The Met Gala is fashion’s biggest night, but with so many stars attending, conversations about music are bound to come up. Though the evening is dedicated in memory of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, the press couldn’t let Phoebe Bridgers go without asking the “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend” singer a few things about her work or at least dream release.
When asked if she’s working on new solo music, Bridgers was coy, saying, “I hope so.” Since she’s part of Boygenius, the musician is covered on the front as their new album, The Record, which just recently dropped.
Quickly after her response, the journalist followed up by asking her who she’s working with, but rephrased the question to ask who is her dream musical collaboration.
At first, Bridgers shot down the question, responding, “Nothing.” However, after giving it some thought, Bridgers, blurted out, “Bob Dylan.” As for which song she had in mind if they were to her record together, Bridgers said, “Shallow,” presumably referring to Lady Gaga’s Academy Award-winning song featuring Bradley Cooper.
Dylan’s artistry has served as an inspiration to countless musicians. It’s even being used as the focal point of a forthcoming film starring Chloe Bailey.
David Byrne’s love for bicycles has been well-documented. The “Strange Overtones” musician is regularly spotted around New York City on his bike. He even did it when arriving at this year’s Met Gala. Despite wearing an all-white formal tuxedo, Byrne didn’t mind risking his sleek look on fashion’s biggest night.
Back in 2009, Byrne spoke with NPR about biking around New York. “I ride my bike almost every day here in New York,” he said. “It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.”
In his book, Bicycle Diaries, released the same year, he jokingly described biking as, “faster than a walk, slower than a train, and slightly higher than a person.”
His cycling skills didn’t stop on the Met carpet. In the trailer for A24’s re-release of the classic Talking Heads concert doc Stop Making Sense, Byrne is seen biking around the city as well.
The evening is themed Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty, after the late famed designer. While most celebrities and fashion powerhouses will be arriving and leaving via a luxury car service, Bryne surely beat traffic with his environmentally friendly mode of transportation.
Sometimes the best cure for a bad day is a good surprise.
Just ask Abbie Cashman, a woman in Ireland whose entire day was completely turned around the minute she began feeding a pet crow from the window of her taxi. Cause why not?
In an interview with Today, Cashman shared that after discovering she had a flat tire while at work, the planets seemed to align so that getting home was impossible. No taxi would take her. The bus was full. Luck did not seem to be on her side.
Cashman made one last attempt to book a taxi through a rideshare app. Finally, someone was able to pick her up.
Little did she know that the taxi driver would not only get her home, but also introduce her to a special winged friend to lift her spirits.
The video below shows Cashman yelling “OH MY GOD…is that actually your crow?” in utter shock as the bird buzzes about her window.
The taxi driver clarifies that the crow is more of a companion than a pet, saying that it knows to follow him around for treats.
He then prompts Cashman’s open her window and reach out to her with a snack to feed it. As she does, she can’t contain her delighted squeals. Especially once the crow swoops in for a nibble.
This brief encounter turned Cashman’s day from “literal hell” to something so delightful that she couldn’t help but share the experience on TikTok. Clearly, she wasn’t the only one who appreciated the unexpected moment. The clip has now amassed over 4 million views, with oodles of comments from people expressing their glee.
“This is a story NOBODY would have believed if it wasn’t for this video,” one person wrote. “Pure class. Your laugh is pure joy.”
Another added, “This is simultaneously the most chaotic and the best thing I’ve ever seen.
As for the taxi driver…folks are calling for him to have six stars. immediately.
Perhaps this interaction shouldn’t come at that much of a surprise. After all, crows are notoriously clever birds who like to collaborate with humans. They’re known to recognize faces (hence why this crow was able to follow the taxi driver), they’re quite loyal and have been trained to do extraordinary things.
Still, certainly no one would hop into a cab thinking they’d get to feed one on the way home. We all need a bit of astonishment infused into our day, especially on the cruddy ones. Very cool that Cashman got the perfect dash of magic to brighten her day…and that the internet exists, so we nac enjoy it too.
There are those people who like certain franchises and those that would literally design their entire house around their particular fandom. It’s a fine balance between loving something and it becoming part of who you are as a person but for some, they’re totally cool with everything being Harry Potter. I may or may not have tried to convince my husband we needed an Avengers bedroom set. In my defense, they make them up to king size, so clearly they’re for grown ups.
If you’re one of those people like myself that has a borderline unhealthy love for all things Marvel, then you will be in for a treat and quite possibly a new wedding DJ. Dimitri Beauchamp has been mixing up tunes for wedding receptions and posting short clips on TikTok. But it’s not just regular dance music, Beauchamp mixes in people’s favorite franchise theme songs making the hits even more epic.
