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Charlie Puth transparently crafted his entire third LP, Charlie, in front of his TikTok followers. The platinum-certified “Light Switch” was born by accident when Puth flipped a light switch, and the sound caught his ear. A similar origin story applies to “No More Drama” and a creaking door. And he made a song in real time on Fallon using only a coffee mug.

So, of course, Puth’s six-minute short film That’s Not How This Works begins with him walking around an empty house and picking up any little sound he can with his microphone.

Puth is particularly intrigued by the window coming through an open window and humming across an open water bottle, and then he sees Sabrina Carpenter outside of that window, leaving with a box of her things. He listens to all of the recordings he made throughout their relationship blossoming and eventually wilting in that house — his blissful birthday celebration, their first “I love you,” and endless arguments about Carpenter flirting with other people or ruining Puth’s artistic progress. (“You can’t have a serious conversation without using it as, like, inspiration for something,” she spits at him.)

“To date I’ve made 34 music videos, and they rarely feel like they say the whole truth about a song,” Puth wrote on TikTok. “There’s always more to say, and it’s usually just outside the music. It’s more in the moments, and that’s how my brain has always processed things — finally, I was able to make something to recreate truly what this song means to me.”

He continued, “I cannot wait for you to hear it. But first, you have to watch the movie — I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you endlessly to Sabrina Carpenter, for your trust and immense talent.”

That’s Not How This Works was first teased on March 15. Puth posted a snippet from the short film and riled up fans because the snippet he chose was of him and Carpenter playing Operation and kissing.

“That’s Not How This Works” will drop this Friday, March 31, featuring Dan And Shay. Carpenter’s remix is scheduled to release on April 14, Puth confirmed.

But first, do as the man said and watch the movie above.

With less than a week until The Super Mario Bros. Movie hits theaters, the cast of the most anticipated video game adaptation since, well, the other anticipated video game adaptation that came out this year have been fulfilling their press tour obligations. Nothing has topped Jack Black in a Bowser costume on The Kelly Clarkson Show, but in an interview with Gizmodo, Chris Pratt discussed the backlash to his casting as Mario.

“Oh, I totally get it, man. There’s a passionate fan base and I’m one of the fans. I get it. Mostly, people don’t want something like this to get screwed up. They’re precious about it. They’re careful. And I’m grateful for that,” Pratt replied.

Charlie Day, the Luigi to Mario’s Pratt, thinks the reaction to his co-star’s casting is because of how much people love the games. “I think Super Mario Bros., really, when you think about what a video game does for people, it is a place to escape to,” he said. “So people would go, after maybe having a tough day at school or in your work life, whatever it is, you put on Super Mario Bros., you play for an hour and you just disappear into that land and that world. So in many ways, the game had taken care of people, I think, in a way that they don’t want the franchise messed up at all. So I think they’ll be really happy when they see the movie two, three, maybe four times in the theater.”

Two, three, maybe four is also how many times I tried playing Hotel Mario before giving up. They can’t all be Mario Odyssey.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie comes out on April 5.

(Via Gizmodo)

Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour has been a treat for everyone. There’s an array of breathtaking outfits, an insane 44-track setlist, and an unexpected dive into the stage. But it was even more special for a seven-year-old fan named Bella.

Gina Lanzino, Bella’s mom, made a TikTok about how her daughter wrote a letter to the “Love Story” singer.

“Dear Taylor, I’m your biggest fan,” it read, and asked the star’s favorite color. Gina explained in the video, “She says, ‘I’m gonna bring this to the show and make sure Taylor gets this letter. I was kinda like, ‘I don’t really think that’s going to happen, but let’s try.’”

The letter was delivered to Swift via an usher at the concert in Las Vegas.

“We were about halfway through the show when some people came to our box and they were asking for Bella. I had actually forgot about the letter by that time,” Lanzino said. “They [said], ‘We wanted to give this to you.’ It was the letter Bella gave to Taylor and [Taylor] signed it.”

