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The show Euphoria seems to have a chokehold on the viewers who religiously watch it, and a big part of that is due to none other than rising star Zendaya. But, a star is nothing without their supporting cast, and Dominic Fike seemed to step all the way out of supporting role in a recent episode when his song performance inspired quite a few memes. Namely, the song was incredibly long, and even Fike himself had to weigh in on how epic the roasting he received turned out to be.

But that didn’t stop him and Zendaya from editing the song she wrote down a bit, and getting ready to do a studio release of it today. “We made the song shorter… “Elliot’s Song” with @zendaya this Friday,” Fike posted on Instagram yesterday. If you don’t watch Euphoria and haven’t heard the song yett, or are simply interested in hearing this new, shorter version, check it out up top. In the meantime, if you want more music from Zendaya, this is the second song she’s released so far this week! Her emotional collaboration with Labrinth, “I’m Tired,” dropped on Monday. So, does this mean she’s got more music on the way? Based on what we’ve heard so far, hopefully!

North Carolina rapper Morray released “Quicksand” at the end of 2020 and it ended up being the song that launched him into the national spotlight. Since then, he’s released his debut project Street Sermons, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, toured with J. Cole and 21 Savage, and earned a spot in the 2021 XXL Freshman Class. It’s all amounted to a successful year for Morray and he seems prepared to start the next chapter of her career. He returns with his first release of 2022 which pairs him with Cordae.

The two rappers bring their talents together for “Still Here,” a track that arrives as a consistent reminder to overcome all the odds in front of them as they’ve been able to do just that in the past. The song is also delivered with a matching video that sees Morray enjoying time with friends when’s unfortunately arrested which leaves him another obstacle to overcome. It’s a strong follow-up to “Never Fail,” which Morray released with Benny The Butcher at the end of last year. Prior to that, he connected with Tyla Yaweh for “Hands Up.”

As for Cordae, he’s fresh off the release of his second album From A Birds Eye View. That project delivered 14 songs and features from Gunna, Lil Wayne, HER, Lil Durk, Freddie Gibbs, Stevie Wonder, Eminem, Roddy Ricch, and Ant Clemons.

You can listen to “Still Here” in the video above.

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Nearly a year after she released her second album Romance, Camila Cabello revealed that she began work on her upcoming third album. “Been writing a lot of new music and it’s coming from a really pure place,” she said in the summer of 2020. Now, nearly two years later, we now have a title for that third album which is Familia. Since that announcement in 2020, Cabello has debuted two singles from the project: “Don’t Go Yet” and “La Buena Vida.” Now, we’ve received a third track and it comes in the form of a collaboration with Ed Sheeran.

Together, Cabello and Sheeran join forces for their second collaboration, “Bam Bam.” The track is a warm effort that finds Cabello sharing a heartfelt goodbye for a former lover. “You said you hated the ocean, but you’re surfin’ now,” Cabello sings on the track. “I said I’d love you for life, but I just sold our house.” The song, which many believe is about her recent breakup with Shawn Mendes, also finds Cabello singing in English and in Spanish. While Sheeran contributes an all-English verse to the song, he also flexes some Spanish towards the end of the record. Cabello and Sheeran first joined forces back in 2019 for “South Of The Border.”

“Bam Bam” arrives after Cabello confirmed that her third album Familia would arrive next month on April 8. She also revealed the cover art for the album, which she called her “whole f*cking heart.”

You can listen to “Bam Bam” in the video above.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

FX’s hit series Atlanta has been on a major hiatus over the last few years, and fans were beginning to wonder if it would ever come back. Finally, we got a first look at the third season, which is right around the corner. But with such a long gap between the seasons, many fans were wondering if this would be the last season with the Atlanta crew.

The good news is that the upcoming season of the hit show isn’t the last! But the bad news is that the end is coming. Season three and season four will air later this year, with the fourth season wrapping up the series for good. The two seasons were shot back to back last summer, and they will air in the same way, with season three beginning March 24th on FX (and the following day on Hulu), and the fourth and final season later this fall.

“After a four-year absence, we’re graced with the return of Atlanta. Donald Glover and his team have shot the final two seasons of the series,” FX chairman John Landgraf said earlier this year. “The fourth and final season is slated to debut in the same manner in the fall. The new season is everything you’d expect from Atlanta – which is to say expect the unexpected. Sit back and enjoy the trip.”

So, while the show is coming to an end, we still have a few more months and probably some pretty wild storylines to get through, as the third season was infamously shot in the strange land of Europe.

