Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i Rolling Stone

TAFFY Brodesser-Akner made a name for herself as an incisive celebrity profiler, but on her odyssey from journalist to TV-show creator, she was startled to realize, “I’m not as good at my job as I thought.” In 2019, Brodesser-Akner published Fleishman Is in Trouble, a seriocomic novel about a newly divorced New York doctor who discovers that he’s a hot commodity on the apps. When FX bought it (the series premieres on Hulu on Nov. 17), she insisted on adapting the book herself. When she first had dinner with her cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody, “The way they started talking, I was stunned. I was like, ‘Nobody ever spoke to me this way when I profiled them. Nobody told me anything real.’” When…

DAVID LACHAPELLE has a flight to catch. This flight is leaving imminently, and its imminence is made highly apparent by people associated with LaChapelle, within earshot of LaChapelle, who nonetheless settles deeper into a chartreuse velvet sofa near the crackling fire of the Greenwich Hotel and orders tea and scones. “The crazy ones with the truffle oil,” he specifies, before turning to me with delight. “You have to try one. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Which, of course, is what people tend to say about LaChapelle’s body of work, the Day-Glo-hued, semi-surrealist, visual bacchanals that, no matter what he is shooting — one of the many celebrity covers he’s done for this magazine, editorials galore, the Kardashians’ Christmas card — manage to blend high concept and pop art…

IT’S ABOUT two hours before Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, are due onstage in Brisbane, Australia. For the moment, though, Finneas’ mind isn’t on the gig; he’s backstage, loading up Zoom so he can meet one of his heroes. “I feel like we’ve been meant to meet for a long time,” Rick Rubin says when Finneas pops up on his screen. “I feel like it was in the ether, and now it’s actually happening. It feels good.” Rubin is in Siena, Italy, where he’s in the studio working on an unspecified new project. “I’m seeing these giant trees swaying and leaves spinning,” he says, looking out his window at a raging storm. “It’s beautiful.” (Finneas, meanwhile, just enjoyed a meal at Subway. “It was the same as…

PINKPANTHERESS IS TALKING about the time she produced a beat for a friend and tried to make it “as Kaytranada-inspired as possible.” It’s a sweet story, especially since the person she’s telling it to is Kaytranada himself. “I want to hear it, I want to see how it turned out,” he responds. PinkPantheress quickly shuts down the idea: “It’s fucking terrible.” Then they both break into laughter. The two teamed up for the first time recently for an as-yet-unreleased track. This collaboration is fitting, given they are both known for spinning a panoply of influences into forward-thinking dance music. Kaytranada, 30, has already earned two Grammys and spent the summer opening on the Weeknd’s stadium tour, while PinkPantheress, 21, just last year released her excellent debut mixtape, To Hell…

You play Ramonda, the Queen Mother of Wakanda, in the Black Panther films. Is there one person or inspiration you keep in your head to play a queen? For me, it’s just the essence of the Black woman. Our strength, resilience, patience, generosity, intellect. That’s what I try to hold onto. An amalgamation of all of us. In recent years Black women have finally been recognized as pioneers in the social-justice space with #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. Does that ever feel like a burden? No. We’ve always been the bedrock of our communities. If Black women have been the bottom of the totem pole, that’s from whence we fight — when you expect nothing. We have nothing to lose but to win. We fight for ourselves, and we…

WHAT’S NEW, WHAT’S NEXT, WHAT’S NUTS ON A SHIVERY, star-filled night in May, Durk Banks is surrounded by friends, family, and what feels like the entire city of Chicago as he prepares to take the stage for a sold-out show at his hometown’s United Center. It’s the final night on his 7220 tour, and it feels like a moment of hard-won victory for Chicago hip-hop and the much-criticized drill scene. “To be able to perform in Chicago and sell it out… that feeling was like something you can’t even explain, for real,” says the 30-year-old artist, better known as Lil Durk. “We never imagined that happening.” The past two years have been a triumphant time for Durk, from his feature on Drake’s 2020 smash “Laugh Now Cry Later” to…

