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The feel-good of “Spotify Wrapped” was left in 2022. Spotify announced today, January 23, that it is “reducing our employee base by about 6% across the company” through an open letter from CEO Daniel Ek posted here. It’s brutal, but at least Spotify didn’t compound the salt in the layoff wound by hosting a private Sting performance like Microsoft reportedly did.

The lengthy note from Ek additionally announced that Chief Content & Advertising Business Officer Dawn Ostroff “has decided to depart Spotify,” while Chief Product Officer Gustav Söderström and Chief Freemium Business Officer Alex Norström will be leading their respective teams “as co-presidents, effectively helping me run the company day-to-day.”

“In the near term, Dawn will assume the role of senior advisor to help facilitate this transition,” Ek wrote. “Alex will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward and you’ll hear more from him on that.”

Ek explained that the approximately six percent cut in workforce is due to him being “too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth” and because he had “hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business and lower risk to the impact of a slowdown in ads would insulate us.”

Beyond Spotify and Microsoft, big companies like Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet, and Salesforce have also recently announced layoffs.

See some of the reactions to the news below.

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw the much-hyped return of Boygenius and Ice Spice continue her rapid ascent. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters. Also find our Uproxx HQ Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly with the best new music, at the end of this post.

Boygenius — “Emily I’m Sorry”

In 2018, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker dropped their self-titled debut EP as Boygenius. Ever since then, fans have been yearning for a reunion, and now it’s happening. They announced The Record, their debut album, last week and dropped off a three-pack of songs, one led by each of the trio. Among them is “Emily I’m Sorry,” a Bridgers-sung track that a vulnerable piece of storytelling.

Kim Petras — “Brrr”

A No. 1 single (“Unholy“) is tough to follow, but Petras is doing an admirable job with “Brrr.” The predictably icy tune is a wintry pop banger, featuring synthy and industrial production to both contrast and play nice with Petras’ airy vocals.

Ice Spice and Lil Tjay — “Gangsta Boo”

Ice Spice started breaking out last year and after a run of singles, she’s finally dropped her first project, an EP dubbed Like..?. It includes some of those aforementioned loosies as well as some new cuts, like the jaunty Lil Tjay collaboration “Gangsta Boo.”

The Kid LAROI — “I Can’t Go Back To The Way It Was (Intro)”

LAROI has quickly become a star over the past couple years and now he’s prepping for further domination with a new album, The First Time. He prefaced it last week with “I Can’t Go Back To The Way It Was (Intro),” the project’s opening track that sets the table with tales of personal struggle and the difficulty of life.

Skrillex and Bobby Raps — “Leave Me Like This”

Skrillex is in the midst of a productive run right now and he continued it last week by linking up with Bobby Raps for “Leave Me Like This.” Uproxx’s Alex Gonzales notes the track “delivers a groovy, house-inspired beat” and has “exciting drops and thumping bass.”

Arlo Parks — “Weightless”

Last week was big for album announcements, thanks in part to Arlo Parks revealing My Soft Machine. The first taste of the forthcoming LP is “Weightless,” a reflective and upbeat synth-pop tune. Phoebe Bridgers, by the way, is also involved with this project, as well as the next one on this list.

The National — “Tropic Morning News”

The National have been doing some mysterious things lately, and now we know why: The group has a new album, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein, on the way. Along with sharing the tracklist, tour dates, and other details, they also dropped “Tropic Morning News,” a driving new tune that they previously debuted live in 2022.

NLE Choppa — “23”

We’re still in prime New Years’ resolutions season and that’s the energy NLE Choppa is bringing on “23.” On the track, he raps about the personal improvements he envisions for himself here in 2023: “The old sh*t ain’t goin’ forward, this a newer me / Probably knew me last year, but you don’t know me.”

ASAP Rocky — “Same Problems?”

It would seem ASAP Rocky is in the midst of putting the finishing touches on a new album. While that’s forthcoming, what we have now is a fresh song, “Same Problems?.” Uproxx’s Alex Gonzalez describes the tune, “The song features minimalist production, allowing listeners to focus on Rocky’s soft vocals, as he sings in a forlorn, crestfallen manner.”

