But it’s also so important that an online shop had to shut down because of too many sales. According to TMZ, Abby Misbin, or “Trending By Abby” on Etsy, made so many sales because of the disco ball cowboy hat she made for Beyonce in June after her stylist reached out to her. She usually got 5 to 6 sales a week, but after the announcement of the Renaissance Tour, she made 60 in a day. Because they’re handmade, she can only make two a day. They cost $140.
As for how to scoop up tickets, Ticketmaster recently explained, “Demand for this tour is expected to be high. If there is more demand than there are tickets available, a lottery-style selection process will determine which registered Verified Fans get a unique access code and which are placed on the waitlist. A Verified Fan access code does not guarantee tickets, it just gives you access to join the sale. All tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis. If tickets remain, the lottery-style process will be used to invite more Verified Fans from the waitlist to join the sale.”
Armani White is one of rap music’s most promising new acts. Last year, the West Philadelphia native rose to the top of the charts after the release of his smash single, “Billie Eilish,” thanks to the push by TikTok users. Since then, the rapper has retained his online fan base’s attention with the release of his newest single, “Goated,” featuring Denzel Curry.
Making his debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, White delivered a powerful performance of the track. Although the track’s guest collaborator did not join him on the set, White’s angelic background vocalists and the live band made his absence an afterthought, if it crossed your mind at all.
White displayed his flawless breath control as he rapped each one of the song’s multilayered bars without so much as a slip, with the musicians onstage backing him up. The rapper’s performance proved that he’s been working on his craft and is much more than a viral sensation, he’s here to stay.
As he rapped, “How many times can I tell you I’m goated / Without n****s actin’ like they do not know it? / Why sir? See, every year, I’m gettin’ better as a writer / And when it comes down to the flow, I’m gettin’ nicer,” you couldn’t help but agree with him.
White may have held his excitement back during his performance, but after the video was uploaded to the show’s official YouTube channel, he jumped into the comment section to write, “I’m really proud of this one! I’ve been waiting to do Fallon for 12 years now. And I left it all out there! Thank y’all!”
The analytics on the track is still being reviewed, but it is possible that “Goated” could earn White his second RIAA-certified gold plaque.
We would not have a podcast if not for our listeners. So we like to make sure that they are included in the discourse in each episode via our Mailbag segment. And in this episode, we go even deeper into the bag.
Our listeners did not disappoint. We learned, for instance, that one popular indie rock band apparently does hot yoga! We also delved into the prospects for a TV On The Radio revival, the best music message boards in which to lurk, and what contemporary artists will still be making great music in their 80s, like John Cale with the recent Mercy.
Before the Mailbag, we bantered about the recent album by Lil Yachty, Let’s Start Here, and the history of rappers engaging with psychedelic rock. Is it possible that the only genre that matters for listeners ages 16 to 24 is “music that sounds good when you are on drugs”? After that we parsed the latest class of nominees for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame, which looks especially loaded this year. (Kate Bush seems like a lock, while Steve is hoping that Warren Zevon can sneak in the back door of the Rock Hall.) Finally, we pay tribute to the late great Tom Verlaine of Television, who passed away this week at the age of 73.
In Recommendation Corner, Ian reps for the latest Ladytron record, Time’s Arrow, while Steve enthuses about his favorite album of recent weeks, the jangle rock gem Dead Meat by British band The Tubs.
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Kevin Gates, a devout Muslim, is no stranger to fasting as part of his religious observances. But in a new interview with Big Boy, he boasted a dubious record for his longest fast with no food or water, telling the host he went for nearly a month without eating or drinking.
“Fasting is when you don’t put nothing in your body,” explained, somewhat erroneously. “Fasting is nothing. A dry fast is when you don’t eat or drink.” When Big Boy prompted him to reveal his longest stretch of abstaining from food or drink, Gates said:
“The longest I’d have [ever] did a dry fasting was like close to a month, about three weeks. No food, no water.”
