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i t ’s ta y tay day so why not enjoy three quite mad E ACH TAY LOR fan theories about IN THE ‘LOOK ‘LOOK W H AT her sixth album, WHAT YOU MADE YOU MADE ME ‘reputation’ ME DO’ VID SHE’S USED DO’ IS ABOUT REPRESENTS ELIZABETH ARYA STARK A TRACK ON TAY LOR AND Maybe Taylor’s a massive ‘REPUTATION’ RICHARD BURTON Thrones fan writing bangers In the last scene of the AS A METAPHOR about the Stark family? Lyrics in ‘LWYMMD’ vid we see a FOR HERSELF ‘LWYMMD’ include, “I don’t line-up of 15 Taylor iterations, In ‘…Ready For It?’, Taylor like your kingdom keys / They past and present. Fans have croons, “And he can be my jailer once belonged to me” – speculated that each of / Burton to this Taylor” – and sounds like the trials Arya’s the different Taylors will fans have gone mad with been through, especially her represent a different a song explaining the couplet, as there beef with Cersei. And then on ‘Reputation’. Taylor are tons of parallels between there’s “I’ve got a list of names number six is a shade- Swift and Elizabeth Taylor. and yours is in red, underlined”. throwing, cheetah-print coat- Firstly, the legendary actor Who else has got a list? Only wearing drama queen – and was married eight times, and bloody Arya Stark. this fits, as ‘LWYMMD’ is the Swift has “eight famous exes”; sixth track on the album. As both were portrayed negatively new track titles have been in the press for the way they read the NME review of revealed over the past few lived their lives; and both had ‘reputation’ on nMe.com weeks, the theory seemingly relationships that received checks out; for example, the a huge amount of unwanted first Taylor, in her punk-rock media attention. Taylor has also garms, fits with the aesthetic liked posts about this theory on in the ‘…Ready for It?’ video. Tumblr, which is as good as a verbal confirmation, right? 5

KendricK Lamar He’s gonna feature on the new NERD album. Legends united.

KaTie price Told Piers Morgan to “shut up”. A nation cheered.

You want to find what else is Lo and behold behind it with serious artists like The Weeknd. I’m not Swedish pop maestro Tove Lo on sexuality, comparing myself to him, but freedom and Harvey Weinstein with male artists there are serious subject matters that BT Openreach in what way is your new reactions. For me, it’s very are not portrayed the same A Devon village torched album, ‘Blue Lips’, the artistic rather than just a picture just because of the fact that an effigy of a BT follow-up or a partner of my ass. Obviously, that’s I’m a girl.” broadband truck album to your last going to upset a lot of people because of their slow album, ‘Lady Wood’? – ‘Why does she have to do do you feel a change Wi-Fi. Hilar. “It picks up the feelings that?’ This feels good to me. I’m in attitude towards from ‘Lady Wood’, but it’s not doing it because someone’s objectification in the more dramatic. It has more telling me not to, but I feel like, wake of the harvey of that feeling of never really ‘Oh, come on’. I’ve spent so Weinstein scandal? feeling satisfied and much of my life creating songs “I haven’t felt a change in my chasing something. Calling and things so personal and view on it. We just need to the first one ‘Lady Wood’ deep. It’s about questioning stop judging anyone who is and then following it up with everything in life. Yes, there’s an openly sexual and happy ‘Blue Lips’ – it’s the female sex and drugs in there, but person. That should never be version of ‘blue balls’. In there’s definitely a depth to it. a weapon for someone to use arcade Fire a deeper sense it’s all about I’m not just a random party girl. against someone else. It might Reportedly playing to trying to reach satisfaction That’s what pisses me off.” be a dream that will never come half-empty arenas on – I don’t just mean sexually, true. As soon as we turn the their current US tour, I mean in life overall.” You’ve said before that attention to women instead of the poor loves. people take male artists the men or people who are You’re very open about such as The Weeknd ‘more acting this way, it becomes a drugs and sexuality. seriously’ when they problem again. It’s another way does it bother you that discuss these things… to blame the women who were some people see that “People could be like, ‘Oh, this abused. We just need to take stuff as taboo? song mentions drugs so responsibility for looking after “I choose to rub it in obviously that’s all she’s about’. each other.” Andrew Trendell people’s faces even more. If But if a guy says it, you don’t you look at the record title, even question [it]. You’re like, Tove Lo’s new album, ‘Blue the artwork – it’s obviously ‘Oh yeah, he f**ks, he does Lips [Lady Wood Phase II]’, is done as a reaction to drugs, what’s the message?’ out on November 17 7 eniola aluko NF Michigan rapper, massive in America

