Sometimes, loving someone is easier than liking them. Daniel Caesar addresses that complicated conundrum in his new single “Do You Like Me?” The 2023 Juno Awards nominee produced the romantic, slow-burning track with Raphael Saadiq and Dylan Wiggins, and the Machine Operated-directed video arrived today, February 1 — just in time to soundtrack myriad messy Valentine’s Day situations.
In the video, Caesar walks into an apartment as a woman is burning a photo of them together. They immediately launch into a heated argument, subtitled in Portuguese. She questions Caesar over where he’s been and demands an explanation. Caesar doesn’t understand why she’s so upset because he was just working, but she isn’t buying it.
Based on the song’s lyrics, the couple has questions looming larger than Caesar’s whereabouts. “Do you like the way I talk to you?” Caesar sings in his signature smooth high register. “Do I titillate your mind?”
By the time the woman storms upstairs, Caesar gets straight to the point: “Do you really like me? / Yeah, we’re still young, but for how many moons?” He wants to find true love despite the risk, and he owns up to his past shortcomings (“At first I was f*cking your friend / But I wanted you”) with hope that he can still have it all in the future (“Will you have my kids? You better / I wanna be in love again”).
The video progresses to the bedroom, where Caesar is still pleading his case. The couple seems to be at an impasse, and Caesar is left alone — looking very tortured by whatever is running through his mind — while she’s in the shower.
“Do You Like Me?” follows “Please Do Not Lean” featuring Badbadnotgood from last April. It marked his first solo release since 2019’s CASE STUDY 01. “Please Do Not Lean” is nominated for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording Of The Year at March’s Junos. All in all, momentum is (hopefully) building toward Caesar’s highly anticipated third studio album.
Doja Cat’s antics are plentiful, but when she shaved her head and eyebrows last year it really wasn’t the big deal many people made it out to be. “I have never felt more beautiful in my entire life, which is very strange,” she said at the time, despite comments of concern from haters.
In a new interview with Variety, she addressed that situation again, specifically in regards to comparisons people were making to when Britney Spears controversially shaved her head in 2007.
“It’s so incredibly disrespectful for people to be minimizing what Britney went through and make a joke out of something that was very serious and a big deal in her life,” the rapper told the outlet. “Every time I see a comment like that, I can’t compute what’s happening, other than it’s just an awful thing.”
She continued: “But other than that, when I shaved my eyebrows off and I shaved my head, I remember thinking, ‘Get this sh*t off of me,’ because I needed to change something. I wasn’t working out and wasn’t really taking care of myself in the way that I wanted to. I was like, ‘I need to do something,’ so I just chopped it all off. And I could see the shape of my head. I could see my whole face. I can see my ears, now that I don’t have a wig that’s glued to my forehead.”
George Santos sure told a lot of lies to get elected. He even admitted to some of them. The prolific fabulist-turned-elected GOP lawmaker has been accused of deceiving voters into thinking false things about him, including that he was Jewish (he meant “Jew-ish”) or that his mom died in the 9/11 attacks (she wasn’t even in New York then). Meanwhile, reporters and investigators are still unpacking his vast web of deceit and turning up things like his own family members denying they donated to his campaign.
A new report from Mother Jones digs into his campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission, zeroing in one claims that he raked in a whopping $45,000 from his own family members. But did he? One of them, who went unnamed, was said to have contributed two separate donations of $2,900, totaling $5,800. When asked about it by Mother Jones, the person had no idea what Santos was talking about.
“I’m dumbfounded,” the relative said. “It’s all news to me.” They added, “I don’t have that money to throw around!”
Mother Jones also reached out to Santos’ own sister, Tiffany, who filings claim was responsible for over $5,000. When asked whether that or any family donations were true, she would “not confirm” one way or the other. A good sign!
On Tuesday, OANN aired a sit-down with Santos, in which he testily apologized for at least some of his fabrications. He even vowed to never bend the truth again. If you can’t trust proven liars who refuse to resign from the job they got partly through fraudulence, who can you trust?
