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Cosmopolitan
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Addison Rae 'Fame Is a Gun' Lyrics, Explained
Addison Rae—or Addison, as she prefers to be called—wants to be a pop star, and she's not afraid to say it. Her unapologetic desire for fame, fortune, and pop icon status is on full display in her new single, 'Fame is a Gun.' Addison dropped the new single and music video on Friday, May 30, and after one listen, it's clear that the 'Fame is a Gun' lyrics are a defiant declaration of her pop star intentions, as well as a message to all her haters. The fourth single off her upcoming album, Addison, 'Fame is a Gun' is a rebuke to all the criticism she's gotten as she transitions from TikTok darling to pop super star. Did you watch the music video for 'Diet Pepsi' in shock? Were you scandalized when she attended the VMAs in an elevated bra and underwear set? Well, Addison's got a message for you—she doesn't care!—and she's going to tell you why over a catchy, club-friendly electro-pop beat. Obsessed yet? Thought so. Let's dive deeper into the 'Fame is a Gun' lyrics (provided by Genius) to really fall in love. [Verse 1]Tell me who I am, do I provoke you with my tone of innocence?Don't ask too many questions, that is my one suggestionYou know I keep it real, I live for the appealKnew it from the start, it was the only way to mend my broken heartDon't ask too many questions, this is my one confessionIt never was enough, I always wanted moreI always wanted more [Chorus]Fame is a gun and I point it blindCrash and burn girl, baby, swallow it dryYou got a front row seat and II got a taste of the glamorous lifeRight from the start, Addison is calling out those who want her to remain the teenage TikToker she once was and who might not understand why she's pivoting to a more sexy look. In the first verse, she's letting you know it's not that complicated ('Don't ask too many questions') she wants to be famous—aka live a 'glamorous life'—pure and simple. [Verse 2]There's no mystery, I'm gonna make it, gonna go down in historyDon't ask too many questions, God gave me the permissionAnd when you shame me, it makes me want it moreIt makes me want it more, more Here, Addison is unabashedly declaring that she wants to be famous and 'go down in history.' And, when naysayers call her outfits too revealing or try to shame her for her more risqué lyrics, it just makes her want to be more edgy, more revealing, more famous. [Chorus 2] Fame is a gun and I point it blind (Blind)Crash and burn girl, baby, swallow it dry (Dry)You got a front row seat and II got a taste of the glamorous life (Life)Love is a drug that I can't deny (Deny)I'm your dream girl, but you're not my typeYou got a front row seat and II got a taste of the glamorous life (Uh-huh) Addison adds a bit to the chorus the second time around, singing, 'Love is a drug that I can't deny,' but I don't think she's talking about romantic love. It's the love and adoration from fans that she can't get enough of. [Post-Chorus]Glamorous lifeGlamorous lifeGlamorous lifeI got a taste for the glamorous life [Bridge]Nothing makes me feel as goodAs being loved by youNothing makes me feel as goodAs being loved by you [Chorus 2] [Outro]I got a taste of the glamorous life (Uh-huh)I got a taste of the glamorous life With 'Fame is a Gun,' Addison is making it clear that not only does she intend to continue to captivate the pop world, she's doing so unapologetically and without reserve. And I can't wait to hear what she drops next.
Elle
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Miley Cyrus's ‘Easy Lover' Lyrics Include a Subtle Ode to Beyoncé
Miley Cyrus's ninth album, Something Beautiful, is officially here. Alongside the LP that dropped today, Cyrus also released a music video for her newest single 'Easy Lover.' In the '80s-tinged track, she sings about a partner who's not so easy to love, which just makes her even more obsessed: 'I love to hate ya, uh, but I can't stand it when you're gone / So I call you once every hour.' And despite that, she just can't give them up. While the song wrestles with themes of a complicated relationship in its lyrics, the backstory of how it came to be is just as fascinating. In an interview with Zane Lowe last week, Cyrus explained that she initially pitched the song to Beyoncé for her Cowboy Carter album. (That explains why it includes the adlib, 'Tell 'em, B!') 'I had written that song originally around the Plastic Hearts days and never got the production quite where I wanted it,' she explains to Lowe. But she held onto the song, and when Beyoncé was looking for tracks for her country album, she sent her this one and 'Shotgun Rider,' which was eventually renamed to the Grammy-winning 'II Most Wanted.' And though 'Easy Lover' didn't make it onto Cowboy Carter, that didn't stop Cyrus from keeping the adlib. 'I just was like, 'What am I going to do about, 'Tell 'em, B'?' she said. 'And Britney Howard's like, 'I'll play the guitar on it.' So that's her playing all that electric guitar.'' You can check out the full lyrics to the track below, courtesy of Genius.
