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Do you hear the faint sound of haunting melodies and fighting vacationers? The White Lotus is finally back! Almost.

Season three of Mike White’s HBO dramedy is set to begin production this month in Thailand, where we will join a new handful of unsuspecting guests as they experience a culture shock, family drama, and maybe some murder? Who knows with this hotel chain, they already have quite the reputation.

While we don’t know much, we can piece together some clues as to what to expect from the new season. Season two was an award magnet, so we can only expect bigger and brighter things to come. Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming season of The White Lotus.

Plot

Plot details are sparse, but we do know that season three will take place in Thailand. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White told Deadline in 2022. “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”

While we don’t know the specifics, we do know that Natasha Rothwell will be returning as Belinda from season one, and she confirmed in December that she had read the scripts. “I gasped out loud a minimum of five times and this was just me reading them,” Rothwell told Variety. “The scripts are a testament to Mike’s skill and ability to tell the most smart and entertaining stories. I mean, everything that he does is like a lesson to me as an actor and a performer. And as a writer myself, he takes folks on a journey. Everyone needs to buckle up, because it’s going to get real!”

Cast

In typical White Lotus fashion, season three will be packed with stars: Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Dom Hetrakul, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Tayme Thapthimthong, Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Aimee Lou Wood are all confirmed for the upcoming season. Most recently, Blackpink’s Lisa was cast in her debut acting role.

Release Date

Production on the third season reportedly began this month, so it will be quite some time until we get a proper release date. HBO confirmed in November 2023 that season three won’t air until 2025.

However, season two began filming in February 2022 for an October 2022 release, so it’s very possible that the third season could premiere this fall, though White confirms that this season is a bigger project, so it could take more time. He told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus. It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, so at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing.”

Trailer

There is no trailer yet, but we can hope/expect some footage at some point this summer. Until then, here is a Jennifer Coolidge compilation for good measure.

Before unhinged Twitter rants were a thing or hours long or Instagram Live streams became a regular occurrence, musicians settled their beef in the booth. This age-old practice is synonymous with Taylor Swift’s discography. From ex-lovers to former business acquaintances, no one is off limits for a Swift song.

Sadly for Katy Perry, her rumored fallout with Swift has been etched in pop music history thanks to the chart-topping track “Bad Blood.” But just as Perry is letting go of her position at American Idol, she appears to have released her supposed tension with Swift. On February 22, Perry was spotted at Swift’s The Era Tour stop in Sydney, Australia, dancing and singing along to the diss track reportedly aimed at her.

In the videos captured by a concertgoer as Perry seemingly tried to fight the urge, she eventually gave in to the irresistible bop (which features Kendrick Lamar).

During a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Swift first shared the Easter eggs that Perry was the intended target of her songwriting pen. In the chat, Swift confessed that “Bad Blood” wasn’t about a man but rather “another female pop star who tried to sabotage a tour by hiring personnel from under her.”

The Swifties quickly turned their attention to Perry, who didn’t make it any better after posting, “Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing,” on X (formerly Twitter).

Lil Yachty’s been on quite the tear lately, going way out of his way that he can make any kind of music with any kind of collaborator. From straightforward rap bangers with the likes of J. Cole and Drake to more experimental collaborations with James Blake and Gus Dapperton, Yachty has been on a one-man mission to prove he’s the hero hip-hop needs to pull it out of its “terrible state.” After showing off his rap chops on the more traditionalist “A Cold Sunday,” Yachty smashes together noise rap and dubstep on “Something Ether,” a glitchy, industrial banger sure to turn those traditionalists against him but garner an even wider variety of rage-ready fans.

That all this comes after his alt-rock album, Let’s Start Here, feels a little like evidence that Yachty really is underrated by… well… everyone. Refusing to be boxed into any single category, he effortlessly slips between lanes, genres, and personas, going from spitting cavalier punchlines with Michigan’s rising stars to crooning along to Joy Division-inspired easy rockers played by his all-woman band. At some point, we’re going to have to start mentioning him with the same reverence as those above collaborators; all he needs is one big commercial hit and the narrative will definitely start rolling. “Something Ether” probably won’t be that hit, but stranger things have happened.

Watch Lil Yachty’s “Something Ether” video above.

