After a year’s worth of delays, increasingly aggressive bickering, and a suspected misinformation campaign to influence the outcome, Tory Lanez’s trial for allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion has officially begun. As a result, Lanez is no longer confined to house arrest, according to Rolling Stone reporter Nancy Dillon, who has been observing the preliminaries at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse and will presumably be providing more updates as the trial continues this week.
Judge David Herriford explained that the reason he released Tory from house arrest — a decision that was protested by the prosecution — was so the Canadian rapper/singer would be able to prepare for the trial alongside his counsel. “I’m doing this mainly for the trial preparation aspect,” Herriford is quoted.
Tory Lanez released from house arrest as his trial for allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion begins with jury selection in L.A.
“I’m doing this mainly for the trial preparation aspect,” Judge David Herriford said, overruling a prosecution objection
Tory Lanez is charged with one felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. The charges stem from a 2020 incident in which Tory allegedly shot at Megan Thee Stallion during an argument after a party as she walked away from his car. Bullet fragments were found in the Houston rapper’s feet, and she has maintained ever since that Tory was the one who fired the shots. Meanwhile, Tory argued that he was “framed,” while the only witnesses, Tory’s driver and one of Meg’s friends, have refused to speak out either way.
This past weekend’s Audacy Beach Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was chock full of alternative rock bands from different eras. Muse and Jack White closed down Saturday night’s slate, while The 1975 and Machine Gun Kelly brought the weekend home on Sunday night. But The 1975’s Matty Healy didn’t want to wait until his band’s evening time slot to hit the stage and ended up hopping on to help Dashboard Confessional close their afternoon set with a song that was released 20 years ago.
“Emo multiverse is glitching,” Healy captioned in an Instagram video of him shredding away on the guitar as Dashboard Confessional ended their set with “Hands Down.” Chris Carraba belts away as a sweaty Healy can be seen mouthing the lyrics to the tune in the background.
“Hands Down” was part of Dashboard Confessional’s third studio album, A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar, which came out in 2003. So the emo nostalgia was indeed in full effect. Speaking of which, Dashboard Confessional played the emo-palooza that was When We Were Young Fest this past October in Las Vegas. The 1975 has been plenty busy this year themselves, releasing their latest album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, one of Uproxx’s Best Albums of 2022.
While Netflix hasn’t officially renewed Tim Burton’s new series Wednesday, the show has become a massive hit that is pulling in some Stranger Things-level attention, so it would be silly for them to greenlight a second season. But who really knows how they decided these things, anyway.
Wednesday’s success is largely attributed to Jenna Ortega’s delightful portrayal of Wednesday Addams and her bizarre but lovable dance sequences. Even though Ortega showed off the “softer” sides to Wednesday (relatively), she wants to explore “darker” themes for the show’s second season. “I kinda want her to be darker. I want her to get more in the nitty-gritty of things and not play things so safe,” Ortega recently told ET. Dumping man-eating fish in a pool might not seem super safe, but again, it’s all relative!
The actress added that while her character does do some morally right things, she wants to explore the meaning and motive behind her choices. “There’s a lot of lines in this [season] about her saving the school and whatever, but for me, her main drive with the monster was a kind of competitiveness,” Ortega added, explaining that there are a lot of complex layers to the character that we won’t know about yet that can be explored in a second season. “I want to continue down an anti-hero stream instead of that typical hero.”
Seeing as Ortega has starred in more than one over-the-top slasher this year, she can definitely nail an anti-hero story arc if it comes down to it!
The wait is nearly over for fans of A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. After postponing his fourth studio album, the Bronx rapper took to social media to confirm Me Vs. Myself will drop this Friday. With a total of 19 songs, the album marks Boogie’s first full-length release in two years.
New York’s music scene has undergone major changes since Boogie first made his mark. However, based on the reception singles “B.R.O. (Better Ride Out)” featuring Roddy Ricch and “Playa” featuring H.E.R. have received, Boogie’s signature melodic sound is still a hit amongst hip hop fans. Boogie’s signature sound isn’t the only thing he’s remained true to. The album’s cover image follows in the same thread of animated artwork splashed across his entire discography.
Other popular acts making an appearance on the album include Lil Durk and Tory Lanez.
