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Kid Cudi is a cyborg now. At least, that what he said on Twitter (not “X”) as he shared post-op photos from his recent surgery after injuring himself at Coachella last month. The Cleveland rapper now has a lot of metal screws in his foot after breaking his foot onstage, and he has the x-rays to prove it.

“Got my boot,” he wrote in post sharing the photos. “The road to recovery has begun. Heres some xrays after the surgery, I wanted yall to see how real this shit was. Im a cyborg now!”

YIKES.

Cudi’s foot now contains what looks like four screws and four pins bracing his heel, and he’ll probably have to wear that boot for a while. Although he had hoped to be up and about in time for his Insano tour, initially telling fans, “Not canceling anything just yet,” he was later forced to cancel it entirely.

“We have to cancel the tour so I can focus on getting better to be out there in top shape to rage with you all,” he posted late last month. “Theres just no way I can bounce back in time to give 100%. The injury is much more serious than I thought.”

The future was supposed to be cool. We were going to have flying cars, sassy robot maids, and hit songs with the words “Eep Opp” in the title. But unfortunately, things did not turn out like The Jetsons.

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd recently defended the dating app’s AI feature by offering a grim prediction of how hot singles in your area will soon find matches. “You could, in the near future, be talking to your AI dating concierge. You could share your insecurities,” she said at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, according to Gizmodo. “There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierges.”

Herd’s comments apparently (and rightly!) caused those in attendance to laugh, but she was serious.

“No no truly,” Wolfe Herd continue. “And then you don’t have to talk 600 people. It could scan all of San Francisco for you and say these are the three people you really ought to meet. So that’s the power of AI if harnessed the right way.” Though this robotic future of dating sounds far out, Bumble is already testing out an AI feature. Wolfe Herd said “Opening Move,” a new feature Bumble unveiled in April and coming later this year, takes the pressure off of women by allowing them to select an AI-generated message instead of creating one on their own.

If this sounds like something from an episode of Black Mirror, well, that’s because there’s an episode of Black Mirror with almost this exact plot. Season four’s “Hang the DJ” is about a dating app that tells couples how long their relationships will last as soon as they begin. It doesn’t matter if they feel a connection: if the app says it’s time to move on, it’s time to move on. (There’s also a twist I won’t spoil.) “Hang the DJ” is one of the best entries in the show’s Netflix era (and a great The Smiths songs), and a lot of people are making the connection between the episode and Herd’s remarks.

(Via Gizmodo)

In 2023, dogs were really having their time on the big screen. We saw Messi the pup steal hearts during awards season, Jamie Foxx voice a raunchy dog in Strays, and who would forget that 2023 Rob Lowe movie Dog Gone (really)? Apparently a lot of people. But the next thing in film? CATS! Real ones, not the disastrous CGI ones, or lasagna cats.

A Quiet Place: Day One is the latest flick to feature a cute feline bestie, following Argyle‘s footsteps. This time, our cat hero is joined by Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn to tell the prequel to 2018’s A Quiet Place. How will these two keep a cat from meowing and subsequently calling attention to the mute monsters? Who knows! Here is what we do know about the upcoming prequel.

Plot

A Quiet Place: Day One tells the origin story of the silent extraterrestrial beings we first met in 2018’s A Quiet Place starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski. Day One shows fans the initial chaos from about a year prior to the start of the first film when the alien guys first invade. The worst part? Lupita’s character, Sam, has an adorable cat, and we simply cannot let anything bad happen to her.

Sam eventually teams up with Eric (Joseph Quinn) and the two must survive a crumbling New York City as it gets invaded by the creatures.

Cast

Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn lead the film as Samira and Eric, two stranger who band together during the invasion. Alex Wolff also stars as Reuben, while Djimon Hounsou will reprise his role of Henri from A Quiet Place Part Two, meaning there might be seome overlap between the prequel and the other installments. Perhaps Krasinkski or Blunt will show up for a quick cameo.

