Genesis Owusu‘s “Get Inspired” is possibly the catchiest song to end up in an ad. You may have heard it while scrolling TikTok and coming across a clip for Apple Fitness+; the groovy chorus makes it impossible to skip. The track follows the 2021 release of his debut LP Smiling With No Teeth, which won Album of the Year at the Australian Recording Industry Awards, and that was only one of four awards he took home that night.
He’s back now with a video for “Get Inspired.” Directed by Babekuhl and Chris Yee, the video is chaotic and entrancing, full of bursting color and glitches. The dancing is plentiful to the absurdly infectious, energetic hook: “Shawty, get inspired / How ’bout that / How ’bout that this time.”
In July of last year, the Ghana native released “GTFO,” a metaphorical song about ambition and desperation. “There are many people like Roach. Strugglers, doing whatever they can to get through hell and high water,” Owusu explained in a statement at the time. “Bankruptcy, depression, sickness; God himself can try to stand in the way, but a struggler has to keep struggling. And a Roach has to keep Roaching. Even when it’s told to GTFO.”
As Uproxx’s October 2022 cover star, Cordae teased his next project. “I wouldn’t compare it to anything, but it’s going to be vulnerable, bro,” the 25-year-old rapper (and TED Talk speaker) said. Cordae is definitely in for his most incomparable, vulnerable chapter yet, but it has nothing to do with his discography.
Naomi Osaka, the tennis great whom Cordae has been dating since 2019, announced today, January 11, that she’s expecting her first child. (She withdrew from the Australian Open earlier this week.)
“The past few years have been interesting to say the least, but I find that its the most challenging times in life that may be the most fun,” Osaka, 25, wrote on Instagram alongside an ultrasound. “These few months away from the sport has really given me a new love and appreciation for the game I’ve dedicated my life to. I realize that life is so short and I don’t take any moments for granted, everyday is a new blessing and adventure. I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom,’ haha.
The four-time grand slam champion continued, “2023 will be a year that’ll be full of lessons for me and I hope I’ll see you guys in the start of the next one cause I’ll be at Aus 2024. Love you all infinitely. Sidenote : I don’t think there’s a perfectly correct path to take in life but I always felt that if you move forward with good intentions you’ll find your way eventually.”
Cordae has yet to comment, but his fans are taking it upon themselves to handle the public celebration. The three-time Grammy nominee is trending on Twitter because of the hilarious reactions. And while Cordae was teasing new music just months ago, some fans are questioning whether he will rap again after this news.
Kaash Paige recently spoke with Uproxx about reconnecting with her hometown Dallas and realizing, “Whatever is meant for you is always gonna happen.” In her “All Girls Cry” video, Kaash bears out that sentiment. The moody visual perfectly mirrors the message within her Soundtrack 2 My Lifesingle.
“You just know what to do with it / I just know and I pursue it / All girls cry, all girls cry,” Kaash coos. Her eyes are hidden by sunglasses but her heart is fully exposed. Sitting alone inside of an all-red room, she’s willing to sit in her uncomfortable emotions and observations. “You just play with my mind like no other, baby, why would you do that?” she poses in the introspective first verse.
The second verse zooms out the lens — “so many girls cry every night” — but still hinges on a relationship that’s painfully unresolved. Despite her tears and unanswered questions, Kaash would do it all again. “Come and hold me tonight, I know you miss this,” she sings.
“I’m not trying to be toxic,” Kaash additionally told Uproxx last month. “I might just have a little bit too much honesty in me, and it comes off [toxic] to certain people. But I feel like when people call me ‘toxic R&B princess’ or whatever – that was a cool era, but right now I’m in my rockstar era. I’m in my alternative R&B era where it’s like, if you still think it’s toxic, that’s how you perceive it. But I’m not going for that.”
Kaash’s S2ML era has included the release of singles “Doubted Me,” “Miss My Dawgs” featuring 6lack, and “24 Hrs” featuring Lil Tjay. Around the album’s November release, Kaash announced the Me Vs Myself Tour, her first headlining tour. The nine-date trek begins on January 27 in Oakland, California. Tickets are available here.
