Throughout the promotional cycle for After Hours, The Weeknd has blurred the lines between reality and fiction with his videos and public appearances, which have seemed to exist in the same narrative realm. He took things to a new level this week, though, when he released his “Save Your Tears” video. In the clip, we see The Weeknd after having had an extreme plastic-surgery makeover, as a lot of his features were comically exaggerated. Of course, The Weeknd didn’t really get plastic surgery, but now the person behind the new look has shared some insight about how it was created.
Prosthetic Renaissance Makeup-FX Studio designer Mike Marino was the one who created the look, and after the video debuted, he took to Instagram to share some behind-the-scenes photos of how he altered The Weeknd’s face. The process began by creating a rough sculpture of The Weeknd’s modified face, and once Marino and The Weeknd knew how they wanted to proceed, Marino created the prosthetics. There were four main prosthetic components involved: one for each lip; one for the nose, eyebrows, and forehead; and one for the cheeks and chin. Presumably, those were all attached to The Weeknd’s face, makeup was used to make them blend in, and that was that.
Aside from The Weeknd’s wild look, the “Save Your Tears” video also made headlines for what some perceived to be a shot at the Grammys.
It wasn’t that long ago that the rollout cycle for new singles included the lyrics video, then the official music video, but in recent months, the lines between the two styles of video have blurred. Rappers have begun incorporating lyrics subtitles into their actual music videos, while lyrics videos have become more and more cinematic. The lyric video for Lil Durk‘s “Stay Down” from his December album The Voice falls into the latter category, splashing the bars against the backdrop of a black-and-white video of various pretty women dancing to and reciting the song on various devices, with the viewer implied to be Durk himself.
Durk is joined on “Stay Down” by Atlanta rappers 6lack and Young Thug, who provide the hook and the third verse, respectively. The song overall addresses a potential paramour from whom the three men demand a modicum of loyalty — although not much, as Durk notes his interest has already been involved with the track’s producers DY Krazy and Metro Boomin. Meanwhile, Thug warns his potential mate that he lives a dangerous life, wondering, “Keep it gangsta, would you die for me?”
Intriguingly, the lyric video arrives several months after the official music video, which dropped back in October.
After Doja Cat earned her very first No. 1 single in 2020, the singer is looking to keep up the momentum in 2021. For several weeks, Doja has been teasing a project titled Planet Her, which many believe is the title of her next LP. Now, it looks like Doja has slyly teased some upcoming collaborations with some of today’s biggest stars.
Instructing fans to make the connection, Doja Cat took to Twitter to tell her listeners to “guess why” she was following only eight musicians on the platform.
Following them for a reeeeaaaaasssoooonnn 😉 Guess why.
Those that made the list include Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, SZA, French Montana, Saweetie, The Weeknd, Young Thug, and ASAP Ferg. Doja’s tweet convinced fans that it was her way of sharing which musicians will be featured on her upcoming LP.
If Doja does in fact collaborate with the artists mentioned, it wouldn’t be her first time working with a few of them. Last year, Doja teamed up with The Weeknd to shared a pumped-up remix of his After Hours track “In Your Eyes.” More recently, Doja appeared on Ariana Grande’s track “Motive,” which appeared on her buzzworthy album Positions.
See a list of Doja’s possible collaborators above.
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
When a fresh calendar year begins, it’s natural to start talking about resolutions. You know, the kind designed to make you a smarter, kinder, leaner, healthier version of yourself. New year, new you and all that noise. But 2020 was a doozy and 2021 arrived with the world still in the weeds.
So give yourself a break. Skip “dry January” and just sip on lighterbeers this month. (We’re still drinking stouts, sorry-not-sorry.)
Historically, the word “light” in relation to beer was an alarm bell that screamed “no flavor!” But in recent years, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Many of your favorite craft breweries are creating refreshing, full-flavored light beers that prove that low calorie doesn’t always need low flavor.
