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Watch Taylor Swift Enthusiastically Dance and Lip-Sync to One of Her Own Songs in a Car

Can't get enough of 'Blank Space'? Neither can Tay-Tay

If you’re sick of watching Taylor Swift turn into a jilted, knife-wielding ex-lover in her “Blank Space” video, watch this video instead. It’s Tay-Tay rocking out to the song in a car with BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James.

She dances, air-drums, acts, mimes and generally has the time of her life. And she obviously knows all the words since she, uh, wrote them, so her lip-syncing is pretty spot-on, too.

Read more about T-Swift in this week’s cover story: The Power of Taylor Swift

TIME Music

Stromae Snags Lorde, Pusha T, Q-Tip and HAIM for ‘Meltdown’

Praise the Lorde for the latest from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 soundtrack

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 soundtrack is the Lorde-curated gift that just keeps giving.

On the heels of the officially-released Lorde track “Yellow Flicker Beat,” its Kanye West re-working, and the Ariana Grande and Major Lazer dance-floor jam “All My Love” comes an unofficial leak of Stromae’s star-packed number, “Meltdown.”

The dark synth dance track from the as-yet-to-be-released soundtrack pairs the Belgian dance superstar with rapper Pusha T, hip-hop legend Q-Tip and California dream rockers HAIM, as well as Lorde herself. The combination sounds unlikely, but so does bacon and chocolate and we all know how well that works. An ’80s-influenced kinetic earworm, expect “Meltdown” to get people bobbing their heads from here to Panem.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack is officially due out 11/18 on Republic.

 

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TIME #TheBrief

#TheBrief: The Most Important Thing About the U.S.-China Climate Deal

The ambitious plan will face opposition at home and abroad

The U.S. and China announced a landmark joint agreement Wednesday to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.

“We have a special responsibility to lead the global effort when it comes to climate change,” stated Obama at the APEC summit on Nov. 12.

Together, the U.S. and China emit almost a third of the world’s greenhouse gasses. Under the terms of the proposal, the U.S. will emit at least 26% less carbon dioxide in 2025 than it did in 2005. China said it would boost use of renewable and nuclear energy to begin reducing emission levels.

This plan, however, is not popular with everyone. Watch #TheBrief to find out the most important thing about the deal.

TIME Sexual Assault

Rose Byrne on Frat Culture and How Bystanders Can Stop Sexual Assault

The actress is a spokesperson for the White House's new anti-sexual assault campaign, 'It's On Us' which aims to speak directly to students about prevention

In a new campaign spot for the White House’s “It’s On Us” anti-sexual assault campaign, a schlubby bystander becomes the hero. This otherwise zoned-out guy on a couch decides to get up and intervene when he sees another young man trying to stop an inebriated woman from leaving the party, thereby potentially stopping a sexual assault.

The PSA is a new tactic to address what has become a crisis of sexual assault on American campuses by focusing on the role of bystanders. Recent research shows that 1 in 5 women is the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault during college, and one in 16 men have also experienced some kind of sexual assault. And while the issue has gained attention in the media and through White House efforts to end assault on campus, pop culture is still rife with imagery that undermines these efforts to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault. Just this week a sexist music video depicting men in a fraternity telling women to “shut the f*** up” when the women refuse to “do girl on girl” went viral.

As the debate about sexual assault on college campuses has raged on, the blame has often fallen on the both the victim and the assailant for drinking too much or making other poor choices. Rather than being caught up in the debate over fraternities and binge drinking, the White House is attempting to reframe the argument. “Is it on her? Is it on him? The campaign says, ‘It’s on us.’ So we’re offering a third narrative,” Rachel Cohen Gerrol, executive director of of the PVBLIC Foundation, which helped push the campaign, explains to TIME.

“One of the questions we’ve gotten is why doesn’t this campaign say directly to men, ‘Stop raping’? And the reason for that is that the campaign is research-based,” Lynn Rosenthal, the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, explained at an Advertising Week panel on the campaign. According to research, campaigns can change the behavior of those surrounding a person committing sexual assault: teach college kids bystander intervention, and they will be more cognizant of what a dangerous situation looks like and how to stop it.

“We don’t really have any evidence that a PSA campaign or t-shirts would change the behavior of an actual offender.”

The new spot is a followup to the White House’s first ads for the campaign, a star-studded video where celebs ranging from Jon Hamm to Kerry Washington to Vice President Biden and President Obama himself say that “It’s on us” to stop sexual assault. One of the campaigns celeb advocates is Rose Byrne, an Australian, who says she didn’t know much about fraternity culture or the problem os sexual assault on campus until she was offered a role in Neighbors, the Seth Rogen summer comedy about a couple with a baby who gets into a prank war with the fraternity next door. She did her research and was surprised by what she found. This year, fraternities have come under fire not only for their hazing tactics but also for being the scene of many alleged incidents of rape and assault.

“For me, it was eye-opening doing that film because it was all about how powerful fraternity culture is and how intimidating it can be,” Byrne told TIME. “What I’ve learned is that environment can be very intimidating for victims of sexual assault.” It was after wrapping the film that she jumped at the chance to join the White House in their campaign educating college students—and specifically college freshmen, who are at the highest risk of being assaulted—about bystander intervention.

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Rose Byrne attends the It’s On Us: From Activism to Action w/Jason Harris and Rose Byrne panel during AWXI on October 2, 2014 in New York City. Monica Schipper—2014 Getty Images

The site will offer myriad ways that students can intervene to prevent an assault, whether it’s telling a possible assailant that his or her car alarm went off or spilling a beer on him or her. The toolkit of suggested ways to intervene may eventually be supplemented by prizes for students who come up with the most creative methods, according to Jason Harris, CEO of Mekanism, the advertising agency that designs the spots for the campaign. The site also encourages students to intervene in conversations about sexual assault online that devolve into victim blaming.