Wednesday — “Chosen To Deserve”

We’re in a peak mid-week era: Wednesday is one of the biggest TV shows and Wednesday the band has a new album on the way. The group announced Rat Saw God last week and launched it with “Chosen To Deserve,” which began as an attempt to re-create a Drive-By Truckers song and ended up as a sunny and delightful country-inspired tune.

Rosalía was in Paris on January 19 to perform her hits at Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter 2023 Fashion Show. The Spanish pop star became the first woman to perform live at the event during Paris Fashion Week.

Rosalía served as musical curator for Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter 2023 Fashion Show. Dressed in menswear from Louis Vuitton, she performed many of the songs from her Motomami album from the roof of a yellow lowrider car. From her recent album, she sang the remix of “Candy” that featured Chencho Corleone, “Saoko,” and “Cuuuuuuuuuute.” Rosalía also performed music from her breakthrough album, 2018’s El Mal Querer.

DJ Clara3000 was the house DJ during Rosalía’s performance. Rosalía also made sure to highlight emerging artists and genres. DJ Clara3000 played the Brazilian funk banger “Sento No Bico Da Glock” by DJ Gabriel Do Borel, MC Lucy, and MC Rogê and Dominican rapper Angel Dior’s song “AIO.” Rosalía also performed a Brazilian funk remix of her smash hit “Despechá” by Nusar3000.

Rosalía is already getting ready to release new music. Her next single, “LLYLM,” which stands for “Lie Like You Love Me,” will be released on January 27. From the lyrics she teased on social media, Rosalía is singing the new song in English.

Here’s some stunning news: Future is not headlining Rolling Loud in Portugal this year. It’ll be the first Rolling Loud to not feature Future as a headliner since the 2021 New York show, as he was billed on every event in 2022 and the upcoming return to Los Angeles this March. Instead, the Portugal show this year will be headlined by returning RL mainstay Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, and Meek Mill. It’ll take place the weekend of July 5-7 at Portimão, Praia Da Rocha Beach.

Also included on the lineup are such names as Central Cee, GloRilla, JID, Joey Badass, Kodak Black, Latto, Lil Durk, Lil Uzi Vert, NLE Choppa, Ski Mask The Slump God, Soulja Boy, and YG. Local acts like Wet Bed Gang (no comment) are also included, and a bunch of the lineup is dominated by British rap standouts like Aitch, Digga D, Sainté, Tion Wayne, and more.

Rolling Loud’s last event in Portugal took place July 6-8, 2022 and was headlined by ASAP Rocky, Future, and J. Cole. Clearly, it went well enough that the festival is returning to the Iberian Peninsula, with many of the same acts returning.

Presale for Rolling Loud Portugal begins January 26 at 10 am, while general sale begins at 1 pm. As usual, more info can be found on RollingLoud.com.

It’s that time again to celebrate those iconic movie performances from 2022 by awarding actors with tiny statues that are worth a lot of money and even more industry clout. Of course, we are talking about The Razzies, the awards that celebrate the worst movies that came out last year and shame everyone involved.

Yes, a lot of these movies were made during a pandemic, and times are tough and all of that, but the Razzies aren’t about to stop their tradition. This year, there is a tight matchup between the best actors of the last 50 years: Tom Hanks and Pete Davidson.

Davidson gave multiple legendary performances last year, including playing the “guy who f*cks” in Bodies Bodies Bodies and snagging the leading role in a Hellman’s mayo commercial. But not all of them can be winners, which is why he is nominated for both worst actor and worst supporting actor at this year’s Razzies, for his voice role in Marmaduke and his cameo in Good Mourning, two things you probably did not see.

Up against Davidson is Hanks, nominated for his roles in both Elvis and Pinocchio. But given Hanks many, many stellar performances, he’s allowed to phone it in every once in a while. Also securing nominations is Ana de Armas in Blonde and Jared Leto in Morbius, which is still going down as one of the most confusing movies ever.

