Last week, Sharon Van Etten linked up with Queens Of The Stone Age vocalist Josh Homme to share a cover of Nick Lowe’s iconic track “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” The duo now returns with a heartwarming quarantine-recorded video to accompany the haunting ballad.

Directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin over a phone call, the visual was shot from the singers’ respective homes. Van Etten, who is notoriously terse about her family life, offered a glimpse into her isolation with a glass of wine on hand. For Homme’s portion of the track, the singer similarly shows appreciation for his wife and two kids in the visual. Nick Lowe, the cover’s original songwriter, even makes an appearance.

In a statement alongside the visual’s relief, Homme discussed his collaboration with Van Etten further:

“I went to a Courtney Barnett Valentine’s Day concert that Sharon Van Etten was playing as one of a veritable buffet of musicians. She opened her mouth and my mind exploded—that voice, like fresh cream… with a hint of fine grit. When a week later the opportunity arose to sing with her, I jumped at it. This was of course before we had any idea that the world would be going into hiding for months. Recording this song had nothing to do with what we’d be going through… until we started going through it. In these times, it’s a blessing to feel lucky even for a moment… and I feel lucky to have been able to work with Sharon, Zach Dawes, Michael Shuman, Matthew Siskin and our families.

When you’re shooting at home you start out shooting only what you love. Then you get tired and stop. This video doesn’t deal with anything outside of what’s happening within its own little world we created — only what’s happening inside two households connected by what they love the most, nothing more.”

What Van Etten and Homme’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” video above.

It might be odd to imagine the lovable and squeaky-clean Mr. Rogers making money from gangsta rap, but that’s exactly what happened, according to Ice Cube. The West Coast rap pioneer related the story to fans during an Instagram Live session celebrating the 30th anniversary of his solo debut album, AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. While talking about the creation, reception, and impact of that album, he revealed that one person who received royalties from it would have been unexpected to anyone not in-the-know: The host of the educational children’s TV show, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, which was once sampled on the project.

The song in question, “A Gangsta’s Fairytale,” opens with a sample of a portion of the Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood theme song, which the usually agreeable television host took issue with, suing Ice Cube for royalties and eventually prompting Cube to remove the sample entirely from later reissues of the album. As he told fans who tuned into his Live:

“I actually wrote this for Eazy-E. But y’all know what it is, we weren’t getting down at the time so I had to take it myself. It’s a trip because off this song, Mr. Rogers sued us. He was mad because we had the Mister Rogers theme at the beginning of this sh*t. ‘It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood,’ and all that. The n**** sued us and was getting like five cents a record until we took that part off.”

I’m not sure what’s funnier — the thought of the wholesome Mr. Rogers checking his mail for a check from an album called AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted or the fact that Ice Cube apparently doesn’t know the words to the Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood theme song. In any event, you can check out the full Live stream above.

Like most fans, we’ve been keeping an eye out for updates about the status of Ember Moon, one of WWE’s most promising and underutilized female Superstars of the last few years. Ember hasn’t been able to wrestle since last September, when she tore her achilles tendon during a 24/7 Championship segment, of all things. Unfortunately, none of the news so far has been good.

Last night on WWE Backstage, Renee Young asked a panel that included Ember Moon, Booker T, and Mark Henry about moments in their career they’d like to do over. That led to Ember opening up about the possibility that she might not be able to return to the ring:

Just trying to think, like, I look back at my career in WWE — I’ve been here five years. And like yeah, I could go back and say “Yeah, I should have been the one to defeat Asuka’s streak,: or at least I hope that, or I could say “Aw, man, me and Bayley from SummerSlam… I wish I’d done more.”

The more and more I sit back and look at everything I’ve done and what I would re-do, I think more about my injury currently and realizing that I may have a career-ending injury. I’m coming back from the hardest injury and I might not have a chance to redeem myself of all the things that I wanted to do and all the things I want to do in my future. It’s just— It’s so hard to think back and regret, when I try to look forward.

Mark Henry had no patience for the idea that someone as talented as Ember might not wrestle again, and basically yelled at her, in the manner of a loving coach, not to give up. Ember then acknowledged that she’s not losing hope on getting back in the ring,

I keep looking forward and I keep pushing forward because this is what I love. This is my passion, this is the only thing I’ve ever wanted for myself. And I want that opportunity to not look back, but to look forward and be better than ever before. And it’s so hard to look back, like it really is. Gosh. I just feel like, thank you guys, but yeah, it’s hard. And I hope that I do have more matches, there’s so many more things I want to do. Like I said, I’m trying to get on y’all’s level. I’m going to prove to you guys that I’m worth redeeming those mistakes and worth redeeming those regrets. It’s just going to be awhile before I do so.

Hopefully we do get to see Ember Moon return to the ring, however long it takes. In the meantime, at least there are places like WWE Backstage where we still get to see her, and she still gets to participate in the WWE product.

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Bid adieu to blackheads, my friends.

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We need answers.

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Let’s get this party started.

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“I’ll just put you on my 3,000-follower Instagram feed, mostly loved ones.”

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The one with the alphabet.

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What have you got to lose?

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