Culture Beast: Beyoncé’s Genius, Sexy New Album

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1 MUSIC 'Beyoncé' Drips of Sex Beyoncé just went and dropped her new album without warning anybody. It's intimate, raw, even x-rated, and cements her status as the most untouchable pop star alive. By Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 YEAR IN REVIEW The Most Overlooked Movies of 2013 There are a lot of great movies soaking up awards attention this year: Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle. But there is also a treasure trove of gems you might have missed. By Marlow Stern. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 MOVIES The Perfect 'Saving Mr. Banks' This year's awards contenders are bleak, brutal, and hard to watch. So thank Disney for 'Saving Mr. Banks,' a charming crowd-pleaser that's practically perfect. By Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast Justin Bieber's 2013 was racked with controversy, causing the star to fall from grace like a leather jogging pant-clad, tattooed Lucifer."” READ IT NOW › 5 MUSIC Hip-Hop's Outsider For the alleged Tumblr crowd, Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover from Community, is an angsty, post-Internet messiah. Because the Internet isn't just an album—it's performance art. By Rawiya Kameir. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 PERFORMANCE Is Losing Your Virginity Art? He was arrested for graffiti, but Clayton Pettet won't rest until the world sees his art. And by art, we mean he's going to lose his virginity in front of a live audience. By Nico Hines. Read it at The Daily Beast The Golden Globe Nominees Are… The Week in Celebrity Selfies Best & Worst Dressed of the Week The Year in Awesome Hair In response to Tyler Perry's Madea Minstrel Show : "As a black man that doesn't do conniving things to his co-workers, doesn't' cheat on his wife and goes to church almost every Sunday, I find his logic flawed and his films pedantic." — GhostThatWalks In response to 'Blackfish' Prompts SeaWorld Mass Exodus for Bands, Boycott May Be Imminent: "I didn't watch Blackfish. I didn't have to. I saw a whale show in Canada many years ago and I saw everything I needed to see to realize that these zoos are run by heartless animal abusers." — Carinthia

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