Month: January 2021

Billboard‘s cover story on The Weeknd ahead of his Super Bowl Halftime Show on February 7 reveals an interesting tidbit about the show, as noted by Variety‘s Justin Curto: The show is planned to be 24 minutes long — twice as long as any show in the past. The Weeknd is performing live in-stadium at Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium before a 22,000-person audience — way below the stadium’s full capacity of 65,890 — so those folks will at least be getting their money’s worth for the concert, if not the full-on live football experience of going to the Super Bowl would usually afford them.

The extra-long run time is possible as Pepsi and Coca-Cola have pulled many of their ads, which usually make up the bulk of Super Bowl programming, and can run a company up to $5 million on average. That’s a lot of money to spend on a 30-second or minute-long clip as the pandemic continues to chew up profits. Fortunately for The Weeknd, their loss is his gain, as the extra time will allow him to fulfill his vision. He told Billboard, “We’ve been really focusing on dialing in on the fans at home and making performances a cinematic experience, and we want to do that with the Super Bowl,” and he even put up $7 million of his own money.

He also says he’ll retire his After Hours look sometime after. While it’s certainly been a wild ride seeing the character’s transformation from bandaged, battered loser to Handsome Squidward, The Weeknd is ready to evolve into his next form — whatever that will be.

Brooklyn rapper Casanova, who surrendered to authorities in December on charges of racketeering and murder, was denied bond today, according to the NY Daily News. The bail would have been set at $2.5 million but Manhattan Federal Judge Philip Halpern made it clear that he believed the rapper to be too great a risk for release. Casanova — real name Caswell Senior — is accused of not just being a member of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation gang, but Assistant US Attorney David Felton called him the “full-fledged, committed leader of the gang.”

The prosecution’s case presented enough evidence to convince Judge Halpern “that violence seems to be perpetuated by associates of Mr. Senior… it’s plausible to interpret that as evidence … Mr. Senior doesn’t have to get his hands dirty.” However, Cas’s defense, James Kousouros, disagrees, believing as reported by the Daily News that “the government’s case boiled down to comments by other accused gangsters about Casanova, as well as photos of him with large amounts of weed.”

Cas and members of GSN stand accused of selling crack, cocaine, and ecstasy, and firearms offenses, while other members are accused of identity fraud and accessory to murder, with one member driving an accomplice to kill a 15-year-old. Casanova faces a minimum of 15 years if convicted.

For many Megan Thee Stallion fans, their introduction to the Houston hip-hop star was through her detailed cosplays of anime characters like My Hero Academia‘s Todoroki. While it was far from a first for a female rapper to dress up as their favorite character from a cartoon or a video game (Missy Elliott as Mega Man, anyone?), it may have been the first time one so openly expressed their love for a hobby that some in the hip-hop world might consider “too nerdy.” Of course, those people are overlooking a long history of “nerdy” hip-hop heroes like Wu-Tang Clan and MF DOOM, but that’s beside the point.

Megan’s love for animation, video games, and dressing up has led to a huge opportunity for her, as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment tapped the “Body” rapper to help announce the latest round of downloadable content for its Mortal Kombat 11, the latest game in the long-running franchise which is still receiving support in the form of Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate. To help make the announcement, Megan got to dress up as one of her favorite characters, the fanged ninja Mileena, who returned to the franchise after being absent from MK11‘s original release.

Thee Stallion had previously cosplayed as Mileena for Halloween 2019, but her look was even more game-accurate in her announcement video, where she strutted and preened with Mileena’s signature sai and her mouthful of razor-sharp, opponent chomping dentitions. The game’s been out for a couple of months, and now, Uproxx and Megan got to talk about her impressive cosplay, her love for video games, and how she finds time to enjoy her hobbies while promoting her debut album, Good News. My big takeaway: We really need a new Def Jam Vendetta game with Meg as a fighter.

Of all the characters in the Mortal Kombat mythology/franchise, why is Mileena your favorite, and what does it mean to have her back in the franchise for Mortal Kombat 11?

You already know Mileena’s on some Real Hot Girl Sh*t! I have always loved Mileena because she presents as this really sexy, dominating character who has such allure, but underneath the mask and mystery, she’s also this super terrifying mutant. I like that when she takes her mask off in Mortal Kombat 11, she can eat all the characters… basically, she is a man-eater.

