All posts tagged: irresistible

Clarkson’s Farm review: Laced with Tory dog-whistles, but undeniably irresistible

Clarkson’s Farm review: Laced with Tory dog-whistles, but undeniably irresistible

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails I was about 20 minutes into the new series of Clarkson’s Farm when I realised I quite liked Jeremy Clarkson. This was an ominous development. Had I been the unsuspected victim of a Tory psy-op? What could this mean moving forward? One day, you’re absentmindedly finding the fist-happy Top Gear alumni a little bit charismatic, the next you’re wearing a Union Jack onesie and remarking that “Theresa May wasn’t half bad, was she?” I can’t possibly watch another episode. Just for safety. Clarkson’s Farm is its star’s safe space, his cocoon of light sociopolitical griping and, compared to The Grand Tour, banter with the lads that is nowhere near as depressing. For two series he has invited audiences to watch him plough fields and talk agriculture at Diddly Squat, the 1000-acre farm he bought in 2008 and – up until 2019 – did not help maintain. What initially …

The 3 Womanly Characteristics Men Find Most Irresistible | Christian Carter

The 3 Womanly Characteristics Men Find Most Irresistible | Christian Carter

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When you meet a new man you like, it’s tempting to think you need to actively do something to show him why he should be attracted to you. You might think you need to show him what a great cook you are by making him a meal or helping him with a problem so he sees that you’d make a good partner. But while every relationship needs a balance of give and take, these efforts on your part are not what makes a man attracted to you. The truth is that the women who men find irresistible have certain “attitudes” that draw a man’s interest easily. You can think of these “attitudes” as what you are saying to a man without you saying a word. Your internal emotions, your body language, and your tone of voice all communicate your “attitude” at a deep level. RELATED: What Men Notice First About You — Before Anything Else Here are the 3 womanly characteristics men find irresistible: 1. A woman who won’t settle  This kind of woman won’t settle for a man …

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department review: Irresistible, country-hued tales of relationships past and present

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department review: Irresistible, country-hued tales of relationships past and present

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, comes complete with a handwritten poem titled “In Summation”. In it, an unnamed artist defends a recent romance that she/he insists was “not a love affair” but a “mutual manic phase… self harm… house then cardiac arrest.” And yet there is no defeat here. Swift continues: “A smirk creeps onto the poet’s face/ Because it’s the worst men that I write best.” The album – with a sound that takes the moody electronica of 2022’s Midnights up a gear – goes on to chart the course of a relationship with a lover who has brought “chaos” and “revelry” to the life of a good woman with a reputation to maintain. At times, the singer is swept off her feet by their dangerous chemistry, defending her self-destructive paramour against critics. “He only runs because he loves me,” she swaggers. Other …

The Irresistible Appeal of Rick Rubin’s ‘The Creative Act’

The Irresistible Appeal of Rick Rubin’s ‘The Creative Act’

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The Rick Rubin method: It’s not for everyone. Warm-voiced, flowing, bearded like a deity, the legendary record producer (nine Grammys) is about mindset. He’s about essence. He’s hands-off, allowing the possibilities to manifest, and then abruptly, disorientingly, hands-on, demanding take after take of a guitar solo or vocal line. And if you are, for example, a late-stage rock star from the postwar slums of Birmingham, England, it might all tend to make you a bit grumpy. “I still don’t know what he did,” Geezer Butler, the Black Sabbath bassist and lyricist, told SiriusXM a few years ago, recalling Rubin’s work on Sabbath’s 2013 comeback album, 13. “It was a weird experience … He played us our very first album, and he said, ‘Cast your mind back to then, when there was no such thing as heavy metal or anything like that—and pretend it’s the follow-up album to that,’ which is a ridiculous thing to think.” Ridiculous? Perhaps, perhaps. But if you’ve read Rubin’s mega-selling artist’s manual, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, you’ll recognize …

Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours review – the freshest, most irresistible food TV in years | Television

Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours review – the freshest, most irresistible food TV in years | Television

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If there is a more stultifyingly overdone format on telly than the food travelogue, it is the comedian-and-guest-on-holiday travelogue. Yet here we are with Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours, which combines the two. But you can roll me in flaked almonds and stuff me in your carry-on luggage if it isn’t the freshest new entry in either genre for years. Big Zuu is Zuhair Hassan, who is not a comedian as such – officially he’s a rapper and DJ – but whose guests on his previous series for Dave, Big Zuu’s Big Eats, were mostly standups. There, as Zuu cooked for his temporary companions, he was effortlessly as funny as they were without competing with them. As he steps up to ITV1, Zuu guides a different celebrity through a different foodie destination each week, the contrived challenge being that a dozen local specialities must be consumed in as many hours. Eat the food, believes Zuu, and you will absorb a city’s soul. In the opening episode, an irresistible location – Bologna, Italy – …

“Priscilla” Recognizes the Irresistible Pull of Girlish Fantasies

“Priscilla” Recognizes the Irresistible Pull of Girlish Fantasies

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In Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s sensitive, minor-key portrait of Elvis Presley’s ex-wife Priscilla Presley, there’s a fleeting shot of the King (played by Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi) performing onstage. His back is turned to the camera; as he opens his arms to the crowd before him, he lifts his signature cape and his body blocks out the lights. It’s an unusual perspective. In the many depictions of the icon, Elvis tends to be seen the way his fans saw him: in the spotlight, with his artistry on full display. But Priscilla—as rendered by Coppola and embodied by Cailee Spaeny—had a different point of view. He was a silhouette, a shadow, a man she could not see clearly. Melancholy young women searching for escape are one of Coppola’s favorite subjects, and Priscilla may be her most haunting endeavor thus far. The film, based on Priscilla’s memoir, Elvis and Me, tracks its subject for about a decade of her life, from the time she met her husband-to-be, when she was a 14-year-old ninth grader, to the moment she left …

You can’t hide from Baby Shark’s irresistible appeal | Parents and parenting

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My son has only recently discovered YouTube, but his interests are restricted exclusively to those videos which further his obsession with maths: Numberblocks mainly, as well as kid-friendly explorations of math-related phenomena, which he adores as they fly over his head. We’re sanguine about all this, because we’ve done the sums and are prepared for his eyes to go a little square if it allows him an hour a day to refuel his list of maths questions, rather than repeating the same ones to us, ad nauseum. But mostly, we’re hoping it will rub off on his little sister, who has yet to take to screen time at all. At the moment – since birth in fact – her relationship to us is less ‘child and parent’ and more ‘koala and tree’. For several hours each day, she insists on being carried and no book, toy or activity can dissuade her from this pleasure. My wife and I realised some time ago that the backpain we share is from lifting and holding her for so …