Monthly Archives: May 2018

You Can Cry Pretty If You’re Carrie Underwood

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Listen. There seem to be a lot of people who are pretty upset that Carrie Underwood still looks flawless after her accident, and after saying her face might look different when she comes back. I’m not sure why that would bother you – she’s human and has insecurities just like the rest of us, and at the time, she had a bunch of stitches in her face and really didn’t know what that was going to mean in the future. And she also has a team of professionals who are experts at using makeup to disguise pretty much any flaw. So go ahead and take a seat.

Carrie talked about the accident to Hoda Kotb on the Today show, and about her first performance after the accident, when she sang “Cry Pretty” at the ACM Awards. Turns out there were some insecurities there, too, and she said it was like she was living the song while she was singing it, but then went back to just Carrie when it was over. So that standing ovation she got? It was a little uncomfortable.

Watch the whole interview here, and find out where her favorite place to cry is. If you’re wondering, and I know you are, mine is in the kitchen. Possibly with ice cream. Or wine. Or cake. I’m not picky.

It is Official: Bill and Ted 3 Is Coming!

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After years of delays and budgeting issues, it looks like Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston Esq.) and Keanu Reeves (Ted Theodore Logan) are finally going to make a third Bill & Ted movie. At this moment, the film is "Bill & Ted Face the Music," and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited.
Okay I sense the raised eyebrows and perplexed faces. You’re asking “but Aidan, how is this metal?”
 
Look, in the grand world of cinema, there are only a few films that I consider staples of rock/metal movie pantheon. And yes, this list includes both Bill & Ted films. And before you argue with me on this, I just want to point out that in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey alone, the duo: die, escape from hell, best Death himself, and save the day by shredding a KISS song. If that’s not a metal movie, then what — I demand — is?
 
Back to the story at hand, which is Bill & Ted 3! The film was written by the original creators, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, with Dean Parisot set to direct. The script is eight years in the making with both Keanu and Alex happy with its final version. It has been picked up by MGM to be released in the U.S. under their Orion Pictures brand, and the film is currently being shopped internationally at the Cannes Festival.
 
The Hollywood Reporter also dropped a synopsis of what to expect for the film:
 
“Currently in preproduction, Bill & Ted Face the Music will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. They’ve written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written. With the fabric of time and space tearing around them, a visitor from the future warns our heroes that only their song can save life as we know it. Out of luck and fresh out of inspiration, Bill and Ted set out on a time travel adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe as we know it.”
 
That’s all I need to know!
 
I get it. The last film was 27 years ago, so there is a high chance that the magic won’t work on Adult Aiden like it did on impressionable Young Aiden. However, whether this film proves to be excellent or bogus, I know I will be in the theater on day one, ready for maximum air guitaring should the event prove worthy.
 
P.S. I am told that “air-guitaring” is not a word.
P.P.S. I don’t care.

Jess Glynne

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You might not recognize her name, but you definitely know her voice from songs like Clean Bandit’s Rather Be. Jess Glynne brought her new song to the Graham Norton Show!