Robi is letting his fans into his musical world with his new single “Tu Mundo.” Last night (January 10), the rising Puerto Rican singer released the trippy video for his punchy alternative track.
Robi broke through last year with the global hit “Pantysito” alongside Alejo and Feid. Though he found his groove in reggaeton music, Robi is proving himself to be an all-around Latin pop star. In “Tu Mundo,” he flexes the alternative edge of his artistry. In the guitar-driven track, he sings about a romance that’s got him entangled in his lover’s world. Towards the end of the haunting love song, house music beats take over and highlight Robi’s genre-bending sound.
“‘Tu Mundo’ arose at a time when I was deciphering my sound, and it has become one of my all-time favorite singles because it’s a song that I identify with, from the lyrics to the sound,” Robi said in a statement. “It showcases the essence of what I want to do with my music this year, and it’s a song that through time, I’ve grown very fond of, as have my fans.”
In the “Tu Mundo” video, Robi lets his wild mind run wild. In scenes that were seemingly shot in a 8mm camera, he lives out his freaky romance fantasies. The song will be included on Robi’s debut EP, which is due out later this year via Interscope.
It feels like it’s been years since Ellen Pompeo mentioned that she was ready to hang up the proverbial scrubs from Grey’s Anatomy and that’s because she has been hinting at her exit since 2018. At that point, the show has already been on for nearly 15 seasons, and her contract would be up after 16, so everyone collectively decided that maybe the iconic series would be laid to rest. Then 2020 happened and nobody really knew what was going on with television. Season 16 came and went, as did 17 and 18…. and it was beginning to seem like Pompeo would never leave the halls of Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital.
At this point, 80 percent of the original cast has moved on to bigger and (sometimes) better things, but Pompeo’s Meredith Grey is still clocking into her surgeries on a regular basis, that is until her final episode as a series regular airs next month.
In a new teaser for the upcoming goodbye episode, Meredith is finally given a proper sendoff after almost two decades of the most insane medical mysteries you could even fathom, along with annoying love triangles and all of that fun stuff. The clip shows that Meredith gets a fun little party in the hospital lobby, which always seems to happen and never seems to alarm anyone else working in the hospital. It’s been almost 20 years of this, after all.
Taylor Swift broke a ton of records last year after dropping her tenth studio album, Midnights, back in October. As it turns out, those album sales provided a significant boost to her already strong year. Billboard’s new report, via Luminate, states that Swift sold the most total albums last year, with 2.928 million across “her entire catalog.” They also note that this combines physical and digital sales.
.@taylorswift13 sold the most albums in total among all artists in 2022, with 2.928 million sold across her entire catalog and via all formats (physical and digital combined), according to @luminate_data.@Harry_Styles was the No. 2 biggest-seller, with 1.068 million sold.
The runner-up in terms of 2022’s most album sales was Harry Styles at 1.06 million — meaning Swift nearly tripled past him for the title. As a fan in the replies joked, “I also stay away from my ex’s.” Another added, “The gap is gaping.”
In addition, Swift recently broke another record for Midnights specifically, as the vinyl outsold its CD counterpart in the UK. According to The Guardian, the last time this feat occurred was back in 1987. Her album has been reported to have sold over 800,000 vinyl copies.
Other notable facts tied to Swift’s Midnights were that she both became the only artist to have ten songs occupy the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 and achieved the best week for an album in just four days.
Continue scrolling for some fan reactions to Taylor Swift’s recent achievement.
Parents have been contending with kids and video games since the first arcade game was introduced. Kids get immersed in the fictional world and forget—or sometimes downright ignore—that there are responsibilities to take care of outside of the game. A mom from Chicago, ChaCha Watson, used the Roblox video game to get her daughter’s full attention.
Watson repeatedly called her 11-year-old daughter, Miracle, to tell her to take dinner out of the freezer to defrost but Miracle didn’t answer. Instead of jumping to the worst-case scenario, Watson knew exactly what her daughter was up to and how to get her attention.
Miracle was immersed in the video game Roblox instead of answering her mom’s phone calls, so Watson decided to join. Yep, the savvy mom hopped into the Roblox game from her location and jumped into the car with her daughter’s avatar to tell her to take the lasagna out of the freezer. She shared the screenshots of the exchange on Facebook where it went viral.
