FOX didn't stop at canceling 'Star' and 'Empire'
In the past month, Lee Daniels has seen FOX give both of his musical dramas the axe. Star, the show about a girl group on the brink of fame, was cancelled on May 10; then, on May 13—following months of scandal surrounding whether or not Jussie Smollett staged his own hate crime—the network announced that the upcoming sixth season of Empire would be its last, and Smollett would not be returning to film it.
The next big summer trend has arrived, and it's not quite what you would expect for warm weather. According to last night's two different red carpet events, feathers—and a lot of them!—are having a major resurgence. "Happy 10 year anniversary my love," Cyrus captioned a screen grab of an article, titled"Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth Split Rumors," shared to her Instagram story."Good to see everyone is as dumb as they were in 2000! Some things never change," she wrote, adding,"& I hope the way you feel about me is one of them. Yours truly.
But are multiple graphic depictions of rape really necessary to relay historical horrors? Shows like Game of Thrones have been called out before for being cavalier about their depiction of sexual violence, as if it were just another form of character development.
In 2018, an annual year-end report from market monitor BuzzAngle stated that, across streaming platforms, hip-hop was the most digitally consumed genre of music. However, simply because a genre has a broad audience and dominates popular culture does not mean that there's true diversity when it comes to who gets to tell its stories.
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