International music shop Butter Music + Sound has tapped Kayla Monetta as music supervisor and head of A&R. With over 10 years in the music industry, Monetta brings experience in music marketing and publicity, music licensing and supervision, creative direction, A&R, music journalism, and project management. She has worked on album campaigns for artists like The Strokes, Yacht, Miike Snow, Autre Ne Veut, White Denim, and many more.
Monetta is joining Butter Sound and Music from The Greater Goods Co., where she served as director of licensing and A&R. There, she signed artists like Angelica Garcia, TR/ST, Surf Curse, Bedouine, French Vanilla, and more–while successfully placing music in ad campaigns, television shows, films, trailers and video games. Monetta will be splitting her time between Butter’s Los Angeles and New York City offices, overseeing projects for brand clients such as Supercell, Tillamook, Absolut, Spotify, The North Face and many more.
A former college radio DJ, Monetta got her start writing about bands and doing digital marketing in New York at VICE’s Noisey. She went on to work for indie record labels such as Downtown Records and Cult Records. Monetta continued her career in Los Angeles, working as a music publicist while learning about the world of music licensing and supervision–a career she had always dreamed of pursuing. She landed a position at Third Side Music Publishing where she learned the ins and outs of creative licensing, before moving on to The Greater Goods Co. In her spare time, you can find her making mixes for her weekly East Side Radio show, "Nocturnal Transmissions."
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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