Millions of people have dreamed of a career in music, but only a small percentage of them have actually made it happen, and an even more exclusive portion of that group have gone down in history as being among the best to ever do it. So, getting inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame is a major honor, and now the 2024 class has been unveiled (per Billboard).
Getting inducted as “non-performing” songwriters are Timothy Mosley (Timbaland), Hillary Lindsey (who wrote songs like Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush”), and Dean Pitchford (who wrote Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose” and Bonnie Tyler’s “Holdin’ Out For A Hero”). Also making the cut are R.E.M. members Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, and Steely Dan members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.
HOF chairman Nile Rodgers said in a statement, “We are […] very proud that we are continually recognizing some of the culturally most important songwriters of all time and that the 2024 slate represents not just iconic songs but also diversity and unity across genres, ethnicity and gender, songwriters who have enriched our lives and literally enriched music and the lives of billions of listeners all over the world.”
The inductees will be honored at the 2024 Induction And Awards Gala, which is set for June 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
North Carolina’s Dreamville Festival is just a few months away from returning in April. Here’s everything to know if you’re planning on attending so far, including when and where the festival is, who will be headlining, and many more key details.
When Is Dreamville Festival 2024?
Dreamville Festival will take place on Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, April 7.
Where Is Dreamville Festival 2024?
This year, the festival will be held at Dorothea Dix Park in Downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
Who Is Headlining Dreamville Festival 2024?
Right now, the headliners for Dreamville Festival this year have yet to be revealed. According to the festival’s co-founder, J. Cole, he has said that Nicki Minaj will be likely stopping by as part of her Pink Friday 2 tour.
When Will The Lineup For Dreamville Festival 2024 Come Out?
In 2023, Dreamville released the lineup in February, so those interested in going should expect it sometime throughout that month.
Is Dreamville Festival 2024 Sold Out?
General Admission tickets are still available, according to their website. All other pass levels have a waitlist, including GA+, JV, Varsity, and MVP tickets.
How To Buy Tickets For Dreamville Festival 2024
You can purchase tickets for Dreamville Festival through their website here.
Everyone in the world was enamored by Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of beachy himbo Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, but imagine, for one moment, if that guy was your dad? It would probably alter the storytelling a little bit for you. Nobody wants to see their dad have an intense dance breakdown or wear a mink in times like these. It’s just too much!
This is more or less the reason why Gosling says his two young daughters, ages 7 and 9, haven’t seen the film, despite them being part of the reason he took on the role in the first place.
Gosling recently told E! that he doesn’t think his daughters, who he shares with actress Eva Mendes, will really want to see him as Ken. “I don’t know if you should watch your father as Ken,” he explained, adding, “I don’t know what age is a good age to see your father do that. It gets pretty crazy.” Seeing your father cry on Margot Robbie’s shoulders might actually be empowering to his daughters, but maybe that time will come later.
Even though they haven’t seen the film, Gosling previously claimed that his daughters seemed indifferent to him accepting the role. “I think they’re confused as to why I would want to play Ken. They have no use for Ken.” Still, they inspired him to accept the role after he had found a Ken doll face down in the dirt in his backyard.
Maybe they won’t see him as Ken, but surely he won’t mind them watching him do dangerous stunts over and over again in The Fall Guy.
Rapper Vince Staples is making a venture into comedy. Last year, fans got a taste of Staples’ acting and comedic talents on Abbott Elementary and in Hulu’s remake of White Men Can’t Jump. Next month, the rapper will premiere a new series of his own, The Vince Staples Show on Netflix. The show centers around a fictional version of Staples on his daily adventures in Los Angeles.
The show boasts a promising cast and crew, with Staples himself and Kenya Barris tapped as executive producers, alongside Ian Edelman, Maurice Williams, Corey Smyth, and William Stefan Smith. Staples will appear in every episode, and Vanessa Bell Calloway, Andrea Ellsworth, Naté Jones, Arturo Castro, Scott MacArthur, Bryan Greenberg, and Myles Bullock will guest star.
According to a press release issued by Netflix, there will be five episodes of The Vince Staples Show. Each episode will be about 30 minutes in length.
All five episodes of The Vince Staples Show will be available to stream on Thursday, February 15 on Netflix.
You can see the trailer for The Vince Staples Show above.
