The same goes for Florida's Secretary of State, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/\">Michael Ertel,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/\">Republican state representative, Anthony Sabatini\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently so many politicians dealing with blackface controversies that \u003cem>SNL\u003c/em> went to the trouble of writing a skit about it:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MrpQVSVa2QI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MrpQVSVa2QI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>One might argue that the offending fashion houses have their roots in Europe and therefore have little interest in or understanding of both American politics and our country's history with slavery. But as long as Prada, Gucci and Burberry have offices and multiple stores on U.S. shores, there's really no excuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racism is certainly not an America-specific problem. Though the number of hate crimes being reported here has been rising steadily since 2015 (with nearly 60 percent of those occurring \"because of bias against race, ethnicity or ancestry bias\"), the same can be said of \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/659157/hate-crimes-recorded-by-the-police-italy/\">Italy\u003c/a> (home of Prada and Gucci) and \u003ca href=\"https://fullfact.org/crime/hate-crime-england-and-wales/\">England\u003c/a> (Burberry's home base). Both countries saw the number of reported race-related hate crimes literally double between 2012 and 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An apologist might try and make the argument that these designers are merely reflecting the fraught times we live in, holding a mirror up to a society that has seen a resurgence of race-related violence and far-right politics in recent years and reminding us of a recent past when blatantly racist imagery was commonplace. But if that were the case, wouldn't the fashion houses have used that as a justification during their apologies? Wouldn't they have articulated their good intentions when called out for their bad behavior, rather than acting like they hadn't noticed what they were putting out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prada, Burberry and Gucci can feign ignorance around the intentions of these designs as much as they want. But in the end, these fashions are as coded as the language used by politicians when they reference \"thugs\" or when upper-class white people speak of things that are \"urban.\" These kinds of coded messages only feel subtle to the people they don't apply to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what feels like direct opposition to the protesters who have recently felt the need to create \"Make Racism Wrong Again\" hats, these design houses seem to be going out of their way to bring racist imagery out of the bowels of history and back into the land of mainstream acceptability again. To believe that it is somehow accidental isn't just a major disservice to communities of color, it's an assault on our intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ten years ago, when Britney Spears walked into a salon and shaved her own head, it was seen as the ultimate sign that she'd lost her damn mind. \u003ca href=\"http://zerotalking.com/wp-content/uploads/britney-spears-shaved-head.jpg\">\"SHEAR MADNESS\"\u003c/a> the cover of the \u003cem>New York Post\u003c/em> screamed the next day, as the news spread rapidly around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident turned head shaving into a kind of pop culture shorthand for having a nervous breakdown. Hair and beauty website, NaturallyCurly, refers to head-shaving as \"often \u003ca href=\"https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/transitioning/the-psychology-behind-a-woman-chopping-her-hair-off-bi/\">a drastic decision driven by emotions\u003c/a>,\" while health.am lists \"shaving head or body hair\" as #7 on a list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.health.am/psy/more/10-warning-signs-of-schizophrenia/#ixzz4oXepyb9i\">\u003cem>10 Warning signs of schizophrenia as identified by family members\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy Perry has been referencing it as a means to prove her own mental stability \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/why-is-this-still-a-thing?utm_term=.bf0nrzz1n#.rfWGlBByG\">since 2010\u003c/a>. At the 2017 Grammy's alone, Perry made two separate references to the Britney incident, saying \"the only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown.\" Perry also told Ryan Seacrest that night that she was \"taking care of [her] mental health\" and that she hadn't \"shaved [her] head yet.\" The backlash on Twitter was fast and furious and just two months later, Perry ate her words and, most unexpectedly, shaved most of her hair off -- an incident that was surprisingly under-reported, considering the degree of irony involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-960x604.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-520x327.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VALERIE MACON/ AFP/ Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The online backlash that Perry received, as well as her subsequent hair U-turn in front of a disinterested press, were the first indicators that 2017 might finally be the year that women with shaved heads are no longer considered taboo, threatening, or ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Western culture, shaved heads are traditionally associated with hyper-masculinity in men (see: the military, prison, skinheads) and a symbol of deviant behavior for women -- whether they shave it themselves, thereby rejecting mainstream beauty standards, or have the cut forced upon them as punishment for being bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, shaving women's heads as a form of punishment was firmly established during, and in the aftermath of, World War II. Both \u003ca href=\"https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005176&MediaId=1139\">women at concentration camps\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war\">French women accused\u003c/a> of colluding with Nazis, received the punishment. What, after all, could be worse than taking away one of women's most potent symbols of femininity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, after the Britney incident, an article in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> \u003c/a>noted: \"Shaven heads are still seen as a crisis for women because flowing hair is so tied up in notions of female beauty and, in the days before dyes and extensions (although even ancient Egyptians sported wigs), a visible symbol of their reproductive power.\" In other words, without hair, women cease to be attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film industry has since doubled down on that message, using head-shaving in movies like \u003cem>V For Vendetta\u003c/em> and \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> as a means to de-sex female characters. At the time of filming the former, Natalie Portman even noted in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/may/17/features.laurabarton\">interview\u003c/a>: \"Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi, or that I have cancer, or I'm a lesbian.