At 75, Arnold Schwarzenegger is thinking about the big questions of life. He opened up about his thoughts on the afterlife in a conversation with his “Twins” co-star Danny DeVito for Interview Magazine.
Devito asked “The Terminator” star, “What’s in the future for us?” and he gave a thoughtful answer to a question that philosophers, scientists and religious leaders have grappled with since the dawn of humanity.
“It reminds me of Howard Stern’s question to me. ‘Tell me, governor, what happens to us when we die?’ I said, ‘Nothing. You’re 6 feet under,’” he told DeVito.
“I said, ‘We don’t know what happens with the soul and all this spiritual stuff that I’m not an expert in, but I know that the body as we see each other now, we will never see each other again like that,'” continued Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger admitted that he’s not comfortable with the topic of death but thinks the notion of a heaven is a “fantasy.”
“When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” he said.
Instead, the bodybuilder has created his own concept of heaven.
“To me, heaven is where I put a person who I love dearly, who is kind, who is generous, who made a difference in my life and other people’s lives,” he said. “I keep them in a spot in my head, like that front row that you have of all of your friends. And you always have a good feeling when you think of them.”
There are far-reaching implications for all of humanity if there is no afterlife. But on a personal level, Schwarzenegger’s belief suggests that if we only have a short time on this Earth with one another, and we shouldn’t take it for granted. Plus, the day-to-day relationships we enjoy with our loved ones lose their significance when they are played out in a timeframe that extends throughout eternity.
The finite nature of relationships is why we love our pets so dearly. The moment they enter our lives, we are burdened by the knowledge that they will one day leave. So we savor every cuddle, game of fetch and long walk on a spring day.
On a deeper level, every day beneath a bright, glowing sun matters more with the understanding that this is the only life we get and no paradise awaits on the other side. It suggests that if all of humanity shared Schwarzenegger’s view of things, we’d be more invested in making life better in the here and now versus waiting for something better around the corner. Imagine the paradigm shift if billions of people stopped waiting for their treasures in heaven and instead, began embracing the possibilities of the here and now.
With this perspective and some work, love and courage, humanity could make this world a touch closer to the paradise we pray for on the other side. And if when we die, there is a heaven, all the better.
At 75, Arnold Schwarzenegger is thinking about the big questions of life. He opened up about his thoughts on the afterlife in a conversation with his “Twins” co-star Danny DeVito for Interview Magazine.
Devito asked “The Terminator” star, “What’s in the future for us?” and he gave a thoughtful answer to a question that philosophers, scientists and religious leaders have grappled with since the dawn of humanity.
“It reminds me of Howard Stern’s question to me. ‘Tell me, governor, what happens to us when we die?’ I said, ‘Nothing. You’re 6 feet under,’” he told DeVito.
“I said, ‘We don’t know what happens with the soul and all this spiritual stuff that I’m not an expert in, but I know that the body as we see each other now, we will never see each other again like that,'” continued Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger admitted that he’s not comfortable with the topic of death but thinks the notion of a heaven is a “fantasy.”
“When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” he said.
Instead, the bodybuilder has created his own concept of heaven.
“To me, heaven is where I put a person who I love dearly, who is kind, who is generous, who made a difference in my life and other people’s lives,” he said. “I keep them in a spot in my head, like that front row that you have of all of your friends. And you always have a good feeling when you think of them.”
There are far-reaching implications for all of humanity if there is no afterlife. But on a personal level, Schwarzenegger’s belief suggests that if we only have a short time on this Earth with one another, and we shouldn’t take it for granted. Plus, the day-to-day relationships we enjoy with our loved ones lose their significance when they are played out in a timeframe that extends throughout eternity.
The finite nature of relationships is why we love our pets so dearly. The moment they enter our lives, we are burdened by the knowledge that they will one day leave. So we savor every cuddle, game of fetch and long walk on a spring day.
On a deeper level, every day beneath a bright, glowing sun matters more with the understanding that this is the only life we get and no paradise awaits on the other side. It suggests that if all of humanity shared Schwarzenegger’s view of things, we’d be more invested in making life better in the here and now versus waiting for something better around the corner. Imagine the paradigm shift if billions of people stopped waiting for their treasures in heaven and instead, began embracing the possibilities of the here and now.
With this perspective and some work, love and courage, humanity could make this world a touch closer to the paradise we pray for on the other side. And if when we die, there is a heaven, all the better.
