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For most of us, waking up to a temperature of minus 50 degrees would spell catastrophe. Normal life would come to a screeching halt, we’d be scrambling to deal with frozen pipes and power outages, school and work would be canceled and weather warnings would tell us not to venture outside due to frostbite risk.

But in the Yakutia region of Siberia, that’s just an average winter day where life goes on as usual.

When you live in the coldest inhabited area on Earth, your entire life is arranged around dealing with ridiculously cold temperatures. Villages don’t have running water because freezing pipes wouldn’t allow for water treatment. Kids go to school unless the temp drops below minus 55 degrees Celsius (which is then considered dangerous). Showering involves spending hours stoking a fire in the bathhouse to create a steamy, warm room.

Native Siberian Kiun B. has created a series of documentary short films detailing what daily life is like in Yakutia’s frigid winters. She was born and raised in Yakutsk, Siberia, widely recognized as the coldest city on Earth, where average winter temperatures hover around minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. As seen in her videos, smaller villages in the Yakutia region regularly dip down into the negative 50s, with the lowest recorded temp in the Yakut village of Oymayakon reaching a mindblowing minus 96 degrees Fahrenheit.

The popularity of Kiun’s YouTube channel demonstrates how curious people are about life in such harsh conditions, as her videos have been viewed by tens of millions of people in the past year alone.

Check out this video detailing a day in the life of a family in a Yakutia village.

Can you imagine going out to use an outhouse in minus 40 degrees? Oof.

Another of Kiun’s videos goes into more detail about how people shower and do laundry in the region. You might assume they wouldn’t line-dry their laundry outdoors, but they do.

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What do people wear to protect themselves from the negative temperatures? Frostbite is a real risk, so it’s important to have the right kinds of clothing and outdoor gear to stay safe and relatively comfortable.

Kiun shared some frigid fashion norms from Yakutsk, which include traditional fur hats and boots as well as lots of layers and down jackets.

However, there are some Yakut folks who see the cold as something to embrace. For instance, this man takes an ice bath out in the elements as a morning ritual. It’s something he has worked up to—definitely not something to try on your own during a cold snap—but it still has to be painful.

(Seriously, please don’t try this at home.)

The way humans have learned to adapt to drastically different environments, from the sweltering tropics to the Arctic tundra, is incredible, and it’s fascinating to get a close-up look at how people make life work in those extremes. Thank you, Kiun B., for giving us a glimpse of what it’s like to experience life in the dead of winter in the world’s coldest inhabited places.

Facebook has been a great place for people to bare all when it comes to their emotions. But when it comes to bearing all with regards to bodies, Facebook has always seemed as if they’d rather people bare none of it. Facebook has received criticism for over-sexualizing breasts, but a new recommendation from Meta’s advisory board says the nipples can come out for nonbinary users.

Recently, Facebook censored two posts from a transgender and non-binary couple that featured the couple appearing topless. Even though their nipples were covered, an AI system took the photos down for “violating the Sexual Solicitation Community Standard” after they were flagged by a human user. The couple appealed to Meta, and the photos were reinstated, but it was enough to catch the attention of Meta’s oversight board, which advises Meta on content moderation policies, and is made up of academics, politicians, and journalists.

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After looking at the issue, the oversight board suggested Meta change their Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity Community Standards “so that it is governed by clear criteria that respect international human rights standards.”

According to the board, Meta’s policy was “based on a binary view of gender and a distinction between male and female bodies,” making it “unclear” in how it deals with intersex, non-binary and transgender users.

“We are constantly evolving our policies to help make our platforms safer for everyone,” a spokesperson from Meta told The Guardian. “We know more can be done to support the LGBTQ+ community, and that means working with experts and LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations on a range of issues and product improvements.”

How free the nipples should be on the social media platform has been a source of contention for more than a decade. Breastfeeding moms have been leading the battle of the boob, duking it out with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their ability to share nursing photos on social media. They’ve gone so far as holding a “nurse in” at Facebook headquarters to protest the ban on breasts.

In 2020, Instagram loosened up their nudity policy thanks to a campaign started by Nyome Nicholas-Williams. And while nipples are still a no-no, Instagram now allows breast cupping, hugging, and holding. And in 2021, the oversight board gave the okay for “health related nudity,” allowing for photos of nips if they’re related to things like breastfeeding, birth-giving, breast cancer awareness, or gender confirming surgery. Acts of protest are allowed as well.

