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Tinashe looks like she’s having the time of her life in the video for “Bouncin,” a simple but exuberant affair in which she sticks to her strengths — namely, performing elaborate choreography as she flirts with her male co-star. In this video, the twist is the addition of some small trampolines for Tinashe and her dance team, which allow for some theme-appropriate moves that bring a new dimension to the usual kinetic direction of Tinashe’s visuals.

The video arrived just five days after the song premiered on New Music Friday, following a rollout strategy that has gotten rarer and rarer in the streaming era. It’s Tinashe’s second video of the year after the clip for “Pasadena” featuring Compton rapper Buddy and appears to be building up to her new, independently released fifth album, which fans believe will be titled 333 after Tinashe shared a teaser about the album on social media.

That speculation was reinforced by Tinashe’s announcement of the 333 Tour which will start in September and include 22 stops, concluding with a live stream on Moment House in late October. 333 will be Tinashashe’s first album since 2019’s Songs For You, which she also released independently after leaving RCA Records in 2018.

Watch Tinashe’s “Bouncin” video above.

It’s been more than six months since MAGA insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, and as individuals involved in those riots continue to be apprehended and questioned, while others have their day in court, we’re learning more about exactly what went down. Stephen Colbert shared some of the latest news concerning the matter in a segment he likes to call “Seditionist Round Up Roundup.”

Among those included in Colbert’s roundup was Pauline Bauer, a pizzeria owner—also from Pennsylvania—who reportedly demanded that a police officer “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… We want to hang that f*cking bitch.” But Bauer isn’t worried about any legal repercussions. She has opted to represent herself, and offered up a rather surprising defense: that she cannot be held accountable for her actions because she is “a divinely empowered entity immune from laws.” Which led Colbert to wonder: “If you’re chosen by God to be above the laws of government, why do you care who’s in charge of it?”

Even more amazingly, there was Douglas Jensen. “Like a lot of these idiots, he posted a video of himself at the insurrection,” Colbert explained. “Unlike a lot of them, he didn’t know exactly where he was.” In the video, Jensen provides some on-camera narration where he shows himself “touching the f*cking White House!” (It was the Capitol Building.) He went on to repeat, “I am at the White House, just so you know.” (Again, he was not, just so you know.) As for where he is now?

“Today, Jensen was released from federal custody to house arrest because a judge found that he couldn’t have preplanned his actions because ‘he didn’t even know where he was,’” Colbert explained. “That is a new one—pleading not guilty by reason of stupidity.”

You can watch the full clip above.

Unlike Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, and Joel Kinnaman, Jared Leto will not reprise his role from David Ayer’s Suicide Squad in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. The superhero film won’t feature the Joker at all, so don’t expect to see Joaquin Phoenix or another actor (Tim Robinson or GTFO) playing the Clown Prince of Crime either. Back in 2019, Gunn fielded a question from an Instagram follower about how he could “justify a Suicide Squad movie” without the Joker. “No one but me and a few others know all the characters in the movie, but if the Joker isn’t in the film, I don’t think it would be strange as he isn’t a part of the Suicide Squad in the comics,” he wrote. Gunn elaborated on his decision to leave out “Mr. J” in a recent interview with the New York Times.

“Joker, no. I just don’t know why Joker would be in the Suicide Squad,” the filmmaker said when asked if he considered bringing back the Joker or Will Smith’s Deadshot. “He wouldn’t be helpful in that type of war situation. Will — I really wanted to work with Idris [Elba]. It is a multi-protagonist film. We go off for a while with Margot, and Daniela [Melchior] is the heart of the film in a lot of ways. But if there’s one protagonist, it’s Idris”:

I wanted somebody who had that gruff, Unforgiven-type feeling about him. This guy who had been reduced from being a bigshot supervillain — he took Superman out of the sky — who is now scraping gum off the floor at the beginning of the movie. He absolutely doesn’t want any part of it — he just has accepted this is his life. And I just think that character is Idris Elba.

Good call. Also a good call: keeping The Suicide Squad set a rat-free zone.

(Via the New York Times)

The ’90s — specifically, the year 1990 — was a great time to be Robert Matthew Van Winkle, who is better known as Vanilla Ice. His major label debut album, To The Extreme, was No. 1, as was his career-defining single “Ice Ice Baby.” He hasn’t experienced a high level of commercial success with his music since then, though, so it’s understandable that he looks back on the time fondly. He took it to the extreme recently, though, by declaring that no decade since the ’90s has been as good because computers have “ruined the world.”

In a new TMZ video, the person behind the camera asked Ice why everybody is “so infatuated with the ’90s.” With no hesitation, Ice responded, “Because it was the greatest decade ever before computers ruined the world. You have to realize that in 2004, the iPhone came out, right? What’s happened in pop culture since 2004 to ’21? Nothing! It’s the lost generation. Pop culture’s dead! So [it was] the last generation where pop culture was alive where you had fashion that actually mimicked the music.”

Although the rapper continues to perform live, his most recent album was 2011’s W.T.F. (Wisdom, Tenacity And Focus). He also makes occasional movie appearances, like in the 2020’s The Wrong Missy and 2017’s Sandy Wexler.