Cosmopolitan
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Lorde's 'Man of the Year' lyrics explained: How the singer turned lost love into self-acceptance
The wait for Lorde's 'Man of the Year' is over. The singer-songwriter teased the track multiple times before fans anticipated its release, from her custom Thom Browne Met Gala look to her bombshell Rolling Stone cover story, where she opened up about expanding her gender identity. While speaking to the publication, the Grammy winner revealed that a conversation with pop diva Chappell Roan prompted her to address how she viewed herself. 'She was like, 'So are you non-binary now?' And I was like, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man,'' Lorde explained. 'I know that's not a very satisfying answer, but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up." She added, 'My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room." The track is the second single off her upcoming fourth album, Virgin. As we prep for the full body work to drop in a few weeks, it's time to dive into Lorde's 'Man of the Year' lyrics. Lyrics provided by Genius [Verse 1]Glidin' through on my bike, glidin' throughI knew from my recent ego deathSilencing overnight, violent sweet musicYou met me at a really strange time in my lifeTake my knife and I cut the cordMy babe, can't believe I've become someone elseSomeone more like myself Riding bikes is a common theme throughout Lorde's music, but especially during the Virgin era. Her 'What Was That' music video sees her riding through New York City, drawing parallels to her first verse on 'Man of the Year' (perhaps it was another Easter egg). She details a range of emotions in this relationship, where she faced her own internal challenges before this person came into her life. She alludes to becoming 'someone more like myself,' which could potentially tie back to her personal journey with her gender identity. When writing the track, she told Rolling Stone that she stuck duct tape to her chest as a makeshift binder because 'that was fully representative of how my gender felt in that moment. 'I went to the cupboard, and I got the tape out, and I did it to myself,' she explained. 'I have this picture staring at myself. I was blonde. It scared me what I saw. I didn't understand it. But I felt something bursting out of me. It was crazy. It was something jagged. There was this violence to it.' [Chorus]Who's gon' love me like this?Oh-oh, oh, who could get me like this?Let it flow down to meLove me like thisNow I'm broken upMm-mm, uh-huh-uhOn the chorus, she reflects on her self-acceptance and euphoric feelings she's experiencing on her own and asks if anyone else will ever fully understand and accept her in the same way. The revelation could have potentially led to the end of her connection with the person she was referring to in the song's first verse.[Verse 2]Now I go about my dayRiding it like a wavePlaying it any way I wantSwish mouthwash, jerk offUh-uh, uh-uh-uhDays go by in the haze (Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)Stay up and sleep late (Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)It's giving 'If I Were a Boy' by Beyoncé...in the sense that she's naming things that men do in their day-to-day routines (or lack thereof). There's also some parallelism to her 'What Was That' lyrics: 'Indio haze / We're in a sandstorm / And it knocks me out.'[Chorus]Who's gon' love me like this?Oh-oh, oh, who could get me like this?Way he flew down through meLove me like thisNow we're broken upLet's hear it for the man of the yearMm-mm, uh-huh-uhHear it for the man of the year[Bridge]How I hope that a man could love me rightTouching my shoulders, my face in the light[Outro]Oh, I didn't think he'd appearBut let's hear it for the man of the yearHear it for the man of the yearWell, let's hear it for the man of the year The man of the year? That'd be Lorde. In a 2023 social media post and during her recent Rolling Stone cover story, she revealed, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man.'