Facebook has received criticism for the platform being lax on hate speech but tough on boobs. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg says this is because, It’s easier to build an AI system to detect a nipple than what is hate speech.” Which might explain why Meta is going to use “human reviewers” to “quickly assess both a user’s sex, as this policy applies to ‘female nipples,’ and their gender identity,” according to the board.

The new nipple rules are only applicable to transgender and non-binary users. “The same image of female-presenting nipples would be prohibited if posted by a cisgender woman but permitted if posted by an individual self-identifying as non-binary,” the board noted in its decision.

While the nipple might not fully be free on Facebook, it has taken one large step forward out of its cage. However, Facebook’s over-sexualization of breasts might just be a reflection of society, and in order for the nipple to run wild and out in the open, we might need to change the way people think about breasts in general.

Alt-pop rockers Beach Weather make music for everyone. With the singles off their forthcoming album Pineapple Sunrise their breezy style can strike a chord with romantics and introverts alike. Sunny chords and jaunty riffs make their band name seem apt, but underneath the surface, one can find relatable lyrics about isolation, relationship woes, and self-image.

The trio — composed of vocalist Nick Santino, bassist Reeve Powers, and guitarist Sean Silverman — is a band of fast friends. They first linked up in 2015 and quickly delivered a series of EPs (their debut Chit Chat was recently re-discovered on TikTok and its track “Sex, Drugs, Etc.” has been doing crazy numbers on the app). After amicably taking a break from music in 2017, they reformed in 2020, poised and ready to serve up lively and — in their own words — euphoric music. So far, the tracks off Pineapple Sunrise have proved just that, proving Beach Weather have yet to reach their peak.

Celebrating the impending release of Pineapple Sunrise, Beach Weather chat with Uproxx about the desert, supportive parents, and getting a massive tattoo right before work in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Santino: Eclectic, Energetic, Emotional, Euphoric

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

Santino: I’m surprised the world hasn’t already ended multiple times to be honest. But I think the thing about music is the nostalgia you get from hearing the same song over and over. Wanting to relive the first time we heard it every time. We like how those 3 minutes you get out of a song make you feel, we love the pain of a sad song and the high of a dance song. I hope our music gets remembered for all those same reasons.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?

Santino: Something about the west coast has always felt special to us. Phoenix always feels like a home show when we’re there. There’s something special about the desert.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Santino: Oh man, If you asked all three of us you’d probably hear three completely different answers, but for me personally (Nick) the answer is somewhere between The Beatles and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers… But also ’90s boy bands and 2000s country. Not an easy answer honestly. But there is something in all of those that inspire the songwriting I do today. For the same reasons as two questions above, I listened to all of this music at different points in my life and certain songs and artists just make you feel something.

What album do you know every word to?

Silverman: I can almost mouth all the lyrics to Radiohead’s OK Computer or at least most of the lyrics that you can hear Thom Yorke sing.

What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?

Silverman: Saw Phoenix right after they had won their first Grammy Award in Phoenix, AZ at The Marquee Theatre. Changed my entire life. The entire crowd ended up on the stage by the end of the performance.

What is the best outfit for performing and why?

Silverman: A nice semi cropped suit jacket. Gives a little extra room for activities.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?

Silverman: Cugine! More specifically @meals_by_cug on Instagram. I can watch that man eat all day.

What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?

Silverman: Probably a Beatles or Petty tune. Usually have both on heavy rotation.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

Silverman: Nicholas Cage Raising Arizona shirt.

What album makes for the perfect gift?

Silverman: The Nine Inch Nails record The Fragile. It’s a double disk of sadness. Should keep that person busy for a while trying to get through the mess.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life?

Silverman: I had one of the best meals of my life at Supper in NYC. I still dream about that chicken parmesan.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Powers: In Europe, all the rooms had two twin beds and we didn’t have much money for multiple rooms… so we would push the beds together. I was the youngest and smallest (at the time), so I got the middle crack every night for a month.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

Powers: I actually managed a tattoo shop during our hiatus and got quite a few. I got my entire stomach done at 9am before work… I think I could endure anything in life after experiencing that kind of pain. It’s a chameleon perched on top of a knife!