This March marks 22 years that F*cked Up have been a band — and they’re showing no signs of slowing down yet. With the release of their sixth (and shortest) album One Day, the band re-emerge with full force. Tracks like “Cicada” display the group’s more wistful side, while numbers like the ripper “Found” and slightly ska-influenced “I Think I Might Be Weird” bring all the energy long-time fans would expect.
To celebrate the album’s release, F*cked Up band member Sandy Miranda sat down with Uproxx to talk Green Day, Cocteau Twins, and where she thinks the nicest people are from in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Shapeshifting Melodic Punk Rock.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Any fashion of remembrance will do, and utter lack thereof is completely acceptable, too. That said, if we are remembered by folks in the future, I hope the idea that we acted with integrity every step of the way, both collectively and individually, will remain.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
I suppose I would have to say Barcelona because it is a beautiful city where we’ve had many great shows at various stages of our career: from a DIY hardcore gig in a darkened squat with walls dripping of sweat, to large high-ceiling and balconied venues going late into the night, to sunset sets with ocean views at Primavera Festival, arguably the best music festival in the world.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
This is a difficult question to answer because I’ve been doing “this” for around 27 years now (playing bass in punk bands), and in that time a number of folks have made an appearance in my inspiration train. But if I had to pick specific people, it would have to be my bandmates who continue to push me (and each other) to be better and do more.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
One of the best meals I had with the band at a show was probably in Marina Di Raveena in Italy in 2010. The entire table was filled with fresh seafood and other BBQ grilled mains, with various side dishes and wine.
What album do you know every word to?
If i’m being honest, Green Day’s Dookie. I was 15 when I first heard it and became obsessed. I’d spend hours meticulously recreating colour pencil drawings of their cover albums while listening to their music on cassette on repeat. And for fun, I’d type up the lyrics on a typewriter to print and add to my Green Day binder. It became a regular point of conversation with the high school counselor I was paired with following the divorce of my parents.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
I think “All Tomorrow’s Parties” Festival in Kutshers Country Resort in New York State in 2010 was the best weekend of shows I had ever been to (and also happened to perform at). The lineup included: Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Sleep, Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Boris and Sunn 0))), GZA, Raekwon, Girls, Mudhoney, Tortoise, Shellac, Vivian Girls, and Ice Cream Man was in attendance handing out treats, as well. 10/10, would do again.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
Just all black… anything. I don’t wanna be seen, I wanna be heard.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
I’ve stepped away from apps and social media these last few years and don’t really recommend their use. The only person I recommend that people follow is their true self.
What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?
The band is turning 22 years in March and haven’t listened to music together in the van in a long time. I think the last time we listened to an album on repeat in the van was in 2008-2009 with “Fix My Brain” by Marked Men.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
“Does using heat in an idling car use more fuel than idling alone.” The answer is: probably not.
What album makes for the perfect gift?
What makes a perfect gift has everything to do with the person you are buying it for, which makes this question difficult to answer. But if I had to pick one that could appeal to many people: Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
We had played a hardcore show in Columbus Ohio in 2004 and all slept in a punk house along with another band that had also played. The living room was full of old sofas and we all had to find any spot that we could for the night. No bedding, no pillows, no privacy, and you had to line up to use the washroom in the morning. I was able to snag a couch that was falling apart, using my purse as a pillow. It was a few more years before we could afford to get hotels. I am indebted to all the punk houses we stayed at in the past (and there were many!), but our aging bodies can’t handle rough sleep anymore.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
I actually don’t have any tattoos. There was a period of my life during my teen years when I did want them, but my immigrant mother (and single parent) was serious about cutting my skin off and disowning me if I did, so I didn’t bother, and by the time I left home, I had lost interest. Probably for the best that I never got that Good Riddance or Bouncing Souls tattoo in the late 90s.
