2022’s Crash was the biggest commercial success of Charli XCX’s career, topping the charts in the UK and going top-10 in the US, both firsts for her. Now, though, it seems it’s not a project she looks back on with 100-percent fondness.
“With Crash, Charli set out to make a commercially viable record. Now, she’s sick of the ‘vanilla palatable flatness’ in the pop landscape. ‘There were songs on Crash that I would never listen to,’ she admits, picking out smooth disco track Yuck as an example. ‘I needed to switch after Crash — I wasn’t born to do radio liners,’ she says of the call-outs that appear between songs on stations. ‘That’s not who I am at all.’”
In a perhaps-related tweet shared after the publication of the feature, Charli wrote, “if you want the context, read the interview. if you don’t want the context, just make up whatever you like and convince yourself it’s the truth… it’s 2024 who gives a f*ck!”
if you want the context, read the interview. if you don’t want the context, just make up whatever you like and convince yourself it’s the truth… it’s 2024 who gives a fuck!
Charli has previously expressed some level of uncertainty about pop success. Of Crash, she said in August 2022, “It’s still a shock to me — and it’s quite stressful because I’m like, ‘Oh crap, what do I do now?’ I feel like the narrative around my work has often been, ‘She’s one step ahead,’ or, ‘She’s pushing the boundaries and no one ever quite gets her.’ So to achieve these things feels really special and unique, and it’s something I feel like I’ve achieved with my fans. But at the same time, what does it mean for me?”
Charli XCX is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Remember when comic book movies were a sure thing? It wasn’t that long ago. The last few years have seen dinks crop up in a genre once thought invincible. Last year the only one that was a hit was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The rest failed, some worse than others. The fatigue continued this weekend with Madame Web, which was unable to overcome poor reviews and some bad press, grossing under half of what the box office winner, Bob Marley: One Love, did. The grosses were so bad that it’s naturally killed any hope of a franchise.
The Hollywood Reporter has a post mortem for Madame Web, which reveals Sony was planning on more films with Dakota Johnson’s clairvoyant superhero. (Spoiler alert: She could have probably even hung out with fellow Sony Marvel property Spider-Man, who gets a shout-out.) That’s not all:
The film introduced a trio of supporting characters (played by Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor and Sydney Sweeney — now one of the top stars her age). It set up a future in which the three could have become a team of Spider-Women under the guiding eye of Johnson’s Cassie Webb. Now that’s not going to happen.
Speaking of Sweeney, it very much appears that her pricey superhero movie will gross significantly less than her modestly budgeted rom-com. Anyone But You has stuck around in the box office Top 10 for nine weeks, going on 10.
THR spoke with a “major theatrical chain insider,” who said Madame Web‘s bad reviews, which dropped Tuesday, appear to have actually impacted the grosses.
“On Wednesday night, you could actually watch advance purchase sales declining in real time as buyers were refunding their tickets,” they said. “It really says something when you’d rather have Shazam! 2 numbers.”
So RIP comic book movies? Probably not. The good news is that genres that haven’t been as prevalent at the multiplexes in the last decade — historical docudramas, biopics, rom-coms, musicals, feminist comedies about dolls — have been raking it in again. Cinema lives!
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Beyoncé officially enter her country era and Dua Lipa exit “training season.” Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Beyoncé hijacked the Super Bowl with her commercial that teased a new country era for her. She launched it shortly after with two new singles, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages,” which indeed have more of a country-fried sound than Beyoncé’s previous work. Of course, Beyoncé knows what she’s doing and operates confidently in this new genre space.
Dua Lipa — “Training Season”
Dua Lipa was all-in on disco for the Future Nostalgia era, and while she’s in a different aesthetic place lately, she’s still delivering funky, dance-ready tunes. Such is the case with last week’s “Training Season,” which sees her exhausted by fruitless romantic situations.
Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey — “Yes, And?”
Grande and Carey are perhaps the two most technically revered singers of their respective generations, so finally getting them on the same track is a pretty big deal. They deliver on a new “Yes, And?” remix, with Carey delivering a new verse that slots perfectly into the self-confident banger.
Schoolboy Q — “Yeern 101”
Schoolboy Q’s Blue Lips is one of the most-anticipated hip-hop releases of Q1 2024, and it’s now just a couple weeks away. He teased it a few days ago with “Yeern 101,” on which he eschews a hook and gets into his rap bag with some rapid-fire bars.
