In September, Uproxx’s Phil Cosores wrote on the sustainability of Coldplay, reviewing the band’s performance at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium. At the time, the band’s most recent album was 2021’s Music Of The Spheres. That’s soon to change, though, as they recently announced their next album, Moon Music — and this time, they’re offering their fans the opportunity to participate.
Revealing that the album is “nearly finished,” Coldplay teased a song called “One World,” to which they’d add fans’ voices. “All you have to do,” they wrote, “is record yourself singing ‘Ahhhhh’ for a few seconds at oneworld.coldplay.com.”
– Record your “Ahhhhh” by pressing the microphone icon
– You can listen to your vocal and re-record if necessary
– Click on the tickbox if you’d like to be credited in the track’s digital booklet
And that’s it. They do require that fans be older than the age of majority in your jurisdiction (generally speaking, 18 years old) and not sing words or phrases.
There’s also a leaderboard showing which regions the most entries are coming from (as of this writing, the US and Britain are in the lead, naturally, followed by Italy, Brazil, and Mexico).
You can check out the website for more information.
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Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
What we have on our hands here is a Bachelor spinoff about an older gentleman looking for love from a group of similarly aged ladies. Which is… honestly kind of adorable. Good for them. And good for us, too, especially if one of the episodes features a date where they eat dinner at a diner at 4:45 and then go watch an episode of Columbo in matching recliners. This was written as a joke but honestly sounds kind of wonderful. That’s true love right there, people.
Welcome to the third season of Upload, a fun little science fiction-y comedy from the creator of The Office, Greg Daniels, that is set in 2033 in a world where humans can — you guessed it — upload themselves into a virtual afterlife when they die. The show follows Nathan, a guy who dies young under potentially mysterious circumstances and tries to sort things through from a very fancy new virtual community. It sounds strange. We promise it’s pretty fun.
Sly gives us pretty much exactly what you would expect from a documentary named Sly about the life and career of Sylvester Stallone. Which is, to be clear, not a complaint at all. Stallone has had a wild run if you stop and think about it, from Oscar glory with Rocky to ending the Cold War with Rocky IV to… look, you’ve seen the Expendables movies. There’s something to be said for building a career in Hollywood that spans six decades and it’s probably good to let the man go ahead and say it.
Robert Kirkman’s other most beloved comic book series proved that Amazon really is doing superheroes and supervillains better than anyone else right now. When this round of episodes begins, Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) will need to fully reckon with the implications of that climactic fight in the sky with his dad, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons). Additionally, his love life will receive new wrinkles, and Walton Goggins will be back, meaning that the man who would be Boyd Crowder again is achieving TV supremacy with every passing year. New characters shall be portrayed by Ben Schwartz and Tatiana Maslany.
This 2023 movie goes back to the 1973 short story by Stephen King as the perfect streaming lead-in to nightmares about Halloween season. This is not a true tale, but perhaps thinking of it that way can increase the terror. The story explores the enduring Boogeyman/Bogeyman folklore that has persisted around the globe for centuries. We’ve got a distracted father not paying enough attention to a pair of sisters, who begin to experience horrors that could trigger any lingering fears you’ve ever had about monsters lurking in your bedroom closet. The cast includes Sophie Thatcher, David Dastmalchian, and Chris Messina.
Brie Larson has never shied away from speaking out for feminist causes, and in this series, she stars in the adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel, Lessons In Chemistry. Garmus became an overnight “a literary rock star” at age 66 for this impressive debut novel that is all the rage in book clubs everywhere. That will give the show a built-in audience as Larson portrays a brilliant chemist who is fired for a sexist double standard. This leads to an unexpected career change as a cooking show host. This high-profile new platform allows her to sandwich in other nuggets of wisdom for housewives as well as demonstrating how to bake yummy cookies.
Kristen Stewart’s gay ghost hunting show has everything: slayances, spook-kikis, haunted strip clubs, and comedian Roz Hernandez snacking on donuts while she yells at homophobic poltergeists. The group – a hodgepodge of paranormal experts that includes a psychic, a witch, and a tarot card reader – road trips across the country in this docuseries produced by the Queer Eye creators, chatting it up with demonic entities and benevolent spooks to get to the root of some very real, very human problems. If there’s a better way to spend your weekend than watching a group of well-dressed Queer spiritualists commune with the dead while cracking jokes and busting stereotypes, we don’t want to know about it.
