Selena Gomez revealed that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during an Instagram stream with fellow singer and former Disney Channel star Miley Cyrus Friday (April 3). Appearing on Cyrus’ Instagram Live series Bright Minded, Gomez discussed the large donation she’d recently made to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center earlier this week and wound up recounting a visit to McClean psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, where she learned more about the disorder and how it has affected her over the years.
Gomez is quoted in a Billboard article about the stream, saying, “Recently, I went to one of the best mental hospitals in… America, McClean Hospital, and I discussed that after years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar. And so when I got to know more information, it actually helps me. It doesn’t scare me once I know it.”
As she discussed the diagnosis, she also shared how she had to shake off lessons learned through her upbringing in order to process her realization. “I think people get scared of that,” she said. “They’re like, ‘Oh!’ And I’ve seen it, I’ve seen some of it even in my own family, where I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ I’m from Texas, it’s just not known to talk about mental health. You got to seem cool. And then I see anger built up in children and teenagers or whatever young adults because they are wanting that so badly. I just feel like when I finally said what I was going to say, I wanted to know everything about it. And it took the fear away.”
Gomez said she’d had anxiety and depression throughout her career but hadn’t connected it to a possible clinical disorder. She explained that now that she knows, she felt “equal parts terrified and relieved — terrified because the veil was lifted but relieved that I finally had the knowledge of why I had suffered with various depressions and anxieties for so many years. I never had full awareness or answers about this condition.”
You can watch the full episode of Bright Minded on Miley Cyrus’ Instagram.
While the United States moves towards testing as many potential carriers as possible of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the next frontier will be back-testing for healthy antibodies in the blood of those who have recovered from the infection, as it is theorized that those antibodies could potentially be used as a treatment. To that end, Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid is partnering with 76ers owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer to establish a funding campaign to test the blood antibodies of frontline health workers in Philadelphia.
Ramona Shelburne of ESPN had the report on Friday afternoon, which Embiid retweeted.
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has partnered with Sixers owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer to establish a funding campaign for COVID-19 antibody testing for frontline healthcare workers through Penn Medicine, he told ESPN on Friday.
This time around, according to Chris Haynes of Yahoo! Sports, Embiid, Harris and Blitzer will put a combined $1.3 million into the fund to start. That should, hopefully, translate to a significant number of the tests that quickly analyze folks’ blood to determine whether they may have previously been infected by the coronavirus and have since healed.
Tory Lanez has spent the past couple of weeks on Instagram live streaming with guests like DMX and Drake, but it looks like he had time to step away from Quarantine radio to drop some new music. “Who Need Love” is a single from his upcoming New Toronto 3 project, where he sings about being snakebitten by the wrong woman for him.
Jessie Reyez — “Far Away 2” Feat. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & J.I.D
The era of the expeditious deluxe release is here. Following in the footsteps of Lil Uzi Vert and The Weeknd is fellow Canadian singer Jessie Reyez, who released the deluxe edition of Before Love Came to Kill Us days after the original track. The “Far Away 2” collab with A Boogie and J.I.D is a standout track from the project, where the two artists bolster her ode to the boundless reach of love.
Quelle Chris — “Sacred Safe” Feat. Homeboy Sandman
On “Sacred Safe,” Quelle Chris and Homebody Sandman join Cavalier and vocalist Merrill Garbus to weave a tale of perseverance when it feels like “the goal seems far prolonged,” as Chris rhymes. The song is from Quelle and Chris Keys’ Innocent Country 2 project that will release on April 24th.
K Camp — “Cry To You”
K Camp has commenced Wavy Wednesdays, where he’ll be releasing a new track on hump day. This week he dropped “Cry To You,” a solemn track where he proclaims “I’m in my feelings and don’t wanna bother you” over glum production.
Yung Baby Tate — “Don’t Want It”
Yung Baby Tate recently said she “wanted to release a fun song you can dance to and help give people a boost of good energy.” She did just that on “Don’t Want It,” a bouncy, bossy track where she boasts about all her competition “tryna catch up with a b*tch like me.”
YFN Lucci — “America”
YFN Lucci’s “America” is a reflective track from his HIStory, Lost Pages project, where he figuratively paints a picture of all the treachery befalling him and laments, “gotta stop fuckin’ with n****s that told me / It’s cool to have feelings but can’t never show it.”
Rod Wave — Pray 4 Love
Rod Wave has been steadily buzzing with a relatable, melodic brand of pain rap, and his newly released Pray 4 Love album will likely keep the Florida artist buzzing in the right direction. The 14-track project is another exhibition of his bluesy lyricism over thumping, pensive production.
