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Latin music stars Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro are officially engaged. Nearly two weeks ago, the pair fulfill a promise they made to fans in the past to collaborate on a joint project. Apparently, the three-track EP RR, which is out today, was only the beginning of a more permanent grouping.

The love birds used the release of their latest single from the project, “Beso,” and its accompanying visual to break the news of their engagement to fans. In the video, the recording artist lets viewers into an intimate vacation in the snowy mountains, which look eerily familiar to the same scenery surrounding the home they rented during their Christmas vacation in Japan.

Rosalía sings the romantic chorus, which roughly translates to, “Now I need another kiss / One of those that you give me / Being away from you is hell / Being close to you is my peace / And I love whenever you arrive / And I hate when you’re leaving / I’m going with you to kill / Don’t leave me alone, where are you going, where are you going?”

Alejandro echoes her sentiments in his verse, saying, “We’re already alone, and all my feelings don’t fit in this pen / Hey, how to tell you? / You are the infinite exponent / The moon is too small for you / And even though it is far away, you are the person closest to me / If my cell phone is going to go off, I’ll just let you know too / If there was another life, I drank of your waters / I owe you my being.”

The video ends with a teary Rosalía showing off a diamond ring. Alejandro also shared a congratulatory message he and Rosalía got from Cardi B on his Instagram Story.

Fans of the pair were over the moon to hear about the engagement, taking to social media to shower the musicians with well wishes and congratulatory notes.

Watch the full proposal via the “Beso” video above.

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Some couples have great meet-cute stories to tell at parties. It’s a pretty safe bet, though, that if it were a competition, no one would be able to top Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert‘s tale, which involves Justin Bieber, celebrity basketball, and Spike Tee’s stellar defensive instincts.

Taylor recounted the thrilling yarn during her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night to promote her new movie A Thousand And One, which apparently has a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. After she recalled her first meeting with Beyoncé (to teach her the Chicken Noodle Soup dance), Kimmel pulled out a photo of Taylor with Justin Bieber that was taken during a celebrity basketball game. In it, Bieber’s dribbling while being chased by Taylor, both grimacing from the effort.

“I was on his ass,” Taylor joked. “He was kinda showing off ’cause he knew he was good. I said, ‘Oh yeah? Aight, bet.’… But that was the very moment that my husband fell in love with me. He’s like, ‘Who is that girl? Her defense is on point!’” She said the similarity between them — Shumpert was known as a defensive specialist during his NBA days — got his attention but she made his pursuit… well, interesting.

“Even though he was feeling [me] this day, he didn’t get me that day!” she proclaimed. She explained, though, that it was three years before she agreed to go out with him. He remained persistent and they became friends and business partners (Taylor took on Shumpert as a styling client), but after getting to know him — and see him with his shirt off — they fell in love.

You can watch the full interview above.

WARNING: this post contains spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum had a thrilling enough ending that a fourth John Wick movie was not only inevitable, it was also needed. But the question of “why” John Wick: Chapter 4 needed to happen is something that star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski took seriously. If you’ve seen the film — and I hope you have, because spoilers are coming — you know the answer.

“We had the opportunity [to do another film] because the audience [response to] Chapter 3, and we were like, ‘What was the Why?’” Reeves said following Chapter 4‘s South by Southwest premiere. “And when Chad and I was talking, the ‘Why?’ was death — and it was John Wick’s death. For him to get his peace, or freedom, in a way… That was the reason to make the movie. It can’t just be, ‘Let’s do another one.’ It was really about death, or a way of dying.”

Stahelski added, “We kind of took the way of dying — or the way we live well to die well — as the theme.”

John Wick’s death was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Reeves’ favorite scene in the movie. “When he says, ‘Helen.’ That, for me, after like eight years of playing the role and after shooting the [massive fight on the other set of stairs], that part that was [a poignant link] to the past,” he said. John Wick: Chapter 4 also potentially sets up the John Wick-less future of John Wick, too.

But for now, make that money, Baba Yaga.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Earlier this month, The Cure shared a plan to prevent scalpers from ruining their upcoming tour. It was a great idea — until Ticketmaster decided to sabotage by doubling the prices via added fees.

