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The Trolls are back, though this time several new band members have entered the mix.

Trolls Band Together, the third film in the franchise, follows Poppy (Anna Kendrick) who learns that her new Troll boyfriend Branch (Justin Timberlake) was actually a member of the former boyband BroZone. This obviously mimics the real-life past of Timberlake, though he’s definitely trying to keep that behind him for now.

When one of Branch’s old bandmates gets kidnapped, the trolls have to band together to find him. Get it? They are a boy band. It makes sense. Here is the official synopsis:

As they grow closer, Poppy discovers that Branch has a secret past. He was once part of her favorite boyband phenomenon, BroZone, with his four brothers: Floyd (Sivan), John Dory (André), Spruce (Diggs) and Clay (Cudi). BroZone disbanded when Branch was still a baby, as did the family, and Branch hasn’t seen his brothers since. But when Branch’s bro Floyd is kidnapped for his musical talents by a pair of nefarious pop-star villains — Velvet (Schumer) and Veneer (Rannells) — Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop-culture obscurity.

The film hits theaters on November 17th. As part of Universal’s slightly convoluted deal with Netflix, it will stream on Peacock for four months after its initial theatrical run, then will move to Netflix for ten months, and then will return to Peacock for the remaining four.

Trolls Band Together is expected to be in theaters for 45 days, so we could get to see those BroZone boys up on Peacock first, then Netflix by spring 2024 at the earliest. That’s when you’ll be able to hear that new NSYNC song from the comfort of your living room.

(Via Deadline)

Godzilla is smashing into the Thanksgiving season, so we you hope made lots of food. After last appearing in Godzilla Vs. Kong, the giant lizard is back with an all-new streaming series for Apple TV+, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Starring Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt, Monarch is set in the same cinematic universe as the recent Godzilla and Kong films. The series will take a generation-spanning look at the secretive organization that seems to know way too much about the massive titans that once ruled the Earth and have returned to assert their dominance with devastating results.

Here’s what you need to know about the show before it launches:

Plot

From the official synopsis:

Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco, and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic saga – spanning three generations – reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.

Cast

Alongside the father and son Russells, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters also stars Anna Sawai, Anders Holm, Mari Yamamoto, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, and John Goodman reprising his role of Bill Randa from Kong: Skull Island.

Release Date

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters will smash onto Apple TV+ with a two-episode premiere on November 17. Weekly episodes will drop every Friday.

Trailer

You can watch the official trailer below:

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters premieres November 17 on Apple TV+.

If you’ve spent any amount of time on YouTube at all, you probably know about Lofi Girl. The “lofi hip-hop” streaming channel has become ubiquitous, even inspiring Halloween costumes. The Lofi Girl stream even has its own lore, which unfolds in mysterious, days-long events that introduce new characters and events that’ll shake up the life of the animated, forever studio titular character (one’s going on right now; you can check it out above). Even if you know all this, you may not know exactly who is behind the stream and its growing popularity.

Although the Lofi Girl creator chooses to remain mostly anonymous, there are some details out there in the world. The YouTube stream was originally started as ChilledCow in 2017 by a lo-fi hip-hop fan who called himself Dimitri (no last name) in a New York Times interview. Dimitri initially used footage of the character Shizuku Tsukishima from the Studio Ghibli film Whisper Of The Heart but the stream was taken down for copyright infringement. The stream was pulled down again in 2020 and in 2022 for copyright strikes against the music used, although Dimitri said he always got permission and the strikes were of dubious origin.

In March 2021, the name was changed to Lofi Girl in honor of the now-familiar character (whose name is Jade, by the way). Jade was created by a Colombian artist named Juan Pablo Machado in response to Dimitri’s call for artists to replace the former character. Machado later decided to set the character’s iconic room in La Croix-Rousse in Lyon, France, which can be seen through her window. And across the way is Synthwave Boy.