Once women reach a certain age, society does something weird. It starts sending messages that you’re simply too old to dress as if you have a social life. In general, it seemed as if society had been moving away from those unrealistic expectations laid upon moms and women over the age of 35, but maybe not.
Jessica Buwick, a mom on TikTok, found out fairly quickly that people still have interesting ideas about how “old people” should dress when going out in public. The 37-year-old mom ordered a plethora of outfits to try on to wear for her son’s graduation, prompted by her seeing other moms on social media dressing much more fancy for graduations than parents did when she graduated.
It was a silly, lighthearted video showing her trying on all of the outfits that did not make the cut for various reasons. One was too short and didn’t zip. Another was ill-fitting and confusing. They were obvious catastrophes that just didn’t work, so she made the misfortune into funny content. And people had a lot to say.
Many people laughed along, while others took the opportunity to take jabs at the mom’s fashion choices.
One commenter decided to point her in the right direction by commenting, “Maybe YOU should have shopped in an age-appropriate section of the store so you don’t look like a SKANK in your clothing, thereby humiliating your poor son.”
Yikes, that was a bit harsh and sadly a common theme as multiple people pointed out how she was going to embarrass her son.
But instead of letting the haters get to her, she decided to follow up with a video of more “appropriate” outfits for an elderly mother to wear while attending her child’s graduation.
“Apparently I triggered a whole demographic of y’all when I shared my dress options for my son’s high school graduation. A lot of you were horrified with my choices,” Buwick continued. “Apparently they were not appropriate for a high school graduation nor for someone of my age…37.”
Clearly, the mom received the message and proved it by donning a floor-length gown with long sleeves to make sure minimal skin was showing. In another outfit that gave off Julie Andrews vibes, she burst into song to complete the look, though she nixed that dress because the sleeve was slightly sheer. The outfit she settled on at the end was clearly more the speed she thought the commenters were expecting.
Thank you for coming #graudation #graduationdresses #formaldresses
She took the comments in stride and made others laugh while doing so. Her son’s graduation had already passed, and in a follow-up video she showed the outfit she decided to go with—a cute pair of dress shorts, a tank top and a brightly colored blazer. While I’m sure someone will disagree with that outfit choice as well, Buwick seems to have found a perfectly hilarious way to handle the negativity.
In the first of a two-game series that served as a rematch of the 2022 WNBA Finals, the Las Vegas Aces took home the W over the Connecticut Sun and continued their undefeated start to the season.
They’re still figuring out how to best implement Candace Parker into the offense and Kelsey Plum is in a shooting slump from deep. Riquna Williams, a vital part of last season’s title team, has yet to play this season. The Aces have gone through a few turbulent quarters of late while parsing through some of the growing pains of making major changes, and despite all of that, they’re still undefeated.
Vegas has the best offense in the league. It has the best defense in the league. It has the best net rating in the league. While it’s early in the season and the sample size is small, it’s been clear both in watching this team play and in parsing the numbers that the reigning champs are the best squad in the W.
“We’re not playing our best basketball offensively yet, and we’re scoring 90 points on off nights,” Becky Hammon said after the win over Connecticut.
Las Vegas felt borderline unstoppable much of last season, and with its roster additions and internal growth, it found a way to get even better. The ultimate wrinkle showed up in the waning minutes against the Sun, as the Aces went small, subbing in veteran wing Alysha Clark alongside the starters for Parker. For reference, in 24 minutes of play this season, that 5-player lineup — Clark, Plum, Chelsea Gray, A’ja Wilson, Jackie Young — has a remarkably high 115.1 offensive rating.
Let’s look at the team’s final halfcourt possession against Connecticut, which is a glimpse into why Vegas is so hard to stop.
Off a dead ball, the Aces set a pin-down for Plum to get the ball above the arc and Clark wheels out to the corner with Wilson and Gray set up in the far corner. The defense is occupied on the weak side — Plum has the ball and is a dynamite downhill creator, Young can attack and drive and is shooting 51.7 percent from deep on high volume, and Clark is a career 39 percent three-point shooter.
Wilson sells like she’s going to set a screen for Gray, but the duo flip the action given how it’s covered, and Wilson catches the ball and rips. Gray is getting denied the screen, and the Aces use that to their advantage as Gray drags her defender further into the paint and Brionna Jones jumps out to guard Wilson on the perimeter. Gray doesn’t “screen” Jones, but given the angle she moved her defender into, it does the same thing, forcing the switch from DiJonai Carrington, who is a solid defender but a definite mismatch for Wilson.
