Hyperfixations for the week of June 30, 2025
A list of pop culture that I can't stop thinking about
Here’s a roundup of my latest pop culture obsessions. What has gotten your attention lately?
A few weeks ago, I proclaimed that do what i say from R&B artist kwn (pronounced Kay-one) was the lesbian summer anthem. I fear that the singer has stayed on the sapphic girlies’ necks with the release of her EP, with all due respect. kwn’s borderline-fuckboi1 swag drips throughout the nine tracks that are over far too soon. kwn relies a little too much on Autotune, but I’m here for (and queer for) the 25 minutes of woman-to-woman, no-skips sonic seduction. I included the nsfw-ish video for kwn’s latest single, back of the club, at the top of the newsletter because it’s an absolute banger.
Speaking of queer women,2 I’m watching The L-Word (2004)… for the first time. I know. I KNOW. I’m about halfway through the first season. I have THOUGHTS — look out for a future blogletter just about the seminal show.
Two of my favorite Rich White People Shows are back: And Just Like That (2021) and The Gilded Age (2022). The shows are in different centuries, but baybeee, HBO has made their connective tissue abundantly clear: the New York City of the wealthy, ostentatious costumes, Cynthia Nixon! We are so back.
Let me take just one second with And Just Like That: Oh, Carrie. Carrie, Carrie, Carrie. I’ve watched you flail3 through life since I was a teenager. And here you are, in your 50s, and you still don’t know any better. Character growth? Who’s she? Yes, girl. Give us NOTHING.
One thing about me? I’m going to wait until the fervor dies down on a movie to watch it4, which is how I ended up checking out Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice (2024) this weekend. I knew very little about the movie other than the fact that its star, Channing Tatum, began dating Kravitz after they met making the movie.5 It turns out that their chemistry did indeed translate to film. Kravitz delivers a scathing commentary (albeit an ironic one coming from the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet6) on the one percent, patriarchy and misogyny with some wish fulfillment of women snatching back their power by any violent means necessary.
As a card-carrying member of the Beyhive, I’m sending thoughts and prayers to Blue Ivy as she continues to fire every crew member responsible for her client Beyoncé’s flying car malfunction at the first night of the Cowboy Carter tour in Houston. And shoutout to the content creators who accurately portrayed how the mogul-in-training Blue Ivy is handled the obscene incompetence that put her client and concert goers at risk.
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Fuckboi: gender neutral term for somebody who treats you in a way that forces you to dissect their bad behavior and audacity with your group text, mom AND therapist; a genre of person with which I’m intimately familiar
Honestly, when am I not?
Granted, with expensive shoes, BUT STILL
Often unintentionally. There is just so much good media to consume!
A director and lead actor romance: a tale as old as time
I haven’t seen their tax return, but I’ll make an educated guess that they got a little money.