Now, if only we knew what that snowflake is all about…

Two GOP-fueled clashes have happened thus far on Tuesday, and the day is barely half over yet. Surprisingly enough as well, rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert was not involved in either of these fights. Then again, she surely wants to tone down her firebrand ways after a certain “high school” insult (about her alleged promiscuity) got tossed her way last week. So, these feuds are all about the congressional dudes, and boy, they need to get it together.

One altercation was so pumped-up with attempted flexing that Bernie Sanders had to get involved to stop fists from actually flying. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who owns a plumbing company in Oklahoma, had it out with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien. The launching point for the below video involves Mullin taking issue with a June tweet, in which O’Brien not only took a visual swing at Mullin’s height but also labeled him as a “[g]reedy CEO who pretends like he’s self made. In reality, just a clown & fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy. #LittleManSyndrome.”

That’s not all. During a March hearing, Mullin previously shouted “shut your mouth!” at O’Brien after detailing how Teamsters were once allegedly “leaning up against my trucks” while attempting to organize his employees. And the acrimonious nature continued on Tuesday with O’Brien vowing that he’d be ready to fight “any time, any place.” Mullin stood up like he was ready to throw down, and that’s when Bernie stepped in.

Poor Bernie. He would rather be sitting over there and making grumpy faces, but his GOP colleagues are all pumped up for some reason.

The second fiasco involves recently ousted ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who still isn’t getting along with all of his colleagues. Rep. Tim Burchett accused McCarthy of elbowing him with a “clean shot to the kidneys.” At that link, CNN detailed how McCarthy denied doing so, but NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales relayed in a Twitter thread how she witnessed how McCarthy “shoved” Burchett before a “chase” broke out.

Burchett insisted to Grisales that the two men haven’t been on speaking terms, but man, this sequence of events tells a tale.

And it’s only Tuesday!

Something interesting happened at the Guggenheim a few years ago. The famed museum hosted an installation from a conceptual artist named Maurizio Cattelan that became a bit of a sensation in the art community and, look, I’m just going say it: We’re talking about a fully functional solid gold toilet. He called the whole thing “America,” which is really just very mean and also perfect. Visitors could go in and use the toilet — again, fully functional — for three minutes at a time. Lots of leisurely number ones and frantically rushed number twos, one assumes, with the “one” in this situation being me, because I thought about the golden toilet a lot.

Here, look, the New York Times wrote about it at the time.

It has been one of the smallest exhibitions in the museum’s history, comprising a single work of art: a fully functional 18-karat gold toilet, designed by the puckish Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and installed in a single-occupancy museum restroom. But it has been popular with visitors, some of whom waited in line for an hour to test its metal.

“More than 100,000 people have waited patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature,” wrote Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim’s artistic director and chief curator, on the museum’s website.

All good things come to an end eventually, though, and so did the golden toilet’s run at the Guggenheim. Two years after its debut, it was time to find a new home. Which, naturally, because why wouldn’t this be where a fully functioning solid gold toilet ends up, turned out to be a place called Blenheim Palace in England, a historical site best known for being the childhood home of Winston Churchill. A thing you will learn as we continue on here is that every twist in this story is so delightful that I’m not sure it could even exist in fiction. Real life is sometimes weird enough without help.

But anyway, maybe you saw that and thought “Hey, do they have enough security at Winston Churchill’s childhood home to protect a solid gold toilet? Like, the Guggenheim has guards and cameras and the NYPD is a phone call away. What if someone tries to steal the solid gold toilet?”

The Churchill family considered this but brushed it off for reasons explained by the dude who lives in the palace.

In August 2019, Edward Spencer-Churchill, the brother of the Duke of Marlborough who resides at Blenheim Palace, spoke to The Times, saying, “It’s not going to be the easiest thing to [steal]. Firstly, it’s plumbed in and secondly a potential thief will have no idea who last used the toilet or what they ate. So no, I don’t plan on guarding it.”

