The Song of the Summer Is a Color

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( [The Song of the Summer Is a Color]( Everywhere you look, a pop star has claimed a shade for whatever era they’re in. Photo-Illustration: Vulture [Surveying the pop landscape]( right now is like flipping through swatches in a paint store — nearly every release has its own bespoke color palette. The trend has been percolating for a few years, thanks to canny efforts by Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, but it exploded this summer as Charli XCX claimed a shade of lime green for brat. For some artists, the palette comes naturally, like Ice Spice intentionally selecting her calling-card orange hair or Sexyy Red and girl in red, well, leaning into red. Others work with designers and creative directors to pick shades and build campaigns around them. Regardless, the goal is to “own a color,” like Supreme’s white on red, says Brent David Freaney, the art director behind the brat rollout: “If you’re able to create a world around color and use that repetition, through artwork or merch or costumes, it all just reinforces the same thing.” (Prince will always own purple; Nicki Minaj and P!nk share custody of pink.) And if you’re lucky, your swatch might be the next trend all over Instagram and TikTok. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of Orange County: [Shannon Storms A-Brewin’]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Fly Me to the Moon Is Just Good Enough to Make You Wish It Were Better Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum are terrific, and the cast is clearly having fun, but the movie is mostly just a pleasant trifle.]( [The 15 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Nic Cage is serially killing it.]( [We Need More Actors With Crazy Voices Or at least more that sound like haunted toys.]( [‘Woman’s World’ Is the Stalest Sort of Retread Katy Perry’s old formula just doesn’t work anymore.]( [Longlegs Is Mostly Terrifying This tense, odd thriller mines the horror of ordinary people compelled to do terrible things — an unnerving reflection of modern anxieties.]( [Shelley Duvall Stood Out No one looked like her. No one sounded like her. No one thought like her. And everyone in Hollywood knew it.]( [Inside the 1995 Media Merger That Changed Disney Forever A longtime ABC exec who worked closely with Bob Iger remembers what happened when Michael Eisner arrived.]( [Osgood Perkins Gets Into the Family Business He’s Dorky Dave from Legally Blonde. He’s also Norman Bates’s son and the next big horror-movie director.]( [Zach Bryan Hits His Limit On The Great American Bar Scene, the accidental superstar’s formula remains potent but predictable.]( [Oh, Mary! Is Excellently Uncivil Cole Escola’s Mary Todd Lincoln farce transfers uptown, preserving the union between absurdity and hilarity.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 15-Across, Four Letters: Pink prop in “Lady Bird” Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage, Arnold Turner/Getty Images, Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name an Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington movie? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: JB Lacroix/FilmMagic, Araya Doheny/Getty Images, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [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 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved