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After Uvalde School Massacre, Texas Native Selena Gomez Says, ‘If Children Aren’t Safe at School Where Are They Safe?’
Grand Prairie, Texas native Selena Gomez urged politicians to take decisive action in the wake of the horrific grade school shooting massacre in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday (May 24) in which an armed 18-year-old allegedly killed 19 children and 2 adults. “Today in my home state of Texas 18 innocent students were killed while simply trying to get an education. A teacher killed doing her job; an invaluable yet sadly under appreciated job. If children aren’t safe at school where are they safe?” Gomez wrote. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In a follow up tweet, the singer expressed what many Americans were feeling in response to the 27th school shooting of 2022, which has also seen 212 mass shootings in 145 days so far. “It’s so frustrating an...
Olivia Rodrigo ‘So Heartbroken’ About Uvalde Elementary School Shooting Massacre
Olivia Rodrigo took time out during her concert at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater on Tuesday night (May 24) to make a plea for common sense gun legislation in response to the horrific mass shooting at a Texas elementary school earlier in the day that killed 19 children and 2 adults. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I wish we would never have to worry about our safety or our lives at places that are dedicated to our learning and growing,” Rodrigo said while telling the crowd she was “so devastated” about the latest shooting at a U.S. school, which CNN reported was at least the 38th at K-12, colleges and universities so far this year. “And I’m so heartbroken that this is the reality that we’re living in — and we need stricter gun control laws...
Spotify Brings Back Political Ads After Suspending Them in 2020
In 2020, Spotify suspended all political ads from the platform surrounding that year’s election cycle amid widespread criticism of the online spread of misinformation. At the time, Spotify released a statement promising to put a better vetting process into place before they bring political ads back. The company confirmed this week that political ads are slowly returning to the digital streaming platform, Protocol reports. “Following our pause of political ads in early 2020, we have spent the past two years strengthening and enhancing our processes, systems and tools to responsibly validate and review this content,” a Spotify spokesperson said in a statement. “We are now beginning to sell select political advertisements in opted-in third-party podcasts via the Spotify Audience Network...
‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II’ Releases In October, Artwork Revealed Via Cargo Ship
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Activision / Activision Modern Warfare II is the next release in the Call Of Duty franchise, and it will be released in October. The reveal of its artwork was delivered via a massive cargo ship, literally. Source: Activision / Activision Reportedly over 24 hours, the Call Of Duty team maneuvered cargo ship that featured a 90,000 square foot Modern Warfare II wrap also features COD character Simon “Ghost” Riley. The Port of Long Beach dock (CA) also features artwork that once the cargo ship was in place linked up to reveal the full Modern Warfare II visual. Related Stories Of course, this is 2022 so if it isn’t recorded it didn’t happen, and drones were used to capture everything. Also filmed was the imagery of game’s new squad of operators call...
‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II’ Releases In October, Artwork Revealed Via Cargo Ship
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Activision / Activision Modern Warfare II is the next release in the Call Of Duty franchise, and it will be released in October. The reveal of its artwork was delivered via a massive cargo ship, literally. Source: Activision / Activision Reportedly over 24 hours, the Call Of Duty team maneuvered cargo ship that featured a 90,000 square foot Modern Warfare II wrap also features COD character Simon “Ghost” Riley. The Port of Long Beach dock (CA) also features artwork that once the cargo ship was in place linked up to reveal the full Modern Warfare II visual. Related Stories Of course, this is 2022 so if it isn’t recorded it didn’t happen, and drones were used to capture everything. Also filmed was the imagery of game’s new squad of operators call...
‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II’ Releases In October, Artwork Revealed Via Cargo Ship
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Activision / Activision Modern Warfare II is the next release in the Call Of Duty franchise, and it will be released in October. The reveal of its artwork was delivered via a massive cargo ship, literally. Source: Activision / Activision Reportedly over 24 hours, the Call Of Duty team maneuvered cargo ship that featured a 90,000 square foot Modern Warfare II wrap also features COD character Simon “Ghost” Riley. The Port of Long Beach dock (CA) also features artwork that once the cargo ship was in place linked up to reveal the full Modern Warfare II visual. Related Stories Of course, this is 2022 so if it isn’t recorded it didn’t happen, and drones were used to capture everything. Also filmed was the imagery of game’s new squad of operators call...