For the past year or so, the internet’s favorite go-to term for praising a master of any given craft has been “him.” Watch a basketball player put up an effortless 30-point game. He’s him. An award-winning actor gives a generational, culture-changing performance in a film role. He’s him. A rapper who delivers a verse that blows all others out of the water, stealing not only the spotlight but also the social media discourse for days at a time? He’s him. This term can also be embellished in all sorts of ways, including turning “him” into “Himothy” — which is, incidentally, the title of Quavo’s latest solo single.

The lyrics clearly demonstrate why Quavo feels so confident. “I told the gang we gon’ eat forever /I’ll never let ’em starve to death / Quavo how you manifestin’ / Cuz I’m HIM in the flesh,” he raps over a rumbling Budda Beats production.

The song is Quavo’s first new solo single since releasing Rocket Power last August. The Atlanta rapper hasn’t announced a new project yet, but it sounds like it will probably be another solo album, despite him apparently patching things up with fellow former Migo Offset in the wake of their bandmate Takeoff’s death in 2022.

Listen to “Himothy” above.

Set in a dystopic present day, Alex Garland‘s new movie, Civil War, dares to bring to life what an actual military conflict would look like on American soil. A nation-wide fracture has been threatened repeatedly in recent years, and Civil War appears to show exactly what that would entail for the country at large.

Here’s everything we know about Garland’s latest for A24:

Plot

A24 is continuing to play the plot of Civil War very close to the chest. A new trailer offered little in the way of details, but it did include a notable mention of the “illegal secessionist government” of the “Western Forces of Texas and California.” Something sparked a full-on military excursion rife with missiles and troop deployments, and we’re guessing Nick Offerman’s POTUS is at the heart of that conflict.

While director Alex Garland is known for his mind-bending sci-fi tales like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Devs, he’s been presenting Civil War as a departure from his usual fare that goes for a more straightforward approach that delivers on its title.

“Civil War is a war movie – a contemporary war movie,” he told Screen Daily. “It was a staggeringly difficult film to shoot.”

Here’s the official synopsis, but again, don’t expect to learn much about what could possibly happen to make Texas and California join forces, but it would have to be pretty big.

A race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge.

What made the blue state and red state suddenly like each other? Tell us!

Cast

Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman. As of this writing, not even their character names are available, but we have been able to glean some rough ideas from the trailers. Dunst plays a hardened photojournalist who knows her way around a warzone, Plemons is a soldier for an unknown side in the conflict, and Offerman plays the President of the United States, who is somehow serving a third term. That Constitution-defying move could be the spark for the nationwide battlefront. Moura and Spaeny’s roles are unspecified, but they seem to be citizens just trying to survive the war with Dunst as their guide (or vice versa).

Release Date

Civil War is breaking out early. Originally, the film was set to release on April 26. It will now storm into theaters two weeks early on April 12.

Trailer

In late February, A24 dropped a new trailer for Civil War that, once again, keeps the central conflict vague. (Although, Nick Offerman’s POTUS comes off even more foreboding, which lends itself to theories that he’s installed a tyrannical government.) While plot details are scant, the new trailer does go heavy on the action and the realistic spectacle of watching America turn into a warzone from D.C. all the way to Los Angeles.

Civil War arrives in theaters on April 12, 2024.

It wasn’t Kim Kardashian who first “broke the internet” — it was Jennifer Lopez. The Green Versace dress she wore to the 2000 Grammys was “the most popular search query we had ever seen,” according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “But we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted: J­-Lo wearing that dress. Google Image Search was born.”

But Lopez was nearly talked out of wearing the dress by her stylist.

“It was a dress that other people had worn already,” the singer said in a video for Vogue. “You know, my stylist was like, ‘Please don’t wear it, somebody else has worn it.’ I was like, ‘Well, you bought it, and it looks the best, so I’m going to wear it.’ And so I did. And it caused, you know, quite a stir.”

Even beyond creating Google Image Search, the dress has quite the legacy: South Park co-creator Trey Parker wore a replica to the Oscars (while tripping on acid), and it was once voted the fifth most iconic red carpet dress ever.

Lopez continued, “I guess every generation needs its iconic kind of Marilyn [Monroe] dress, and this is that dress for this generation. Why it became that? It was just a moment when the wind blew open, and I walked out onto the stage, and it just kinda happened.”

You can watch video of Lopez at the 2000 Grammys below.

