Yaeji’s Introspective Dance Music Brings the House Down

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( profile [Yaeji Lets Loose]( The musician-slash-DJ is known for introspective dance music that brings the house down. On her debut, she went searching for herself. Photo: Emily Lipson In [Yaeji](’s home, everything has its place. We’ve arrived at her Brooklyn pad, a pretty-big-for–New York two-bedroom apartment, where she’s cutting up kimchee with pink scissors (labeled FOR FOOD USE ONLY) to go with the congee we bought for lunch. We spent the morning attempting to tire out her toy poodle, Jiji, a pandemic puppy she got in Korea, but succeeded only in making ourselves hungry. Jiji is her little princess, a spoiled international rich girl, and the main reason you might not see her at the Bushwick clubs where Kathy Yaeji Lee from Flushing became mononymously known as Yaeji, the musician beloved for her introspective dance music that sounds like the moment when the molly is about to hit. (She’s pretty straight edge, though.) Motherhood at 29 years old and a liberatory new album allow her to indulge her inner homebody and call it a night: Sorry! Dog! [Read More]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of New Jersey: [Sacrifice Flies]( • Ted Lasso: [New Beginnings, Dire Predictions]( • The Mandalorian: [Taungsdays, Am I Right?]( • The Bad Batch: [The Great Flood]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Ana Gasteyer Has Waited Her Entire Career for American Auto “You weren’t going to march into a fantastic female protagonist out of SNL in 2002.”]( [Problemista Is So Very Julio Torres Julio Torres’s directorial debut is the latest A24 crowd-pleaser to light up SXSW.]( By Matthew Jacobs [Every Song on Daisy Jones & the Six’s Aurora, Ranked Now that Daisy Jones & the Six fans can actually listen to the fictional band’s songs instead of just reading them, which tracks are the best?]( By Jihane Bousfiha [11 Great St. Patrick’s Day TV Episodes to Stream Featuring (surprise!) multiple shows set at bars.]( By Marianne Eloise [Oprah Said Hello Beautiful to Her 100th Oprah’s Book Club Read “Not since Jo and Meg and Amy and Beth have we seen sisters like this,” says Oprah Winfrey on Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 4-Down, Five Letters: Dante or Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Getty Images Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Illustration: Iris Gottlieb “Kiss From a Rose” has to be one of the most unusual No. 1 hits of all time. The 1994 song can’t decide if it’s in minor or major, uses an old-fashioned waltz rhythm, and features lush orchestration and elaborate vocal harmonies that support mysterious lyrics about a “graying tower alone on the sea.” Seal himself wasn’t sure about the song and needed some convincing to include it on his 1994 album, Seal II. But once director Joel Schumacher decided to use the track for the end credits on Batman Forever, it went global and has remained a cultural phenomenon ever since. Ahead of his upcoming 30th-anniversary tour for the albums Seal and Seal II, [Switched on Pop spoke with the singer-songwriter]( about the enduring appeal of “Kiss From a Rose.” Read on for a transcript of the conversation or listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. [Read more from Vulture]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-vulture?email={EMAIL}&hash=39357a76f6d08b16239fd2ffa65e9c6f¶m=vulture-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 email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved