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12/4/22 Update: It took five years, many pleas, and a lot more rumors, but at long last, we finally have a release date for SZA’s S.O.S, her long-awaited second album. During her performance on SNL, it was announced that the project will arrive on December 9, giving fans just five days to prepare themselves for SZA’s latest body of work.

11/30/22 Update: Staying on course with plans to release her sophomore album S.O.S. in January, SZA unveiled what appears to be the cover art for S.O.S. On it, SZA is sitting at the end of a diving board that’s above pure blue ocean waters. You can see the artwork for yourself below.

11/16/22 Original Article:SZA‘s long-anticipated sophomore album is finally on the horizon. In a recent interview with Billboard, SZA revealed that the album is titled S.O.S. and is currently planned to arrive sometime next month. The album marks her first in five years, following her 2017 debut, Ctrl.

Though she did not disclose an exact date, fans have already taken to Twitter to share their theories.

One fan on Twitter says he believes the album will arrive just before Christmas Day.

“The clock in the final minute of the “Shirt” video shows the time 12:21,” they said. “the license plate in the beginning says “NO CTRL, DEC 2022″. Argue in the comments.”

If SZA continues the pattern she established in 2020, a Christmas-time release date for S.O.S. shouldn’t be too far off. She surprised us on Christmas Day of 2020 by releasing her single, “Good Days.” In 2021, she dropped “I Hate U” on streaming platforms just weeks before Christmas. She has not confirmed if either of those songs, along with the Ty Dolla Sign-assisted “Hit Different,” which she released in September of 2020, will appear on S.O.S..

On December 3, SZA will perform on Saturday Night Live in an episode hosted by Keke Palmer. Ahead of the performance, she unveiled a teaser clip for a new song called “PSA.”

As for collaborators, SZA has kept rather mum, however, she revealed that she and producer Rodney Jerkins cut seven tracks in one day during the S.O.S. sessions in a recent interview with Complex.

“That was always my dream,” she said. “To work with [Jerkins] based on his work with Brandy and Amerie.”

S.O.S. is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records.

Ahead of her upcoming sophomore album, S.O.S., SZA stopped by the Saturday Night Live stage tonight for an evening of laughs and good music. In her first performance of the Keke Palmer-hosted episode, SZA delivered a captivating performance of her much-acclaimed single, “Shirt.”

During her performance, SZA donned a baggy Harley Davidson and two layers of jeans, as she was joined by a group of dancers, who danced on beat to the song, in front of a transcendent ocean-colored screen.

Toward the end of the performance, the screen revealed the release date for S.O.S.

While the album is near, we don’t know much else about it. In a recent interview with Complex, SZA was rather cryptic about the album’s overall vibe.

“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like. Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them,” she said. “I have no idea what it sounds like to anybody else. I really don’t know. It’s so bizarre. It’s weird that I can’t put my finger on it. It’s a little bit of everything. It’s a little aggressive. Some parts are incredibly soft. Some of them are ballads. I don’t know. It’s all over the place. It’s just where my heart is.”

Check out a clip of the performance above.

S.O.S. is out 12/9 via Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records.

It’s been a busy year for Keke Palmer. This summer, she starred in the blockbuster thriller film, Nope, written and directed by Jordan Peele. Tonight (December 3), she hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. During her opening monologue, she revealed even more exciting news.

“I’m especially glad to be here though, because there’s some rumors going around,” Palmer said. “People have been in my comments saying ‘Keke’s having a baby,’ ‘Keke’s pregnant,’ and I want to set the record straight. I am.”

She then unbuttoned her coat and revealed her pregnancy bump to a cheering audience.

“I’ve gotta say though, it is bad when people on the internet spread rumors about you, but it’s even worse when they’re correct,” Palmer said. “I was trying so hard to keep it on the down low, because I’ve got a lot of stuff going on. People kept coming up to me [saying] ‘Congratulations,’ I’m like ‘Shh! Can y’all stop, I’ve got a liquor sponsorship on the line. Let the check clear, then we can get to the damn baby shower.”

Palmer proceed to call her pregnancy the “biggest blessing” and expressed excitement about soon becoming a mother.

You can watch the monologue above.

The eyes of the football watching world were on the numerous college football conference championship games on Saturday. While those were going on, we got something truly incredible out of an unlikely source of footballing excellence: the Minnesota Class AAA title game between the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Rebels and the New London-Spicer Wildcats.

DGF scored a touchdown with 24 seconds remaining in the game to put themselves up, 26-21. All they need to do was survive and they’d call themselves champions, and with four ticks left, things looked pretty good for them. New London-Spicer had the ball on the Rebels’ 48-yard line and needed a miracle, which they somehow got.

The Wildcats signal caller, Blake Schultz, threw up a prayer in the general direction of the end zone, which was brought in by Grant Paffrath. He was immediately wrapped up and tackled, but before he hit the ground, he had the presence of mind to look behind him, where one of his teammates had a head of steam. Brycen Christensen got the ball, sprinted towards the end zone, and despite a defensive back’s best effort, was able to score as time ran out.

While I am open to the possibility this ends up being wrong, I do not think we are going to have a better ending to a football game this year.

(h/t InForum)

It seems some new Kid Cudi music is underway.

This past week, the rapper took to Twitter to announce that he had recorded six new songs in the span of three days.

A few days later, he shared that he had recorded a total of 11 songs throughout the week.

“My goal was to do a whole new album worth of songs this week,” he said. “12 was my goal. Might get 14.”

Back in September upon the release of his 10th studio album, Entergalactic, Cudi revealed in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe that he didn’t have any desire to make any more albums.

“I have other things I wanna do,” he said. “I do not see me never making music. […] But as far as getting in the studio and working on an album and then going and touring it? I just don’t have it in me.”

Last month, he revealed that he still had one more album left in his contract, though fans shouldn’t expect it within the next year.

“Im doin 1 more album and then im done w my deal and not sure what ima do after that but yea, 1 more,” he said. “Wont be next year. Keep u posted.”

He followed up on the album, saying, “This is for all my fans that have been ridin w me for so long. This will be all new music. The songs ive teased ill prolly put out as singles here and there to hold u over.”

The Minnesota Timberwolves only got nine minutes of work out of Rudy Gobert during Saturday night’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Early on in the game’s second quarter, Minnesota’s gigantic offseason acquisition saw his night come to a premature end due to an incident with Kenrich Williams.

Gobert went up to contest a runner by Williams, but he was unable to get all the way up to send the effort away and Williams picked up two points. In an extremely unusual sequence of events, Williams hit the deck as the ball was going in, which led to Gobert stumbling over him.

The two laid on the ground and Williams looked like he had something to say while he was getting up. This did not sit well with Gobert, who decided to trip Williams. Some pushing and shoving ensued before the officials got the chance to look at what went down, and ultimately, Gobert was assessed a Flagrant 2 and ejected from the game. Williams, meanwhile, got hit with a technical foul.

Prior to his ejection, Gobert scored six points and reeled in four rebounds on the night. The Timberwolves are already without the services of Karl-Anthony Towns, who is sidelined with a calf strain.

Britney Spears had her family on her mind on her birthday yesterday (December 2). Despite having been estranged from her sons. The “…Baby One More Time” hitmaker took to her Instagram page to honor the two of them in separate posts.

“To both of my boys … I love you … I would die for you !!! God speed my precious hearts !!! I would give anything just to touch your face !!! I send my love … Mamasita,” she said in each of the posts’ captions.

This may come as a surprise to fans, due to the fact that in September, Spears shared a now-deleted audio message expressing hurt after her kids had been icing her out.

“Since they’ve been gone, I’ve honestly felt like a huge part of me has died,” she said. “Like literally, I have no purpose anymore. They were my joy. They were my everything. I looked forward to seeing them. That was what I lived for. And then all of a sudden, they were gone. And I was like, ‘Did my heart just stop beating?’”

In other shocking news, Spears also expressed missing her younger sister, Jamie Lynn, whom she had previously accused of remaining complacent and cashing in on her conservatorship.