Robert Smith spoke up about it at length, unleashing his frustration on social media. Now, fellow legendary musician Neil Young took to his website to discuss the issue, making a detailed post about the situation. He wrote:

“TICKETMASTER FEES at 30%. It’s over. The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000.00 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers. CONCERT TOURS are no longer fun. CONCERT TOURS not what they were. – ny.”

His post also shares an article written about The Cure’s situation.

Meanwhile, Young has been hesitant to perform live since the pandemic. A few weeks ago, he made an unannounced appearance at the United For Old Growth march and rally in Victoria, Canada. Last summer, he announced he wouldn’t be performing at Farm Aid, saying, “I will not be at Farmaid this year. I am not ready for that yet. I don’t think it is safe in the pandemic. I miss it very much.”

Neil Young is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

On Instagram, You star Victoria Pedretti called out a “well known” actor who made a derogatory comment towards her at an event last year.

“On my bday last year, a ‘well known’ actor walked up to me at a party and said, ‘I’ve jacked off to you so many times’ … I was shocked by the audacity. This is AFTER he expressed how much he RESPECTED me as an actor lol,” she wrote. “Sometimes I enjoy modesty, sometimes I don’t. It’s a joke to think that my own modesty will protect me from any disrespect I may experience as a femme body. Also, shout out to my body. I love you. You’re mine.”

The post, which included a nude birthday selfie, has since been deleted.

The post has made its way to social media, eliciting support from Pedretti’s many fans. Since, people have speculated that the post was removed, rather than deleted, due to Instagram’s strict rules against nudity.

“That is why it’s complete bullsh*t when people victim blames women for what they wear. Modesty doesn’t save us from the disrespect we still get from nasty men. Victoria Pedretti is brave and a total badass, IG couldn’t handle it,” one supporter tweeted in response to Pedretti’s caption. Another added, “Here’s a fun game: let’s never ever tell women that their mere existence arouses you unless you have a sexual relationship?? Yeah?? Cool.”

You can read the full post from The Haunting of Hill House actress below.

(Via Decider)

It would be an understatement to say that The White Lotus‘s second season continues to inspire decadent dreams of jetting off to Taormina, Sicily. Heck, even the Aperol Spritz (with Prosecco in it) has soared in popularity over the past handful of months. Additionally, the villa rented by Daphne and Harper is available as an Airbnb (although I do not want to see those cleaning fees), and in short, everyone wants to be miserable in luxury and to paste on happy smiles for social media.

Alright, so that last sentence might be a little too much, but according to the American Express Global Travel Trends Report, the trend is palpable. A majority (64%) of their survey respondents declared that, yes, they have found inspiration to book a particular destination “after seeing it featured on a TV show, news source, or movie,” and naturally, nearly half (48%) declared that they “want to travel somewhere they can show off on social media.”

Of course, one can also expect massive crowds while following TV-inspired trends, so perhaps it’s best to save The White Lotus focus for a few years? Or at least, wait until people are flocking to Tokyo (to join those who are belatedly inspired by Lost In Translation and many other TV shows and movies) after The White Lotus Season 3. Whatever the timing, expect the effect to be real when it comes to impacting hotel prices. Yikes.

(Via American Express via IndieWire)

Donald Trump is doing great, you guys. He’s definitely not posting all-caps rants on social media in the middle of the night, and alienating his wife, and desperately asking his followers to sign a petition to keep him out of prison (and some money would be great, too). Trump is feelin’ fine, happily listening to the same damn songs he always listens to — unless he gets indicted.

Then he’s promising “death and destruction.”

In one of his classic stream-of-consciousness Truth Social diatribes this morning, Trump wrote, “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country? Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!”

This post comes after Trump claimed that “EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M 100% INNOCENT,” but Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg “IS JUST CARRYING OUT THE PLANS OF THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!” Does sharing a photo of yourself holding a baseball bat next to Bragg’s head count as “peaceful”?

(Via Raw Story)

In recent months, there have been rumors about a supposed feud between Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber. It all started earlier this year; here’s an explainer if you want to get caught up. Now, Gomez has offered a new statement about the situation.