Watson told Today, “She just so happens to be in the beginning stage when you first pop up on the game. So when I popped up, she just so happened to pull up. And I said, ‘You see me calling you!’ and then she was like, ‘I’m sorry mom.’” Roblox has been around for a while now. It’s an interactive game where kids can create avatars that look like them, build things and apparently, drive cars. Watson had been playing the game with her daughter as a way to bond with her, she told Today.
If you’ve ever been a “latchkey kid” or just the oldest child at home while your parents step out, then you know the cardinal sin is to forget to take the food out for dinner. There’s really no way to fake your way out of unthawed food because the rock solid item will tell on you every time. Before video games, parents didn’t have the luxury of popping into one of their kids’ video games to remind them to unthaw dinner.
Parents across social media are loving this mother’s ingenuity of getting her daughter’s attention. One parent tagged a friend and said, “We gotta figure out how to do this.”
Another person replied, “Screaming! It was the 2nd pic ‘It’s your mom, I know you saw me calling you,'” with multiple rolling on the floor laughing emojis.
It seems that most parents commenting on the post are planning to download Roblox and Minecraft to drop in on their kids when they’re being ignored. But Watson advised that parents actually try playing the game with their kids and not just download it to tell them what to do, according to Today.
Watson told Today, “Being a single parent, you just want to make sure that you’re spending time with your kids. That’s really important to me — to make sure I’m spending quality time with her. So I downloaded Roblox and … that was just one of the best things ever.”
Michelle Yeoh won the award for Best Actress in a Comedy at the 2023 Golden Globes for her leading role as Evelyn Wang in the acclaimed film “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” It was a moment the actress had been waiting 40 years to have, and she wasn’t about to let anyone rush her through it.
Yeoh, 60, has been acting in action films in Hong Kong since the 1980s and in the U.S. since the late ’90s, kicking martial arts butt alongside the likes of Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan’s 007. With major roles in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” among other films, she’s become a well-recognized face to any regular filmgoer. But until “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” she had never played the lead role in a Hollywood film.
Winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy was Yeoh’s moment to revel in her success after decades of uphill battles as an Asian actress in an industry filled with underrepresentation and misrepresentation. So when the music cue indicated she needed to wrap up her acceptance speech at the two-minute mark, she simply wasn’t having it.
It’s a common annoyance in award shows for winners to be interrupted by the music during their speeches, which must be kept short so the event doesn’t drag on for too long, but Yeoh could have won an award for how quickly and decisively she reacted as soon as the piano started playing.
“Shut up, please,” she said, mid-sentence. “I can beat you up, OK? And that’s serious.”
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u201c”I’m just gonna stand here and take this all in. 40 years. Not letting go of this.”nnMichelle Yeoh accepts her #GoldenGlobe. https://t.co/IpBnF0ZqEpu201d
As if this woman wasn’t legendary enough already. Congratulations on your Best Actress win, Michelle Yeoh. You deserve it, and you have most certainly earned your full moment in the spotlight.
Is there anything more fun than epic remixes of classic bops? No there isn’t.
This universal law gets magnified when two seemingly antithetical styles get blended together. Like, say … I don’t know … maybe ’90s hip-hop with opera.
For the BBC version of the musical game show “That’s My Jam,” singer Jason Derulo was promised something that was gonna “test his range as a musician” in front of millions of people, and the show delivered.
Derulo is widely known for his pop singles “Whatcha Say” and “Talk Dirty”—not to mention singing his own name in multiple songs—so getting assigned to perform Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” might not initially seem like much of a stretch.
But then, he was tasked with singing it in the style of musical theater. “With a little opera thrown in there,” quipped musical director Adam Blackstone.
This might have been an impossible task for many. However, don’t let his pop icon status fool you. Derulo is a classically trained vocalist, and absolutely slayed it and left us all wanting a Sir Mix-a-Lot musical on Broadway.
Watch below. The way he holds out the note on “spruuuuuuuuuung.” Heaven.
For loyal Derulo fans, this might not come as a surprise. On more than one occasion he has gone viral after sharing his secret talents. It’s sometimes forgotten just how skilled many pop stars are. They are often capable of way more than their branding would suggest.
