Kim Kardashian, who is well-known for judging other people for their work habits, is adding another brand to her long list of brands with very off-putting names, like SKIMS, KKW Beauty, KKW Fragrance. Now, another K-centric name is in the mix: SKKN BY KIM, which reads a little bit like a keyboard smash. What does she have against vowels?
For once in her life, Kardashian admitted that her beauty has a lot to do with privilege (aka money) and insists that she’s bringing all the secrets from the world’s top dermatologists to her new line, which features a nine-step (!!!!) skincare routine.
“I’ve been so privileged to learn about skin and skincare over the years from the world’s top dermatologists and estheticians, and every bottle from my new line is filled with the knowledge I’ve accumulated along the way,” Kardashian tweeted.
I’m excited to finally introduce to you SKKN BY KIM, a rejuvenating nine-product skincare ritual that I have developed from start to finish. Photo: Mario Sorrenti pic.twitter.com/8AyapI8mgJ
The brand launches June 21st, and they have conveniently not revealed any prices of the products, though the packaging is refillable which is pretty nifty. “You will experience refillable packaging, and clean, science-backed ingredients designed to nourish all skin types, tones, and textures at all stages of maturity.” Kardashian tweeted.
Reports of a skincare line began last year when Kardashian quietly trademarked the brand name in April 2021. The business mogul already ventured into jewelry, hair products, and even her own app. What will she think of next? A line of SmartKars? A new streaming service for Pete Davidson to roam free in his post-SNL life? Or maybe a tattoo shop? The opportunities are endless.
The Lithuanian Basketball League final between Lietkabelis and Rytas on Wednesday got heated after a Lietkabelis player got elbowed in the head for no call during what had become a blowout, leading to an all-time meltdown from Lietkabelis head coach Nenad Canak.
Canak got himself ejected while screaming at the referees and then shoved Rytas head coach Giedrius Zibenas — who flopped like he was Marcus Smart trying to draw a foul — on his way to the tunnel. Once there, he got into it with Rytas’ team owner, who rather hilariously waited for his friends to hold him back while Canak gestured for him to come out of the stands and fight him, leading to players from both teams clashing and general chaos ensuing.
What is happening in the Lithuanian basketball league final
Lietkabelis head coach Nenad Canak just pushed Rytas HC Giedrius Zibenas. Then he got into a clash with the owner of Vilnius club
There’s a lot going on here, but I really can’t get over the coach flopping for no real reason. The other coach is ejected so it’s not like there’s going to be more punishment coming his way, but he flies back into his players in shock — who don’t do anything to confront Canak as he continues to stroll on by. It’s some all-time fake fighting from all parties, particularly the team owner, although Canak seemed like he was maybe ready to rumble, which was probably more about his team being down 26 in the final than anything else.
Last month, Lil Durk announced the Deluxe edition of his album 7220. The first drop of the album which came out in March had already topped the Billboard 200 multiple times. Consequently, 2020’s The Voice just reached Platinum status so the Chicago rapper is capitalizing on a lot of steam behind, well, everything he does right now, and just announced The7220 Deluxe Tour to support the deluxe drop.
He’ll be warming up by headlining the Hot 97 Summer Jam with Fivio Foreign and Lil Baby on June 12th at MetLife Stadium. Then in September, The 7220 Deluxe Tour takes off across the country. It starts on September 17th at The Criterion in Oklahoma City and ends on the West Coast with dates at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco and Seattle’s WAMU Theater.
Tickets for Lil Durk’s The 7220 Deluxe Tour go on sale Friday, June 3rd at 11 a.m. local time here.
