Jesse Singer articles

From lyrics that sparked outrage and regret to videos that pushed boundaries, these musicians have come out and said sorry.

The 1970s was a golden age of horror—gritty, inventive, and deeply weird. But while icons like Leatherface and Michael Myers still haunt pop culture, many of their peers faded into the fog. These are the forgotten scream kings and queens, monsters, and maniacs who terrified audiences…then disappeared almost overnight.

A great movie with a low Rotten Tomatoes score. It happens more often than you may think. Just like Ebert turned his thumb downwards to plenty of good movies back in the day, so too has a smashed green tomato adorned the review of a movie that deserves a bright red ripe one. These films aren’t “so bad they’re good.” They’re good, period.

Welcome, time-traveling music lovers! Did your playlist accidentally turn into a crystal ball? Some artists don’t just capture a moment—they predict what’s coming (accidentally or on purpose). From disco doomsday to internet romance, these songs saw the future long before the rest of us caught up. Buckle up—no DeLorean required.

Columbo and Murder, She Wrote couldn’t have been more different—one smelled like rain-soaked asphalt and coffee; the other like tea and typewriter ink. Yet both solved murders that left entire generations glued to the couch. Now, let’s settle it once and for all: trench coat vs. typewriter....

For a while, Peter Lawford was part of Hollywood’s most glamorous crew: The Rat Pack. Until he wasn’t. And that’s when everything started to go downhill.

Absurd, brilliant, and delightfully British, the Pythons made nonsense an art form and left us quoting them for decades. Let’s count down the sketches that best capture their genius, wit, and lunacy (the 25 best, to be specific).

They changed the sound of modern music—but when The Beatles fell apart, so did the friendship at its core. What followed were letters, interviews, and songs that exposed just how much pain—and pride—lingered between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Hollywood has written some wild love stories—but some of the best ones weren’t scripted at all. These romances will make you double-check Google just to be sure they actually happened. Well, let Google rest and come with us as we revisit the celeb pairings that still make fans say, “Wait... seriously?”