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Before there was BTS, there was “Gangnam Style.” Yes, it was only a few short years ago that K-pop superstar Psy was breaking Youtube records and paving the way for K-pop to become the international force that it is now. “Gangnam Style” might’ve been dismissed by many as a tongue-in-cheek gimmick track, but they’d be underestimating the wide-ranging appeal of Psy’s playful pop style.

His newest single, “That That,” might have a cowboy feel based on the cover art he shared on Instagram announcing the track’s release — it’s also produced by none other than Suga of BTS. He also shared a brief snippet of the video, and perhaps the song itself, which you can check out above.

The song will lead off Psy’s new album, Psy 9th, which will come out this Friday (!) As for the single though, both Suga and Psy talked about how working together on it brought them together.

“At first, because he’s many years my senior and someone who’s well-respected in the business I was quite nervous,” Suga said in another clip shared to Instagram. “It felt like working with a childhood friend so it made the songwriting process that much more fun. We became besties in a way.”

“I don’t want to be someone who’s hard to approach,” Psy says. “He just wasn’t my junior in the business but also he truly feels like a friend. It was hard to feel any age gap. If he thinks of me as a bestie, that’s great for me.”

The single and the album drop this Friday, so keep an ear out for new music from Psy.

Fans of the HBO series Winning Time might be enjoying the throwback outfits and John C. Reilly’s hairstyles, but people who were actually there are not huge fans of the basketball show, which is based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime.

Though the show is a fictitious telling of Lakers’ history, the real people who are being portrayed on screen haven’t been happy with it. Last week, Lakers legend Jerry West demanded an apology from HBO over his“false and defamatory portrayal” in the series.

HBO didn’t buy it! In a statement made to The Hollywood Reporter, the network insists that the show is not a documentary, and there are creative liberties that were taken for the drama of it all.

HBO has a long history of producing compelling content drawn from actual facts and events that are fictionalized in part for dramatic purposes. Winning Time is not a documentary and has not been presented as such. However, the series and its depictions are based on extensive factual research and reliable sourcing, and HBO stands resolutely behind our talented creators and cast who have brought a dramatization of this epic chapter in basketball history to the screen.

West isn’t the first person to critique the series: basketball great Kareen Abdul-Jabbar also slammed the show in a personal blog post (that’s how you know it’s real), saying the show is not only inaccurate but “dull” and “bland.” He did have some pretty solid research to back it up too! Either way, it doesn’t seem like HBO will care. They already made the show, after all.

Rootin’ tootin Lauren Boebert’s so excited about freedom that she apparently doesn’t see the absurdity of how she’s engaging with users on Twitter. That’s normal for her, even more so than how she bashed student loan forgiveness, but she’s been extremely thrilled with Elon Musk’s latest saga, which involves him plunking down more money than most people can dream of to buy Twitter.

Boebert’s all about “free speech,” like most GOP-ers who don’t believe that you should “say gay” in school. No, that contradiction doesn’t make much sense, and just think, Boebert might soon have an edit button if all goes as Elon plans. Notably, he hasn’t responded to any of her many recent tweets that tag him, but she’s thrilled about “taking back what is ours.” That’s a confusing sentiment, too, and it doesn’t even begin to touch how Boebert is now tweeting at a user by the handle of “@catturd2.”

“.@catturd2 we need you to get better quickly!” Boebert exclaimed. “We are pulling for you. You’ve got to be here in full force for the free speech era of Twitter!”

Yup, this is a member of Congress on one end of the tweeting. And if you were blissfully unaware of who “@Catturd2” is, well, I couldn’t tell you why there’s a 2 on the end of the handle. However, this is apparently a right-wing podcaster who co-hosts a series called “In The Litter Box.” And former Trump Strike Force attorney Jenna Ellis, naturally, has appeared as a guest on the show. Yes, the internet is a very strange place. Always has been, and always will be.

Before Sam Raimi was set to direct Doctor Strange 2, he released a pre-MCU Spider-Man way back in 2002, which is over two decades old at this point because that’s how math works. While the movie is still the best Spider-Man, not all of the jokes hold up! As expected, things that were considered “fine” in 2002, actually weren’t.