This is kind of like if Planet Earth had been executive producer by Steven Spielberg, who does executive produce this
The official description is as follows: “The story of life’s epic, 4 billion-year journey on Earth, told through its ruling dynasties, its underdogs and the cataclysmic events that reshaped it”
This sucker is narrated by Morgan Freeman
Settle deeeeep into your couch and turn off the lights and enjoy.
Come for the dong jokes, and stay for the dong jokes. Much like The Boys, this spinoff does not skim on the raunch, and it also gives us a whole new roster of Supes who might feel differently about Vought International’s motives. This series seemingly pulls off the impossible by managing to be as appealing as the flagship series without the presence of its most shining and degraded beacon, Homelander. This franchise shows no sign of wearing out or fatiguing its audience as both the MCU and DCU have managed to do, which might be the most heroic feat of all in the present entertainment realm.
A rom-com in space? Sure, why not? There’s likely no better way to kill some time on a doomed ship that will never make its way back to Earth than to, you know, consider the “if you were the last person…” scenario that comes to life. Actually, damn, this is dark stuff! It’s a good thing that Anthony Mackie is over there making flirty eyes at Zoe Chao. Very distracting.
— This movie stars Sandra Oh and Awkwafina and Will Ferrell, which is a good start
— This is the official summary: “Anne and her estranged train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild cross-country trek to get the cash.”
When we last left Loki, the title character (Tom Hiddleston) had traveled to an alternate version of the Time Variance Authority where no one remembers him and there are statues of Kang (Jonathan Majors) everywhere. This second season picks up where we left off, only Loki soon discovers he’s being thrust back and forth not to an alternate timeline, but the past and present of his current timeline. Seeking the help of the present-day Mobius (Owen Wilson, the past’s version doesn’t know Loki) the two seek out Ke Huy Quan’ Ouroboros (or OB for short), a fellow who has been around a long time and seems to know how to do everything, to stop Loki from doing these involuntary jumps back and forth through time.
Also, Loki and Mobius are charged with finding one of Kang’s variants, for reasons that are too complicated to explain here. So the pair travel to 19th-century Chicago to find an inventor and con man named Victor Timely. The problem is other people with the ability to jump through time are also after Timely and his fate has repercussions on multiple timelines.
This show is a lot, which is by design, but it’s still a lot. The first season played as good fun, and this second season is also fun, though maybe just a little less so (at least through four episodes), but while watching it’s hard to forget the real world where one of the main cast members is on trial for assault.
Rick and Morty used to take notoriously long breaks between seasons, but not this time. Season seven of the animated sci-fi comedy series returns less than a year after the season six finale. There have been big changes behind the scenes, however: co-creator Justin Roiland, who also voiced the title characters, was fired from the show. Tricky line to straddle going forward, but the show has rarely let us down before.
Emily Blunt portrays a down-on-her-luck single mom who launches a new career alongside Chris Evans’ pharmaceutical sales rep. Not a great idea, ultimately, given that she becomes involved in a racketeering scheme. And of course, she begins to realize that this company’s success is coming at a ghastly price for humanity. This is a dramatized version of the rise and fall of Insys Therapeutics, which no longer exists, and yeah, you will definitely find out why.
Apple TV+’s Fingernails turns love into an equation that can only be solved by, you guessed it, AI. Jessie Buckley plays Anna, a woman in a long term, algorithmically-sound relationship with Ryan (The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White) that’s been verified and sterilized by something called The Love Test – a machine that demands a couple’s fingernails in order to qualify their relationship’s percentage of success. When Anna meets her new co-worker Amir (Riz Ahmed), numbers give way to actual chemistry, causing her to doubt everything she thought she knew about love. It’s probably the most interesting soft-fi romance drama you’ll see this year.
Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666 in the works on the Yellowstone side, but first, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal. This series will harken back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land. Oyelowo will be accompanied by Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland.
The seventh season of Big Mouth ties Orange is the New Black and Grace and Frankie as Netflix’s longest-running scripted series (it will break the record in its eighth and final season). Not bad for an animated show about horny teenagers and hormone monsters. Guest stars this season include Megan Thee Stallion, Lupita Nyong’o, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda as a pubic hair. Good show.
No Hard Feelings is more than just the scene of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence beating up teenagers while naked. I mean, it’s that, but it’s also a breezy R-rated comedy with some genuine moments of heart. Lawrence and co-star Andrew Barth Feldman have strong chemistry, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Natalie Morales, and Kyle Mooney show up in funny supporting roles. If every movie is going to be based on an existing property, forget comic books — make more Craigslist ad comedies.*
Mike Flanagan fans, get ready. The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass showrunner is back along with Carla Gugino, who will spook your soul right out of your bod and deliver a “consequential” evening to “a collection of stunted hearts” that is the Usher family. Yikes. Do not expect a literal adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story. The story focuses here on the hell created by ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, who built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. Horrible secrets shall surface when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman, portrayed with glee by Gugino.
Have you ever been convinced that the animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese are freaking evil? Welcome to Five Nights At Freddy’s. In this adaptation of the wildly popular video game, Josh Hutcherson stars as Mike Schmidt, a security guard who’s about to seriously regret his new job. Tasked with keeping an eye on Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza joint, Mike quickly learns that the night shift is a terrifying hell ride as the pizzeria’s animatronic creatures come to life with a task of their own: Kill. Like the game, Mike will have to do everything in his power to survive the night and elude the dead-eyed mechanical monsters hunting him down.
I’m pretty positive that Edgar Allan Poe had (has?) the power to travel through time. Hear me out on this one.
It’s not just the well-known circumstances of his life — orphaned at a young age, father of the mystery novel, master of cryptology, maestro of the macabre. Nor am I referring to the head-scratching details of the days leading up to his death: how he was found on the street near a voting poll wearing someone else’s clothes, and during his subsequent hospitalization, he was alleged to babble incoherently about an unidentified person named “Reynolds.”
And I won’t even get into the confounding reports of a nameless figure who, for seven decades, would show up to Poe’s gravesite in the early hours of his birthday with a glass of cognac and three roses.
Tragic and curious, yes, but hardly evidence that the acclaimed horror writer could transcend the limits of space and time. No, my time travel theory concerns the author’s creative output, which you’ll soon see is so flukishly prophetic as to make my outlandish claim seem plausible — nay, probable!
The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is a loosely linked map of flesh-eating floaters, crunched skull survivors, and primordial particles. OK, here we go…
Exhibit A: “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”
Published in 1838, Poe’s only completed novel details a mutiny on a whaling ship lost at sea. Out of supplies, the men revert to cannibalism, drawing straws to elect a sacrifice. A boy named Richard Parker draws the shortest straw and is subsequently eaten.
Now here’s where it gets weird(er): In 1884, 46 years after the novel’s publication, four men would be set adrift following the sinking of their yacht. Shipwrecked and without food, they too would go the survival cannibalism route, electing to kill and eat a 17-year-old cabin boy. The boy’s name: Richard Parker.
The extraordinary parallel went unnoticed for nearly a century, until a widely-circulated letter from a descendant of the real Parker outlined the similarities between the novel’s scene and the actual event. The letter was selected for publication in The Sunday Times after journalist Arthur Koestler put out a call for tales of “striking coincidence.” Striking indeed.
Exhibit B: “The Businessman”
In 1848, a railroad worker named Phineas Gage suffered a traumatic brain injury after taking an iron spike through the skull. Somehow he survived, though his personality would change drastically. These behavioral changes were closely studied, allowing the medical community to develop the first understanding of the role played by the frontal lobe on social cognition.
Except for Poe, who’d inexplicably understood the profound personality changes caused by frontal lobe syndrome nearly a decade earlier. In 1840, he penned a characteristically gruesome story called “The Businessman” about an unnamed narrator who suffers a traumatic head injury as a young boy, leading to a life of obsessive regularity and violent, sociopathic outbursts.
Poe’s grasp of frontal lobe syndrome is so precise that neurologist Eric Altshuler wrote, “There’s a dozen symptoms and he knows every single one… There’s everything in that story, we’ve hardly learned anything more.” Altshuler, who, to reiterate, is a medically-licensed neurologist and not at all a crackpot, went on to say, “It’s so exact that it’s just weird, it’s like he had a time machine.”
Exhibit C: “Eureka”
Still unconvinced? What if I told you that Poe predicted the origins of the universe 80 years before modern science would begin to formulate the Big Bang theory? Surely, an amateur stargazer with no formal training in cosmology could not accurately describe the machinery of the universe, rejecting widely-held inaccuracies while solving a theoretical paradox that had bewildered astronomers since Kepler. Except that’s exactly what happened.
The prophetic vision came in the form of “Eureka,” a 150-page prose poem critically panned for its complexity and regarded by many as the work of a madman. Written in the final year of Poe’s life, “Eureka” describes an expanding universe that began in “one instantaneous flash” derived from a single “primordial particle.”
Poe goes on to put forth the first legitimate solution to Olbers’ paradox — the question of why, given the vast number of stars in the universe, the night sky is dark — by explaining that light from the expanding universe had not yet reached our solar system. When Edward Robert Harrison published “Darkness at Night” in 1987, he credited “Eureka” as having anticipated his findings.
In an interview with Nautilus, Italian astronomer Alberto Cappi speaks of Poe’s prescience, admitting, “It’s surprising that Poe arrived at his dynamically evolving universe because there was no observational or theoretical evidence suggesting such a possibility. No astronomer in Poe’s day could imagine a non-static universe.”
But what if Poe wasn’t of a day at all, but of all the days?
What if his written prophecies — on the cannibalistic demise of Richard Parker, the symptoms of frontal lobe syndrome, and the Big Bang theory — were merely reportage from his journey through the extratemporal continuum?
Surely I sound like a tinfoil-capped loon, but maybe, maybe, there are many more prophecies scattered throughout the author’s work, a possibility made all the more likely by the fact that, as The New York Times notes, “Poe was so undervalued for so long, there is not a lot of Poe-related material around.”
I’ll leave you with this quote, taken from a letter that Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell in 1844, in which he apologizes for his absence and slothfulness:
“I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass… You speak of “an estimate of my life” — and, from what I have already said, you will see that I have none to give. I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things, to give any continuous effort to anything — to be consistent in anything. My life has been whim — impulse — passion — a longing for solitude — a scorn of all things present, in an earnest desire for the future.”
This story was originally published on HistoryBuff and first appeared on 8.16.16
The early 2000s show to get a fresh new story will be the fan-favorite Fox series Prison Breakwhich aired from 2005 to 2009. The series follows Michael (Wentworth Miller), an engineer, who plots an elaborate escape plan after his brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) is sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Essentially, he has to break Lincoln out of prison. See where they were going with this?
Now, the series is heading back to the small screen, though through the eyes of some new players. The series will be written and executive produced by Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James. James is familiar with helming spinoffs, as Mayans M.C. takes place in the same universe as FX’s Sons of Anarchy.
The show has been described as a “new chapter” of the Prison Break universe. Even though the upcoming series will take place in the same universe, it doesn’t seem like any of the original storylines will carry over and the original cast is not slated to appear. However, many of the main cast reunited for 2017’s Prison Break Season 5 revival special, so they might be on board even if it’s just for a little cameo to see how those brothers are holding up after the initial series.
We can assume that Miller, who portrayed Michael in the series, won’t be back after he stated in 2020 that he was “out of PB” as he didn’t want to play straight characters anymore. He posted on Instagram at the time, “If you’re hot and bothered [because] you fell in love with a fictional straight man played by a real gay one… That’s your work.” Maybe this is a good opportunity for Michael to lead a quiet life as a retired prison breaker.
Jung Kook of BTS is releasing his first solo album, Golden, later tonight. Given that fans are extremely excited to hear his new music, many might be wondering when exactly the record will be available to stream on Spotify.
Here’s what to know.
Golden will be out on Spotify at midnight ET on November 3 — with other time zones being converted from this point. So, for listeners on the West Coast, they will be able to hear the record at 9 p.m. PT. This would also differ across the globe, depending on where you are.
Jung Kook’s album currently features some collabs. It will include his No. 1 hit song, “Seven,” which features Latto, along with the previously released “3D” track with Jack Harlow. In total, there are 11 tracks, and he is dropping a music video for the main track, “Standing Next To You.” View the complete tracklist here.
“Jungkook will be delivering special sage performances and making various appearances alongside the release of Golden,” Big Hit also previously shared in a statement, as they seem to tease a possible tour and continued press run. “Please stay tuned and continue to support Jungkook as he embarks on his first solo album journey.”
Golden is out 11/3 via Big Hit. Find more information here.
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Is it weird that one of the sweetest little feel-good shows on television this year also featured a group of pirates pillaging and murdering their enemies and sometimes chopping each other’s limbs off? It’s probably weird. It felt weird to type, at least. But it’s all true. I didn’t even mention the thing about the mutiny or the cursed outfits or Bronson Pinchot walking the plank. Or the thing about the grizzled and gruff first mate donning makeup and belting out “La Vie En Rose” on the ship. Our Flag Means Death is a wonderful television program. Weird, sure. But also wonderful.