Avatar: The Last Airbender took more than a chance by adapted beloved IP into live-action form, especially after that M. Night Shyamalan project soured some goodwill. Still, the new project was armed with plenty of naps to prepare the cast for aiding a young Air Nomad (Aang), who must ascend to his rightful ruling position and restore peace between the elements and realms, despite the saltiness of Fire Nation. It’s complex territory, but naps can help any situation. (Don’t question science.)

As with the Nickelodeon animated series, there’s plenty of fuel for a three-season run, but whether that happens has been a decision for solely Netflix to make. They will check their viewing stats and algorithm and be very quiet about the whole process until they’re ready to announce if this will be one of the increasingly few series that end up being swiftly greenlit for more.

Will there be a Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender?

Netflix ain’t saying yet, which is to be expected for a series that only came out on February 22 (at the time of this writing, a mere day ago). However, that was the plan from the beginning, according to showrunner Albert Kim, and he spoke with EW about the difficulty in planning three seasons of already established source material (which the live action show is adhering to in manner of its animated predecessor) when the core young actors are growing older by the day, and the animated show was written to span one year during the course of three seasons. “We had to design this first season,” Kim told EW especially, to accommodate the possibility of some time elapsing between the first and the second season.” Here’s more from that strategy:

Part of that strategy involves Sozin’s Comet, which fans of the original series are already familiar with and newbies can spot cutting across the night sky in the trailers. “The comet was their ticking clock,” Kim explains. “We removed that particular ticking clock from our show for now because we couldn’t know exactly how old our actors would be for the subsequent seasons. We definitely thought about that going into season 1 so that we can accommodate for puberty, adolescence, time passing — all of those fun things that happen to real-life human beings that don’t happen to animated characters.”

In other words, the cast and crew are ready for more if that call comes down from the streaming service. Until then, it’s a waiting game.

Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s first season is currently streaming on Netflix.

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE – Please go outside

Hoo buddy. Let’s start at the top on this one.

The fourth season of True Detective, Night Country, wrapped up last weekend. Reviews were a little mixed on the ending — I’ve seen everything from “the best the show has ever been” to “okay Scooby-Doo” — but the general vibe was that the season was pretty good, if not even better than pretty good. Which is nice. Things had kinda run off the tracks a bit in the previous seasons and an infusion of new faces and ideas and energy was probably the right thing. HBO seems happy with it, too, as it pulled in record ratings and resulted in a big new deal with the creative team to keep it all going.

From Variety:

“True Detective” has been renewed for Season 5 at HBO. Issa López, the creator of “True Detective: Night Country,” will helm the fifth season under her new overall deal with HBO.

The renewal comes as little surprise, given the success of “Night Country,” which saw Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in the fourth installment of the HBO anthology series. Per HBO, the season is the most-watched installment of the show to date, with 12.7 million cross platform viewers.

So, yeah. A pretty solid experiment here. Most people seem pretty pleased with it all. And it gave me this screencap of a cranky Jodie Foster, which I have been using a lot in my group chats lately. I appreciate that, too.

But this is where things get weird. Maybe you noticed up there where I said “most” people seem pleased with it. That’s because there’s at least one person who is very much not pleased with it all: Nic Pizzolatto, who created the first three seasons of the show before being replaced for this one. He is very mad. And he has been going online to tell everyone about it.

He started earlier in the season, actually, which prompted new showrunner Issa López to issue a diplomatic response about her history as a fan and her following her own creative vision. And you would think that’s where it all ended, you silly little naive fool.

This week, after the finale, Pizzolatto went on Instagram and started reposting the most blistering quotes about the show that his followers were leaving in his comments. Just a whole mess of them. He ended up deleting the posts later, but not before series star — and world champion boxer, which is not relevant here beyond picturing what would happen if the raging keyboard vigilantes ran into her in public — saw it all and went on Twitter to respond by saying the following: “That’s a damn shame…but hey I guess ‘if you don’t have anything good to share, shit on others’ is the new wave lol.”

And you would think that’s where it ended, once again, you impossibly pure little woodland creature. But nope. Not only have people been flooding Reis’s replies with angry lil screeds that she’s batting away, Nic Pizzolatto went BACK on Instagram and posted this block of text as the caption under a black-and-white picture of his own face.

