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Rich Brian kickstarted 2022 with his Brightside EP, his first release since 2020, in January. Uproxx’s April cover star proceeded to become the first Indonesian artist to play a solo set at Coachella, where he debuted his single “Vivid” on the main stage during 88rising’s “Head In The Clouds Forever” set. Brian amplified the “Vivid” hype by playing it at August’s Head In The Clouds Festival at Pasadena, California’s icon Rose Bowl.

Today (November 17), Brian officially released “Vivid” featuring $NOT alongside a cinematic video.

“This song was the result of this one week I started listening to Musiq Soulchild and thought to myself, ‘What if there’s hard-ass 808s on this?’ And turns out, it sounds pretty good,” Brian said of the hypnotic track.

In the video, Brian is alone on a golf course at night. Frowning golf balls are taunting him, matching melancholic guitar and Brian’s lulling flow. Every ball hit off the tee is met by an introspective bar about romantic complications. “Better live your life, lil b*tch, you got no reruns,” he advises in the first verse, which also includes an Instagram-worthy hook, “I don’t do much in a day, that’s why I got these vivid dreams.”

$NOT matches Brian’s energy, never coming into full focus during his frenetic verse. Sandwiched between a dreamlike refrain and another run through the chorus, Brian coolly boasts about being a “regular at the Rose Bowl, Brookside but I ain’t playing golf.”

Brian will take the stage again for Head In The Clouds Jakarta on December 3 and 4.

Watch the “Vivid” video above.

Rich Brian is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Now that Donald Trump is officially running for president again in the least surprising announcement since House of the Dragon was renewed for season two, the world stops and wonders: will two bad neighbors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner move from one mansion in Florida to another mansion in Washington D.C. if he wins?!? Uh, no.

“This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family,” Ivanka wrote in a statement following Trump’s campaign kickoff event. “I do not plan to be involved in politics. While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena.” What she left out was that their decision to stay away from the nation’s capital was due, in part, to Game of Thrones.

From a Vanity Fair profile about Ivanka and Jared’s domesticated life:

They’d just gotten to the episode when King Robert pays a visit to Ned Stark, his good, honorable, loyal, surrogate brother and close counselor. It had been Stark who served as general in the key battles that made Robert king. Stark, too, by this point in the season, had settled into life with his wife and five children. He was content. He needed nothing. He had his family and his fiefdom. King Robert, less so. He wanted Stark back in the fold, as his protector in King’s Landing. The king made pleas and promises. Stark thought about turning him down. Why would he give up a good thing? Stark relents; the pull and the power are too strong. “Yes” is the only answer.

“Don’t f*cking do it, Ned!” Kushner yelled at the screen, knowing what happens to Ned by the end of the season. “Don’t f*cking do it!” That’s the story Kushner has “taken to telling friends who ask whether or not he and Ivanka Trump would go back to Washington should their king win in 2024,” according to Vanity Fair. It’s some real “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” reasoning, except in this case, the fooling involves a mob storming the capitol, attempting to overturn a legal election, and some seriously shady business interactions. Thanks, Ned Stark!

(Via Vanity Fair)

Earlier this year, Margot Robbie made an unexpected cameo in Neighbors, the Australian soap opera that helped the actress get her start all those years ago. The legendary soap opera was ending its nearly 40-year reign on television, and Robbie, now a full-fledged star, stopped by for a beautiful full-circle moment. That is until the show actually got picked up again. So all of that was kind of for nothing!

Amazon announced that they would revive the legendary soap for Amazon Freevee, the free ad-supported service that you’ve probably never heard of. Series stars Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher, Ryan Moloney, and Jackie Woodburne are confirmed to return to the revival which is slated to begin production early next year.

Amazon Studios on-demand programming head Lauren Anderson said:

Neighbours has captivated its audience for nearly 40 years, building a dedicated and loyal following for the lives and stories of the characters on Ramsay Street. With the power of streaming, we’re able to offer a catalogue of thousands of Neighbours episodes for new audiences to discover this legendary series and current fans to relive their favorite moments. We look forward to immersing the audience in new Ramsay Street experiences when we relaunch the show next year for Amazon Freevee and Prime Video customers

The show also helped launch the career of other famous industry titans like Russell Crow and Kyle Minogue. Of course, Robbie likely won’t return as she is busy doing other things like playing Barbie or going on (fictional) coke-binges.

Earlier this month, Saweetie revealed that she has two projects arriving before the end of 2022. “She’s coming,” she told Rolling Stone about Pretty B*tch Music. “She’s still in the womb, I haven’t popped her out. I want to thank my fans for patiently waiting. It’s been a year. It’s been a while. I’ve been recording officially for a year, non-stop.”

