Every time a new sports video game comes out, the first few weeks bring a ton of viral videos of insane things happening, often due to bugs or glitches that need to get patched out. However, with EA Sports College Football 25, some of the insanity is cooked into the game on purpose, because college football is at its best when things are going crazy and the developers wanted to bring that to the game (as frustrating as it can be).
That’s why passing is so hard and tackling is also much more difficult than usual as a combination of new hit stick tuning and players being rated lower in that skill — just 49 players of the thousands in the game being rated 90 or above in tackling. As a result, it’s hard to figure out what viral clips coming out are going to end up as things that get patched up and what are simply the crazy things that can happen in the game. With that in mind, a clip went viral early this week of an online matchup between Penn State and Arizona in which the Penn State kicker morphed into Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson on a fake field goal pass on an extra point, as he ran backwards all the way inside his own red zone, breaking dozens of tackles, before turning upfield and running it in for the two-point conversion.
I have no idea why you would turn and run back this far, but it’s extremely funny watching the kicker (who might actually be a backup QB, as 17 is the number of Ethan Grunkemeyer on the current roster) shake off tackle after tackle before somehow getting back upfield with a wall of blockers and cruising in for the two-point score.
Like most online debates, this one was started by an account expressing a “hot take” with which fans took issue. “There’s not a single thing Vince Staples does better than J. Cole,” it wrote. Within an hour, the challenge was met by a dissenter who wrote, “I’m a J. Cole fan but Vince does just about everything better than Cole.” Thus, we were off to the races, with various voices chiming in to make their points or refute others’.
I’m a J. Cole fan but Vince does just about everything better than Cole https://t.co/eoAgphoSct
Of course, the funniest response came from Staples himself. As fans pitted the two rappers against each other, Vince had a characteristically cheeky response, tweeting, “You n****s need jobs” and following up with, “So passionate about hip hop but I’ve yet to see one of you weird ass n****s break dance.”
We here at Uproxx support both rappers, but tend to agree with Vince here: There are far more interesting things going on in the culture than subjective comparisons of “who’s better.”
Still, if that’s your thing, you can check out more responses below.
I hate hip hop twitter because they always have these dumbass takes to look cool. Vince Staples can’t do a SINGLE THING better than J. Cole besides somehow sound more boring. I love Vince but Cole has done too much for this game carrying the essence of hip hop for the past decade https://t.co/194UXFX0k8
vince staples discography is better than j cole by like miles…. plus Vince is actually interesting and has amazing beat choices https://t.co/UwUJJecpLq
There’s no other way to put what happened in 2020 and 2021 (no, not COVID): BTS became the biggest band in the world.
During that time, the group was the most significant name in K-pop and was emblematic of the genre’s growing popularity among English-speaking listeners. In the summer of 2020, “Dynamite” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making BTS the first-ever all-South Korean group to top the US charts. Hell, it was big enough to dethrone “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s year-defining mega-hit, from its No. 1 spot. It was a major moment in K-pop history, perhaps the biggest one ever.
In 2022, though, the inevitable, a turning point that fans knew for years would eventually come, happened: The hiatus. You see, in South Korea, as BBC News puts it, “all able-bodied men aged 18-28 must serve [in the military for] about two years. The seven BTS members had been allowed to put off starting their military service until they turned 30.”
The group’s members — Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook — were all nearing the maximum age, so they had no choice but to fulfill their military obligations. BTS was on pause.
Here’s the thing about this hiatus, though: Two years later, it hasn’t felt like much of a break.
Over the past couple years, BTS members have been busting out solo projects left and right and up and down and left again. Not even BTS proper has completely taken the time off, dropping the single “Take Two” in the summer of 2023.
The BTS musical universe has been so full during the “hiatus” that it’s worth going over in detail, so here’s a break-down of what each BTS member has been up to and what they have on the way.
Jin
The BTS Army took Jin’s military enlistment particularly hard: In January 2023, Big Hit Music asked fans to chill out with sending Jin mail because he was receiving too much of it.
Jin did eventually return the love, though, with the October 2022 solo single “The Astronaut.” It’s a bit misleading to call it a “solo” song, though, as it was co-written with Kygo and Coldplay, the latter of whom also performed on the track (and even played it on Saturday Night Live).