TRUE DETECTIVE AGGREGATE POST – this here is the place for all your trolling/support/infighting around True Detective and the absolute moral degeneracy and misogyny of anyone who did not think it was good. Let’s move these screeds off my posts about my wife, true love, and my father’s death, kay?
I’d say “stay civil” but of course civility has no place when criticism of a television show indicates some form of Hitlerian evil that must be stamped out. So roll on, tide. Satire is welcome, and do try to have a nice day

We’ll be capping comments at 1350, which seems like plenty of space for this manufactured proxy culture clash. Alas, all things must end, and boredom is real, so get your fill while you can. And again, do have a nice day.

Okay, a few things here, which we can knock out with bullet points:

• Creators have a right to be a little hurt when a thing they made is taken from them and interpreted by another person
• Talking a little shit is okay and fun sometimes, and please do stop here and think about Orson Welles, a man who spent almost every waking hour making genre-defining works of art and saying slanderous things in public about his enemies
• This, though, is just deeply sad and kind of pathetic, both Nic pouring gasoline on it all under an artsy picture of his own face and his fans rushing to post breathless treatises about it all under unrelated posts about his dad and wife
• Everyone involved here desperately needs to log off and go outside for a few hours
• Nic Pizzolatto seems like a guy who listens to some of the worst podcasts you’ve ever heard

It is not lost on me that this is the second straight week I have led this column with a lengthy discussion of a petty Hollywood feud. I’m sorry. I can’t help it. I can be a little messy sometimes, too.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – I remain obsessed with Madame Web

Reasonable arguments can be made by reasonable people that Madame Web is my favorite movie. Have I seen it? No. Do I intend to see it? Also no. None of that is important. What’s important is that it has brought me more joy over the last few weeks than any movie has in months and I think that has to count for something. Madame Web and The Beekeeper. This is all I want to talk about in 2024.

Just last week we went over the absolute delight that is Dakota Johnson’s press tour for this movie, all chaos and popsicles and a charming willful ignorance of the entire Spider-Man mythology. Well, now the movie has been released to the world and everything is still beautiful, albeit in different ways. I have clicked on so many things people have said about this movie. Like, look at the review Mike Flanagan — yes, THAT Mike Flanagan — left on his Letterboxd page.

We come to this place… for magic.
We come to the theater to laugh, to cry, to care.
Because we need that, all of us:
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim,
and we go somewhere we’ve never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn…. together.
Dazzling images, on a huge silver screen.
Sound that I can feel.
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
Our heroes feel like the best part of us,
and stories feel perfect and powerful.

Because here…

They are.

If you got more than two lines into that without your brain automatically pivoting to Nicole Kidman’s voice, we could never be friends. Acquaintances, maybe. But not friends.

And then there was this write-up by John Paul Brammer, which I have read three times and INSIST you read in full but will blockquote in part here.

What are her powers?

Madame Web’s powers are the same as Raven’s. Not Raven from Teen Titans, but Raven Baxter from That’s So Raven. She has sporadic visions of the future, which allow her to change fate. Mostly, she is a normal woman who hits people with her car.

How does she get these powers?

She almost drowns in a car. Cars play an incredibly important role in this film. There’s spider nonsense in play, for sure, but she goes through most of her life without any vague future vision abilities until she is trapped in a car and nearly drowned. This near-death experience is a pivotal event, granting her the ability to hit people with cars with greater efficacy.

Wait, so are there superheroes in this movie?

No.

But I saw the trailer. There were superheroes.

I don’t care what you saw.

Is Dakota Johnson any good in the movie?

I can’t think of a less relevant question.

I hope we’re still talking about this movie in, like, July.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – Look at my beautiful little thespian boy

Anatomy of a Fall is in the middle of its big Oscar campaign right now. This is good news, less so because I have an opinion about the film’s merits as an awards contender (I do not) than because I love reading articles about the dog from the movie (I do.) His name is Messi and he is a very good and talented boy. He won the unofficial award for Best Dog Performance at Cannes (good) but was snubbed by the Academy Awards (bad). And he’s doing a whole media tour. Here’s an article from Variety about my beautiful shaggy boy.

Messi already knew how to play dead — a skill director Justine Triet and her team required of their canine actor. “What we did need to work on throughout was how to be able to carry him and have him remain in this play acting of being inert,” Contini says. “This was something I added over time by working every day. It started on the bed, and it was just how much disturbance was this dog going to be able to withstand whilst remaining limp.”

This is more acting than I’ve seen some stars do in big-budget action movies. Good for him. The only downside in all of this is, well…

“I’m a little bit scared that he’s just going to be typecast in roles where he has to die,” Contini says. “These are the kind of roles we’re being asked to do now.”

