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Brian May is Selling a Badger-Scented Perfume
Queen guitarist, astrophysicist, and friend to all animals, Brian May has been fighting to protect badgers for more than a decade now. The small omnivores are often slaughtered in the UK to reduce the spreading of bovine tuberculosis. For his latest campaign to save the creatures, May has released a new perfume line that’s not only dedicated to badgers, it actually smells like them, too. The aromatic product is called Save Me, which also happens to be the name of a 1980 Queen single penned by May. Its product page lists fragrance notes like pink pepper, jasmine, sandalwood, and musk, but according to the nose of one reporter from The Sun (via Stereogum), the combination of earthy tones results in “a hint of clean badger fur.” Yum. May hasn’t outright described his perfume as badg...
Lana Del Rey on Trump’s Presidency: “As Bad as It Was, It Really Needed to Happen”
In an attempt to circumvent a fuss over the cover to her new album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Lana Del Rey really wants you to know she has POC friends. Unfortunately, she probably stirred more controversy than she sought to prevent, as no one was really questioning that the cover didn’t have non-white people in it (because it, uh, is a photo and we can see that there are). Now, in an interview with BBC Radio 1, she’s further complicated matters — and brought her opinions on the Trump insurrection into things. When revealing her album cover, Del Rey posted a lengthy comment that was the pretentious version of “I have black friends;” “My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers,” is an actual sentence she wrote. Speaking live with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1, LDR argued...
Lana Del Rey Details New Album, Promptly Puts Foot In Mouth
Lana Del Rey is nearing the release of her seventh studio album, Chemtrails over the Country Club. On Sunday, ahead of a new single, Del Rey revealed the album’s cover as well as its 11-song tracklist. Chemtrails includes the previously revealed single, “Let Me Love You Like a Woman”, as well as her cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free”. The album’s title track will be released as a new teaser single on Monday. The artwork depicts Del Ray posting with a group of friends. In the comments’ section of her Instagram, the singer said the cover is a reflection of her diverse social circle: “We are all a beautiful mix of everything- some more than others which is visible and celebrated in everything I do.” “In 11 years working I have always been extremely inclusive without even trying to,” Del...
Grimes Says She Has COVID-19: “Weirdly Enjoying the DayQuil Fever Dream”
One in five residents of Los Angeles have tested positive for COVID-19, and you can count Grimes among them. On Saturday, the art-pop musician shared her positive diagnosis via an Instagram Story. “Finally got COVID,” she wrote, “but weirdly enjoying the DayQuil fever dream … 2021.” She posted the text alongside a Spotify stream of SZA’s latest single, “Good Days”, which she described using space, heart, sparkle, and dragon emojis. To kick off the year, Grimes released a Rave edition of her 2020 album Miss Anthropocene. Meanwhile, her partner Elon Musk just became the richest man in the world thanks to a surge in Tesla stock as of late. <img data-attachment-id="1096968" data-permalink="https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/01/grimes-covid-19/grimes-covid-19-2/&quo...
COVID-19 Conspiracy Theorists Thought Guitar Pedal Was a 5G Chip Blueprint
In the latest edition of reality being more absurd than our wildest imaginations, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists tricked themselves into thinking that the electrical schematics of a common guitar pedal were the master plans behind 5G mind control. It’s literally as ridiculous as it sounds, but here’s the context. In case you’re blissfully unaware, there’s a dangerously prevalent theory abound that the new towers for 5G cellphone service are responsible for spreading COVID-19. In fact, federal agents are investigating whether anti-5G sentiments could have been a potential motive for the Christmas Day Nashville bombing, which went down right near an AT&T building. This baseless connection between an airborne disease and a cellphone service obviously has real-world implications, but believ...
Tanya Roberts Is Still Alive — Despite Her Husband and Publicist Being Told She Was Dead: Report
Tanya Roberts is still alive, despite a statement from her husband saying she had passed. Yesterday, a publicist representing Roberts’ husband, Lance, issued a press release saying that the actress had died on Sunday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The press release even included a statement from Roberts’ husband, saying: “As I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes.” But now, the publicist has now gotten back to TMZ to confirm that Roberts is not actually dead. Apparently, Lance received a call from the hospital on Monday informing him about Roberts’ current state and confirmed to him that she is still alive. However, she remains in the ICU in “dire” condition. Roberts was hospitalized on Christmas Eve after collapsing in her home. Her exact ailment hasn’t b...
