Month: April 2024

Madison Beer is keeping the modern classics. Yesterday (April 24), the main pop girly shared the video for her single “Make You Mine,” which features her recreating an iconic thriller.

The song itself features Beer detailing a newfound fixation.

“I wanna feel the rush / I wanna taste the crush / I wanna get you going / I wanna lay you down / I wanna string you out / I wanna make you mine,” she sings on the song’s chorus, over an intoxicating, pulsating beat.

In the video, Beer channels Jennifer Check and Needy Lesnicky, characters played by Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, respectively, in the 2009 film, Jennifer’s Body. As the characters, Beer recreates several scenes from the movie, including the iconic walk down the hallway, the pool scene, and the dance scene.

In a recent interview with Billboard, Beer said “Make You Mine” is her favorite song she’s made to date.

“It’s just so fun, such a feel-good song,” Beer said. “It’s sexy, it’s infectious. I haven’t played it for anyone that hasn’t just like [started] dancing and felt immediately hotter after listening to it, and that’s always how I want to make people feel.”

You can see the video for “Make You Mine” above.

March was a major month for Schoolboy Q fans, as the rapper dropped Blue Lips, his first album since 2019’s Crash Talk. The project features collaborations with folks like Ab-Soul, AzChike, Freddie Gibbs, and Rico Nasty, and has been regarded by some critics as one of Schoolboy’s best albums yet. If that sounds like something you’d want to see live on stage, the good news is that Schoolboy has decided to take the album on tour.

The bad news is that as it stands now, he’s offering relatively limited opportunities to see it. Yesterday (April 24), the rapper announced Blue Lips Weekends, a series of concerts in July and August that, yes, take place during the weekends, allowing for a relatively relaxed touring schedule.

Information about specific venues isn’t available yet, but we do know that the tour will hit major cities like Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Seattle, among others. Tickets aren’t for sale yet, but fans can RSVP here to be notified when more information is available.

Check out the list of tour dates below.

Schoolboy Q 2024 Tour Dates: Blue Lips Weekends

07/18 — Toronto, ON
07/20 — Chicago, IL
07/25 — Washington, DC
07/26 — Atlanta, GA
07/27 — Brooklyn, NY
08/01 — Dallas, TX
08/03 — Houston, TX
08/04 — Denver, CO
08/08 — San Diego, CA
08/10 — San Francisco, CA
08/11 — Seattle, WA

The Simpsons characters aren’t supposed to die. They’re supposed to live forever in background gags and flashback episodes. Moleman will get the last laugh and outlast us all. There have been a few permanent deaths in Springfield, however, including Fat Tony (good thing he has a look-alike cousin named Fit Tony), Maude Flanders (regrettably), and now, Larry Dalrymple.

“Who,” even the most hardcore Simpsons fan might be wondering?

Larry the barfly, as he’s better known, has been on the show since the first episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” almost exclusively in scenes set at Moe’s Tavern. He’s the drunk who isn’t Sam. Sadly, Larry met his maker in season 35’s “Cremains of the Day.” He died doing what he loved: drinking beer at Moe’s. “I don’t like the sound of that squish,” Carl says after Moe pokes Larry’s corpse with a mop. He’s later described as a “sad, balding drunk who hung out at Moe’s.” RIP. Pour out a 40 of Duff Dry in his honor.

The Simpsons executive producer Tim Long told TMZ that “he’s sorry to those fans upset about the death, and the sad episode in general… but, he says he likes that fans seemed to take it as hard as Homer and the gang did during the episode — because it speaks to how beloved the show still is.”

Larry joins Bleeding Gums Murphy and Dr. Marvin Monroe in the Dead Characters Who Were Never Popular Hall of Fame.

(Via TMZ)

People, generally speaking, like Taylor Swift; The fact that her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, just became the first project to accumulate 1 billion Spotify streams in a single week is evidence of that. Pair that with the fact that her Swiftie fan base is a passionate crew and it’s not often that you see people dissing Swift. With that in mind (and also accounting for the fact that he just likes her), Machine Gun Kelly absolutely refused to go after Swift.

This happened on yesterday’s (April 24) episode of Hot Ones Versus, a spin-off of the popular Hot Ones series in which two celebrity guests play a version of truth or dare, in which they have to eat a spicy wing to avoid responding to a potentially difficult question or prompt. MGK was paired up with Trippie Redd, and Redd asked MGK to say three bad things about Swift.

Kelly deadpanned to the camera and declared, “Ladies and gentlemen, you have got to be out of your motherf*cking mind if you think I want any smoke with that fan base. Also, Taylor is a saint and very nice to me, and Travis is my bro.”

Redd jokingly responded, “Kiss her feet while you’re at it,” and MGK replied, “Jesus Christ… I just… bro, she’s very nice! She’s very, very nice.”

Watch the Hot Ones Versus episode above.

Game 1 of the series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans served as Oklahoma City’s return to postseason basketball. On Wednesday night, the Thunder used Game 2 of their first round series to do something else: Emphatically announce to any doubters that they have arrived, and while they’re young, they’re ready to compete for a championship right now.

