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Rock ‘n’ roll and politics often make strange bedfellows – especially on the campaign trail, when candidates will occasionally play songs at their political rallies, only to learn that the creators of those songs do not share their political views.
It’s happened time and time again. In fact, it occurred twice just this week. First, Republican Mike Huckabee chose Survivor’s Rocky III anthem “Eye of the Tiger” to welcome anti-gay-marriage Kentucky country clerk Kim Davis out of jail (after she was ordered there for refusing the Supreme Court’s order to issue same-sex marriage licenses). Survivor’s Frankie Sullivan was none too pleased.
A couple days later, the trio of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Sarah Palin joined forces in a rally to protest President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, and they used R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” as their walkout music. Singer Michael Stipe did not feel fine about this – and he issued a particularly pointed statement.
It seems that politicians never learn. And with election season kicking into high gear soon, this is probably not that last time that this will happen. History will keep repeating itself. With that in mind, here’s a look at some other notable times when political figures’ use of rock songs resulted in controversy.
Donald Trump - Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”
You’d think Trump would have avoided the “End of the World” situation by learning from his earlier mistake, but it often seems like the Donald doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
Back in June when he announced his presidential campaign, Trump chose to use Young’s famous 1989 track. Young is Canadian, but that doesn’t mean he’s not familiar with and active in American politics. Through a record company spokesman, a disgruntled Young responded: “Donald Trump was not authorized to use 'Rockin’ in the Free World’ in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America.”
Trump’s campaign maintained it had gone through the proper channels and paid performing rights organizations for use of the song.
Newt Gingrich - Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”
The Kim Davis incident was not the first time that the rockin’ Rocky theme has been appropriated by a Republican candidate. Back in 2012, then-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich used the song at his campaign rallies, but apparently forgot to ask permission. The above-mentioned Sullivan, a co-writer on the song, sued, alleging the Gingrich had been using the song for three years prior. “I’m sure many of you have heard the news about the request for Newt Gingrich to stop using 'Eye of the Tiger’ as his campaign song,” he wrote on Survivor’s Facebook page. “It is not for political reasons, it is strictly an artist protecting their copyright.”
Michele Bachmann - Tom Petty’s “American Girl”
Back when the Minnesota congresswoman was campaigning for president in 2011, she used this 1977 rock anthem as her walkout music. Apparently, Bachman – who also confused legendary actor John Wayne with serial killer/clown fan John Wayne Gacy – wasn’t the type of “American Girl” Petty had in mind, so he fired of a cease-and-desist letter to stop her from using it.
George W. Bush - Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”
In 2000, during his first campaign for president, George W. Bush tried to get tough with his use of this 1989 rocker. Petty wouldn’t back down, either, and had his music publisher draft a letter to the future president. “It has recently come to our attention that your presidential campaign has been using the above-referenced song in connection with your presidential bid,” Wixen Music Publishing president Randall Wixen wrote. “Please be advised that this use has not been approved… Any use made by you or your campaign creates, either intentionally or unintentionally, the impression that you and your campaign have been endorsed by Tom Petty, which is not true.”
George W. Bush - Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These”
When W was running for re-election in 2004, he tried to turn on crowds with the use of the Foo Fighters’ hit. Dave Grohl did not approve this message. “I was personally offended that George Bush was using 'Times Like These,’” Grohl said. “I know what I’m singing about and it basically mirrored what John Kerry’s campaign was trying to represent.”
Rock ‘n’ roll and politics often make strange bedfellows – especially on the campaign trail, when candidates will occasionally play songs at their political rallies, only to learn that the creators of those songs do not share their political views.
It’s happened time and time again. In fact, it occurred twice just this week. First, Republican Mike Huckabee chose Survivor’s Rocky III anthem “Eye of the Tiger” to welcome anti-gay-marriage Kentucky country clerk Kim Davis out of jail (after she was ordered there for refusing the Supreme Court’s order to issue same-sex marriage licenses). Survivor’s Frankie Sullivan was none too pleased.
A couple days later, the trio of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Sarah Palin joined forces in a rally to protest President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, and they used R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” as their walkout music. Singer Michael Stipe did not feel fine about this – and he issued a particularly pointed statement.
It seems that politicians never learn. And with election season kicking into high gear soon, this is probably not that last time that this will happen. History will keep repeating itself. With that in mind, here’s a look at some other notable times when political figures’ use of rock songs resulted in controversy.
Donald Trump - Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”
You’d think Trump would have avoided the “End of the World” situation by learning from his earlier mistake, but it often seems like the Donald doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
Back in June when he announced his presidential campaign, Trump chose to use Young’s famous 1989 track. Young is Canadian, but that doesn’t mean he’s not familiar with and active in American politics. Through a record company spokesman, a disgruntled Young responded: “Donald Trump was not authorized to use 'Rockin’ in the Free World’ in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America.”
Trump’s campaign maintained it had gone through the proper channels and paid performing rights organizations for use of the song.
Newt Gingrich - Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”
The Kim Davis incident was not the first time that the rockin’ Rocky theme has been appropriated by a Republican candidate. Back in 2012, then-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich used the song at his campaign rallies, but apparently forgot to ask permission. The above-mentioned Sullivan, a co-writer on the song, sued, alleging the Gingrich had been using the song for three years prior. “I’m sure many of you have heard the news about the request for Newt Gingrich to stop using 'Eye of the Tiger’ as his campaign song,” he wrote on Survivor’s Facebook page. “It is not for political reasons, it is strictly an artist protecting their copyright.”
Michele Bachmann - Tom Petty’s “American Girl”
Back when the Minnesota congresswoman was campaigning for president in 2011, she used this 1977 rock anthem as her walkout music. Apparently, Bachman – who also confused legendary actor John Wayne with serial killer/clown fan John Wayne Gacy – wasn’t the type of “American Girl” Petty had in mind, so he fired of a cease-and-desist letter to stop her from using it.
George W. Bush - Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”
In 2000, during his first campaign for president, George W. Bush tried to get tough with his use of this 1989 rocker. Petty wouldn’t back down, either, and had his music publisher draft a letter to the future president. “It has recently come to our attention that your presidential campaign has been using the above-referenced song in connection with your presidential bid,” Wixen Music Publishing president Randall Wixen wrote. “Please be advised that this use has not been approved… Any use made by you or your campaign creates, either intentionally or unintentionally, the impression that you and your campaign have been endorsed by Tom Petty, which is not true.”
George W. Bush - Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These”
When W was running for re-election in 2004, he tried to turn on crowds with the use of the Foo Fighters’ hit. Dave Grohl did not approve this message. “I was personally offended that George Bush was using 'Times Like These,’” Grohl said. “I know what I’m singing about and it basically mirrored what John Kerry’s campaign was trying to represent.”
They may not usually be known for being fast movers, but Bertie is the tortoise equivalent to Usain Bolt.
 
