Instagram’s Close Friends story feature is the spot many of us take to for bare-faced selfies, NSFW content, inside jokes and more, but is it also giving us trust issues? If you’ve made it into someone’s digital inner circle, you must be pretty special and trustworthy, right? Well, since Close Friends has no restrictions on taking screenshots, your private content is very easily shareable. Does it bring people closer together, or does it tear us apart? Lola Christina Alao investigates for Dazed.
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Rated Reads shares our pick of the best articles from around the web. This week: why young musicians are taking control of their estates and why Instagram's Close Friends is giving us trust issues.
Why artists such as Anderson .Paak and Taylor Swift are already considering their legacies
Rhian Jones in The Guardian looks at why so many artists, from Lana del Rey to Anderson. Paak, are already trying to protect their legacies.
“Recently, Anderson .Paak went so far as getting a tattoo asking for no posthumous albums or songs bearing his name be released. ‘Those were just demos and never intended to be heard by the public,’ the ink reads.” Social media is the driving force behind the move, Jones argues, with better information about the industry widespread online.
But above all is the idea that “carefully constructed careers can be tarnished.”
Bitching, backstabbing, and boundaries redrawn on Instagram Close Friends
Natalie Imbruglia: ‘The 90s are back in. Have I just become vintage?’
The 90s legend Natalie Imbruglia is returning 12 years after her last music – and she’s making her comeback just in the nick of time.
“There’s a 90s thing going on right now, so I feel like I’m pretty hip,’ says Natalie Imbruglia, with mischief in her eyes. ‘Is that just age? Have I just become vintage? Is that what this is? Whatever it is, I’m loving it. The 90s are in and I fit into that. Thank you cargo pants that I wore all those years ago. I will wear my Maharishi jacket.’”
She talks with Emily Jupp about her return, having a baby alone, appearing on Neighbours and much more.
Suranne Jones: How the punky soap star became one of Britain’s greatest actors
As Vigil keeps us wrapped up most evenings, Claire Allfree looks in retrospect at why the show’s leading lady Suranne Jones has enchanted the nation.
From Gentleman Jack to the acclaimed Channel 4 I Am series, Allfree argues: “In a career that included an early stint on Doctor Who, playing a humanoid manifestation of the Tardis’s consciousness, alongside an acclaimed performance as a convicted police killer in Unforgiven (2009) and a Yorkshire detective in the longrunning Scott and Bailey (2011-2016), she’s become particularly good at inhabiting women who go through the wringer in their determination to make themselves heard.”
Burning Man goes virtual reality: a quick cuppa, then it’s off to find that orgy in the desert
The Times’ Josh Glancy drops in on Burning Man Festival – virtually. Though the experience isn’t quite the same, he discovers he can reach nearly the same high at home.
Jonny Greenwood on writing the soundtrack for new Princess Diana biopic ‘Spencer’
We’re super excited for the latest Princess Diana flick Spencer, a film that has been the talk of the town this week. In honour of its premier at the Venice Film Festival, NME talked to the film’s composer Jonny Greenwood – a score he struggled not to make reminiscent of “the theme to Antiques Roadshow”.
To emulate Diana’s colourful role within the traditional royal family, Greenwood “suggested we get a baroque orchestra in, so I wrote music in that regular royal style, with kettle drums, trumpets, harpsichords and pipe organs. Then, while they were playing, we substituted the orchestra with free jazz players. They could play those instruments, but we had it mutate into a free jazz performance. That was so exciting, the jazz players were just amazing. The trumpet player, Byron Wallen, blew my mind. That said, at first they were too restricted by the chords. It was like they were trying to improvise to the theme from Antiques Roadshow. The key was to still sound vaguely baroque, while leaving enough space for true anarchy and chaos.”
Inside an Elusive Chronicle of Tilda Swinton’s New Film, Memoria
The Jury Prize-winning film from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria, is accompanied by an alluring table book too. “’As I travelled, I have had many imaginary films in my head,’ Weerasethakul tells AnOther via email, cryptically. ‘They are in this book.’”
He goes on, “The book is an expansion […] to pinpoint the core of emotion I had of Colombia, and maybe of my world in general, at a time.” Focusing on Exploding Head Syndrome, a rare parasomnia, the book unfurls in script notes, diary entries, illustrations and photography.