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Korea Herald
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Ive confirms August return
Ive is gearing up for a late August return, agency Starship Entertainment said Thursday. The group will release a new album seven months after its third EP 'Ive Empathy' swept all music charts at home, led by prerelease 'Rebel Heart.' The EP became Ive's fifth consecutive million-seller, and the main track 'Attitude' as well as the prerelease earned the six-piece act 15 trophies from television music chart shows. 'Rebel Heart' spent 10 consecutive weeks on Billboard's Global excl. US chart and made the magazine's 'The 25 Best K-Pop Songs of 2025 (So Far)' list. On Sunday, Ive set the audience abuzz at Lollapalooza Paris with its hourlong performance after going live at Lollapalooza Berlin eight days earlier. The group is set to drop its third EP in Japan, 'Be Alright,' on July 30. The album's title track was unveiled July 16 along with a music video.
Time Magazine
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
WWE Evolution 2 Is a Bittersweet Moment for Women's Wrestling
Women's wrestling has been through many iterations—see the Attitude era and the Divas era. Sunday brings the next chapter, with Evolution 2, World Wrestling Entertainment's second all-women wrestling event. Evolution 2, coming seven years after the first installment in 2018, marks another important anniversary in the world of wrestling. Ten years ago, the women's wrestling evolution ostensibly began, when Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, and Sasha Banks made their debuts on WWE's flagship program Raw. A decade since they stepped in the ring and set off a new era in the industry, women's wrestling has undertaken a bumpy journey, gaining momentum but at a spasmodic pace. The making of Evolution 'We hear you. Keep watching,' the disgraced former WWE chairman Vince McMahon posted on X, formerly Twitter, in early 2015. McMahon was responding to the viral hashtag, #GiveDivasAChance, which took off when wrestling fans began begging for women wrestlers to get more airplay after a women's tag team match on an episode of WWE's flagship program, Raw, lasted only 30 seconds. Until 2016, 'Divas' is what WWE's female wrestlers were called instead of, you know, just wrestlers, like their male counterparts. The moniker became a marketing tool to at once appeal to the growing audience of young girls and women, what with the sparkly pink butterfly championship the Divas got to wrestle for, and their hyper-sexualized appearance catered to the male demographic that has traditionally watched professional wrestling. Their matches were short, like the 30-second tag team match in 2015, and consisted mostly of hair pulling and open-handed slaps. (And don't forget the bra and panties matches!) It wasn't always like this, however, with women like the controversial Fabulous Moolah and Mildred Burke, subject of the recent film Queen of the Ring, paving the way in the mid-20th century, while The Jumping Bomb Angles and Wendi Richter who, accompanied by Cyndi Lauper, helped launch the Rock 'n' Wrestling connection, took up the mantel in the '80s. The late Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer, Trish Stratus, and Lita showed that women in wrestling could be sexy and tough in the late 1990s and early 2000s 'Attitude Era,' before the introduction of the Divas championship in 2008 led to a near decade of a watered down style of wrestling. All of that would change around the time of #GiveDivasAChance. A shift was brewing, beginning on the indie wrestling scene and making its way to NXT, WWE's developmental system where wrestlers like Lynch, Flair, and Banks (currently known as Mercedes Moné) were putting on long, technical matches that fans and the wrestlers themselves were clamoring for. That was apparently what we were to keep watching for, as per the social media instructions of McMahon. There were some positive steps made: In 2016, the Divas branding was done away with and the accompanying championship was retired, replaced by a proper women's title with a design on par with the men's (there are now 10 women's championships across WWE and its developmental brands). Women got the coveted main event slot of WWE's biggest show, WrestleMania 35, in 2019, and women have now wrestled in pretty much all of WWE's iconic stipulation matches, such as the Royal Rumble, Hell in a Cell and Money in the Bank ladder matches, and, finally, their own dedicated pay-per-view, Evolution, in 2018. What Evolution 2 means for women's wrestling There are asterisks next to some of these achievements, though. A man won the first women's Money in the Bank match, retrieving a briefcase containing a championship contract from above the ring and tossing it down to a female competitor (a rematch was scheduled two weeks later after the resulting rightful uproar). Evolution acted as counter-programming to WWE's then-fledgling partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where female athletes were not permitted to compete at the time. They have since been allowed to wrestle there, most recently in June, amid calls for WWE to pull out due to unrest in the Middle East, a continuing argument from fans. (WWE went ahead with a show in KSA shortly after Jamal Khashoggi was allegedly assassinated at the Saudi consulate, and continues to operate in the Kingdom despite a charter flight of WWE workers being detained in 2019.) It's perhaps for