Narcissist

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Entrepreneurs are often viewed as heroic individuals. It makes sense why: many of the innovations they present promise to change—improve—the world entirely. When they are winning, entrepreneurs become mini-celebrities, like Steve Jobs. When they are losing, however, stories can end in obscurity or notoriety, like for Elizabeth Holmes. …

The British rock group took the stage ahead of the release of their new LP, The Ballad of Darren Blur performed an intimate concert for BBC Radio 2 yesterday at the New Broadcasting House in London. The 13-song performance is available in full to listen to on the BBC website and the British channel has also unveiled videos of several songs. In one clip, Blur showcase their 1994 hit single “Parklife,” which appeared on the rock band’s LP of the same name. The song has become of the…

There are two sides to Blur’s sporadic reunions. There are the live shows – Glastonbury in 2009, a trawl around the world’s festivals in 2012, a global arena tour in 2015, an unexpected one-off performance at one of Damon Albarn’s Africa Express events in 2019 – which are reliably rapturously received: a chance, as Graham Coxon recently put it to “revisit all those great songs”, complete with a distinct emotional charge driven by nostalgia and the evidence that the once-fractured relationships within the band have been…

Kristoffer Borgli’s body-horror satire has had some enthusiastic reviews since it premiered at Cannes last year; I found the Norwegian film unsubtle and unrewarding, exhaustingly implausible on a basic realist level, and containing a jarring obviousness which makes its supposed commentary on society and celebrity all but valueless.It does, however, have a strong lead performance from Kristine Kujath Thorp, who plays Signe, a young woman in Oslo who is in an uneasy relationship with Thomas (Eirik Sæther), an insufferably…

“He’s a monster. He’s a monster — that’s what he is.” This line from the opening moments of “Renfield” — an action comedy that sees Dracula’s assistant, R.M. Renfield, attempting to break away from his narcissistic, manipulative and bloodthirsty boss — isn’t delivered by its titular figure. Instead, it is spoken by a woman talking about her crime-committing boyfriend in a support group for co-dependents that Renfield has been attending. Although Redfield relates to the others in this group, he is attending largely to…

Supporters of Meghan Markle have called for Politico to apologize for an essay that labels her a narcissist, who possesses the same “mix of shameless self-aggrandizement and self-confident charm” as more polarizing and arguably more dangerous figures such as Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Kanye West, Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried. Markle fans say the essay, “2022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists,” is a “depraved” “garbage take” that fuels racism and misogyny against the American Duchess of Sussex by…

Playboi Carti’s Narcissist has rolled out a new cut-and-sew collection.Featured in the collection are an assortment of “mugshot hoodies,” a cropped bomber, multiple hat designs, and more. Prices start at $60 for tank tops and run up to $395 for the cropped bombers. Notably, one of the mugshot designs originally included in the collection appears to have been removed, possibly in connection with social media criticism.Below, get a closer look at the currently available pieces. See more of the collection, which was released…

In a time when flaunting your best self on social media has become a norm, narcissistic traits seem to be everywhere. In today's slang, off-putting behaviors like entitlement, superiority, and self-congratulating are known as 'flexing'. Such traits might be more common these days, but being narcissistic is still seen as a pathological personality trait, akin to being sadistic, manipulative, or even psychopathic.   However, a 2021 study of 270 people with a median age of 20 lends more credit to the notion that…