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Paulo Londra Hits The Recording Studio With Feid In Their Candid ‘A Veces’ Video

Paulo Londra teamed up with Colombian singer Feid in his new music video for “A Veces.” In the video that was released today (November 4), the rising Argentine star hits it off with Feid in the recording studio.

Londra has spent the past year re-establishing himself as one of Argentina’s top artists. After a few years being caught up in a contractual dispute, he signed a new partnership with Warner Music Latina in March. Since then, Londra has been off to the races with his single releases. His comeback hit “Plan A” amassed over 193 million streams on Spotify. He later enlisted Ed Sheeran to feature on his song “Noche De Novela” and released a collaboration with Bizarrap.

For his new single “A Veces,” Londra joins forces with Feid. Backed by reggaeton beats with an electronic touch, Londra and Feid trade verses about having no time for part-time lovers. It’s all or nothing for them in their kiss-off anthem. In the video, Londra and Feid are having a fun time playing around in a Miami studio. There’s a candid moment where Londra dons Feid’s signature Oakley sunglasses with his nickname “Ferxxo” written across the lenses.

Feid is performing in venues across the US on his US Trip Tour. Last week, he featured on Colombian folk band Morat’s latest song “Salir Con Vida.”

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

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Gorillaz’s New Single ‘Baby Queen’ Is Directly Inspired By A Real-Life Asian Princess

With tour life officially behind them until 2023, alternative royalty Gorillaz is back with a new track. Their latest single, “Baby Queen,” is a deep cut callback for die-hard fans. Flooded with trippy instrumentation and placid storytelling, the collective’s co-creator, Damon Albarn revisits his 1997 encounter with a real life princess.

The princess in question, Sirivannavari of Thailand, has been a muse for the musician for well over a decade now. Albarn explained his fascination (via the LA Times) with the princess, stating, “The reason I’ve written a song about it is because I had a dream about this princess very recently; she’d grown up and we spent time in my dream together, her as a woman.”

With lyrics like, “under Garuda’s mirror lights / she takes flight / yeah, the kid’s alright,” and, “she fell into the generals (oh, baby queen) / on the watch all around her / I fell into the vanity / the mirrored lights of our dreams,” the song taps into the mystical allure surrounding royal figures.

Although, Gorillaz’s forthcoming album, Cracker Island, isn’t set to be released until February 24, fans have already been treated to two singles. The project’s title track featuring Thundercat, as well as “New Gold” featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown, does a stellar job laying the groundwork for what’s to come from the full project.

Listen to the full track above.

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

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Wonder Who Trump Was Referring To When He Proclaimed ‘Some Of Us Have Horrible Children’ At An Iowa Rally

Donald Trump may have finally gone full Logan Roy. While stumping for Iowa governor Kim Reynolds and longtime senator/future star of Weekend at Bernie’s III Chuck Grassley in Sioux City on Thursday night, the topic turned to estate taxes, a conversation that is clearly near and dear to the former president’s heart.

While bragging about winning the state of Iowa twice, Trump performed some more vigorous self-back-patting about how he “virtually eliminated the unfair estate tax, or death tax, on farms and farmers. So that now when you pass away… if you like your child — who I always say, if you don’t like, leave it to charity.”

But Trump, sounding like he really wanted to get something off his chest, wasn’t done yet. “Some of us have horrible children,” he stated emphatically, though without naming names. “Do you have any horrible children?,” he asked the crowd — then asked again, pointing to the people sitting in the front row ahead of him. “Does anybody have a child where you really are not going to leave your farm? If you don’t like them… then what I did for you doesn’t mean anything.”

Still, while Trump definitely wanted to remind the farmers in the audience of what he had done for them, he also wanted them to know that it was totally ok to not like your kid. Which, jeez, it’s hard to imagine why that strongly unpaternal thought would ever enter his mind — especially as he, Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric are getting ready to face a massive lawsuit together. What’s that old saying about the family that frauds together?

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Quentin Tarantino, Much Like A Supervillian, Cannot Wait For The Superheroes Of Cinema To Disappear

With Quentin Tarantino‘s new book, Cinema Speculation, now available on shelves, the writer/director is making the interview rounds, which is always a blast thanks to Tarantino being an extremely eccentric and opinionated guy. He has something to say about everything.

