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At some point in a celebrity’s career, they may or may not be asked if they would run for some sort of political office. It’s weird, yes, but it happens a lot! And sometimes it even goes too far. But when stars are constantly praised and idolized, it makes sense that they would want to be even more powerful and get involved in the government. Even though Dwayne The Rock Johnson potentially harnesses enough power to run not only the country but the world, it seems like he does not want to do it!

The former pro-wrestler/actor/pancake aficionado was recently asked if he would consider running for office, probably due to the leadership skills he learned while filming Jumanji. While Johnson has expressed interest in running in the past, his priorities have shifted, and it seems like he wants to focus on his family.

“It’s off the table. Yes. It is off the table,” Johnson told CBS when asked about running for president. “I will say this because it requires a B-side to this. I love our country and everyone in it. I also love being a daddy. And that’s the most important thing to me is being a daddy, number one, especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives.”

Johnson added that working in Hollywood is already tough enough due to being away from his family and he wouldn’t want to go that route. “I know what it was like to be on the road and be so busy that I was absent for a lot of years in my first daughter’s…Growing up in this critical age at this critical time in their life, and that’s what the presidency will do. So my number one priority is my daughters.”

Even though he doesn’t want to be president, Johnson is open to the idea of being a CEO. “Sure, CEO sounds great. But the number one thing I wanna be is daddy. That’s it.” Does that mean opening a restaurant is off the table?

(Via Variety)

Caroline Polachek appears on a new song, but with a twist. “Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare” is Polachek’s new aria single release, which translates to “I Never Want To Watch The Sun Go Down.” It is also a part of the soundtrack for a Kurt Cobain-themed opera called Last Days, a new Royal House Opera stage adaptation of Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name.

According to The Guardian, it is not technically Kurt Cobain, but very similar in both looks and the story of his passing. In this opera stage version, the Cobain character of “Blake” will be played by Titane star Agathe Rousselle.

“I think the reason why this archetype, this Kurt figure, remains relevant is because he so heavily demonstrated that paradox. He held so many contradictions within himself,” co-director Matt Copson told the publication. “He’s like a walking paradox, and I think those are really important and beautiful figures for us to grapple with because it’s an extremity of what I personally feel all the time.”

This is not Polachek’s primary appearance on an interesting soundtrack this year, either. She also was featured on the soundtrack for the ’70s-themed animated kids’ film, Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Listen to Caroline Polachek perform “Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare” from Last Days above.

From the beginning of his supernova and super fast rise, Jack Harlow has built his reputation on staying true to his Louisville roots and owning the entirety of his awkward adolescence. His added another layer to his relatability while co-hosting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (October 6).

Fallon and Harlow recounted the multi-Platinum-certified rapper’s experience co-hosting the 2022 MTV VMAs in August. The awards show had opened with Harlow performing “First Class,” his No. 1 smash that heavily sampled Fergie’s “Glamorous.” He was joined by an assortment of his friends (including Fallon) on a fake plane before making his way to the stage, where Fergie was waiting for him. It was exactly what fifth-grade Jack would’ve done.

“There was a talent show when I was in fifth grade. I tried to do ‘Fergalicious,’” Harlow told Fallon. “It’s a true story. True story. And, you know, the lyrics are suggestive, I guess. To me, it wasn’t anything. I didn’t even get to finish the audition. I was halfway through, and they cut me off. They’re like, ‘You can’t do that.’ So, that’s my rapper origin story.”

Harlow started the North American Leg of his Come Home The Kids Miss You World Tour on September 5 in Cincinnati, after serving as the guest picker and performing “First Class” on ESPN’s College GameDay at Ohio State. He squeezed in the Tonight Show between his sold-out Toronto show on Wednesday (October 5), with Drake in attendance, and his Barclays Center stop in Brooklyn tonight (October 7).

Watch Harlow’s segment with Fallon above.

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Willow’s follow-up to last year’s Lately I Feel Everything is here. COPINGMECHANISM is her newest LP, whose anticipation was built through tons of great singles like “Hover Like A Goddess” and “Curious/Furious.”