After hearing Derulo’s epic rendition, both long-time and first-time listeners were sending their praise.
“Oh, wow! He had some fun with that. I don’t know what he normally does with those pipes, but what a beautiful voice he has!” wrote one person
“I’ve got goosebumps. So powerful. Baby indeed got back and looking good too,” quipped another.
Hopefully Derulo’s next album is nothing but operatic versions of ’90s hip-hop jams. Then the world would truly be a better place.
It appears new music from The National is coming soon. In recent weeks, fans of the band have taken to Reddit to share that they’ve received cryptic postcards in the mail.
Some of the Reddit users claimed to have received a cutout of a face, with a nametag with the name Paul. On the back of the cutout is a message reading, “TRANQUILIZE THE MIND.” Below the message is a note reading “FRIDAY THE 13TH, JANUARY 2023.”
The National has been teasing new music since last summer, when they began playing new material at various shows and festival gigs. In an email sent to fans, they said that the material was coming from “a new album we are close to finishing and very excited about.” Since then, they have only officially released “Weird Goodbyes,” a collaboration with Bon Iver.
In the meantime, The National members Aaron and Bryce Dessner are teaming up with their sister Jessica, along with composer and vocalist Rebekka Karijord, for a new musical supergroup, Complete Mountain Almanac. Their self-titled debut album arrives Friday, January 27.
Over the past three years, the Dessners have kept relatively busy, as Aaron has produced Taylor Swift’s albums Folklore and Evermore. Bryce has scored films like C’mon C’mon and Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. It looks like this year is shaping up to be even busier for the twin brothers.
Donald Trump clearly woke up with conspiracy theories on the brain. The former president dropped a four minute long video on Truth Social where he more or less accuses Joe Biden, the FBI, and “tech tyrants” of wielding their dark, deep state powers against him. But don’t take Trump’s word for it. According to the former president, Elon Musk has been exposing the whole nefarious plot with his “Twitter Files.” It’s all right there. Don’t you see?!
“The now-famous Twitter Files have proven beyond all doubt that the corrupt officials at the FBI have been coordinating censorship and surveillance propaganda campaign against the American people and, frankly, against me,” Trump ranted, via Mediaite, before getting into, sigh, COVID lockdown conspiracies. “They suppressed doctors and health experts who dared to question approved health narratives. They censored voices who criticized school closures, lockdowns, and mandates, and they even banned people for stating proven scientific facts and anything bad about China, they didn’t want out.”
Of course, this most concerning part of Trump’s video came when he tasked the now Republican-controlled Congress with holding hearings to investigate the “deep state” that’s wronged him so.
“The new Congress should immediately hold hearings to investigate the role of the FBI and other federal agencies in censoring lawful speech,” Trump declared. “Congressional leaders should promptly issue subpoenas in furtherance of this goal. The revelations also highlight why my proposal to end the revolving door between the deep state and there is a deep state indeed. I wasn’t a believer, but everybody’s a believer right now.”
Great. Cool. This is just how things are now, apparently. Everything is fine.
With streaming officially crossing the trillion-play threshold last year, 2023 is setting up to be massive for music. That’s not only true for the big-name acts, but the rising stars as well. Brooklyn-based singer, DJ, and producer Yaeji, for instance, is looking to capitalize on this industry momentum.
The multi-genre talent took to Twitter to announce to fans that her highly-anticipated debut album is slated to drop this year. The project, titled, With A Hammer, is expected to be released sometime in April, which will break the two-year hiatus since her last full-length release, the 2020 mixtape What We Drew.
Although the singer hasn’t shared any more details than that regarding the album, based on What We Drew, as well as her past collaborations with Dua Lipa and Charli XCX, we can assume it will be filled with danceable bops.
Depending on when the album is released, attendees of this year’s Coachella festival may get a sample of the project before it is uploaded to streaming services, as Yaeji is set to perform on both Saturday, April 15 and 22. Coincidentally, he sets are on the same days as fellow South Korean musical group Blackpink, who will make history as the first K-pop act to headline the festival.
