Slayyyter released her official debut album earlier this year, and Troubled Paradise is a glitchy, hyper-pop record that leans into country, pop, and electronic impulses with equal ease. To switch things up, the left-field pop star partnered with Vevo to give fans a different side of her sound. In a pair of live performance videos, she strips back two of the album tracks to their bare bones acoustic elements.
First up, the album’s title track “Troubled Paradise” is reimagined with just Catherine Slater and a guitar player. They both sit in a mauve, dim room, while she belts out the tune with impressive vocal control. Check that out above. Then, she gives another album cut, “Letters,” a similar treatment — although that song was already originally in this softer realm. As an acolyte of pop culture phenoms like Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani, in this pair of videos Slayyyter proves that she’s more than just the glamorous image or the massive production. It’s a showcase of her talent as a singer, which is something that’s constantly questioned for women in pop, and she nails both songs without flubbing a single note — even the challenging ones. Check out “Letters” below and “Troubled Paradise” above to hear a different side of the rising pop talent.
IDK is flying high after the release of his second album USee4Yourself, sharing the tour dates for his tour supporting the project along with the new video for its standout song, “Dogs Don’t Die.”
In the video, IDK shows off his fashion sense and newly attained level of wealth, rocking a black suit/white tee shirt/Jordan IV combination (along with his ever-present durag) in the back of a Maybach while cruising through the California desert with a lady friend.
In addition to dropping the new album, IDK recently launched a music business program at Harvard and signed a deal with Nike, resulting in him having a few excess pairs to give out in his neighborhood. The album, which is both his most commercially appealing and musically adventurous project yet, contains features with Young Thug and MF DOOM.
Watch the “Dogs Don’t Lie” video above and see the USee4Yourself tour dates below. USee4Yourself is out now via Warner. Get it here.
11/28 -– Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
11/2 — Portland, OR @ Hawthorne
11/3 — Seattle, WA @ Crocodile – Second Stage
11/5 — San Francisco, CA @ August Hal
11/6 — Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco
11/9 — Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade-Purgatory Stage
11/11 — Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
11/15 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/16 — Philadelphia, PA @ Foundry
11/26 — Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore
IDK is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
If you thought producers John Davis and John Fox were going to “get to the choppa” and leave the jungle after finishing up work on the family-friendly adventure Jungle Cruise, you must not have noticed the next film on the duo’s docket. In an exclusive interview with Collider, Davis and Fox provided us with some pretty big details about their work on the upcoming Predator prequel Skull — which seems perhaps further along in development than previously thought. During the interview, the producers revealed the highly-anticipated title of the film as well as shared a bit more information about the film’s plot, progress, and how it fits in with the other entries in the series.
According to Davis and Fox, Skull tells the story of a female hero fighting to survive during the Predator’s first journey to Earth. While this certainly sounds like the plot to a Predator movie, Davis revealed the upcoming prequel actually shares quite a bit in common with another movie: the Academy Award-winning drama The Revenant. With this in mind, Skull is seemingly aiming to deliver audiences an intimate life-or-death struggle that will be “the second best — or the first [best]” film in the franchise, according to Davis. However — regardless of if this prequel does best the much-loved original — Davis says that at the very least Skull aims to match Predators tone:
“It goes back to what made the original Predator movie work. It’s the ingenuity of a human being who won’t give up, who’s able to observe and interpret, basically being able to beat a stronger, more powerful, well-armed force.”
As of right now, the team has confirmed Skull is “three-quarters of the way through” production, placing its release date way sooner than we might have anticipated. Davis says that the film’s rating will ultimately be dependent on the cuts made by the editing team, and while it was conceived as an R-rated film, it could be cut down to PG-13. In addition, both directors expressed confidence in the film’s script — written by Patrick Aison — as well as in the film’s “brilliant director” Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane). If all goes as well as it sounds, it looks like we could be seeing a new Predator movie sometime next year.
The content of Lil Nas X’s recent “Industry Baby” video is often explicit, although it was understandably cleaned up and blurred out when necessary for YouTube. Now, though, the rapper is offering an “uncensored” version of the clip, although it’s more of a hilarious tease than an actual X-rated clip.
