Month: September 2023

Rootin’ Tootin’ Lauren Boebert seemed pretty irked that people were making a big deal about her Beetlejuice vaping and groping incident. She had insisted that she was acting as a “private citizen” that night while ignoring the fact that she willingly ran for public office, which means that certain behavior is bound to attract attention. Boebert may or may not be able to overcome this unsavory incident before her 2024 reelection date. Yet one thing is becoming clear: her date cannot be having a great time with the fallout.

MAGA Boebert’s companion at the time, a Democrat Bar Guy revealed by the Daily Mail to be Quinn Gallagher, is a co-owner of Aspen’s Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar. The establishment regularly participates in Aspen Gay Week festivities and even hosted a drag show. And as one can imagine, the clientele cannot be thrilled to see him date someone who has tweeted: “Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars.” The PR fallout is now growing intense.

Boebert recently laughed off Quinn’s Democrat label and revealed (to TMZ) that she would be checking political affiliations from here on out. She and Quinn are no longer dating, but now, he’s stuck with a big mess. As TMZ now relays, Hooch is being review bombed by people who surely haven’t even frequented the establishment. TMZ reports that it got so bad that the bar’s Yelp reviews were disabled after this mess went down:

One Yelper said Quinn is “disruptive & disrespectful in public places,” an obvious reference to last week’s caught-on-camera moment while he and Boebert were enjoying “Beetlejuice” the musical … and each other.

Another wrote, “This place sucks unless you admire an owner that dates Boobert [sic] and causes a ruckus at a theater play” — while someone else added, “The owner is doinking 36 year old Grandma Boebert, who supported an insurrection against America!”

The chatter on Yelp has gotten so bad, the platform had to temporarily disable reviews — something the site often does when it sees a rapid uptick in folks review-bombing a business.

The same fate has been met by Hooch’s Facebook page, and their Instagram page has been scrubbed of comments, which began immediately after Quinn was identified as Boebert’s Beetlejuice date, who also tends bar.

The drinks do look tasty. The situation is not fantastic though, and you gotta feel for Quinn’s colleagues if Hooch’s business is being affected by his unfortunate decision to grope Boebert in a theater. Hopefully, this will all blow over by Aspen’s next Gay Week in January 2024.

(Via TMZ)

For the past couple of months now, there’s been something going on between Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. Exactly what that is, though, hasn’t been clear. However, Travis’ brother, fellow NFL player Jason Kelce, has provided some clarity, confirming that Swift and Travis have in fact been seeing each other.

In an interview on SportsRadio 94WIP, Jason was asked about the Swift rumors and he prefaced his answer by saying, “It’s hard to answer because I don’t really know a lot about what’s happening with Travis’ love life, and I try to keep a, you know… his business kind of his business, and stay out of that world.”

He then continued, “But having said that, man, I think he’s doing great and I think it’s all 100-percent true.”

This whole thing started back in July, when Travis told the story of trying to give Swift his phone number via friendship bracelet: ““I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings, so I was a little butthurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”

Lionsgate just dropped a brand trailer for the highly anticipated The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen would volunteer as a tribute and rock Panem, the prequel story based on the bestselling book of the same name follows the rise of Coriolanus Snow as he has his first encounter with District 12. This time in the form of Rachel Zegler‘s Lucy Gray Baird, and like Katniss, she proves to be much more than her humble surroundings.

Also look for Viola Davis, Jonathan Schwartzman, and Peter Dinklage to add their actorly gravitas to the dystopian battle royale.

Here’s the official synopsis:

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premieres November 17, 2023.

Ed Sheeran is dropping his new album, Autumn Variations, later this month. While he’s already been promoting it in some unique ways, including working at a Starbucks, it seems he had more tricks up his sleeve.

In a new Instagram post, Sheeran revealed that he’s recorded a live version of the album — with surprise performances in different fans’ living rooms. The video finds Sheeran at one fan’s house, where she had a piano. Because of this, he treated her to a special take of an older song, too.