Did you know that Suge Knight has a podcast? I didn’t, and now I do, and I don’t know what to do with that information. Part of me thinks that there is no way Suge Knight should have a podcast, especially considering he’s currently in prison for running someone over with his SUV.
On the latest episode of this podcast, Collect Call (great name, by the way), Suge’s guest, Katt Williams, claims he’s working on a new posthumous Tupac album with some of the California rapper’s unreleased verses. One unexpected guest he names is Cardi B, which is sure to delight Gen-X and millennial hip-hop fans who grew up on ‘Pac’s music in the ’90s. The discourse is bound to be exhausting.
As they discuss the potential project Williams is putting together, Knight asks, “How many people you gonna have on the project?” Katt says there will be eight, and they’ll be “only the best of the best.” Knight also queries, “I heard Cardi on the project with you, is that true?” After confirming her presence, Knight calls her “the female version of Tupac” and Katt agrees, “We love Cardi B. She’s going to mix with him nicely. Everybody that’s on it is a piece of him, in a way.”
If such a project does come to fruition, we’ll see whether these words turn out to be prophetic or just piss people off (probably both, if we’re being honest). You can listen to the full episode of Collect Call (complete with some head-scratching AI “art” of Suge and Katt) above.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has reportedly been detained at Munich airport after landing in Germany on Wednesday. As for why customs official snatched up the former California governor and world famous movie star, the Terminator actor forgot to declare a luxury watch that he brought into the country for a charity auction.
The news was first reported by Bild, and it appears German custom officials do not mess around, which Arnold is now learning after the Audemars Piguet timepiece landed him in a sea of red tape that could result in criminal charges.
Spokesman for the Munich Main Customs Office, Thomas Meister, told BILD: ‘We have initiated criminal proceedings under tax law. The watch should have been registered because it is an import.’
‘If the goods remain in the EU, you have to declare them through customs. This applies to everyone, whether their name is Schwarzenegger or Müller, Meier, Huber,’ a customs spokesman told German outlet SZ.
Despite the brouhaha that has already sparked a wave of international headlines, custom officials told the media that Schwarzenegger will most likely be allowed to “continue on his journey” after the actor properly declares the luxury watch and settles the ensuing tax issues. Although, that process reportedly could take several hours, and Arnold might still be sitting at the airport while you’re reading this. We’re sure he loves that.
The latest chilling title to hit Netflix is American Nightmare and while that sounds like a Ryan Murphy drama, it’s actually a true crime miniseries based on a very disturbing case.
American Nightmare is a 3-episode docuseries that follows the real-life home invasion and kidnapping that took place in 2015. Couple Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn had reported that they were drugged by a kidnapper who then took Haskins to his own home and assaulted her, before dropping her off two days later. The case had been dubbed the Gone Girl Case because the police accused the couple of faking her kidnapping.
Police quickly began to turn on the couple, saying “Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins have plundered valuable resources away from our community, and have taken focus away from the true victims of our community while instilling fear amongst our community members. So if anything, it’s Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins that owe this community an apology.”
Months later, police arrested a man named Matthew Muller for a separate home invasion, and police found a computer that Muller had stolen from Quinn, connecting him to the crimes. Quinn and Huskins subsequently sued the city and reached a $2.5m settlement.
The events are retold in American Nightmare, which is currently streaming on Netflix.
FKA Twigs had some fun birthday news for fans, as she joined her Discord to reveal that she has some new music on the way. While she dropped a mixtape in 2022 called Caprisongs, her last full album was 2019’s Magdalene.
Here’s everything to know about what FKA Twigs has in store next.
Is FKA Twigs Releasing A New Album In 2024?
It seems so, yes. FKA Twigs revealed that she will be pulling from an inspiration in techno music to fuel an album coming later this year, according to DJ Mag.
“I moved to Prague a couple summers ago, fell in love with techno, the album isn’t techno but the spirit is there fr,” she wrote on the Discord server.
“It’s deep but not sad,” FKA Twigs added. “I’m not sad anymore.”
The publication also notes that FKA Twigs shared that she mainly collaborated with Koreless for the record. She had previously teased one of their collaborations, “Unearth Her,” during Paris Fashion Week last year.
However, there had been questions as to whether she scrapped what she had worked on. FKA Twigs previously noted that she was going to start over from square one because a ton of her song demos had leaked.
