Saweetie’s new EP The Single Life became a lightning rod for criticism when it supposedly underperformed, sparking widespread debate on social media about the Bay Area rapper’s commercial viability and artistic worth. The EP, which features songs like the supposed Lil Baby/Quavo diss “Don’t Say Nothin’” and the Mtume-sampling “P.U.S.S.Y. (Powerful, Utopia, Supreme, Sacred, Yummy),” supposedly only sold 2,000 copies, but that didn’t stop one of Saweetie’s fellow Californian rappers from stepping up to show his support.
Reason, the Del Amo rapper signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, said he’d “love” to work with Saweetie despite the misfire of The Single Life, because she’s already a proven star. “The saweetie album sales is funny etc but it’s also (in my humble opinion) a representation in the lack of artist development,” he explained. “Saweetie is a star, she’s proven that! But you still have to develop artist and help them make better records. I’d love to write with saweetie.”
He later followed up with another tweet, elaborating, “This ain’t no pick me sh*t this is from one artist to another. I personally believe we should bring back artist development and not just worry about social media. My 2 cents!”
And no this ain’t no pick me shit this is from one artist to another, I personally believe we should bring back artist development and not just worry about social media. My 2 cents! https://t.co/dubkhoEc8X
Given that Saweetie has more hits under her belt than the vast majority of artists — “ICY GRL,” “My Type,” “Tap In,” and “Best Friend” have all done well commercially — she’s probably not sweating The Single Life‘s commercial performance. After all, it’s just a 5-song EP, and she still has her debut album, Pretty B*tch Music, waiting in the wings.
Saweetie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
As Raw Story reports, Trump — who is really making use of his long-suffering TRUTH Social — fired off a couple of fired-up posts in which he raged against, well, a lot of things. Among them: New York AG Letitia James’ lawsuit against the Trump Organization (he suggested she instead “Focus on MURDER!!!,” by which we think/hope he meant prosecuting murderers—not becoming one); his unfinished border wall (“We are a laughing stock all over the World. At least 10,000,000 people, many of them REALLY BAD, have entered since I left office. Our Country has gone MAD!”); Karl Rove being “a DINIER of DINIERS, which makes him a fool” (there’s definitely at least one fool here); and how the 2020 presidential election was “RIGGED & STOLEN!” (JFC — we’re still on that?) But he saved his real ire — and lots more all-caps words — for the real scourge — mail-in ballots!
Here’s just a sampling of some of his random thoughts on the matter:
Our Elections are Rigged. Mail-In Ballots are a total SCAM. How about all of those “BROKEN” Republican Voting Machine? GET SMART REPUBLICANS, OR YOU WON’T HAVE A PARTY (OR COUNTRY) LEFT!
REMEMBER, YOU CAN NEVER HAVE FAIR & FREE ELECTIONS WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS – NEVER, NEVER, NEVER. WON’T AND CAN’T HAPPEN!!!
If you swing at the primetime soap opera king, you best not… you catch my drift. Back when Emily In Paris first surfaced, Darren Star had to answer for the apparent, blissfully ignorant state of his American protagonist who moved to Paris without knowing more than a few words of French. A few years later, and the world seems fairly charmed by Lily Collins’ Emily Cooper, and even though the show is silly and bears no substance, that’s alright. Not everything needs to be nuanced, and Emily appears to be in on the joke to some degree, even while ducking criticism about receiving breezy renewals while other shows got the Netflix ax.
Yet it’s a charming show. The ensemble cast doles out endearing performances, and ultimately, the most controversial thing about this show would be the skillet scandal. Speaking of which, the Season 3 trailer has arrived with Chef Gabriel appearing to be sloshed while confessing to Emily that she’s “changed my life” before he passes out. And the new trailer, above, shows that Emily dropped a Golden Girls reference, so we can infer that they’re “friends.” Ouch? She’s got Alfie now, and Gabriel’s been wavering with Camille, so f*** him. Let’s do the synopsis thing:
One year after moving from Chicago to Paris for her dream job, Emily finds herself at a crucial crossroads in every aspect of her life. Faced with two very different paths, Emily will have to decide exactly where her loyalties lie — at work and in her romantic life — and what those decisions mean for her future in France, all while continuing to immerse herself in the adventures and surprising twists and turns that life in Paris provides.