You got a Number One in the US with hardly any coverage. How? “Honestly, for me i think it’s just being myself and being authentic. When people listen to music they can truly feel authenticity. Eni Aluko and Loyle there’s so many people out there who feel like me and want to say the things Carner to headline that i have to say but maybe don’t know how to say them. it’s just people NME #Lifehacks relating to something that’s real to them.” See NME in conversation with the footballer and the rapper at this year’s #Lifehacks event You’ve spoken about being influenced by Hip-Hop artist LoyLe Mercury prize, and aluko, who Eminem. Have you ever Carner and Chelsea footballer played for england over 100 met him? eniola aluko will be in times, will headline an afternoon “No. i just started listening conversation with NME at of talks and activities designed to him at a really young #Lifehacks on November 23. to help you kick-start your NME #LIFEHAckS age. it’s not like i related NME has teamed up with career in the creative industries. [to] or thought all the University of salford and youth on the day, you’ll also be November 23 things he thought, but that initiative Create Jobs to lay able to connect with the NME islington Metal was one of the first times on the #Lifehacks event at team and our partners at the Works i heard something that London’s islington Metal Works. dedicated Hack-space. plus eC1V 1NQ was super-raw… i like Carner, whose debut album there will be free food and drink, music that can take you ‘yesterday’s Gone’ was and the event will culminate in Get your tickets to a place that you just nominated for this year’s an exclusive secret evening gig. here: NMe.com/ wouldn’t be, you know?” Lifehacks There are hardly any collaborations on your albums. Is this intentional? “Honestly man, right now i’m just doing my thing. i don’t go out a lot, i kinda live in my own world. if Loyle Carner something comes along that i really feel inspired by or i really wanna do, i’ll do it.” Luke Morgan Britton

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culture references EPISODE SEVEN tHE WarrIOrS in Stranger Things 2 Stranger Things 2’s most divisive episode saw the Quite a few spoilers here, to be honest show turn its focus away from Hawkins and to Eleven’s adventures with fellow Hawkins lab prisoner Kali, AKA Eight. She joins Kali’s Warriors-like gang to avenge some of the wrongs they endured at the lab.

EPISODE ONE MaD Max EPISODE tHrEE This episode features a new grEMlINS character: Max. It also borrows In which Billy’s mogwai starts its title from 1979 film Mad Max, off very sweet, but gets a bit EPISODE FIVE which stars Mel Gibson as rancid when it’s had a bite to tHE gOONIES a highway patrolman. Max’s eat and some late nights. The Joyce Byers’ new partner, Bob brother Billy drives a fast car, same applies to Dustin’s little – played by Lord Of The Rings EPISODE EIgHt and seems like the kind of dude discovery, Dart, which goes star Sean Astin – offered JUraSSIC Park who would identify strongly with from adorable little slug to invaluable help during the In both Jurassic Park and Gibson’s character’s bravado. cat-killing monster. crusade to fix Will. In this scene, Stranger Things 2, someone St ElMO’S FIrE Bob works out where Will’s must make their way through Billy’s look is based on Rob drawing fits in the map he’s a dark facility to get the power Lowe’s character – also called drawn, and says that “X marks back up. In Jurassic Park that Billy – in St Elmo’s Fire. the spot” – a reference to his character is Muldoon; in treasure hunting role in The Stranger Things 2, it’s Hopper. Goonies as a child. They use exactly the same line: “Where are the breakers?”

EPISODE FOUr CarrIE Eleven has been compared to Stephen King’s character EPISODE tWO before, but in this episode her E.t. telekinetic tantrum is closer In E.T., the cute alien wears a than ever to the way Carrie EPISODE SIx ghost sheet outfit for Halloween. loses control of her powers. StaND By ME EPISODE NINE In ST 2, Eleven continues to play The scene where she confronts Steve and Dustin form a tHE ExOrCISt the outcast, underlined by her Hopper about his rules – in formidable duo throughout ST When Joyce is trying to get rid identical Halloween costume. which she mentally lobs a book 2, particularly when they’re of the monster inside Will, he POltErgEISt at him and breaks all the hut’s trying to catch the escaped picks her up and chokes her In this 1982 horror film, the windows – recalls Carrie monster, Dart. In the woods, – just like Regan beats up her titular poltergeist enters the throwing sharp objects at her they walk on a train track in mother in The Exorcist. world through a TV’s white oppressive mother, before an obvious nod to the film noise, just as El uses a white unwittingly destroying her adaptation of Stephen King’s Stranger Things 2 is on

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Listening to: ToTo Africa “Everyone smiles when it THIS WEEK comes on in a bar.”

