The 61-year-old actor was the first cover star of Hollywood Authentic magazine from photographer-to-the-stars Greg Williams, and he had a lot to say, specifically about how relationships and taking too much Ambien. He spoke about his several marriages, including his last wife, actress Leila George, and how he “f*cked up’ the marriage. The two split last year.
There’s a woman who I’m so in love with, Leila George, who I only see on a day-to-day basis now, because I f*cked up the marriage. We were married technically for one year, but for five years, I was a very neglectful guy. I was not a f*cking cheat or any of that obvious sh*t, but I allowed myself to think that my place in so many other things was so important, and that included my place in being totally depressed and driven to alcohol and Ambien at 11 o’clock in the morning.
Penn and George had been together since 2016 and married in 2020 before George called it quits in the fall. The two allegedly finalized the divorce just last month, and are still often seen together. He added that he was neglectful because of all of the “crap that’s going on in the world” such as a devastating war and men wearing skirts, according to Penn himself.
And as it turns out – this is going to shock you – beautiful, incredibly kind, imaginative, talented young women who get married to a man quite senior to them in years, they don’t actually love it when they get up from their peaceful night’s sleep and their new husband is on the couch, having been up since four, watching all of the crap that’s going on in the world and has decided that 10:30 in the morning is a good time to neck a double vodka tonic and an Ambien and say, ‘Good morning, honey. I’m going to pass out for a few hours and get away from all this sh*t.’ As it turns out, women as described, they don’t love that.
Despite realizing his faults, Penn seems to be on an apology campaign and hopes to win his wife back. George just turned 30 last month, and in case you are keeping track, Penn’s daughter Dylan turns 31 this month, so there’s that.
Phoebe Bridgers has broken the internet with the announcement of a new single. Upon sharing the pre-save link for a new song called “Sidelines” this morning via Twitter, her site immediately crashed, with fans replying to the link saying it wouldn’t work for them.
The announcement of the new single has led fans to speculate if the “Kyoto” singer’s new album is imminent. This would be her first album in two years and third overall.
“Sidelines” is Bridgers’ first taste of new music since launching her label Saddest Factory. On the Saddest Factory roster are Muna and Claud. Last month, during the Saddest Factory “Corporate Retreat” showcase at SXSW in Austin, Bridgers brought out Muna, Claud, along with fellow Saddest Factory signees Sloppy Jane and Charlie Hickey, to perform of a cover of My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome To The Black Parade.”
As a label CEO, Bridgers told Billboard that she’s made it a point to “only sign stuff that [she] love[s].”
“…I try not to be too mentor-y,” she said, “and I try also to be like, ‘You’re cooler than me, and I trust you. I don’t really know what’s up with TikTok, and you probably know way more about Bandcamp bands from your college than I do.’ Having all of us be mentors to one another is a dynamic I would like to keep.”
Robert Englund fans are blowing up social media after spotting the iconic horror actor in the new Stranger Things 4 trailer. The Nightmare on Elm Street star is hard to miss thanks to his gruesomely missing eyes, and the fact that he’s burned into an entire generation’s brains as the face of Freddy Krueger. Englund’s casting in Stranger Things 4 was revealed in 2020 as the highly anticipated season suffered significant setbacks due to the pandemic, and the fact that series creator’s The Duffer Brothers are swinging for an epic feel on par with Game of Thrones.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Englund will be playing Victor Creel, “a disturbed and intimidating man who is imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for a gruesome murder in the 1950s.” Bad things happening in hospitals should jump out to Stranger Things fans, and that recurring theme will reportedly continue in season four:
Seemingly related to Englund’s role is Jamie Campbell Bower, the actor seen across Twilight (as Volturi Caius), Mortal Instruments (as Shadowhunter Jace), and Harry Potter (as young Grindelwald). Bower will play the series regular part of Peter Ballard, “a caring man who works as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital” and is “tired of the brutality he witnesses day after day.”
As the excitement for Englund’s appearance in the Stranger Things 4 trailer made the actor trend on Twitter, some eagle-eyed fans already started theorizing that the actor’s role could be directly tied to the new monster shown in the trailer. Fortunately, fans won’t have long to wait as the new season is just a little over a month away.
