Taylor Swift merch is a big deal. For her new album Midnights, she had an array of items: duffle bags, crewnecks, hoodies, backpacks, vinyl clocks, vinyl collector’s cases, etcetera. Of course, she went all out for the extravagant The Eras Tour, which has cities literally renaming themselves for the pop star. However, the merch has been getting some complaints from fans, saying clothing has been fading after one wash.
Swift’s official website has issued a statement about the situation, saying the product is supposed to have a “distressed, vintage look.” However, they offered a point of contact for providing replacements.
Read the full statement below.
“Due to the particular ink curing process used on certain Tour Collection products, after washing your merchandise you may see a faint fade on the product print. This slight fade is related to the product’s distressed, vintage look. Please also note it is important to follow product care instructions as listed on the product label when washing and drying your items, to best protect and maintain the product’s look and feel. However, if after washing your product you notice a dramatic loss of pigment or ink bleeding on your product, please contact [email protected] so we can help address the concern, and provide a replacement if necessary under our Exchange Policy.”
LSU’s dominant performance against Iowa on Sunday afternoon in the 2023 NCAA Women’s National Championship Game was the most viewed women’s title game in history, peaking at over 12.3 million viewers with an average of 9.9 million.
It was an unmitigated success for women’s basketball, as LSU and Iowa both brought plenty of storylines into the game having beaten top seeds Virginia Tech and South Carolina in the semifinals on Friday. Stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese were the headliners, but it was LSU that saw others step into starring roles as Jasmine Carson, Alexis Morris, and LaDazhia Williams all topped 20 points in the game to lead an incredible LSU scoring performance to win the school’s first women’s basketball national title.
After the game, much of the conversation was about Reese’s trash talk to Clark, as she returned the “You Can’t See Me” gesture Clark had used during the tournament to the Iowa star, and just generally delighted in sending Clark home without a ring. That saw some get upset at Reese, calling her classless and defending Clark (who never asked for that to happen), which then became plenty coming to Reese’s defense and calling out the double standard applied to Black players showing emotion compared to white players like Clark, who isn’t shy about dishing out trash talk herself.
The First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, is now apparently stepping into some murky waters and only exacerbating the issues following the public reaction to LSU, a team with almost entirely Black players, beating an Iowa team that’s almost entirely white. Biden said at an event on Monday, via the AP, she’ll encourage president Joe Biden to not only extend the traditional invite to the champions from LSU, but also Iowa “because they played such a good game.”
“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” she said. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
This statement unsurprisingly didn’t go over well with many, including Reese who made her thoughts on it known on Twitter.
I can’t blame Reese, who has spent the last 24 hours as the center of controversy for enjoying her national championship win. While she’s welcomed the spotlight and celebrated accordingly on social media, this is fairly absurd and isn’t something you’d ever see in another sport. While I don’t think there’s malice in the sentiment from the First Lady, it’s just not something you can do in the world of sports and, if anything, feels patronizing to Iowa and disrespectful to LSU, even if unintended. That it’s extending an invite to the team that’s mostly white for trying hard and doing their best only further creates an optics issue.
Donald Trump may have become the first president in American history to be indicted on criminal charges, but there’s no guarantee he’ll be convicted. There’s a chance the case against him could fall apart and he returned to the “zombie apocalypse” that is his hometown for nothing. Still, the unprecedented move has galvanized the Republican party, who’ve spent the last few days rallying to his defense. One of them got so worked up, though, that he let out what seemed like a top shelf Freudian slip.
Fox News guest Brian Claypool’s Freudian slip, on Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump:
“I think there’s no question about it, that he wants to humiliate President Fraud.” pic.twitter.com/4eTEHH7E6z
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) April 3, 2023
Over the weekend, Los Angeles attorney Brian Claypool, who moonlights as a political commentator, went on Fox News to tear apart Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the former president. He expressed skepticism that the dozens of charges — still not made public — would stick, and that the indictment would lead to a conviction. He bandied about GOP buzzwords like “political witch-hunt,” called Bragg “radical,” and said he was “targeting Trump.”
He also called Trump an unkind name. While discussing Bragg’s motives for charging Trump, Claypool claimed that what he wanted to do was “humiliate President Fraud.” Claypool quickly caught himself, but the damage was done.
You can watch Claypool’s full interview in the video below, but it’s worth noting that when he gets to the Freudian slip, there’s a sudden edit, excising his screw-up. Still, it was a good slip, albeit not as epic as the one George W. Bush made last year about the Iraq War.
“Lizzo is one of the most exciting, creative, joyful artists in the industry, and the impact of her Emmy award-winning series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls exceeded our every expectation,” Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon, and MGM Studios shared in a statement. “We are excited to continue our relationship with Lizzo and can’t wait for our global Prime Video audience to experience what’s next.”
