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At the moment, it looks like Roe v. Wade, the famous 1973 Supreme Court decision that protected a woman’s right to have a safe and legal abortion nationwide, is in danger: A leaked draft of a reported new majority opinion from the Court suggests the bench is readying to overturn the decision. This has prompted people across the country to take action and that now includes Phoebe Bridgers, who added her voice to the conversation this afternoon by telling the story of an abortion she had in 2021.

In an Instagram Story, Bridgers wrote, “I had an abortion in October of last year while I was on tour. I went to planned parenthood where they gave me the abortion pill. It was easy. Everyone deserves that kind of access.”

She added a link to a recent article from New York Magazine‘s The Cut, which lists multiple abortion funds to which supporters can donate.

Bridgers has long been a vocal supporter of abortion rights. In 2020, she and Bright Eyes released “Miracle Of Life,” a protest song benefiting Planned Parenthood. Then, in October 2021, she released a cover of Bo Burnham’s “That Funny Feeling,” with proceeds going to a variety of Texas-based abortion funds.

Meanwhile, Bridgers popped up at the Met Gala last night in a look that initially had fans thinking she shaved her head. That turned out to not be the case, but a rumor that has yet to be resolved is whether she and Paul Mescal are actually engaged, as recent reports have indicated that they are.

For the past six months, rap fans have been forced to speculate about Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming final album under his Top Dawg Entertainment contract, with little concrete information about the project (other than its elaborate title) to go on. Today though, Kendrick dropped another cryptic clue about Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, suggesting that it might be a double album. Fans checking in on the website he set up to promote the album, oklama.com, found a new folder to click on, leading to an image of a pair of CDs marked “Morale” and “Steppers” bearing the legend “Master Copy” on each along with a hardcover book bearing the album’s title.

Anyone who’s burned a mix CD in their lifetime (so basically anyone born before the year 1996) knows that CDs contain around 74 minutes of space or around 21 tracks. Obviously, most CDs never used the full capacity, but to go over that time limit (or even inching too close to it) meant separating the songs across two discs. Now, I’m not saying that this means Kendrick’s next album is going to be the length of a Marvel movie, but we should probably expect a longer project. It’s also projected to pull down huge numbers — as befits Kung-Fu Kenny’s swan song for the label that has developed his career for the past decade and a half.

As Kendrick inches closer to its release date (the only other solid bit of information we have right now), more details will undoubtedly be revealed at oklama.com. Until then, the speculation continues.

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is due on May 13 on TDE and Interscope.

Donald Trump being a “kingmaker” in the Republican Party is a crucial component if he hopes to run for president again in 2024. However, like everything he touches, it’s not going well. Trump has been backing former GOP Senator David Perdue in the Georgia gubernatorial primary, which has only pushed incumbent Governor Brian Kemp further ahead in the polls… and by a pretty large margin. Whoops.

Via Mediaite:

In a statewide survey released by ARW strategies, 59.4 percent of voters want Kemp, while 21.5 percent are backing Perdue – a difference of 37.9 percentage points. Trump has railed against Kemp since he and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, refused to overturn the 2020 election results in the Peach State. Trump has spent at least $500,000 in his effort to upset Kemp. Perdue has said “the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen.”

Of course, this outcome shouldn’t come as a total surprise. Trump also backed Perdue during his 2020 senate re-election campaign, which resulted in him losing his seat to Jon Ossoff in a stunning upset. It’s almost like being endorsed by Trump is the kiss of death, but good luck telling that to a nationwide Republican base who’s still enthralled with his antics despite the fact that he keeps blowing elections. However, the former president has cooked up a scheme to make it look he’s still the most winningest politician over: Double endorsements!

Back in January, it was revealed that Trump is so desperate to cement his kingmaker status that he’s been mulling endorsing multiple candidates, so no matter who loses, he wins. It’s an odd strategy, to say the least, but it can’t be worse than his current trajectory of absolutely screwing the pooch when he backs a candidate.

(Via Mediaite)

Beach House’s distinct atmospheric music has always been exemplary at setting a scene and now it’s going to set literal scenes: The band has official recorded their first film score, for Netflix’s Along For The Ride, which premieres on the platform this Friday, May 6.

A trailer for the movie premiered in March and music heard in the background of it sounds like it could be from the band’s score:

Variety notes writer/director Sofia Alvarez says teaming up with Beach House:

“Originally, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to have a score, as there are so many needle drops in the movie. But whenever I discussed this with our music supervisors, Jessica Berndt and Jane Abernethy, I always included the caveat — ‘But if there is a score, it would have to be done by Beach House.’ Then Netflix sent us their ideas about whom the right composer might be, and completely independently of our discussions – they wanted Beach House, too! Our music supervisors reached out to Beach House’s manager, Jason Foster, whom I’ve known for a long time, and he sent us instrumental versions of three Beach House albums to use as temp score while we were working on the edit. Once we dropped their music in, it fit the aesthetic of the movie perfectly and beautifully heightened the emotions of the scenes.

