I’ll be honest… I kinda want to know the tea. In April while playing Stagecoach festival, alt-pop star Lana Del Ray threw some major shade at country’s biggest star Morgan Wallen, and it was honestly completely random and no one could really ever figure out why or what the context was. Lana has been dipping her toes in the country world, so to speak, over the last year or so, and she previously said she was going to put out a country album (I have no idea if that will actually happen at this point), and has covered John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man”, and more recently, appeared on The Ryman stage alongside Lukas Nelson to sing “Find Yourself.”  She also appreciates the mainstream side of country, noting previously how much she loves Morgan Wallen’s music. But I’m not so sure things are still fine and dandy between Lana and Morgan because like I said, while at Stagecoach, she debuted a new song called “57.5” which explicitly states that she “kissed Morgan Wallen,” and then says something about how it went to his head… she even warned people not to go “ATV’ing with him when you’re out west.” She also said at the time that it was the “last time” she would ever say that particular line, but I kind of thought she might’ve said that as part of the performance or to stir up publicity, and it was unclear if the whole verse is actually going to be on the final cut. I didn’t really think it would, because that would mean she’d actually have to explain herself at some point, but here’s what she said a couple months ago: “This is the last time I’m ever gonna say this line: “I kissed Morgan Wallen, I guess kissing me kind of went to his head, If you want my secret to success, I suggest don’t go ATV’ing with him when you’re out west” Watch it here: @kickzster Lana what’s the tea w Morgan Lana Del Rey name drops Morgan Wallen at Stagecoach 2025 #lanadelrey #morganwallen ♬ original sound – JC | Festivals | Creator She seemingly waits a few beats where the Morgan line is then keeps going, because you can hear some of the fans yell it while she smiles and then keeps singing rest of the lines about “ATV’ing with him”: @rhiannleighh such a good night #lanadelrey #lanadelrey #lanadelreycardiff #575 #lanatok #cardiff #lanadelreyedit ♬ original sound – rhi It’s obviously a shady remark, but I have no idea if they ever had some sort of fling or not… I don’t think I’ve ever heard Morgan speak about her publicly and they’ve obviously never been pictured together or anything like that, but Morgan is very private when it comes to his dating life, for obvious reasons, so that clearly doesn’t mean they never hung out or anything of that nature. Lana made tons of headlines last year when she married Jeremy Dufrene, just a regular ol’ Louisiana alligator tour boat guide, so it does seem a little weird she would say this since she’s so recently married. Regardless, I definitely think it’s shade and there obviously has to be more to this story. When she sang that line, many of her hardcore fans were upset over it, so they should be happy to find out that Lana seemingly meant that really was the last time she would name drop him in the song, as she performed it again recently and it was gone. This is from a show at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, UK: @dvnielrhh i kissed morgan wallen?? #lanadelrey #principalitystadium #cardiff #lanadelreytour #fy #lanadelreytour #lanadelreyuktour ♬ som original – Daniel de Almeida Fans certainly took notice of the lyric change, and many were in the comments saying they were glad she took it out because, believe it or not (that’s sarcasm, in case it wasn’t obvious), Lana Del Rey fans don’t love Morgan: “Guess she meant it when she said it was the last time she’s gonna sing that line.” “Lmao we sang ‘I kissed Morgan Wallen’ and everyone around us gave us dirty looks.” “SPEAK UP GIRL OMG.” “So she was telling the truth when she said ‘It’s the last time I’m gonna say this line.'” “She said ‘This is the last time I’m gonna ever say this line’ at Stagecoach.” “This is the last time I’m ever gonna say this line” “Oh she KNOWS.” “I was so sad I was ready to scream it.” “She’s said she was only saying it once.” “These lyrics are better than the Morgan Wallen ones.” I honestly don’t know too much about Lana and her lore, to use the hip term, but the whole thing seems strange to me especially because it’s not fair to drop something like that and not share more… I mean, rude. If this song does make an album, like I said before, I highly doubt the line about Morgan would make it, and that seems pretty certain at this point. Lana is a massive pop star, and her