The Razzies are awarded yearly to actors, though they have been a little kinder as of late. Last year, they rescinded Bruce Willis’s Razzie award for Worst Performance after it was revealed that the actor was suffering from a rare brain disorder. So, maybe they do have hearts after all! But not for Blonde. You can check out the rest of the nominations here.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

After revealing the first footage for Rebel Moon earlier this month, Netflix has confirmed that the Zack Snyder space epic will now be split into two films that are being shot back-to-back. The film was born out of a Star Wars pitch that Snyder made to Lucasfilm in 2012, which ultimately never came to be. However, the writer/director kept the story in his back pocket, and over the years, he realized the potential to turn it into a standalone sci-fi series of his own.

After working with Snyder on Army of the Dead, Netflix jumped at the chance to develop Rebel Moon, which has unsurprisingly ballooned into two films because we’re talking about the guy who made a four-hour long Justice League movie. Via Variety:

Zack came in with so much passion. This is a film that he’s had in mind for decades. As you know, he’s spent so much time working on other people’s IP at other studios. We worked with him on “Army of the Dead” and we did things that others couldn’t do. We made a film and then a prequel and launched a live experience. With “Rebel Moon” he wanted to push the envelope again. When we saw how big the world he created was, we thought it would be better served as two pieces versus one film. It’s the kind of story that can continue to grow. He thinks of it as his take on making something like “Star Wars.”

At the time of this writing, little is known about Rebel Moon except a broad plot synopsis that definitely has a Star Wars bent to it. A young woman named Kora (Sofia Boutella) is tasked with putting together a band of warriors from nearby planets to mount a stand against Regent Balisarius (Ed Skrein) an invading interplanetary warlord. Charlie Hunnam, Ray Fisher, Djimon Honsou, Anthony Hopkins, Jena Malone, Cory Stoll, and Cary Elwes round out the cast of the sci-fi epic.

Rebel Moon premieres December 22, 2023.

(Via Variety)

When the Grizzlies and Lakers met on Friday night in L.A., not many expected the lead story to be an altercation at the end of the first half between Dillon Brooks, Steven Adams, Ja Morant, and…Shannon Sharpe.

The NFL Hall of Famer turned FOX Sports talking head has become one of LeBron James’ most vocal supporters, and he took that a tad too far when he interjected himself into the action on Friday night in what became a Lakers win. Sharpe initially gave a statement at halftime talking about how he wanted the smoke and the Grizzlies were soft, but after some time to reflect on the incident, Sharpe struck a different tone on Monday morning’s Undisputed.

Sharpe offered a lengthy and earnest apology to the Lakers, the Grizzlies, Dillon Brooks and Ja Morant specifically, and LeBron James, who offered his support of Sharpe after the game.

“Friday night at the Lakers game, I want to apologize for my behavior. I’ve preached for the last six and a half years, responsibility and accountability, and I take full responsibility for what transpired. It does not matter what Dillon Brooks said or how many times he said it. Me being the responsible person, me having the platform I have, and me having so many people look up to me, I was wrong. I should’ve lowered the temperature in the arena. Instead, I turned the temperature up and I let it get out of hand.”

He would continue to offer direct apologies to the Lakers and Grizzlies organizations for negative attention he brought to both, to Brooks who he called a “fierce competitor” and wished him the best, to Morant who he lauded for his incredible abilities, to James for always supporting him and putting him in a position to have to support him after such a display, and also his family who had to see that and be associated with it.

All things considered, this is about as well done as it gets from Shannon, who absolutely could’ve just doubled and tripled down on his behavior, ranting and raving about the Grizzlies. It seems that it was almost a moment of reckoning for Sharpe that he’s no longer an active part of the games, but just a fan and he can’t let his emotions run as hot as the players actually participating. Kudos to him for finding that perspective and we’ll see if he can keep the banter to a friendlier note at future games.

Let’s say you were born in 1999. And let’s also say you’re interested in learning about the rise and fall of 1990s alternative rock. Naturally, you brush up with some informative Google searches. Then you head to your streaming platform of choice. You search for the canonical albums of the era. After a while, you feel like you have uncovered all of the pertinent information.

But you haven’t.

