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If the start of 2022 already consisted of spectacular moments, the second half continued in full swing by raising the bar. Beyoncé returned with Renaissance, marking her first new studio drop in six years — and what many suspect is part of a trilogy. Bad Bunny broke records this summer by becoming only the seventh artist to have an album spend ten weeks at No. 1, right before he embarked on his World’s Hottest Tour. And how could we forget Harry Styles, who has hosted residency shows in Los Angeles, Austin, and more., giving fans a welcome invitation to Harry’s House.

Before it gets closer to officially ringing in the new year, and without spoiling everything on this list, let’s reminisce on all the pop records we’ve been blessed with this year. Here are the Best Pop Albums Of 2022. (And check out our full list of Best Albums Of 2022.)

Anitta – Versions Of Me

Anitta emerged as a global pop star this year with her album Versions Of Me. The Brazilian superstar impressively sings on the 15-track LP in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. She embraces the Brazilian funk sound of her country in her red-hot collaboration “Me Gusta” with Cardi B and Myke Towers and pop-inflected “Faking Love” featuring Saweetie. Anitta reminds people that Brazil is a part of Latin America with her reggaeton romp “Envolver.” She also looks to the future of pop music with her punk-influenced anthem “Boys Don’t Cry.” Anitta’s best version of herself is when she’s not afraid to try everything. – Lucas Villa

Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti

Bad Bunny gave the world the soundtrack for the summer with his album Un Verano Sin Ti. The Puerto Rican superstar celebrates the music of the Caribbean throughout the 23-track LP, while returning to his reggaeton roots in club anthems like “Me Porto Bonito”
alongside Chencho Corleone and “Party” with Rauw Alejandro. But he keeps fans on their toes when he takes the genre to new places with alternative acts like The Marías in “Otro Atardecer” and Bomba Estéreo in the dreamy “Ojitos Lindos,” and samples the sounds of the Dominican Republic in the merengue-infused “Después De La Playa” and the dembow-driven “Me Preguntó.” Bad Bunny continues to prove that his sound has no borders or limits. – L.V.

Beyoncé – Renaissance

Since the release of her Lemonade in 2016, Beyoncé fans from all over waited patiently (and then impatiently) for her next solo album. They wondered when it would arrive, how it would sound, and what they would love most about it. Finally, those questions were answered with the arrival of Renaissance this past summer. Through 16 songs, Queen Bey brought listeners on an electric ride through dance-pop and disco tunes that honored and celebrated the qualities and history of Black and brown queers and trans individuals while giving them, and others, a unique soundtrack to enjoy the freedom they so rightly deserve. – Wongo Okon

Blackpink – Born Pink

We all know Blackpink is composed of a bunch of baddies that go by the name of Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé, and Lisa. When the group released their second studio album Born Pink this year, it felt like all their feelings were out in the open in the form of eight tracks. The YG Entertainment quartet shows off their duality with hard-hitting and bass-heavy tracks like “Pink Venom” and “Shut Down” and seamlessly counteract it with mellow and soft serves with “The Happiest Girl,” “Tally,” and Rosé’s solo “Hard To Love.” Dropping F-bombs and expressing the pain and gains of love throughout, YG Entertainment’s in-house producer Teddy and Blackpink deliver their signature sounds that Blinks all over the world love. – Lai Frances

Charlie Puth – Charlie

Surprise! The perennial producer used TikTok to his advantage to craft Charlie. Charlie Puth’s perfect pitch and uncannily trained ear are still his engines. “Left And Right” featuring BTS’ Jung Kook and “Light Switch” maintain his reputation as an effortless radio-friendly pop machine. But tracks like “That’s Hilarious,” “Charlie Be Quiet!” and “Loser” provide the anecdotal vulnerability Puth had admittedly been faking before. Puth’s third LP is self-titled because he wishes it were his debut. In most ways, Charlie is his earnest introduction. – Megan Armstrong

Charli XCX – Crash

“I’m about to crash into the water / Gonna take you with me,” Charli XCX declares on the opening lines of Crash’s title track. The hyper-pop star follows through on her promise, with her highest-charting and most headline-making era to date. By leaning heavily into an “I don’t care” persona on songs like “Yuck” and including brilliant collaborations with Rina Sawayama, Christine And The Queens, and Caroline Polacheck, the album consists of nothing less than pure hits. – Lexi Lane

Conan Gray – Superache

Conan Gray enlisted producer Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo) for his 2022 record and the results paid off tremendously. Gray’s autobiographical songwriting style is placed at the forefront of the album, as his soft vocals carry listeners through heartbreaking tracks like “Family Line” and “Astronomy.” He also shows off a rock-influenced duality on “Jigsaw” that makes it the standout of Superache. – L.L.

Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter

Preacher’s Daughter blended the conceptual and concrete versions of Hayden Silas Anhedönia’s alter-ego Ethel Cain to create her debut album. As religious themes are woven throughout, she pulled inspiration from her real religious background growing up in the South. There are tales of longing on “A House In Nebraska” and a Bonnie-and-Clyde-esque couple heading for California on “Thoroughfare.” And, at the end of it all, the tension and trauma end in Cain’s destructive demise. Ending with the somber “Sun Bleached Flies,” she realizes that praying wouldn’t save her, chalking it up to “if it’s meant to be, then it will be.” – L.L.

Feid – Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo

Despite his LP leaking a few months ahead of time, Feid made the most of it by releasing it as Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo Te Pirateamos El Álbum. The cheekiness of the album’s title is reflected in the feel-good title track “Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo,” with Feid serving up the nostalgia and sentimental side behind his Medellín-made reggaeton across the 15 tracks. – L.V.

Harry Styles – Harry’s House

Whether or not you believe he’s the new king of pop, based solely on the historic records he holds, you can’t deny that Harry Styles is certainly leading the pack. If his debut solo album was a mere strike of luck, then Harry’s House proves Styles has a firm understanding of what he’s doing. In a cycle of microwaveable pop music, the intentionality of song selection on Harry’s House ensures a lasting shelf life. The 13-track project is light, airy, fun, and charismatic which makes for an easy listen every time. Mindful of his vocal range, on Harry’s House, Styles has found his octave pocket to which the listener is a benefactor. – Flisadam Pointer

Le Sserafim – Fearless

Lizzo – Special

After two years of being trapped inside amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Lizzo knew it was “About Damn Time” to get out and dance. Her second major-label album, Special, is filled with therapeutic bangers, celebrating female friendships (“Grrrls”), nights out with your chosen family (“Everybody’s Gay”), and grand returns to the dance floor (“About Damn Time”). This collection of 12 soulful, punchy tracks is exactly what we needed to get our groove back this year. – Alex Gonzalez

Maggie Rogers – Surrender

Maggie Rogers returned this year with her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Surrender. Slowing down the synth sound that was present on her debut record, Rogers instead opts for emphasizing her emotions on alternative anthems. The album’s lead single, “That’s Where I Am,” instantly set the tone with an incredibly addictive drum beat and a guitar breakdown before the bridge. However, it’s the fan-favorite, “Anywhere For You,” that finds Rogers at her strongest so far, as the song builds in electrifying intensity. – L.L.

Muna – Muna

Fresh out of a deal with RCA, Muna kicked off their indie era by demonstrating a wide range of queer emotions on their self-titled third album. On their first release under the Phoebe Bridgers-helmed label, Saddest Factory, Muna embrace the second adolescence we as queer people go through, by way of intimidating crushes (“Silk Chiffon”), debauched nights out (“What I Want”), and questioning the right choice to make with a lover (“What I Want”). On Muna, the trio both revel in and lament their newfound freedom. – Alex Gonzalez

Nayeon – IM NAYEON

As 2022 marked the seventh year for TWICE, it also marked the beginning of solo projects for the group. Nayeon’s IM NAYEON EP is a double entendre that plays as a reintroduction to her as a person and an artist. The five-track EP explores how Nayeon defines pop by blending in R&B (“Love Countdown” and “All Or Nothing”), dance (“No Problem”), and a bit of ballad and jazz (“Sunset”) all in one go. Her lead single “POP!” grabs inspiration from the sounds of second-generation bubblegum K-pop, an era she was personally a fan of. Successfully navigating through seven years and some to release her debut EP, IM NAYEON has set the standard for what’s to come and what to look out for with future solo projects from TWICE. – L.F.

