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Pull those pants up. Bronx rapper Ice Spice continues her Y2K! rollout with the tough-talking “Phat Butt” video. As always, the new song is produced by Ice’s long-running collaborator RiotUSA, who offers a video gamey beat that gives the rapper plenty of room to stretch her lyrical muscles. Among her boasts on track are reminders of her recent success (“We came from the four line to four times Grammy nominated”) and, of course, flexes about her attention-grabbing physique (“Fat butt pull my pants up / Shakin’ ass got my bands up”).

“Phat Butt” is the third single from Ice Spice’s upcoming debut album Y2K!, following “Think U the Sh*t (Fart)” and “Gimmie A Light.” While none has reached the heights of the four hit singles she references in the lyrics to “Phat Butt” (“Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2” with PinkPantheress, “Karma” by Taylor Swift, and “Princess Diana” and “Barbie World” with Nicki Minaj), fans continue to look forward to the debut. Ice confirmed its July 26 release date after months of teasing, then announced her headlining tour with Cash Cobain earlier this month, following up with a defense of the album cover after fans maligned it online.

Watch Ice Spice’s ‘Phat Butt’ video above.

Y2K! will be out on July 26 via 10K Projects and Capitol Records.

Both Taylor Swift and Post Malone are familiar with what it feels like to have a No. 1 single, and they both recently had yet another Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper with “Fortnight” from Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. (Malone has since landed another one with the Morgan Wallen collab “I Had Some Help.”) The two made a visual for their collaboration, too, and now Swift has shared a behind-the-scenes video.

In one fun moment, Post Malone has a lovely time getting his hands on an old-school typewriter. Swift shows Malone how to move the carriage back to the left side of the typewriter, and Malone, ever the beacon of positivity, responds, “All you do is move it! This is amazing.” He adds, “I feel very steampunk.”

Once he figured out how to use the shift key and get a capital letter, he laughed and exclaimed, “Oh, what the hell?! That’s badass! I’m buying this right now. […] This is too much fun. Y’all shouldn’t have let me play with it.”

Swift gets her fun in, too, although it’s less from fiddling with vintage writing equipment and more from the joy she gets when her directorial vision is realized in a satisfying way.

Check out the video above.

Paris Hilton‘s music career had a resurgence when “Stars Are Blind” appeared in Best Picture nominee Promising Young Woman. Now, nearly 20 years after her debut album (you know who else went almost two decades between albums? Steely Dan… something to think about… or maybe don’t), The Simple Life star is coming back with her follow-up: Infinite Icon.

The album’s clubby first single, “I’m Free,” features Rina Sawayama and is inspired by “Free” by Ultra Naté.

“A song can change your life, and that’s what ‘Free’ by Ultra Naté did for me,” Hilton said in a statement. “I heard it for the first time at a club in New York City shortly after being released from the Provo Canyon School where I experienced mental and physical abuse. For me, the song represents the journey of healing and finding your voice. It has served as an anthem of hope and a guiding light and I’m honored to have had the chance to create this new version. I’m also so grateful to have Rina Sawayama’s mesmerizing vocals and lyrics on the song. Together, Rina and I hope to inspire fans around the world to embrace their own strong voices and feel free to fully express themselves.”

Infinite Icon comes out on September 6. In the meantime, you can listen to “I’m Free” above.

Sabrina Carpenter, at times, can take things to a fun and sexually charged place. During a recent BBC performance, for example, she sang the following “Nonsense” outro: “How quickly can you take your clothes off, pop quiz / I’m American I am not British, so BBC: it stands for something different / This Live Lounge is so lit because I’m in it, innit.”

Carpenter says, though, that despite the frequency of moments like these, sex isn’t actually on the brain for her all the time.

In a video from Vanity Fair, Carpenter said she’s not as horny as it may seem. In the clip, she explains, “Over the last year, I’ve heard from a lot of people, like, ‘Wow, she’s just the horniest girl alive,’ because sometimes in my songs, I say some crazy things on stage. But I’m actually a very normal amount of horny, and also, a lot of it is because I’m able to kind of have fun and play. You know, when I’m doing these live shows, it’s just a matter of not taking things too seriously. I love play on words and I love funny innuendos; It’s just always been something that makes me laugh. So, yeah, I’m not the horniest girl alive, for sure.”

Check out the video below.

Hot Ones will never be the same after Conan O’Brien rubbed hot sauce around his, hm, nipples region. Future guests will have to find ways to one up him. Taking off your shirt is a good start, especially if you’re one of the most beautiful people in the world.

Season 24 of the First We Feast web series continued this week with supermodel Heidi Klum, who got so sweaty after trying the Da Bomb Beyond Insanity hot sauce that she unbuttoned her denim shirt and took it off. “I’m getting hot,” the queen of Halloween costumes said, to which host Sean Evans (who, as a professional, kept his eyes up here) replied, “Whoa, whoa! Now I’m getting hot too, Heidi.” Klum did the rest of the challenge in her bra and jeans.

During the interview, Klum was asked about the priciest outfit she’s ever worn. “$12.5 million bra and $750,000 panties to match… for Victoria’s Secret, it was all encrusted with diamonds and rubies and what not,” the America’s Got Talent judge said. “I think I got in the Guinness Book of World Records by wearing the most expensive lingerie set in the history of the world.” The red Hot Ones bra is equally historic. Put it in the Smithsonian.

