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please for the love of god read this masterpiece which highlights my exact emotions regarding Velvet Buzzsaw

Just a lil excerpt:

OUT: The title When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities references growing up as a threshold not yet met. How do you stay young at heart?

Chen Chen: Writing poems. Daydreaming that I am an international pop star instead of writing poems. Eating Twizzlers and drinking soda (which is not so good for my physical youth).

Poems keep me “young at heart” because they keep alive my capacity for surprise and my absurd love of sound. Musical language doesn’t really make any sense. Blue rhymes with true rhymes with new—an irrational delight... or maybe a different kind of logic? “Young at heart” means questioning. Growing up means that, too.

Ted Lasso, an Apple TV+ show centering around the titular character (Jason Sudeikis), an American college football coach who is hired to coach an English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond, even though he has no experience, has just introduced its first gay character.

Up until now, this progressive series has yet to feature an out character. However, in the third episode of the third season, “4-5-1,” Richmond left-back Colin (Billy Harris) reveals he is not only closeted, but also in a relationship with newbie Michael (Luke Ashton).

The timeliness of the storyline is relevant, as at least three active football players have openly come out over the last eighteen months: first Jake Cavallo in Australia, then Jake Daniels in England, and most recently Jakub Jankto over in Prague. Their openness has also been met with overwhelming support and celebration, for the most part.

GQ UK notes that there are around 550 active players in the Premier League, which makes it statistically likely that at least one player is gay. At that, no one has come out while playing in England’s top tier since Justin Fashanu in 1990, who ultimately committed suicide eight years later after enduring massive hostility from the press.

Although England as a whole has changed in support of gay rights, the Ted Lasso storyline could be setting up an openly gay footballer in the fictional Premier League to hopefully influence the real one.

Iconic Swedish pop band ABBA is set to release their first new music in 39 years!

After teasing a mysterious ABBA Voyage announcement for next Saturday, a source told the Sun that the group is making a comeback and dropping new songs next Friday. The group is also expected to announce the dates or more information for their new hologram tour show featuring "ABBA-tars" of the band in a purpose-built London venue.

A source told the Sun, "Abba are finally making their comeback and plan to release their first new music in 39 years next Friday — it’s huge."

ABBA, comprised of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and her royal highness Agnetha Fältskog, last recorded music in 1982, and have not performed publicly since appearing in 1985 on a Swedish television program honoring their manager Stig Anderson. (Although the band did reunite briefly for a private event in Stockholm in 2016.)

The announcement was teased on the group’s new ABBA Voyage website (www.abbavoyage.com) and social media. Their post on Twitter references next Saturday, while the website encouraged fans to register for early news about the Voyage.

Plans for the ABBA-tar hologram tour were announced in 2016 and it is expected to open sometime in May next year. The show plans on projecting holograms based on old imagery of the group performing onto the stage of the purpose-built theater in east London. According to Ulvaeus, the idea came from Simon Fuller, manager of the Spice Girls.

"He came to Stockholm and he presented this idea to us that we could make identical digital copies of ourselves of a certain age and that those copies could then go on tour and they could sing our songs, you know, and lip-sync," Ulvaeus told the BBC during the project. "I've seen this project halfway through and it's already mind-boggling."

Ulvaeus confirmed earlier that new music would be coming this year, telling the Herald Sun it "is not a case anymore of it might happen, it will happen."

The band is expected to release two earlier recordings along with three additional new songs. It remains unclear if the band plans on reuniting for live performances, but the source did confirm all four members of ABBA "will all be there on opening night" for the unveiling of their ABBA-tars.