Can you detail the work that went into your transformation into Mileena? How does it compare to some of the other elaborate looks and cosplay you have done over the years?

Mileena in Mortal Kombat 11 was one of my favorite cosplays ever. We spent a lot of time planning everything down to the minor details so the look would be accurate. Alicia Marie made the costume and sai weapons and Kelton Ching created the prosthetics.

How did you first learn about cosplay and what about it interested you? What was your first cosplay? Who are some other characters that you really want to dress up as?

I have been watching anime forever and a part of why I love it so much is because of how intricate the graphics are. When I started seeing people online and cosplaying and going all out with it, I knew I had to try it for myself. I like to take a character and give them a Megan spin. I like to see myself as my favorite character. I really want to do my own spin on Naruto and Diane from 7 Deadly Sins.

When it comes to the Mortal Kombat franchise, there are so many iconic moments. What are some of the moments that stick out in your memory?

It’s not so much “moments in the game that stand out,” but I remember loving going to an arcade and playing the standalone Mortal Kombat game for hours.

What videogames did you play growing up? Did you have any memories of playing games that you’re particularly fond of?

Growing up I played every single version of GTA, Bloody Roar 3, and I loved Def Jam Vendetta, and Def Jam Vendetta: Fight For NY. They were hilarious and over the top with Lil Kim and Redman. Some of the fondest memories I have are of playing videogames with my dad.

It seems like it’d be very hard to keep up with games while going to school and finishing up Good News. How do you manage to do it all?

I work hard, but it is all about priorities. I find time to make it all happen because school is important to me and my grandmother and it was important to my mother.

Gaming is an opportunity for me to escape. My mind is always working on what’s next… the next photoshoot, the next concert, the next music video, so for me, gaming is a way for me to relax and decompress.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Royal Rumble is WWE’s second biggest match every year. Thirty wrestlers stream into the ring, one at a time, until only one of them has avoided being thrown over the top rope. The prize is a spot in the biggest match, the main event at WrestleMania.

Those who spend the longest time in the ring end up taking the most damage, meaning most of the event’s champions have entered the ring at No. 23 or later. It’s billed as a grueling endurance test, especially for early entrants, who must last an hour or more just to make the final two.

But here’s the thing: it’s actually very easy to win.

Seemingly every year, the announcers draw attention to the quirk of the event’s main rule: A wrestler can leave the ring and still remain eligible so long as they leave under the top rope. Usually, as soon as an announcer points this out, someone will be knocked through the middle of the ropes, do something cool, and come back in. That’s usually the end of that.

What I am urging you to do, wrestling villains, is to actually capitalize on this dumb rule.

When one plays a wrestling video game, one can’t help but note that the surest Royal Rumble strategy is to avoid conflict. Stand in a corner, do taunts, and let everyone else beat each other up. Only fight when you have to. Reach the end with more health than the other finalist, and essentially win a one-on-one match instead of a one-on-29 match.

But for some reason, entering the Royal Rumble makes all wrestlers become bloodlusted berserkers. Each new entrant charges into the ring, meddles in all of the ring’s ongoing engagements, and becomes as big a target for elimination as possible. Announcers sometimes complain about opponents preventing each other from eliminating common enemies, but it happens anyway, several times every year.

The way to increase your odds of winning the Royal Rumble is to get in as few fights as possible while you’re in there. If no one is fighting you, no one can throw you out.

It is completely legal, per the rules of the match, take this to the extreme. Roll under a rope, flee until any pursuers become entangled in new disputes, hide somewhere, and jump back in after the last contender is gone. Every year, to watch the Royal Rumble is to wonder why nobody is trying this.

What’s even more frustrating is that there is precedent for this plan, and one time, it worked far better than the perpetrator ever intended.

In 1999, toward the end of the legendary feud between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon, the two wound up entering the Royal Rumble at No. 1 and No. 2. Both made it clear that their rivalry mattered more than winning the Rumble. Austin wanted to punish the company’s tyrannical CEO, while McMahon just wanted two-time reigning champ Austin to lose, even putting a $100,000 bounty on Austin’s elimination.

Before the opening bell rang, ring announcer Howard Finkel explained and re-explained the “over the top rope” rule, telegraphing the inbound mockery of said rule.

