This week there's new Lorde news! Solar Power, incoming. Plus, Daysia talks blind items and Hannah can't get over the genius of the "Industry Baby" music video.

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Daysia and Hannah

This Week's Fixations

What’s taking up our brain space this week?

Daysia: My new toxic hobby is guessing who blind items are about (I’m late, I know)! Obviously, every celeb obsessive reads Deux Moi, but recently I’ve been diving into the archives of Crazy Days and Nights. On both gossip forums, I’ve been seeing a lot of Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde rumors, two from Deux Moi indicating that they’re getting serious and one from Crazy Days and Nights (presumably about Wilde-Styles) saying… she didn’t know he was going on tour? Highly doubtful, but with the money they have, I’m sure that’s nothing a few flights can’t fix. The Deux Moi rumors allege that they’re either 1) moving in together or 2) considering engagement? As much as the Directioner in me yearns for a single Styles, I’m mostly sad because I’m an Olivia Wilde-Jason Sudeikis shipper 4eva. That GQ profile of Sudeikis where he says he still doesn’t fully understand why their relationship ended? It’s wrecked me for weeks now! But as he suggested, life goes on, and if Wilde and Styles are going steady? Godspeed.

Honorable mention rumors I saw on Deux Moi this week: 1) possible Bennifer wedding after all this time? 2) “...this A-list separated couple might be trying to reconcile. She’s supposedly supporting him this week in a big way.” My first guess is Kimye because Kanye’s album releases today. Plus, she was spotted at the album premiere in Atlanta with their kids. Maybe it’s a family thing? E! reported that the Kardashian-West fam took a trip to San Francisco and that Kimye was just adjusting to co-parenting. There were rumors that he’s with Irina Shayk, but that may be over since she was also spotted with Jason Sudeikis (full circle!). That’s Hollywood, baby!

Hannah: Five words: The "Industry Baby" music video!!!

I feel blessed to live in the same timeline as Lil Nas X who is making art and also has such a fun approach to being a celebrity. I'm here for Hot Boy Summer! (I know we included it a few weeks ago but this profile of Lil Nas X by Jazmine Hughes in The New York Times Magazine is so, so good!)

Has Lorde Dropped a new album?

We’re less than a month away from Solar Power!! This week Ella has blessed us with a new song from the album, “Stoned at the Nail Salon.” In her newsletter, she wrote: “I was sure that I was building a beautiful life for myself, but I wasn’t sure if that life was going to satisfy the same thirsty, fearless person who could tear apart a festival stage or be in seven countries in seven days. I know now that as hard as I try to run towards or away one of the sides of my life, they’re both very much who I am. It’s jarring to move between them, but that dichotomy is me. And writing this song was a real step toward embracing that.”

We love a complex tune and embracing all sides of ourselves! 

In other news, Miss Ella got day drunk with Seth Meyers and apparently needed an IV drip afterward.

Watch Lorde perform “Stoned at the Nail Salon” live on Seth Meyers! Very jealous of everyone who is going to get see Lorde live on tour.

Too Many Tabs

Leah Johnson celebrates the friendship at the center of Ted Lasso for Bitch.

The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan profiled Zola co-star Riley Keough and unpacked her unassuming, elusive persona.

Gerrick D. Kennedy finds out what’s next for BROCKHAMPTON once they finish their impending final album for GQ.

Plus… Donda has arrived, WILLOW and the pop punk landscape, the racist Love Island contestant that garnered 1,500 official complaints, the best of Cannes, Kevin Hart drags Nick Cannon’s virility and leaks his number, and Angelina Jolie: Beekeeper.