Proving that light beer doesn’t have to be flavorless, Avery Pacer IPA is low in calorie and alcohol, but high in taste. It’s hazy, juicy, and filled with wheat and oats to create a full-body. Meanwhile, Southern Hemisphere Hops offer a citrus-forward, piney base.
Tasting Notes:
This lightly carbonated, fresh beer is loaded with mango, guava, and other tropical fruit flavor notes. These are heightened by the addition of grapefruit, orange zest, and resinous pine.
Bottom Line:
This is the perfect light beer for IPA fans. It’s refreshing, light, and filled with flavors well suited for hop heads looking for a lighter option.
This isn’t your usual yellow, fizzy light beer. While it is a light lager, it’s highly crushable, refreshing, and flavor-forward. Designed to pair with a night of fun (or relaxation), it’s a great beer for a quarantined January house party with your cluster.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find the scent of baking bread and sweet caramel. The first sip is filled with sharp citrus flavors and crisp, refreshing notes. It’s light, highly drinkable, and thirst-quenching.
Bottom Line:
If you’re usually a fan of Miller Lite or one of the other well-known macro brews, Night Shift Nite Lite is a good substitute with a more complicated flavor profile.
It’s not easy to make a great tasting beer under 100 calories, but the folks at Lagunitas pulled it off. This brew is hoppy, refreshing, and perfect for IPA fans looking to enjoy a low-calorie, low alcohol option. If you’re a fan of Lagunitas IPA, you won’t be disappointed by this beer.
Tasting Notes:
This beer starts juicy and full of tropical fruit flavors but quickly moves into piney, resinous, citrusy notes with hints of orange, lime, and grapefruit.
Bottom Line:
For a light beer, this is a surprisingly well-balanced IPA. The best part? It’s under 98 calories so you won’t feel bad having a few.
A few years ago, Michelob Ultra was released as “the beer for people with active lifestyles.” Since then, many great craft beers have been launched that taste a lot better than that macro brew. One is Boulevard Easy Sport, a fresh, citrusy blonde ale with electrolytes and tangerine.
Tasting Notes:
On top of being like the beer equivalent of Gatorade (unconfirmed), Easy Sport is crisp, light, thirst-quenching, and full of tart orange, salty, sweet flavors. This one is so good you’ll want to crack a can open after pretty much any strenuous athletic activity.
Bottom Line:
This is the beer for the athlete (or wannabee athlete) who enjoys a beer or two after a workout, run, bike ride, or simply an afternoon spent shoveling snow.
When you crack open a beer for Firestone Walker, you know what you’re going to get. There’s no corner-cutting with this California brewery. This crisp, hazy, New England-style IPA only has 96 calories, but it’s full-flavored and hopped up with Cascade, Callista. Dry Hop: El Dorado, Chinook, Mosaic, Strata, Sabro, Idaho 7 hops.
Tasting Notes:
If you nose this beer, you definitely won’t expect it to be light. It’s filled with fresh, citrus hop aromas. The taste mirrors the nose, with hints of tropical fruits and fresh, crisp citrus.
Bottom Line:
If you’re a fan of New England-style IPAs, but you’re looking for something lighter, this is the beer for you. If it didn’t list the calories on the can, you wouldn’t even know this is a light beer.
When it comes to light beer (especially in the craft world) it seems like the only options are lager or IPA. Bush League (which is part of the Fantast League mix pack) is a cold fermented American pilsner that was brewed with flaked corn and Mandarina Bavaria and Hüll Melon hops.
Tasting Notes:
This golden color beer is full of sweet cereal notes along with a whole heap of resinous, piney hop-driven flavors. It’s crisp, light, and highlighted by hints of fresh lime zest, orange, and grapefruit.
Bottom Line:
This light, crisp pilsner is perfect on its own. But pick up the whole Fantast League 12-pack and also enjoy Rec League (pale ale), Farm League (farmhouse ale), and Night League (Black IPA).