Niki – Nicole

Earlier this year, 88rising star Niki unveiled her visceral, intimate debut Nicole, an album that packs every song with engrossing storytelling and striking songwriting. At only 23, Niki has proven herself as one of the most interesting pop artists, devoted to her craft and definitely only going to get better from here. She encapsulates zoomer angst with concise wit and unapologetic emotion: “I wish I never met you / You are the worst thing that I’m still keeping tabs on / For some stupid reason,” she sings on “Keeping Tabs.” –Danielle Chelosky

Noah Cyrus – The Hardest Part

At the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Miley Cyrus said she wanted to be like Noah Cyrus when she grew up. Well, Noah Cyrus grew up and realized she might like to be Noah, too. The Hardest Part is an evocative folk-pop confrontation of comparison-riddled adolescence and prescription pill addiction. She brought an acoustic guitar and a mirror into battle and won. Cyrus’ devastating opening line is, “When I turned twenty, I was overcome / With the thought that I might not turn twenty-one,” and “Noah (Stand Still)” reappears later featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. Her grappling with aging as the album progresses (“Hardest Part,” “Loretta’s Song”) is brave because she’s envisioning getting older at all. – M.A.

Omar Apollo – Ivory

Omar Apollo fully leaned into who he is for his debut album Ivory. He blends the R&B and alternative sound that he’s known for with his Mexican-American roots and his experience as a queer singer-songwriter. The result ia one of the most authentically refreshing LPs of the year. Apollo is unafraid to use male pronouns to describe his love interest in the sweeping “Evergreen (You Don’t Deserve Me At All)” and pushes his R&B to otherworldly places in “Invincible” featuring Daniel Caesar. The most poignant track on the LP is the heartbreaking “En El Olvido,” where he put a soulful spin on Mexican ranchera music and emerges as a promising pop star with no limits to his artistry. – L.V.

Rosalia – Motomami

Rosalía has created her own lane in pop music that wasn’t bound to any language barriers. Having positioned herself as a global pop star, her 16-track LP experiments with genres from around the world like electronica, reggaeton, flamenco, and bolero. She revs into her new era with “Saoko,” a cyberpunk joyride with a jazz detour. Elsewhere, Rosalía reflects on the toxicity of fame in bachata-infused “La Fama” alongside The Weeknd. She also lets her hair down with the delectable “Chicken Teriyaki” and the bouncy “Bizcochito” that is reminiscent of a Nokia phone ringtone. On MOTOMAMI, Rosalía races into the future with her newfound sound. – L.V.

Sabrina Carpenter – Emails I Can’t Send

The opening song to Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails I Can’t Send finds her reflecting on how familial infidelities have impacted her relationships before ending with the line, “As they say in Chicago, ‘He had it coming.’” This pattern of vengeance and sympathy works out in her favor, from the biting “Vicious” to the tragic “How Many Things.” By the album’s end, Carpenter appears to relish in the acceptance of closure (“Decode”) and continuing love’s cycle by moving on — in the record’s best sequencing of “Nonsense” into “Fast Times.” – L.L.

Stray Kids – Oddinary

Something was in the water for Stray Kids to go off when they released Oddinary. One can argue this album was the turning point for the octet’s transition from being boys to men in terms of sound. If you were one of the lucky ones to attend the group’s sold-out Maniac Tour, you’d agree the choreography is sexually aggressive – especially for songs like “Venom“ and “Charmer.” Other than that, the sixth EP from Stray Kids showcases their range as two b-side tracks like the ‘90s hip-hop-inspired “Muddy Waters” and the rock ballad “Waiting For Us” are sung by two sub-units for the project. – L.F.

Tate McRae – I Used To Think I Could Fly

Pulling the album’s title from an emotional voice memo, I Used To Think I Could Fly finds Tate McRae managing her way through growing pains. She copes with toxic players the way any rising pop-rock star would: by telling them off on “I’m So Gone” and “Boy X.” At times throughout the record, however, it is the slower-paced takes like “Chaotic” that truly allow her powerful voice to fly to soaring heights… even if McRae physically can’t. – L.L.

Taylor Swift – Midnights

Taylor Swift came out swinging for her tenth studio album, Midnights. A collection of songs written about her self-described “sleepless nights,” she dazzles on tales of daydreams (“Paris”), nightmares (“You’re On Your Own, Kid”), and everything in between (“Mastermind,” “The Great War”). And it appears to stand as one of the most cohesive bodies of work in Swift’s discography. As fans have put it, there are truly no skips. Even “Karma” grows on you. –L.L.