Smoove L — “Just A Dream”
Many fans may consider buzzing Brooklyn rapper Smoove L a primary member of the city’s Drill rap scene, but he shows off his versatility on “Just A Dream,” rapping charismatically over production that’s more bouncy than Drill’s typically swaying sonics.
Asian Doll — “Come Find Me”
Asian Doll is “young, pretty and gifted” on “Come Find Me,” a newly released single where then newly-independent artist talks greasy over a drill-influenced beat.
Calboy — “Dope Boy”
Calboy serves up his “dope boy” fantasies on “Dope Boy,” a song from his Long Live The Kings Project. The rising Chicago rapper rhymes with a catchy cadence while reflecting on memories of the trap that he’s thankfully no longer living as a rapper.
Flo Milli — “Not Friendly”
Alabama rapper Flo Milli breathed new life into a classic on “Not Friendly,” where she unleashes her prim mic presence over a sample of Soulja Boy’s “Gucci Bandana,” explaining “these h*es really be jealous that’s the reason I’m not friendly.”
Brady Watt — Wavridin
A change of scenery will do a lot for an artist. That’s the case for Brady Watt, who recently moved from Harlem to LA. That transition — and a newfound synergy with LA MC Demrick — resulted Wavridin, Watt’s latest collaborative EP. The breezy, three-track EP shows off Demrick’s considerable lyricism and memories of being “14-years-old holdin’ stones like the Alchemist” over Watt’s groovy, bass guitar-driven compositions.
Thutmose — “Memories”
Just about everyone in the world is ready to make good memories that consist of something other than waiting out a pandemic. Until that point comes, perhaps Thutmose’s “Memories” will provide some solace. The lovelorn track from the SpiderMan: Into The SpiderVerse Soundtrack was paired with a creative video that freeze frames moments from a relationship — both the good ones and the ones that caused the love to go up in flames.
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Producer Marshmello and 808Mafia’s Southside join forces with Saint JHN and Giggs for the effortlessly smooth track “Been Thru This Before.” The grime-inspired offering fuses Marshmello’s captivating production with hard-hitting bars.
Directed by Myles Whittingham, the visual is set in an ominously hazy forest. Sinister figures wearing animal masks gather on the scene with mystic artifacts like gargoyles, a crystal ball, and an old cabin to offer a heightened sense of suspense. Giggs’ gruff delivery lays down the song’s hook as Saint JHN’s musings cut through over a feathery flute mix. “We been through all of this before, duckin’ from the law / Hopin’ that forever comes, knowin’ this is life / But only life that we saw, pistols in a drawer,” Saint JHN raps.
The track arrives after a prolific year for Saint JHN. The singer’s 2019 sophomore effort Ghetto Lenny’s Love Songs saw features with big-name artists like Meek Mill, Lil Baby, Lenny Kravitz, and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. Saint JHN has since been celebrating his success and “Been Thru This Before” is his first track of 2020.
Watch the “Been Thru This Before” video above.
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Social distancing continues this weekend amid the global pandemic, and several new TV seasons are here for the binging (along with The Matrix Trilogy and The Social Network landing on Netflix). If nothing here suits your sensibilities, check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now.
Coffee & Kareem (Netflix film) — The Office fans, rejoice! Ed Helms, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, and and Taraji P. Henson star in this action-comedy movie about an unlikely team-up between a 12-year-old kid and a cop. Helms and Henson’s characters date, and the kid’s not crazy about the couple, so he hires some fugitives to take out Coffee the Cop. That will get messy, especially after a criminal network gets involved. Yikes.
Tales From The Loop (Amazon series) — This surreal new series is a sci-fi dream based upon the digital paintings from Simon Stålenhag. The show revolves around an Ohio town situated above a mysterious machine, and Black Mirror fans might find this show to be a kinder, gentler, and more thoughtful option during these stressful times.
Harley Quinn: Season 2 (DC Universe series) — The animated streaming show is back, and still better than Birds Of Prey, with total anarchy in the streets of Gotham. Mr. J is gone, Batman is missing, and Harley must throttle the situation with her baseball bat while 1000 a-holes attempt to seize power. This series is so much fun, and it’s also an economic watch, so jump into the pandemonium and embrace it.
Future Man: Season 3 (Hulu) — The Josh Hutcherson series takes a final bow with Josh, Tiger, and Wolf all on the run as fugitives. They’re attempting to clear their names, naturally, as well as to fix history by sprinting through time.
Money Heist: Season 4 (Netflix) — The chaotic, cash-grifting series continues with explosions in Rio and Tokyo, as the gang endures its toughest times and an enemy within that could endanger the whole damn heist.