“We got to @kariconaway’s house at the end of the day, and I instantly knew it was gonna be a fun one,” Sheeran captioned. “They had cats, friendship bracelets and some fruit drinks to start, but once I’d played the Autumn song I said take me on a tour, and when I went into her room I saw a piano.”

“She asked if I could play and I said ‘not really but I kinda play on wake me up’, so here I am playing ‘Wake Me Up,’ for all the Plus fans out there,” he added.

The fan posted one of Sheeran’s TikToks to her Instagram page, too. In the video, he can be seen entering with a guitar, pouring drinks, checking out her CD collection, and more.

Check out the video of Sheeran performing in a fan’s house below.

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 via Gingerbread Man/Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Swifties have been hard at work for the past 24 hours. Yesterday (September 19), Taylor Swift sent fans on a special scavenger hunt. Over the course of the past day, a vault would appear onscreen any time a fan searched “Taylor Swift” on Google. Scrambled letters would emerge from the vault, with fans encouraged to spell out words with the digital tiles. Swift promised fans she would reveal the titles of the vault tracks for 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

As a reward for the Swifties’ hard work, Swift made good on her promise. She took to social media to reveal the four vault tracks. These songs include: “Is It Over Now?,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Say Don’t Go,” and “Suburban Legends.”

At the time of writing, it’s not clear if this is the actual order of the vault tracks on the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) tracklist, nor if these are all solo songs. Some fans have theorized that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) may contain a collaboration with Nicki Minaj. Additionally, Swift’s team has previously confirmed that neither The 1975 nor the band’s lead vocalist Matty Healy will appear on the album.

You can see a clip of the vault track unveiling below.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out 10/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Rupert Murdoch’s wish almost came true. This morning, Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X, “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024.” His account had been hacked; if the elder Trump had actually died, his sons, whether Don Jr. or Eric, would have waited at least 24 hours until they announced their candidacy.

The hacker or hackers who briefly took over Trump Jr.’s account also wrote, “Some interesting messages with Jeffrey Epstein…” and “Richard Heart is innocent, when I become president I am going to burn the SEC,” referring to the “crypto influencer” who is in big trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More tweets (or whatever) read: “I also fucked your girl btw @LoganPaul” and “Fuck @JoeBiden Stupid Ass N*gga.”

A series of obviously hacked messages quickly followed, including an inflammatory one saying that “North Korea is about to get smoked,” and another pretending to show Don Jr saying he had “some interesting messages with Jeffrey Epstein,” more than four years after the pedophile died in his Manhattan lockup. Proving he was still alive, the former president sent an unrelated message on his own X rival, Truth Social at 8:46 a.m. — more than 30 minutes after the fake death announcement.

Honestly, some of the fake tweets aren’t that different than Trump Jr’s. normal nonsense. That’s good satire.

According to a bombshell new report, Donald Trump allegedly used the back of classified documents to scribble down random to-do lists, which he handed to his top aide Molly Michael on more than one occasion. Michael conveyed this information to special counsel Jack Smith, and now, legal experts are convinced that Michael will prove to be a “killer witness” for the government’s case against Trump.

According to former federal prosecutor Harry Litman, Michael revealed some damaging information about Trump that won’t lead to new charges, but will shore up the ones presented by the special counsel.

“This playing around with notecards shows he’s cavalier, shows he’s very Trumpian,” Litman told MSNBC via Raw Story. “But what you read, Chris, is the real punch line. Knowing that the FBI wants to interview her, [Trump] said ‘you don’t know anything about the boxes.’ And by the way, we know that is clearly a lie. It sounds like it anyway because she takes a picture and gives it to him. So, he knows, and the picture is in the indictment.”

Litman argued that Michael will look especially good as a witness because she resigned immediately after learning of Trump’s actions.

“She’s going to be a killer witness here,” Litman said. “No deal, no ax to grind. In fact, was loyal to Trump. Goes to Mar-a-Lago with him after, and then finally leaves when she knows he’s basically breaking the law and obstructing justice. She gives absolute killer evidence about his trying to keep more than the boxes he had given up already to the FBI, and that’s why the search ensued. Very, very powerful witness, she’s going to be.”