He also made time to reunite with Halsey (after guesting on her 2019 song “Suga’s Interlude”) on “Lilith (Diablo IV Anthem).” On top of that, he immortalized his solo tour with D-Day: The Movie, a theatrical concert film.
J-Hope
While the hiatus may have initially seemed like a nightmare to fans, it was during this time that J-Hope made a longtime dream come true, when he collaborated with his rap idol, J. Cole, on the joint single “On The Street.”
Beyond that, he pulled the curtain back for fans with the release of his J-Hope In The Box documentary in February 2023. He also dropped his debut solo album Jack In The Box in July 2022 and followed that up with the March 2024 EP Hope On The Street Vol. 1. The latter also served as the soundtrack to a documentary series of the same name.
RM
RM has just gone ahead and had a full solo career during the hiatus. In December 2022, he released his debut solo album, Indigo, then quickly followed that with a second, Right Place, Wrong Person, in May 2024.
Across both projects, RM greatly expanded his professional contact list, as he collaborated with Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Mahalia, Little Simz, Domi And JD Beck, and Moses Sumney, among others. Indigo single “Wild Flower” also become his first solo song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart, simultaneously topping the World Digital Song Sales chart.
Jimin
Jimin had a similar journey to RM, as he’s also shared two albums during the hiatus: Face in 2023 and Muse just days ago. He one-upped RM in a major way, though: Face single “Like Crazy” went No. 1 on the Hot 100, becoming the first song by a South Korean solo artist to ever do so.
On top of that, fans can soon expect to see a more casual side of Jimin: It was announced earlier this month that he and Jung Kook are teaming up for Are You Sure?!, a new travel show that is set to debut on August 8.
V
V has only put out one album during the hiatus: Layover, from September 2023. It was a good one, though: It managed to peak at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart despite only featuring six tracks; The more songs an album has, the more streams it tends to rack up, and the higher chart potential it has, but Layover still crushed it despite being a short project.
He also just released Type 1, a new 224-page photobook that is described as “a collage of V’s personal taste.”
Jung Kook
Jung Kook has had perhaps the biggest hiatus of them all. His 2023 album Golden was No. 2 in the US, the project spawned the No. 1 single “Seven” (featuring Latto), and he had two top-5 singles beyond that with “3D” (a Jack Harlow collaboration) and “Standing Next To You.” Speaking of the latter song, he also recruited Usher for a remixed version of it.
As far as his future, there’s the aforementioned travel show with Jimin, as well as I Am Still, which we don’t know the true nature of yet, but it has been speculated that the project is some sort of documentary.
This whole hiatus situation has gone to show just how mighty the BTS machine is. Even when the group was on break, there was a plan in place: Let the members show off their solo sides and flesh out the details of the BTS musical universe. It’s saying something that the end of the hiatus could actually be considered bittersweet, for those who have grown attached to what a member or two have been doing on their own.
A hiatus at the peak of their power wasn’t necessarily an ideal scenario for BTS. Given how well the break went, though, it’s not impossible they actually come out of it even stronger than before. That’s a scary/exciting thought.
Kehlani continues to be one of R&B’s finest on her latest album, Crash, which just dropped in June. Now that fans have had a minute to process the album, it’s onto the next item on the agenda: Today (July 23), Kehlani announced the Crash World Tour.
The run will feature FLO and Anycia and it runs for a couple months. It starts in Minneapolis on September 4 before wrapping up in San Francisco on November 2. During that stretch, Kehlani will also find herself in Chicago, Toronto, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and more.
Tickets first go on sale with a Citi pre-sale starting on July 23 at 2 p.m. local time. Following that will be the general on-sale on July 26 at 10 a.m. via Kehlani’s website.
Check out the list of tour dates below.
Kehlani 2024 Tour Dates: Crash World Tour
09/04 — Minneapolis, MN @ Armory
09/06 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
09/10 — Detroit, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
09/11 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
09/13 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
09/14 — Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavillion
09/17 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
09/18 — Fairfax, VA @ EagleBank Arena
09/20 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
09/21 — Portsmouth, VA @ Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion
09/23 — Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace Theatre
09/24 — Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
09/25 — New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore New Orleans
09/27 — Miami, FL @ FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park
09/28 — Tampa, FL @ Yuengling Center
10/01 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
10/02 — Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
10/08 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
10/11 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
10/12 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
10/15 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
10/16 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex
10/18 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
10/19 — Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds
10/21 — Vancouver, BC @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
10/23 — Wheatland, CA @ Hard Rock Live
10/25 — San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
10/26 — Las Vegas, NV @ Michelob ULTRA Arena
10/29 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
10/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum
11/02 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
Muna lead singer Katie Gavin has announced her first solo album. What A Relief, which she described as “Lilith Fair-core,” is coming out on October 25 on Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. “This record spans a lot of my life – it’s about having a really deep desire for connection, but also encountering all the obstacles that stood in my way to be able to achieve that, patterns of isolation or even boredom with the real work of love,” Gavin said. “What A Relief explores and portrays it honestly, without shame.” One of the songs, “As Good As It Gets,” includes a guest spot from Mitski.