At his home in Adventure Valley, a family adventure park in Brasside, Durham, UK, Bertie sprinted over a 5.48 m course set at a gradient of 1:12 in a speedy 19.59 seconds, consequently winning his title as the Fastest tortoise in the world.
 
During his record-breaking run, Bertie reached an incredible speed of 0.28 m/s (0.92 ft/sec), absolutely smashing Charlie’s (UK) previous record of 0.125 m/s which had been unchallenged since 1977.
 
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Bertie’s proud owners Marco Calzini and his wife Janine explain that when they discovered Charlie’s record, they tested Bertie against it and he beat it every time.
 
They made an application for the record, and although slightly worried that Bertie might not feel like performing on the day, his skill was not to be undermined.
 
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Since achieving his Guinness World Records title, Bertie has become a local celebrity at Adventure Valley.
 
He now lives in a luxury enclosure with his girlfriend Shelly and his Guinness World Records certificate is proudly displayed on the wall.
 
Speaking of Bertie’s inclusion in 2016 book, owner Marco said, “I used to collect the Guinness World Records books – my first was the 1980 edition – and I fondly remember seeing them all in the shops. To be in the book is a dream come true, a massive achievement!
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson became an overnight hero to conservative commentators and activists. (Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)
One of my least favorite journalism clichés is what I like to call the trick lead. That’s the one where the crafty writer starts a piece by making you think he’s talking about one thing, when really he’s talking about another.
The well-liked vice president badly wanted to run, but everyone knew the boss was behind his anointed successor, and the party was closing ranks fast.
Joe Biden in 2015? No! It was Charles Fairbanks in 1908!
You know, that kind of thing.
But if I actually were the kind of writer who would begin today’s column with a trick lead, it would go something like this:
The political neophyte has now surged to the top of the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, where he’s defying the expectations of pundits and establishing himself as a serious threat for the Republican nomination.
Donald Trump? No! I’m talking about Ben Carson!
If you haven’t been paying close attention to the non-Trump Republican field this year — maybe because it’s a little like studying a “Where’s Waldo?” poster where everyone kind of looks like everyone else, except that no one is actually Waldo — then let me enlighten you.
Carson is a flat-out genius (even if he doesn’t believe in evolution). Raised by a single mother in Detroit and educated at Yale, he went on to medical school and became, at 33, the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. Not long after, he led a team of doctors in the first-ever operation to divide twins who were joined at the head. Then he turned the spelling bee world upside down by successfully implanting the brain of an Oxford professor in the skull of a fourth grader.
OK, that last part is entirely made up. But you know he could if he really tried.
Carson has never held elective office, or even run. But as the legend goes, in 2013 he spoke at one of these National Prayer Breakfasts in Washington, where he denounced the health care law and liberal government generally while standing just a few feet from President Obama, and overnight he became a hero to conservative commentators and activists.
Heeding their call, he jumped into the presidential field last May and is now in second place and gaining on Trump in Iowa. If you made me guess today, I’d say he probably wins the caucuses.
Oh, one other thing, in case you didn’t know: Carson is African-American.
It’s hard to square this with the Republican Party you hear about if you watch cable news (otherwise known these days as “Trump TV”) or hang out much with urban liberals. Conservative ideologues are supposed to be race-baiting and enraged, fueled by nativism, resentment and a deep loathing of our first black president, who they insist is a Muslim.
A Carson supporter holds copies of his books as he speaks during the Iowa State Fair. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Yet here is Carson, surging into second place in virtually all-white primary states, surpassing Jeb Bush and leaving archconservative candidates like Scott Walker and Rand Paul in the dust. And he’s not at all angry. While Trump just about writhes with insecurity and calls everybody in politics an idiot, Carson projects an easy confidence and barely speaks above a whisper.
