Month: June 2020
Pride parades might be canceled this year but you can still celebrate at home and support your LGBTQ neighbors at the same time.
Summer is here, and while things happening in the world might put a damper on some parts of it, people still crave warm tunes to dance to. Enter Charlie Puth, who just released “Girlfriend,” his first single of the year. The track keeps the proceedings relatively minimal on an instrumental level, letting Puth’s falsetto vocal harmonies do the heavy lifting. That said, Puth’s choices of synth and bass give the tune a nice dose of head-bobbing funk.
Puth has been teasing the song since as far back as April, when he started periodically tweeting “GF” and varying forms of those two letters. He also spoke about the song in a recent Instagram Live session, saying, “Every time I put out a new song, I always like to think of it as a little bit of a risk. […] I always get super nervous and lose sleep before I put out a song, and this is what’s kind of happening now with ‘Girlfriend.’ […] I think this is like one of my favorite songs I’ve ever made, and one that I’ve been sitting on for a really long time and just kind of perfecting the production and the vocal production over the year. I truly love this song more than anything. […] People are going to wonder what the message is behind it, like every song I put out, and there is a message behind it, but I’ll leave it to you. The whole intent is for you guys to relate to it at the end of the day. […] The meaning behind the song is buried in the melody and the chord changes, and it’s a very blunt lyric.”
gf
— Charlie Puth (@charlieputh) April 27, 2020
Puth is write about the lyrics being blunt, as he sings in the straightforward chorus, “Baby, would you ever want to be my girlfriend? I don’t wanna play no games / This is more than just a phase / Baby, would you ever want to be my girlfriend? / If you want it, let me know / We could make this official.”
Listen to “Girlfriend” above.
The boys are (almost) back in town.
After watching its premiere date get bumped nearly an entire year, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home is finally set to debut on NBCUniversal’s new streaming service Peacock when it officially launches in July. The Peacock Original is the second TV movie for the fan-favorite series that stars James Roday and Dulé Hill as Shawn and Gus, two no-longer amateur detectives who con their way into solving mysteries by pretending Shawn is a psychic.
This time around, Timothy Omundson’s Carlton Lassiter (the titular “Lassie” in Lassie Come Home) will have a more prominent role after Omundson had to sit out the first Psych movie after suffering a stroke. His character’s father will also play a central part in the mystery and is played by Joel McHale, who very briefly appears in the trailer in a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In the second Psych film, Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to Lassie’s side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever.
And you can check out the newest poster below:
Psych 2: Lassie Comes Home premieres July 15 on NBCUniversal’s Peacock.
(Via Peacock)
With NFL practices and preseason games scheduled to begin impractically soon, the league made a move that might in a few weeks be seen as an initial domino among many, canceling the annual Hall of Fame game that typically kicks off the preseason live from Canton, Ohio.
The game, scheduled for Aug. 6, would have been a fifth preseason contest for the Cowboys and Steelers, and with NFL owners meeting soon to discuss cutting the preseason slate down to two games, it would not have made sense to play the game, especially considering it comes earlier than the others.
However, the main reason for the cancelation seems to be protecting those who would have taken part of the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony that happens alongside the game, including former coaches Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, as well as ex-players like Troy Polamalu and Edgerrin James.
“The delay is obviously disappointing but completely understandable,” former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who also would have been enshrined told The Associated Press.
The game will instead be played on Aug. 5, 2021, and the enshrinement will take place in early August next year as well.
This decision should not be seen as an NFL schedule decision so much as a limit-mass-gatherings-of-old-people decision, but nevertheless, as more such decisions that are made, the question of why to try an NFL season at all will continually be asked.
The average Disney Parks attendee may not realize it, but Splash Mountain, one of the more popular attractions at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland, is based on Song of the South. Disney tries to pretend the 1946 live-action/animated musical film never happened due to its “outdated cultural depictions” of slavery, which is why it’s not available on Disney+ and why Splash Mountain is ditching Br’er Rabbit for a frog.
On Thursday, Disney announced that Splash Mountain will be re-themed around the 2009 Oscar-nominated hit The Princess and the Frog, which notably features the first African-American Disney Princess. “We pick up this story after the final kiss, and join Princess Tiana and Louis on a musical adventure – featuring some of the powerful music from the film – as they prepare for their first-ever Mardi Gras performance,” according to a press release. “Tiana is a modern, courageous, and empowered woman, who pursues her dreams and never loses sight of what’s really important. It’s a great story with a strong lead character, set against the backdrop of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou.” There’s already a New Orleans Square in Disneyland, so “it feels natural to link the story and the incredible music of The Princess and the Frog to our park.”
There is no mention of Song of the South in the press release. The closest the ever-cautious Disney gets to mentioning the controversy is noting how the re-theming of Splash Mountain, which debuted in 1989, is “of particular importance today. The new concept is inclusive – one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”
“Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” is an undeniably catchy song, and it’ll be weird not hearing it after the flume drop, but it was long past time for Disney to ditch the Song of the South concept. “Friends on the Other Side” is a better song, anyway.
(Via Disney)
On Thursday morning, a hashtag attempting to cancel Cardi B was trending. The #cardibisoverparty hashtag was flooded with posts by Nicki Minaj fans, who have had longstanding beef with the rapper. The posts claimed Cardi runs a private Instagram account solely dedicated to dissing other female musicians, like Megan Thee Stallion and Ariana Grande. Cardi was quick to dispel the rumors and took time to express gratitude to fans who have always had her back.
Upon seeing the trending hashtag, Cardi jumped to her own defense in a recorded statement posted to Twitter. Cardi denies that she has a fake Instagram account, saying she has no issues with other female musicians. “I don’t know, these people must think that I’m a 15-year-old girl,” she said.
Girl lies that these weird people trying to do . https://t.co/6slh0KjN9h pic.twitter.com/VWuzGy4gcc
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) June 25, 2020
Cardi then turned her attention to her fan base, thanking them for all the support she has received: “I’m seeing so much love from, not only my fans, but just random people that are not fan account pages, are just having my back and realizing how f*cked people could do certain sh*t. It’s crazy how that sh*t backfired on the devil. I’m so thankful, I’m so grateful for you guys. Thank you for making those other hashtags trend. When I wake up, I’m going to ask some of my main Cardi fan pages on twitter which fan pages, other fan pages, I should follow on Twitter. Because I see a lot of you guys want me to follow you guys but I’mma see if you are trustworthy. So I’m going to ask my other fan pages, ‘Are y’all trustworthy?’”
Listen .I love yaaa. pic.twitter.com/WGIoUxqEN8
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) June 25, 2020
Listen to Cardi’s full responses above.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.