this reason that WWE saw no demand for a subsequent Evolution, even though most pay-per-views, or premium live events, as the company calls them, are annual events—that is, until next week, when Evolution 2 comes to Atlanta, Georgia. As with #GiveDivasAChance, fans online have been calling for a second installment pretty much since the first. Indicating just how much hasn't changed in the interim, women's wrestling segments are often the first to get cut, a spate of female performers have been let go from their contracts in regular layoffs, and despite the additional women's championships, these titles aren't regularly defended. Evolution 2 is sorely needed, even though it's an apparent afterthought among a packed pay-per-view schedule consisting of six supercards in as many weeks. No matches were announced until less than a fortnight before the show, two of which are multi-women matches, including a battle royal. As of this writing, the women's United States championship is not scheduled to be defended, even though the whole point of a women's only pay-per-view is to feature more matches with in-depth storylines. Evolution 2 also takes place the the same weekend WWE's biggest competitor, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), holds one of its marquee shows, All In, streaming on Prime Video. One can't help but wonder if Evolution 2 is being scapegoated as counter-programming once again, set up to fail by going head-to-head against All In on streaming and Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour in the stadium across the road. The Venn diagram of marks (wrestling vernacular for fans) and the Beyhive may not be a perfect circle, but with an increasingly diverse fanbase that is souring to the conservative-leaning WWE and veering towards the more progressive AEW, the overlap is greater than you might think. With WWE moving to Netflix earlier this year and more eyes on women's sport than ever before, Evolution 2 is perfectly positioned to snag another portion of that viewership pie. If only WWE would give it a chance.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
John Cena Reflects on Apologizing to Ata Johnson After WrestleMania 28 Showdown With The Rock
Image via WWE (WrestleMania 28) John Cena and The Rock are perhaps two of the biggest WWE stars of all time. And when it was announced that the two icons were scheduled to face each other at WrestleMania 28, fan excitement was at an all-time high. The interesting thing was that the match was made official on Raw right after WrestleMania 27, a whole year in advance. Therefore, the build-up to the clash was iconic in itself. When the duo met in Sun Life Stadium in what was billed as 'Once in a Lifetime', fans got the best parts of both eras. The Attitude era vs. The PG Era. It is only natural that the two legends tried their best to build excitement for the bout. However, this got fishy at times with both stars hurling insults at each other. And owing to this, Cena recently revealed that he had apologised to The Rock's mother as a gesture of goodwill after their Miami encounter was set and done. John Cena Says Ata Johnson Was Cool About His Personal Remarks While speaking to Vanity Fair about his journey with The Rock, Cena reflected on apologizing to Ata Johnson regarding the personal comments the current WWE Champion made for the build-up to their iconic clash. 'After the show is over, the very first thing I do is apologize to Dwayne's mother because she was the first person I saw. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Esse novo alarme com câmera é quase gratuito em Niterói (consulte o preço) Alarmes Undo by Taboola by Taboola And I apologized and said, 'I hope you understand I was just trying to do what was best for tonight.' She, having the experience and wisdom – of course – she was extremely gracious and a class act like she always is, but it was important for me to get that weight off my backpack.' John Cena Rewatches WWE, Barbie, Peacemaker & More | Vanity Fair Johnson has been part of the famous Samoan Wrestling Dynasty from the get-go, so she was aware of how things run in the professional wrestling business. Being the wife of WWE Hall of Famer Rocky Johnson and the mother of The Rock, she understood the importance of promos and buildup. That is the reason she was calm about how things unfolded during her son's rivalry with Cena. For the unversed, Cena's main point about The Rock during their rivalry was that he left the WWE for the bright lights of Hollywood. Moreover, Cena also called Johnson selfish for not caring enough for the fans and not appearing regularly on WWE television. An infamous segment featured the duo in which the 17-time Champion pointed out that Johnson had written his promo lines on his hands and that Cena didn't need to do it, as he could memorize his lines pretty well. The duo went on to have another match at WrestleMania 29 for the WWE title, which Cena won after losing their first encounter a year prior. Moreover, Cena recently joined The Rock and 'sold his soul' to turn heel for the first time since 2003 and won his record 17th WWE title at WrestleMania 41 by beating Cody Rhodes. And just like Johnson from 2012, Cena is now a bona fide movie star himself with prominent roles in The Peacemaker series and the Fast & Furious franchise. Also read: Former WWE NXT Champion reflects on reports of most harassed wrestlers online Catch Manika Batra's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 3. Watch Here!