On the surface, this possession looks simple, and to be fair, it is a relatively simple play. But it highlights just how impressive the Aces are. After struggling mightily to contain a second half run as the Sun and Bec Allen opened the floodgates from three, the Aces spread the floor to the max for Wilson to get to work.
Jones can’t help off of Gray, because Wilson can make that read and kick one pass away to one of the best shooters in league history. By virtue of playing out of the empty corner, this takes Alyssa Thomas out of the action entirely, as the Sun had employed Thomas on Clark to help into the lane or switch when she set screens.
Carrington did an admirable job, but at the end of the day, this is A’ja Wilson, the two-time MVP and arguably the best face-up scorer in the league. The Aces have the personnel, the intentionality in scheme, and the aptitude to routinely get her into single coverage, and watching it play out is an incredible thing.
“It’s something that we don’t really practice, but it’s there,” Wilson said after the game. “It’s always good to have that in our back pocket, because you kind of look at it as how do you guard it, and we have those communication points, especially Chelsea and I, where it’s like, hey, if something happens, we have multiple things we can get out of it, and that’s the beautiful thing about it: I trust Chelsea’s decisions and she trusts mine and we just go with the flow.”
The situation went south during a panel discussion on Chris Christie and Mike Pence entering the 2024 presidential race. Since Griffin had experience working in Donald Trump’s White House, Hostin made it a point to note that relationship, and that’s when the segment went off the rails.
“What scares me, Alyssa, is that you are incapable of defending a man that you worked for, that you’ve known of,” Hostin said prompting Griffin to get angry that Hostin wasn’t asking her a direct question. In response, Hostin proceeded to read off a list of reasons why Pence isn’t fit to be president as Griffin tried to speak over her before finally getting in a shot.
“I mean, you defended Cornel West yesterday, who will destroy our country, so,” Farah Griffin interjected.
To that, Behar scolded Alyssa, telling her “don’t make this personal,” prompting Griffin to shoot back that “Sunny likes to make it personal with me.” Still, Hostin pushed on, speaking over both Griffin and Behar, refusing interruption, which Alyssa angrily called “absurd.”
“This is not what the show’s about!” she said. “This is Barbara Walters’ legacy, let a woman speak.”
At that point, Whoopi had enough. The head co-host promptly shut things down by throwing to commercial while lecturing Hostin and Griffin to get it together.
“I feel like I need to go break right now,” Goldberg said to the producers off-camera. “Because I can’t hear anybody saying anything. Maybe we just need to figure out how we do this again. Let’s have this break, and let’s figure out how we’re going to make this work.”
For the first time in the history of the franchise, the cover athlete for the upcoming Madden game plays for the Buffalo Bills. It was announced on Wednesday morning that Josh Allen, the franchise’s Pro Bowl signal caller, will be the cover athlete for Madden NFL 24, and it’s an honor that he calls “surreal.”
“Madden is so iconic in itself, it is football culture,” Allen told Uproxx Sports over Zoom. “I’ve said this, I don’t know how many times, but I literally learned the game playing Madden as a kid — the rules, the penalties, coverages and concepts. So, I always felt like, as a kid, I felt like I had a step up playing Pop Warner because I know what they’re doing in Madden.”
A lifelong fan of the game, Allen still enjoys firing up Madden and seeing concepts that he runs during games. Of course, we’re still a bit of a way away from Allen leading the Buffalo offense onto the field for games this year, as the team is currently in the midst of Organized Team Activities with all eyes on winning the first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
Earlier this week, we sat down with Allen to discuss Madden, how it’s helped him become the quarterback he is today, how things are going in the team’s lead-up to the 2023 NFL season, and much more.
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You’re on the cover of Madden. How’s it feel?
It’s a surreal feeling, and I can’t thank EA and Madden enough for allowing me to be on the cover of Madden 24. For it to be the year after John Madden [passed], it is so, so humbling, and it’s such a big honor for me to be able to, like I said, be on the cover after such an icon of the game. Madden is so iconic in itself, it is football culture. I’ve said this, I don’t know how many times, but I literally learned the game playing Madden as a kid — the rules, the penalties, coverages and concepts.
So, I always felt like, as a kid, I felt like I had a step up playing Pop Warner because I know what they’re doing in Madden — like, this is cover three, they’re trying to do cover two here. I literally learned the game of football by playing Madden. So it’s so cool now, I’ve got so many fond memories of playing my brother, my dad growing up, and all my friends growing up, Madden was my game. So, to now be on the cover, and to understand where I was at not too long ago, zero offers out of high school and junior college, and now to be on the cover of Madden and following some great footsteps like Drew Brees and Tom Brady and some other really cool guys that have graced the cover. So, it’s a special, special moment for me.