Wearing: Boohoo jacket, Christchurch Ages Apparel T-shirt and hat, Primark jeans, Puma trainers. “The New Best thing about Christchurch: “The Forest is like Thomas Tripp pub is great nowhere else for live music.” in the world”

‹ Max MuElHauS- HoBday 19, student

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‹ a ly S S a r u S H 23, YouTuber CaTHlEEn Listening to: VoySEy › ColdPlay & BIG SEan 24, photographer Miracles (Someone Special) Listening to: “It’s motivational and lITTlE BIG gets me hyped up in Hateful Love the mornings.” “It’s a really unusual genre called funeral rave – really Wearing: H&M shirt good to workout too.” and trousers, Dr Martens boots. Wearing: Vintage jacket, Best thing about shorts and belt, Miss Christchurch: “The New Selfridge leotard. Forest is like nowhere else Best thing about in the world.” Christchurch: “The buskers in the town centre are always really cool.” 1919 PRINCESS NOKIA PRINCESS NOKIA

PHOTOGRAPHED BY MATT SALACUSE Princess Nokia is the New York rapper whose feminist podcasts, visceral live shows and debut album ‘1992 Deluxe’ have made her a Joevery Madden modern. pop“Anything icon. “I goes” cry onstage, I bleed onstage, I hit myself onstage,” she tells

estiny Frasqueri found her oscillating between is getting ill. not in the singing, rapping and beat-poet ’80s hip-hop sense proselytising. next came 2015’s – more in the ‘Feel my ‘Honeysuckle’ – released under the forehead, i’m hot, name Destiny – a straightforwardly right?’ sense. she’s nostalgic collection of fun, feminist Darrived at this Bronx photo studio in an disco-funk. influenza daze, clutching a carton of then, in 2016, Frasqueri steaming chowder that she’s laced reinvented herself yet again to with hot sauce in an attempt to become Princess nokia (a name exorcise her fever. Her voice is inspired by the only phone brand a cracked near-whisper and she has available to her income bracket) and the fragile demeanour of somebody jettisoned her soul and electronica who’d far sooner be convalescing influences in favour of tough under a familiar quilt. hip-hop purism. ‘1992’, Princess Frasqueri isn’t the type to let nokia’s debut mixtape, was sudden, calamitous flu get in the self-released in september 2016 way of plans, however. Fresh from to instant buzz and acclaim. the salon with a deep-green ’do, recognising a sure thing when she commandeers a mirror and sits they hear it, rough trade have just herself down in a corner of the studio reissued a heavily expanded version to apply her make-up for the shoot. as ‘1992 Deluxe’, and it’s one of the “i don’t have a make-up artist and year’s must-hears: a technicolor i don’t need a stylist,” she croaks. “all blast of gleeful riot-grrrl rap that of this is still strictly a Diy thing. i’m at slaps your head one moment, a mainstream level now in terms of the breaks your heart the next. attention i’m getting, but I haven’t “everything really came together gone mainstream.” on ‘1992’,” says Frasqueri, Frasqueri first caught ears with eyeshadow brush ablur, her voice 2014’s ‘Metallic Butterfly’ – released a little less broken with every under the name Wavy spice – an chowder-sip. “that isn’t eccentric electro-soul mixtape that to dismiss my earlier PRINCESS NOKIA