using a platform like Stagecoach certainly felt like a choice, and taking it out does too. That being said, Morgan is the biggest thing in music right now, so it seems super convenient to throw it out there… seemingly years later. But I wasn’t surprised a few months ago that she said it, and I’m still not, because shading Morgan Wallen to make some headlines is straight out of the Hollywood playbook these days. And I think there should be a rule that if you do it so publicly, especially about something so juicy, you must share with the rest of the class. That’s just the basic rules of gossip, and no one is exempt… You can watch the Stagecoach performance here: The post Lana Del Ray Removes Line About How She “Kissed Morgan Wallen” From Unreleased Song, & Her Fans Are Thrilled: “We Don’t Like Him” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Not exactly what I think of when I think of a “racy” song. Of course everybody knows the classic John Denver song “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” It’s one of the most well-known songs not only in the United States but also around the world. (Apparently it’s huge in Japan for some reason?) I grew up in West Virginia, and “Country Roads” was basically on par with the national anthem. It’s now an official state song, and even though I moved away from the Mountain State almost a decade ago, I turn back into a feral West Virginian when that song comes on. And of course it’s one of my go-to karaoke songs. But the classic song actually has quite the interesting backstory. There’s always been a lot of debate over whether the song was even talking about West Virginia, because the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River that are mentioned in “Country Roads” are largely located in the state of Virginia and not West Virginia. (Although if you’re from West Virginia you quickly realize that a lot of people don’t even realize those are two different states. No, I don’t live near your family in Richmond). The real story though, at least according to songwriters Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, is that the song was written while driving through Maryland. A couple of years ago, Danoff set the record straight on the song’s meaning – and revealed that the words to the second verse even had to be changed because they were a little too spicy for the song to be played on radio at the time. Danoff and Nivert wrote “Take Me Home, Country Roads” during a road trip through Maryland on their way to a family gathering – but Danoff insists that the song isn’t “about” Maryland, or Virginia, or anywhere, really. “I just started thinking, country roads, I started thinking of me growing up in western new England and going on all these small roads. It didn’t have anything to do with Maryland or anyplace. I’m a songwriter. I was looking for words. The words that I loved in that song were Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. They’re songwriter words, so that got me to West Virginia.” The song obviously ended up being recorded by John Denver, but the writers originally had another country singer in mind to record it: Johnny Cash. But Denver wanted the song, and helped Danoff and Nivert put the finishing touches on the lyrics – including the ill-fated second verse. According to Danoff: “To get it on the radio, we’re going to have to change the second verse, because the second verse wouldn’t make it on AM radio at the time.” In case you need a refresher, the now-famous second verse is: “All my memories gather ’round her Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water Dark and dusty, painted on the sky Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye” So what exactly was the verse that had to be switched up? “In the foothills, hidin’ from the clouds, Pink and purple West Virginia farm house, Naked ladies, men who look like Christ, And a dog named Poncho nibbling on the rice” Yeah, gotta think it was a good call to rewrite that one. It obviously paid off, because after being released in 1971, “Country Roads” has gone on to not only become a state song of WV and a theme song for WVU to play after every win, but it’s also been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry, and Denver’s recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in the 1980s. And as a West Virginian, I’m just thankful that I don’t have to sing about naked ladies and men who look like Christ every time it comes on. The post The Original Second Verse Of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” Was Too Racy For Radio So It Had To Be Rewritten first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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Sometimes, it can feel like half of parenting is repeating yourself over and over again, asking your child to brush their teeth or take a dish from the living room to the sink. It’s exhausting and makes you feel like a nag. Don't you wish there was a simple way to make your kids listen the first time?Dr. Rebecca Kennedy, aka “Dr. Becky,” is a clinical psychologist and founder and CEO of Good Inside who says she has a quick way to make your kids more cooperative and less rude. Talk about killing two soul-crushing birds with one parenting stone. Dr. Becky got into psychology after struggling with anorexia as a teenager.