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Khalid is back with a sexy new banger. On his new song, “Softest Touch,” he is smitten at the hands of a special woman.

On the new song, the singer delivers his signature low-pitched vocals over a ‘70s-inspired beat, with hopes to win the affection of the lady with the softest touch.

“You’ve got the softest touch, I just can’t get enough / When it comes to you, you are the one I want / You’ve got the softest touch, I just can’t get enough / This touch, you’ll always be the one I want / You’ll always be the one,” sings Khalid on the song’s chorus.

This scorching new single is thought to appear on Khalid‘s upcoming third album. Though he’s kept most of the details about the album rather mum, he revealed in an interview with KIIS-FM this past winter that he is planning to take his time with the project, as he feels it will be a career highlight for him.

“I’m really excited and honestly it’s some of my best music that I’ve made so far in my career,” he said. “Music means so much to me so I don’t want to rush it.”

You can hear “Softest Touch” above.

After Charlie Puth had teased his new Dan + Shay collaboration with a video of him making out with Sabrina Carpenter, they have now dropped “That’s Not How This Works.”

Puth produced the song and co-wrote it with the duo’s Dan Smyers. He opens it on a gentle piano to set the tone before introducing the country performers’ vocals as the track progresses. Still, it elevates the emotional ballad, as Puth struggles to come to terms with the heartbreak and end of love.

“You can’t say you hate me, then call me when you’re hurt / Baby, you know that’s not how this works, no, that’s not how this works / You can’t walk away, then come back to what we were / Baby, you know that’s not how this works, no,” Puth sings in the chorus.

“Stop reminding me of when we said forever / I know exactly what you’re doin’ / When you say, ‘You need to drop off all my sweaters’ / It’s just one of your еxcuses,” Dan + Shay add in the second verse.

Carpenter appears in the music video and the short film that dropped earlier today, playing the role of Puth’s relationship interest, but the relationship swings through the cycles of toxic love — matching the lyricism. She will also be featured on a remix dropping in April.

Check out Charlie Puth’s “That’s Not How This Works” with Dan + Shay above.

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

We are just a week out from Daniel Caesar‘s upcoming third studio album, Never Enough. Ahead of the much-anticipated project, Caesar has shared a romantic new single called “Valentina.”

On “Valentina,” Caesar longs for a beautiful woman, and although she is already spoken for, he just can’t seem to let go of the thought of her.

The song opens with simple chords, before the percussion kicks in, and Caesar loops us in with a moody key change.

“Valentina, baby / I only need one moment of time / To make you feel a way / From the first time I looked in your eyes / I knew that I would find a way / To make you mine,” he sings on the song’s chorus.

Though Caesar has kept the details of Never Enough iron-clad, he revealed last year in an interview with Complex that given his introverted nature, and the fact that much of the album was conceived during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the album will most put his emotions on display, as he keeps vocal collaborators to a minimum.

“I’m not much of a ‘go outside and be social’ type of person and that was before the quarantine,” said Caesar. “So working on the album post-quarantine, you’re not really interacting with anybody else.”

You can hear “Valentina” above.

Never Enough is out 4/7 via Republic. Find more information here.

Bebe Rexha is sharing another preview of her forthcoming studio album, Bebe, with her latest song, “Call On Me.” On a similar note to her previous, ’70s-influenced “Heart Wants What It Wants” record single, this latest carries on the club energy.

“All through the night, like a bird in flight / Under the moonlight, caressing me right / God only knows how long I’ve waited for this / It’s been the longest time,” Rexha opens the song.

“You never made me feel like heaven / Never made me feel this high / If I need a lover, someone to hold me / Satisfy all my needs / If I need a lover, someone to save me / Someone to set me free / I’d call on me,” she adds, taking on a self-reliant tone in the wake of someone not being able to be there for her.

Earlier this week, Rexha made a serious record as the longest-charting female artist on Billboard‘s Dance/Electronic chart at 38 weeks. She also holds the lead for the longest female on the Hot Country chart at 50 weeks.

As she gears up for her Bebe album dropping April 28, Rexha is set to hit the road this spring for her Best F*n Night Of My Life tour. More information, along with a complete list of dates, is available here.