“I’m thrilled to continue this partnership with the Amazon team after an incredible experience on season one of Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” Lizzo added. “I’ve witnessed lives change through this show, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue making space for even more Big Grrrls around the world to shine and break down barriers across this industry.”
It looks like Lizzo’s gonna have a good year.
Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Many great comedians have sat at the helm of the “Weekend Update” desk on “Saturday Night Live” over the show’s 48 seasons. Chevy Chase was known for his cool deadpan. Dennis Miller was the hip intellectual. Norm Macdonald will go down in history for his endless OJ jokes that eventually got him removed from the desk. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon were a great double act that was a fun mix of high-brow and low-brow humor.
The current anchors, Michael Che and Colin Jost, will probably best be known for making fun of each other. Over the years, one of the duo’s signature bits has been writing jokes for each other and reading them live for the first time. It seems like every time they do that bit, Che finds a new way to embarrass Jost.
On Saturday, April 1, Che was at it again, this time with a brutal April Fool’s prank where he secretly asked the audience not to laugh at any of Jost’s jokes.
Che and Jost opened their segment with jokes about the indictment of former president Donald Trump, but the audience laughed much harder at Che than at Jost. A few minutes into the bit, Jost made a joke at his own expense and it received only a smattering of laughter.
“At this point, it feels like even pro-Trump people have moved on,” Jost said, referring to the trial before a superimposed image of him wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a sign that read, “LET OUR BOY GO!” appeared on the screen.
The gag was met with an audience member screaming, “You stink!” The heckle was the last straw for Jost, who hung his head in his hand in shame. At that point, Che gave up the gag.
“I told them not to laugh at you for April Fools,'” Che told Jost, and the two couldn’t keep it together. “That’s the meanest thing you’ve ever done to me. I’m covered in sweat,” Jost told Che through fits of laughter.
“I was truly like, ‘Am I not mic’d?’ And then I was like, ‘Oh, I just suck,” Jost joked.
The crowd broke out in applause for Jost, but he wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of acknowledging them after they refused to laugh at his jokes. “No, no! Don’t even dare! Don’t you even dare try now.”
When it was Jost’s turn to tell his next joke, a bit about Florida Ron DeSantis, Che said, “They’ll probably laugh at this next one.” And the audience did.
The episode was hosted by Abbot Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, who shined in “Traffic Altercation,” a sketch where she and Mikey Day played motorists screaming at each other in traffic. The crux of the bit was that they couldn’t hear what each other was saying, so they had to argue using hand signals.
“Saturday Night Live” will return on April 8 and will be hosted by SNL alum Molly Shannon (“Superstar”). The musical guest will be the Jonas Brothers.
One of a fan’s greatest thrills watching a live baseball game is catching a home run ball. For dog lovers, the only thing better than catching one yourself is letting your dog do the honors.
On Saturday, March 25, a Dodger fan wearing a “K-9” jersey was over the moon after his dog caught a home run ball during a spring training game at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. The dog was wearing a service dog vest, which made his amazing feat even sweeter.
The Dodgers were losing to the Kansas City Royals 5-2 in the 7th inning when prospect Michael Busch put a ball over the fence. After the scramble for the ball on the outfield lawn was settled, a joyous-looking canine could be seen proudly holding the ball in its mouth.
The dog looked like it’s played more than a few rounds of fetch in its day.
The crowd erupted in cheers to salute the lucky dog. After a brief struggle, his owner, wearing the K-9 jersey, took the ball from the dog’s mouth and held it high above his head in celebration.
The video received some of the cutest responses on Twitter.
“Sign the dog @Dodgers,” @mookiebag wrote.
“Service dog really being a service,” @tonyforthemostpart added.
Many folks also hoped that the man in the K-9 jersey handed the ball to a kid after the celebration.
Sadly, that was the last bit of excitement for the Dodger fans at the game. The Royals won the game 6-3. The dog has yet to be signed to a major league contract.
Everyone knows that favorite toys are off-limits. Parents often have rules around sharing but most will draw the line at making their kids share a favorite toy.
Turns out, dog owners should probably also have this firm line in the sand for their four-legged friends as well, as evidenced by TikTok user @bosstalk843‘s video of a distraught pit bull who was just aggressively robbed of his favorite bone.
Well, “aggressively robbed” is maybe an overexaggeration, but it was a crime if you ask the crying pooch. In the video that’s been viewed 1.6 million times, the pit bull is lying on his back looking at his owner seemingly in distress. We quickly learn why after feeling sorry for the clearly upset dog—his new and much smaller foster sister took his toy while he was still playing with it.
The text on the screen reads, “He’s sad!!! My 20-pound foster puppy stole a bone out of my 60-pound pit bull’s mouth and this was his reaction.”
The dog makes pitiful noises that can only be described as a cross between a howl and a whine, all while looking to his human for assistance. But the human isn’t much help.