You can see fan reactions to Robert Englund in Stranger Things 4 below:
I’m glad to see Robert Englund is on Stranger Things this season. Quite a few (a few….) horror movies and shows waste him on one shot appearances. I hope he’s got a nice arc. He’s a great actor outside the makeup.
Frank Vogel was officially fired that afternoon, more than 12 hours after that news had been broken, and the Lakers are already attached to three current head coaches as potential candidates: Quin Snyder, Doc Rivers, and Nick Nurse. All three of those coaches will be leading teams into the playoffs next week, with Rivers and Nurse squaring off in the first round, and as such you can expect all of them to offer forceful denials of interest and/or deflections that the only thing they are focused on right now is their team if asked about L.A.
That won’t stop the rumor mill from churning, and as the Lakers beat tries to fill time in a year without postseason basketball, every day seems to bring a new update on a coaching search that has only just begun. Tuesday brought a pair of reports regarding candidates and interest, internally and externally, which may indicate how quickly the Lakers may have to move on from their initial top targets.
Broderick Turner of the L.A. Times reports that Snyder, who many expect to take a serious look at opportunities outside of Utah this summer, didn’t appreciate how the Lakers bungled Vogel’s firing, particularly leaking that he was out at the final buzzer of the regular season finale.
Not only is Snyder under contract with the Jazz for at least one more season, people not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said he has become less interested in the Lakers’ job because of how the Vogel firing was handled.
It’s not the first time this front office has stumbled over the details and many were disappointed with the treatment of a championship coach like Vogel on his way out the door. Nurse’s candidacy may only live in the dreams of the Lakers, as there are a number of roadblocks to poaching him from Toronto, namely that they need permission from the Raptors just to talk with him, which Toronto has no reason to provide. With the report on Snyder souring on the chance to be in L.A. and Nurse likely not being a viable candidate, that leaves Doc Rivers as the last of the initial targets — and if the Sixers have an early exit, he may be very much available — which means the Lakers pool will have to expand even more.
Sam Amick of The Athletic offered a little nugget in his latest piece that LeBron James has a candidate in mind: ESPN analyst and former Warriors coach Mark Jackson. Amick says James would be “enthused” by Jackson taking the reins in L.A., but notes that James didn’t get his wishes in the last Lakers coaching search when the Lakers wouldn’t give Ty Lue the offer he wanted and then hired Vogel over Jason Kidd.
Rob Pelinka said they would be methodical in their coaching search on Monday, and while the hope is to have someone in place by June’s NBA Draft, there isn’t a hard deadline for making that hire. As such, expect plenty more names to be attached to the Laker job in the coming months as we aren’t likely to see a swift resolution.
A lawsuit disputing the authorship of Post Malone’s 2019 monster hit “Circles” will go to trial next month after Post’s motion to dismiss the case was rejected by a federal judge, according to Rolling Stone. Post’s request to dismiss the case was based on his lawyer’s argument that “you don’t become a joint author unless you control the supervision.” Unfortunately for the Texas-bred star, District Judge Otis D. Wright, II disagreed, saying that this argument “doesn’t work for me.”
Post Malone is being sued along with song producer Frank Dukes by Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who says that contributed a guitar tune to the song’s final composition. However, Malone and Dukes argue that Armes only made “suggestions” in the studio, that the tune he played was only a “commonplace guitar chord progression,” and that the song was ultimately completed without his input. However, Judge Wright had a few questions about the argument that only contributors with “veto power” should receive a songwriting credit.
“I don’t understand that concept,” Rolling Stone quotes Wright. “Did Dukes control anything other than the manipulation and operation of the laptop?… So, he then had the ability to simply say that none of this is going to be recorded?” When Malone’s lawyer provided that Dukes’ power was contingent on Post’s consent, the judge pointed out, “Well, then he’s not in control. If you’re in control, you have veto power.” Rather than make a summary judgment, Wright determined that the case should proceed to a jury trial next month.
