2020

Beyoncé walks the walk when it comes to showing up for the Black Community

In 2020, certain songs broke through the noise, connected us through our grief, and sometimes helped us remember the meaning of life. From Fiona Apple’s fractured-jazz ode to her middle school heroine to Bob Dylan’s 17-minute number 1 hit, the songs of 2020 veered towards the nontraditional but were ultimately more memorable for it. Some […]

Wait, I Thought We Were Mad at Ellen?

2020 was a strange and strained year in so many ways. Every aspect of culture has had to adapt to shifting circumstances. But cinema in particular — an institution based on the idea of large groups of people sitting in a tightly-packed room for two hours — had to adjust. Schedules for both production and […]

Every morning after watching Tiger King, we woke up and chose chaos.

We’re crossing our fingers that the US finally found its rock bottom in 2020.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

2021 has already brought good news: A Barbara Walters impression can still team up with tequila shots to turn Anderson Cooper into a beautiful, hysterical mess. — (@) In honor of national treasure Anderson Cooper, we joyfully bring you this flashback from one year ago, when our collective attention was once again on his eye […]

Find out what Popdust users cared about the most in 2020.

I’ll be calling everything an “entanglement” for the rest of my days