So how do we explain Carson’s appeal?
It’s not as if he has some incredibly creative agenda. Reading through the positions on Carson’s website is like spending a few hours at an amusement park called “Banal Land.” He’s pro-life, pro-balanced budget, pro-gun, pro-traditional marriage. On the one issue where he’s less than a reflection of accepted dogma, Carson supports a guest worker program for immigrants, which should hardly endear him to conservatives.
Carson doesn’t pretend to know very much about governing or foreign affairs in particular. His campaign manager, Barry Bennett, told the New York Daily News: “The man is a world-renowned brain scientist. … I think he can memorize a list of world leaders.” Which is kind of like Bobby Jindal saying, “Hey, I’m a Rhodes scholar. I’m pretty sure I can figure out how to surgically separate a couple of brains.”
Nor has Carson done anything special to seize his moment, in the way that Newt Gingrich took over the debate stage four years ago. For whatever reason, Carson was barely given a chance to speak at the first debate last month, and his only memorable moment came when he pointed that out.
No, what makes Carson compelling to a lot of people, clearly, is the power of his personal narrative. As I’ve written a few times recently, we live in a moment when, as the social critic Neil Postman predicted exactly 30 years ago, politics has merged fully into entertainment, when characters and story arcs have supplanted expertise and worldviews.
Much like candidate Obama, who cast himself at the center of an inspiring docudrama in 2008, Carson is running as the embodiment of a story we still like to tell ourselves about America — a story about enduring opportunity and equality, the triumph of parenting and will over circumstance and prejudice.
It’s the kind of stuff that makes for an emotional TV movie. In fact, it did! TNT aired “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story” back in 2009. It starred Cuba Gooding Jr., of “Jerry Maguire” fame. Show me the cerebral cortex!
And in this way, Carson isn’t actually all that different from Trump, really. Their presentations bear no resemblance, but their appeal is rooted in the same cultural shift. Trump is reality TV, explosive and unscripted. Carson is a miniseries, evocative and reaffirming.
There’s a danger in attaching such significance to inexperienced politicians, as we’ve learned. Obama spent too much of his presidency improvising a governing philosophy and figuring out how to deal with vast bureaucracies and recalcitrant adversaries. As much as Democrats may hate to hear it, the truth is that someone with more political experience would probably have found his footing a lot sooner.
Carson is running as the embodiment of a story about the triumph of parenting and will over circumstance and prejudice. (Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP)
Carson seems like a good guy and a great mind, and if one of my kids ever needed brain surgery, I’d bang down a thousand doors just to get in a room with him. But that doesn’t mean I want him rushing to the Situation Room when some terrorist group in Pakistan makes off with a nuclear weapon.
And yet it’s hard to blame voters for seeking some inspiration, and some authenticity, when all these governing-ready politicians seem so much the opposite. It’s hard to begrudge them their penchant for a moving story when all they get from the leading establishment types, too often anyway, are platitudes and artifice.
It was embarrassing to watch this week as Hillary Clinton’s campaign aides, speaking to the New York Times’ Amy Chozick, laid out a methodical plan for her to be more spontaneous, without a hint of irony. “I can have a perfectly fine life not being president,” Clinton herself told ABC’s David Muir, which must have sounded bizarre to voters who consider lives with healthy families and stable careers to be a lot more than perfectly fine.
Candidates like Clinton and Bush have to be more than humanistic renderings of long résumés and safe policies meant to shore up one constituency or another. In the age of narrative politics, the governing candidate has to tell a story that resonates, too — about how the country can look in 20 years, about the sometimes wrenching choices we’ll have to make to get there, about how you transcend bitterness and entrenched ideology.
Carson’s narrative may not have a whole lot to do with governing the country. But, you know, at least it’s real.