Today, January 11, the Billboard Charts Twitter account shared the most-streamed songs across all platforms. Coming in at No. 1 is “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X featuring Jack Harlow with 877.2 million streams. Following is Styles’ “As It Was” with 763.4 million. Then, there’s the Glass Animals hit “Heat Waves,” which was revived after being released in 2020, followed by “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from the film Encanto.
At No. 5 is “Enemy” by Imagine Dragons and JID, followed by Justin Bieber and The Kid Laroi’s “Stay.” Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin” is at No. 7. Future, Drake, and Tems take No. 8 with “Wait For U.” “Me Porto Bonito” by Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone follow, and finally Bad Bunny takes the next spot as well with “Titi Me Pregunto.”
In late 2021, The New Yorker published a head-turning profile of Jeremy Strong, the very serious actor who gained fame as Kendall, the very serious son on the very funny HBO drama Succession. The piece painted Strong as more than just committed; it showed that he had a habit of staying in character, which perplexed and even slightly annoyed some of his castmates. The profile earned a fair amount of pushback for making him seem like a bit of a weirdo when he simply takes his job seriously. Now it turns out he’s a bit more committed to the role than previously reported.
In a new interview with W Magazine (in a bit teased out by The AV Club), Strong talks about his last year’s very good film Armageddon Time, in which he plays a sometimes explosive father to a kid growing up in early ‘80s Queens. His starmaking show, set to return in sometime in the spring, inevitably came up, which is when he supplied a piece of his methodology not known before.
“I don’t know if it’s a skill or secret, but fashion is a passion,” Strong revealed. “I pick out all the wardrobe for Kendall Roy, my character in Succession, and I live in those clothes when we’re shooting the show. The clothes maketh the man, and aesthetics are so personal.”
That green turtleneck with the trying-too-hard-to-be-hip chain he wears in the hilarious Season 3 episode “Too Much Birthday”? Presumably his idea.
Strong also reveals going to unusual lengths for his Armageddon Time role. (Note: We already knew he learned how to fix a refrigerator for it.) The film is inspired by an incident in director James Gray’s childhood, which meant Strong was effectively playing his dad. He had trouble getting a lock on the character, but one way in was finding the voice. Gray, he said, was “hesitant to reveal too much, so Strong came up with a creative solution: He gave Gray’s wife and daughter a tape recorder and “deputized them as researchers.”
“I was able to get a few hours of his father speaking and answering the Proust questionnaire,” Strong revealed, referring to a parlor game popularized by legendary French essayist and novelist Marcel Proust involving a list of 35 probing questions, like “What is your greatest fear?” “Actually, the first night I met James, we went to Shun Lee, and I asked him to answer the Proust questionnaire as Irving, his father. His answers were uncannily exact to when his father then answered it himself. So I got a composite picture and a visceral sense of who he was.”
In other words, Strong will go even more above and beyond than you thought.
After scoring three Golden Globes Tuesday night, earning the devotion of millions of fans, and delighting the entire world, Abbott Elementaryhas capped off Awards Season with an official renewal for season three. This may be the least surprising news of the day, but it’s also the best. Creator/star Quinta Brunson‘s antidote to 2022 deserves at least six seasons and a movie.
For the unenrolled, Abbott Elementary is an Office-esque “documentary” comedy set in a Philadelphia school where a group of teachers struggle through red tape and a lack of funds while trying to do right by their students. It’s been hailed as eerily accurate as a depiction of teaching life, and Brunson has mined comedy gold from everyday problems inside the classroom. The show took home the award for Best TV Comedy, Brunson won for Best TV Comedy Actress, and her co-star Tyler James Williams won for Best TV Supporting Actor. Now they have a renewal to celebrate.
