Month: January 2024

Rihanna‘s Savage X Fenty company revealed the first preview from a new video series titled “Savage Confessions,” which is launching alongside the Valentine’s Day lingerie collections for this year.

The musician appears in the campaign for some flirty and revealing pics, which went up on the Savage X Fenty Instagram. In one, she poses on a purple couch in an all-pink “See Thru U See Thru U Unlined Balconette Bra, See Thru U High-Waist Bikini Panty, See Thru U Garter Belt, and Savage X Monogram Micro Fishnet Stockings in Millennial Pink,” according to a press release. She even added some pink heels to match the holiday set’s color.

Rihanna also appears in the “Savage Confessions” video, this time opting for a red lingerie set. She pairs it with a pink lip, some champagne, and a red fluffy coat, as she starts to flip through some of the saucy questions on the cue cards. “I feel very exposed,” she jokes. “I need a moment.”

Specifically, in this video, she is wearing the Ruffle Luv Underwire Slip in Goji Berry Red. As fans pointed out in the comments, Rihanna showing off the products convinced them to treat themselves for V-Day.

Check out Rihanna’s photos from the new Savage X Fenty Valentine’s Day collections above.

Last year should be considered Reneé Rapp’s breakout year, as her Snow Angel album was the most successful solo debut album from any female pop artist in 2023, and her subsequent Snow Hard Feelings Tour sold over 100,000 tickets before beginning in mid-September (as reported by Billboard). She’s also gearing up to serve as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, the first of 2024, this weekend.

But the true Reneé-aissance (yes, I am officially coining that term; it is mine) is happening now, as Rapp stars as Regina George in the new Mean Girls movie based upon the Mean Girls Broadway musical, for which Rapp also starred as Regina George in 2019. As such, Rapp is hitting the press circuit hard, and she visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, January 10 — her 24th birthday.

About four minutes in, Rapp gushed about collaborating with Megan Thee Stallion for the Mean Girls track “Not My Fault,” saying, “I love Meg. I love her so much.” Nobody can disagree with that. But Rapp’s next name-drop seemed to truly disappoint Colbert.

“Do I get starstruck? Potentially, but the one time it’s happened to me, I was 18,” Rapp said. “[NBA] All-Star Weekend was in Charlotte, [North Carolina], where I’m from, and Mark Cuban was there.”

“Don’t tell me you got starstruck by Mark Cuban,” Colbert interjected.

“Nah, yeah,” Rapp, now 24, said, doubling down and later adding she was “gagged” to be in Cuban’s general vicinity. Colbert explained that he has met Cuban and found him to be a “lovely fella” but wouldn’t associate Cuban with “starstruck,” to which Rapp said Cuban is “so cute” because “he reminds me a little bit of my dad, to be honest.” She added, “I just think he’s precious. Like, he’s precious.”

She continued, “He’s, like, a white guy, and he’s kind of funny. […] I keep inviting him to my shows, actually. He’s gonna come.”

Colbert and Rapp then pled with Cuban to attend a Rapp concert — and he really should because it is a religious experience — with hand-hearts while Rapp playfully mouthed, “I love you.”

Watch Rapp’s full segment with Colbert above.

Mean Girls is in theaters 1/12. Find more information here.

With Kid Cudi’s Insano still hours away from release, it might seem premature to start wondering when he’s planning to drop a deluxe edition of his ninth studio album, but then again, such is the world we live in these days. Fans are greedy and impatient — never a good combination — but the modern framework of the entertainment industry has been set up to feed these vices… and as it turns out, Cudi is perfectly willing to oblige them as well.

Last night, the Cleveland rapper revealed his plans for the deluxe edition of the album, revealing some detail about its structure in the process. “The deluxe is basically another album,” he wrote. “There wont be 20 plus songs, but u get a nice amount.” And, of course, for those fans who just can’t wait another two years for a new project from the increasingly prolific Cudi, he offered the best news of all: “lookin to drop NEXT WEEK.”

Of course, Kid Cudi isn’t the first rapper to drop a “deluxe” project a week after the original. In 2017, Future dropped his fifth and sixth albums Future and Hndrxx within one week of each other, while in 2020, Lil Uzi Vert released Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World 2 as the deluxe edition of Eternal Atake one week after EA.

