The site emojitracker, before it was announced that it was shutting down earlier this month, documented the real-time usage of emoji. It featured a massive spreadsheet of the icons, and every time an emoji was used on Twitter, its box would light up. It was a fascinating document of public moods. Toward the top, the most popular expressions—crying with laughter, kissy face, heart eyes—flared up multiple times per second. Toward the bottom, the least popular icons, mostly outdated tech like floppy discs and pagers, lit up every couple of minutes. Read More...
In the ‘90s, five huge boy bands dominated the Billboard Hot 100 charts: Take That, New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), Boyz II Men, NSYNC, and Backstreet Boys. While many will argue about which one was the best, there’s no doubt they all had smash hits in their chart-topping heydays.
Despite their enormous popularity, Backstreet Boys never ascended to the peak of the Billboard charts due to a technicality.
Six top-10 hits were pretty impressive for Backstreet Boys Anyone who was a teenager in the ‘90s and early 2000s can recall a Backstreet Boys title. Read More...
Garrett Hedlund. At Cannes, we wrote about the refreshingly sexy elements at play in On the Road — including a free-spirited, topless Kristen Stewart — but there was one moment in the adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic that probably deserved a little more ink than we gave it: the scene where a nude Garrett Hedlund vigorously bangs 54-year-old Steve Buscemi. “I don’t know how honest I can be about this,” laughed Hedlund when we caught up with him a few days after the film premiered. Read More...