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Yahoo
4 days ago
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- Yahoo
Listen: Laufey addresses beauty standards in new single 'Snow White'
Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Icelandic singer Laufey dropped a new single and accompanying music video ahead of her album's arrival Aug. 22. In "Snow White," she sings about impossible beauty standards and the pain of not feeling enough. "The world is a sick place, at least for a girl," she sings. "The people want beauty. Skinny always wins, and I don't have enough of it. I'll never have enough of it." The music video shows Laufey, 26, in a white dress with dark green rain boots. "Sometimes I see her. She looks like Snow White," she sings as she walks through a snowy landscape. "She's everything I am, but my wrongs are turned to right." She posted about the song's reception on social media Thursday. "Reading all your messages and comments about 'Snow White' is making me sob," she wrote in her Instagram stories. "How hard it is to see the beauty in ourselves. There's such comfort in knowing we're not alone in our feelings. I love you." The song will appear on her album A Matter of Time. She previously released "Tough Luck" for the project, which was inspired by her diary. "I've taken my diary and turned it into an album of songs, delving into the whole range of emotions," she said at the time. "From the beautiful to the ugly." Solve the daily Crossword
UPI
4 days ago
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- UPI
Listen: Laufey addresses beauty standards in new single 'Snow White'
Laufey released a single and music video for "Snow White" on Friday. File Photo by Angelina Katsanis/UPI | License Photo Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Icelandic singer Laufey dropped a new single and accompanying music video ahead of her album's arrival Aug. 22. In "Snow White," she sings about impossible beauty standards and the pain of not feeling enough. "The world is a sick place, at least for a girl," she sings. "The people want beauty. Skinny always wins, and I don't have enough of it. I'll never have enough of it." The music video shows Laufey, 26, in a white dress with dark green rain boots. "Sometimes I see her. She looks like Snow White," she sings as she walks through a snowy landscape. "She's everything I am, but my wrongs are turned to right." She posted about the song's reception on social media Thursday. "Reading all your messages and comments about 'Snow White' is making me sob," she wrote in her Instagram stories. "How hard it is to see the beauty in ourselves. There's such comfort in knowing we're not alone in our feelings. I love you." The song will appear on her album A Matter of Time. She previously released "Tough Luck" for the project, which was inspired by her diary. "I've taken my diary and turned it into an album of songs, delving into the whole range of emotions," she said at the time. "From the beautiful to the ugly."
Winnipeg Free Press
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Subversive curation
'Spill the tea' and 'time is a flat circle' might seem like modern neologisms, but they have deep, long cultural roots as evidenced in a pair of new exhibitions opening today at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. Crying Over Spilt Tea, curated by Grace Braniff, assistant curator of art at WAG-Qaumajuq, was inspired by two idioms: 'spill the tea,' a phrase from Black drag culture that refers to the subversive sharing of gossip or the revealing of secrets — a.k.a. piping-hot tea, or 'T,' as in truth — and 'no use crying over spilled milk' which refers to the futility of getting upset over something that can't be changed or undone. A Matter of Time, curated by Nawang Tsomo Kinkar, TD curatorial fellow, explores the concept of spiral time, the idea that time, despite having the tidy grid of the modern calendar imposed on it, is non-linear and cyclical. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Curators Nawang Tsomo Kinkar (left) and Grace Braniff at a preview of the two new shows Crying Over Spilt Tea and a matter of time, both of which display works from Winnipeg Art Gallery's vast collection. Both exhibitions draw from the gallery's nearly 30,000-piece permanent collection. 'It is a lot to choose from,' Braniff acknowledges. 'My strategy is to try to narrow in on a very specific idea, and then do a survey of our collection and see what artworks fit in with that idea. And I think tea and gossip, they are very specific, but they're also universal experiences that everyone has a connection to.' When you walk into Crying Over Spilt Tea, you are immediately greeted by a massive wall of bone-china teaware, most of it from the United Kingdom. On the opposite wall is Afternoon Tea (The Gossips), a work by British painter Sir John Everett Millais. The painting shows three cherub-faced little girls (and a pet pug), leaning in close at a tea party, play-acting as grown-up women. But it also functions as a comment on how silly and non-essential gossip was (and is) treated by society — as in, a thing for little girls in bows — because God forbid women share their oral histories. 'Often feminized and racialized people have used gossip as a means to kind of confront authority or to share their own narratives and information outside of what the main conversation is all about,' Braniff says. 