GloRilla and her gritty Memphis sound are hot right now; everyone seems to want a piece, including Ciara: Ciara announced on Wednesday via Instagram that the “FNF” rapper would be hopping on the remix to her recently released collaboration with Summer Walker, “Better Thangs.”
In the short clip, Ciara looks very dreamy while a snippet of the new track plays in the background.
“Anything I tell myself is possible, is possible!” she wrote. “That Glo flow!! wow!” @glorillapimp @SummerWalker #BetterThangsRemix 11/4″
GloRilla confirmed the information by tweeting, “Better thangs remix 11/4,” and tagging Ciara and Walker in the post, complete with fire and trophy emojis.
The remix, along with the original track and her latest song, “Jump,” will presumably be part of Ciara’s highly anticipated upcoming album. The singer recently said she was returning to her dance roots for the upcoming project.
“There’s so much energy in this album because I want to make the world dance — that’s always been my thing,” Ciara told Ebony. “It’s the tempo and beat I’ve been moving to in my music and the key sentiments I’ve poured into this album. There is an R&B core in these records. To be honest, this album feels nostalgic. It takes me back to my first album in a way that no project I’ve done to this point has before.”
So far, Ciara has not released an album title or release date.
Meet Pap Chanel, the rapper from Milledgeville, Georgia, who has racked up an impressive fanbase since her 2015 debut. On her rise to the top, Pap has worked with T.I., Trina, Lil Baby, and more, also amassing millions of listeners on Spotify. But her impact doesn’t stop there. You can listen to some of Pap’s catalog on Starz’s P-Valley, Hulu’s Woke, BET’s College Hill, and Madden NFL 23.
Today she performs her viral hit, “Apple Jacks,” a freestyle sampling from C-Murder’s classic “Down For My N****s.” She doesn’t waste time or energy with today’s Sessions performance. Not only does she start her performance on a high as soon as the track plays, dollar signs populate her entire outfit, living up to her name and group she started in middle school, Pap, which stands for pretty and paid.
Watch Pap Chanel perform “Apple Jacks” for UPROXX Sessions above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
I didn’t think I’d want to watch a fake biopic, especially not one about a real guy in whom I’m actually interested — which is whatWeird: The Al Yankovic Story basically is, a parody biopic about a parody musician. And yet, in throwing out almost everything real, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, strangely cuts right to the quick of the entire musical biopic genre. This is a better movie, a more honest reflection of its subject than Bohemian Rhapsody, parody or not.
Weird, from director Eric Appel, co-written by Yankovic, seems to know intuitively that it’s not actually insight into the subject that biopic audiences are after (assuming biopics sanctioned by the subject’s estate could ever even offer that, most don’t), or to see the subject as a metaphor for the American dream, or whatever. It’s simpler than that. We want to hear them play the hits. And maybe that’s less reductive and more pure than trying to dissect Johnny Cash or whoever in order to find the genius button.
The trailer was cute, of course, but I honestly didn’t know how long I’d be able to watch a series of (deliberately) dopey sketches about a series of dopey songs. And yet Weird ended up being not just cute or funny, but strangely thrilling, in the way earnest biopics are supposed to be. Even with loads of bullshit in between, fake origin stories for songs that consist entirely of Weird Al changing the lyrics of a hit pop song so that it’s about breakfast now, I still got the same weird goosebumps as when Eazy E nails the first line of “Boyz N Tha Hood” in Straight Outta Compton. I’m serious, actual goosebumps, at the sight of Daniel Radcliffe as a mall Santa version of Weird Al (as in, bearing all the identifiable totems of the persona but not really going for verisimilitude) leading a biker bar in “I Love Rocky Road.”
Why does this happen? Sure, partly it’s the same thrill of recognition Marvel piggies get when their favorite Millennium Kid makes a cameo in the new Galaxy Fox movie, but I also think there’s something about watching someone carve order from chaos. That there’s something weirdly gratifying about knowing exactly how a song is going to turn out and then having to wait for the characters themselves to discover it. It’s like watching a baby learn to walk. There’s an ineffable brilliance to a song, that, on some level, trying to explain only cheapens. It’s very reptilian brained to like music in the first place. Music is math, but it’s also magic. We’re all kind of snake charming each other. People quote musicians as fonts of sage wisdom, as if in our inherent superstitiousness we’re constantly tricking ourselves into believing that the vibrations wizard must know the universe’s secrets. It’s preposterous, but universally human.