Abita set out to create an IPA that was low in calories and ABV but high in flavor fresh, citrus-filled flavor. They did it by combining Mosaic and Citra hops to create a bright, flavorful, light beer.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll be met with hints of mango, guava, as well as fresh citrus zest. The first sip is filled with fresh berries, ripe oranges, and juicy, tropical fruits.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to light beers, this is one of the best. It’s well-rounded, refreshing, and perfect for literally any day of the year whether it’s the high heat of summer or the chilly depths of winter.
Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale is one of the most popular IPAs in the country. It should come as no surprise that its lighter counterpart is fresh, aromatic, and filled with citrus and pine flavors that would appeal to the most enthusiastic IPA drinker.
Tasting Notes:
One of the Michigan brewery’s newest releases, Light-Hearted is filled with lemon, lime, and orange flavors along with pine, resin, and sweet cereal notes.
Bottom Line:
If you’re a fan of the immensely popular Two-Hearted Ale and you’re looking for lower alcohol, lower caloric alternative, grab a sixer of Light-Hearted. You won’t be disappointed.
While hiding behind bulletproof glass after stirring up a crowd with false hopes of overturning the results of the 2020 election, Donald Trump attempted to address the “protest rally” slash open coup unfolding in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, but he ran into one small problem. His mic didn’t work. For a good thirty seconds, the outgoing Trump spoke before realizing nobody could hear a word he was saying, and it was a fitting moment for the final moments of his presidency. While noting it would’ve been nice if someone cut his mic years ago, Twitter users couldn’t help but love the symbolism of Trump being silenced during his last desperate grasp at holding onto the White House.
Symbolic of his lame duck presidency. Impotent and sad
— Kevin D. Grüssing (pronounced Grew-Sing) (@KevDGrussing) January 6, 2021
However, Aaron Rupar reports that the technical issue was resolved, enabling Trump to rant about how America is a “third world country,” and Mike Pence needs to do the “right thing” by not certifying the results because states want to do a “re-vote.” (None of this is true.) Trump also took aim at the GOP calling those who don’t back him “weak Republicans” as he repeated his son Eric’s threat to “primary the hell out of them.” Eventually, the president devolved into calling the counting of votes “bullshit.”
Like all things Trump, it was a surreal event punctuated with a palpable fear of armed violence (Trump himself was behind bulletproof glass) and comedic moments like the DJ trolling the crowd by playing “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic. And there are still two more weeks left to go before Joe Biden officially takes office.
In case you missed it, Senate Republican Kelly Loeffler just lost her seat in Congress after Reverend Raphael Warnock edged her out in a highly-publicized runoff in Georgia.
Warnock, a pastor at the late John Lewis’ church, becomes the first Black senator in the state’s history, and the first Democrat elected to that post in 20 years. Perhaps more importantly, his win inches the Democratic party toward majority control of the Senate. But while Warnock’s camp, and progressives everywhere, are celebrating, Loeffler is having a hard time accepting her clear defeat.
The appointed official and former businesswoman spoke in front of a crowd of supporters last night as the count took a bad turn for her campaign, refusing to accept the projected outcome and vowing she’d come out on top once all the votes were tallied.
Her delusional optimism — and her insistence on sporting plaid button-ups and puffer vests in an attempt to con the good people of Georgia into thinking she’s actually not a millionaire who allegedly participated in insider trading when the pandemic began — might be commendable to some. To Twitter? It’s just another excuse to dunk on a Trump supporter who tossed out her conservative values to simp for a right-wing pandering TV personality with narcissistic tendencies. Please, do enjoy the roasting that follows.
and now Kelly Loeffler has a decision every GOP candidate must face, either concede or next week get Covid from breathing in one of Rudy Giuliani’s farts
“We have a path to victory…” No, it doesn’t appear that you do. But hey, at least you can stop pretending to like flannel, denim, down vests, trucker hats and the Bulldogs.
