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Lady Gaga put on quite the show at the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, but you know what it was missing? Pyrotechnics, headless women in a castle, and a boat carrying an opera singer. Enter: Gojira. The group became the first metal band to ever perform during the opening ceremonies. They were chosen because a) they’re French, and b) they put on a sick show.

The band — made up of vocalist Joe Duplantier, drummer Mario Duplantier, lead guitarist Christian Andreu, and bassist Jean-Michel Labadie — played a cover of “Ah! Ca Ira,” a song that was popular during the French Revolution. “It was a very bloody era of French history, so it was very metal,” Joe told The New York Times, adding that the band wanted to represent “the whole metal community on the world stage.” They succeeded — and found a new fan in Kelly Clarkson, who hosted the ceremony. “This is so cool,” she raved.

You can watch the performance below.

According to Forbes, only a select few rock bands — let alone metal bands — have performed during the opening ceremony, including Kiss (2002); Alanis Morisette (2010); and Snow Patrol, The Who, Paul McCartney, and Muse, all in 2012. Could the Super Bowl halftime show be next for Gojira?!

The Boston Celtics are well represented at the Paris Olympics. Despite the fact that Eastern Conference Finals and NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown did not make the roster in a rather high-profile snub, Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday were both on the initial USA Basketball roster, while Derrick White made the team as an injury replacement after Kawhi Leonard left the team.

Like every other athlete who made their way over to France for the Olympics, White was part of the Opening Ceremony on Friday. This required getting dressed up in the outfits that Ralph Lauren put together for the athletes, and in a video posted to the USA Basketball Instagram account, White got asked a very simple question: do you know how to tie a tie?

“I do,” White said. “I watched JT’s tutorial.”

If you do not know what he is referencing, back when he was 15, Tatum posted a video to YouTube titled TIE A TIE. It is a wonderfully wholesome video, and you can watch it right here.

Earlier this year, the video went viral again as Tatum decided to update his YouTube channel for the first time in years. This time, he created a video where he taught people how to tie a shoe.

When in doubt, twerk it out. This is a lesson Ice Spice learned yesterday (July 25). During a broadcast with popular streamer Kai Cenat, the “Phat Butt” rapper was able to wiggle her way out of his request for her to freestyle for his audience.

While promoting her debut studio album, Y2K, Kai thought it was be a great idea for Ice Spice to show off her lyrical styles to finally but hater to bed. But, Ice Spice had other plans. Instead of obliging with an 8 bar throwaway, Ice Spice delivered her best 8 count twerk off.

“That was my freestyle,” she joked, to which Kai rewarded with a round of applause.

However, users online weren’t as kind to Ice Spice in their responses.

“That’s all the talent she has,” wrote one user.

“I say this is a player that knows her limitations on the court,” penned another.

“Is we complaining, tho,” countered another.

“Sh*t I would rather her do this than to actually freestyle,” chimed another.

“Good strategy from Ice Spice she started dancing she knows she was finna get cooked from that freestyle,” joked another.

On the heels of the controversial 2024 XXL Freshmen Class cypher, Ice Spice might’ve dodged a load of backlash. In fact, Ice Spice seemingly pulled a play from Uproxx cover star Coi Leray’s book. When all else fails, go for what you know.

Or maybe Ice Spice stands by Vince Staples’ rule of thumb as it relates to promotional freestyles during album rollouts?

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Y2K! is out now via 10K Projects/Capitol Records. Find more information here.

Popeyes‘ new wings might just be Cardi B-approved after she dissed her recent late-night meal on social media. After Cardi shared some harsh criticism of the chicken chain’s new Honey Lemon Pepper flavor, Popeyes took her comments in stride with an official statement sharing appreciation for Cardi’s assessment. However, someone in charge over there took her thoughts seriously and decided to take a proactive strategy, inviting Cardi to the company’s test kitchen to make sure future flavors are Cardi-approved. For her part, Cardi didn’t seem to have any qualms about getting free chicken, enthusiastically agreeing.

“bardi gang, we need your help!” read a tweet from Popeyes’ official account. “legal won’t let us tag her, but since ya girl had some thoughts on our honey lemon pepper wings, we’d love to have her come thru the test kitchen to collab on some wing flavors. y’all do your thing.”

It didn’t take long for Cardi’s fans to alert her to the tweet, nor for her to offer her answer. “Free wings??? Where y’all at? COME PICK ME UP,” she gushed.