Here’s the rest of this weekend’s notable programming:
Charmed (Friday, CW 8:00 p.m.) — Parker joins up with the Charmed ones after a demon endangers Mel, all while Harry risks danger to infiltrate the Faction.
Dynasty (Friday, CW 9:00 p.m.) — Parenting turns out to be NBD for Fallon and Liam (yeah, right) while Sam and Kirby work on an opportunity together, and Alexis makes a recruit for a health matter.
Westworld (Sunday, HBO 9:00 p.m.) — The confusion continues as the third season of this series finds that the truth oesn’t always set you free. Theories abound already, so get dive into the futuristic dystopia.
The Walking Dead (Sunday, AMC 9:00 p.m.) — The Whisperer War is coming to a head, which is strange because wars are usually named after their conclusion and by the winner. In the meantime, Princess meets up with Eugene’s group, oh boy.
Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist (Sunday, NBC 9:00 p.m.) — Zoey’s attempting to help a father and a daughter reconnect, and Max is fretting over career matters.
Homeland (Sunday, Showtime 9:00 p.m.) — Carrie stops freaking out for a little while to go shopping, so this last season is taking an unexpected turn.
Black Monday (Sunday, Showtime 10:00 p.m.) — The Wall Street shenanigans and fallout continue with the violence of crooks and cooking of books.
Minutes after Universal announced that it was pushing Candyman from the summer to the fall, Disney blew up the release schedule.
Mulan and Black Widow, which were supposed to come out on March 27 and May 1, respectively, will now hit theaters (hopefully) on July 24 and November 6. As expected, that means The Eternals, which had the November 6 slot, will take Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘ February 12, 2021, pushing Shang-Chi to May 7, displacing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to… you know what? Just look at this.
Black Widow: November 6, 2020 The Eternals: February 12, 2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: May 7, 2021 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: November 5, 2021 Thor: Love and Thunder: February 28, 2022 Black Panther 2: May 8, 2022 Captain Marvel 2: July 8, 2022
Other changes from Disney include the Ryan Reynolds-starring Free Guy (July 3 to December 11), Jungle Cruise (July 24, 2020, to July 30, 2021), Indiana Jones 5 (July 9, 2021 to July 29, 2022), and the Bob’s Burgers movie (July 17, 2020, to April 9, 2021). The French Dispatch, from director Wes Anderson, is also moving from July 14 to October 16, while Artemis Fowl (with a rumored budget of $125 million) is being sent straight to Disney+. Speaking of things that should come out on Disney+: the probably-cursed The New Mutants does not have a new release date; neither does The Personal History of David Copperfield, Antlers, and Woman in the Window.
Chvrches released their latest album, Love Is Dead, in 2018, but lately, one of the album’s tracks has seen increased attention: “Forever” has gained new life thanks to a placement in the Spanish-language Netflix series Elite. In light of this, the band wanted to make a video for the song, but the coronavirus pandemic made that a challenging task. They got creative and made it happen, though: From their own separate spaces, Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty performed their parts of the song individually and combined the footage for a “separate but together” version of the song.
Mayberry said of the clip, “[We] wanted to find something fun to do with the song when we couldn’t all be in the same place, so Iain and Martin came up with the idea to record a stripped back, reinterpreted version.”
She also said of the new attention the song has been getting lately, “‘Forever,’ in my mind, was always a sort of homage to the songs that were in John Hughes movies. Mostly I write lyrics from a more personal perspective but for this one I always imagined it soundtracking a Breakfast Club library dance type moment so it’s strange and cool that the song is now getting a second life because of a TV sync.”
Watch Chvrches perform “Forever” above, and revisit our review of Love Is Deadhere.
Previously on Total Bellas: The E! reality show Total Divas provided a new platform for the women of WWE and it was successful enough that it begat a spinoff for the Bella Twins. Said spinoff, Total Bellas, showcased Nikki and Brie’s signature ditziness and John Cena’s bizarre android lifestyle, led to a marriage proposal at WrestleMania, and documented the calling off of that marriage. It’s also told some heavier, more wrestling-related stories, depicting Daniel Bryan and Nikki Bella’s struggles with injury, recovery, and retirement.
Why is With Spandex bringing back Total Bellas recaps now that the Bellas have retired from the ring and the show is beginning its post-wrestling era? Because the Bellas and the fellas have returned to our screens while wrestling TV is mostly on hiatus or in no-audience limbo. Since my dudes over in New Japan have their events canceled through at least mid-April, I’ll be covering the Bellas’s misadventures through this full ten-episode season unless absolutely nobody reads about them.
Was There Anything About Wrestling In This Episode Of Total Bellas?