Austin had a chance to eliminate McMahon with ease early in the Rumble, but preferred beating up his boss over not beating up his boss. Entrant No. 3, some guy I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of otherwise, distracted Austin, and McMahon fled under the ropes to the arena’s concourse. Austin rolled under the ropes in pursuit, and McMahon goons ambushed Austin, beating him until he had to be carried to an ambulance.

Oh right, the Rumble itself. The production returned its attention to the ring, where little had been planned, other than the overwhelming Austin-McMahon storyline. There ensued a C plot about the Undertaker’s cult kidnapping Mabel (the lights went out during Mabel’s exit, so there is no indisputable visual evidence Mabel was ever eliminated), but since the entire hour-long event was built around a story that’d literally left the building, the middle was shockingly boring and low on star power.

“Nearly a quarter of the participants wouldn’t make it into that summer’s WWF Attitude, a game that included Head as a playable character. Most of the Rumble match could be re-created by a seven-year-old whose mom only bought him the cheap action figures left on the Toys ‘R’ Us shelf (and having grown up with three Giant Gonzalez dolls, I know what I’m talking about). Frankly, besides Austin and McMahon, the only two men in the Rumble with even the remotest chance of winning were Kane (whose one-day WWF title reign made him the only other former world champ in the match) and Triple H (who at that point was maybe the 5th-most over member of D-X)[Okay, I exaggerate, but most of the other DX members got louder pops during their entrances on this night].”

Every few minutes, neutral commentator Michael Cole wondered about McMahon’s whereabouts, only to be shushed by the complicit villain apologist Jerry Lawler.

McMahon still influenced proceedings from afar, and not just because he actually owned the ring and was literally in charge of the entire pay-per-view event’s script. His character managed to get rid of viable threat Kane, the Rumble’s annual biggest ring-clearer, by [problematic 1999 vibes] sending “insane asylum” orderlies until Kane fled the ring over the top rope, eliminating himself because very tall wrestlers have never figured out how to enter or exit a ring without stepping over all the ropes.

It wasn’t until Kane cleared the ring of wrestlers, including himself, that McMahon returned, nearly 26 minutes after he’d fled under the bottom rope. Half of the non-Austin/non-McMahon field had since been eliminated. Here he is, confirming he still considered himself eligible:

McMahon ally Ken Shamrock then entered the ring opposite McMahon, and so…

…McMahon returned to the job he’d held before he became a meddling despot who gets pummeled by Stone Cold Steve Austin: wearing a headset (which he IRL owns) at the commentary table (which he IRL owns) next to Cole (whom McMahon also IRL owns), claiming all the day’s tasks had been accomplished, since the injured Austin wouldn’t win. As Cole and Lawler continued to remind the viewer McMahon was still in the match, McMahon insisted he had no interest in rejoining the fight.

The plan hit a snag when Austin returned to the arena, driving his own ambulance. An all-time meme face legend went to work.

Austin chased McMahon around the ring, but the villain managed to lead Austin through traffic within it, ensuring a safe return to the announcers table, Austin taking more damage, and Austin eliminating more wrestlers. Another effective piece of character work: despite having a headset, McMahon did not slip back into the commentator mode of his previous three decades. His remarks focused on Austin and who could eliminate him.

Austin seemingly became dumb again, doing very normal wrestling against Triple H and X-Pac and everyone else, forgetting about the guy at ringside who’d sent him toward the hospital during this very hour. But it really wouldn’t have made sense to pursue McMahon until the elimination of Big Boss Man, another McMahon ally. And Austin showed he hadn’t forgotten about McMahon by leaving the ring to dump water in McMahon’s face.

(You know the other really dumb thing wrestlers do during Royal Rumbles? When they prevent an opponent from eliminating another opponent, for no reason other than sheer desire to hit somebody? In this match, the $100,000 bounty on Austin provided an explanation for once. When Triple H prevented two guys from throwing out Austin, it made sense. Triple H wanted the bounty for himself.)

Finally, Austin eliminated Big Boss Man, then left the ring to drag McMahon in. Once again, Austin declined to eliminate his rival, instead gloating and … yelling at materialized distraction The Rock, yet another McMahon ally at the time. Oh hey, it’s The Rock. (Earlier in the night, he’d had a heated gamer moment and beaten Mick Foley with a chair for real.)