Listen to Bebe Rexha’s “Call On Me” above.

Bebe Rexha is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Lauren Jauregui is confronting her emotions head on with her new single, “Trust Issues.” The slow, heart-wrenching song finds Jauregui grappling with the way that her lack of trust has impacted her relationships — even if they haven’t done anything to warrant it.

“When I was young my mama told me, ‘Loving can be lonely / Not everyone’s like you, ain’t got the heart that you do’ / But I had to learn the hard way, lessons can be costly / And I spent more than I had, all of that didn’t last,” she sets the scene in the opening lines.

Then, she offers an apology to those impacted by her trust issues. “I’m sorry if you think I’m standoffish / I swear it’s not true / I’m guarded and I know it / Oh, darlin’, don’t mean to be cruel,” Jauregui adds.

As for the music video, directed by Farah Idrees, it finds Jauregui going through the motions of the song creation process. She’s writing lyrics in her notebook, doing a take into the studio mic, working on production with her team, and getting her makeup done. The film camera-style nature of the video also elevates the behind-the-scenes feeling, as fans get a glimpse of the process that goes into Jauregui’s work.

Check out Lauren Jauregui’s “Trust Issues” above.

Major League Baseball had its Opening Day on Thursday, and among some incredible team and individual performances, the late game in Oakland between the A’s and Angels provided the lasting highlight of the first day of the season.

In a rather shocking turn of events, it was someone other than Mike Trout or Shohei Ohtani delivering the highlight for the Angels, as right fielder Hunter Renfroe set the bar incredibly high for the 2023 Catch of the Year race with a preposterous no-look catch that Ohtani could not believe on the mound.

Renfroe gets turned around by the deep fly ball from Jace Peterson, but somehow spins around and just throws his glove out into the perfect spot to haul in the ball for an out to help preserve a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning. The side angle shows that Renfroe had his head completely turned around as he reached out and just happened to run into the ball for the catch.

Ohtani’s reaction is priceless, as the typically stoic MVP threw his hands up in celebration of his teammate saving him from having to deal with a leadoff double in a 1-0 game. Renfroe plays it off incredibly well, like he absolutely knew he had it all the way. It’s not always the case that Opening Day provides an enduring highlight that’ll be replayed throughout the season, but I feel safe in saying this will be the bar we measure incredible catches to for the rest of the year.

Just two weeks out from their 11th studio album, 72 Seasons, Metallica has shared the album’s title track.

On “72 Seasons,” which clocks in at nearly eight minutes, the band reflects on their formative years, and how their youth shaped them into who they are now.

“Wrath of man / Leaching through, split in two / Wrath of man / Crash into point of view / Wrath of man / Violence, inheritance / Wrath of man / Thrive upon, feeding on / Seventy-two seasons gone,” sings Metallica’s lead vocalist James Hetfield on the song’s chorus.

Upon the song’s release, Hetfield revealed that it was inspired by breaking free from the barriers placed upon him during his youth.

“72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” said Hetfield in a statement. “The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences.”

In the song’s accompanying video, the band performs as the screen displays them engulfed in various color schemes and patterns, representing various seasons in time.

You can watch the video for “72 Seasons” above.

72 Seasons is out 4/14 via Blackened Recordings. Find more information here.

Spirits were not high at Fox News Thursday night. Why would they be? Donald Trump, the guy whose antics led to a potentially apocalyptic lawsuit against them, was finally indicted by the Manhattan district attorney. While the non-MAGA wing of social media exploded in delight, that evening’s stars were beside themselves. But for arguably the nuttiest reaction, they had to bring back one of their old school kooks, whose bloviations during the Obama era sometimes make Tucker Carlson look like, uh, I dunno, Neil Cavuto maybe? And whose current theories once got brutally fact-checked by Tucker himself?

That person is, of course, Glenn Beck, who went from an ‘80s “morning zoo” radio DJ to an aughts Howard Beale for the far right. Throughout the Obama years, he brought impenetrable conspiracy theories, told with the aid of blackboards and lots of arrows, into Boomers’ living rooms every weeknight until even Roger Ailes got sick of him.