“Okay, no matter how old your kid is, you can use this 15-second tip to decrease rudeness and increase cooperation,” she says in a TikTok video with over 32,000 views. “Find your child today and ask them this question. 'Hey, I was just wondering, what could I do better as your parent?'” A mom and son talk on the couch.Canva PhotosThe psychologist says that even if the child has a random or impractical answer such as “Let me stay up ‘til midnight” or “I’d like to eat macaroni and cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” just to listen. Simply by listening, you can change your child’s behavior.She says we should also ask more questions to further the conversation: “Tell me more. What would that be like?” @drbeckyatgoodinside Want to improve your relationship with your kid in less than 15 seconds? Watch this reel for a quick-win strategy. The best part: When we use strategies like this in calm moments, we reduce the frequency of difficult moments with our kids. Of course, I’m a realist… I know you need in-the-moment strategies too! Cue: My Conquering Problem Behaviors Workshop. You’ll get an entire toolbox of in-the-moment and outside-the-moment strategies for reducing outbursts and strengthening your bond with your kid. Learn more in the link in bio! “I mean, imagine your boss coming to you randomly and asking how they could be a better manager to you. Just by asking the question and listening,” she continued. Dr. Becky says that asking our kids how we’re doing as parents communicates three essential ideas: “I care about you. I respect you. I'm invested in this relationship.”This type of questioning builds a connection with a child that can spill over into other behaviors. “You're building connection. And with more connection always comes more cooperation,” she ends the video.The big takeaway from the video is that when we enhance our connection with our kids, they will be less likely to disobey or be rude because they feel heard and respected, so there’s no need to act out. They will also return that respect by listening to you when you have a request, such as taking out the trash or putting down their phone and coming to dinner.Some people in the comments got funny responses when they asked their kids what they could improve. “I asked my 5yr old. I got a mildly scathing look and she said ‘erm, maybe try and burn dinner less next time?’” one parent wrote. “My 5 yo told me to look better and get a haircut,” another added.Dr. Becky’s quick question is a great way for parents to strengthen their relationships when things are going well instead of trying to forge connections during conflict. It’s a great reminder that even when parenting, an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure. A happy family.Canva PhotosDr. Becky sums up the importance of prevention in her TikTok caption: “When we use strategies like this in calm moments, we reduce the frequency of difficult moments with our kids,” she wrote.This article originally appeared last year.

Millennials in the early 2000s were really enjoying the perks of digital photos and cameras, which were relatively new at the time. I know, it's hard to imagine. We had small, physical cameras with memory cards that we'd carry around with us on a night out, even just to the bar. We would take photos all night—hundreds and hundreds of them. They were blurry, poorly lit, and candid. People were always making awkward faces in the background or being shown at unflattering angles.We didn't care. We posted every single one of them to a Facebook album, tagged our friends, and let them live there permanently. Can you imagine?!Things work a little differently now. Our online lives are a lot more curated. We don't post every photo we take, and in fact, all of us intuitively utilize a careful vetting process when we take group pictures or selfies. We snap the pic, or a few, and immediately go to look how it turned out. If it doesn't meet the standards of how we want ourselves to look in a