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/13jidJXAXXWl6U/source.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Portman in 'V For Vendetta'.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Moore's \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> head-shaving was considered extraordinarily brave, just last year, Moore's daughter, Talullah Willis, shaved her own head with zero fanfare, telling \u003cem>Nylon\u003c/em>: “I actually watched \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> two days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/vl9qvTOJdy/\">I shaved my head\u003c/a>. I don’t think I was 100 percent inspired by it, but I think it may have manifested the idea in my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_mJDOB7ZM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last two years, both Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart opted to shave their heads for movie roles that didn't specifically require it -- Theron for the dystopian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/\">\u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Stewart for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Underwater\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which she plays a mechanical engineer. The press and public have been complimentary about the new looks, and both actresses have been vocal about the positive effects of cutting it all off. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2284017/Oscars-2013-Charlize-Theron-says-shaving-head-freeing.html#ixzz4od0FRl5j\">Theron said\u003c/a>: \"It's the most freeing thing, I highly recommend it. I think every woman should do it.\" In March, Stewart told the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/kristen-stewart-reveals-why-she-shaved-her-head-w471408\">Today Show\u003c/a>:\u003c/em> \"I've been wanting to do this for a long time. It feels amazing. I just want to head-bang all day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both stars' responses to the cut were deeply refreshing after listening to what Anne Hathaway had to say about \u003ca href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/anne-hathaway-on-her-extreme-haircut-for-les-1508927\">shaving her head\u003c/a> for her role as Fantine in 2012's \u003cem>Les Miserables:\u003c/em> \"I looked in the mirror and I said ‘I look like my gay brother. I’m just Man Hathaway.’ I realized I couldn’t take it back. It had the effect of changing my identity. I was reduced to a mental patient level of crying... I was inconsolable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still, even now, an element of going bald that still treats the style, not as a privilege, but rather as a sacrifice. In 2013, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5MhBub8f4\">Jessie J \u003c/a>raised £500,000 for the UK's Comic Relief by shaving her head. This year's winner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/commentary-joy-sadness-drag-race-winner-sasha-velour-n777221\">\u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Sasha Velour, stays bald in honor of her mother's battle with cancer. And, in July, Kathy Griffin shaved her head in support of her sister's battle with cancer, having already lost a brother to the disease three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/yashar/status/892074833273655296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fstyle%2Fkathy-griffin-shave-head-for-sister%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, it is true that when women keep their hair cropped close these days, and its not related to either a role or charity, it barely registers with the press or the public. Contrast \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/5322008/solange-chops-hair-is-called-insane\">Solange Knowles\u003c/a> having to defend her super-short cut online in 2009 (\"im not trying. to make this 'a style' or a statement. i. just. wanted. to. be. free. from. the. bondage. that. black. women sometimes. put. on. themselves. with. hair\") with \u003ca href=\"http://people.com/style/lupita-nyongo-shaved-her-hair-on-a-whim-i-like-myself-a-lot-more-now/\">Lupita Nyong’o talking\u003c/a> about a similar style last year (\"I like myself a lot more now that I’m not constantly fussing over my hair\"). Two years in, we've grown accustomed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justjared.com/2017/02/12/rose-mcgowan-hits-up-grammys-2017-with-nominated-producer-boots/\">Rose McGowan\u003c/a> having a shaved head, and if Amber Rose grew her hair out now, she would be positively unrecognizable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.etonline.com/news/222730_kate_hudson_shows_off_shaved_head_while_dirt_bike_riding_with_boyfriend_and_son_ryder/\">Kate Hudson\u003c/a> is the most recent star to shave her head -- in this case, for some as-yet-unspecified collaboration with Sia -- and the news has been received with a shrug. Today's nonchalance towards women with shaved heads feels lightyears ahead of where the world was in 1990 when Sinead O'Connor first emerged, shocking everyone with her lack of hair before she'd even had a chance to start \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw\">ripping up photos of the Pope\u003c/a> on live TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world no longer needs to have a discussion every time a famous woman shaves all her hair off, and it's a clear signal that we are finally reaching a new point of freedom for women's self-expression. Aside from anything else, in the age of the internet, we are all inherently less shockable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007,\u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6375683.stm\"> Dr. Martin Skinner\u003c/a>, a social psychologist, told the BBC: \"Hair is so significant because of what it is and where it is. It is part of us, much more intimate than things like clothes. If you cut it away, you are cutting away a bit of yourself. Whatever we do with it is very much part of our identity.\" The increasing visibility of shaved hair on female heads is symbolic of the fact that in the 20-teens, forcing celebrities to adhere to traditional performative gender roles is increasingly less of a thing -- and it's about damn time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ten years ago, when Britney Spears walked into a salon and shaved her own head, it was seen as the ultimate sign that she'd lost her damn mind. \u003ca href=\"http://zerotalking.com/wp-content/uploads/britney-spears-shaved-head.jpg\">\"SHEAR MADNESS\"\u003c/a> the cover of the \u003cem>New York Post\u003c/em> screamed the next day, as the news spread rapidly around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident turned head shaving into a kind of pop culture shorthand for having a nervous breakdown. Hair and beauty website, NaturallyCurly, refers to head-shaving as \"often \u003ca href=\"https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/transitioning/the-psychology-behind-a-woman-chopping-her-hair-off-bi/\">a drastic decision driven by emotions\u003c/a>,\" while health.am lists \"shaving head or body hair\" as #7 on a list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.health.am/psy/more/10-warning-signs-of-schizophrenia/#ixzz4oXepyb9i\">\u003cem>10 Warning signs of schizophrenia as identified by family members\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy Perry has been referencing it as a means to prove her own mental stability \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/why-is-this-still-a-thing?utm_term=.bf0nrzz1n#.rfWGlBByG\">since 2010\u003c/a>. At the 2017 Grammy's alone, Perry made two separate references to the Britney incident, saying \"the only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown.\" Perry also told Ryan Seacrest that night that she was \"taking care of [her] mental health\" and that she hadn't \"shaved [her] head yet.\" The backlash on Twitter was fast and furious and just two months later, Perry ate her words and, most unexpectedly, shaved most of her hair off -- an incident that was surprisingly under-reported, considering the degree of irony involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-960x604.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-520x327.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VALERIE MACON/ AFP/ Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The online backlash that Perry received, as well as her subsequent hair U-turn in front of a disinterested press, were the first indicators that 2017 might finally be the year that women with shaved heads are no longer considered taboo, threatening, or ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Western culture, shaved heads are traditionally associated with hyper-masculinity in men (see: the military, prison, skinheads) and a symbol of deviant behavior for women -- whether they shave it themselves, thereby rejecting mainstream beauty standards, or have the cut forced upon them as punishment for being bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, shaving women's heads as a form of punishment was firmly established during, and in the aftermath of, World War II. Both \u003ca href=\"https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005176&MediaId=1139\">women at concentration camps\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war\">French women accused\u003c/a> of colluding with Nazis, received the punishment. What, after all, could be worse than taking away one of women's most potent symbols of femininity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, after the Britney incident, an article in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> \u003c/a>noted: \"Shaven heads are still seen as a crisis for women because flowing hair is so tied up in notions of female beauty and, in the days before dyes and extensions (although even ancient Egyptians sported wigs), a visible symbol of their reproductive power.\" In other words, without hair, women cease to be attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film industry has since doubled down on that message, using head-shaving in movies like \u003cem>V For Vendetta\u003c/em> and \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> as a means to de-sex female characters. At the time of filming the former, Natalie Portman even noted in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/may/17/features.laurabarton\">interview\u003c/a>: \"Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi, or that I have cancer, or I'm a lesbian.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/13jidJXAXXWl6U/source.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Portman in 'V For Vendetta'.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Moore's \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> head-shaving was considered extraordinarily brave, just last year, Moore's daughter, Talullah Willis, shaved her own head with zero fanfare, telling \u003cem>Nylon\u003c/em>: “I actually watched \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> two days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/vl9qvTOJdy/\">I shaved my head\u003c/a>. I don’t think I was 100 percent inspired by it, but I think it may have manifested the idea in my mind.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LU_mJDOB7ZM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LU_mJDOB7ZM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the last two years, both Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart opted to shave their heads for movie roles that didn't specifically require it -- Theron for the dystopian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/\">\u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Stewart for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Underwater\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which she plays a mechanical engineer. The press and public have been complimentary about the new looks, and both actresses have been vocal about the positive effects of cutting it all off. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2284017/Oscars-2013-Charlize-Theron-says-shaving-head-freeing.html#ixzz4od0FRl5j\">Theron said\u003c/a>: \"It's the most freeing thing, I highly recommend it. I think every woman should do it.\" In March, Stewart told the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/kristen-stewart-reveals-why-she-shaved-her-head-w471408\">Today Show\u003c/a>:\u003c/em> \"I've been wanting to do this for a long time. It feels amazing. I just want to head-bang all day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both stars' responses to the cut were deeply refreshing after listening to what Anne Hathaway had to say about \u003ca href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/anne-hathaway-on-her-extreme-haircut-for-les-1508927\">shaving her head\u003c/a> for her role as Fantine in 2012's \u003cem>Les Miserables:\u003c/em> \"I looked in the mirror and I said ‘I look like my gay brother. I’m just Man Hathaway.’ I realized I couldn’t take it back. It had the effect of changing my identity. I was reduced to a mental patient level of crying... I was inconsolable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still, even now, an element of going bald that still treats the style, not as a privilege, but rather as a sacrifice. In 2013, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5MhBub8f4\">Jessie J \u003c/a>raised £500,000 for the UK's Comic Relief by shaving her head. This year's winner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/commentary-joy-sadness-drag-race-winner-sasha-velour-n777221\">\u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Sasha Velour, stays bald in honor of her mother's battle with cancer. And, in July, Kathy Griffin shaved her head in support of her sister's battle with cancer, having already lost a brother to the disease three years ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There's no subtle way to talk about the fact that Michael Phelps raced a shark on Sunday. (Who knew that winning 23 Olympic gold medals could end in... this?