For as uplifting their love songs can be, some of their biggest hits - “Fix You” and “The Scientist” - are depressing as hell, and their new (breakup-inspired) album, Ghost Stories, only cements their place as OG Sad-Boy Pop. Sadness needs to be a recurring theme in the lyrics and/or feeling in the music. There needs to be tears - stated or implied - but the artist can’t just throw out a mournful piano ballad here and there like Elton John or Lionel Richie.
But while nice guys, sensitive dudes, and tender declarations of love are part of the Sad-Boy Pop equation, they’re not quite the same thing. Even Robin Thicke is sad these days, going from “I know you want it” to “I’ll wait for forever for you to love me again.”Īdult Contemporary, the light-touch radio format where pop hits go to retire, historically deals in Nice Guys, from James Taylor to Jason Mraz. Sonically, they couldn’t be more different, but they’re united by their embrace of the melancholy amidst a genre marked by its blissful frivolity. He may be alone emotionally, but Sheeran and a few similar chart-topping artists - like Sam Smith and Bleachers - are together in redefining what it means to be a solo male star in pop circa 2014. In the larger context of mainstream music trends, the acoustic strummer falls under the heading of Sad-Boy Pop. She'll next appear in The Expendables 4 opposite Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Dolph Lundgren, as well as Naya Legend of the Golden Dolphin and Subservience.“It’s alright to cry, even my dad does it sometimes,” Ed Sheeran urges towards the end of X, an album that’s so shrouded in Nice Guy Syndrome that Sheeran deserves his own tackily named subgenre.
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It's just hard as a mom."įox's recent credits include movie Johnny & Clyde and TV series Dave.
"My child is so brave and I know that they've chosen this journey for a reason. Though Fox is "so proud" of her eldest, she does not "want the world to have access to this gentle soul and say all the things that we all know they're going to say," she said. That's also why I don't really put my children on Instagram or social media." "I can't control the things that other children that they go to school with have been taught and then repeat to them. "From the time they were very young," Fox added, "I've incorporated those things into their daily lives so that nobody feels like they are weird or strange or different." But of course, "I can't control the way other people react to my children," she said. (Photo by Alberto Tamargo/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)Īlberto Tamargo/Getty for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Megan Fox HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA - MAY 19: Megan Fox attends the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2023 Issue Release Party at The Guitar Hotel at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on in Hollywood, Florida. And that doesn't even have to have anything to do with your sexuality." You can express yourself through your clothing however you want. Some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress. "Some of the books are written by transgender children.
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"Noah started wearing dresses when he was about two, and I bought a bunch of books that sort of addressed these things and addressed a full spectrum of what this is," she told Glamour UK last year. "This Robby Starbuck person is full of s- and I have no idea who he is."įox has spoken about having open conversations with her children about gender identity, revealing that her eldest has often been subjected to bullying due to his desire to wear dresses. "As a society I hope we continue to push to be better," he said.
Green also slammed Starbuck's claim as "totally bogus" when reached by TMZ over the weekend. You f-ed with the wrong witch."Ī post shared by Megan Fox shares three young sons with ex-husband Brian Austin Green, whom she was married to between 20. "Exploiting my child's gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe," Fox noted, adding that she has "been burned at the stake by insecure narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times and yet I'm still here. "Irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame - never use children as leverage or social currency, especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense." "I really don't want to give you this attention because clearly you're a clout chaser but let me teach you something," Fox began her Instagram post. The star of the upcoming Expendables 4 responded to music video director turned politician Robby Starbuck's claim on Twitter that she "forced" her sons to wear "girls' clothes," which he called "pure child abuse." Don't f- with Megan Fox, who has dealt with her fair share of what she calls "insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men."
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