She’s finally here with new material. Today, she debuted “Don’t Say Nothin’” on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Premiere. It comes from her forthcoming project The Single Life, which is six songs long and arriving tomorrow, November 18. The track was teased earlier this year at Rolling Loud Miami.

In that same Rolling Stone interview, she also shared, “I’m excited to share what I went through. I think as I was making it, I was more proud to be single. Because I realized that I was growing, I realized that I was elevating. And I realized that I was becoming a better woman.”

Listen to “Don’t Say Nothin’” below, and find The Single Life tracklist underneath it.

1. “Don’t Say Nothin’”
2. “Boss Chick”
3. “P.U.S.S.Y. (Powerful, Utopia, Supreme, Sacred, Yummy)”
4. “Handle My Truth”
5. “Memorable”
6. “No Reception”

The Single Life is out 11/18 via ICY/Warner Records.

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

Matthew McConaughey is, above all else, a Texas Longhorns fan. Ok, that’s not true — he wears a lot of different hats — but the man’s wardrobe includes a lot of burnt orange to celebrate his alma mater. He’s spent some time in Austin as a professor and is a fixture on the sidelines of Longhorn sporting events.

All if this is important context for why the video on the top of this post exists. As Chris Deville of Stereogum noted, McConaughey has done a lot of stuff recently around the phrase “bless the mood,” a reference to the university’s recently-opened basketball arena, the Moody Center. (Do you get it?)

The newest example of this is a video he released to his YouTube account on Wednesday called “Bless the Mood,” which appears to double as a hype video for the 2022-23 Longhorns basketball season. There’s some rapping or singing or some blend of the two by the Oscar winner, and there are a lot of highlights of Texas basketball players doing the stuff you normally expect in one of these things.

Anyway, for how silly this all is, perhaps its release provided the Longhorns a spark on Wednesday night when they played host to the Gonzaga Bulldogs. While the Zags entered the game ranked No. 2 in the country, 11th-ranked Texas ran them out of the building in a 93-74 win.

Today (November 17) is all about Brockhampton. The Kevin Abstract-led group released a new album, The Family, this morning. The album was previously billed as their final release, but actually, it turns out they have another new project, TM, set to drop tonight (à la Frank Ocean.) The group has gotten some post-Family-pre-TM promotion in, though, with a new video for The Family standout “RZA.”

While Abstract is the only Brockhampton member to appear on The Family, the whole group is present for the “RZA” visual, in which they take to a mountain-flanked valley and unload bullets into a couch.

In a letter shared today, Abstract wrote of The Family, “I feel like whoever is reading this — whoever has been with Brockhampton since the beginning deserves some sort of closure. The album is an attempt at that. Thanks for giving us a chance. For holding me up. Holding me down. For being everything I needed when I was just some n**** from Texas. I still am. Yeah, this show is over, but the furnace is still glowing. What a blessing this has been.”

Watch the “RZA” video above.

The Family is out now via Question Everything/RCA Records. Get it here.

Crypto evangelists have been scrambling this week in the wake of the collapse of FTX, the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange after FTX declared bankruptcy on November 11. It’s kind of a long, involved story, but the long and short of it is, the thing crypto skeptics had been predicting since the rise of cryptocurrency and the subsequent “tulip mania” that descended on blockchain faithful in the last couple of years finally happened.

And while many are feeling a very well-deserved sense of schadenfreude at the misfortune of the tech bros who burned the equivalent of several dozen rainforests on Monopoly money, there have been wide-reaching consequences for the regular folks who bought into all this nonsense, mainly by way of joining the NFT craze. For instance, Coachella fans who bought the festival’s NFTs — which supposedly offered lifetime passes and other luxury accommodations — are apparently unable to access them, according to Billboard.

About $1.5 million worth of Coachella NFTs — which lived on the FTX exchange servers — are supposedly “disabled” as a result of FTX’s implosion, leaving those fans in the lurch. Coachella reps told the buyers via Discord, “We have assembled an internal team to come up with solutions based on the tools we have access to. Our priority is getting Coachella NFTs off of FTX, which appears to be disabled at the moment.” However, they also admitted, “We do not currently have any lines of communication with the FTX team.”

While Coachella is “actively working on solutions” and is “confident we’ll be able to protect the interests of Coachella’s NFT holders,” according to Coachella innovation lead Sam Schoonover, the outlook is bleak for the time being.

Marc Maron, podcaster extraordinaire and coiner of the phrase “human centipede in Austin,” is gearing up to film his first HBO comedy special. Finally? Yes, finally. The master of GLOW ceremonies and the sort-of Joker actor (I feel like he might appreciate that one) regularly discusses his comedy sets on his WTF show. He’s a freaking stand-up veteran and has been doing this since the late 1980s (at least).

