Frazier Tharpe
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- Sep 28, 2026
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The VMAs Are Cooked (opens the original)
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In the second of her three acceptance speeches during last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna remarked that she opened the very first VMAs some 43 years ago and inadvertently distilled the problem with this once-great broadcast. In theory, a Madonna opener in 2026 is a cute and potent callback to consistency and legacy—“mother,” as they say, showing her pop offspring how it’s done. (The special guests in Madonna’s set ranged from Debi Mazar and Fab 5 Freddy to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx
Are You Ready For Nathan Fielder Fall? (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV. Sign up here to get it free. When news of Warner Bros and Paramount’s finally completed merger hit the timeline yesterday, one image in particular emerged as a symbol of our collective displeasure. It’s a still from the second season of The Rehearsal, in which Nathan Fielder sends up the totalitarian streaming conglomerates wi
Drake Dropped a 90-Minute Film Called 'FOMO.' Youâre Not Missing Out on Much. (opens the original)
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Drake loves to bring us together. Ten years ago, his OVO Radio shows on Apple Music were appointment listening when he had new music to share, which in turn made the album releases feel grander and the loosies like real-time transmissions from the days when A-list rappers would visit Flex, Angie Martinez and the like with new bars and a little shit-talk. So, in theory, itâs cool to see him reapply that mindset more recently by rolling out new projects with âlive streams.â Last summer, this
How Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena and Even Michael Jackson Influenced Lanternsâ Big John Stewart Flashback Episode (opens the original)
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This story contains spoilers for Lanterns episode three, âOutKast.â In the tradition of the classic HBO Sunday-evening shows before it, Lanterns has officially arrested the timeline. The DCU series is the first major look Green Lantern has gotten as a superhero property since the much-maligned Ryan Reynolds movie back in 2011, and at the halfway point of this eight-episode season (from co-creators Tom King, Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof, who ran a similar play a few years ago with Watchmen)
Pusha T and Pharrell Just Unveiled a Coffee For True Grinders (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV. Sign up here to get it free. Lately, for Pusha T, it’s been all music, all the time. Since he and his brother Malice made their grand return as Clipse last summer with the release of their album Let God Sort Em Out, he’s been locked in on Rollout Mode: appearing in this magazine, twice (once to start the rollout, then as Men o
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