Month: May 2024

A music video filming for rapper Lil Baby was put on hold yesterday (May 14), following shooting in Atlanta. Fox 5 is reporting that three men were shot and injured at the Atlanta location after the shooting broke out.

The shooting reportedly took place near a commercial strip on Verbena Street. Shots were reportedly fired around 4:50 p.m. At the time of the shooting, two victims were visibly struck — a 24-year-old man who was shot in the arm, and the second was a 27-year-old man who was shot in the back. A third victim was later discovered — a 23-year-old man, who was shot in the neck. According to reports, the third man had attempted to drive himself to the hospital following the shooting.

The three victims are said to be “alert, conscious, and breathing.”

According to reports, Lil Baby was not harmed or injured in the shooting, nor was the shooting in connection to Lil Baby or his crew.

“The people who were shot were not part of the video production team, but there may have been individuals involved in the totality of the production,” said Atlanta mayor Ralph Woolfolk.

At the time of writing, an arrest has not been made, nor has a suspect or motive been identified.

If Sydney Sweeney was a Taylor Swift song, she would be “Mastermind.”

The actress engineered — and even encouraged — the affair rumors about herself and Glen Powell while they were making Anyone But You, a romantic-comedy with low box office expectations that ended up grossing over $200 million worldwide. “I was on every call. I was in text group chats. I was probably keeping everybody over at Sony marketing and distribution awake at night because I couldn’t stop with ideas,” Sweeney told the New York Times last month. “I wanted to make sure that we were actively having a conversation with the audience as we were promoting this film, because at the end of the day, they’re the ones who created the entire narrative.”

Powell further discussed Sweeney’s marketing prowess with Vanity Fair.

“We leaned into the chemistry, we leaned into the fun, we leaned into all of it — and the movie benefited. The fun part with Syd was figuring out what’s going to be noisy and sticky. People talk about TikTok as a thing that is cannibalizing the theaters, and what we saw is that they feed into each other: It becomes more eventized and more fun,” he said. “Glen, the person, would not have been comfortable with that a year and a half ago. Now I can put myself in a different place and be a character.”

Powell’s upcoming characters include an undercover hitman in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man; a yee-haw tornado chaser in Twisters; and more likely than not, the return of “Hangman” in a third Top Gun movie.

Anyone But You is streaming on Netflix.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Bridgerton is still going strong on Netflix and will soon debut its third season of courtship for viewers to swoon over. This season, expect to see the usual abundant sex scenes, although this show always makes sure to take the road less traveled on that note. And there’s a question on every Lady Whistledown reader’s mind right about now…

What Time Will ‘Bridgerton’ Season 3, Part 1 Come Out On Netflix?

Netflix will debut this season on Thursday, May 16 at 12:00am PST and 3:00am EST. There’s a catch, however.

The streaming service has decided to go halvsies on this season, so expect four episodes on the above date. The rest of the season (four more episodes) will arrive on Thursday, June 13. Yes, that means more waiting time, but this season’s central pair — Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) — should get especially randy, if that helps the news go over any better out there. Coughlan has even confirmed reports that furniture was broken during the making of these episodes, which should provide many opportunities to meme those scenes into oblivion.

Meanwhile, the show remains Duke-less after Regé-Jean Page made good on his decision to not return after the first season. However, don’t worry about the second-season central couple — Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) — doing the same because they’re still getting down in the same residence (Lady Whistledown is not scandalized).

A Community movie was announced back in 2022, much to the delight of fans and community college students around the country. Since then, the cast has been slowly but surely providing updates regarding production, but for some reason, Donald Glover has become the person to blame for the wait.

Glover confirmed that the film is on the way, despite some road blocks. “It’s happening but I don’t know when. I swear, it’s happening,” the actor told Deadline earlier this week.

While the delays are probably due to the busy schedules of the large cast, for some reason, everyone is quick to assume Glover is the one holding up production. He added, “Everybody is hating on me on the internet and it’s not me! They’re like, ‘We know that you’re the reason.’ Maybe I was last year — maybe — but not this time.”

While Glover takes the blame, in reality, the Community crew have all been busy over the last two years. Glover starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, while Alison Brie had a role in Hulu’s Apples Never Fall. Meanwhile, Joel McHale has been busy with his sitcom Animal Control, and Ken Jeong has been unmasking singers. Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Jim Rash and Yvette Nicole Brown are all also expected to return… as soon as Glover is done with his Simba duties.

