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Eminem is looking for real-life Stans to appear in his upccoming documentary about the phenomenon. The Detroit rap icon famously coined the term that has become the bane of online music discussion and now, he wants his biggest fans to share their stories. He tweeted out a link to a questionnaire that asks when and how respondents first heard about Eminem, whether they consider themselves Stans or not, whether they collect Eminem merch, write fan fiction about him, or make artwork inspired by him.

The term “Stan” was famously coined by Eminem in a song from the 2000 Marshall Mathers LP of the same name. The titular character was a fan who wrote increasingly unhinged letters to Eminem (expressed in first-person lyrics from Eminem in character and played by Devon Sawa in the music video) as he engaged in a one-sided, parasocial friendship with the rap star. The song ends with Stan interpreting a lack of response from Eminem as a rejection, snapping, and driving his car off a bridge with his girlfriend locked in the trunk. In the final verse, Eminem does get around to responding, only to realize that he’s too late.

While he likely meant the song as a tongue-in-cheek satire of fans’ obsessions with celebrities, in recent years, the term has been applied to online fan clubs who engage in targeted bullying campaigns against stars’ perceived rivals and critics. These attacks have been known to escalate into offline harassment, including “swatting” or “doxing” victims (calling in false police reports or sharing private information online) and even allegedly threatening to vandalize family members’ gravesites.

Eminem’s Stans have even harassed writers of this very site (y’all really did not like our reviews of his last few albums). Maybe you can include those stories on the questionnaire, which you can find here.

Blackpink’s Lisa is continuing to further her career as a solo artist. Today, it was revealed that the pop star has signed a new deal with RCA Records, which will allow her to fully own her master recordings.

This news arrives just a few months after it was revealed that each of the Blackpink girls would not be renewing their individual contracts with YG Entertainment, but will remain with the company for their band contract. The move allows each of the members to go to the label they want.

“I’m super excited to be joining the RCA family and I am confident they are the best team to create a bigger movement in my solo career,” Lisa said in a statement via Rolling Stone. “Looking forward to showing the world everything we have been preparing.”

While it’s unclear still when Lisa will be releasing new music under the RCA umbrella, she does have a lot of career plans still in the works. She is set to appear in season three of HBO’s The White Lotus, whenever that is finished and set to air on the platform.

Back in 2021, Lisa released her debut solo album through YG Entertainment and Interscope. After the band reunited for 2022’s Born Pink, she has only dropped a cover of Britney Spears’ “My Only Wish (This Year)” for the holidays.

Fans have been waiting for a response from Drake since Kendrick Lamar went scorched earth on his verse from Future’s Metro Boomin-produced song “Like That.” After K. Dot declared, “Motherf*ck the Big Three / It’s just big me,” plenty of hip-hop heads have looked forward to seeing how Drake approaches any potentional reply — especially since the last time he was in a full-tilt rap battle, things didn’t exactly go his way.

Increasing the anticipation was the fact that J. Cole beat Drake to the counterpunch, dropping his own response track, “7 Minute Drill,” last Friday. Unfortunately, J. Cole has since issued a retraction of his RSVP to this battle, citing his discomfort with going against someone he admires. Drake, on the other hand, has been compared to and contrasted with Kendrick Lamar ever since both began making noise on the blog circuit, so fan investment in his reply is higher than it’s ever been.

While Drake hasn’t made any overt announcements as yet, he’s hinted that he’s working on something, and now, Joe Budden has gotten involved (of course). The podcaster — who has long had his own friction with the Canadian superstar — suggested on his show that both rappers have recorded diss tracks and that they’ll release them sooner than later.

“Actually, I have it on good information that both sides went in the booth and came out,” he said. “What I’m hearin’ about both sides is that it’s nuclear. It’s up-up.” While it could just be another case of Budden blowing smoke (how’s that “girl rap wave is over” pronouncement working out, I wonder), his sources might be onto something since Drake and Kendrick have been at each others’ heads for so long.

Not everyone is cut out for the high-stakes world of vehicular-related action franchises. It might seem like a tough thing for, say, professional wrestlers to get involved in a dangerous universe, but many people forget that wrestling is just a glorified soap opera, so the wrestlers fit into movies very nicely! Just ask John Cena, Dave Bautista, or The Rock.

The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson, successfully made the leap to becoming a movie star, but he might have made some enemies along the way. Johnson appeared in the Fast and Furious franchise where he entered a famous feud with co-star Vin Diesel. While it might’ve seemed like a publicist stunt, the “candy ass feud” has been ongoing for over five years. Now fellow wrestler-turned-action star John Cena is throwing his opinion into the mix.

Cena appeared on the Armchair Expert podcast hosted by Dax Shepard and he was asked about the “rough pairing” of The Rock and Vin Diesel. “There’s certainly rumors about that. I can’t deny that,” he admitted. “You have two very alpha, driven people. You get two, there can only be one.”