“It’s my b-day but you’re my heart so I’m thinking about you,” read the post’s caption. “Congratulations on being so brave, inspiring, and showing guts and glory in your show !!! You ain’t alone … if anybody knows what that feels like … I get it. My baby sister !!! I love you !!!”

Neither Jamie Lynn nor Spears’ sons have responded to her.

Rihanna and her intimates company Savage X Fenty have settled on a lawsuit that was filed this past August. Around that time, customers who had purchased lingerie or undergarments from Savage X Fenty claimed the company used deceptive marketing tactics and automatically enrolled them in a VIP subscription tier, against their knowledge. A suit was later filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, and the city of Santa Monica.

Earlier this week, news broke that Rihanna and Savage X Fenty have settled the lawsuit for $1.2 million.

“Consumers have a right to know up front what they are paying for and how often,” Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Deng said in a release issued by Santa Clara County upon the news of the settlement. “Businesses have a duty to be transparent about their automatic renewal charges.”

According to the terms of the settlement, Savage X Fenty will pay $1 million in civil penalties, $50,000 in investigative costs, and $150,000 in restitution. The restitution will be paid to Savage X Fenty customers who did not opt to “Skip the Month” or purchase an item after their initial membership enrollment, those who canceled their membership and did not receive a refund for the VIP membership charge. Eligible customers will receive a third-party claim administrator.

Neither Rihanna nor Savage X Fenty have commented on the reported suit.

Today (December 3) singer Omar Apollo was honored with the TikTok Future Icon Award at Variety‘s annual Hitmakers brunch. While some of his songs may have gone viral by way of TikTok, Apollo went viral for another reason this week on a different platform.

This past week, a Twitter user accused Apollo of queerbaiting, a phenomenon describing a heterosexual artist or public figure taking on a queer aesthetic as a means to appeal to an LGBTQ+ audience. Apollo, who is openly queer, quickly responded, explicitly noting that he is, in fact queer, saying, “no i b sucking d*ck fr.”

At the brunch, he expressed no shame nor regrets in his tweet when asked about it by Variety‘s Mark Malkin on the red carpet.

“I said what I said,” said Apollo.

During the ceremony, Apollo was pictured with Selena Gomez, who Apollo first discovered when she played Alex Russo on Disney Channel’s Wizards Of Waverly Place.

Apollo also revealed in the interview that growing up, he had a crush on Waverly Place actor David Henrie, who played Alex’s brother, Justin, on the show.

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

Everyone loves Ted Lasso, which has made big names out of its delightful ensemble cast. One of them is Brett Goldstein. The show’s resident Roy Kent seems to really love getting awards and being famous, even if some people once thought he was CGI. Yet another perk of being a celebrity: Sometimes you get to talk to the Muppets. And indeed Goldstein has, in a predictable charmer of an interview about one of their most beloved films, The Muppet Christmas Carol, for its 30th anniversary.

The interview, done for Entertainment Weekly, finds Goldstein sitting down with Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and Robin, Kermit’s nephew who played Tiny Tim in the 1992 Yuletide classic. Goldstein, a self-professed Muppets obsessive, has a lot of questions. He goes through all the songs, the big scenes, etc., etc. He’s very detailed. But at one point he goes one step further and suggests they should do a movie together. And he even knows what it should be: an adaptation of another English classic, Pride and Prejudice. Piggy was into it.

“Ooh, yes! Pride and Prejudice, I’d love to do that,” she told him. “Brett, you’ve got pull in this town. Can you get Pride and Prejudice and Piggy green-lit?”

Goldstein suggests their combined powers can make yet another take on perhaps Jane Austen’s most filmed novel happen. He also thinks he should play Fitzwilliam Darcy, while Piggy thinks Elizabeth Bennet, meaning the two would have to fall in love, just as Charles Grodin had eyes for Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper.

We know what you’re thinking: Aren’t the Muppets busy starring in the third Knives Out? Well, not technically they aren’t, at least not yet. So until that franchise’s writer-director Rian Johnson decides whether or not Daniel Craig should investigate a murder perpetrated by puppets, they should have time to do their first Regency costume drama.

You can watch the full EW interview above and read the transcript right here.