Since this column was born of the corona-wrestling void, I’ll kick off these recaps by investigating if any of these Total Bellas episodes will give you anything like a normal pro wrestling fix. The answer for season 5, episode 1, “Brave New Bellas,” is basically no. There are some non-specific references to people’s careers, the Bellas mention that they still make appearances for WWE, and at one point a talking head interview with Bryan is interspliced with clips from his September 2019 Smackdown match with Erick Rowan. Overall, there’s probably under two total minutes of direct wrestling-related content in this episode.
Dancing With Moving In Together
If the season premiere and trailer are anything to go by, S5 of Total Bellas is going to focus on the contrasting romances of married couple Brie and Bryan “Daniel Bryan” Danielson and former Dancing With The Stars team Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev. Just like when Nikki was dating Cena, one of these relationships seems much more likely to have been orchestrated for publicity than the other!
The thing that seems most legitimate about the Nikki/Artem pairing is that Nikki wants to bang this dude all the time, so much so that many of her lapses in judgment could be chalked up to her brain being in what the experts call a Sex Fog. (This could also explain a lot of her lapses in judgment with Cena. This is just what Nikki is like in relationships, I guess!)
Nikki and Artem’s “constant fireworks, 24/7” honeymoon phase suddenly ends when Artem is cut from his job at Dancing With The Stars, where he was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of various celebrities for about ten years. Artem looks completely devastated and like he does not want to be dealing with this on a reality show! But Nikki, being in a Sex Fog, is blind to this. She invites Artem on her and Brie’s podcast and asks him to move in with her, to which Artem replies with the most uncomfortable-looking “sure” I’ve ever heard. But less-than-ideal cohabitation is what Total Bellas is all about (in season one), so maybe this was fate?
If it is, Nikki’s friends and family don’t see it that way, and they outright tell her multiple times that she’s making a bad decision. She manages to push through Brie questioning the wisdom of doing this out of financial convenience rather than love, but finally looks shaken when a friend says she could imagine Nikki yelling at Artem to get out of her house during a fight.
Nikki ultimately decides to have a reasonable conversation with Artem – after stacking the deck in her favor by bringing up the issue right after modeling lingerie for him in a lingerie store. Despite the very reality show setup for this scene, it’s where Artem comes off the most like he’s in a normal relationship that’s just going a little too fast. He says “with Nicole, I have to take things with a sugar spoon” (a grain of salt) because she says things without thinking them through sometimes, but he isn’t condescending about it.
The episode ends with Nikki and Artem looking like they’ve saved their relationship by agreeing not to rush it – but we know that’s not going to last because of real life, where they are now engaged with a baby on the way. Still, the romance of these people drawn together by mutual hotness and training for Dancing With The Stars together for like ten hours a day actually emerges from this episode looking more stable than that of the married couple.
Daniel’s Son
While the Artem/Nikki drama is standard reality show fare, some of the issues between Brie and Bryan seem almost too real and consequential to be on TV. The main story is that they’ve been trying to conceive a second child for eight months, but Brie is uncomfortable with it. It’s a similar to the Nikki/Artem issue in that one partner wants the other to make a major life decision without considering why they might not want to do it and poor communication exacerbating the problem. But the Brie/Bryan situation is way heavier because even if Artem ended up moving in with Nikki and regretting it he could move out, but Brie having a baby she doesn’t really want and sacrificing her career for it can’t be solved with a U-Haul.
Even during the earlier, cuter scenes where Bryan and Brie talk about getting pregnant, Brie’s language sets off alarm bells, with her saying “I promised Bryan I would give him a second child” and both of them acknowledging the reason for having kid number two is because Bryan wants a boy to carry on the Danielson name. The way Bryan talks about this desire reads as almost archaically old school, but if they were both on board with it, it wouldn’t be an issue. But since one of them is not on board and that one is the one who has to carry and give birth to the child and raise it on her own most of the time, this is now a potentially marriage-destroying conflict.
Brie uses pretty stereotypical trying-to-have-it-all language to describe her conflict at times (“I’m a hands-on mom, but I’m also a career woman”), but she’s coming from a reasonable place. Though Brie’s career could be written off as not a real job, the Bellas have obviously worked hard to build their brand over the years. And even if she was completely fine giving her work or scaling it back more to become a stay at home mom, she’d be doing it mostly on her own since wrestling for WWE means Bryan is out of town five days a week. When Brie finally talks about this with Bryan he angrily responds with “Why the f*ck do we have a 3,000 square foot house if we’re just going to have one kid?”, but he’s almost never in the house.