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Heading into the Loki season finale, rumors abounded that Kang the Conqueror would reveal himself as the puppet-master behind the Time Variance Authority, and more importantly, the person behind the circumstances that brought Tom Hiddleston’s Loki Variant and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie together. But while the show was peppered with numerous Easter eggs pointing to Kang, there was just as equally a chance that the series’ big bad would be a Loki. Thematically, it would fit with the show’s depiction of Loki as a survivor who’s doomed to be alone, and some seemingly savvy MCU fans didn’t think Marvel would just drop Kang into the final episode of Loki.

Surprise! That’s exactly what Marvel did, and the entire MCU is about to go through some things.

Played by Jonathan Majors, Kang has a long comic book history of being one of The Avengers’ most formidable foes as he’s shown no hesitation in tearing apart time and reality to crush his enemies. In the Loki finale, Loki and Sylvie match wits with a version of Kang who has been “pruning” the Sacred Timeline to prevent a Multiversal War from happening. He offers Loki and Sylvie a choice: Take over for him, keeping the timeline in order, or kill him and watch as the Multiverse tears itself apart. Sylvie chooses the latter, and it’s not going to end well, according to Loki head writer Michael Waldron.

Via Marvel:

“You had to leave a lot of meat on the bone in terms of how evil he could be, because that’s He Who Remains’ whole thing, that it’s not me who you should be afraid of,” Waldron continues. “‘It’s the other versions of me that are going to come.’ It was trying to really hint at that terrifying evil within without going all the way there.” In Waldon’s own words, he was just trying to write him as a “very charismatic sociopath.”

With the Multiverse officially unleashed, Kang’s conquering is already in motion as Loki arrives in a TVA that no longer recognizes him and now has a single statue of Kang looming in the background instead of the Time Keepers. While Marvel has only confirmed that Kang will appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, his presence will undoubtedly be felt in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (It’s right there in the title.) The now-splintering Multiverse will only further fuel theories that Spider-Man: No Way Home will have some alternate reality shenanigans, and it’s a pretty safe bet that Marvel has been holding back its trailer until the events of the Loki finale unfolded.

Welcome to the age of Kang, folks.

(Via Marvel)

Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile — aka “the friendliest hardcore band on the planet” — are officially following up their 2018 record Time & Space with a brand new project. Eagle-eyed fans already caught wind of the release due to the band posting a local billboard announcing the record on their Instagram earlier in the week, but today marks the official announce along with new music. Glow On is coming out on August 27, and the lead single, out today, is called “Alien Love Call” and features Blood Orange. Another recently-shared new single, “Mystery,” will also be included on the record.

The band worked with producer Mike Elizondo on the album, and it was also co-produced by their own Brendan Yates. This full-length album follows up their recently-released new EP, Turnstile Love Connection, and includes the title track of that release. Along with his feature on “Alien Love Call,” Blood Orange also appears on the tracks “Lonely Dezires” and contributes vocals on “Endless.”

Listen to “Alien Love Call” above and check out the Glow On tracklist below.

1. “Mystery”
2. “Blackout”
3. “Don’t Play”
4. “Underwater Boi”
5. “Holiday”
6. “Humanoid/Shake It Up”
7. “Endless”
8. “Fly Again”
9. “Alien Love Call” Feat. Blood Orange
10. “Wild Wrld”
11. “Dance-Off”
12. “New Heart Design”
13. “T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection)”
14. “No Surprises”
15. “Lonely Dezires” Feat. Blood Orange

Glow On is out 8/27 via Roadrunner Records. Pre-order it here.

BTS is on top of the world right now, as “Butter” remains a No. 1 single and they just released “Permission To Dance,” which they wrote with Ed Sheeran. This is their second collaboration, following the Map Of The Soul: 7 song “Make It Right,” but BTS and Sheeran haven’t actually met yet.

The band made that reveal on The Tonight Show yesterday. Fallon asked about how “Permission To Dance” came together and RM responded, “‘PTD’ is a song that will get everybody’s heart pumping and dancing again. This is a, actually, gift of Ed Sheeran, of course, one of our friends. Mad respect, big love to Ed.” The host then asked about what it was like when they first met Sheeran, and RM responded, “We can’t believe that we haven’t met him yet and this is the second project with him, but we never met him.”

Last night was the first of a two-day BTS residency on The Tonight Show. They sang “Permission To Dance” in a pre-taped performance, while tonight will bring a performance of “Butter.”

Watch clips from BTS’ Tonight Show appearance above and below.

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

On Tuesday night, Seth Meyers reunited with his former SNL “Weekend Update” deskmate Amy Poehler to present a brand-new edition of “REALLY!?! With Seth and Amy.” The evening’s big topic? The current space race—the one in which a handful of super-rich white dudes who actually do have the until-now largely theoretical “more money than they know what to do with” are dropping billions to build rockets to send their pampered asses into space in the most expensive dick-measuring contest of all time. Seth and Amy had some thoughts:

Seth: “Really billionaires!?! This is what you’re going to do with your unprecedented fortunes and influence? Drag race to outer space? If you’re trying to be more likable, this won’t work. It’s like if Tom Brady tried to be more likable by wearing a fedora and yammering about bitcoin. I mean really!?!

