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Paramore may not be considered a legacy act, but as the band approaches the 20th anniversary of its formation, that title is coming within reach. The early 2000s, as singer Hayley Williams recounts, wasn’t the kindest to her. Fortunately, over time, thanks to the constant support of their fans, Williams and her bandmates have been etched into rock music history. Paramore’s recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! proves why.

Performing their latest song, “Running Out Of Time” from their new album This Is Why, explores the topic of time but under a different gaze. As Williams sings, “Never mind, I hit the snooze on my alarm twenty times / But I was just so tired / There was traffic, spilled my coffee, crashed my car, otherwise / Woulda been here on time / Shoulda, coulda, wouldn’t matter, ultimate alibi / You know it’s a lie,” you are confronted with the micro ways in which we intentionally or unintentional waste the most valuable thing given to us — time.

The track was inspired by, as hard as it may be to believe, music superstar Taylor Swift. During an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Williams revealed the back story of the song’s origin.

“I remember when we were 19, and I was closer with Taylor Swift at that point because we both lived in Nashville, and we were both experiencing our own versions of real success for the first time,” Williams recalled. “I went over to hang out. She’s a really good cook, by the way. She’s a really good cook. She has taught me how to make stuff that I did not retain at all.”

Well, fans of the track are thankful for the pair’s meeting that birthed the single.

Watch Paramore’s full performance of the song above.

(Spoilers for You Season 4 Part 1 will be found below.)

Joe Goldberg is a very complicated man! Even though he began You as a lowly bookshop clerk, he has risen above all of those pesky obstacles to become a professor in London. And by “obstacles” I mean stalking, harassing, kidnapping, killing, etc. You get it. But he has a beard now, and that’s all that counts.

The first half of You season four turned the show on its head by revealing Joe/Jonathan had his own stalker, which was (spoiler) revealed to be Rhys. Part two of the season kicks into high gear as Rhys enlists Joe to help him carry out various schemes.

The trailer for the second batch of episodes features Joe grappling with his murderous past but proclaiming that he is not a cold-blooded psycho, while Rhys continues to blackmail him. You might start to feel a little bad for him before you remember that killed his ex-wife and abandoned his kid. This man has a lot of complex ideas about love.

Speaking of Love, she seems to appear to Joe towards the end of the trailer, probably in some sort of hallucination, but it’s always good to see Victoria Pedretti back on the screen!

The final five episodes of You season four will drop on Netflix on March 9th. Check out the trailer above.

Well, Valentine’s Day has come and gone but at least we have the memories. Among the stars posting about their V-Day plans and boo thangs were plenty who just used the day to get off a few racy fit pics to suit the theme, and you really can’t be mad at them. If you’re going to be single on the most romantic holiday, you might as well look good — and show it off — right?

Chlöe certainly agrees with this philosophy. As fans await the long-anticipated release of the “Pray It Away” singer’s solo debut album In Pieces in March, she remains booked and busy — but not so busy that she can’t whet their internet appetites with her signature steamy photoshoots. And V-Day was no exception; it even offered her a chance to dial up the sex appeal while potentially teasing her potential next single.

Of course, Twitter only allows for up to four photos at a time, and you know Ms. Chlöe wouldn’t settle for such paltry offerings. Over on Instagram, she posted a few extras:

In addition to her debut, fans can look forward to Chlöe headlining the NBA’s All-Star Weekend Road Show on TNT along with Wiz Khalifa, as well as yet another film role in Girl From The North, a musical inspired by the work of Bob Dylan, co-starring Woody Harrelson and Olivia Colman.

Lil Yachty opened up about his close bond with Drake during a new conversation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, where he also touched on his new album, Let’s Start Here. The two rappers have collaborated even more in recent years, as Yachty had writing credits on Drake and 21 Savage’s 2022 album Her Loss, for “Jumbotron Sh*t Poppin,” “Privileged Rappers,” and more tracks.

“I love him to death,” Yachty said of Drake. “Yeah, that’s my guy, man… our relationship has just grown. I had a conversation with him after, and I was just telling him, ‘Man, this music that you made over this time period has affected so many people.’”

