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Billie Eilish went viral today, but it was for an unfortunate reason: A Twitter user shared a body-shaming post about her, so her fans swooped in the stand up for the singer and tell that detractor off. Now Eilish herself has offered a reaction to the tweet, and although it’s an indirect response, it seems clear that Eilish is either addressing this specific situation or the general types of comments she sees about this sort of thing.

On her Instagram Story last night, Eilish shared a video from content creator and social media personality Chizi Duru, in which she calls for people to start “normalizing real bodies.” In the video that Duru shared to her 170k Instagram followers on October 7, she says, “Y’all gotta start normalizing real bodies, OK? Not everybody has a wagon behind them, OK? Guts are normal, they’re normal. Boobs sag, especially after breastfeeding. Instagram isn’t real.” Duru also captioned the post, “In case someone needed a reminder…. Instagram has warped a lot of y’all into thinking NORMAL bodies are abnormal. NO. Not every black girl has a shelf behind them. Stomach pudge is completely normal. Most boobs SAGGGG. And to all my mamas out there, it’s ok! You brought LIFE into this world sis.”

The tweet in question featured a paparazzi photo of Eilish and declared that she “has developed a mid-30’s wine mom body.” The backlash against that Twitter user was severe, with one person summing up the tone of the responses with their tweets: “Body-shaming Billie Eilish is the main reason she wears baggy clothes. This sh*t is just weird and objectively wrong. She looks beautiful and most importantly, healthy. Let people develop confidence… on God most people wish they looked like her, like damn y’all see a lil tummy and people think you obese… this MAN is pushing 30 as well. Embarrassing.”

Eilish responded to a similar situation in April, after she had shared videos of herself in a swimsuit. She was frustrated, saying in an interview, “It was trending. There were comments like, ‘I don’t like her anymore because as soon as she turns 18, she’s a whore.’ Like, dude: I can’t win. I can not win.”

David Crosby turned heads this week during an AMA session on Twitter. As fans and artists were still reeling over the death of Eddie Van Halen, one user asked Crosby his opinion on the musician. The veteran singer answered the question with a “meh,” and his unexpectedly cold response instantly prompted backlash. On Wednesday, a few days following the incident, Crosby backtracked on his statements and admitted that he had been insensitive.

Addressing the backlash, Crosby conceded that his statement was “not cool,” writing, “yes you Van Halen fans I did just toss off an answer that was not cool …the even more embarrassing truth is ..I didn’t even remember he had just died or I would have kept my mouth shut….I do make mistakes …no offense intended.”

Shortly after Crosby’s original “meh” tweet, the singer doubled-down on his statement, saying Van Halen’s music just wasn’t for him. “many of you loved Van Halen ….and the one time I met he was nice ….and he was talented,” he wrote. “meh to me means I don’t care that much ….and I don’t …doesn’t mean he wasn’t good, he was but not for me.”

Seeing as Van Halen passed away just a few weeks ago, people were not happy with Crosby’s statements. One fan replied and said the tweet was “rude, unkind and totally lacking empathy.”

Read Crosby’s full statement above.

Lindsey Graham’s days as a U.S. Senator from South Carolina could very well be numbered, as hard as that would have been to believe a few years ago. He seems to know he’s out and recently pleaded with Fox News viewers to send him campaign donations. That spectacle was followed by his Democratic opponent, Jamie Harrison, raising $57 million (and in the process, breaking a congressional fundraising record) in an effort to unseat Graham, who’s been under fire for his (arguably hypocritical) tactics to fill Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Supreme Court seat so swiftly and before the election.

Graham’s only made it worse for himself over the past week. First, he made the bizarre comment that Black people “can go anywhere in [South Carolina. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.” Then he refused to take a COVID test ahead of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, where he posed this question on Wednesday:

“One of the reasons you can say with confidence that you think Brown vs. Board of Education is ‘super precedent’ is you’re not aware of any effort to go back to the good old days of segregation by a legislative body, is that correct?”

Did Graham realize that it’s never a good look to say “the good old days of segregation,” and that sets him up for people believing that he, in fact, yearns for those days? No one knows the answer to that question, but Graham later told reporters (via Vox’s Aaron Rupar that he was speaking with “deep sarcasm.” Perhaps he’s actually trying to get voted out of office, and a lot of people on Twitter wouldn’t be sad to see him go, from the sound of their reactions.

November 3 is coming up fast, so it might be time for Graham to cut the sarcasm.

On their debut album Moveys, Chicago’s Slow Pulp shines through with the confidence of a veteran band. A lot happened to the members during the writing and production process of the album, and the strife is explored fully through the intensity of the band’s fuzzy pop-rock tracks. At just ten tracks, Moveys is one of the most exciting debuts of 2020, and a very promising taste of what’s to come from the quartet.

To celebrate the new album, the band sat down to talk Coldplay, Carole King’s net worth, and very small motel beds in the latest Indie Mixtape 20 Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Emotional North-American slow pop.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

We hope that our music continues to resonate with people outside of the context it was made in.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?

