It’s hard to believe that no one wants to listen to Donald Trump bloviate about his presidential history, especially given his propensity for rewriting it. But if the ticket sales for Trump and disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s so-called “History Tour” are any indication, the yuge crowds Trump regularly (and often falsely) boasts about attracting to his various rallies, insurrections, and other public events don’t seem to be as enthusiastic about supporting the former president if it means forking over their hard-earned dollars.
As Newsweek reports, despite the fact that tickets for this “limited engagement national tour”—which start at $100 and are priced into the thousands for premium options—first went on sale in June, there are still thousands of tickets still available, including the cheap seats. Even for the kick-off events, which are happening on Saturday at the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida, and Sunday at the Amway Center in Orlando, Ticketmaster still has thousands of tickets available for each event. (Both venues have seating for just about 20,000 people.)
That fans are flocking to shell out thousands of dollars to watch O’Reilly kiss Trump’s ass in person is hardly news. Back in July, when Politico wrote an article about the tour’s sluggish sales titled “Ticket Sales Are Moving Slowly For The Coming Trump-O’Reilly Stadium Tour,” O’Reilly threatened to sue the media outlet… in an interview with the writer.
When asked about ticket sales for the event, Liz Harrington, a spokesperson for the crowd-size-conscious former president, countered that the tour had “already sold over $5 million of tickets, and the excitement and enthusiasm is unlike anything we’ve seen before.” Then added that, “Come December, the sold-out shows will be a memorable night for all.”
Note: It’s December.
O’Reilly was a bit more aggressive in his denouncement of Politico writer Daniel Lippman’s findings on ticket sales. In fact, he seemed to be on a totally different page than Trump when he overshot his partner’s official tally, stating:
“We have more than $7 million in the bank. We haven’t spent a nickel on marketing, nothing. All those $7 million for four shows were done on the announcement. Marketing will start in about a week. Nobody has sold tickets this fast at this price, and VIPs are sold out at 3 of the 4 venues.”
O’Reilly also told Lippman that “I’m not the ticket counter,” then thoughtfully added: “You put one word in there that’s not true, I’ll sue your ass off and you can quote me on that. You’re just a hatchet man and that’s what you are.”
“The History Tour” kicks off in Florida this weekend. Tickets are most definitely still available.
England’s Reading and Leeds festivals have a unique set-up, as the sister events take place on the same weekend and share a lineup. It’s a big line-up, too, and now the fests have offered the first look at the 2022 edition, which goes down from August 26 to 28, by sharing some of the acts set to take the stage. Next year’s headliners include Megan Thee Stallion, Rage Against The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Halsey, Dave, and Bring Me The Horizon.
Beyond that, the lineup also features Polo G, Little Simz, Glass Animals, Wolf Alice, Fontaines DC, Enter:Shikari, Jack Harlow, Run The Jewels, Maneskin, Bastille, Circa Waves, Fever 333, Griff, Joy Crookes, PinkPantheress, Wallows, Jxdn, Kid Brunswick, Madison Beer, Tai Verdes, The Lathums, Wilkinson, Arrdee, Chloe Moriondo, Denzel Curry, Hybrid Minds, and Pale Waves. That’s only a small portion of the full lineup, so expect additions to be announced between now and next summer.
This appearance will be a big one for Rage Against The Machine, as they have been trying to get a reunion tour off the ground since 2020 and it will finally be able to happen next year (hopefully). Meanwhile, Megan has had to cancel some shows in recent days: She backed out of the AMAs due to a “personal matter” and she canceled a Houston concert “out of respect” to victims of the Astroworld Festival tragedy.
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Eagle Rare bourbon and the holidays certainly go together. Hell, if we had to pick one bottle to pair with a big feast, it’d probably be one of the bottles below. Besides that, Eagle Rare is also one of the most sought-after bourbons in the world. So, we’re going to rank their three expressions today.
Brass tacks, Eagle Rare is a pretty standard bourbon made in an extraordinary place. The mash bill is a low-rye recipe that Buffalo Trace keeps to itself. They’re also not going to tell you which yeasts they use or just how they make the strong beer in their fermenters, which eventually becomes this delicious whiskey. What we do know is that Eagle Rare is aged for at least ten years at the entry-level and 20 years by the time you get to the top of the mountain with the brand.