This will not do. Someone cast him in a movie where he and his friends rob a casino. Or one where he plays competitive basketball. Or soccer. His name is Messi, after all. My point is that we have options and my wonderful and talented son deserves to thrive in Hollywood for many years to come.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Shoutout to Dutch biologist and TV host Professor Freek Vonk

The biggest news here is supposed to be that some dudes found a new kind of very big snake. They were deep in the Amazon and swimming in a river — neither of which are things I can recommend in good conscience — and, yup. They found a big snake. Maybe the biggest snake. There’s footage of it all in the Instagram video up there. You can watch it if you want to see a huge snake. I’m going to stick to my little blockquotes.

From The Sun:

The colossal snake is far bigger than the previous biggest known species – the reticulated python, which averages 20ft 5ins long.

Before now, only one species of Green Anaconda – also called the Giant Anaconda – has been recognised in the Amazon.

Okay, great. But remember how I said the story was supposed to be about the big snake? That’s because I read this sentence and it derailed any and all snake-based discussion my brain tried to engage in.

This Northern Green Anaconda was found by TV wildlife presenter Professor Freek Vonk in remote Brazil.

Freek Vonk

Professor Freek Vonk

The world’s largest snake was discovered in the Amazon by a Dutch biologist and TV host named Professor Freek Vonk

Prof Vonk added: “You can see in the video the biggest anaconda I have ever seen, as thick as a car tire, 26 feet long and weighing over 440 lbs – with a head as big as my head.”

Someone — anyone, but I’m looking at you, Netflix — please give Professor Freek Vonk a nature series. Let him travel the world to show us as many animals as he can find. Call it Nature Freek and have it on my television by 2025.

Professor Jesus Rivas, the lead author of the study, explained that they first realised there was more than one species of green anaconda over 15 years ago. […]

He stated: “I have been studying anacondas for 32 years so this begs the question of how many other species there are that we do not know about.

Okay, this was all fun and games until the snake expert who has spent his entire life studying anacondas just up and admitted there could be many other massive snakes out there that we don’t even know about yet.

Why have they been so quiet?

What are they planning???

Professor Freek Vonk, you are our only hope.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Pancake news

I do not often have the opportunity to write about pancakes in my column about television and movies and sometimes huge snakes apparently, so it thrills me to be able to type these words: We have television-related pancake news. And it thrills me even more that the television show it’s related to is Fargo, a fun and violent little flight of fancy we get to experience together every few years.

Context, very briefly, because I’m thinking about pancakes too much to do sentences good. Juno Temple played a character this season named Dot Lyon. She was a sweet Minnesota housewife who had secrets and survival skills and booby-trapped the family home to wipe out a squadron of goons like she was a more cutthroat Kevin McAllister. She also made pancakes. And biscuits. From a Bisquick mix. It was a whole thing that paid itself off in a memorable and sweet little moment at the very end of the season.

Which brings us to the pancakes.

Starting on Feb. 20, a limited-edition box of Bisquick that’s inspired by the acclaimed fifth season of Noah Hawley’s black comedy crime drama — specifically, the final moments of “Bisquik,” the season finale — will be available for purchase at a Scandia, Minnesota, grocery store. The batter packaging is inspired by Juno Temple’s season five battered wife hero, Dot (aka Tiger), and is designed with nods to the Midwest-set FX cult hit and sprinkled with for-fans-only Easter eggs.

This is good. This is how you do product placement. Very limited and very silly and preferably involving breakfast foods and then never spoken of again. Let’s all have pancakes for lunch. There’s nothing stopping us.

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From Ryan:

A few days ago, I saw the phrase “Oscar contender” in an article and I immediately started thinking about a guy named Oscar Contender. Then I saw “Oscar winner” and started thinking about that guy, too. And then I started doing it with Emmy and Tony. Emmy Nominee seems like a lady who runs a hair salon. Tony “Red” Carpet is her husband. I don’t see myself being able to stop doing this for a long time. This is your fault.

A few notes:

• I am sorry
• I do this, too, constantly
• The other day in the work chat someone posted a story that contained the phrase “Oscar hardware” and that’s my new favorite fake guy

I lied earlier. I’m not sorry. I feel great about it.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To North Carolina!

