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Hovvdy returned today with their new single, “Bubba.” Produced by Andrew Sarlo and Ben Littlejohn, the duo’s song is a dreamy tale about wanting to offer someone a helping hand. The release also came with a music video, filmed inside of a car, as blue lighting takes over throughout.

“The song tells a story from two perspectives: the brother (Bubba) and his sister,” Charlie Martin, one half of the band, shared in a statement. “It’s about sibling-hood in the midst of really hard times and getting through it all together. I was lucky to have my older brother through all our childhood shit, and I can’t imagine how it would’ve gone without him. But still it’s tough and time flies and we grow older and process in our own ways; and this song is about how that feels.”

The band will be playing a handful of dates throughout the rest of 2023, before going to support Cold War Kids on their tour next year. More information is available through Hovvdy’s website.

Check out Hovvdy’s “Bubba” above. Below, find a complete list of the band’s upcoming tour dates.

12/06/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid
12/12/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
12/14/2023 — Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
12/15/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
01/31/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore *
02/01/2024 — Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom *
02/02/2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Vogue *
02/03/2024 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre *
02/05/2024 — Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory *
02/06/2024 — Bozeman, MT @ The Elm *
02/08/2024 — Aspen, CO @ Belly Up *
02/09/2024 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater *
02/10/2024 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater *
02/13/2024 — Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom *
02/15/2024 — Dallas, TX @ House of Blues *
02/16/2024 — Houston, TX @ House of Blues *
02/17/2024 — Austin, TX @ Stubbs *
05/25/2024 — Bristol, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival
05/26/2024 — Nottingham, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival

*supporting Cold War Kids

As it turned out, 2023 was a pretty good year for movies. (Insert Larry David “pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay good” GIF here.) So good, in fact, that we had a difficult time choosing just ten favorites, as we’ve done most years. This year we ended up with multiple films tied for the 10th spot, so we decided to expand the list to 15. But then Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning was gonna miss the cut by one vote, so we decided to expand the list to 16 movies. After all, if Tom Cruise was willing to die for us to save movies, his 2023 summer blockbuster deserved a spot on our list. So here was are.

Here’s how the voting was tabulated (yay math!). Editors, writers, and contributors submitted lists of their favorite movies from 2023 and then we assigned points based on these rankings. (Ten points for the number one movie, nine points for the number two movie, and so on.) We added up all of those numbers to formulate a score. Ties were broken by favoring whichever movie was ranked highest on the various lists that were submitted. Confused? Perfect! This time is year is meant to be somewhat confusing for everyone.

So, without any further hoopla, here are the movies we think were the best of 2023.

16. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

Tom Cruise has been making Mission: Impossible movies for almost 30 years now and all they’ve ever done is rule extremely hard. Dead Reckoning — Part One is no exception. This sucker is just wall-to-wall action for almost three hours, with all-knowing artificial intelligence and car chase and train chases and exploding submarines. Hayley Atwell plays a pickpocket. Vanessa Kirby returns as the White Widow and holds a techno rave in a castle where there’s also a black market transaction taking place. Tom Cruise runs and jumps and flings himself off of and into things for our enjoyment, as always. Just a big and loud summer blockbuster in all the ways a big and loud summer blockbuster should be. There’s room for those, too. — Brian Grubb

15. Fallen Leaves

Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has been making dry, deeply humane movies since the 1980s and his latest is one of his best. In Helsinki, Ansa (Alma Pöysti) and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) each live on the economic margins of an uncaring city. Over the course of the film they find and lose each other then find each other again, though whether or not they can forge a relationship deeper than chance encounters remains unclear. The leads deliver perfectly deadpan performances that never obscure their characters’ stirring hopes that, in each other, they might have found a way to end the loneliness and disappointment that’s defined their lives. (A bonus: it features the year’s best canine performance.) — Keith Phipps

14. Creed III

Nine movies into the Rocky franchise and somehow, Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut manages to give one of the greatest sports stories on screen a thrilling refresh. Creed III turns the underdog trope that fueled its predecessors on its head, showing Adonis (Jordan) as a titan in the boxing world whose idyllic life is thrown into chaos when a familiar face from his past – a menacing and muscled Jonathan Majors — pops up with title ambitions of his own and a bitter score to settle. It’s Adonis’ fall from grace, and his gritty determination to get back into the ring, that drives the narrative to new heights as themes of family and brotherhood take priority over the brutality that happens once the bell rings. But those invested in the action of this series won’t be disappointed either. Jordan’s love of anime is infused in every punch, jab, and knockout blow of the film’s final fight – a dizzying, vicious dance peppered with slo-mo close-ups and visceral sound effects that make a case for why this might be the best boxing movie since Sylvester Stallone’s original outing. — Jessica Toomer