Karol G and Tiësto — “Contigo”
Tiësto had to pull out of his gig as in-game DJ at the Super Bowl, but he returned last week with a new Karol G collab, “Contigo.” Built on an interpolation of Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love,” the romantic tune was perfectly timed for a release on Valentine’s Day, which was also Karol’s birthday,
Vampire Weekend — “Gen-X Cops”
For the first time in five years, Vampire Weekend is back with new music. On “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops,” the band storms back with a relatively raw sound that’s enough of a stylistic departure from Father Of The Bride to keep things interesting without straying too far from the reliable path.
Waxahatchee — “Bored”
Katie Crutchfield is gearing up to drop Tigers Blood in about a month, but she shared “Bored” last week. She described the writing process as a “challenge” for her, but she sounds fantastic and self-assured on the twangy folk-rocker.
Tierra Whack — “27 Club”
The “27 Club” features celebrities like Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse who faced premature deaths at 27 years old. This concept is the inspiration between Whack’s tune of the same name, which sees the rapper (who’s 28, by the way) getting vulnerable and introspective.
Gunna — “Bittersweet”
After a strong 2023, Gunna is back in 2024 with last week’s “Bittersweet.” Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes of the track, “Over a slow-simmering guitar riff from producers Dystinkt Beats and 1SRAEL, Gunna laments the bumps in the road he’s experienced and warns listeners of the pitfalls that face anyone pursuing similar goals.”
Idles — “Roy”
UK rock favorites Idles have returned with Tangk, which arrives two years and change after its predecessor, late 2021’s Crawler. It sees the group continuing to push their aesthetic boundaries, like on the smoldering, effects-laden “Roy.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Alicia Keys was one of the handful of guests who joined Usher for the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this month, and the two generated some buzz when they looked really comfortable with each other sharing an intimate hug. Now, though, Usher is setting the record straight.
In a recent Breakfast Club interview with Charlamagne Tha God, Usher explained, “In no way anything that was done there should have been viewed as bad or in any way perverted or anything like that, no. It was literally about having fun because of a song that me and Alicia made many years ago, and we celebrated because of the legacy of it. And no disrespect to anybody or anything like that.”
Charlamagne then asked if he, Keys, and husband Swizz Beats have “shared a laugh” about the situation, and Usher replied, “Absolutely we laughed about it. It’s crazy how people… it’s all about how you present things, man. But it’s all love.”
Usher speaks on slapping Nicki Minaj while claiming the Alicia Keys hug was innocent pic.twitter.com/OiXAYpnGIE
Swizz himself doesn’t seem too worried, as he previously wrote, “Y’all talking about the wrong damn thing!!! y’all don’t see that amazing dress covering the entire stadium? Tonight’s performance was nothing but amazing with 2 amazing giants. Congrats @usher and my love @aliciakeys that song is a classic. We don’t do negative vibes on this side we make history.”
INDIANAPOLIS — After a year of demanding that the NBA All-Star Game get more competitive after a lackluster event in Salt Lake City, Adam Silver stood on the court in Indianapolis clearly appalled at what he’d just witnessed with the East winning a 211-186 “basketball game” in the event’s return to it’s long-time format.
Silver could only muster “You scored the most points, well … congratulations” as he handed Giannis Antetokounmpo the All-Star Game trophy in the least enthusiastic trophy presentation I can ever recall.
“You scored the most points… well… congratulations. Giannis your team, this trophy is yours” pic.twitter.com/fcAK2ecXlQ
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) February 19, 2024
The NBA and Silver have been trying in vain to make the All-Star Game matter in a way it never really has for this generation of players. There was once a time where All-Star Weekend provided a stage for players to make themselves household names — and make themselves a lot of money. Showing out against the league’s best was a chance to earn fans, endorsements, and a bigger contract for players playing for a smaller market team. But with social media and every game from every team being available to watch, the incentive for the players no longer outweighs the risk, as they all have national endorsement deals and large followings. The result is 24 guys going half-speed for 48 minutes.
Some are more shameless than others about the effort level, with Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, and Anthony Edwards really laying bare how unserious the entire thing is this year. Others are a little better about faking it, but there wasn’t a player on the floor in Indy that truly took things seriously — the closest being Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard dueling for MVP honors.