“As you see this conversation begin to happen on social media, and you see people starting to say, ‘Well of course she was asking for it. She flirted with him or she slept with him before,” says Rosenthal. “When you intervene in those conversations, that’s just as important as the interventions that you’re talking about in the moment that you see something happening. That’s how we create a new social norm.”

The other social norm the campaign is trying to change: athletes being held to a different standard than their peers. Given the very public problems with sexual assault in national sports leagues, the White House will also be partnering with the NFL, PGA Tour, NASCAR and the NCAA for the campaign. And schools with storied and highly influential sports programs are already making the pledge, including the entire football team at Penn State and Coach Mike Krzezewski’s basketball team at Duke.

As Byrne points out, the problem among athletes who are allowed passes for their bad behavior spreads far beyond America. “There’s a lot of cases like this in Australia. Sporting teams and football teams and the FAL and the NRL historically have been involved in horrible gang rapes,” she says. “There’s absolutely a culture in Australia of those sorts of things being wrongly tolerated because of who those men are.”

The White House has found changing the culture on campus through school administrations is a daunting task. That’s why the campaign also slyly speaks directly to the students rather than the institutions themselves, some of which had long fought the idea that sexual assault among students is a matter for their adjudication. “Schools have to deal with their boards, they have to deal with their funding, they have to deal with the people who support them mostly via athletics—the biggest donors at universities buy athletic fields and things like that,” says Gerrol. “And students could give a s***. And they just say this is not going to happen, not on our watch, not on our campus. So it’s easier and faster to make change with people who are not beholden to donors.”

TIME Music

Azealia Banks Releases a Barely SFW Video for ‘Chasing Time’

Banks' album Broke with Expensive Taste is out now

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Azealia Banks released a black-and-white video for her break-up track “Chasing Time,” one of the more noteworthy songs on her newly-released, long-anticipated album, Broke With Expensive Taste. The bittersweet and breezy dance-rap track, which was released as a single a few months ago, serves as a great reminder that when Banks is good, she is very very good.

The beautifully minimalist clip features Banks dancing through the drama in an ever-changing wardrobe, including one Lil Kim-worthy ensemble that leaves little to the imagination while remaining firmly PG-13. In the post-Kardashian era, it’s hard to know what’s SFW and what’s NSFW anymore, so watch at your own peril.

TIME Music

Ariana Grande and Major Lazer Team Up for Lorde’s Hunger Games Soundtrack

The pop star and Diplo's dancehall project unite for "All My Love" on the Lorde-curated soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1

Katniss Everdeen already taught the rebels of Panem the call of revolution with her ominous mockingjay whistle. But for the Lorde-curated soundtrack of the third film, Mockingjay — Part 1, Ariana Grande and Major Lazer have united to teach the districts the call of the dancefloor — and it sounds like a bird that’s gone shot for shot with Effie Trinket all night in The Capitol.

The wordless, siren-like hook is an obvious highlight, but there’s more to “All My Love” than that. The sparse dancehall beat from DJ-producer Diplo lets Grande’s more understated vocals shine, and she shows Jennifer Lawrence who the real girl on fire is when the initially icy track heats up just before the battle cry hits. The “Problem” pop star often gets teased for her enunciation, yes, but “All My Love” might be most notable for being the first Grande single in awhile in which you can actually make out just about every word she’s saying.

TIME Television

Why Jennifer Lawrence Is Terrified of Singing in Public

Says she sounds like a tone-deaf Amy Winehouse

Jennifer Lawrence admitted singing in public is one of her biggest fears on the Late Show with David Letterman Wednesday.

It all began, the Mockingjay Part I star said, when she had to sing Holly Jolly Christmas in a school production at the age of 8, and her parents laughed at her for days afterward.

Lawrence jokingly says she now sings in a tone-deaf Amy Winehouse voice. Watch the video above to hear it for yourself.

TIME celebrity

Watch Channing Tatum Use His Handsome Face to Stump Jimmy Fallon

The pair play a game called Box of Lies on 'The Tonight Show'

Channing Tatum paid a visit to The Tonight Show Wednesday to promote his new movie Foxcatcher and also to play games with Jimmy Fallon and generally show off his devastatingly handsome face.

Tatum was lucky enough to become the first male guest ever to play Box of Lies, a game where participants take turns trying to stump each other about the contents of various boxes. This game became the perfect opportunity for Chan to show off his acting skills and for Fallon to show off his giggling skills.

TIME Media

Watch Dick Cavett Revisit the Office Where He Got His Start

The television legend drops by his old stomping grounds

The story of how Dick Cavett got his start isn’t a secret: as recounted in the 1971 TIME cover story about the star, he was working at this magazine as a copy boy — a now-obsolete gofer gig — when he wrote a few jokes meant for Jack Paar, brought them across the street to bring to the Tonight Show host, had them read on the show and eventually got hired as a writer. And the TIME-comedy links didn’t stop there. As Cavett tells it in his new book, Brief Encounters, he also used his access to the magazine’s files to track down entertainment icon Stan Laurel.

Much of Brief Encounters is devoted to Cavett’s observations about how the world has changed — so, on the occasion of his book’s release, Cavett came back to visit the place where he got his start. And, he discovered, even when it comes to office space, time refuses to stand still.

Read the Dick Cavett cover story, here in the TIME Vault: The Art of Show and Tell

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