Month: May 2022

It’s usually hard to feel bad for celebrities. Most of them are rich, lots of people love them, etc. But one downside to being a celebrity — especially the kind who played an icon on an iconic sitcom— is that strangers will ask you to perform something you did for work thirty years ago.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Carlton Banks on the 90s sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opposite Will Smith (who is now known for another thing that people won’t shut up about), said that fans keep asking him to do the Carlton dance for them. In the famous scene, Carlton dances to Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual” when he is home alone. He swings his hips in an instantly recognizable way, uses a candle as a fake microphone, and incorporates some parkour into the choreography by bouncing on the couch.

Kimmel started the interview by saying, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to do the dance or any of that stuff. You must want to kill people when they ask you to do that, right?” That’s a little dramatic, Mr. Kimmel, but fair.

“I won’t say kill, but I don’t have a love for it like they do,”Ribeiro said. “I’m a black guy — I’m just not dancing for you. It’s not gonna happen. What makes you think that you just gonna ask a random person to dance for you, and they’re gonna be like ‘Oh my God, I’ve been waiting for you to ask! Hold on a second, let me get into character.’ It’s not — I don’t get it. It’s not gonna happen.”

Ribiero says that he is asked to do the Carlton dance “every day of my life if I go outside” and he does not feel bad for saying no to the strangers who command it, as is his right.

Steph Curry talked a little trash before the Golden State Warriors traveled to Memphis to take on the Ja Morant-less Grizzlies with a chance to secure a series win in five games. Curry said the Warriors planned to go and “whoop that trick,” a reference to the Al Kapone song that is played during Grizzlies home games.

Instead, Memphis obliterated Golden State, leading by more than 50 points and ultimately picking up a 39-point win to send the series back to the west coast for Game 6. “Whoop That Trick” blared over the speakers at FedExForum during a timeout, which led to Curry smiling and laughing while Draymond Green danced and swung a towel around.

After the game, Green was asked why he celebrated despite things going poorly for the Warriors, and essentially said that he hates when people are “frontrunners” and only “embrace crowds when you’re winning.”

“They not gonna whoop that trick alone,” said Green, who hasn’t exactly gotten along with Grizzlies fans over the course of this series. “We gonna whoop that trick together if we’re gonna whoop that trick. One thing I don’t respect is people who only bring it when they’re winning, embrace crowds when you’re winning. We call those frontrunners, we’re not frontrunners. We got our ass kicked, that’s alright, it happens. But, you don’t be a frontrunner — when you spew it out, you gotta be willing to take it and not hide from it, not duck from it, not run from it. Embrace it.”

Surprise, surprise. Gwyneth Paltrow did it again by angering the world with a line of gemstone-encrusted diapers “known for their ancient emotional-cleansing properties. Infused with a scent of jasmine and bergamot for a revitalized baby.” Known as The Diapér, the purported product cost $120 for a pack of 12, which would last less than two days, and an entire year’s worth of luxury poop catchers would approach the cost of annual public university tuition. Call it another silly take on the motherlode, if you will, but considering that Paltrow’s goop brand sells luxury vibrators and vagina-scented candles, it seemed wholly believable that Gwyneth would want to sell “aspirational” diapers while parents sweat through a formula shortage that could last for months.

Well, Gwyneth is now claiming that the The Diapér was only a joke. Let’s take a look at this thing again.

A Goop press release sent to Vice’s Motherboard revealed that the product was only intended as “satire,” and “goop CEO Gwyneth Paltrow will reveal on Instagram that The Diapér is designed to expose the ridiculousness of taxing diapers like a luxury product.” The whole concoction was meant as a joint PR move by goop and the Baby2Baby organization, which is quoted by Motherboard as stating, “The overwhelming cost of diapers for a family living in poverty forces parents to make impossible choices between diapers and food. Without a sufficient supply, parents are also unable to drop their kids off at daycare, creating a barrier for re-entering the workforce and perpetuating the cycle of poverty.”

From there, Gwyneth appeared in a Baby2Baby-tweeted video, in which she exclaims of The Diapér outrage, “Good.” She added, “It was designed to piss us off.”

Mission accomplished? Meanwhile, the formula shortage has led to some actual mom-shaming on Twitter, even though not all women can produce breast milk, nor do they have the time or luxury of pumping milk at work. And Roe v. Wade is on the brink of being overturned, so all of these issues will soon be compounded. Hmm, it might be time to move to Aruba.