Who says that spooky things should only be confined to the month of October? People who don’t like fun, that’s who. Tim Burton’s Wednesday series turned out to be the toast of Thanksgiving weekend on the streaming front. The show, which sets itself pleasingly apart from regurgitating any previous The Addams Family installments, gave us the traditionally poker-faced as portrayed by Jenna Ortega. However, the new incarnation arrives with a pointed unsettling detail: Wednesday never blinks, at least on camera.
This was purposeful, of course, given that no human actor could reasonably be expected to not blink on accident. Never mind that the family is still human (albeit a very weird variety of human) because not blinking sounds painful. Ortega recently revealed on TODAY that she gave the trait a shot during one take, and Burton loved what he saw, so he instructed Ortega to run with it for the entirety of the shoot. You can’t stop blinking now, right? Same. Via NME, here’s what else Ortega offered:
“She doesn’t blink. [Tim Burton] likes it when I tilt my chin down and look through my eyebrows, kind of like a Kubrick stare, and then I relax all the muscles in my face.”
Ortega continued to discuss how blinking would ruin entire takes, and she grew slightly “annoyed,” but that’s all part of the job. Soon enough, she grew accustomed to reserving her blinking spells for when other characters were the focus of the camera. Hopefully, she also got to sneak in a few blinks behind those bangs during that dance scene.
Now, she can freely blink while we all await word of Season 2.
Last month, storied New York City indie rock band The Walkmen announced that they were reuniting after a ten-year “extreme hiatus.” The band’s long break began shortly after the release and tour for their spectacular final album, Heaven. The reunion came as a welcome surprise for fans, and the band had announced a mere two concerts in New York City set to take place on April 26 and 27, 2023. Now they’ve added to those dates considerably and are taking The Walkmen reunion tour across multiple U.S. cities.
Along with the two New York City concerts, The Walkmen have added two-night stops at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, Chicago’s The Metro, and Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club. They’ve also expanded their two nights at New York City’s Webster Hall into a full five-night residency at the venue. They are appearing at the Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA too. And while all of the dates are currently at East Coast venues, the hope is that the band eventually take the reunion tour on the road to the West Coast, Canada, and the rest of the U.S.
Check out the full list of The Walkmen Reunion tour dates below. Sign up for pre-sale tickets here.
04/24/2022 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/25/2022 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/26/2022 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/27/2022 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/28/2022 — New York, NY @ Webster Hall
05/02/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
05/03/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
05/07/2022 — Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
05/19/2022 — Chicago, IL @ The Metro
05/20/2022 — Chicago, IL @ The Metro
05/25/2022 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
05/26/2022 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
Season two of The White Lotus is undoubtedly horny, which makes sense for a television series set in Italy, of all places. The decadence is sexy, and creator/writer/director Mike White leaned in on the innate sexiness of the surroundings for the season’s themes. Almost every storyline revolves around sex, desire, or attraction in some way, from the anxiety-ridden tension between Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Cameron (Theo James) to a father, son, and grandson’s trip to the motherland.
Here, because what else was I supposed to do (don’t actually answer that), I ranked every The White Lotus season two character, from Rocco to Lucia by horniness, to distract myself from thinking about how several of these people are probably going to die next week. Here is every character from The White Lotus, ranked from least horny to most horny.
Ethan (Will Sharpe)
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This poor (but very rich) man would rather run, watch porn, or take a shower than have sex with Aubrey Plaza. To each their own. Now that things are starting to take an even hornier but incredibly dark turn, Ethan has officially spiraled: he is somehow even less horny and his anger over a perceived affair between Harper and Cameron is giving major looming death/murder vibes. What does Ethan think this is, House of the Dragon? To be fair, at least he’s on the right cable network.
Rocco and Isabella (Federico Ferrante and Eleonora Romandini)
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The only thing Rocco and Isabella love more than flirting at the front desk is working at the front desk. Together and as individuals they are sweet and hard-working but completely absent of sexual energy. In episode six, we find out that they are engaged. Good for them! I imagine they will spend the rest of their lives holding hands and smiling at The White Lotus – Sicily reception desk.
Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy)
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Daphne is all about balance and control: she is hot for her husband Cameron, but she knows he cheats on her so she takes her desires elsewhere, too, and does whatever she wants, in her own words. Whatever she wants ranges from renting out a palazzo at the last minute to having a ”trainer.” As toxic as it all sounds, Daphne is onto something because somehow, she is the most level-headed, normal person at the resort (that we know of). She’s horny, yes, but unlike the people she’s vacationing with, she has her impulses, desires, and petty little ways of getting revenge on Cam under control.
Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge)
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Tanya might be horny once in a while but above all, she longs for love, admiration, and belonging. More than anything, Tanya is horny for not being alone.
Greg (Jon Gries)
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For Tanya’s suspicious husband Greg, it is not a question of if he is horny but rather, who is he horny for? It’s certainly not his wife and is most likely his wife’s new, secretly sinister gay bestie Quentin, who he is likely in cahoots with due to a possible shared past.
Mia (Beatrice Granno)
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Mia has taken quite the journey since the first episodes when she was longing for a guy named Massimo. Lucia inadvertently created a monster who is on the prowl every night at The White Lotus – Sicily bar, where she’s earned herself a position as an entertainer, and, somehow, ended up in bed with Valentina, who has spent most of the week trying to kick her off the premises. While Mia might not be the horniest person at the resort, it turns out, being adjacent to extremely horny people is a major motivator for her.
Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli)
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Dominic arrived at his Sicily getaway with his father and son an extremely sad, horny man ready to unleash his sad, horny energy every night with a woman he’d never have to see or worry about again. Dominic is trying to save his family by resisting this sad horniness, but unfortunately, Lucia, the woman he planned to spend the week with and never see again, is becoming a more permanent part of his vacation (and possibly his life) thanks to his also very sad, horny son. Like father, like son, like grandfather, I guess?
Valentina
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The White Lotus – Sicily manager Valentina is horny but doesn’t even know it, really. She also doesn’t know what to do about it. But following her little tryst with Mia in episode six, that might change.
Giueseppe (Federico Scribani)
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Piano player Giuseppe is so horny that he almost died for it, considering he took a pill from Mia without knowing where it came from.
Portia (Haley Lu Richardson)
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Portia was horny until she spent an entire day and night with a boy from Essex. My hope for Portia is that she finds herself, gets a healthy job, gets a more cohesive wardrobe that does not look exactly like my closest in the fifth grade, and never talks to a British man again (no offense to British men, she just needs to stay very far away from the possibility of this ever happening again).
Horny for money as is her right, but also kind of genuinely horny, too.
Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco)
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Albie tries so hard to be a nice, respectful guy that he doesn’t even realize how horny he is, and just how much he actually has in common with his father and grandfather.
Quentin (Tom Hollander)
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Quentin is horny for some cash, and will do whatever he can to get it (and, along the way, it doesn’t hurt to have a young man from Essex who may or may not be his nephew there to fulfill any sexual needs? Mike White is a mad genius.
Bert Di Grasso (F. Murray Abraham)
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Old Bert is very horny and he is not afraid to let everyone know it, including his grandson and every woman he interacts with or sees. He’s so horny that he did not mind finding two young women he did not know in his hotel room.
Cameron (Theo James)
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Cameron is one of those wealthy people – even worse, one of those wealthy men – who think they can have whatever they want. Cameron’s horniness and addiction to money and power have made him a little unhinged and not as subtle as he thinks. Since he grazed Harper’s leg at dinner, he is progressively getting more and more flirtatious with her, to the point where Ethan is suspicious of him, with good reason. Cameron is a classic horn dog, with all the fixings (sorry).
Harper (Aubrey Plaza)
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Harper is as horny as a hot woman in a sexless marriage should be, and is so horny that she is successfully seduced by Cameron, who represents everything she hates. Harper is so thirsty that she is compelled by a man who disgusts her. That’s part of why it’s hot, but still.
Jack aka Essex Boy
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Jack the fake (hopefully?) nephew from Essex is hornier than a Love Island contestant from Essex, and he will probably be a horny Love Island contestant from Essex if he gets out of this trip to Italy alive.
Fat Joe knows a thing or two about letting beef get in the way of making money. The “Lean Back” rapper, who has been making the interview rounds to promote the release of his new memoir, The Book Of Jose, explained last week to GQ how a beef with 50 Cent cost him “about $20 million” from a deal with Jordan brand and other appearance fees. In that same GQ interview, he spoke about having an unreleased guest verse that Hay-Z recorded for one of his tracks in 2019, and how it’ll likely never see the light of day because it could have compromised a deal Jay-Z made with the NFL.