The truth is, it’s hard to blame them.
The last great All-Star Game took place in Chicago in 2020, but the circumstances around that game must be remembered. Kobe Bryant had tragically died a month beforehand, and with the All-Star Game being the first major leaguewide event, there was a concerted effort by everyone involved to honor him and the result was a wildly entertaining game where the Elam Ending format’s race to 24 points provided a tense final quarter where the two teams played honest to goodness basketball until the game was decided.
However, that game also was a reminder of why guys go through the motions, as playing through a knee injury in that game was the beginning of the end of Kemba Walker’s NBA career. What was once a chance to showcase your talents on a rare national stage (which then pushes the established stars to make sure they don’t end up being a punchline) is now an exercise in toeing the line. Most of the players want to put on a show (a few truly do not care, but most of them understand they need to give the fans something), but not for 48 minutes. They want to play the hits, do some big dunks, knock down some deep threes, and get out of there unscathed to go enjoy a few days off before returning for the stretch run.
The NBA, meanwhile, wants to make it a great television event. I think there’s a way to do that, but it will never be in the form of a competitive, full basketball game. The challenge is that the TV partners want a spectacle and an event that, at minimum, fills that same allotment of time, which means the league is going to have to get a bit more creative to pull it off.
It’s not all that different from what the NFL has gone through with the Pro Bowl, where players were so clearly just trying not to get hurt (in a more physical sport) that the league had to completely change the event format and not even play actual football. The result is the Pro Bowl Games, which is now a weekend long event where various side competitions earn the two conferences varying point values that factor into the final score of the flag football game they play in one quarter increments. The result has been an improvement over what the Pro Bowl had been, largely because it tries to be more fun without presenting itself as a serious football event.
The NBA could certainly try to give players a financial incentive to play harder in the All-Star Game, but even with that they will never get them playing at peak effort. That’s why I think going the route of embracing fun is the much better way to go about it all (with a financial element almost certainly needing to be a part of it to get full buy-in). Basketball lends itself to side competitions far better than football does, and if they take cues from what the NFL does — namely having the competitions include just members of the Pro Bowl team — there’s a pathway to doing that.
You could make the Skills Challenge (which needs to just go back to the old format), Three-Point Contest, and even the Dunk Contest (maybe with some big tweaks to it) contribute to the final point total of the weekend for the East and West, and only include players from the actual rosters (which you could expand to 14 each). If players are worried about getting embarrassed in the current format of the Dunk Contest, which is understandable given how Jaylen Brown was received, you could just make it a “Best Dunk” competition where each roster nominates three guys to do their best dunk and then move it along — that’s basically what happens in the All-Star Game anyway. And, if guys want to not take it seriously, they can send Luka out there to get stuffed by the rim trying to go off the backboard, which would be funny and fairly entertaining too.
On Sunday, play four games to 24 (keeping with the Kobe theme they’ve given All-Star by naming the MVP award after him) with other games and competitions happening between quarters to allow fans to forget they’re watching guys mostly go through the motions in the actual game — like the NFL does with the flag football game. The games themselves would be snappy, and because of that it wouldn’t drag in the same way the All-Star Game does now.
In between, they could do a halfcourt shot competition where each team tries to make the most halfcourt shots in three minutes, and that’s worth five points to the final score. They also could have each team nominate one player for a HORSE competition (but, just play to like three letters and call it ASW or something) which is where you might actually get an engaged Luka and/or Jokic. Yes, I know they tried HORSE once on Saturday night, but if it’s a much shorter competition with just two guys, I think there’s some legs there.
And finally, you have them all play a 24-man game of knockout from the three-point line. If you stacked the lineup to put guys behind each other you know they wouldn’t want to lose to (LeBron/Steph, Luka/Jokic, Jayson/Jaylen, etc.) they’d absolutely make it entertaining, trying to knock the ball away and taunting after knocking someone out, and by the time you got to the end it would for sure get competitive.
Do all of that and have the players on the winning team getting $100,000 each and the losing team getting $50,000 each (or whatever number they can get covered by sponsors), and you won’t get a great basketball game but you might have a chance at doing something more entertaining that engages a larger portion of your fanbase.