There is a missing chapter from this story. It concerns a band — who actually formed in 2001 and broke up in 2003 but are nevertheless aesthetically and philosophically ’90s — whose sole album isn’t available online via officially sanctioned (i.e. legal) channels. In terms of the historical narrative, this group has been all but written out. But that one record (which came out 20 years ago this week) is full of stunning melodies and sparkling guitar tones, and it ultimately deserves to be known (for reasons we will soon get into) as the last great ’90s alt-rock album. Which is to say, this very shiny rocket ship that never quite made it off the launch pad is important.

I am referring to Zwan’s Mary Star Of The Sea.

Who (or what) was Zwan? The first thing you must know about Zwan is that, as a band, they made no sense. And this was true from the very beginning.

Let’s introduce the cast of characters:

Billy Corgan: A songwriting genius and an interpersonal disaster. His most famous album Siamese Dream begins with a thrillingly bitter anthem about how much he loathes the petty politics of indie-rock credibility. Seven years later, he disbands his multi-platinum rock group Smashing Pumpkins and forms Zwan with … two well-regarded indie-rock guitarists? Huh? In time, he will make an artistic decision to bury the indie-rock guys in the mix and solo all over their asses, before ending the band altogether in acrimonious fashion. He will subsequently justify this by insisting that his fellow ex-Zwannies only wanted to “live like pieces of shit and live their little weird creepy lives.”

Matt Sweeney: Indie-rock guitarist No. 1 (Chavez). A well-known nice guy and born collaborator. He recovers from his traumatic tenure in Zwan by making 2005’s Superwolf with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, one of the great indie-rock records of the aughts. Of his time with Corgan, he muses, “It was interesting, I’m still sort of unpacking that experience. We all had to sign confidentiality agreements, so I can’t really talk about it.”

David Pajo: Indie-rock guitarist No. 2 (Slint and Tortoise). He annoys Billy by claiming to be unaware of all his many radio hits because in the ’90s “Delta blues was way more exciting to me than the Pumpkins and that whiny voice.” But he decides to join Zwan anyway because Corgan’s arrogance “cracked me up.”

Paz Lenchantin: In-demand bass player. She decides to leave her present gig with A Perfect Circle after receiving a “sign” to join Zwan in the form of a coloring book connected to the outsider artist Henry Darger purchased while on tour with Corgan in St. Louis. She subsequently likens Billy to a dictator, and says that being in a band with him is “like a fetish, like how people like being whipped.” Adding insult to injury, Billy borrows the coloring book and never returns it.

Jimmy Chamberlin: Long-suffering drummer who was fired twice from Smashing Pumpkins, once before Zwan and once after, and then rehired. Reflecting on the Pumpkins’ golden era, he once said, “I fucking hated the ’90s.”

On paper, this was not a band built to go the distance. In reality, it was even less stable. But that did not prevent Billy from making big plans. Behind the scenes, his new outfit worked up dozens of songs — between 100 and 200 tunes in all, based on varying accounts from his bandmates. Dubbing the electrified mothership band “The True Poets Of Zwan,” he also dreamt up an acoustic spin-off band with the same line-up (plus Paz’s sister Ana on cello) called Djali Zwan. He then declared his intentions to record a separate Djali Zwan album live in the studio with cameras filming everything, “Let It Be-style,” all while spearheading a high-profile rollout for Zwan proper.

For all of Corgan’s grandiosity, the idea behind Mary Star Of The Sea appears to have been relatively simple: Make a very catchy, streamlined, and accessible Smashing Pumpkins soundalike record for an audience who loved Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and then fell off once they went to college or started their first jobs. That’s a lot of people! And Billy was now prepared to cater to them, finally, once and for all. Put off by the Nosferatu posturing and goth-synth vibes of Adore? Overwhelmed by the excesses of the Machina/Machina II era? With Mary Star Of The Sea, Billy was attempting nothing less than a memory wipe that erased the years between 1998 and 2002, fully restoring him to his rock-star prime.