What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?

Powers: My top 4… Kings of Leon, The Strokes, Phoenix and Cage the Elephant.

What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

Powers: My parents raising me to believe I can be anyone that I wanna be. My mom made me feel unstoppable and my dad talked me out of going to college to pursue music.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Powers: Experiment more with other musicians and stop dating around so much, you need to practice your instruments.

What’s the last show you went to?

Powers: Saw my friend Maddie Bouton of Angel Saint Queen play bass for a really cool artist named Ren (issaren) that I discovered that evening. She had some SZA vibes and did a really cool Dijon cover live.

What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?

Powers: Goodfellas.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

Powers: I don’t think that’s appropriate to say in public!

Pineapple Sunrise is out 3/3 via Arista Records. Pre-order it here.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced a brand new game during their Developer Direct called Hi-Fi Rush. From the creators of The Evil Within, and featuring Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, this game is not a horror game but a rhythm beat’em up game. Featuring a colorful cell shaded art style, players are able to fight through enemies to the rhythm of rock-inspired music, and the more on rhythm they are, the better they’ll do in combat. It’s a neat concept and one that a lot of people immediately gravitated towards.

The stunning part of this was that at the end of the presentation, they announced that the game was ready to release today. In a shocking announcement, Hi-Fi Rush is available on Microsoft consoles and PC for purchase and GamePass the day of the announcement. Not a demo. Not a preview. The actual full game. We’ve heard of stealth releases before, but this is unprecedented.

While this probably isn’t going to become the norm anytime soon, it’s really cool to see a game get a surprise release like this during an event that’s usually just for teasers and trailers. It’s going to be really fun seeing everyone react to it, all while players rush to go check this out throughout the evening.

Cordae and Anderson .Paak — who made one hell of a team on “RNP” from Cordae’s debut album The Lost Boy — reunite for some more collaborative chemistry on mellow new single, “Two Tens.”

“Two Tens” is a stark departure from the upbeat “RNP,” replacing the bouncy funk of their first team-up with jazzy neo-soul produced by none other than J. Cole. But other than that, the formula remains the same as the two rappers, 11 years apart, pass the mic and trade four-bar sequences back and forth like the NBA’s illest two-man weave.

Content-wise, it’s also very similar to “RNP,” as the two rappers smoothly boast and brag about their female companions for the night. Cordae tries to set AP straight but AP just wants to have fun.

Likewise, the video is a throwback that follows the boys as they slide to the club, where they party with some enthusiastic women. Even though there’s some slight friction, they show mutual appreciation for each other’s situation, leading to a celebratory evening for all.

Although Cordae hasn’t officially announced his third album yet, “Two Tens” sounds like a strong start to the 25-year-old’s 2023, picking up where “Checkmate” left off.

Watch the video for “Two Tens” above.

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

If you Google “science,” as one does, the first result is for Science.org. Here are three recent articles from the website: “Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears,” “Despite opposition, Japan may soon dump Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific,” and “Human geneticists apologize for past involvement in eugenics, scientific racism.” Yeesh. Is science always this depressing?

Thankfully, no. Sometimes it can tell us something fun and important, like that Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page is the “most handsome man in the world,” scientifically speaking.

A cosmetic surgeon has found that Page’s face is 93.65 percent accurate to the Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi. The Golden Ratio – which is a ratio of roughly 1.618 – measures the symmetry of a person’s face and determines their attractiveness. Other hunky men who follow behind Page include Chris Hemsworth with 93.53 percent and Michael B. Jordan with 93.46 percent.

“These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients’ surgery,” Dr. Julian De Silva, a Harley Street facial cosmetic surgeon, told Metro. Thank you, science, for telling us that Page’s eye position is 99.8 percent accurate, but his chin is only 94 percent. Disgusting.

The possible future-James Bond can next be seen in your dreams, as well as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, alongside fellow hunk, Chris Pine.

(Via the New York Post and Metro)

After getting roasted by Shakira in the global hit “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” her ex Gerard Piqué responded by saying that he entered into a sponsorship with Casio. On Monday (January 23), the watch-making company made it known that there’s no partnership with Piqué.

