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Wisin y Yandel are saying farewell as a duo with their last album La Última Misión that was released today (September 30). The Puerto Rican icons teamed up acts like Rosalía, Sean Paul, and J Balvin for their final hurrah.

Wisin y Yandel formed as a duo in 1998. Alongside Daddy Yankee, they helped reggaeton music reach a global audience during the genre’s first breakthrough in the 2000s. Outside of the duo, Wisin and Yandel have also gone to have successful solo careers. After reuniting in 2018, el dúo dinámico are ready to part ways once again with the La Última Misión album and their world tour of the same name.

Wisin y Yandel are going out with a bang with the La Última Misión album. The LP’s title in English translates to “The Final Mission.” Today, they also released the alluring music video for “Besos Moja2” featuring Rosalía. Wisin y Yandel revisited their 2009 hit “Besos Mojados” with the Spanish pop star. During the reggaeton track’s breakdown, Rosalía added a flamenco-infused kick to the mix.

Jamaican superstar Sean Paul joined Wisin y Yandel for the feel-good love song “No Sales de Mi Cabeza.” Ex-Plan B member Chencho Corleone, who has recently scored hits with Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro, jumped on the duo’s alluring anthem “Party y Alcohol.”

J Balvin, who Wisin y Yandel inspired to become a reggaeton star, dropped in for the dreamy “La Realidad.” Among the new wave of reggaeton artists who featured on the album include Alejandro, Jhayco, Sech, and Jay Wheeler. Wisin y Yandel also dabbled in bachata music alongside Dominican-American pop star Prince Royce in “Un Ladrón.”

The US leg of Wisin y Yandel’s La Última Misión World Tour kicks off tonight in Miami. The tour wraps in late December with 14 concerts taking place in the duo’s native Puerto Rico.

La Última Misión is out now via Sony Music Latin. Listen to it here.

The result of Thursday night’s game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami Dolphins came second to the status of Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. During the second quarter of the 27-15 Bengals victory, Tagovailoa dropped back and got sacked, which led to him immediately showing symptoms of a concussion. He was put onto a stretcher and taken to a local medical facility, where he was diagnosed with head and neck injuries before getting released and returning to Miami with his teammates.

The incident came on the heels of Tagovailoa getting pushed to the ground against the Buffalo Bills the prior Sunday, and after getting up and walking several steps, his legs gave out and he went to the ground. He was taken to the back, and after it was announced that he cleared concussion protocol, reports indicated he suffered back injury.

The whole thing is scary, and in the eyes of ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, there need to be consequences for how all of this went down. Smith went onto Friday’s edition of First Take and indicated that, in his eyes, the bare minimum is that someone is suspended.

“Somebody needs to be fired,” Smith said. “Now, I don’t know who, but somebody got to go. At the very least, a suspension. Now, I don’t know if it was the doctors and the trainers that examined him at halftime of the Buffalo game, put him back in. I don’t know if it’s additional medical personnel that were involved that gave the OK for him to be on the field last night.”

Smith then went into some of the science behind what happens when a person suffers multiple concussions in the span of a few days, before saying that he has major doubts that Tagovailoa suffered a back injury against Buffalo because “I didn’t see him hold his back, I didn’t see him put his arm to his back, not one time Sunday.”

“I saw him get up, I saw that gross mobile instability, he got up, and he damn near collapsed right back down,” Smith said. “I’m looking at Mike McDaniel, the coach, I’m wondering what the hell are you thinking. Now, some people would say, ‘Hey, you’re the coach, if the medical staff gives you the OK to play a player, then you go ahead and you play the player. But you’re a human being, you’ve got two eyes, you know what you saw out there.”

Smith also called on the NFLPA and the NFL to continue their respective investigations, while he also believes a level of accountability among Tagovailoa’s teammates, who he argues should have stepped in to prevent him from continuing to play.

“No one is safe here, somebody needs to be suspended at the minimum, possibly fired,” Smith said. “And everybody as an organization within the Miami Dolphins, as far as I’m concerned, got their hands dirty in all of this, because you allowed this dude to get out on that field after you saw what happened this past Sunday.”

Of all the shows available to binge-watch, Modern Family is one of the best. The show has won and been nominated for dozens of awards, it enjoyed a 250-episode run, and it’s streaming on Hulu. It turns out the ABC comedy is Post Malone’s binge show of choice for chilling out on tour.

