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Once fictional space captain, now real life astronaut William Shatner was moved to tears after his 11-minute journey beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

As he landed back on the desert grounds of Texas, Captain Kirk himself remarked on the profound experience. His speech is so heartfelt and full of poignant reflections on life, it felt like another episode of Star Trek.

“It was unbelievable. I mean you know the little things. To see the blue color and then this black. That’s the thing — the covering of blue,” said Shatner. “This sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue. We think, ‘Oh, it’s blue sky.’ And then suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden like you whip off a sheet, and you’re looking into blackness. Into black ugliness.”

Getting emotional, he continued, “you look down, and there’s the blue down there, and the black up there … there is mother Earth, and just comfort, and there is just — is that death? Is that the way death is? It was so moving to me. This experience has been something unbelievable.”

Perhaps there are correlations between the two. Death, like space, is the vast unknown. Full of wonder, but also so far away everything that gives us any sense of safety. To look it straight in the face can be both wondrous and daunting.

Shatner added that “everybody in the world needs to do this.” And where I don’t see the entire human race being able to afford the luxury of space travel (back to Earth, Will!) the good news is that no one needs a rocket launcher to take a quick bird’s eye view and truly appreciate the natural miracle that is our planet.

Basically, what I’m saying is: we can all go boldly forth.

Long Beach has long been on hip-hop’s map as a result of Snoop Dogg’s eternal popularity, but in recent years, the nation’s gaze has been returned to the city by the sea thanks to the efforts of a rising crop of rappers that includes, Vince Staples, Seafood Sam, and Huey Briss. Huey himself dropped by Uproxx Studios to demonstrate just why North Long Beach deserves its renewed time in the spotlight with a gritty rendition of the song “Grace Park Legend (Norfside)” from his spring 2021 album of the same name.

In a recent interview with the Long Beach Post, Huey breaks down the thematic drive behind the chilling single. “When I’m talking about North Long Beach, I’m talking about people that aren’t there. It’s like I’m talking to ghosts,” he says. “Ninety percent of the people I grew up with are not even here. They’re all in jail, but not because they’re bad people, but because they’re broke. What you want to do? Go to college? You never see nobody do that. You only want to be what you see, and you see everybody around you steal a car, you’re gonna steal a car.”

Fortunately, the music is beginning to take off for the self-proclaimed Grace Park legend, who recently released the deluxe version of his album, which you can listen to here.

Watch Huey Briss’ gritty interpretation of “Grace Park Legend (Norfside)” for UPROXX Sessions above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

Yesterday, Netflix decided to introduce some chaos to our lives:

“Something special is coming tomorrow from David Fincher…” Netflix Film tweeted, along with the eyes emoji. What could it be? A wrap-up movie for Mindhunter? A spin-off of The Social Network about Parler? Fincher announcing that he’s the Zodiac Killer? The Mank Cut??? All good guesses (wait, no, they’re terrible guesses), but nope:

Voir is a “new documentary series of visual essays celebrating cinema, from the mind of one of film’s modern masters,” according to the tweet. The video calls the project a “collection of visual essays… for the love of cinema.” Voir is probably going to be very good because David Fincher is a good director who makes good movies (sorry, cinema), but this is not what people were expecting, based on many of the replies.

Others were more positive. “I’m going to be counting down the days until I can binge this. As someone obsessed with all things film history (I could have spent the entire week in the new @TheAcademy Museum) this is what I’ll be obsessing over this month. It’s awesome seeing Netflix embrace the classics!” filmmaker Aaron Morgan tweeted, while MTV news correspondent Josh Horowitz noted, “It could have been David Fincher’s Ernest Goes To Camp and I’d be in…” Great, now I want to see David Fincher make an Ernest movie. Oh well. This will do, too.

(Via Deadline)

Before Meghan McCain began her four-year tour of terror on The View, former child star Candace Cameron Bure was the show’s resident conservative for two seasons. While McCain had a knack for barreling into any subject, regardless of her knowledge of the matter, Bure had the opposite problem. In a new interview with the The View: Beyond the Table podcast, the Fuller House star revealed that she still suffers from “PTSD” from her short stint on the daytime talk show.

According to Bure, the source of her stress came from being the sole conservative and either having to talk about topics that she either didn’t care about or wasn’t comfortable enough to share her true feelings about. Via The Wrap, she declared, “There was only one type of stress that I’ve ever felt in my life that came from that show and I [have] PTSD, like, I can feel it.” Here’s more of what Bure offered:

“When I felt like I was going into a show that I didn’t have a clear opinion about or it was something that I was legitimately nervous to talk about because I did have an opinion about it but I knew I was the only one at the table that had my opinion, I would just get sick to my stomach,” she said. “I hated that feeling. And then I’m like, ‘I don’t know who’s going to come at me.’”