"I got a good life, man."

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Rapper 50 Cent filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in July, but he's not so cash poor that he can't afford to put the finishing touches on a new home in Africa -- and brag about it.
This past weekend, the 40-year-old shared an Instagram video showing off his new place.
“My crib is almost finished in AFRICA," he wrote without specifying which country his new home was built in. "I’m gonna have the craziest housewarming party ever. I’ll explain later. I got a good life, man."
If it seems strange for a man who just filed for bankruptcy to be showing off his new (and expensive-looking) house, well, the filing is a protective financial move that came three days after a judge ordered the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, to pay a woman $5 million in damages after it was determined he posted a 2009 sex tape online without her permission.
More proof that the filing is purely strategic comes from 50 Cent himself, as he told E! News in July that he took the necessary precautions that any "good businessperson" would take in his situation.
"You know when you're successful and stuff, you become a target. I don't wanna be a bull's-eye," he said. "I don't want anybody to pick me as the guy that they just come to with astronomical claims and go through all that."
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Now that summer is upon us, hordes of electronic-music fanatics are heading to fields, deserts, beaches and cities for weekends of sensory overload at festivals around the world. The bass will rattle their bones and the drops will elicit screams as DJs spin the hottest tracks of the season against dizzying light shows and wild stage designs. Peering up at those stages, however, you'd be forgiven for asking a familiar question: Where are the women?

Certainly women have been making and playing dance music for decades, from '90s rave headliner Sandra Collins to early-aughts techno champ Ellen Allien. The proportion varies depending on genre -- you'll likely see more women playing techno or house than hardstyle or dubstep -- and nationality, as many of today's leading female DJ/producers are based in hotbeds like the UK and Germany. The artists profiled here aren't newcomers to dance music; each has spent years honing her craft but is reaching a career peak right about now. They're spread out from Birmingham, UK, to Los Angeles and range in style from Ibiza-friendly techno to forward-minded hip-hop. And gender aside, they are five of the DJs and producers whose music you need to start bumpin' right now. 


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HANNAH WANTS

Born Hannah Alicia Smith, Hannah Wants was too young to be inside the Birmingham nightclub that sparked her passion for DJing. She saw the DJ booth above the dance floor and how the guy behind the decks could move the crowd with his choices. "I knew that was what I wanted to do," she says.

Wants began her career playing variants of garage. These days her sets lean toward house, but she's still influenced by the bass-heavy sound that was popular in her hometown when she started playing a little more than a decade ago. It wasn't an easy journey. It took three years for Wants to get a paid gig -- she spent a lot of time playing in small pubs. Things started to turn around when she spent four months of her gap year in Ibiza. She won some DJ competitions, played a major club on the island and booked her first UK residency, at the Rainbow in Birmingham. Now she's part of BBC Radio 1's programming and has her own party brand, "What Hannah Wants," which she uses to push her favorite DJs, like British up-and-comer DJ Barely Legal. Stateside, Wants played her first HARD Summer festival in Southern California last year and was floored by the crowd that turned up.

As her career continues to soar on an international level, Wants is noticing more women taking to the decks in her hometown -- a microcosm, one hopes, of the EDM community at large. "There is definitely a lot more than one in the local Birmingham scene now," she says. 


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KATE SIMKO

When Chicago-bred Kate Simko was a teenager in the late '90s, the Midwest electronic underground was massive. Among the now legendary DJs that came from her hometown were members of the all-female collective Superjane: DJ Heather, Colette, Dayhota and Lady D. "I idolized them," Simko says. She reminisces about DJ Heather's sets, which were filled with faster-than-average house beats and intimidating mixing skills. "She just tore it up."

