As it turns out, the superstar girl group Blackpink have a lot in common with fans. The four K-pop heroes stopped by a local Target over the weekend to shop the exclusive box sets of their new album Born Pink. In a video uploaded on social media, Lisa leads the girls to the display after spotting it first. While the video’s original sound was replaced with their recent single “Shut Down,” their excited reactions speak for themselves.
“#BLACKPINK is in your local Target!” the Twitter post reads. “Shop the ‘BORN PINK’ @Target exclusive box sets now!”
“Like always, working with my members was fun. Starting with our concept meetings to our final recordings, new ideas were constantly coming out. We were able to look more closely at each other’s thoughts and emotions and bring out something from deep inside. As we gave and took feedback to and from each other, I felt that we shined the most when the four of us were together,” Jennie told XSportsNews (via Soompi) about Born Pink in a recent interview.
Target is currently offering three versions of the box sets, in black, pink, and gray. It includes a CD copy of Born Pink, along with exclusive posters, stickers, and photos. Following Blackpink’s visit to Target being shared, fans immediately took notice with different aspects of the clip.
The legend of Cardi B’s friendship with Beyoncé continues to grow. In July, Beyoncé made her TikTok debut with a compilation video teasing her Renaissance lead single “Break My Soul” and featuring a very energetic Cardi B cameo. Cardi was even more excited to receive a signed copy of Renaissance, as she shared with fans on Monday (September 19).
“Look what Beyoncé sent me,” the Diamond-certified rapper said in the Twitter video. “Read it, b*tch. It was so beautiful, so lovely. I’m gonna put it in a glass frame with laser beams on it. Anybody that get motherf*cking next to it is gonna get electrocuted on motherf*cking sight. I just wanna say thank you so much. I feel so special.”
The clip ends with a beaming Cardi singing a line from Renaissance track “Plastic Off The Sofa.”
Beyoncé wrote on the record, “To Cardi B, Hardworking, Beautiful and talented Queen, thank you for always supporting me. Sending so much love to you and yours. Respect.”
Cardi and Beyoncé have orbited around each other for years now, dating back to an unfortunately canceled collaboration in 2017. In 2020, Cardi explained in an Elle cover story that her then-forthcoming album would feature “my Lemonade moments, my personal relationship moments,” referencing Beyoncé’s groundbreaking, Grammy-winning 2016 conceptual album.
If Cardi needs any inspiration moving forward, it appears as if she has a direct line to Queen Bey.
Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Back in 2014, Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine and Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo got married. Earlier this month, it was reported the two are expecting a third child together. Now, if new claims from another model are to be believed, this is where things get strange: In a new TikTok video shared today (September 19), Sumner Stroh, a model with a sizable social media following, claims she and Levine had a year-long affair and now he wants to name his forthcoming baby after her.
In the 90-second video, Stroh starts, “Essentially, I was having an affair with a man who was married to a Victoria’s Secret model.” She also notes that this happened when she was younger and she feels like she was “exploited” and “easily manipulated.”
She went on to share screenshots of Instagram DMs between herself and Levine, in which they compliment each other’s looks, and she said they were seeing each other for “about a year.” Then, after not talking for months, Stroh says she got the following message from the singer: “Ok serious question. I’m having another baby and if it’s w boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You ok with that? DEAD serious.”
Stroh continued, “I was like… ‘I’m in Hell. Like, I have to be in Hell at this point [laughs].’”
As for why she decided to tell this story now, Stroh explained, “I had sent some screenshots recklessly to a few friends I thought I trusted, and one of them had attempted to sell to a tabloid. So, here I am.”
Levine has yet to offer a public comment about the video, but Twitter users sure have been talking about it in the hours since it dropped. Watch the Stroh video above and check out some reactions below.
Ron DeSantis shipping a plane full of unsuspecting migrants to Martha’s Vineyard has been making headlines as the outright political stunt has been blasted for being “straight out of the authoritarian playbook.” It’s pretty bad, so naturally, Donald Trump is jealous as all heck.