Gotta love Emily’s confession of “existential angst” while Sylvie calls that an American attitude. (See, they’re in on the joke.)
The singer, co-songwriter and drummer for this long-running Minnesota indie-rock institution passed away on November 5 of ovarian cancer. When I heard the news, my thoughts went immediately to her husband and creative partner Alan Sparhawk, with whom she had formed an inspiring union in life as well as art. That partnership appeared to only grow stronger over the years, and it formed the core of Low’s final and possibly finest record, 2021’s HEY WHAT.
At the time, it sounded to me like one of the most profound and moving albums about marriage ever. I wrote this in my review: “The whole album feels like a celebration of how having a longtime partner can make living in a confusing, terrifying world a little less confusing and terrifying. Perhaps that’s why HEY WHAT, in spite of a musical palate that ensures the word “apocalyptic” will appear in every album review, ultimately feels redemptive, and even romantic. Low’s ability to re-think their approach and achieve a genuine artistic breakthrough that caps an already great discography is certainly inspiring; how many bands this good made their greatest LP 27 years after their debut? But — I know this is a mawkish phrase but screw it — it’s the power of love shared between Sparhawk and Parker that resonates most profoundly. Together, they sound strong and indefatigable on HEY WHAT, even as demons descend.”
All of that seems doubly true now. Rest in peace, Mimi. Lots of love to you, Alan.
2. Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy Of Modern Song
I wish there was a website called Cold Takes where all the reviews were of culture that was at least six months old. A book like this requires a site like that. It needs — demands — to rattle around inside your skull for a while. But culture commentators don’t have that luxury. So instead, this strange, hilarious, insightful, arcane, outrageous, maddening, and (yes) philosophical book was swiftly denounced in some circles as a misogynistic and MAGA-parroting embarrassment. The latter charge is particularly baffling to me. I can understand not liking the book — it’s pretty uneven! — but all of the snide references I’ve seen likening Bob to some grumpy old man shaking his fist at a TV screen endlessly playing Fox News are … kinda dumb? Throughout the book, Dylan crawls inside various songs and takes on their singular voices. In some of those songs — Bob unsurprisingly is drawn mainly to ancient blues, country, rock, and folk tunes — women loom as mysterious, seductive, and even sinister characters. He is not interested in judging these songs. He is not here to apply a modern lens to the material in order to show up how enlightened he is by comparison. He approaches them as a writer as he would as a singer. He wants to inhabit them, understand them, live them. And then he communicates that experience to an audience. He’s interpreting how they feel, not explaining how they run afoul of contemporary sensibilities. Getting to the core feeling is his job here. That’s always been his job. Should Bob’s prose be taken as literal socio-political confessionals about his own state of mind? Are we really having this conversation about Bob freaking Dylan? Seriously? Treating Bob freaking Dylan like he’s a conventional music critic or academic, again, is … kinda dumb? He’s an artist, not a textbook writer. This messy tome is precisely the book he was supposed to write. Let’s marinate in it!
3. Weyes Blood, And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
It’s been three years since Weyes Blood released 2019’s psych-folk stunner Titanic Rising. I loved that record. In my review, I wrote that Natalie Mering’s “specialty is writing classic ’70s AM pop melodies — the sort that Paul Williams or Burt Bacharach once composed for the Carpenters — and setting them to songs that ruminate on how technology has destroyed nearly everything essential to human life in the 21st century, from romantic love to the climate.” Her latest album basically offers up more of the same, for better or worse. It has yet to move me like Titanic Rising did, perhaps because there’s not one big knockout track to really land the record, like “Movies” did for its predecessor. Nevertheless, Mering’s talent for writing beautiful songs about the end of the world remains unparalleled. When people talk about which songs they want played at the funeral, this is the kind of record they reach for.
4. Guma, A List Of Sightings
I spent a lot of time this month listening to albums from earlier in the year that I missed. This record, which dropped in February, is one of my favorite discoveries. Led by Austin singer-songwriter T.J. Masters, Guma plugs into a subversive ’70s soft rock vibe on A List Of Sightings. Steely Dan might seem like an obvious reference point, but the vibe I get is more akin to the excellent turn-of-the-century Jim O’Rourke albums Eureka and Insignificance, with a touch of Cass McCombs’ recent work.