Gavin also released a video for first single “Aftertaste,” which you can watch above.
“That song takes place inside of the magnetic force, when I’m really drawn to somebody and still feeling like it’s gonna work,” she said about the track. “Sometimes it’s fun to surrender to that feeling – I think a lot of songwriters have a strong relationship with romantic fantasy.”
She continued, “I thought this song would be a good place to start because to me it kind of serves as a bridge, sonically and thematically, between MUNA’s world and the world we are going to with the solo record. ‘Aftertaste’ is a sweet song about carrying a torch for someone, realizing that you are going out to concerts and parties hoping to run into them there. The song is a playing out of a fantasy, really, both because it involves confessing your crush and finding out that it is reciprocated.”
Check out the video above and find the album artwork and tracklist below.
Katie Gavin’s What A Relief Album Artwork
saddest factory records
Katie Gavin’s What A Relief Tracklist
1. “I Want It All”
2. “Aftertaste”
3. “The Baton”
4. “Casual Drug Use”
5. “As Good As It Gets” ft. Mitski
6. “Sanitized”
7. “Sketches”
8. “Inconsolable”
9. “Sparrow”
10. “Sweet Abby Girl”
11. “Keep Walking”
12. “Today”
What A Relief is 10/25 via Saddest Factory Records. Find more information here.
Last year’s installment of the psychedelic-leaning Southern California festival Desert Daze ended up getting canceled. Now, though, the 2024 edition is locked and loaded: Set for October 10 to 13, Desert Daze has announced its 2024 lineup today.
Heading to Lake Perris this year are Jack White, Cigarettes After Sex, Alex G, The Mars Volta, Thundercat, Fleet Foxes, 100 Gecs, Sleep, Liz Phair, De La Soul, Marc Rebillet, DIIV, and Danny Brown, as well as Death From Above 1979 doing a 20th-anniversary performance of the album You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine.
Beyond that, the lineup also includes Molchat Doma, The Kills, Floating Points, Power Trip, Beach Fossils, Unwound, Shintaro Sakamoto, All Them Witches, Mount Kimbie, Otoboke Beaver, Say She She, Temples, Converge, Souls Of Mischief, Drab Majesty, Alan Sparhawk, Wisp, Charlotte Adigéry + Bolis Pupul, Shabaka, Yu Su, Nick Hakim, Sextile, Frankie And The Witch Fingers, Rival Consoles, Hinds, Glare, The Chisel, Jesus Piece, Boogarins, Sasami, Sessa, Etran De L’aïr, Skinshape, Khun Narin, Tropical Fuck Storm, Wine Lips, Marlon Funaki, Archer Oh, Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek, Jjuujjuu, É Arenas, Friko, Snõõper, Black Sabbath Cover Band Rehearsal, Mariachi Queens Reyna De Los Angeles, Freak Slug, Margaritas Podridas, Glixen, and Daiistar.
Other highlights from the festival will include a Kathleen Hanna book reading of her memoir Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk, Temples’ 10th-anniversary performance of their debut album Sun Structured, and a showcase from LA-based label and promoter Jazz Is Dead.
Festival, parking, and camping passes will be available starting July 26 at 10 a.m. PT. Early bird prices start at $299 for the weekend, and more information can be found on the festival website.
The USA men’s basketball team has been playing with an 11-man roster during the exhibition slate as they’ve been trying to buy Kevin Durant as much time as possible to recover from a calf strain. However, the past two weeks have apparently not been enough to get KD on the court for the Olympics opener this weekend against Nikola Jokic and a tough Serbia team, as Brian Windhorst reported on Tuesday that Durant met with Steve Kerr and it was decided he’ll sit for a bit longer.