The Los Angeles Lakers are having a very bad season, but because they are the Lakers and have LeBron James, they continue to find themselves on national TV nearly every other game.

On Thursday, they were once again on TNT’s airwaves for their matchup with the Clippers in what is currently a possible play-in preview between two teams missing stars. It is certainly not the marquee showdown that Turner was hoping to have when they nabbed it on the schedule release, and at halftime, Charles Barkley continued his months-long campaign to get the Lakers off of national TV.

Barkley has now decided that he will protest the Lakers being on TNT by simply refusing to say the name of their team, instead calling them “the team from Southern California,” “geezers,” and “losers.” When asked what the Lakers can do to change his mind, Chuck told Ernie Johnson that there’s nothing they can do until they win a playoff game.

It’s vintage Chuck, who also takes aim at his own network and ESPN for being “nitwits” and talking about the Lakers non-stop despite the fact that they aren’t relevant in the title picture. We’ll see how long Chuck can keep this bit up, but the Lakers don’t have another Thursday TNT game until March 31 when they play the Jazz, so he might just have a shot.

Lizzo might be the modern expert on twerking, never afraid to get her “heinie” (as she calls it) out there and get it shaking. And that’s especially important because of the Black history of twerking that has been all but erased from the modern understanding of it, where young white teens are imitating the dance on TikTok with no real understanding of the context they’re appropriating.

That’s part of why Lizzo felt so compelled to make a whole TED Talk about the history of the dance, rather gently bringing up how Miley Cyrus’ lighting rod performance, which included some twerking, at the 2013 VMAs catapulted the dance to mainstream attention — and did so in a way that didn’t do the best job of honoring its origins. And apparently, Miley actually took the conversation in stride, mentioning to Lizzo that she watched the TED Talk herself and “really loved it.”

“I mention Miley Cyrus in my TED Talk,” Lizzo told People in a recent interview. “And I’m very delicate with how I mention her because, at the end of the day, I didn’t want to have any bias in the way I talked about how she brought twerking to mainstream. The messenger is kind of how this thing spread like it did — seeing her at the VMAs. And I saw her recently and she was like, ‘I watched your TED Talk and I really loved it. Thank you for that.’”

Stay classy Miley, that’s the appropriate response. If you haven’t watched it yet, check out Lizzo’s love letter to twerking up top.

Last fall, Petey arrived with his debut album Lean Into Life. The project arrived after a string of singles that dated back to the fall of 2020 as well as his project, Other Stuff, which he released in June 2021. Lean Into Life originally delivered 12 songs for listeners to enjoy, but the number was upped to 13 when he recently added “Perfect Teeth” to it. Luckily for those who have grown fond of Petey, he has more content for you to enjoy in relation to his debut album.

Six months to the date of his debut’s arrival, Petey returns with an original film that’s tied to Lean Into Life. Petey described the film as “an original drama based off the songs from my album” and there’s plenty of content to enjoy with it as the movie clocks in at just shy of 23 minutes. The Lean Into Life movie is also directed and co-written by William Crane.

Shortly after the release of Lean Into Life, Petey shared his approach to crafting records. “The music and the comedy are all wrapped up together as part of the same thing for me,” he said. “Someone told me that a great way to create something original is to combine all of your favorite things and then fill in the gaps with your own personality.” He then listed influences that include Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse, Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie, Kanye West, and Travis Barker before adding, “All those approaches get combined with my own story in my songs.”

You can check out the Lean Into Life film in the video above.

Lean Into Life is out now via Terrible Records. You can stream it here.

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

The Major League Soccer season got underway last week. It was a rough start for the league’s newest franchise, Charlotte FC, which learned the hard way that being an expansion side is not easy — Charlotte traveled up to the nation’s capital to take on D.C. United and got shellacked, 3-0, in the first match in club history.

The bad news is that things won’t get easier in their second match, as the team will take on the Los Angeles Galaxy, which won its season debut in dramatic fashion and boasts a dynamic attack spearheaded by Mexico legend Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez. The good news, however, is that they’re slated to have one heck of a home field advantage.

As reported by Alex Andrejev of the Charlotte Observer, the team has sold 73,500 tickets at Bank of America Stadium for the game, which means it will break the league’s single-game attendance record. While they have not sold the game out — the stadium seats 74,867 — it will eclipse the previous record, as Atlanta United held the previous top mark when 73,019 fans attended the 2018 MLS Cup final against Portland.