Cena appeared in F9: The Fast Saga in 2021, and he said that all of those years in the wrestling ring helped prep him for the Furious world. “I’m being invited into someone’s home, into someone’s family. And regardless of how they look physically in comparison to another human being, this is one IP that has had nine installments and it’s an action movie — that’s rarefied air,” Cena shared. “At the very least, there has to be respect for that.”

Next up, The Rock will appear in a Christmas movie titled Red One. It will probably be pretty “candy ass” (whatever that means).

(Via Deadline)

Maren Morris has been chasing her music dream since she was a child. During a recent episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Morris talked about some of the gigs she performed before making it big. One of the Fort Worth native’s earliest gigs was performing the National Anthem at an “amateur wrestling ring.”

Intrigued by this reveal, Colbert asked Morris “Could I sing the national anthem with you sometime?”

“Sure,” Morris replied.

Morris sang the melody and Colbert sang the harmony — as, evidently, that’s the only part he knows. The two delivered a choral rendition, each of them equally slaying their parts. Morris was visibly impressed by Colbert at moments and even asked him at the end, “Where did that come from?”

Which is a good thing, as this is likely the last music-related thing we’ll get from Morris for awhile. Elsewhere in the interview, Morris, whose last album Humble Quest was released in 2022, revealed she’s taking her time writing her next album.

“There’s a lot of personal stuff right now I’m wading through, processing, writing through,” said Morris. “So, yeah, I’m giving myself the time to do that and not having to rush a very, huge personal thing through an album being delivered. So, yeah, it’s going to take a little bit longer than I had hoped, but I have to trust the process.”

You can see the clip above.

The Joker: Folie à Deux trailer slammed onto the internet last night, giving fans their first taste of what to expect from the Todd Phillips-directed sequel and its musical twist. As viewers went wild over finally seeing Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, some of them woke up on Wednesday morning to discover a new addition to the trailer: a warning message from YouTube.

“The following content may contain suicide or self-harm topics. Viewer discretion is advised,” the warning message reads before prompting users to click on a button that reads, “I understand and wish to proceed.”

When Warner Bros. first unveiled the trailer, the warning message wasn’t present. Variety has a theory on what may have prompted YouTube to take action:

The scene that may have triggered the content warning: Harley Quinn (played by Lady Gaga) makes a finger-gun gesture then holds it to her head before pulling the “trigger.”

“I’m nobody. I haven’t done anything with my life like you have,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes shooting herself in the head.

As Variety reports, YouTube’s Community Guidelines allows the platform to add “a warning on your video before it starts playing, indicating that it contains content relating to suicide and self-harm.” YouTube will also add a panel directing users to suicide prevention resources.

Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4.

(Via Variety)

Olivia Rodrigo wrapped up her run in New York with her fourth and final Guts Tour show last night (April 9) at Madison Square Garden. Considering she opened this tour stop by bringing out Noah Kahan, fans had wondered if she would have any other surprise guests in store. And they were right to think so.

Although Monday night’s concert was just her, it was still just as incredible to see her run through all the solo songs. During yesterday’s show, Rodrigo treated the crowd by bringing out Jewel, as the two performed a duet of “You Were Meant For Me.”

“She is such an incredible songwriter. When I first started writing my songs, I would listen to her album Pieces Of You before I went to bed,” Rodrigo shared during her introduction speech. “She’s incredible and it’s such an honor that she’s here with me tonight.”

Rodrigo has creatively used the Guts Tour as a chance to spotlight older artists like Jewel alongside newer pop performers — allowing younger fans to discover musical acts that might’ve been out of their reach. Her NYC tour openers were also The Breeders, who shared that they were shocked that the “Drivers License” singer even thought of picking them.

Check out a video of Olivia Rodrigo performing with Jewel in NYC below.

While it may seem like the whole rap community has beef at the moment, at least one pair of feuding friends seems to have laid their discord to rest. JT and Yung Miami, known collectively as City Girls, fell out and made up over the course of several hours yesterday after a heated back-and-forth on Twitter (never X) was reconciled by something as simple as a phone call. How novel!

The tweets have all been deleted, but The Shade Room proved useful for something, capturing screenshots of the tail end of their exchange. After one last tweet from JT popped up on the timeline arguing that she has reason to be mad, Miami expressed confusion, saying “Jatavia we just got off the phone… now we back to the internet???”

Fortunately, the issue was quickly resolved. “This tweet was BEFORE the phone conversation,” JT explained. “Don’t know why it didn’t go through. Maybe because everyone was blowing up my phone!” In response, Miami declared she was “moving on,” telling her partner-in-rhyme, “I love you.” JT’s reply? “I love you more. I actually love you the most!”

Now THAT’s how you handle a falling out.

While Drake and Kendrick probably won’t be doing this anytime soon, it’s nice to see that some folks still know how to act, even if fans online love to feed into the negativity.

System Of A Down and Deftones are planning the ultimate alt-rock bash this summer. On August 17, the two aughts alt-rock favorites will headline a special show in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Joining them are Vowws, Viagra Boys, and The Mars Volta, during what Golden Gate Park is billing as the park’s first-ever “after dark” show (the show begins at 3 p.m. and is expected to run until 10 p.m.)