Release Date

A Quiet Place: Day One hits theaters on June 28th 2024.

Trailer

The action packed trailer shows the early reactions to the invasion. Not to alarm you, but the cat does seem to disappear about halfway through the trailer, so stay alert. Check it out below:

Nigerian star Tems has announced the release date for her much-anticipated debut album, Born In The Wild. “This is my most special moment,” she wrote on Twitter (never calling it “X”). “Everything I have I put into this. Thank you all so much for believing in me. BORN IN THE WILD. JUNE 7th.” She also included a look at the cover art for the album, which you can see below.

When Tems broke out in 2020 with her feature on Wizkid’s top-ten hit “Essence,” she instantly became a name music fans had to keep an eye on. Since then, she’s released two EPs, became the first African artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to her feature on Future’s “Wait For U” with Drake, won a Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance for that same song, and co-wrote Rihanna’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever song “Lift Me Up,” earning nominations for another Grammy, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar.

Doing all this without an album out is pretty impressive, but what may end up being even more impressive is the album itself. So far, Tems has released three singles — “Me & U,” “Not An Angel,” and “Love Me JeJe” — and all have instantly become fan favorites. June 7th can’t come soon enough.

Born In The Wild is due 6/7 via RCA / Since ’93. You can find more info here.

Walton Goggins’s season finale appearance in Justified: City Primeval has led to plenty of fuel for fodder on a second season of that followup series. That chatter only intensified when Goggins reunited with Timothy Olyphant (and posted photo proof) in Thailand while the two were filming HBO’s The White Lotus and FX’s Alien, respectively.

Of course, then the subject grew more dramatic when word surfaced of Olyphant reacting to Goggins revealing that they weren’t always the best of friends while working together. Goggins ignored that ruckus and recently flew back stateside, where he is now in Los Angeles for a Fallout-related press tour. And guess who he’s hanging out with now?

Boyd and Ava Crowder are back together again. Joelle Carter popped on on the Goggins Instagram page with the man himself writing, “[G]ot to see someone very special to me for the first time in a very long time. @thejoellecarter what a dance we had. I will never forget it. I love you old friend.”

Well, as far as Boyd Crowder knew at the end of Justified, Ava was dead, but Raylan knew better. That (well-meaning) rascal. What could this mean? Probably nothing, but you never know. It’s also a fine reason to watch Boyd Crowder clog dance again, even if the video quality is lacking below.

The New York Knicks hold a 2-0 lead on the Indiana Pacers in their Eastern Conference Semifinal series. While New York picked up both of their wins in Madison Square Garden, the Pacers have apparently felt like the officiating has been a bit one-sided, as the team filed a complaint with the league over 79 calls and non-calls that they believed put them at a disadvantage.

The complaint did not come as a surprise, as Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said the team was going to do it. Carlisle was visibly frustrated with the officials during Game 2 and let them hear it, to the point that he got ejected. And thanks to a public criticism of the referees — including that small market teams don’t get a fair shot against big market teams — Carlisle is now out $35,000.

“I can promise you that we’re going to submit these tonight,” Carlisle said, per ESPN. “New York can get ready. They’ll see ’em too. I’m always talking to our guys about not making it about the officials, but we deserve a fair shot.

“Small-market teams deserve an equal shot,” Carlisle went on to say. “They deserve a fair shot no matter where they’re playing.”

The series will head to Indiana on Friday night for Games 3 and 4, where Carlisle and the Pacers will hope to get a more friendly whistle in front of their home crowd.

After exchanging diss tracks with Kendrick Lamar all weekend, Drake seemingly threw in the towel on Sunday night with the release of “The Heart Part 6.” From the song’s spoken outro, it seems that the Toronto superstar had grown tired of sparring with his Compton opponent, and wanted to move onto other things.