In a new GQ interview, Malone was asked how he relaxes on the road and he said:

“I watch literally every episode of Modern Family every single day. Every day, I start on season one, episode one, and then by the time I go to bed… Because I just leave it on as background noise, as well, whenever I’m not even deliberately watching. But by the time I fall asleep, I’m done with season eight already. I’m like, ‘Where does the time go?’ I don’t understand.”

Posty’s passion for the Dunphy’s et al. is endearing, but his claim is hard to believe.

As aforementioned, Modern Family ran for 250 episodes, and at an average length of 22 minutes per episode, that’s 5,500 total minutes, or over 91 hours, across the whole series. One day here on Earth, as you may have heard, is 24 hours (pretty much, anyway). As for Malone’s claim that he’s “done with season eight” by the time he falls asleep, that too is not likely. There are 188 episodes in the show’s first eight seasons, which run for about 4,136 minutes, or about 69 hours. So, while that’s nice, it sure doesn’t seem possible (assuming that Malone lacks the ability to control the flow of time).

However, there are actually ways Malone could actually watch the whole show in a waking day; let’s call it 14 hours, assuming 8 hours of sleep. If he watched the show at 7-times speed, he could knock it out in around 13 hours. Alternately, he could just watch 7 episodes at once and breeze through the series that way. There’s also the possibility that Malone has a different idea of what he considers a “day” to be. On Venus, for example, a day lasts for 5,832 hours.

So, to answer Malone’s question (“Where does the time go?”), it’s really hard to say.

“Unholy” by Sam Smith and Kim Petras has been a major song for the second half of this year after blowing up on TikTok in August and then finally being released this month. Today, they’re back with a video for the mischievous hit.

The video doesn’t hesitate to dive into the track’s intense themes of adultery. Not only is it as raunchy as possible without being explicit, but it’s also full of pearls and intricate dance choreography and smoke and poles. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a song that’s already so cinematic on its own.

About the song, Smith said, “‘Unholy’… was one of the most glorious creative moments I’ve ever had as an artist. I’ve never had so much fun making a record. It was so cathartic and freeing to experiment like this and throw out the rule book. It has also been an honor to work with Kim and get to witness her brilliance. This song is about liberating oneself from the clutches of others’ secrets…” Petras said that Smith “really believed in me and encouraged me to be totally myself” She added, “I feel so honored that they chose me to be on this song.”

Watch the video for “Unholy” above.

Earlier this week, Jordan Peterson broke down crying (twice) after Piers Morgan asked him to comment on Olivia Wilde calling him a “pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community” while revealing that Chris Pine’s character in Don’t Worry Darling is based on the former professor who made a name for himself by attacking the transgender community. Between tears Peterson referred to himself as a “net force for good” who reaches out to “lonesome” men who have been rejected by “very picky” women. It’s a specious description for Peterson’s controversial talking points, but it apparently made a believer out of Megyn Kelly.

While hosting the equally right-wing commentator, Ben Shapiro, Kelly launched into an impassioned defense of Peterson’s audience who get treated as “some sort of demon” because they turned to him for what Kelly claims are “mental health problems.” Kelly then blasted Wilde for going after Peterson with Don’t Worry Darling. Via The Wrap:

“So screw her! As somebody who was at the inception of the #MeToo movement, I think I can say what those of us who were there at the beginning. And by the way, Olivia Wilde, you were not one of them, OK? You were not there. It was about just stopping men from making sexual favors at the office, a condition of advancement…. It was never meant to bastardize men writ large. That’s what people like her are doing, and it’s having a serious negative effect.”

In Kelly’s defense, she did play a prominent role in bringing down Roger Ailes’ reign of terror at Fox News. However, her sudden concern for mental health (and feminism) ring hollow. Just last year, she blasted the U.S. Tennis Association for providing “quiet rooms” after Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open to protect her mental health.

“Good Lord please never let the snowflakes who need this sign up for our military,” Kelly tweeted. However, the tweet blew up in Kelly’s face when her replies were filled with people pointing out that the United States Marine Corps has been proving quiet rooms for over 20 years. Whoops.

