Scene + Heard: Entertainment news round-up
Between the passing of Prince and the issue-setting new album from Beyoncé, it wasn’t a good week if you had something to hawk in the music biz. Sadly we’ve kind of become used to mourning our pop-culture icons of late: It can be a bittersweet feeling because of the number of essential reads and reminisces that follow.
Beyonce’s new ‘visual album’, meanwhile, has already been branded as a pop culture phenomenon. Whether it stands the test of time — and whether we find out who “Becky with the good hair” is, or if it turns out to be the millennials’ version of Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’ — we’ll have to wait and see.