“[Bella] did write her section number on the back but I really didn’t ever in a million years think that this was going to get returned to her. They filmed my daughter getting the letter back because they wanted to pass it back to Taylor.”

Donald Trump was certain he was going to be arrested last Tuesday. Or maybe it was Tuesday before that. It’s hard to keep track, like when the Mike Lindell kept pushing back his evidence that will “shock the country.” We’re still waiting, Pillow Man. And we’re going to have to wait a bit longer for the grand jury in Trump’s hush money case to deliver a verdict, as they’re going on break for most of April. Suddenly, the former president has “such respect” for them.

“I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE,” Trump wrote in all-caps rant on Truth Social. “THE EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING IN MY FAVOR, & SO RIDICULOUSLY BAD FOR THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING…”

It goes on, but you get the idea. Jimmy Kimmel called Trump’s post “the saddest damn thing I have ever read,” he said during Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “The great and powerful Donald Trump weakly kissing the all-caps asses of people he will never meet in a last-ditch hope he might somehow flatter them just enough to let him off the hook.” He added, “I haven’t seen anything this pathetic since he asked Stormy to spank him with a Forbes magazine. It is just sad with an exclamation point on the end of it.”

You can watch Kimmel’s monologue above.

Towards the end of 2022, Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. In the days following the verdict, though, it was reported that Lanez hired David Kenner, who previously represented Death Row co-founder Suge Knight and Snoop Dogg, and planned to appeal the conviction. Now, Lanez is going forward with trying to clear his name.

Rolling Stone reports that according to legal documents they’ve obtained, Lanez has filed a motion for a new trial. Lanez’s lawyers, Jose Baez and Matthew Barhoma, cite multiple grounds, such as a claim that the judge “erroneously allowed” jurors to watch “a September 2020 Instagram post from Lanez’s personal account claiming Megan’s now-estranged best friend Kelsey Harris was not the shooter.”

The motion reads, “The court erred on numerous questions of law in allowing the People to introduce this post, depriving defendant of a fair trial. The only acceptable remedy for this miscarriage of justice is a new trial.”

As for what happened with Kenner, Lanez told Rolling Stone, “Due to a scheduling conflict, David Kenner will no longer be a part of my defense team. I would like to thank Mr. Kenner for his hard work and wise counsel. Jose Baez will continue to represent me as first chair and Matthew Barhoma as second chair.”

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

Last night (March 29), Billie Eilish fans in Mexico were excited to take to Mexico City’s Foro Sol venue for a stop on her Happier Than Ever tour. Things didn’t go as planned, though: The city faced heavy rain, as on-site videos like the one below show, and Eilish was forced to cancel the concert. She didn’t leave fans empty-handed, though, and actually ended up giving them a unique and memorable experience.

Although the show didn’t go on as planned, Eilish and Finneas managed to at least somewhat salvage the evening by offering fans who went through the trouble of showing up and enduring the weather. The two took the stage for an acoustic performance of six songs (as Setlist.fm notes): “Ocean Eyes,” “When The Party’s Over,” “Everything I Wanted,” “TV,” “Lovely,” and “Happier Than Ever.”

At the end of the performance, Eilish addressed the crowd, instructing them to hang onto their tickets because Eilish would reschedule the show. She added, “I have to say that what we just did was, was… I’ll remember that for the rest of my life. That was truly really special for me, I love you so much.”

Concert promoter Ocesa later revealed the performance has been rescheduled for tonight, March 30.

The Los Angeles Lakers exacted some revenge on two fronts in Chicago on Wednesday. The most important was picking up a 121-110 win against a Bulls team that beat them at home on Sunday, keeping themselves in good standing in the West play-in race.

The second part was getting Patrick Beverley back after he gave LeBron James a “too small” taunt on Sunday in the late fourth quarter. Instead of James returning the favor in Chicago, it was Austin Reaves who hit a jumper in the lane over Beverley and hit him with the same gesture, which had Anthony Davis cracking up on the court.

