Jimmy Kimmel Live - 11/19

PSA: to all people who do not have periods: please do this immediately, if you are able:

“But,” you may ask, “why would I do this?”

BECAUSE: I guarantee you 100% that at some point, a person who gets periods will end up in your bathroom, and need a pad, and despite knowing that you are a person who doesn’t get periods, and perhaps no one you live with does, they will still check your bathroom storage in the desperate hope that someone left some there at some point.

And in that moment, you can be somebody’s hero. For the love of all that is good, all humans should stock their bathroom with some basic pads.

“But,” you may ask, “don’t people who get periods carry their own products with them?”

Well, yes, we try to. But inevitably, one finds oneself in the awkward situation of needing one and not having one. Maybe we recently switched bags. Maybe we used ours or gave it to someone else and forgot to replace it. Maybe we went to open it and it was just an empty package (true story). Maybe we can’t afford them right now and were really hoping our paycheck would come before our period this month. Maybe we just didn’t expect to need one today.

So please. If you want to spend a few minutes and a few bucks today to ensure that your bathroom is a lovely oasis of need-meeting rather than a desolate desert of well-I-hope-this-TP-holds-up, go acquire some basic pads and stock your bathroom.

P.S. And make sure your bathroom also has a trash can somewhere in it.

True story. I don’t get periods often (if ever) and I always carry pads AND tampons in my bathroom even though I only use tampons. A lot of people aren’t comfortable with tampons and most of my friends can only use pads. PLEASE KEEP SANITARY PRODUCTS FOR PEOPLE

love this idea. but I cannot stress enough that absolutely everyone needs a trash can in their bathroom. because it’s more likely that a person has pads/tampons with them but doesn’t know where to put the trash. 

Yes to the trash cans!!! (And the rest, obvs)

Doing this will make you your period-having friends favorite human.

Don’t look at me. I’m not even here. I’ve moved to another universe.

moonlitelupines is solely to blame for this <3

i mean look, if we’re gonna talk about REGENCY SAPPHISM at the same time as REGENCY DIRECTION, i don’t think i’m gonna be able to stop myself screaming into the clouds about Miss Smith and Miss Calder over here. Like, are they staging a charming Theatrical in the formal gardens, or what. I mean:

bbcradio1: Thanks Dan Radcliffe for coming in earlier and letting us give you the horn 😉

BBC Music is delighted to share with you this extraordinary version of the Beach Boys’ masterpiece, God Only Knows, to celebrate our love of music.

With the 80-piece BBC Concert Orchestra at its heart and 27 ridiculously talented musicians from a wide range of genres, this “impossible orchestra” represents the talent, diversity and musical passion found every single day throughout the BBC.

Buy the charity single. This single is also in aid of this year’s BBC Children in Need campaign. Find out how you can buy a copy here.

Gryles Things -> Ponytail

Some Very British Problems (x) 

Meanwhile in Canada…

August 16th   Detroit, Michigan

For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story

The Singer-Songwriter Says Artists and Fans Will Still Form Deep Bonds, but They Will Do It in New Ways

By TAYLOR SWIFT

Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?

Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you’re reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying…it’s just coming alive.

There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy of the album as an economic entity. I am not one of them. In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.

In recent years, you’ve probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

Arrows Through the Heart

In mentioning album sales, I’d like to point out that people are still buying albums, but now they’re buying just a few of them. They are buying only the ones that hit them like an arrow through the heart or have made them feel strong or allowed them to feel like they really aren’t alone in feeling so alone. It isn’t as easy today as it was 20 years ago to have a multiplatinum-selling album, and as artists, that should challenge and motivate us.

There are always going to be those artists who break through on an emotional level and end up in people’s lives forever. The way I see it, fans view music the way they view their relationships. Some music is just for fun, a passing fling (the ones they dance to at clubs and parties for a month while the song is a huge radio hit, that they will soon forget they ever danced to). Some songs and albums represent seasons of our lives, like relationships that we hold dear in our memories but had their time and place in the past.

However, some artists will be like finding “the one.” We will cherish every album they put out until they retire and we will play their music for our children and grandchildren. As an artist, this is the dream bond we hope to establish with our fans. I think the future still holds the possibility for this kind of bond, the one my father has with the Beach Boys and the one my mother has with Carly Simon.

I think forming a bond with fans in the future will come in the form of constantly providing them with the element of surprise. No, I did not say “shock”; I said “surprise.” I believe couples can stay in love for decades if they just continue to surprise each other, so why can’t this love affair exist between an artist and their fans?

In the YouTube generation we live in, I walked out onstage every night of my stadium tour last year knowing almost every fan had already seen the show online. To continue to show them something they had never seen before, I brought out dozens of special guest performers to sing their hits with me.

My generation was raised being able to flip channels if we got bored, and we read the last page of the book when we got impatient. We want to be caught off guard, delighted, left in awe. I hope the next generation’s artists will continue to think of inventive ways of keeping their audiences on their toes, as challenging as that might be.

There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first being autographs. I haven’t been asked for an autograph since the invention of the iPhone with a front-facing camera. The only memento “kids these days” want is a selfie. It’s part of the new currency, which seems to be “how may followers you have on Instagram.”

Fan Power

A friend of mine, who is an actress, told me that when the casting for her recent movie came down to two actresses, the casting director chose the actress with more Twitter followers. I see this becoming a trend in the music industry. For me, this dates back to 2005 when I walked into my first record-label meetings, explaining to them that I had been communicating directly with my fans on this new site called Myspace. In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans—not the other way around.

Another theme I see fading into the gray is genre distinction. These days, nothing great you hear on the radio seems to come from just one musical influence. The wild, unpredictable fun in making music today is that anything goes. Pop sounds like hip hop; country sounds like rock; rock sounds like soul; and folk sounds like country—and to me, that’s incredible progress. I want to make music that reflects all of my influences, and I think that in the coming decades the idea of genres will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organizational tool.

This moment in music is so exciting because the creative avenues an artist can explore are limitless. In this moment in music, stepping out of your comfort zone is rewarded, and sonic evolution is not only accepted…it is celebrated. The only real risk is being too afraid to take a risk at all.

Celebrity Spotlight

I predict that some things will never change. There will always be an increasing fixation on the private lives of musicians, especially the younger ones. Artists who were at their commercial peak in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s tell me, “It was never this crazy for us back then!” And I suspect I’ll be saying that same thing to younger artists someday (God help them). There continues to be a bad girl vs. good girl/clean-cut vs. sexy debate, and for as long as those labels exist, I just hope there will be contenders on both sides. Everyone needs someone to relate to.

And as for me? I’ll just be sitting back and growing old, watching all of this happen or not happen, all the while trying to maintain a life rooted in this same optimism.

And I’d also like a nice garden. (x)

July 11th   Madrid, Spain

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