If you had to pull up a starting point for the rise of Nigerian singer Omah Lay, born Stanley Omah Didia, you’d have to go back to 2020. That year, he began work on his debut EP Get Layd and one of the initial songs he recorded from that project was “Bad Influence.” On the surface, the gloomy record, which features haunting piano keys and a dance-friendly bass, is Omah Lay’s account of a relationship he had with a woman he labels as a bad influence. However, in an interview with OkayAfrica, Lay described the song as much more than that. “It was inspired by a whole lot of things,” he said. “It was me coming to Lagos, being exposed to a new type of life, a lot of things around me, and putting all that experience together.”
Omah Lay, who is only 24 years old, is native to Ikwerre, a city in Nigeria’s Rivers State. He was born into a musical family as his grandfather, who died in 1977, played instruments for the singer Celestine Ukwu. Lay’s father also played the drums. When the afrobeats scene was beginning its worldwide rise in the mid-2010s, Lay began pursuing a true career in music. However, his initial goals weren’t to be an artist. “I wanted to be a rapper,” he says in a 2020 interview with NotJustOk. “I was part of a rap group, my name was Lil King. I really liked Drake and his flows so I wanted to be like that.” That dream didn’t last too long as Lay would eventually pivot into afrobeats and begin songwriting and producing for a number of artists in Nigeria before releasing Get Layd.
By the end of 2020, “Bad Influence” became more than a breakout hit for Omah Lay. It was one of the biggest afrobeats songs in Nigeria. The song was the most-streamed Nigerian song on Apple Music that year, and it gave Lay the launching pad to increase his popularity and prove that he was far from a one-hit-wonder, and that same year, he released his second EP What Have We Done. Lay exhibited great growth and artistic improvement on that project, and it was one that arrived just six months after Get Layd. What Have We Done is propelled by the very catchy “Confession” and the equally addictive “Damn” which was later remixed by 6lack.
Propelled by the success of What Have We Done and the records on it, Lay’s popularity would only increase in 2021. He entered his name into the afrobeats song of the summer conversation by releasing “Understand” that summer. At this point, Lay had established himself as one of the members of afrobeats’ newest class. While names like Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy helped to elevate afrobeats to a point where artists all over the world sought to work with them and even put their own spin on the genre, new and younger acts arrived to show how wide the sonics of afrobeats could be stretch. Now, Lay finds himself besides names like Tems, Buju, Rema, CKay, Fireboy DML, Joeboy, Ayra Starr, and more in a class that’s full of life, color, diversity, and above all, potential.
Lay’s 2021 was fairly quiet. Outside of “Understand,” he stayed low in a year that was truly remarkable for afrobeats. Wizkid’s “Essence” became the highest-charting Nigerian song while CKay’s “Love Nwantiti” trailed not too far behind. It’s not to say that Lay missed his opportunity to have a part in the monstrous 2021 year. In fact, Lay might be checking back into the game right on time where much of the confetti has cleared, giving himself a chance to once again shine and relish in his own spotlight. Additionally, there’s no doubt that an equally-successful year is in store for the genre in 2022, just take a look at Rema’s excellent debut album Rave & Roses album as confirmation.
It’s probable that Omah Lay will grace the world with a new project this year, and he’s off to a good start so far. Last month, he teamed up with Justin Bieber for “Attention,” his first record since 2021’s “Understand.” The song arrived after Lay contributed to a remix of Bieber’s Grammy-nominated song “Peaches.” While connecting with Bieber for a song is a moment that few artists would experience, Lay didn’t allow the moment to change his approach to the record and he made sure to stay true to himself on it. “It’s basically about sometime in everybody’s life, you’re lonely,” he said about the song to Billboard. “You can’t just always have somebody all the time. Especially as an adult. That was actually the headspace that I was in when I made this song, a little lonely.” He added, “I want the people that are going through the same thing to feel like I was talking to them. I’m human. I’m just like them. I feel exactly the same way they feel.” So far, the song is making a splash in the US as it currently sits at No. 5 on Billboard’s newly-launched U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.