It’s not the wildest claim the Baton Rouge rapper has ever made. He once joked that the motivation for him to lose weight was a baby trying to breastfeed on his chest and he’s revealed some … odd … sexual proclivities (generally, Uproxx coverage sticks to his music and performances like “Major League” or his Sessions appearance).
However, if anyone is planning to emulate his example, it’s worth noting that the human body is very susceptible to dehydration and other health issues due to poor nutrition. Gates even points out here that he has trained his body to be able to go longer periods without food. Basically, consult a doctor before trying new diets — even for religious reasons — and consider that Islam doesn’t restrict the intake of water during month-long fasts like Ramadan, because you really do need it to stay alive.
You can watch Gates’ full interview up top.
Kevin Gates is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The 2023 Grammy Awards will take place this Sunday, February 5, in Los Angeles, California. Comedian Trevoh Noah will return as the ceremony’s host, many music lovers are curious about this year’s attendees. While superstar Adele ensures she will indeed be attending the event, other stars have kept their RSVP status a secret.
Well, given people that are on the fence about tuning into this year’s broadcast, the Recording Academy has released the first wave of featured presenters. The list includes multiple Grammy Award winners, Olivia Rodrigo, and Shania Twain. Despite being after to submit her smash single “WAP” for this year’s ceremony, Cardi B will also present at this year’s ceremony. Also, current Best Musical Theater Album nominee actor Billy Crystal will present.
Non-musical figures set to present during this year’s ceremony include First Lady Jill Biden, actor Dwayne Johnson, The Late Late Show host James Corden, and actress Viola Davis, who is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for her memoir, Finding Me.
If that isn’t enough, they’ve also shared a list of confirmed performers for the evening. Musicians Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile, Luke Combs, Steve Lacy, Lizzo, Kim Petras, and Sam Smith will take over the stage for a performance of one of their songs.
The 65th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 5, 2023. The ceremony will be broadcasted live on the CBS Television Network and streamed live and on-demand on Paramount+.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Pamela Anderson has been promoting a one-two punch of reflections upon her life. That would be Pamela: A Love Story, the Brandon Lee-produced documentary on Netflix, and Love, Pamela, her freshly available memoir. In the process, we’ve learned more about her terrible time with Kid Rock at the Borat premiere and how one of her five marriages has somehow been worse than the rest. As well, Pam has re-upped her disapproval of Hulu’s Pam & Tommy while describing the makers of that series as “a**holes” who should apologize to her.
It’s certainly easy to see why Pam feels that way. Although the show is meant as a guilty pleasure and literally functions that way (because it makes me feel guilty for enjoying it), the series almost entirely revolves around the theft of a very private intimate movie between Pam and then-husband Tommy Lee. Personal fallout abounded, but Pam’s professional reputation suffered, whereas Tommy was, you know, held out as a dude. And now Pamela is reiterating how she never profited from that movie, as IndieWire reports from a screening of the Netflix documentary:
“I don’t think anyone wanted to believe it … “Plus, we just let it go. After the depositions and all this craziness, and I was pregnant with Dylan, we didn’t wanna put any more stress on the baby. Tommy and I just said, ‘f— them, karma, whatever,’ we just left it. We really just tried to leave it in the past. So we didn’t do a press tour talking about what money we didn’t get. That was just dirty money. We didn’t want it. And we ended up OK.”
Fair enough, although one of Pam and Tommy’s sons, Brandon, admitted that he wished that his mom had pocketed something from the ordeal, and no one knows exactly how much money the sex tape grossed after Rand Gauthier stole it. Speculation abounds about it generating over $75 million, but again, Pam is doing just fine without it.
Ever since there was even a whisper that Ron DeSantis might throw his hat in the ring to be the Republicans’ presidential nominee in 2024, Donald Trump has been on the offensive. In addition to giving the Florida governor a fancy new nickname, Trump has threatened to spill all the secrets he claims to know about “Ron DeSanctimonious” or just straight up “kick him in the nuts.” But given how many former allies seem to be turning their backs on the former president, Trump has decided to take his intimidation up a notch and threaten the entire Republican party.