If nothing else proves that the US justice system desperately needs to be reworked, it’s this not-so-fun fact: In the same week that Watts rapper 03 Greedo came home from a nearly five-year prison bid for nonviolent offenses, the trial against his closest stylistic analog, Atlanta rapper Young Thug, began in Fulton County. Thug faces a litany of charges but all of them stem from just one evidentiary example: Thug’s own lyrics, in which he shouts out his label/crew, YSL, which now stands accused of being a street gang by Georgia state authorities. They argue that Thugger’s shout-outs constitute evidence of his membership in that gang — and even his leadership thereof.
Now, I’m not going to argue that either man is innocent. We just don’t know enough to say whether or not they’ve done the things they were accused of. A jury was convinced by apparently compelling evidence that Greedo did; a jury will have to be convinced the same for Thug. But Greedo was given five years for possession of a firearm in a state that otherwise promotes its open-carry laws as an advantage over other states’ more restrictive gun laws. And there is no way that any artist should be brought up on charges of racketeering just for rapping about their life and their business. The Johnny Cash comparison has been belabored to the point of beating a dead horse, but let’s face it; he was never indicted for shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die because everyone seems to get that this event was merely a lyrical device.
This week, Greedo released his first post-prison mixtape, the aptly-titled Free 03, produced by Mike Free. Although the timeline of its recording remains unclear, it appears to have been recorded at least in part during the flurry of activity that saw the Watts style-switcher collaborate extensively with a variety of producers to ensure he’d have enough material to bear out his sentence (almost, but not quite; he pretty much ran out of pre-recorded projects midway through the pandemic with his last album Load It Up Vol. 01 with Ron-Ron dropping in 2020). At least some of it sounds like it was recorded over a prison phone, much like Greedo’s frequent collaborator Drakeo The Ruler did with his own post-incarceration mixtape Thank You For Using GTL.
In fact, Drakeo makes an appearance on Free 03, on the song “No Free Features.” It’s a truly heartwrenching moment as you realize this could well be the last time we hear the Watts-bred duo on a record together, as Drakeo was murdered in late 2021, just months after concluding his own years-long nightmare encounter with the criminal justice system. That Drakeo spent two of the final three years of his life fighting similar charges to those currently faced by Young Thug hammers home this harrowing connection. Drakeo was never even convicted of a crime and was, in fact, acquitted of the original charges against him only to have new charges filed and his bail denied.
In a similar fashion, Young Thug was locked up for the better part of a year before his trial began this week, during which time the state shrewdly used a home raid to connect enough evidence to at least make something stick. Those charges, mainly amounting to firearm possession, are eerily reminiscent of those that got Greedo sentenced to over four years in prison. And while the content of Free 03 necessarily does not address the charges against him or his time inside, it ends on a chilling rumination, “If I Die” — which is especially spooky when you consider that Drakeo did so less than a year after his own release.
While the quality of Free 03 belies its likely rushed production process — for what it’s worth, the latter half is better, finding Greedo employing the slippery vocals that had set him apart from so much of the LA underground before his sentencing — it also highlights just what these aggressive sentences really cost. The one commodity you can’t get back is time; whatever financial setbacks are caused by derailing artists’ careers with extensive prison time and trumped-up charges, the true loss is time: Time that they could be helping their communities, as Thug did when he paid bail for dozens of Fulton County inmates for the holidays two years ago, time that they could be giving opportunities to their friends and admirers to escape the constraints of street life (YSL Records, gang or not, employed dozens of rappers, singers, and producers who might otherwise be out there causing real harm), and time they could be inspiring the next generation of aspiring artists to skip the street life entirely.
The fact is, even violent offenders — which the state has yet to prove most of the artists it’s targeted really are — deserve chances to at least try to make amends. They are more of a net positive to society generating income, engaging in philanthropy, and offering imperfect role models to fans than they are languishing in cells at a cost to the state. Meanwhile, there are thousands of inmates currently incarcerated for nonviolent offenses who aren’t artists of whom the same could be said. We latch onto the artists because their fame makes them obvious examples, but really, their plight is just a microcosm of the one faced by thousands of ordinary citizens every day. 03 free, but the time has come to free us all from the trap our prison industrial complex has boxed us into.
Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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