Month: April 2022

The Los Angeles Dodgers, one of the favorites to win the 2022 World Series, got off to a rocky start to their season, dropping their first series of the year in Denver, 2-1, to the Colorado Rockies.

L.A. looked to bounce back and get their season on the track that was expected prior to the start in Minnesota for a quick two-game set and after winning the first on Tuesday night, they were once again rolling on Wednesday to move over .500 for the first time in this young season. On the bump was longtime Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, who put forth one of the best outings of his career, absolutely dealing from the jump.

Kershaw was perfect through his first five innings and with two outs in the sixth inning, Kershaw got the defensive gem needed for any perfect game to have a chance when Gavin Lux, shifted to be behind on the shortstop side of second base, picked a hard bouncer back up the middle clean and threw out Gio Urshela to keep Kershaw perfect through seven innings.

When Kershaw strolled into the dugout, he was giving high fives and getting hugs, seemingly indicating his day was done despite having thrown just 80 pitches in seven perfect innings, with 13 strikeouts in an incredible performance.

Sure enough, despite back-to-back-to-back home runs in the top of the 8th to give L.A. a 6-0 lead, David Roberts made the call to the bullpen for Alex Vesia who entered to boos from the road crowd at Target Field who were hoping to at least see some history in the form of perfection on Wednesday if they weren’t going to get a Twins win.

The Dodgers are a team focused on winning a championship, and so you can understand a longterm approach for someone as important to that journey as Kershaw, particularly given a shortened spring training due to the lockout. However, at 80 pitches thru 7 innings, it’s hard to justify to fans that you pulled him with two innings to go to the 24th perfect game in Major League Baseball history, particularly with the game in hand after a three run top of the 8th. At the very least, fans would’ve loved to see him get a chance and have a short leash if he gives up a hit, but Roberts had a plan and wasn’t going to deviate from it, despite Kershaw’s perfect start.

“Around The World” was a huge moment for Daft Punk. It was one of only three singles of theirs to chart on the Hot 100 (“One More Time” and “Get Lucky” are the other two) and it’s the most memorable track from 1997’s Homework, the debut album that started it all for the legendary electronic duo. While they disbanded in 2021, somebody on their team is maintaining an online presence for the group, as they went ahead and shared the original storyboards for the “Around The World” video today.

Michel Gondry directed the characteristically unusual clip, which features a number of people in strange costumes dancing and walking up and down stairs on a small stage set. The storyboards, shared as a slideshow video today, offer a behind-the-scenes look at how this odd video was envisioned in the planning stages and is a real treat for hardcore Daft Punk fans.

Of course, serious fans have probably already seen this, as the video was originally shared on the 1997 DVD release of D.A.F.T.. Now, though, a new crop of fans, whether they’re younger or just didn’t have the D.A.F.T. DVD, have the chance to take a look back at Daft Punk’s early days.

Watch the “Around The World” storyboard video above and revisit the song’s video below.

Lauren Boebert hasn’t even been in Congress for a full two years, but she’s already made such a laughingstock out of herself that a serious primary challenger has already popped up in her home state of Colorado. Old school Republican Don Coram will officially square off against Boebert in June after securing enough signatures to get on the ballot. His message? Restore dignity to the congressional seat that Boebert has smeared with her “embarrassing juvenile antics on the national stage.”

Naturally, Boebert’s campaign has already begun lashing out at her challenger as she aims to remain in Congress alongside her QAnon partner in crime, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Via Denver Gazette:

“Don Coram is a corrupt liberal who buddies up to Democrats every chance he gets,” her campaign said. “Corrupt Coram will be soundly defeated in the Republican primary because Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is the only conservative in this race.”

Coram, however, is not taking Boebert’s attacks lying down. “I look forward to setting the record straight on the lies Lauren Boebert and her supporters have peddled,” Coram told the Gazette. “I will make the case to primary voters as to why I am the most qualified candidate to represent them and their families.”

Coram, however, is facing an uphill battle. Despite her repeated scandals, Boebert earned the “overwhelming support” of the GOP’s 3rd Congressional District assembly in Colorado Springs last week. Apparently, the GOP party in Colorado doesn’t mind it when their candidates heckle a sitting president talking about his dead son and/or have no idea how gender works.

(Via Denver Gazette)

In 2007, Baton Rouge rapper Webbie’s “Independent” video featured a scene in which a fake news clip reports on a US President being impeached. While the actor in the video didn’t resemble any president at the time, years later, in 2021, a sitting US President actually did get impeached… and that actor bears a pretty striking resemblance to that guy.