Insano is due on January 12

Before there was Timee and Kylie, there was another relationship that had the internet in a chaotic tizzy: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. The Twilight costars paraded their love around the globe in 2012, when everyone needed to have an opinion on their relationship, even Donald Trump, who was then best known for The Apprentice. Those are simpler times we will quite literally never get back.

The duo called it quits shortly after, and Stewart openly began dating women, though the media was often questioning her relationships. “It wasn’t even like I was hiding,” she recently told Variety. “I was so openly out with my girlfriend for years at that point. I’m like, ‘I’m a pretty knowable person.’” Stewart was frustrated when her sexuality became a spectacle. “For so long, I was like, ‘Why are you trying to skewer me? Why are you trying to ruin my life? I’m a kid, and I don’t really know myself well enough yet,’” she added.

Then, in 2017, Stewart decided to publicly come out in her Saturday Night Live monologue.”I’m a little nervous to be hosting because I know the president’s probably watching, and I don’t think he likes me that much,” Stewart said at the time. “So, yeah, that’s crazy, right? The president is not a huge fan of me. But that is so okay. And Donald, if you didn’t like me then you probably really aren’t going to like me now, because I’m hosting SNL and I’m, like, so gay, dude.” she said in the episode. Donald did not respond at the time.

Stewart explained why she decided to take that route after so many years of media speculation. “It was cool to frame it in a funny context because it could say everything without having to sit down and do an interview,” Stewart told Variety, before adding that she wanted to be the one to do it. She asked herself, “‘So what platform is that going to be on? And who’s going to make money on that? And who’s going to be the person that broke it?’ I broke it, alone,” she added.

Now, Stewart is known for her successful and beloved “super gay” movies and TV shows, meanwhile, Donald Trump is still figuring out how magnets work, so there’s a clear winner here.

(Via Variety)

Most actors would kill to have a role on a hit and critically-acclaimed comedy series, but not Joy Behar. The comedian and raunchy The View co-host recently revealed that she turned down a chance to appear on Ted Lasso because of the weather.

During the latest episode of the The View‘s Behind the Table podcast, Behar confirmed to producer Brian Teta that she was offered the role Ted Lasso’s mom in Season 3. However, Behar notably did not appear on the show, and Teta was under the impression it was because Behar didn’t want to spend her hiatus in London. The comedian clarified that it was more than just that.

Via Deadline:

“It was too hot, you remember? There was a heat wave going on at that time, like, 100-degree weather, and I’d have to get on a plane and go in the middle of the heat? No,” Behar said. “Listen, I’m a writer, I write my own stuff, I don’t care about other people’s stuff. I don’t need to be in everything.”

The role ultimately went to Becky Ann Baker, who scored an Emmy nomination, but that wasn’t enough to make Behar regret her decision even as Teta touted Ted Lasso as the “hottest show on TV.” Joy hates the heat, and that’s all there is to it.

“It was not the hottest show on TV,” Behar said. “If they were doing it in the spring, I would’ve done it maybe, or in the fall, but not in the middle of the heat wave.”

(Via Deadline)

Take a shot every time Donald Trump says the word “bedlam.” Or, on second thought, maybe don’t. For the sake of your poor liver. Earlier this week, the former president warned that if the criminal charges against him cause him to lose the 2024 election, “it’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”

“Bedlam” is a favorite word of Trump’s, as TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald author Tim O’Brien pointed out to MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Wednesday.

“Yesterday after the hearing, he said there’s ‘bedlam’ if these courts prosecute me, there will be bedlam,” O’Brien said, according to Raw Story. “He has used that word throughout his whole career any time the system comes at him in a way he doesn’t like. When [former New York City mayor] Ed Koch refused to zone a piece of property Trump wanted on the West Side, he said, ‘There’s bedlam in New York, I couldn’t get zoned.’” He added, “He has no sense of proportion. And he’s got no sense of civility or the rule of law. So he’ll simply say, it’s chaos because I’m not getting what I want.”

Seth Meyers also had something to say about Trump’s “bedlam” comments, which you can watch below.

(Via Raw Story)

You know what’s fetch? Movie theater merch, and the new Mean Girls musical has what might be the groolest bit of themed branding we’ve seen in quite a while.

Paramount Pictures has partnered with AMC to offer moviegoers a popcorn-storing tin in the shape of the film’s iconic Burn Book. According to the description, the 54-ounce tin is “perfect for any fan or those who enjoy a touch of drama with their snacks.” As of now, the merch is listed as coming soon so you can’t order it online, but when you head to theaters to see this musical rendition of Tina Fey’s sharp high-school satire, expect to shell out $20.