I had a couple of initial conversations with Alex [Scally, Beach House guitarist] and Victoria [Legrand, vocalist/keyboardist] and immediately felt a kinship with them. We share many mutual friends and are all from Baltimore. We also discovered through talking about that city, that their best friend lives across the street from the house I grew up in. My husband, Adam Squires, also designed their website. So though we’d never met, it didn’t feel like a collaboration that was starting at zero.

I know they will have a long career as film composers and I couldn’t be more honored that Along For The Ride was their first stop on that journey. I’m personally hoping to work with them again, maybe on a thriller or horror with fewer or no needle drops — I’d be so excited to hear what they would compose to images with a totally blank sound as the starting point.

And because we are all from Balt — Go O’s!”

The publication notes the movie “tells the story of Auden (Emma Pasarow), who’s decided to spend her last summer before college in picturesque Colby Beach,” continuing, “While other teens party in the sun, loner Auden spends her time roaming the streets after everyone else is asleep. Everything changes when she meets Eli (Belmont Cameli), a charming and mysterious fellow insomniac. On their nightly adventures, Eli challenges Auden to a quest to live out all her childhood dreams. Their connection pushes them to confront why they’ve been content living life in the shadows as they begin to show each other how to live life to the fullest.”

Just days ahead of the release of Jack Harlow‘s sophomore album, Come Home, The Kids Miss You, Harlow has revealed the tracklist. Among the 15 tracks are the previously released “Nail Tech,” and the Fergie-sampling “First Class,” which, upon its release, became Harlow’s first solo Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit.

Come Home, The Kids Miss You features an impressive set of collaborators, including Drake, Lil Wayne, Pharrell Williams, and Justin Timberlake. While Dua Lipa herself isn’t featured on the album, there is a track called “Dua Lipa.” This song is most likely the one Harlow teased on social media over the weekend, on which Harlow raps, “Dua Lipa, I’m trying to do more with her than do a feature.”

Check out the full tracklist below.

1. “Talk Of The Town”
2. “Young Harleezy”
3. “I’d Do Anything To Make You Smile”
4. “First Class”
5. “Dua Lipa”
6. “Side Piece”
7. “Movie Star” Feat. Pharrell Williams
8. “Lil Secret”
9. “I Got A Shot”
10. “Churchill Downs” Feat. Drake
11. “Like A Blade Of Grass”
12. “Parent Trap” Feat. Justin Timberlake
13. “Poison” Feat. Lil Wayne
14. “Nail Tech”
15. “State Fair”

Come Home, The Kids Miss You is out 5/6 via Atlantic. Pre-save it here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a genuine hit at the box office — and a fashion inspiration. In one of the multiverse realities in the Daniels’ mind-bender, Michelle Yeoh has hot dog fingers. If you haven’t seen the movie and are confused by that sentence, what are you doing? Go see it. If you have seen the movie, then you’ll want to get your non-hot dog hands on a pair of hot dog finger gloves. Unfortunately, they’re sold out on A24’s website, but Andrew Garfield got his, and he’s been showing them off.

While walking the red carpet at the Met Gala, Yeoh was asked by the Cut what she thought of Garfield’s hot dog-flavored water, I mean, fingers. “Oh my God! I love him!” she said. “Can you imagine? I had been watching his interviews that he’s doing for Under the Banner of Heaven, and he’s sitting there asking his costar, ‘Have you seen Everything Everywhere?’ And he goes, ‘No.’ ‘Then you have to go see it.’ He talks about our film and walks out with the hot dog fingers. I love him. I love him.”

Podcaster Jamie Loftus is also a fan:

Hot Dog Fingers Twitter is the only good genre of Twitter:

You can buy your own pair when they go back on sale here. Could the butt plug be next?

(Via EW)

“Who the hell are these a**holes?”

That was the question posed at the end of The Umbrella Academy Season 2 (which was a twist-filled blast). In the closing scene, the Hargreeves family (as we knew them) confronted a new group of also-Hargreeves siblings. As it turns out, horrible father Reginald had been prepping another group of supernaturally gifted brothers and sisters, who apparently surfaced under the same interdimensional circumstances as the O.G. group. Thus, we’ve got the Sparrow Academy, which also contains a Ben, who left one dimension and then surfaced with these other Hargreeves from another timeline.

Or something like that!

It’s all rather confusing at the moment, but sweet Ben is apparently now an a**hole who brands other people as “a**holes” when, really, the Sparrows seem to fit that bill. They seem pretty hostile! Yeah, I can’t wait to see how that rivalry goes, but more importantly for the time being, Netflix has put Elliot Page’s character — who comes out as transgender — back into action as Viktor.