In fact, he was buckling down and writing only super-catchy radio-friendly songs. The long black frocks and “Zero” shirts were put in mothballs. Billy was now embracing uncharacteristic sunniness. On the effervescent singles “Lyric” and “Honestly,” the guitars jangle warmly and Corgan’s unmistakeable whine is sweetly leavened by Lenchantin’s enchanting backing vocals. The ingratiating vibes carry over to deep cuts like “Settle Down” — anchored by an infectious Peter Hook-esque bassline that evokes “1979,” courtesy of co-writer Lenchantin — and the self-explanatory “Endless Summer,” in which the listener is forced to picture the notoriously pale Corgan kicking it carefree at the beach. There’s even a track literally called “Baby Let’s Rock!” that more or less sums up Corgan’s aim to make his own slightly skewed version of a feel-good power-pop Cheap Trick record.

Heard 20 years later, Mary Star Of The Sea sounds like one of the most immediate and likeable albums in Corgan’s catalog. It’s pretentious, but not that pretentious, especially given what came before and after from him. There are no overwrought concepts, no confrontational provocations, no bullshit. It’s basically Corgan giving us what we want — heavy and melodic guitar anthems that feel simultaneously epic and intimate.

Only at the time, it wasn’t what people wanted. In 2003 — as online piracy was wiping out a music industry that the Pumpkins had dominated just a half-decade earlier — FM radio was now populated by nu-metal and mall punk bands and the music press was enamored with the sharply dressed post-punk outfits coming out of New York City. Into that world entered Mary Star Of The Sea, a record straight out of 1996, a castaway from the death throes of alternative rock that didn’t reach the shore until the next decade. In the moment, the anachronistic feel of Corgan’s songs — no matter how well they were executed — made it inarguably obvious that this bygone era was dead and gone forever.

All of this rendered Zwan, ostensibly a “new” band, an instant classic-rock fossil. Or, as Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber put it, “an enterprise so gleefully out-of-step with the present, so misguidedly earnest, so just plain wrong.”

Some of that wrong-ness is apparent in the video for “Lyric,” in which we see Corgan and his bandmates walking down the streets of Chicago as scores of admirers follow them, Pied Piper-like, to a euphoric dance party at local music club The Metro. There are two ideas we’re being sold here, neither of which feel credible — first, that this band is starting a movement that inspires people to take to the streets in solidarity. Second, that this is an actual band, in terms of being five individuals who enjoy working together as a creative and culturally relevant entity.

On Mary Star Of The Sea, Zwan only briefly feels like an actual band. And that mostly occurs on the ridiculously sublime 14-minute guitar workout “Jesus I/ Mary Star Of The Sea,” the one track where Sweeney and Pajo’s textured shadings are allowed to stand out amid Corgan’s relentless six-string blitzkriegs. (At least I think that’s Sweeney and Pajo — it’s possible Corgan merely layered his own overdubs, in the mode of Siamese Dream.)

It’s not that Zwan was a fraud, exactly. Based on live clips, Zwan was a polished and powerful act in concert. It’s just that they were never allowed to grow organically as a new band. They were instead treated as an extension of the Pumpkins, and afforded the sort of opportunities available only to superstar acts. Right away, Zwan landed plum TV spots on Saturday Night Live and The Late Show With David Letterman. And they toured throughout 2002 and ’03 with lots of media coverage.

If you wanted to see Zwan during this period, you most likely did see them. Though the gigs grew gradually less prestigious. I caught them in the spring of 2003 at a college gymnasium outside of Green Bay, when the record was already sinking down the charts, with a fitfully interested audience of students who were in junior high when “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” was all over MTV.

Despite an aggressive promotional push, Mary Star Of The Sea struggled to sales of 250,000. Not a bad number for a rookie act, but Zwan was saddled with much higher expectations. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Lenchantin astutely observed that Corgan “was able to sell 16 million records in the CD era. Now we’re getting into another era … If a better record means how much you sell, it’s going to start to feel humbling pretty soon, no matter how good you are. I think that era was affecting him.”

While Zwan technically fell apart in September of 2003 after Pajo and Lenchantin departed to play in Pajo’s band Papa M, the failure of Zwan to live up to the lofty commercial standards of ’90s-era Pumpkins doomed the project. Instead of looking inward, Corgan lashed out with withering post-mortem assessments, immediately reverting to his “Cherub Rock” view of the indie-musician mentality.