Tonally, Weird matches the appeal of Weird Al’s music perfectly. Starring Rainn Wilson as a ClipArt version of parody song impresario Dr. Demento, who always wears his trademark tux and tophat, and who in this world is as culturally important as Wolfman Jack (played by Jack Black), Alfred Yankovic (Radcliffe, who I used to hate reflexively but has finally won me over) spends his life trying to please his dour factory worker father (Toby Huss), encouraged by his mother (the always fantastic Julianne Nicholson), while hiding his true passion — to become “not the technically best, but the most famous accordion player in a very specific genre.”
Evan Rachel Wood plays Madonna, and in a movie where most of the celebrity impressions succeed by not trying very hard, Wood is spooky-accurate in a way that feels almost accidental.
Above all, Weird is constantly riding that line between too-stupid-to-be-funny and so-stupid-it’s-hilarious. It doesn’t even try to make you believe that it’s actually Daniel Radcliffe singing, which, rather than taking you out of the action, only focuses the attention more on the extraordinary adroitness of Weird Al’s rubber-band voice (always his secret weapon).
There’s a conceptual purity to Weird Al, in his refusal to ever be serious or earnest for even a single second. It’s hard to maintain that kind of thing, and yet he has, which has allowed him to become a myth, the class clown instinct personified. To delve beyond the facade would ruin the show. Weird is perfect because it never does. We get a few snapshots of the real Weird Al over the credits, just like we would with any straight biopic, only here they quickly descend into a series of silly photoshops. Just as it should be.
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ premieres exclusively on the Roku Channel November 4th.Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can read more of his reviews here.
Today, the “Sweetest Pie” singer took to social media to clear up some apparent misconceptions about the case with her label. “No judge has ruled anything abt this 1501 case, this information is not accurate,” she wrote in a tweet. “the court date for this isn’t even until DECEMBER 12TH … we HAVE NOT went to court and got a summary judgment. Please stop spreading misinformation thanks.”
No judge has ruled anything abt this 1501 case, this information is not accurate the court date for this isn’t even until DECEMBER 12TH … we HAVE NOT went to court and got a summary judgment. Please stop spreading misinformation thanks
In August, after filing her lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment, she also declared that she demanded $1 million in damages from the label. This was after the label countersued her, asserting that Something For Thee Hotties did not count as an album on her contract because it was not made up of all original material. This countersuit blames Roc Nation, Megan’s management company, for “trying to persuade its management clients to leave their record labels.”
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Avatar: The Way of Water will finally arrive (on December 16), 13 years after the first movie ignited a box-office storm and prompted discussions of whether motion-capture-and-CGI-boosted performances should be Oscar eligible. This event will have followed several years of head-scratching reactions about why one of the reported sequel titles happens to be The Seed Bearer, but here we are. Cameron has long-promised that Avatar II will blow audiences away to the point where they will “sh*t yourself with your mouth wide open,” so that’s something to look forward to experiencing. In 3D, no less.
There’s more to anticipate with Cameron’s return to Pandora. The cast (which includes several lead returning members) stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, along with Kate Winslet, Jemaine Clement, Edie Falco, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, and CCH Pounder. Also expect plenty of breath-holding action, given that Saldana competed with her fellow cast members in a relevant competition and only landed in third place after maintaining a five-minute stint. That’s nuts, but Kate Winslet actually bested Tom Cruise with her record. No thank you.
The movie promises more stunning visuals, which you can see in the below trailer.
Be warned that this film arrives with a reported runtime of over 3 hours. Audiences may grumble if this is an accurate factoid, given that the first movie remains the highest grossing movie in cinematic history. And as with the first film, characters will plop their consciousness into an Avatar, meaning that they’ll be maneuvering from within a Na’vi body. Here are more details via the film’s synopsis:
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie pushed his Me Vs. Myself album release to December to avoid stacking up against Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss, but A Boogie’s competitive spirit is alive and well in “Ballin,” his vibey new single that first debuted yesterday in NBA 2K23and officially released today (November 3).
