Year: 2022

Ever since Rosalía shared the racy album artwork for her upcoming album, Motomami, excitement has been building for the release. She’s previously shared her collaboration with The Weeknd, “La Fama,” and the reggaeton-referencing “Saoko” Since there’s still a few weeks before the album drops, the Spanish pop star has shared yet another preview of what’s to come with today’s “Chicken Teriyaki” video. The Tanu Muino-directed video is her third release from Motomami, which will be Rosalía’s third studio album. In the dance-centric “Chicken Teriyaki” video, she leads her crew in a series of warmups and stretches before the real work begins.

Once the dance party starts, the catchy choruses of “chicken teriyaki” elicit all kinds of hilarious moves from the dancers. Combining shots from the cinematographers with iPhone clips from the other dancers, who offer very interesting perspectives on Rosalía, shooting her from the ground and other unusual angles, the video is a playful celebration of just how physical her music can be. At one point, a delivery guy even busts through the window on a motorcycle to deliver some of the song’s titular food to the hungry crew. Check out the video above and keep an ear out for more music before the album comes out in a few weeks.

One of the standout tracks from Helado Negro’s fantastic latest album Far In, “Hometown Dream” is a gorgeous moment of bliss. Propped up on an electric bass groove with woodwind coos and a sparkling drum beat, Helado Negro’s Roberto Carlos Lange sings, “Who could really know you now? Now that you’ve seen these dreams?” as you sink deeper into the hypnotic track.

Now on the new video for “Hometown Dream,” we see Lange today, spliced in with his younger self in footage from a 1988 VHS tape of his first trip to his family’s homeland of Ecuador. A freeze frame from the visual is very distinctly what was captured for the hazy, colorful album cover of Far In.

“Hometown Dream is about me leaving New York after living there for so long,” Lange, who know lives in North Carolina, said in a statement. “New York showed me my north in life and taught me to celebrate existence. My Mom and my Dad both moved to NYC in the ’60s. I spent my 20’s, 30’s, and turned 40 there.”

Conceptually, the “Hometown Dream” video follows suit with the clip for “Outside The Outside,” which also used scenes from old VHS family tapes that Lange recently digitized. In an interview with Uproxx last year, Lange spoke about his journey of self-discovery through his music, saying that: “Those songs are transmissions from an older me to a younger me traveling in the path and that’s what I’ve always tried to hope that people see with what I’m doing.”

Helado Negro’s worldwide tour begins in April and Lange also just announced that Kacy Hill and Kaina will be supporting him on select dates. Check out his website for tour updates here.

Watch the video for “Hometown Dream” above.

In a partnership with 2K Sports, rapper-turned-rocker Machine Gun Kelly will the ring as a playable wrestler in WWE 2K22. The game, which releases March 11 on PlayStation 4 and 5, PC, and Xbox One and Series X|S, features a stacked line-up of wrestling superstars, including the game’s cover star Rey Mysterio.

The option to play as Machine Gun Kelly comes as part of an expansion pack, the release of which to be announced at a later date. It is also unclear whether or not this expansion will be a free upgrade to the game.

Additionally, Kelly will oversee the game’s soundtrack, which contains a star-studded line-up featuring The Weeknd, Motorhead, and Wu-Tang Clan. The soundtrack will be released in tandem with the game.

Check out the WWE 2K22 soundtrack tracklist below.

1. Machine Gun Kelly — “Concert For Aliens”
2. Machine Gun Kelly — “Body Bag” Feat. Yungblud and Bert McCracken
3. Wu Tang Clan — “Protect Ya Neck”
4. Motorhead — “Iron Fist”
5. Poppy — “Say Cheese (Live NXT Version)”
6. Royal Blood — “Typhoons”
7. Bring Me The Horizon — “Happy Song”
8. The Weeknd – “Heartless”
9. Turnstile — “I Don’t Wanna Be Blind”
10. Asking Alexandria — “The Final Episode (Let’s Change The Channel)”
11. KennyHoopla –“Hollywood Sucks”

Some of the artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

He wasn’t the biggest cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home (that honor belongs to Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, which no longer counts as a spoiler), but Charlie Cox showing up as Matt Murdock / Daredevil still got a big pop in the opening night screening I went to. That was not the case in the theater he was in, however.

“It’s funny, I got so many text messages and so many calls about that moment in the cinema. My nephew sent me a recording of everyone cheering. So I snuck into a movie theater near where I live and literally stood in the corridor… and, sadly, my experience was it was dead f*cking quiet,” Cox told Radio Times. He continued:

“I was so disappointed. My wife was with me and she was recording me, because it’d be fun to have that moment of everyone cheering, and then… tumbleweed.”