Killian Hayes, the young French point guard who became the No. 7 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft last November, has suffered a torn labrum in his hip and the Pistons are currently determining a course forward that may or may not involve surgery, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Detroit Pistons rookie Killian Hayes has suffered a labral tear in his hip, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA@Stadium. Hayes, the No. 7 pick in the NBA Draft, sustained the injury on a drive to the basket in Milwaukee on Monday.
Having missed Summer League and making an enormous leap from the German League to the NBA, this development time was quite important for Hayes. The Pistons installed him as the starting point guard even with Derrick Rose also on the roster and other veterans around who would otherwise have set Detroit up to compete for a playoff spot. That was a testament to their investment in Hayes, but now it threatens to be a lost season for the 19-year-old.
Most often, labral tears involve the shoulder for basketball players, such as Paul George at the end of the 2018-19 season. But the labrum is simply the cartilage structure in a bone socket, whether that be the shoulder or hip. Surgery to repair the tear could force Hayes to miss several months.
In the meantime, the Pistons will continue to chart a course forward around a core of Jerami Grant, Sekou Doumbouya, and their other two first-round picks from 2020, Saddiq Bey and Isaiah Stewart.
A lot changed in 2020 but, living in Austin, Sun June are used to seeing perpetual change. The city itself is constantly in a state of transience, with Sun June finding friends either moving to or away from Austin. But amid changes comes the inevitable nostalgia for the past, which Sun June touch on in their newest single “Everything I Had.”
The song arrives alongside a DIY video depicting the band’s vocalist Laura Colwell revisiting places of import from her past. Speaking about the track’s inspiration in a statement, Colwell said the song reflects transient feeling of Austin, Texas:
“‘Everything I Had’ is about feeling stuck and wising you could go back in time. It misses when things were new and easy and full of promise. It feels very ‘Austin’ to us, because things change here so quickly and it’s easy to fall into a rut and feel like the city is moving on without you. Friends are always leaving town too, so sometimes it’s fun to think moving to LA or New York would solve all our problems. It’s also fair to say that the song has taken on some new meaning during the pandemic. We’re all missing someone or something right now.”
The single also offers a preview of their upcoming LP Somewhere, which Sun June call their “prom record.” “The prom idea started as a mood for us to arrange and shape the music to, which we hadn’t done before,” the band said in a statement. “Prom isn’t all rosy and perfect. The songs show you the crying in the bathroom, the fear of dancing, the joy of a kiss – all the highs and all the lows.”
Watch Sun June’s “Everything I Had” video above and check out their Somewhere cover art and tracklist below.
Run For Cover
1. “Bad With Time”
2. “Everything I Had”
3. “Singing”
4. “Bad Girl”
5. “Karen O”
6. “Everywhere”
7. “Once in a While”
8. “Finding Out”
9. “Seasons”
10. “Real Thing”
11. “Colors”
Somewhere is out 2/5 via Run For Cover. Pre-order it here.
Kevin Smith’s proven himself to be both an early and steadfast supporter of Zack Snyder’s Justice League director’s cut. And he couldn’t resist using “Snyder Cut” to describe his own original vision for the ending of 1994’s Clerks. Granted, this alternate ending is not a new revelation, Brian O’Halloran (who portrayed Dante) previously told Rolling Stonethat he “hated” it. Smith ended up shooting the scene before deciding to go with the closing-up-shop ending that actually suited the spirit of the film well.
Smith did including the scene — in which Dante is killed during a robbery — on the 10th anniversary DVD, and yeah, it is dark stuff. Is it gritty, though? Sure. Even grittier than Caitlin inadvertently having sex with a dead man in a darkened bathroom.
Dark + gritty + original vision? Check, check, check. Take it away, Kevin Smith with illustrative script pages on Twitter:
This is the shooting draft of CLERKS. I was checking it for references as I write the new CLERKS III and I found this scene in which Jay inadvertently gets Dante killed. John is the guy who shoots Dante and robs the register in the “Snyder Cut” of Clerks: https://t.co/WubnHOtuiYpic.twitter.com/Bh400pVhcj
Ah, memories. Smith uncovered the draft while writing Clerks III, and while the development would have been an ultimate irony (Dante wasn’t even supposed to be there that day!), I’m onboard with O’Halloran’s opinion that this would have been too quick and easy of a wrap-up. And it would have made Clerks III, as Smith has been writing it, a probably nonexistent happening.