Madison, WI, our hometown.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

We all have slightly different taste in music, so it’s hard to find one specific person that has inspired all of us, but we all are definitely inspired by Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life?

The Loring pasta bar in Minneapolis after the very last show of tour. It wasn’t the best meal ever but we had a really nice time together. Best bathroom in America.

What album do you know every word to?

Parachutes by Coldplay!

What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?

Beach House at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee in 2019.

What is the best outfit for performing and why?

Well you don’t want to have too heavy of clothes on or it will get so hot. So something breezy and comfortable.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?

Gripping food with Force @grippingfood

What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?

“City Of Blinding Lights“- U2

What’s the last thing you Googled?

“Carole King Net Worth”

What album makes for the perfect gift?

NOW That’s What I Call Music #3, with classics including “All Star” by Smash Mouth, “What’s My Age Again” by Blink-182 and “Special” by Garbage.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

We stayed at this very strange motel in Detroit with these really small beds!! They were pretty hard to sleep in.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

Henry has a tattoo of an anchor on his right butt cheek that he got on his 18th birthday. He hid it from his mom for like 3 years, and she found out one day while they were waiting for the bus and she made him show it to her at the bus stop!

What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?

DaBaby.

What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

Someone gave Emily a shirt in Portland with an embroidered butterfly on it. Also, shout out to all of our friends and family who let us stay with them while we are on tour.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Invest in bitcoin.

What’s the last show you went to?

Andy Shauf.

What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?

13 Going On 30.

What would you cook if Kanye were coming to your house for dinner?

Well normally we’ll do a bit of spaghetti for dinner with sauce, so hopefully we could make a bit of that plus some ham for appetizers? Not sure tho!

Moveys is out now Winspear. Get it here.

Chance The Rapper and MadeInTYO reunite on TYO’s new single “BET Uncut,” this time bringing along St. Louis rapper Smino — who Chance also worked with on his album The Big Day — to pay homage to the 2000s-era cultural institution. While the video isn’t quite as racy as you might expect from the song’s title, the three rappers do trade some flirtatious, tongue-in-cheek bars for the ladies over the hard-hitting K Swisha beat.

“BET Uncut” is the second high-profile single to feature MadeInTYO after his post-“Uber Everywhere” hiatus. In July, he popped up on ASAP Ferg’s “Move Ya Hips” alongside Nicki Minaj, contributing a catchy hook. Prior to that, he and DaBaby laid some verses for Chance’s Big Day single “Hot Shower.” TYO’s new release is the first from Never Forgotten, the follow-up to his 2018 album Sincerely, Tokyo, which arrives October 30.

Meanwhile, Chance has been riding out the pandemic with a string of innovative digital performances, including one for Ralph Lauren and one for Triller, while contributing verses to Justin Bieber’s “Holy,” Spillage Village’s Spilligion, and Baha Banks’ “Shake Dat Ass.”

Smino recently added a verse to Thundercat’s “Dragonball Durag” with Guapdad 4000, kept pace with JID on “Baguetti,” and dropped a surprise mixtape, She Already Decided.

Watch MadeInTYO, Chance The Rapper, and Smino’s “BET Uncut” video above.

Never Forgotten is due 10/30 via Private Club Records / Commission Music. See the tracklist below.

1. “Movie”
2. “All I Need (feat. J. Balvin)”
3. “Freaky Girl (feat. Young Nudy)”
4. “Sports Center (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & 24hrs)”
5. “Throw It Back”
6. “Money Up (feat. Toro y Moi)”
7. “Ice Cream Swag (feat. Cam’ron)”
8. “BET Uncut (feat. Chance the Rapper & Smino)”
9. “Level Up”
10. “To the Moon”
11. “Coogi Shorts for the Summer (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid)
12. “Boss Up (feat. Na-Kel Smith)”
13. “Talkin to Me (feat. Chynna)”
14. “Aww Man (feat. Wiz Khalifa)”
15. “Jerry $tackhouse (feat. LUCKI)”
16. “Paris Fashion Week”
17. “Human-Made Racing”

Ahead of the season two return of The Mandalorian, Pedro Pascal is featured in a new Variety profile, in which he has absolutely no delusions about the success of the hit Disney+ series. When it’s suggested that Pascal is “effectively the face of one of the biggest pop-culture franchises in the world,” the humble actor wasn’t having any of it, and he made it very clear who’s the real star. Via Variety:

“I mean, come on, there isn’t a face!” he says with a laugh that feels maybe a little forced. “If you want to say, ‘You’re the silhouette’ — which is also a team effort — then, yeah.” He pauses. “Can we just cut the s– and talk about the Child?”

Pascal is, of course, talking about Baby Yoda, who is officially referred to as The Child, for now. (The adorable little guy’s real name will eventually be revealed at a later date.) The animatronic puppet is a $5 million work of art that requires a team of dedicated puppeteers and VFX specialists to bring to life. It literally takes at least two people just to work his arms, and the commitment certainly paid off. The Mandalorian became an international sensation and one of the most watched streaming series of the past year.