13. John Wick 4

The John Wick universe is a complex blend of gun violence, vague religious imagery, and some of the best dog actors around, and the fourth installment brought the action to a new level by adding in a Skarsgard brother. You’d think the rogue assassin bit would be overdone by now, but Keanu Reeves managing to successfully pull off a meaningful 3-hour performance as John Wick with just 380 words is so mesmerizing that we could get another two or three movies out of this franchise with just a single paragraph go dialogue. John Wick 4 is supposed to be the final chapter in the series, but Reeves can seemingly never resist bringing his characters back, so we might see more of him soon. And we don’t ever have to talk about The Continental again. — Nina Braca

12. Saltburn

Emerald Fennell burst onto the scene with 2020’s divisive Promising Young Woman, and her follow-up, Saltburn, is a searing riff on class that feels like The Talented Mr. Ripley for sickos. Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver, an Oxford scholarship student who becomes obsessed with his handsome, rich classmate Felix (Jacob Elordi). Felix invites Oli back to his family’s estate, Saltburn, for the summer, but what he doesn’t realize is that rescinding that invitation could be dangerous. Saltburn is a mean little dark comedy that encourages the audience to root for a monstrous protagonist. Keoghan has really perfected the art of playing a wolf in sheep’s clothing in films like American Animals and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, but Oliver might be his most stellar sociopath yet. Combined with a killer soundtrack, hilarious supporting cast, and truly sumptuous visuals, Saltburn is a delicious cinematic schadenfreude. — Danielle Ryan

11. They Cloned Tyrone

Juel Taylor’s directorial debut is a stylish genre pastiche that feels like the sharp, satirical needle hiding in the hit-and-miss haystack that was Netflix’s original content lineup in 2023. A one-pot dinner filled with mind-bending sci-fi, Blaxpoitation references, Nancy Drew homages, and 70s-era funk, Taylor lets his tale of a Black neighborhood under siege simmer in its opening half. We meet John Boyega’s drug-dealing anti-hero Fontaine under the most unusual of circumstances – just before he’s killed in a drive-by and thrust into a Groundhog Day-style time-loop. To get to the bottom of the secret government conspiracy responsible, he reluctantly recruits a quick-witted pimp named Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx at this comedic best) and his streetwise employee Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris serving up a surprise breakout performance). The trio’s chemistry sells all of the wild, riotous action to come as they Scooby Doo gang their way through tainted fried chicken recipes, grape drink communions, and toxic hair relaxers in an effort to free their community and define their identity on their terms. — Jessica Toomer

10. Beau Is Afraid

Beau is Afraid is a grand horrific adventure, filtered through the twisted mind of writer and director Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Beau, whose journey home after his mother’s death is as epic as the mythical Odysseus, traversing a dystopian city, a sickly sweet suburbia, a magical forest, and more in the name of getting back to his mother dearest (Patti LuPone). Beau’s somewhat Oedipal odyssey forces the mild-mannered, cowardly man to confront his greatest fears both literal and metaphorical in some strange ways (seriously, there’s a giant penis monster in an attic), and it’s the kind of surrealist nightmare many horror fans could only dream of. The less you know about Beau is Afraid before going in, the better, because there’s no movie as unique or surprising this year. — Danielle Ryan

9. Bottoms

Bottoms is two things at once, which is a fun little trick. One on hand, it’s a fun and sweet little coming-of-age comedy about two teenage girls who kind of accidentally start a fight club as a ploy to get the attention of the cheerleaders they have crushes on. On the other hand, it’s also just delightfully weird, with football players in cages and battle royales and Marshawn Lynch as a profane teacher who sometimes reads adult magazines in class. The main thing Bottoms is, though, is a blast, from beginning to end. Ayo Edebiri is an absolute star, and the creative team of Rachel Sennott (who plays the other lead) and Emma Seligman (who directs) ain’t exactly slouches either. — Brian Grubb

