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No one said that the Emmy nominations would be fair. Yes, Rhea Seehorn received an overdue nod for her Kim Wexler portrayal on Better Call Saul, and nods were fairly spread around for Pam & Tommy‘s leads and background players. Another Hulu show (Only Murders In The Building), though, saw a major player get the shaft.

That’d be Selena Gomez, who’s pitch-perfect as Bloody Mabel and apparently destined to be vastly underappreciated. Yes, she received a nomination as a producer for the show, but dang, she’s great onscreen, so why no acting nod, too? Instead, Martin Short and Steve Martin both nabbed nods for the Best Actor In A Comedy series category, and Selena went without. The SNL alums were quick to defend their leading lady, too, with Martin speaking with the New York Times to declare, “We’re dismayed that Selena was not nominated because she’s so crucial to our performances, really.”

Martin also spoke with Entertainment Tonight to emphasize how the show couldn’t happen without Selena. “Marty and I, and the whole team at Only Murders in the Building, are thrilled with our nominations,” he added. “We’re also loving that our crucial partner Selena Gomez is recognized as a producer in the Best Comedy Series category.”

Hmm, yeah. It’s not a great omission, and it’d be a pain if Selena (like Rhea) had to wait several seasons for a nomination, but Emmys are apparently gonna Emmy. In the meantime, consider watching Selena + Chef on HBO Max! It’s a joy of a show.

(Via New York Times & Entertainment Tonight)

Ahead of their hotly anticipated collaborative album, Cheat Codes, Black Thought and Danger Mouse have dropped a new track, “Aquamarine.” On their new track, Danger Mouse delivers a clashing, drum-driven beat, as Black Thought raps about contemporary world issues while channeling the power within himself.

On a notable line, Black Thought raps, “I’m a king, I’m dipped in God’s Black, a blessing / Survival of the fittest is a natural selection.”

His royal rap stylings are garnished with a soft-tinged chorus by UK singer Michael Kiwanuka, who is one of many promising collaborators on Cheat Codes.

“For ‘Aquamarine,’ when I heard the music I just had a feeling to sing about standing up for something that’s unique and following that path,” said Kiwanuka in a statement. “I don’t know why but that’s what came out. Sometimes when you’re following something that’s unique to you it’s as if ‘enemies are all around.’ At times life can feel fragile like ‘everything’s burning down.’ For some reason the chords and music made me feel that way.”

The song’s accompanying video, directed by George Muncey and Elliott Elder, sees Black Thought spitting his rhymes, as a kaleidoscopic effect captures various angles of his face and his expressions.

Check out “Aquamarine” above.

Cheat Codes is out 8/12 via BMG. Pre-save it here.

Like clockwork, Donald Trump couldn’t resist reacting to Elon Musk‘s remarks that the former president should “sail into the sunset” because he’s too old to run for re-election and causes “too much drama.” In a Truth Social post, Trump dragged Musk for relying on government subsidies and claimed the Tesla CEO needs them so badly that Musk would’ve dropped to his knees and begged if Trump asked.

Considering Musk’s ego (and troll game) is as big as Trump’s, naturally, he couldn’t let the “drop to your knees” remark go by without a response. Although, Musk seems to be taking a more subdued approach in an effort to highlight that Trump isn’t worth the energy because he’s just another old man yelling at the clouds.

Musk tweeted a Grandpa Simpson GIF in response to Bloomberg writer Ashlee Vance asking, “What happens [when] the two most volatile social media accounts collide?”

However, Trump actually made one solid point in his attack on Musk. The former president wrote, “Elon should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess because he could owe $44 billion for something that’s perhaps worthless,” which is pretty good advice considering the social media platform sued Musk on Tuesday, according to CNN.

The lawsuit filed in Delaware seeks to force the Tesla CEO to complete the purchase agreement that he’s attempting to exit over a sudden concern with the number of bots on Twitter. It hasn’t been the most compelling argument considering Musk had previously boasted that he would “eradicate” the problem once he purchased the company.

(Via Elon Musk on Twitter)

In just a few days, Steve Lacy will release his long-awaited sophomore album, Gemini Rights. The project will be his first full-length release since 2019’s Apollo XXI, and so far he’s delivered two singles to give fans an insight into what to expect with his next body of work. He kicked things off with “Mercury,” a track that’s carried by a bossa nova groove, and next came “Bad Habits,” which strikes as a sweet love song. Now, for his third and presumably final act before the album arrives, Lacy returns with “Sunshine” alongside Foushee.

