After performing as a retro sci-fi queen in her last televised performance, Doja Cat borrowed more inspiration from the past for a Moulin Rouge-inspired burlesque medley of her hits “Juicy” and “Say So” at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.
Doja Cat has had an eventful 2020. After her disco-scented “Say So” became a TikTok smash early this year, her and Nicki Minaj’s fans teamed up to take the glittery single to the top of the Hot 100 with some risque encouragement from Doja herself. Unfortunately for her, she may have overplayed her hand, leading some of her jilted-feeling fans to dig up a questionable old song and accuse her of participating in racist chat rooms.
She bounced back with a string of features that helped her find her footing, only to find herself sick with COVID-19 and being pit against Nas after he name-checked her on his new album. When she shrugged off the rumors and speculation, she again lived up to her name by landing on her feet with a big performance at the VMAs, where she also won Best New Artist, despite floating around the music industry since 2016. Time will tell whether she’ll use up all nine of her lives, but with her third album complete and covering all the bases, she’s certainly in position to keep giving her haters bad luck.
Bad Bunny has blessed fans in a number of ways in 2020. The popular Latin artist kicked off his 2020 campaign with his Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana album only to follow it up with a second full-length project, Las Que No Iban a Salir, a couple of months later. In a year where fans have been unable to see their favorite artists perform live, Bad Bunny gives them a close alternative by bringing his talents to the 2020 Billboard Music Award stage with a lively performance of “Yo Perreo Sola” alongside fellow Puerto Rican singer Ivy Queen and newcomer Nesi.
The YHLQMDLG singer aimed to make a big statement with his “Yo Perreo Sola” video earlier this year as he underwent a full drag transformation for the visual. Prior to the video, he revealed that different perspective her wrote the song from in an interview with Rolling Stone. “I wrote it from the perspective of a woman,” he said. “I wanted a woman’s voice to sing it — ‘Yo Perreo Sola’ — because it doesn’t mean the same thing when a man sings it. But I do feel like that woman sometimes.”
The performance arrives after took over the streets of New York last month in a live stream performance that found him performing from a moving flatbed track. Among the many tracks that he performed there, he made sure to give fans a live take of his “Una Vez” track with Puerto Rican singer Mora. Soon after the performance, he shared a new visual for the track, one that finds an astronaut, in full space gear, exploring the Earth and its varying landscapes. Bad Bunny, along with Selena Gomez, was also honored at The 2020 Hispanic Heritage Awards where he received the Vision Award for being a “powerful voice” in music.
After years of staying under the radar, especially in terms of her music, Brandy came back stronger than ever in 2020 thanks to the release of her seventh album, B7. The album was her first full-length release since her 2012 album, Two Eleven, and saw her working with notable names including Chance The Rapper and Daniel Caesar. Bringing the album and a pair of tracks from it to the big stage, Brandy kicked off her set at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards with an ethereal performance of “Borderline” before inviting Ty Dolla Sign on-stage to perform their newly-released collab, “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2.” Reaching further back into her discography to close out her set, Brandy ended her performance with “Almost Doesn’t Count” from her 1998 album, Never Say Never.
Brandy and Ty Dolla Sign released their “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2” track earlier in the day prior to the Billboard Music Awards, a day that also proved to be newsworthy for Ty Dolla Sign as well. After putting fans through well over a year of promotion and singles for his upcoming album, the West Coast crooner finally confirmed that his upcoming third album would arrive on October 23 and be titled Featuring Ty Dolla Sign.
As for Brandy, the performance arrives less than two months after she took the Verzuz stage for a battle with fellow R&B singer Monica. The battle proved to be one of the more successful ones the Verzuz platform held as it reeled in over six million viewers across its Instagram and Apple Music setups.
Check out their performance in the video above.
Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s been just over eight months since much of the country went into quarantine, and it’s safe to say that a lot of us taken binge-watching next level. Some, like Kevin Smith, have been incredibly productive, using the acres of free time to write and create and do things. But even those people have to have plowed through untold seasons when they weren’t being creative and smart. Perhaps you’ve reunited with some old favorites, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That’s what its star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, has been doing. The twist is she’s been watching it with her kids.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actress was on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday, when the conversation perhaps inevitably steered to her iconic show. She said she’d never even thought about showing it to her and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s two kids, both of them far younger than she was when she started the show in 1997. It all started when they were trying to find shows to binge, only for them to demand Buffy.
“I didn’t even know if they’d be into it, but they are like so into it,” Gellar said. That said, when they ask her questions about the show, she invariably fails them. “They’ll always ask questions and I’ll be like ‘I don’t remember. I’ll have to text someone and ask.’” Still, watching their mother fight vampires and demons and other assorted riff-raff while being an otherwise mostly regular youngster has left them impressed. “My son actually thinks that I’m cool now.”
Gellar played Buffy over seven seasons, ending in 2003. And, hey, since Amazon is remaking another Gellar property, the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer, can a Buffy revival — be it a reunion or a reboot — be that far off?
Post Malone has spent the last three years as a fixture of the Billboard music charts, so it’s only right that he would perform at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, even as the show proceeded with no audience thanks to the social distancing required by coronavirus guidelines. Post Malone and Tyla Yaweh performed at a “top secret” location in Los Angeles, revealed during their performance to be a construction site. After Post opened up with “Circles,” he was joined by Tyla for their collaboration “Tommy Lee.”
Ever since his 2015 breakout with “White Iverson” (remember braided, rapping Post Malone?), Post has straight-up dominated both the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 singles chart. His debut album Stoney, is still on the 200, spending 200 weeks(!) on the list, while Beerbongs & Bentleys has hung around for 128 weeks. 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is still hanging around the top of the list, coming in at No. 14 on the list dated October 17.
Meanwhile, “Circles” just dropped 5 spots to No. 22 after spending 58 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 1. Post has spent much of the 2020 lockdown branching out, performing an all-metal jam session, plotting to start a beer pong league, and launching his own brand of rosé. He also appeared on Big Sean’s Detroit 2, on the song “Wolves.” They’ll be releasing the video sometime soon after shooting it last weekend.
Kane Brown struck mainstream success back in 2018 thanks to his Experiment, a project that saw the country singer land his first No. 1 album on the Billboard albums chart. The album helped him earn an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist in 2019 and other nominations across a various other of award shows. Extending his association with award shoes, Kane Brown brings his talents to the 2020 Billboard Award show to perform “Be Like That” with Swae Lee and Khalid. The track is a laid-back effort that finds the three artists accepting the realities of life, an attitude that is reflected in their performance as they calmly move across the empty theater’s stage to deliver each of their verses.
The “Be Like That” track, which was released back in July, arrived as Kane Brown continued work on his upcoming third EP, one that would follow 2015’s Closer and 2016’s Chapter 1. While news of a forthcoming EP may be exciting to fans, Brown did not share a release date for the project, saying in an interview with Taste Of Country that there is no timetable for its release. However, at the time of the interview, he did confirm that the EP is nearly complete.
As for Swae Lee and Khalid, both artists are expected to release projects of their own as Swae Lee has teased his upcoming album with singles like “Dance Like No One’s Watching” and “Reality Check.” On the other hand, Khalid has left optimistic thanks to singles like “Eleven” and “Know Your Worth.”
Check out the performance of “Be Like That” above.
After just two seasons, Brian Agler is out as head coach of the Dallas Wings, the team announced Wednesday. The two agreed to “mutually part ways” following a promising 2020 campaign that saw the Wings fall one game short of advancing to the WNBA playoffs.
“As we look to the future, we believe our team is talented and well-positioned for success,” Dallas Wings President and CEO Greg Bibb said in a release. “After discussions with Brian, we have elected to go in different directions. We are thankful for Brian’s work, dedication to the community and his belief in our dynamic team. We wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.”
𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | The Dallas Wings and Brian Agler have mutually agreed to part ways.
In his two seasons at the helm, Agler’s Wings finished with an overall record of 18-38 and failed to make the postseason both times. Prior to joining the Dallas organization ahead of the 2019 season, Agler served as head coach of the Minnesota Lynx (1999-2002), Seattle Storm (2008-2014) and Los Angeles Sparks (2015-2018), winning titles with Seattle and LA.
“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to coach the Dallas Wings, I have great respect for the organization” Agler said in the team statement. “I wish everyone within the Wings organization the best of luck in the future.”
While the Wings went 8-14 this season, there were plenty of reasons to be excited. Dallas was in the middle of its current rebuild and had just drafted Oregon’s Satou Sabally with the second overall pick to play alongside fellow first round draft picks Bella Alarie and Ty Harris. Sabally threw her name into the ring for Rookie of the Year contention, averaging 13.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game despite missing six games due to injury.
Rising star Arike Ogunbowale took a large leap forward in Bradenton, Florida, averaging a league-high 22.8 points on 41% shooting, 3.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game. In doing so, she also earned the 2020 WNBA Peak Performer Award for scoring after posting the highest scoring average by a second-year player in league history. And the former Notre Dame hero had 37 straight games in double-figures scoring in 2020, good for the second-longest double-digit streak in franchise history.
“We believe our team’s youth, tenacity and talent provide us with the competitive edge to attract the right fit for our club and someone who will lead our continued growth as we pursue a WNBA Championship,” Bibb said about the quest for Agler’s replacement.
Bringing added attention to her newly released track “Courage To Change,” Sia brings her new single to the 2020 Billboard Music Award stage with an uplifting performance of the track. Donning her trademark hidden look, she delivered her first performance of the track in a fluffy white dress backed by neon lighting and the space of an empty theater. Sia has slowly ramped up her activity in 2020, a year that started for her with a string of loose singles. Continuing its promotion, she released her single ahead of the film project Music, which fans can expect to receive soon.
The track is just one of a few releases Sia has shared throughout the year. She started things off by premiering her “Saved My Life” single during May’s Americares’ COVID Is No Joke livestream fundraiser. She then followed up the performance with a performance of “Together” for the first on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Sia later joined David Guetta for their “https://uproxx.com/pop/david-guetta-sia-lets-love-video/Let’s Love” single, one that added to the long list of the duo’s collaborations over the years.
As for Sia’s Music film, fans can expect to get the project in the near future. The project will feature appearances from Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom, Jr., as well her dancing collaborator Maddie Ziegler.
You can watch her Billboard Music Award performance in the video above.
Young Nudy’s hot streak continues as the Atlanta native returns with his new song “Never.” The new single is a straight-forward effort that finds him discussing the dos and don’ts in his life. Throughout he lays down the law with sinister lines like, “I ain’t never goin’ broke for no ho, never / Forever, I’ma be rich, n****, forever, forever / You play with me, you dyin’, n****, whatever.”
Young Nudy’s DJ and engineer, Bradley “DJ BJ” Whitaker, previously spoke with Revolt about his upcoming project, Nudy Land 2, and how the coronavirus pandemic affected it. “He likes recording in different places, so we’ll probably take a couple of trips to different cities. It might be a month process, it might be a year process,” BJ said. “The process in our head was always to get [Anyways] out at the beginning of the year, go on tour, and after the tour, lock in until Nudy Land 2 is done. Coronavirus sort of f*cked everything up.”
The Atlanta native’s new track arrives after he shared a laid-back video for his track “All White” last month, which saw him enjoying some time with the homies, including his cousin 21 Savage, at a backyard kickback. Nudy also joined Deanté Hitchcock in a black-and-white video for their collaboration “Attitude.”