In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tarantino let loose on Marvel (and to a lesser extent, DC Comics) having a “chokehold” on the industry. According to Tarantino, filmmakers”can’t wait for the day” that superhero boom fades just like musical adaptations fell out of favor in the 1960s.

“The analogy works because it’s a similar chokehold,” Tarantino says.

But when can we expect the tide to turn? “The writing’s not quite on the wall yet,” he says, “the way it was in 1969 when it was, ‘Oh, my God, we just put a bunch of money into things that nobody gives a damn about anymore.’”

Needless to say, don’t expect to see Tarantino’s name on a superhero film. “You have to be a hired hand to do those things,” Tarantino told The L.A. Times. “I’m not a hired hand. I’m not looking for a job.”

Before Tarantino gets lumped in with Martin Scorsese, or more recently James Cameron, he’s not entirely opposed to the genre. He recently compared Joker to “great sex” or a “threesome.” He also tried to get a Luke Cage movie starring Lawrence Fishburne off the ground in the ’90s. However, that was before Marvel movies became MARVEL MOVIES.

Tarantino’s issue is not so much the genre, but the business aspect that churns out at least three MCU movies every year with a similar DC Comics blockbuster sometimes sprinkled in. He can do without that.

(Via Los Angeles Times)

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Selena Gomez Explained Why Her Justin Bieber Break-Up Was Actually The ‘Best Thing That Ever Happened To’ Her

Selena Gomez just released My Mind & Me, a new documentary in which she really pulls the curtain back and gets vulnerable. In the film, she addresses her famous Justin Bieber relationship and explained why the break-up was ultimately a good thing for her.

Gomez said (as ET notes), “Everything was so public. I felt haunted by a past relationship that no one wanted to let go of. Then I just moved past it, and I wasn’t afraid anymore. […] I feel like I had to go through the worst possible heartbreak ever and then just forgetting everything at the drop of the hand, it was really confusing. But I just think that needed to happen and ultimately it was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

She also noted of writing “Lose You To Love Me,” “I text Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter and said, ‘I think I’m ready to just say I’m sad.’ We wrote the song in 45 minutes. The fastest song I’ve ever written. It’s about more than a lost love. It’s me learning to choose myself, to choose life, but also hoping that people can find grace and peace in that too. The song is about knowing that you completely lost every part of who you are just to rediscover yourself again.”

My Mind & Me is streaming now on Apple TV+.

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Megan Thee Stallion Was On Top Of Her Game At Her Amazon Live Concert

In the past two years, the overall vibe at live shows has felt somewhat… muted. Sure, everyone’s excited to just be out of the house but there’s just this sense that nobody wants to “do too much.” This is especially evident at events in Hollywood, where “looking cool” is considered to be just as important as having fun. This is a combination that has usually lead to concerts since the pandemic being pleasant but mostly chill experiences. On Thursday night at RED Studios in Hollywood for Megan Thee Stallion‘s performance for Amazon Live, this wasn’t the case.

The crowd got active, with one attendee going so hard, I started to get worried less that he’d land on my brand-new Nike Air Max 95s while jumping up and down than that he’d actually hurt himself from doing so as hard as he could. I didn’t even see energy like this before the pandemic and I go to a lot of concerts for work. He wasn’t the only one, either. I watched fans doing actual floor work as Meg ran through songs like “Her,” “Plan B,” and “Pressurelicious” from her new album Traumazine, as well as fan-favorite throwbacks from her catalog like “Body,” “Simon Says,” and of course, “Big Ole Freak.”

Maybe Megan Thee Stallion fans are just different. The sample size at Thursday’s intimate show was too small to make any reasonable judgment, but it wouldn’t be too big a leap to make the assumption. Fans are often a reflection of the artists they follow — sometimes literally (there were more tall girls per capita at RED Studios on Thursday than I’ve seen at any other venue this year). Meg is an exuberant, cheerful, and delightfully unself-conscious person and that echoed out into the crowd and the reactions to her music. Watching kids utterly losing it to her songs makes sense because that’s what she encourages — just having fun.

