Laura Snapes

I am a music and culture critic for places like The Guardian, The Observer, Pitchfork, MTV News, NPR, Uncut, Buzzfeed, Lenny, Rookie, Wire, BBC and more. This is my scrapbook.

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I saw you reviewed Stromae’s Multitude and I was wondering: do you actually speak French or not? Thanks.

oui

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St. Vincent Is Telling You Everything

"I told you more than I would tell my own mother."

I profiled St. Vincent for BuzzFeed!

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anyway, here are the CLASSIC PELICANS

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Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves, Cy Twombly

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I AM CONSTANTLY BATTLING TO IMPRESS AND SURPRISE MYSELF

Lorde

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You have to find ways to make the feminine not a humiliating place to be.

Zadie Smith, talking to Adam Buxton about how she has to be careful about policing her young daughter’s TV habits—not wanting her to watch “girly” “junk” (my clumsy words), but not making the qualities of those things seem inferior or stupid.

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[pyrogina]

between the snow, floating oranges, and faint music in the background this feels like a fever dream that i never want to wake up from.

[wexler]

“Carrie is the funniest girl I ever met,” Hamill says. “She makes me laugh, almost always, and she has a great sense of humor about herself. She doesn’t take herself seriously, which would probably be very easy for her to do. I actually didn’t know how the Princess was going to be. I did the whole hologram scene before I even met her. So Carrie comes in and she’s like Carole Lombard: beautiful to look at, but with a sense of humor.”

[mtwy]

Desperately Seeking Susan Lobby Cards

These cards were in display in most cinemas showing the movie.

[zavion]

i’m waiting for it, that green light, i want it

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Flip-phone. Fur Coat. Hot Dog. Carrie Bradshaw. 1998.

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the food scenes in Moonlight <3

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Hurray for the Riff Raff: ‘Trump is trying to convince us we have no rights’

The band’s leader, Alynda Lee Segarra, is defiantly Puerto Rican, but she wants to stand up for all America’s marginalised voices. Now, with a new concept album, she is doing just that

[mabellonghetti]

Isabelle Huppert photographed by Marianne Rosenstiehl in Warsaw on the set of Les Possedes, 1988

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Diet Culture Exists to Fight Off the Fear of Death

It's called the omnivore's dilemma, not the omnivore's fun time at the supermarket.

this is good