In the first half-minute of both the original and “uncensored” videos, Nas gets acclimated to life behind bars. Then, we see an establishing shot of a running shower head. In the original video, that leads to a scene of Nas and other inmates dancing naked (but with their parts pixellated). The “uncensored” video is actually less revealing than that: Right when the viewer thinks they’re going to see some body parts, the video freezes on a still frame of the shower head as a simulated loading icon spins to make it look like the video playback isn’t working properly. That goes on for the rest of the video.
The rapper retweeted some reactions from fans who played along with the bit. One wrote, “MY MOM WALKED IN WHILE I WAS WATCHING THIS… HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS TO HER???” Another said, “OMG their dicks were actually OUT-” A different user wrote, “Look I changed my router, called my internet provider, and bought a new computer but the video isn’t loading properly can you PLEASE reupload the right way this time.”
MY MOM WALKED IN WHILE I WAS WATCHING THIS… HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS TO HER??? https://t.co/gfbZMlGBvS
Look I changed my router, called my internet provider, and bought a new computer but the video isn’t loading properly can you PLEASE reupload the right way this time https://t.co/apnJw7FOCi
The video game industry has long suffered from a lack of representation. While there have been efforts to address these issues, it’s still a fact that the stories told in video games typically come from people with very specific backgrounds.
There are, however, people trying to push against this and change the industry one step at a time. One of the best ways this is currently happening is through the Game Devs of Color Expo. Their sixth annual event is coming up and this is going to be one of the best ones yet, with an interesting variety of panels that include discussions on crunch culture in games, marketing these games, and one particular panel demanding more anime in games.
Coming to your screen September 23–27, 2021, the 6th annual Game Devs of Color Expo is dedicated to amplifying the creative power held by people of color in games. Join us for a multi-day celebration of diverse voices. You’ll meet a variety of amazing creators from around the world and learn to build and market games players love.
What’s great about the GDoC Expo is that while many other video game events are solely focused on being for developers or fans, such as GDC and E3, this has a little bit of something for everyone interested in games. Every panel and game will highlight a person of color in the industry, giving them a stage that far too many companies currently choose not to give.
He shared the title track with the record announcement, and today he’s sharing another new single from the record, this one called “We Go On Walks,” and it’s a little harsher than his first song. Featuring a sort of call and response dialogue with Petey singing both parts, the song kicks off with a “hey motherf*cker” refrain that tapers off into a quieter, synth-driven chorus. The chaotic, sometimes aggressive facets of the song are pretty reflective of how plenty of people are feeling after the last 18 months of confusing pandemic-related isolation, as is the practice of going on walks, so it feels very much like a song of its time.
Or, maybe it’s just a Seinfeld-ian song about nothing. “We Go on Walks’ is a fun song I made mostly on my computer,” Petey said of the track. “It’s about going on a walk with a friend but you don’t really talk about anything, but it’s still nice and necessary.” Check out the new single above and look out for his debut album out 9/3 via Terrible Records. Pre-order it here.
After months (and months) of anticipation, it would seem like James Gunn set himself up for an almost insurmountable task in delivering on expectations for The Suicide Squad. The trailers were a hilarious blast, the internet immediately fell in love with King Shark, and Gunn’s work on Guardians of the Galaxy is highly regarded. However, The Suicide Squad exists in an odd, nebulous space where it’s not quite a sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 film, yet it’s not entirely a reboot either.
It’s an odd tightrope to walk, but according to first batch of reviews, Gunn absolutely nailed it. The overwhelming consensus is that The Suicide Squad pulls off the rare and impressive feat of rejuvenating a franchise after a lackluster and critically-derided first film. Not only that, but Gunn makes the whole thing fun as hell in the process. Almost every review plants its flag on calling The Suicide Squad the best DC Comics film in a long time, if not one of the best films in the whole genre. (Your move, Marvel.)
I can’t think of another movie quite as dreadful, and was as big a bomb as Suicide Squad, then to have a sequel that is as well made and, frankly, competent as The Suicide Squad — it’s such a unique situation.