To rank all three bottles of this iconic bourbon, we’re going on taste alone. Availability or price is not an issue below. If it were, then standard Eagle Rare would be number one every time. That’s a phenomenal whiskey that you can mix with or sip that’s also affordable and gettable. But this is about the taste of the juice in the bottle, so let’s dive in!
This whiskey was produced in the spring of 2003. Since then, it lost 73 percent of its volume to the angels as it rested in warehouses C, K, M, and Q on various floors. The barrels were then vatted, proofed down, and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
The nose has this matrix of dark holiday spices that layer into a Black Forest cake with the finest stewed cherries, the moistest chocolate sponge cake, and the richest cream with a touch of vanilla and dark chocolate shavings and a whisper of pink finishing salt. The palate really leans into the cherry with a bright but saucy vibe that’s spiked with nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon (and maybe a hint of ground ginger) while little firecrackers full of salted black licorice, dry cedar bark, and Cherry Coke fill in the background. The finish takes its time as the mid-palate cherry sweetness slowly dissolves into an old wooden garden box full of fresh dark potting soil bursting with fresh mint and spicy nasturtiums.
Bottom Line:
This year’s BTAC Eagle Rare was a dream. That being said, there’s a lot going on that could be off-putting (salted licorice is a lot) for some. So, we’re making taste accessibility a factor in this short ranking.
This might be one of the most beloved (and still accessible) bottles from Buffalo Trace. This juice is made from their very low rye mash bill. The whiskey is then matured for at least ten years in various parts of the warehouse. The final mix comes down to barrels that hit just the right notes to make them “Eagle Rare.” Finally, this one is proofed down to a fairly low 90 proof.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a lot happening on the nose here, with worn leather mingling with dried orange, fresh sage, butter toffee, and cellared oak. The taste turns towards marzipan covered in dark chocolate with a touch of honey, cherry, and a sprinkling of dark spices with a clear orange basket holiday vibe. The mid-palate leans into candied nuts and cherries towards a finish that touches on that marzipan, toffee, and the cedar-y oak while ending short and cherry-sweet.
Bottom Line:
This is one of the best-made bourbons out there that you can still actually buy outside of Kentucky. This is a workhorse that shines in a cocktail (this should be your old fashioned go-to) and dominates as a great sipper on a rock or neat. That makes this a big winner when talking about taste because that’s a rare balance at any price point or style. That helps this expression edge out Eagle 17 above, but only barely.
This whiskey ups the Eagle Rare game up in two ways. First, this is “double” aged, meaning that the whiskey spends 20 years mellowing in Buffalo Trace’s warehouses — or twice as long as standard Eagle Rare. That makes the barrels that go into this expression super rare. The second aspect is the decanter. The crystal decanter has two eagles, one as a stopper and one that is blown into the bottom of the bottle. It’s a striking bottle and only 199 were produced.
Tasting Notes:
The nose on this gently draws you in with mellow hints of cherry liqueur, dry cedar tobacco boxes, rich vanilla pods that feel oily, and a buttercream toffee candy that’s more sticky than brittle. The nose then leans towards a woody spice matrix of cinnamon sticks soaked in cherry syrup next to a slight note of anise that’s more absinthe green than licorice dark. On the palate, a very dark cacao dust opens up our taste buds as dates soaked in floral Earl Grey create a base for a moist and very sticky toffee pudding with a small dollop of the silkiest vanilla ice cream you’ve ever had. The spices in that date-filled cake slowly rise after the sweet mid-palate veers into a soft and velvety finish that echoes with the woody spices but not the heat from them.
The very end leaves you with this dry cedar box that once held allspice berries, anise, and cinnamon but now holds a very dry leaf of cherry-choco tobacco.
Bottom Line:
There are so few of these bottles and, yes, the price is astronomical. But, goddamn, this is the nectar of the whiskey gods. I’d argue this is the best bourbon coming out of Buffalo Trace and, yes, I’m including Pappy 20 and 23 in that estimation (no disrespect intended). This is one of the softest, most distinct, and purely delicious whiskeys on the market.
