• "Lena Dunham" Rap Trio Hand Job Academy Dish On The Story Behind The Song, Their Name And More

    Last month we shared a video (filmed by Taylor Swift) of Lena Dunham dancing along to a song named after her by the all-girl Brooklyn rap trio Hand Job Academy. Although the song isn't actually about the GIRLS creator, it references her in the hook and on the line "finna let it all hang out, Lena Dunham." The video for the song also features a parody the text from Dunham's book cover for her biography Not That Kind Of Girl, switching out "a young women tell you want she's 'learned'" for "a bad b*tch tells you what she's 'learned." Music Times caught up with the women behind the Dunham-approved track, Clara Bizna$$, Uncle Meg, and Ash Wednesday. Here's what they had to say:
  • Taylor Swift Films Lena Dunham Dancing To Her Eponymous Song By The Hand Job Academy [WATCH]

    Being famous means you're fair game for cultural references in music, especially in hip-hop songs. Lena Dunham is the latest victim of the name game with the all-girl Brooklyn rap trio Hand Job Academy titling a song after her. Instead of getting upset, the GIRLS creator took a page out of her good buddy Taylor Swift's book and decided to just "Shake It Off." Swift recorded Dunham dancing to the track and posted it to Instagram.
  • Bleachers Share "Rollercoaster" Music Video [WATCH]

    Bleachers, the side project of fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff, has shared a music video for its single “Rollercoaster,” which you can check out below. The Richard Shepard-directed video features Antonoff and his band performing on top of their tour van while chasing a girl — who definitely is not Lena Dunham — down a desert highway. If that all sounds a bit creepy, don’t worry: Antonoff gets what he deserves in the end.
  • Lena Dunham Shares Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff 'Out of the Woods' Recording Studio Photo, Everyone Gushes Love on Instagram

    Taylor Swift's new 1989 song "Out of the Woods" is officially, well, out of the woodwork and the ambitious new pop single just oozes of her collaborator and co-writer Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and fun. fame. After the song's successful debut last night (Oct. 13) just before the strike of midnight, Antonoff, Swift and Antonoff's girlfriend/Swift's bestie Lena Dunham are all praising the track to high heavens on Twitter and Instagram.
  • 'Girls' Star Jemima Kirke Jumps All over Jay-Z During 'Picasso Baby' Video Shoot, Has To Be Removed by Security [VIDEO]

    In a room full of artists and performers, there's no doubt that Jay-Z was the most recognizable face. The rapper had assembled a crowd of artists to a gallery in Chelsea to watch as he shot a music video for single "Picasso Baby." Someone there needed a little bit more attention however, or was just feeling a little too arty for security's comfort. Jemima Kirke, an actress in the HBO program "Girls," was removed after literally jumping all over the rapper.
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