All-Star Weekend’s greatest value right now is how much kids absolutely love it. It is a phenomenal place for kids to come and see their favorite players, whether it’s at brand stuff, practices, or the events, and that really does matter. That said, I understand why the league wants to put on an event that its most fervent fans enjoy.
The problem is, that event can’t be just a basketball game. Too much is at stake in the big picture to risk it at All-Star by giving it their all for an exhibition. So instead, it’s got to be something more that embraces the fun and doesn’t require guys to be serious. A pathway is there, but the league has to stop pretending there’s some sanctity to the All-Star format that must be upheld. It’s time to embrace the fun.
Post-Valentine’s Day got you in the feels? No need to stress. If you’re fiending for a last-minute winter escape or a warm and sultry desert destination, let us help you. We’ve scouted all the major booking sites and aggregators to secure the cheapest nonstop flights out of nine major cities in the United States.
Scroll down to see Uproxx’s top picks of cheap nonstop flights — international and domestic — today through Sunday, February 18th. You might even secure these flight deals for an even better price by using these strategies for earning and redeeming credit card and flight points. See you in the air!
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Vince Staples recently encouraged fans to help boost the success of his recent Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, so the streaming platform will renew it for more episodes. As of right now, there are only five — and the program is a limited series.
His post started after a fan asked where the rest of the episodes were, as it seemed like a smaller number than the average show gets on the site.
“Netflix didn’t buy anymore episodes so make sure you hit that double thumbs up,” Staples wrote. “Peer pressure works and I’m tryna re up.”
Netflix didn’t buy anymore episodes so make sure you hit that double thumbs up. Peer pressure works and I’m tryna re up. https://t.co/9WmUuCCMVv
Since he put the post out, fans have started tagging Netflix in tweets to hopefully get them to reconsider. “gf and I watched all 5 yesterday, hit the double thumbs up immediately,” one user replied to Staples. “Really hope they order at least 20 more episodes.”
“That season deserves an Emmy IMMEDIATELY,” another added.
The series uses Staples’ life as an inspiration. “That’s just the opportunity that we got, so we just try to make the best out of the opportunity,” Staples told Uproxx about how the show moved from YouTube. “Hopefully, it performs well and we are able to keep it going. That’s kind of how we got situated over here with Netflix, and I think it came out good. I feel like no matter how it ends up, we gave a round story and gave it some closure, some context. So I think we’ll be good either way.”
View Staples’ post about his Netflix show above. Below, find some more fan reactions who are hoping for a Netflix renewal.
After a long day of skiing and snowboarding, we want nothing more than to get out of our snow gear, kick off our boots, and sit as close to a roaring fire as possible. Of course, we also want to finish our day on the slopes with a beer, a glass of wine, or a boozy cocktail. This alcohol-based post mountain activity is so popular it even has a name — après ski.
Après ski translates from French to “after ski” and it basically just means getting lit after you’re done riding. It’s not super complicated. While we enjoy a nice glass of crisp rosé or an Aperol spritz after a day shredding snow, we especially love a frosty, refreshing beer. Keep reading to see eight of our favorite après ski beers to drink this winter, ranked.
When it comes to crisp, crushable, no-frills beer perfect for winter sports, it’s tough to beat the appeal of Montucky Cold Snacks. Made simply with barley, yeast, water, and hops, this throwback American lager is known for its refreshing, easy-drinking flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
There’s nothing overall exciting about this beer’s nose and that’s not such a bad thing. Sweet corn, citrus peels, honey, and floral hops are noticeable. There’s more of the same on the palate with corn, cereal grains, caramel, light fruit, and floral, lightly bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
Montucky Cold Snacks is the epitome of a no-frills, crushable lager. It’s perfectly simple after a day on the slopes.
This award-winning beer is a mix of an English and American-style brown ale. It gets its name from what will happen to you if you aren’t paying proper attention while skiing. Well known for its nutty, caramel, malty flavor and hop bitterness, it’s a very balanced beer.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find notes of freshly baked bread, roasted malts, caramel candy, and light coffee beans. The palate adds to this with brown bread, sticky toffee, roasted malts, and a gentle hint of bitter, floral, earthy hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
Instead of simply being a sweet, nutty brown ale, this wintry beer has a nice kick of hop bitterness to tie everything together nicely.