The new record is a soothing confessional track that depicts Lacy and Foushee as a former couple a bit removed from their relationship. Despite their complaints about their new reality, each admits that deep down they hope to reconnect intimately just for another chance to be in each other’s presence. “Sunshine” also arrives with a video that captures Lacy playing with a band before we see Foushee get hoisted into the sky by a crane, and soon enough, Lacy joins her as they both sing their hearts out while dangling above the city.

You can watch the video for “Sunshine” above and see the full tracklist for Gemini Rights below.

1. “Static”
2. “Helmet”
3. “Mercury”
4. “Buttons”
5. “Bad Habit”
6. “2Gether (Enterlude)” With Matt Martians
7. “Cody Freestyle”
8. “Amber”
9. “Sunshine” Feat. Foushee
10. “Give You The World”

Gemini Rights is out 7/15 via RCA Records. Pre-save it here.

Earlier this month, Death Cab For Cutie debuted a new song called “Here To Forever” live on stage in Rhode Island. It would seem, then, that the tune would be the next single from the band’s upcoming album, Asphalt Meadows. Indeed, it is: The song came out at midnight today (July 13) and was followed hours later by a video.

The clip pokes fun at the vinyl shortages and delays that plagued the music industry last year, with Ben Gibbard rolling up to a pressing plant to pick up copies of the new album. However, a couple of goofball employees (Natalie Palamides and Courtney Pauroso) tell him the LPs aren’t ready yet. They suggest Gibbard himself helps with production to speed things up, which he does as clips of that process break up performance footage of the song, a jaunty sort of classic DCFC indie rocker.

Ben Gibbard says of the track in a statement, “It’s a song both about our impermanence and the anxiety of these times. It’s also about wanting to believe in something bigger even when it feels like nothing is out there.”

Watch the “Here To Forever” video above.

Asphalt Meadows is out 9/16 via Atlantic. Pre-order it here.

Death Cab For Cutie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Photos of Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck’s daily strolls got me (and others) through the early months of the pandemic, but the Dunkin-aided experience wasn’t always a fun time for the Blonde actress. She called the media attention the couple received “horrible” in an interview with Elle, adding that it’s one of the reasons why she left Los Angeles.

“Going through it [myself] confirmed my thoughts about, ‘This is not the place for me to be.’ It became a little bit too much. There’s no escape. There’s no way out,” she said. de Armas, who called Los Angeles the “city that keeps you anxious,” now lives in New York, the city that never sleeps, with her boyfriend, Tinder executive Paul Boukadakis.

He was a Raya boy (allegedly); she was a Tinder girl. It wasn’t meant to be.

de Armas also discussed what it’s like being an action movie star, with roles in No Time to Die (she’s the best part); The Gray Man, alongside Ryan Gosling and her Knives Out co-star Chris Evans; and the John Wick spin-off, Ballerina.

“The truth is, I never thought I was going to be an action actor. It wasn’t my thing,” she said. “You have to be careful, because it’s not what I want to put the focus on. This is not where I’m the most comfortable, to be honest, because I feel ridiculous. And it takes a lot of work.” Not as much work as not killing snails, however.

Blonde comes out on September 23.

Sebastian Stan’s first Emmy nom led to him pointing out the fantastic work from everyone else on Pam & Tommy. That actually sounds about right (coming from him), but there’s no denying that Stan really went all out as Tommy Lee while (literally) letting it all hang out. And the show’s being roundly recognized by the awards shot with ten nominations, including acting nods for Lily James (as Pam, obviously) and Seth Rogen (as mulletted sex-tape thief Rand Gauthier) and a Best Limited Series nomination.

There’s no newly created Animatronic Talking Penis category for the Emmys, sadly, but them’s the breaks. As for Stan, he wants to recognize those who put him in a chair for several daily hours of hair and makeup, and yup, the limited series got a nod in the Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) category. Nipple rings and tattoos are not easy to replicate!