In the original movie, there is a slightly homophobic joke in which teenage Peter Parker (played by 27-year-old Tobey Maguire) tries to be witty with an opponent. Peter quips, “That’s a cute outfit. Did your husband give it to you?” before attempting to defeat him. Over the weekend, that line was removed from a broadcast on the British network ITV. Instead, Peter just says “That’s a cute outfit.” Which is a nice thing to say to someone before beating them up.

In a statement to Variety, ITV said, “We carefully consider the suitability of content we broadcast and appropriateness of language used to ensure that it meets audience expectations, especially when intended for family viewing.”

Though it was a small edit, the fact that some networks are doing this in a positive way might be a good thing. Disney has been famously editing out things they see as “controversial” like same-sex kisses or references to queer people at all, and quietly refusing to take a stance on homophobic bills. Other countries have been known to cut out characters altogether. To edit out a joke that could be offensive is a small step in the right direction!

There is a brand new Harry Styles interview today, complete with lots of lovely, quirky photos, and insight into the pop star’s latest album, Harry’s House. This feature is right on time since we had lots of Harry content via the last two weekends of him performing at Coachella, and now that the biggest music festival of the year is over, fans need more to go on before the album drops in a few weeks. So, what’s the scoop in this new interview? Well, a recurring subject that seems to come up over and over again — Harry’s sexuality.

Though he’s often engaged in gender bending activity, like wearing dresses and launching a makeup line, and he’s completely, 100% adamant in his support of the queer community, the conversation around how Harry himself identifies has been one that unrelentingly rages online simply because? He’s kept it to himself.

In his new interview, Styles said he finds the idea that he should have to submit his sexuality to the public for consumption as something that’s “outdated” — and frankly, he’s right. “I’ve been really open with it with my friends, but that’s my personal experience; it’s mine,” he said. “The whole point of where we should be heading, which is toward accepting everybody and being more open, is that it doesn’t matter, and it’s about not having to label everything, not having to clarify what boxes you’re checking.”

Read the full interview right here.

There’s a famous story about how Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman was supposed to die during season one of Breaking Bad. But creator Vince Gilligan came to his senses and “it became clear to me that Aaron Paul was an absolute asset to the show. I’d no more kill him off now than cut off one of my pinkies,” he explained in a 2010 interview.

I’m not sure if Euphoria creator Sam Levinson had any intention of killing Cassie, the character played by Sydney Sweeney on the hit HBO series. But she was certain he was going to in the season two premiere. It’s a good thing he didn’t.

“I thought that Sam was killing me. I thought that I was going to get killed,” Sweeney said on Entertainment Weekly‘s “The Awardist” podcast. “And the hanging out the window, actually, was just me hanging out the window. It was just random and very in the moment.” She continued, “When I read it, I thought that Cassie was getting killed off. I was really bummed. But then it turned into this weirdly sensual, dangerous connection between [Cassie and Nate, played by Jacob Elordi]. And it became what it became.”

If Levinson does one day decide to kill Cassie, good luck breaking the news to Sweeney’s grandmother.

(Via People)

The Miami Heat suffered not just their first loss of the series in Game 3 in Atlanta, but also the loss of Kyle Lowry with a hamstring injury that looms large for the East’s top-seed as they look to move deep in the playoffs. Despite Lowry’s absence, the Heat dominated Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead back to Miami, led by the continued spectacular play of Jimmy Butler.

There’s an argument to be made that Butler has been the best player in the playoffs so far — although with competition for that title from Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jayson Tatum — as he has been the driving force for the Heat taking a stranglehold on the series. However, Butler is apparently dealing with some knee inflammation and the Heat announced on Tuesday afternoon that they will try to close out the series later that night without his services or Kyle Lowry’s.