'This teaware, the pug — both imported into the United Kingdom from China — I don't think it's a coincidence that they're framed with these girls who are doing this 'frivolous' thing, like gossiping.' MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Curator Grace Braniff 's new exhibition, Crying Over Spilt Tea, at WAG-Qaumajuq draws from the gallery's huge permanent collection. In addition to the main themes of tea (and its cultural and colonial symbolism), gossip and truths, Braniff also wanted to explore the idea of virality. 'Because when we're talking about idioms, they take on this viral trajectory and through that virality, there's this disconnection, I feel, from their origins. And there, in its representations, we don't see that gesture to its places of origin or the places it was grown in,' Braniff says. She is referring to the now-viral phrase from Black drag culture that gives the exhibition its name and has been heavily co-opted online, but one could make the same argument about tea itself. Like the whisper networks of women before her using gossip to subvert the narrative, Braniff also uses subversion in her curation. On the flip side of the bone-china teaware display is Buffalo Bone China, a 1997 video/found-object installation by Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer and performance artist Dana Claxton, whose centrepiece is a heap of smashed bone-china teaware on the floor. 'So, the things we see on the front wall we see back here, broken and crushed up. Dana Claxton was making a commentary on state-sanctioned extermination or eradication of buffalo as a means of control and oppression of Plains Indigenous Peoples,' Braniff says. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Curator Grace Braniff gives a tour of a vault at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. During that period in the 19th century, buffalo bones were shipped across the Atlantic to England, where they were made into bone china. Braniff says Claxton is teasing out the complicated history of that material, while also taking apart an item we might see as a simple teacup and exploring its full narrative. Crying Over Spilt Tea also includes numerous pieces of contemporary Inuit art, including Tarralik Duffy's 2023 work Red Rose, a repeating pop-art motif of Red Rose tea boxes, and Annie Pootoogook's circa 2001-02 coloured-pencil drawing The Tea Drinkers, which is also featured outside the gallery on a billboard at the corner of Sherbrook Street and Portage Avenue. For A Matter of Time, Kinkar leaned into the creative challenge of building a show out of a massive permanent collection. 'I think my approach has been a little bit more playful and about experimentation and creativity and seeing what is in the collection that hasn't been shown in a long time,' she says Circles and spirals figure prominently in the works on view, but not necessarily in the ways that are obvious; the room also makes use of curved inset walls, so the gallery space doesn't feel as angular. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Curatorial fellow Nawang Tsomo Kinkar says circles and spirals have surfaced across different time periods and cultures. The symbol of the spiral has surfaced across different time periods and cultures, Kinkar says. 'We can trace it back to the Neolithic era. It's also been found in rock carvings and Indigenous sites across the Americas. It's been utilized by artists in the later half of the 20th century, specifically in the United States who were involved in movements of abstract art and social art but they're also rooted in other global traditions of mark making,' she says. 'But one thing that I think remains constant, and one thing that the exhibition is trying to build upon, is that the spiral is steeped in deep symbolism.' There are a few entry points onto a matter of time — which is also by design — but if you come into the exhibition from Crying Over Spilt Tea, you'll be met by two juxtaposed works. Wednesdays Columnist Jen Zoratti looks at what's next in arts, life and pop culture. Look up and suspended from the ceiling is Waiting for the Shaman, a 2017 work by Inuvialuk artist Maureen Gruben constructed from polar bear paw bones she has found over the years on beaches. The bones are arranged in concentric circles and encased in clear resin, giving it the appearance that they are encased in sea ice. A space has been left open in the circle for the shaman. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Curator Grace Braniff speaks about the new exhibit, Crying Over Spilt Tea, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. 'She's really drawing here from aspects of traditional gatherings in Inuit communities that revolve around teaching and drumming circles, this aspect of being connected to community and being connected to Inuit ways of being, specifically ancestral time,' Kinkar says. Across from Gruben's work is an 18th-century fresco by Johann Januarius Zick, depicting angels in a spiraling swirl of clouds, a space left open in the centre for the Holy Trinity. It's meant for a church ceiling, but Kinkar has it displayed on a podium as if on an easel. 'I really wanted to have that effect when you come into the space through that entrance, looking up at Maureen Gruben and then being drawn to this circular wall with the gold, and then looking down here and being pulled and drawn to this imagery.' MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS A vault housing some of the Winnipeg Art Gallery's collection Jen ZorattiColumnist Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen. Every piece of reporting Jen produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print – part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Graziadaily
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
Laufey at Chanel Couture: 'There's a common thread between music and fashion, they change time and often grow in tandem.'