You mentioned playing growing up — was there a team that you always used? Were there players that you always tried to use? How’d that work?
Yeah, so I grew up a 49ers fan. I typically tried to play with them. Unfortunately, when I was at that age, they weren’t super good all the time. So, I used Green Bay quite a bit because of Brett Favre, and there was a few other teams that I would mess with, but I tried to play with the Niners as much as possible. I was telling a story earlier that Ken Dorsey is our offensive coordinator here. When I would pick the 49ers, I forgot what year it was of Madden, but I’d always go in and put him in, because his speed rating was way higher than whoever the starter was at the time. I had to tell him that when I saw him.
You mentioned it, but is it still something to this day where you’ll play Madden and you feel like it helps you … maybe now that you have a bit more of a mastery than middle school Josh, it helps you maybe sharpen things like recognizing coverages, stuff like that?
I absolutely think so. And I think there’s so many concepts that Madden has that I actually run in real games. To sit there and like, I’m watching film — you know what? Let’s play some film. I want to go out there and I can actually do it without actually doing it. And I definitely think there’s a lot of application from the game to the field. And I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it is the most realistic experience you can get to actually playing in the NFL.
You’re the first Bills player to be on the cover of Madden, and I feel like “the first Bills player to do this,” or “the Bills record holder for this” is getting to be a little common with you. Does that feeling of being the first Bill to ever do something stop being cool?
I think it’s more of an important recognition for the organization and the city that’s contributed so much to football, and I think that this community has been starving for one Lombardi Trophy for a long time. And that’s what my goal is, to bring a Lombardi Trophy back to Bills Mafia and Western New York. But you know, I think they’re going to enjoy the cover, I think they’re going to enjoy to have some bragging rights across the league. I was telling someone earlier, something came up, there’s gonna be 31 teams that hate this, right? If there wasn’t, that’s a problem. The only ones that matter is Bills Mafia, to me, and if 31 other teams didn’t kind of hate me a little bit, or at least have a little bit of hatred towards me, I think that’d be a problem. So, I’m fine with it, it’s the world that we live in, the occupation I picked, so, gotta live with it. But as long as Bills Mafia is happy with me and they get to enjoy this with me, it’s all good.
Let’s talk a little bit of ball. Generally, how’s the offseason gone so far?
Offseason has been great, we’re getting after it here during our phase one, two, and we’re now in phase three of OTAs, where it’s actually going on the field to throw the ball around a little bit to some of our guys. We’re just out here working, and some of the new guys that we’ve added, it’s good to get to see their body language and throw with them, know them on a deeper level and just develop that camaraderie and trust that you need to have in a team. So yeah, it’s been going good, a lot of stuff to work on, though — obviously, by no means are we where we want to be and we’re striving to find a way to get the job done, and like I said, bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Western New York. That’s all our team wants to do.
So there have been a couple of quotes that I’ve seen from your coaches that I’d love to ask you about. The first one is from coach McDermott, who said “I’ve seen a different Josh this offseason, he’s got a new sense of focus and determination.” That new sense of focus and determination that a guy who would recognize that by now, where does that come from?
I think as you get older in this league — I’m going into my sixth year now. Understanding what this league is, it’s hard to win in this league, sometimes it takes a little bit of luck, but you earn it now, you earn it in the offseason, you earn winning games by your preparation and coming to OTAs and learning new teammates and developing that camaraderie, like I said earlier.
I don’t want to allow myself to have anything to hang my hat on, like I should have been doing this more, I could have watched more film, I could have thrown more with my receivers. So, I want to allow myself to exhaust every option, that when push comes to shove, I have literally done everything I could do to put myself in the best situation possible and I’m ready for the moment. Hopefully the guys on the team can see me be me, and they can try to match me, and I think the leadership aspects of what I’m trying to do this year is a little bit different, too. And again, leaning on our other leaders and in our locker room and our coaching staff, like coach McDermott. I’m just trying to be the best quarterback that I can be for this Bills team.
Kind of going off of that, coach Dorsey had a quote about how the offense is in the process of growing what our true identity is. So as the guy who’s lining up under center, how would you define the true identity of the Buffalo Bills’ offense?