The Weeknd – Dawn FM

The Weeknd is one of the biggest pop acts of the past decade, but above that, he’s an artist. While After Hours was bursting with No. 1 hits, Dawn FM was a more overtly conceptual endeavor, as the Jim Carrey narrations and recurring allusions to purgatory evidence. Of course, this is a Weeknd project, so it’s also packed with memorable showstoppers like “Take My Breath” and “Out Of Time.” All in all, Dawn FM sees The Weeknd yet again striking an ideal balance between pop hit-making and innovative artistry, but perhaps better here than he ever has before. – D.R.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

‘Tis the season where everyone ditches their astrological personalities and shares their music and listening personalities on social media.

Today (November 30), Spotify unleashed its annual Spotify Wrapped feature that provides insight to individual listening habits throughout the year. In a press release, the music streaming giant analyzed every users’ listening behaviors and revealed the top K-pop artists who were most streamed globally. In order, BTS, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Stray Kids, and SEVENTEEN were listed as the top K-pop artists on this year’s Wrapped trends.

Global superstars BTS released their three-disc album Proof back in June and held Permission To Dance concerts in South Korea and Las Vegas earlier this year. YG Entertainment’s leading act BLACKPINK released their second studio album Born Pink in September and immediately followed album promotions with a world tour. The pop quartet just finished the US leg of their tour and will embark on their European tour soon after, followed by dates in Asia until mid-2023.

South Korea’s national girl group TWICE places third on the list after releasing their eleventh EP, BETWEEN 1&2. The nine-piece ensemble completed South Korea and US world tour dates in the first half of the year which included a two-night sold out encore show at Los Angeles’ Banc Of California Stadium. Fellow JYP Entertainment artists Stray Kids have been on a roll this year with releasing two EPs — ODDINARY and MAXIDENT! — with one of them breaking the record of receiving 2.24 million pre-order units. The octet is currently continuing their MANIAC World Tour and are set to hold a two-night sold out encore show at Banc Of California Stadium next March.

And finally, 13-member supergroup SEVENTEEN places themselves in the fifth spot after releasing their fourth studio album Face The Sun over the summer, followed by a repackaged version titled Sector 17. The group completed the US leg of their Be The Sun world tour and are currently on their Asian leg of tour.

Other than being listed as the most-streamed K-pop artists on Spotify Wrapped, BTS was also listed as most-streamed artists globally at No. 5 and most viral artists globally at No. 4.

Vladimir Putin waged war in Ukraine nine months ago and doesn’t appear to be leaving anytime soon. That appears to be the case even if he loses his entire army after advising them to stuff tampons in bullet wounds to stop the bleeding. Because I cannot resist a touch of dark comedy, I imagine the Russia president soothing himself with Botox, so that no one can see his cry face, but on a more serious note, analysts believe that Putin’s sitting at a more “vulnerable” stage than ever before now, so we can expect some wild maneuvers from him. That’s especially the case because he fears being killed for losing this war, but also, he simply does not want to admit defeat.

As CNBC reports, September appears to have been a turning point for Putin’s state of mind. That’s according to R.Politik founder/non resident Carnegie scholar Tatiana Stanovaya, who declared, “From the moment on 24th of February, Putin launched this war, he has become more vulnerable than he has ever been.” From there, Stanovaya believes, “I don’t see a scenario where he could be a winner,” and “we can say that he is politically doomed.” Additionally, a political scientist pointed out that Putin won’t give up until Russia’s forcibly ejected from Ukraine:

“The very fact that Russia is still waging this war, despite its apparent defeats in March [when its forces withdrew from Kyiv], indicate that Putin is desperate to not lose. Losing is not an option for him,” Ilya Matveev, a political scientist and academic formerly based in St. Petersburg, told CNBC on Monday.

How long will this continue? There’s no telling, but I’m crossing fingers for the Ukrainian grandmas to hop into those abandoned Russian tanks while wielding Molotov cocktails to get the job done. Either that, or Putin’s troops will finally follow through with blowing up their leadership. That’s morbid, but so is war.

(Via CNBC)

Today is practically a global holiday, as Spotify dropped their annual Wrapped feature for all users. For those unaware, this showcases an individual’s most listened-to songs, albums, and artists for 2022 so far. However, the streaming platform hasn’t stopped the tracking there. They compiled the streams to determine which artists, songs, and in this case, albums were played the most across the globe throughout this year.

