The Musicians Who Declined Trump's Inauguration

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser] [Vulture] December 23, 2016 [Follow Vulture on Facebook] What to Read Today [All the Musicians Who Have Reportedly Turned Down an Invitation to Perform at Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration The list keeps growing.] [A Close Read of The OA’s Controversial Ending The show's unsettling climax doesn’t work for everyone, but it serves an important narrative purpose.] [Music to Stay Inside and Enjoy Winter To The end of the year, and perhaps of this year especially, seems an apt time to review some winter-oriented music of the past.] [Jeremih and Chance’s Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama Is a Fun, Low-Stakes Holiday Present to Chicago At its best, Lil' Mama feels less like Christmas music and more like a fun, low-stakes love letter to both artists’ place of birth.Â] [Vulture Pick: Netflix Electronic Gift Card [Because You Can Never Have Enough Awkward Sex, Here's the Chewing Gum Season Two Trailer "WTF Happened?"] [Ian Harvie on His Stand-up Comedy Special and Why Everybody Is a Little Bit Trans "The moment that I say that I'm trans, I know that everybody's eyes generally drop to my waist."] [Watch James Franco Play a Not-Gay-Anymore Gay Man in the I Am Michael Trailer Also starring Zachary Quinto as his annoyed boyfriend.] [Bryan Fuller Says He’s Trying to Cook Up a Silence of the Lambs Mini-Series to Follow Hannibal Consider your bouche amused.] [Madison Square Garden Company Says Rockettes Can Choose Not to Perform at Trump’s Inauguration But they also say most Rockettes have signed up to perform at the inauguration.] [Big Sean’s Latest Move Is a New Album and a New Song Aptly Titled ‘Moves’ I Decided is out February 3.] [Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom Discusses La La Land and Making Musicals It's the latest episode of The Awards Show Show podcast, which also includes our hosts' year-end top-ten lists.] [Miles Teller Apparently Had a Very Miles Teller Response After His Truck Flipped Over in a Crash "You fucked up my truck!"] [Chrissy Teigen Makes It Pretty Clear John Legend Won’t Play Trump’s Inauguration: ‘Have Fun With DJ Buttcrack Spinning the Hot Shit’ Come on — don't we all sort of want the approval of A-listers?] [The OA’s Phyllis Smith Talks Angels, Turtles, and Dance Moves "Near-death experiences, I've not had one of those as of yet."] [Here’s Why You Don’t See the Shark in Jaws for So Long Don't underestimate the power of suggestion.Â] [Chance the Rapper’s Rejected SNL Sketches Are Further Proof He Should Get to Host Damn right "Jingle Barack" was also his idea.] [Mariah Carey Releases Her ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’ Video, a Better Gift Than Your Parents Could Ever Give You The first of three holiday videos Mimi has teased this weekend.] [52 Films That Got a PR Bump From the Vatican From the rigorously devout to the, uh, Pokémon.] [Jesse Eisenberg to Reprise Lex Luthor in Justice League But it's not a major part.] [Kevin Costner Gets Candid About Hidden Figures, Racism, and Rewriting His Role "We didn't have a lot of time for niceties, to be honest."] [Denzel Washington’s Fences Gets Stuck Between Stage and Screen It’s not cinematic enough to make you forget you’re watching something conceived for another medium, but it’s too cinematic to capture the intensity of a great theatrical event.] [Sense8 Christmas Special Recap: ’Tis the Season The one-off installment is a weak attempt to tie up Sense8's loose ends.] [Ryan Adams’s New Song Drags Him Along That Weary Covers-Free Life Is "To Be Without You" a song about Ryan Adams's life without covers?] [Nine Inch Nails Drops Not the Actual Events, Promises ‘Two New Major’ Projects Next Year Their first release since 2013’s Hesitation Marks.] [Read More on Vulture »] REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact [Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com] This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe] | [vulture.com] | [unsubscribe] | [privacy policy] | [nymag.com] | Copyright © 2016, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013