works – they were great – but when itled after the year Frasqueri was my whole identity: not caring about not I focused myself on hip-hop everything born, ‘1992’ is largely inspired fitting in, y’know? When I was a kid, just clicked. I was writing five hours T by her intense and bittersweet the coolest thing to me was being a a day, five days a week, and it was the nostalgia for the ’90s New York of her Bowie kid. I’d see all these non-binary funnest thing in the world.” childhood. “I try not to be overly glam-rock kids – and I was like, I get Frasqueri first realised that ‘1992’ nostalgic, and I don’t use nostalgia to that. The not fitting in. I mean, I’ve was a becoming a Big Deal during her be kitschy. But it’s where all my most always been really rock’n’roll – that debut European tour. “I’d released fundamental thoughts and ideas come whole ‘balls out, middle fingers up’ ‘1992’ independently just three weeks from. I’m the classic New York kid, thing – but you don’t have to look earlier, and all of the shows were y’know? I’m matzo ball soup, I’m Katz’s a certain way to fit a certain subculture. already sold out, and all the crowds Deli, I’m smoking weed at 4am in Whatever moves your heart is whatever knew every word to every song. It was Washington Square Park, I’m passed moves your heart, right?” special. I’ll never forget it. out outside a rave in a pool of my own Frasqueri’s lairy rock’n’roll side fully “Thing is, I’ve never been trying to vomit – that’s me, that’s how I grew up. manifests itself during live shows. “I’m ‘make it’, per se. I guess I have a I mean, I’m no longer that person any influenced by TLC, MC peculiar view of my art and its place more. Maybe a little bit.” Lyte, Queen Latifah, but in the world. I was already being Frasqueri pauses her make-up and The I’m also punk, and I’ll recognised and celebrated for my drifts away as reminiscence takes play Korn and Slipknot work – and that’s all any artist wants. hold. “It’s everything you see here as Empire during my sets. I spit out I wasn’t ‘big’ by any means, but I was a kid: the nightlife, the drag queens, State beer at people, I smoke playing shows, making OK money, the prostitutes, the skaters, the old weed, I show my butt. I didn’t have to work and so I could women on the Upper East Side with strikes I’m smelly and my concentrate on my art. So when ‘1992’ little dogs under their arm. Everything back armpits are unshaven started becoming really successful, has character here; it has an essence, and my make-up’s all I tried to keep it all about the art, it has a vibe.” rugged ny hip- ruined – but that’s a and just enjoy the fact that I’d made As the vivid memory-cataloguing hop is making a part of the beauty. It’s a really great body of music. Kicking of ‘1992’ makes clear, Frasqueri comeback. nokia messy. It’s kind of real, ass is literally all I care about: put on constantly bounced between the city’s aside, here’s alternative, emo hip-hop. a good show, drink a good beer, subcultures as a kid. And for all her who to watch I show people how I feel; smoke a good spliff, turn people on, current hip-hop trappings, she remains I cry onstage, I bleed leave at the end of the f**king night. a skittishly eclectic consumer of onstage, I hit myself That’s it, y’know?” everything from moshpits to comics. onstage, I get people up “Oh, I never fit in anywhere,” she onstage. Anything goes.” shrugs. “I’m a loner. I don’t even have These inclusive-but- many friends. And I accept that. I enjoy anarchic performances what I enjoy, and yeah, sometimes I’m WestsiDe Gunn have been a half a a skater, sometimes I’m a goth kid, I’m Jason ‘Sleaford Mods’ lifetime in the making. a raver, I’m a hippy, I’m a theatre nerd. Williamson named this “When I was young, all I’m a weird kid. I’ve got so many MC’s ‘FLYGOD’ his top I wanted was to have album of 2016. Its chilly personalities eatin’ me up inside. And update of the Wu sound is a show where young I think that’s the basis of the music and a thing of vicious beauty. girls could mosh Key track: together and hold hands ‘Summerslam 88’ and take off their bras and just be so liberated on some real punk-rock s**t. I want girls to feel free; I want them to feel like they’re empowered, liberated feminists. Ka “There’s been an A favourite of Run The entire sisterhood Jewels’ El-P, Ka has enjoyed a late-career cultivate itself around my renaissance thanks to music, at my shows all a triptych of acclaimed around the world, and albums. Philosophical it’s been really emotional street-rap for grown-ups. Key track: ‘30 Keys’ for me,” she continues. “I had this one show in Dubai, and I stop a girl to say hi, and she starts crying, and I’m like, ‘Why are you crying?’ and she says, ‘You can say the things I’m not allowed to Donmonique say. You can say things She’s been compared to Lil’ Kim, but DonMonique that my family would be is updating scowling really disappointed to golden-age rap for the hear from me. And it’s 2010s. Expect a new not that these things are volume of her ‘Thirst Trap’ mixtape series soon. wrong, it’s just they’re