If you do get a taste, make sure to dilute this with a little water. It’ll bloom into this shockingly (more) silken and robust sip of bourbon that will advance your palate to the next level.
Fox News‘ massive All-American Christmas Tree went up in flames shortly after midnight on Wednesday, and as Steve Doocy put it during the following morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, “It’s beginning to look a lot like arson.” According to reports, the 50 feet high holiday fixture took 21 hours to assemble and decorate with over 10,000 glass ornaments and 100,000 lights that all were severely damaged after a suspect allegedly set fire to the top of the tree. Via Fox News:
Fox News security spotted the suspect, later identified as Craig Tamanaha, climbing the 50-foot-tall tree at the center of Fox Square just after midnight. The Sixth Avenue and 48th Street location is in the heart of Midtown.
NYPD officers arrived at the scene and saw the suspect running from the location. They took him into custody before filing charges that included criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and arson. City firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze.
Footage of the All-American Christmas Tree engulfed in flames went viral on social media within minutes of the fire being lit. You can see video of the fire as tweeted by Australian reporter Leo Puglisi below:
Thanks to the attention from the arson fire, it was revealed that the All-American Christmas Tree is actually an artificial tree, which may have aided the acceleration of the flames:
For the past few Decembers, I’ve had a very silly but fun (for me at least) tradition on Twitter: Each and every day, I tweet a different lyric from “A Long December” by Counting Crows. I do this because (1) I love the song, obviously. Also, obviously, (2) it’s December! While it’s possible that (3) I just enjoy amiably torturing my followers, I like to think that (4) I’m actually providing a form of mass therapy.
This process of literally breaking down “A Long December” over and over has had at least one collateral effect: I’m pretty sure I have analyzed this song more than anyone on Earth, including the songwriter, Adam Duritz. As a result of my intense scholarship, I’ve concluded that “A Long December” is the greatest holiday song. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s — it applies to all of them and more.
To fully understand why this is so, it’s helpful to think of “A Long December” has four different songs — there is the literal “A Long December,” the figurative “A Long December,” the personal “A Long December,” and, finally, the holiday “A Long December.” I can’t remember how many times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass. Which is why I typed them out and am now sharing them with you.
Follow me into the canyons.
I. The Literal “A Long December”
“A Long December” is the penultimate track on the second Counting Crows LP, Recovering The Satellites. Released on October 15, 1996, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, on the way to eventually going double platinum. “A Long December” was the album’s second single, released (appropriately) on December 2. It proved to be the most popular track from the record, rising to No. 5 on the Modern Rock chart. A piano ballad with a “na na na” hook that evokes “Hey Jude” as well as Counting Crows’ own signature hit “Mr. Jones,” “A Long December” was kept from the top spot on the Modern Rock chart the following spring by songs such as U2’s “Discotheque,” Live’s “Lakini’s Juice,” and The Wallflowers’ “One Headlight.”
As Duritz later explained to Rolling Stone, the lyrics were inspired by a personal story: His friend was involved in a serious car accident in 1995, and was forced to convalesce in a hospital for an extended stay. Duritz often visited him during this period. One night, after hanging out with some pals on the eve of another hospital visit, he wrote “A Long December.”
“It’s a song about looking back on your life and seeing changes happening,” he said, “and for once me, looking forward and thinking, ‘Ya know, things are gonna change for the better — maybe this year will be better than the last.’”
There are lines in the song that plainly spell out the source material — the one about “the smell of hospitals in winter” and the other one about driving “up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m.” and talking “a little while about the year.” There’s also stuff in “A Long December” that seems to have little to do with friends waylaid in hospitals after bad car accidents. But there is definitely nothing about holidays here. Let’s dig deeper.
II. The Figurative “A Long December”
Because it was a stand-alone hit, surely many more people have heard “A Long December” at a bodega, a gas station, or a Walgreens than on Recovering The Satellites. But if you have heard the album, “A Long December” likely has a slightly different meaning as a song about rock stardom.
