Month: October 2022

Two of Argentina’s rising stars have teamed up for a new collaboration. On Friday (October 7), Trueno released the music video for his “Hood” remix featuring Tiago PZK.

In the past year, Trueno has emerged as a revelation in the Latin rap scene. Back in May, Gorillaz brought him out as a special guest during the band’s Quilmes Rock concert, with Trueno performing a new freestyle rap over “Clint Eastwood.” Last month, he was featured in NPR’s Tiny Desk spin-off El Tiny for Latinx Heritage Month.

Meanwhile, Tiago PZK has also become an artist on the rise from Argentina. Though he was a part of the country’s Latin trap wave, he has since embraced other genres like R&B and alternative influences on his album Portales, which was released in July. Tiago PZK scored one of the biggest hits of the year with the “Entre Nosotros” remix featuring fellow Argentine acts Lit Killah, María Becerra, and Nicki Nicole. Their collaboration has amassed over 170 million streams on Spotify.

The “Hood” remix marks the second collaboration between Trueno and Tiago PZK. The song was first released on Trueno’s breakthrough album Bien O Mal in May. Tiago PZK’s soulful voice sound at home on Trueno’s heartfelt ballad. Its perfectly rounded out by Trueno’s chill rap flow. The two artists trade verses about returning home and finding out how life has changed since they left. Trueno and Tiago PZK bring the nostalgia of the remix to life in the video as they sing together in front of a rising sun.

Trueno is nominated for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song for “Dance Crip” at the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards. In November, Tiago PZK’s Portales Tour will visit venues in Brooklyn and LA.

Tiago PZK is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

With so many artists bringing him up all the time, Ted Cruz must think he’s pretty cool. Oh wait… they’re actually never singing the Texas seantor’s praises and pretty much always criticizing him when he makes curious decisions like fleeing to Cancun in the midst of a massive power outage that’s affecting millions of Texans, or questioning Mr. T’s public health efforts.

Speaking of singing though, that’s exactly how Kacey Musgraves chose to make her feelings about Cruz heard while on stage at the Austin City Limits music festival this past weekend. Tweaking the lyrics to one of her songs was the perfect way to describe Cruz and his never-ending buffoonery.

During Musgraves’ performance of her hit “High Horse,” in the middle of her Sunday night set at the festival, she added a jab at Cruz in the lyrics. She sang: “‘Cause everyone knows someone who kills the buzz, every time they open up their mouth… Ted Cruz.” And as the crowd roars, she replies, “I said what I said,” before not skipping a beat on the rest of the tune.

A Texas native herself, Musgraves made and sold shirts last year that said “Cruzin For Bruzin’,” while donating the proceeds to homeless immigrants and Texans affected by power-outage-causing storms.

Every once in a while, Hollywood likes to put an older actor with a younger actor in a project just to see what happens. Sometimes it works! Most of the time, it really does not work. This was the case for the now-disgraced film Dirty Grandpa which many have described as the “worst movie ever made.” It’s just surprising that the worst film of all time featured some of the greatest actors, including the unlikely duo Robert De Niro and Aubrey Plaza.

“I didn’t really have a relationship with him off camera because he’s him,” Plaza said of the veteran actor. “I didn’t have time to get to know him, he shows up in a puff of smoke and there’s no chatting at the water cooler.”Dirty Grandpa starred De Niro and Zac Efron as a grandpa/grandson duo who travel to spring break in Florida. Due to their very little time together, Plaza explained that she and De Niro got off on the wrong foot after they met on set.

“By the time he’d show up, I’m in character. My character had one goal: To have sex with him,” Plaza explains. “I was acting totally insane as the character because we were about to shoot. I don’t think he understood that wasn’t me. You’d think he would because he’s an actor and an amazing one.” After shooting, Plaza showed up to a lunch hosted by De Niro, where he didn’t even recognize her out of character. According to the actress, De Niro was ” a little freaked out” about the film. “I showed up and he’s like, ‘Who are you sweetheart?’ and after that he was normal. At first, I think I came on really strong. I did some questionable things I wouldn’t do anymore.”