Even onstage, Meg appeared to be having more fun herself than I’ve seen her have in a long time. She’s a big-venue artist who seems most comfortable in small ones; give her a 2,500-cap room and she lights up, scanning the crowd for her “friends” from past events and complimenting even girls at the back of the crowd for having nice hair. Teasing the VIPs in the balcony, she implored them to join in on her interplay with the crowd, encouraging everyone to point their middle fingers skyward and curse out “ugly men” writing the legislation governing women’s bodies.

The quirks that would normally distract from the performance felt less like bugs than features here; Meg loves to let certain bars trail off while she engages in a quick display of knee strength or posterior flexibility — okay, fine, the woman loves to twerk. Her fans love to watch her do so, though, and in a smaller room where the supporting vocal track can pick up the slack, it’s fine. It’s also kind of hilarious to watch so many women’s jaws drop in awe of one of their own while the guys — of all orientations — either try to keep up or pretend like they aren’t staring equally as agog as their dates.

There’s been some chatter online recently about Meg’s music not resonating with fans. Chart-hawking stan accounts and disappointed day-one Hotties have argued that big shifts in the Houston rapper’s sound have cost her relevance. But being in that room puts the lie to such assertions. Meg means a lot to those who do listen and given the diversity she brings together — especially on a Thursday night in Hollywood — her ability to draw such a response is a surefire indicator that she’s still at the top of her game.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Jack White Is The Latest Musician To Join Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Film Cast

Jack White is always up to something — whether that’s a new album, dyeing his hair blue, or building his own vinyl pressing plant. The rock icon is branching out even more as of late; it was just revealed that he’ll be in the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers Of The Flower Moon.

On Brian Koppelman’s podcast The Moment, Randall Poster was discussing Jason Isbell’s role in the movie (as The Playlist notes). “Yeah, he’s terrific in it,” he said. “Jason Isbell, Jack White, uh, oh, my god, who’s [that] famous blues harpist, older cat, it’s not Toots Thielemans — anyhow, there’s like four musicians in the movie that don’t play music.” Sturgill Simpson has been confirmed as well.

It was also recently revealed that the DC Comics character The Joker’s real name is Jack White. “An interesting note,” the White Stripes leader wrote on Instagram, “during the process of putting together the artwork for my album Fear Of The Dawn last year, I asked artist Rob Jones to communicate with the amazing DC comic artist Mikel Janin to see if he would be interested in a commission: illustrating me in the range of the style that he draws his version of The Joker for DC comics.”

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Noted Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Shocked That Advertisers Are Abandoning Twitter Amid Layoffs And Chaos

Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in San Francisco last week carrying a kitchen sink, allowing him to tweet a pun about his $44 billion takeover of the social media company. On Friday, however, the realities of thousands of layoffs and a slew of advertisers fleeing the platform seems to finally be sinking in for the self-appointed Twitter CEO.

Musk’s Twitter is having a bad week, to say the least. Reports indicate that about half the workforce is expected to be fired on Friday, and a lack of internal communication in the company has put those that remain on edge. Musk has toyed with new revenue streams to keep the company afloat, especially after leveraging $13 billion in debt onto the company as part of his purchase. Which is probably why this tweet on Friday complaining that advertisers are fleeing the platform is bad news all around.

“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” Musk wrote Friday. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

It’s a very Trump-like thing to Tweet, as many people pointed out. And amid all the bluster of his takeover and the human cost of massive layoffs, it’s hard to parse any of this as good news for the future of the company. Blaming activists or not, Musk isn’t hiding the fact that advertisers aren’t buying his message that a platform littered with unmoderated free speech is a good place to put ads for less inherently racist things like soda and laundry detergent.

That said, what’s left of Twitter’s content moderation team seems to have a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. Shortly after Musk’s tweet was sent out, suggested context was added to it by users in an attempt to limit disinformation on the social media platform.

More worryingly, perhaps, are reports that a half-strength Twitter may not be ready for election day in the United States next week. And with an unproven new verification system set to launch a day before people go to the polls, things really could get much worse from here.

But hey: at least Elon still has his memes.

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Women shared how they make sexist men explain their nasty jokes, and it’s so satisfying

This article originally appeared on 11.13.19

Ask almost any woman about a time a man said or did something sexually inappropriate to them, and she’ll have a story or four to tell. According to a survey NPR published last year, 81% of women report having experienced sexual harassment, with verbal harassment being the most common. (By contrast, 43% of men report being sexually harassed. Naturally harassment toward anyone of any sex or gender is not okay, but women have been putting up with this ish unchecked for centuries.)