Unfortunately for Drake, it doesn’t look like the slew of rappers who joined in from seemingly all sides is interested in letting him walk away. In fact, some fans on Twitter noticed a line from Gunna’s album, One Of Wun, that suggests another fighter is jumping into the fray.

Did Gunna Diss Drake On His New Album?

Gunna, who released his new album One Of Wun today, appears to go after Drake on the song “Still Prevail.” In it, he rhymes, “I clear all the tabs, they pay for their abs,” evoking a similar jab that has been used against him by Kendrick, as well as Joe Budden, Rick Ross, and even Azealia Banks.

It has long been rumored that the “Hotline Bling” singer got liposuction on his midsection — a rumor that Drake has never denied (although, to be fair, you can’t prove a negative). If Gunna really is referring to Drake with that line, it would bring the total of former collaborators turned competitors to five (six, if you count Meek Mill).

Incidentally, fans were sure that Gunna actually had a beef with Future, who seemingly announced the release of a project of his own earlier this week (which turned out to just be a single) with a remark that fans thought disparaged the younger Atlanta rapper. It remains to be seen how that’ll play out, but for now, it looks like rap’s tangled web of civil conflicts just got even more complex.

Will Young Sheldon end like that scene from Saving Private Ryan, except instead of young Matt Damon turning into old Harrison Young, it’s Young Sheldon morphing into Adult Sheldon? We’ll find out soon! The final two episodes of The Big Bang Theory prequel series air next Thursday, May 16. Can fans expect any cameos from the original show? Yes, it turns out.

Jim Parsons and former Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik, who played Sheldon and Amy on The Big Bang Theory, are confirmed to return. People has an exclusive clip from the final episodes where Amy chides Sheldon for claiming he’s “always doing things to make other people happy” in his memoir. “Sheldon, while I was giving birth you zoomed into a seminar,” she says, to which Old Sheldon replies, “You were taking forever to dilate! And I’d already made my contribution to the project, which need I remind you was on your birthday.”

Sheldon is still on his bazinga bullsh*t.

“It’s pretty crazy to watch old episodes of my voice sound so high and I’m so little,” lil’ Sheldon Ian Armitage told People in an interview about the approaching endgame with Parsons, who added, “He was so arrestingly charming —immediately [you] just couldn’t take your eyes off.” As for the finale, Parsons called it “the most beautiful coda to getting to come back and see each other again, like a grace note to the whole experience. It’s very meaningful.”

Bring back Barenaked Ladies to do the theme for the Young Sheldon finale instead of the current song, which is… performed by Steve from Blue’s Clues? Huh. Who knew? Besides the millions of people watching Young Sheldon every week. They probably did.

You can see a sneak peek of the final episode below.

(Via People)

This summer’s EA Sports College Football 25 is the most anticipated sports video game release in a very long time. After more than a decade without a college football game due to the inability of the NCAA to figure out how to license the game and pay players for their name, image, and likeness, that issue was finally resolved. The process of getting players and teams to sign on to the game seemed upsettingly simple from the outside when you consider how hard the NCAA pushed back on the idea for years.

Later this month, EA Sports is set to unveil covers, details about the game, and we’ll finally get some gameplay footage ahead of the July launch. However, the PlayStation Store decided to give fans of the game an early treat on Friday, as they revealed the Deluxe Edition cover, which features a number of current college football stars.

Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter are in the foreground, with Georgia QB Carson Beck, Alabama QB Jalen Milroe, and Ohio State RB Quinshon Judkins visible in the second row. It stands to reason that those six will be cover athletes — it’s hard to imagine those being the only nameplates visible is a mistake. As a longtime fan of the game, it’s pretty wild seeing a CFB video game with active players on the cover, but it’s extremely cool and only adds to the excitement for the full details to come later this May and the game’s release in July.

Jane Schoenbrun’s brilliant directorial debut, 2021’s We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, follows a lonely teenager who takes part in a viral online challenge. I won’t give away anymore. Just watch it. The film is effectively unnerving — and the work of someone who “gets” the internet and the unhealthy-yet-hypnotic appeal of watching YouTube videos in bed at 2 a.m.