Fans of the film can pair their snack-stashing diary with other collectibles like diamond-patterned tumblers, “You Can’t Sit With Us” water bottles, and pink shirts with what is arguably the most quoted line of the original film. But, let’s be real, if you’re not slathering butter — which is not a carb by the way — all over your popcorn in this baby, you’re just not Plastics material.

In case you want to prep for the experience of watching one of the best teen comedies of a generation transform into a medley of Broadway show tunes, here’s what critics are saying about the film.

Paul Giamatti is an actor’s actor. As an actor’s actor, you better believe he wanted in on that sweet primate action when Tim Burton announced a now-infamous remake of Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg. However, Giamatti’s agents would like their client’s actual face to be seen on screen, thus boosting his profile, and he was having none of that.

During a new roundtable talk for The Hollywood Reporter, Giamatti opened up about how he made it passionately (and fiery) clear to his agents that they better not screw him by telling the studio he wants to play a boring human. Paul Giamatti wanted to be a damn ape, and they’d better make it happen:

No, that was the strange fulfillment of a deep dream. To be an ape in the Planet of the Apes? If that had been it for me, I would have died happy. I couldn’t believe I was going to be able to play a talking orangutan! My agents were like, “Don’t you want to be a human so they can see your face?” And I was like, “If you tell them I want to be a human, I’m going to burn the agency.” Who wants to be the human?

The actor also tossed out some more love for his role in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts. Giamatti played Stern’s obnoxious and over-bearing boss in a memorable role that Giamatti credits for launching his career.

“And Pig Vomit? I couldn’t believe I was being allowed off the chain like that,” he told the THR roundtable. “I’d just been in a drama school, which always felt terribly confining. I mean, look at me, man, I’m not like a Shakespeare guy. I got out and got this opportunity to do something that was absolutely bananas.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Ariana Grande is dropping her new single, “Yes, And?,” tonight — which many have suspected is the first glimpse of her upcoming album. In a new teaser for the song’s music video, fans spotted a card that read “AG7” along with some coordinates. This has sparked speculation about what Grande’s album title is.

When fans enter the coordinates listed, it takes them to Montauk, New York, where they connected that it was where the film, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, took place. Because of this, there are now questions about the film’s connection to Grande’s next record.

Here’s what to know.

Is Ariana Grande’s New Album Called Eternal Sunshine?

While Ariana Grande hasn’t exactly confirmed her next album title, she has seemed to fuel the fan theories that Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind has something to do with it. Following the coordinate theory, an Instagram fan account posted a clip from the film, and Grande commented a red heart on it.

Someone in the comments also pointed out that Grande’s late ex, Mac Miller, had been a documented fan of the movie. So, it could possibly be a sadder tie-in if so.

Another possibility is that it’s not for an album title at all, but maybe for just another song from the record.

Finally, Grande has stated that the lead actor in the movie, Jim Carrey, was her childhood crush — and maybe he pops up in one of the music videos from this upcoming album cycle.

Check out Ariana Grande’s coordinate teaser below.

Ariana Grande made fans wait three years, but she plans to keep them fed in 2024. So far, she has confirmed her seventh studio album — and first since 2020’s Positions — will arrive at some point this year, among Uproxx’s “Most Anticipated Albums Of 2024.” This morning, January 11, Grande teased the video for “Yes, And?” will drop on Friday, January 12, at 7 a.m. PST. By then, we will have had plenty of time to digest the presumed lead single of her aforementioned forthcoming album.

When Will Ariana Grande’s “Yes And?” Be On Apple Music?

There is no reason to believe this release will differ from every other major music release that hits DSPs, including Apple Music, promptly at midnight EST (9 p.m. PST).

Last week, Grande posted on her Instagram Story that “Yes, And?” is not the title of her album, but the single’s cover art is “indeed the album cover (well…….one of them!)” So, that’s exciting. The song’s video figures to set the pop world on fire, consider the teaser kind of already has. In it, gossipy people at a swanky office are lamenting “typical Ari” and longing for “the old Ari; you know, the singer,” who had a “ponytail a few centimeters higher.” Already, Grande has expertly fired back at online trolls speculating about her every move. Please, bring me the full song and video ASAP.

“Yes, And?” is out 1/12 via Republic Records. Find more information here.