“I’m a gamer. I spend way too much time playing 2K, it’s my favorite game,” A Boogie said in a press statement. “With this single, I wanted to give my fans a chance to first hear ‘Ballin’ in NBA2K. To be featured on the soundtrack for this season is big for me. I hope my fans enjoy it and all the gamers out there who play NBA2K everyday like me also enjoy listening to the song in the game.”
A Boogie’s flow is as buttery as a Steph Curry jump shot. And, of course, the track features a Curry name-drop in the first verse: “Got my hoodie on like / Melo in the garden / Got my money up / I’m ballin’ like LeBron son / They want me to lose my breath / So I got to watch my step / Two 30s on my hip / I call ’em Steph and Seth.”
“Ballin” follows fellow Me Vs. Myself singles “Take Shots” featuring Tory Lanez and “BRO (Better Ride Out)” featuring Roddy Ricch.
Watch the visualizer above.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Philadelphia 76ers have struggled out of the gate during the 2022-23 NBA season, as the team sits at 4-5 after being a popular pick during the preseason to be a contender in the Eastern Conference. One of the brightest spots through the first nine games has been the play of James Harden, who has showed signs of getting back to form after underwhelming after the team pulled off a deal at the trade deadline to acquire this services.
But according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the All-NBA guard is headed to the sidelines for a spell. Wojnarowski reports that Harden suffered a right foot tendon sprain, and as a result, he will be relegated to the bench for the next month or so.
ESPN Sources: Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden has suffered right foot tendon strain and is expected to miss a month. pic.twitter.com/LHEIucfbFj
It is unclear when Harden suffered the injury. On Wednesday night, Harden played 35 minutes in Philadelphia’s 121-111 loss to the Washington Wizards. He has appeared in every game the Sixers have played this season, and has led the team with 22 points, 10 assists, and seven rebounds in 36.8 minutes a night — he is the team’s leader in assists, is second to Joel Embiid in rebounding, and sits in third behind Embiid and Tyrese Maxey in scoring.
James Corden was already accused of stealing from Ricky Gervais this week, and though he admitted his fault there the Late Late Show host isn’t out of the woods on joke controversies just yet. In light of the accusations he took a punchline from a Gervais special, apparently inadvertently at least, another joke from years earlier has been given new light thanks to some fans of comedian Noel Fielding’s work.
As The Independent detailed on Thursday, Corden’s late-night catalog has faced some deeper investigation in the wake of Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show, in which Corden made a joke about Elon Musk buying Twitter that had the same guitar lesson-based plot Gervais had used in the past. Corden was quick to admit the joke was Gervais’s, and the latter speculated that a Late Late Show writer was likely influenced by his work. But it’s not the only time a joke has appeared very similar to another comedian’s material.
Corden, who at one point was banned from a restaurant for being mean to its staff, is now accused of borrowing material of Noel Fielding who, depending on what you watch on TV, is either most notable as a host of the Great British Baking Show or one of the unhinged lunatics behind A Mighty Boosh. The controversy dates back to a joke Fielding made in 2010, which can be found on YouTube.
During his set, Fielding had joked that the best way to stop someone from mugging you was to whisper, “Oi, mate,” which he suggested would make the attacker put down their knife and ask, “What is it?”
In 2017, Corden said during an interview on The Late Late Show that he finds the best way to avoid being mugged is to whisper to the robber, “You’re never going to believe what’s happened.” He said the culprit would put down their weapon and say, “What?”
At the time, Fielding replied to a fan who accused Corden of stealing his joke, writing: “I believe this is my material x.”
Fielding’s joke starts around the 4:30 mark of this video, from the 2010 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. The setup is much longer than Corden’s quip, as the whisper material becomes central to Fielding’s stand-up routine at Just For Laughs. And while it’s not as word-for-word as Corden’s mishap with Gervais, it’s hard to argue against the jokes being very similar.
Unlike Monday’s controversy over Gervais, which drew a swift apology from Corden via the show’s Twitter account, the Late Late Show host has yet to address Fielding’s material just yet. Which is kind of ironic, as his show actually did a Great British Baking Show parody on Halloween night, the same day Corden’s first joke controversy was sparked.