It doesn’t seem like an easy task, either. 2022 has seen major releases from Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Drake and 21 Savage, and so many other incredibly popular artists. This year, one album shined above them all.

Bad Bunny’s summer record, Un Verano Sin Ti, holds Spotify Wrapped’s record for the most globally streamed album in 2022. Released back in May, Bad Bunny has been heading out on a world tour tied to the album, which likely only increased the popularity. He also holds Spotify Wrapped’s record for the most globally streamed artist this year.

The other albums rounding out the top five include Styles’ Harry’s House, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, Ed Sheeran’s =, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her.

While some of these albums weren’t necessarily released this year, they have certainly continued to make an impact on listeners.

Here’s to what next year’s Spotify Wrapped brings!

At last, 2022’s Spotify Wrapped is here. Aside from the individual per-user data that gets listeners excited, Spotify also takes this opportunity to share some year-end lists of its own and highlight the artists and music that was streamed the most on its platform this year. Generally, new music tends to dominate these ranks (of course), but Spotify also has a couple of lists dedicated to older tunes.

Those lists break down the most-listened to “throwback” albums and songs, with “throwback” meaning the work was released more than 20 years ago. Across both lists, Eminem, Kate Bush, and Coldplay dominate.

Here’s the top throwback albums list:

1. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Kate Bush — Hounds Of Love
3. Coldplay — Parachutes
4. Dr. Dre — 2001
5. The Beatles — 1

And here’s the throwback songs list:

1. Kate Bush — “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)”
2. Coldplay — “Yellow”
3. Eminem — “The Real Slim Shady”
4. Coolio — “Gangsta’s Paradise”
5. Nirvana — “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Bush’s high placements are unsurprising following the Stranger Things-sparked “Running Up That Hill” resurgence. Coolio placing on the songs list is also notable given his death this past September.

Check out more Spotify Wrapped data here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

If Danny DeVito directs a tweet towards a politician, you know it’s going to be good.

“Antonin Scalia retire bitch” belongs in the Twitter Hall of Fame (before the Twitter Hall of Fame collapses into a sinkhole caused by one of the Boring Company’s secondhand machines), but lately, the actor/director/hoagie enjoyer has been hoping to get the attention of President Biden. Earlier this week, DeVito tweeted, “Joseph, while you’re fixing things with the railroad… get them to pass The Equality Act affording civil rights to the LGBTQ community. And extend the child tax credit. How bout the 35$ cap on insulin… all’s I’m saying, a few things already passed in the house. C’mon buddy.”

After Biden called on “Congress to move immediately to block a strike by more than 100,000 union members at the nation’s freight railroads set for the end of next week,” according to CNN, DeVito was fed up. “No Joe, you’re supposed to help the railroad workers… you got it backwards,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet. “A handful of sick days c’mon! Workers of the world unite!”

If Biden doesn’t do something, he’s going to get one of these:

For now, DeVito is being hailed as a pro-union man of the people.

One of the most pervasive male stereotypes in advertising is the strong, silent type. The most famous of these is the Marlboro Man, a dude alone on horseback with a pack of cigarettes and nothing around him but cattle and a wide-open prairie.

Tom Nakayama at the Center for Media Literacy says that this stereotype damages men because it presents a very limited form of masculinity. “In general, these concentrated views of manhood suggest the many ways in which advertising negatively affects men by narrowing the definition of what it means to be a man in American society,” Nakayama writes.

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As times change the jobs and scenarios that the aloof, silent man finds himself may change, but the message is still the same. This representative of the masculine ideal is little more than a romanticized meat suit of bottled aggression waiting to be unleashed.

Three years ago, videographer Connor Simmons had some fun with this stereotype by creating a video called, “How to Advertise to Men.” The mock commercial features a man photographed in black and white, walking alone near a mountain range and looking extremely bored.

The video’s producers note that this scenario can be used to sell just about any product.

“The product is irrelevant at this point, it could be aftershave or whisky or sunglasses or this watch. It really doesn’t matter. What matters is, the product looks cool,” the deep-voiced narrator says.

The ad hopes to mock these cliché advertisements out of existence because they’re not great for the male psyche and they’re predictable and boring. Spread this video far and wide and maybe, just maybe, advertisers will be forced to come up with a new idea.