The story told by the first 56 minutes and 30 seconds of the match was that Stone Cold and Vince McMahon cared about beating each other more than anything else in the world, and that none of the 28 other contenders mattered (most of them have been largely forgotten to history or resembled rejected Adam Sandler characters, so this is partially fair). Austin wanted to brutalize McMahon more than Austin wanted to win. McMahon wanted Austin to lose more than McMahon wanted his own money.

And then, at the very end, Austin cared about yelling at The Rock more than he cared about any of this. Sure!

McMahon won the 1999 Royal Rumble by running, hiding, and sitting around for almost an hour, dealing almost literally no offense. A few pathetic slaps, that one hoist at the end, and there you have it: the greatest Royal Rumble strategy of all time, even if it only arose by accident after Austin’s surprise return to the ring.

It started and ended as a one-on-one match, with 50 minutes of useless filler in between. McMahon didn’t even keep the match’s prize, forfeiting his WWF title shot. Austin-McMahon had to happen as many times as possible, but there was no reason for it to happen in a Royal Rumble. Its only payoff was highlighting how easy it is for a supervillain to exploit the event’s dumb rules.

Were lessons learned? Did bad guys attempt this same strategy in the 2000 Rumble? Nah, The Rock won by doing normal wrestling stuff.

Every year, somebody loiters right next to the ring, gets forgotten about while selling an injury, or is a comedy wrestler just doing a version of the Coward’s Gambit for comic relief. And every year, Kofi Kingston deploys physical genius to re-enter the ring after being thrown out, hacking the event’s other rule: two feet must touch the floor. But totally vacating the premises on purpose? This remains a massive opportunity for the motivated coward.

Lawler, the McMahon apologist, had actually attempted a version of this in 1996, hiding under the ring for 36 minutes until fans reported the crime to Shawn Michaels. The subservient bootlicker Lawler failed because he only attempted a pathetic version of the Coward’s Gambit. He merely left the ring itself, when he should’ve left the floor, the arena, the neighborhood, only returning to the ring when the coast was absolutely clear.

The 1999 Royal Rumble is widely considered one of the event’s worst iterations ever, but not necessarily because of the goofy finish. Those happen all the time. And not entirely because the boss booked himself to win — he was the company’s greatest heel, and he won in the most heelish manner possible, and it’s not like he booked himself to actually win the title belt itself (until a few months later, when he rigged a far more contrived story, but that’s a whole other thing). The main problem was that two wrestlers completely overshadowed 28 others.

However, there’s absolutely a way to use the Royal Rumble’s stupid rule to tell not just one fitting story, but a multi-year story.

It’s a mystery why the company didn’t fix this rule, once it’d been fully exposed in 1999. The company’s CEO was the one who hacked the rule, but wouldn’t he want to prevent anybody else from besting his own target-of-opportunity winning strategy?

But the even bigger mystery is why all the bad guys don’t deploy this chicanery every year. It makes sense that the rule-following John Cenas sprint into the ring to deliver hardo justice, but the diabolical Seth Rollinses should don ghillie suits beneath the popcorn stands.

So here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna take over the book and establish control of WWE’s scripts. Then we’ll have a villain go full McMahon by deploying the Coward’s Gambit not just as a means of embarrassing one opponent, but specifically and intentionally as a means of winning the match. We’re gonna have this villain win the belt at WrestleMania and parade this newly minted monster heel as a genius.

Will we then fix the rule, perhaps by requiring devious under-ropers to get back into the ring within 10 seconds? No. Not yet. We will not surrender content that easily.

At the following year’s Rumble, an impossible to ignore number of bad guys will attempt the same scheme. Eventually, the viewer will realize there are 15 villains running laps around the ring, all of them too dastardly to work together in any way, each of them trying to throw their fellow scumbags into the ring so that the justice hardos can then throw them out for good. We’ve just created a MultiRumble, a Disloyal Rumble encircling the Royal Rumble itself, bad guys chasing bad guys in a NASCAR orbit around good guys chasing good guys, wheels within wheels as the prophet Ezekiel witnessed in the heavens.

And then, the year after that, we fix the rules and promise the viewer the most honest Royal Rumble of all time, straight down the middle. We then let someone win via some totally different bullshit, and voila: several years of highly memorable Rumbles, all thanks to one stupid rule.