09/17 — Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
09/18 — Little Rock, AR @ Simmons Bank Arena
09/20 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Harris Pavilion
09/21 — Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
09/25 — Portsmouth, VA @ Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion
09/28 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
09/30 — Brooklyn, NY @ Coney Island Amphitheater
10/02 — Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Pavilion
10/03 — Washington, DC @ Echostage
10/05 — Nashville, TN @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
10/06 — Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
10/07 — Southaven, MS @ Landers Center
10/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
10/14 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
10/17 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater
Last month, Draymond Green earned his seventh All-Defensive Team berth in eight seasons when he was voted onto the Second Team. Prior to a back injury that sidelined him for more than two months, Green was the presumed favorite for Defensive Player of the Year. Ultimately, he only suited up for 46 regular season games and Marcus Smart collected his first Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
Yet when Green met with reporters on Tuesday and discussed his All-Defensive honor, he expressed some confusion and frustration with the accolade.
“For me, it’s a slight,” Green said when asked how he perceived the recognition. “When I look at the first team, I am not sure I can pinpoint, definitely not five guys that had a better defensive season than me. And there are no [games played] requirements. There is not some amount that you have to play in. If there was an amount that you had to play, then I would be an idiot sitting here and saying that.”
Green joined Bam Adebayo, Jrue Holiday, Matisse Thybulle and Robert Williams III on the Second Team. Meanwhile, Smart, Jaren Jackson Jr., Rudy Gobert, Mikal Bridges and Giannis Antetokounmpo composed the First Team.
“It goes on the resume as an All-Defensive team, so I will take it,” Green said. “But I was a little shocked when the First Team and I was like, ‘Hmm, that’s interesting. Maybe I didn’t make it at all.’ But then, the fact that I made the second team, there are more than five defenders [better] … you had to totally take me off and then I’ll be like, alright, they voted on the amount of games [played].
“But it makes absolutely no sense to say, well, he was a Second Team All-Defensive player because then you can’t be taking the amount of games into consideration. And if you are taking the amount of games into consideration and say, ‘Oh this guy is Second Team,’ then you are just making stuff up.”
Maggie Rogers has kept busy lately: Along with working on her recently announced album Surrender, she also just got a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. As for the album, she previewed it previously with “That’s Where I Am” and she returned today with another new track, “Want Want.”
Like the single that preceded it, “Want Want” also has a bit of a rock influence, which Rogers uses to add an edge to the sensual tune. Rogers called the song her “sex + sensuality + desire anthem.”
She also said of it in a statement:
“‘Want Want’ started in Maine during the pandemic in a small studio assembled over my parents’ garage. I wrote and produced it with my old bandmate, Del Water Gap. It was really just about the fun of it all. Some bubblegum world to escape to in the middle of the isolation and darkness. The song found its final form over the next year and a half, editing and re-editing with Kid Harpoon until we found the perfect knock-your-teeth-out drums, the right growl of the guitar tone. That roaring synth, it’s just a Prophet stock sound, but it always reminded me a little bit of the intro to ‘Iron Man’ by Black Sabbath. The right amount of bite that still invites you in.”
She added of the video, “The video is about sensuality. About embodiment. About freedom. It was shot in in one of my favorite karaoke bars. Sticky floors and fluorescent lit bathrooms. Everything in its right place.”
Watch the “Want Want” video above.
Surrender is out 7/29 via Capitol. Pre-save it here.
In a delightful turn of events, Kate Bush’s immaculate “Running Up That Hill” has returned to mainstream consciousness after being used in a pivotal scene from a recent episode of Stranger Things. No sooner after the episode aired, did the song climb to the the No. 1 spot of the iTunes charts, because kids just needed to know, “What was that song?!” It must be a surreal feeling to discover Kate Bush in 2022. But I digress… because here come the covers!
Never mind that Chromatics already made the perfect cover of “Running Up That Hill” 15 years ago, Kim Petras’ new version is in a far different vein — and probably a little truer to the original than the sultry Chromatics spin. Petras manages to make the song feel even more overtly ’80s (it was released in 1985) by overlaying a decidedly dancefloor pastiche on the tune.