There are few ski and snowboard beers more aptly named than Road House Loose Boots Après IPA. This low ABV, citrus, pine, and caramel-malt centric IPA was literally created to be enjoyed after a day out in the snow. This hazy IPA gets its hop presence from the use of Citra and Simcoe hops.
Tasting Notes:
An inviting nose of freshly baked bread, orange peels, honey, and flora, earthy, piney hops greet you before your first sip. There are more bready hops, caramel, lemon zest, orange peel, honey, and dank, piney hops on the palate. The finish is gently bitter and memorable.
Bottom Line:
This is a light, sessionable IPA that was created to be enjoyed après ski. It definitely fits the bill with a nice mix of malt sweetness, citrus, and hops.
Who doesn’t want a crisp, easy-drinking pilsner after a long day skiing or snowboarding? This year-round 5.5% ABV pilsner is just as perfect during the humid summer months as it is in the middle of winter. This is thanks to the bready, sweet malts and Noble hops included in the recipe.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a nice mix of hay, grass, lemon peels, bready malts, cracked black pepper, and floral hops. Drinking it reveals notes of cereal grains, corn sweetness, honey, hay, grass, lemon peels, pepper, and floral, earthy hops.
Bottom Line:
This is a complex, crisp, very well-balanced beer. The malt flavor starts everything off on the right foot and the Noble hops finish things strong.
This winter seasonal is brewed with Pale, Crystal, Munich, Carapils, and Pilsner malts. It gets its hop aroma and flavor from the use of Cascade and Centennial hops. The result is one of the most balanced winter beers on the market.
Tasting Notes:
This Northwest Pale Ale begins with a nose of tangerines, grapefruit, caramel malt, and a nice kick of pine needles. The palate is a mix of bready malts, toffee sweetness, dried stone fruits, orange zest, grapefruit, tangerine, and a lot of dank, floral pine. The finish is a nice mix of sweetness and hop bitterness.
Bottom Line:
This winter pale has a lot of citrus and pine flavor. It’s a great, balanced beer to enjoy after a day on the slopes.
Not all après ski beers are crisp and crushable. Some have a little more substance. Dru Bru BruSki Patrol is still light at 4.8% ABV, but this award-winning German-style dark lager is brewed with malted barley and German hops to give it a nice mix of malt sweetness and floral hop aroma and flavor.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find scents of freshly baked bread, caramel, coffee, and light floral hops. The palate is rich, sweet, and filled with toffee, yeasty bread, chocolate, coffee, and floral, herbal hops. The finish is bittersweet and nicely hoppy.
Bottom Line:
While still sessionable, this sweet, malty, lightly hoppy winter brew has more substance than some of the crisper, more crushable beers on this list.
Bale Breaker High Camp is a 7.3% ABV winter IPA that gets its name from the ski lodge situated at the top of White Pass Ski Resort. Brewed with Chocolate and Rye malts, it gets its notable hoppy flavors from being dry-hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe, and HBC 630 hops.
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. There are notable aromas of candied orange peels, tangerine, mango, caramel malts, and a ton of floral, herbal, piney hop scent. Sipping it brings forth notes of juicy orange, grapefruit, pineapple, toasted malts, caramel candy, and dank, lightly bitter pine needles.
Bottom Line:
This winter beer has everything IPA fans enjoy. It’s balanced, flavorful, and has a nice kick of 7.3% ABV to warm you after a cold day of snowboarding or skiing.
1.) Highland Park Timbo Pils
Highland Park
ABV: 5.8%
Average Price: Limited Availability
The Beer:
All in all, when it comes to après ski beers, we opt for crisp, easy-drinking pilsners above all else. We also enjoy at least a little hop bite. Highland Park Timbo Pils is a West Coast pilsner brewed with Citra and Mosaic hops that ticks all the boxes. It’s known for its mix of tropical fruit, citrus, and dank pine.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is filled with scents of caramel, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine, and floral hops. The palate is a mix of bready malts, cereal grains, caramel, pineapple, orange peel, hay, honey, and grassy, floral, gently bitter hops.
Bottom Line:
This unique, crushable pilsner isn’t the light lager you expect. It’s like a mix between a West Coast IPA and a classic European pilsner. It’s awesome and deeply delectable after a day on the slopes.