There’s a reason it’s called The Suicide Squad and not Suicide Squad 2. Less of a sequel and more of a desperately needed do-over, this scabrous, side-splitting and surprisingly smart supervillain romp is the definite article.
“The Suicide Squad” gets it right, honing that rogue attitude to a much sleeker edge of outrage. It’s a team-of-scruffy-cutthroats origin story that feels honestly dunked in the grunge underworld, and shot for shot it’s made with a slicing ingenuity that honors the genre of “The Dirty Dozen” (and also, in a funny way, “Ghostbusters”).
The most fun and least depressing superhero movie in a very long time, Gunn’s deliriously ultra-violent “The Suicide Squad” wears the yoke of its genre with a lightness that allows it to slip loose of the usual restraints, if not quite shake them off altogether.
Instead of acknowledging its almost identically titled predecessor, the new installment simply sheds all memory of it, like a bad Tinder date or a vestigial tail — even as it retains the mythology, most of the characters, and the general pandemonium of its original premise.
Not only does it find the nastily enjoyable vibe that eluded its predecessor, but it also tells a story worth following — while balancing its most appealing character with others whose disposability (they aren’t sent on suicide missions for nothin’) doesn’t prevent them from being good company onscreen. Bonus: Unlike Ayer, Gunn never looks at Robbie as if he’s hoping for a lap dance.
Gunn clearly loves the DC comic book and has brought together a rollicking group of supervillains for a really entertaining hard-R-rated take on the property that has just as much in common with ’60s-era movies like The Dirty Dozen and Kelly’s Heroes as it does with most of the DC canon. Gunn says he was inspired by those films in coming up with this new version, and it shows — in a good way.
It would be enough for this just to be a very funny action-comedy, but Gunn also puts in some light-touch criticism of America’s role in international affairs. The gang kills first and asks questions later. Peacemaker, like a very right-wing Captain America, believes in “peace at any cost”. Gunn shows that you can have something to say while still delivering great gags.
The Suicide Squad hits theaters and HBO Max on August 6, 2021.
It’s no secret that Popeyes makes the best fried chicken sandwich in the fast food galaxy. In the two years since Popeyes dropped their new sandwich, we’ve seen just about every chain try to swipe at that crown — reformulating recipes and expanding their menus in an attempt to satiate our undying appetite for the perfect bird between bread. Even monster brands are shook. Burger King ditched their old chicken sandwich for something new and the mighty McDonald’s launched not just one new chicken sandwich but three!
In addition to the title of best fried chicken sandwich in the game, Popeyes has the best sides of any chicken joint, and their bone-in chicken offerings, available in both mild and spicy formulations, are also fast food’s best.
Having said that, the Popeyes Chicken Tender is in need of some serious work. For a place with a sandwich so good, there is no excuse for having lackluster tenders. Clearly, this was something Popeyes wanted to remedy with the announcement of a new chicken nugget. Unfortunately, this fix doesn’t quite work.
Check our full review below:
Popeyes Chicken Nuggets
Dane Rivera
Taste Test
I don’t know if any single fast food item will ever have as much hype as that original sandwich drop. It’s a fast food anomaly. Yet I kept seeing article after article declaring that these new nuggets were “hotly” or “highly” anticipated. The Takeout ran a piece titled “Will Popeyes’ new chicken nuggets cause a ruckus?” Nope. For whatever reason, the media is really working hard to hype up these nuggets (no doubt a result of all the traffic they got from writing about the original sandwich), but when I arrived at my local Popeyes on drop day to order an 8-count meal, there wasn’t even a line in the drive-thru.
Back in 2019, when I covered the sandwich drop, I waited in a line and was still eating my sandwich at a table when the management came out to announce that they had sold out for the day. It was a wild scene. So I half-feared I was already too late. That I’d roll up to the drive-thru only to be told they were sold out. That wasn’t the case.
In fact, when I pulled up to Popeyes I was actually asked to wait in front of the restaurant because they had to fry up some nuggets fresh. In my opinion, getting your fast food fried fresh leads to the best experience, so I was hyped. But it was clear that the nuggets didn’t hold a fraction of the popularity the sandwich did on day one, or else they’d have them ready and waiting.
