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The fourth studio album from indie band Japanese Breakfast released on March 21. (Photo courtesy of Apple Music)

Japanese Breakfast is reflective on their fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’

In “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women),” released on March 21, band frontwoman Michelle Zauner takes a darker approach, with a heavy guitar focus as compared to her electronic-pop background. In an interview with NPR, she describes themes of yearning explored on the album through various storylines. “All of these characters succumb to some sort of temptation or disrupt a balance in their lives and are then grappling with the consequences or regrets of that decision-making,” she said.

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Mickey Barnes’ 17th and 18th versions are both played by Robert Pattinson. (Photo courtesy of IMDb)

‘Mickey 17’: Work. Die. Repeat.

Joon-Ho’s newest film is “Mickey 17,” a science fiction movie about Mickey Barnes, a beleaguered worker played by Robert Pattinson. Mickey joins a mission to colonize the snow planet Nifleheim, sponsored by a mysterious company and religious group and led by former Congressman Kenneth Marshall, played by Mark Ruffalo, to escape loan sharks on Earth. To join the mission, he becomes an expendable, which means that when he dies, the company can reprint his body, allowing him to work dangerous jobs and be a lab rat in lethal experiments.

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Why Don’t We is free after a years-long legal battle. (Photo courtesy of IMDb)

Why Don’t We lawsuit ends after four years

Four out of five members of the boyband Why Don’t We went to court regarding their lawsuit over their management, Signature Entertainment, on Feb. 28. The final verdict of the case was that the band owed $4 and could not use the band’s name in the future, according to Rolling Stone. 

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