Here’s hoping fans get to hear more about FKA Twigs’ new album soon.
Back in September of 2023, the family of Tyler Chase received the tragic news that the 22-year-old had died of a drug overdose.
As told by severalnewsoutlets, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office of Portland, Oregon had found Chase’s wallet and used the temporary license, which had his name but no photo, at the scene, which they used to identify the body. They then showed up to the family’s home with a death certificate and an urn holding the young man’s ashes.
Or so they thought.
In actuality, Chase was very much alive. As KGW News reported, Chase had been receiving treatment for drug addiction at a recovery program at the time his family had been told he passed.
Having been estranged from his family for several years prior, he hadn’t considered reaching out, and had no idea a mistake had been made until he had issues getting his food assistance benefits.
“I go to DHS, and they asked me to enter my social security and everything, and they were like ‘alright we’ll see if we can help you fix this,’” Chase told KPTV. “And then all of the sudden they start interrogating me and were like ‘Oh can we see your ID?’ So I gave it to them and then they just looked as confused as I was and they’re like ‘right here it says you are dead.’”
As for how the mix-up happened, the Medical Examiner’s Office suspects that the man who actually died from an overdose must have met Chase at the recovery center, where he stole his wallet.
“So, they find a paper ID of me that’s smudged and everything and they were like ‘that’s Tyler John Chase,’ so they put him down as me,” Chase recalled. “And then they notified the family like protocol.”
Understandably, after hearing the news that Chase was, in fact, alive, months after being declared dead (he even FaceTimed them to prove it) and that they had been holding onto a complete stranger’s ashes, Chase’s family was stunned, to say the least.
“I just lost it,” shared Latasha Rosales, Chase’s cousin. “It is so hard to believe how something like this could even happen. It just makes no sense to me.”
But as the office explained to KGW News, most medical examiner’s offices do not have viewing rooms for families to come and identify the body, like we typically see on television. Instead, families “view their loved one and confirm their identity at the funeral home making the arrangements.”
When Chase’s family had to decline viewing the body prior to cremation, the office only had the temporary ID to go off of.
This is why, after apologizing to Chase and his family for the mistake, the medical examiner’s office promised to launch a “comprehensive review” of its current practices in order to implement a policy change on its investigations. One of those future changes will be requiring fingerprints to be submitted for identification when a body is found with a temporary ID.
Though the correct identity of the deceased man was eventually found, the family asked to keep the information private.
Being mistakenly declared dead is a very rare occurrence. But when it happens, it can wreak havoc on financial resources like health insurance and credit cards. And getting the mistake corrected is a lengthy process. According to a statement given to NBC Washington by the Social Security Administration, less than one-third of 1 percent of the millions of deaths reported each year are actually corrected.
Hopefully Chase is able to get back to normal faster than most, and his family is able to come together after such an ordeal.
Comedian Lisa Beasley is making people squirm on TikTok with her character, Corporate Erin. Erin is a parody of the typical corporate employee in America, complete with her corporate accent, corporate gulp and mastery of corporate jargon.
She even has the perfect corporate job title: The manager for the managerial logistics of management at McManagement.
In her videos, Erin talks at you in your “one-on-one” meeting while clutching her coffee cup for dear life, uncomfortably gyrating in her chair and adjusting her glasses. Erin has the unique ability to talk at length using corporate word salad while saying absolutely nothing. But she definitely wants to circle back with you to be sure you have the deliverables for the rollout. Okayyyyyy?
In this video with over 9 million views, Erin explains how she has taken over her creator’s feed because she doesn’t have the “bandwidth.”
Hi, #CorporateErin here taking over social media for Lis. If you have any questions regarding my new position, please follow up with me in the comments. Im only here to do whats best for the business.
Beasley described the thrust of the Erin character to the Huffington Post. “There’s also just kind of a layer of passive aggressiveness as well, and defensiveness and just kind of always making sure that I’m drilling home my points or my objectives,” Beasley said.
The videos are all too real for many people who follow Beasley on TikTok.
“This is SPOT ON. The corporate accent, the nonsense, the talking for 30 min and saying nothing,” one commenter said. “You encounter a version of me in every workplace,” Beasley, as the Erin character, told 13 News.
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