Key track: ‘Selfish’ not accepted.’” geTTy ImAgeS PHOTOS: ADDITIONAL 22 Is she opening an avenue into hip-hop for women who might otherwise feel alienated from the genre, given its current propensity for grimly casual misogyny? “I do feel like I’ve helped bring certain women back into hip-hop, but I don’t allow misogyny or sexism to lower my perception of hip-hop. Because hip-hop is a beautiful thing. And there are still many wonderful people who I’ve met within that world, and so I don’t want to put hip-hop down. Sure, there are some things that I don’t agree with within hip-hop, and there are some things that I don’t relate to or would ever associate myself with – but I won’t talk bad about it.” Given Frasqueri’s assertion that she rarely fits in anywhere, does she feel a part of the hip-hop scene? Again, she pauses her make-up – this time to shoot me a look that suggests she’s mystified I’d even ask. Yeah“ I’m part of it! To say that I’m not would negate my accomplishments and the recognition that I’ve had. I mean, I make ‘classic’ hip-hop, and yet it broke Top 10 charts. I got nominated for XXL magazine’s Freshman Class 2017. This is my first hip-hop project, but the fact Princess that I’ve been so successful within the first year – just one year of putting this Nokia’s music out…” She’s a little exasperated, illest and I’m regretting my question. “I’m very much a part of hip-hop. In rhymes fact I am hip-hop. I’m classic hip-hop, Knockout I’m old hip-hop – albeit with new-skool blow after flow, identity and relatability mixed in. knockout blow I’m as a part of that world as anybody else – sometimes even more so.” ‘Destiny’ (2016) Composed when she was still a teenager, this is an eyond being a killer rapper with origin story told over a hot mixtape and revelatory live shimmering keys. B show, Frasqueri is also evolving Coldest line: “Boss-ass into a bona fide feminist figurehead. In b***h no time for the tears / Matter fact get your a world increasingly antagonistic to money up – I'm balling” women, to people of colour, and to figured out. I’ll tell them, ‘I’m and sweet, like (squeaky voice) ‘I s**t women of colour especially, Princess ‘tomboy’ (2017) just as f**ked up as you, but glitter!’ People didn’t really get that Nokia – a liberal, Afro-Nuyorican, sex- On which Nokia I’ve had more time to try to I was a troubled kid, that I was dealing celebrates women with positive, two-fisted tomboy hip-hopper otherworldly words, figure it all out, so let me show with severe amounts of trauma. People – is a sociopolitical lightning rod just by woozy rhythms and you what I’ve figured out so far haven’t been so compassionate to me dint of her existence. You can only staccato percussion. that has helped me in my life.’” in my life. I may seem optimistic, but imagine what the average Trump fan Coldest line: “Mermaids Some of these girls I can be feeling so dark inside. I feel so of the ocean / We are would make of her. followers of the sun and doubtless feel inspired to much pain.” It’s a role she’d already been women of magic / We open up to Frasqueri due to Her make-up finally complete, acclimatising to through her Smart Girl are witches” ‘1992’’s darker, more cathartic Frasqueri rises, pulls her oversized Radio podcast series – with its serene moments: tracks such as Adidas sweatshirt back on and checks ‘bart simpson’ doses of spirituality, self-help and (2017) ‘Goth Kid’ and ‘Bart Simpson’, herself in the mirror. Destiny Frasqueri feminist empowerment – and is now A languid track, all brittle which touch upon the harsh has left the building; Princess Nokia is embracing full-on as Princess Nokia. beats and apathetic lines. loneliness of Frasqueri’s ready for her close-up. “I try not to take “I do talk to young girls. I’m honest and Coldest line: “I really like teenage years, when the things too seriously,” she asserts, Marvel ’cos characters comedic with them, but I also try to look just like me / And death of her mother and shaking off the momentary drift into keep our conversations intelligent and women don’t have roles grandmother led to her being darkness. “Take things too seriously intellectually stimulating. I want them that make them look placed with an abusive foster and you get insecure, and then you to feel empowered and that they can too sexually” mother. “There [are] a lot of lose the magic. I’ve gotten successful relate to me, but at the same time neuroses and a lot of adolescent aches by being a half-assed skate rat. Main I don’t present myself as ‘perfect’, or on ‘1992’,” says Frasqueri, eyes locked on thing is: I like me, I’m cool. My heart as the standard to aspire to – like her lip pencil application. “My soul is is good. That’s all that they’re doing it all wrong and I’ve got it really heavy, but I can seem so optimistic matters, I think.”