According to Rolling Stone, Trump is fuming mad that DeSantis has knocked him out of the headlines. The dude’s out here busting his hump to remind people about his pee tape, for crying out loud. On top of that, Trump has reportedly been telling people that the potentially illegal migrant shipping scheme was his idea:
Trump has fumed over all the praise DeSantis’ action has been receiving in influential conservative circles lately — such as on right-wing media like Fox News — and has privately accused DeSantis of doing this largely to generate a 2024 polling boost for himself among GOP voters. (Earlier this month, Trump and his political operation blasted out a brief statement claiming, “Mar-a-Lago raid gave Trump a 10-point boost over DeSantis with Republican primary voters, poll shows.”) The twice-impeached former president, the sources say, has also vented that DeSantis’ latest stunt was yet another one of “my idea[s]” that the governor allegedly stole from Trump.
Of course, this tactic is nothing new for Trump. Even before the Martha’s Vineyard stunt, Trump and his underlings have accused DeSantis of copying everything from Trump’s speaking pattern to (get ready for this one) stealing ideas from Don Jr.’s tweets. Trust us when we say no one is taking political cues from a guy who thinks his dad keeping the nuclear codes at Mar-a-Lago is actually a good thing. You’d be better off getting campaign strategy from a ham sandwich.
Arlo Parks started her North American tour earlier this month, but has canceled various dates to take care of her mental health. Originally scheduled to play shows in Milwaukee, Denver, and Minneapolis, with opening acts Puma Blue and Del Water Gap, Parks posted to Instagram, informing fans of what was happening with the cancellation.
“I’ve been on the road and off for the last 18 months, filling every spare second in between and working myself to the bone. It was exciting and I was eager to grind and show everyone what I was capable of, how grateful I was to be where I am today,” Parks wrote. “The people around me started to get worried but I was anxious to deliver and afraid to disappoint my fans and myself.”
She continued, “I pushed myself unhealthily, further and harder than I should’ve. I find myself now in a very dark place, exhausted and dangerously low — it’s painful to admit that my mental health has deteriorated to a debilitating place, that I’m not okay, that I’m a human being with limits.”
Parks, who released her debut album Collapsed In Sunbeamsin 2021, is still scheduled to resume her tour at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom on September 26. She has also added two new October shows in Dallas and Houston. Refunds are being offered for the three canceled shows.
NMIXX sure are mixing things up in K-pop. As one of the fresh faces to come out of the industry this year, the JYP Entertainment girl group offers a new perspective on the global phenomenon with their compulsive ways of blending in different tempos, genres, and arrangements in their music.
Following their debut with “O.O” earlier this year, Lily, Haewon, Sullyoon, Jinni, Bae, Jiwoo, and Kyujin are back with their new lead single “Dice.” The seven-piece K-pop ensemble released their second single album ENTWURFon Monday, September 19 with their B-side “Cool (Your Rainbow).”
Just like the song’s concept of gambling into the unknown, the music video takes viewers on a trip to the circus which eventually leads to a fairytale-esque story once the switch up happens after the first chorus. (One can arguably say it’s giving Panic! At the Disco meets Alice In Wonderland, but with NMIXX as the main characters.)
Earlier this year, NMIXX made their debut with “O.O” that literally mixed pop, hip-hop, dance, and electronic music all in a span of three minutes and 33 seconds. The song — which became a hot topic between fans, critics, and netizens — represented what the group stood for: N for now, new, next, and unknown, like the math symbol, while “MIXX” means combination and diversity.
Stranger Things season four was a fun, entertaining success (not a given considering the long break between episodes — and the long episodes themselves), but one valid criticism of the Netflix series is that there’s too many freaking characters. Eddie and Argyle were great, but it left less time for old favorites, like the most ’80s dad ever. Millie Bobby Brown wants Stranger Things to thin the herd, and her co-star Maya Hawke agrees.
“I don’t think [Eddie] should’ve died,” the Do Revenge actress told Vanity Fair while strapped to a lie detector, “but I do think the show has too many characters.” If this is Hawke’s sneaky way of getting more screen time, no complaints here.
Previously, a blood-thirsty Bobby Brown pleaded with co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer to kill some folks. “Last night [at the premiere], we couldn’t even take one group picture because there were like 50 of us. I was like, ‘You need to start killing people off.’ The Duffer brothers are two sensitive Sallies that don’t want to kill anyone off. We need to be Game of Thrones,” she said. The Duffers have heard her complaints and confirmed that season five will have fewer new faces. “We’re trying not to do that so we can focus on the OG characters, I guess,” Ross said.
It’s his time.
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Stranger Things season five does not currently have a premiere date.
