The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

A New York Times profile of Kylie Jenner at 26 applauds her for “no longer wearing wigs or bold makeup every day”. And for not “waking up and immediately posting on social media” these days. This, they’re calling “mature” and “sophisticated”. It’s a different tune from when the media lampooned Britney Spears for struggling with fame at the same age. Forget new lipsticks, what just dropped is the bar for maturity.

Cautiously. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bhansali Music debuts with the soundtrack of his film Heeramandi. Bollywood isn’t short of music companies. What we need are more backers for indie music in big-budget projects, folk-inspired OSTs, and firms that give background score composers and artists their due. No Shikayat if you beat the Dholida for new voices.

Them Clones, the 2000s Delhi band, is making a comeback after almost a decade. They were known for their hits, Zephyrette and Speak When I’m Gone. They even started their own music festival in 2011, Clonefest, and created a community that has felt unmoored for years. Can’t wait.

Jack Black made a lot of millennials happy with this cover of Baby One More Time. It’s catchy, it sounds pretty great and we can’t get it out of our heads. He did The School Of Rock in 2003, remember? And did you see him recreate Extreme’s More Than Words with Jimmy Fallon in 2015? More music, fewer dumplings, Po!

Who needs big data when you have superfans? Someone on the internet has realised that American-French actor Timothée Chalamet has the best on-screen dads. They’re right! Call Me By Your Name (2017), Interstellar (2014), Dune (2021-) and Beautiful Boy (2018) were all great examples. Does Chalamet write this into his contract or something?

The Oscars were so boring. No one took fashion risks, everyone behaved themselves, the jokes were basic, the winners were predictable. Wes Anderson won an Oscar for The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar, possibly the most boring thing he’s made. The highlight: The Godzilla Minus One cast and crew all wearing those lizard heels. It’s giving signs of life!