The Best Albums of 2019

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [The Best Albums of 2019 This year should be remembered as a bridge between music’s past and future.]( By Craig Jenkins [Offset’s Very Convenient Social Media Hack, Explained Starting with how Tekashi 6ix9ine is involved, all the way from jail.]( By Zoe Haylock [The 10 Best Books of 2019 From an experimental memoir of domestic abuse to the one that broke 10,000 brains.]( By Molly Young [SNL Gives Jennifer Lopez a Very Important Christmas Power The holiday season has begun at 30 Rock!]( By Megh Wright [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Jersey Shore: An Oral History “It was like zebras in the Serengeti. We wanted to see this in action. Where does that happen? The Jersey Shore.”]( By Molly Fitzpatrick [Want to Try Never Not Funny? Start Here. Jimmy Pardo is a comedy-podcast pioneer, and his long chat with Richard Lewis is comedy-podcast gold.]( By Sean Malin [Lupita Nyong’o Gets Best Actress Win at New York Film Critics Circle Awards And our queen Laura Dern gets recognized … twice!]( By Jordan Crucchiola [Shrill Season Two Trailer: She’s Loud, She’s Proud, and She’s ‘F*cking Bad’ And she’s also getting cunnilingus in a prairie.]( By Devon Ivie [Miffy Englefield Answers All of Our Questions About The Holiday  The actress recalls Mr. Napkin Head, how the movie helped pull her family out of debt, and the last time she heard from Jude Law.]( By Rachel Handler [Zack Snyder Shares Photo of the Elusive Justice League Snyder Cut “Does it exist?”]( By Zoe Haylock [Oprah to Produce Doc About Sexual Assault in the Music Industry for Apple TV+ To be released in 2020.]( By Rebecca Alter [For Jay-Z’s Birthday, You Can Gift Him Approximately $0.004 Per Spotify Stream Hov’s music is back on Spotify.]( By Zoe Haylock [Charlize Theron Says Weinstein Lied to People About Them Sleeping Together “One of his lines was that Renée Zellweger and I slept with him to get jobs. There was no limit to him.”]( By Hunter Harris [Kelly Clarkson and John Legend Debut Less-Rapey ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ See how many lyric changes you can spot.]( By Justin Curto [Ramsay Bolton From Game of Thrones Is Now a Cheery Leprechaun on American Gods He’s back and he’s nice now!]( By Charu Sinha [Looking Back at John Simon’s Positive 1982 Review of Cats “If you like lavishness, if you like opulence, if you like kitty-literature at its grandest, Cats is surely your thing.”]( By John Simon [The Women of Portrait of a Lady on Fire Believe Their Movie Can Save the World Director Céline Sciamma and stars Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant debate the power of a lesbian period drama.]( By Rachel Handler [Princess Anne’s Incredible Trump Snub Better Be in The Crown’s Sixth Season Fan club, assemble.]( By Devon Ivie [No Time to Die Trailer: James Bond Dusts Off the Ol’ Bulletproof Car He’s back.]( By Zoe Haylock [Genius Allegedly Caught Google Stealing Its Lyrics With an Ingenious Watermark Pay close attention to the apostrophes.]( By Charu Sinha [It’s a Family Affair: Mary J. Blige Documentary Coming to Amazon Diddy is producing!]( By Charu Sinha [High Maintenance Rides Into Its Fourth Season in New Trailer The Guy is back!]( By Charu Sinha [Disney Gets the Ball Rolling on New Planet of the Apes The powers that be tapped Wes Ball to direct.]( By Charu Sinha [The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Throw Away the Key Remember when Housewives vacations used to be fun?]( By Brian Moylan [Soundtrack Trailer: Sometimes People in Los Angeles Just Have to Sing Sia Your first look at Josh Safran’s news series.]( By Justin Curto [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for $5/month and get [unlimited digital access]( to New York Magazine, home of Vulture, the Cut, Grub Street, and Intelligencer.     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com New York Media LLC 75 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 Copyright © 2019, All rights reserved