There is no denying Blackpink‘s status as being one of the most successful girl groups of our generation. Following the news of them being the first K-pop act and girl group to headline Coachella earlier this month, another set of the records are on the table… but for one of its members — Lisa.
While she may be breaking hearts of those jealous of soccer superstar Neymar’s photo with her, the Thai K-pop star has set three Guinness World Record titles after her groundbreaking solo projects last year as an artist and an influencer.
In a report from the Guinness World Record yesterday (January 24), Lisa, whose real name is Lalisa Manoban, earned herself the titles of the first solo K-pop winner at the MTV Video Music Awards, the first solo K-pop winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards, and the K-pop star who has the most followers on Instagram.
At last year’s MTV VMAs, Lisa won the Best K-Pop Video title to which BTS previously won the past years since the category’s debut in 2019. The same can be said about her MTV EMAs win last year, where the category was won by BTS since 2021.
As for Lisa’s third record title, the K-pop star has earned herself 86.3 million followers as of January 19 this year.
Blackpink is currently on their Born Pink World Tour will headline Coachella this April as well as the BST Hyde Park London Music Festival this July.
Dolly Parton is pairing up with the popular vinyl subscription service, Vinyl Me, Please, for a unique debut offering. The special option offers the first and limited-edition “Vinyl Me, Parton” dedicated to and curated by the country legend.
“I’m excited to be the first artist for the dedicated Record Of The Month club,” Parton shares in the new teaser video before the cryptic video cuts back to television static.
While it’s still unclear how long the new Parton-focused feature will run for or what it will consist of, it seems next month might give those interested in joining some more concrete answers.
According to the VMP website, fans can join the interest list to be notified when the pre-orders open some time in February. “There will only be a limited number of spots available,” they note.
As for Parton, it’s already been a pretty busy year for her. Between performing on a song from the 80 For Brady soundtrack to working on a gospel track with Dionne Warwick, it seems she has even more scheduled for her career in 2023.
And hey, she’s even been teasing a brand new rock album with Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, and more artists on it, so that might even become a vinyl inclusion.
The sign-up for Dolly Parton’s new “Vinyl Me, Parton” project is available here.
The rapper turned heads after showing up to sit front row at Schiaparelli’s Haute Couture show, covered head-to-toe in 30,000 Swarovski crystals, an artistic freedom she won’t have had if she didn’t shave her hair off. The look, which took five hours to complete, was all the buzz on social media as critics praised Doja for embracing couture’s innovation roots.
However, in her latest look for Viktor&Rolf’s show also caused a stir but for a much different reason. No, the musician wasn’t doused in jewels. This time, the entertainer had a few extra pairs of eyelashes strategically placed across her face.
When asked about the inspiration behind the look, speaking with NYLON, she told the outlet, “A few days ago, I did a Schiaparelli [show] and people were [commenting that] I didn’t have lashes on, and they were disappointed that I didn’t have lashes. Yet, I worked with one of the greatest makeup artists of all time, Pat McGrath. And so today, I gave them lashes. So, I hope they’re happy. I just want to make people happy.”
As LGBTQ+ artists continue to make strides in the music landscape, Spotify has launched a new platform to elevate those voices. This Tuesday (January 24), Spotify announced GLOW, a new program putting LGBTQ+ musicians, artists, and podcasters at the forefront. GLOW will maintain a commitment to making queer and trans voices heard.
Through GLOW, Spotify will partner with organizations like QORDS, Astrea, Black Trans Femmes In The Arts, ChamberQueer, Allgo, It Gets Better, Youth Music, and Casa Chama for projects, which entail editorial capabilities and charitable giving.
Across the country, Spotify GLOW will place 11 LGBTQ+ artists on billboards, helping them garner more streams on the platform.
On the GLOW platform, Spotify has several playlists, including one called “GLOW,” a comprehensive playlist of the hottest songs by LGBTQ+ artists; one called “Transcend,” which features music by trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming artists; one called “Black, Queer, And Proud,” with music by Black LGBTQ+ artists; and a playlist called “Pioneers,” honoring the trailblazing LGBTQ+ artists of the past, who paved the way for today’s musicians.