“The music wasn’t the big problem, it was more their attitude: `Why do we have to practice? I’d rather be hanging out at the Rainbo.’ Lifestyle stuff,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 2003. “I got snookered in by really bad people. It’s embarrassing to me.”

He went further two years later in an interview with Paste. “They proved me right, which is that the whole indie thing is just a pose,” he said. “They’re just assholes. It’s simple. I could go on with a thousand stories, but you can put that in big capital letters.”

Where does this leave Mary Star Of The Sea, a very good record that — outside of YouTube and used CD stores — is relatively hard to find? Given that nobody involved in Zwan apparently enjoys the album or anything else to do with the band, Mary Star Of The Sea has long seemed doomed to the dustbin of history. Though that might change soon, given recent inklings from Corgan of a reissue.

Along with boasting some of Corgan’s best songs of the last 20 years, Mary Star Of The Sea crystallizes a moment in time when ’90s-style rock died as a commercially viable entity, even as it (creatively) still had some gas in the tank. Beyond that, Zwan is just a fun rock ‘n’ roll story that shouldn’t be forgotten. An ill-conceived supergroup that lived fast, died young, and left a tuneful and catchy corpse. Free Zwan!

Shakira is continuing to break records with “BZRP Music Sessions #53,” her diss track against her ex-partner Gerard Piqué. Yesterday (Jan. 22), it was revealed that Colombian superstar surpassed Bad Bunny on Spotify to claim a new record.

Thanks to the success of Shakira’s “BZRP Music Sessions #53” with Argentine producer Bizarrap, she rose to No. 9 on Spotify’s most-streamed artists globally list. Bad Bunny moved down to the No. 10 spot. That marked the first time that the Latin artist with the most monthly listeners was a woman. Shakira also set a new record for the Latin artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify with 68,879,869 listeners. She surpassed Bad Bunny who had 68 million monthly listeners. Shakira expressed her gratitude on Twitter.

“I feel humbled and grateful though I’m only one among millions of women out there who have so much to say and offer. Women of all races, ages and conditions. Thanks for your loyalty and support,” she wrote.

Since dropping on January 11, “BZRP Music Sessions #53” went viral thanks to Shakira’s biting lyrics against Piqué and his current girlfriend Clara Chía Marti. While singing that Piqué needed to “work out” his brain as much as his time spent in the gym, she implied that his relationship with Marti was a downgrade. Shakira compared herself to a Ferrari and a Rolex while saying that Piqué settled for a Twingo car and a Casio watch.

Emily Ratajkowski may seemingly be riding high as a supermodel, but that doesn’t mean that it’s all been roses and sunshine. As she’s revealed over the past few years, she’s been through some sh*t following those (as she described them) “teenage dirtbag” years and entering a field where she’s taken ownership of her own body back after being objectified. For one thing, Emily has accused Robin Thicke of groping her on the “Blurred Lines” set, and in retrospect, she emerged with a surprising stance on that mess while also advocating for the importance of feminist causes.

Emily also recently endured divorce (from Sebastian Bear-McClard) and has (hopefully) had better experiences in the aftermath while dating Pete Davidson and (most recently) Eric Andre, but she does have regrets like the rest of us do. And Emily got real while delivering a commencement speech to grads at NYC’s Hunter College.

As the supermodel and activist urged Winter 2023 grads to celebrate, she told them that the time is now, before they miss out: “Here’s what I missed in not celebrating: I missed out on joy.” Emily posted a clip of her speech on Instagram:

Via PEOPLE, Emily detailed her struggle to celebrate her own worth:

“It’s hard to celebrate myself, not as an imposter in a body, but as a soul deserving of joy. And I bet a few people here feel the same way. So, if you can’t celebrate yourself, maybe do it for others; for the friends and family that greeted you when you returned home after your long day, who listened to you complain about your workload and your schedule, who encouraged you when you were filled with stress and hopelessness — for the loved ones who fill this audience, who can remember when you first had the idea to try and get this degree and cheered you on when you were sure you’d never make it. The people in your life who love you are a precious gift; treat them as such, enjoy them as such, celebrate with them.”

It’s sound advice, and you can watch her full address above.

(Via PEOPLE)