It brings me more pleasure than any of you can possibly imagine to tell you that the golden toilet was stolen two days after it was installed. Thieves broke in at 4:30 a.m. and ripped it out of the wall and left. This is interesting to me for three reasons:

• As a lover of very silly heists, who has written at this very website about thefts of everything from maple syrup to six-figures worth of ramen to Cadbury Creme eggs to a massive statue of Shrek, the opportunity to type “GOLDEN TOILET HEIST” was and is just very thrilling
• I choose to believe the thieves had no intention of stealing the golden toilet until they read the quote where the guy pretty openly said it wasn’t going to be guarded and then they were like “well, geez, we’d be stupid not to at least try”
• Some of the official quotes released by the interested parties after the robbery are really just beautiful

Look at this one.

“Due to the toilet being plumbed in to the building, this has caused significant damage and flooding. We believe a group offenders used at least two vehicles during the offense.”

Two notes here:

• Let’s be very clear about this: The childhood home of Winston Churchill was ravaged by substantial water damage because thieves ripped a fully functioning golden toilet out of the wall after the owner of the home kind of dared them to do it
• I choose to picture this exactly like the scene in Fast Five where Vin Diesel and his crew ripped a vault out of the headquarters of a crooked Brazilian businessman and fled through the streets with it towed behind them

Basically this, but with a golden toilet.

Moving on.

“The piece of art that has been stolen is a high value toilet made out of gold that was on display at the palace,” said Detective Inspector Jess Milne of Thames Valley Police at the time of the theft.

Imagine you get into law enforcement to right wrongs, to provide justice to the people who have been hurt or harmed by criminal activity, and you rise through the ranks to become Detective Inspector, and then one day you find yourself standing in front of a microphone saying the words “a high value toilet made out of gold.”

What a journey.

The New York Times also tracked down the artist himself, who said this.

Shortly after the robbery, Mr. Cattelan told The New York Times in an email that his first reaction was to think it was a prank. “Who’s so stupid to steal a toilet?” he said. He “had forgotten for a second that it was made out of gold,” he added

Hmm. Yes, I love him even more now.

But we press on. There was an arrest pretty much immediately but nothing stuck and the suspect was released. Time passed. Two whole years. No arrests, no sign of the golden toilet. At one point, seven people were charged but released. We had a full-on golden toilet mystery on our hands. My favorite quote about it all came from the guy at the company that insured it, who very much wanted to recover it instead of writing a check for millions of dollars with “for the stolen gold toilet” scribbled into the memo line.

Insurance firm Fine Art Specie Adjusters (FASA) said the reward, for safe return of the property leading to an arrest, still stood.

Director Philip Austin said: “No-one has come forward for the reward money yet… Initially there were lots of inquiries but now it’s all gone quiet.”

Two notes again here:

• It’s fun to picture a very sexy and mysterious insurance investigator — male or female, your choice, although I am going with “Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair” for reasons I do not have to explain to any of you — flying around the world on private planes and wearing many thousands of dollars worth of designer turtlenecks all in search of a golden toilet some dudes yoinked out of a wall
• Please take a minute today and really think about the smorgasbord of bozo prank calls that must have come into the tip line for information about the stolen gold toilet

But then…

After many years…

A break in the case.

Earlier this month, police in England announced that four arrests had been made. Four years after the theft. Of the gold toilet. They worked on this case for four years. I know they probably worked on other cases between, but I’m just going to go ahead and pretend there was a Golden Toilet Task Force assigned to this case, specifically. With a war room and unlimited budget and everything. I’m picturing the full-on CSI lab here. There are lasers for some unknown reason. You should see the smile on my face as I am typing this.

The only sad part about the whole thing is that these arrests — should they lead to convictions, and yes, it is outrageously funny to think about a wild media circus trial with charismatic defense attorneys that ends in four Not Guilty verdicts — bring an end to the saga of the stolen solid gold toilet. Which is a shame. For me. It’s probably good for everyone else. But I guess I’ll just have to accept that it’s over and that there are no other rocks to turn over related to missing golden toi-…

To this day, the toilet has not been found.

Yes.

YES.

THE SAGA CONTINUES.