What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?
I just listen to wfmu.org and never change the dial, ever. I don’t even listen to Spotify playlists, because my life playlist is basically WFMU, the best listener-funded radio station in the world!
What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Anytime anyone either helps us load our gear at our shows, or handles running the merch table for us, is a blessing to a touring band. We just played in Saskatoon, and let me tell you: people there are the nicest we have ever encountered in the world. They arranged volunteers to sell our merch; I had to convince them to let me leave them a handsome tip, at the very least, as I thanked them repeatedly.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Just do it! It does not have to be perfect! It doesn’t even have to be good! It will get better the more you do it. And then, if you keep it up, it will grow legs and take you places you’ve never been before. (This advice is incredibly difficult for me to follow, even to this day.)
What’s the last show you went to?
I used to go to shows a few times a week. These days, it’s more like a few shows a year (not including my own). The last show I went to as a patron was Kurt Vile at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto. He’s a friend that we toured with almost 15 years ago, so it was nice to catch up afterwards with him and the band.
What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?
This is probably embarrassing, but I’ll say it: The Sound of Music, which tends to air on TV around Christmas time.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
You’d never know it by looking at me, but I have extremely quick reflexes (I regularly catch things mid-fall). I somehow learned to be on high alert at all times.
Revivals and reboots have been all the rage for years now. Seems like any older show that continues to have any kind of traction has been frogmarched back into existence, even if it means doing so without certain busy cast members. Sometimes, though, it’s best to just leave the past alone. That’s what Seth Rogen thinks should be done with the show that introduced him to the world: Freaks and Geeks.
“I don’t think anyone would do it,” Rogen speculated, arguing against messing with what many believe is a perfect one-and-done season. “It’s so rare that you do something in your career that is actually just viewed as good.” He added, “I know enough now not to f— with that, to just let it be good and not try to go revisit it.”
Instead he wants people to “just let it exist.”
What would a Freaks and Geeks revival look like? The show, which ran for one season from 1999 to 2000, took place in 1980 through 1981. If they caught up with the gang some 23 years later, that would put them in the bleak-o-rama George W. Bush, which doesn’t sound so fun. Maybe Lindsey Weir (Linda Cardellini) would protest the Iraq War. Nick Andopolis (Jason Segel) could drum for an emo band. But looks like we’ll never know.
Besides, everyone’s moved on. One of the cast, John Francis Daley (Sam), is even co-directing a Dungeons & Dragons movie. Maybe its’ best to them be and just keep revisiting one of the great one-season wonders.
It’s really hard not to gush about how proud I am of JID and Smino after seeing them completely pack out the Hollywood Palladium two nights in a row for their joint Luv Is 4ever Tour. Four years ago, I was recapping JID’s tour for DiCaprio 2, complimenting him on the creative use of cardboard standees onstage. Tuesday night (January 31), the 32-year-old Atlanta native showed command of a stage and a crowd four times that size, with little aid at all.
Likewise, catching Smino at The Fonda that same year, just a couple of months later, I noted the contrast between the smooth St. Louisan and his peers. His throwback energy really pulled a resonant string in my elder millennial heart, bringing me back to a time when a fresh triple-XL white tee was all you needed to feel fly.
This time, as I took in the size of the capacity crowd from the balcony — a vantage point for which my knees were indescribably grateful — I was awed by the enthusiasm of the concertgoers. Sure, both rappers have picked up a wealth of new fans mainly through their efforts at similarly packed (and growing) festival sets, but their audiences aren’t really primarily composed of teens anymore, either.
So to see the delight with which these late-20-somethings bounced and rocked and waved and danced and moshed was heartening. I’ve been to a lot of shows, and I can tell you, as crowds get older (especially in LA, where folks are notoriously way too cool to dance), their ardor for physical reactions to artists’ onstage movements starts to fall precipitously.