So, when our latest React Like You Know video panel — consisting of Uproxx faves like Blueface, DDG, Kali, KenTheMan, Jucee Froot, Strick, and more — gets a load of the video, their minds are appropriately blown. Considering the video dropped when many of them were still in primary school (meaning they likely missed the Clinton impeachment hearings of the ’90s, the probable inspiration behind the video), Webbie’s “prediction” must seem like sorcery.

Strick puts it best; “Man, them folks knew the future,” he jokes. KenTheMan echoes that sentiment, determining that “Webbie and Boosie knew some sh*t that we didn’t know!” They also note that the video’s other prediction of the first female Black president eventually being elected also recently came true — in part — with the election of Kamala Harris as Vice President under Joe Biden. And even if it’s only a technicality, it would also seem to be an eventuality, as well, making that prediction one of the safest long-term bets ever.

Of course, they also have plenty of nostalgia for the song, which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it a certified defining hit of their youth. That doesn’t mean that they have any more luck singing along to it these days, as they amusingly misspell the title, which doubles as the hook. They don’t have to feel bad though; everybody other than Webbie and a few spelling bee champs probably struggle to keep up with the exuberant hit.

Check out the latest React Like You Know above.

Ahead of the release of his upcoming album Palaces and his sets at Coachella this weekend and next, Flume has premiered the music video for his Caroline Polachek collaboration, “Sirens.” In the video, Flume is seen lying unconscious at the top of a lake in an underground cave. Polachek then descends from mid-air, approaching Flume slowly and slowly, over the duration of the song.

Toward the end of the video, she reaches Flume, and the electronic producer is immediately revived. The two begin to ascend out of the underground cave.

“This amazing track by Flume and Caroline inspired us to create a film that hovers at the intersection of nature and technology, transcendence and materiality,” director Daniel Askill said in a statement. “We were lucky enough to be supported by an incredible team of collaborators including Jonathan Zawada, Dion Lee, Khalid Mohtaseb, Serial Pictures, and Glenn Stewart at Collider who designed and built the incredible environment.”

Flume and Polachek collaborated on “Sirens” after having known each other for years. When Polachek moved to LA, the two often ran into each other and frequently met up to play games of Magic: The Gathering. While in a session, fellow producer Danny L. Harle showed Flume a voice note by Polachek, which later resulted in “Sirens.” Polachek wrote the lyrics while living in London during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was really going through it,” Polachek said in a statement, “feeling so small, unable to control anything in the world, and the lyric ‘sirens’ was in reference to constant ambulances I was hearing.”

Check out “Sirens” above.

Palaces is out 5/20 via Future Classic/Transgressive. Pre-save it here.

In the days following Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, co-host Amy Schumer wrote on Instagram that she was “triggered and traumatized” by the incident. She continued, “So much pain in @willsmith anyway. I’m still in shock and stunned and sad. Im proud of myself and my cohosts. But yeah. Waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed.”

Schumer faced backlash for her hyperbolic “triggered and traumatized” comment, which she discussed during Wednesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show. “People made fun of me for saying it was traumatizing,” the Life & Beth star told host Howard Stern. “I don’t think it was traumatizing for me. I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”

Schumer said that Rock “is my good friend — one of my best friends. To see your friend get hit?” But at the same time it also involved, “Will Smith, who I’ve loved. We’ve all loved forever. I don’t remember a time I didn’t think: I love that guy.” So the violent display was “upsetting for so many reasons” and “upsetting to everyone,” including “everyone at home who didn’t see what I saw [from my vantage point]… It was shocking. It was a bummer.”

Schumer also revealed the advice that Chris Rock, who hosted the Oscars in 2005 and 2016, gave her before the ceremony. “He’s the best, I love him so much,” she said. “He was like: You’re Amy F*cking Schumer. He kept… encouraging me and firing me up.”

You can listen to Schumer’s interview below.

(Via Yahoo! Entertainment)

First things first: MAGA rappers are a thing? Yep! Or at least MAGA rapper (singular). As Insider reports, musician Kurt Jantz, a.k.a. Forgiato Blow, drops bars about all manner of Trumpian topics and heroes—including a remix of Paul Simon’s “Call Me Al,” rewritten as a tribute to Kyle Rittenhouse (yes, it’s “Call Me Kyle”). His latest creation, however, is a banger about the most Florida of Florida men: Matt Gaetz.