Despite doing horribly at the box office, Plaza said she learned a very valuable lesson when it comes to being “normal” around some Hollywood legends. “The worst thing you can do at improv is plan a joke. So talk shows short circuit my brain. Planning a story or a joke feels so wrong to me.”

Plaza has been known for nearly a decade as the “weird girl” character trope, but she says it isn’t on purpose and something she is working on. “Every time I tell myself just be normal this time. Do it and get out. I see Tom Hanks doing it and I’m like, ‘He’s smiling, he’s doing great.’ I’d rather have an uncomfortable time because it feels more real, but it’s not on purpose. I wouldn’t want to make someone feel uncomfortable. It’s my defense mechanism put on display. I try to do it right every time and f*ck it up every time.” This is why we should always look to model citizen Tom Hanks for help! Well, not always. But often!

(Via Variety)

Brad Pitt and award-winning French producer Damien Quintard are officially reopening Miraval Studios this month. The duo’s plan to renovate and reopen the famed studio located at the Château Miraval in Correns, France, was announced in December. Pitt and Quintard graced the newest cover of Billboard to commemorate the occasion, and Sade fans will want to read it.

The cover story written by Lyndsey Havens confirms Sade “was the first artist to record at the reopened Miraval,” with Pitt calling the four-time Grammy winner and R&B legend “royalty.”

“You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place,” Quintard added. “And when we talked to musicians who came here previously, they all have this special connection with Miraval that can’t really be explained. […] It’s a dream come true to see this place activate again.”

Whatever Sade recorded at Miraval will appear on her forthcoming project, according to a press release, which will mark her first new solo album since 2010’s Soldier Of Love. This month also marks the 30th anniversary of Love Deluxe, her fourth studio album.

Miraval was founded in 1977 by French composer Jacques Loussier, then-owner of the Château Miraval estate that Pitt has frequented since 2008 and co-purchased in 2012 with his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie.

Loussier intended what was then known as Studio Miraval for his own use, but Sade was among artists attracted to the space for their sessions. Other notable artists to have recorded there during its heyday were AC/DC, Pink Floyd, The Cure, and The Cranberries.

If you’ve ever lost “most” of your money in a Ponzi scheme, you’ve automatically won Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

The actor has made millions throughout his long acting career, but he and wife Kyra Sedgwick were scammed by Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme that cost investors $50 billion. Madoff’s investment scheme, of course, impacted lots of investors, not to mention nearly bankrupted the New York Mets. And it also impacted Bacon, who said in a new interview that he lost “most” of his money when things went belly-up.

Bacon had disclosed the losses previously, saying in a 2017 interview with The Guardian that the losses were “a bad day” but he and his family “got through it together.” But appearing on the SmartLess podcast hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, Bacon went into greater detail, admitting the severity of the losses and the “life lessons” that come from believing something that’s simply too good to be true.

“There’s obvious life lessons there. You know, if something is too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” Bacon said on the SmartLess podcast, according to The Wrap. “And when something like that happens, you know, you look at each other, then you go, ‘Well, that sucks. Let’s, roll up our sleeves and get to work,’ you know?”

Despite the setback, Bacon seems to have a good perspective on the losses and how it could have been much worse. Bacon and Sedgwick have continued to act and rebuild their life, and he said there are plenty of Madoff’s victims who were in much worse shape when the scheme came crashing down.

The actor went on to express gratitude for his family, wife and career. “We’ve made it this far. Our kids are healthy. We’re healthy. We can still both work and certainly, you get angry and stuff, but I have to say that there were a lot of people who were much worse off than we were,” Bacon continued.

“Old people, people whose retirement funds were completely decimated. So there’s always gonna be somebody that’s gonna have it a lot worse than you,” he added. “Whatever the cliches … Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” Bacon said.

