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Displaying all articles tagged:
Influences
influences
Feb. 23, 2024
How Meat Loaf,
Elden Ring
, and the Apocalypse Inspired MGMT’s
Loss of Life
“I don’t think I’ve ever played piano like that.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
June 12, 2023
How Britney Spears, Nelly, and the Clipse Influenced Amaarae’s
Fountain Baby
“I wanted to take listeners back to dancing to interesting beats in the club.”
By
Isabel Ling
influences
June 9, 2023
How Tracy Chapman, DeBarge, and a Glass of Wine Inspired Jenny Lewis’s
Joy’all
“I came in and I was like, ‘I want to make something like “Fast Car.”’”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Dec. 23, 2022
The Real Jazz Age Stars and Scandals That Inspired Damien Chazelle’s
Babylon
A character-by-character guide to the silent-era analogues whose real-life exploits inspired Damien Chazelle’s Jazz Age epic.
By
Katie Rife
influences
Sept. 30, 2022
How
Basic Instinct
,
Fight Club
, and Hitchcock Shaped
Do Revenge
Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson on the unexpected cinematic inspirations behind her candy-coated black comedy
Do Revenge.
By
Ilana Kaplan
influences
Sept. 9, 2022
How
Inception
, Jackie Chan, and Prince Inspired Jackson Wang’s
MAGIC MAN
“For this album, I just chose to be me.”
By
Jennifer Zhan
party report
July 29, 2022
How Caroline Calloway’s Jump-Scare Cameo Ended Up in
Not Okay
Writer-director Quinn Shephard slid in her DMs “and we ended up drinking a lot of rosé together.”
By
Lydia Wang
primers
June 21, 2022
Rock and Roll Starts With Sister Rosetta Tharpe
A new Elvis biopic attempts to show her legacy. Here’s just a fraction of it.
By
Craig Jenkins
guides
June 19, 2022
A Brief History of the Club Music Drake Attempts on
Honestly, Nevermind
How did Baltimore club make its way, three decades later, into Drake’s Canadian hands? The clues were all there.
By
Lawrence Burney
influences
May 20, 2022
Alex Garland on
Attack on Titan
,
Notting Hill
, and More of the Influences on
Men
“I just think life is strange, and I’m trying to reflect how strange life feels to me.”
By
Katie Rife
influences
Apr. 13, 2022
The Everything Bagel of Influences Behind
Everything Everywhere All at Once
“We’re very confident about our dumb ideas.”
By
Chris Lee
influences
Dec. 7, 2021
Lindsey Jordan’s Long, Bumpy Road to Creative Control of Snail Mail
“When I worked on
Lush
, I was so overwhelmed. I just wanted someone else to take the reins all the time.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Oct. 5, 2021
Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin Can Do It All
“I love to make something crazy, but I also get a lot of joy from making songs that you want to listen to.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Aug. 4, 2021
Yola Had to Break Music History’s Rules to Make
Stand for Myself
“I didn’t have, ‘You are exploring the depth of your musical life and being an exponent of extreme music freedom, and we’re totally cool with that.’”
By
Justin Curto
influences
June 25, 2021
6 Influences on Pom Pom Squad’s Debut Album
Death of a Cheerleader
Front woman Mia Berrin on everything from
Drag Race
to a Vegas bomb shelter.
By
Zoe Haylock
influences
June 2, 2021
Mannequin Pussy’s Secret to the Art of Surprise
The real Philly band behind
Mare of Easttown
’s fake band threw out the rulebook for their new EP,
Perfect
.
By
Justin Curto
influences
May 3, 2021
Ashley Monroe Listened to Her Gut (and Old Kanye) to Make
Rosegold
“I would get chills when I was hearing these melodies.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Apr. 30, 2021
7 Influences on girl in red’s Debut, From (Yes) Taylor Swift to Low Serotonin
“Like, I’m such a big Swiftie.”
By
Wolfgang Ruth
influences
Apr. 23, 2021
9 Influences on Rebecca Black’s Reinvention, From Madonna to the ‘Friday’ Hate
“Everything that happened to me as a result of ‘Friday’ was a whole other wagon of stuff to go through with a therapist.”
By
Gabrielle Sanchez
influences
Mar. 4, 2021
SG Lewis Is Just Trying to Have a Career Like Pharrell’s
The producer-singer on what influenced his debut album
times
, 2020’s disco revival, and the power of working with Robyn.
By
Justin Curto
vulture guides
Dec. 1, 2020
Keep the Throwbacks Coming After Miley Cyrus’s
Plastic Hearts
With These Albums
From Janis Joplin to Blondie to Ashlee Simpson.
By
Justin Curto
influences
Oct. 28, 2020
Robyn, Queer Clubbing, the xx, and 6 More Influences on Romy’s Debut Solo Music
“Then I realized I was describing Robyn’s music to herself.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Oct. 6, 2020
Taylor Swift, Canadian Singer-Songwriters, and More Influences on
Shamir
“Taylor Swift really taught me how to write a good pop song.”
By
Justin Curto
sanity check
Sept. 2, 2020
Angel Olsen’s Pandemic Sanity Routine Is Pretty Damn Inspiring
Including her new friendship with an elderly widower, a growing fascination with moss, and her desire to become a private investigator.