Seeing all these bands together for one night is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Gen-Xers and millennials, who can’t wait to get their hands on tickets. System Of A Down’s only other show so far for 2024 is at Vegas’ Sick New World festival and Deftones are only playing at Coachella and Lollapalooza. Thankfully, tickets for this one-off are dropping sooner rather than later, and fans will be able to purchase them beginning this week.

When Do Tickets For System Of A Down And Deftones’ San Francisco Concert Come Out?

Fans can purchase tickets to the one-off concert starting Thursday (April 11th) at 10 a.m. PT. This will be a Live Nation presale, where fans can use the code RIFF. General on-sale will begin Friday (April 12) via Ticketmaster.

Additional information about the special San Francisco concert can be found here.

After HBO delivered a grand slam adaptation of the hit video game series The Last of Us, Amazon has stepped up to the plate to take a crack at Fallout. Like The Last of Us, Fallout is also a wildly popular gaming franchise set in a post-apocalyptic world, but this one is more desolate and barren thanks to, well, all of the nuclear fallout. (Get it? Like the title.)

Set to start streaming this week, Fallout arrives under the guidance of Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan, who brings all of his sci-fi skills to the table along with the show’s most powerful weapon: Walton Goggins. The Justified star plays The Ghoul, a 200-year-old bounty hunter wandering the wasteland. However, Goggins is more than just the deformed gunslinger. The actor spends a significant amount of time in the past as Cooper Howard, a movie star who has front row seats to the end of the world.

Based on the early reviews, Goggins and Fallout are a powerful combo. You can see what the critics are saying below:

Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter:

From the very first minutes of the Nolan-directed premiere, Fallout boasts a strong sense of place. Lucy’s vault is midcentury suburbia rendered in Space Age steel, dotted with incongruously chipper slogans (“Don’t lose your head!”) and populated by unsettlingly cheery citizens in matching jumpsuits. The surface world that Lucy finds herself in after a catastrophe is the polar opposite — a retrofuturistic Wild West mishmash caked in the kind of grime that’d be impossible to wash off even if there were enough water to go around. But the biggest shock for Lucy is that the world’s hard-bitten survivors have no interest in her people’s lofty notions of re-civilizing the planet.

Aramide Tinubu, Variety:

The first half of “Fallout” is undoubtedly the strongest, as Lucy tries to grapple with the lies she’s been told about the world while barely keeping herself alive. Still, even as the storylines linger too long in less exciting places, viewers are eager to see how the varied mysteries and secrets of the surface and the dwellers will reveal themselves. Bizarre but intensely fun, “Fallout” is like nothing you’ve ever seen; for that reason alone, you won’t be able to turn away.

Paul Tassi, Forbes:

And of course, there’s Walton Goggins. Everyone thought that his casting as a ghoul was spot-on and guess what? It’s spot-on. But you may not realize just what a dual role it is, as yes Goggins is a badass, somewhat villainous ghoul gunslinger with a CGI-ed out nose, but there are lengthy stretches of the show about his time before the war as a Clint Eastwood-type movie star who starts shilling for Vault Tec while slowly learning the company’s actual plans.

Kyle Hilliard, Game Informer:

Beyond its overall tone – a world filled with violent delights in a science-fiction setting – Cooper Howard, played by Walton Goggins (Justified), is perhaps the most direct line to Westworld. He is reminiscent of the Man in Black in Nolan and Joy’s sci-fi western, a violent cowboy with intimate knowledge of the world that he puts to frequent, terrifying use. Goggins is the kind of actor who effortlessly stands out in any cast, and even behind Ghoul prosthetics, Fallout is no exception. Goggins has one of my favorite lines in the show, citing the danger of getting distracted by bulls*** when trying to complete a primary mission. It is effective as a standalone joke and a reference to the inspirational video game.

Matt Purslow, IGN:

It’s not hard to see why Amazon went to bat for Fallout. This is a weird, often hyper-violent, sometimes satirical black comedy that sits comfortably next to The Boys. While never quite as puerile or gross as some of Vought’s most extreme moments, Fallout consistently uses the darkness of its irradiated landscape to spin surreal jokes, from a talking brain-in-a-jar to an organ-harvesting robot spouting the honeyed tones of Matt Berry (of What We Do in the Shadows fame).

Kambole Campbell, Empire:

Not all of it holds together, but in its best moments the show underlines the game’s themes, poking at the ludicrousness of conservative doctrines when the empire has already crumbled. The Vault satirises nuclear-family mundanity, relocated underground in a hermetically sealed suburbia; the Brotherhood Of Steel’s cool exosuits are a spin on cultish feudalism. Ultimately, Fallout is playing not just with the iconography but also the power fantasy of the games — of one person deciding the fate of the world.

All eight episodes of Fallout season 1 start streaming April 10 at 9 p.m. ET on Amazon Prime Video. Be sure to check out our interview with star Ella Purnell.