“Massive congratulations to our INCREDIBLE hair and make-up team spearheaded by @davidwilliamsmakeup and @barryleemoe,” Stan wrote on Instagram. “[A]s well as our costumer @kameronlennoxcostumes who transformed us right before our eyes!! YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING.” Also, he referred to Lily James as “my partner till the end of the line.” Man, Steve Rogers is gonna be so jealous when he reads this from Bucky:

Notably, Stan took the time to acknowledge how the show embraced the discomfort when it came to parsing out how Gauthier’s crime (along with he and Tommy Lee’s beef) smacked Pamela right in the soul, and the show’s also a critique of the public response:

#PAMANDTOMMY is about a crime that took place without Consent. It was a crime on privacy, a crime on love, a crime on family, and a crime that we were ALL a culprit of, as media and audience combined, and it’s now more timely than ever. I hope this can only help continue the conversation we had hoped to bring to light, and that we can remember to re-examine our projections and our salacious attitudes not only towards @pamelaanderson and @tommylee, but also towards ourselves and our exploitation of one another.
SEE YOU AT THE EMMYS!!!

The Emmys will broadcast on September 4 (on NBC and Peacock).

The world has been enjoying the new season of Stranger Things, and it’s affected some more than others — just ask Kate Bush who was the world “Running Up That Hill.” For Doja Cat, the fourth season of Stranger Things had a different impact on her as it gave her someone new to swoon over, that being actor Joseph Quinn. In hopes of sparking a new romance in her life, Doja inquired about Quinn in an Instagram private message to Stranger Things co-star Noah Schnapp. However, things went a bit left as Schnapp ended up sharing the DMs in a TikTok he posted.

Doja voiced her complaints about Schnapp’s move in a live broadcast, calling his decision to share the private messages “borderline snake sh*t” and “weasel sh*t.” This is after she noted that Schnapp is “a kid” and “when you’re that young, you make mistakes. You do dumb sh*t.” Her comments have seemingly backfired on Doja as she’s lost 200,000 followers on Instagram since her livestream, according to Daily Mail. This is a relatively small number compared to Doja’s now 24.14 million followers (about 0.8 percent), so the impact won’t be too much for the Planet Her artist on the social front.

However, while Doja lost followers, Schnapp has seen an increase of nearly a million Instagram followers, as his count went from 24.25 million to 25.17 million, according to social media analytics company Social Blade. That actually puts Schnapp ahead of Doja on that front. The uptick is most likely because of the new Stranger Things season, but the Doja incident surely helped the boost in some way.

In recent days, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari have been enjoying an extended honeymoon vacation, and it appears they’re still out there enjoying the beach. Spears particularly seems to be experiencing it in her purest form, as her latest photos show her enjoying a naked underwater swim.

The underwater pics see Spears swimming in nothing at all, although some post-production scribbles do a somewhat effective job at obscuring her more NSFW areas. Spears captioned the post, “Keep swimming … keep swimming !!!!”

Meanwhile, in another post from yesterday, she shared a handwritten message that reads, “I just want to go somewhere where nobody knows my name.” In the caption, Spears writes vaguely about books, truth, and dreams while expressing her love of author Danielle Steel’s books. The post starts, “Make-believers on a compass would reverse a map always… why ask anyone for directions when only YOU know where you’re going … sometimes I’m an idiot and reach out when what I’m trying to find is right before my very eyes … honestly could it be that simple ???”

This comes a few days after Spears shared another provocative video of herself, wearing a swimsuit on the beach as she poses in shallow water, rain falling all the while. She wrote, “In the rain … literally … on the bucket list … never done it before.”

The Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper has spent a lot of time around Trump supporters, more than is medically advisable. He’s been to rallies; he attended the Conservative Political Action Conference; and he was even there for “one of the darkest days in American history,” the MAGA riot on January 6th. Klepper has put himself in harm’s way (“I went down to the Million MAGA March with three security guards, which [felt] absurd, but as we got in there, the anger, the vibe, three wasn’t enough,” he told us), but he believes another member of the GOP is even more dangerous than Trump.

“I don’t think Donald Trump is as popular as he was. I do think Ron DeSantis is catching up, and I hear his name pop up more and more,” he said on Anna Faris’ Anna Faris is Unqualified podcast. “I think for those who have progressive ideals, I think Ron DeSantis perhaps is even more dangerous than a Donald Trump.”

Fox News is reportedly kicking Trump to the curb and going all-in on DeSantis, the Florida governor who welcomes support from famous African-Americans like, sigh, Elon Musk, among other misdeeds, so Klepper is probably right. You can hear more of his thoughts on Trump, DeSantis, and attending rallies in the podcast below.

(Via the Huffington Post)