Recovering The Satellites has a lot of songs about rock stardom, because — as you may or may not remember — Counting Crows was a very popular band in 1996. Their previous album, August & Everything After, was released in the fall of 1993 and took off the following year, moving 3.8 million units in 1994 alone. For comparison’s sake, that’s 500,000 more copies than Dookie sold that year.
As was the case with nearly every other alt-rock bard of the era, Duritz was deeply conflicted about his fame, and he put those feelings into the songs on Recovering The Satellites. “Daylight Fading” describes the loneliness of non-stop touring. The self-explanatory “Have You Seen Me Lately?” is about the weirdness of constantly hearing yourself on the radio. At the end of “Children In Bloom,” Duritz sings that he “can’t find my way home.” On the title track, he surmises that “all anybody really wants to know is / when you gonna come down.”
“The only way fame affected me was my songs, because I wrote about my life and my life was affected by becoming famous,” Duritz explained to me in 2012. “And I know everybody hates when people write about being famous, but you know, fuck you, I’m not supposed to impress you with how just like each other we all are.”
All of those songs I just mentioned precede “A Long December” on the album, and they color how the song is interpreted in that context. The references to “one more day in the canyons” and “one more night in Hollywood” instantly place it in the milieu of L.A. “rock noir” songs like Warren Zevon’s “Desperadoes Under The Eaves” or the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” in which the city is less a setting than an idea about feeling ugly and dark when everything around you is beautiful and sun-dappled.
In this interpretation, “A Long December” is about making it through the confusion and alienation of rock stardom and (maybe) learning to appreciate your newfound status. But what does this have to do with holidays? If you think you might continue reading, I think you should.
III. The Personal “A Long December”
As Duritz conceded in our interview, people love to complain about rock stars who complain about rock stardom in their songs. And by people I mostly mean “music critics.” But in reality, the magic of great songwriting is that the listener will likely relate to a song more if the lyricist writes from a hyper-specific point of view that might, superficially, seem only relatable to him.
“They find all kinds of things about themselves in those songs,” Duritz explained. “I don’t understand it. I do know that it’s true. People were talking at the beginning to stop using proper names, stop using particular places and details in your songwriting because people aren’t going to relate to that. But they’re wrong. Those details give those things truth, some sort of real weight.”
I was not a rock star when I first heard Recovering The Satellites. I was a college freshman who lived exactly 2,008 miles from Los Angeles, a city I had never visited at that time. And yet I found this album eerily relevant to my circumstances. The way Duritz described his lonely life on a tour bus matched my feelings about my lonely life in a dorm room, a square box that put me (metaphorically) “on the road” away from my home. I was in a long-distance relationship with my high school girlfriend, so the line in “Daylight Fading” about “waiting for the telephone to tell me I’m alive” resonated. I could tell our union was going south, so the part in “Goodnight Elisabeth” where Duritz sings “til I’m all alone, you ain’t coming home” also felt like someone writing my biography. (Technically, I was the one who wasn’t home, but still — I felt that.)
Finally, she dumped me in — you guessed it — December. Which perhaps explains why “A Long December” has always played like a breakup song to me. Duritz claims he was writing about his friend in the hospital, but the song actually includes more references to a girl who might just be a memory. My favorite lyric is about this specifically: “I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower / Makes you talk a little lower / about the things you could not show her.”
Winter in the midwest is significantly less beautiful and sun-dappled than winter in California. But all those Christmas lights hanging from trees and strip malls can shine brighter than the sun. The constant good cheer during this season isolates the desolate, and sends a deeper chill to those already out in the cold. You feel wrong in December if you are being screwed over (temporarily or not) by life. It makes you laugh a little slower and talk a little lower.
Can you see where I’m going with this? Just one more day up in the canyons, I promise.
IV. The Holiday “A Long December”
I wonder what Taylor Swift thinks of “A Long December.” On her 2020 album Evermore, there’s a track called “Tis The Damn Season” that’s about going to the town where you grew up during the holidays and realizing that you no longer belong there.