Bacon did say that he managed to get “a portion of some money back” from the ordeal, but it’s another reminder to be careful who to trust with your hard-earned dollars if you can manage to invest some of it.

[via The Wrap]

Kanye West’s “White Lives Matter” shirts are still drawing attention and reactions from fans and famous people alike — which, when you think about it, was probably the point all along. While many celebrities spoke out against the shirts’ messaging, others seemed baffled by the backlash against them, including Sharon Osbourne, who told TMZ, “I don’t understand why white lives don’t matter. I don’t understand it. It’s not my culture. Everybody matters, don’t they?… I don’t know what his point is.”

And while she didn’t totally seem to understand why the statement is so offensive — despite many, many easily accessible breakdowns such as this one (although to be fair, it doesn’t seem she even knew what the TMZ reporter was on about and that reporter did a piss-poor job of explaining it) — she did agree with Kanye that the Black Lives Matter organization that cropped up in the wake of highly publicized murders of Black Americans (especially by police) was “a scam.” “We gave $900,000 to that and I’d like my money back. Wish he could have said that before.” However, she did have a suggestion for anyone who doesn’t like Kanye’s antics: “Don’t go to his social media. Don’t listen to his music. Leave the guy alone… If you don’t like him, do that.”

Her advice is pretty funny, considering that’s effectively what the so-called “cancel culture” she decries during the interview is even about, but also apt. At this point, the only way to stop Kanye is to stop giving Kanye what he wants: attention. And before any smart alecks chime in; the day people stop clicking every single post about him to leave snarky comments is the day most outlets stop writing about him. In the meantime, he’ll remain a topic of discussion even as his new buddies at Fox Nex deplore his latest malapropism.

T.J. Miller has been persona non grata in Hollywood for several years now. The former Silicon Valley actor was accused of sexual assault back in 2017, which preceded a 2018 arrest for allegedly making a fake bomb threat on an Amtrak train. Not to mention, all of this went down amidst growing reports that Miller was not the best guy to be around in general. So it’s extremely rich that Miller has recently resurfaced with accusations that Ryan Reynolds was mean to him on the set of the first Deadpool movie.

While appearing on The Adam Carolla Show, Miller recounted filming a scene between his character, Weasel, and Reynolds where the two ad-libbed insults at each other. However, Miller claims Reynolds made it personal when he requested one last take that Miller felt was a little too pointed. Via Entertainment Weekly:

“As the character, he was, like, horrifically mean to me. But to me. As if I’m Weasel,” Miller explained on The Adam Carolla Show. “He was like, ‘You know what’s great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you do just enough exposition that it’s funny, and then we can leave and get back to the real movie.’”

Miller said the jab took him by surprise. “I just kind of listened and thought it was weird, and then I got off stage because they were like, ‘Cut…?,’” he said, adding that the crew seemed uncomfortable after the scene, too.

Miller then declared that he’ll never work with Reynolds again. “I sorta wish him well because he’s so good at Deadpool, and I think it’s weird that he hates me,” Miller said.

Assuming any of this is true, we’re pretty sure Reynolds isn’t losing sleep about not working with the star of The Emoji Movie again. Reynolds recently set the Marvel world on fire by announcing that Hugh Jackman is coming back as Wolverine in Deadpool 3, so it seems like that movie will probably do just fine without T.J. Miller. Call it a hunch.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

For the decades during which Vladimir Putin has been in power, the unwritten rule has always been to never question the Russian president, lest you become the latest victim of what some have dubbed Falling Window Syndrome. While recent reports claim that Putin himself is hunkered down in a nuclear bunker after realizing he waged a losing war, publicly, that’s unlikely something he’d ever admit. But a few loyal Kremlin propagandists have begun speaking truth to power and admitting what is obvious to the rest of the world: Ukraine is winning the war.