Vanilla Ice, Mike Love-Led Beach Boys Headline Trump’s Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve Party
Donald Trump Jr. sings along to Vanilla Ice at Mar-A-Lago New Year’s Eve party Donald Trump’s South Florida resort Mar-a-Lago threw a New Year’s Eve bash to celebrate the end of a year which saw the deaths of 346,000 Americans due in large part to the Trump Administration’s sheer incompetence and disinterest in managing the pandemic. Masks were, of course, optional. Some 500 of MAGA’s finest — including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — attended the black tie event. (Donald Trump himself was not in attendance, as he returned home to Washington, DC early in order to plot out his election coup.) Non-Trump family members paid up to $1,000 for the right to eat from a menu that included “Mr. Trum...
UK Man Drunkenly Changes Name to Celine Dion, Has No Regrets
Celine Dion (né Thomas Dodd, photo via Instagram/@thomasdodd1) and Celine Dion (photo by Amanda Koellner) Because he loved Celine Dion so much, a UK man decided to give himself a happy xmas by revisiting one of the Canadian singer’s holiday concert specials. When a new day came, he discovered his incredible fandom had reached a level of immortality, as he’d drunkenly filed to legally change his name to Celine Dion. While the memory of filling out the application didn’t all come back to him then, he decided that’s the way it is, and the name change will go on. That is the power of his love. Okay, now that the Dion song title word play is out of the way, here’s the story: 30-year-old Staffordshire, England native né Thomas Dodd indeed got drunk on Christmas Eve and discovered some days later...
UK Man Drunkenly Changes Name to Celine Dion, Has No Regrets
Celine Dion (né Thomas Dodd, photo via Instagram/@thomasdodd1) and Celine Dion (photo by Amanda Koellner) Because he loved Celine Dion so much, a UK man decided to give himself a happy xmas by revisiting one of the Canadian singer’s holiday concert specials. When a new day came, he discovered his incredible fandom had reached a level of immortality, as he’d drunkenly filed to legally change his name to Celine Dion. While the memory of filling out the application didn’t all come back to him then, he decided that’s the way it is, and the name change will go on. That is the power of his love. Okay, now that the Dion song title word play is out of the way, here’s the story: 30-year-old Staffordshire, England native né Thomas Dodd indeed got drunk on Christmas Eve and discovered some days later...
Mysterious Gingerbread Monolith Appears in San Francisco
The mysterious monolith saga just got a sweet and crunchy twist. A new structure appeared in San Francisco on Christmas morning that’s entirely made of gingerbread cookie. Let’s backtrack. On November 23rd, state officials stumbled across a shiny metal monolith in the middle of the Utah desert that looked like it was straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. At first, people half-seriously wondered if aliens had planted it there (as they did in the Kubrick film), but then the New York Times ran a detailed story that linked the structure to the late sculptor John McCracken, who was known for creating metal monoliths and once suggested that he’d like to plant them in remote areas for people to find years later. Within a week, tourists arrived and removed the statue, but then a nearly-...
Kevin Spacey Crawls Out of His Hole to Deliver Another Christmas Eve Video Message
As has become tradition over the last few holiday seasons, today actor Kevin Spacey emerged from whatever hole he’s been hiding in and delivered a Christmas Eve message. To his credit (?), Spacey’s latest video message is a lot less tone-deaf than his previous pre-recorded video, where he compared people losing their jobs due to the pandemic to his own downfall following multiple sexual assault allegations. This time, Spacey quickly drops the Frank Underwood shtick and speaks to those individuals whose mental health has been adversely impacted by the pandemic. “Listen, a lot of people have reached out to me this past year and have shared their own struggles. And my ability to be there for them has really only been possible because of my own difficulties,” Spacey says. “While it’s been...
Once-Relevant Actor Kirk Cameron Holds Large Caroling Event in the Middle of the Pandemic
You might remember Kirk Cameron from his role in the TV series Growing Pains, the movie Like Father Like Son, or any of the cringey Christian dramas he made throughout the 2000s. But in 2020, the 50-year-old Evangelical Christian has pivoted from acting to anti-masking. On December 7th and December 13th, Cameron hosted gatherings of hundreds of people at The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks, California to sing Christmas carols and commiserate in close quarters. In a video of the second event that Cameron posted to his Instagram with the caption “Joy over Fear” — a pointed rebuke of social distancing restrictions — very few attendees are seen wearing masks and almost everyone is singing in unison, mouth germs abound. That same day, Ventura County (the location of the gathering) reported...