Despite her claims of having PTSD, Bure surprisingly doesn’t regret being on The View. “I feel like there were so many wonderful takeaways from the show,” she said. “And as difficult as that job was, I’m very, very grateful for it.”

(Via The Wrap)

At the moment, Courtney Barnett is in the swing of promoting her upcoming album, Things Take Time, Take Time, which drops on November 12. Today, though, she’s taking a bit of a break from that with a different musical project: An animated TV series adaptation of the classic 1964 children’s novel Harriet The Spy is coming to Apple TV+ on November 19, and Barnett wrote and performed the theme song for it. A trailer for the series was shared today, and so too was Barnett’s full theme song, titled “Smile Real Nice.”

The track runs for a hair over two minutes, and it’s a fun, rhythmic, and breezy rocker much in the vein of Barnett’s other material. The hook is especially catchy and is complemented by equally enrapturing guitar work. All in all, TV theme songs are supposed to be immediately memorable and recognizable, and Barnett’s song definitively checks both of those boxes, all while staying true to her signature style.

Meanwhile, her latest release from Things Take Time, Take Time, “Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To,” dropped a couple weeks ago. Not long after that, she gave fans the opportunity to make their own mixes of that and other songs with a stem mixer on her website.

Listen to “Smile Real Nice” and watch the Harriet The Spy trailer above.

Whether it’s packing on the PDA on the red carpet or carrying around a vile of the other’s blood, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly’s relationship always manages to make its way into headlines. As the new celebrity “it” couple, the two were tapped by GQ to test their relationship in the publication’s popular series, GQ Couple’s Quiz.

The quiz is designed to see how well each person knows their partner. They’re asked a series of questions that gauges how well they listen to each other, like asking what their favorite TV show is or how many tattoos they have. During the segment, Kelly reveals a bizarre tidbit: Fox really hopes she’ll be abducted by an alien one day.

Fox poses the question, “What’s something on my bucket list?” Kelly immediately responds: “To be abducted by a UFO.” Fox simply nods her head and gives Kelly two points for answering the question correctly, but either celebrity explains this wish any further. However, later in the segment, the two reminiscence on a vacation they took in Bora Bora, saying they took psychedelic mushrooms and were convinced they spotted a UFO in the sky.

Of course, Kelly and Fox are far from the only celebrities who are into UFOs. Earlier this week, Demi Lovato discussed her upcoming Peacock show Unidentified With Demi Lovato, which sees her investigating UFOs and extraterrestrial life. In an interview about the new series, Lovato stated that she believes the term “alien” is a “derogatory” term for extraterrestrial life. “I think that we have to stop calling them aliens because ‘aliens’ is a derogatory term for anything,” she said. “That’s why I like to call them ETs! So yeah, that’s a little tidbit. A little information that I learned.”

Watch Fox and Kelly take the GQ couple’s quiz above.

Back in the early aughts, Death Cab For Cutie was already doing things that no indie band would dream of, like covering Björk’s “All Is Full Of Love.” That cover came out on the Stability EP of bonus material from 2001’s breakthrough The Photo Album. Now, 20 years later, a deluxe 20th anniversary edition of The Photo Album, which includes with Stability in its whopping 35 total tracks, is on the way.

Out digitally on October 29th and then next spring on vinyl, the release also includes the remastered original album, previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, rare material, and all of the original demos. You can hear the demo for “Coney Island” above, which DCFC leader Ben Gibbard says was “very indicative of the process we were employing at that point, which was to deconstruct something and build it completely back up.”

Find the full tracklist and the band’s select tour dates below.

The Photo Album
1. “Steadier Footing”
2. “A Movie Script Ending”
3. “We Laugh Indoors”
4. “Information Travels Faster”
5. “Why You’d Want To Live Here”
6. “Blacking Out The Friction”
7. “I Was A Kaleidoscope”
8. “Styrofoam Plates”
9. “Coney Island”
10. “Debate Exposes Doubt”

The Stability EP
11. “20th Century Towers”
12. “All Is Full Of Love”
13. “Stability”

Rarities & Unreleased Recordings
14. “Gridlock Caravans”
15. “Information Travels Faster (Alternate Lyric Demo)”
16. “I Wanna Be Adored (Live)”
17. “I Was A Kaleidoscope (Live)”
18.”We Laugh Indoors (Dub)”
19.”Debate Exposes Doubt (Acoustic)”
20.”A Movie Script Ending (Acoustic)”
21. “I Was A Kaleidoscope (Acoustic, Live on KEXP)”
22.”Corny Island (Studio Outtake)”
23.”We Laugh Indoors (UK Single Mix)”