Well, I think that’s still to be seen. We’re working on different things, and obviously, we’ve got quite a few new faces on our offense this year. And, again, it’s going to take some time to put the right pieces in the right spots to make plays for us. But again, that’s our goal, is to put our guys [in position] to have as much success as they can and put them in positions where they’re gonna succeed. That’s what we’re trying to do, we’re figuring that out right now in OTAs. There’s gonna be stuff that we run in OTAs that we may never run throughout the season, there gonna be some stuff that we don’t run yet, that we’re going to find out — it’s a copycat league, if there’s one team doing something that’s really good that we can apply that to ourselves, and we can learn from it and use it, that’s what we’ll do, too. So, just try new things and just kind of throwing things at the wall right now and see what sticks, and we’re gonna go from there.
I think I found that so interesting because you guys are consistently one of, if not the best offense in the NFL. So in your eyes, is growing an identity a matter of doing something consistently? Is it a matter of having new wrinkles? Is it a matter of going, “this is our system, we’re going to trust it?”
You alluded to it earlier, we’re consistently one of the better ranking offenses in the league. So you don’t want to, you know, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? So, just find new ways to, again, put our guys in positions to be successful — whether that’s bringing a guy inside or outside or lining them up in certain different spots, that’s our coaching staff, and they’re going to figure that out. And it’s my job to be an extension of coach Dorsey and try to do what he’s wanting me to do on each and every play while he’s sitting up in the box calling these plays.
And then my last question, a lot of my closest friends are Bills fans, and I always find it striking how they want you specifically to be the guy who takes this franchise to the mountaintop. How does it inspire you, motivate you, etc. knowing you have an entire city putting its faith in you to get them to this thing that most of these people have wanted their entire life?
I think that’s why I love playing here in Buffalo so much and I can relate to the fan so much, because they care about football almost as much as I care about football. And knowing that, I so badly, that’s all I want to do is bring a Lombardi Trophy back to Western New York. I dream about the day that we get to have this parade and it’s gonna be something special. So again, we gotta get there first. There’s no added pressure from the outside that I haven’t already put on myself, I’m so internally motivated, and I know our team is as well. So, we’re gonna continue to work hard and then try to find a way to get it done.
Azealia Banks has made waves for yet another social media post some fans are calling truly unhinged for its treatment of the recent death of Wild ‘N Out star Jacky Oh. Banks posted the message on her recently restored Instagram Story this week, addressing Oh’s death while excoriating Oh’s surviving partner and co-star DC Young Fly.
“DC Young Fly spent years disguising his own deeply rooted hatred of self as jokes pointed at women’s beauty,” she wrote. “Projecting his own feelings about his own ugliness unto women perfectly secure in their own skin. Say what you want about my tears. They were pure tears of rage. And not at all a sign of weakness. Because in the end. I won. I’m happy I cried and moved on. That Jackie o girl must have been as deeply insecure about herself.”
Banks made matters on the next slide, seemingly positing that Oh’s death was the result of DC Young Fly’s own bad karma. “Dead at 32 exactly on my 32nd birthday, May 31st, 2023 in Miami, FL,” she wrote. “You n***** are going to learn to stop f*cking with me.” Given speculation online that Oh died due to complications from cosmetic surgery, the unspoken barbs in Banks’ comments are that DC Young Fly’s comments about women’s looks made Oh insecure enough to undergo the risky procedure in the first place.
Azealia Banks made a message to dc young fly & his family…. like this was so not needed. That lady has babies and this is not some type of karma ritual pic.twitter.com/4p3Prwd3LU
Fans aren’t happy about Banks’ post, with one observer declaring that they were “disgusted” and cited Banks taking DC’s jokes on Wild ‘N Out — a show infamous for its insult humor — personally for years after he made them.
I’m so disgusted at what Azealia Banks said about Jacky’s passing , YOU TOOK IT PERSONAL THAT DC clowned you on Wild N Out when you knew what that show was about !! This lady has no soul and is very sad ! God don’t play about his children HE NEVER DID !! My love and prayers still…
Another expressed a wish for DC and his co-stars to roast Banks again. Another simply called Banks a “demon.” One more pointed out “what she said wasn’t nowhere near cool.” See more responses below.
imma need the Wild n Out cast to roast Azealia Banks the way they did Spoken Reasons. i need them to REALLY make this woman cry because enough is enough https://t.co/7DXtgSgZUP
Azealia Banks has never been a good person and every year y’all have the surprised pikachu face when she says/does some off the wall shit. Her music not even tough enough to go up for her
— (nigga magic) AYEGEE (@Stay_Sarkastic) June 7, 2023
Banks recently went viral for calling out Matty Healy in the wake of rumors he was dating Taylor Swift. The “couple” has since reportedly broken up.