8. Past Lives

Past Lives has the best ending for a movie this year. The rest of the film isn’t so shabby, either. Celine Song’s stunning directorial debut follows Nora Moon (played as an adult by an Oscar-worthy Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two childhood sweethearts who lose touch when her family moves to North America. Years go by, and after spurts of on- and off-again communication, Hae Sung travels to New York City to meet Nora — and her husband, Arthur (John Magaro). A lesser film would have turned Hae Sung or Arthur into a villain for keeping Nora away from who she’s “supposed” to be with, but Song’s script is more complex — which is to say, more human — than that. “I didn’t know that liking your husband would hurt this much,” Hae Sung tells Nora following a night out with both of them. By the final scene, you’ll be crying along with Nora. — Josh Kurp

7. No Hard Feelings

Sure, Jennifer Lawrence has those Oscar movies under her belt, but is this my favorite JLaw movie? It’s a pretty close call. In this profanely delightful little ditty, she pulls out every available stop for laughs (with an Eastern Promises-style nude scene and everything) and truly looked like she was having the time of her life as a fail-hard character who agrees to boink an unsociable 19-year-old in exchange for a car. Surely, that’s a more enjoyable movie to film than a Battle Royale-esque franchise or the most gut-wrenching Winter’s Bone scene (no contest). What’s even better is that No Hard Feelings actually transforms into a sweet movie without turning saccharine (that Hall & Oates piano scene, dang), but the movie wisely never downshifts on the raunch factor. Long live the filthy movies. — Kimberly Ricci

6. The Holdovers

The other night I had dinner with a friend who saw The Holdovers and it quickly became one of their favorite movies of the year. What’s interesting is he said he was shocked by how good it is, even though he went in expecting it to be good. I asked if he was shocked by the actual plot. He said no, it’s about what he expected – the only contributor to his shock being how much better the movie was than even his already high expectations. Alexander Payne is extremely good at making “hangout” movies. This time, about a teacher (Paul Giamatti); a charming, yet sarcastic and forlorn student (Dominic Sessa); and the head cook at the school (Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who may very well be on her way to an Oscar) all trapped together during the holiday break with nowhere to go.

Payne’s last collaboration with Paul Giamatti, Sideways, is also low on plot and very high on character. Think about how many times you might watch a first act of a movie, fall in love with the dialogue and the characters, and just want to spend time with them … then the plot kicks in and everything that was great starts to fall apart. Payne is a master of creating characters and dialogue that just keeps us invested in them. Notably, his prior film before The Holdovers, Downsizing, was very heavy on plot and it’s his most poorly reviewed film. When you ask him, he poo-poos the idea The Holdovers is a return to basics for him, but even if he doesn’t feel that way, it doesn’t change the fact that it is a return to basics for him with just a stellar cast of people I wish we could spend a couple more hours with – or, frankly, an entire holiday season with. — Mike Ryan

5. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Comic book movies and TV shows are showing the strains of their ceaseless expansion as we sit through increasingly familiar stories, CG cityscapes, and alien worlds. Too much of a good thing, not enough great things. But Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is a great thing. Heartful in its efforts to tell the story of the continuing adventures of Miles Morales as he navigates life as a hero absent the friends he made in the first film, Across The Spider-Verse truly explodes the idea of what a comic book movie can be. This is thanks to the boundlessly exuberant and adventurous way it both constructs and captures its world(s) during this jaunt through the multiverse, perfectly amalgamating the best parts of movies, animation/anime, video games, comic books, and art. — Jason Tabrys

4. Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann’s 2017 book Killers of the Flower Moon revisited the essentially forgotten story of the Osage Murders in which sixty or so members of Osage tribe in Oklahoma were murdered by those seeking to take over the mineral rights that had made them rich when oil was found on what was thought to be worthless land that they owned. Martin Scorsese’s adaptation doesn’t merely dust off the story, it treats it as an epic tale of the prejudice and injustice we try to cover up when telling the American story. Bringing together Scorsese’s two most famous leading men, the film stars Robert De Niro as local baron William Hale and Leonardo DiCaprio as his craven, none-too-bright nephew Ernest. More than holding her own, Lily Gladstone provides the soulful counterweight to the amorality of those who see her and those like her less as humans than resources to be exploited and discarded when used up. — Keith Phipps