One form of verbal sexual harassment is the all too common sexist or sexual “joke.” Ha ha ha, I’m going to say something explicit or demeaning about you and then we can all laugh about how hilarious it is. And I’ll probably get away with it because you’ll be too embarrassed to say anything, and if you do you’ll be accused of being overly sensitive. Ha! Won’t that be a hoot?


Perhaps women’s familiarity with such episodes is why writer Heather Thompson Day’s tweet about asking her male boss to explain a sexual joke to her has had such an enormous response. Day told a story of working at a radio station when she was 19 when her boss, who was in his mid-40s, made an inappropriate comment:

“When I was 19 my boss said I should be a phone sex operator & laughed.

I said ‘I don’t get it’

He said ‘it’s a joke’

I said ‘explain it to me’

& that’s how I learned that once sexual harrassers have to explain why their inappropriate jokes are funny, they stop laughing.”

Day’s tweet has been shared more than 130K times. Other women also chimed in with similar stories of stopping sexist men in their tracks with their responses to inappropriate jokes.

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What’s baffling is that some men may think that women actually might respond positively to such jokes. One woman simply responds to random harassers with “Please tell me about the last time this worked on an actual woman for you.” Works every time.

Of course, sometimes it takes more than just a no nonsense response to get some dudes to back off.

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Sometimes it simply takes repeatedly being called out, especially if a man holds a position of power.

As one woman pointed out, it might take the threat of being documented to put an end to it. (Or, you know, actually documenting it can do wonders as well.)

Several men jumped into the conversation with words of support—and even a wicked burn about mansplaining.

Because of course plenty of men are bothered by sexist “jokes” as well and understand that genuine jokes can be explained without hesitation or embarrassment.

Men can also use a similar approach when confronting their friends, acquaintances, and colleagues when inappropriate comments or jokes come up.

In fact, Heather Thompson Day said it was her dad who originally instructed her on how to respond to men’s inappropriate comments. “Don’t laugh,” he told her. “Ask them to explain the joke. They will stop making them.” Well done, Dad.

It was also pointed out that this approach works with “jokes” that are racist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful as well. When people have to explain their prejudice and bigotry, they usually can’t.

And then there’s always the next level “You remind me of someone heinous” response, which may be a bit brutal, but is sometimes necessary to drive home the point.

People in marginalized groups have had to put up with hurtful jokes for far too long. Asking people to explain them and making them sit in the discomfort of their own filth is an excellent way to shut that garbage down.

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Serena Williams’ Husband Alexis Ohanian Offers A Sly Response To Drake’s ‘Groupie’ Diss From ‘Her Loss’

As excited as fans were for Drake and 21 Savage’s joint album Her Loss after its tongue-in-cheek rollout, the actual product has proven to be more controversial than anything else in its first 12 hours. Two of Drake’s music industry industry peers have spoken out against some of the lyrical content, he’s facing backlash for references to one of them, and now, another public figure he apparently mentions on the album has some thoughts.

On the song “Middle Of The Ocean,” Drake returns to his “timestamp song” formula, rapping for five minutes uninterrupted to show off his lyrical prowess. One line in particular, though, has captured much of the attention. “I swear you don’t even mean what y’all say like y’all dubbin’ a movie,” he raps. “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie / He claim we don’t got a problem but no, boo, it is like you comin’ for sushi.” Dubious wordplay aside, many fans assumed that the Serena to whom Drake refers here is Serena Williams, with whom he was supposedly romantically linked briefly in 2015. That would make her husband Alexis Ohanian, best known as the co-founder of Reddit.

Ohanian caught wind of the potential reference and apparently replied on Twitter as part of a longer thread on their relationship and fatherhood. Posting a photo of himself and the couple’s daughter Olivia watching Serena play from the stands, he joked, “The reason I stay winning is because I’m relentless about being the absolute best at whatever I do — including being the best groupie for my wife & daughter.”

Elsewhere on the album, Drake makes apparent references to both DRAM and Megan Thee Stallion, garnering him a critical reaction on Twitter.