Based on their new film, Schoenbrun also “gets” the hold an old television show can have on you. A24‘s I Saw The TV Glow follows two outcasts who bond over an affection for The Pink Opaque, a Buffy The Vampire Slayer-like series with a deep, extremely silly lore. It’s a remarkable film about nostalgia and trans identity, and much like Buffy and The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, another ‘90s favorite, I Saw The TV Glow has a killer soundtrack.

I recently interviewed four artists who provided songs for the album — King Woman, L’Rain, Bartees Strange, and Sloppy Jane — and asked them about their favorite TV shows when they were younger. Did you know Teletubbies had a disgusting pink name called the Tubby Custard? You’re about to!

King Woman

What TV show were you obsessed with when you were younger?

I liked Goosebumps a lot.

That’s fitting for this movie.

I feel like Jane mentioned that was a reference. Yeah, Goosebumps was really cool and scary.

What was it about the show that appealed to you?

When I was younger, I had an obsession with horror. I loved being afraid, and I liked all the creative stories behind Goosebumps. Now, I’m not. I kind of get spooked by horror films, but back then, I had an obsession with scary movies, like I watched them all the time. I liked the feeling of being on the edge of my seat, spooked by something constantly.

Was there a specific movie that made you not like horror as much?

I think I had been watching so many horror films, and I also have a crazy imagination to the point that I would just get scared at night and have a bunch of nightmares. So I kind of had to stop watching them. A movie that I watched recently that really just scared the fuck out of me was Hereditary. That movie really freaked me out. But I did see it.

Were there any other shows you had an affection for as a kid?

I grew up in a really strict home, so if my mom wasn’t around, if she was at church or something, me and my sister would watch, like, Ren & Stimpy and weird shit like. Nick at Nite. Hey Arnold!. Just a lot of that classic Nickelodeon stuff. All That, which I mean talking about that right now isn’t really aging well.

It’s hard to not have that in the back of the brain.

Yeah, exactly. But you know, that stuff was definitely a part of my childhood. And then I also had to watch a lot of weird Christian brainwash cartoons.

Like VeggieTales?

VeggieTales is actually kind of cool. I still think VeggieTales is really cute, but no, creepier stuff like a guy with a ventriloquist dummy talking about morals. Just strange, really strange stuff. And actually, I watched this specific thing. I can’t even remember what it was called now. But I later found out — this is really dark — the ventriloquist guy for this Christian puppet show turned out to be a guy that was scheming with a police officer to, like, become a cannibal and eat children. I found a random article as an adult about the same guy. And I was like, “Wait.” But yeah, I really liked Nick At Nite.

How did you get involved with I Saw The TV Glow?

Jane reached out to my previous manager, and then Jane and I ended up meeting up at Tompkins Square Park and sitting on a bench and talking about our childhood and our experiences. It was a very eye opening, beautiful conversation. From there, it kind of morphed into me actually being in the movie, which I don’t think originally that’s what was going to happen. I think maybe it could have been a thing, but I ended up doing an original song and then a remake of my song “Psychic Wound.” And then also being in the movie. I just feel so grateful that Jane gave me that opportunity and had me involved to such an extent in the film.

If you could record the theme song to any existing show, what show would you pick?

Do you know Pet Shop Of Horrors?

I don’t.

It’s a ’90s anime. There’s this character called Count D.

I’m in already.

I really think it would be so cool if someone made like a live action of it, and I would love to play that character. There aren’t many episodes. But I love the music for it. It’s my absolute favorite anime, and that specific character is very ominous and mysterious and kind of creepy. It’s really cool.

L’Rain

What TV show were you obsessed with when you were younger?

It feels weird to say, after watching the recent Nickelodeon documentaries, but probably a lot of Nickelodeon. I also watched a lot of like older shows through Nick At Nite. There was so many. I watched every episode of I Love Lucy randomly. And Bewitched, and all of those older shows.