You see, around the same time in 2019, Jay-Z inked a deal with the NFL which gave him a heavy hand in booking the Super Bowl Halftime Show and in the league’s social justice initiatives. Fat Joe seemed to indicate that Hov was rapping about the lead-up to the deal, or the deal itself and that once the deal was signed, the verse became a no-go.
“He was talking about the NFL stuff,” Fat Joe told GQ. “He had just signed that big deal with that NFL, so he wanted to let it go. He gave it to me… But I guess his people were like, ‘Yo bro, you just did a deal with them. How are you going to go in like that?’”
He then heaped praise on Jay-Z’shalftime show efforts. “They’ve been doing the biggest Super Bowl. That was legendary with Dre last year. And I know Rihanna’s going to be legendary this year. So, we don’t like to stop no money or burn no bridges.”
As to the whereabouts of the tape of Jay-Z’s verse where he apparently goes in on the NFL, Joe said he had it, but then walked that back. “I got a copy here. I don’t listen to it but I got it — Dre got it. Let me put it clear. Dre of Cool & Dre got it. I don’t have it.”
ANGEL22 is ringing in the holidays with a Justin Bieber classic. On Friday (December 2), the Latin girl group released a cover of the Canadian pop star’s Christmas hit “Mistletoe.”
In 2019, the band was first assembled as V5 in the UK’s X-Factor: Celebrity contest. Recently, the quartet adopted the name ANGEL22. The group is comprised of Brazil’s Sofia Oliveira, Colombia’s Laura Buitrago, Cuba’s Wendii Sarmiento, and Alondra Martinez, who has roots in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Becky G has taken them under her wing. Earlier this year, ANGEL22 released the soulful breakup track “Para Ti No.”
With Christmas approaching, the women of ANGEL22 decided to cover Bieber’s song “Mistletoe.” He originally released it on his 2011 holiday album Under The Mistletoe. Reflecting their diverse Latina heritages, they sing the love song in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. ANGEL22 beautifully translates Bieber’s message with heartfelt harmonies.
“‘Mistletoe’ is a little gift that we want to share with you all with love, to remind you of the joyful spirit during the holidays,” ANGEL22 shared in a statement. “We wanted to do an interpretation of the song with our three languages, Portuguese, Spanish and English so that each and every one of our fans feels more at home during this beautiful time.”
Last Christmas, ANGEL22 covered Ariana Grande‘s holiday hit “Santa Tell Me.” The group is currently working with the lifestyle brand Cantu Beauty in the For All The Styles You Rock campaign.
Donald Trump is attempting to walk back, if not lightly massage, controversial remarks he made about about the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” following Elon Musk’s anticlimactic Hunter Biden info dump. Despite being the ringleader for the Friday night event, even Musk was taken aback by Trump’s remarks. In reply to a Fox news tweet, the Twitter CEO wrote, “The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story.”
After facing significant backlash, Trump is now blaming the brouhaha on, you guessed it, “fake news.” In a new Truth Social post on Monday, the former president came out swinging at the media for having the audacity to accurately quote him:
The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to “terminate” the Constitution. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS. What I said was that when there is “MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION,” as has been irrefutably proven in the 2020 Presidential Election, steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG. Only FOOLS would disagree with that and accept STOLEN ELECTIONS. MAGA!
Of course, all it takes is one look at Trump’s original Truth Social post to see that, yes, he literally called for the termination of the Constitution so he could be handed the presidency. Here are Trump’s words verbatim:
So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!
Trump’s claim that he’s not trying to terminate the Constitution was also undone by his later ALL-CAPS remarks where he entirely made up his own rules about how elections should work. Or in other words, completely ignored the Constitution.
“SIMPLY PUT, IF AN ELECTION IS IRREFUTABLY FRAUDULENT, IT SHOULD GO TO THE RIGHTFUL WINNER OR, AT A MINIMUM, BE REDONE,” Trump scream-wrote. “WHERE OPEN AND BLATANT FRAUD IS INVOLVED, THERE SHOULD BE NO TIME LIMIT FOR CHANGE!”
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