While Pascal might be downplaying his contribution to the show, he does, however, note that he knew during his first meeting with showrunner Jon Favreau that The Mandalorian is the “next big s–.” Especially after he saw Baby Yoda pop up in the storyboards.

“Literally, my eyes following left to right, up and down, and, boom, Baby Yoda close to the end of the first episode,” he told Variety. “That was when I was like, ‘Oh, yep, that’s a winner!’”

(Via Variety)

It’s been over a year and a half since Ariana Grande released her chart-topping record Thank U, Next. While the singer has not been shy about working on new music, fans have been wondering when exactly Grande’s next project will see the light of day. On Wednesday, Grande revealed the wait is nearly over.

Announcing the project in a succinct tweet, Grande revealed her next record will debut in just a few short weeks: “i can’t wait to give u my album this month.”

The album announcement arrives after Grande teased fans about new music for weeks. In September, Grande posted a five-second snippet of a vocal track she was working on, writing “brb” as a caption. Just last week, the singer hinted at new music while also urging fans to vote in the upcoming election. “turning in these mixes and reminding u again to register to vote if u haven’t already,” she wrote alongside a selfie.

While the next album will be her first solo work since Thank U, Next, that doesn’t mean Grande hasn’t been working hard on new music. The singer collaborated with Lady Gaga on the Chromatica track “Rain On Me,” stopping by the MTV VMAs in August to perform a rendition of the single. Earlier in the lockdown, Grande teamed up with Justin Bieber to share the quarantine track “Stuck With U.”

On Tuesday, Donald Trump shared a baseless, easy-to-disprove conspiracy theory involving Barack Obama, the Navy SEALs, and Osama Bin Laden with his tens of millions of followers on Twitter. The president retweeted an article from “conservative propaganda site” DJHJ Media (we will not be linking to it) alleging that Obama and Joe Biden may have “killed” the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, the “global manhunting machine” that assisted in the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in a cover-up that goes all the way to the top, as cover-ups often do. Not only that, but it also “claims Bin Laden’s body double was actually killed in the raid and that Biden then ordered a Navy SEAL helicopter be shot down in order to stop the “truth” from coming out,” according to Newsweek.

Naturally, the theory is a big hit among the QAnon crowd.

The account that Trump retweeted has since been suspended, but the president promoting the far-right conspiracy theory did not sit well with Robert O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who (controversially) claims to have been the one who killed Bin Laden.

“I know who I killed, homie,” he wrote. “Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double. Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy,” he tweeted.

O’Neill, a vocal Trump supporter in the past, was in the news earlier this year after Delta Airlines banned him for not wearing a mask on a flight.

Nicki Minaj’s Twitter stans are notoriously ruthless, especially when there’s a chance she was dissed by another musician. So when it seemed that Cardi and Nicki were taking shots at one another back in 2017, Nicki and Cardi’s fans alike were at each other’s throats. But now, it could be that both musicians have laid their dissagreements to rest. Cardi teased an upcoming collaboration with a secret guest, and fans are convinced it’s with Nicki Minaj.

Cardi B took to Twitter to tease the upcoming collaboration last week. “Gonna have ya sick,” she wrote. According to HipHopDX, rumors began to circulate claiming a snippet of a track called “Lavish” had leaked online. The lyrics reportedly appeared on a Genius page before being taken down and apparently revealed a verse from Nicki.

Fans took the rumor and ran with it, getting excited about the possibility of a collaboration between the two superstars.

Fans have held on to the beef between Cardi and Nicki for some time, but as Megan Thee Stallion pointed out in her recent New York Times op-ed, disagreements between female rappers are oftentimes blown out of proportion. “In every industry, women are pitted against one another, but especially in hip-hop, where it seems as if the male-dominated ecosystem can handle only one female rapper at a time,” Meg wrote. “Countless times, people have tried to pit me against Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, two incredible entertainers and strong women.”

Stay tuned to see if Cardi’s rumored collaboration with Nicki Minaj comes to fruition.

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The Seattle Seahawks are perhaps the best team in the NFL this season, sitting at 5-0 thanks in large part to a high-flying offense that is second in the league in points per game. As is always the case when that happens, the offense has been led by the team’s star signal caller, Russell Wilson, who has taken his game to new heights this season and is arguably the frontrunner at this early juncture for the league’s Most Valuable Player award.

Before we get anywhere near the point where the MVP is handed out, Wilson has already earned another distinction. In a bit of news that dropped on Wednesday, EA Sports that Wilson is the latest entrant into the Madden NFL 21 99 club, a group that is made up of players who receive the game’s highest individual rating. The news was announced on the official Madden Twitter account.

Wilson started the year with a 97 overall rating in Madden NFL 21, while the 99 club consisted of Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas, Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore, Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald, Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. So far this season, Wilson has completed 72.8 percent of his passes for 1,502 yards and a league-high 19 touchdowns.