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6Z_9YUvss\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're wondering what happened, Phelps did not swim side-by-side with a shark, or \u003ca href=\"http://media.ufc.tv/photo_galleries/122_weighin/122_weighin-07_UFC122_Soszynski_v_Reljic.jpg\">face off\u003c/a> beforehand, à la UFC matches. In the end (spoiler alert!), even with the aid of something called a \"monofin,\" Phelps lost to both the hammerhead and great white sharks. In your face, mankind!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Discovery Channel's annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/\">\u003cem>Shark Week\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is, of course, a law unto itself at this point. But fewer species have suffered the sheer number of humiliations in the name of popular culture as the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can all be traced back to that infamous 1977 episode of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days\">\u003cem>Happy Days\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in which Fonzie, propelled by Richie Cunningham in a speed boat, did a waterski jump over a shark because: ratings desperation. This is where the term \"jumping the shark\" comes from -- a phrase that has come to signify the ultimate in pushing a TV show into a ridiculous premise, in the hopes of keeping it alive past its sell-by date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to three of the most embarrassing minutes in all of \u003cem>Happy Days\u003c/em>' -- nay television's -- history:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvGopsM1G9g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1975's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)\">\u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that originally put sharks on the pop culture map. Widely considered to be the world's \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jaws-40th-anniversary-at-40-box-office-summer-blockbuster-1201521198/\">first summer blockbuster\u003c/a>, the movie gave swimmers everywhere -- including, inexplicably, the ones in pools -- phobias of what might be hiding beneath the water's surface. The movie is so enduringly adored that there is an annual event in Austin, Texas where people \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/shylawatson/you-couldnt-pay-me-to-attend-this-on-the-water-screening-of?utm_term=.xmqdO33Rd#.qaO9zPPv9\">float in Lake Travis\u003c/a>, while watching the movie. (Rumor has it, a couple of years ago, organizers went to the trouble of hiring divers to tickle the feet of audience members under the water.) Last month, \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> also launched a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/time-out-is-launching-londons-first-cinema-to-sail-the-river-thames-050217\">\u003cem>Movies on the River\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in London, England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the adoration for the original movie so frequently forgets, however, is how completely insane this franchise eventually became. Remember: \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_3-D\">Jaws 3-D's\u003c/a>\u003c/em> plot starts with a shark breaking into SeaWorld to eat people, and ends with dolphins rescuing Dennis Quaid. Even worse than that, the premise of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_The_Revenge\">\u003cem>Jaws 4\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is that a great white shark is stalking the one specific family that has featured in each \u003cem>Jaws\u003c/em> installment, with the purpose of seeking vengeance for its previously murdered shark brethren. This revenge-hungry shark is so angry, it follows the family all the way to the Bahamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, a fan went to the trouble of summing up the absurdity of the entire movie thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf2K_645qtw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shark movies go, 1999's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_Sea_(1999_film)\">\u003cem>Deep Blue Sea\u003c/em>\u003c/a> had the good sense to alter the DNA of its sharks to turn them into actual monsters. It also won a lot of people over with one of the most joyously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw\">unexpected character death\u003c/a> scenes in movie history. Sadly, further shark movies have not faired nearly as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(film)\">\u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em>\u003c/a> starred a shark that decided that stalking and waiting all day for Blake Lively to fall off a rock was a much better idea than eating the massive dead whale that had brought it into shallow, probably-too-warm waters in the first place. Truly, the movie's premise made absolutely no sense, but 2010's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reef_(2010_film)\">\u003cem>The Reef\u003c/em>\u003c/a> also featured a shark that was dead set on stalking humans as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBS6r4QB86E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003cem>The Shallows\u003c/em> looks like a BBC wildlife documentary when compared with one of the most preposterous movies in history, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado\">Sharknado\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> which suggests that, with the right combination of extreme weather conditions, sharks could legitimately get sucked into the sky and then rained down onto land-dwelling humans below, snapping at, killing, and getting chopped in half by chainsaw-wielding ex-\u003cem>Beverly Hills 90210\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Ziering\">cast members\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-pXDoe5a0E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sharknado\u003c/em> was so insane, and such a guilty pleasure for so many, that this August, we'll be facing down \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRroXtmvOU\">\u003cem>Sharknado 5\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. No, really. There's five of these suckers now -- and there's absolutely no need for at least four of them -- especially when you consider how many shark-based B-movies already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some relatively recent shark movies you may not know about, but are 100% real: \u003cem>Shark Night 3-D, Bait 3-D, Shark Attack, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Jurassic Shark, Ghost Shark, Supershark, Dinoshark, Swamp Shark, Sand Shark, Megashark Vs. Mechashark, Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus, Shark Swarm, Shark Attack, Raging Sharks, Sharktopus\u003c/em>. Truly, the list is endless. There are a lot more out there, but that's what Google is for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of movies, one of the most insane iterations of pop culture-related shark humiliation took place during the halftime show of 2015's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show\">Superbowl XLIX\u003c/a>. It's impossible to know what possessed Katy Perry