The first season of the show kind of came out of nowhere. There was a fancy aristocrat named Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) who fled his wife and posh life in search of adventure on the high seas. He eventually crossed paths with Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), the legendary real-life pirate, or at least a very loosely fictionalized version of him. They fell in love. A bunch of the pirates on the ship fell in love with each other, too. Everyone was smooching and swashbuckling and having a blast until everything was torn apart in the final episodes. Stede and Blackbeard broke up. I was devastated by this. Picture trying to explain any of this to a person who never watched the show. This was my life for an entire year.
It returned for a second season this fall, finally. Things were still weird, but in a different way. Blackbeard was taking out the pain of his heartbreak by ramping up his pillaging, raiding so many ships and towns that he was ordering the crew to throw old treasure overboard to make room for new treasure. There was a minor mutiny. They ran afoul of the Pirate Queen of China (Ruibo Qian), who, because this show is committed at all times to being wild, spoke like an American millennial and blackmailed via charm. She fell in love with one of the male crew members, eventually. It was very sweet.
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Stede and Blackbeard got back together, too. The specifics are too important for me to type out here beyond saying that there were sword fights and hallucinations of mermen and a deeply satisfying and adorable reunion on the beach. Again, this is a show where people get slashed through the abdomen and blasted with cannonballs pretty much every episode. Leslie Jones from SNL showed up and chopped a dude’s entire nose off. There was, briefly, a character named Steak Knife who the Pirate Queen killed in a saloon. And it was also the cutest damn thing you’ve ever seen.
This exchange has stayed with me for over a week now. It might stay with me forever. It’s weird how these things work out.
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You wanna hear the wildest part of the whole thing? Yes, even wilder than “the dreaded murderous pirate Blackbeard had a hallucination while comatose where his posh estranged boyfriend appeared to him underwater with a mermaid tail and kissed him on the mouth”? I hope so because I’m going to tell you.
None of that — the forbidden romance, the Pirate Queen finding love, an actual wedding between two members of the crew — was the sweetest part of the show. That honor goes to the character arc for Blackbeard’s first mate, Izzy Hands, a raspy-voiced seafaring lifer who practices swordplay in candlelit rooms and who lost the lower part of his left after Blackbeard shot him and then amputated it to keep the infection from spreading. (It’s okay. The crew made him a prosthetic leg out of the wooden unicorn he destroyed in anger. See above, re: weird/wonderful show.) I have rarely gone from “I hate this guy and hope he dies” to “I would gladly give this man any of my limbs if he asks” faster for a television character. The list is pretty much Izzy Hands and Richie from The Bear. It’s a prestigious list. Richie would be a fun pirate.
Anyway, here is Izzy singing “La Vie En Rose” in full theatrical makeup on the deck of a pirate ship, just in case you thought I was kidding about that earlier.
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All of which is why — spoilers coming in heavy here — I was so heartbroken when he died in the season two finale. Like, actually heartbroken. I’m still sad today. I did not expect to cry a little while watching the show about gay pirates doing murder, but here we are. Between this and Reservation Dogs (also produced by Waititi), all of my favorite comedies have been making me leak tears out of my face lately. I feel okay about it.
I also feel okay — or at least okay-ish — about Izzy’s death after seeing this explanation of it all from showrunner David Jenkins in Vanity Fair.
There’s a trope that I like with mentor stories, where the mentor dies in the second act. Our protagonist outlives the mentor and then they have to go on. We felt like Izzy’s story had reached its conclusion, where we put him through enough. And then there was the realization that he is kind of a mentor to Blackbeard and that he is kind of a father figure to Blackbeard. It felt nice to have him die and have Blackbeard be upset by it, because Blackbeard killed his father. But this is a father figure that he’s losing that it’s hard for him; it’s sad and he doesn’t want him to go. Izzy has such a beautiful arc in season two; he does a lot of the things, has a lot of the breakthroughs that you want that character to have. It felt like: It’s time to give him a full meal. And it’s also a pirate show, so he’s got to die.
“It’s a pirate show, so he’s got to die.” I mean… yeah. Fair.
The season ended on a heartwarming note for almost everyone else, though. Stede and Blackbeard gave up pirating to open an inn together. The crew pressed on. There was a triumphant battle waged against stuffy British aristocrats. It all could work as a series finale if this is all we get. I hope we get more, though. It really is a remarkable little show, a mish-mashing of genres and style that makes the craziest twists you’ll ever see feel plausible. Plus, I want to see more of the Pirate Queen, who was a great addition to the show and one of my favorite characters on television so far this year.
