Cardi B fires back at 'haters' and confirms why WAP is on new album
The 32-year-old rapper has is releasing her upcoming record Am I The Drama? on September 19, and she has prompted some backlash that her two singles - which first dropped in 2020 and 2021 respectively - will be part of the new collection, which marks her first LP since 2018 debut Invasion of Privacy.
However, she fired back on X: "This will be the last and only time I'm gonna address this..
"WAP and Up are two of my biggest songs, my fans have been asking me to put them on an album, and people search for them on IOP all the time… they deserve a home.. (sic)"
Cardi insisted she caved to "haters" at the time by not putting her X-rated single WAP forward for a Grammy Award, but now she's thinking of her fans.
She continued: "I let haters make me not submit WAP for the Grammy's and at this point I'm giving my fans what they want!
"These two songs don't even count for first week sales so what are yall even crying about???
"Do ya say anything when all these artist pull out all their little tricks and ponies to sell out??? Exactly…
"Now let them eat cake. Go cry about it!!! (sic)"
After warning she will "give them hell" on the new album, Cardi unveiled the title and release date for her next studio effort earlier this week.
The Bodak Yellow rapper cautioned those who have done her wrong that she is their "tyrant", ahead of what looks set to be an explosive record.
Cardi said in a voiceover shared on Instagram: 'Seven years and the time has come. Seven years of love, life and loss. Seven years I gave them grace, but now, I give them hell.
"I learned power is not given, it's taken. I'm shedding feathers and no more tears. I'm not back, I'm beyond. I'm not your villain, I'm your tyrant. The time is here. The time is now."
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Sydney Morning Herald
29-07-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Comedian Alan Davies' career changed once he admitted, ‘I'm one of those'
It's second thing Monday in London. 'I had to call the vet because the dog's got a bad paw,' Alan Davies explains. 'All her behaviour is normal, then I go to touch her paw and she goes –' he makes an alarmed dog noise. 'There's no talking to her about it. So we're off down the vet. That'll be a bargain.' We're either 30 seconds into a Zoom meeting or I'm accidentally streaming Alan Davies on YouTube. Like one of his tangential anecdotes on QI, the story is unremarkable but oddly compelling. There might even be a pay-off. 'I'm taking her at 3.30. I could call you back for an update?' After more than 35 years on stage and TV, Davies knows this space between life and funny like the back of his paw. He knew he wanted to be a comedian at 16. But it took writing three memoirs – White Male Stand-Up is out in September – to understand why. 'Eddie Izzard and I started out together in stand-up,' he recalls. 'Like me, he also lost his mother when he was six years old, and he told me early on he thinks that [seeking] the love of the audience was an attempt to replace the unconditional love of his mother. 'I wasn't having it at the time. But as I've got older I think he's probably right. It's still the case. The audience laughing and applauding makes you feel good in a way, perhaps, that I need.' Just Ignore Him is the title of Davies' 2020 book. It's something his dad used to say to undermine his credibility. This was because his dad began molesting him when he was eight or nine – two or three years after his mother died, of cancer, under especially cruel circumstances. Telling that story, after a lifetime pretending to ignore it, 'changed a lot of things', he says. 'Prose was the only way. As a comedian I'd not been able to tell it.' Nor would there be any value in his audience wondering, 'Why's he saying all this sad shit?' when he brings his new stand-up show, Think Ahead, to Australia in November. 'But I've tried to access it a bit,' he says, 'and I do that by talking about being an older comedian. 'I'm turning 60 next year. How do I approach comedy? How do I approach who I am when I'm speaking to the audience? And how was I approaching it when I was younger? Why was I behaving like I did on stage in my 20s? Why is it different? 'I can tell you why it was different: because these facts were unknown to you. I was concealing them, and I was creating a persona to navigate my life with, and I thought I'd cracked it. And then you find later in life you haven't cracked it, you've just got a facade, and the facade starts to annoy you, as much as it perhaps does those audience members who don't like your show who have spotted it. 'So it's a bit of a reappraisal. Some of that is prompted from being able to mine the material in the book.' Think Ahead, you'd assume, will be progressive by definition. 