New Disney and Pixar film Turning Red features a boy band named 4*Town, and famous musician, producer, and Eilish sibling Finneas is a part of it. Finneas is not only a member, but he also produced their new single “Nobody Like U,” and co-wrote it alongside Eilish.
The movie soundtrack is out on March 11, and includes more singles by the siblings, such as “1 True Love” and “U Know What’s Up.” The pair are well-versed in the act of collaborating with each other; together they wrote “Happier Than Ever,” one of the biggest songs of 2021, on what Finneas dubbed “the cheapest guitar ever made,” and they apparently are already working on Eilish’s next album, as Finneas hinted in a podcast in December.
From poignant pop hits to Disney fake boy band anthems, the Eilish siblings can work their magic on anything. It’s also not Eilish’s first time appealing to a younger audience, because she actually appeared on Sesame Streetand performed a duet with The Count for a beautiful variation of “Happier Than Ever,” whose more aggressive or provocative lines were replaced with wholesome sentiments: “When I’m counting with you, I’m happier than ever,” Eilish sang.
On Wednesday’s episode of the legendary game show, contestant Tenaya wanted to solve the puzzle that read, “_URASSIC PARK _O_IES.” Pretty obvious, right? “JURASSIC PARK MOVIES.” There’s three of them (six if you include the Jurassic World trilogy), they made a lot of money, won some Oscars, directed by this Steven Spielberg guy. Well, ah ah ah, because that is not what poor Tenaya guessed.
“I’ll try and solve,” she said with obvious hesitation. “Jurassic Park… Bodies?”
As noted by Decider, “To make matters even worse, she missed out on over $10,000 and a trip to the bonus round because of her huge mistake.” Oops. Tenaya’s incorrect answer went viral and even caught the attention of the Jurassic World Twitter account, which tweeted, “Ho__ on__ y_ur b___s.” (Hold on to your… beads?”)
Bruh I’m watching wheel of fortune and the girl said she wanted to solve the puzzle it was “Jurassic park movies” why she said Jurassic park bodies and lost lmao
To be fair, there are bodies in Jurassic Park. Both humans and dinosaurs. Maybe that’s what she meant (it’s not what she meant). Anyway, remember when that one contestant didn’t win a car because of an infuriating technicality, but then Audi gave her one anyway? Spielberg should do the same thing for Tenaya, except instead of a car, it’s a ticket to see Jurassic World Dominion. And heck, throw in a car, too.
She’s shifted gears a bit today, too, addressing a much more serious topic with her “Dying On The Inside” video. Theclip, which addresses Nessa’s own struggles with her eating disorder begins with this trigger warning and message of support: “If you’re experiencing symptoms of eating disorders or struggling with your body image, you’re not alone. Text HOME to 741741 for support.” Throughout the video, Nessa is mostly alone in the dark, running through the things friends and industry people have said to her about her appearance, obsessing over the numbers on the scale, and wondering how much longer she can keep this behavior up. Anyone who has been there will definitely relate to this brutally honest video, check it out up top, and please use the text resource if you’re struggling with an eating disorder and need support.
In a world where “the celebs are at it again,” the Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted some unsavory celebrity responses. That would include AnnaLynne McCord’s strange maternal-themed poetry aimed toward “Mister President Vladimir Putin.” In addition, John Cena decided to, uh, promote Peacemaker in an ill-received tweet. Well, the guy who portrayed Captain America isn’t taking a similar (self-promoting) approach.
Rather, Chris Evans is simply retweeting and asking people to look at a thread about what the Kremlin is capable of doing and is, in fact, willing to do to preserve its own interests. Evans pointed towards relevant information about Viktor Yushchenko, a former Ukrainian president who was horribly poisoned (and disfigured) while going up against the 2004 pro-Russian candidate (Viktor Yanukovich, then a prime minister).
Lots of Victors there, yes, but of course Russia flat-out denied having anything to with (as reported by Reuters) how Yushchenko (then an opposition candidate) went out for dinner (near Kiev) and somehow ended up with “1,000 times more dioxin than is normally present” in his body. He survived by the grace of doctors, who performed dozens of surgeries on him, and he did, in fact, win the presidency.