to stick a couple of dancers in shark costumes to do a jaunty little routine for \"Teenage Dream,\" but all anyone could talk about the next day was Left Shark: the one that momentarily forgot its dance steps, so collapsed into flailing wildly on national television in front of 118.5 million viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://68.media.tumblr.com/a22c1ea0974a1af00f8f0c44dcf447cc/tumblr_nj4pr3bVvH1s2wio8o1_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left Shark first prompted a bazillion memes and gifs, then stretched out into \u003ca href=\"http://29odkrngwwiml6xqsb8nbfh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-01-at-12.29.36-PM.png\">parodies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/styles/marquee_large_2x/public/2015/02/03/super-bowl-left-shark-tattoo.jpg?itok=uD5Y0XBj\">tattoos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6859524/katy-perry-left-shark-revealed-true-story-super-bowl\">background stories\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/shop/left+shark\">merch\u003c/a>, and, yes, eventually, even a \u003ca href=\"http://bitterempire.com/most-ridiculous-celebrity-lawsuit-of-the-week-katy-perrys-left-shark-trademark-rejected/\">trademark-related lawsuit\u003c/a> because: America. Sure, the incriminating footage of Left Shark remains tear-inducingly funny even now, but the sheer expansion of Left Shark into so many areas of our lives was a prime example of a pop culture moment, uh, jumping the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of attention we give, and the scary information we perpetuate about sharks has little basis in reality (though 2003's \u003ca href=\"http://www.blumhouse.com/2016/03/16/the-true-story-behind-the-movie-open-water/\">\u003cem>Open Water\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was based on a true story). Movies that depict sharks as ruthless human-murderers are really quite unfair. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/isaf/what-are-odds/risks-comparison/risk-death\">Florida Museum of Natural History\u003c/a> puts your chances, as an American, of being killed by a shark in your lifetime at 1 in 3,748,067. 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No, really. There's five of these suckers now -- and there's absolutely no need for at least four of them -- especially when you consider how many shark-based B-movies already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some relatively recent shark movies you may not know about, but are 100% real: \u003cem>Shark Night 3-D, Bait 3-D, Shark Attack, 2-Headed Shark Attack, Jurassic Shark, Ghost Shark, Supershark, Dinoshark, Swamp Shark, Sand Shark, Megashark Vs. Mechashark, Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus, Shark Swarm, Shark Attack, Raging Sharks, Sharktopus\u003c/em>. Truly, the list is endless. There are a lot more out there, but that's what Google is for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of movies, one of the most insane iterations of pop culture-related shark humiliation took place during the halftime show of 2015's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLIX_halftime_show\">Superbowl XLIX\u003c/a>. It's impossible to know what possessed Katy Perry to stick a couple of dancers in shark costumes to do a jaunty little routine for \"Teenage Dream,\" but all anyone could talk about the next day was Left Shark: the one that momentarily forgot its dance steps, so collapsed into flailing wildly on national television in front of 118.5 million viewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https://68.media.tumblr.com/a22c1ea0974a1af00f8f0c44dcf447cc/tumblr_nj4pr3bVvH1s2wio8o1_500.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left Shark first prompted a bazillion memes and gifs, then stretched out into \u003ca href=\"http://29odkrngwwiml6xqsb8nbfh.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-01-at-12.29.36-PM.png\">parodies\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/styles/marquee_large_2x/public/2015/02/03/super-bowl-left-shark-tattoo.jpg?itok=uD5Y0XBj\">tattoos\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6859524/katy-perry-left-shark-revealed-true-story-super-bowl\">background stories\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redbubble.com/shop/left+shark\">merch\u003c/a>, and, yes, eventually, even a \u003ca href=\"http://bitterempire.com/most-ridiculous-celebrity-lawsuit-of-the-week-katy-perrys-left-shark-trademark-rejected/\">trademark-related lawsuit\u003c/a> because: America. Sure, the incriminating footage of Left Shark remains tear-inducingly funny even now, but the sheer expansion of Left Shark into so many areas of our lives was a prime example of a pop culture moment, uh, jumping the shark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.katyperry.com/\">Katy Perry\u003c/a> may sound meaningful as hell when she's telling the downtrodden they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw\">metaphorical fireworks\u003c/a>, but over the years, the pop star has repeatedly struggled during interviews with both articulating, and not contradicting, herself. Sometimes, it seems like Perry's mouth starts moving before she's figured out what point she's trying to make, and the results are baffling on fairly regular occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent example emerged this week in an interview with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ew.com/music/2017/05/08/katy-perry-new-album/?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter\">Entertainment Weekly\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in which Perry was asked whether or not her new album would include a \"reaction\" to Taylor Swift's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo\">Bad Blood\u003c/a>\" (a song widely purported to be about Perry attempting to wreck a T. Swift tour via the medium of dancer theft). Perry's response to this relatively straightforward question was quite literally amazing. She tried to answer the question, while not answering it, while also attempting to deflect, while also God Bless and also nuh-uh, honey! This thing needs to be read to be believed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Well that’s not my question to answer — if it’s about me. I think [my new album is] a very empowered record. There is no one thing that’s calling out any one person. One thing to note is: You can’t mistake kindness for weakness and don’t come for me. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. And that’s not to any one person and don’t quote me that it is, because it’s not. It’s not about that. Honestly, when women come together and they decide to unite, this world is going to be a better place. Period end of story. But, let me say this: Everything has a reaction or a consequence so don’t forget about that, okay, honey. [Laughs] We got to keep it real, honey. This record is not about anyone else! This record is about me being seen and heard so that I can see and hear everyone else! It’s not even about me! It’s about everything that I see out there that I digest. I think there’s a healing in it for me and vulnerability. If people want to connect and be healed and feel vulnerable and feel empowered and strong, God bless and here it is.