Let me preface this by saying I listened to Okay Kaya’s album twice through yesterday and it’s back on right now. New fave status for sure. A newer addition to the Brooklyn set, she shows what you can do with a really beautiful voice without veering into basic singer-songwriter territory. Just look at these lyrics: “Would you come with me… To get an IUD? Maybe, if you come with me, I will let you come in me.” That’s just the beginning of her astonishingly clever commentary– dip into Dance Like U for some really sick burns.
Noisey recently asked if Okay Kaya was the future of pop music, and I kind of hope so; with the ‘baby I can’t live without you’s of the 90s now feeling solidly outdated, we’re ready for something new, and why not have honest conversations in this space? That’s a future I’d live in.
This sex toy company Unbound has been in a fight with the MTA over whether or not they can put up their ads in the subway. Facts: the ads are illustrated, and don’t display any obvious sex toys– you only recognize them if you know what you’re looking for. But the MTA’s ad-slotting company, Outfront, rejected them for containing “offensive sexual material” (do you see any?). Unbound is pushing back, citing a double standard in the slew of way-more-sexual ads that *are* allowed in subway cars, like those for erectile dysfunction meds, and all the others that use a woman’s body to sell sex *to men* (Ooh, found the problem!). Thanks to all the press who have covered this so far– smells like a learning opportunity.
A dildo that looks, verbatim, like a penis, is not so exciting if you don’t like dicks. This truth having come to light, sex toy companies are starting to make gender-neutral toys that anyone can use, wherever they choose, without feeling like they’re deviating from some heteronormative expectation. Speaking of that future we’d like to live in.
Chubbies’ll do the trick. That’s the OG contemporary men’s short-short, and ’tis the season. Let’s see some more dude thigh, shall we?