3. May December

It’s interesting May December very well might wind up being Todd Haynes’ most watched and most lauded film. (Though, it’s hard to quantify. Carol will make more money at the box office but, at least anecdotally, everyone seems to be watching May December now that it’s on Netflix.) Also interesting is the amount of people under the age of 30 who have no idea May December is not only loosely based on the life story of Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, but who have no idea who Letourneau even is – a name that was impossible to avoid if you were a sentient being during the 1990s. Natalie Portman plays a mediocre actor named Elizabeth who is staying with Julianne Moore’s Gracie in an effort to study her for an upcoming role. Of course, this is still a Todd Haynes film so a lot of, let’s say, interesting and weird things happen during this stay. Most notable, the relationship between Elizabeth and Gracie’s husband, Joe (Charles Melton, who seems like he’s the current frontrunner for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar). Oh, and somehow this is a comedy. And I truly believe that Todd Haynes is the only director on this planet who could have successfully made this into a comedy. Or, for that matter, made this at all. — Mike Ryan

2. Oppenheimer

Unfolding across two timelines at once—this is a Christopher Nolan movie, after all—this biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) fully captures the burden shouldered by a brilliant man who carried nothing less than the fate of the world on his shoulders. As head of the Manhattan Project he brings a terrible weapon of destruction into the world, fully aware of the immediate consequences and the possibility that they’ll expand to global proportions. In its aftermath he sees his reputation and accomplishments smeared as a matter of political expediency. In lockstep with Murphy’s eerie, magnetic performance, Nolan’s film treats history as a series of events colliding in increasing intensity, creating aftershocks we still feel today and threats that can be forgotten but never escaped. — Keith Phipps

1. Barbie

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was the best thing to happen to the color pink since the introduction of Wednesdays. For a while, the color’s reputation was tainted by a bunch of Victoria’s Secret executives, and then taken over by the pop-rock singer of the same name, but this year Pink literally went with everything, thanks to Barbie. It’s no surprise that a movie that dominated the cultural conversation is the number one pick of the year, though it is a huge relief that a movie so hyped-up and heavily marketed was actually a surprisingly introspective take on the effects the patriarchy has on everyone (with dazzling disco moves choreographed to a bespoke song). Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the slightly naive stereotypical Barbie trying to understand the “Real World” of Los Angeles is a realistic callback to whenever the first time you felt crushed under various social pressures. Welcome to the real world! It’s hard out there, even for a fake doll. Throw in Billie Eilish’s melancholic tear-jerker “What Was I Made For?” and an intentionally butchered pronunciation of The Godfather and the movie was bound to be an instant classic. And you, too, have the power to take your Birkenstocks out of the closet in 2024. — Nina Braca

Willie Nelson celebrated his 90th birthday on April 29 with a two-day concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, which Uproxx’s Philip Cosores attended and reviewed. Nelson’s 90th year also included being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on November 3, but he’s punctuating it by revisiting his Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 concert one more time. (It was already packaged as a movie this summer.)

According to Billboard, Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on Sunday, December 17.

Featured performers are Nelson, Beck, Dave Matthews, Gary Clark Jr., Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crow (a fellow 2023 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee), and Snoop Dogg.

“Nelson’s sons Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson will also perform, alongside George Strait and Chris Stapleton, with Jennifer Garner, Chelsea Handler, Woody Harrelson, Ethan Hawke, Helen Mirren and Owen Wilson confirmed as hosts,” Billboard additionally relayed.

Based on the Uproxx review of Nelson’s original 90th birthday concert, the setlist is sprawling, including a few songs performed by the likes of George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Neil Young, The Lumineers, The Chicks, and Tom Jones that seemingly didn’t make the cut for the televised version — man, Willie Nelson has a lot of friends — but the abbreviated television special will surely not disappoint.

Wilson initially confirmed CBS’ Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration on the November 2 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Watch the clip above.

Congratulations everyone, we all made it to another Tom Cruise Coconut Cake Day! You, a normal person reading the internet, might not be aware of what such an honor entails, but it’s never too late for you to learn. Some of us have been tracking this cake for years. It’s a thrilling but exhausting task.

Every year, Cruise takes a break from jumping out of planes or whatever he does and sends a coveted white chocolate coconut bundt cake to his various celebrity friends, peers, and maybe some enemies. The cake is from Doan’s Bakery and yes, they do ship, if you are looking to drop $125+ on a cake. Who isn’t? Past cake receivers include Tom Hanks, Michael Bay, and Jimmy Fallon. Others, like Brooke Shields, have been stripped of the Cake Receiver title, which seems even worse than being blacklisted in Hollywood. You really need to earn your spot on the list. It’s not for everyone, and Cruise is not afraid to make a list and check it twice.