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T’S Hard nOT TO LIke Did the movie make you re-evaluate Where is she now? aubrey Plaza. even Millie Bobby anything about LA culture? “She’s still lurking down there now. Brown (aka Stranger Things’ “I think the movie digs at California and She kills snakes. She’s a huge eleven), who we bump into by La culture but I think in some ways it’s anti-Trump activist.” the lifts after our interview in a celebration of it also. The writer and the a London hotel, enthusiastically director [Matt Spicer] are very much into A few years ago you starred in Iintroduces herself when she realises those things – [writer] david Branson the music video for Father John who she’s stood next to. after years Smith lives in Venice [Beach] and his wife Misty’s intense ‘Hollywood Forever of sardonic, snarky roles in Parks And is an Instagram influencer – they’re into it! Cemetery Sings’ video – how did Recreation, Scott Pilgrim vs The They’re not trying to totally make fun of it. that come about? World and Dirty Grandpa, Plaza has They are but they aren’t.” “That is one of the things I’m most now graduated to leading lady status proud of and I feel like no one knows – but with her own idiosyncratic twist. There’s a scene in Ingrid Goes West that I did it! I met Josh Tillman [Father In dark new indie comedy Ingrid Goes where you take cocaine at a bar in John] at a Canadian Thanksgiving West, she plays the troubled Ingrid, the Joshua Tree desert – what are dinner in Laurel who stalks and befriends Instagram you really snorting? Canyon; he was this celebrity and La hippy-ster elizabeth “Sometimes they use B12 powder but “ I’ve been funny, weird guy Olsen with disastrous results. We I don’t think they do that anymore and we hit it off. The spoke to aubrey about fake cocaine, because I guess B12 powder actually on Tw it ter idea of the video Father John Misty and one of her gives you an energy bump of some kind. for a long sounded insane. He most challenging roles to date So I think we got the boring stuff, which was speaking my – voicing an incontinent cat. is just glucose powder. I was just time. I’ve language, he said horrifying everybody because I was always he wanted me to Ingrid is a troubled woman who doing such a huge amount. I did break down on does some extreme things – but a mound of it. People were like, ‘You’re been wary camera and go to she’s still very likeable. How did doing too much!’ I was like, ‘But it’s of it” a really dark place. you go about creating this very funnier if I do!’” I hadn’t had that human character? opportunity in “I never thought about making her You’re quite active on social media anything I was doing, because people likeable, but I remember when I read – did the film make you look at it in were just throwing these deadpan the script for the first time, I felt like, ‘I a different way? sarcastic comedy roles at me all the don’t want to play a character that is “I have been on Twitter for a long time time and I was really interested in just “crazy”. I want to really dissect – I’ve always felt really complicated about doing more than that. I tried to get her actions and analyse her behaviour social media, I’ve always been wary of it. him to be in Ingrid Goes West – I’ll get and find out why she’s doing the Last year I made a whole thing about him one day…” things she’s doing.’ When I started getting off Twitter because I was so exploring that, you realise all these disgusted by the negative hate vibes One of your strangest roles was things come from a place of deep on there. Then I got on again.” voicing celeb animal Grumpy Cat insecurities and things that we all in the 2014 film Grumpy Cat’s struggle with. It’s just that some You have the best Twitter name: Worst Christmas Ever… people can’t control themselves as @evilhag. What’s the story? “I did months of preparation for that

PHOTOS: alamy PHOTOS: much as other people.” “I started on Twitter before I was an actor role. On all fours. On my hind legs. – I never thought in my life I would be in I s**t in a bunch of sandboxes…” an interview in London discussing my @evilhag handle! It was probably a drunk Did you get to meet the decision I made when I was 20 or real Grumpy Cat? Parts And Rec something. I had a comedy blog around “Oh yeah. Grumpy cannot control about that time where I would write from her urination so she peed Aubrey Plaza’s key roles the point of view of an old sea hag witch, on me a bunch.” to date who lived in a cave and had a blog.” Ingrid Goes West is in cinemas November 17

SCOTT PILGRIM vS PARkS AnD ReCReATIOn THe WORLD (2010) (2009-2015) Plays: Julie Powers Plays: april Ludgate LeGIOn (2017-) Who: The snarky party girl in Who: The greatest office Plays: Lenny Busker edgar Wright’s oddball comedy. assistant of all time. Likes Satan. Who: a gender-fluid psych Words of wisdom: “They’re Words of wisdom: “I want to hospital patient in Marvel’s latest called jobs, something a make out with him and chew his TV show – inspired by Bowie. f**kball like you wouldn’t know eyebrows off.” Words of wisdom: “You anything about.” got what the kids these days call ‘moxie’.” 25 Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby

Murphy’s law as the fourth season of Peaky Blinders hits screens, Olly Richards spoke to star Cillian Murphy and creator steven Knight about the things that make the gritty British gangster epic essential viewing