As The Hill reports, Trump refused to say whether he would definitely endorse the GOP’s presidential nominee if it’s not him. “It would have to depend on who the nominee was,” he said during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. Which is pretty much the same answer he gave when asked the same question in 2016, before he won the party’s official nomination. That could make him a liability (which is very likely why he’s saying that).
As The Hill notes, there’s a lot of concern among Republicans that if Trump does not secure the Republican nomination, he’ll shift his campaign strategy and run as an independent nominee — which, if MAGA diehards follow their leader — could potentially hand another victory to the Democrats.
While Trump is the only person to officially announce his candidacy for 2024, it’s expected that Nikki Haley will be next. In addition to DeSantis, Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are also names being bandied about as possible candidates.
Hollywood loves to shove people into boxes. Not literally. That would be against the law. Probably. Unless they do it in a movie. Like, maybe there’s a movie called Box Guys someday about a bunch of people getting packaged-up and mailing themselves places instead of buying a plane ticket. Maybe they do it to sneak into the Super Bowl, like a Trojan Horse thing. That would be okay. I feel like Kevin James would be involved somehow.
In any event, it’s not what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about the figurative sense of it all, how actors can get pigeonholed into one kind of role and rarely get a chance to branch out, especially when they’ve had some success in that narrow little field. Specifically, we’re talking about this thing Dave Bautista said in a recent interview, which started with him saying “I know I’m not your typical rom-com lead” and then proceeded to make me very sad. Here, look.
“I’m a little rough around the edges. But I always, you know, I look in the mirror and I say, I ask myself, ‘Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing about me that excludes me from these parts?’” he continued.
“I don’t know. It’s just never come my way. I’ve never had an offer to do a rom-com. I still have high hopes. I’ll just keep searching.”
A couple things are going on here, both of them important. The first is, like… Jesus Christ, somebody cast Dave Bautista in a rom-com already. For the world, yes, but also for Dave Bautista, personally. Read that quote a few times through. Picture Dave Bautista saying it, sitting in a comfy chair, just kind of sighing a little, with a dress shirt unbuttoned to his sternum and the first buttoned-button straining to contain his bulging torso. It’s heartbreaking. Something about a big strapping dude being sad is even more devastating to me than a scrawny guy whimpering. It’s heavy stuff.
The other thing is that Dave Bautista would kill it in a romantic comedy. He really would. Even when he plays beefed-up aliens like Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, there’s a sweetness there behind the eyes. Something tender. Something that could certainly carry over to a lighter story that doesn’t have laser fights in outer space. Or one that does. Dave Bautista would also kill it in a space-based rom-com, if that’s what we want from him. Eating little cupcakes with a recently widowed alien who never thought she would find love again after her last lover was heaved into a black hole by a godless space dragon. That could work. We have options.
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It’s not just Dave Bautista, either. Let’s get all of Hollywood’s charismatic beefy boys into some sweet little movies. Jason Momoa would crush in a rom-com. Close your eyes for a second — not now, after this paragraph — and picture him in a movie as a single dad who hits it off with a single mom who runs a little coffee shop in town. Picture him with two adorable squirts hanging off of his massive shoulders as she looks at him with hearts in her eyes. Picture him squeezing into her little Prius — “no, no, I’m fine” he says as he crunches his knees up into his abdomen — to go to the museum with the kids on a Saturday. This is where you close your eyes and try to tell me I’m wrong.
Do you see? Do you see what I’m getting at? Their size can be used to tell the story. We can have fun here. Get Tom Hardy in there, too. He would be great in a sweet little movie. It goes back to the thing I said at the beginning, about how seeing a big dude deal with emotions is somehow more emotionally taxing for a viewer. The stakes feel higher. Strong men also cry, etc. etc. etc.