Oklahoma City ran New Orleans out of the gym in Game 2. Thanks to the latest MVP-caliber effort by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and a monster night from Chet Holmgren, the Thunder dominated on both ends of the floor en route to a 124-92 win.

Early on in the game, Oklahoma City made clear that they were not going to mess around. While the opening minutes were tight, the Thunder ended the first on a 17-6 run to take a 13-point lead. Most of the rest of the game was spent with New Orleans trailing by double-figures, as Oklahoma City mixed being scorching hot from the field with a level of defensive intensity that they’ve showed off throughout their ascendant 2023-24 campaign.

Gilgeous-Alexander was his usual brilliant self, as he had a career postseason high 33 points on an efficient 13-for-19 from the field with five assists, three rebounds, and two steals in 35 minutes. He was deputized in a big way by Holmgren, who had 26 points and seven boards while serving as a deterrent at the rim whenever the Pelicans wanted to attack.

No member of Oklahoma City’s starting five scored fewer than 13 points, and as a team, the Thunder shot 46-for-78 (59 percent) from the field and 14-for-29 (48.3 percent) from behind the three-point line. And after the game, a number of players came together as Gilgeous-Alexander gave a postgame interview to Allie LaForce of TNT, with Holmgren grabbing the mic and making clear that the league MVP resides in Oklahoma City.

As for the Pelicans, it was generally a night to forget. Jonas Valanciunas led the way with 19 points and seven rebounds, while Brandon Ingram and Herbert Jones both went for 18 points. The team only connected on seven of its 26 attempts from three.

Game 3 between these two teams will take place on Saturday afternoon in New Orleans, which will mark the first time that the series will move to the Smoothie King Center. The game is scheduled to tip off at 3:30 p.m. EST on TNT.

Lil Nas X seems to be inching closer to the release of Nasarati 2, his follow-up to 2018’s Nasarati.

Lil Nas X takes pride in unconventionality, and so it is unsurprising that he has been releasing songs on SoundCloud as opposed to releasing singles in a traditional manner. On Wednesday night, April 24, he continued the trend by dropping “Trust Me” on SoundCloud. “This song means a lot to me,” Lil Nas X posted on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

The first verse finds Lil Nas X transparently recounting the adolescent exploration of his sexuality, including “Grindr sessions.” He raps, “Back in middle school, I was fiending for dick / Seventh grade, sending my homies some pics / Daddy never knew what I did as a kid / He would’ve crucified me but / Trust me, I get it.”

The Grammy-winning provocateur teased a snippet of “Trust Me” within a March 9 Instagram carousel captioned, “been hoarding music for years smh I hate my relationship with fear of my songs not doing well and perception. I wish I could just release music and not give af! Anyways enough venting…what’s you guys top 2 of these snippets??”

“Trust Me” was produced by Ojivolta and Omer Fedi, both of whom produced on Lil Nas X’s 2021 debut studio album Montero.

Previously, Lil Nas X released “Light Again,” “Right There,” and “Lean On My Body” on SoundCloud. Those three are also on Lil Nas X’s YouTube page, but as of this writing, “Trust Me” remains exclusively on SoundCloud. Lil Nas X’s Billboard Hot 100 charter “J Christ” remains his only traditionally released single of 2024.

Listen to “Trust Me” below.

Jimmy Butler sat and watched as the Miami Heat upset the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of their first round series. While Butler is dealing with a knee injury he suffered during the Play-In Tournament, Miami got absolutely scorching hot from behind the three-point line and managed to pick up a 111-101 win over the 1-seed in the Eastern Conference.

Despite the fact that Boston are still overwhelming favorites to win the series, things are now moving to Miami, and if the Heat can defend their homecourt (which is a tall, tall task against the Celtics), they’ll win a 1-8 matchup for the second year in a row. So, as you can guess, there’s a whole lot of excitement in South Beach right now, and after Game 2, Butler got swept up in it by posting a meme to his Instagram account where he photoshopped himself over a picture and quote from Jaylen Brown.

If you go back to the postseason last year, Brown gave this quote after Miami went up 3-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics managed to battle back and win the next three games to force a Game 7 in TD Garden, but Miami went on to win and earn a berth in the NBA Finals.

Usher has access to anyone at any time, and his son knows it. Naviyd, 15, did what any teenager would do in his position: Steal your world-famous father’s phone and hit up PinkPantheress.

“So…a week or so ago my son, Naviyd, stole my phone so he could dm his favorite artist @pinkpantheress,” Usher shared on his Instagram Story on Wednesday night, April 24.

The next post is a screenshot of Naviyd’s DM from April 9, reading, “Hello this is Usher’s son Naviyd I’m you true biggest fan please follow me back @_naviyd_ I put him on to masterpieces.” PinkPantheress graciously replied, “hahahahahaa this is wild!”

Next, Usher recounted what happened from his perspective, writing, “Now I just so happened to check my DMs earlier this past week and saw a message exchange from someone with a Powerpuff girl as their profile pic…so I’m like the hell is this.” (PinkPantheress’ Instagram icon is the Powerpuff girl Buttercup.)