Among those brave enough to come right out and say what everyone else can see is Sergey Mardan. According to The Daily Beast, the Russian state TV host opened his Saturday show “with heavy sighs” following Ukraine’s humiliating attack on the Crimean Bridge (an attack that Putin, of all people, has described as a terrorist act.) “All day long we’ll be talking about how this happened and what will come of it,” Mardan said. “I can tell you right now that nothing good will come of it, that’s for sure. They’ve achieved an enormous propagandistic effect.”

As a key part of Putin’s propaganda machine, Mardan certainly knows of what he speaks. But he took a huge step outside his role as one of Kremlin TV’s talking heads by repeatedly admitting that Russia had underestimated Ukraine’s strength and determination — though he sort of suspects the United States may have a lot to do with it.

“There was no shock that they would try to attack the Crimean bridge,” Mardan said, “but there was an initial shock that they managed to pull it off, especially in the early morning hours… Many competent people explain that this was a complicated task — not just journalists or commentators, but specialists. There is a high level of certainty that an operation of this magnitude could have been staged only by Western intelligence agencies.”

Mardan reminded viewers of the initial promises that Russia’s attack on Ukraine would be swift and relatively painless, and would result in near-immediate victory — a fantasy that clearly was either a lie or a huge miscalculation. Mardan encouraged his viewers to see Ukraine for what it truly is (at least in his mind) — and to realize that agreeing to peaceably conclude the fighting is the only way forward (an opinion that isn’t likely to win him any brownie points with Vlad).

“Ukraine is a cruel, motivated, well-prepared enemy,” Mardan said. “This is an enemy nation that has been waging a full-fledged war against us for at least seven and a half months. We keep calling it a special military operation, but they are waging war… Good Lord, I can’t keep listening to this thick and sticky rhetoric, it’s time to stop talking about the peace process and the collective West. This rhetoric doesn’t look good — in fact, it’s harmful. Since the mobilization has been announced, we’re talking about war, a people’s war.”

Mardan didn’t get much support from his guests, who did a better job of sticking to the pro-Russia script. One of them, Russian politician Alexander Kazakov, even commented that “If we win, we’ll take back what’s ours and whatever is [Ukraine’s] as well.”

Mardan might want to be careful when walking past any large windows.

(Via The Daily Beast)

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It was Valentine’s Day and the husband of Carolyn, the company’s founder (who also happens to be her high school sweetheart), offered to go out to get her a “specialty cup of coffee.” Carolyn glanced at the individually-wrapped, candy-filled hearts that he had left on the counter for her and had her “Ah-Ha” moment. She looked her husband straight in the eye and said, “I have a crazy idea,” and she never settled for plain sugar again!

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Brian Robinson has been one of the feel good stories early on in this NFL season. The rookie running back for the Washington Commanders was shot twice in the leg during an attempted robbery and yesterday — a mere six weeks after the shooting — took to the field for the first time ever in the Commanders’ game against the Tennessee Titans. But it’s the now viral moment of Robinson coming out of the tunnel at FedEx Field to 50 Cent’s “Many Men” that really drove home the emotion of Robinson’s road back to an NFL field and the perseverance he showed along the way.

50 Cent’s lyrics paint such a vivid picture of what Robinson has been through, as he raps in the song: “Many men, wish death upon me. Blood in my eye dawg and I can’t see, I’m trying to be what I’m destined to be. And n*****s trying to take my life away.”

Well, 50 Cent himself obviously caught wind of the viral clip of Robinson and shouted out the former Alabama running back. In an Instagram post, 50 wrote, “That sh*t ain’t stop nothing, when God has bigger plans it’s just a bump in the road. @b.robinson_4 right back in action.” He posted a photo collage of Robinson and himself, along with a second slide of the viral video of Robinson coming out to “Many Men.”

Robinson led the Commanders with nine carries, but the team lost a heartbreaker 21-17. Regardless, the Brian Robinson era has begun in Washington DC.