It’s an atrocity worth reflecting upon, given the damning coincidences of how Putin’s opponents mysteriously end up fatally poisoned (that link points toward the murder of Alexander Litvineko), and of course, then there are all of the journalists who are killed in Putin’s Russia as well. And languishing in jail right now would be Putin critic Alexei Nalvany, who’s facing a 15-year re-up to his prison sentence and is calling the Ukraine invasion a “distraction” from all of Putin’s problems.
Everyone is holding their breath watching the devastation happening in Ukraine right now. Everyone, that is, except for Republican Senator Ben Sasse, who had some choice words for President Vladimir Putin after he decided to invade a peaceful country and threaten the United States in the process.
Sasse guested on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday and didn’t waste any time telling host Joe Scarborough how he felt about Putin and the Russian oligarchs who continue to back him while living large in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere.
“Fundamentally we need to have targeted sanctions against the 16 oligarchs, the mobster cronies who enable Putin’s madness,” Sasse explained (via Raw Story). “These guys — we need a made-for-TV lifestyles of the rich and famous assh*les for the American people and people around the world to understand who these guys are.”
He went on to admit that voters in his state probably couldn’t “find Ukraine on the map” because they’re too busy trying to provide for their families and survive a pandemic, which is fine because Sasse views it as the United States’ government’s job to curb Putin’s tyrannical impulses. He called upon U.S. allies like the U.K. to get tough on the Russian billionaires currently enjoying the high life abroad while helping to fund Putin’s latest invasion attempt.
“We need the Brits, who have been great allies in general, to step up and acknowledge there’s a ton of Russian billionaire money bouncing all over London and we ought to perp walk them out of the country,” he said. “Their kids should be kicked out of the country and they should go back and live in Moscow’s hell holes with Putin because they are the ones enabling him. They don’t want to live with him but they love to make money off him. There need to be more consequences for them and we need to act faster.”
Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 is the most popular American whiskey on the planet. There’s nary a corner of the world you can venture without finding a bottle of Jack on the shelf. Then there’s Jim Beam, dubbed the world’s most popular “bourbon” (Tennessee whiskey is technically bourbon, too — so I suppose you could call it the best selling Kentucky bourbon if you wanted to be more precise). Beam is also available worldwide at a great price. And like Jack, people have long-term, even generational associations with the brand.
The duo’s dominance means that these two whiskeys get compared (and dissed) a lot. So I’m going to blind taste them and choose, once and for all, which one is better.
This might sound weird, but this was the hardest blind tasting I’ve ever done. For one, I wanted to take this very seriously and nose and taste these two entry-level expressions with the same zeal I use with the most ridiculously priced whiskeys on the market. Two, these two whiskeys are so close that picking one over the other was a trial. Since I knew pretty much instantly which was which, even blind, I went back and re-tasted them to try and find that chink in the armor or nuance that set one above the other. And … it just wasn’t there.
Next, I counted the nose and flavor notes to see if there was a numerical winner. They were tied there, too. To be clear, they were not the same on the nose, on the taste, or on the finish. But they each offered something that made them hard to rank above the other.
Finally, I threw out the tasting ritual and drank one of each. For clarification, when I taste whiskeys, I always spit. Tasting is putting whiskey on your tongue. Drinking is swallowing it. Since just tasting wasn’t enough, I drank one of each to find anything to set these apart.
Here’s what shook out in the end:
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Immediately, you get a sourdough note that leads right into a vanilla extract that turns it into a sort of raw pancake batter. That morphs into a Cherry Coke on the nose with a soft oak that eventually fades into a light cedar note with an underlying mineral water vibe. Yes, that’s just the nose.
The palate is soft with a cherry wood vibe next to a hint of corn muffins (close to Jiffy) that turns into cherry cough syrup with a woody underbelly. Next, light caramel sweetness works the mid-palate towards a warm “spice” countered by dry, woody vanilla and a final hint of sourness tied to yeast that closes the circle, so to speak.
Taste 2
Zach Johnston
Tasting Notes:
There’s a medicinal cherry vibe on the nose that’s maybe a cherry root beer that leads towards a savory fruit that’s close to canned pumpkin puree. Wet pine kindling leads to a new leather note as vanilla wafers layered with milk chocolate round out the nose until this faint hint of fresh apple cider sneaks in late.
The palate starts off soft with a cherry bark that leads into homemade banana chips with a flake of salt and those vanilla wafers with milk chocolate from the nose. A dry firewood note arrives around the mid-palate as an almost sour vanilla cream softens things dramatically with a choco-spice counterpoint. The end warms with that spice as the fruit leans back towards the cherry root beer and apple cider. Again, closing that circle!