5. Gold Dust, The Late Great Gold Dust
This project from Massachusetts singer-songwriter Stephen Pierce is another example of an indie band commingling shoegaze heaviness with folky melodies. Wednesday and Knifeplay are other notable purveyors of the style, but Gold Dust makes their own impression with some of the most flat-out gorgeous music to come out of the subgenre. Applying his own boyish, starstruck vocals to cavernous, guitar-based mini-symphonies, Pierce makes a surprisingly big and lovely sound out of modest materials on The Late Great Gold Dust, inviting the listener to be enveloped in the album’s surly beauty.
Everyone does something a little outside of the norm at least a few times in their life.
Of course this isn’t based in science, it’s just an observation that likely keeps life interesting. A couple took a step outside of the expected when they decided to get married in the “mayonnaise aisle” at their local grocery store, Fry’s Food and Drug in Casa Grande, Arizona.
The two were both strolling down the aisle looking for mayonnaise when their paths crossed and it was love at first sight. Denis and Brenda Delgado decided to exchange phone numbers and the rest quickly fell into place.
The couple met in August 2021, and a week after exchanging numbers, Denis asked Brenda out on a date. Things obviously went well because the following April, he popped through her door to announce that he was going to buy her an engagement ring. Brenda told Fox 10 Phoenix that she called him a couple of hours later and asked, “have you been drinking?”
Denis’s soon to be wife had one request if he was going to propose – that he do it in the same aisle they met. I don’t know about you, but I’m sensing a theme here. Love will make you do interesting things because Denis agreed and then added the cherry on top by telling her they could also get married there.
Brenda walked down the aisle lined with more than just condiments. Family and friends came out to witness the nuptials. The bride told Fox 10 Phoenix, “We don’t have that many more years to do something dumb and stupid.” This wedding is sure to be the talk of the town for a while. Don’t just listen to me, the newlyweds tell you all about it below.
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo went onto First Take on Wednesday morning, presenting the latest opportunity for him and Stephen A. Smith to yell at each other about stuff. And folks, we got a doozy this time around, as Mad Dog went on a rant about Odell Beckham Jr. getting removed from an airplane — which happened over the weekend before a flight from Miami to Los Angeles took off — that had Stephen A keeling over with laughter.
Here are the important things to know before you watch the video and you enter The Dojo Of The Mind Of Mad Dog: 1. He recommends that Odell purchases a private plane instead of flying on American Airlines, 2. He has a big issue, it appears, with Odell flying American, and also with him taking a morning flight when there is football on a few hours later, because he could be watching football instead, 3. There is a pronunciation of “Tahiti” that you will not believe, 4. There is an argument over whether or not Odell could have taken Ambien.
Alright, here ya go:
No one in the history of hot take shows has ever had a hotter take than the take @MadDogUnleashed just dropped on Odell Beckham and the plane incident. What a performance here by all parties. pic.twitter.com/5DwMa9cvO4
Around the 1:51 mark of the video, Marcus Spears — who is the second panel of the three-way split screen, which put him in the middle of this entire thing — asks “what is happening” a few times. The answer to that question, Swagu, is television at its finest. And loudest. This was very loud.
Coming in hot off the success of The Bear, which has definitely caused a “shift” in his career, Jeremy Allen White is currently at work on The Iron Claw, a wrestling drama about the real-life Von Erich family. Joining White is co-star Zac Efron, who has already been spotted looking absolutely jacked for the A24 film. White and Efron will star as two of the numerous Von Erich brothers, Kerry and Kevin respectively, and they’ve been hard at work beefing up for the roles.
According to White, Efron immediately reached out as soon as he was cast and sent him a “really lovely note” to get him pumped for the months ahead: “Get training, eat, keep doing what you’re doing, stay hard,” Efron wrote. Via GQ:
White will try to put on 40 pounds of muscle to play Von Erich. It feels like an unusual role for him, but what White most appreciates is that the wrestler has something in common with Carmy: a quiet discomfort with his surroundings, a sense that he doesn’t belong. “There’s something human about never feeling like you are really your own man,” says White. “All great drama is about family, whether it’s blood or not. It’s about acceptance, it’s about belonging, and just getting away from loneliness.”