Honestly, this is genius marketing — suspiciously good, actually. It certainly appears to have the potential to be very effective in getting gaining interest for future flavors. After all, even if you’re not a huge Cardi fan, if the company can turn around her honest assessments, who wouldn’t be at least a little curious about how they did it? It wouldn’t even be Popeyes’ first collaboration with a rapper; in 2021, Popeyes teamed up with Cardi collaborator Megan Thee Stallion to release “Hottie Sauce” and an anime-inspired merch collection.

Mustard’s new album, Faith Of A Mustard Seed, is out now and its latest video is “Ghetto” featuring Lil Durk and Young Thug. In the video, the California producer gives a tour of his hometown, Los Angeles, while the Atlanta and Chicago natives offer their own fond perspectives on life in the hood. LA landmarks like Leimert Park’s Vision Theatre and Slauson Super Mall make appearances, along with youth dance teams and lowrider car clubs. It’s a loving look at places that so often get overlooked, and that for natives represent the real LA.

In addition to the usual array of superstar guests, Faith Of A Mustard Seed also features the producer’s own rap debut. Guests on the album include Durk, Thug, 42 Dugg, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, BlueBucksClan, Blxst, Charlie Wilson, Ella Mai, Future, Kirk Franklin, Lil Yachty, Masego, Quavo, Rob49, Roddy Ricch, Schoolboy Q, Travis Scott, Ty Dolla Sign, and Vince Staples. Young Thug’s appearance means a lot, because the Atlanta mainstay has been incarcerated for the past two years as part of a racketeering case that has become one of Fulton County’s long-running criminal trials ever.

You can watch the video for Mustard’s “Ghetto” with Lil Durk and Young Thug above.

Faith Of A Mustard Seed is out now via 10 Summers Records and Interscope. You can find more information here.

The rumors were true: Lady Gaga sang at the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony. But, what song did she go with?

What Song Did Lady Gaga Perform At The 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony?

Gaga sang “Mon Truc En Plumes” (which translates to “My Thing With Feathers”) by French dancer, actress, and singer Renée “Zizi” Jeanmaire. The song was a hit for Jeanmaire in the 1960s, even making some noise among English-speaking audiences: She performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965. That performance is visually similar to Gaga’s Olympic rendition, albeit more tailored for a TV studio setting, and is how Jeanmaire would perform the song on stage.

Jeanmaire’s began her career in entertainment as a dancer and mostly focused on that throughout her career. She had a couple roles in Hollywood films, though: 1952’s Hans Christian Andersen and 1956’s Anything Goes. Jeanmaire died in Switzerland in 2020, at 96 years old.

After Gaga’s performance, she paid tribute to Jeanmaire on social media, writing in part, “I feel so completely grateful to have been asked to open the Paris @Olympics 2024 this year. I am also humbled to be asked by the Olympics organizing committee to sing such a special French song–a song to honor the French people and their tremendous history of art, music, and theatre. This song was sung by Zizi Jeanmaire, born in Paris a French ballerina, she famously sang ‘Mon Truc en Plumes’ in 1961. The title means ‘My Thing with Feathers.’ And this is not the first time we’ve crossed paths. Zizi starred in Cole Porter’s musical ‘Anything Goes’ which was my first jazz release. Although I am not a French artist, I have always felt a very special connection with French people and singing French music–I wanted nothing more than to create a performance that would warm the heart of France, celebrate French art and music, and on such a momentous occasion remind everyone of one of the most magical cities on earth–Paris.”

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman ended their promotional journey for “Deadpool and Wolverine” truly in the spiciest way possible.

The superhero duo appeared in the latest episode of “Hot Ones,” the internet’s favorite interview series where guests eat increasingly spicier hot wings while answering burning questions. And boy, torture never looked so good.

At first, each held their own as they discussed how the movie actually began as a fake-out plan.

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“The original idea with this movie was to shoot a fake movie called ‘Alpha Cop,’ that was intentionally bad… It was about two guys that were sharing one brain and together they make the perfect cop…and the poster says ‘Alpha Cop: two cops, one brain, all balls,’” Reynolds explained to “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans.

“And it was meant to be kind of like horrible. Like 10 people in America would go to see this movie on opening weekend and five minutes into the movie the Marvel logo would flip up and it would actually be ‘Deadpool & Wolverine.’”

There was also a chat about former jobs, where Jackman (already beginning to tear up from the heat) recalled being a clown-for-hire.

“I literally rented a clown outfit…and we had no skills, literally no skills…I broke my rule and I did an 8-year-old’s party. I always knew they were going to find me out and he found me out and this kid yelled to his mom, ‘Mom, this clown is crap.’ And I’m like ‘Shut up, kid.’”