To announce the launch, Spotify partnered with LGBTQ+ artists Bruses, Jean Seizure, Leland, Liniker, Natalia Lacunza, Arlo Parks, Joesef, Pabllo Vittar, Sam Smith, Tove Lo, and Villano Antillano.
The “action-comedy” has been so degraded as a genre that it’s a struggle to remember there ever being a good one. There are great action movies that are very funny, great comedies that have some action in them, but these days “action-comedy” mostly denotes a hyper-specific niche of half-baked action movie concept with one or two big movie stars sort of bullshitting their way through the dead spots.
As the latest entry into this dubious oeuvre comes Shotgun Wedding, streaming on Amazon Prime this weekend, starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel as a couple whose destination wedding in the Philippines gets invaded by pirates. Sheesh, did the Philippines stiff their last PR firm or something? Between this and Plane, “the Philippines is a lawless hub of global piracy” is really having a moment. (As is the “destination wedding nightmare,” as also seen in Hulu’s The Drop).
Anyway, Shotgun Wedding is a lot like its peers in the genre. Knight and Day, The Tourist, Snatched — chances are you’ve had the misfortune of sitting through a movie like this in the past 10 or 15 years, even if you forgot about it the second your foot hit the first step of pavement outside the theater. The thing about movies like Die Hard or Lethal Weapon 2, or even The Last Boy Scout or The Long Kiss Goodnight was that they were functional action scripts, that occasionally allowed for some levity to break through based on the fact that the characters were regular humans (albeit clever ones).
The way this kind of neo-action-comedy seems to work, by contrast, is that whenever writing a rom-com starts to get hard, you throw in a few action movie tropes, and whenever the action stuff gets hard to write, you throw in a few jokes. There are rarely any well-constructed jokes or well-conceived action, just the equivalent of two writing crutches leaned against each other forming a sort of teepee.
Shotgun Wedding is more of a pitch deck with a tagline (“’Til Death Do Us Part” takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled adventure as Darcy and Tom must save their loved ones—if they don’t kill each other first!”) than anything resembling a movie. Honestly, if you’re experiencing anything close to “adrenaline” while watching Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Lopez’s dull, banal bickering in Shotgun Wedding you’re probably an Amish on Rumspringa, thrilled at your first encounter with electricity and moving images.
Let’s see… Jennifer Lopez plays Darcy and Josh Duhamel Tom. They’re trying to plan a wedding without the help of Darcy’s rich father, played by Cheech Marin, which leads to them being sort of frazzled. Which is only exacerbated by Tom’s overbearing mother — Jennifer Coolidge — and the surprise appearance of Darcy’s fabulously rich playboy ex-fiancée played by Lenny Kravitz. There’s also Callie Hernandez as Darcy’s doesn’t-really-look-like-her sister and Sonia Braga as her caustic mother. Hey, great cast! Sadly they mostly just get to stand around while arguably the least two comedically capable of the group (Lopez and Duhamel, admittedly both very easy on the eyes) run around having cockamamie adventures while trying to rescue their families from not-very-convincing pirates (one guy has a mask that looks like a sea urchin! neat!).
Did I mention Josh Duhamel’s character is a recently-retired ex-minor league designated hitter? That fact comes into play once or twice. Jennifer Lopez is clearly trying to get into Sandra Bullock mode here, and she’s not terrible, but it doesn’t suit her nearly so well as when she plays tough girl with a secretly soft side (Out Of Sight) or owns her natural, effortless command of her own sex appeal (Hustlers). I’m not really buying this woman as a kooky rom-com heroine, sorry. Josh Duhamel continues being Josh Duhamel.
Aside from a few inspired casting choices (Lenny Kravitz! How about that!) Shotgun Wedding is more a poster that’s been asked to stretch than a movie, a passive watch for audiences who enjoy seeing celebrities. This sort of thing didn’t really work with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, nor did it work with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, or with Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, so why would it work with Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel? An action movie that doesn’t take any of the action seriously is not the same thing as an “action-comedy” any more than two famous people bickering is automatically comedic.