Simko herself didn't intend to be a DJ. She landed a spot at Northwestern University's college station and picked up gigs at local bars just to make some extra money while in college. But Simko, whose background is in piano, was interested in production. After collaborating with Chilean producer Andrés Bucci, she started playing electronic music live on stage, which led to more DJ gigs.

Currently Simko is earning rave reviews for the single "Bring It," a collaboration with fellow Chicagoan Tevo Howard released through mega-DJ Sasha's label, Last Night on Earth. She's also working with her project London Electronic Orchestra, which mixes beats and strings. Simko is going back and forth between live performances with London Electronic Orchestra and DJ gigs, with the latter carefully planned for each city on her itinerary. "You get to know your audience," she says. "As a DJ, I'm happy when they're happy." Now based in London, Simko sees the differences between dance music communities in the US and Europe and notes the number of female producers -- like Maya Jane Coles and Laura Jones -- emerging from the UK. If the US catches up and a new generation of Superjanes emerges, Simko is all ears. 

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LADY FAITH

At 150 beats per minute, hardstyle gives dancers more of a workout than the average jam. "Your body uncontrollably starts moving to it," says Faith Leedman, aka Lady Faith, an eight-year veteran of the DJ scene and one of hardstyle's biggest proponents.The kick-heavy sound isn't particularly club-friendly. "There's a lot of jumping involved," she says of the accompanying dance style, adding, "It does not necessarily go hand in hand with alcohol." Hardstyle is big on the festival circuit, though, and that's where the L.A.- based DJ has amassed a devoted following known as "the Faithful."

Lady Faith lived in Iran until she was seven and Portland, Oregon, until she was 18; she caught the DJ bug soon after settling in Los Angeles. She doesn't recall the name of the woman behind the decks at now-defunct Sunset Strip hotspot the Key Club -- only that the DJ was spinning hard house on vinyl while wearing vinyl (purple vinyl, to be precise) -- but she was immediately inspired. She spent years bedroom-DJing before a friend of a friend offered her a warm-up slot at a party. Lady Faith played as the crowd filed in and watched as the dance floor quickly swelled."I was shaking the entire time," she says, "but I got through it, and I actually did a really good job."

Today, when Lady Faith hits the festival stage, she might drop one of her own tracks, like the Persian-influenced "Donyaye Man" (Farsi for "My World"). She's one of a very few women in the hardstyle scene, and that can be rough -- especially on social media, where one commenter recently asked if Lady Faith could actually mix or was booked for her looks. But this could change soon: she hears from other women who have been inspired by her to take to the decks. "I'm absolutely there for them," she says. 

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LAURA ESCUDÉ

By day, Laura Escudé works behind the scenes for some of the biggest artists in hip-hop and dance music. The L.A.-based Ableton Live wizard has programmed live shows for artists ranging from Porter Robinson to Kanye West. When she's not working on other people's shows, Escudé plays and releases music as Alluxe, developing a style she calls "futuristic hip-hop."

Trained as a violinist, Escudé gravitated toward electronic music in college. At first, her work was within the realm of Warp Records-style intelligent dance music (IDM), but eventually it evolved into something more accessible. "I feel that it's a bit experimental still," she says, "but it's more hooky and danceable and relatable now." She has also teamed up with a few ear-catching vocalists. Hip-hop artist Mr. MFN eXquire takes a turn on the mic for Escudé's "Stay the Same," which dropped in May.

Escudé cut her teeth playing L.A.'s most influential parties, like the Do Lab and Low End Theory. "I consider myself a 'controllerist,'" she says. Like the turntablists who ruled the vinyl era, she manipulates sounds -- but with MIDI controllers instead of a set of Technics 1200s. "It's never the same show twice," she says.

Escudé sees a positive change in the number of female producer/DJs emerging and getting the acclaim they deserve. "I know so many badass women who are starting to come out and become more recognized," she says, "and I think that's amazing."

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NICOLE MOUDABER
When Nicole Moudaber returned to the decks this past March, after a two-month break, Miami's Winter Music Conference was in full swing and her two parties -- MoodDAY and MoodNIGHT -- were sold-out hits."It's a good way to kick-start the year," she says.

