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Last year, Stel scored a TikTok hit off her first EP, Object Permanence, with “I’ll Take It,” trying on her best Ella Yelich-O’Connor atop some Boy Harsher rave stabs. On the greatest album of all time, her voice is less affected yet further out of reach, persistently clouded by AutoTune and sometimes submerged under the beats, so only her sibilants break the surface. It’s like hearing her through an exceptional high, and the way Stel plays with scale and setting will feel familiar to anyone who’s ever K-holed or greened out: You’ll blink and find you’ve changed locations without consciously moving a muscle. The syrupy “Wedding Song” sends a piano line sauntering down the aisle, then Stel dips into a slurred, singsongy cadence, there’s a trap drop, and it’s like riding shotgun while she raps along to Barter 6 and takes hits off her vape. A puff of smoke drifts over to the following track and becomes the plume of a fog machine as “Now I’ve Got a Lot You Know” warps into a post-hyperpop jock jam.the greatest album of all time operates on an expansive, unstratified taste profile, one in which Carrie & Lowell and 2 SLIZZY 2 SEXY hold equal clout.

Asia Kate Dillon, who starred in shows like “Orange Is the New Black” and “Billions,” took to social media on Tuesday to share that they are looking for service work after their acting work “has all but diminished” after eleven years in the industry. Dillon began their statement by going through previous service jobs they’ve held, from dishwasher to floor manager to food runner. “When I was fifteen, I got my first job in food service,” they wrote, and stayed in the industry until they were able to support themselves full-time as an actor.

There was an 800-pound gorilla in the "Dancing With the Stars" ballroom on Tuesday night, and the show opted to ignore it entirely. Just a few days ago, pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy was given a one-week suspension from Season 35 after a social media post — in which he took issue with judge Carrie Ann Inaba's critique of his wife Jenna Johnson's Week 5 routine — was deemed "inappropriate" by those who run the show. But if you knew nothing about the controversy surrounding Val, Jenna, and Carrie Ann, then you were likely pretty darn confused during Tuesday's episode, which offered viewers absolutely no context for what had gone down behind the scenes. Alan Bersten, who was already eliminated from this season, stepped in as Val's replacement for Week 6, and co-host Alfonso Ribeiro only offered that "Val is not with us this week. " (Alan and Jenna Dewan's performance similarly came and went without any explanation about Val's whereabouts.)