Cosmopolitan
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Lorde's 'Man of the Year' Lyrics Share How Lost Love Transformed Into Self-Acceptance
The wait for Lorde's 'Man of the Year' is over. The singer-songwriter teased the track multiple times before fans anticipated its release, from her custom Thom Browne Met Gala look to her bombshell Rolling Stone cover story, where she opened up about expanding her gender identity. While speaking to the publication, the Grammy winner revealed that a conversation with pop diva Chappell Roan prompted her to address how she viewed herself. 'She was like, 'So are you nonbinary now?' And I was like, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man,'' Lorde explained. 'I know that's not a very satisfying answer, but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.' 'My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room,' she added. The track is the second single off her upcoming fourth album, Virgin. As we prep for the full body work to drop in a few weeks, it's time to dive into Lorde's 'Man of the Year' lyrics. Lyrics provided by Genius [Verse 1]Glidin' through on my bike, glidin' throughI knew from my recent ego deathSilencing overnight, violent sweet musicYou met me at a really strange time in my lifeTake my knife and I cut the cordMy babe, can't believe I've become someone elseSomeone more like myself Riding bikes is a common theme throughout Lorde's music, but especially during the Virgin era. Her 'What Was That' music video sees her riding through New York City, drawing parallels to her first verse on 'Man of the Year' (perhaps it was another Easter egg). She details a range of emotions in this relationship, where she faced her own internal challenges before this person came into her life. She alludes to becoming 'someone more like myself,' which could potentially tie back to her personal journey with her gender identity. When writing the track, she told Rolling Stone that she stuck duct tape to her chest as a makeshift binder because 'that was fully representative of how my gender felt in that moment.' 'I went to the cupboard, and I got the tape out, and I did it to myself,' she explained. 'I have this picture staring at myself. I was blonde. It scared me what I saw. I didn't understand it. But I felt something bursting out of me. It was crazy. It was something jagged. There was this violence to it.' [Chorus]Who's gon' love me like this?Oh-oh, oh, who could get me like this?Let it flow down to meLove me like thisNow I'm broken upMm-mm, uh-huh-uhOn the chorus, she reflects on her self-acceptance and euphoric feelings she's experiencing on her own and asks if anyone else will ever fully understand and accept her in the same way. The revelation could have potentially led to the end of her connection with the person she was referring to in the song's first verse.[Verse 2]Now I go about my dayRiding it like a wavePlaying it any way I wantSwish mouthwash, jerk offUh-uh, uh-uh-uhDays go by in the haze (Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)Stay up and sleep late (Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)It's giving 'If I Were a Boy' by Beyoncé...in the sense that she's naming things that men do in their day-to-day routines (or lack thereof). There's also some parallelism to her 'What Was That' lyrics: 'Indio haze / We're in a sandstorm / And it knocks me out.'[Chorus]Who's gon' love me like this?Oh-oh, oh, who could get me like this?Way he flew down through meLove me like thisNow we're broken upLet's hear it for the man of the yearMm-mm, uh-huh-uhHear it for the man of the year [Bridge]How I hope that a man could love me rightTouching my shoulders, my face in the light[Outro]Oh, I didn't think he'd appearBut let's hear it for the man of the yearHear it for the man of the yearWell, let's hear it for the man of the year The man of the year? That'd be Lorde. In a 2023 social media post and during her recent Rolling Stone cover story, she revealed, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
As a major crypto bill advances, skeptics see ‘a slow moving car crash'
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business' Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There is a 'first of its kind' crypto bill making progress through the Senate that you're going to be tempted to snooze on because a) it's about 'stablecoins,' which is a subcategory of crypto – a parallel financial system almost no one understands, and b) opponents are focusing their criticism on corruption, which may be accurate but perhaps you're tired of reading all the news about the Trump family's alleged use of the power of the presidency to make a profit? (ICYMI: see here, here, here and here.) But there's a big planting-seeds-for-the-next-financial-crisis kind of reason why you should understand what this bill is. So let's get into it. The crypto industry-backed bill is called GENIUS, or 'Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins.' Stablecoins are a digital asset designed to maintain a 1-to-1 peg with the dollar (or other traditional, 'stable' currency). One stablecoin should always equal one dollar, forever and ever. They are essentially a way for crypto investors to keep their cash in the crypto universe, where tokens like bitcoin and ether and solana tend to swing wildly in value. They aren't nearly as well known as bitcoin, the biggest crypto by market value. But in terms of trading volume, stablecoins are by far the biggest players. The crypto industry wants the Genius bill because it would lay down, for the first time in the industry's 16-year history, rules of the road for a key sector of their business. Which, of course, encourages greater adoption of crypto and thus makes them more money. The bill would require stablecoins to, among other things, hold reserves of safe, liquid assets like US dollars and Treasury bills, and publicly disclose those holdings monthly. It would also place some light restrictions on publicly traded companies that want to issue their own stablecoins (more on that in a moment). But 'the bill is light on consumer safeguards and limitations to corporations' ability to issue their own stablecoins,' said Eswar Prasad, a Cornell University professor of international trade and the author of the 2021 book 'The Future of Money.' 