I NEED CONSTANT UPDATES ON THE HUNT FOR THE GOLDEN TOILET

MAYBE A REALITY SHOW

I KNOW IT WAS PROBABLY JUST MELTED DOWN MANY YEARS AGO BECAUSE THE RESALE MARKET ON FULLY FUNCTIONING SOLID GOLD TOILETS CAN’T BE THAT GREAT

BUT WHATEVER

LET ME HAVE SOME FUN

THE GOLDEN TOILET IS OUT THERE

WHAT HERO WILL FIND IT?

IT COULD BE YOU!

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The last time Tyler The Creator and his Odd Future family took over Dodger Stadium for Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival was four years ago and I wrote at the time that while the “mystery headliner” gamble didn’t pay off, “Camp Flog Gnaw is still one of the best festival experiences for your money.” Since then, the festival was derailed by a global pandemic and put on ice for another three years, during which the pop culture landscape shifted in all kinds of unexpected ways.

Yet, in its return to the fabled stadium overlooking Los Angeles, the festival not only lived up to that assessment but surpassed it; despite being gone from the public eye for nearly four years, Camp Flog Gnaw has become the best festival in America. There are myriad reasons for this, but we’ve listed the strongest ones below.

Dodger Stadium: The Ideal Venue For Camp Flog Gnaw

As the old saying goes, “Location, location, location.” You don’t get very many better locations than the famed Blue Heaven On Earth. Situated on its unnamed hill overlooking scenic Elysian Park and the sparse but dazzling LA skyline, the view is unmatched, aided by the famed West Coast weather that draws transplants — some enthusiastically, others reluctantly — from all around the world.

This year’s festival made incredibly effective use of its footprint in the sprawling lots surrounding the stadium. Where the previous iterations scattered the stages around the stadium itself, this year, they were lined up parallel to each other facing toward home plate. While the side-by-side arrangement created some slight sound bleed and the need to walk past the Camp stage to get from Flog to Gnaw and vice versa, it was an easy walk, affording the opportunity to check out the main stage between the intermediate and small stage sets.

The Crowd: Kids Who Grew Up In An Odd Future

Bless the Rolling Loud kids, but they are just a little too exuberant for me. Flog Gnaw is similar in age and diversity, but remarkably chiller — more “golden retriever” energy when compared to RL’s labradors. It’s definitely the best fest for people-watching, with attendees decked out in their best Tyler The Creator cosplay, from Doug sweater vests to Igor suits. I even spotted a few Tyler Baudelaire ushankas — the 80-degree LA weather notwithstanding.

And going back to that intro line, there was something comforting about seeing the shaggy looks of my millennial youth being so lovingly recreated by that generation’s descendants (did you know jorts are back, along with whale tails?). They’re a friendly bunch too; I found myself roped into an affable group made up of a tall white kid, a Filipino/Latino guy, a Persian Iranian, and a black rocker and felt like one of the gang.

The Lineup, From Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem To Ice Spice and PinkPantheress

I mean, duh, right? But there’s something to the level of effort Tyler devotes to curating the lineup each year. While most other fests seemingly recycle the same buzzy names based on social engagement and streaming numbers, T selects friends and artists he’s genuinely a fan of. Witness his going absolutely ballistic in the photo pit for Sunday night’s Clipse set, rhyming “We Got It For Cheap” word for word.

The mutual appreciation that the artists display for each other radiates from stage to stage. Whether it’s the more left-field or underground acts on the Gnaw stage like AG Club, BADBADNOTGOOD, Redveil, and Toro Y Moi, or the nascent rockers like Kevin Abstract and Teezo Touchdown, these artists all genuinely love Tyler, and they love playing Flog Gnaw. This isn’t just “show up and collect a check” stuff. Headliners like Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem showed out as well, even if they weren’t mainstays like Syd, Domo Genesis, or Earl Sweatshirt.

It’s also affirming to see how the crowd responds to these acts that mainstream observers overlook or sneer down their noses at. During Teezo’s set, his rapport with the crowd was ironclad and they sang every song from his album — only a few months old — at top volume. Ice Spice, for all the hand-wringing being done by folks my age and older (I’m getting sick of talking about it too, by the way, maybe y’all should chill out), delivered a blazing set that displayed real technical proficiency (her breath control is underrated) and had white boys in the crowd declaring their undying love.