Anyway…
Like the tenders, the Popeyes nuggets suffer from being haphazardly battered. Some pieces are so overly battered that fried hollow tendrils of batter twist off of the nuggets, giving you empty bites of fried batter. On other spots of the nugget are so under-battered you can see the white meat lurking beneath.
It’s clear that there isn’t a lot of attention to detail when it comes to battering the chicken unlike what you’d find at places like Chick-fil-A or Carl’s Jr, where they hand-bread. Aside from presentation, that shouldn’t really matter — at the end of the day, all the matters is the flavor, right? And this is still Popeyes batter we’re dealing with, so we know it’s going to have that delicious mix of garlic powder, salt, and pepper. But when it’s uneven you also get uneven bites and a generally uneven experience.
Of course, a chicken nugget is more than just its batter. But Popeyes suffers there, too. The chicken used in the nuggets is the same as the tenders — oddly chunky with a weird flakey consistency that breaks apart when you chew through it.
Dane Rivera
This weird cube-y chicken ruins the experience for me. In the photo above, you can see its chunky quality. I didn’t rip this nugget apart with my fingers or cut it with a knife, I bit into it and a chunk broke off in a near-perfect straight line. If the sight of that chicken is off-putting to you (don’t zoom in), I hate to inform you that the same experience is repeated in the mouth, and it makes for a disturbing mouthfeel where you can actually feel layers of the chicken breaking off from larger chunks as you chew through.
This isn’t something that can be remedied by dipping your chicken deep into some sauce, either. Yes, it will enhance the experience but nothing is going to fix that chewy texture. The decision to only offer this nugget in the mild recipe is another disappointment. Spicy nuggets always trump non-spicy. C’mon, Popeyes, that’s obvious.
The Bottom Line
Thanks to the chunky and chewy texture, you’re better off just sticking with the tenders (get ’em spicy!) or getting a sandwich — which is why you have Popeyes on the brain in the first place. Easily the worst Popeyes chicken product.
Anyone who has ever said “there is no such thing as a stupid question” has never listened to Tucker Carlson. The Fox News host and reformed bow tie addict has a knack for turning what would sound like an obvious statement coming out of anyone else’s mouth — “The sky is blue!” — into the most puzzling-sounding question — “But is the sky really blue?”
When it comes to the violent events that took place at the Capitol on January 6th, Carlson has a lot of questions — most of them really dumb ones, like: Can we really say it was a gang of white supremacists who were at the Capitol that day? And is busting down the windows of the U.S. Capitol really a crime? Fortunately, The Daily Show was ready with some answers.
On Tuesday, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah posted a 90-second mash-up video to its YouTube page that paired some of Carlson’s most idiotic queries with the very clear answers that were given during Tuesday’s January 6th Commission hearing — including the moment where Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges cited the exact codes and laws that were broken when a gang of domestic terrorists (that’s the legal term) overtook the Capitol.
The one question they did not answer, however, is how Carlson still has a show. Maybe next time.
Will Smith portrayed Muhammad Ali in Ali, Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness, and Bennet Omalu in Concussion. For his next biopic, he’ll play Richard Williams, the father of legendary tennis siblings, Venus and Serena Williams. King Richard takes place before either sister — played in the movie by Saniyya Sidney (Venus) and Demi Singleton (Serena) won their first Grand Slam; they’re still up-and-comers being coached by their kid. “Now I don’t mind you saying we hard on these kids. You know why? ‘Cause we are,” Smith says in the trailer above. “That’s our job, to keep ’em off these streets.”
Smith’s only Oscar nominations came for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness. With King Richard, he clearly wants another nomination — and this time, maybe a win.
Here’s what Smith had to say about the movie:
One of the greatest honors as an actor is to be able to celebrate someone’s legacy while they’re still here creating it. I’ve gotten to do it a few times in my career playing Chris Gardner and Muhammad Ali, and every time it’s a fulfilling and expansive experience beyond compare. So now, I’m proud to show you all our first trailer for King Richard, the story of the man who introduced the world to Venus Williams and Serena Williams. The origin story for some REAL DEAL superheroes!
King Richard hits theaters and HBO Max on November 19.
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