Usher continued, “I open it and I’m like oh this boy done DMd this girl from my damn phone..” The following post is another screenshot — this time, showing Usher messaging an apology to PinkPantheress: “I’m so sorry … my son is a super fan.” Again, PinkPantheress was extremely gracious and replied, “don’t apologise! happy to have this interaction. I’d love to host y’all at the next show.”

Usher explained on his subsequent Instagram Story posts that he initially pretended that Naviyd “wasn’t allowed to go” to PinkPantheress’ Capable Of Love Tour “because he did the MOST just to connect with her on my account,” but he let him go to reward Naviyd’s super-fandom, which led to PinkPantheress taking a photo with Naviyd backstage and FaceTiming with Usher.

“PARENTAL TAKEAWAY,” Usher wrote, in conclusion. “This was a great moment for Naviyd … this was him movin on something he was passionate about. Yes… he violated my trust in the process and for that I will never trust him around my phone, but I should have known better. Nonetheless, I appreciate the hustle and him makin’ it happen. From a text, to a concert, to the artist. He masterminded this whole thing and made it happen.”

See all of the posts below.

In Uproxx’s review of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Josh Kurp pointed toward “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?” as an example of Swift’s “genuine humor.” Perhaps the only person who can credibly one-up Swift’s self-deprecation — and can understand Swift’s omnipresence in monoculture — is Monica Lewinsky.

On Wednesday night, April 24, Lewinsky posted a photo of The White House on X (formerly Twitter) alongside, “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.”

The line from Swift’s “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?” has become a widespread meme in the days after Swift releasing The Tortured Poets Department last Friday, April 19.

For the uninitiated, Lewinsky was a ubiquitous figure in the nineties after it was publicly revealed that then-President Bill Clinton engaged in an affair with Lewinsky, an intern in her early 20s at the time. In 2021, FX aired the third season of American Crime Story, which focused on Clinton’s subsequent impeachment, entitled Impeachment: American Crime Story. Beanie Feldstein starred as Lewinsky, while Sarah Paulson portrayed the late Linda Tripp. Edie Falco and Clive Owen portrayed Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, respectively.

“You go to bed one night a private person, and the next day, you’re a public human being and the whole world hates you,” Lewinsky told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2021. “And you might go to jail. And you’re going to bankrupt your family. And, and, and… […] And just because I wasn’t on the news every night for 20 years in the same way that I was in 1998 doesn’t mean that this story ended. Ten years on, I still could not get a job. I couldn’t support myself.”

The Miami Heat have done it again, folks. After looking overwhelmed in the first game of their first-round series against the Boston Celtics — due in part to the absence of Jimmy Butler due to an injury — Miami was able to follow a familiar formula to steal homecourt advantage away from the 1-seed in the Eastern Conference. By the time the final buzzer went off at TD Garden, Miami picked up a 111-101 win to tie the series up at one win each.

Miami leaned heavily on the great equalizer early on in the game: the three-point line. After getting seriously outgunned from deep in Game 1, the Heat shot 8-for-15 in the first quarter from deep and ended the first half with an absolutely ridiculous 13 makes on 24 attempts, good for a 54.2 percent clip from deep.

The problem, however, was that they were still outgunned despite this. While Miami needs to hit threes to beat Boston, their defense also has to be spot on, and that just was not the case in the first half. Powered by 21 points from Jaylen Brown, 18 points from Jayson Tatum, and a team-wide 8-for-20 clip from deep, Boston took a 61-58 lead into the locker room.

But the Heat’s hot shooting did not relent, and not long after a triple by Tyler Herro gave them the lead for the first time in the second half, Miami opened up a double-digit lead thanks to a 15-3 run. Even though Boston was able to chip away to close the frame, the Heat’s arsenal of shooters kept them at arm’s length, and gave them an 85-79 lead after three.

Early on in the fourth quarter, any time the Celtics started to make a little bit of headway, something from the Heat — a Bam Adebayo jumper, a three from someone, etc. — cut them off at the pass. And by the time Herro stepped up to the free throw line to ice the win and stretch the team’s lead back to double-digits, the fans at TD Garden started to head for the exits.

All five of Miami’s starters hit double-digits, with Tyler Herro leading the way with 24 points, 14 assists, and five rebounds. Bam Adebayo and Caleb Martin both hit the 21-point mark, while Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 14 and Nikola Jovic stuffed the box score with 11 points, nine rebounds, six assists, three steals, and a block. As a team, the Heat shot 23-for-43 (53.5 percent) from behind the three-point line. For Boston, Brown and Tatum combined to score 61 points, but as a team, the Celtics were 37-for-80 (46.3 percent) from the field and 12-for-32 (37.5 percent) from three.

Now, the two teams are heading back to Miami, where the Heat will look to defend their homecourt and make it so when they return to Boston, they only need one win to earn a spot in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Game 3 between the Heat and the Celtics will take place on Saturday afternoon at 6 p.m. EST on TNT.