Tyler The Creator, The Brains Behind The Operation

But really, the main thing that makes Flog Gnaw what it is, is its … ahem … creator. 10 years on from the formation and explosion of Odd Future, Tyler Okonma has found the balance between the angry, aggressive kid he was at the outset and the cheeky genius he showed flashes of until 2017 when he flourished with Flower Boy.

During his set, he joked with fans about his lack of new music, ribbed them gleefully about the last time we all gathered at this spot and they booed his beloved headliner, Drake, and offered moments of both humility and unhinged excess. Going from earnestly thanking his most loyal fans for returning from the uncertainly of pandemic living to flexing a literal flamethrower takes panache and a certain immodesty, and fortunately for all of us, Tyler has both in spades. Watching the “campers” depart at the end of the fest felt a lot like the end of summer — nostalgic for the recently made memories and already looking forward to next year.

Check out an exclusive photo gallery from Camp Flog Gnaw 2023 below

Tyler The Creator

The Hillbillies (Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem)

Willow

Camp Flog Gnaw

PinkPantheress

Lil Yachty

Dominic Fike

Clipse

Kevin Abstract

Ravyn Lenae

Turnstile

Teezo Touchdown

Beabadoobee

Syd

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

Madi Diaz is only a few short months from releasing her new album, Weird Faith, but she is giving fans another surprise to look forward to in 2024. She announced her new headlining tour, which will kick off in January, as she plays shows across North America.

She will be joined by Olivia Barton, Jack Van Cleaf, and Daniel Nunnelee as support on select dates.

All tickets for the shows will go on sale this Friday, November 17, with more information available on Diaz’s website.

Today, Diaz also dropped her “Don’t Do Me Good” collaboration with Kacey Musgraves, which you can check out here.

Continue scrolling for a complete list of Madi Diaz’s new tour dates.

01/14/2024 — Morgantown, WV @ Mountain Stage
02/21/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *
02/22/2024 — Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall *
02/23/2024 — Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre *
02/24/2024 — Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater *
02/27/2024 — Washington, DC @ The Atlantis *
02/28/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
02/29/2024 — Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *
03/01/2024 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
03/03/2024 — Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall *
03/05/2024 — Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark #
03/06/2024 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall #
03/07/2024 — St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway #
03/08/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl #
03/16/2024 — Dallas, TX @ The Kessler Theater
03/19/2024 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater %
03/20/2024 — Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre %
03/22/2024 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The State Room %
03/25/2024 — Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret %
03/26/2024 — Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s %
03/27/2024 — Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge %
03/29/2024 — Oakland, CA @ The New Parish %
03/30/2024 — Felton, CA @ Felton Music Hall %
04/02/2024 — San Diego, CA @ Music Box %
04/04/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour %

* with Olivia Barton
# with Jack Van Cleaf
% with Daniel Nunnelee

The year has been filled with star-studded hip-hop collaborations. Drake and 21 Savage kicked things off last year with their Grammy Award-nominated album, Her Loss. Last week, Meek Mill and Rick Ross dropped their joint project, Too Good To Be True. Now fans patiently await the arrival of Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz’s long-awaited album, Collegrove 2.

The pair has already shared its lead single, “Presha.” Today (November 14), the full tracklist has been revealed, and it features guest appearances by 21 Savage, Usher, Ross, Benny The Butcher, Vory, and Marsha Ambrosius.

Based on the duo’s appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, their highly anticipated joint album will be well worth the wait.

View the full tracklist and artwork for Collegrove 2 below.