In an Instagram Story shared today (March 24), Gomez wrote, “Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has been receiving death threats and such hateful negativity. This isn’t what I stand for. No one should have to experience hate or bullying. I’ve always advocated for kindness and really want this all to stop. [heart emoji].”

Earlier this month, Gomez addressed the situation less directly, writing on TikTok, “Please, please be kinder and consider others mental health. My heart has been heavy and I only want good for everyone. All my love [folded hands emoji].”

That came a couple weeks after Gomez announced she was going to take a break from social media, saying in a live TikTok video, “I’m 30. I’m too old for this… I’m just going to take a break from everything.”

Meanwhile, Gomez recently spoke about new music she’s been working on, saying, “The music I’m doing right now is about real things that I’m walking through. It’s really powerful, strong, and very pop. The theme generally is freedom — freedom from relationships, freedom from the darkness.”

Lana Del Rey’s new album Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is out now, and in the hours since its release, fans have gotten to dissecting the album and sharing their favorite moments on social media. “Fingertips” is a song that’s getting a lot of attention, despite the fact that Del Rey herself thinks it’s “not a good song.”

On her Substack, journalist Hannah Ewens recently shared interview excerpts with Del Rey that were cut from a recent Rolling Stone UK feature. In one of them, Del Rey says of “Fingertips”:

“‘Fingertips’ is not a good song or a big song but it definitely explains everything. I felt like that was important because everyone was always like [whispers], ‘Explain yourself.’ And I was like, ‘OK, let me do this really quickly, I’ll tell you everything I’m thinking in two minutes in a seven-minute song and just rip through it and edit it.’ That song kind of says it all. Between that song and ‘Wildflower Wildfire’ on Blue Banisters, you can get a lot [whispers and laughs] of everything.”

Indeed, it’s a vulnerable track, and that’s what fans love about it. Check out some Twitter reactions below.

Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is out now via Interscope. Find more information here.

(WARNING: Spoilers for this week’s Power Book II: Ghost episode will be found below.)

Tariq is unable, for what feels like the umpteenth time, to wriggle free from the drug game as his future goals and freedom are dependent on his participation in it. In the season three premiere of Power Book II: Ghost, Tariq is only able to enjoy a few moments of a somewhat normal life before his world is blown up once again. Noma, the menacing leader of a global empire who also happened to be the boss and fiancée to the now-slain Mecca, corners Tariq, Cane, and Brayden with the goal of seeking unrelenting revenge for Mecca’s death. Tariq, knowing his involvement in it, is left to do whatever he can to make her happy and save his own life and that means moving and selling Mecca’s massive supply of drugs. Thankfully, he has help from Cane, Brayden, and Effie.

In the second episode of the season, titled “Need Vs. Greed,” the group’s plan to distribute the product to sell in as many different areas is in motion, but not without a few initial disagreement. Tariq and Brayden can’t seem to agree where to sell the drugs with Brayden suggesting that sell to the snobby employees at the Weston family company, something Tariq is extremely against. This moment is one of many that plays into the episodes theme of “need vs. greed.” Are decisions made to fulfill a critical need or to indulge in a desire? What are the consequences of doing or not doing something? It’s clear that Tariq and Brayden generally stand on opposite ends of this concept, but because their lives are at risk with Noma, their short-term needs are more aligned which help them to come to an agreement on how to move forward in the episode.

Elsewhere, Effie tries to find her footing on “need vs. greed” while Lorenzo challenges Cane to take the top spot, and to his surprise, Cane does just that. Lauren has a big decision to make, but her choice may not be needed because Jenny Sullivan, Cooper Saxe, and Blanca Rodriguez are building quite the case against them.