Amy: “Really! And you know what Seth, I miss the old billionaires. The ones that wore top hats and ate caviar with their hands. Now all these new guys do is intermittent fasting and they learn Krav Maga so they can dodge all those taxes. Like they don’t have 12 layers of security at all times. You know who isn’t going into space? Any women! Really!?! Yeah, we’re staying down here ‘cause we have to fix all the things. We have sh*t to do down here!

When the topic turned to Richard Branson—who kinda-sorta (but not really) declared himself the winner of this particularly pathetic space race by heading into the outer reaches of the atmosphere on Sunday, just about a week ahead of Jeff Bezos’s planned space odyssey—Seth had a few words for the Virgin head honcho: “You didn’t go to outer space! You just went pretty high for a plane! You went to outer sky! I mean, really!?! You’re the astronaut equivalent of driving by your ex’s house to see if the lights were on.”

But it was Poehler who pointed out the obvious symbolism of these billionaires’ rockets, noting that “we all understand the obsession with the rockets, right? Really!?! The rocket’s your dick, the skyscrapers are dicks. I mean, even Freud is like, ‘You don’t need me for this, right? You get it! Those rockets are dicks.”

You can watch the full clip above.

After months of rumors, Jennifer Carpenter’s Dexter return is now official.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the actress who played Dexter’s sister / love interest Debra (Dexter was doing incestous siblings before Game of Thrones made it cool) will be back for the Showtime limited series, alongside her real-life ex-husband Michael C. Hall. How is this possible, considering she [eight-year-old spoiler alert] died in the infamous finale? Probably the same way that John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer is back. Or maybe she’ll be Dexter’s new Dark Passenger. It’s best to keep it in the family, y’know?

Carpenter was initially hesitant to return, as she told the Reporter back when the finale aired in 2013. “[It would take] an extraordinary script many, many, many years from now,” she said. “I don’t know if that’s possible because people don’t come back from the dead.”

Dexter found a way.

Showtime’s 10-episode revival is set 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura. The character is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York — far from his original home in Miami. Original showrunner Clyde Phillips — who oversaw the first four seasons of the series before departing the show — returns to serve in the same capacity.

There’s still no word on whether Doakes will join Dexter and Debra as characters from the original series to appear in the revival, which is expected to premiere in the fall. Maybe Showtime is keeping that a surprise (motherf*cker).

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

(WARNING: Massive spoilers for Loki will be found below, so get the heck outta here if you haven’t caught up on Episode 3.)

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The Loki season finale adeptly left the door open for so much (while confirming a Season 2), and in less than an hour, we received a lot to process. Strangely enough, this show pulled off a lot of exposition throughout while entertaining; much of that’s down to the silver-tongued capabilities of Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. They made quite a team, which made one particular moment in the season finale feel like a gut-punch. No, I’m not talking about the greatest jumpscare in history, but rather, the moment when Loki realizes that he’s all alone. Again.

Actually, two moments contribute to this, but one hit me harder than the other. The first one, I guess, didn’t hit as hard because it felt predictable: Sylvie kissing Loki and then betraying him by thrusting him through a portal back to the TVA, so that he couldn’t stop her from taking on Kang the Conqueror (this was Jonathan Majors’ intro to the MCU as the new big bad before Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantamania). The consequences of this decision will be even worse than Star-Lord’s f*ck up with Thanos in Infinity War (which personally breaks my heart because I don’t want to dislike Sylvie and want to continue thinking that Star-Lord is the worst), and all this will carry over into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and probably Loki Season 2.

More importantly at the moment, it’s led to Loki’s crushed heart after opening himself up to another person. The twist, of course, is that Sylvie was supposed to be another Loki (even Miss Minutes thought so), so there were all sorts of jokes about Loki being in love with himself, but… Sylvie insisted that she’s not him (Enchantress, for real?). The “I just want you to be okay” was perhaps the first time we saw the trickster god really show himself, and dude was not having a good time here with the results.

Loki is so beloved that this was terrible enough to see, but then something even worse happened. That is, if you wanted to see Loki and Mobius ride off on jetskis into the sunset, that definitely didn’t go down. Instead, Loki dashed over to Mobius (and Wunmi Mosaku’s Hunter B-15) to inform them of Kang’s dastardly ways and how he was the villain pulling all the TVA strings. In addition, Loki perhaps wanted another hug, but instead, he got this: “Who are you?”

And that’s the moment when fans realized that the MCU is determined not to give Loki any lasting happiness, not even a morsel. He’s all alone now in what’s (thanks to Sylvie’s bad decision) clearly the Multiverse. People on Twitter couldn’t handle it.

If Marvel fans had one wish, it would simply be for Loki “to be okay,” but there’s Kevin Feige, pulling a Kang on us while we anticipate Season 2. Kinda brilliant.