Band Demos
24. “Steadier Footing (Acoustic Studio Outtake)”
25. “A Movie Script Ending (Band Demo)”
26. “We Laugh Indoors (Band Demo)”
27. “Information Travels Faster (Band Demo)”
28. “Why You’d Want To Live Here (Band Demo)”
29. “Blacking Out The Friction (Band Demo)”
30. “I Was A Kaleidoscope (Band Demo)”
31. “Styrofoam Plates (Band Demo)”
32. “Coney Island (Band Demo)”
33. “Debate Exposes Doubt (Band Demo)”
34. “20th Century Towers (Band Demo)”
35. “Stable Song (Band Demo)”

10/20/2021 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom (All Ages)
10/21/2021 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom (21+)
10/23/2021 — Napa, CA @ Oxbow RiverStage *

* with Illuminati Hotties

The Photo Album (Deluxe Edition) is out digitally on 10/29 and on vinyl next spring via Barsuk. Pre-order it here.

Death Cab For Cutie is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

When Moneybagg Yo dropped his new album A Gangsta’s Pain in April, one of the fan-favorite standout songs was the Jhene Aiko-featuring “One Of Dem Nights.” A marked departure from much of Moneybagg’s existing oeuvre, the smooth, R&B-flavored track found Moneybagg sharing his X-rated fantasies alongside the bell-voiced singer. Now, six months out from the song’s initial release, Moneybagg shares the well-suited video for “One Of Dem Nights,” which sees the rapper mugging next to the singer, who also appears in miniature sitting atop the stove and a shelf in the trap house.

“One Of Dem Nights,” along with other hits like “Time Today,” “Hard For The Next,” and “Wockesha,” helped propel Moneybagg’s fourth album to a No. 1 debut, then keep it atop the Billboard albums chart two weeks later, where it returned after a huge streaming week. In addition to his own well-received singles, the Memphis native secured a number of high-profile features with names like Belly (“Zero Love“) and Meek Mill (“Hot“).

Meanwhile, Jhene Aiko celebrated the 10th anniversary of her debut mixtape, Sailing Soul(s), in March, then poked her head out for features on Ty Dolla Sign’s “By Yourself” and Swae Lee’s “In The Dark” from Marvel’s Shang-Chi.

Watch the video for “One Of Dem Nights” above.

Justin Bieber has been riding high lately. Coming off the release of two back-to-back albums, last year’s Changes and this year’s Justice, released just a few months apart, the former child star is establishing himself as a pop force in a grown-up context. Though they’re drowning in new music, if there’s one thing Bieber fans want right now, it’s more live performances. Since the cancellation of his Purpose tour four years ago — due to mental health concerns — Justin has changed his lifestyle a lot, and he’s mostly stayed off stage in the process. But even without most of the live performances behind that album, Purpose marked a shift for Bieber’s sound, from collaborations with Jack Ü, Travis Scott, and Halsey, to a positive reevaluation from critics. This was no longer the troubled teen from the post-Believe years; off the strength of this album, Justin had a chance to transcend his past and become a real pop icon.

Things were dramatically shifting in his personal life, too. After he began dating Hailey Baldwin, and eventually got married, it seemed like Justin’s overall perspective on life improved drastically. As seen in the new Michael Ratner-directed documentary, Justin Bieber: Our World, the couple are very close, take walks together every morning, and seem to mutually understand the pressures they both face as celebrities who grew up in the public eye.

The bulk of Justin’s last two albums contain songs that are dedicated to, inspired by, or celebrate all that is Hailey, and even if not all of them hit, the ones that do have joined the upper echelon of his catalog. Though Changes and Justice weren’t widely celebrated as capital A albums, each yielded a handful of songs that quickly became fan favorites. So, now with three “adult” albums in his discography, a Bieber setlist in 2021 is stacked — arguably much more so than on the long-lost Purpose tour — and that’s exactly what motivated fans to come out and see him in droves this past weekend.

The Justin Bieber & Friends Weekender might’ve once been stereotyped as an event for young girls and hysterical, hormonal teens. Instead, last weekend’s shows were packed with young people, yes, but also adults, both men and women, eager to see one of the best pop stars of the moment. Friends texted me regret or jealousy that they couldn’t be at the show, and even other passerby’s in Vegas inquired about entry into the show — but no dice, it was long sold-out.

The Justin Bieber Weekender event was presented by Pollen, a destination-based music event company that offers travel arrangements and group payments as part of their service, effectively positioning themselves as a tech company. An artist like Justin Bieber is a no-brainer for these kinds of mini-festivals, which don’t require the commitment of a residency but still offer the air of exclusivity that a full-blown music festival provides. And, because of his recent lack of tour dates, it’s a subtle flex for both super fans and casual fans to catch him performing live.