Most memes are funny for a day, and then enter the same internet graveyard as the Harlem Shake and “Philosoraptor.” But not Bernie Sanders and his mittens. The photo of the Vermont senator looking like Kim Cattrall’s replacement on Sex and the City on Inauguration Day is not only still amusing, it’s also raised a bunch of money for charity.

“Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised $1.8 million for charity through the sale of merchandise inspired by the viral photo of him and his mittens on Inauguration Day,” according to CNN (the picture was taken by taken by Agence France-Presse staff photographer Brendan Smialowski). “The Vermont senator’s team began selling sweatshirts and T-shirts featuring the photo, which inspired countless memes, on his campaign store last Thursday.” All the money from the “Chairman Sanders” merchandise, the first run of which sold out in less than 30 minutes, will be distributed to charities in Vermont.

“Jane and I were amazed by all the creativity shown by so many people over the last week, and we’re glad we can use my internet fame to help Vermonters in need,” Sanders wrote in a statement. “But even this amount of money is no substitute for action by Congress, and I will be doing everything I can in Washington to make sure working people in Vermont and across the country get the relief they need in the middle of the worst crisis we’ve faced since the Great Depression.”

As part of the licensing agreement to put the famous photo on T-shirts, sweatshirts, and stickers, Getty Images will donate its proceeds from the license to Meals on Wheels America… Burton Snowboards, which makes the coat Sanders wore on Inauguration Day, donated 50 jackets to the Burlington Department for Children and Families in the senator’s name.

The now-iconic mittens were made by Vermont school teacher Jen Ellis, who told the Washington Post that she remembers “the night [I gave him the mittens]. I was thinking to myself, ‘Is this crazy? I don’t even know this guy.’ But I wanted to make them for him, so I did.” A small act of kindness can lead to big things.

(Via CNN)

Parkland survivor David Hogg is challenging Republicans to denounce newly elected Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after a series of incendiary videos and social media posts have recently been brought to light. A known believer and active spreader of QAnon conspiracy theories, Greene has left a digital media trail involving calls for Nancy Pelosi and FBI agents to be executed, and a video where she is seen harassing Hogg while the young activist was in Washington, D.C. and petitioning Congress to take more active measures in preventing school shootings. Greene has publicly stated that Parkland was a “false flag” operation to take away gun owner’s right and has questioned whether the event even happened. It did.

After the video of Greene harassing Hogg went viral, he stopped by CNN on Thursday morning where he recalled being accosted by the QAnon congresswoman. Following the Parkland shooting, Hogg suffers from PTSD, which made the encounter all the more jarring.

Via CNN:

“Sometimes it’s just, you know, as I was told growing up, it’s just better not to respond to bullies and just walk away,” Hogg said.

He also said he “absolutely” felt it was a threat when Greene said in the video that she carried a gun, but told himself “if they shoot me, they prove my point.”

Considering the video was just one example in a growing list of Greene’s violent rhetoric, Hogg slammed Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy who have yet to denounce the QAnon congresswoman. Hogg feels she should be stripped of her committee assignments and not supported by the party if she runs for re-election.

“Republicans always act as if they’re the party of decency and respect. But would the party of decency and respect questions [about] whether or not school shootings happened?” Hogg said. “Would they harass the survivors of these shootings for having different opinions than them? I don’t think so. And if Kevin McCarthy doesn’t think so either, he needs to actually stand up and do something about this congresswoman.”

(Via CNN)

2020 was the year several of today’s biggest musicians secured major brand deals. Travis Scott raked in $20 million with his McDonald’s merch collaboration, J Balvin similarly secured a McDonald’s deal, and Lady Gaga announced she was expanding the world of her Chromatica album to include Oreo cookies. While Gaga revealed the brand deal last year, the brightly-colored treats have just now hit shelves in the US.

Announcing the news, the cookie company took to social media to offer a sneak peak of the cookie’s packaging. Each cookie is neon pink and stamped with a Chromatica symbol while the cream filling has been dyed a bright green hue. “The news you’ve all been waiting for (and we couldn’t wait to reveal)… OREO x LADY GAGA packs drop today,” they wrote.