What makes a beer the best beer in America? The answer to that really depends on who you’re asking. For us, it’s a complex matrix of drinkability, accessibility, affordability, and uniqueness. But hitting all those marks at once is hard. And frankly, it doesn’t matter quite as much how good a beer is if we can’t find it or afford it.
That’s why we find this list from Ranker to be legitimately interesting. With the exception of Alaskan Amber — which is hard to find east of the Mississippi — you can actually try all of these beers right now. And though the masses aren’t always spot-on (the Big Bang Theory corollary), the beers below are all affordable, very drinkable, accessible, and pretty damn unique. Even the old microbrews from the 1980s on this list still have something to add to the conversation.
The ten beers below are the result of thousands of votes cast by beer drinkers. Granted, there are undoubtedly better beers in many corners of the country (there are over 8,000 active breweries in the U.S.). But these beers are a good start for anyone looking to change up their macro-beer routine.
Style: English Pale Ale ABV: 5.4% Average Price:$10, 6-pack
The Beer:
This throwback recipe harnesses the ingenuity of America’s biggest craft brewer and melds it with English brewing. The beer has a solid malt base that’s amped up with English East Kent Goldings and Fuggles hops. The brew is then aged in cool temperatures to really smooth out the flavor notes.
Tasting Notes:
This is a pretty solid autumn beer in our estimation. The mild malt provides a base for spicy and earthy hoppiness. The bitterness is drawn waaaaay back and allows for the caramel aspects of the malt to peek in through the well-rounded body of the beer.
9. The Alchemist Heady Topper
The Alchemist
Style: New England IPA ABV: 8% Average Price:$18.99, 4-pack
The Beer:
This is one of the signature beers of the NEIPA hop-bomb movement. It’s been hyped by the highest echelons of the craft beer world.
Does it live up to that hype? No. Nothing can.
This is just a damn-fine beer that’s delicious to drink… if you love heavy doses of dank hops.
Tasting Notes:
This sipper opens with a rush of dank resinous notes with a grassy and floral nature. The taste delivers on those notes with an almost hash oil dankness next to a dry fizzy nature and the distant echo of what were once malts. While this is classified as a NEIPA, it’s not juicy really. It’s way more like a classic West Coast IPA these days, with thorough pine resin and cannabis floral dankness running from beginning to end.
8. North Coast Brewing Co. Old Rasputin
North Coast Brewing
Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV: 9% Average Price:$10.99, 4-pack
The Beer:
This is a classic beer all-around and the most expensive on the list (but only slightly more expensive than the others). It’s been winning awards for decades. It’s also the perfect rainy day accompaniment for this time of year. The hefty ABVs help to take the edge off as well. You can’t go wrong with a bottle or two of this dark stuff.
Tasting Notes:
Deeply roasted cacao nibs meet chocolate malts with a fatty nutty edge. A bit of whiskey vanilla and barrel must arrive on the palate with a sense of spice and more of those chocolatey malts. The bitterness of the dark chocolate moves towards a subtle pine resin dankness at the end.
7. Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Style: American IPA ABV: 7.2% Average Price:$10.49, 6-pack
The Beer:
This is a quintessential West Coast IPA. The hops are on full display in this beer. But it’s still Sierra Nevada and they know how to balance a beer perfectly between its malty base and hoppy body.
Tasting Notes:
Bright hops greet you with a lean in from mild pine heading toward lemon citrus. That citrus carries through on the palate as a hint of juicy fruit arrives in the background along with a caramel malt backbone. The bright, floral, piney, and juicy hop nature never overpowers as the dry end of this beer arrives and refreshes you to your core.
6. Arrogant Bastard Ale
Arroganta Bastard
Style: American Strong Ale ABV: 7.2% Average Price:$12.99, 6-pack
The Beer:
Arrogant Bastard from Stone Brewing out in San Diego was a powerhouse in the late 1990s. The beer still satisfies as a reminder to headier times when big, bold hoppy notes were considered “outsider” on the national stage (not that other microbrewers weren’t doing that already for a while).