The show made that creative call after Page also came out as trans in July 2020 with Netflix quickly declaring that Elliot would return for Season 3. And here’s part of the Season 3 synopsis:

After putting a stop to 1963’s doomsday, the Umbrella Academy return home to the present, convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this godforsaken timeline once and for all. But after a brief moment of celebration, they realize things aren’t exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them. Enter the Sparrow Academy. Smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns.

Yikes. From there, the two fams will have to learn to work together in order to make sure that the Umbrella gang can get back to their correct timeline. And yes, they’re part of the reason (as usual) why all the apocalypse stuff is happening in the first place. Please let there somehow be another Klaus-Ben street scuffle this season. We need the chaos.

The Umbrella Academy will return on June 22.

Pete Davidson is known for getting tattoos about everything and everything (and eventually covering them up) and even branding himself. Davidson was recently seen with the letters “KNSCP” on his neck, and fans believe they are to represent the initials of Kim Kardashian’s children with ex Kanye West. Yeah, it’s weird, but that’s his thing. Some people, like fellow comedian D.L. Hughley, think the move is “out of pocket.”

“I think it’s his body, it’s his woman, [but] those are Kanye’s kids. That would piss me off,” the comedian told TMZ. Hughley seems to think it will only cause problems for the Saturday Night Live star. “It’s none of my business, but if you tattoo my kids’ name on your neck, I’d have something to say about it.” He added.

He then went on to say that the tattoo will only provoke West. “Listen, nobody’s telling you you can’t live your life. If that’s your woman, you have a good time. But if you put that man’s kids on your neck, that’s antagonizing. That’s out of pocket for me.”

Davidson and Kardashian have been spotted literally everywhere lately, most recently making an appearance at the Met Gala last night. West, on the other hand, has kept a relatively low profile after making some questionable threats to Davidson. If he does reach out to Davidson, he’ll have to go through Martha Stewart first.

The 2022 Met Gala went down yesterday and it seemed to go off without incident: Lizzo played a $55,000 flute, SZA teased new music, Phoebe Bridgers had some people thinking she shaved her head, and all in all, it seemed like a good time was had. It was after the actual gala, though, that some apparent beef surfaced.

Cardi B performed at an after-party and while speaking to her audience, she encouraged them to have fun, get some drinks, and although she didn’t say the last one out loud, the motion she made with her hand suggested she was encouraging use of nasally ingested drugs. After that moment, while Cardi was performing, Billie Eilish was filmed looking around and telling somebody, “This is so weird,”

So, it appeared to some that Eilish had an issue with Cardi, or at least with her performance. Now, though, Cardi has cleared the air on Twitter by sharing audio messages she and Eilish shared over Instagram after the event.

In one, Eilish says, “Oh my god, I was so worried you were going to see that: I was f*cking calling the people around you weird because everybody was coming up to you and shoving their phones into your ass! And I was like, ‘Just look at her with your eyes!’” Cardi responded with a message, saying in a fake-crying voice, “Internet’s trying to divide us. They don’t understand that you’re my baby!”

Cardi also captioned her tweet, “I hate the internet cause one, how do y’all turn one of the most lit parties into drama? Two, Ocean eyes is the song I cater to my daughter. Three,Billie is my f*ckin baby.Yesterday, from the met to the party, everything was drama free. Why do yallwanna turn everything into mess?”

Listen to the messages below.

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Cody Walker, brother of the late Fast and Furious star Paul Walker, is warning viewers about the dangers of street racing in a new PSA from the Orange County District Attorney’s office. In the minute-long spot, Cody appears shortly after an intro from fellow Fast star Sung Kang who extols the virtues and camaraderie of racing as cars speed along a desert track. And that’s just where Cody urges drivers to keep their racing, instead of on the streets, where his brother famously died in a 2013 crash during a break from filming Fast & Furious 7.

Via Comic Book:

“Like many of you, I too have lost somebody due to reckless driving,” said Cody Walker. “I think a lot of the time when those of us that want to go fast, or we have something to prove, we don’t take into consideration the lives of those around us. It’s not just you that you’re putting in jeopardy it’s everybody else around you. So don’t be dumb, take it to the track. There’s somebody at home that loves you that’s expecting you to return. It’s not worth the risk, I promise.”

Cody appearing in the PSA with Kang is also interesting in light of a recent Instagram post from Fast and Furious lead Vin Diesel. In the post, Diesel brings up Walker’s family’s hopes of seeing Paul’s character, Brian, make a “tasteful cameo” in one of the last two films. (Brian is canonically alive in the films, but never shown following Walker’s death.) If Cody is making PSA with other Fast stars, that could be a sign that he’s working with the production team to help Brian make a final big-screen appearance.

Or he could just be doing a good thing by warning about the very real dangers of street racing.

(Via Comic Book)