Helen McCrory On making anti-lice as Polly Gray haiRcuts pOpulaR If you know nothing else about the show, you probably at least know that On making it features some very well-dressed BiRmingham men doing horrible things in lovely lOOk cOOl suits and sharp haircuts. “That haircut The first thing you notice about the we have,” laughs Murphy of the shaved show is that it looks like nothing else sides, long top look, “that was a lice on British TV. Shot mainly in Liverpool cut. It was to avoid infestation… Now and Manchester, but set in Birmingham it’s become very recognisable because shortly after World War I, Peaky people wear it today. The suits have Blinders doesn’t go for grit and a classic silhouette… My favourite part grimness, but shoots for a sort of of the costuming is Tommy’s cap worn sooty glamour. It looks like an HBO very low. It’s kind of like Batman with flagship on a BBC budget. “Americans his cowl.” seem happy to take something that happens on the streets [where they live] and turn it into mythology, where the British don’t,” says Knight. Adds Murphy, “We wanted to create this [place] that’s a world of working-class people, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be glamorous. We wanted to get in the ring with those big shows and compete on a much smaller budget.” 26 pEaKy BlINDErs

On fighting like yOu mean it It’s a rare episode of Peaky Blinders that doesn’t feature someone getting beaten to mush or rendered extremely leaky by a hail of bullets. “The fights aren’t choreographed to make us look like amazing martial arts guys,” says Murphy. “They’re ugly and bloody and nasty. There are consequences to them. People get f**ked up by them.” As the show’s gone on and the stakes Tom Hardy as have risen, the fights have become Alfie Solomons more brutal. The first episode of series four features some particularly nasty business with a butcher’s hook.

O n h O l ly w O O d guest staRs The main cast of Peaky Blinders isn’t wanting for big names – Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory, to name two – but its guest star game is exceptional. In The previous series we’ve seen Sam Neill wisdom as a Northern Irish detective with a PHOTOS: BBC wandering accent, Paddy Considine as Adrien Brody as o f To m m y a dodgy priest and Tom Hardy (who Luca Changretta appears again this season) as the shelby highly eccentric leader of a Jewish cillian murphy’s gang. Season four is invaded by Game character is Of Thrones’ Aiden Gillen as hard-as- philosophical nails gypsy Aberama Gold, described (and hard by Knight as “the man you go to when as nails) you’re in trouble”, and Oscar-winner Adrien Brody as Luca Changretta, “All religion is a a Mafia don who’s come all the way foolish answer to from New York to Birmingham to kill On music that a foolish question.” the whole Shelby clan. “He’s a whole snaps Peaky different level of nemesis,” says Blinders intO “Whisky’s good Murphy. “You get actors of that calibre the pResent day proofing water. wanting to come and play because the Despite being set in the 1920s, Peaky Tells you who’s real writing’s so good… You can’t just Blinders features modern music, using and who isn’t.” parachute in ‘celebrities’. They have to artists such as Radiohead, PJ Harvey be the perfect choice.” and David Bowie to highly atmospheric “Everyone’s a effect. “I’m a bit of a music geek,” says whore, Grace. We Aidan Gillen Murphy. “When PJ Harvey worked on just sell different as Aberama series with [producer] Flood and they parts of ourselves.” Gold created this amazing, beautiful score, that was a highlight. And she did a cover of ‘Red Right Hand’ [the show’s theme by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds], which was incredibly special… It’s been kind of pinch-yourself stuff.” Even if you never watch it, you should buy the soundtrack. But you should absolutely be watching it.