Here’s the part of “Tis The Damn Season” that reminds me a little of “A Long December”:
I parkеd my car right between the Methodist And thе school that used to be ours The holidays linger like bad perfume You can run, but only so far I escaped it too, remember how you watched me leave But if it’s okay with you, it’s okay with me
This is such a common scenario — the time in your early 20s when you still hang out with childhood friends in your hometown during the holidays — that it’s odd to me that there aren’t more songs about it. But I think “A Long December” is (perhaps inadvertently) one of those songs. Only Duritz is less exact than Swift. I’ve heard “A Long December” countless times and I’m not quite clear on whether the person in the song is staying in Los Angeles in December or if he’s visiting L.A. (It depends on whether you hear “if you think you might come to California” as spoken by the narrator or a different character.)
As we’ve established, this tune is a series of not-quite-connected scenes that allude to the real-life story about the friend in the hospital, Duritz’s feelings about fame, and a mystery woman who might in fact be a metaphor for unrequited longing. But when you add up all those elements, it somehow transforms into a song about how the holidays send us down the wormhole of our own pasts in search of a version of ourselves — or our parents, or high school friends, or our hometowns — that no longer exists. The “festive” mood always has loss and melancholy baked in.
But if “A Long December” is about how the constant churn of the holidays can make you sad, it’s also about how surviving the holidays can make you hopeful about what lies beyond them. It’s both an acknowledgement that, yes, it’s right that you feel depressed right now and also a pat on the back that, [heavy sigh], you have survived it for yet another year. A simultaneous wallow and pep talk — that’s “A Long December,” and that’s why it’s the best holiday song. Hold on to these moments as they pass. You deserve it.
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Doctors at England’s Gloucestershire Royal Hospital found themselves on the wrong end of a potentially explosive situation last week when a man arrived to the emergency room with a World War II artillery shell lodged in his rectum. Fearing for the safety of both their patients and the hospital’s staff, a bomb squad—the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD)—was called to the scene, but doctors had already removed the munition by the time they arrived. Fortunately for all involved, the artifact in question was “not live,” according to the EOD, so “therefore not a danger to the public.”
Phew.
So… just how did the item manage to creep its way into the unnamed (for obvious reasons) patient’s anus in the first place? According to The Sun, which was the first outlet to report the story, the patient—who is reportedly a collector of World War II artifacts, and apparently an enthusiastic one at that—told doctors that he “slipped and fell” on the device. Which… ummmm… errrr… ok.
“The guy said he found the shell when he was having a clear out of his stuff,” a source familiar with the situation told The Sun. “He said he put it on the floor then he slipped and fell on it—and it went up his arse… He was in a considerable amount of pain.”
A member of the 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, which was the squad called to the scene, said that “It was a solid shot round. It was a chunky, pointed lump of lead designed to rip through a tank’s armor. It was basically an inert lump of metal, so there was no risk to life—at least not to anyone else’s.”
The risk to the man’s pride, however, was another story.
Halsey’s riding a bit of a high at the moment, as this summer, they dropped If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which peaked at No. 2 on the charts and is perhaps their most critically acclaimed album so far. Of course, Halsey also had a baby this year, and in light of that, they have considered not releasing anymore music.
On Twitter last night, somebody observed that Halsey’s fans tend to stick with them even if they’re not in love with their latest creative output, and Halsey responded, “I love song discourse! I don’t ever want people to just blindly like whatever I put out. It wouldn’t be fun. I would lose the ‘will they like it?!’ rush I get before releasing music. I just hate when ppl are mean to me (not my work!) for absolutely no reason.”
I love song discourse! I don’t ever want people to just blindly like whatever I put out. It wouldn’t be fun. I would lose the “will they like it?!” rush I get before releasing music. I just hate when ppl are mean to me (not my work!) for absolutely no reason. https://t.co/KYmG4b7R9t
In response to that, another fan asked, “have u thought more about not releasing music since having Ender? Like that chapter of your life is finished now?” Halsey replied, “im highly sensitive since having my child and I want to protect him from having to read or hear unnecessary things about me in the future considering I have 0 control over what people say abt me and he didn’t ask to receive that volume of info so I do think about it sometimes [heart emoji].”