This bourbon has a low-rye mash bill of 75 percent corn, 13 percent rye, and 12 percent malted barley made with Beam’s own yeast strain and plenty of spring water from the ground below the distillery. That juice is aged for at least four years before the barrels are mingled and it’s cut down to 80 proof with more of that soft Kentucky limestone water.
Bottom Line:
This had a great cherry/vanilla vibe that felt like I made my own Cherry Vanilla Coke off one of those machines at the AMC — I could smell the popcorn popping in the background. That’s hardcore nostalgia from Beam right there.
Then there was that sour note. I think had it been a sour cherry instead of a raw batter or yeasty sour, it would have edged out Jack. That really was the only thing that drew this sip back. Well, maybe that and the mineral water note on the nose.
That being said, when I treated Jim Beam — regular f*cking Jim Beam — like a whiskey that costs ten times as much, it stood up. Maybe people slag this off because they’re drinking it too fast in shots or mixing it with sugary crap without taking the time to see what’s actually in there?
Nathan “Nearest” Green and Jack Daniel created this Tennessee whiskey right after the Civil War, thanks in part to Green utilizing the Lincoln County Process when making his whiskey. The super low-rye sour mash bill (80 percent corn, 12 percent malted barley, and eight percent rye) is made with iconic soft limestone water from a cave on the Jack property that goes miles deep into the earth. That whiskey is filtered, drop by drop, through ten feet of sugar maple charcoal before at least four years of maturation in new oak. The whiskey is then blended, proofed (with more of that cave water), and bottled.
Bottom Line:
This edges out Beam based on the fact that there was more of a build between the wood and multiple fruits, with that big cut with water to bring it down to 80 proof not feeling particularly noticeable.
Overall, this was very, very close in the flavor department when you look at what’s present on the nose and the taste. But, there was a little more refinement here and that can only be attributed to that slow-drip filtration through sugar maple charcoal. I feel like the fruit was more nuanced while the woodiness was a tad more succinct.
Lastly, the “sour mash” note that did come through, but it was attached to a vanilla cream mid-palate point that made a little more sense to the overall taste than a Beam’s sourdough pancake batter. But, I’ll admit… that’s just for me.
Part 3: Final Thoughts
Zach Johnston
I think you can see from the levels of the whiskey in those bottles what I reach for more often. That being said, I think I’ve been underestimating standard Jim Beam White Label. There’s a real nuance underneath that very macro bourbon.
In the end, I think you should find your own everyday, table whiskey. For me, that’s Jack Daniel’s. And, just maybe, you should give it a shot too. After all, it’s the world’s best-selling and most popular American whiskey for a reason. At the very least, it’s a good starting point for any whiskey journey.
It’s been a while, but LA rapper Devante Caldwell — aka Ralfy The Plug — has filed his expected lawsuit against Live Nation for the wrongful death of his brother Drakeo The Ruler, according to TMZ. This is a separate lawsuit from the one filed by the two rappers’ mother, Tianna Purtue, on behalf of Drakeo’s son, Caiden Caldwell. Ralfy’s suit — which also includes members of his and Drakeo’s Stinc Team crew — provides additional details about the attack at Once Upon A Time In LA that ended with Drakeo being fatally stabbed in the neck.
Describing the assault as a “violent mob attack” that lasted for as much as 15 minutes, the suit alleges that Drakeo was attacked within minutes of arriving, which they did through two separate checkpoints Caldwell’s legal team calls “lackadaisical.” Two staffers at the first waved in anyone with an all-access pass, while the second had only a metal detector and a small group of security guards who did not search all of the vehicles. The suit names Live Nation, Snoop Dogg’s LLC, C3 Presents, Bobby Dee Presents, and the Los Angeles Football Club, owners of the Banc Of California Stadium where the festival took place, as defendants. While no dollar amount has yet been reported, Purtue’s suit demands up to $60 million in damages.
Shortly after the Russia invasion of Ukraine started on Wednesday evening, rumors started bouncing around that comedian Louis C.K. was set to perform in Kyiv on Saturday, and that the show was still on despite a literal war breaking out. For most of the day on Thursday, reports claimed that tickets were available to the C.K. show but at a discount due to the city being bombed. However, those reports turned out to be wrong for obvious reasons.