In a video posted in February, Beauchamp mixed the “Star Wars Imperial March” with the old school hiphop song, “Hiphop Hooray” by Naughty by Nature and “This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan. The video garnered over 1.3 Million likes but his jams don’t stop there.
I mean, I would like this mix😂 #starwars #starwarsedit #thisishowwedoit #oldschool
The DJ has a mix for just about every fandom you can think of, from “Fairly Odd Parents” to “The Mandalorian.” Of course, my personal favorite is his mix of “The Avengers” but there’s something for everybody and he tailors his mixes to the bride and groom.
Replying to @starwars If you just pictured Pedro Pascal dancing to this, you’re welcome #themandalorian #themandalorianedit #starwars #stankyleg #wedding
The videos Beauchamp posts aren’t from actual weddings. He uses his kitchen bar as a DJ stand and takes on the role of the DJ and wedding goer for his skits. But the short one minute or less clips aren’t enough for people that visit his page. Beauchamp has his some of his mixes available for download on Sound Cloud, so you can blast your favorite mix on your way to work.
Sylvester Stallone is no stranger to dusting off old characters. He keeps bringing John Rambo back. He swore he was done with Rocky Balboa, but we’ll see about that. One film he’s never done any sequels to is Cliffhanger, his rock-climbing thriller where he dukes it out with an English-accented John Lithgow. That all changes now with word that he’s doing a “reboot” that just sounds like one of those belated sequels.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Stallone will return, for the first time in 30 years, as Gabe Walker, professional mountain climber and rescue ranger. They’re calling it a reboot, but a reboot implies that the new one is essentially starting from scratch. But unless it ignores the events of the first movie, then it’s really a sequel. But who knows? Maybe this really is a reboot that just happens to feature the same character/star from the original, and they’ll never talk about that time Gabe had to fight criminals.
A Cliffhanger sequel has been in development for a while. At one point it was to be helmed by A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour. She remains on as an executive producer, but now it will be directed by Ric Roman Waugh, of Angel Has Fallen and Greenland, with a script by Hunters writer Mark Bianculli.
The 1993 Cliffhanger found Stallone’s climber/rescuer, still reeling from losing someone on the job, battling a gang of thieves in the Colorado Rockies. It was a decent hit, though not big enough that Stallone kept returning to the role like he has with other characters. Or maybe he decided doing mountain climbing stunts was not something he wanted to do that often.
As you may well know, the DCEU is undergoing a dramatic makeover. James Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Films a few months ago, but a lot remains unclear. Will Jason Momoa still be playing Aquaman? Are we really never seeing Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman again? We do know one thing: Gunn is doing his own Superman film. We also now know that just because he’s doing a Man of Steel movie, that doesn’t mean another one that was announced a couple years back is being deep-sixed.
Gunn spoke with Gizmodo’s io9, who asked him about the Superman film that was being produced by J.J. Abrams and written by acclaimed journalist and comics writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. Gunn had some good news.
“Those two things are totally unrelated,” Gunn said. “That’s an exciting movie. I know that Chantal Nong, who is the executive on that project, is extremely excited about it. So if it comes in and it’s great, which I haven’t read the script, and if the timing is right, that could absolutely happen. That’s totally unrelated. It would be an Elseworlds tale like Joker.”
Not much is known about the Coates/Abrams Superman film, though one rumor was that it revolved around a Black Superman and was set in the 1900s. DC already has its share of “Elseworlds” films, including two separate franchises about Batman and the Joker (with the former having its own Joker). Who knows when they’ll get around to this new one, but Gunn expressing excitement suggests it has a chance of actually getting made.
The 2023 Met Gala red carpet is underway, and as usual, the annual event’s guestlist boasts a who’s-who of the music world. Recording artists who’ve attended in the past include Billie Eilish, who joked last year that her favorite part of attending is “judging” everyone’s looks, Cardi B, who often steals the show, even when she isn’t even trying to, Phoebe Bridger, whose 2022 look dropped jaws, even if it wasn’t what fans thought, Nicki Minaj, and Lizzo, who played a one-of-a-kind, $55,000 flute on the red carpet.
This year’s theme is intended to honor the late Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019 at the age of 85. Lagerfeld was a vaunted — and controversial — figure in the fashion world, known for guiding the creative directions of fashion houses like Chanel and Fendi and for wearing the kind of collars that would make Joe Pesci’s character in Goodfellas jealous. With fans already looking forward to seeing how their favorite stars choose to interpret the theme and reflecting back on prior looks running the gamut of everything from camp to religious irreverence, excitement on social media is high.