After Shakira released “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53” with Bizarrap earlier this month, the song went viral thanks to her biting lyrics against Piqué and his current girlfriend. Shakira implied that his relationship with Marti was a downgrade in the diss track. She compared herself to a Ferrari and a Rolex while saying that Piqué settled for a Twingo car and a Casio watch.

During a Twitch live-stream with Kings League, Piqué announced that the group received a sponsorship from Casio. He handed out Casio watches to his King Leagues colleagues. When asked if the sponsorship was a joke, Piqué said, “No, I’m being serious.”

Following the song’s release, several fake Casio accounts popped on Twitter and responded to Piqué’s revelation. In an interview with Reason Why, Casio’s marketing director in Spain and Portugal, David Zuazua, set the record straight. He maintained that Casio has not taken any sides when it comes to Shakira and Piqué.

“I could answer you in more detail if we had triggered that but it is not the case,” Zuazua said. “I guess he got worked up since it was his first appearance. I insist that our brand positioning has always tried to be neutral and away from the media show.”

While dispelling that rumor, Zuazua also talked about the “Shakira effect” on the sales of Casio watches. “I can confirm that thanks to the Shakira effect, sales have been spectacular. On Saturday (72 hours after the song’s release) Casio’s sales were brutal. But the best thing is every day [sales] are much better than last year.”

Winter storms will abound in February, so the time is right for Netflix to sweep you away with some returning fan-favorite series. To that end, You and Outer Banks will come back with new seasons of intrigue, murder, and theatrics. As well, comedian Jim Jefferies will return for a fifth special, which will only enhance the streamer’s reputation for going in hard on biting wit. The Netflix true crime game will also keep cranking away with a new documentary about a wealthy family that fell from grace.

Fresh library additions are also coming your way, and those include the Lord of the Rings movie from director Peter Jackson. Tolkien lovers will now be able to freely switch between that film and the Amazon series, so fantasy binges will be readily available even while Netflix’s The Sandman and HBO’s House of the Dragon sit between Seasons. Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) Netflix in February.

You: Season 4 Part 1 (Netflix series streaming 2/9)

Joe Goldberg has another new name, and he’s moved to London. More news: the stalker is the one being stalked. Joe also has a new beard, but someone’s still onto him, but most importantly for his purposes, he’s vowed to finally change his ways, but books are still there for him. He’s now Jonathan Moore, a fake professor, who’s staring into the souls of college students and the adults who can’t quit academia, either. Penn Badgley has admitted to to feeling “icky” about a Season 4 poster, which still fits with the theme of the show, but now, it’s also a mystery story.

Jim Jefferies: High n’ Dry (Netflix comedy special streaming 2/14)

For better or worse, Jim Jefferies is preceded by his own reputation, which volleyed high after his infamous bit on gun control (which you can see above) and how Australia differs from the United States in that regard. In recent years, Jefferies has attempted to move into more inconsequential subjects, and he’ll take another shot in his fifth Netflix special, in which he will discuss sex drives, vasectomies, hair, and stoned koalas.

Outer Banks: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 2/23)

This soapy mystery thriller will keep the battle going between the Kooks and the Pogues. This season, the latter group aims to visit the Caribbean for new adventures, but of course, that leads to diversions into other locations while everyone searches for a lost city. This was perhaps (deliciously) inevitable.

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal (Netflix documentary streaming 2/22)

Netflix’s commitment to true crime often stomps the streaming competition into oblivion. In this entry, viewers will get to know the Murdaugh family, who ran far and wide in wealthy South Carolina circles until the death of a teenager (during a boating accident) slowly toppled their social status. Later, the Murdaugh who allegedly powered that boat ended up dead, as did his mother. Through interviews and first-hand accounts never before seen, this documentary explores that horrible initial night and goes on to investigate the double murder that followed.