Yachty also revealed that any time Drake drops, he has trouble controlling his feels. So much so, that he shared a joke about how Drake’s music makes people call their exes during a conversation they had.

“I said, ‘Man, I remember there was a point in time when you were about to release music, and everyone was like, ‘Man, I’m about to call my ex. Like, oh man, I’m finna cry,”” he said. “That was a time period. And that’s when people thought when Drake was finna drop, you thought like, ‘Oh man, I’m about to get back with my ex-girlfriend.’ You felt like emotions were about to be pulled out of you.”

“At this point, I feel so close to him,” Yachty added. “I feel like whatever he does, I did it. If he wins something, I feel like I just won. He’s really, really smart. No matter how much he’ll act like he’s oblivious to his career and the things that he’s done, he knows what certain things and certain moments in his career mean to people.”

Watch Yachty’s full interview on Apple Music above.

Let’s Start Here is out now via Quality Control/Motown. Get it here.

Lil Yachty’s song “Poland” proved to be one of the biggest viral hits of 2022. Though it didn’t appear on his 2023 album Let’s Start Here, which features Yachty experimenting with more psychedelic sounds, he revealed “Poland” was made during downtime in the album’s studio sessions.

In an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, he said he was initially frustrated after the song leaked.

“That was irritating,” he said. “I was pissed because I made ‘Poland’ while making this album on a day when they were mixing sh*t in the other room and I was just bored with the homies, and I would’ve never dropped ‘Poland,’ ever, because I was trying to pivot myself into this. So I was really irritated when it dropped, but I’m so grateful it did. And like I said, I really don’t know what I do next. I don’t know if I’m going to do this again or do more rap sh*t… I’ll figure it out.”

Last month, Yachty announced he was assembling an all-woman band. Elsewhere in the interview with Lowe, he revealed his inspiration behind the idea.

“I just wanted to show how sick women can rap,” said Yachty. “I feel like… I was just in rehearsal yesterday. I just feel like women don’t get as much respect as men when it comes to the music industry. So I was like, ‘These songs are pretty badass, and I want to show women playing them.’ They didn’t make it, but I want to show they can do it, not better. So that was my vision.”

Find the full interview above.

It’s unlikely any show in 2023 will have a better cast than History of the World: Part II (Jack Black, Pamela Adlon, and Wee Man, together at last), but Extrapolations comes close. The Apple TV+ anthology series from Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) is “the story of terrible catastrophe after another,” as Marion Cotillard says in the trailer above. The world is on fire and/or permanently smoggy due to climate change, which isn’t great. But hey look, it’s Meryl Streep! And Edward Norton! And Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, in the same TV show for the first time since The Americans!

The rest of the cast includes Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Diane Lane, Tahar Rahim, Yara Shahidi, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Forest Whitaker, Eiza González, Murray Bartlett, Indira Varma, Tobey Maguire, MaameYaa Boafo, Hari Nef, Heather Graham, Michael Gandolfini, Cherry Jones, Gaz Choudhry, Ben Harper, Judd Hirsch, and Neska Rose. Here’s more:

Extrapolations is a bracing drama from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?

Extrapolations premieres on March 17.

With Jonathan Majors set to wage war on the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the new Thanos-level big bad, Kang the Conqueror, the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been opening up about his seemingly meteoric rise in the film industry. Majors also appears in this year’s Creed III and Magazine Dreams, but like all actors, his path wasn’t always easy.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Majors admits that he leads a buttoned-up life, choosing to stay private and off social media because “I have no interest in the f*ckery of the industry.” He also admits that “I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting].” Keep in mind, this was years before Marvel would approach him for Kang and his fan-favorite debut in Loki, so it was a bold move on Majors part.

This was a long time ago. I had just gotten out of drama school and I’m running around town and I’m sitting in the office. I grew up in a very particular way and I don’t want to waste nobody’s time. So I got in there and they’re just busy. And I was like, “I’m supposed to be here, right?” It got long and I went, “I’m just going to go. It’s cool. I’ll just go.” And I got to the door, but then they said [casting director] Sarah Finn was going to come. We got in the room and we chatted. We were having this great conversation. I think it was three years later that we had the Kang chat. And there’s no trepidation now, especially because of who Kang is. When I said yes, we got the whole picture, and what is being laid out is cohesive.