From there, it’s a real head scratcher to fathom how he hasn’t previously come together with HBO for an official comedy special, but it’s time to make up for lost time. As Variety first reported, Maron’s special will tape on December 8 during a live set at at New York City’s Town Hall. The special will be in your living room sometime in 2023.

In a press release, Executive VP of HBO Programming Nina Rosenstein declared that this “[t]his long overdue collaboration is an extra special one for us.” She called the set “deeply personal and darkly funny,” and here’s what Maron added:

“I’ve wanted to do an HBO special my entire life. Literally my entire life. Not since I started doing comedy, but since I started watching comedy as a kid. It was where the real comedy happened. Always. I’m honored to be working with them. It’s been a hard few years and the hour I’ve been working on is very provocative and personal. I trust HBO to present it properly because they have the courage to have a point of view as a network. AND they get the deep funny.”

On the personal and “hard” note, Maron is certainly alluding to the sudden 2020 death of girlfriend Lynn Shelton. He’s been real about the tragic subject on his podcast and will likely be even more so about the process of grief. Obviously, he’ll still be bitingly funny in this special. Hopefully, we’ll hear more about his “time with The Sandman.” Hint, hint.

In mid-October, Maron let it slip that he scouted locations for “my HBO special” and that he enjoyed “avoiding the Comedy Cellar” during his recent NYC voyage. Mission accomplished.

(Via Variety)

Pete Davidson made his first appearance on the November 17 episode of The Kardashians, which was a little awkward considering he and Kim Kardashian had already broken up back in August. Nevertheless, the obviously pre-recorded episode offered a rare inside glimpse into their whirlwind tabloid romance.

While the couple dominated headlines with their appearance at the 2022 MET Gala (thanks in no small part to the drama over Kim wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress), the two had actually met the year before at the 2021 MET gala. As the episode reveals, Davidson tried to make a move during that first meeting, but Kim politely shot him down with a creative excuse.

“Remember when I asked for your number at the last Met and you pretended that you couldn’t give it to me because you had gloves on?” Davidson said to Kim before admitting that he admired the move. Via E! News:

Looking back on Kim’s answer, Pete continued, “It was actually the nicest excuse ever. I knew it was an excuse, but I remember being in the car being like, ‘Wow, she knows how to, like, make someone feel really good about themselves.’ I thought that was really sweet.”

Kim noted, “Aww. Had only I had known.”

Sadly, their romance wasn’t meant to be. While Kim has yet to be linked to a new partner, Davidson’s name comes up practically every single time there’s a celebrity breakup thanks to his now-confirmed BDE. Heck, even Martha Stewart wants a crack at him, but she’s going to have to wait her turn. Davidson is reportedly seeing model Emily Ratajkowski at the time of this writing.

(Via E! News)

If four more years of Donald Trump as president is the most terrifying thing you can possibly imagine, Jimmy Kimmel is here to up the ante: Picture four more years of Trump with kooky, crazy-eyed Marjorie Taylor Greene — who has randomly started appointing herself to committees — as his vice president.

Yes, that is the sound of millions of Americans screaming at the very top of their lungs simultaneously.

Fortunately, it’s just a theory — at least for now — but Kimmel raised the heart rates of practically all his viewers on Wednesday night when he suggested that the conspiracy theory-loving Georgia congresswoman’s obnoxious attempts to very publicly kiss Trump’s dumpy ass could all be in the name of securing the second most powerful position in the country.

Even before Trump officially announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, many of his former accomplices were making their allegiances known — and not all of them were with their former boss. According to Kimmel, among those who seem to be bailing on the twice-impeached former president are his daughter Ivanka and even wife Melania, who was spotted entering Trump Tower in Manhattan just hours after her husband’s big announcement. “But there are still plenty of swamp creatures onboard for round two,” said Kimmel. “Trump picked up a key endorsement… before he even threw his wig in the ring.”

That show of solidarity, of course, came from none other than Greene, Miss Jewish Space Lasers herself, who was happy to confirm that “President Trump has my FULL endorsement and my support as our Republican nominee in 2024.”

We should probably all wait and make sure he’s not indicted first, but Kimmel went along with it:

Ok, so he’s got one vote. I think I know why she’s doing this: We know Mike Pence isn’t going to be running mate again. His own vice president won’t even endorse Trump; Pence says he thinks Republicans have better choices. So maybe this goblin named Marjorie Taylor Greene is hoping she gets the nod!

Kimmel even went so far as to mock up a possible ad campaign for Marge, highlighting the many things she has in common with Trump — including a frighteningly weak grasp on both reality and the English language.

You can watch the clip above, beginning around the 8:00 mark.