We’ll have to wait and see what Omah Lay’s next move is, but if one thing is guaranteed, it’s that it will surely leave us satisfied and appreciative of his artistry. He’s given us music to dance to and that to connect with emotionally, both of which he’ll continue to do through the countless records he releases in the near and far future.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Indie-rock legends Built To Spill are back. The band has just announced When The Wind Forgets Your Name, their debut full-length on Sub Pop, the label that founding member Doug Martsch has wanted to be signed on “since I was a teenager,” he says in the press release. The noisy lead single “Gonna Lose” is out today, propelled by reverb-drenched riffs and dreamy vocals. It retains their bittersweet sound; they balance playful, engaging instrumentation with dejected lyrical themes.
Martsch teamed up with Brazilian punk artist and producer Le Almeida and his collaborator João Casaes, who helped Martsch with recording bass and drum tracks for the album. They originally collaborated on Brazil shows in 2018, but their chemistry was so strong that the three of them continued working together. The pair About that experience, Martsch says, “We rehearsed at their studio in downtown Rio de Janeiro and I loved everything about it. They had old crappy gear. The walls were covered with xeroxed fliers. They smoked tons of weed.”
“Making When the Wind Forgets Your Name was such a great experience,” he continued. “I had an incredible time traveling and recording with Almeida and Casaes. I also learned so much about Brazilian culture and music while creating it. My Portuguese was terrible when I first met Almeida and Casaes, but by the end of the year it was even worse.”
Listen to “Gonna Lose” above. Check out the album art and tracklist below.
In a new video for “Buffalo Stance” by Robyn, Mapei, and Neneh Cherry, a reimagination of the lattermost’s 1988 single, actor Indya Moore is joined by a group of dancers as they move freely throughout every corner of the house. By way of make-up, fashion, and hairstyling, these dancers define gender norms, expressing themselves unabashedly.
Though Robyn, Cherry, and Maipei themselves don’t appear in the video for the Dev Hynes-produced update, a poster of Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi album cover art can be seen on one of the walls.
“Now that this beautiful video is out, I have a cluster of different emotions but mostly an overwhelming sense of gratitude is leading the way,” said Cherry on Twitter. “‘Buffalo Stance,’ born in a council flat in Edith Road, West London; a collaborative journey between myself, Cam & Jamie Morgan – a happy accident waiting to happen? Somehow that day we managed to capture something, a life force; the essence of what we’ve needed to keep us going. A key to inner strength, perseverance, unapologetic existence crammed together to create this song. The result has brought many surprises over the years…. and now again it’s happening. I am profoundly moved by [director] India Sleem, Indya Moore & all these beautiful creatures that felt motivated to take part in the rebirth of Buffalo Stance… come again. I’m so honoured. We are here to stay! Move over, give us room, give us space! One love.”
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As we collectively return to reality after the chaotic week of the Grammys, the pop world still continues to flourish with release after release. Camila Cabello’s long-awaited Familia is out, and it features an unhinged, compelling song with Willow called “Psychofreak” with an even more provocative music video; meanwhile Maggie Rogers, after announcing her highly anticipated sophomore album Surrender in March, unveiled the lead single “That’s Where I Am.”
After releasing the upbeat “Light Switch,” Charlie Puth is back with this much more downtrodden song, “That’s Hilarious,” which expresses that he’s tired of playing games. He, at the very least, recognizes that this is a lesson learned: “Don’t give your heart to a girl who still got a broken one,” he sings. The video remains lighthearted, though; it’s a compilation of phone videos that feel like an intimate glimpse into his life.
Vance Joy — “Clarity”
Australian singer Vance Joy is having an epiphany on his new anthem “Clarity.” The song is buoyed by excited instrumentation and his beaming vocals, conveying appreciation for someone who means a lot to him. However, this realization comes too late: “The prеcious moments that we shared / You slowed time down inside my head / I wish I’d found this clarity / While I still had you close to me.” Yet this doesn’t make the song sad; it’s still full of hope and gratitude.
Lauv — “All For Nothing”
The “I Like Me Better” singer Lauv has a knack for songs that just won’t leave your head. “All For Nothing” is sure to be another hit with its warm, infectious hook: “I’m so in love, I’m so in love / I don’t ever wanna stop this ride that we’re on.” The synths are glimmering and the rhythm is exuberant; the song itself encapsulates the passion and exhilaration of being in love.