public facing photo, it doesn't get posted. Worse, it might be deleted on the spot, the memory of that moment vanishing forever. Take me back to when we hardly cared what we looked like in selfies. Giphy 25-year-old Emma-Kirsty Fraser has a theory on why we seem to be so much more selective, even flat out disgusted, with pictures of ourselves these days: It's the damn zoom.In a recent Instagram reel, Fraser posted a photo of herself as the camera zoomed in the parts of her body she tends to over-examine in photos: Her arms, chin, midsection, and legs."Image the brainwashing required to get us to see this," she says as the camera bounces around to all the most self-critiqued parts of her body. "Instead of this!"The camera then cuts to the full photo, of Fraser laughing and chatting with friends. It's a fun and beautiful moment, full of life. It captures a moment in time, friendship, love, and joy. No one in their right mind would see the photo and have any thoughts whatsoever about the shape of her chin or the size of her arms. But we've all been conditioned to hyper-analyze every pixel when it comes to our own body and how we think we come across in photos."ZOOM OUT I beg ... I think it’s quite terrifying when you realise how much brainwashing it took to get you to zoom in and criticise yourself in so much detail? Like if you showed 8 year old Emma a photo of herself there’s no way she would zoom in," Fraser captioned the post."There is so much more to life than the way your body looks and I promise you’ll look back at those photos (because you’re not going to delete them anymore!!!) and see the bigger picture, not your skin/body/blemishes." See on Instagram Believe it or not, "pinch zooming" in on photos is a relatively new phenomenon that cropped up within the last 20 years.Most experts credit (or blame, depending on your point of view) the iPhone with innovating and popularizing the feature around 2007. In a few years, it was available on Android phones as well. It didn't take long from there for us to ditch our Nikon Coolpix cameras and start exclusively taking photographs on our phones, quickly learning that we could spot and delete our double-chin moments before anyone saw them.(Smartphones with cameras officially overtook digital cameras around 2007 but didn't become completely ubiquitous until about 2012-2013.)The world, and our body image, was never the same. Resist the urge to zoom in on your most sensitive features. Photo by Antoine Beauvillain on Unsplash Fraser's post went viral, racking up 30,000 Likes on Instagram and over three million views.Commenters were so grateful for the message they so desperately needed to hear:"the fact i saw this picture and ONLY thought about how it was such a beautiful candid & captured your vibe perfectly""At first ... I saw nothing wrong with her. But if this was a photo of ME, tell why would I suddenly see all the flaws?""At first, I thought we were talking about the tattoos, the accessories, etc. because I saw nothing wrong with her. But if this was a photo of ME, tell why would I suddenly see all the flaws?""I'm 41, I still really REALLY struggle with this, I zoom in on every photo and criticise every flaw and a "bad" photo can bring down my body image for days. But I've started refusing to delete and coming back to photos after a day or so and slowly I'm learning to realise they often aren't as "bad" as my initial reaction would suggest.""I struggled to see what you were talking about but then I imagined if it was me and I could see what might be perceived as issues. Kinda sad."Fraser's words really struck a nerve, and she managed to capture a feeling and phenomenon that we all intuitively understand but rarely talk about.When we look at photos of others, we see the big picture. We see their smile and the emotion of the photo, we take in the moment. We don't nitpick. So why do we do it to ourselves?Body image and pressure to look "perfect" is about as bad, or worse, than its ever been—in part because the online world is so heavily curated. Real people are quieter and harder to find on social media, and instead we see more and more perfect-looking influencers and celebrities. Photos are easy to edit, touch up, or apply filters to. The real, blurry, awkward photos of the early 2000s are gone and probably never coming back.But we can fight back in one very simple way. Just zoom out. Don't inspect your belly, your smile, or whatever your perceived flaws are. Enjoy the picture for what it is, a snapshot of a moment in time. Try to view it like a stranger would. And, for the love of God, don't be so quick to delete the memories that you can't get back.