Did you come to those shows independently, or were they through a parent or someone else?

It was just through having the TV on. I feel like I grew up in a household where the TV was always just kind of on. It was a constant noise and a constant presence. So yeah, I would just have Nickelodeon on and then it would just get late and then they would switch to Nick at Nite programming. So I would see all these other things or watch lots of reruns. I have lots of memories of infomercials, and sometimes I’ll see them on Instagram and I’ll be shocked by the fact that I know all the music still.

Were there any non-Nick favorites?

I’m sure they were, like Family Matters and the sort of classic ’90s sitcoms. I was watching reruns of Martin. And Living Single. I rewatched all of it. It’s kind of funny, what you remember and what you don’t remember, and what holds up after a lot of time and what really doesn’t.

I hope Martin holds up.

Some parts of it do [laughter].

Do you watch TV when you’re touring on the road? Or is TV not really part of your schedule anymore?

It sometimes is. I did a lot of catching up during the pandemic, like the beginning of the pandemic, and since then have been staying very current with shows. So usually there’s a show that I’ve been watching that I’ll need to catch up on when we’re on tour. And recently, we’ve all been watching a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm. That was our band show, and one of my bandmates has been rewatching The Sopranos. So that’s kind of caused a wave of Sopranos watching in the van now.

Is there a contemporary or contemporary-ish show that you wish had been available to you when you were younger?

That’s such a good question.

I can give you an example so you have time to think.

Yeah, yeah.

For me, it’s Adventure Time. I’ve watched it as an adult, and I really love it, but I feel like it would have shaped my entire identity if I had seen it when I was 15 years old.

That’s so good. It’s so easy to binge watch. And it’s so wholesome. But also, somehow edgy. And that’s a really difficult line to tow.

Also really good music. Which provides a segue: can you talk about how you get involved with I Saw The TV Glow?

Someone reached out to me. But I very quickly after started talking to Jane directly about their ideas for the music in the film. And as soon as I read the treatment, and I also watched We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, I was hooked and knew it was something that I really wanted to be a part of and just wanted to figure out how I could fit in. So we ended up meeting and got to know each other, and I saw some early footage of the film. And they gave me a prompt about electricity. That really shaped everything that I ended up recording. I originally thought that I was going to be giving them the title track of my last record because I always thought of that as a horror movie-inspired track in a lot of ways. For logistical reasons, that ended up not happening. But it was great because I ended up getting this opportunity to work on a song that I’ve been wanting to work on for a really long time and couldn’t ever find the right application for it. And the more I kept thinking about the film, the more I realized that this was the exact right thing.

If you could record the theme song to any existing show, what show would you pick?

I would want it to be either the most boring, kind of stupid reality show that ever existed and do a really weird… Actually, no, that is my answer. I think it would have to be a reality show of some kind that’s really popular and brain-numbingly stupid. I would want to do a theme song for that.

Your music would be white noise for many millions of people who have the show on during the day without ever actually paying attention to it.

Exactly. There’s lots of weird, subliminal messaging that you can do in that kind of scenario.

Bartees Strange

What TV show were you obsessed with when you were younger?

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?.

An early spooky classic.

That was the big one for me. Goosebumps, the TV show. Gosh, I love horror movies and horror TV. And I always have, even as a kid. I was hooked on it. Hey Arnold!.

There was a creepy episode of Hey Arnold! with the train conductor.

That is very scary. Hey Arnold! was very real for me. I grew up in a small town, so I would watch Arnold and be like, “Whoa, kids in the city have this amazing life.”

The most amazing bedroom you’ve ever seen.