In separate projects, Rob Zombie and Tim Burton launched resurrections of similarly kitschy TV projects this fall, but only one of the projects hit the viewership out of the ballpark. That’s to be expected, really, since Zombie took a more niche (and arguably too campy) approach to rebooting The Munsters. Whereas Burton refashioned The Addams Family with intrigue in a show that stands apart from the original series to put spooky, traditionally poker-faced Wednesday Addams into a mystery worth caring about. Jenna Ortega also gives us a Wednesday worth watching for how she pays tribute to but also adds a few layers to the role originated by Christina Ricci.

Wednesday stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán in roles that that they appear destined to play (Morticia and Gomez, respectively), and Wednesday herself is relevant for a 2022 coming-of-age spin, which is quite an accomplishment. As it turns out, buckets of people want to see her time at Nevermore Academy. Additionally, bypassing a more obvious (and crowded) Halloween release date in favor of the binge-friendly, pre-Thanksgiving release date turned out to be a wise move. Via Deadline, Netflix now has a new second-place record:

Wednesday has summoned a new record for Netflix. The supernatural series drew a whopping 341.23M hours viewed in its first week on the streamer, soaring to the top of the TV charts.

It now holds the record for the most hours viewed in a week for any English-language TV series on Netflix. Impressively, that beats Stranger Things 4, which previously held the title. At its peak, the first seven episodes of Stranger Things 4 notched 335M hours viewed in their first full week on the service (and second week in the Top 10).

Still, both Wednesday and Stranger Things have yet to eclipse Squid Game, which has almost universal global appeal on its side and achieved a peak-week record of 571.8 hours viewed. Still, it’s not too shabby to achieve a gothy-success when Burton’s project was promoted as him essentially fashioning a “eight-hour Tim Burton movie.” That sounds fatiguing, but the actual Wednesday is quite the opposite for Netflix’s audience.

(Via Deadline)

For weeks now, music fans have been waiting for Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s annual round-up of the year’s most-played music, to drop. It’s usually unveiled around December 1 annually, and now, it’s here.

Aside from user-specific data that you’re probably already seeing all over social media by now, Spotify also offers a round-up of the top acts among all users. For the third year in a row, Bad Bunny was the world’s most-streamed artist, followed by Taylor Swift, Drake, The Weeknd, and BTS. Bad Bunny is the first artist to ever three-peat, so in celebration, Spotify has turned its heart button into the singer’s custom red-heart icon. When narrowed to just the US, Drake is No. 1, then Swift, Bad Bunny, Kanye West, and The Weeknd.

If you want to get even more specific and look at just the world’s top K-pop artists of 2022, they were, from first to fifth, BTS, Blackpink, Twice, Stray Kids, and Seventeen. Spotify also has a list of the year’s most “viral” artists globally, meaning “their music is most frequently shared to social platforms from Spotify.” Topping that rank is Swift, followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, BTS, and Lana Del Rey.

Check out the data yourself here.

Back in 2018, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker released a self-titled EP as Boygenius. It was a beloved collaboration and since then, fans have been clamoring for more from the supergroup. Well, now it looks like more could indeed be coming, as speculation is rampant after a TikTok video shared yesterday showed the three posing for a photoshoot.

The five-second clip filmed from a moving car shows Bridgers, Dacus, and Baker in vibrant outfits, posing by a telephone pole as two photographers stand across the street. Some fans noted that it appears the trio were re-creating a Nirvana photoshoot for Mademoiselle Magazine in November 1993, in which Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic wore similarly colorful dresses and posed in a similar-looking environment.

Although it’s not clear when exactly this video was taken, one Reddit commenter noted, “This has to be recent, Julien has both arms fully tattooed, when they formed boygenius she didn’t have them like this.” Somebody else also wrote, “Well we do know that Lucy and Phoebe were in L.A. for the 1975 concert [on November 28]… I do see Willoughby Ave in the video and I recognize the spot because it’s by a Sprout’s in Hollywood. I’m really hoping this is real because we need more boygenius.”

(For the especially curious, the video was shot near the intersection of Willoughby Ave. and N Formosa Ave. in Los Angeles; Here’s the Google Maps Street View of the spot.)

Back in June 2021, Dacus said of potential plans for the trio to record together again, “There aren’t any plans, but we talk all the time. I think we are the biggest Boygenius fans. We want it to happen, so we’re not working against it.”