(Via The Wrap)

Much like his good buddy Donald Trump, who — patriot he is — claimed that the greatest part about being president was the added fame and rich friends it bought him, Rudy Giuliani is here for the spotlight. Though the former New York City Mayor has lost his right to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C. and is currently the target of a criminal probe in Georgia, he seems more concerned about when, if ever, Fox News will ever let him back on the air.

Rudy was just one of the MAGA “doinks” Seth Meyers laid into on Thursday night, and how “they’re always on camera complaining about something extremely weird. Like Rudy, who recently went on his podcast to insist, once again, the election was stolen — and also complain that no one was inviting him on TV anymore.”

(That Rudy’s podcast is called “Common Sense” is a joke in and of itself.)

Rudy went off on a whole unhinged tangent, in which he claimed that “they want us ignored, they want us put in prison, they want all our property taken from us, [and] they don’t want to allow us to be employed.” (No, we don’t know who “they” is either.) But Rudy’s real problem was clearly that “they don’t want any television station to put us on, and they say so. And the television stations comply. That’s not fascism?” (FYI: we don’t know who “they” is either.)

Meyers took a minute to answer Rudy’s question and explain that, “no, it’s not [fascism]. I don’t think it’s fascism so much as not wanting to scare the children at home.”

And as far as “they” not wanting “us” to be employed? “Who’s ‘us,’” Meyers wanted to know. “They don’t want you employed. And you shouldn’t be employed. You’re 78. You should be retired and enjoying your golden years — just playing golf in your JNCO shorts.”

You can watch the full clip above, beginning around the 9:00 mark.

Kehlani has two more dates on the North American leg of their Blue Water Road Trip tour, and it appears that’s not the only thing coming to an end in the Platinum-certified artist’s life: Where does their relationship with 070 Shake stand?

A TikTok of Kehlani vibing in the club is making the rounds online.”Who’s newly single, y’all?” the DJ standing next to Kehlani says into microphone, and Kehlani throws their hands in the air. Fans are interpreting this as confirmation that Kehlani and 070 Shake have split.

In June, Kehlani posted to Instagram in celebration of “6 years of friendship [and] almost 1 year of love” with Shake (real name Danielle Balbuena), but that post has since been deleted. (One fan also noticed that they no longer follow each other on Instagram.) The allegedly former couple had previously put their love on display in late May with Kehlani’s “melt” music video.

Blue Water Road, Kehlani’s third album and follow-up to 2020’s It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, dropped on April 29. Shake’s album You Can’t Kill Me released in early June, and like Kehlani, she is on tour — first, opening for 13 dates of Kid Cudi‘s To The Moon World Tour in August and September, and now, headlining in Europe.

Kehlani will play to a sold-out Oakland Arena in their hometown of Oakland, California, tonight (September 30).

On House of the Dragon, time is precious. Episode by episode, time passed offscreen, whether it be six months or a year. Over the course of the first five episodes, a few years had passed within the show. These small but significant time jumps established ongoing rifts between the Taragaryen family – namely King Viserys, Daemon, and Rhaenyra – as well as the simmering tension between former besties Rhaenyra and Queen Alicent.

By episode six, the series jumps forward a decade, and in doing so recasts several actors — including the Rhaenyra and Alicent with, respectively, the excellent Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke. In this episode, Rhaeneyra and Alicent, although the same at their core, are different people. Time has changed them like it does all of us. Rhaenyra, who always longed for a different life than a royal one, is reckless with her suitors and has several children. Alicent has followed in her father Otto Hightower’s footsteps by trying to have some power in King’s Landing.

The time jump isn’t getting the warmest welcome. It feels a bit like the audience was cheated out of years worth of content because we were robbed of watching Rhaenyra and Alicent become these people. But that’s not a con, that’s the point.

House of the Dragon isn’t interested in being like Game of Thrones, which followed the POV structure of George R.R. Martin’s books. Game of Thrones’ intimate, patient (until the end) narrative style invited the audience to engage more (and even too) deeply with the world of Westeros. The Dragon Show is also hardly the first television series to successfully use time jumps to accelerate the story and advance the characters. Between seasons and episodes, Mad Men jumped forward in time months or more. The gap in time lost with the characters made them even more mysterious and appealing: knowing that we missed months of Don Draper’s life kept the intrigue.