With Bieber as the anchor, last Thursday night kicked off with an exclusive screening of the above-mentioned new doc, Justin Bieber: Our World, where a surprise IRL appearance from some of the show’s dancers and news about a potential baby Bieber had the crowd roaring with approval. Kehlani also performed a club set late that night (as in, 3 AM), and one of Justin’s most notable collaborators of late, The Kid Laroi — who is one half of his No. 1 hit single “Stay” — held down a raucous day party on Friday afternoon.

Other DJs and frequent Vegas fixtures like Dillon Francis, Marshmello, and Carnage filled out late-night slots throughout the weekend, including Marshmello taking the late shift on Saturday night after Bieber himself performed around 1 AM. But with all the performers curated by Bieber, and other special events like a full-on skate park at the off-strip entertainment haven, Area15, the weekend was more than just fans waiting around for Justin to hit the stage.

Like any successful event, music wasn’t the only thing on the schedule during the weekend. Up and comer/Bieber protege Eddie Benjamin performed while the skaters did their thing, and even if skating wasn’t appealing, the immersive experiences inside Area15 offered plenty to do in the meantime. Or, fans could use the time for snacks, digging into Korean chicken wings, corn dogs, double-stack burgers, or barbecue at The Beast restaurant by Todd English inside of Area15.

For those staying on-site at Encore by Wynn, a brand new coastal Mexican restaurant, Casa Playa, offered a more elevated dining experience. With good margaritas spiked with ancho reyes verde and cucumber, a whole of slew appetizers like queso fundido, black truffle tostadas, and blue shrimp ceviche, the only thing that topped the starters were massive mains. A shareable platter of carne asada, lobster, chorizo, and short rib was the perfect pre-concert food, and even The Chainsmokers, who’d performed at the hotel earlier in the day, sat down for dinner in a nearby private room.

Though Our World emphasizes how much time and effort went into Bieber’s 2020 NYE show, for most fans, a virtual show just doesn’t have the same appeal as an in-person event. And as one of a handful of shows Bieber has performed in 2021, Saturday night’s set was a glimpse at what an upcoming tour from the pop star will hold: All three Jack Ü hits from his Purpose era — “Where Are Ü Now,” “What Do You Mean,” and “Sorry” remain his current all-time bangers — the still-climbing remix of WizKid’s “Essence” featuring breakout star Tems, a couple song from his Journals era (“Confident” featuring and “All That Matters”), and a mix of the best cuts from his last two albums. Nothing at all from his pre-Purpose output is included in the present setlist aside from the two Journals songs, which is probably a wise move despite how much “Baby” would honestly go off if he ever wanted to throw it back in.

Strangely, he also opted not to perform “Stay” at all, suggesting The Kid Laroi didn’t have time to stick around for a guest appearance during Bieber’s set. He also opted not to include the feel-good wedding anthem “Holy,” or the Ariana Grande-featuring “Stuck With You,” and their lack felt like an oversight. But given a longer set time during a stadium tour, it seems likely both tracks (and potentially other more recent collaborations) would all make their way in.

As for stage presence, Justin wasn’t quite as sharp as he was for the NYE set, but snuck in some choreo here and there when it made sense, and had a strong camaraderie with his band that was incredibly fun to watch. In the future, it would be cool to see these events orchestrate some crossover between the rest of the lineup and the main artist performance, to help mimic festival appeal. But for a star who, just a few years ago, couldn’t even bear to perform, his weekend in Vegas felt like the beginning of an excellent reinvention. Keep the changes coming, Justin, we feel the shift.

Uproxx was hosted by Pollen for this story. However, they did not review or approve this story. You can read our press trip/hosting policy here.

Olivia Rodrigo recently sat down for a chat with Alanis Morissette, for Rolling Stone‘s current “Musicians On Musicians” series. The two are a natural pairing, given that they both started their careers as child actors before releasing massively successful debut albums (Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was technically her third album, but it was her first to be released outside of Canada). That said, Sour and Jagged Little Pill had two very different releases, as Sour came out during the pandemic, when in-person promotional opportunities were few and far between.

However, that’s a process Rodrigo enjoyed, as she told Morissette, “I honestly loved it. I put out my first song, which did really well, and I didn’t expect any of that sort of success so early on. I think had I not just been doing the same thing that I had always been doing and writing songs in my bedroom, maybe I would have gotten a little more in my head about it than I did.”

Rodrigo also noted how her ascent to global superstardom felt quick: “We had a similar experience, where we had a really successful debut album, which is weird. At least for me, it felt super-quick. It felt overnight, and I’ve been working and writing songs since I was five years old. It definitely wasn’t overnight. But the ‘I’m writing songs in my bedroom’ to ‘Oh, my gosh, lots of people know this song’ was really quick for me. I feel obviously so lucky, but sometimes it just feels like it doesn’t have to do with me.”

Check out the full conversation here.