Month: April 2020
Whether more people should wear masks has become one of the fiercest debates of the coronavirus pandemic. New data about how the virus spreads may be tipping the scales.
Unemployment claims in the US have soared as the coronavirus shuts down large parts of the global economy. Here are some charts we’ll continue to update.
Jessie Reyez recently released her debut full-length album Before Love Came To Kill Us nearly five years after her breakout single “Figures.” But Reyez had more up her sleeve: Just a few days after the album’s debut, Reyez surprise-released a deluxe version of the record with three new tracks. The revamped album features verses from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Rico Nasty, and more.
In a statement, Reyez addressed how she felt uneasy releasing an album during a global pandemic: “It messed me up because I was like ‘I don’t want to seem insensitive,’” she said. “I’ve grown up thinking about death as something that could easily happen tomorrow. But I know that for everybody else, there’s a lot of fear right now. I’m conflicted. But I’ve decided I’m putting it out because indecision never did anything for nobody.”
Listen to “Ankles” with Rico Nasty and Melii above. Below, check out the Before Love Came To Kill Us (Deluxe Edition) album art and tracklist.
1. “Do You Love Her”
2. “Deaf (Who Are You)”
3. “Intruders”
4. “Coffin” Feat. Eminem
5. “Ankles”
6. “Imported” Feat. 6lack
7. “La Memoria”
8. “Same Side”
9. “Roof”
10. “Dope”
11. “Kill Us”
12. “Love In The Dark”
13. “I Do”
14. “Figures”
15. “Far Away II” Feat. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & JID
16. “Ankles” Feat. Rico Nasty & Melii
17. “Worth Saving”
Before Love Came To Kill Us (Deluxe Edition) is out now via Island Records. Get it here.
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If Post Malone is known for two things, it’s for his love of beer pong and face tattoos. Well, also his music. The rapper released his third album Hollywood’s Bleeding last year as a follow-up to the 2018 effort Beerbongs & Bentleys. The singer showed his love for beer pong on an episode of The Tonight Show where he challenged Jimmy Fallon to a friendly game. But Fallon isn’t the only celebrity who has competed in beer pong with the rapper: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong recently revealed his first-ever game of beer pong was played with Post Malone.
On Wednesday night, Posty debuted a virtual beer pong tournament on Adult Swim. The rapper’s manager, Adam DeGross, went head-to-head with Malone during the tournament. The manager shared a clip of the game to his Instagram page. “Post and I are hosting Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) all night,” he wrote in the caption.
The post drew the attention of Green Day vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong. Armstrong recalled the first time he ever played the drinking game, saying his inaugural round was with the beer pong master himself: “I played my first game of beer pong with @postmalone,” he wrote succinctly in a comment.
Check out the clip of Posty playing beer pong on Adult Swim above.
Hollywood’s Bleeding is out now via Republic. Get it here.
Looks like that plan to get fit during quarantine is over because Girl Scout Cookies are going digital. The days of little girls dressed in brown sashes knocking on your door and trying to push cookies on you are over. Which is certainly sad, but is also kind of a blessing in disguise for us Thin Mint and Samoa-heads who have gotten side-eye as we attempted to buy “too many boxes” of girl scout cookies at one time.
“No Ashley G and Carol S, maybe you’re eating too many cookies for a grown man!”
Now all of us can buy as many Samoas as we want totally judgment-free, while still supporting our local community of scouts. This is huge, because in the past if you didn’t have a girl scout connect you either had to bite the bullet and accept you weren’t going to get any cookies or jump in your car and drive around looking for kids selling sweets. Which def isn’t the right play right now. For anybody. On multiple levels.
To get some cookies, simply visit the Girl Scouts website, type in your zip code, and order cookies from the nearest Girl Scouts location. But move fast, just because the cookie sales have gone digital doesn’t mean they’ll be available all year. Some scout locations will only be selling cookies for ten more days, which is about 355 days too short.
No one knows when our current situation will come to an end — and experts have emphasized that the timeline will be set not by the government, but by the virus — but at some point, the economy has to reopen. As Dr. Anthony Fauci has stated, there is a tipping point on lockdown measures in the United States.
Hollywood studios probably do not know any better than anyone else when moviegoers will be able to return to normal, but we are now seeing where they are placing their bets. AMC theaters are hoping to re-open by mid-June, while studios are starting to reschedule some of their tentpoles for late summer in anticipation of a return to normal, or at least normal enough to return to movie theaters.
Paramount Studios for its part is gambling that families will be ready to get out of their homes and return to theaters by July 31st, 2020, which is when the studio has rescheduled The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. The studio, however, is being more conservative with Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick, which originally had a June release date. It’s being pushed all the way to December 23rd, knocking out an untitled Chris Pratt film, which has yet to reschedule its date.
However, I really like what Paramount is doing with A Quiet Place Part 2 by scheduling it for Labor Day weekend on September 4th. Typically, Labor Day is one of the slowest weekends of the year at the box office, but Paramount is betting that audiences will be itching to get into theaters that weekend ahead of what we all hope will be a return to school for students.
It’s worth noting that a couple of studios have not yet abandoned their earlier summer dates. Disney’s Soul is still on the docket for June 19th, while Ryan Reynolds’ still has a the 4th of July premiere date set for Free Guy. Hopefully, we will all feel free enough to get back into theaters by Independence Day. The Wonder Woman sequel, meanwhile, has been reset from June to. August 14th, as Warner Brothers also anticipates an all-clear by August.
(Via Hollywood Reporter)