In response to another fan tweet, Halsey added, “I think more importantly, the kind of mom I would be, if I woke up every day worried that the internet thinks I’m genuinely a bad person, wouldn’t be a good mom. I’m not capable of turning it off and ‘not caring’ so I have to position myself to put life first.”
im highly sensitive since having my child and I want to protect him from having to read or hear unnecessary things about me in the future considering I have 0 control over what people say abt me and he didn’t ask to receive that volume of info so I do think about it sometimes https://t.co/M56cOWdQGk
You’re right! But I think more importantly, the kind of mom I would be, if I woke up every day worried that the internet thinks I’m genuinely a bad person, wouldn’t be a good mom. I’m not capable of turning it off and “not caring” so I have to position myself to put life first https://t.co/rQyFWjd2fZ
After some other tweets about fame, Halsey concluded, “Perhaps I will learn to stop spilling my guts and become the reclusive homestead farmer I was always meant to be. Write lots of books that I won’t let anyone publish till I die. Probably not. but if it happens, here’s the foreshadowing.”
Perhaps I will learn to stop spilling my guts and become the reclusive homestead farmer I was always meant to be. Write lots of books that I won’t let anyone publish till I die. Probably not. but if it happens, here’s the foreshadowing.
The “Rifle Republican” label couldn’t be more literal than what you’ll see in Lauren Boebert’s family Christmas photo. The far-right firebrand, fortunately, is taking a break from saying terrible things (or, at least, being busted for doing so) about her colleagues. Yet what has materialized on her Twitter feed isn’t any less disturbing, and it goes back to Boebert’s enduring love of guns, as she previously celebrated while vowing to carry her Glock in the halls of Congress.
‘Tis the season for gathering one’s children in front of the Christmas tree while they’re brandishing rifles. Boebert gathered all four of her sons in precisely that manner, and she did so with a nod to fellow Republican lawmaker Thomas Massie. He recently did the same with his family, although his children aren’t nearly as young as Boebert’s kids. She added, “No spare ammo for you, though.”
These ill-advised photos arrive shortly after the Michigan school shooting, which was carried out by a teenager whose parents gave him the gun as a gift. The suggestion here is that gifts and guns go hand in hand, so, not great!
Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose back-and-forth with the rootin’ tootin’ Boebert continues. “Tell me again where Christ said “use the commemoration of my birth to flex violent weapons for personal political gain?” AOC tweeted. “lol @ all the years Republicans spent on cultural hysteria of society ‘erasing Christmas and it’s meaning’ when they’re doing that fine all on their own.”
Tell me again where Christ said “use the commemoration of my birth to flex violent weapons for personal political gain”?
lol @ all the years Republicans spent on cultural hysteria of society “erasing Christmas and it’s meaning” when they’re doing that fine all on their own https://t.co/TOKE1SmY4C
Ilhan Omar has probably never held a gun in her life. Lauren Boebert has an arsenal of weapons vast enough to carry out a bloodbath. Tell me. Who’s the fucking terrorist?
After a school shooting where 4 children died, terrorist Lauren Boebert poses with her 4 armed sons. This is how an ‘Ethan Crumbley’ is created. When a mentally-ill, angry, conspiracy-theorist MAGA mom supplies her children with guns and ammo for Christmas. Disgusting family. pic.twitter.com/H1lmuIwDRJ
How unfortunate and embarrassing for her kids. When they get older they will be pissed to know their mother @laurenboebert have publicized a photo of them posed w/ guns reminiscent of any school-movie-church mass shooter these past three decades. https://t.co/J8HZbzkrCX
If being a racist lunatic with a gun fetish and the IQ of a fencepost isn’t enough to get Lauren Boebert voted out in Colorado, maybe raising a Packers fan and a *Raiders* fan will. https://t.co/X0RdrIxERy
Gun nut Lauren Boebert.These people are sickening,she’s not fit to be a mother.I can’t imagine why a person would pose their kids with deadly weapons,especially in the wake of yet another deadly school shooting-she’s just showing the world how cold and callous she truly is. pic.twitter.com/wUHCnjlx8P
At the end of every year, Google shares lists of the top trending searches in various categories, which they note “are based on search terms that had the highest spike this year as compared to the previous year.” Now they’ve dropped their 2021 rankings and a lot of music figures have found their way on the lists.
