coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Charli XCX x SSense.

Charli XCX models new season looks from the likes of Gucci, Calvin Klein, and Balenciaga for SSense in this new editorial, as photographed by Sandy Kim.

On if she thinks pop music is thriving: "I think pop music’s in a really great place right now. There are definitely two different storylines to who I am, you know? There’s the Pop 2 mixtape kind of like songwriter world of things and then there’s the girl who sang 'Boom Clap' and was featured on 'Fancy' with Iggy (Azalea). I think both of those storylines are equally valid."

A 'Call Me By Your Name' appreciation post.

To celebrate the release of ‘Call Me By Your Name’ being released into the world on DVD - it’s out today! - we’ve compiled some of our very favourite things about the incredible film and its stars. Now get your tissue boxes ready to watch the film over, and over, and over again.

Check out the reasons why we love it below…

#1. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, who is a total and utter dreamboat in the film. Exhibit one:

Must-watch: Janelle Monáe feat. Grimes - 'PYNK' music video.

In the lead-up to the release of her upcoming new album (and "emotion picture") 'Dirty Computer', Janelle Monáe has shared a music video for new song 'PYNK', which features backing-vocals from Grimes.

Monáe says about her new song: "PYNK is a brash celebration of creation. self love. sexuality. and pussy power! PYNK is the color that unites us all, for pink is the color found in the deepest and darkest nooks and crannies of humans everywhere... PYNK is where the future is born...."

Watch: Lorde tells fans to be "vivid dreamers".

Lorde is currently on her Melodrama World Tour all across North America, imparting gems of heartfelt wisdom everywhere she goes, most recently at her Newark, New Jersey show, encouraging fans to be vivid dreamers.

In the lead-up to performing her song 'Writer In The Dark', Lorde said: "We gotta be vivid dreamers. We gotta be over-reactors, we gotta be hopeless romantics. We have got to be writers."

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