Tasting Notes:
There’s a sweet maltiness that’s overcome by grassy hops. The dankness is apparent and marries the almost nutty sweetness of the malty underbelly. The sip meanders through citrus, more grassy notes, almost toffee-like maltiness, with a flutter of spice by the end.
5. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Dogfish Head Brewing
Style: Imperial IPA ABV: 9% Average Price:$15.29, 6-pack
The Beer:
This beer’s brewing process makes it unique. The brewers continuously add hops for 90 minutes during the brew to layer in a serious amount of hoppy depth. The keyword there is “layer.” While a lot of hops are used in this process, it doesn’t overpower the malty base of the beer and creates a textured experience in the beer’s body.
Tasting Notes:
The bready and caramel malts come through in tandem with the equal parts piney and citrusy hops. The taste delivers on those promises with the addition of Christmas cakes full of candied fruit, rum, and spices. The bitterness is dialed in with a nice cut of citrus that mellows the whole sip out.
4. Anchor Steam
Anchor Steam
Style: California Common ABV: 4.9% Average Price:$10.99, 6-pack
The Beer:
Anchor Steam is one of the most unique beers on this list. The brew is a hybrid of lager and ale. The beer is made with cold lager yeasts that are fermented with malts at warm ale-like temperatures. It’s made in shallow, open-topped fermenters, which allows the yeast to work faster and the mix to cool more quickly.
Tasting Notes:
The beer presents you with a nose full of roasted and slightly caramel malts with a bready nature next to a wisp of floral hops. The palate carries on with the malts edging towards a toffee sweetness as the hops linger in the background with a slight pine bitterness.
The sip ends dry, full-bodied, and crisp.
3. Alaskan Amber
Alaskan
Style: Altbier ABV: 5.3% Average Price:$9.46, 6-pack
The Beer:
This easy-drinking Altbier — an old German brown ale from the Düsseldorf area — is another perfect rainy day beer to have a six-pack of in the fridge. The beer is all about the malt that’s slow-fermented at cooler temperatures (compared to most ales, that is). All of that makes for a quaffable ale worth trying the next time you’re west of the Mississippi.
Tasting Notes:
Does the Alaskan glacial water come out in the body of this beer? We’d like to think so. The brew really revels in the caramel roasted malts on the nose and in the taste. The hoppiness is there, but more of a floral and resiny accent than the main attraction.
The sip is light-hearted, full-spirited, and damn f*cking tasty.
2. New Belgium Fat Tire
New Belgium
Style: American Red Ale ABV: 5.2% Average Price:$10.49, 6-pack
The Beer:
This amber ale put New Belgium on the craft beer map back in the day. The brew utilizes Pale, C-80, Munich, and Victory alongside Willamette, Goldings, and Nugget hops that are balanced just right. This Colorado brew is an easy-drinking beer that’s also really easy to find these days. Those are wins.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a buttered and honey-dripping biscuit maltiness up top with a note of green apple tartness and grassy hops. Those sweetened malts are what shine the brightest on the tongue as the hops pop in with floral bitterness.
The sip’s dry fizziness keeps things squarely in the “refreshing” category while still feeling bold.
1. Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams
Style: Vienna Lager ABV: 5% Average Price:$17.69, 12-pack
The Beer:
This really is the grand-parent of most craft beer these days. The lager launched back in 1984 and has become the cornerstone of both craft brewing, corner liquor stores, and airport bars worldwide. The actual beer marries American malts with German hops, specifically grown in Bavaria for Samuel Adams.
Tasting Notes:
Caramel malts greet you with a whisper of those floral Bavarian hops. The sweet malts mingle with a bit of grain and citrus as the hops ebb and flow in the background. The end is dry and refreshing with the caramel malts taking back center stage.
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