Globally, DMX was the tenth top-trending search overall, due largely to his death earlier this year. On the top songs list, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” leads the rank and is followed by a pair of Lil Nas X songs: “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and the Jack Harlow collaboration “Industry Baby.”
When you narrow down to the top trends of just the United States, DMX is the second biggest trend overall. Meanwhile, Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen are both in the top ten top-trending people. Musicians also have a firm hold over the “celebrities search together” category: “Kim and Kanye” are No. 1, followed by “Kanye and Jeffree Star” (No. 4), “Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal” (No. 5), “JLo and A-Rod” (No. 6), “Ben Affleck and JLo” (No. 9), and “Selena Gomez and Chris Evans” (No. 10).
As far as the music-specific lists for the US, Scott leads under “musicians and bands,” while “Drivers License” is the top trend under songs.
There are more music-related searches sprinkled throughout the lists, so find the global trends here and the US trends here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
When you’re a parent, your Christmas traditions tend to change a bit, with a focus on trying to keep the magic alive for your children. Brian Fallon‘s yearly regiment is especially wholesome in this way. “We still put out cookies and milk and then smash them all up and spill the milk a little so the kids think Santa had a good time eating them and enjoyed a treat from them on his long night of work.” Fallon and his family are inspired by the feelings of joy and camaraderie that tend to come out around the holidays, mostly the “moments where people pause and reflect a little. Maybe they feel a little kinder at times.”
Despite his love for the season, Fallon hasn’t historically loved holiday music. That all started to change recently. “I’m sure that has to do with getting older and wanting a connection to my youth or maybe I’m just less grumpy now. I can’t really say, but I am finding I enjoy the songs much more recently.” To get in the holiday mood, Fallon took part in the Uproxx Holiday Playlist series to select some of his favorite songs that help him get in the mood for reflection and generosity.
Check out the full playlist, along with Fallon’s explanations for each of his picks, down below. And check out Fallon’s new holiday album, Night Divine, here.
Mariah Carey – “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
As soon as I hear this song come on in stores or on the radio, I know it’s going to be Christmas soon. The weather’s getting colder, you start bringing out your winter coat. It kind of rings in the season to me because it’s been a part of my life for so many years. And also, it’s Mariah, who is the greatest singer to ever live.
The Ramones – “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)”
What can you say? Sometimes Christmas can be stressful. You see a lot of relatives who maybe aren’t the most agreeable. Maybe you aren’t the most agreeable. Maybe you had too much egg nog. Maybe I did. Either way, it’s Christmas, I don’t want to fight tonight.
Bruce Springsteen – “Santa Clause is Comin’ To Town”
I mean, not my pick for a tune, but even still, he sells it to me so well I gotta buy it. I can’t help but be swept away by Bruce and The E Street Band in prime form on this, the song I would absolutely not have chosen to have them tackle.
Jon Bon Jovi – “Please Come Home for Christmas”
I really like Jon Bon Jovi’s voice, I love the way he approached this song. It feels like the classic versions to me in a way that it’s not trying to be more than it is.
Nat King Cole – “The First Noel”
This is a classic version from an era that feels mysterious and haunted to me. It brings on imaginings for me about my Grandmother’s youth, how the winter looked then. The clothes she wore. It transports me into a different world in my mind. Not a better world, but a world where I am not from and I can only look into in my mind. When I listen to this song, like I am as I type this, I get a feeling like I’m watching someone I love very much, who is no longer here, be free.
Odetta – Virgin Mary Had One Son
I’ve loved this song and this version for so long that I can’t remember the first time I heard it. Odetta was a pioneer of folk music and had a truly one-of-a-kind voice. Check her albums out if you haven’t heard.
Scala & Kolancy Brothers – Wintersong
I love the versions Scala and Kolancy Brothers do of popular songs. There’s something truly beautiful about a choir singing together in harmony. It takes a good song and makes it otherworldly to me. This version always stops me in tracks when I hear it. “And this is how I see you, in the snow on Christmas morning.”
Lauren Daigle – “O Come All Ye Faithful”
Lauren Daigle’s music is a new discovery for me, and I was happy to hear her update so many of the classic hymns that I’ve heard all my life on the Behold album.
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