Speaking of the threquel, shooting has obviously been pushed back due to you-know-what, but Smith previously revealed to EW that the script was inspired by his own heart attack. “Randal has a heart attack, decides that he came so close to death, and his life has meant nothing, there’s nobody to memorialize him, he has no family or anything like that,” Smith explained. “He comes to the conclusion at mid-life, having almost died, having worked in a movie store his whole life and watched other people’s movies, he tells Dante, I think we need to make a movie. So Dante and Randal make Clerks. That’s the story of Clerks 3.” Boom.
A bottle of Pappy Van Winkle whiskey is the great white whale for many a whiskey drinker. The stuff has reached mythic levels of popularity, due to it’s lauding and limited availability. For the average drinker, it’s damn near impossible to find a bottle (even though it’s released yearly). If you do spot a bottle, you’re going to pay an astronomical markup for the stuff — thereby adding to the mystique.
And your frustration with the whole circus around the juice.
This year, if you live in PA, you can circumvent that rigamarole by winning a chance to pay very close to retail for a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle’s line. Pennsylvania’s Fine Wine & Good Spirits and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board are running a “lottery” this week that’ll award entrants a chance to buy bottles of Pappy without the aftermarket getting involved.
“In an effort to more equitably distribute limited availability high-demand products to both individual consumers and licensees,” Food Wine & Good Spirits stated via a press release, “we offer a Limited-Release Lottery for our most popular, rare products.”
You can register for the lottery on the liquor store’s website before January 8th. The catch? You have to be a Pennsylvania resident. If so, you’ll have the chance to enter one, multiple, or all six drawings. The prices for each expression range from $89 for the 12-year-old bourbon to $399 for the 23-year-old bottle of Pappy — undeniably a great opportunity for anyone looking to get their hands on this coveted whiskey.
Theoretically, if you’re drawn for all six bottles (very unlikely), you’ll have to pay $1,149.94 to actually take those six bottles home. You’d pay ten times that amount easily right now on the aftermarket.
Buffalo Trace, which owns and produces Pappy Van Winkle, has been very active in acknowledging the ridiculousness of the secondary market’s markups of their various products. When they dropped the 2020 line last the fall, Buffalo Trace said, “If you are a customer trying to buy a bottle at a licensed retailer who has marked it up above MSRP, we encourage you to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau or contact your state Attorneys General office.”
The brand’s boss, Julian Van Winkle, reiterated that sentiment:
“Unfortunately even though we suggest what we believe to be a very low and fair MSRP,” Van Winkle told Paste. “We cannot control the price retailers charge, and some retailers mark it up even though we and the distributors that those retailers buy from ask them not to.”
Sazerac Company
While we understand that this feels like a great chance for the average person (in Pennsylvania) to actually get their hands on some good whiskey at a fair price, we can’t read about it without sighing. Yes, it’s great that you can actually buy a coveted whiskey for close to it’s MSRP. And it’s certainly more egalitarian than allowing investors and opportunists to dictate price. But having to win a lottery for the chance to buy a bottle of whiskey still feels… off.
Mostly because it underscores how those aforementioned investors and opportunists have created a system that means many Pennsylvania aficionados will never get to try Pappy without winning a lottery.
In the end, it’s best to think of this more like a ticketing system to avoid a Black Friday style stampede. Hopefully, aftermarket sellers don’t clog the lottery (by having their friends and family enter for them, etc.). If that pitfall can be avoided, perhaps Pennsylvania — by taking a bit of a stand with their supply and giving people a chance to buy some Pappy at a reasonable price via random chance — will lead the way for more retailers and liquor boards to do the same.
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