It looks like Jenkins has plans for it, too, as he explained to Entertainment Weekly.
I mean, we’ll see. We’ll see if it makes sense for them to make a third one. We have a lot of ideas for a third season, and there’s a lot more story to tell. But if it’s not in the cards, I just wanted to leave Stede and Blackbeard in a good place. Instead of seeing them get punished for following each other, I wanted to see a moment where they’re alright. And it is just a moment: I think a relationship is going to take a lot of work for them.
Three notes in conclusion:
I love this weird little pirate show
I really hope it gets a third season, just to see where they end up taking it
More shows should feature a character named Steak Knife
During Thursday morning’s episode, co-host and Florida resident Ana Navarro went to town on DeSantis after the governor denied the allegations despite convincing photographic evidence to the contrary.
“There’s no foot in that boot! He has Barbie feet!” Navarro said via Decider. “Call me petty, and I know you will… I am relishing and enjoying this story so much because honestly, he has been terrorizing my drag queen friends in Florida well over a year because he has said men in heels are a threat to society. It’s too bad he has no drag queen friends because they would have taught him how to walk in heels.”
However, co-host Sara Haines wasn’t a fan of the topic. “There is plenty to pick apart about Ron DeSantis that I don’t think it’s the right tone to pick on his height,” she said.
Navarro wasn’t having it and defended the boot discussion. “It was a complete self-own by Ron DeSantis,” Navarro argued. “Donald Trump’s words got into his head that he’s got a Napoleonic complex!”
As for fellow conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin, she thinks the boot issue won’t be a political liability for the Florida governor because he has a much bigger issue on the campaign trail that was evident in his denial.
“The reason he’s never gonna be President is not the fact that he’s likely wearing high heels, it’s his answer to that clip,” Griffin said. “The lack of charisma is astounding.”
Tomlinson has also been touring nationally for years and has been doing stand-up since she was 16 years old. And now, we finally know who will be filling James Corden’s late night TV slot after he moved on to different pastures (and is hopefully now treating restaurant staff with the respect that they duly deserve). Tomlinson, for her part, is 29 years old, which means that she’s half the age of Stephen Colbert, who personally called her with news of her upcoming gig.
Tomlinson found out about this development only this week, and here’s how she reacted when Colbert delivered the news. She compared her casual Zoom appearance with this vibe: “You know when you think you’re gonna get dumped, and they propose instead?”
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There will be a quick turnaround, too. Tomlinson will begin her hosting duties in early 2024, and the show will be titled After Midnight. Don’t expect any Corden-esque touches, either, for this show will pattern itself after @Midnight, the Chris Hardwick-hosted semi-game show (of rotating celebrity contestants trying to out-funny each other) from Comedy Central (also of Paramount Global like CBS).
Tomlinson actually got her start on the Christian comedy circuit, but she’s since moved on to more brazen territory. Her Netflix stand-up specials dive into her experiences with bipolar disorder and other difficult subjects with plenty of bite. Not only will she be the only female late night host currently on the air, but by far, she will be the youngest of them all.
Michael Jordan’s reign was just beginning after the Chicago Bulls picked up their first championship at the end of the 1990-1991 basketball season. At this point in his career, Jordan was already the most iconic player on earth and if he never won another NBA championship, he’d still have gone down in history as an NBA great.
But being a great player wouldn’t be enough for Jordan. He had to be the best.
The 91-92 NBA basketball season saw Jordan bring home MVP designation for the season and finals, a second consecutive NBA championship, and a gold medal from the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. And he achieved all of that while rocking the newest sneaker in the Jordan lineage, the Air Jordan VII.
The Jordan VII saw Tinker Hatfield (the sneaker’s designer) and Michael Jordan coming into their own. Gone are the familiar Nike touchstones of old — there is no Nike branding, no visible air unit, and the silhouette itself was less indebted to the past, instead being inspired by Hatfield’s own Nike Huarache, giving the sneaker a neoprene bootie design which helped it to be lightweight and flexible.
The way Nike would market this sneaker would also represent a shift. Previous sneakers had Spike Lee assisted ad campaigns with Lee taking on the role of Mars Blackmon, the world’s first hardcore Jordan head. But with the Jordan 7, MJ was becoming too big a cultural force, so Blackmon was benched and replaced with another giant cultural icon, Bugs Bunny — foreshadowing the duo’s eventual collaboration in Space Jam, which would drop four years later.