ICE SPICE hasn’t seen much of Atlanta yet when we speak on the phone in September, but she’s already formed the kind of assessment you’d expect from a tried-and-true New Yorker. “It kind of looks like Jersey a little,” she says. The 22-year-old rapper is in town for the first time to attend the BET Hip Hop Awards, the latest in a whirlwind of performances and appearances since her earworm of a breakthrough track, “Munch (Feelin’ U),” took over the internet this summer. The song infuses the melodies of the already-dominant New York drill sound with a certain, well, spice. “‘Munch’ is bringing out the fun in drill,” she says. “It was a little serious before, a little violent sometimes, which is cool. I be bumping that rah-rah shit…

FROM THE moment the world heard the frantic majesty of Arctic Monkeys’ classic debut, 2006’s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, it was obvious the U.K. foursome were headed for rock greatness. But great bands have always reserved the right to swerve into detours that baffle some fans — while perhaps making new ones — and Arctic Monkeys are no exception. Their commercial and creative high point, the groove-rock stomper AM, was one of the last albums by a rock band to truly shake the culture. They followed it with five years of silence. Then, in 2018, came the gorgeous but defiantly odd space-lounge concept album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. With their lush new follow-up, The Car, they’re still a lot more interested in sculpting…

ABOUT A YEAR AGO, Karen O was scrolling through Instagram when she came across a photo of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner that left her a little concerned. It was from a stop on Zauner’s relentless tour over the past couple of years, which has included more than 100 concerts and promotional appearances on the heels of her Grammy-nominated third album, Jubilee, and her bestselling memoir, Crying in H Mart. “She had the million-mile stare,” says Karen O, who turns 44 in November. It’s late August in Los Angeles, and Karen O and Zauner are sitting in a studio in the Arts District, meeting in person for the first time and looking back on their text exchanges from around the period of that million-mile stare. “She sent me some…

IT’S NO LONGER the mid-Nineties, but Shania Twain is still the reigning queen of country pop. Just look at the over-the-top reaction from the Gen Z crowd when Harry Styles brought her onstage at Coachella this year, or check out Post Malone rocking out during Twain’s AMAs appearance a few years back. Or take a listen to Rina Sawayama’s glittery banger “This Hell,” which kicks off with Twain’s iconic “Let’s go girls!” For Sawayama, Twain has been a lifelong influence. The British Japanese star incorporates Twain’s country anthems into a futuristic sound that also mixes in pop and nu metal, among other styles. This isn’t lost on Twain, who was struck by the video for “This Hell.” “I was chuckling that you have [line dancing] going on in it,”…

THE DAY BEFORE Young Dolph left on his final trip to Memphis, he and his partner, Mia Jaye, were at their Georgia home, planning a major step in their decade-long relationship. The maverick rapper, known for his deep drawl, defiant bravado, generous cash giveaways, and powerhouse independent label, Paper Route Empire, said he not only wanted to get married in 2022 — but also had a very specific request for how the celebration should unfold. ■ The couple discussed keeping the wedding a secret, only telling guests they were invited to a formal, fairy-tale-themed ball to celebrate Jaye’s April birthday at a winery. After surprising everyone with a wedding ceremony, Dolph wanted to shift the spotlight to his parents, Adolph and Diane Thornton, and have them renew their own…

OVER THE PAST several years, two of Argentina’s biggest careers have run parallel to each other: In the port city of Rosario, singer and rapper Nicki Nicole broke into the music scene when her 2019 track “Wapo Traketero” became a hit and showcased her gritty, darkly hued R&B sound to the world. A few months later, a massive YouTube session with the buzzy producer Bizarrap blasted her into even more fame, setting the stage for her debut album, Recuerdos. About 200 miles away, in the working-class neighborhood of La Boca in Buenos Aires, a young rapper named Trueno was battling his way through the city’s renowned freestyle scene. The son of the Argentinean rapper Pedro Peligro, Trueno’s skills got him noticed and won him the national championship at Red…

ROGER DALTREY WALKS through Kore Studios near London’s Shepherd’s Bush, opening doors and looking for Yungblud. “Is he here?” the Who frontman asks. Yes, he is. “A young musician on time! Unheard of,” Daltrey booms. Everyone within earshot laughs. This location was chosen for its familiarity (Daltrey has recorded here) and for ease — the 78-year-old lives not too far from Kore, just outside of London. On the contrary, the much younger star he’s meeting has flown in from Paris, where he played a show last night, and will soon hop on a flight to L.A. It’s the first in-person meeting for Daltrey, one of the quintessential frontmen of British rock music, and the 25-year-old Yungblud — real name Dominic Harrison — the new face of British pop rock.…