Dua Lipa and the Middlebrow Pop Intellectual Podcast

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( podcasts [Dua Lipa and the Middlebrow Pop Intellectual Podcast]( At Your Service aspires to be a Fresh Air for the jet set. Does it work? Photo-Illustration: Vulture There’s a studied quality to the questions Dua Lipa asks on her podcast, Dua Lipa: At Your Service. She tends to reach for gravitas while underscoring her own status as a global celebrity — someone whose life story you may already know. “You grew up in a South Asian family with parents who emigrated from Pakistan in the 1970s,” she says in the opening volley of her interview with Riz Ahmed. “I’m really interested in families that have what you call a hyphenated identity, coming from one myself.” Dua Lipa is excellent at being a pop star. After leaving home at 15 to pursue a music career in London and willing herself into fame in part via SoundCloud and YouTube, the British and Kosovar Albanian artist ascended to megastar status with her 2020 sophomore album, Future Nostalgia,serving up dance-pop bangers you’re unlikely to escape no matter how deep underground your bunker may be: “Don’t Start Now,” “Levitating,” “Break My Heart.” But to be a celebrity is to diversify. An indie-music star is also a best-selling memoirist. A pro athlete is also a movie producer. Here, the pop star is something akin to a middlebrow public intellectual — with a podcast that aims to be a kind of “Fresh Air” for the jet set. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • And Just Like That … : [Pump and Dump]( • Full Circle: [A Boy for a Boy (Episode 1)](, [Walk the Walk (Episode 2)]( • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: [Meet the (Disapproving Vulcan) Parents]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [‘The Gayest Gasp of All Time’ The cast of Theater Camp discuss the roles they were born to play and the Broadway divas they’d body-swap.]( By Rachel Handler [Mission: Impossible Movies, Ranked There’s not an obvious dud in the bunch. But let’s try anyway.]( By Keith Phipps [What’s Happening at Kevin Spacey’s Sexual-Misconduct Trial? The disgraced actor is back on the stand, but this time, it’s a criminal case.]( By Victoria Bekiempis [Which Movie Am I Talking About, the New Mission: Impossible or Fast X? Cliffhanger endings. Chase scenes on the Spanish Steps. Tech thingies everyone’s fighting over. Are these the same movie? Take our quiz to find out!]( By Roxana Hadadi [Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Ending Really Goes for the Joe Like an ’80s kid mashing action figures together, the Transformers franchise is in its crossover era.]( By Richard Newby [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 9-Down, Three Letters: Number of seasons of Hulu’s Reboot. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images double trouble Today on the Picket Line: SAG Is Going on Strike! Photo: (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag Check out Vulture’s comprehensive [coverage]( for all the news, updates, and explainers straight from the WGA picket line. Here’s the latest: ➽ The [Screen Actors Guild]( will join their [WGA sisters-in-arms](. It was announced at 3:00 p.m. on July 13 that SAG-AFTRA will be going on strike beginning midnight on July 14. “We are being victimized by a [very greedy entity](,” SAG President Fran Drescher said at the union’s press conference. “I am shocked by the way that the people we have been working with us are treating us.” [Read more from Vulture]( A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [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