All this is a testament to the performance prowess of the co-headliners, who both balanced their hour-long sets with selections from their respective 2022 albums, The 4ever Story and Luv 4 Rent, as well as fan favorites from across their catalogs. Even more impressive was the fact that plenty of the newer material elicited as exuberant a response from the audience as the established hits.
Smino’s set, which closed the show, was especially striking because you almost wouldn’t expect his slinky, laid-back beats to play like the rollicking big-band funk of a group like The Gap Band or The Time in a live setting. But they do, which is surprising considering the stripped-down nature of his band — just a keyboardist, his producer, Kal Banx, and a drummer.
Likewise, JID was joined onstage by Christo and a keyboardist of his own, who actually played a keytar at one point — and I’m all the way here for a resurgence of that particular instrument — as JID headbanged along. Even my increasingly creaky knees couldn’t resist putting in a few minutes of jack-in-the-box-style bouncing (which I’m currently paying for; it was worth it).
Naturally, there were guest stars galore. JID’s Spillage Village co-stars Earthgang joined him for a couple of songs, while Smino’s set was graced by BJ The Chicago Kid and Westside Boogie. I even spied a few other collaborators like Buddy and Wynne milling around taking in the show from the VIP section. But the surprise of the night was when JID introduced one of his best friends, who turned out to be rock-rapper Trippie Redd.
The crowd even had a warm reception for the duo’s opener, Atlanta native Swavay, whose finale included leaving the stage to lead a swirling maelstrom of a mosh pit. Usually, when a rapper cries “open it up,” I can’t help but roll my eyes a bit at the half-hearted attempts to clear space on the floor for some mischief. Swavay got it right.
The big takeaway from the success of the evening, though, is probably how it points to the way fanbases grow these days. As much as nearly everyone in the industry frowns at the pittances DSPs pay artists for their music, in the absence of a working touring infrastructure for the past two years, streaming not only sustained middle-class acts like JID and Smino, it grew their support. They might be middle class for much longer.
The long break between tours likely also gave fans a chance to miss these artists, making their returns feel more like an event. There’s something to that, I think; in this era where it seems the only pathway to success is oversaturating the marketplace, experience is telling us that a “less is more” approach might be just as effective — so long as the quality of the product remains high.
With JID and Smino, the quality was never really in doubt. When I saw both at those smaller venues all those years ago, I knew each was a star. Although they have different approaches — JID high-energy, Smino calm — they both exude charm and charisma and polished, carefully practiced skill (how they breathe as fast as they rap, I’ll forever wonder). That’s the reason fans always want more. I already can’t wait for them to come back.
Stormy Daniels is back in the news, for two reasons. For one, the Manhattan criminal investigation into Donald Trump allegedly authorizing hush money to be paid to her over their alleged affair is back on. The big guy ain’t happy about that — so unhappy that he wound up accidentally admitting that their affair, which Daniels says she did not enjoy, really did happen. So there’s that, and then there’s this: She also has a new gay dating show.
As per The Daily Beast, the Trump-Stormy news arrived right as OUTtv was set to air the maiden episode of For the Love of DILFs, a reality dating show with a pretty solid hook: It pairs five young “Himbos” with five older “DILFs.” Strapping, Red Bull-fueled partiers get to bop about a place called “DILF Mansion” with a bunch of set-in-their-ways older dudes. There are briefcases with underwear. And there’s its host saying things like, “I’m your host, Stormy Daniels, and I was brought here by Doctor DILF.”
It’s a novel concept but is it any good? The Daily Beast critic seems to think so:
At long last, some wicked genius has tapped into what reality dating shows have always needed: pure slapstick energy. Watching these men bungle around a mansion, getting into petty fights, and trying to pretend like they’ve arrived there for love and not hot orgiastic sex is so beyond enthralling that I was legitimately devastated when I finished the last of the three episodes provided for press.
Slapstick and someone who’s probably slept with a president? Sounds better than crusty old The Bachelor. New episodes of For the Love of DILFs drop on OUTtv every Tuesday.