The star-studded lineup for Head In The Clouds Jakarta has been confirmed by 88rising. Jackson Wang, Joji, NIKI, eaJ, (G)I-DLE, and Rich Brian will serve as headliners for the two-day festival on December 3 and 4. BIBI and YOASOBI were also teased, and Kaskade is listed as the special guest.
Head In The Clouds Jakarta was first announced August 1, one week before Head In The Clouds Manila was unveiled and three weeks before a two-day Head In The Clouds festival was staged at the famous Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. That was the second-best 88rising California takeover of the year, as their “Head In The Clouds Forever” Coachella set became the first-ever set curated by a label to perform on the iconic festival’s main stage (as Billboard reports).
“I never really think of us as a label, I think of us as a collective of artists,” 88rising CEO and founder Sean Miyashiro explained for Uproxx’s April cover story. “The label is just a function of putting out music. But before that, we are a collective of artists that want to put out good stuff. It’s about us all coming together, too. And that’s why Head In The Clouds Forever is so dope because that’s just a live, living, and breathing interpretation of what this company wants to be.”
A key piece in formulating that living-and-breathing embodiment for Asian artistry began with the inaugural Head In The Clouds in 2018 at Los Angeles State Historic Park, coinciding with a compilation album by the same name, and 88rising continued to cohesively showcase its artists with Head In The Clouds II in 2019. The highly anticipated Head In The Clouds III will include smash singles such as BIBI’s “The Weekend,” Niki’s “Split,” and Wang’s “Mind Games” featuring MILLI that released last month.
Head In The Clouds Jakarta will spotlight Joji and Wang following the releases of their solo albums Smithereens and Magic Man, respectively. It will also give fans another chance to see NIKI after she was forced to miss Head In The Clouds at the Rose Bowl due to a positive COVID-19 test. Her headlining slot was filled by Joji’s Yebi Labs DJ set.
Two-day passes for Head In The Clouds Jakarta go on sale here beginning Wednesday (September 21).
Joji is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Whiskey and music collided last weekend in Louisville, Kentucky, during the triumphant return of The Bourbon & Beyond Festival. The festival is one of the biggest in the Ohio Valley, covering four days of whiskey tastings, whiskey panels, podcasts, food shows, and, yes, rock ‘n roll (with a little country thrown in for good measure). While the overall fest was a blast, I was there to focus on the whiskey, and I got to try some stellar pours.
Below, I’ve listed the top 10 pours of whiskey (all bourbon and rye) that I was lucky enough to sample. I’ve added my own tasting notes to each of my favorite pours to give you an idea of what you’ll find in the brown juice. I also added a link to buy these bottles. But, full disclosure, a few of these pours were Bourbon & Beyond barrel picks and you’ll likely not be able to get the exact bottle I tried. That said, each bottle has a link to buy the same brand/bottle just from a different source, which is about as close as you can get.
Lastly, I didn’t really rank these. They’re all too good (great, really) in their own way. Look at it this way: if you can get your hands on any of the 10 bottles below, you’ll be in for a real treat because these are all killer pours. Let’s dive in!
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This is classic Old Forester from a single barrel that’s not cut with any water. When you find these, they’ll generally be a pick from a retailer or bar program. That means they’ll vary slightly, depending on what the person picking the barrel was looking for. Still, there’s a consistency of “Old Forester” running through them all. In this case, this was a barrel pick for Kroger.
Tasting Note:
There’s a clear sense of dark fruit, especially cherry, that becomes stewed with dark winter spices on the nose with a good dose of dry tobacco in an old cedar box that’s wrapped up in old leather. A hint of old dry roses sneaks in on the palate as those spices and syrupy cherry and berries intensify and attach to the chewy tobacco. The mid-palate sweetens with an almost rose-water marzipan vibe as the cherry tobacco dried out pretty significantly, leaving you with a sense of pitchy pine sap and your grandparent’s old tobacco pipe that’s still hot to touch.
Bottom Line:
This was just freakin’ good. This was also the pour I probably went back to the most. It had a wonderful balance and felt light and fresh while still hitting that deep bourbon-y vibe.
The Prideful Goat 15 Years Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Cask Strength
This whiskey is a sourced masterpiece of Kentucky bourbon that’s bottled down in Texas. The mash bill is corn heavy with 78.5% corn next to 13% rye and 8.5% malted barley. That juice is left in barrels in Kentucky for 15 long years before they’re shipped to Texas, blended, and bottled as-is at cask strength.
