WELCOME TO THE B-LIST, YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF CELEBRITY MESS AND POP CULTURE. THIS WEEK: COACHELLA, TWITTER BLUE CHECK PURGE, A 199 SONG ALBUM, PROBLEMS WITH THE LILO & STITCH LIVE ACTION CASTING, MARVEL’S FIRST F-BOMB, AND A SERIES OF EJECTIONS IN THE NBA PLAYOFFS
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COACHELLA WEEKEND TWO HAPPENED THIS WEEK WITH A CHANGE IN HEADLINERS. SUNDAYS HEADLINER FRANK OCEAN PULLED OUT OF HIS HEADLINING SPOT AND WAS REPLACED BY BLINK-182.
ALTHOUGH ITS NOT ALL BAD FOR COACHELLA. AFTER 7 YEARS, ZENDAYA MADE HER COMEBACK TO THE STAGE. LABRINTH BROUGHT ZENDAYA ON AS A SURPRISE GUEST TO SING WITH HIM “IM TIRED” AND “ALL FOR US”
LAST THURSDAY TWITTER BEGAN TO REMOVE CHECK MARKS FROM VARIOUS LEGACY TWITTER ACCOUNTS THAT HAVE NOT SIGNED UP FOR ITS SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. HOWEVER, ELON MUSK REVEALED THAT HE IS PERSONALLY PAYING FOR CELEBRITIES SUCH AS WILLIAM SHATNER, LEBRON JAMES, AND STEPHEN KING’S TWITTER BLUE SUBSCRIPTIONS.
MAC DEMARCO DROPPED HIS ALBUM, ONE WAYNE G LAST FRIDAY. UNTIL THREE MONTHS AGO THE CANADIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER HADN’T PUT OUT MUSIC IN FOUR YEARS. I GUESS HE HAD SOMETHING TO PROVE WITH HIS NEWEST ALBUM BEING NEARLY 9 HOURS LONG WITH 199 SONGS. MOST OF THE SONGS ARE EITHER DEMOS OR SKETCHES OF MATERIAL RECORDED BETWEEN 2018 AND EARLY 2023.
DAVID IN LILO & STITCH LIVE-ACTION HAS BEEN RECAST AND WILL NOW BE PLAYED BY KAIPOT DUDOIT INSTEAD OF KAHIAU MACHADO. THE DECISION TO RECAST THE ACTOR RESULTS FROM A PREVIOUS POST OF MACHADO USING RACIAL SLURS WAS UNCOVERED ON SOCIAL MEDIA. ALTHOUGH THAT’S NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM THE DISNEY LIVE-ACTION HAS RUN INTO WHEN IT COMES TO CASTING. AFTER THE NEWS BROKE OF MACHADO’S REPLACEMENT, “RECAST NANI” BEGAN TO TREND ON TWITTER. THIS WAS IN REFERENCE TO THE WHITEWASHING AND COLORISM ACCUSATIONS THAT SPARKED IN RESPONSE TO SYDNEY AGUDONG BEING CAST AS NANI.
EARLIER THIS WEEK A NEW CLIP OF GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 WAS RELEASED. THE CLIP CONTAINED THE FIRST-EVER F-BOMB IN MCU HISTORY.
FLAGRANT 2 FOULS HAVE BECOME PROMINENT IN THIS YEAR’S NBA PLAYOFFS. LAST MONDAY DRAYMOND GREEN WAS EJECTED FOR A FLAGRANT 2 FOUL AFTER STOMPING ON DOMANTAS SABONIS. ANOTHER ONE WAS CALLED ON JAMES HARDEN ON THURSDAY FOR HITTING ROYCE O’NEALE IN THE GROIN. AGAIN ON SATURDAY DILLON BROOKS WAS EJECTED FOR HITTING LEBRON JAMES IN THE GROIN DURING GAME 3.
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THAT’S ALL FOR THE B-LIST THIS WEEK. CHECK IN NEXT MONDAY TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS THIS WEEK IN POP CULTURE. FOR WNUR NEWS, I’M KARRAH TOATLEY.
Theme music is from MixKit “What What?! Wowow!” by Michael Ramir C.