“Why would she do that? It was so rude,” the person off-camera says while sounding sympathetic to the sad dog’s dilemma. He tries to convince the crying dog to simply take the bone back, but that would mean ending his dramatics and it’s evident that this dog is going for his first Oscar. The foster puppy is completely unaware that she has just singlehandedly ruined her foster brother’s life.
Here’s hoping this sweet boy eventually got his bone back, or at the very least, won the Academy Award for best dramatic performance. Watch his antics below:
Los Angeles, California, has long since been a mecca of music hopefuls but singer, songwriter, and overall music badass TeaMarrr’s divine abilities hail from Boston by way of Haiti. With songs like “Colors” featuring Wale and “Pipe Dreams” (which was featured on the soundtrack to Issa Rae’s hit series Insecure), the recording artist is craving a lane for herself amongst the sea of musical acts.
Since signing with Issa Rae’s Raedio label, her reach has continued to spread far and beyond any one region. Combining her raw vocal abilities with her clever rap skills wrapped in her spunk personality TeaMarrr is the most promising multi-hyphenated musician based on the west coast. In her single “Stunt Double,” produced by BeWill, all the elements of TeaMarrr’s skill sets shine bright.
Watch TeaMarrr’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “Stunt Double” above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
These days the GOP sure hates New York City. And why not? A large portion of its population despises one of its most famous sons, Donald Trump. It’s also where a grand jury voted to indict the former president on criminal charges. Republicans have long made up horror stories about the city, which they claim is in the midst of a historic crime wave. It’s not. In fact, it’s among the safest times in its long history. But on Monday, one Trump associate went farther than most in smearing the Big Apple.
As per Mediaite, Kimberly Guilfoyle — who went from the spouse of California’s very liberal governor Gavin Newsom to the screeching fiancée of Trump’s perpetually revved-up oldest son — went on Newsmax to slam Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s DA. Like many MAGA heads, Guilfoyle parroted the claim that Bragg has been ignoring rampant crime in the city to go after Trump’s relatively minor crime. She said he “doesn’t care” about punishing NYC’s other wrongdoers, while painting a bizarre portrait of NYC.
“You know, New York is now the likes of Will Smith, I Am Legend. It’s a zombie apocalypse,” she railed. “People are running around. They’re afraid to go on the subways, afraid to walk to school or go to work, get on the busses because it’s rampant with crime.”
New York City these days has its share of danger. There was even a wave of attacks last year on its Asian population, plus a subway shooter who eluded the NYPD for so long that he eventually turned himself in. And yet crime is down from this time last year. It looks even better when you compare it to 30 years ago, when Trump was cock of the walk in between having multiple companies declare bankruptcy.
Will Newsmax viewers buy Guilfoyle’s embellishments? Probably. But New Yorkers sure won’t.
Anyway, go visit New York City, if you haven’t been there in a while. It’s got Broadway shows, some pretty nice parks, world class bagels, and not only no zombies but substantially less crime than it’s had in its nearly 400 year history. Great town.
Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ plan to screw over the biggest company in his state boomeranged spectacularly. His plan was to strip Disney of control over its special governing district, replacing one board with another packed with cronies. But when said cronies held their first meeting, they discovered Disney had cleverly circumvented that plan, stripping them of almost all power. It was pure humiliation, but the company isn’t done with him just yet.
As per The New York Times, during Disney’s annual shareholders meeting on Monday, Bob Iger, the company’s head honcho, made a rare public comment about the governor who’s had it out for them, all because they dared defend the existence of LGBTQIA+ people. He did not hold back, calling DeSantis’ efforts to punish the gigantic corporation “not just anti-business,” but “anti-Florida” as well.
“It seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us,” Iger said, calling out DeSantis for trying “to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right.” He added, “That seems really wrong to me.”
DeSantis turned on Disney after they opposed — eventually — his so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which uses vague language to scare teachers from so much as acknowledging the existence of LGBTQIA+ people. But his efforts haven’t scared Iger, who returned to his position as company CEO after briefly handing the reins to Bob Chapek.
“We’re currently planning now to invest over $17 billion in Disney World over the next 10 years,” Iger told shareholders. He said they’re planning on expansion plans that will add 13,000 new jobs within the company, which currently employs 75,000 at Disney World alone. On top of that, their actions would likely lead to “thousands of indirect jobs” as well. That should make Florida even more flush with cash.
Iger seemed baffled that DeSantis would want to mess with that just to appear tough to his base, saying that “any action that thwarts those efforts simply to retaliate for a position the company took sounds not just anti-business, but it sounds anti-Florida.”
DeSantis was humiliated last week when it was discovered how Disney was able to thwart his nefarious plan to neuter them. Back in February, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which served as the governing jurisdiction of the land lorded over by Disney, signed an agreement effectively direct control of the district’s development rights and privileges over to the mega-corporation.
This wasn’t done in secret; it was done in the open. DeSantis and team just never did anything to stop them. Perhaps the governor was too busy railing against “woke” culture and eating pudding with his hands to notice that he’d been had.
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