Tasting Notes:
This is classic bourbon with a deep sense of buttery toffee next to dark cherries with a sour edge, slightly tannic oak, a hint of worn boot leather, and a spicy tobacco leaf. The palate hits on a soft ginger snap with sharp cinnamon and freshly ground nutmeg leading to a handful of allspice berries before wet brown sugar and maple candy kick in and mellows the mid-palate toward dark cherry tobacco wrapped up with old wicker canes and pine needles. The end subtly drops toward old oak staves, cellar floor, and caramel/cinnamon syrup with a dash more of that tobacco.
Bottom Line:
This was one of my favorite pours of the month (so far). It’s just delightfully “bourbon!” with a nice depth and perfect balance of flavor notes.
This whiskey from Kentucky Peerless is around five to six years old and comes from one barrel that lets the grains shine through before it goes into another barrel that lets the oak shine through. That final barrel is bottled at cask strength, as-is, allowing all that beautiful bourbon and oak aging to shine brightly.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a nose full of salted butter next to hints of very soft leather, light notes of vanilla bean, a touch of toffee sweetness, and freshly cracked walnuts with a dry edge. The taste leans into that oak barrel with dashes of woody spices (think allspice berries, star anise, and cinnamon sticks), dry cherry tobacco leaves, salted caramel, and more of that super soft leather. That leads towards a mid-palate of dark red fruits stewed in mulled wine spices and cut with a dollop of fresh honey before the (long) finish dries out towards an old wicker chair, a very distinct hint of a cellar funk, and a touch of dried mint.
Bottom Line:
This is a bottle that I actually keep open on my home bar. That should tell you all that you need to know when it comes to how freakin’ good it is.
This sourced whiskey celebrates both Kentucky’s bourbon heritage and U.S. Senators from the Bluegrass state. The juice is made with a mash of 78.5% corn, 13% rye, and 8.5% malted barley (sounds familiar?). The whiskey is left alone for 15 years before the team at Kentucky Senator Spirits blends and bottles this one, without filtering or proofing.
Tasting Notes:
This whiskey opens with a medley of dry cedar, black cherries, burnt toffee, buttered sourdough pancake, old leather, cinnamon bark, and spiced chewy tobacco. The palate leans into the woody spices with cloves and anise taking center stage as soft maple syrup and pecan-cinnamon-butter create a spiced/sweet/creamy vibe on the palate. In the end, more woodsy spices mingle with rich cherry tobacco as old oak, salted caramel, and vanilla cream pie round everything out.
Bottom Line:
This is going to be harder to find but worth the hunt. This is classic bourbon with real depth, balance, and flavor.
This whiskey was distilled at Castle & Key back in 2018. 200 of those barrels were hand-picked for this release to take a look back at the past two years and “reflect” upon the trials they brought.
Tasting Notes:
This opens with a distinct note of tart-yet-slightly sweet cherry on the nose with a supporting cast of butterscotch candies, mild firewood, and a hint of pancake batter. That batter becomes a stack of pancakes with vanilla-laced butter, maple syrup, and a few nuts thrown in, leading to an herb garden full of rosemary bushes. That savory note mellows out through the mid-palate as a dusting of nutmeg rounds out the finish with hints of woody maple syrup and a final echo of that tart cherry.
Bottom Line:
This will be one of the easier bottles to find right now — it’s actually on shelves around the country. It’s worth tracking down because it’s both delicious and fresh.
Starlight Distillery Carl T. Huber’s Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Cognac Casks
This release — from the distillery’s broad selection of uniquely finished whiskeys — is made with Starlight’s own four-year-old bourbon that’s loaded into hand-selected Cognac casks for six months. The whiskey then goes into the bottles with no fussing.
Tasting Notes:
Smoked maple syrup and raw tobacco lead the way on the nose as floral honey, dry cacao powder, and a hint of rum-soaked raisin mingle throughout. The palate turns that cacao into a dark chocolate bar with almonds layered in as a mild, dry chili pepper adds some pep on the mid palate. There’s a dark and worn leather vibe that kicks in as the finish arrives with hints of apple-raisin-honey cider pipe tobacco vibing with old leather tobacco pouches and dry sweetgrass braids rounding out the end.
Where Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select is cut with soft limestone water to bring it down to proof, this is the straight juice from the barrel. These barrels are all hand selected from the vast Jack Daniel’s rickhouses. What’s left from the angel’s share then goes straight into the bottle. That means the ABVs and tasting notes for this bottle will vary depending on which bottle you snag.