That is a considerable absence and one that will make life very difficult for Miami, as they will be without their two veteran creators. Tyler Herro figures to play a more prominent role and maybe being the focal point of the Heat offense can get him going a bit. Max Strus will need to continue his stellar play in support and overall the Heat will have to find ways to create easy opportunities in transition to ease the burden of halfcourt creation without Lowry and Butler.

A few years ago, Machine Gun Kelly decided to give pop-punk music a try, shying away from the rap that made him famous. On a commercial level, that turned out to be a terrific idea, as MGK’s two rock albums, 2020’s Tickets To My Downfall and last year’s Mainstream Sellout, where his first ones to go No. 1 in the US. He’s apparently not done with rap yet, though, as he’s now saying he wants to get back to making that type of music.

In a new Audacy Music interview (as Rap-Up points out), Kelly said of what’s next for him:

“I’m going to make a rap album for myself, for no other reason, no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder. If I keep doing things to prove things to people, I’m going to one: drive myself crazy, and two: not make a good product. I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout because I wanted to make them. I need to now also make people miss that sound. […] I’m going to do this tour and I’m gonna step into where I left Hotel Diablo and expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new innovative sound for the hip-hop Machine Gun Kelly. That’s where my excitement is and where me as a music archaeologist wants to explore.”

While pop-punk has brought Kelly his biggest commercial success, he wasn’t exactly slouching in his early rap days: All of his albums were top-5 on the charts, save for 2017’s Bloom, which peaked at a respectable No. 8. Bloom, however, yielded Kelly’s biggest hit song, as the Camila Cabello collaboration “Bad Things” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his only top-5 (or even top-10) single.

Watch the interview above.

While Cass McCombs’ last album release was 2019’s Tip Of The Sphere, he’s been busy tapping into the spirit of collaboration ever since. His late-2020 track “Dont (Just) Vote” was a successful political rallying cry ahead of the presidential election, featuring Angel Olsen, Bob Weir, and even political philospher Noam Chomsky. Most recently, the indie folkie played a psychedelic guitar on “Happy Accident,” the gorgeous lead single to Tomberlin’s upcoming album. Now, he has tapped Danielle Haim and others for the new single, “We Belong To Heaven.”

With Haim on drums and backing vocals, McCombs sings, plays piano, percussion, and guitar on an upbeat homage to a fallen friend. “Music was all we needed, yeah, you’ve got to give it away to keep it. You surrendered undefeated, now you belong to Heaven,” McCombs sings.

The track was produced by the venerable Ariel Rechstshaid, who has produced a slew of McCombs’ albums, as well as been a part of the core Haim production team. “We Belong To Heaven” also features Frank Ocean collaborator Buddy Ross on the Hammond organ, additional vocals from The Chapin Sisters, bassist Shahzad Ismaily, and Frank LoCastro on keys

Listen to “We Belong To Heaven” above and check out Cass McCombs’ upcoming California and festival tour dates below.

05/21 – Guadalajara, MX @ Corona Capital Festival Guadalajara
06/14 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
06/15 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
06/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
06/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
0619 – Cayucos, CA @ Schooner’s

Rolling Loud, the traveling rap festival with roots in Miami and branches in Los Angeles, New York, and Portugal, has set its sights on Toronto. The Great White North’s upcoming iteration of Rolling Loud is booked for the weekend of September 9-11 at Ontario Place with headliners Dave, Future, and Wizkid. This marks the first time the festival will be headlined by mostly international artists (not including its Portugal events, where technically all the Americans were the imports), with Dave representing the UK (y’know, England) and Wizkid bringing Nigerian flair.

Further down the bill, fans will recognize some familiar names, including Rolling Loud mainstays like A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Central Cee, Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Nav, Rae Sremmurd, Roddy Ricch, Ski Mask The Slump God, and $NOT, while the new international outlook includes upstarts like AJ Tracey, Baka Not Nice, Haviah Mighty, Pressa, Rema, and Smiley.

Tickets for the festival go on sale this Friday, April 29, with the presale beginning Wednesday, April 27, with American Express cardholders getting their own presale on Thursday. For more info, you can check out the official Rolling Loud website: RollingLoud.com/toronto

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