Moudaber, who lived in Nigeria and Lebanon before settling in the UK, is at the top of her game. Her sets push the boundary between heavy-duty techno and deep house and can last for eight to twelve hours. She has a residency at Ibiza's DC10 and is set to play the legendary Glastonbury Festival this summer. Now that party goers in the States are going beyond what she calls "pop dance" and delving deeper into underground sounds, Moudaber, who played Coachella last year, is plying her trade here, too. A recent North American stint involved 19 flights.

Touring aside, Moudaber found time to head into the studio and work on tracks with Skin, best known as the vocalist of beloved British rock group Skunk Anansie, for an EP to be released this summer.

Moudaber tells me she doesn't know why female DJs are so often asked to weigh in on gender-related challenges in their field. There are, of course, many trials that come with DJing (like the relentless travel), but for Moudaber, being a woman isn't one of them. "I personally don't find it difficult, because it's a path that I chose," she says. "And when the music is good, it's going to be heard, whether you're a guy or a girl."

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It seems like you can't open a magazine or click on a link without finding an article lambasting our contemporary dating practices in general and Millennial habits in particular (with Nancy Jo Sales' piece for Vanity Fair about twentysomethings and Tinder being one of the most recent examples). While the current dating scene can be disappointing, it's easy to forget that finding true love has been an exercise in disappointment for eons. So, next time you dip out of a date early and find yourself swiping left with only a slice of pizza for company, remember these ten films that offer visions of love far worse than #GenerationTinder.

Dangerous Liaisons .jpgDangerous Liaisons (1988)

Stephen Frears' adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' scintillating 18th century epistolary novel paints a picture of a glittering society rotting from within, as the acidic and exquisitely bewigged team of Glenn Close and John Malkovich set out to ruin chaste Uma Thurman and Michelle Pfeiffer for their own pleasure and sexual satisfaction. (Cruel Intentions gave us a modern take on the same story, with some fierce late-90s blowouts.) After seeing the destruction wrought by the characters' beautifully composed letters, you won't mind that that cute actor-writer-drummer-waiter never texted back.

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While Ashley Madison and Tinder-induced commitment phobia might seem to Say Something About Our Times, wandering eyes have plagued couples since the first caveman and cavewoman had the talk about being "exclusive." In his adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's famous play, cinematic master Max Ophuls traces a chain of romance through 19th century Paris, with each character beginning with one partner, then moving on to another. Despite the polite period trappings, the film shows that people have always been stepping out on each other.

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In Angela Pope's romantic thriller, newly-divorced Julia Ormond begins an affair with Tim Roth, a man she meets at work. The catch: she works in a prison. That mutual friends function on Tinder may feel invasive sometimes, but it can save you a lot of legwork -- Ormond has to go to the library to find out that her boyfriend (SPOILER!) murdered his wife.

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It's hard to find love in the casual dating scene. It's even harder to find love in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish no-dating scene, especially when you're a teenager who's expected to marry your dead sister's husband. This delicately observed, almost Austen-like romance -- the first widely-distributed film directed by an Orthodox Jewish woman -- is a reminder that having few choices is just as tough as having too many, especially if you're not into guys with payos.

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Much of the conversation about current dating culture paints men as sexually greedy emotional ciphers, carelessly picking up and discarding women, while their sort-of girlfriends helplessly wait for them to settle down. This G.W. Pabst classic flips that dynamic on its head, with iconic force of nature Louise Brooks as Lulu burning through adoring men (and women), leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

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The majority of the moral panic surrounding "hookup culture" and dating apps has focused on heterosexual relationships. But, as any queer single can attest: dating sucks for gay people, too! In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's brilliant adaptation of his own play -- itself based on his real infatuation with a young actor in his theater company -- fashion designer Petra's obsession with a gorgeous young model makes for beautifully, claustrophobically staged emotional torment. Remember that things surely won't go this badly when planning your next meet up on Grindr or Dattch. (Does anyone actually use Dattch?)

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Feeling down because the person you're dating won't introduce you to their family? Dariush Mehrjui's Leila will fix you right up. Starring A Separation's stunning Leila Hatami, the film tells the story of a pair of happily married young newlyweds. When the title character learns that she is unable to have children, her mother-in-law pushes her son to marry a second wife, which slowly tears the couple apart. Never meeting your significant other's mom might feel like a slight, but Mehrjui makes a convincing case for the idea that you're actually #blessed. 