The release is actually part of Amazon Music’s “Proud” playlist that the service just released for Pride Month in June and also includes tracks with Pablo Vittar, Angel Olsen and others. Petras — a trans icon — shared a statement on why the song matters to her: “I have always been obsessed with ‘Running Up That Hill.’ It means so much and it’s so elusive. You can definitely decide what you want it to mean. For me, it’s about equality. And my timing for this was strangely perfect!”
Listen to Kim Petras’ cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” below on Amazon Music’s Proud playlist.
The 1975 is preparing to do it for the ’75 and possibly the ’22, as they tweeted about their forthcoming, currently untitled album today (June 1). The tweet, which features a new photo of the band, reads, “Your new album. Your new era. Your old friends.” Though there is no date provided just yet, the pop-rock band did provide a link to their website where fans can sign up for news regarding “album 5.”
This album will follow what could be deemed a short hiatus for the group, as they appeared on 2021 record “Spinning” alongside No Rome and Charli XCX, which was later remixed multiple times by A.G. Cook. Otherwise, the band hasn’t released their own music since 2020’s 22-song Notes On A Conditional Form, anchored by five singles “Guys,” “The Birthday Party,” “Me & You Together Song,” “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” and “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America.”
Notes debuted atop the UK Albums chart, selling 34,000 album-equivalent units whereas, in the United States, it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart with 54,000 album-equivalent units sold. Notes, which also topped the United States Billboard Top Rock Albums list, marked The 1975’s third top-five album on the Billboard 200 chart.
Check out their announcement via Twitter above and stay tuned for more news.
Charli XCX is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Plenty of reasons exist (including projectile vomiting) for why And Just Like That… turned out to secretly be a horror show. The foremost reason on a lot of people’s minds, though, was an easy scapegoat: Che Diaz. The character, portrayed by Sara Ramirez, received a lot of backlash, and I actually (begrudgingly) enjoyed how the show decided to have fun with this non-binary character and make them interesting, rather than, you know, safe. Yes, Che was brash as hell and abrasive and I probably wouldn’t want to hang in the same room with them, but damn, Che made the first season worth it.
Well, Season 2 of the sequel show is on the way, although we didn’t receive any confirmation that Che Diaz (who decided to head outta New York to make a TV pilot) would return to further rock Miranda’s world. Now (and on this first day of Pride Month), Ramirez appears in a fantastic profile in Variety, and the piece is really worth a read. However, I want to point toward the confirmation from showrunner Michael Patrick King, who says that Che will definitely return, and get ready because added Che dimensions are on the way:
King himself is effusive when he speaks about Ramírez — and about Che. “One of my burning passions about Season 2 is Che,” he says. “I want to show the dimension of Che that people didn’t see, for whatever reason — because they were blinded, out of fear or terror. I want to show more of Che rather than less of Che. Like, really.”
I don’t know about you, but this is rather exciting news. More Che! Hey, if Che left the show, all we’d be left with is the shadow of a Peloton to make things feel layered. And we can’t have that. As for Ramirez, they told Variety that they didn’t take the pushback against Che personally. “I choose what I receive, right?” declared Ramirez. “I don’t have to receive everything! And this is Michael’s baby. He created this role. He wrote it. Those are his and his writing team’s jokes.” Hey, don’t call it a comeback for Che Diaz, but do read the full Variety piece here.
It’s not every day that an obscure relic from ’80s alt pop completely dominates the charts, takes over social media and becomes a Gen-Z approved cultural phenomenon more than three decades after its original release … all over the course of one weekend, no less. But Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” has done it, thanks to “Stranger Things.”
The widely popular Netflix show has been bringing ’80s pop culture back into the mainstream since its premiere—particularly with things once considered very uncool, like Dungeons & Dragons. But “Running Up That Hill,” wasn’t just used to instill nostalgia or redeem something previously weird (although it does that too). The song plays a pivotal role throughout the season that audiences are responding to on an emotional level.
When a young girl named Max (played by Sadie Sink) becomes haunted by the death of her stepbrother Billy, she starts playing the song over and over again on her Walkman to process her grief.