Here’s a dramatic reenactment of Cox thinking the crowd would go wild for him:

Millions of Daredevil fans were happy to see the Man Without Fear, however, and Cox confirmed that he’ll appear again in a future project. “I know something,” he teased. “I don’t know much, but I know there will be something else.” That’s great and all, but I would rather see the footage of Cox expecting a roar and instead hearing crickets. Put it on the No Way Home Blu-ray.

(Via Radio Times)

Despite his character sporting a trademark cigarette holder in the comics — and in 1992’s Batman Returns — Colin Farrell‘s version of The Penguin was banned from smoking in The Batman. In a new interview with Jake’s Takes, Farrell reveals that he put up a fight with Warner Bros. to at least let his character hold a cigar, but the studio wasn’t budging. Cigarette smoking has become a sensitive subject in films and even more so when you’re dealing with a billion-dollar franchise that would very much like to sell toys to young kids.

Via Variety:

“Big studios make big decisions around such things as the presence of cigarettes in films,” Farrell said. “I fought valiantly for a cigar. At one stage I said, ‘I can have it unlit! Just let me have it unlit.’ They were like, ‘No.’ [As if] a bunch of 12-year-olds are going to start smoking Cuban cigars because [the Penguin is smoking cigars in a movie.]”

Of course, Farrell might have a chance to add a little more comic accuracy in his Penguin spinoff series for HBO Max where things tend to skew a little more mature. In the meantime, Farrell seems to have had a blast with the role, which buried him underneath a sizable amount of prosthetics that he was virtually unrecognizable to his co-stars. The actor recently revealed that before he started filming The Batman, he took his new look for a “spin” at a Starbucks in Burbank, where he got a few strange looks.

(Via Variety)

Saweetie fans have been patiently waiting for her debut album, Pretty Bitch Music, for what might seem like forever after she delayed the album multiple times despite having huge hits in “My Type,” “Tap In,” and “Best Friend.” To hold them over, she initially planned to release an EP, Icy Season, in the first quarter of 2022, but now it seems even that plan has changed — but for a good reason. In a new interview with Billboard, the Bay Area rapper explained that she nixed the EP to lock in on finishing the album, which she now says should be out by summer.

She also explains why putting out her debut album has at times seemed such a halting, laborious process. “Sometimes our hit song is bigger than us and we’re just thrown into the game,” she says. “When you get signed, the label wants a hit. They want a return on their investment, which I understand. But it’s important for artists to understand themselves before they start seeking for hits. Because if you don’t know yourself, you don’t know your music.” She also doesn’t want to rush the process, as she feels she did with 2018’s High Maintenance and 2019’s Icy, and doesn’t “want to be safe anymore. Now it’s time to experiment.”

Considering she’s reportedly got a song in Tagalog, as well as Latin collab according to Billboard, it sounds like she’s expanding what the expectations of her album should be. Hopefully, she’s able to meet her own self-imposed deadline and live up to the potential she’s shown over the past few years.

Despite being banned from the platform in 2018, episodes of Alex Jones podcast have reportedly been streaming on Spotify for the better part of a week. Considering the streaming service has been embroiled in enough controversy thanks to Joe Rogan, it appears to have remedied the Jones’ problem with a quickness. The situation escalated on Wednesday when Media Matters reported on episodes of The Alex Jones Show recently being available to stream on Spotify:

Full-length episodes of The Alex Jones Show have been uploaded daily on Spotify since February 20 and remain undetected by the platform moderators. The Alex Jones Show is the first result that appears when searching ‘infowars’ on Spotify. This oversight speaks to a larger problem of Spotify’s shoddy enforcement of its own rules and poor ability to detect extremist content.

By Thursday morning, Spotify “appeared” to have pulled The Alex Jones Show, according to update on Media Matters’ initial report. If someone was trying to stealthily upload episodes to the platform, their plan was no doubt thwarted by the attention Marjorie Taylor Greene brought to the program. During a recent appearance, Greene flat-out called for vigilante justice against trans people in public, and went so far to endorse using physical violence by saying, if her daughter had a trans summer camp counselor, her husband would “beat them into the ground.”

Less than 24 hours after Greene went viral for her abhorrent remarks, Spotify pulled The Alex Jones Show episodes that somehow made it past its moderators.