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This isn't the first time Katy Perry has answered a question in a manner that made little to no sense. Back in 2013, in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=240760441\">interview with NPR\u003c/a>, Perry criticized other pop stars for getting naked, while also recalling that she too gets naked sometimes, but not really, and she will take her clothes off one day, but only when she's desperate and old, but the reason she can't right now is because she doesn't have the body for it and... What the hell was she trying to say here again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like females in pop -- everybody's getting naked. I mean, I've been naked before but I don't feel like I have to always get naked to be noticed. But it's interesting to see... I'm not talking about anyone in particular. I'm talking about all of them. I mean, it's like everybody's so naked. It's like put it away. We know you've got it. I got it too. I've taken it off for -- I've taken it out here and there. And I'm not necessarily judging. I'm just saying sometimes it's nice to play that card but also it's nice to play other cards. And I know I have that sexy card in my deck but I don't always have to use that card. Maybe when I’m 35 I will. I don’t need to do it now, because I’ve got great songs. If I get super-desperate, maybe I will then…”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not over yet! Perry \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-57-1237134#QyHSGV96RHIJfc8u.99\">went on\u003c/a>: “Actually, I did take all my clothes off for \u003cem>Teenage Dream\u003c/em>. I was on a cotton-candy cloud, showing my… back. I don’t have the body for it. If I had like, Rihanna’s body, I’d take my clothes off. But I don’t. I just hide my body in a way where you think I have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing to see here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57P9C4SAW4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that same year, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a8596/katy-perry-interview-january-cover/\">\u003cem>Marie Claire\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Perry tried her darnedest to express her religious beliefs (which apparently encompass nothing and everything simultaneously), and somehow made her belief in God about the fact that other people are scared of saying no to her, because she's a celebrity:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable. Accountability is rare to find, especially with people like myself, because nobody wants to tell you something you don't want to hear. I actually don't trust people who start to turn on me because they get scared of telling me the truth. I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's a side note, but that \"deep connection with God\" got Perry into \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39650913\">extremely hot water\u003c/a> with Hindus around the globe last month, when she posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BTDJ-gkD2HC/\">this image\u003c/a> of the Goddess Kali to her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/katyperry/\">Instagram page\u003c/a>, with the caption \"current mood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Goddess-800x1123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, sometimes it's the shortest of sentences that cause Perry the biggest headaches. Like in February, on the Grammy's red carpet, when she talked about shaving her head -- clearly referencing Britney Spears' \u003ca href=\"http://www.nickiswift.com/13904/britney-spears-breakdown-even-scarier-thought/\">2007 breakdown\u003c/a> -- twice. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/britney-spears-responds-to-katy-perrys-mental-health-joke-1975330\">told Ryan Seacrest\u003c/a> that taking a break between records was \"Fantastic. And I haven’t shaved my head yet.” That same night, Perry also declared: \"The only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown. I’m down for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally, this is what Katy Perry's haircut looks like on the cover of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9ilfAZHOs\">new single\u003c/a>. Is this a cry for help? Impossible to know.\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-800x802.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-800x802.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-768x770.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-240x241.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-375x376.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-520x521.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos.png 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to say exactly what's behind Perry's dazzling lack of self-awareness in some of her interviews. There is a tendency to speak too soon, combined awkwardly with a desire to not offend anyone, which seems to get her tied up in knots at every turn. Perhaps it's a lack of media training that prompts the off-hand comments. Perhaps it's too much media training that stops her, mid-thought, and forces her to start back-peddling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Perry would be best served by letting her music speak for itself, or sticking to scripted \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjN4DgDLCc\">award ceremony appearances\u003c/a>, where she actually makes a modicum of sense. In the end, maybe Katy Perry would be best served by taking a leaf out of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyonce.com/\">Beyoncé\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"http://www.siamusic.net/\">Sia\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://home.adele.com/\">Adele\u003c/a> playbook and barely talk to anyone ever. It would certainly make a lot more sense.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Following celebrities on Instagram is a double-edged sword. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/09/the-redemptive-power-of-britney-spears-instagram/\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Spears' inspirational quotes\u003c/a> can add a nice little moment of levity to your day; other times you get to be among the first (three million) people to know about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/02/need-a-pleasant-distraction-here-are-even-more-photos-of-pregnant-beyonce/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyoncé's pregnancy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sometimes? Sometimes you wind up tromping around San Francisco in the pouring rain looking for a disco ball chained to a bench, just so you can hear Katy Perry's new mediocre single a day before the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new song, you see, which Katy is slated to perform at the Grammys this Sunday, is called \"Chained To the Rhythm.