1. “Scene 1: Welcome 2 Collegrove”
2. “G6”
3. “Big Diamonds” Feat. 21 Savage
4. “Presha”
5. “Long Story Short”
6. “Scene 2: Duffle Bag Boys”
7. “Million From Now”
8. “Crazy Thick”
9. “Transparency Feat. Usher
10. “Significant Other”
11. “Scene 3: Ladies Man”
12. “PPA” Feat. Fabolous
13. “Oprah & Gayle” Feat. Benny The Butcher
14. “Shame”
15. “Bars”
16. “Scene 4: No Fent”
17. “Godzilla” Feat. Vory
18. “Crown Snatcher”
19. “Can’t Believe You” Feat. Rick Ross
20. “Scene 5: Never Was Lost”
21. “Moonlight” Feat. Marsha Ambrosius

Welcome 2 ColleGrove is out 11/17 via Def Jam Recordings. Find more information here.

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

Earlier this week, Drake and J. Cole announced their joint It’s All A Blur Tour: Big As The What? Named after a line from the duo’s For All The Dogs collaboration “First Person Shooter,” it marks the first time they have toured together, building on the chemistry they’ve built throughout the year with appearances at each other’s concerts. Perhaps after Drake co-headlined Cole’s Dreamville Festival and Cole appeared at Drake’s original It’s All A Blur Tour stop in Toronto to fill in for 21 Savage, it was inevitable that the two frequent collaborators would decide to tour together. We’ve compiled everything you need to know about the tour below.

What Are The Dates For The ‘It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?’

The tour kicks off on January 18 in Denver, Colorado, and ends in Birmingham, Alabama on March 27. You can see the full schedule below.

When Do Tickets For ‘It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?’ Come Out?

Tickets will go on sale on November 17 at 11 am local time. A two-day presale runs from November 15 at 11 am to November 16 at 10 pm for Cash App Card users.

How To Buy Tickets For The ‘It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?’

For more information on the Cash App Card presale, fans can click here. For the general sale, you can check drakerelated.com.

How Much Are Tickets For The ‘It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?’

The lowest seats available on Ticketmaster.com are $400 while floor seats are a little under $1000.

Will The ‘It’s All A Blur Tour — Big As The What?’ Have An Opener

While no opening acts have been announced yet, Sexyy Red did open the previous tour.

01/18/2024 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena +
01/19/2024 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
01/22/2024 — San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
01/25/2024 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center
01/29/2024 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center +
01/30/2024 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center
02/02/2024 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
02/07/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena +
02/08/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena +
02/12/2024 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
02/16/2024 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
02/20/2024 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center +
02/21/2024 — Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
02/24/2024 — Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
02/27/2024 — Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
03/02/2024 — Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center
03/05/2024 — Memphis, TN @ FedExForum
03/10/2024 — Lexington, KY @ Rupp Arena
03/14/2024 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena ~
03/18/2024 — State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center ~
03/23/2024 — Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena ~
03/27/2024 — Birmingham, AL @ The Legacy Arena at BJCC ~

+ Rescheduled dates
~ Without J. Cole

In the golden age of romcoms, it was assumed that the leads were probably getting together, though that concept just got messier and messier. So, in recent years, actors in romcoms have done a complete 180 and barely even acknowledge each other so that people would not accuse them of having affairs. Being a celebrity must be great!

Earlier this year, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney began filming their upcoming movie Anyone But You, which brings back the “We Hate Each Other But Must Date” trope that Ryan Reynolds loves so much. But rumors that the duo were getting too close caused a frenzy.

“When all that stuff happened, you know, publicly, it felt disorienting and unfair,” Powell recently told Men’s Health. “But what I’m realizing is that’s just a part of this gig now.”

It quickly became a viral rumor after other social media users jumped on the bandwagon. Powell and his partner Gigi Paris seemingly split just weeks after filming began, though Sweeney is still with her fiance (allegedly). The duo never confirmed anything, though the upcoming press cycle for Anyone But You is sure to be interesting.

Powell then detailed his “low of lows” following the breakup, but it inspired him to adopt a dog named Brisket. “I saw Brisket’s face and fell in love.” Maybe we should have fewer movies about falling in love and more movies about the joys of adopting dogs who need homes! This way, everyone wins.

(Via Vanity Fair)