In an email to his fans, C.K. confirmed that the Kyiv show is cancelled and that he never even made it into Ukraine. According to the New York Post, C.K.’s flight was cancelled “because no one can fly there now.”
However, the comedian is reportedly in Europe where he’ll continue his tour dates next week. Via Yahoo:
The tour insider tells Yahoo Entertainment that Louis C.K. is currently in Amsterdam after wrapping shows in Tel Aviv, Israel. His official website lists his next scheduled performance as being in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, followed by dates in cities including Lisbon, Oslo and Bucharest.
In addition to C.K.’s email, comedian Adrienne Iapalucci revealed that she’s on tour with C.K. and that she can’t believe anyone seriously thought there’d be a show in Kyiv during the Russian invasion.
“I’m on tour with #LouisCK. The shows in the Ukraine are not happening,” Iapalucci tweeted. “I can’t image how dumb @nypost would have to be to assume shows were going on in the middle of a war. Why not add that Patrice O’Neal and Bob Saget are also on the show.”
This was posted days ago. I’m on tour with #LouisCK The shows in the Ukraine are not happening. I can’t image how dumb .@nypost would have to be to assume shows were going on in the middle of a war. Why not add that Patrice O’Neal and Bob Saget are also on the show. https://t.co/bWSjFw6rVM
Well, Joshua Bassett has been having a strange one lately! The rising pop star and High School Musical: The Musical: The Show star was caught up in a rumored love triangle last year when his alleged ex-girlfriend Olivia Rodrigo became one of the biggest pop stars in the world with a trifecta of searing breakup songs. As Sour took over the world, Joshua’s profile as her co-star on High School Musical was pretty impacted by her newfound fame. And from the sound of Olivia’s album — which, to be clear, could’ve been about anyone or completely fictional! — Bassett would’ve been the one who ended the relationship.
Since then, Bassett has been pretty mum about the subject, releasing plenty of songs about love and loss on his own, but perhaps today’s is the most direct update he’s given on the subject for a while. In a video for a new song called “Doppelgänger,” Bassett falls for a girl who looks very similar to Olivia. It’s like all the drama of early 2021, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Skin,” and Bassett’s own “Lie Lie Lie” is starting back up all over again. As for the video, Bassett co-directed it with Elle Mills. Check out the clip above and see if you notice any similarities, and you will, because they’re basically impossible to miss.
An era came to an end recently when after 25 years on the air, the series finale of beloved children’s show Arthur aired last week. The long-running cartoon has been a major part of meme culture in recent years, including the idea that John Legend bears a striking resemblance to the animated titular aardvark. Now, that situation could actually come full circle: In a new interview, Marc Brown, who created the Arthur show and wrote the books it’s based on, noted an Arthur movie “might” be the in the works, and furthermore, it seems he’d really like Legend to be involved.
Brown said:
“My son Tolon has been a producer on the show almost since it started, and he’s working with me, as Peter Hirsch is, on this new show Hop. But he had this idea several years ago about wouldn’t it be interesting to do a live-action version of Arthur. I couldn’t wrap my head around it completely, but it’s an intriguing thought. There might be a feature film in the works soon, too, about Arthur. I’m so excited [laughs]. There was one maybe 15 years ago, and the right people weren’t coming together, so I pulled the plug on it. But now, we’ve got a great idea. I think it’s going to be intriguing for kids. It’s going to be helpful to kids. The subject matter is very timely, and maybe there is even a really interesting person involved… I mean, if I could pick one person I would love to be a part of this project, it might be John Legend.”
He also referenced Legend earlier in the interview when answering a question about the series finale being for both kids today and the now-adults who grew up with Arthur, saying, “I was really happy because I mean, I see myself as Arthur a lot. Sorry, John Legend. We’re going to have to share him here [laughs]. You know, he’s a lot of me when I was in third grade. And I think if I were in third grade now and I was thinking about a career, a graphic novelist made sense. It put my loves together: telling stories, being an artist, and using pictures. So I was really happy that Peter [Hirsch, a writer on Arthur] came up with that idea. It felt right to me.”
Legend hasn’t shied away from the Arthur comparisons and has in fact embraced them, like in a 2018 Google ad when he donned a full Arthur outfit and even re-created the Arthur’s fist meme.
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