The best part about being an actor is (probably) learning that your peers also love your work. Making money and being famous might be cool too, but it’s mostly just about rubbing elbows with people who you admire. It’s nice when actors and directors gush about working with each other, or when they write parts specifically with someone in mind. But it’s got to be tough looking up to certain industry folks and learning that they might not feel the same way about you.
Over the years, various directors have been openly critical of Marvel movies and their stars. This includes Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, who have both slammed the cinematic integrity of the various superhero stories. “Part of the Marvel-ization of Hollywood is… you have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” Tarantino said last year. “But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the first person to say that.” He’s not the first, but he is one of the biggest!
While some of the argument might be understandable, Chris Hemsworth took the criticism to heart. “That’s super depressing when I hear that,” Hemsworth told GQ. “There goes two of my heroes I won’t work with. I guess they’re not a fan of me,” he said. Technically, Tarantino isn’t a fan of Thor, but the two seem to go hand in hand.
Hemsworth is still grateful for the Marvel experience. He has been playing Thor for over a decade, and it’s helped him break out into Hollywood. “I’m thankful that I have been a part of something that kept people in cinemas. Now, whether or not those films were to the detriment of other films, I don’t know,” he continued.
Hemsworth then went on to express frustration with how different types of cinema have been perceived by various directors (and actors) over the years. “I don’t love when we start scrutinizing each other when there’s so much fragility in the business and in this space of the arts as it is… I say that less to the directors who made those comments, who are all, by the way, still my heroes, and in a heartbeat I would leap to work with any of them. But I say it more to the broader opinion around that topic.”
Whether or not they are considered “cinema,” the truth is that these movies dominate the box office for a reason: people love to escape the real world for a bit. Not everyone wants to watch a Tarantino movie about movies. Sometimes you want to watch a jacked Australian punch a space god. It’s all personal preference, anyway.
Sharon Van Etten has shared a new song, “Quiet Eyes,” that is featured as the closing song for the new A24 film, Past Lives.
“Is this really a mystery life? / Where we only learn from our own mistakes,” Van Etten sings on the emotional track, making it all the more fitting for its placement in this movie.
The video also features footage from the film, which is centered around first loves who re-encounter one another as adults, but life keeps getting in the way. The two characters are seen meeting each other in a park, along with some brilliant landscape shots of NYC.
“The idea of past lives, who I used to be, what I could have been, people I lost touch with, parts of myself I lost along the way… is a beautiful, intangible, relatable concept that Celine Song so gracefully explores in her story, Past Lives,” Van Etten wrote on Twitter, speaking to her love for the director and her debut feature.
The idea of past lives, who I used to be, what I could have been, people I lost touch with, parts of myself I lost along the way… is a beautiful, intangible, relatable concept that Celine Song so gracefully explores in her story, Past Lives. pic.twitter.com/phxChj8Mr8
Van Etten co-wrote the track with Mini Mansions’ Zachary Dawes. As for the rest of the Past Lives soundtrack, it includes a total of 16 songs. Grizzly Bear members Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear composed the rest of the score.
Romy of The XX is gearing up to drop a solo album. Today (June 7) she took to social media to share a video announcing her long-awaited debut album, Mid Air, which is set to arrive this fall.
In the clip, Romy is seen carrying a test pressing of the album, assuring fans, “it’s real, it exists.”
Ahead of the album, Romy has shared a new song called “Loveher,” a sapphic, dance-ready pop track whose arrival feels more timely than ever during Pride Month.
“Lover, you know when they ask me, I’ll tell them / Won’t be ashamed, no / I can’t wait to tell them / Love her, I love her / I love her, I love her,” she sings on the song’s chorus.
In the teaser clip, she notes that “Loveher” is a “really personal song” for her.
“It was the first song that I made that I felt like this is a song for me to sing,” she explained. “This is a project I wanted to do, and I hope you like it.”
In the song’s accompanying visual, Romy dances under colorful spotlights, coming into her most authentic self.
You can see the video for “Loveher” above and the tracklist and cover art for Mid Air below.
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1. “Loveher”
2. “Weightless”
3. “The Sea”
4. “One Last Try”
5. “DMC”
6. “Strong” Feat. Fred Again..
7. “Twice”
8. “Did I”
9. “Mid Air” Feat. Beverly Glenn-Copeland
10. “Enjoy Your Life.”
11. “She’s On My Mind”
Mid Air is out 9/8 via Young. Find more information here.
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