Here are some of the biggest takeaways that we have after season three’s second episode, “Need Vs. Greed”:

Tariq & Brayden Are The Epitome Of Need Vs. Greed

Tariq and Brayden are best friends, there’s no doubt about that. They’ve had great moments together and they’ve had sour ones too. Though they have plenty of similarities, Tariq and Brayden both have big differences that play into the “need vs. greed” theme of this week’s episode. As the show presented it, Tariq needed to sell drugs to fund his mother’s case to get her out of prison. He need to continue doing it to stay on Monet’s good side, and now he needs to do it to avoid being killed by Noma. Sure, Brayden also needs to sell the drugs now in order to not be killed by Noma, but from the very start, Brayden’s participation in the game was by choice. He joined after getting a thrill from the moment and figuring out that he was kind of good at it. So it’s understandable why Brayden is nonchalant in his ask to move some of Mecca’s drugs within the Weston family office and it’s understandable why Tariq is so against it. When Brayden took the fall in Tariq’s drug case, it resulted with him getting a six-figure job while it would’ve put Tariq in jail if he was convicted. The risk is higher for Tariq which makes fulfilling his needs and nothing more, all that more important. Brayden’s greed could help them reach new levels, but it could also hurt them a lot — especially when it involves shaking hands with Rashad Tate.

Lorenzo Played With Fire, But Couldn’t Handle The Burns

You think that a murderer like Lorenzo — whether it be accidental or not — would do a better job of not bringing attention to himself. Throughout “Need Vs. Greed,” he taunts and degrades Cane by citing the numerous reasons he can’t trust. Lorenzo then suggests that the only way Cane can gain his trust back to maybe become the one to take on the family drug empiure is to find Zeke’s killer, but the gag is Lorenezo killed Zeke. It was this moment that we truly see that Lorenzo has no desire to pass the torch to Cane, but we also see how greatly Lorenzo underestimates Cane. Sure, Cane has messed up numerous times over the course of Power Book II: Ghost and sure Cane and Lorenzo may not see eye-to-eye, but this moment showed how much Cane favored all his other children above Cane. Nonetheless, a handful of scenes later, Cane confronts Lorenzo by calling him Zeke’s killer, and though Lorenzo tries to deny it, Cane successfully gets Lorenzo to admit it. Lorenzo played with fire, but couldn’t handle the burns and now he’s under Cane’s blackmail-driven command and who knows where that will lead him to. If Lorenzo was smart, he would’ve done everything in his power (no pun intended) to keep the attention and eyes off him.

Cane Is Just Getting Started

This is the moment that Cane has been waiting for since the first season of Power Book II: Ghost. He played by the rules and broke them in hopes of claiming the next-in-line crown for the family drug organization. He was loyal in some moments and deceitful in others, and yet it didn’t work out in his favor… until now. Following Lorenzo’s direct orders, Cane figures out who murdered Zeke — that being Lorenzo — and uses this discovery to blackmail his dad into moving some of the product that Noma has directed him, Tariq, Cane, and Brayden to distribute. Cane has had several master plans in his attempt to put himself in position to takeover the family business, and while most of them more or less failed prior to this episode, it didn’t stop him from coming up with a new one and trying again. At long last, he’s got everyone right where he wants there, and now, it’s time begin the next phase. Cane is just getting started, and while we’ll have to see how long this lasts, we know he’ll make the most of it in the meantime.

Effie Needs To Be Greedy

Effie is trying to find her footing in this new dynamic between her Tariq, Brayden, and Cane. She doesn’t seem as greedy as Brayden, but she is a bit more needy than Tariq as she needs any and all the drug money she can get in order to pay her school fees at Stansfield. We’ve known Effie to have an all-business-no-play approach, so it’s no surprise that we see her roll her eyes at Tariq and Brayden’s discussions about their plans “blowing up” and the luxury cars they’ll purchase with the money they. This has never been a come-up to Effie, it’s damn near life or death for her. Unlike Tariq and Brayden, if all else fails, there’s not much she can lean on. Brayden has his extremely rich family and Tariq could look to Monet for help. With Effie, her resources are the thinnest out of the group. So when we see her contemplate the re-launch of Course Correct behind Tariq and Brayden’s back, you can kind of understand it. Or when we see her pressure Brayden into keeping quiet about their attempt to kill Lauren, which we know failed, you can also understand it. While this episode leaves us to contemplate need vs. greed, Ellie finds herself on both sides. Her greed is nearly synonymous with her needs and it protects her from damage that no other character will feel if things go wrong. With all that being said, Effie needs to be greedy, and with the way things are looking just two episodes in, it seems like it’s not if things will go wrong, but when.

New episodes of ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ are available on the STARZ app on Fridays at 12:00 am EST and on the STARZ TV channel at 8:00 pm EST.