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The data released by OkCupid about the racist preferences common on their website is depressing, but nothing new, as can be seen in Jungle Fever in what is perhaps the best girl talk scene ever committed to film. In one of Spike Lee's loveliest and most elegiac films, Wesley Snipes stars as a married architect who embarks on an affair with his Italian-American secretary. While racism has always played an ugly role in dating and mating, Snipes' romantic woes have additional hellish layers courtesy of Samuel L. Jackson as the crack-addicted brother and Ossie Davis as the thundering reverend father.

In the Realm of the Senses.jpgIn the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Wan, semi-interested dates may be a bummer, but the obsessive couple of Nagisa Oshima's notorious classic makes a little lack of interest look pretty appealing. The controversial film, based on a real incident from 1930s Japan, features unsimulated sex in the story of an increasingly obsessive couple that famously culminates in death by erotic asphyxiation and a severed penis.

The Night Porter.jpgThe Night Porter (1974)

In Liliana Cavani's cult classic, concentration camp survivor Charlotte Rampling unexpectedly encounters Dirk Bogard, the former SS officer with whom she had a sadomasochistic relationship during the war, and the two resume their twisted affair thirteen years after the end of WWII. As it turns out, coming across your ex while swiping through Tinder isn't the worst thing that can happen. 





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Chatting with Kathy Griffin requires letting go of any preconceived notions of time and space. You'll end up somewhere good, but there's going to be a lot of whiplash detours along the way. It's a testament to Griffin's prowess as a stand-up performer (with a Guinness record-breaking tally of stand-up specials), reality-TV star and celebrity bigmouth -- one whose fan base has ballooned since she started gabbing directly with them via social media in recent years. But as I learned during our call, Griffin's rapid-fire online engagement with her audience also comes with its own pitfalls -- something she has learned, like so many of her life lessons, the hard way. Here she is, in her own words.
Maserati o'clock
The time thing is truly something you have to learn. Earlier in my career, I didn't quite get that good shit actually does take time. I used to make fun of these middle-aged guys in L.A. with their Maseratis. And now I have one. I realized, "Oh! I had to be old before I could get a Maserati." I couldn't afford one when I was a temp and I was 25.

Releasing the Twitter-kraken
I have a love/hate relationship with social media. I see certain things on the news or I hear through the grapevine that someone has "gotten in trouble" for what they said on Twitter. I feel that, frankly, if you're a comic, you really do get a pass. There aren't that many stand-ups and there are very few female stand-ups. You gotta give one group a pass to be inappropriate. If it's a comedian that someone is pulling up a joke from three years ago, don't even go there with me. It'll make me wanna be more outrageous. [But] I do have to limit myself, because sometimes I go a little crazy. I was doing this Twitter Q&A and it was after I had done two shows in Seattle and I couldn't sleep. I very innocently got a question, which was: "Who was the biggest douchebag in Hollywood you've ever met?" And I said, "Oh, probably Demi Lovato." And then all of a sudden people took it very seriously, and there were 23-year-olds in their parents' basement threatening to kill me. I'm now a little more savvy about who is out there.

Wild weeks and dinner club with Paris
I have a week coming up where I'm doing seven shows and they're consecutive. And on a week like that, I'm a complete vampire. Obviously I have to be at the top of my game at 8 P.M., so that's not when I want to be winding down. It's in my best interest to stay up till four in the morning watching a lot of very bad television so I can go on stage the next night and talk about which Duggar has decided that, because of a certain scandal, they're gonna be a missionary for a while outside of the United States. I do a shit-ton of talk shows. I'm also very into the dinner party sitch. I have a posse that I hang with in Beverly Hills. They're called the Loop Group, and it's everyone from Sidney Poitier to Jackie Collins to Michael Bolton to Paris Hilton. It's this crazy combo of people who are Beverly Hills mafia. The older folks I like the most -- the living legends like the Rickles -- because they have the best stories. But sometimes I'll put up with the kids. And by "the kids," I mean anybody under 90.

Tick-tock you don't stop
I am hardwired to be writing 24/7. My act is very improvisational and that's why I have done 23 stand-up comedy specials for television. I can't stop coming up with material because of the ever-changing nature of pop culture, politics, my own crazy family, some interaction I had on the way to the show in Knoxville, celebrities I met on a talk show. That is the great thing about the world we live in: it's fluid, and that's a comedian's dream. I'm constantly jotting things down. I'll wake up in the middle of the night and write something down. I'll put something in my iPhone in my notes. On the way to the show I have an old-fashioned notebook and I just jot things down that I see on the way there. I'm just kind of constantly thinking about the next show.

