This week, we’re vibing to unhinged remixes, taking morning-after pills, hating on new pop music and obsessing over Dua Lipa, again Bookmarking this. Another week. Another reason to love Dua Lipa. Her book club, Service95, has opened a physical library in Portugal dedicated to books that are banned in different parts of the world. The Manifesto Library stocks The Handmaid’s Tale, Felon, works by Salman Rushdie and more. At this point, the only thing she’s guilty of is raising the bar.Dua Lipa opened a physical library in Portugal dedicated to banned books. Queen behaviour. (INSTAGRAM/@DUALIPA)We’re loving re-imagined hit songs, such as MadStarBase’s bass-heavy Dum Maaro Dum remix. (INSTAGRAM/@MADSTARBASE)Swapping it out. Say Piya Tu… and Gen Z imagines Asha Bhosle’s soulful voice, but dropping to a hip-hop beat. Say Dum Maaro Dum… and they think of the 1971 track, re-imagined with heavy bass. We’re loving Universal Music and Saregama’s remixes, including DJ Duo MadStarBase’s renditions. Yes. Ajeeb Dastan Lofi Chill Mix is a thing.Korea gave India dramas and lip stains. We’ve given them hangover pills, apparently. (SHUTTERSTOCK)Stocking up. The Koreans have given us dramas, pop, lip stains and cheese-pull bread. And what have we given them? Party Smart herbal capsules, apparently. In their booming hangover market, the Indian supplement dominates. OK. This needs to be in a K-drama plot twist.NYC’s @AskAF***Boy delivers a giant red flag to a toxic dude on behalf of a female client. (SHUTTERSTOCK)Flagging this. Some men only understand grand gestures. So @AskAF***Boy, which operates in NYC, will deliver a giant red flag to a toxic dude on behalf of a female client. The whole thing is filmed, including the guy’s acknowledgement of his ghosting, cheating or cheap tricks. Men think it’s a badge of honour, though. Watch them miss the point entirely.Chase Infiniti, a hardcore Ateez fan, manifested the band fighting for her hand in marriage. Love it.Living the dream. K-pop fans work hard, but Chase Infiniti works harder. She is such a hardcore Ateez stan, she manifested herself getting married to all eight members of the boyband in their music video, Bad. They gatecrash her wedding and try to win her over. We’re so impressed, we’re not even jelly.A new study shows that pop music is getting more toxic. (SHUTTERSTOCK)Feeling verse. A new study of 3.8 lakh songs confirms what your Spotify Wrapped showed already: Pop music, over the decades, has slid down the moral slide. Lyrics deal more and more with cheating, anger, degradation and disgust than care, connection and decency. Male artists are more likely to sing about harm. Join the chorus or skip it entirely, folks.Low Battery People is a new Insta series about an animated couple navigating everyday life. (YOUTUBE/@CREATEDBYNIN)Binge-watching. Microdrama alert! The Insta page @LowBattteryPeople features a stop-motion-animation style couple going through everyday life – arguing about who snores more, who needs to do the chores, where to sit in a restaurant. It’s AI. It’s 10-second episodes. But it feels more real than our relationships. If we’re MIA, it’s because we’re in bed with Jane and Paul.Daisy Edgar-Jones is playing Elinor Dashwood in a new Sense and Sensibility movie.All a-flutter. Head back to Norland Park. A Sense and Sensibility movie adaptation is coming. Emerald Fennell is not involved, praise be! And Daisy Edgar-Jones is playing Elinor Dashwood (previously immortalised by Emma Thompson). She already nailed one beloved book adaptation as Marianne in Normal People. Also, she has the opposite of iPhone face. 10/10 casting. No notes.From HT Brunch, July 04, 2026 Follow us on www.instagram.com/htbrunchSee Less