\" In a board room somewhere in New York or Los Angeles, a team of highly paid executives decided the best way to visually represent this motif in a low-cost, hashtag-friendly marketing gimmick format was to chain plastic disco balls with headphone jacks in them to benches around the world, then tell people to go find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all sounded incredibly stupid. Of course I went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/829346621259288578\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you'll indulge a brief attempt at justification: This kind of marketing is interesting to me because it's at once a product of our times and incredibly old-timey. Remember when we lined up outside record stores to buy a new album the day it came out? You had to go to a physical location to consume the new music, and there you met other people who cared as much about that artist as you did. It was a collective experience. An \u003cem>event\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events are harder to come by in the internet age, as evidenced by the fact that the most interesting way anyone's come up with to generate hype for an new album in the past few years is just \"not announcing it.\" Even with a lavishly executed multi-media rollout like \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, the consumer experience was first and foremost a solitary one -- we experienced it alone, behind different TV and computer screens, then texted our friends or went on Twitter to talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was different. It was participatory. Katy wanted me \u003ca href=\"http://chainedto.katyperry.com/\" target=\"_blank\">to look at a map\u003c/a>, then go find the disco ball -- at which point I would surely find a horde of Katy Perry fans. We'd take turns listening to the song, share thoughts about it, post on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat (thereby doing the viral marketing work for her), and go on our merry ways, secure in the knowledge that we were part of something special, something bigger than us -- a community. Real Katy Perry fans call themselves KatyCats, I believe? I'm too old to have ever identified by one of these \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(fan)\" target=\"_blank\">pop star stan name things\u003c/a>, but I get it. And here was a chance to see firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/IMG_4397.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-63323 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/IMG_4397.png\" alt=\"IMG_4397\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/IMG_4397.png 360w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/IMG_4397-160x284.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/IMG_4397-240x427.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except that it was pouring in San Francisco today. The interactive map showed the ball in Dolores Park, perched on a bench up near the southwest corner, looking down over the playground. So off I went, umbrella in hand, happily listening to \"Firework.\" I wondered what kind of Katy Perry fans I would meet, and whether or not we would be instant friends. I reached the top of the hill. The disco ball was nowhere to be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dutifully checked #ChainedToTheRhythm on Twitter. In other cities -- London, Paris, Tokyo -- the internet was spilling over with images and short videos of Katy Perry fans showing up, plugging in, and experiencing the previously aforementioned rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UniversalSE/status/829357662349426688\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for San Francisco: It seemed the ball had been here up until about 45 minutes earlier; there were several tweets with photos from happy, headphoned people with checkmarks next to their names (professional Katy Perry fans??) that showed I had indeed found the right bench. But all it bore now was this symbol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (8)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-8.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had no idea what it meant. I checked the interactive map to see if the disco ball icon in San Francisco had moved. It hadn't. It started to rain harder. I sighed and headed for the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, idly scrolling various Katy Perry-related areas of the internet as I walked, I found a tweet from a Katy Perry fan who had managed to hear the song just before the disco ball had mysteriously disappeared. \"They are taking it to the Castro fyi,\" read his missive -- a distant, 140-character message in a bottle. An Instagram post confirmed this, locating the ball more specifically near the Castro Theatre. A vision: all the Katy Perry fans partying in front of the theater, having fun, listening to \"Chained to the Rhythm\" just a mile away, without me. I turned around and headed for the Castro, full of renewed vigor for the comrades I'd yet to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point I sent a text message to a few friends, just in case I was killed in a freak accident and no one could determine why I was walking around in the rain instead of at work at 11 on a Wednesday, an interactive map of Katy Perry-themed disco balls on record as the last thing I'd ever Googled. \"I'm walking around in the rain trying to find a disco ball that's playing the new Katy Perry single,\" I explained. No one seemed concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-63321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (7)\" width=\"744\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7.jpg 744w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7-240x225.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7-375x351.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-7-520x486.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spotted it not long after rounding the corner of 17th and Market. There, chained to a metal post outside of Hot Cookie, next to a pink sign explaining through the universal language of emoticon that one needed only headphones and this marketing gimmick to achieve happiness, was a shimmering, welcoming disco ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one else was there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63325\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (9)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/FullSizeRender-9.