(Via Deadline)

HBO has released the first images from season two of the Emmy-winning series The Last of Us. In one photo, Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, has longer hair than we’re used to seeing him with (he kind of looks like his Strange Way of Life co-star Ethan Hawke?); in the other, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is holding a gun while dressed in winter clothing. There’s no looks at any of the new characters — including Kaitlyn Dever as ever-polarizing Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, or Young Mazino as Jesse — but I’ll take any The Last of Us I can get.

You can see the images below.

Previously, Ramsey discussed the heightened expectations heading into season two, which adapts the brilliant The Last of Us Part II video game. “I know that that’s like the big fear, that all of us working on the show, and probably the rest of the world have, is that season two isn’t going to be as good as season one,” she told LAD Bible. “But I have a lot of faith in the creators… So I think I think we’re going to do great. I think we will top it.”

One of those creators is Craig Mazin, who has read your internet theories about season two. “I’ve been monitoring things on the internet a little bit, people are very clever, they like to see where we’re shooting and then they have all these brilliant theories about what it means,” he said on his Scriptnotes podcast. “I wish I could put my arm around each one of them and say, ‘No.’ Most of the theories are incorrect, some of them are halfway correct, some of the conjecture is like 28 percent correct.”

The Last of Us season 2 premieres on HBO and Max in 2025.

Canadian alt-jazz band BADBADNOTGOOD has been dropping a relatively steady stream of collaborative EPs over the past year, releasing sets with collaborators both unusual (hardcore band Turnstile) and apropos (soul crooner Baby Rose). Today, they added to this growing collection with a more self-contained EP release, Mid Spiral: Chaos, which hearkens back to some of the band’s more improvisational, jazzy material.

“If this music makes your ears we thank you very much,” the band shared via Twitter (which will never be called by “X” under this particular byline). “We have new friends playing over the whole record with us and this is an exciting and fun chapter. Peace!” Those friends, according to a separate tweet, include Felix Fox-Pappas, Kaelin Murphy, Juan Carlos Medrano, and Tyler Lott.

Mid Spiral: Chaos arrives in a busy year for the band. Not only did they release their EP Slow Burn with Baby Rose just a month ago on April 12, but they have also played Coachella and recently been announced as one of the performers on Aminé’s brand-new Portland festival, The Best Day Ever. All this is coming off a year in which they opened for Daniel Caesar on tour.

You can listen to Mid Spiral: Chaos below.

Last night (May 14), Megan Thee Stallion kicked off her much-anticipated Hot Girl Summer Tour. Her stop in Minneapolis has proven to be a hell of a show, and looks to be one of the most promising concerts of the summer. With an extensive setlist, as well as stunning choreography, and a fun time with fans all around, ticketholders are going to want to remember this night. Thankfully, each show will offer the opportunity to buy merch to do just that.

The Merch Available At Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Summer Tour

A fan who was in attendance at the Minneapolis show shared an image of the available merch via Reddit.

Within the merch collection are a black t-shirt with an image of Meg by a pool wearing a thong, a tye-dye yellow t-shirt, a long-sleeved red-shirt featuring Meg in a bikini, a white t-shirt with a print image of Meg in a pool, and hoodies with the Hot Girl Summer World Tour text with the tour dates listed on the back.

Fans can also purchase GloRilla merch, which includes a t-shirt featuring the cover of her new Ehhthang Ehhthang mixtape.

Most of the t-shirts go for $45, per the fan-shared photo.

Olivia Rodrigo just played a massive sold-out show at London’s famed O2 Arena yesterday (May 14), and at one point, she faced a pressing issue.

As Rodrigo performed “Love Is Embarrassing,” she nearly had an embarrassing moment of her own. At one point, the back of her top came undone. As she continued the song, one of her dancers attempted to help her out as Rodrigo carried on, and the situation eventually ended without incident. As the New York Post notes, when the song was over, Rodrigo told the audience, “I almost flashed you guys but it’s OK now.”

All in all, the show seemed to be a success: In a positive review of the performance, NME noted, “It’s the songs that pick at the deepest wounds that resonate with tonight’s crowd. ‘Vampire”s stunning build from a piano ballad to jaunty clap-back to the people who should know better is one of many howl-along moments. The raw regret of ‘Drivers License’ brought her to this venue a few years ago, but now, it’s sung with both the lived experience and confidence that comes only from someone who’s moved on to even bigger and better things; there’s no denying that Rodrigo has certainly done that and will continue to do so.”

Prime Video (Amazon) has been experimenting with their release format on certain shows, which has caused a bit of confusion. The streaming service hasn’t revealed its rhyme or reason for deeming certain shows (The Boys, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) as weekly releases and others (Fallout, Swarm) as full season binges, but it’s best to simply roll with the rollouts and not worry about the format too much.