Then around the halfway point, hilarious chaos ensued. Though both suffered through the latter rounds, poor Jackman was clearly more victimized. Poor fella goes though all the stages of spice grief—tears, sweat, uncontrollable shimmies, delirious laughter…even bargaining.

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“It tastes angry,” Jackman said of the sixth hot sauce. “You know what I’m gonna eat? A bag of rusty razors that’s what I’m gonna eat.”

Reynolds, on the other hand, was doing far better at keeping his cool. As well as his sarcasm.

“Hugh has never felt physical pain so for him as a pampered starlet, this is important, an important rite of passage,” he quipped.

This dynamic was, undoubtedly, everybody’s favorite aspect of the interview.

“The funniest part is watching Ryan provide deep, in-depth responses to Sean’s questions and Hugh just fighting for his life in the background,” one viewer said.

Another echoed, “Ryan cracking jokes and Hugh just fighting to survive is funnier than it has any right to be. This is one of my favorite ones to date.”

Some else astutely wrote, “You know the friendship is real by how much they enjoy seeing each other suffer. Like brothers, really.”

But of course, even though Reynolds and Jackman have projected animosity toward each other for laughs, underneath all those jabs is a true friendship.

“Most of our conversations are very vulnerable,” Reynolds revealed.

Jackman even praised Reynolds as a “great father, great family, great family, loves his job, loves his work.”

He continued, “and I don’t have anything — apart from making me do this and he said if you don’t I’m gonna just disparage you and make fun of you and tell all of Australia that you just didn’t have the guts and Canada is better — but apart from that, I have nothing. There’s nothing [bad to say].”

As Evans put it, they bravely “climbed the hot sauce mountain together,” and we love them all the more for it.

Lady Gaga helped kick off the 2024 Olympics with a performance of “Mon Truc En Plumes” by French dancer, actress, and singer Zizi Jeanmaire at the Opening Ceremony.

Watch clips of Lady Gaga’s performance below.

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Once upon a time, fitness videos came with titles like “Buns Of Steel,” and the goal was to have a small, tight gluteus maximus. Fortunately, society has since learned better. GloRilla’s video for Ehhthang Ehhthang standout “All Dere” with Moneybagg Yo illustrates just how far we’ve come, showing nothing but love for jiggly butts and cellulite as the two Memphis rappers take on the role of freaky fitness trainers for a workout class aimed at getting “shawty thick as hell.” Stay until the outtakes at the end, in which Glo hilariously admits that exercise bikes make her legs hurt.

Ehhthang Ehhthang made its way onto Uproxx Editorial Director Elliott Wilson’s list of his favorite albums of 2024, and the rapper herself has continued to be a standout this year, performing alongside Megan Thee Stallion at the BET Awards after twerking along with the Hot Girl Coach on her Hot Girl Summer tour. Glo and Meg both reunited with Cardi B on the remix of their hit song “Wanna Be,” followed up her smash hit “Yeah Glo!” with “TGIF” and is, in general, having the time of her life in 2024.

You can watch GloRilla’s “All Dere” video with Moneybagg Yo above.

Ehhthang Ehhthang is out now via CMG. You can find more information here.

Charles Barkley might end up going back on his plan to retire at the end of the 2024-25 NBA season after all. Barkley, the longtime TNT commentator who expressed during the NBA Finals that he only had one more season in him regardless of how things went in the league’s media rights negotiations, spoke to The Athletic about what the future might hold.

While Barkley has previously mentioned that his contract made sure to get an out clause in the event that Turner lost NBA television rights — which, as it was announced earlier this week, ended up happening — his interview with Andrew Marchand was the first time he expressed that he could remain in basketball media. The condition: Turner has to pay him the remainder of his deal.

“My deal is 10 years, $210 million,” Barkley said in a phone interview. “Turner has to come to me ASAP and they have to guarantee my whole thing or they can offer me a pay cut, which there is no chance of that happening and I’ll be (a) free agent.

“My thing was, ‘Wait, y’all f— up, I didn’t f— up, why do I have to take a pay cut?”

Earlier this week, the NBA announced that it struck deals with ESPN, NBC, and Amazon to broadcast games for the next 11 years. This was despite the fact that Turner previously announced its intention to match Amazon’s deal, as was its contractual right. However, the NBA argued that it was not capable of doing this, and as a result, it would move forward with Amazon as a broadcast partner.

After previously expressing that it would consider all options, on Friday afternoon, Turner announced that it would seek legal action against the league. In his interview with Marchand, Barkley said that he would prefer they do not go down that road, saying that “If you have to sue somebody to stay in a relationship, do you think that is a healthy relationship?” He also expressed in a statement on Friday that he never believed the NBA was interested in working out a deal with Turner.