Clearly, everything worked out as Majors is set to be a dominant fixture in the MCU leading all the way up to the massive crossover event Avengers: Kang Dynasty where he’ll go toe-to-toe with a new Avengers team who will have to fight to save not just the world, but all of reality.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits theaters on February 17.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Golden Globe-nominated actress Selena Gomez has been looking to beef up her acting resume since starring in Hulu’s original series Only Murders in the Building.

Although acting could be considered her first love and the way in which most of the public has been introduced to her, thanks to her lengthy Disney career, Gomez has always been sure to supply her dedicated music fans (the Selenators) with something to sink their teeth into dropping solo music in both English and Spanish when she’s not lending her voice to a guest appearance on another musician’s track.

However, after several weeks of hinting at a possible tour either this year or next and a new album, Gomez is finally ready to share more. During an interview with Vanity Fair, when asked about the new material she’s working on, Gomez replied, “If I had my way, I would probably write ballads my whole life, but I want to produce music that will make people smile.”

Gomez, as she sang in her breakout song, “Same Old Love,” she’s sick of the same old things, but she promises her new work would be something fresh.

She then added, “The music I’m doing right now is about real things that I’m walking through. It’s really powerful, strong, and very pop. The theme generally is freedom — freedom from relationships, freedom from the darkness.”

Read the full interview here.

Even though we were told quite a few times that Walter White and Jesse Pinkman’s appearance on Better Call Saul’s final season would really be the last time we saw the duo, that wasn’t fully true. The pair starred in a Super Bowl commercial for PopCorners, the number one last-minute snack for when all of the Doritos have been bought and you’re running late to your friend’s house. But it turns out that even that wouldn’t be the last time we saw Bryan Cranson and Aaron Paul reprise their iconic roles, as PopCorners has released an extended cut of their new Super Bowl ad.

In the extended ad, Walter White confidently exclaims that he is the One Who Snacks while sitting on a throne of PopCorners bags which is much better than the alternative. It seems like PopCorners pair perfectly with some Dos Hombres mezcal!

The ad was written and directed by series co-creator Vince Gilligan, meaning it is technically in the universe, though it would have been better if Bob Odenkirk showed up.

Ahead of the release, Paul said in a statement that they were excited to bring the gang back together. “There’s nothing better than getting to revive characters who mean so much to us, surrounded by so many of our original cast and crew members, for the most exciting sports event of the year. ” There is still time for a rock candy company to swoop in for a partnership for next year’s big game, though time is running out! Maybe this will actually be the last time we see them. But who knows? We’ve been lied to before.

Check out the extended cut above.

50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) has made an immensely successful crossover to television in recent years, as he made both the Power franchise and Black Mafia Family shows at Starz before leaving his deal last September. While he’s produced projects here and there since 2003, according to his IMDb, his Starz creations have had a massive impact — even if his relationship with the network grew rocky.

“09-17-22 official day of really owning my content and deciding where and how I do it moving forward,” he shared on Instagram at the time.

Now, Jackson has his sights on another network in a newly-announced non-exclusive deal with Fox. Jackson and his G-Unit Film & Television production company will develop “scripted dramas, live-action comedies, and animated series,” according to Variety.

“I am excited to formalize a partnership with Michael Thorn and Fox that will allow G-Unit Film & Television to focus on putting multiple series on Fox, a perfect broadcast destination for G-Unit Film & Television content while our premium, streaming, scripted, and non-scripted slates continue to grow in all directions,” Jackson shared in a statement.

Sharing the news on Instagram, 50 also wrote, “How’s your day going, mine is going good. Happy Valentine’s Day GLG GreenLightGang i don’t miss.”

“Whether it’s music, film, or television, Curtis always delivers premium entertainment that captivates millions of fans across the globe,” Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn added. “He is the rare multi-hyphenate with a deft hand at storytelling, no matter the format or medium, and we’re looking forward to developing new and exciting series for Fox with him and his team.”

In addition to Jackson’s credits, G-Unit (not to be confused with his former hip-hop collective) is still in development on Fightland and Queen Nzinga at Starz. The company also produced ABC’s For Life and WeTV’s Hip Hop Homicides.