“It kind of reinforces everything we always thought, which is that this is truly a huge soccer market and that the growing fanbase for the team would show up by the time we hit our first match,” Charlotte president Nick Kelly said. “I think even with all the challenges we’ve faced over the last two years that Saturday should prove that there is a very promising future for soccer here in Charlotte.”

Charlotte’s home debut against the Galaxy is slated to kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday evening. The game will be broadcast on Fox.

One of the funniest and most bizarre things about being a human being is that we really know very little about what’s going on. Sure, many religious people are confident they know why we exist, where we came from and what happens after we die, but there isn’t a whole lot of evidence to suggest they’re correct.

However, even though we are at the center of an incredible mystery, most people are happy to go about their days without worrying about the basic nature of our existence. This has always been very strange to me. Why isn’t the nature of existence the No. 1 question on everyone’s mind the moment they wake up?

There is one thing we do know for sure: that we are all going to die one day. Some people believe that once we flatline we may get invited to heaven where we get to spend all eternity playing the harp, reuniting with old friends and relatives, and enjoying a pain-free, joyous existence.

But as the TV show “The Good Place” suggests, living a perfect life, free of suffering or challenges, eventually becomes pretty forking boring and pointless.

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Mark Twain said it best in “Letters from the Earth”:

His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists—utterly and entirely—of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn’t it curious? Isn’t it interesting?

Many also believe that if there’s a heaven, there’s also hell where the folks who had a good time on Earth wind up. But wouldn’t that get boring, too? Just as one can get accustomed to living in constant beauty, one probably gets acclimated to the heat and suffering down below.

There are also some who believe in reincarnation, so every time we die we are born again as a different species. Cool if you’re a dolphin, bad news if you’re a dung beetle.

Then there are those who believe that nothing supernatural happens. Your consciousness shuts off and things are a lot like before you were born—absolute nothingness. That’s the least interesting option, but according to science, the most likely.

Reddit user throwawayacctlmaooo wanted to find out what posters on the forum thought about life after death, so they asked, “What do you legitimately believe happens after we die?” They received a ton of responses that were outside of the usual “go to heaven/go to hell” variety. What’s cool is that the posts show that a lot of people have widely divergent ideas about what happens after we die.

Here are some of the best responses to the biggest question in life.

1. You’re a wave

“No idea, but there is this quote from the TV show ‘The Good Place’ that I really like and have found comfort in.

“‘Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it’s there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It’s a wave.

“And then it crashes in the shore and it’s gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it’s one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it’s supposed to be.'” — AlexEventstar

2. Our energy moves on

“Our energy — just like that of every living thing before us — will go on and become new things. Soil. Plants. Lions. Toilet paper. Space ship wheel arches. Dragonfly toes. We’re all just part of the same system. Neither manufactured nor destroyed. We’re just transferring that bestowed upon us from all those before. Death is life.” — four__beasts

3. You’ve been there before

“Just like before you were born. Not good, not bad, just non-existence.” — SniffCheck

4. No need to fear

​”In the great words of Mark Twain: ‘I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” — Eva__Unit__02

5. One more time

“When I think about it, I come to this very same conclusion. And that terrifies me. The only thing that is a little comforting for me is that, according to some research and according to some people who have experienced Near Death, just before full-on ‘nothingness,” you relive your life one last time, with an emphasis on the best moments in your life, all being overwhelmed with a feeling of love.” — MrXANA91

6. Isn’t this reincarnation?

“I think we just keep on hitting a randomize button and we manifest into something else, again and again endlessly.” — FarOutSonOfLung

7. The great nothing

“In my opinion, nothing. Like being under anesthesia but never waking up and ceasing to exist.” — throwayaacctlmaooo

8. Choose your own adventure

“I’d like to think we reset like a game and we could choose whether we get reborn or go to some sort of heaven or something.” — No_But_Yes

9. We’re energy

“I’d honestly like to believe that we all become energy. We move around the universe, maybe even become one with it until we are reincarnated again as something else on earth or a different planet.” — cheese-emperor

10. Salamanders

“I think we are all reincarnated as salamanders.” — Kyky716

11. New universe?

“I believe we go to another universe but that’s just wishful thinking.” — Zarek_Pumpkineater

12. Incomparable infinity

“I’m under the impression that death is a separate experience we can’t comprehend. Like someone with vision will never truly know the concept of blindness or someone with hearing will never know the concept of deafness.