Following the reveal of a Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness poster back in February, Marvel fans were thoroughly convinced that Deadpool was tucked away in the broken pieces of glass surrounding the promotional image. That theory only intensified when Ryan Reynolds denied that he was appearing in the Doctor Strange sequel barely two months after Andrew Garfield appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home after swearing he wasn’t in it. It had all the telltale signs of a classic Marvel fake out.

Except, this time, Reynolds was actually telling the truth.

Much like the Tom Cruise as Superior Iron Man theories bouncing around the internet, Deadpool did not appear in Multiverse of Madness. However, unlike the Cruise cameo, which the filmmaking team did try to make happen, Deadpool was nixed early on in the creative process, according to screenwriter Michael Waldron.

“Yeah, we talked about it,” Waldron told Comic Book. “I think we talked about everything in this movie. So, [it] would’ve been crazy to not raise that, but it ultimately didn’t feel like… It just didn’t feel the right place. But yeah, of course we talked about it.”

While Deadpool and Tom Cruise doing his best Tony Stark impression stayed on the bench for Multiverse of Madness, the film did manage to deliver some surprising cameos. We won’t spoil them for you here, but if you want to read all about them, Uproxx Senior Pop Culture Editor Josh Kurp has you covered.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is now playing in theaters.

(Via Comic Book)

After offering a brief teaser of his Roddy Ricch collaboration “Cooped Up” in April, Post Malone released the track today. As for the circumstances behind how “Cooped Up” came to be, it’s possible a toilet may have been involved.

While telling Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about how the song came together, Malone said, “The lyrics just came so quickly. We knew what we wanted to say and we knew what we wanted to express, not only in the song but in that particular moment on the album. And yeah, it just came super naturally. I couldn’t even tell you. I was probably on the sh*tter when I wrote it [laughs].”

He also spoke about his upcoming album Twelve Carat Toothache, saying, “That’s what the whole record is about: It’s the bipolar aspect and the duality of everything. And so, there’s a lot of things very much so on this record that are tongue in cheek. And I think this whole record is the most honest record I’ve made, and I’m so pumped for people to hear it. But every song in there tells a story, so this is kind of like, ‘Here’s the life that we live, but there’s always something going on in the background.’”

Roddy Ricch is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Rosamund Pike is owed an Oscar. Deadline reports that Pike, who earned an Oscar nomination for her staggering, charming, and chilling performance in 2014’s Gone Girl is starring in a new film from Oscar-nominated director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Emerald Fennell, who wrote and directed 2020’s Promising Young Woman.

Promising Young Woman earned its star Carey Mulligan an Oscar nominee for best actress, and the film was also nominated for best picture. Not much is known about Fennell’s new film, titled Saltburn, but Pike will star and it is set to be filmed over the summer in the UK, per Deadline. The outlet also reports that the film is about an aristocratic English family. That’s also what Downton Abbey is about, but Fennell’s take will very likely be very different.

Rosamund Pike is coming for her Oscar, so hopefully, Euphoria and The Kissing Booth trilogy star and very tall person Jacob Elordi, who has also been cast in Saltburn according to Deadline, won’t ruin it for her. Irish actor Barry Keoghan who most recently portrayed an “Unseen Arkham Prisoner” in Matt Reeves’ The Batman has also joined the cast. Will this finally be the role where Elordi proves he can act? If his performance in Deep Water is any indication, then the answer is a solid no.

What better time to celebrate a classic album than when it becomes old enough to legally drink? OK, stay with me now, because The Shins’ 2001 album Oh, Inverted World is turning 21, and for this momentous occasion, the band is taking the album on a two-month tour of North America.

Led by singer James Mercer, The Shins helped shape the new millennium of indie-rock love songs with the 2001 release of Oh, Inverted World. Standout songs like “New Slang” and “Caring Is Creepy” seeped deeper into pop culture consciousness when they were featured in the 2004 film Garden State, because who can resist Natalie Portman telling Zach Braff that The Shins will “change your life?”

“Everything was so tongue-in-cheek in the indie world of the ’90s,” Mercer said in a statement. “I remember feeling a longing for some sort of romance in music again, something earnest, like a real attempt at some emotional language.”

You can relive the nostalgia starting July 12th in San Francisco, before The Shins cross the continent back and forth with these shows that promise a front-to-back performance of the album. Portland’s Joseph are the main support on the tour.

Tickets for The Shins’ Oh, Inverted World — The 21st Birthday Tour go on-sale Friday, May 20th, but you can register for a pre-sale here.