Oh, man, that skyline! He would crawl out and sit on the roof. What a life. But yeah, those were some big ones for me when I was a kid. Oh shit, Courage The Cowardly Dog! That was huge. That kind of spurred a big interest in cryptids for me. Every episode was a new, ghosty little cryptid, which was cool and set in a town that was like my town. I watched a lot of anime, too. I felt like anime was cool because I read a lot of books, and I feel like I hit a point where I was like, “Pokémon is for kids. I need something more heavy.” It was like InuYasha and YuYu Hakusho and a bunch of Cowboy Bebop. Those were big for me, too.

Were shows like Are You Afraid Of The Dark? and Goosebumps your introduction to horror?

Definitely, and my dad. My dad watches a lot of horror movies and he used to watch Tales From The Crypt. That was fun because it was like adult humor horror. As a 10, 11 year old, it’s like the coolest, darkest thing you can imagine.

What are your TV viewing habits while touring?

I love a big, long show, like a Six Feet Under or The Sopranos. I’ve been waiting to watch The Leftovers for the next time I tour.

That’s a heavy one.

But that’s great, because it’s a lot. It almost like pacifies you to be sucked into this humongous, deep, sad, weird world. That’s what I’m loving about Six Feet Under right now. It’s just so weird.

Have any TV shows or movies impacted your songwriting?

Yes, so many. I’ll never forget when I heard the soundtrack to Halloween, but that’s so played out. Everyone says that one, but I remember being like, “Is that a guitar?” My dad was like, “No, I think it’s a piano,” and my mom was like, “That’s a synthesizer.” And I was like, “Like an organ?” I just couldn’t wrap my head around that. And then I did, and I was like, “Damn, you can do anything with this.” Also movies like It Follows where there’s so much natural sound and the scariest thing is when nothing’s happening. I love things like that. But my favorite and the thing that I pull from the most in current-making of music are all those Quincy Jones-produced movies, like The Wiz. That’s probably my number one favorite musical movie situation of all time.

How did you get involved with I Saw The TV Glow?

I didn’t know Jane, but I think Jane liked my first record [and] they found a way to get in touch with me. I honestly don’t know how they found me. But I know that I’m friends with a lot of their friends, like Lucy [Dacus] and Phoebe [Bridgers] and Sloppy Jane and that whole hang. So they probably put Jane onto my music. It definitely feels like a community of people that are kind of hovering around each other.

Have you seen the movie?

I have.

What were some of your thoughts while watching it?

It’s a great movie. I watch too many horror movies, but I thought it was special because I’m into the whole story of kids and the intense connection you can have with another person your age when you feel like you’re the only two people that understand a thing. I love how little dialogue they share. It reminds me of being a kid and walking up to someone in high school and being like, “Yo, do you like InuYasha?” And they’re like, “Oh my god, I love InuYasha,” and that’s the only thing you need to know about that person.

When you were younger, was watching TV shows and movies a solitary activity for you, or was it usually with others?

Group. Me and my brother and sister did everything together when we were kids. I was the oldest and so TV was how I could get everyone to chill. So we watched everything together. Horror was actually the thing that I did by myself because it was like I was old enough, or I thought I was. I knew my little sister would get too scared. And then my dad loved horror, too, so that was how I had my little connection with him that no one else had.

If you could record the theme song to any existing show, what show would you pick?

The Jamie Foxx Show. Just ’cause I want to hang with Jamie Foxx. That would be the greatest honor of my life. That, or like The Wayans Bros. or In Living Color or Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper. All those Black mid-’90s TV shows. That shit, that was fun. They were really going hard on the music, too.

Sloppy Jane

What TV show were you obsessed with when you were younger?

This is a busted opinion, but I have, and will always be, a big Teletubbies stan.

OK, interesting.

I love that show. There isn’t too much to say about it, but as a kid, I was really entranced by their universe. And when I watch the old episodes, I still feel that way, like it’s really imaginative. It’s uncanny and very spooky. I love that it’s actually like a bunch of full-sized adults in the costumes. Teletubby world is much bigger than we think. I would really love to go on one of their old sets. They have that — what’s it called? The vacuum cleaner Noo-Noo that comes and cleans up their mess.