To accompany the release of this new record today, Willow unveiled a music video for the track “Ur A Stranger.” It’s a metallic, bitter heartbreak anthem that’s propelled forward with caustic riffs and Willow’s pained vocals. The video finds her expressing that frustration as fully as possible, having something of an exorcism. There’s also lots of alcohol. After the flash of chaos, the video ends with Willow getting kicked out of a bar.

Willow is set to perform on SNL for the second time this year tomorrow, Oct. 8, about which she said, “I’m nervous obviously, because being with Camila, a really, really good friend of mine, there’s that feeling of comfortability there where you can look across the stage and be like, ‘Girl, we’re in this together. We’re doing this.’ I’m not baring my soul alone on the stage. But now it’s going to be me baring my soul alone on the stage, and I’m just so grateful and so excited, but also sh*tting my pants, slightly.”

Watch the “Ur A Stranger” video above.

Reports began circulating earlier this week about an incident at a Golden State Warriors practice. The long and the short of it is that Draymond Green threw a punch that hit Jordan Poole, which led to the veteran forward facing some sort of discipline from the team. On Friday, TMZ acquired and published the video of the altercation, which showed the two coming face-to-face, Poole shoving Green, and Green responding by throwing a right hook.

While we do not know the details, the timing of this is not especially great for Green, who can potentially hit unrestricted free agency next summer if he declines his player option. Green apparently wants a max contract from the team, while Golden State, as of July, had no plans of giving that to him. This means he can hit the open market this summer, and after watching the video, Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young theorized that this is all part of a plan to go elsewhere in California.

Green is represented by Klutch, the agency that also represents LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and a number of other players on the Los Angeles Lakers’ roster. Of course, this is merely a joke by Young, and there is no indication that Green even wants to play for the Lakers just as a general thing, but perhaps this topic will be broached on the episode of The Shop that drops on Friday afternoon.

Steve Lacy is the man of the hour after his Gemini Rights single “Bad Habits” climbed the charts to overtake Harry Styles’ “As It Was” for the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100. Lacy, who is currently on his Give You The World Tour crisscrossing the United States, has gone from being a late addition to The Internet to one of Kanye West’s favorite artists (which is still saying something, even if Kanye is a little… off right now).

What makes all this even more impressive is that Lacy is defying the boundaries of being a Black artist in an era when there are still material benefits to following trends — especially the ones on TikTok. In a new feature in Billboard, Lacy’s quiet cool is compared to that of another Gemini, Lenny Kravitz, as the two rockstars — who are 34 years apart in age — get paired to talk about everything from vintage guitars to their worst breakups. They also address the above quandary, which ties into a question about whether or pop culture has become disposable due to technology-addled limited attention spans. Here’s what they thought:

Lacy: Oh, my God. I don’t believe that sh-t. I feel like people just aren’t putting the time in to make things that last longer. Me, I study things that last. I’m like, “What are those elements of songs that last?” I realized that it’s songwriting, drum selection, melodies, and lyrics.

Kravitz: Drum sounds, man! I spend so much time on the drums.

Lacy: It can kill a whole song. I’m so anal about the drums.

On a personal note, I’d throw in mixing. Underrated, almost unnoticeable, but a good mix can be the difference between a timeless classic and a disposable dud. Lacy and Kravitz’s convo is well-worth reading in full — especially for hardcore music equipment geeks — and puts an interesting twist on a fascinating glimpse into the creation processes of a legend… and a legend in the making.

Kanye West, as he often does, finds himself in hot water at the moment. This time, it’s due to the “White Lives Matter” shirt he was recently seen wearing at Paris Fashion Week. Now, it appears Ye is experiencing some consequences of his fashion choice: Adidas recently said their partnership with West is “under review,” and now it appears West is losing to opportunity to secure a major venue for an upcoming concert.

Today, West shared a screenshot of what purports to be a text conversation between himself and Berlin-based creative director Niklas Bildstein Zaar, discussing a planned show at Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium (where the NFL’s Rams and Chargers play their home games). It starts with a text from Ye, saying, “We have the idea for Sofi stadium.” Zaar responds, “I just got news from Vaughn, that Sofi isn’t available any longer due to inability to staff the event on the current notice. Ive already asked twice to investigate further if theres anyway to make it happen regardless, but they got back with a firm no.”