Another AMC show, Halt and Catch Fire, jumped ahead four years in its season three finale and in doing so, skipped major events in the characters’ lives. This skip got the characters exactly where they needed to be for the fourth and final season. For its final season, The Americans jumped forward in time from 1984 to 1987. Doing so didn’t rob the audience of character development. When the writing is incisive and the acting superb, witnessing every moment is unnecessary.

House of the Dragon has no interest in that: it breezes past the small moments and follows the broad strokes, making the show a bit easier to watch in that you can simply watch it and understand what’s happening and who is who without spending hours on the A Song of Ice and Fire Wiki. In essence, it is more of a television show. Personally I love that. Leading up to its premiere, I loudly told many people that I have no interest in engaging with House of the Dragon beyond its Sunday night slot. I’m thinking about it a little more than I wanted or expected, but I am not thinking about it so much that I’m losing sleep or brain cells.

House of the Dragon’s audacity to skip ten whole years shows confidence in itself. The writers knew that if it had given us that whale decade, or even some of it, the show would have become redundant. After already showing how things go wrong leading up to the inevitable war this show is about, seeing tensions rise and fall over and over might be illuminating, but redundant. In essence, the House of the Dragon time jumps have saved the audience a lot of energy. The show simply is what it is: a soapy family drama with dragons in it.

Quavo and Takeoff are now a week away from the release of their album Only Built For Infinity Links, and have shared its latest single, “Nothing Changed.” It’s exactly the sort of thumping trap banger you would expect to hear from the duo, with a beat produced by Marcel ’‘Mars’‘ Korkutata and longtime Migos collaborator DJ Durel. The two Atlanta rappers split the track evenly with their verses, spitting rapid-fire boasts, with Quavo name-dropping Batman and Takeoff using an extended “chains” rhyme scheme playing on their album’s title.

If anyone was hoping for a hint about the duo’s ongoing relationship with Offset, they’ll be disappointed, though. Through the three previously released singles — “Hotel Lobby,” “Us Vs. Them,” and “Big Stunna” — they’ve studiously avoided addressing the potential controversy regarding the trio’s potential breakup. The closest they’ve come was an interview explaining why Takeoff wasn’t on their 2017 hit “Bad And Boujee” — hardly a satisfactory explanation for the group’s current status questions.

In July, Quavo did give a promising perspective on the situation, though. “I feel like every group member has to establish themselves,” he told GQ. “Their own body of work. If not, you start losing members.” Maybe we will find out if that’s what’s happening with Migos when Only Built For Infinity Links arrives on October 7 via Motown.

Listen to “Nothing Changed” above.

Now that Taylor Swift is going full steam ahead on re-recording her first six albums (and gearing up for the October release of her tenth studio album, Midnights), Scooter Braun — who purchased her catalog from Big Machine Music Group owner Scott Borchetta in 2019 — apparently has some “regrets” about his deal.

During a new interview with Variety, Braun speaks about the deal. He eventually sold her catalog for a reported $300 million paycheck to an unnamed investment group in November 2020. “The regret I have is I made the assumption that everyone, once the deal was done, was going to have a conversation with me, see my intent, see my character and say, great, let’s be in business together,” Braun said in the new article.

“My team attempted to enter into negotiations with Scooter Braun,” Swift shared on social media in November 2020, when his sale of her catalog took place, seemingly without her knowledge or inclusion. “Scooter’s team wanted me to sign an ironclad NDA stating I would never say another word about Scooter Braun unless it was positive, before we could even look at the financial records of BMLG (which is always the first step in a purchase of this nature). So, I would have to sign a document that would silence me forever before I could even have a chance to bid on my own work.”

“He would never even quote my team a price. These master recordings were not for sale to me,” she continued.

Later in the article, Braun alleges that he too was under an NDA, seemingly referencing one from Borchetta, before also hinting at Swift. “When I did that deal, I was under a very strict NDA with the gentleman who owned it, and I couldn’t tell any artist,” he said. “I wasn’t allowed to. I wasn’t legally allowed to. What I told him was, hey, if any of the artists want to come back and buy into this, you have to let me know. And he shared a letter with me that’s out there publicly that – you know, the artist you’re referring to said, ‘I don’t want to participate in my masters. I’ve decided to, you know, not make this deal,’ blah, blah, blah. So that was the idea I was under.”

Continue scrolling for some internet reactions to Scooter Braun’s interview.

Midnights is out 10/21 via Republic. Pre-order it here.