I have no memory of this.

They have a vacuum cleaner character who, when they make a mess, they’re like, “Oh no, Noo-Noo.” It comes over and slurps up whatever they did. It’s so weird.

I mostly remember the culture war bullshit about the purple Teletubby.

Oh, Tinky Winky’s purse! So controversial. Woke king.

Things really weren’t that different 25 years ago than they are now.

There was also the Tubby Custard. I don’t know if you remember this, but…

I hate that collection of words: “the Tubby Custard.”

It was like they literally eat this pink slime in a bowl that comes out of this big machine. And then at one point, do you remember there was a big internet controversy about meat or something where it was like, “All processed meat is actually pink slime,” and they showed this video of the pink slime but, I believe, it was debunked to be a video of the Teletubbies Tubby Custard. It was just someone trolling everyone. It was one of the early internet everybody-believing-something-that-could-be-easily-disproved things.

Were there other shows you loved?

Let me think for a second. Embarrassingly, Lost.

No embarrassment. It’s great.

I was such a huge Lost-y. I’ve actually been meaning to revisit it as an adult. But yeah, I was a big Lost fan. That show jumps the shark every episode. Fucking crazy-ass show. Very formative to me. Also, early Degrassi. The Drake-era Degrassi.

Wheelchair Jimmy himself.

Started from the bottom.

Truly. Do you like to watch TV when you’re on the road?

I love hotel TV in general. I feel like when I go to a hotel, I’m like paying to have a niche fetish satisfied of like getting to turn on a TV and flip through channels. Like the old way. I love QVC on tour. I love watching the really slow jewelry QVC ads and commercials.

It’s oddly comforting knowing that no matter which hotel I stay at, there will always be an episode of Friends or Modern Family waiting for me on the TV. And I don’t even love those shows or anything.

I love being given limited options as a member of modern society. I love being like, you have to pick between Forensic Files, QVC, Shark Tank, football, Golden Girls, and some weird kids show in another language. It’s so nice. Then I’m like, “Well, I guess I’ll just put this on.” I do like watching trash TV, but I don’t like the shame involved in picking it.

Can you talk a little bit about your involvement with I Saw The TV Glow?

I got involved through Phoebe [Bridgers] and Jane. They were kind of talking about options. And I think that Phoebe recommended me to do a song for the soundtrack, and I think that Jane resonated with my work after looking into it. We got on a call shortly after, and they sent me the script, and I really, really connected with it. A lot of the visual motifs are ones that I really resonate with. I have a lot of blue dye involved in my own stuff. And I have a lot of VHS TV motifs and stuff, too. I really connected with it when I read it. I also watched We’re All Going To The World’s Fair. Amazing. Movie. Their work is super of the time in a way that I think will be timeless.

How did you land on contributing “Claw Machine” to the soundtrack?

Jane was super generous and very open to whatever song I was going to write, they were like, “I trust you as the artist to write a song.” The one thing that they kind of suggested was, they were like, “This going to be in this pivotal scene in this movie. I think that it should start with the title of the song.” And actually, as a writer, that was super helpful. I love homework because it gives me somewhere to start.

Your performance in the movie reminds me a lot of the music scenes from Twin Peaks: The Return.

I love Twin Peaks as well. So good, and like awesome to be in a moment that was kind of referencing it. The song was actually not 100 percent recorded because the turnaround time is really fast. It didn’t have strings on it yet, and it was still missing a couple of other things, but the vocals were done, and the piano was done. It was all done to a click, so we could perform to it. It was really cool. It was cool to have a movie star moment.

If you could record the theme song to any existing show, what show would you pick?

Teletubbies.

You should come out to that on your next tour.

I always have trouble with walkout music, so maybe we just solved that.

You can stream the I Saw The TV Glow soundtrack below.

I Saw The TV Glow is out in limited theaters now, followed by a wide release on May 17.