Today, with a whole lot of fondness for this classic kick, we’re naming the greatest colorways to ever grace the Jordan VII silhouette. Let’s dive in.
Jordan VII Hare, 1992
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I’m convinced that the entire reason Warner Brothers and Nike collaborated in ’92 for the Bugs Bunny meets Michael Jordan ad campaign was just so they could make the pun “Hare Jordan.” To which I say… totally worth it.
One of the debut colorways of the Jordan VII, the Hare has gone down as one of the sneaker’s most coveted colorways, and it’s easy to see why. The sneaker features a classic white, red, and black Chicago colorway with a colorful tongue design inspired by West African art motifs.
Another of the debut colorways and quite possibly the fan-favorite from the five sneaker set, the Bordeaux is one of the best Air Jordan colorways of all time.
The sneaker sports a black and grey color-blocked make-up with rich wine details on the embroidered Jumpman logo and throughout the zig-zag tongue, which also features splashes of deep blue, forest green, and yellow.
The Jordan VII Raptor — which is a fan-created unofficial name — must’ve been heaven for early ‘90s Toronto Raptors fans. The sneaker allowed fans of the team to rock a super sweet pair of Jordans while still showing team spirit.
Another debut colorway, the Raptors featured a black upper with contrasting True Red and Club Purple accents. The geometric shapes along the midsole look a bit like mountains at sunset.
Of the five debut colorways, the Cardinal is the weakest in my opinion. But that opinion isn’t a popular one because this is the colorway Jordan wore when he won that second NBA championship. For that alone, it’s legendary.
The sneaker features a colorway very similar to the Hare, only with darker red tones and deeper blacks and yellow accents at the heel tab and embroidered Jumpman.
The reason I find the Cardinal to be the weakest of the five debut colorways is because the Olympics exists. This sneaker borrows the same color palette used on the Cardinal but with golden accents and hints of Navy Blue for Olympic regality.
This was the pair Jordan wore when he won a gold medal alongside the Dream Team at the ’92 Olympics. The sneakers have a sort of elevated air about them that translates through the design even without knowing they were worn at the Olympics.
For the first 10 years of this sneaker’s life, Jordan 7 colorways stayed unchanged until the Retro line of the sneakers dropped 10 years later and introduced the first new colorways outside of those first five.
The best of those new colorways was the Jordan 7 French Blue, which kept the base a bright white leather but added French and University Blue accents and branding, and hints of Flint Grey, resulting in a cool and muted take on the Jordan VII.
The Charcoal is pretty much the Jordan VII’s version of the legendary BRED colorway. It features a mix of muted black, dark charcoal, and red. I’m not totally sold on it.
It was one of two new colorways to launch alongside the release of the Jordan VII Retro and of the two it feels the weakest to me. Having said that, it’s still a significant colorway in the sneaker’s history so we’re including it here.
After the debut of the Retro Jordan VII, the silhouette wouldn’t get any new colorways until 2006 which would end up being as big a year for the silhouette as the debut drop in 1992. Many Jordan VII fans’ favorite colorway is from this era and one of the finest is the Flint.
The sneaker features a mix of white leather and dark suede with purple embroidered Jumpman and Jordan logos. Nearly twenty years later — it still looks fresh!
The Chambray may just be my absolute favorite colorway of the Jordan VII. Up until its release, the VII couldn’t quite nail a dark and moody colorway, instead leaning on that white leather base. Sure, you had the Raptors and Charcoal, but in the Chambray fans of darker colorways finally got what they were looking for.
The sneaker features a deep black upper with hints of icy pale blue accents and an overall stealthy air about it. The geometric shapes at the midsole remind me of ice-capped mountains.
Until recently, Jordan brand didn’t have the best track record for keeping up with its WMNS shoe-size audience, but there was at least some effort back in 2006 with this exclusive colorway.
The Maize isn’t as flashy as the other drops in the ’06 set but it’s still a fan favorite thanks to its mix of white leather and contrasting black and yellow details. Many a Jordan colorway would go on to use this same distinctive color palette.
A Jordan VII with a distinctive West Coast vibe (even though the colors make me think of the New York Knicks), the Pacific Blue is one of the most unique colorways ever to grace this silhouette.