It would even things out a little bit, too. Pretty boys get to be action stars all the time. Ryan Gosling is a dude who was pretty much created in a lab to star in romantic comedies (boyish face, perfect hair, little rascal twinkle in his eye) and he’s running around with automatic weapons in movies like The Gray Man. Paul Rudd got his start in freaking Clueless 100 years ago and he’s about to star in his third Ant-Man movie, which doesn’t even count all the Avengers stuff he’s done. Which is fine! I love those guys! I would race to the theater opening weekend and park my car right on the sidewalk in front of the entrance if they ever made some sort of goofy action-comedy movie about two thieves trying to steal… oh, let’s say “a horse that won the Kentucky Derby.” That would be great. Those guys have range. And we let them have range. We need to extend this courtesy to the swole guys, too. It’s only fair.
Think about it for a little bit. Or a lot. I’ve been thinking about it since I read that quote a few days ago. I suspect I’ll keep thinking about it straight through this weekend, too, unless I get distracted by the mental image of Ryan Gosling and Paul Rudd trying to steal a racehorse. Which could happen. I guess I have two points here: One, I am sad that Dave Bautista is sad and I think it would help both him and me if we started putting big jacked dudes in sweet little comedies; two, now that I think about it, I would also watch a movie about Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa stealing a racehorse, too.
Even though Hollywood might seem like its own universe, stars are really just like us regular folks and get sleepy from time to time. With all of the cross-time zone traveling, early morning workouts, and various late-night appearances, it isn’t surprising that celebrities need a little assistance falling asleep, so they might pop a Jay-Z-endorsed Ambien and knock out before another day of long being rich, famous, and talented.
Pedro Pascal is not immune to being a sleepy guy from time to time (who isn’t), which is why he opened up about a sleeping pill experience on The Tonight Show that inadvertently caused him to think he lost out on his starring role in The Last of Us. Stars are just like us: sleepy and confused.
The actor was retelling how he got the job as Joel on the post-apocalyptic HBO drama, only he had found out in a sleeping pill haze. During the interview process, Pascal was set to meet with the video game creator Neil Druckmann. “They were like, ‘Will you stay up a little bit later…’ — at this point, it was getting kind of late in London — ‘… to talk to Neil Druckmann, the creator of the video game?” Pascal recalled.
He continued, “I take an Ambien to go to sleep just in case. They’ve got my adrenaline going and my hopes up,” Pascal recounted. “But I get a call and I get told that I got the job after I took the Ambien. And so I was excited, I guess, but I didn’t remember.” Pascal then went to sleep and probably dreamt of zombies and Baby Yoda (again, stars are just like us).
Pascal added, “I woke up in the morning and the first thing that occurred to me was, ‘Aww man, I really want that job… I’m gonna wait by the phone all day long. This hasn’t happened in a while. I’m gonna think about it all day,’” he recalled, forgetting that he had actually been offered the job on the late-night phone call. “I was like, ‘Oh yeah! I got the job!’”
It’s a good thing he did! The Last Of Us has given HBO yet another massive hit. Hopefully, Pascal will be able to stay up long enough to host Saturday Night Live this weekend.
The Last Of Us airs Sundays on HBO (before your nightly melatonin regimen).
Despite getting her start in music at Los Angeles-area underground rap events, Doja Cat recently said she doesn’t feel like she receives the credit she deserves as a rapper. She explained why in a new interview with Variety, saying “a lot of people discredit me” as a rapper and posits that this is due to her success with disco-inspired records like “Kiss Me More” and “Say So.”
“I just got an award [from iHeartRadio] for a billion spins on the radio, so with that alone, I’m constantly being shoved down people’s throats,” she said. “I would be upset if I saw somebody who has kind of been fed to me as this pop-star girl with a fat ass making it to this level of rap icon after I’ve only been watching them do disco shit and pop shit all the time.”
Her complaints might well be valid; during an interview with Drink Champs last year, Remy Ma said, “I don’t think she’s a rapper. But she makes dope records, and I think she’s dope.” Likewise, when Doja expressed her dream to release a hip-hop double album produced by 9th Wonder and Jay Versace, many rap fans raised their eyebrows — including one of the producers in question.
Of course, none of this skepticism has stopped Doja from accumulating accolades from both fans and peers. She’s nominated for a Best Rap Performance Grammy Award for her Elvis contribution “Vegas” (and should win it, to be honest), and she has the second-most Platinum singles for female rapper ever.
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