Charlotte, a rust-colored stingray the size of a serving platter, has spent much of her life gliding around the confines of a storefront aquarium in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains.

She’s 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) from her natural habitat under the waves off southern California. And she hasn’t shared a tank of water with a male of her species in at least eight years.

Good for Charlotte.

And yet nature has found a way, the aquarium’s owner said: The stingray is pregnant with as many as four pups and could give birth in the next two weeks.

…

…

Excuse me?

“We were all like, ’Shut the back door. There’s no way,” Ramer said. ”We thought we were overfeeding her. But we were overfeeding her because she has more mouths to feed.”

So two things here:

• I’ve heard “shut the front door before” as a folksy little workaround of “shut the f…” but I think this is the first time I’ve heard “shut the back door”
• Unless… is she implying maybe a male ray snuck in through a back door someone left ajar and got Charlotte pregnant?

It says a lot about me that we have an immaculate stingray conception on our hands and this is where I’m getting stuck.

Anyway, apparently this is a thing that happens sometimes in nature. In the absence of a mate, a female of a species will just kind of evolve to impregnate itself without a male. Which… let’s not explain this to a lot of the dudes in Nic Pizzolatto’s Instagram comments. They’ve got enough on their plates right now.

As for the suggestion that Charlotte could have been impregnated by a shark, Lyons said that’s impossible. Besides being different sizes, the animals wouldn’t match up anatomically. Neither would their DNA.

“We should set the record straight that there aren’t some shark-ray shenanigans happening here,” said Lyons, whose graduate work focused on the species.

I have never been more disappointed and relieved at the same time than I was when I learned that nature cannot concoct some sort of horrifying shark-stingray hybrid.

Yet.

Let’s put Professor Freek Vonk on this one, too.

It’s been a minute since we heard a new single from Saweetie. The Bay Area rapper last dropped a new solo song six months ago, celebrating her “Birthday” with Tyga and YG and announcing it was “Shot O’Clock.” After completing her tour with Tyga and YG, she teamed up with fellow Bay Filipino P-Lo to craft an anthem for their San Francisco 49ers ahead of the Super Bowl push, but since then, she’s laid relatively low… until now.

Saweetie returned this week to tease her new song “Richtivities,” and today, she dropped the song along with a visualizer illustrating just what she means. The track is a departure from anything we’ve heard from her yet; rather than reviving a Y2K classic for millennial nostalgia or making a blatant bid for radio domination, she chooses to lean into hip-hop history with a soulful sample that sounds like it was inspired by DJ Paul and Juicy J’s beat for UGK’s “International Players Anthem (I Choose You).” She even slows down her flow, going for a punchy delivery that has her sounding better than ever. Best of all, she kicks things off with the words her fans have been waiting to hear for years: “Pretty B*tch Music,” the name of her long-awaited, oft-delayed debut album.

Could this mean she’s back on the rollout trail? We can only hope. Check out “Richtivities” above.

Innings Festival is here! The baseball-themed music fest kicks off in Tempe, Arizona later today (February 23), so if you’re wondering about who performs when, keep scrolling for this weekend’s set times. Also check out the festival website for more information about the event.

Innings Festival Set Times For 2024: Friday, February 23

On the Home Plate stage, Taipei Houston is on from 1:20 to 2:05 (all times local and p.m.), Bully is on from 2:50 to 3:35, 311 is on from 4:40 to 5:40, Greta Van Fleet is on from 6:50 to 8:05, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are on from 9:15 to 11.

On the Right Field Stage, Breakup Shoes are on from 12:50 to 1:20, The Beaches are on from 2:05 to 2:50, Matt And Kim are on from 3:35 to 4:35, Phantogram is on from 5:45 to 6:45, and Jimmy Eat World is on from 8:10 to 9:10.

Innings Festival Set Times For 2024: Saturday, February 24

On the Home Plate stage, Finish Ticket is on from 1:25 to 2:10, The Criticals are on from 2:55 to 3:55, Young The Giant is on from 5 to 6, Macklemore is on from 7:10 to 8:10, and Hozier is on from 9:30 to 11.

On the Right Field Stage, Nat & Alex Wolf are on from 12:55 to 1:25, Miya Folick is on from 2:10 to 2:55, Cautious Clay is on from 3:55 to 4:55, Cannons are on from 6:05 to 7:05, and Third Eye Blind is on from 8:15 to 9:15.

Find the full set times schedule for both days below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.