West captioned the post, “MY SOFI STADIUM SHOW ON NOVEMBER 4TH JUST GOT CANCELED I WONDER IF IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY WHITE LIVES MATTER TEE WHAT YA’LL THINK.”

Unlike other recent posts, this one does not appear to have any hidden secret messages in it.

Greg Gutfeld is tired of college students not being hot anymore. The Five host, who for the record is 58-years-old, ranted on Thursday night that the latest generation of undergrads aren’t up to his standards. The comments came during a large discussion on a university that’s supposedly offered a course called “Doing Nothing,” which led to a typical Fox News attack on higher education before Gutfeld made things creepy.

Via The Daily Beast:

“Have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of these students are?” he lamented.

Gutfeld claimed students are “deliberately ugly-fying themselves” and “rejecting the truth in beauty.” He continued: “You see them on TikTok, they’re out of shape, they’re asexual… they all look like rejects from the loony bin.”

After revealing that the spends his free time looking at co-eds on TikTok, Gutfeld referred to the old Fox News chestnut of complaining about academia. “I think the course in doing nothing is actually majoring in gender studies,” Gutfeld quipped before saying that he thinks the high price of tuition is “one of the main reasons why people aren’t going” to college anymore. That’s quite the remark from a guy who said earlier in the year that he’s willing to “go to war” over student loan forgiveness.

But veering back to the creepiness, the clip of Gutfeld complaining about non-hot college students started bouncing around Twitter where people had several thoughts on an almost 60-year-old Fox News host critiquing the looks of kids just out of high school.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via The Daily Beast)

I attended the Justice World Tour in May, and my merch now feels like a relic because Justin Bieber only performed 11 subsequent shows before he revealed his Ramsay Hunt syndrome diagnosis on June 10, causing partial facial paralysis. The generational pop star resumed his tour in Lucca, Italy, at the end of July and completed six European dates before making history at Rock In Rio on September 4. And then, another indefinite tour postponement struck.

Bieber hasn’t taken the stage since, and yesterday (October 6), it was announced “the Justice World Tour ended with Rock In Rio” with “all remaining dates of his world tour postponed to next year,” including all dates scheduled through March 25, 2023.

This year has been especially traumatic for Bieber, so it isn’t surprising that he needs significant time to heal away from the spotlight and unique stress of executing a world tour. One day after kicking off the North American leg in February, which had been long-delayed by COVID-19, Bieber contracted COVID-19 and had to reschedule his Las Vegas stop. In March, Hailey Bieber, his wife of four years, suffered “a very small blood clot” to her brain, leading to surgically repairing a previously unknown hole in her heart. All this, of course, before Bieber’s bout with Ramsay Hunt.

Around the official announcement from Team Bieber yesterday, fans began sharing rumors of total cancellation and notifications of rescheduled shows lingering into 2024. Bieber hasn’t publicly commented on the status of the Justice World Tour.

Justice, Bieber’s Platinum-certified sixth studio album, was released in March 2021 and nominated for eight Grammys.

Less than an hour after slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, Will Smith won his first Oscar. It was weird! The King Richard star delivered a weepy speech as he received a standing ovation from many of his fellow actors — but not Mila Kunis.

In an interview with C magazine, Kunis discussed why she and husband Ashton Kutcher didn’t cheer for Smith. “The idea of leading by example only makes sense when you actually have someone to lead. We have our tiny little tribe here at home, and never once do I want to tell them to do something if I’m not willing to do it myself. Not standing up to me was a no-brainer, but what was shocking to me was how many people did stand up,” she said. “I thought, wow, what a time we’re living in that rather than do what’s right, people focus on doing what looks good. It’s insane to me.”

Mila just blew her shot at starring in Wilder Wilder West, which is definitely going to happen. Oh well. Good thing she has her Family Guy money and successful movie career, including the new Netflix thriller, Luckiest Girl Alive. “It’s very zeitgeist-y to talk about an unreliable narrator, but my character is just so full of contradictions. It’s a movie about the gray area,” she said about the film. It’s available on Netflix now.

(Via C)