Titled, well, “Matt Gaetz,” the track touts the controversial congressman, who is currently under federal investigation for ties to sex trafficking, as “a Florida legend.” Which is fair, as one could certainly call The Jersey Devil “a New Jersey legend.”

The song also declares that Gaetz is, “the chosen one, yeah; Dedicated congressman; Matt Gaetz show him love” and brags that “President Trump knows real talent when he sees it.”

Also, check out Matt’s moves!

Is that an invisible lasso Gaetz is wielding?

While it’s not only Gaetz who gets major props in the song—everyone’s favorite orgy invitee Madison Cawthorn gets a shout-out, too—it’s the Florida congressman who is ready to ride the track’s success to the top of the charts.

Joel Valdez, a spokesperson for the politician, told Insider that “Congressman Gaetz is a big fan of this future #1 hit, though he can’t claim credit for its conception, composition, or lyrics.” Hmmm… maybe he’s not like Trump after all.

(Via Insider)

Peacock recently took a long, hard look at the world and decided that, after all the ups and downs (but mostly downs) of the last two years, the world really needs a TV show based on a decade-old franchise featuring a cursing bear. And they set out to do just that!

A Ted TV show has been in the works for about a year, and now it seems like it’s actually happening. Creator and voice of the titular teddy bear Seth MacFarlane has now signed on to the show, which he will executive produce and direct. Giorgia Whigham (from Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why), Max Burkholder (from NBC’s Parenthood), and Scott Grimes have all signed on as cast members for the series, Variety reports.

Also joining the series are Modern Family executive producers Paul Corrigan and Brad Walse, who will serve as co-showrunners, writers, and executive producers alongside MacFarlane.

The first Ted movie was released in 2012 starring Mark Wahlberg as a man who grew up with a talking teddy bear that became his best and only friend. The second film, Ted 2, goes a lot more in-depth, as Ted gets married (really) and fights to have human rights. MacFarlane hinted at the return of the fast-talking bear last year on his Instagram:

2020 brought two new full-length projects from Future: his eighth album High Off Life and his collaborative Lil Uzi Vert project Pluto x Baby Pluto. Since then, though, fans have been waiting for a new LP from Future. The rapper has been hinting at when it’s set to arrive, as last week, he indicated it would be coming later this month. Now, he has doubled down on the release window in a new Instagram post.

Sharing a photo of himself (perhaps the album cover given its square crop), he wrote, “date 4.29 title TBA.” So, it looks like the album’s dropping on the 29th this month but we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out what it’s called.

While it’s been a year-plus since a new Future album, fans haven’t been hungry for new material from the rapper. In January, he and Gunna dropped perhaps the most viral song of 2022 so far, “Pushin P” (which they performed on Saturday Night Live earlier this month). Aside from that, he popped up on Lil Durk’s “Petty Too” (which they later performed on The Tonight Show). More recently, he featured on Earthgang’s “Billi.”

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After former Vice President Mike Pence told a college crowd that he’d love and accept one of his own children coming out as gay, The View‘s Sunny Hostin pulled out all of the receipts to prove why she thinks Pence is lying. As his historically shaky relationship with Trump continues to deteriorate, Pence has been eyeing a run for the top of the Republican ticket, and Hostin feels this latest move is just another example of the former veep telling people what they want to hear even if he doesn’t believe it himself.

After being asked how he’d respond to his child coming out, Pence said, “I’d look him in the eye and tell him ‘I love you,’ before launching into the importance of everyone respecting each other’s views to unite the nation. “We live in a pluralistic society, and the way we go forward, and the way we come together as a country united, I believe, is when we respect your right to believe, and my right to believe what we believe.”

Hostin wasn’t buying it. “Words are meaningless when your actions say differently, right?” she said before dropping the receipts.

Via The Wrap:

“In 2000, he said during his congressional campaign that Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage,” she began listing. “Let me continue. In 2004, Mike Pence co-sponsored a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that would define marriage as solely between one man and one woman. In 2007, he voted against the employment non-discrimination act. In 2010, he voted against the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal. In 2015, he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act … .”

Had Joy Behar, who’s filling in for Whoopi Goldberg, not stepped in, Hostin would’ve kept going. She came loaded for bear today, and that bear’s name was Mike Pence.

(Via The Wrap)