GBBO HALLOWEEN EDITION with Freddy Kreuger, Pinhead (played by Fred Armisen), Regan MacNeil from “The Exorcist” and @joshgad! pic.twitter.com/uI0Q27oOvz
— The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) November 1, 2022
We’ll have to wait and see what Corden says about this one, but it’s yet another weird controversy for the host to deal with in what’s becoming a very long year for him online.
Well, today is the day! After months of Netflix teasing and threatening that it would be introducing ads for a lower price point, this week, Netflix added their ad-supported tier for $6.99 a month… even though they said for years they would never have ads, but hey, people change! So do million-dollar companies too, evidently.
The only problem (well, there are a few problems but we don’t have time to dissect all of them) is that the shiny new plan doesn’t work for anyone with an Apple TV. They really tried though, and you have to give them credit for rushing to get ads on there instead of spending all that money churning out another season of Stranger Things before the cast is old enough to collect social security checks.
Apple TV owners who might have been itching to try out the new cheaper plan will have to wait a little longer. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson said, “Basic with ads plan support on tvOS is not available at launch but coming soon.” We all know that when Netflix says “soon” it could mean anything from a few months to years, so that’s fun.
The fumble isn’t a huge surprise, since the ad-supported subscription was originally supposed to launch in 2023, and Netflix scrambled to get it out in time for the holidays when their main competitor Disney+ is also introducing ads. Ads! For everyone! All the time!
As of right now, Apple TV users who wish to try out the new plan will either have to use it on a different device or upgrade to a more expensive plan with no ads. Maybe this was their plan all along–to get people to pay for more plans! How many times can YOU use the word “plan” in a sentence?!
Anderson Valley/Elysian/Rogue/East Brother/istock/Uproxx
If you’re at all familiar with the craft beer world, you’ve probably seen the term “oatmeal stout” before. It’s a common designation that simply means that, on top of the usual barley, the style includes a large percentage of oats in its mash. While that doesn’t necessarily make it taste like the oatmeal porridge you had for breakfast, it does create a creamier, smoother stout, which also has the roasted barley, coffee, and chocolate flavors you’d expect from a stout.
Popular in the 1800s and then largely gone by the mid-1900s, it wasn’t until Samuel Smith released an oatmeal stout back in 1978 that the style began to (re)gain popularity. Since then, the oatmeal stout has become popular enough that you could probably find a hundred or more if you looked hard enough.
Whatever your beer preference, November is a great time of year to dive into this historical style — hearty, warming, full-flavored and probably not as filling as most people imagine. To help get you started, this week I chose eight great oatmeal stouts (including the aforementioned Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout) and ranked them based on flavor and balance. Keep reading to see them all.
Brewed with Nugget hops as well as 2-row, Chocolate malts, Vienna malts, roasted barley, and of course oats, Oatis is known for its roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and light hops. This 7% ABV oatmeal stout is available year-round but shines in the fall.
Tasting Notes:
Coffee, chocolate, raisins, and roasted malts, but not much else. The palate continues this trend with more roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate, and the addition of slightly herbal, earthy hops. Overall, not a bad beer by any means, just not very exciting. Fairly simple.
Bottom Line:
This beer isn’t lacking anything specifically. It’s just a little lighter in flavor than I’d hope for an oatmeal stout. A little watery for my liking.
You might wonder why a beer from Oregon named itself after William Shakespeare. Well, Rogue Ales was originally founded in Ashland, home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. One of the first beers ever brewed by Rogue, this beer has been available since 1988.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of dark chocolate, coffee beans, roasted malts, light smoke, and pine needles greet your nostrils. The palate is all vanilla, roasted malts, coffee, and dark chocolate. It’s flavorful, but a little one-dimensional. It could use a little more balance between malts and hops.
Bottom Line:
If you’re looking for a smooth, roasted malt, coffee-filled beer without any other major distinguishable flavors, this is the beer for you. Otherwise, keep looking.
Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout is the OG oatmeal stout, having its genesis in the late 1970s. This 5% ABV stout is made with traditional ingredients including well water, cane sugar, malted barley, hops, roasted malts, and oatmeal.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of dark chocolate, coffee, burnt sugar, roasted malts, and sweet oats draw you in. Drinking it reveals more coffee, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, and dried fruits. It’s creamy, silky, and easy to drink. Its only downfall is that it’s a little thin.
