We’ve seen teasers, trailers, and posters for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the upcoming mockumentary starring The Lonely Island, but when it comes to these comedic crooners, it’s really all about the music.
With that in mind, ScreenCrush reports that the group has released two new songs from the companion album to the upcoming film: I’m so Humble (featuring Adam Levine) and Mona Lisa. Those who’ve seen the trailer will recognize the former — and the better of the two — but the full version showcases this clever/catchy track in all its glory.
Titular pop star Connor4Real (Andy Samberg) humblebrags his way through the tune, rendering its title ironic with lines like “I’m so ordinary that it’s really quite extraordinary” and “My apple crumble is by far the most crumblest / But I act like it tastes bad out of humbleness.”
Just as a PSA, if you don’t want to have the song stuck in your head for the next week or so, you might want to steer clear.
As for Mona Lisa, the song details a trip to see the original Mona Lisa in Paris that proves disappointing. “I’m an American man, this is my native land / Where no one lies about paintings /But that’s not the case in France / Where the naked ladies dance and they look like Dennis Franz.”
As others have pointed out, aside from the absurd lyrics, these tracks have all the production value of bona fide chart toppers, a reality that makes them that much funnier.
Both songs are available on Spotify and iTunes, among other platforms. The film version of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is set to hit theaters June 3, 2016, and stars Imogen Poots, Will Arnett, and Bill Hader, in addition to Samberg and the Lonely Island crew.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?