The only way to prove you are cool enough for a cake is to post it on social media in order to show off to the normal people who aren’t on Cruise’s cake list. Rumor has it you have to provide your ticket stub from Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning in order to sign for the cake though that was probably made up by me. Either way, here are some early recipients of the 2023 Coconut Cake. Good luck next year!

Yes, the cake looks good. But it has nothing on the IHOP Wonka meal so maybe we should be focused on those purple pancakes instead.

Houston rapper Sauce Walka was arrested last night (December 6) after leading police on a 130 mph chase which ended when he crashed his vehicle, according to FOX Houston. He’s since been charged with evading arrest according to Houston Chronicle, and was released on a $15,000 bond, per The New York Post. It remains unclear exactly what prompted the chase, but a video on the rapper’s Instagram Story insists that he’s okay.

“I want to tell all my fans that I appreciate y’all for your care and concern,” he says. “I’m good, I’m straight. I made it through a catastrophic accident and the Super Saiyan that I am, I’m still here, I’m good, I’m healthy and will continue to be wealthy. Right now, I’m incarcerated but I should be getting out soon. I’ma drop a video for y’all ’cause I know y’all miss me. And I’ve been working hard so I’ve got some more work I’ma drop for y’all.”

Walka has been a fixture of the Houston underground scene for a little under a decade, releasing a never-ending stream of independently-produced mixtapes, most recently the August release Dat Boy Den in partnership with Empire. Walka had previously pled guilty to deadly conduct after a shooting in 2009, while several members of his label The Sauce Factory were arrested on racketeering charges last December, after he’d previously told local news, “I know we’re not a gang.”

That case could draw attention as one of a slew of cases nationwide in which rap crews have been accused of gang activity, including the ongoing case against Young Thug in Atlanta.

Donald Glover was in one of the best television shows of 2022. Maya Erskine voiced the lead character in one of the best television shows of 2023. By this not-at-all-flawed logic, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which stars the two of them, will be one of the best shows of 2024. That’s science, folks.

But seriously, Mr. and Mrs. Smith looks like a lot of fun. The trailer, which you can watch above, begins with Mr. Smith (Glover) wondering if his wife, Mrs. Smith (Erskine), has visited New York before. “Should we be asking each other that?” she replies before posing a slightly more personal question: “Have you ever killed anyone?” They’re married, but barely know each other; they were arranged to be together by a “mysterious spy agency” and now live a life of “espionage, wealth, [and] world travel,” according to the official plot synopsis, as long as they keep up appearances as a couple.

What could go wrong, besides the deadly shoot outs and disposing of corpses and constant threat of what might happen if their cover is blown?

Here’s more:

In this version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, two lonely strangers land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency that offers them a glorious life of espionage, wealth, world travel, and a dream brownstone in Manhattan. The catch? New identities in an arranged marriage as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which also stars Parker Posey, Michaela Coel, John Turturro, Paul Dano, Alexander Skarsgård, Eiza González, Sarah Paulson, Sharon Horgan, and Ron Perlman (and not Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie), premieres on Amazon Prime Video on February 2, 2024.

Ever the marketing genius, Ryan Reynolds has flipped the script on the recent spat of leaked Deadpool 3 photos. Thanks to the filming shooting on location instead of on a green screen soundstage, photographers with wide lens have been able to sneak pics of Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as they film the highly-anticipated installment that will officially bring Deadpool into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

On Wednesday, Reynolds made a plea for people to not spoil the film for others by sharing leaked photos. “Surprises are part of the magic of theatrical movies,” he wrote in an Instagram Story. “Our highest hope is to preserve as much of that magic as possible for the finished film and the big screen.”

On Thursday, he took a different approach. In a series of tweets, the actor cleverly latched onto the search terms (or SEO, if you nasty) for the leaked photos by spamming Twitter with a batch of hilariously Photoshopped images from the set.

“Deadpool began with a leak. So I’m joining in,” Reynolds tweeted. “But PLEASE don’t overuse the phrase, “Deadpool Leaks” because it might screw up search results if anyone is looking for Deadpool leaks or Deadpool spoilers or perhaps, Deadpool Scoops. #DeadpoolLeaks #DeadpoolSpoiler #DeadpoolScoop”

You can see the Deadpool 3 set photos on Reynold’s Twitter account. Don’t worry they don’t actually spoil anything, but they do take a few jabs at Disney and a certain failed streaming service.