Built on a leather pearl white base, the Pacific Blue mixes cool tones with some contrast by way of Nike’s orange-toned Ceramic color.
If you are into the dark colors of the Chambray but aren’t as into the stealthy and moody vibe, the Citrus is for you. It features a deep black upper but it is accented with bright orange and rich crimson colors that pop against its dark foundation.
For many people, this is the best Jordan colorway. I don’t think it quite reaches the heights of the Chambray but I can’t deny that this is one for the books. It’s easily in the top five colorways for this silhouette.
The Jordan VII Miró is conceptually a deep cut. Built off the base of the Olympic colorway, the Miró features graphics inspired by Barcelona-born artist Joan Miró’s Dona i Ocell sculpture.
Since the Olympic colorway is so closely associated with the Barcelona Olympic Games, this colorway feels like a real tribute to the Spanish city.
Inspired by the city of Orlando and a famous game in which Jordan scored 64 points against Orlando Magic in 1993, this sneaker features a mix of white leather, and black and Varsity Blue details with elephant print midsole detailing.
The sneaker’s tongue features white pinstripes on black, a reference to the away uniform for the Magic. It’s a dope design that points to a legendary game during Jordan’s reign.
The Orion Jordan VII isn’t the most flashy release in the sneaker’s history, it doesn’t do anything radical with the palette or design, but we can’t fault it for that because at the end of the day, it looks great.
The sneaker features a white leather base with Orion Blue embroidered branding and Infrared accents and black details. It’s a simple but effective four-color design.
Released in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the 92 Summer Olympic Games, the Golden Moments Jordan VII represents a victory lap for the silhouette. The sneaker features an all-black upper with shimmering gold and white accents. It looks like a trophy that you can wear on your feet!
This was a tough one. 2015 brought two sneakers inspired by the Dream Team’s time in Barcelona in ’92, the Barcelona Days and Barcelona Nights. There wasn’t room for both sneakers in this list so I’m going to have to give the coveted spot to the “Days” version.
Barcelona Days features a Wolf Grey leather upper with a mix of orange, turquoise, and infrared accents and charcoal black paneling.
Made to provide funding for sports programming in Native American and Indigenous communities, the Jordan VII N7 features a tribal-influenced graphic pattern along the sneaker’s tongue and ankle cage with a mix of turquoise and black accents over a white base with crimson branding.
I like the way the graphic pattern recalls the West African-inspired motif from the sneaker’s original drop.
The Jordan VII Hare 2.0 is exactly what it sounds like — it’s a design that looks like a continuation of the legendary debut Hare Jordan. The sneaker features a pony hair upper in neutral gray with a mix of pink foam and white tones, a slightly icy outsole, and that original combination of pale green and black tones.
Is it as dope as the Hare 1.0? No, but we like this idea of Jordan brand building off of past colorways. We hope it’s a trend they continue in the future.
The Vachetta Tan was released in celebration of the sneaker’s 30th anniversary. Unofficially dubbed the “Afrobeats,” this sneaker swapped out embroidered details for embossed details and featured a Vachetta tan leather upper with Dark Concord and Taxi accents.
The sneaker is also notable for featuring embroidered Nike Air branding at the heel. It’s a modern classic in the Jordan VII family.
Jordan Brand has spent much of this year mixing and matching colorways from other classic silhouettes, which brings us to the White Infrared.
Taking its colorway from the Jordan VI White Infrared — the sneaker MJ wore during the 91 Finals — this sneaker features a bright white leather base with gentle Infrared accents at the midsole graphic and Jumpman branding, with black detailing to balance the design.
It’s this year’s finest Jordan VII colorway and we’re happy to include it in the history of this silhouette’s best colorways. Even if it still works better on the VI.
Nightcrawler, the 2014 neo-noir film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an obsessive video journalist received great reviews when it was released and has a great reputation even now, but PinkPantheress has plenty of reason to resent it. In a new interview with i-D, the “Boy’s A Liar” singer revealed how the film made her miss out on an opportunity to record with Kendrick Lamar. Apparently, during a date to see Nightcrawler with a guy, she courteously put her phone on silent — and missed Kendrick’s text inviting her to the studio. “I can’t even think about it,” she said.
Now, she’s a little over a week away from the release of her debut albumHeaven Knows, which features Central Cee, Kelela, Rema, and, of course, Ice Spice. Weirdly enough, though, it does not feature her collaboration with Destroy Lonely, the ironically titled “Turn Your Phone Off.”
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