Forever 25
My good friend Cher said something to me that really rang true. She was joking around but she said, "I don't know what to do. No matter how old I get, I feel 25." And I really, really know what she was talking about. I feel the exact same way. I don't know what to tell you. I feel 25. I am definitely living the hope that, no matter what your real age is, you do whatever you feel like doing as much as you want. And if it's not fun, get out, because it all has to be fun. Earlier in my career I thought it was all about the achievements and being maybe a little too competitive, and now I realize it's really all about fun. Like, it took me time to get here but the more fun you have, the more success comes your way. I swear to God that's true.

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150806-KELSEYRANDALL-04-435.jpgKelsey Randall
Before graduating with honors from Parsons' fashion department, Kelsey Randall studied art at The Oxbow School, Savannah College of Art and Design, and School of the Art Institute Chicago. Then she worked under Prabal Gurung and Peter Som at Bill Blass before a 7-year stay at the French brand Lilith. Resume: check. But Randall's frilly minimalism speaks for itself -- attracting both zeitgeist-y girl gangs and in-the-know Upper East Side Queen Bees.

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If you know Sandy Liang, you know her shaggy faux fur coats, which were already being worn by East Village cool girls before she graduated from Parsons and launched her collection in 2014 (Kate Foley and Hanneli Mustaparta were first season supporters). But beyond the vibrantly textured outerwear, her full ready-to-wear collection is worth getting into. Liang's use of pale color and '90s silhouettes, offset with baggy wide-leg jeans or a kicky cropped-flare gives major feminine cool. 

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A modern American sportswear brand founded in 2014 by industry alums Alex Gilbert (who previously founded one of the first fine denim brands, Paper Denim & Cloth) and Jennifer Noyes (ex-Prada womenswear director), that harks back to the crisp ease of 1980s Calvin Klein. With a soft launch during June's Resort 2016 market, where they showed a colorful and comfortable collection of elegant separates, M. Martin's New York Fashion Week show this Thursday marks the line's official debut.

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This Harlem-born brand, founded by Rio Uribe, first caught major attention when they staged a guerilla fashion show in Washington Square Park last September at New York Fashion Week. At the first ever New York Fashion Week: Men's this past July, Uribe's sense of streetwear and craft won hearts with a circus-inspired collection.

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Andrea Jiapei Li
If Dover Street Market picked up your graduate collection and Rihanna's already wearing your clothes, you've got to be doing something right. The Bejing-born Parsons grad, and V-Files/ MADE Fashion Week alum Andrea Jiapei Li certainty is. Her geometric volumes, mixed with easy sportswear silhouettes in artful color pairings are crowd favorites.

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The Canadian-born, Belgium-based menswear designer -- he received both BA and MA degrees from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp -- lives up to the off-kilter aristocratism his name suggests. MADE Fashion Week and Opening Ceremony have been early supporters of LeFlufy's kaleidoscopic patterns, in perfectly dated styles made with a luxurious hand.

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Founded in New York in 2013 by Laura Vassar and Kristopher Brock, Brock Collection is minimal in aesthetic and conservative in silhouette but eclectic in texture. Their gold lamé dress isn't Studio 54-ready (it has sleeves to the elbow and the hem lands mid-calf) but this sense of eye-catching modesty stops you in your tracks nonetheless.

Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 1.19.10 PM.pngClaudia Li
Claudia Li doesn't consider herself a designer as much as a sculptor of fabric. It's true, her three-dimensional silhouettes take the idea of draping to a whole new level, but her sense of line creates a tailored, wearable balance. Lady Gaga sported a look from her spring 2014 graduate collection from Parsons, and Li's fall 2015 show last February at New York Fashion Week sent art-leaning publications abuzz. 

Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 1.22.27 PM.pngToy Syndrome
The Moscow-born Natalya Nyn started Toy Syndrome as a label of t-shirts and accessories with three-dimensional toy embroideries like plastic lobsters and lizards, the latter of which Lena Dunham posted to her Instagram and wore in season three of Girls. Now, shoutouts from several inspiring alt-chicks later (including Tavi Gevinson), Nyn has a full collection of toy-embellished ready-to-wear you never knew you wanted.

Screen Shot 2015-09-09 at 1.25.09 PM.pngBabyghost
A line from Diane von Furstenburg interns Qiaoran Huang and Josh Hupper (who also interned at Thakoon), Babyghost has a playful sense of pattern but with a slouchy, street-wise edge. With support from full-time models and street-style regulars Xiao Wen Ju and Liu Wen, the brand has slowly risen from the blog brigade to MADE Fashion Week status.
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