(Via Media Matters)

Kanye West may very well be hoping to reconcile with Kim Kardashian but his soon-to-be ex-wife’s latest appeal to the court strikes the odds of that happening down from “highly unlikely” to “probably impossible.” Rolling Stone reports that on Wednesday, Kardashian filed a request to have their divorce expedited, citing Kanye’s social media antics over the past few weeks and cutting down his insistence on delaying finalizing the divorce to protect his assets.

“I very much desire to be divorced,” the statement reads. “I have asked Kanye to keep our divorce private, but he has not done so. Kanye has been putting out a lot of misinformation regarding our private family matters and co-parenting on social media which has created emotional distress. I believe that the court terminating our marital status will help Kanye to accept that our marital relationship is over and to move forward on a better path which will assist us in peacefully co-parenting our children.”

She also says that his claims that he needs to protect his assets lack “a scintilla of evidence,” and that their finances are safely separate. Her lawyers added, “No additional conditions are necessary to ‘protect Mr. West’s property interests because there is nothing to protect. There is no community property. There are no jointly titled assets. Ms. Kardashian’s assets, all titled in her name or in the name of her revocable and irrevocable trusts and entities, are her separate property, as agreed by the parties in their prenuptial agreement. The same is true for Mr. West’s assets. Mr. West does not deny any of this in his responsive papers.”

“While I wish our marriage would have succeeded, I have come to the realization that there is no way to repair our marriage,” Kim’s statement concludes. “Kanye does not agree but at least it appears that he has come to the realization that I want to end our marriage, even if he does not. I ask that the court restore me to the status of a single person so that I can begin the healing process and so that our family can begin the healing process and move forward in this new chapter in our lives.”

Nearly a decade had passed since 2012’s Breaking Dawn: Part 2 officially ended The Twilight Saga‘s multiplex domination, and a lot has happened since then for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. They’ve both gone onto star in other blockbuster projects and quieter awards fare, as with her Clouds of Sils Maria turn and now an Oscar nomination for Spencer. And Pattinson did that limousine-bound Cronenberg movie (Cosmopolis) before shining in movies like Good Time and The Lighthouse. Now, he’s freaking Batman. Who would have thought any of this was possible? Don’t be a hater.

Speaking of which, Zoe Kravitz technically does not count herself as a Twilight hater, but she didn’t pay much attention to it. While promoting The Batman (the two also attended the London premiere, above, with Pattinson wearing a roomy Jil Sander suit, and Kravitz in a Saint Laurent dress, both of which may have been in comic book homage), the Stephenie Meyer adaptations popped into conversation.

While speaking with PEOPLE on TikTok, Pattinson ribbed his co-star: “It’s not even cool to be a [Twilight] hater anymore. That’s so 2010.”

Yup, the destroyer of microwaves and master of reinvention has steadfastly remained loyal to the franchise that put him on the map. A few years ago while promoting High Life, he declared, “Whenever anyone says [‘Twilight’]’s their guilty pleasure, it’s like, ‘You say guilty, what you really mean is just pleasure.’” And I wanna see him watching Eclipse next to Kravitz now, just to see what she thinks of those CGI wolves.

When Lil Durk announced his original 7220 release date was the same as Kanye West’s projected release date for Donda 2, many fans took it as a sign that Durk was challenging his fellow Chicagoan in the same way Kanye once challenged 50 Cent over a shared release date. However, February 22 has come and gone without a new album from either rapper; Durk instead released his “AHHH HA” video and announced he’d pushed by his album’s release, while Kanye only put out the first four tracks from Donda 2 through his stem player site.

Still, once a rumor has begun to spread, it’s hard to stop fans from speculating over something they consider at least possible (Twitter is the ultimate game of Telephone), so it wasn’t long before they began to posit nefarious motives for Durk’s date change. When one fan account suggested that Durk had acquired a feature from Pete Davidson for his album — which would antagonize Kanye, as Davidson is dating the rapper’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian, something Kanye has repeatedly expressed his displeasure over — Durk stepped in to shut down the speculation.

“This a lie I don’t even play like that,” he wrote on Instagram, before revealing an even more intriguing proposition. “Plus Ye want to do a album together.”

The two Windy City rappers have certainly had opportunities to build chemistry. Durk, who recreated several of Kanye’s music videos in his own “Kanye Krazy” video last year, featured on the track “Jonah” from West’s original Donda with newcomer Vory after nearly missing out due to a missed flight. Meanwhile, both rappers are well-versed in the joint project format; Kanye famously helped kick off the trend with Watch The Throne with Jay-Z, while last year, Durk carried the torch alongside Lil Baby with Voice Of The Heroes.