Not only did Oreo announce the cookies are now available, but they are also giving fans a chance to win a package of cookies signed by Gaga herself. Launching a Twitter sweepstakes, fans have 24 hours to solve Gaga-related clues across the social media platform. Oreo’s first clue is: “Forget postage stamps. In the world of Chromatica, this mother gets her own OREO cookie for ruling with kindness.”

Check out a clip of Gaga previewing the cookie above.

Chromatica is out now via Interscope. Get it here.

If you haven’t caught Lupin yet, the fancy French heist show that’s taken up residence in the “Popular On Netflix” list lately, it’s time to catch up because it won’t be long before Lupin mania (and all of its glorious coat-and-suit porn) strikes again. That might seem like a hyperbolic urging, but really, the show’s that brazenly fun in a National Treasure-meets-Oceans Eleven sort of way, and we could all stand to stop thinking about real life be entertained by thievery of a priceless diamond necklace from the Lourve, especially since this all somehow revolves around vengeance, and heck, let’s just roll with it.

Netflix will continue to roll with Lupin, which also happens to be the streaming service’s first French-language original series and the first French series to reach Top 10 status. The show’s a smash hit and a surprise global phenomenon, so it makes sense that Netflix would greenlight more of Omar Sy’s heisting skills because the fans demand it. And don’t let the pandemic delays worry you on that front because, somehow, Netflix is quick-heisting another dose by Summer 2021.

That would be a fast turnaround under normal circumstances, let alone during our current global situation. It’s probably a safe bet to guess that this followup season was already in the works before the pandemic took root, but there’s no confirmation on that front. Maybe Netflix is pulling off a very successful production bubble as we speak? That’s entirely possible, since Part 2 will contain a mere five episodes, just like Part 1.

For Haim’s third studio record Women In Music Pt. III, the sister trio was able to work with longtime collaborators Rostam and Ariel Rechtshaid. But for one song in particular, Danielle Haim wanted to get a feature from the renowned artist Bono. Haim was initially uneasy about reaching out, so she found a way to calm her nerves: by drunk-texting him.

Haim and Rostam recently sat down to detail their album’s recording process with the podcast Song Exploder. Speaking about the track “Summer Girl,” Rostam recalled wanting to get the U2 singer to lay down vocals. After ad-libbing a verse during a brainstorming session, Rostam knew Bono would be the perfect edition to the track. “In my head, I was like: ‘That’s such a Bono line, I can just picture Bono… Maybe we should ask him if he would sing that section of the song?’ And Danielle was kind of like, ‘Well you know I know him. When I lost my voice in Ireland, he sent me this care package, it was the sweetest thing. He recommended a doctor.” Rostam said.

Chiming in, Danielle finished the story:

“So I have his number. Rostam’s like, ‘You gotta text Bono.’ I was like, ‘What the f*ck are you talking about? You want me to text Bono?’ I think we got super drunk and he finally convinced me, ‘Just send it!’ So, I sent Bono the song. He was so nice. He was like, ‘This is great. Let me see where I fit in.’ My mind was exploding. Finally, he texted me back and was like, ‘You know, I’m so sick. I’m so sorry. If you want a blow horn on this song — my voice is so shot. I don’t think I can come up with anything in time.’ And that was that.”

Listen to the full Song Exploder episode above.

Women In Music Pt. III is out now via Columbia. Get it here and revisit our review of the album here.

The Tiny Desk concert series has looked different over the past year, most notably in the fact that performance haven’t taken place on the classic set (save for Billie Eilish and Finneas’, sort of). Now, another major pop star has participated in the series, and this time, it’s Miley Cyrus.

Meanwhile, Cyrus just revealed that she will be performing at the TikTok Tailgate, a Super Bowl pre-game event that the NFL describes as “the NFL’s pregame event for the 7,500 vaccinated health care heroes who have been invited to attend SBLV.” Cyrus wrote of the event, “SUPER BOWL LV!!! I’ll be there for TIKTOK TAILGATE!!! I can’t wait to put on a show for the NFL’s honored guests before the game…. Health care workers from Tampa and around the country! Join the tailgate at 2:30 PM ET FEBRUARY 7 on @TikTok! #SBLV Been working my ass off on this set list! I think you’re gonna DIG IT!”

Watch Cyrus’ Tiny Desk performance above.