You can follow along with on Vogue‘s live stream and check out the best music looks, which we’ll be highlighting, here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Parenting is a hard gig regardless of whether you planned to have children or they were a happy surprise. As many parenting books as there are out there, none of them have the perfect equation to get it right and most parents do the best with what they learned, or unlearned, from their own parents.
Samantha, a parenting content creator on TikTok under the name Raising Self, has been working hard to overcome generational trauma and parent her children differently. Recently she was doing a live video to interact with her followers when one of her children made a stunning revelation: he was scared of her.
You could tell by her expression that his confession was a surprise, and though her son barely took his eyes off the video game he was playing, the two had a very meaningful dialogue. Instead of being upset or even happy that her child was fearful, she responded with curiosity.
Some people believe that children should be fearful of their parents in order to respect them, but the exchange Samantha had with her son turned that thought process on its head. He started off the conversation by saying, “I know this might be a little shocking but I do sometimes actually find you a little scary.” When Samantha probed him a little she found that what’s causing him to be fearful is when her “grandma instincts come out,” referring to a generational pattern that his mother has been trying hard not to repeat.
Samantha didn’t hesitate with her response: “Yeah, I did not know that. I’m sorry that you’re experiencing that.” She continued, “When it’s happening, please call it out. Cause that allows me to understand what behaviors I’m not doing a good job mitigating.” Even though she was shocked, the conversation didn’t end there. It’s a beautiful exchange that can guide other parents on how to navigate these types of conversations.
Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the “overview effect.” This change occurs when people see the world from far above and notice that it’s a place where “borders are invisible, where racial, religious and economic strife are nowhere to be seen.”
The overview effect makes man’s squabbles with one another seem incredibly petty and presents the planet as it truly is, one interconnected organism.
In a compelling interview with Big Think, astronaut, author and humanitarian Ron Garan explains how if more of us developed this planetary perspective we could fix much of what ails humanity and the planet.
Garan has spent 178 days in space and traveled more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits. From high above, he realized that the planet is a lot more fragile than he thought.
“When I looked out the window of the International Space Station, I saw the paparazzi-like flashes of lightning storms, I saw dancing curtains of auroras that seemed so close it was as if we could reach out and touch them. And I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet’s atmosphere. In that moment, I was hit with the sobering realization that that paper-thin layer keeps every living thing on our planet alive,” Garan said in the video.
“I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life,” he continues. “I didn’t see the economy. But since our human-made systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it’s obvious from the vantage point of space that we’re living a lie.”
It was at that moment he realized that humanity needs to reevaluate its priorities.
“We need to move from thinking economy, society, planet to planet, society, economy. That’s when we’re going to continue our evolutionary process,” he added.
Garan says that we are paying a very “high price” as a civilization for our inability to develop a more planetary perspective and that it’s a big reason why we’re failing to solve many of our problems. Even though our economic activity may improve quality of life on one end, it’s also disasterous for the planet that sustains our lives.
It’s like cutting off our nose to spite our face.
Actor William Shatner had a similar experience to Garan’s when he traveled into space.
“It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered,” Shatner wrote. “The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind.”
“We’re not going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality,” Garan said.
However dire the situation looks from the surface of Earth, the astronaut has hope that we can collectively evolve in consciousness and wake up and embrace a larger reality. “And when we can evolve beyond a two-dimensional us versus them mindset, and embrace the true multi-dimensional reality of the universe that we live in, that’s when we’re going to no longer be floating in darkness … and it’s a future that we would all want to be a part of. That’s our true calling.”
One of NBA Twitter’s favorite pastimes is finding old tweets from NBA players from before they were in the league or before Twitter was a real thing. There are some incredibly entertaining posts from young players before they became walking and talking brands on social media, with Kevin Durant having the most eclectic backlog of tweets of anyone — from Scarlett Johansson’s bathwater to watching the History Channel in the club.
However, there are few NBA player tweets that are as legendary as Terry Rozier wondering aloud why Osama bin Laden decided to be a terrorist instead of hooping because, as Rozier put it (one assumes after seeing a photo), bin Laden was “tall as hell.” Every year on May 1, that tweet from 2011 resurfaces on the anniversary of Rozier pressing send, but on this particular May 1, Rozier saw all of the sudden flurry of activity in his notifications tab and decided to join in the fun.
As Rozier notes, he has no idea what he was doing at the time or why this thought popped into his head, but notes he was “dead ass curious.”
Don’t know where I was or what I was doin when I tweeted this but happy anniversary..I was dead ass curious
Whatever high school Terry was doing at the time, his curiosity created an all-time NBA tweet, years before he ever even got to the league.
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