By
Dan Reilly
influences
May 15, 2020
Björk,
Hairspray
, and 6 More Things That Influenced Perfume Genius’ New Album
“I could feel it when I was a kid and watching
Hairspray:
This makes sense to me
.”
By
Justin Curto
influences
Mar. 3, 2020
Harold and Maude,
Beck, and 7 Other Things That Influenced
Emma.
Director Autumn De Wilde on the movies, music, and TV that inspired her own coming of age.
As told to
Hunter Harris
british comedy
June 11, 2019
How Spike Milligan’s
Q
Paved the Way for Monty Python
Looking back on the surreal sketch show that debuted six months before
Flying Circus.
By
Ramsey Ess
influences
Aug. 30, 2018
5 Extremely ’80s Albums That Influenced Wild Nothing’s
Indigo
Big budgets, weird sounds, and all!
By
Larry Fitzmaurice
influences
June 21, 2018
Perry Mason,
Jimi Hendrix
,
and Other Pieces of Pop Culture David Lynch Loves
As revealed in Lynch’s new memoir,
Room to Dream.
By
Devon Ivie
influences
Jan. 18, 2018
The Best Part of
Riverdale
Is All of the
Twin Peaks
Imagery
That Black Hood couch crawl made me shriek in delight.
By
Devon Ivie
vulture lists
Dec. 15, 2017
Search Party
’s 13 Biggest Pop-Culture Influences
The major cultural landmarks that shaped Dory and the gang, from Alfred Hitchcock to
The Comeback
.
By
Devon Ivie
influences
Mar. 9, 2017
How Garry Shandling’s Unexpected Death Inspired the Most Recent Episode of
Girls
“The truth was that Judd [Apatow] lost Garry Shandling.”
By
Devon Ivie
vulture lists
Mar. 6, 2017
13 Non-Superhero Films That Influenced
Logan
The new Wolverine film draws extensively from the Western, the American road movie, and dystopian sci
-
fi.
By
Kevin Lincoln
influences
Jan. 25, 2017
Michelle Obama Reflects on How Much Mary Tyler Moore Meant to Her
“She was one of the few single working women depicted on television at the time.”
By
Devon Ivie
where you lead
Nov. 16, 2016
Amy Sherman-Palladino Explains Her Cultural Influences
Judy Garland,
Buffy
, KROQ, and more.
By
Rebecca Milzoff
influences
Oct. 27, 2016
Tig Notaro Recalls the Tremendous Influence Ellen DeGeneres Had on Her
“She made stand-up seem like something within my reach.”
By
Jesse David Fox
influences
Sept. 30, 2016
4 Things
Westworld
Will Remind You of (and One Thing It Won’t)
HBO’s
Westworld
is a series that’s layered with familiar influences and previous stories.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
influences
May 4, 2016
Tilda Swinton on Her Bowie-Influenced Role in
A Bigger Splash
The actress on the influences behind her performance in
A Bigger Splash
.
By
Dan Reilly
influences
Apr. 19, 2016
Breaking Bad
and More Influences on
Crazy Ex-GF
Think of Rebecca Bunch as a “bubbly Walter White.”
By
Stacey Wilson Hunt
influences
Apr. 7, 2016
Rising Singer Gallant on His 5 Biggest Influences
The Zane Lowe–approved artist nerds out on Brandy, Prince, Janet, and more.
By
Dee Lockett
influences
Mar. 21, 2016
Better Call Saul
Influences:
Godfather
and More
“We’ve been ripping off Edward Hopper shamelessly over the last two years, at least.”
By
Dan Reilly
influences
Jan. 15, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda on
Hamilton
’s Influences
“The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.”
By
Rebecca Milzoff
influences
Dec. 14, 2015
The Cast of
Fargo
on How They Found Their Voices This Season
“When the words are really, really good, you just try them on and surrender. It’s just like music that plays over you.”
By
Maria Elena Fernandez
influences
Nov. 18, 2015
The Affair
’s Sarah Treem Loves the Elena Ferrante Novels Too
Lenú and Lila 4eva.
By
E. Alex Jung
influences
Sept. 14, 2015
Dr. Who
, Beer, and Other
Rick & Morty
Influences
“Would our moms get this? Would they be entertained by this?
By
Simon Abrams
influences
Aug. 10, 2015
Whit Stillman on 10 of His Biggest Influences
Including Evelyn Waugh, J.D. Salinger, and Alfred Hitchcock.
By
Nate Jones
influences
July 30, 2015
Taxi Driver
,
Girls
, and 7 Other Big Influences on
Mr. Robot
“There’ll be a little bit of a nod to
Dr. Strangelove
in the season finale that people can look out for.”
By
Matthew Giles
influences
July 24, 2015
John Green on 12 of His Biggest Influences
Including Toni Morrison and Jimmy Stewart.
By
Kyle Buchanan
influences
Feb. 12, 2015
Spike Lee on 10 of His Cultural Influences
His latest joint,
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
, opens in select theaters this weekend.
By
Sean Fitz-Gerald
influences
Oct. 9, 2014
Former My Chemical Romance Frontman Gerard Way Explains His Britpop Influences
The New Jersey singer discusses his Lush life.
By
Dan Hyman
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