Leader Live
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Singers Yungblud and Andy Bell and track star Kelly Holmes named Pride icons
The annual Peugeot Attitude Pride Awards Europe was hosted by comedian and presenter Tom Allen at the Peninsula hotel in London on Friday and included performances by Bell and Frankie Grande, brother of singer Ariana. Yungblood, known for songs including Cotton Candy and Fleabag, reflected on his sexuality in an interview with Attitude this month in which he said the label of pansexuality allowed him to 'be who I am'. Of his music festival BludFest, which will be held in Milton Keynes, the singer said he felt proud of how young people are 'allowed to feel safe in our space, or come out in our space, or really feel loved in our space'. He has had two number one albums in the UK chart with Weird! in 2020, and his self-titled album in 2022. Dame Kelly won gold medals in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres at the 2004 Olympics in Athens at the age of 34 and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year the same year. She retired in 2005 having won 12 major medals across a 10-year span, including Commonwealth golds over 1,500m in 1994 and 2002. Since retirement, Holmes has mentored young athletes, worked in TV and as a motivational speaker and written several books. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year's Honours of 2005 and appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment in 2018. Andy Bell is best known for being half of the synth‑pop duo Erasure, the group behind the hit songs A Little Respect, Sometimes and Always. The singer released a solo album, Ten Crowns, earlier this year which features a song with the lead singer from Blondie, Debbie Harry. The Pride awards also honoured other 'heroes of the LGBTQ+ community', including Carla Antonelli, Spain's first openly transgender senator; Caroline Paige, the first openly trans officer in the British military; and the group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners which featured in the 2014 film Pride and supported striking miners in 1984. Darren Styles, publisher of Attitude magazine, said: 'The Peugeot Attitude Pride Awards Europe 2025, supported by British Airways, have once again shone a spotlight on the incredible work being done within and for the LGBTQ+ community. 'This year, we're thrilled to celebrate 10 remarkable individuals who embody the spirit of pride, resilience, and progress. 'Their stories and achievements inspire us all and remind us of the power of visibility and authentic self-expression.' Mr Styles said the Attitude Magazine Foundation had raised almost £20,000 for LGBTQ+ causes through the event on Friday.
South Wales Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Singers Yungblud and Andy Bell and track star Kelly Holmes named Pride icons
The annual Peugeot Attitude Pride Awards Europe was hosted by comedian and presenter Tom Allen at the Peninsula hotel in London on Friday and included performances by Bell and Frankie Grande, brother of singer Ariana. Yungblood, known for songs including Cotton Candy and Fleabag, reflected on his sexuality in an interview with Attitude this month in which he said the label of pansexuality allowed him to 'be who I am'. Of his music festival BludFest, which will be held in Milton Keynes, the singer said he felt proud of how young people are 'allowed to feel safe in our space, or come out in our space, or really feel loved in our space'. He has had two number one albums in the UK chart with Weird! in 2020, and his self-titled album in 2022. Dame Kelly won gold medals in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres at the 2004 Olympics in Athens at the age of 34 and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year the same year. She retired in 2005 having won 12 major medals across a 10-year span, including Commonwealth golds over 1,500m in 1994 and 2002. Since retirement, Holmes has mentored young athletes, worked in TV and as a motivational speaker and written several books. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year's Honours of 2005 and appointed Honorary Colonel of the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment in 2018. Andy Bell is best known for being half of the synth‑pop duo Erasure, the group behind the hit songs A Little Respect, Sometimes and Always. The singer released a solo album, Ten Crowns, earlier this year which features a song with the lead singer from Blondie, Debbie Harry. The Pride awards also honoured other 'heroes of the LGBTQ+ community', including Carla Antonelli, Spain's first openly transgender senator; Caroline Paige, the first openly trans officer in the British military; and the group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners which featured in the 2014 film Pride and supported striking miners in 1984. Darren Styles, publisher of Attitude magazine, said: 'The Peugeot Attitude Pride Awards Europe 2025, supported by British Airways, have once again shone a spotlight on the incredible work being done within and for the LGBTQ+ community. 'This year, we're thrilled to celebrate 10 remarkable individuals who embody the spirit of pride, resilience, and progress. 'Their stories and achievements inspire us all and remind us of the power of visibility and authentic self-expression.' Mr Styles said the Attitude Magazine Foundation had raised almost £20,000 for LGBTQ+ causes through the event on Friday.