White has his worked cut out for him because Efron has already set the bar pretty high. In early November, the actor showed off his transformation into Kevin Von Erich, and it’s clear that Efron took his own advice. The guy looked absolutely shredded in a still from The Iron Claw that he shared on Instagram.
Every year, Spotify users look forward to seeing the songs that got them through, as Spotify Wrapped puts together their most streamed songs in the form of a fun, colorful, interactive story. Most Spotify users seem to know that Spotify collects your streaming data over the course of a specific time frame, and therefore, they try to impact the algorithm by getting in some last-minute streams.
Unfortunately, if the listener tries to stream specific projects past a certain date, their efforts may be in vain.
Does Spotify Wrapped include your December listening history?
While Spotify says each user’s Wrapped reflects their listening habits over the course of a year, they have confirmed to several news outlets, as well as their own social handles, that November and December are not included in the data collected for Wrapped.
“We’re afraid that listening to a bunch of stuff right now won’t make any difference to this year’s or next year’s Wrapped,” read a Tweet from Spotify’s official customer service account. “This is because Wrapped only covers the 1st of January until the 31st of October for any given year.”
Hey Stephen! We’re afraid that listening to a bunch of stuff right now won’t make any difference to this year’s or next year’s Wrapped. This is because Wrapped only covers the 1st of January until the 31st of October for any given year. Hope this clears things up /GK
So you can relax and not worry about people seeing the ungodly amount of times you listened to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” But be sure to kick off the year wisely. The right song can make all the difference.
Once again, it’s that time of year when music fans look back at their listening habits over the past 12 months. Spotify Wrapped 2022 is here, and naturally, folks are having a field day sharing and comparing their personalized lists and graphics, which are as always broken down with cheeky captions and colorful statistics — and even messages from the artists themselves.
But, while it’s always fun to see what we’ve been listening to recently, some people may wonder how their playlists this year compare to those of the past. After all, our listening habits change over time and there’s always going to be interest in seeing that change — or at least, in going back to relive nostalgic moments from playlists past.
Fortunately, seeing previous years’ Spotify Wrapped playlists is as easy as clicking a link. While you won’t be able to grab the old graphics and streaming breakdowns, you can see how Spotify compiled some of your favorite albums, artists, and songs. Just click on any of the links below.
For more year-end fun, you can also check out the Instafest app, which generates a mock festival lineup based on your listening habits over the past year or all time.
I’ll save you a Google search for “star wars f*ck” (don’t do it, especially if you’re at work… believe me): the word “f*ck” has never been said in the Star Wars universe. “Ass,” yes, as well as “crap” and “hell,” but never the f-word. Unless the f-word is “feed the Sarlacc,” which is apparently slang for “to use the toilet,” then it has.
But Andor almost made some swear word Star Wars history. While discussing Maarva’s stirring speech in the season one finale, actress Denise Gough, who played Imperial officer Dedra Meero, told Empire, “[Fiona Shaw’s] voice was over all of us. Except, at the end, she didn’t say, ‘Fight the Empire!’ She said, ‘F*ck the Empire!’ Which we were all really excited about. But we weren’t allowed to keep it, obviously.”
Oscar Isaac tried to drop the first f-bomb in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (allegedly), but was rejected. Now this? Disney+ needs to lighten up and let Baby Yoda say f*ck.
Gough sure isn’t afraid to let a drop a well-timed “f*ck,” however.
One thing’s certain, though: the pantheon of all-time-great Star Wars villains has a new fixture [in Dedra] — and appropriately she’s a rogue one. Not a Sith Lord, not power-hungry, just single-minded and fearsomely fanatical. She’s as smart as her Rebel enemies (“She thinks exactly like them – she is a Rebel!”), entirely disdainful of her inferior superiors, and ready to make life even more difficult for Cassian Andor and company. In Gough’s own words? “I am going to Dedra the f*ck out of the second season,” she warns.
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