07/12 — San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
07/15 — Sacramento, CA@ Memorial Auditorium
07/16 — Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery*
07/22 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
07/23 — San Diego, CA –@San Diego Civic Theatre
07/24 — Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
07/26 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
07/27 — Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
07/29 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
08/01 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
08/02 — Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
08/04 — Albuquerque, NM @ Kiva Auditorium
08/06 — Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight at the Ogden Amphitheater
08/16 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
08/17 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
08/19 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
08/20 — Richmond, VA @ The National
08/23 — New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
08/26 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at the Mann
08/27 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
08/29 — Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia
08/30 — Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
08/31 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre
09/02 — Cleveland, OH @ The Agora
09/03 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
09/04 — Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live!
09/06 — Saint Louis, MO @ The Factory
09/08 — Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
09/10 — Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
09/13 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
09/14 — Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
09/16 — Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square

If you thought Kanye West retrieving Kim Kardashian’s alleged second sex tape was the most notable thing that would happen on Keeping Up with the Kardashians this season, folks, have I got an update for you. On Wednesday’s episode of the Hulu series, Kendall Jenner was having a conversation with her mother Kris when she decided she wanted something to eat. “Do you want the chef to make you a snack?” Kris asked Kendall, who replied, “I’m making it myself. I’m just gonna chop up some cucumber. It’s pretty easy.”

That’s a bold claim for someone who’s apparently never held a knife before.

Kendall cuts a cucumber like Lucille Bluth telling Michael that a banana only costs 10 dollars. As E! Online describes the scene, “After she attempts to slice the cucumber without holding onto it, Kendall decides to awkwardly hold onto the end of it with one hand and chop with the other in a terrifying crisscross motion.” Clearly someone has never made a cucumber lime cocktail with her tequila.

The “give peace and/or Pepsi a chance” model’s knife skills caught the attention of Twitter. “Kendall Jenner trying to cut a fcking cucumber is the most tragic thing I’ve ever witnessed,” @SophieScribbles tweeted, while @megmeyer added, “Not gonna be able to sleep tonight. Gonna be too busy thinking about the way Kendall Jenner tried to cut a cucumber.” Here’s more:

(Via E! Online)

Ever since Chloe Bailey dropped the video for her bedeviling, bootylicious debut solo single, “Have Mercy,” fans have waited on tenterhooks for more information on the solo album that she promised was sure to follow. While details on the overall project had been scant until now, in a new interview with Allure, she confirms the title at last. As befits a solo album from a performer who was until recently part of a sister act, it’ll be titled Chloe. She also shared some details of the writing process, which she previously said was “90 percent done.”

Speaking on how her writing process — which began in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdowns — has changed, she said, “Music saved me. I was at a low moment where I felt lost — like I didn’t have any sense of who I was.” This was, she admitted, a result of separation anxiety as her sibling and musical partner, Halle, was in London to film Disney’s live-action reboot of The Little Mermaid and couldn’t return to the States due to COVID restrictions. “In the beginning, you can tell that [the person] who is singing is like a bird with broken wings. As time went on, you can hear me finding my strength and confidence. I didn’t want to lose that story as I pieced the [songs] together.”

Since then, she has released both “Have Mercy” and its follow-up, the equally erotic “Treat Me,” and said that the album was influenced by artists such as Imogen Heap and Kelis. Meanwhile, she’s remained busy; with at least four screen roles, including one in a project Donald Glover has been shooting for Amazon co-starring Snowfall‘s Damson Idris and Dominique Fishback from Judas And The Black Messiah. When Chloe will have time to also promote an album in all of this is beyond me but that’s why she’s the star and I’m just writing about her.

Blxst’s growing popularity comes with many perks, but in the new “Never Was Wrong” video, he shows that sometimes things aren’t always peachy when it comes to matters of the heart. The visual shows the California rapper-singer hosting a party and commanding the attention of many of its attendees. His lady approaches his section and tries to start a conversation, only to be signaled “one second” but ignored for longer than that.

Blxst mingles throughout the party and pours shots for other women, all while his partner stands by angrily. When the Before You Go artist finally notices she is crying, he attempts a grand gesture to regain her favor by performing the chorus on “Never Was Wrong,” where he takes accountability for the moments he is wrong to her. Just when it seems everything may be okay as he walks toward her, a crowd of people appears between them, and the anticipated romantic reconciliation is spoiled. Blxst returns home to find her leaving him for good with the help of her friends who have no issue expressing their disdain for him.

This video supports the April release of Blxst’s debut album Before You Go, anchored by singles “About You” and the Zacari-assisted “Sometimes.” Before You Go peaked at No. 90 on the Billboard 200 album chart.