(Via Ryan Reynolds on Twitter)

A while back, Daddy Yankee had revealed that he would be retiring from music. Now, during his recent concert at Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he provided fans with more of an explanation as to why. Here’s what to know.

Why Is Daddy Yankee Retiring From Music?

Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Ramón Rodríguez, revealed that he wants to focus on religion and dedicate his life to Jesus instead.

“My people, this is the most important day of my life. I want to share it… because living a life of success is not the same as living a life of purpose,” he said, according to a translation from Spanish via NME.

“This is why tonight I acknowledge that Jesus lives for me – and I will live for him,” Rodríguez added. “All of the tools that I have within my power – like music, social media, my platform, the mic, everything that God gave me is now for him.”

At the end of his speech, Daddy Yankee declared, “I am human and everyone that follows me should follow Jesus Christ.”

He also took to social media to share the clip of his speech. At the show, it ended with fireworks that showed a cross and the translated message of “Christ loves you.”

Check out Daddy Yankee’s clip above.

Over the past three decades, Green Day has experienced the good, bad, and ugly that the rockstar lifestyle has to offer. The iconic pop-punk rockers poured it all into their new single, “Dilemma,” out this morning, December 7. It’s the latest taste from Green Day’s Saviors, their forthcoming album announced alongside lead single “The American Dream Is Killing Me” on October 24.

“What is Saviors about, you ask?” Green Day captioned, in part, their Instagram album announcement. “Power pop, punk, rock, indie triumph. disease, war, inequality, influencers, yoga retreats, alt right, dating apps, masks, MENTAL HEALTH, climate change, oligarchs, social media division, free weed, fentanyl, fragility.”

“Dilemma” checks punk, mental health, free weed, fentanyl, and fragility from that list. The Ryan Baxley-directed black-and-white video starts with Billie Joe Armstrong pancaked on the floor. “Welcome to my problems,” he sings. “It’s not an invitation / This is my dilemma / And it’s my obsession.”

From there, we retroactively experience what landed Armstrong on the floor: A fast-paced, high-flying night out filled with endless alcohol, cocaine in the bathroom, and substance-based camaraderie. “I was sober now I’m drunk again,” Armstrong sings in the chorus. “I’m in trouble and in love again / I don’t want to be a dead man walking.” Inevitably, as the night wears on, Armstrong devolves until he finally breaks into someone’s home and topples their Christmas tree.

“‘Dilemma’ was one of those songs that was kind of easy to write because it was so personal to me,” Armstrong said in a statement, as per NME. “We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness. This song is all about the pain that comes from those experiences.”

Watch the “Dilemma” video above.

Saviors is out 1/19/2024 via Reprise Records. Find more information here.

Green Day is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Although “Me & U” singer Cassie Ventura had already agreed to settle her abuse and sexual assault lawsuit against ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, the fallout from the suit refuses to do the same. In the aftermath of the quick settlement, three more women have filed similar lawsuits against Combs. While Combs’ representatives have denied the accusations, calling the lawsuits a string of “money grabs,” Rolling Stone has published an open letter from songwriter Tiffany Red, who worked with Cassie, in which she corroborates some of the singer’s accusations against Diddy.

In the letter, Red cites fears for her safety as her reason for coming forward now; the lawsuit alludes to her while not mentioning her by name. She writes that she hopes that publicly revealing her identity will help protect her. She details how she and Cassie became close while writing songs together in 2015 and how one song in particular, “Loyal,” caught Diddy’s attention as it appeared to push back against the alleged pattern of abuse and manipulation he’d established in their relationship.

Red says Diddy confronted her at a surprise birthday party he threw for Cassie in 2015, where he also allegedly threatened Ventura while she was surrounding by his security guards. Later, Red describes an intoxicated Combs yelling at her at Cassie’s home, commanding her to tell Cassie “she wants some birthday dick.” The letter also reaffirms many of the accusations from Cassie’s lawsuit — that Diddy coerced her into taking drugs (getting “so high,” Red was worried she’d overdose), threatening her, and using her terminated record deal to keep her from speaking out.

Although Cassie and Diddy have settled the original lawsuit, the effects of having additional witnesses for her accusations of abuse could harm Diddy’s standing in the public eye — which could also spell trouble for him should the new lawsuits proceed to trial.