What makes this drama really meaty is that it isn’t just presented as Bryan Bad, Brie Good. The setting of the climactic scene, with Brie telling Bryan she doesn’t want another kid just as Bryan’s about to leave for work shortly after their dog Josie has died, feels contrived and its editing feels the clunkiest of the episode, but it still depicts what looks like raw emotion from Bryan.
In our main event (Bryan is back home and ready to respond to Brie’s revelation), he apologizes for reacting so aggressively and agrees that it’s “more practical” not to have a second child right now, but his underlying issues clearly can’t be wrapped up at the end of the hour. He talks about how Josie used to make him feel less lonely when he was retired and depressed, how he still feels lonely sometimes and wants more love.
Both he and Brie say they want more honest, emotional communication, but it looks like there’s a block between them and it’s honestly really sad to see. It raises questions about if the barrier between them comes from Brie not being emotionally supportive enough, from Bryan being unable to open up to someone who might oppose some of his opinions rather than giving him the same type of love as a dog or a baby, or some combination of the two. The root issue could be Bryan’s depression that doesn’t look like it evaporated when he could wrestle again. And on a meta-level, not playing out all their lives’ major events on a reality show might help too!
As goofy as the Total franchise is and parts of this episode are, it makes it seem like the plot point of Nikki and Brie getting pregnant at the same time could actually ruin people’s real lives and relationships rather than just be a gimmicky coincidence. I think I’m excited for next week’s episode?
Bella Lines Of The Week
Nikki describes the dynamic of her relationship with Artem as “He’s an introvert. I’m an outro-vert.”
Nikki claims to have never farted in front of Artem, but Brie says she knows that’s a lie because “you called me about it.” Nikki protests, “I tooted, and I did it one time!”
“I just need to be the coyote, not the roadrunner,” Nikki tells Artem about their romance. She wants to be the one running into the walls with tunnels painted on them; she doesn’t want to do the painting!
John Cena Dig Of The Week
I don’t know if this will be a weekly staple of the season five, but amid her delirious happiness about her new relationship, Nikki does sneak in a put-down of Big Match John. When the Bellas go out for Russian tea with friends, Nikki and her friend Danielle, who is also dating a Russian man, agree that “Russians are better in bed than Americans.” “Very manly in the bedroom.” “They’ve got the moves.” Are we meant to infer John Cena does not have the moves? Is this a workrate vs. Five Moves of Doom situation? Brie quickly defends her husband and the men of America by interjecting that “Bryan is very manly in the bedroom.” So that’s out there now. This is important knowledge that we all have together.
Crowned the Queen Of Neo-Soul, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Erykah Badu’s second studio release, Mama’s Gun, the 10th anniversary of her hit record New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh, and the fifth year since she released her mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone with Andre 3000. Due to the coronavirus, a stint of European shows with Badu was canceled. So, the singer decided to bring the concert to her fans with an interactive livestream.
Badu’s inaugural livestream took place last week. Live from her bedroom using cutting-edge technology, the virtual concert used polls to allow viewers to decide which songs she would perform, the outfit she wore, and even which instruments she would play. Because her first livestream was so successful, Badu is returning with another version of the event.
Badu’s Quarantine Concert Series, Apocalypse Two: The Rooms will feature even more interactivity. According to a statement, the upcoming livestream will give “guests a chance to move from room to room inside her home, exploring and experimenting with different genres of music interpreted through her catalog of hits.” While there is an admission price to the livestream, only $2, all proceeds generated will cover the cost of production as well as financially support her backing musicians and tech crew.
As of yesterday, only four wide-release movies were scheduled to come out between the beginning of April and end of June, due to the coronavirus pandemic: Artemis Fowl, Candyman, Soul, and The King of Staten Island. As of today, that number is down to three. Universal Pictures has pushed the release date of Candyman, the Nia DaCosta-directed, Jordan Peele-produced “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 horror movie of the same name, from June 12 to September 25. At least it’ll still be in theaters for Halloween?
Other Universal titles to be shuffled around the schedule include Minions: The Rise of Gru (July 2, 2021), Sing 2 (December 22, 2021), Wicked (TBD), and Praise This, about youth choir competitions, which had the September 25 slot. It’s now undated.
Assuming Candyman — which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Vanessa Williams, and Tony Todd — does actually come out on September 25, it will face competition from the likes of fellow horror movies A Quiet Place Part II (September 4) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (September 11), as well as Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, the Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, and Edgar Wright’s “well-directed acid trip”Last Night in Soho, all of which also come out September 25. Stacked day.
Let’s hope it stays that way.
I have a confession: Jordan Peele’s Candyman is actually moving to September because Nia DaCosta just bought Skyrim. https://t.co/2WLNNcnoPh
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