‘Shotgun Wedding’ hits Prime Video January 27th. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can read more of his reviews here.
In order to be considered a beer, the liquid in your bottle (or can) must contain water, barley, yeast, and, of course, hops. While we understand that every ingredient is important to the overall finished product, we’re most interested in the hops today. The floral, earthy, herbal, piney aromas they give off and the dank, resinous, sometimes bitter flavor they impart are the basis for many a beer.
“The more hops the better” is a mantra that has grown a little dated but it certainly spurred on the craft beer revolution. It also led to a whole boatload of truly excellent IPAs. And double IPAs!
Also known as imperial IPAs, these ramped-up IPAs are loaded with more malts and even more hops than their single IPA brethren. This results in an over-the-top IPA well suited for winter drinking with its sweet, toasted malt, caramel backbone, and bold hop flavor. Oh yeah, it’s also higher in alcohol by volume than its classic counterpart and who wouldn’t want to spend winter drinking an IPA with a little extra kick to it?
Today we picked up eight great double IPAs at the local craft beer shop and ranked them based on flavor and aroma. Keep scrolling to see which double IPAs you should flood your fridge with this season.
With a name like Maximus, you can assume this is a bold, big IPA. It’s 9% ABV and loaded with malted wheat, Munich, and Crystal malts. It gets its spicy, floral, piney flavor from the addition of Cascade and Simcoe hops.
Tasting Notes:
It smells like yeast, toasted barley, pineapple, grapefruit, and bright pine. Decent nose, but nothing to write home about for such a high ABV IPA. The palate is more of the same with caramel malts, citrus peels, and dank pine. The finish is dry and bitter. It’s a decent beer, it’s just a little heavy for an everyday IPA.
Bottom Line:
Maximus is just as it seems. An in-your-face IPA that has a little too much of everything for many drinkers. Still, it’s guaranteed to warm you up on a cold night.
The name is a reference to Atlas having to “deadlift” the world after stealing hops from the gods. While we don’t know if this story is actually of the Greek myths, we do know this Alchemy, Cascade, Nelson Sauvin, and Willamette hopped beer is truly epic.
Tasting Notes:
Toasted malts, caramel, tropical fruits, orange peels, and floral hops are prevalent on the nose. The palate starts off fairly malt-heavy before moving into tangerine, grapefruit, tropical fruits, and dank pine. The finish is dry and lightly bitter.
Bottom Line:
While we’d grab this beer any day of the week (especially in the winter), it leans a little too heavily into the malt flavor than we’d prefer.
This big, bad double IPA is over 10% ABV and over 100 IBUS (international bittering units). Even with that, it’s surprisingly drinkable with aromas and flavors of sweet malts and floral, citrus, and tropical fruit-forward hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of mango, peach, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine, caramel malts, and light pine needles. The palate is a great mix of sweet malts, citrus peels, mangos, guava, and floral, herbal pine. The finish is bitter and hoppy. It’s a well-balanced beer, but it won’t knock your socks off in terms of overall flavor.
Bottom Line:
For the high ABV and IBUS, this is still a surprisingly easy-drinking IPA well-suited for winter weather. It’s just a little by the book for our liking.
The truth is…the is a pretty tasty double IPA. This 8.7% ABV IPA was brewed with Munich malts and malted wheat as well as Warrior, Summit, Citra, Columbus, and Amarillo hops. It’s known for its mix of fruit and pine.
Tasting Notes:
Meyer lemon, pineapple, tangerine, peach, and floral hops make for a promising nose. The palate starts with some toasted malts before moving on to more peach, pineapple, grapefruit, and dank, resinous pine. The finish is a mix of sweet fruit and bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
This is a well-balanced, memorable double IPA. While it’s not for everyone, it’s definitely a great beer for the tropical fruit and citrus crowd. It’s like a respite from the winter rather than a cold weather enhancer.