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The Great British Baking Show: The Professionals: Season 6
Gunther’s Millions
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Call Me by Your Name
Daddy’s Little Girls
Eat Pray Love
Enough
It (2017)
Julie & Julia
La La Land
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
New Amsterdam: Seasons 3 & 4
The Pursuit of Happyness
Spanglish
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
Stepmom
Survivor: Season 32
Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself
Underworld

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Freeridge

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Class
Infiesto
Stromboli
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go: Season 2
True Spirit
Viking Wolf

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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

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VINLAND SAGA: Season 2

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Bill Russell: Legend
The Exchange
MTV Floribama Shore: Season 1

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Dear David
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
You: Season 4: Part 1

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10 Days of a Good Man
Love is Blind: After the Altar Season 3
Love to Hate You
Your Place or Mine

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Squared Love All Over Again
VINLAND SAGA: Season 2 (new episodes)

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All the Places
A Sunday Affair
In Love All Over Again
Jim Jefferies: High n’ Dry
Pasión de Gavilanes: Seasons 1-2
Perfect Match
Re/Member

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#NoFilter
African Queens: Njinga
CoComelon: Season 7
Eva Lasting
Full Swing
The Law According to Lidia Poët
Red Rose

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47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Ouija
The Upshaws: Part 3

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A Girl and an Astronaut
Community Squad
Ganglands: Season 2
Unlocked

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Whindersson Nunes: Preaching to the Choir

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Operation Finale
VINLAND SAGA: Season 2 (new episodes)

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Perfect Match

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Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
The Strays
Triptych

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Call Me Chihiro
Outer Banks: Season 3

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Formula 1: Drive to Survive: Season 5
Oddballs: Season 2
Married at First Sight: Season 12
Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series: Part 2
The Real World: Season 12
We Have a Ghost
Who Were We Running From?

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VINLAND SAGA: Season 2 (new episodes)

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A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou
American Pickers: Season 15
Perfect Match
Too Hot to Handle: Germany

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Dragonheart: Vengeance

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The Paper Tigers

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H2O: Just Add Water: Seasons 2-3

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Versailles: Seasons 1-2

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ONE PIECE: East Blue
ONE PIECE: Enter Chopper at the Winter Island
ONE PIECE: Entering into the Grand Line

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Monster High: Electrified

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The Forest
Mr. Right
Term Life

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No Escape Room

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Bert Kreischer: The Machine

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Sin senos sí hay paraíso: Seasons 1-3

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Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion

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Air Force One
Cake
Coach Carter
Margin Call
Scream 4
Shutter Island
Sorry to Bother You
Walking Tall

There is no denying Blackpink‘s status as being one of the most successful girl groups of our generation. Following the news of them being the first K-pop act and girl group to headline Coachella earlier this month, another set of the records are on the table… but for one of its members — Lisa.

While she may be breaking hearts of those jealous of soccer superstar Neymar’s photo with her, the Thai K-pop star has set three Guinness World Record titles after her groundbreaking solo projects last year as an artist and an influencer.

In a report from the Guinness World Record yesterday (January 24), Lisa, whose real name is Lalisa Manoban, earned herself the titles of the first solo K-pop winner at the MTV Video Music Awards, the first solo K-pop winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards, and the K-pop star who has the most followers on Instagram.

At last year’s MTV VMAs, Lisa won the Best K-Pop Video title to which BTS previously won the past years since the category’s debut in 2019. The same can be said about her MTV EMAs win last year, where the category was won by BTS since 2021.

As for Lisa’s third record title, the K-pop star has earned herself 86.3 million followers as of January 19 this year.

Blackpink is currently on their Born Pink World Tour will headline Coachella this April as well as the BST Hyde Park London Music Festival this July.

Dolly Parton is pairing up with the popular vinyl subscription service, Vinyl Me, Please, for a unique debut offering. The special option offers the first and limited-edition “Vinyl Me, Parton” dedicated to and curated by the country legend.

“I’m excited to be the first artist for the dedicated Record Of The Month club,” Parton shares in the new teaser video before the cryptic video cuts back to television static.

While it’s still unclear how long the new Parton-focused feature will run for or what it will consist of, it seems next month might give those interested in joining some more concrete answers.

According to the VMP website, fans can join the interest list to be notified when the pre-orders open some time in February. “There will only be a limited number of spots available,” they note.

As for Parton, it’s already been a pretty busy year for her. Between performing on a song from the 80 For Brady soundtrack to working on a gospel track with Dionne Warwick, it seems she has even more scheduled for her career in 2023.

And hey, she’s even been teasing a brand new rock album with Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, and more artists on it, so that might even become a vinyl inclusion.

The sign-up for Dolly Parton’s new “Vinyl Me, Parton” project is available here.