(Via Raw Story)

Anger is such a weird emotion and it’s totally not anger’s fault. It’s just existing for valid reasons but shows up when we feel like it shouldn’t. The thing with anger is that in many cases it acts as a coat for an underlying emotion hiding that for some reason or another isn’t ready to be revealed.

But sometimes anger is hiding something bigger than a fleeting emotion. Emma McAdam, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and host of the YouTube channel, Therapy in a Nutshell, posted a video explaining how anger and irritability can actually be a symptom of depression.

The video really breaks down how the media portrays depression versus some of the lesser known symptoms of depression. When people think of depression, they often imagine someone that’s extremely sad all the time and struggling to do basic skills. But depression can show up hidden behind other symptoms like irritability, insomnia, loss of appetite, and lack of focus.

“Depression isn’t just feeling sad. It’s a whole body experience that can impact every aspect of your life,” McAdam says.

The therapist points to research that shows that rage or anger is reported by 30% to 40% of people as part of their depressive symptoms. With one researcher even going as far as calling the anger people feel with their depression as anger attacks. One of the reasons McAdam lists for anger showing up in people with depression is externalization.

“Some people externalize these feelings, so instead of pointing their pain inward they project it outward onto other people and situations, McAdam reveals. “It can feel really comforting to blame others for your pain.”

“So when depression shows up as anger or irritability, it’s often because the person is grappling with these feelings of despair or worthlessness, and the way they manage these feelings is through hostility or aggression,” she adds later.

Watch the video below to learn more:

Demi Lovato just reinvented themselves with their new album Revamped, followed by a triumphant performance at the MTV VMAs. The singer is known for their positivity; in 2015, they shared their album Confident, and have been advocating for themselves throughout their entire career.

In a chat on the LadyGang podcast on Tuesday, September 19, they discussed confidence in detail. “I feel the most confident when I’m having sex,” they said. “‘Cause you’re so present that you’re not thinking about what is actually like… what clouds your judgment throughout the rest of the day, or at least that’s how it is for me. It’s not that way for everybody.”

Upon the announcement of Revamped, Lovato shared a statement about their intent of the album. “With Revamped, I wanted to pay homage to the songs that resonated the most with fans and played a big role in my career by breathing an exciting new life into them,” they said. “Creating this project has been incredibly fun and allowed me to express my passion for rock music in a new way, and I feel so much closer to my older music because of it. I can’t wait for everyone to hear more!”

Listen to the podcast episode below.

Donald Trump always talks a big game. Does he deliver? Not really. That southern border wall? He never completed it, even after shutting down the government to get it funded. He’s even lied about how it is completed, which, again, it’s not. Earlier this year he claimed that were he back in office, he’d magically end the Ukraine invasion in 24 hours. Was he talking out of his butt? Almost certainly. Indeed, the nation’s president is basically telling him to put up or shut up.

While in America to visit both the UN and D.C., Volodymyr Zelensky sat down for a chat with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who asked him about Trump’s claim that he could negotiate a “fair deal” between he and Vladimir Putin. Zelensky’s response said it all.

“First of all, I don’t see any details in this,” Zelensky said of the former president’s boast. “Of course we have another year before the elections. If he’s got some smart ideas, he could share it with us, of course. We need a strong position, obviously.”

He then stressed that if Trump actually has a plan, why wait to share it?

He can publicly share his idea now. Not waste time. Not to lose people. Yes, and say that ‘my formula is to stop the war and stop all this tragedy and stop Russian aggression,’ and he say how he see it. How to [inaudible] Russian from our land. Otherwise, he is not, I mean, presenting a global idea of peace. So the idea is how to take the part of our territory and to give Putin? That is not the peace formula.

Of course, it’s hard to picture Trump doing anything less than giving his good buddy Putin everything he wants, especially since his base is so rabidly anti-Ukraine.

(Via Mediaite)