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First look at the series adaptation of Edith Wharton’s ‘THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.’ Premieres February 18 on Netflix. 🔗 vanityfair.com/story/age-of-…

Update and final outcome regarding Seokjin’s project in Thailand. Unfortunately, the situation was much worse than we imagined. The problem started in June when the fanbase "Jin Stream Thailand" misappropriated the project's funds and used them for personal matters, which led to the temporary cancellation of the birthday project. (I had access to the bank records, and due to legal reasons, nothing will be disclosed). The fanbase Jin Thailand, together with Seasons, took over the project after all these issues involving the misappropriation of funds and the cancellation, for which there was no public explanation from the fanbase responsible at the time. The project had originally been organized since FEBRUARY to take place on only one day, which we were directly against, as one of the requirements until then was for it to last all three days. However, after discussions and also due to our appeal, the project will take place over TWO DAYS. It is not quite what we wanted, but we will still have two days of tributes to Seokjin and his birthday. Another point we wanted changed was the flash color. They wanted to make it pink on one day and yellow on the other. Having a yellow light on the second day made no sense, so we requested a change to keep the pink theme on both days. This has been updated, so the flash light will be pink on both days of the project. The project is already 90% finalized, and we managed to make the requested changes in time without compromising what had already been organized. We will also continue supporting the fanbases in Thailand so that everything goes smoothly and the tribute to Seokjin turns out great.

Robbie Williams defends Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of copying his song “Candy” with “take me home (4 christmas)”: “Artists deserve to be protected. But there’s a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less. I don’t know whether there’s technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I don’t want to know. I’m not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail […] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. That’s how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually we’re going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.”