Kevin Durant Injury Update :
“I think Team USA is gonna be playing Serbia without Kevin Durant… Steve Kerr met with him today and they decided he needs more time with that strained calf… They could fly in a replacement for KD but that’s not gonna happen”
As Windy notes, Kerr was Durant’s coach in 2019 when the star forward came back from a calf strain early and tore his Achilles in the NBA Finals. While Durant insists that isn’t influencing his approach to returning from this strain, it’s hard not to believe it’s leading Kerr and Team USA to err on the side of caution when it comes to bringing him back.
Windhorst also says there will not be a second replacement player joining the roster after Derrick White stepped in after Kawhi Leonard’s departure, and Durant will continue to be on the roster with the plan being for him to play at some point. In the meantime, Team USA will need to shake off a couple rocky performances against South Sudan and Germany to close their showcase slate as they face what should be their toughest game of the group stage against Serbia on Sunday, July 28 (11:15 a.m. ET).
Lupe also dismissed long-running speculation that he dislikes Kendrick Lamar. “I genuinely don’t have any issues, I really don’t,” he said. “I do not have a problem. No matter what was said in the past, what you think happened, what happened, what didn’t happen. I personally and professionally do not have a problem with my brother in arms, Kendrick Lamar.”
Just now on Spaces @JoeBudden and @LupeFiasco talked about Drake and Kendrick. Lupe says he loves Kendrick and Joe says he loves Drake. Both ask for the narratives to end. pic.twitter.com/TYXr1y8qkd
Perhaps Lupe was just too busy finalizing preparations for his new album, Samurai, and his upcoming Samurai tour, which starts in October. Or maybe he just tired of the conflict, as he pointed out during a separate Spaces chat that it undermined hip-hop as a whole to fight about who deserves to be “in” or “out.” “I don’t think we should be choosing who comes in and out and making decisions on that sh*t anyway… I think it is going to do more harm than good,” he said. “I think you are going to miss out on a lot of beautiful things because of it. I think you are going to ostracize people and like I said, there are going to be a group of motherf*ckers that you think you actually control and sh*t and its dudes doing 50 city tours who you ain’t never heard of. ‘Cause they like, ‘F*ck that dude. I’m finna do this because I love it.’ But now, they are the ‘out group,’ but they are selling more records than you and selling more tour dates than you. But you are the spokesperson for hip-hop? That don’t make no sense.”
There was a time not so long ago (the year 2017) when we thought we would never see Hugh Jackman and his metal claws again. That’s because they really made it seem like we would never see Hugh Jackman and his metal claws again, and yet here we are! Just days away from his triumphant return in Deadpool & Wolverine, with his metal claws. Again.
Deadpool & Wolverine follows the two enemy superheroes (Ryan Reynolds and Jackman) forced to team up as the Time Variance Authority sends them on a mission which subsequently changes the history of the MCU. But it’s all good because it needed some changing anyway.
The movie clocks in at 2 hours and 7 minutes, which is the equivalent of roughly 230 Mint mobile ads. This makes Deadpool & Wolverine the longest movie in the Deadpool franchise. It’s also the goriest, allegedly.
But will these be the last 2 hours and 7 minutes we get to see Wolverine? Who knows. When asked by Collider if this would actually be Wolverine’s last hurrah, Jackman couldn’t say. “It literally does not matter how I answer this, Steve, because I’m clearly a liar. But what’s so great about my lie is I believed it. Fully. I fully believed it,” he said. That’s what makes him such a good actor! We fully believe him even when he’s lying.
Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters this Friday, July 26th.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, are a conservative group who aren’t known for being vocal about sex.
But best selling author, blogger, and mother of six, Gabrielle Blair, has kicked that stereotype to the curb with a pointed thread on reducing unwanted pregnancies. And her sights are set directly at men.
If you want to stop abortion, you need to prevent unwanted pregnancies. And men are 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies. No for real, they are. Perhaps you are thinking: IT TAKES TWO! And yes, it does take two for _intentional_ pregnancies.
But ALL unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. Period. Don’t believe me? Let me walk you through it. Let’s start with this: women can only get pregnant about 2 days each month. And that’s for a limited number of years.