'My life right now is pretty crazy,' Laufey tells Grazia as she hits Paris for the Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter '25 show. Laufey's not wrong. Just a few days ago, the Icelandic musician was making her debut at Glastonbury, joining Noah Kahan on the Pyramid stage for a surprise rendition of Call Your Mom that sent social media into meltdown. Today she's front row at the final Couture show from the studio team before incoming creative director Matthieu Blazy makes his debut for the house this autumn. Laufey attends the Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2025/2026 show. ©Getty 'Glasto and Couture week are such a good embodiment of the two opposites that I have right now - and my real life is somewhere between the two,' she laughs. The musician who's been billed as making jazz relevant for Gen Z found fame on reality TV show Iceland's Got Talent. Two albums and a Grammy award later, Laufey's about to launch her third album A Matter of Time and go on tour across America, supported by fellow friend of Chanel, Suki Waterhouse. Noah Kahan and Laufey at Glastonbury. ©Getty Along the way she's become a fashion favourite and attended her first Chanel show last year. 'Fashion for me as a musician is such an important way of describing who I am visually,' Laufey says of the commonality between the worlds. 'My sound is such a classic sound but with a little bit of a modern twist. It's ultimately very cinematic and so the clothing that I wear it's so important that it embodies that too. It's classic with a fun twist. A little bit playful but theatrical. And I really think my outfit today really captures that.' She cites the Pierrot style collar of her Couture Chanel outfit and the exaggerated sleeves that give the mini dress a girly, romantic feel. 'Any time I get to wear Couture I feel so special because the amount of detail on the clothing is just kind of beyond.' Haute couture might not work for two-month tour, but Laufey puts as much thought into her performing attire as she did today's look. 'Dressing for stage is such a delicate art. I want to feel good. Feeling good makes me perform better so clothing is actually so important,' Laufey reveals of her approach. 'Beyond that I love a skirt that kind of dances. Any kind of tulle always makes me feel like a ballerina. I like flat shoes, because I like to twirl and I like to have the stakes pretty low. I don't want to trip. It's all about feeling good.' Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2025/2026. ©Getty If she were to pick out her favourites from the Chanel Couture show though, she says it would have to be the tweed. 'When I think of Chanel, I think of classic, with tweed of course at the top of mind. I loved all the beautiful flowing skirts and the more masculine tweed jackets. It was perfect.' She's not wrong that the show had a romantic feel. Tiered skirts, embellished with lace, fringing and intricate beading, were grounded with floor-dusting coats and flat knee-high boots. Inspired by the Scottish moors and English countryside, the palette was muted: several shades of browns, moss green and heather purple, punctuated by golds that picked up Coco Chanel's famous talisman and now code of the house – a wheatsheaf. Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2025/2026. ©Getty 'There's a common thread between music and fashion,' Laufey mused afterwards. 'Just like any other art form they change with history and time and often grow in tandem.' Poetic words for a turning point in Chanel's storied history. Next season the oldest couture house still operating will have a new creative director. But as today's show demonstrated even in new beginnings, when you have a heritage as rich as Chanel, it's always worth looking back. Hattie Brett's first job in journalism was editorial assistant of Grazia – and in 2018, she returned to the brand as editor-in-chief. That means she oversees all the editorial content across print, digital and social. She loves campaigning on issues that really matter to her audience, for example calling on the government to hold an inquiry into the cost and accessibility of childcare.
Borneo Post
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Borneo Post
Tickets for Air Supply's first-ever Kuching concert on sale tomorrow (July 9) at 9.09am
Legendary soft rock duo Air Supply will be performing its first-ever concert in Kuching on Sept 24. KUCHING (July 8): Tickets to Air Supply's first-ever concert here will go on sale tomorrow (July 9) at precisely 9.09am. The highly anticipated show is part of the timeless 80s hitmakers' global 50th Anniversary Celebration and will be held on September 24 at SBC Hall, Jalan Seladah. Official organiser Twig Events encouraged fans to be ready early to secure their seats for what promises to be an unforgettable night. 'We urge fans to set their alarms, check their internet connection, and be ready on the official website at to grab their seats for this one-night-only celebration. 'Tickets are limited, so don't miss this rare chance to experience the legendary soft rock duo live on stage in what promises to be an unforgettable night,' it said in a press release. Tickets to Air Supply's show in Kuching go on sale tomorrow (9/7) at exactly 9.09am. As part of their milestone anniversary, Air Supply is marking the occasion with the release of a brand-new album 'A Matter of Time', a Broadway musical appearance, a biographical film 'All Out of Love: The Air Supply Story', and an upcoming memoir. Backed by a world-class band led by music director Aaron McLain, the Kuching concert promises a night of soaring harmonies, heartfelt ballads, and cherished memories — live, intimate, and filled with romance. For the latest updates, follow Twig Events on Facebook at and Instagram at advertorial Air Supply concert entertainment