Tasting Notes:
This is full of rich vanilla, caramel, and toasted oak, next to a rush of cherry-spiked spice. The sip reels in a mix of that vanilla, oak, and rich wintry spices with a nice dose of bright red fruits and a texture that’s more velvet than liquid. The end really holds onto that vibe as the mild spice, toasted oak, rich vanilla, and almost maple syrup sweetness slowly fade across your senses, leaving you with chewy cherry tobacco stuffed into an old cedar box.
Bottom Line:
This is one of my favorite Jack Daniel’s expressions. It’s just so easy drinking and rewarding. It’s a truly great sipper.
Marianne Eaves — who came up as the Master Blender at Brown-Forman and Master Distiller at Castle & Key — released a full line of bourbons from outside of Kentucky this year. This one is from Kings County in Brooklyn, New York, and highlights Eaves’ master blender status. The juice is Kings’ four-year-old bourbon that Eaves blended to create a barrel-proof expression.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a nice balance of red fruit on the nose with woody pomegranate, burnt orange, sour cherry, and maybe some blackberry jam next to mild winter spices, light cedar, and a hint of dark and old leather. The palate leans into brown sugar and maple syrup with a hint of cinnamon butter, walnut, and raisin before a warming and sharp cinnamon and dried red chili pepper peek in. The end leans back toward the dark red fruit with a hint of cedar and cinnamon bark layered over dry tobacco.
Bottom Line:
This is another winner that’s gettable (from the distiller) right now. Hit that price link below the image and try this one yourself!
Bardstown Bourbon Company Chateau de Laubade Blended Straight Bourbon Whiskies Finished in Armagnac Casks
This bourbon is a blend of 12-year-old, low-rye bourbon from Kentucky and 10-year-old, very-low-rye bourbon from Tennessee. The whiskeys were re-barreled into Armagnac casks from the famed Chateau de Laubade. One set spent two years mellowing on the bottom floor of the rickhouse while another set spent 16 months mellowing on the top floor. After that, the barrels were vatted and bottled as-is.
Tasting Notes:
The nose on his one is deep and meanders through cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and mace before hitting a sweet edge of toffee covered in crushed almond with a dash of leather, dry sage, and some old oak. The palate starts off lush with a vanilla cream base before layering in sultanas and dates with a hint of gingerbread sweetness and spice. The end hints at cherry bark and grape must with a thin line of winter spice and old cellars full of old wood and dirt floors.
Bottom Line:
I’ve had this a few times this year and it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite pours of the year.
Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey 13 Years Old
This is the only non-wheated whiskey in the Pappy line. While we don’t know the exact mash bill, Buffalo Trace does use a rye mash bill that’s very low-rye (some say only 51% to meet legal requirements). Either way, the juice is then barreled and allowed to mellow for 13 years before blending, proofing, and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Imagine sweet tobacco leaves spiked with red peppercorns, rich caramel apples, and plenty of Christmas spices. Worn leather arrives with hints of fatty nuts and dried fruits next to the sharply spicy pepperiness. With a little water, that pepper mellows towards a powdery white pepper, with hints of vanilla and toffee lurking underneath. The end is very warm at first but fades out evenly and slowly, leaving a cedary sense of wood and a final whisper of pipe tobacco smoke.
Bottom Line:
It’s almost annoying how good this is and how inaccessible it has become. Everyone who loves whiskey should be able to buy and try this without the rigmarole that it takes to find Pappy these days. That said, this is just f*cking delicious.
The internet went into chaos on Sunday when Woody Allen announced that he would be retiring from making movies for a quiet life of writing books instead. As it turns out, Allen “never said” he would be retiring, which is a shame.
Over the weekend, Allen told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that he would be focusing on writing: “My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing.” The comment was misinterpreted on social media, with many celebrating the end of Allen’s moviemaking career.
Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel. He said he was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him, as he is a great lover of the cinema experience. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.
Allen has been accused of sexual abuse by multiple members of his family, though certain Hollywood actors tend to rally around him once he sets out to make another film. It seems like that will keep happening now that he’s unretired. Maybe he should take this as a sign from the universe to…stop?
Woody Allen quietly retiring in 2022 instead of being run out of town decades ago is just another indicator of how fucking bleak things are https://t.co/bC9MSPypaI
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(@xx_turtle_) September 18, 2022
….sooo sweet and it means a lot 