This year-round 9% ABV double IPA gets its point across right on the can — with its brewmaster hoisting a pitchfork featuring a massive hop. Brewed with Bravo, Cascade, and Columbus hops, it’s known for its aromatic and flavorful use of hops.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of caramel malts, cereal grains, tangerine, grapefruit, clover honey, berries, and herbal pine gets you amped to sip this beer. Drinking it reveals notes of caramel, toasted malts, wet grass, berries, straw, pineapple, grapefruit, and dank, resinous hops. The finish is a pleasant mix of caramel malts and bitter, herbal hops.
Bottom Line:
Seek this beer out. It’s a great example of a classic double IPA done right. There isn’t too much of anything and all the flavors work well together. A great beer for a frigid winter evening.
This winter seasonal is eagerly awaited by double IPA fans because of its kettle use of Chinook, Centennial, and El Dorado hops before being dry-hopped with a massive blizzard of Galaxy and Chinook hops. The result is a bold, hazy, hop-fueled banger of a beer.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a ton of citrus on this beer’s nose. Tangerine, lemon, and grapefruit throughout as well as light caramel malts and a nice kick of dank pine. The palate starts with some sweet malts and winds its way into wet grass, pineapple, grapefruit, orange zest, lemongrass, and a healthy dose of floral earthy, resinous pine at the finish.
Bottom Line:
It’s boozy, citrusy, and overall delicious. This is the kind of warming double IPA that you’ll want to sip after a long winter’s day.
There aren’t many winter IPAs more eagerly awaited than Bell’s Hopslam. Usually only available from January into the spring (although it’s been released earlier in recent years), this popular beer is brewed with six different hops before being dry-hopped with Simcoe hops.
Tasting Notes:
A nose of honeydew melons, pear, caramel malts, honey, citrus peels, and pine greets you before your first sip. The palate is highlighted by more caramel malts, honey, pineapple, mango, tangerine, grapefruit, and spicy, herbal, dank pine at the end. The finish is bitter but very pleasing.
Bottom Line:
This is a complex beer. It ticks all the double IPA boxes but really shines because of the caramel and honey sweetness tempering the bright hop flavors. All of these flavors make it an epic winter beer.
We’re not sure what exactly a dirt wolf is, but this beer is howling with fresh hop aroma and flavor. This 8.7% ABV double IPA is brewed with Pilsner and Pale Crystal malts. It gets its hop presence from Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, and Chinook hops.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of caramel, toasted malts, orange peels, lemon, grass, mango, pineapple, and resinous, floral hops start things off on the right foot. Sipping it brings forth notes of sweet honey, caramel, mango, guava, pineapple, tangerine, grapefruit, and a forest of pine needles. The finish is a gentle mix of malts and bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
Sweet malts, citrus, juicy tropical fruits, and a nice, crisp, dry, lightly bitter finish. What more could you ask for in a wintry double IPA?
One of the more memorable scenes in Everything Everywhere All at Once involves two rocks talking to each other. Y’know, typical Oscar bait.
The best multiverse movie of 2022 was nominated for 11 Academy Awards this week, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh. To celebrate, A24 is selling a pet rock. Stop laughing. This is no “ha ha ha ha ha” matter.
“The Official Everything Everywhere All At Once Pet Rock includes one googly eye rock with paper nest and a care and training pamphlet, Rock size may vary,” the item description reads. “Ships by February 10th.” Just in time for a confusing Valentine’s Day present! You can order your pet rock here. If you don’t, A24 will call you out on social media.
Everything Everywhere All at Once was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu), Best Original Score (Son Lux), Best Original Song (“This is a Life”), Best Costume Design (Shirley Kurata), and Best Film Editing (Paul Rogers). For more on the wildly imaginative film, check out our interview with the Daniels.
Earlier this week, A&W Root Beer issued a very obvious jab at the recent controversy over the M&M characters no longer being sexy enough for Tucker Carlson and his audience of candy-horny conservatives. It couldn’t be more clear what the soft drink company was satirizing in the blatantly comical statement about finally putting pants on its 60-year-old mascot.