“This renewal is a richly deserved feather in the cap of Quinta Brunson, Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Randall Einhorn, as well as the rest of the cast and crew of ‘Abbott Elementary,’” Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group, told Variety. “Each week, this talented group of artists celebrates true unsung heroes — public school teachers. And for some extra icing on the renewal cake, our favorite group of teachers was honored this morning with two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and last night with three Golden Globe Awards. ‘Abbott Elementary’ is the gift that keeps on giving, and I look forward to many more magnificent episodes of this brilliant, authentic and just plain funny series.”
They say there are no second acts in America. But just look at Frankie Muniz. As a kid, he was the star of one of the early aughts’ most popular and groundbreaking sitcoms: Malcolm in the Middle, which revamped the family comedy as a single-camera yukfest. Nowadays Muniz is in his late 30s, which means it’s time to try something else. Surely, though, few were expecting him to rebrand as a racecar driver.
Finally making my dream a reality, this one is for my son and showing him that you can always chase your dreams.
Excited for this opportunity with Rette Jones Racing, Ford, and our partners to go full time racing for an ARCA National Series Championship in 2023. pic.twitter.com/OhbFnlMNKW
On Wednesday, as per People, the erstwhile Cody Banks out of nowhere revealed he’ll be behind the wheel of the No. 30 Ford Mustang for Rette Jones Racing, competing in mid-February for ARCA Menards Series championship, which begins at Daytona International Speedway.
It doesn’t appear to be a lifetime dream. Muniz said he “caught the bug of wanting to be a driver” back in 2004, when he was still a teenager and still a couple years from leaving Malcolm in the Middle. The idea of actually doing something about it “hit me when I had my son,” who was born in March of 2021.
“I want him to grow up seeing me reach for my dreams and work hard for something that I’m passionate about, and the one world where I feel like I still have unfinished business was the racing world,” Muniz told People. “So I’m going to go racing.”
It’s a new world for Muniz, but he’s cautiously optimistic. “I have a lot to learn and I know that,” Muniz said. “But I’m going in, I’m putting in a hundred percent because I don’t wanna look back at this opportunity and go, man, I wish I tried harder.”
Muniz admits that, at 37, he has “a steep learning curve” to face. But you know? Good for him. Hopefully it won’t eat into the threatened Malcolm reunion being scripted by his former TV dad, Bryan Cranston. But maybe it’ll catch Lizzo’s attention.
It’s possible that Austin Butler has permanently altered his speaking voice. Almost two years after wrapping Elvis, the star still sounded like The King while offering his acceptance speech at Tuesday night’s Golden Globes Awards. Butler won for Best Actor in a Drama and proceeded to thank director Baz Luhrmann, the Presleys, his family, and Elvis himself all with a noticeable curled-lip Southern drawl. For what it’s worth, he didn’t sound like this before.
“I don’t even think about it. I don’t think I sound like him still, but I guess I must because I hear it a lot,” he said after being asked about it backstage at the Globes. “I often liken it to when somebody lives in another country for a long time and I had three years where that was my only focus in life. So I’m sure that there’s just pieces of my DNA that will always be linked in that way.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Butler has previously explained his vocal change as part of the persona he takes on to perform as a naturally shy person. Now that he’s embodied Elvis, his extroverted charm takes on that specific flavor. Butler appears next in Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Sting’s character) in Dune: Part Two, giving him a couple of chances to take on different accents that might wash away his blue suede croons.
January is the start of the new year. While some might be taking the month off and opting for a “dry January,” this isn’t the case at Uproxx. We’re excited to sip the new beers and seasonal releases that January has to offer. It’s a great month to be a beer fan too, as it’s a month with a nice mix of darker beers to warm your bones as well as hoppy, lighter beers to make you forget about the frigid temperatures outside.
In that vein, we want to help you start your beer game on the right foot in 2023. That’s why we’ve decided to make a list of our ten favorite beers to track down this month. Some are bigger name bangers, others are lesser-known brands doing big things. All are delicious and well-suited for January drinking.
Keep reading to see all of our New Year / New You picks.
Ecliptic Parsec
Ecliptic
ABV: 6.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
For those unaware, a parsec is a unit of measurement for galaxies by astronomers. You might remember it from when Han Solo claimed the Millennium Falcon “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.” Ecliptic Parsec is a hazy grapefruit IPA brewed with Cashmere and Citra hops as well as real grapefruit.