Noah Cyrus — “I Burned LA Down”
Noah Cyrus is trying to move on from heartbreak on this powerful, country-tinged ballad. She reckons with the mistakes she made in thinking the relationship would’ve worked in the first place: “You can’t make a god / of somebody who’s not / even half of a half-decent man.” Her vulnerability on this song, though, is proof of her strength and her progress toward becoming independent again.
Camila Cabello, Willow — “Psychofreak”
If you haven’t heard about this new track yet, you may be living under a rock. The salacious anthem, which has already been taken to SNL, watches Camila Cabello and Willow not holding back at all, and the kinky music video takes their fierceness up on a notch. The pair’s voices also blend well together; it’s an unexpected yet beautiful collaboration.
Omar Apollo — “Petrified”
The honesty and hurt are palpable in Omar Apollo’s new acoustic song “Petrified.” When he lulls, “Thinking of you more each day / I’m thinking ’bout all the words you say to me,” the conflict is obvious in his voice. The ballad seems like a way to grapple with this situation, and in the bridge, he reaches something that resembles a solution: “Lately I’ve been able to see more clear,” he sings.
Maggie Rogers — “That’s Where I Am”
Maggie Rogers’ new single “That’s Where I Am” kicks off with a relatable start: “I found a reason to wake up / Coffee in my cup,” she sings. From there, the lyrics recount a friendship that had the potential to be something more but was never able to reach it. But the sound is high-spirited and her vocals are confident, so it’s no surprise when she comes to a satisfying conclusion in the chorus: “It all works out in the end / Wherever you go / That’s where I am.”
Gracie Abrams — “Block Me Out”
22-year-old Gracie Abrams has unforgettable vocals; they’re soft and bursting with emotion in a similar way to Lorde’s or Phoebe Bridgers’. Along with those iconic singers, Abrams’ lyrics are also a masterful mix of poignant and clever: “And I thought of leavin’ tonight, but I couldn’t drive this tired / Plus, after all this time, I should be a pretty crier,” she sings on this beautiful new song “Block Me Out.”
Alicia Keys — “City Of Gods (Part II)”
If Alicia Keys is known for one thing, it’s her mesmerizing voice, especially in piano-driven songs. So she decided to revisit “City Of Gods,” which features both Kanye West and Fivio Foreign, and conquer the track on her own. This stripped-down version is gorgeous in its tenderness.
Chlöe — “Treat Me”
Chlöe knows her worth on “Treat Me.” Off the bat, she’s upfront about her demands: “‘Cause you’re dealing with a lotta competition / You’re gonna have to do a lotta ass-kissing.” The song is only two and a half minutes, but every second is confident and fierce. She has no time to waste, after all.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore won the Chinese box office over the weekend, which is surprising given the film alludes to a past relationship between Jude Law‘s Dumbledore and Mad Mikkelesen‘s Grindelwald. Or at least it will when it arrives in U.S. theaters on April 15. Chinese audiences, on the other hand, saw a version of the film where all of the gay dialogue was edited out.
Warner Bros. has confirmed that it removed the dialogue at the request of China. However, the studio argues that the “spirit of the film” still remains despite removing exactly two lines where Dumbledore and Grindelwald say they were in love with each other. In a statement to Variety, Warner Bros. defended making the “nuanced cuts” so that the film can be seen by all audiences. The studio also said that “small edits in local markets” happen all the time, which is one way to describe erasing LGBTQ representation:
“In the case of ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,’ a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros. accepted those changes to comply with local requirements but the spirit of the film remains intact,” the statement added. “We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film, and it’s important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits.”
The revelation that The Secrets of Dumbledore only contains two lines referencing a relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald will only add to the criticism that the Fantastic Beasts films are severely lacking in LGBTQ representation (despite one of its main characters being canonically gay). It also doesn’t help that J.K. Rowling has been a consistent lightning rod for controversy in recent years due to her outspoken views on the trans community. In short, Warner Bros. has a messy path ahead as it attempts to maintain the vitality of the Harry Potter franchise.
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