“You only experience it while you’re doing it and I am currently experiencing being alive as a human. You don’t know what it was like before you were born because you’re obviously alive. Just like you don’t know deafness because your ears work.
Beyond that, I believe the universe is in endless million-trillion year long cycles of growth and collapse and the fact that I exist at all means, throughout infinity, I am a guaranteed mathematic outcome and must repeat again.” — bermudalily

13. Nothing

“Nothing. It’s the only answer that makes sense. We ARE our thoughts. Our thoughts are in our brain. When we die, our brain shuts down. So our thoughts no longer exist. Anybody who believes in any form of an afterlife really needs to explain how we can have thoughts without our brain. And if they believe that’s somehow magically possible, why do we have brains while still alive?” — joeri1505

14. You become fertilizer

“The same as when trees, plants, or other animals die, we decompose & feed the earth for something else to grow.” — skev303

15. May the source be with you

“What I like to believe is that all life comes from a specific energy source and is returned there once we die. Sort of like a big pool of life, where all souls merge after death and cycle back into the world to be reborn. As for what we experience in that form I have no idea. But the entire world lives and functions on cycles, from the food chain to the weather cycle, eveywhere you look there is a cycle to maintain it. So it only makes sense life would work the same way.” — doopster77

16. Star stuff

“Your surviving family gets all teary, then buries or burns your lifeless body. As the years pass, what atoms once made you, you, become all mixed up in other things, until much later on when the sun dies and engulfs the earth and all its atoms in a final dance of atomic death. Because we are all made of stars, and to them we will all return.” — dbryar

If you were watching Tucker Carlson on Thursday evening — right around the time Russian forces were bombing a nuclear power plant in Ukraine — you were also likely either checking your calendar to see if it was April 1st or frantically staring at the chyron below his smug face to see whether hell had indeed frozen over. Because what Carlson said was utterly shocking: I was wrong!

OK, so that’s not a direct quote. What Carlson actually said was “We were wrong,” as he’s never been one to take responsibility for the dangerous lies and misinformation he spreads on a nightly basis. As of late, one of his favorite topics has been the Russia Ukraine War, which he’s treated as NBD. In fact, the Fox News host has seemed far more interested in scoring an exclusive sit-down with Vladimir Putin than he has in actually looking at the screen sitting right next to him and seeing the devastation being caused in Ukraine. It’s gotten so bad that even Newsmax (!) has called Ol’ Fish Sticks out for his pro-Putin propaganda. But on Thursday evening, Carlson finally began acting as if he has opened his eyes to the reality of what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine… and is blaming Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for his total ignorance.

That’s right: Tucker Carlson, a 52-year-old adult human who calls himself a “journalist” and works for a company with the name “News” in the title is blaming the President and Vice President of the United States for him being a dumbass who has practically been rooting Putin on. Why? Because he doesn’t think the alarm has been sounded loudly enough that Putin is not a good guy and that his violent attacks on Ukraine are a bad thing!

It’s been a week since Russia launched its first attacks on Ukraine, but it apparently took until Thursday night for Carlson to realize that this was something serious. The gravity of the situation is “shocking to us,” Carlson said. “We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we’re willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t. So why didn’t we see this coming—this total loss of control?”

Note: We did, Tucker. Everyone did. But not Tucker, and here’s why:

“We assumed if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them. But we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us… If the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance, as now so obviously it does, of course the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it. ‘Cause that’s not her job. Kamala Harris’ job is to trot down to the Blue Room periodically to greet delegations of TikTok influencers. Or cut occasional PSAs for the Children’s Dental Health Awareness Month, which is in February, so we assumed she’d be working on that right now.”

First off: It’s March now, Tucker. Second: What a dick!!

Carlson still wasn’t finished though, because he had to delve into his weird obsession with Harris’ dating history with Montel Williams.

“So if you’re looking for someone to date Montel Williams, well maybe she’s the person you would choose,” he said. “She could be a solid choice, she’s done it before. Dating Montel Williams – you know – is something that’s within her range of experience. Is she good at it? We can’t say. But she’s done it.”

After spending more time denigrating a Black woman—for the second time in 24 hours, no less—Carlson again admitted that “we were wrong,” then proceeded to blame his inability to, I don’t know, click on a real news site or listen to one of his colleagues, like Jennifer Griffin or Sean Hannity (yes, it feels weird to type his name in defense of something), on the president.

But ultimately, the only thing Carlson says he’s guilty of is looking to Biden—the president he shreds to bits every chance he gets—for leadership.

“We didn’t underestimate Vladimir Putin,” Carlson said. “We overestimated Joe Biden.”