Here’s the whole thread. It’s long, but totally worth the read.
u201cThat makes 24 days a year a women might get pregnant. But men can _cause_ pregnancy 365 days a year. In fact, if youu2019re a man who ejaculates multiple times a day, you could cause multiple pregnancies daily. In theory a man could cause 1000+ unwanted pregnancies in just one year.u201d
But what about birth control? If a woman doesnu2019t want to risk an unwanted pregnancy, why wouldnu2019t she just use birth control? If a women can manage to figure out how to get an abortion, surely she can get birth control, right? Great questions.
u2026 because of the side effects. And the list of side effects was about 1/3 as long as the known side effects for women’s oral contraception.https://ow.ly/Hqdx30lOrKJ
But good news, Men: Even with the horrible side effects, women are still very willing to use birth control. Unfortunately itu2019s harder to get than it should be. Birth control options for women require a doctoru2019s appointment and a prescription. Itu2019s not free, and often not cheap.
If weu2019re talking about the pill, it requires consistent daily use and doesnu2019t leave much room for mistakes, forgetfulness, or unexpected disruptions to daily schedules. And again, the side effects can be brutal. Iu2019M STILL GRATEFUL FOR IT PLEASE DONu2019T TAKE IT AWAY.
Men can keep them stocked up just in case, so theyu2019re always prepared. Amazing! They are so much easier than birth control options for women. As a bonus, in general, women love when men use condoms. They keep us from getting STDs, they donu2019t lessen our pleasure during sexu2026
Oh. I remember. Men _donu2019t_ love condoms. In fact, men frequently pressure women to have sex without a condom. And itu2019s not unheard of for men to remove the condom during sex, without the womenu2019s permission or knowledge. (Pro-tip: That’s assault.)https://ow.ly/UHgP30lOse3
Sou2026 there are men willing to risk getting a woman pregnant u2014 which means literally risking her life, her health, her social status, her relationships, and her career, so that they can experience a few minutes of _slightly_ more pleasure? Is that for real? Yes. Yes it is.
So itu2019s not like sex with a condom is _not_ pleasurable, itu2019s just not _as_ pleasurable. An 8 instead of a 10. Let me emphasize that again: Men regularly choose to put women at massive risk by having non-condom sex, in order to experience a few minutes of slightly more pleasure.
Itu2019s mind-boggling and disturbing when you realize thatu2019s the choice men are making. And honestly, Iu2019m not as mad as I should be about this, because weu2019ve trained men from birth that their pleasure is of utmost importance in the world. (And to dis-associate sex and pregnancy.)
Itu2019s mind-boggling and disturbing when you realize thatu2019s the choice men are making. And honestly, Iu2019m not as mad as I should be about this, because weu2019ve trained men from birth that their pleasure is of utmost importance in the world. (And to dis-associate sex and pregnancy.)
But did you further know that men CAN get a woman pregnant without HER feeling any pleasure at all? In fact, itu2019s totally possible for a man to impregnate a woman even while causing her excruciating pain, trauma or horror.
No matter how many orgasms she has, they wonu2019t make her pregnant. Pregnancies can only happen when men have an orgasm. Unwanted pregnancies can only happen when men orgasm irresponsibly.
Letu2019s talk more about responsibility. Men often donu2019t know, and donu2019t ask, and donu2019t think to ask, if theyu2019ve caused a pregnancy. They may never think of it, or associate sex with making babies at all. Why? Because there are 0 consequences for men who cause unwanted pregnancies.
Blair’s controversial tweet storm have been liked hundreds of thousands of time, with the original tweet earning nearly 200,000 likes since it was posted on Thursday, September, 13.
The reactions have earned her both praise and scorn.
Most of the scorn was from men.
Men AND women both need to take responsibility for their own actions. I’ve said that many times. To say otherwise just isn’t being realistic.
You are incorrect. A woman having an orgasm while with a man risks nothing and hurts no one. A man having an orgasm while with a woman risks her life. A dick without a condim is a dangerous thing and has killed more people in human history than any war or weapon.
For other men, the tweet thread was a real eye-opener.
I just want you to know from a guy that your entire line of argument on this thread is 100% accurate. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there. Every adult in this country SHOULD read this.
Thank God for this. I have had so many arguments with men over the years about their part of responsibility for pregnancy. The phrase “she got pregnant” sends me to the moon! Blessings to you Gabrielle!
— What else is possible? (@What else is possible?) 1537204198
Pulitzer, Nobel, everything else. You deserve the whole lot!
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