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We can't stop talking about...
are so gay right now
Pop stars  
are so gay right now
Billie Eilish's track Lunch, a lewd queer come-on, has gone viral. King Princess, Peach PRC, and more weigh in on the rise of the sapphic serenade – and why it's taken so long.
Swift evasion  
Pop's #1 star, meanwhile, has landed in the UK. Our colleague there tried to avoid Taylor Swift for the entire month of May ... with limited success.
Cold persuasion  
Pop's other #1 star (Charli XCX) has finally released her album Brat – after years of toying with, rejecting, and leaning into big-label success. The ideal modern idol, to her? "Someone really cold and mean and icy."
Good vibration  
Maybe the real pop stars all along were nostalgia acts? Festivals around the world are struggling – but acts like Deftones and Phoenix are headlining sold-out line-ups.
Eat this
Gourd almighty
Gourd almighty
It's a pumpkin party from our columnist Alice Zaslavsky.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Happy pride month to Hacks viewers, Chappell Roan, and the straight boys going gay for Zendaya. And happy birthday to normcore, which is 10 years old – though younger than personal essays

Good reads: Vulture went long on the best TV show (Industry) and the craziest (Love is Blind). Taylor Momsen got bitten by a bat; the producer du jour got shredded with Interview; Elaine May got her flowers in the New Yorker. 

Good questions: Are you a gossip or a radical transparency activist? Are you gen Z or millennial? Are you Gerald Murnane or Tim Winton?
The funniest things on the internet
Cassie Hamilton's tour of her tabs
Cassie Hamilton's tour of her tabs
This list is heavily informed by "the trauma of growing up a theatre kid".
Top of the list
A list – streamy  
Glen Powell! Julio Torres! The Bear! Priscilla! It's all happening on Australian streaming in June, which Luke Buckmaster has kindly curated for us in his monthly round-up.
Glen Powell! Julio Torres! The Bear! Priscilla! It's all happening on Australian streaming in June, which Luke Buckmaster has kindly curated for us in his monthly round-up.
A film – dreamy  
Everything about The Beast is unhinged: multiple sci-fi timelines; Léa Seydoux in Henry James garb; George MacKay as an incel. It's heady and elusive and beautiful – and in cinemas.
Everything about The Beast is unhinged: multiple sci-fi timelines; Léa Seydoux in Henry James garb; George MacKay as an incel. It's heady and elusive and beautiful – and in cinemas.
Another film – gleamy  
We asked Toby Creswell to write on the new doco Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line and we got this 2000-word behemoth befitting of the band's outsized career and legacy. It's screening now at Sydney film festival – and in cinemas 4 July.
We asked Toby Creswell to write on the new doco Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line and we got this 2000-word behemoth befitting of the band's outsized career and legacy. It's screening now at Sydney film festival – and in cinemas 4 July.
A book – seamy  
Blondie's Chris Stein has released a new memoir titled Under the Rock – and it's exactly as dishy, druggy, hazy, and glittery as you might expect. Here's an extract.
Blondie's Chris Stein has released a new memoir titled Under the Rock – and it's exactly as dishy, druggy, hazy, and glittery as you might expect. Here's an extract.
This week's weirdest story
K9
K9
A veterinary professor says there's a solution to save our pooch pals from future health problems – and it's to "reboot" dog breeds.
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