Selena Deserved Better Than This

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ANYTHING FOR SELENA Selena Deserved Better Than This Moonchild Mixes raises questions about how we honor the dead in 2022.   Photo: Arlene Richie/Getty Images   In a recent viral TikTok, a 21-year-old named Alexis mourns their best friend, Nats, who died in a car crash two years earlier. "My bestie is dead, so girl, I'm really about to put you on," they say, before blasting Bad Bunny's "Tití Me Preguntó" and shaking their ass on Nats's grave. Alexis then kneels and looks at the camera, continuing to twerk, before pointing at the headstone as if to say Your turn. The irreverence toward the dead in this clip fascinates me. Is this disrespectful? Is it what Nats would've wanted? I can just picture her shouting, "Bitch, get off my grave!" or "You're so stupid for this, ho!" All of these playful ways to say I miss you too.  Read The Story » Devour pop culture with us. Subscribe now for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps   • Below Deck Mediterranean: Boatmance Onboard • Industry: Perpetual Present Tense • Kevin Can F**k Himself: Marriage, Right? • The Patient: This Is Not the Way • The Bachelorette: Much Ado About Nothing Stories We Think You'll Like 1. GloRilla Means Business All it took was one song for the Memphis rapper to blow up. 2. Close-Reading Lord of the Rings With the Creatives Behind The Rings of Power The most expensive TV show ever excavates Tolkien's supplementary materials to piece together an epic about the Second Age of Middle-earth. 3. Industry's Marisa Abela Wants to See Yasmin Knocked Down a Peg "I want her to eat a little humble pie, just enough so that she can be sweet." By Esther Zuckerman 4. 'Look, Trust Me' Mo collaborators Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef parse their shared creative language. By Roxana Hadadi 5. Yung Gravy and Addison Rae's Mom Got Something Going On Everything we learned about them against our will. By Zoe Guy 6. The White Lotus Season Two Booked Its Italian Vacation for This October And we've got footage of "Blossom Circle member" Jennifer Coolidge as proof. By Rebecca Alter Today's Crossword 7-Down, 5 Letters: Lizzo bop featuring Missy Elliott   Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Andres Kudacki/AFP via Getty Images, Nintendo, and Robin L Marshall/Getty Images   Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don't have to.   Play The Last of Us. You take control of Joel, a rough-around-the-edges Texan who is one of the dwindling few humans still alive during a viscerally unpleasant fungal-zombie armageddon. Read more from Vulture A Saturday newsletter from the people who make New York Magazine. Sign up to get it every week. unsubscribe   |   privacy notice   |   update preferences This email was sent to alluneed4u1.semail@blogger.com. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get this newsletter in your inbox. View this email in your browser. You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved