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Shortly after the release of Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour film, the star took to social media to offer her gratitude for its success so far. Both she and Taylor Swift did exclusive distribution deals with AMC Theaters to release their concert flicks — and fans have been paying in droves to go see them.

“I am so deeply thankful to AMC and every team member who worked so hard on this film,” she shared. “I just can’t thank all of you enough for your support. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from my Hive. And WOW! I am so touched and encouraged by the incredible reviews!!!”

“I love seeing everyone all dressed up in their most opulent lewks in the theaters,” Beyoncé added. “The mute challenges still happening, even in the theater!! Y’all are cracking me up. Please keep that energy going. I can’t wait to see what else yall do :).”

The post’s video also shows off the red carpet moments across Beyoncé’s two premieres for the movie.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie brought in $21.8 million “from 2,536 locations in its domestic debut” and nearly 70% of attendees were between the ages of 18 to 34. And, as it’s only been playing for a few days, the total amount Beyoncé makes will keep increasing.

Check out Beyoncé’s latest post about the Renaissance Tour movie below.

Jaylen Brown’s night came to a premature end on Friday in what was one of the more ridiculous examples of a referee taking their job a bit too seriously. Brown and the Boston Celtics played host to the New York Knicks on Friday night, and during the fourth quarter, Brown got called for a foul on Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley.

It wasn’t the worst foul call that we’ve ever seen, but the referee could have let this one go. Still, Brown felt the need to say something here, which led to him getting a technical foul. And then, things escalated even though Brown went to the bench. After he made his way over there, he looked like he said something that the amateur lip readers can figure out which rubbed the referee the wrong way. This got him his second technical, which sent him to the locker room with 7:19 left in the game.

Brian Scalabrine pointed out that the first technical foul appeared to come because Brown wanted the referee to make a similar call on the other end of the floor, which, if that gets you a technical foul, that is pretty insane. We’re sure that Brown will address this sometime soon and shine some light on what, exactly, happened here.

Queens Of The Stone Age are currently continuing their The End Is Nero Tour. The shows will run through next summer so far, as the band wraps in North America, before heading to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and more global spots. Given the setlist changes each night, it makes each of the concerts personal to the city — even if they have multiple stops there.

For a complete list of upcoming tour stops, along with more information, visit here. However, for those planning to go to a future date, there still might be questions about what songs to expect.

Continue scrolling for the 25 most played songs from Queens Of The Stone Age’s The End Is Nero tour, according to Setlist.fm.

1. “Go With The Flow”
2. “Carnavoyeur”
3. “Little Sister”
4. “Make It Wit Chu”
5. “My God Is The Sun”
6. “No One Knows”
7. “Smooth Sailing”
8. “Emotion Sickness”
9. “The Way You Used To Do”
10. “A Song For The Dead”
11. “If I Had A Tail”
12. “Time & Place”
13. “I Sat By The Ocean”
14. “Negative Space”
15. “Paper Machete”
16. “God Is In The Radio”
17. “Sick, Sick, Sick”
18. “Better Living Through Chemistry”
19. “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret”
20. “Made To Parade”
21. “In The Fade”
22. “Regular John”
23. “Straight Jacket Fitting”
24. “Into The Hollow”
25. “The Evil Has Landed”

In a story that would make a fantastic, albeit long, country song, Lindsay Brown and her husband Cade of Alabama have found love even though they are stepsiblings who were once banned from seeing each other by their parents.

Lindsay shared the dramatic saga on TikTok, where she has nearly 3,000 followers.

It all began in 2007 when Linday was 14 and Cade was 16, and the couple would secretly meet at her house. However, on the fourth night they were together, Lindsay’s mother walked in on them and Cade had to run out of the house in his birthday suit.

“He grabbed his keys, his phone, he did not grab his clothes,” Lindsay said in a TikTok post. “He ran through the yard, up the street to his truck naked. Then he drove home and snuck in his house naked and his parents never knew any of that happened.”

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After the incident, Lindsay’s mom reached out to Cade’s parents, who agreed the two shouldn’t see each other. The teens didn’t have a big problem with the ban, mainly because Cade had a girlfriend at the time.

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Six years later, Lindsay was driving to a baseball game in Atlanta with her boyfriend and received a direct message on Facebook from Cade. The two began talking, and a week or two later, she went to see him and left her boyfriend.

This development didn’t go over well with Lindsay’s mom because Cade had a “troubled” life after high school, and she didn’t want her involved in the chaos. But that didn’t stop the two from spending time together. Eventually, Lindsay’s mom drove up to Cade’s father’s house, where the two stayed, to talk some sense into her.

The mother and Cade’s dad, Rusty, were both single and began talking “for a long time.”

Soon enough, Cade got into trouble and was incarcerated for a year. Wanting to start a new life, Lindsay joined the Air Force in Texas, but that didn’t keep them apart for long. Lindsay began visiting Cade in prison and the two rekindled their love. At the same time, their parents started dating, and things were getting “hot and heavy” between them.

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When Cade got out in 2014, the couple moved in together, and after a few weeks, they “went up the road to the courthouse” and got married. Cade says it was out of “boredom.” A little more than a year later, their parents also married, making Cade and Linday stepsiblings.

For the most part, things have gone well for the couple and their parents. “Our family has just blended real well, we’re all happy,” Lindsay said. “They never would have got married if it wasn’t for us.”

After sharing their story, Lindsay learned that this type of family arrangement is more common than most people think. “It happened to my brother and his wife! They got married, and then our dad married her mom like 5 years later. best sister in law/step sister ever,” Spirit Hager wrote. “I know someone who married a guy she was with for years then years later his dad and her mom married, so same situation,” Skiddermama_748h added.

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Canadian news anchor Leslie Horton, 59, was moments away from doing her routine traffic report when she got an unnecessary, unsavory email from a viewer.

In true online troll fashion, the male viewer wrote, “Congratulations on your pregnancy. If you’re going to wear old bus driver pants, you can expect emails like this.”

Horton could have kept quiet, but instead she used her live segment to make a pretty epic response that went viral online.

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After reciting the email to viewers, Horton said, “thanks for that. Um, no, I’m not pregnant. I actually lost my uterus to cancer last year. And this is what women of my age look like.”

“So if it is offensive to you, that is unfortunate,” she concluded. “Think about the emails you send.”

Watch the clip below:

Global News Calgary traffic reporter @global_leslie responds to an email criticising her choice of clothes. #yyc pic.twitter.com/r9Od0hKbn0

— Global Calgary (@GlobalCalgary) December 5, 2023

Horton revealed to TODAY.com that this wasn’t the first time the man had reached out simply to “humiliate and hurt” her. It was also “very likely” that, as a regular viewer, he was aware that she had endometrial cancer, as Horton has previously disclosed the diagnosis to her audience.

“Maybe I was responding to the pregnancy, no uterus, cancer thing,” Horton shared. “Or maybe it’s just the fact that I’m tired female broadcasters — and women in general — are being treated this way. And I would say it hit a nerve because I’ve received thousands of messages from people — men and women — saying, ‘Good for you. This is not right and it needs to stop.’”

Either way—this time, Horton couldn’t help but react.

“We’re not supposed to respond to trolls — so I had no plans to address it, but then the words just came out of my mouth. I had this visceral reaction,” she told TODAY.com.

It was probably for the best that Horton chose to honor her instincts, because it incited a wave of support she might have missed out on had she just bottled it up inside.

“Bravo. You handled this perfectly,” one person wrote on X.

Another added “Thank you for your classy response. I am sorry you had to respond to the silly individual. My support and respect.”

Ultimately, Horton hopes that her viral moment sends a message of empowerment to others. As she told Good Morning America, “you don’t need to accept people lashing out and saying mean things on purpose, to bring you down, because no one has the power to bring you down, except yourself.”

Great points. Meanness might seem inescapable at times (especially online), but there is always power in standing up for ourselves.

Nicki Minaj returned last night with her highly-awaited Pink Friday 2 album and it is stacked with collaborations. Most of the tracklist and features had been kept under wraps until the album’s official midnight release, giving a true surprise for listeners. One of the songs, “Pink Birthday,” is catching the attention of listeners, for the fact that Travis Scott appears to be on it.

Here’s more of what to know when it comes to the song.

Is Travis Scott On Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Birthday” From Pink Friday 2?

Much like Minaj’s opening track “Are You Gone Already” where she samples a song by Billie Eilish, she does the same thing with Travis Scott on “Pink Birthday.” She used the opening track, “Pornography,” from Scott’s album, Rodeo. He also approved the sample, giving it another layer to the song.

“Travis Scott cleared his vocals for it,” she posted. “That’s his voice on it. It sounds kinda like an instrument. I didn’t know until I had alrdy recorded & fell in love with it tho. I was like he not gon clear it.”

Check out Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Birthday” (featuring a sample from Travis Scott) above.

Pink Friday 2 is out now via Republic Records. Find more information here.

The entire baseball community is sitting and waiting to see what Shohei Ohtani is going to end up doing. Ohtani, the best baseball player in the world and the incredibly rare player who is exceptional as both a hitter and a pitcher, hit the open market this winter, and there’s no word on what he’s going to end up doing as he’s placed a priority on secrecy throughout this process.

A few teams have been mentioned as potential landing spots for the two-time AL MVP, one of whom is the Toronto Blue Jays. Things looked like they were escalating on Friday, as reports indicated that a private plane was going from southern California to Toronto. It led to rampant speculation that Ohtani was on that plane and going to announce that he would become the biggest free agent signing in Jays history.

The plane landed and, as it turns out, Ohtani was not on it. Instead, it was reported that the plane held Robert Herjavec, who you may know from the show Shark Tank.

This is all extremely funny, and fortunately, Herjavec decided to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. Over on Twitter, he hit the RT button on this tweet by Rich Eisen.

And then, he went onto Instagram and posted the following photo.

“I’d like to thank the @bluejays organization for signing me today !” Herjavec wrote in the caption. “All joking aside – I’m not @shoheiohtani and he was not on my plane today ! Not sure how it all started but I’m calling the jays and seeing if they’ll sign my 5 year old for 600 mil ( he WAS on the plane and throws a mean pitch )”

Kudos to Herjavec for having fun with this, and hopefully, Ohtani got to see it all unfold and laugh.

Before Nicki Minaj dropped her album, Pink Friday 2, last night, she had kept a lot of the details surrounding it under wraps. Between the full tracklist and the collaborations, fans were in for a complete surprise when they went to go press play.

The record’s opening track, “Are You Gone Already,” has raised some questions. Throughout the song, listeners can hear Billie Eilish’s voice, sparking questions as to whether she had a feature on the album.

Here’s what to know.

Is Billie Eilish On Nicki Minaj’s “Are You Gone Already” From Pink Friday 2?

Billie Eilish can be heard on Nicki Minaj’s “Are You Gone Already,” as the song features a sample of the pop star’s 2019 song, “When The Party’s Over.” Minaj had teased her love for the opening track, as well as Eilish’s presence, before the record’s official release.

“Welp that did it for me… crying in less than 25 seconds of the intro,” she wrote on Twitter. “Again. Finneas, if this finds you in #GagCity, God bless you… I haven’t even been able to tell you about ALL the geniuses on this project. Ppl I really love. Ppl who love music. Ppl who inspire me to be better.”

Pink Friday 2 is out now via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Tomorrow (December 9), KROQ is holding its 32nd annual Almost Acoustic Christmas event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. With a stacked lineup that spans genres, the crowd will be treated to performances throughout the night.

Here’s what to know about the set times.

The terrace for the event opens at 3 p.m. PT, with doors following behind — as they open at 5 p.m. From there, the night of music begins. While it’s unclear how long each band will play for, the sets seem to be fairly short, spanning about 20 to 30 minutes to fit enough acts — and account for the transition on stage.

The Beaches: 6:00 p.m.
Bakar: 6:25 p.m.
Lovejoy: 6:50 p.m.
Cannons: 7:20 p.m.
Bleachers: 7:55 p.m.
Portugal The Man: 8:30 p.m.
Garbage: 9:00 p.m.
311: 9:30 p.m.
The Offspring: 10:05 p.m.

Tickets for the Almost Acoustic Christmas event are still available, with prices starting at $55 on Ticketmaster. Additionally, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers were supposed to play, but had to cancel, ticketholders will have the chance to attend a special show from them (still at the Kia Forum) on March 2, 2024. Details for this have yet to be announced, but the website states they will be contacting people soon.

To purchase passes, and find more information ahead of tomorrow, visit here.

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

Funerals can be many things—a sombre mourning, a celebration of life, a time for family to honor a loved one—but one thing they should never be is unattended.

But the reality is that some people simply don’t have people. Maybe they’re estranged from their family and have outlived all their friends. Maybe they fell into a life of drug addiction and lost all of their close connections. Maybe no next of kin can be found or they just happen to die in a life stage when they have no one around to attend their funeral. Whatever the reason, some people’s send-offs from earthly existence are purely legal affairs with no personal touches whatsoever.

Two decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that was an unacceptable ending for a human life. In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever was known about their life. A year later, Dutch poet and artist Frank Starik took the idea even further, launching The Lonely Funeral project to ensure that someone who cares consciously acknowledges the life of a person who has died.

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The idea was to create a network of poets who would find out whatever they could about the person, write a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets in Amsterdam and Antwerp (where Flemish poet Maarten Inghels launched a Lonely Funeral project seven years after Starik’s).

The Lonely Funeral project has continued to expand to other countries as well. Scottish poet Andy Jackson has begun writing poems for “lonely funerals” and attending them in his hometown of Dundee and he hopes to expand the project to the rest of Scotland.

“I feel everybody deserves something humane at the end of life” he told the BBC. “Nobody should be completely unmourned. If we want to live in humane country these are little things we can do for people. It becomes the job of the community.”

A natural question is how the poets know what to write if the person was all alone.

“They would have a passport, some details from the police or from social services, a photograph or some information about their life maybe,” Jackson explained to the BBC. “Something that would give away something of who they were that a poet then could use to form the basis of a piece of work that would actually celebrate the real person—not somebody you couldn’t identify.”

Starik and Inghels have even published a book, The Lonely Funeral: Poets at the Gravesides of the Forgotten, which includes poems for 31 forgotten lives and descriptions of their funerals—a small piece of dignity offered to perfect strangers.

There’s perhaps nothing more beautiful than the impulse to recognize someone simply for the sake of their humanity. It’s a reminder that we are all connected in some way, even if it’s just by the reality of life and death.

As Starik wrote in his preface to The Lonely Funeral: “We do not know to whom we say goodbye, so we feel no pain. But everyone—and this is the point—every person deserves respect.”

Leave it to the poets to remind us of the inherent worth of every human being and to honor it with such a simple, selfless service.