Tasting Notes:
Bold aromas of stone fruits, grapefruit, and other citrus fruits greet you before your first sip. This is carried on in the hazy, juicy palate with tart grapefruit paired with other citrus fruits and lightly bitter, herbal hops.
Bottom Line:
This bright juicy, citrus-filled IPA is a great respite from the bold, dark, malty beers of the winter months.
It’s that time of year again. Tröegs is once again releasing its wildly popular imperial amber ale called Nugget Nectar. Brewed with ale yeast as well as Munich, Pilsner, and Vienna malts, it gets its hoppy, dank, fruity flavor from the addition of Nugget, Warrior, Tomahawk, Simcoe, and Palisade hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is all caramel malts, candied orange peels, and dank, resinous pine. It’s a very inviting beer. The palate continues this trend with caramelized pineapple, sweet malts, citrus peels, and more dank, herbal, earthy pine at the finish. A slight kick of hop bitterness greets you at the end.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason people eagerly await this beer each winter. It’s a sweet, malty beer with a wintry explosion of hops.
Do you enjoy dipping your favorite cookies into a big glass of milk? Well, the folks at Flying Dog do as well. That’s why they created this cookies and cream milk stout to taste exactly that way. They did this by brewing it with oats, chocolate malts, and roasted barley as well as lactose and chocolate.
Tasting Notes:
This beer is chocolate through and through. The nose begins with sweet milk chocolate but moves into some roasted malt and dried fruit aromas well. The palate adds to this with lactose sweetness, chocolate fudge, raisins, and lightly roasted malts. It’s creamy, sweet, and very indulgent.
Bottom Line:
The brewers at Flying Dog attempted to make a beer that tasted like milk and cookies in beer form and that’s precisely what they did.
This popular black rye IPA is brewed with Pale malt, malted rye, Cara-rye, Midnight wheat, and de-bittered black malt. It gets its hop aroma and flavor from the addition of Amarillo and Citra hops. It’s known for its mix of rye, roasted malts, and hops.
Tasting Notes:
This doesn’t smell at all like an IPA and that’s to be expected. There are a ton of roasted malts up front along with some dried fruits and coffee. The palate begins with more roasted malts, caramel, fresh, resinous pine, and just a hint of rye spice at the very end.
Bottom Line:
If you’re an IPA fan looking for something dark and a little spicier for the winter months, you have to try Firestone Walker Wookey Jack. You’ll be glad you did.
When we go hiking or camping, we like to bring trail mix. You know, that nut, dried fruit, and candy-filled treat. The brewers at Shiner decided to take this iconic hiking snack and turn it into a beer. Originally only available in its Bonfire Brewski variety pack, this beer brewed with nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate is available on its own.
Tasting Notes:
Caramel malts, dark chocolate, dried fruit, and slightly nutty aromas abound on this beer’s nose. Drinking it only adds to this with more sweet malts, bitter chocolate, candied nuts, and dried fruit. The finish is dry and slightly salty in the best way possible.
Bottom Line:
A lot of brewers try to make a beer taste like a certain dessert or snack and don’t really do it justice. This beer literally tastes like a trail mix magically turned into a beer.
Montauk Palm Tree Winter
Montauk
ABV: 6.9%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Montauk doesn’t care that it’s winter. This is why the popular brewery is launching a beer called Montauk Palm Tree Winter this month. This 6.9% ABV tropical IPA is brewed with 2-row malts and oats as well as Strata and Mosaic hops.
Tasting Notes:
A mix of tropical fruits, citrus, and herbal, earthy pine greet you before your first sip. Drinking it takes you far away from the winter wind to a tropical paradise filled with pineapple, grapefruit, tangerines, and slightly bitter, herbal, floral pine.
Bottom Line:
This tropical IPA is like taking a winter vacation to an island paradise with every sip. Seek it out if you can find it.