“Since 1963, Rooty the Great Root Bear has been our beloved spokesbear,” A&W wrote. “We knew people would notice because he’s literally a 6-foot tall bear wearing an orange sweater. But now we get it — even a mascot’s lack of pants can be polarizing. Therefore, we have decided that Rooty will wear jeans going forward.”
You might be thinking, who could possibly miss the joke here? And the answer is Fox Business. The right-leaning network fell hook, line, and the sinker for the gag during Wednesday’s episode of Mornings with Maria as anchor Cheryl Casone blasted A&W for caving to the “woke police” who apparently won’t rest until animals everywhere aren’t walking around half-naked. Whatever happened to America?!
“First it was M&M’s, now a bear has to wear pants,” [Carone] exclaimed. “This is the woke police. Cancel culture has gone ridiculous.”
“Quit your crying!” Maria Bartiromo told the root beer company. She subsequently turned to guest panelist James Freeman and asked him “you think it’s a joke?”
Yes, Maria, it’s obviously a joke, and your show is now the punchline.
Earlier this week, Adult Swim announced that it would sever ties with Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland after it was revealed that he is facing domestic abuse charges from an incident that occurred in 2020. Rick and Morty will continue to live on Adult Swim, but Roiland, who lent his voice to the main characters, will be recast. Now, Hulu is severing ties with the creator over two more of his projects.
Hulu is home to Roiland’s Solar Opposites, the sci-fi animated comedy that was recently renewed for a fifth season. Roiland also produced and lent his voice to Koala Man, the new animated comedy starring Hugh Jackman and Sarah Snook, which premiered just two weeks ago on the streamer. In a statement per Deadline, Hulu confirmed: “We have ended our association with Justin Roiland.” As of right now, it seems like both shows will continue without Roiland, though Koala Man has yet to be renewed.
The charges against the producer/animator include one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit.
Roiland was quietly charged in May 2020, arrested, and released that August on a $50,000 bond. The incident wasn’t made public until this month when NBC broke the news. He was arraigned in October of that year and pled not guilty, and he will head back to court on April 27 for the next pre-trial hearing.
If George Santos showed up to audition for the role of “Congressional Con Man #1,” he’d likely be directed to play it all with a bit more subtlety. Between the devious smirk he’s usually wearing and those beady eyes peering out from his oversized glasses, there’s something just a little too on-the-nose about everything Santos does. (To say nothing of every fib he tells.)
Despite the string of lies and controversy that trails the freshly sworn-in congressman everywhere he goes — and an official criminal investigation into those untruths — Kevin McCarthy has been appointing Santos to congressional committees where he’ll actually have a hand in lawmaking. And the Speaker of the House doesn’t care what you think.
On Tuesday — as seen in the video above, posted by Aaron Rupar — McCarthy was swarmed by reporters demanding answers as to why he would entrust the governing of our country to a seeming pathological liar. While he didn’t have a satisfactory reply, that didn’t stop McCarthy from getting testy while responding.
When a reporter asked McCarthy, point blank, whether the reason he was standing behind Santos is because the alternative would cost Republicans a seat in congress, the SOTH laughed at the question — as if such a trivial matter would even play into his decision.
Instead, McCarthy said that the reason he’s continuing to support Santos is “because his constituents voted for him.” (Or, at least, the version of Santos they thought they were getting.) While he said that if the Ethics Committee decided that Santos did something wrong, he would stand behind that decision, he must have forgotten that he disemboweled the Ethics Committee as one of his first orders of business (a move that Santos himself described as “fantastic“).
Then, like any good Republican, McCarthy attempted to change the narrative by stating that if he were to go along with the idea that anyone who lies shouldn’t be allowed to hold office, then “Joe Biden couldn’t be president right now,” he said.
When pressed further (right around the 2:00 mark) and told by a reporter that he was not answering her question, McCarthy snapped back and got testy—under the guise of being… respectful?:
“Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You asked me a question. When I answer it, it’s the answer to your question. You don’t get to determine whether I answer your question or not, ok? In all respect. Thank you.”
How did it take a full 15 rounds of voting to get this respectful gem of a GOP leader elected?
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