The lyrics “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God, and I’d get him to swap our places” seem to perfectly encapsulate what she might be feeling under her generally tough exterior, and to some extent what anyone who has faced irrevocable loss might feel.
Bargaining, attempting to postpone pain by imagining these “what if” scenarios, is a stage of grief many of us find ourselves in. Though that isn’t necessarily the song’s original meaning, it just works in this context beautifully.
Later, that song is the very thing that saves Max from the evil alternate dimension known as the Upside Down. It pulls her mind away from the darkness and back to her friends, her world and herself. I think everyone has their own “Save Me From The Upside Down” song—a tune or even a whole album that connects them back to their humanity, which is why so many viewers were touched.
Funny enough, for me that lifesaving music is Kate Bush, so this whole moment is super vindicating. Is this what being a hipster feels like?
If you have somehow never witnessed the utterly dramatic, super eclectic, whimsical-yet-bonkers music of Kate Bush, you’re in for a treat. For some, her vibe was way too out there. In fact, according to Unilad, “Running Up That Hill” was even banned from MTV for being “too weird.”
For others, like me, Kate Bush was a spiritual experience.
Not only did it help me escape from otherwise dreary times to fantastical realms, nothing made me feel more encouraged to embrace my own nonconformity. During my teenage years, that was everything.
Below is the original music video for “Running Up That Hill”— complete with interpretive dance moves—just to give you a taste of Kate Bush’s genius.
Since it was released in 1985, the song has been covered numerous times by artists including Tori Amos, Tiffany and Placebo. But for the most part, it has been held in reverent obscurity by only diehard fans. The latest season of “Stranger Things” not only catapulted “Running Up That Hill” to No. 1 on iTunes, it has younger generations now obsessed with all things Kate Bush.
Even the bizarre way she pours tea has gone viral on Twitter.
Is it unsettling to see an artifact from your formative years suddenly be part of the public zeitgeist? Yes, it is. But mostly it’s delightful.
“Stranger Things” is at its heart a story that celebrates outcasts. From the beginning it’s made heroes of outsiders and helped younger audiences appreciate things older generations might have once held shame in loving.
Bush’s music is a flavor of uplifting weirdness the world could really use right now, and how thrilling it is to see its much-needed renaissance.
Sonic Frontiers is maybe the boldest direction SEGA has taken their mascot hedgehog yet. No stranger to trying something new, Sonic’s gameplay has changed many times since his jump to 3D, but never before has he been thrown into a fully open world. That is going to change with the expected release of Frontiers sometime in 2022.
With this change to open world, there have been plenty of questions about how SEGA planned to take a character who has always been in very linear games and put them into an expansive free to explore location. Also, how did they plan to keep Sonic’s iconic speed while also making this world feel large and fun to explore? On Wednesday, everyone got a chance to take a look for themselves at what was in store for Sonic in his next adventure.
Enjoy this small preview of Sonic Frontiers, and tune in all June long for the @IGN First cover story for more world-exclusive reveals! pic.twitter.com/iZhaFtSwio
— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) May 31, 2022
There are two major details that stick out. The one that I personally noticed before anything else was that this looks like they just blew up a few Sonic levels, spread them out, and created a fun place to let Sonic traverse. Everything appears to be designed for constant momentum so the more skilled players will always find new rails to grind on, new speed ramps to run on, and towers to climb.
The other notable detail is that Sonic sticks out in a very odd way. The world has a hyper realism that Sonic’s cartoonish design doesn’t really fit into. Of course, anyone that’s been a fan of Sonic since the Sonic Adventure days probably doesn’t find this to be that odd. This artistic decision could be potentially off-putting, especially since the world itself doesn’t have the greatest graphics in the world. Fans that want their games to look as good as they play might not be happy with what we’ve seen so far.
Of course, this is only just a trailer and with no set release date yet there is still plenty of time for changes to be made to the game before its eventual release date.
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