18 Children Massacred In Texas Elementary School, Black Twitter Says Shove Your Thoughts & Prayers
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: ALLISON DINNER / Getty A gunman killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school. Eighteen of those victims were children, and Black Twitter is already bracing itself for, and calling out, the pending “thoughts & prayers” jig from politicians who will give all the lip service, and not deliver any feasible gun legislation. The massacre occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, Texas. Reports the New York Times: A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 14 children and a teacher, in the deadliest shooting at an elementary school since the devastating attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Police officers are believed to have killed the gunman, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news con...
18 Children Massacred In Texas Elementary School, Black Twitter Says Shove Your Thoughts & Prayers
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: ALLISON DINNER / Getty A gunman killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school. Eighteen of those victims were children, and Black Twitter is already bracing itself for, and calling out, the pending “thoughts & prayers” jig from politicians who will give all the lip service, and not deliver any feasible gun legislation. The massacre occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, Texas. Reports the New York Times: A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 14 children and a teacher, in the deadliest shooting at an elementary school since the devastating attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Police officers are believed to have killed the gunman, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news con...
BLACKPINK Makes History as First Asian Girl Group to Grace ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover
BLACKPINK has made history once again, becoming the first Asian girl group to grace the cover of Rolling Stone. The publication shared a video showing behind-the-scenes footage of the the girl group consisting of Rosé, Lisa, Jennie and Jisoo, and many fans were also quick to point out the group’s change of hairstyle and hair color. According to Rolling Stone, BLACKPINK will return to the big stage in the foreseeable future. BLACKPINK has not released any new music in over a year, but they did confirm that they have been working hard on their next album, which is reportedly due to be released later this year. “We don’t just receive a completed song,” said Jisoo, “We are involved from the beginning, building the blocks, adding this or that feeling, exchanging feedback — a...
The Music Venue Properties Scheme Allows Fans To Invest in Struggling UK Music Venues
The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has unveiled a plan that allows fans to invest in several struggling music venues in the UK, giving these places the opportunity to stay afloat. According to reports, the Music Venue Properties scheme’s first order of business is a goal to raise £3.5 million GBP in order to purchase a total of nine venues this 2022, namely The Ferret in Preston, The Snug in Atherton, Le Public Space in Newport, The Glad Cafe in Glasgow, The Hairy Dog in Derby, Sunbird Records in Darwen, The Polar Bear in Hull, The Palladium in Bideford and The Bunkhouse in Swansea. Mark Dayvd, CEO of MVT, called the plan the “most ambitious initiative” the charity has ever tackled, and that it will provide the venues a form protection with “ethical investors and music fans.” He fu...
Could Harry Styles Score His First Album of the Year Nod for ‘Harry’s House’? The Top Grammy Category Is Getting Crowded
With fans and critics alike already enjoying their stay at Harry’s House, the just-released third album from Harry Styles, is it too early to wonder whether the singer/songwriter could score his first album of the year Grammy nomination for the project? Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news We’re eight months into the eligibility period for the 2023 Grammy Awards (Oct. 1, 2021-Sept. 30, 2022), and on this week’s Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are digging into the already-crowded field for album of the year. While Styles’ sophomore album, Fine Line, was nominated for best pop vocal album at the 2021 Grammys (and its Billboard Hot 100-topping single “Watermelon Sugar” won for best pop solo performance), the One Direction singer h...
Taylor Swift Reacts to ‘Unbearable Heartbreak’ Following Texas School Massacre
Taylor Swift has spoken of her heartbreak for the latest “unfathomable” massacre, which has left at least 18 school children dead in Uvalde, Texas. Swift broke a months-long self-imposed Twitter hiatus to share an impassioned video from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, whose team prepared to play at the home arena of Dallas Mavericks, several hundred miles from the scene of the slaughter. “Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde. By Buffalo, Laguna Woods and so many others,” she writes. “By the ways in which we, as a nation, have become conditioned to unfathomable and unbearable heartbreak. Steve’s words ring so true and cut so deep.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Speaking ahead of game 4 of the NBA Western C...