Lord Hobo Atomic Insomniac
Lord Hobo
ABV: 7.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
This 7.5% ABV coffee milk stout is perfectly suited for these cold winter days January has to offer. This coffee and chocolate-filled stout gets much of its flavor from the addition of locally sourced real cold brew coffee from Atomic Coffee Roasters. Lactose gives it a creamy, memorable mouthfeel.
Tasting Notes:
Roasted malts, chocolate fudge, and freshly brewed coffee are big aromas on the nose. Sipping it only adds to this. It’s sublimely warming and loaded with sweet malts, roasted grains, caramel, dark chocolate, and bold, more potent coffee.
Bottom Line:
Chocolate, coffee, and roasted malts all together in one delicious beer. What’s not to love?
This popular Irish ale drops to eager beer fans every January. Named for one of Great Lake’s founders’ grandfathers, this award-winning Irish ale is brewed with 2-row and Crystal 77 malts as well as Mt. Hood, Northern Brewer, and Willamette hops.
Tasting Notes:
Caramel, toasted malts, and yeast are prevalent on the nose. They’re simple but very inviting. The palate is filled with more toffee, toasted malts, cereal grains, and floral, earthy, herbal hops. It’s well-balanced between malts and hops.
Bottom Line:
This sweet, lightly hoppy beer is smooth, easy to drink, and great for a relaxing winter evening.
Switchback Dooley’s Belated Porter
Switchback
ABV: 5.7%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
This popular porter from the brewers at Vermont’s Switchback is known for being unfiltered and for its natural carbonation. Named for the first employee ever hired at Switchback, Dooley’s Belated Porter is brewed with roasted and caramelized malts as well as flaked barley and Simcoe hops. It’s being released in 16-ounce cans for the first time this month.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’re treated to aromas of dark chocolate, roasted malts, caramel, and dried fruits. Drinking it reveals vanilla beans, candied nuts, bitter chocolate, roasted malts, and more dried fruits. It’s a nice mix of bitter chocolate and candied sweetness.
Bottom Line:
January is a great month to enjoy a sweet, robust porter. We suggest continuing this trend by grabbing a four-pack of these 16-ounce cans.
Wild Leap SouthDown
Wild Leap
ABV: 9%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
Carrying on the tradition that brewers either drop a very dark, malty beer or a fruity, piney IPA during the dark winter months, Wild Leap Southdown Double IPA is a Pina Colada-inspired beer. It’s brewed with “coconut and citrus-forward” hops as well as toasted coconut in the mash and finished with lime and pineapple puree.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a mix of toasted coconut, grapefruit, orange, pineapple, and gentle, earthy pine. The flavor is highlighted by tangerine, grapefruit, freshly baked bread, toasted coconut, pineapple, and a slightly bitter, floral, piney finish.
Bottom Line:
Beers that taste like other things seem to be hot in January. This Pina Colada-inspired IPA tastes exactly as it intends, and you don’t even need a blender to make it.
So, no one was really interested in hearing about the sex lives of members Alex Pall or Drew Taggart. But we’ve learned information against our will due to their appearance on the latest episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast.
When asked how often people propose threesomes with the two of them, they immediately got flustered, giving away that they’d not only been proposed the idea but they’d accepted it more than once. “I think we were just like, ‘What the f*ck just happened?’ They were never planned,” Pall explained. Taggart added, “I feel like that’s how threesomes happen, though.” It was never ‘die-hard fans’: “No one wearing merch or anything,” they said.
“It’s been a long time,” Pall continued. “But in the early days — it was also the days when we used to have to share the hotel rooms. We’d be in Europe, they have the two beds, they don’t even split them apart. They literally have two singles. So it’s almost like we were forced by the European government because they don’t separate their beds.”
The internet’s reaction to this situation is simple — no one wanted this information. “We’ve had enough celebrities revealing things we didn’t ask for,” one user wrote.
we’ve had enough celebrities revealing things we didn’t ask for
Watch the podcast episode above, and skip to 54:57 at your own risk for threesome talk.
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