Bottom Line:
Perhaps it’s because of the low ABV, but Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout is a bit muted and thin for a fall beer.
You might not have ever heard of Oliver Brewing BMore Breakfast, but you definitely should. This Baltimore-based brewery makes a variety of high-quality beers and one of its best is its 6% ABV oatmeal stout, loaded with coffee, chocolate, and roasted malts.
Tasting Notes:
The nose centers on roasted malts, caramel, dark chocolate, and a ton of freshly-brewed coffee aromas. The bittersweet flavor profile is filled with more roasty, toasty malts, toffee, very light coffee, bitter chocolate, and some licorice. Great beer but could definitely use more coffee flavor as it’s listed as a breakfast beer.
Bottom Line:
This is a creamy, chocolate, and roasted malt-filled stout. The only downfall is that while it starts off with a big coffee aroma, the palate doesn’t continue that trend.
This bold, 8.1% ABV imperial oatmeal stout is brewed with Pale, Munich, Chocolate, and C-77 malts as well as roasted barley and roasted oats. It gets its floral, slightly bitter flavor from the addition of Magnum, Cascade, and Centennial hops.
Tasting Notes:
Roasted malts, caramel, bready malts, and lightly floral hops are prevalent on the nose. While there isn’t a ton going on with the nose, the palate makes up for it with sweet malts, freshly-baked bread, roasted malts, brown sugar, caramel, vanilla, dried fruits, all with a gentle, semi-sweet bitterness at the very end that leaves you craving more.
Bottom Line:
Elysian Dragonstooth Stout is a beer that proves that less is more. It’s very simple on the nose and palate, but that totally works for this beer. It’s bold, rich, robust, and heavily warming on a cool fall night.
If you’re a fan of Great Lakes Brewing, you probably enjoy its Edmund Fitzgerald porter and its wintry Christmas Ale, but we suggest starting fall right with its Ohio City oatmeal stout. This roasty, warming seasonal beer is brewed with 2-row, Crystal 77, Chocolate, and Black malts as well as flaked oats. It gets its hoppy bitterness from the addition of Willamette hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find bitter chocolate, butterscotch, wintry spices, coffee, and roasted malts. The palate is a symphony of roasted coffee beans, toasted malts, caramel, vanilla, and lightly bitter hops. The finish is creamy and semi-sweet.
Bottom Line:
Great Lakes Ohio City is a great example of an oatmeal stout done right. It’s slightly sweet, slightly bitter, and effortlessly creamy.
While Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout is available year-round, it drinks the best in the fall. Brewed with oats and a variety of malts, it gets its bitter, earthy, herbal flavor from the addition of Chinook and Northern Brewer hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of dried fruits, freshly baked bread, roasted malts, coffee beans, and rich chocolate. The palate follows suit with candied cherries, sticky toffee, bitter chocolate, and lightly floral, bitter hops tying everything together. The finish is a velvety creamy mix of sweetness and bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This award-winning beer is sublimely well-balanced with roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, and dried fruits pairing nicely with Northwest hops.
Richmond, California’s East Brother is a brewery you should know about. They don’t rely on flashy labels, they rely on well-made, flavorful beer. This is especially true with its award-winning East Brother Oatmeal Stout. This English-style oatmeal stout is known for its mix of roasted malts, chocolate, and coffee.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of sweet oats, dried fruits, chocolate, coffee beans, toffee, and floral hops greet you before your first sip. Chocolate, coffee, and roasted malts continue into the palate with raisins, bready malts, licorice, and oats making an appearance as well. The finish is creamy, sweet, and memorable.
Bottom Line:
Nobody will fault you for grabbing a sixer of oatmeal stout made by a big-name brand, but we challenge you to try beer from a smaller brewery like East Brother from time to time instead. You’ll be happy you did.
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11/4 @ciara @IAMSUMMERWALKER
(@GloTheofficial) November 3, 2022
the court date for this isn’t even until DECEMBER 12TH … we HAVE NOT went to court and got a summary judgment. Please stop spreading misinformation thanks 