But back he came to unleash some 15-year-old-style nonsense, and on Tucker’s show no less. “The fundamental transformation that started in 2008 is finished,” Beck ominously averred while Carlson made one of his confused faces. “We are no longer viewed as a superpower. We are now an elderly…we are Joe Biden, just walking into the twilight.”

Beck’s appearance was filled with paranoia and projection, with him claiming Democrats want rightwing violence, “so then they can close the cage.”

Beck then dropped some predictions even Trump himself would find gloomy: “By 2025, we are going to be at war. We are going to have a new dollar, a currency that probably is coming from the Central Bank, have a currency collapse. And we will live in a virtual police state.

“I know that might sound crazy to a lot of people,” he added.

Beck then weighed in on the big guy himself, who, just a reminder, professes to be unimaginably wealthy and is also a former U.S. president.

“Donald Trump is not even a person anymore,” Beck thundered. “He is a symbol. He is a symbol of the average, everyday guy that keeps getting screwed every single time. Watch as other people screw up big banks, screw up their companies, and get away with it. They see people all the time doing stuff they know if they did, they’d be in prison for 20 years.

“Donald Trump has taken arrow after arrow,” he went on. “And that’s why this is the way the average American feels tonight. I hope that there’s a few Democrats out there. But this guy has been taking the bullets for the average person now for years, and people on the right feel like he’s the only guy that really gets what the people are feeling.”

It was classic Glenn Beck, in that it was paranoid and conspiratorial and vague all at the same time. It was also a very different version of him than the one that emerged in 2016, when Trump was on the verge of improbably clinching the presidency. That’s when a new, weirdly apologetic Beck emerged, putting away the tinfoil hat splutterings and trying to be a voice of reason.

“It is not acceptable to ask a moral, dignified man to cast his vote to help elect an immoral man who is absent decency or dignity,” Beck wrote in a Facebook post in October, mere weeks before election day. “If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.”

Anyway, wonder what caused him to flip-flop away from being rational.

(Via Mediaite)

Thursday evening’s matchup between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics started with a great deal of buzz. After all, the Bucks and Celtics sit atop the Eastern Conference standings, and the two teams were set to battle in front of a national audience in a standalone spot with the stars available on both sides. However, the basketball-viewing public was not treated to a classic on Thursday, with the Celtics bludgeoning the Bucks in what became a 140-99 blowout at Fiserv Forum.

In the waning moments of the game, with reserves on the floor for both teams, there were some fireworks that resulted in an ejection. Milwaukee’s Thanasis Antetokounmpo ended up launching a headbutt at Blake Griffin following a dust-up under the basket.

Things seemed to begin escalating when Antetokounmpo and Griffin got tangled up going for an initial rebound. From there, Griffin wrapped Antetokounmpo up with some authority and the response was the part that garnered the ejection. Afterward, he went to the bench and jokingly tried on Jaylen Brown’s mask to have some fun with his teammates after the fracas.

Griffin earned a Flagrant-1 foul for his trouble, and there was no real impact on this particular contest given the lopsided score. However, these two teams are potentially in line for a playoff matchup later this spring and any additional juice could add intrigue to an already appetizing battle on the horizon.

Hockey is the only non-combat sport that allows players to fight each other (followed by a five-minute trip to the penalty box), and they typically have a rhythm to them. The combatants grab onto each other’s sweater and take turns throwing haymakers until someone goes down, but typically each player gets a few licks in before the end even in fairly one-sided affairs — like this duel between Alex DeBrincat and Joel Farabee in Thursday’s Senators-Flyers game.

We saw the exception to the rule on Wednesday night as well, when Blue Jackets forward Lane Pederson dropped the gloves with Bruins center Trent Frederic and proceeded to get rocked with one punch, never even getting a swing in himself.

It’s one thing to lose a fight, but this is just an awful effort from Pederson, as he somehow whiffs trying to grab Frederic, who blocks with his left hand and then throws an overhand right that sends Frederic to the ice. It’s not a knockout in that Pederson does pop up, but it’s enough to end the fight as the referees hop in once Pederson goes down. It’s quite the highlight for Frederic, who will surely enjoy this performance, while Pederson’s going to need to put some work in if he’s going to drop the gloves again in the future.