With that said, it’s nice to at least know what is coming to plan TV schedules accordingly. Outer Range‘s second season arrives this week, so there’s no time like the present to ask the relevant question here.

What Time Will ‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Come Out On Prime Video?

Go time will officially happen on Thursday, May 16 at 12:00am Greenwich Mean Time. In the U.S., that works out to Wednesday at 8:00pm EST. Expect all seven of this season’s episodes to arrive at once, so you can watch more timey-wimey adventures of Josh Brolin’s Royal Abbott, who would probably really like to take a nap instead of dealing with having to figure out how to save the ranch. The audience, however, should enjoy this season much more than its characters. Even Autumn has a rough time, for a good while (which makes sense after that auto crash). The show, however, remains a total trip.

Outer Range heads back into bizarro territory on May 16.

Hana Vu is a romantic. On her new album, the appositely titled Romanticism, she traces the peaks and valleys of romance. Right after the Los Angeles songwriter embraces the optimism of dreams, she finds comfort underneath wilted trees, considering life to be some kind of “big disease.” It doesn’t feel like whiplash so much as it does a candid portrayal of Vu’s experiences.

It’s an astute, self-aware record that reckons with both the joys and sorrows of love’s promises. Alongside co-producer Jackson Phillips (AKA Day Wave), Vu gives her interiority a bigger stage, with sweeping guitars and propulsive drums that lift her songs to vertiginous new heights.

Following the record’s release this month, Hana Vu sat down with Uproxx to talk about why she wants to visit Cypress by herself, her love of Solange, and why she doesn’t like following people on social media in our latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Girl, singing, yelling, guitar.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

I think in 2050 I will still be alive, and I hope to not be forgotten just yet because that is kind of soon. Hopefully I can be remembered by the omnipresent statues of me in every major city center.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

I am probably most inspired by my friends and family. The people of whom I am closest and can very deeply empathize with really color my life with perspective and richness. We are only what we know and what we’ve done.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life, and what was it?

I eat a lot of really good meals, and it’s hard to think of what is best. I will say that my favorite place in SoCal to go to if I have the chance is Jus’ Poke in Redondo Beach.

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Best show I’ve ever seen was when I saw BLACKPINK at Coachella 2023. I don’t really attend a lot of big pop shows, so it was really a stimulation overload. Haven’t seen anything like it, though.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

Every song makes me emotional, but when I am being particularly emotional, I have to listen to “Cranes in the Sky.” Nothing feels like “Cranes in the Sky.”

What’s the last thing you Googled?

The last thing I googled was Alicia Keys’ birth chart, and what I found out is that she is a Libra moon.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

I don’t know if I have ever crashed anywhere ‘weird’ per se, but I have definitely crashed at some pretty gross houses. One time I stayed in a house that was so decrepit, and I convinced myself that I was going to get abducted and murdered, so I actually did not sleep. So I don’t know if that qualifies as crashing.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

My favorite city to perform is New York! It’s kind of like playing in LA but your whole extended family and people you went to high school with aren’t there because I am not from there. I would like to play a show in Buenos Aires mainly because I just want to go there.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

I would probably tell myself to get my license because I didn’t really try until I was like 20. I probably wasted so much time and energy trying to get around LA on foot or bus.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

I don’t have very many talents, so the ones I do have are very much on display. When I was a kid I used to yo-yo and stuff though, so maybe that.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

I don’t really even know. I wonder why causes require charity to exist when so much money is misplaced. Can I put a million dollars into the rehabilitation of society? If so then that.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

I’m not really thinking about it. Music is for people. As long as one has a soul, you will need to hear music made by a person.

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.

Ok so my dream line up is Whitney Houston, Journey, Solange, Luiz Bonfá, and Ariana Grande, and it would be on a cliff by the ocean.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

My favorite person to follow is no one. I actually have everybody muted on Instagram, so it just shows me videos of lizards and otters and stuff. So maybe my favorite are the accounts that are posting that wildlife stuff.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

My favorite tattoo is my tattoo that says I <3 LA. I got it because I <3 LA.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Usually I tweak out and pace around and hum to myself before a show. Mainly, I pretend not to be nervous or beside myself in order to function.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

My first celebrity crush was probably Justin Bieber.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

I want to go to Cypress by myself. I mainly want to swim around. Or somewhere very vast and beautiful for me to swim around by myself.

What is your biggest fear?

I don’t really think about fear or know if I have any. Fear is kind of like a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of thing, like when you watch criminal minds and stuff. But existentially, probably like being destitute for eternity.

Romanticism is out now via Ghostly International. Find more information here.