After the game, James was asked about his thoughts on Reaves getting back at Beverley for him, and James started with an earnest answer, noting it shows Reaves always has his back, before sending a little jab at his teammate for being a former Kobe stan and LeBron hater, saying he now forgives him for that.

Reaves’ old tweets about LeBron made the rounds when he joined the Lakers, as he was not shy about getting on his future teammate, and it’s pretty funny that LeBron has sat on that for two years before delivering a great line about them.

Cordae is having a big year. The 25-year-old rapper recently shared that his brand and record label Hi Level is collaborating with Puma. Meanwhile, he took part in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game last month alongside big names like 21 Savage, Janelle Monáe, and more. Not to mention, he’s expecting his first child with Naomi Osaka.

However, no matter how much his success grows, he’s emphatic on his devotion to staying authentic. On a recent episode of Uninterrupted’s The Shop, he discussed a time when he turned down something major for the sake of staying true to himself.

He declined recording on Maroon 5’s hit single “Memories.”

“I thought about, like, is it too early in my career to do a pop record this big, if that makes sense,” he said. “I say no to 95% of things now because I just try to make everything on brand to who I am as a human being. I know it sounds cliche, but I can’t ever lose that foundation because then I’ll lose the people.”

He added confidently, “I have no regrets whatsoever, but I just wonder what would be different if I did do that.”

Watch the full interview above.

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

Moneybagg Yo starred alongside GloRilla for his “On Wat U On” video to start this year and rocked Rolling Loud California earlier this month, but his fans are satisfied. They want the album, so he hopped on Instagram Live a few days ago to give an encouraging update.

“Y’all are on my ass about this album. It’s comin’! I just told y’all it was coming,” Moneybagg Yo said, according to a snippet captured by RapTV. “I wanna tell y’all the date bad as hell, but it’s close. It’s real close. I promise. I swear to God. I love y’all. I love my fans. I ain’t gonna lie.”

In an interview with Billboard published on March 16, Moneybagg Yo shared more details about Hard To Love, the aforementioned forthcoming 22-track album. According to the publication, he described Hard To Love as a “personal” title because “he finds himself hard to love.”

“At the end of the day to love me, you have to understand me,” he said.

He’s also been teasing the album on Twitter.

“Even tho I do this effortlessly I put in real work on this album, hope y’all enjoy,” the Memphis rapper tweeted on March 20, including a fire emoji, eyeballs emoji, and trophy emoji. That was followed on March 25 with an even more confident tweet, “I SWEAR WEN [sic] I DROP ITS OVAAAAA.”

Moneybagg Yo last dropped A Gangsta’s Pain in April 2021, which enjoyed two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — his first album to top the chart.

In another timeline, Trinity in The Matrix wouldn’t have been played by Carrie-Anne Moss. She would have been played by Rosie Perez. It’s something else imagining the sparkplug of Soul Train, movies like Do the Right Thing, White Men Don’t Jump, Fearless, and, more recently, Birds of Prey and The Flight Attendant as part of the stoic resistance against the evil computers in the Wachowskis’ game-changing dystopian saga. And maybe it would have happened had she not by her own admission totally screwed up her audition.

In a new profile of the Oscar-nominated actress by Variety, Perez reflected on the time she went out for what became one of the biggest franchise of the late ‘90s and early aughts.

“I was horrible. As I was walking out, I was like, ‘I know I didn’t get the job. I really sucked,’ and the Wachowskis were like, ‘No,’ and the casting director was trying not to laugh,” she recalled. “And then finally I looked at her and I go, ‘I really sucked,’ and she just burst out laughing. We all were laughing. I just gave the Wachowskis a hug and I said, ‘Well, good luck with this.’”

What Perez didn’t want to discuss was the time, when she was choreographing the Fly Girls on In Living Color in the early ‘90s, that she got into a feud with a pre-fame Jennifer Lopez. She brushed that one off, deadpanning, “I don’t even want to get into that.”

(Via Variety)