As confirmed by the singer’s private Dubai concert and her epic Coachella performance in 2018, every Beyoncé concert setlist features a mixture of her most recent project with sprinkles of her past musical release. However, the tricky part is that the Ivy Park boss has been in the music industry since the tender age of 15. Beyoncé has a total of seven studios, three compilations, and five live albums to her name; before even adding her projects as part of the group Destiny’s Child, there are just too many tracks to choose from.
A great place to start is the Renaissance tracklist itself. The album has received praise for the way it was flawlessly sequenced. So, it is safe to say each of those tracks will be played live in the appearance in which they appear on the album in addition to a few fan-favorite songs, including “Naughty Girl,” “Drunk In Love,” “Diva,” and “Flawless,” with a mixture of songs she’s inspired by. Maybe a few Teena Marie songs as she is sampled throughout the album.
See the Renaissance tracklist below.
1. “I’m That Girl”
2. “Cozy”
3. “Alien Superstar”
4. “Cuff It”
5. “Energy”
6. “Break My Soul”
7. “Church Girl”
8. “Plastic Off The Sofa”
9. “Virgo’s Groove”
10. “Move”
11. “Heated”
12. “Thique”
13. “All Up In Your Mind”
14. “America Has A Problem”
15. “Pure/Honey”
The New York congressman has made headlines for all the wrong reasons recently as story after story emerged proving he falsified key details about his life and his campaign. So far, we’ve learned that Santos likely lied about where he went to college, his collegiate volleyball career, his Jewish heritage, his grandparents surviving the Holocaust, his mother surviving 9/11, his drag queen era in Brazil, stealing donations from a dying dog’s GoFundMe, and how his election campaign was financed.
It’s that last fib that’s gotten him in trouble with the DOJ and FEC, which might be the reason for his new stance on the value of integrity. Santos told One America News Network Tuesday that he plans to speak the truth and nothing but the truth from here on out.
“I’ve learned my lesson,” he said via New York Daily News. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything, everything is always going to be above board.”
Of course, he also had to add that pretty much everything he’s ever said was already “above board” but now it’s going to be looming so high there’ll be no need to question his moral compass. “It’s largely always been aboveboard,” he continued. “I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double-check, cross-reference everything.”
Ahhh yes, the old “double-check, cross-reference” whether your mother died when the Twin Towers fell. Who hasn’t had to go back and jog their memory about that before?
Santos’ newfound candor might not save him from federal probes into where his campaign received its finances last year — he’s made three different claims about where the hundreds of thousands of dollars in question originated — or get him off the hook for all of the previous tales he’s spun, but we’re sure that won’t stop him from hoping it will.
The past couple of weeks has been eventful for Britney Spears. Last week, she called out fans who contacted police to perform a wellness check on the former pop star after she deleted her Instagram; after confirming on Twitter that she’s “alive and well,” she chastised the unknown persons who called the police, saying they weren’t “real fans.”
This week, she directed her ire toward actor Alyssa Milano after Milano tweeted “someone please go check on Britney Spears” over the holidays. “This definitely feels like a form of bullying,” Spears shot back on Instagram last night. “Ladies, we are supposed to be rooting for one another not pulling one another down!”
(For what it’s worth, she’s right; this form of bullying is called “concern trolling.” A prime example would be the people who make fatphobic comments about Lizzo under the guise of “concern” for her health, when it’s fairly clear that she’s in better health than most of her critics.)
Now, according to TMZ, Milano hopes to make amends, reaching out privately to apologize today.
Spears’ fans, many of whom argued against her conservatorship, which they saw as unfair, clearly need to get their story straight; either she’s of sound mind and doesn’t need to be watched over like a hawk, or they actually do agree with her father that she’s mentally and emotionally incapable of taking care of herself. Right now, it seems as though they want it both ways, but you can’t eat your cake and keep it too.
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