It's really interesting what nearly 35 years does to the lens of perspective. When my friend invited me to join her family for their once-a-month movie night, she asked which John Hughes movie she should show her 14-year-old twins. The answer was obvious. It had to be something fun, school-related, and iconic. Ferris Bueller's Day Off seemed to be the perfect choice as we Gen X-ers loved it when we were exactly their age in 1986.The fraternal twins (one boy, one girl) sat down on a rare early Saturday evening when neither had dance practice or a sleepover. We gathered in our comfy clothes, popped some popcorn, and hit "rent now."They were excited by the opening scene, where an adorable Matthew Broderick (doesn't matter what generation one is, he transcends them all) is pretending to be sick in bed with worrying parents. His sister Jeanie is suspicious and exhausted by his antics, but Ferris prevails. He then proceeds to give a brilliant monologue about eating life up and living in the moment. His now-famous line, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” is still plastered in quote books and on Bumble profiles.The twins seemed inspired, and one of them actually teared up in the first five minutes. The opening scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. www.youtube.com, Paramount Pictures, Film Studies Fundamntals Spoilers ahead: the movie is pretty simple. Ferris is a super cool high school kid with a beautiful girlfriend, Sloane, played by Mia Sara. His best friend is a depressed hypochondriac named Cameron, who is played to perfection by Alan Ruck. Ferris skips school a lot (nine times!) and grabs each day by the neck. There are themes of Hedonism, Nihilism, and Taoism, but neither of the twins mentioned that.The first thing both kids DID bring up (after being delighted by the shower monologue) was how privileged the characters were. Affluent Chicago suburbs, after all, was the setting John Hughes knew best. They also noted, as many have over the years, that Ferris seemed rather selfish and insensitive to what others in his life wanted and needed. A Ferris Buellers Day Off Film GIF Giphy Paramount Pictures There have been many conversations over the years about Cameron being the true hero of the film. He has a story arc, unlike Ferris, that is unwavering. He's sad, but pushes through it and even gets the guts up to stand up to his father after a Ferrari incident.In fact, there was a theory that Ferris was a figment of Cameron's imagination—a Fight Club scenario, if you will. Robert Vaux writes on CBR, "The theory holds that the entire day is a fantasy taking place in Cameron's head while he lies sick in bed. His sickness actually supports the theory: once Ferris comes over, it vanishes, and Cameron plunges energetically, if reluctantly, into the events of the day. According to the theory, it's because there are no events of the day. He's still sick at home, and the whole thing is a daydream." Cameron GIF in Ferris Buellers Day Off 80S Giphy, Paramount Pictures I fully expected the twins to have similar thoughts. If not the Fight Club part, at least the idea that Cameron was the true protagonist. But what they (both of them) said instead was shocking. "No," the daughter told me. "I mean, I liked Ferris and I loved Cameron. But it's Jeanie who's the hero here."Jeanie, the sister mentioned earlier, was played with pure rage by Jennifer Grey. She spends most of the movie attempting to narc on Ferris rather than enjoying her own beautiful day. She is angry and determined until…she meets a "bad boy" at the county jail, played complete with bloodshot eyes by Charlie Sheen.Taken aback, their mom pushed back. "Jeanie, the sister? Why?"The son answers, "She just changes the most. She starts out, like, having it in for Ferris. Really, having it in for EVERYONE. And then she just like figures it out." The daughter adds, "Yeah, in the end she was rooting for Ferris. She came the farthest from where she started and she's the one who kinda saved him." Jennifer Grey meets Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. www.youtube.com, Paramount Pictures, Tvoldy23 Gobsmacked, I turned to Reddit for more answers. In the subreddit r/movies, someone recently posted, "Something I noticed about Ferris Bueller's Day Off." They then proceed to drive the Cameron theory forward. "At the start of the film, Cameron is in bed sickly and not really confident in himself, but as the movie progresses, he starts to get more confidence, and by the end, he gains the courage to stand up to his father."A Redditor replies with this thoughtful answer: "I've heard it called a flat character arc when the protagonist doesn't change but is instead the catalyst for those around them to change. It's hard to pull off but is often the most satisfying kind of character. Ted Lasso (especially in season one) is a good example."Others echo that idea, offering up characters like Forrest Gump and The Dude from The Big Lebowski. They stayed exactly the same while the world or others in their lives changed around them. It's described on a YouTube clip as "The moment you realize the main character is not actually the main character." The movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off is dissected. www.youtube.com, Paramount Pictures, CinemaStix This would give credence to the twins' opinion. But I'd never heard anyone choose Jeanie before, and they weren't swayed by Grey's performance in Dirty Dancing because they haven't seen it yet. When pressed one more time, their answer didn't change. "No doubt, it's the sister. She should have a spinoff." Their mom was so proud and we all totally agree.