'Moreover, the Trump administration's boosterism of crypto and light-touch approach to regulation suggests that any such safeguards and limitations will not be enforced with much force,' Prasad added. Well. There's the potential for corruption, as Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other critics have been shouting from the rafters. In fact, Democrats initially refused to vote for the bill in part because of Trump's out-in-the-open crypto schemes, such as the private dinner taking place this week among the biggest holders of his $TRUMP memecoin, a kind of token whose only purpose is to attract money for its issuer. The White House has repeatedly pushed back on any questions about the president's potential ethical conflicts, from his interest in accepting a luxury jet from Qatar to his family's crypto holdings. ('This White House holds ourselves to the highest of ethical standards,' press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this month.) Not much has changed in the bill between then and now. But some Democrats dropped their opposition anyway, likely because they're just accepting the 'apparent inevitability of blockchain-based finance and of crypto more generally,' Prasad said. One of those Democrats was Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia who defended his reversal on the bill Monday. 'Many senators, myself included, have very real concerns about the Trump family's use of crypto technologies to evade oversight, hide shady financial dealings, and personally profit at the expense of everyday Americans,' Warner said in a statement. 'But we cannot allow that corruption to blind us to the broader reality: blockchain technology is here to stay. If American lawmakers don't shape it, others will – and not in ways that serve our interests or democratic values.' The Trump family owns a crypto platform called World Liberty Financial, which issues a stablecoin called USD1. A few weeks ago, an Abu Dhabi investment firm called MGX chose USD1 to finance a $2 billion investment in crypto exchange Binance (see related crimes). That is 'essentially giving Trump a cut of this enormous financial deal,' Warren said Monday in prepared remarks. So, yeah, it sure looks like once again Trump could get richer off an industry he directly oversees through a regulatory apparatus he is rapidly working to defang. Meanwhile, the crypto industry has plowed millions of dollars into industry Super PACs that gave heavily to both Republican and Democratic campaigns last year. No, there's more! A lot of the focus on corruption is merited, said Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University who has been studying stablecoin policy, in an interview Tuesday. But that's not what's keeping her up at night. She referred to the GENIUS bill as 'a car crash in slow motion.' 'The thing that makes me lose the most sleep is that this bill would allow the largest tech platforms to essentially become the functional equivalent of banks,' said Allen, who was part of the commission appointed by Congress to study the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. 'The last crisis was caused by 'too big to fail' financial institutions. The size of some of these tech platforms makes that look quaint.' Let's step back for a moment. The bill provides almost no resistance for a tech giant like Meta or Amazon or Google to issue its own stablecoin. (In short, companies would have to get approval from a regulatory triad representing the Treasury, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve. As Prasad notes, that isn't much of a hurdle under Trump's broadly pro-crypto administration.) Meta already tried to get in on the crypto biz back in 2019 with a project called Libra (later renamed Diem), but abandoned it in 2022 in response to opposition from lawmakers and regulators. Now, according to a report in Fortune this month, Meta is once again testing the stablecoin waters, discussing various ways to introduce stablecoins as a means to manage in-app transactions. The benefits for Meta (or whomever) are clear: Stablecoin transactions keep users in the app, and the company then gathers all kinds of valuable information about its users and how they spend their money. But what happens when there's a run on stablecoins, or some other financial shock that causes those financial businesses to fail? Proponents say there's no reason to think there'll be a run on stablecoins if they've got 100% cash reserves backing them. Of course, that thinking is premised on a 'ridiculously optimistic assumption' that there will never be a run on a stablecoins, Allen says. She notes that money-market mutual funds are 'almost identical in structure,' and are not immune from the kind of panic that causes bank runs. 'Money-market mutual funds experienced runs that required bailouts in 2008 and again in 2020, so 'I think runs on stablecoins are likely.' In fact, she notes, the government has already had to bail out a stablecoin when Silicon Valley Bank failed in 2023. The lender has more than $3 billion worth of a stablecoin called USDC among its vast uninsured deposits. 'We may be setting ourselves up to essentially have to bail out these large tech platforms,' Allen says. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