What on earth is going on between the American GOP and Russia? Aren’t they supposed to be on the same side? On one hand you have Donald Trump openly admiring the nation’s notorious leader, Vladimir Putin. Ditto most of his cronies, among them Tucker Carlson and a chunk of the House. On the other, you have Putin and his team openly mocking MAGAland. Now there’s another unexpected twist: Trump seems disturbed by the mysterious death of Putin critic Alexei Navalny, sort of.
After days of silence, Trump finally responds to Aleksey Navalny’s death by comparing Navalny to himself in deranged social media post pic.twitter.com/obgeL20T46
On Monday, the former president — who’d earlier been baited by GOP rival Nikki Haley over his silence over Navalny — finally piped up. Did he make it all about himself? You betcha:
The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country. It is a slow, steady progression, with CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and Judges leading us down a path to destruction. Open Borders, Rigged Elections, and Grossly Unfair Courtroom Decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION! MAGA2024.
Let’s try to unpack this. Trump didn’t mention his good pal Vladimir Putin, who’s believed to behind Navalny’s death. And yet here Trump was, implying that Russia is on a steep decline, just like he claims America is. Is he also suggesting Russia has problems with immigration, with rigged elections, with legal corruption? Mind you, of the three main problems he listed, only one is remotely close to being accurate: Even Democrats admit there’s a problem with the border. They even want to fix it. Republicans, however, under Trump’s sway, do not.
Anyway, here’s what Haley said on Fox & Friends less than a half hour before Trump’s deranged post.
It’s amazing to me how weak in the knees he is when it comes to Putin, because you look at the fact, he is yet to say anything about Navalny’s death, which, Putin murdered him. It’s what he does to his political opponents. He’s yet to say anything about seizing Russian assets and allowing that money to go to Ukraine. Why would you not want to have those assets seized? It’s sitting in Congress, he should be calling for that. He doesn’t talk about anything. All he does is go on late-night rants, talking about his court cases.
And Steve, that’s the problem. We have Russia sitting there doing things, they are now surrounding the Baltics. Which, if they go and invade the Baltics, those are NATO countries. That puts America at war. We have to prevent war. We’ve got China doing these cyber attacks. We’re seeing all of these things happen, and Trump’s doing late-night rants about his court cases? He’s going to be in court for the rest of the year. We can’t be distracted. But more of that.
That’s why I continue to say if Donald Trump is the nominee, he can’t win. He won’t win a general election. And the focus we need to have is how do we protect Americans? How do we prevent more? How do we get the border secure? How do we get our economy back on track? Not his personal grievances.
K-pop group and Uproxx cover stars aespa announced that they will be heading out on a global tour this year, titled the SYNK: Parallel Line Tour. Starting in Seoul, South Korea this June, the girls will spend the summer then heading to stops in Japan, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, and more countries.
Details including the specific venues where aespa will be playing in each city, and how to purchase tickets, will be announced at a later date. Right now, only the general locations have been revealed, giving fans more time to prepare the funds to spend on tickets or travel if needed to catch one of their shows. More dates are also set to be announced, so if your city isn’t on the schedule yet, keep an eye out for updates.
“As much as we showed a new side of ourselves through these songs, I want it to also be another [form of] expression,” band member GISELLE shared about their music and trajectory last year. “I don’t know if that’s the right way to say it. But we have way more sides of us to show. And to this day, we still haven’t been able to express ourselves fully yet. We want our MYs to know that, and to keep the anticipation. Just ’cause we come back, doesn’t mean our next comeback is going to be the same.
Continue scrolling for a complete list of aespa’s SYNK: Parallel Line Tour dates for 2024.
aespa 2024 Tour Dates: SYNK: Parallel Line Tour
06/29 — Seoul, South Korea
06/30 — Seoul, South Korea
07/06 — Fukuoka, Japan
07/07 — Fukuoka, Japan
07/10 — Nagoya, Japan
07/11 — Nagoya, Japan
07/14 — Saitama, Japan
07/15 — Saitama, Japan
07/20 — Singapore, Singapore
07/27 — Osaka, Japan
07/28 — Osaka, Japan
08/03 — Hong Kong, China
08/10 — Taipei, Taiwan
08/24 — Jakarta, Indonesia
08/31 — Sydney, Australia
09/02 — Melbourne, Victoria
09/21 — Macau, China
09/28 — Bangkok, Thailand
09/29 — Bangkok, Thailand
aespa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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