2024 saw the release of some of the most captivating pop albums in recent memory. Regardless of your taste in music, you can’t deny that this year has brought some albums that have kept us singing and dancing all year long. After four years Ariana Grande graced our ears and accepted the ‘Best New Artist’ award in a chainmail dress from Julien Dossena’s spring 2024 collection. Another female artist who showed up to the VMA’s and gave us everything we ever wanted, and more was Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina showed up to the VMA’s in a vintage strapless gown covered in sequins, previously worn by Madonna to the Oscars in 1991. She also took home the prize for ‘Song of the Year’ before performing a variant of songs including ‘Taste’ from her recent album ‘Short n’ Sweet’ where she appeared to have a steamy kiss with one of her dancers on stage, who was dressed as an alien! As we headed in June we saw the release of ‘The Secret Of Us’ by Gracie Abrams which included the much-awaited song ‘Close To You’ many of Gracie’s songs had us screaming in our bedrooms from the second it came out and will continue to until the insanely lucky people who got tickets to her current tour for the album get to yell every track with Gracie Abrams in the coming months. Now as the year comes to an end, we must also acknowledge 2024’s best new artist Chappell Roan.
Her new album ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ has us creating our own ‘YMCA’ to her song ‘HOT TO GO’ and making TikTok ‘Casual’ sharing our experiences with failed relationships and talking stages. The Met Gala is the most recognized charity event of the year, with a new theme for celebrities to follow each year. On May 6th this year this event took place, with the theme of ‘The Garden of Time’ Many celebrities attend this event each year from Zendaya to Emma Chamberlain. After the main red carpet event, the celebrities go through the museum before watching an exceptional performance from one of the guests. This year we were treated to a performance by Ariana Grande in a beautiful bespoke creation by Maison Margiela, designed by John Galliano. Another favourite outfit worn by Tyla was a Balmain gown created by Olivier Rousteing which was a cast of her body covered in sand and micro-crystal studs so that Tyla sparkled in the light of the paparazzi’s camera flashes. Before we head into some more juicy drama from this year there is one more award ceremony that we must discuss. The MTV Video Music Awards in 2024 showed us some gorgeous outfits, red-carpet drama and an unexpected kiss with a special guest. Chappell Roan showed up to the VMA’s in a stunning see-through dress from Y/Project’s fall
2024 collection and served absolute girl boss on the carpet before she had an interesting encounter with a paparazzi photograph which Chappell handled by snapping back at the paparazzi and not allowing them to control her as she fixed her dress while on the carpet. Chappell then went on stage later that night to perform ‘Good Luck Babe’.
Finally, to wrap up some of this year’s iconic events we must talk about a famous Hollywood actress who has recently been dragged down by social media over rude actions towards interviewers and controlling and concerning behaviour in her new movie. Blake Lively has been in the acting industry for a while now yet her new movie ‘It Ends With Us’ has brought many people’s attention to some questionable behaviour in recent and past interviews.
Lively recently had the film interpretation of Colleen Hoover’s book ‘It Ends with Us’ and while a few loved the film, many criticized it and shared their negative views online. It was then discovered that Blake Lively took over the production of the film and gave her strong opinions about how the film should be edited quite often during the creation of this film. As people didn’t like the fact that Lively took over the producer’s job, they began to dig up some more stuff about Lively from the past. An interview from 2016 re-surfaced where Blake was being hostile towards her interviewer for most of the interview. The reporter admitted she felt ‘uncomfortable’ throughout the interview with the star, it all began at the start of the interview when the reporter, Kjresti Flaa, congratulated Blake Lively on her recent announcement of her pregnancy to which Lively replied with a snarky comment about the interviewer’s appearance. It was later discovered that the reporter was infertile which is what set the public off into a hard debate about Lively. In some more recent interviews, Blake was yet again insensitive towards domestic violence survivors when asked what her plans were to support DV survivors as her recent film was mainly based on the mistreatment of women and domestic violence. People on the internet began to take sides over Lively’s actions and whether she is still deserving of the life and work she has been gifted.
That concludes some of 2024’s craziest moments and I’m sure many more are to come. Do you think 2025 will be just as messy as 2024? What are your views on some topics discussed in this article? I can’t wait to see what next year has in stock for us MessyGirl. Lots of love, Katie Dee