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kneeling down to the wet cement, I briefly investigated the ball's physical properties, not unlike a monkey learning about a rock's potential at the beginning of \u003cem>2001: A Space Odyssey. \u003c/em>I disconnected my earbuds from my phone -- \"Teenage Dream\" would have to wait -- and just as I was about to plug into the headphone jack, a young woman with an umbrella appeared, asking if she could take my picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cory was a brand-new intern with Universal Music Group, and it had been her job to put the disco ball together earlier that morning, audio player inside, then babysit it all day long, taking photos of people listening to \"Chained To the Rhythm\" and sharing them accordingly on social media. She explained apologetically that she had been at Dolores Park earlier, until an officer from San Francisco Rec and Park came by and asked if she had a permit. She did not. He directed her to unchain the rhythm, so to speak, and move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here she was outside Hot Cookie. She had called her boss to discuss the new location, but she certainly didn't know how to update the interactive map. So far only two people aside from me had found the rhythm as it was currently chained at its new location. Cory legitimately felt terrible about this. I tried to tell her it was no big deal. I refrained from telling her about all the new Katy Perry fan friends I was now never going to make. It wasn't her fault. I pressed on. I plugged in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is my review of what turned out to be only part of \"Chained to the Rhythm,\" as I heard it absolutely blasting on loop out of a plastic disco ball with no apparent volume control features in the middle of a downpour while balancing an umbrella with a record label intern taking pictures of me on Castro Street: \"Chained to the Rhythm\" sounds like if Lady Gaga's \"Alejandro\" and Sia's \"The Greatest\" and Rihanna's \"Don't Stop the Music\" had a baby, only worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/robynxkatheryn/status/829350562500067328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's less a devil-may-care disco tune than an aggressive, bludgeony club banger. There's a hook, and it's energetic, but not exactly uplifting. Sia wrote it, so it has a bit of that ominous minor-chord edge that suggests \"you will dance to this for the next two years but also you're going to feel vaguely anxious every single time.\" With some help from the internet, the lyrics include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We wear those colored glasses on, and the party on\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Turn it up it's your favorite song\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Dance, dance, dance to the disco show\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Turn it up put it on repeat\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Stumbling around like a wasted song**\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Me? Yeah, we think we're free\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Drink, this one is on me\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We're all chained to the rhythm, to the rhythm, to the rhythm\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Aha, so good\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>We wear those colored glasses on, and the party on\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Turn it up, it's your favorite song\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Dance, dance, dance to the disco show\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Come on, turn it up, keep it on repeat\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Stumbling around like a wasted song\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Me? Yeah, we think we're free\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Drink, this one is on me\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This imagery, given our current sociopolitical climate, is certainly open to interpretation. What does it mean, exactly, to be chained to the rhythm, robbed of our individual free will -- that supposedly quintessentially American value -- but lulled into believing the choice to dance is our own? Is the rhythm capitalism? Is it \u003cem>fascism\u003c/em>? Colored glasses, y'all. We think we're free, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that you will have six months to three years to ponder these questions and more, as this song is sure to be ubiquitous within the next week. And I, according to the laws of pop music, will probably love it after I've heard it 12 to 15 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StephiRuth/status/829406722678784014\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, I give it a solid B-minus. I thanked Cory for her time and went on my way, but as far as I know she's still out there, babysitting the damn thing, so if you have any interest in Katy Perry or overly forced interactive corporate marketing strategy, you should really go visit her out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for me: I don't know if I got the nostalgic, collective musical experience I was hoping for today -- but after I publish this, I'll share it on Twitter, hashtag it correctly, and tomorrow I might wake up with a handful of hardcore Katy Perry fans mad at me from all over the globe. 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I checked the interactive map to see if the disco ball icon in San Francisco had moved. It hadn't. It started to rain harder. I sighed and headed for the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, idly scrolling various Katy Perry-related areas of the internet as I walked, I found a tweet from a Katy Perry fan who had managed to hear the song just before the disco ball had mysteriously disappeared. \"They are taking it to the Castro fyi,\" read his missive -- a distant, 140-character message in a bottle. An Instagram post confirmed this, locating the ball more specifically near the Castro Theatre. A vision: all the Katy Perry fans partying in front of the theater, having fun, listening to \"Chained to the Rhythm\" just a mile away, without me. 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Some of Katy Perry's \"Katy Cats\" think Lady Gaga pushed up her single's release to stop Katy Perry's momentum, while Gaga's \"Little Monsters\" think Katy Perry isn't even in Gaga's league. Things got heated enough for Gaga to play referee, telling her legion of fans: \"don't fight with katy's fans, or anyone. STOP THE DRAMA. START THE MUSIC. pop music is fun, and these 'wars' are not at all what I'm about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://i.imgur.com/RQuU0.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"170\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this phenomenon isn't an isolated incident between these two camps; feud culture extends to most fan bases that are centered around a female figure. Madonna vs. Gaga. Mariah vs. Nicki Minaj. Miley vs. Selena Gomez. Beyonce vs. Rihanna. Britney vs. Christina. Are you sensing a pattern here? 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But any disagreements surrounding these two male artists stays focused on the music itself, while anything to do with female singers devolves into intensely personal attacks, too often on the performers' physical appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://cdn02.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/30/Lady-Gaga-Katy-Perry-Fan-Wars-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering that fans of Katy Perry, Gaga, and most female singers are, for the most part, women, why is there this ruthlessness in elevating one queen by beating down all the others? The answer can be found in any corner of our popular culture. 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