You can watch Heidi Klum’s episode of Hot Ones above.

Early in the morning on June 20, police officers were called to Miami Beach Marina. There, Travis Scott was asked to leave a charter boat, but that process didn’t go smoothly, as the encounter ended with the rapper getting arrested on charges of disorderly intoxication and trespassing on property after a warning.

It appears Scott is bothered by this approximately 0 percent. For one, hours after the arrest, he tweeted simply, “Lol.” Then, he decided to make the most of the situation by selling t-shirts with his fresh mugshot printed on the front.

The shirt features the photo along with the caption, “It’s Miami,” which was what Scott was reported to have said when asked by police if he had been drinking. So, he seemingly just confirmed that quote.

The shirt is for sale on Scott’s webstore, with the product titled “FREE THE RAGE TEE #2.” The shirts are going for $35, and $5 from each sale will be donated to Scott’s Cactus Jack Foundation.

This whole situation comes not long after settled the final Astroworld Festival wrongful death lawsuit, after nine out of the 10 suits were settled weeks before. That said, there’s still an Astroworld injury case that has yet to be settled.

During her Coachella performance in April, Chappell Roan described herself as “your favorite artist’s favorite artist.” The “HOT TO GO!” singer has become a lot of people’s favorite artist since then, with festival crowds requiring larger stages and toddler look-alikes. But Roan is quick to point out that she didn’t come up with “your favorite’s artist favorite artist.”

When the expression came up during Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show, she told host Jimmy Fallon, “That was a reference to Sasha Colby,” a former RuPaul’s Drag Race winner. “Sasha Colby said, ‘I’m your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen.’ And I was like, it just hit me through the heart.”

Fallon also mentioned that when he did a Google search for “chappell roan” (“Did you not know who I was before?” she zinged him), the top of the results page read, “Did you mean: your favorite artist’s favorite artist.” How did that come about? “It’s this random twink that works at Google,” Roan said. “I know it is. I know it’s just some, it’s some assistant that, like, we love her.”

You can watch Roan’s very funny The Tonight Show interview above. She also performed “Good Luck, Babe!” which you can check out below.

Many have speculated that Charli XCX’s “Girl, So Confusing” is about Lorde, with lyrics like, “‘Cause people say we’re alike / They say we’ve got the same hair / One day we might make some music / The internet would go crazy” (more context on that in a minute). Well, that has now been pretty much confirmed with Lorde hopping on a new remix of the track.

On the song (officially titled “The girl, so confusing version with lorde”), Lorde responds to the original lyrics, singing, “Well, honestly, I was speechless / When I woke up to your voice note / You told me how you’d been feeling / Let’s work it out on the remix.”

In a May cover story with Rolling Stone UK, Lorde spoke about some envy she felt when Lorde first found fame, saying, “When ‘Royals’ came out, I was super jealous of the success that that song got, and that Ella got. You piece all this stuff together in your brain, like: ‘She was into my music. She had big hair; I had big hair. She wore black lipstick; I once wore black lipstick.’ You create these parallels and think, ‘Well, that could have been me.’ But it couldn’t have because we’re completely different people. I wasn’t making music that sounded anything like ‘Royals.’ I think you just read what you want into it because you’re feeling insecure about your own work.”

Listen to the “Girl, So Confusing” remix above.

Today’s episode begins with Steven confronting Ian over a difficult subject: The big plate of donuts that Ian stole from Steven at his book event in Los Angeles last week. Will the guys be able to get past this? Yes, they will. But not before some serious donut shaming! After resolving the donut issue, they briefly discuss Steven’s plans to see the Pixies, Modest Mouse, and Cat Power on the same bill, and the Pixies’ weird status post-reunion in the 21st century.

After that, they finally get down to the task of handing out their mid-year Indiecasties. Categories include: Most Valuable Album Cycle, Most Memory Holed Album, Most Annoying Music Writer Story, Most Fun Music Writer Story, and Most Overrated Album. Remember: Everybody is a winner at the Indiecasties. It’s an honor just to be nominated!

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks up the new album from Annabel while Steven raves about the latest from This Is Lorelei.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 194 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

GloRilla is having the time of her life this summer. On top of dropping one of the buzziest hits of the year — the catchy, infectious “Yeah Glo!” — the Memphis rapper has been killing it as the opener on Megan Thee Stallion‘s Hot Girl Summer Tour. All the while, her unreleased material has been going viral in TikTok videos. Tonight (June 21), Glo has shared her new single, “TGIF,” which has already proven to be a hit online.

Over a scorching beat, Glo looks forward to the weekend. She’s not stressing over a man, but rather, she is looking forward to spending time with her girls.

“Turnt up with my b*tches / Turnt up at my shows / Cuzzo I got that blicky / 60,000 fans, came to see me do my dance / Got a million and one haters / And they all can kiss my ass,” raps Glo.

The song arrives shortly after her mixtape, Ehhthang, Ehhthang, and on the very first night of summer. Having first gone viral with “FNF (Let’s Go)” two years ago, Glo has been supplying the heat for the ladies.

Pure confidence paired with some dirty south flavor is a recipe for an undeniable banger.

You can listen to “TGIF” above.