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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch: Lorde releases 'Man of the Year' single, music video
May 29 (UPI) -- New Zealand music artist Lorde is back with new music. The "Royals" singer, 28, released the song "Man of the Year" and an accompanying music video on Thursday, ahead of her upcoming album Virgin, which arrives June 27. "There's going to be a lot of people who don't think I'm a good girl anymore, a good woman," she told Rolling Stone. "It's over. It will be over for a lot of people, and then for some people, I will have arrived. I'll be where they always hoped I'd be." The music video shows Lorde grappling with a "recent ego death" in a New York apartment that is empty except for a chair and a pile of dirt. She replaces a white shirt with gray tape across her chest. The song arrived as Lorde explored what "was fully representative of how (her) gender felt in that moment," Rolling Stone reports. In an Instagram post teasing the video, music artist Amanda Palmer commented that "the song form is totally unique." "And the video is raw power... Lorde the Artist being Lorde the Artist and I'm so deeply happy to see this artist continuing to follow where the muse leads. Hats off Lorde," she wrote. In addition to "Man of the Year," and the previously released track "What Was That," other songs on Virgin include "Hammer," "Shapeshifter," "Favorite Daughter," "Current Affairs," "Clearblue," "GRWM," "Broken Glass," "If She Could See Me Now" and "David." Lorde previously announced her Ultrasound World Tour, which kicks off in September and winds down in December.
South China Morning Post
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Amanda Palmer, wife of author Neil Gaiman, who faces rape charges?
Meet Amanda Palmer, disgraced writer Neil Gaiman's ex-wife. Photo: TNS Fame and celebrity English author Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault by eight different women, per the BBC. The accusations have led to publishers such as HarperCollins saying they will not release his books in future, while a planned Disney adaptation of The Graveyard Book has been put on hold. The creator of The Sandman now faces a civil lawsuit for sexual assault brought by Scarlett Pavlovich, one of his alleged victims, who worked as a nanny for him and his ex-wife Amanda Palmer. Author Neil Gaiman. Photo: AP Per The Guardian, the lawsuit also accuses Gaiman of rape and coercion, and alleges that the former couple breached human trafficking laws. Palmer is also being sued for 'procuring and presenting' Pavlovich to Gaiman after she met her in Auckland when she was living unhoused on a beach at 22 years old. Gaiman has denied all the allegations. The plaintiff also claims the author's wife had warned her that more than a dozen women had told her Gaiman had sexually assaulted them. So who is Amanda Palmer, who is 'profoundly disturbed' by the allegations against her ex-husband, per The Guardian? She's a musician Amanda Palmer is a musician. Photo: @amandapalmer/Facebook According to Newsweek, Palmer is a musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of The Dresden Dolls. She describes the duo's musical style as 'Brechtian punk cabaret', per Genius. Palmer also invented the fictional musical duo Evelyn Evelyn alongside experimental folk musician Jason Webley, where the two play conjoined twin sisters. According to Palmer's blog, one of the songs on the duo's self-titled album, 'My Space', features vocals from Gaiman, as well as 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Frances Bean Cobain and My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way. She is problematic too Amanda Palmer's work has been problematic. Photo: @amandapalmer/Facebook Palmer and Webley's Evelyn Evelyn has faced much backlash for being ableist. When asked about the mythical twins in an interview with Flavorwire, Palmer compared the state of being conjoined to a metaphor. 'You can definitely see the deep metaphors in being permanently attached to another person for better or for worse,' she said.