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photos: kylie coutts photos: vocal, making for a stunning 30 by any stretch. In fact, Yung mistaken for a Weeknd hit. Lean, mean Lean was already mastering the But Yung Lean still lacks same subjects aged 16. quality control. The middle bulk rapping In 2012, the Swedish rapper of ‘Stranger’ can feel like being – real name Jonatan Leandoer suspended in ice, experiencing machine Håstad – made apathy and a never-ending comedown. All despondency his winning loose keys and vague, drug- The prolific Swedish formula. Breakthrough viral fuelled boasts, he rarely finds rapper’s tales of track ‘Ginseng Strip 2002’ is a a hook to match the likes of prescription drugs and nostalgia-laced tale of STIs and ‘Rockstar’ or ‘Mask Off’. There’s bad parties edge ever opiates that kickstarted Lean’s one big exception: ‘Agony’ is closer towards pop Sad Boy movement (the name a gorgeously honest song, given to his Stockholm crew starved of the default sheen and bucket hat-wearing fans). that lets down a lot of ‘Stranger’. YUNG LEAN Since then, Håstad has steered Over a meditative piano loop, Stranger his codeine-soaked songs in Håstad sings, “When I’m afraid the direction of pop. Referring I lose my mind / It’s fine, it +++ to himself in the third person, he happens all the time”. EXCESS COMEDOWNS HITS told NME in 2016, ‘Agony’ highlights the “Lean could be difference between Yung Lean on some Sid and his more chart-glued SEVERAL OF Vicious punk s**t contemporaries. While their 2017’s hip-hop one day, and songs are catch-all anthems of Yung Lean’s distinctive chart breakthroughs then on some overindulgence, his stories feel vocal can be heard just have one thing in heartbroken Justin real and personal. In 2016, his briefly in the second chorus common: they’re Timberlake / Nelly former manager died in a car of Frank Ocean’s ‘Self sad, despairing and Furtado s**t.” crash, and he checked into Control’, a song from last desolate. Take Post ‘Stranger’ a mental hospital. Tragedy year’s ‘Blonde’ album. Malone’s ‘Rockstar’, Lil Uzi doesn’t go full Timberlake, but surrounds Yung Lean’s work, Vert’s ‘XO Tour Llif3’ or Future’s he’s getting there. ‘Red Bottom and ‘Stranger’’s best moments ‘Mask Off’. All three coat big Sky’ is a sparse tale of tragedy, find him channelling turmoil into hooks in tales of bleak, nihilistic while the pent-up and riled beat something cathartic. excess. This isn’t a new trend for ‘Skimask’ could easily be Jamie Milton extra poignancy. even if the themselves, chew on overdone characters offered here aren’t accents (looking at you, Jeff riveting, you know they were Bridges). It’s acting with a flesh and blood humans who capital a. put their lives on the line, and in Comparatively, the action many cases lost them. It lends it elements are underplayed and some automatic gravitas. we lack a good look at why the Playing The real-life men were the hotshots are considered the Granite Mountain hotshots, a best in the business. we’re told group of firefighters who battled repeatedly that they are, but wild forest fires in arizona, when we see them at work it’s risking their own lives to save mainly digging trenches and with fire entire towns. whatever they burning shrubs. Kosinski never were like in real life, here they’re fully brings us into this gang and A solid tale of small- The words “Based on a gaggle of genre clichés. Josh makes us feel what they’re up town heroism a true story” are doing a lot of Brolin is the stern but loving against. That these men have a heavy lifting in this firefighter crew chief who’ll do anything for story worth telling is undeniable, drama. on its own merits, Only his boys. Miles Teller is the but it’s debatable whether a Only The The Brave is a solid, extremely ex-junkie who tries to mend his cinema screen, rather than the Brave well cast story of small-town ways when he becomes a dad page, is the right place for it.

12A Josh Brolin, Miles heroism, without much to make and learns the value of personal Olly Richards ALAMY PHOTOS: Teller, Jeff Bridges it more than ‘watchable’. It’s the responsibility. Taylor Kitsch sort of film you might very is a player who finally finds ★★★ happily watch on a plane, or the right gal. They’re sweet FIre FIreFIGhTerS ClICheS when you happened upon it together and entirely while flicking through the predictable in where their channels on a sunday night, but stories go. It’s a fine cast, but it doesn’t offer a lot to send you director Joseph Kosinski running for the cinema. That allows them a lot of actorly truth element, though, does tics. nobody is underplaying give it something more, a little here. They spit, twitch, talk to lOne SurvIvOr BaCkdraFT

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When Dave bookeD tickets to see Drake in amsterdam last year, he couldn’t have known his life was about to change. “We were only going for a friend’s birthday, but then his management rang and said he wanted to remix my song ‘Wanna know’,” says the 19-year-old prodigy. “The show was cancelled but we got to meet him out there. The entire night is a blur.” Since then, Dave’s racked up millions of YouTube views, movie themes like The Dark schooled Samuel L Jackson on Knight and complex video racism and joined Drake on game soundtracks.” he stage at The o2 earlier this year. released his first video now, he’s self-released a fiery ‘blackbox Cypher’ in 2015 and new eP ‘Game over’. Stuffed was quickly snapped up by with a diverse palette of management. It wasn’t until grime-flavoured bangers and March 2016 that he played his deeply personal, political lyrics, first gig, though – a support slot it’s the kind of mature record for kano at London’s Troxy, most artists make at the end of which didn’t go quite to plan. “It their career, not the beginning. was the first time I’d rapped to but despite his young age, the a crowd and I instantly lost my road to success has been voice,” he remembers. “The a long one. only notes that would come out born and raised in Streatham, were these super high-pitched south London, Dave Santan ones. It wasn’t the easiest.” started writing lyrics at 11 after a minor blip, for sure. watching his big brother Since, he’s established practise rapping at home. but himself as one of the Uk’s most his passion for music didn’t exciting new musicians and is ignite until his mum brought working on a debut album to be home a piano three years later. released next year. “I know “I’d finish school and play exactly how I’m going to make it non-stop until I went to bed,” he and what I need it to be,” he

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