'I can't remember why I called it Think Ahead. That's probably all you need to know,' he says with a laugh. But he does know it's a relatively new headspace. 'When I started doing stand-up I was 22. I did a drama degree at university, then I started doing open spots on the London comedy circuit, which was quite a nice thing in the late '80s. It was all these little comedy clubs that were run by individuals who you'd ring on their landline, they'd put you in for a spot a few months away, then if you went down well they'd book you three months further on. 'So your diary was never more than three months ahead. After that it was literally blank for the rest of your life, and that suited me at that time. I liked that feeling of 'I'm not tied into anything'.' Those blank days are long gone. Booming comedy career aside, Davies' kids with his wife Katie Maskell – a fellow writer of books, TV and radio – are 15, 14 and nine, so school has the future block-booked for the medium term at least. TAKE 7: THE ANSWERS ACCORDING TO ALAN DAVIES Worst habit? Overeating. My nine-year-old had a taste of something the other day, and he said, 'Oh, that's disgusting. Give it to Dad.' And, sure enough, I ate it. Greatest fear? Dying. I was asked by my publishers to write a list of how many of the people in my new book are now dead, and I think there are 35. So, yeah, it bothers me. The line that has stayed with you? 'Why is it important?' [via actress Fiona Shaw]. That's a good question to ask of anything you're doing. Or watching. Especially online. Biggest regret? Not dealing with the stuff with my father earlier. Favourite book? Recently it's Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The artwork/song you wish was yours? A New England. I really revere Billy Bragg. He grew up not far from me, in Essex. If you could time-travel, where would you choose to go? I imagined being at my own funeral and seeing what people were saying. Then I suddenly had a terrible fear: what if Katie and the kids are not there? But I did a podcast with [astronomer] Brian Cox and he reassured me that time travel is impossible. So don't worry about it. 'On top of that, your own mortality comes into play,' he says. 'This is one of the hardest things to manage in life, is the length of it. I mean, we're obsessed with the length of things. How long will it take to walk to the cinema? You go on your maps app and it says nine minutes, and you're thinking, 'I could shave a minute off that'. 'How long is the film? How long will it take to cook the potatoes? We demand to know those things. But how long are you going to live for?' He makes a grunty 'dunno' noise. 'It's really troubling when you get to an age where, let's face it, people start disappearing all around you.' The suggestion that he log onto and type in his particulars makes him splutter. 'What if it says next Tuesday? Then what do you do?' In his case, probably a stand-up gig. He's described it as the love of his life, despite giving it away for 10 years when a show at the Comedy Store in London went wrong in the early 2000s. Thrown by a heckling audience, he felt his burgeoning profile as a wisecracking sleuth in Jonathan Creek and his many other TV gigs had dulled his impact. It was an Australian promoter friend, Marnie Foulis, who convinced him to get back on stage in Melbourne in 2011. He's only since stopped to write his books. But these days his 'why?' radar is ever more acute. Loading 'Once you've established that you have that skill to make people laugh, what choices you're making in the subject matter becomes more important to you. If you're 23 and you're just learning, 'Well, I need to get a laugh. Shopping trolleys! They never go straight. And then your kid goes in it, and …' Yeah, I could do five on that. 'When you get older you think, 'Who gives a shit about shopping trolleys? No one. Shut up about shopping trolleys. You're a 59-year-old man talking about shopping trolleys. What do you really want to talk about?'' One of the things that fuelled Just Ignore Him was a website called 'which is the number of men and boys who have been abused in some form or another', he says. 'It made me think about all the audiences that I play to, all the people sitting in silence with their secret troubles, and I thought, OK, I'll be the one who stands up and says, 'I'm one of those'. 'I'm not going to dwell on it. It's just a fact. It's affected me in this way and that way. And here I am with my comedy show in which it's a small part because that's how I prefer to think of it. There comes a time when you just think, 'I need to work out what it is that I've been trying to say for 35 years'. And it could take that long to get there.'
The Age
29-07-2025
- The Age
Comedian Alan Davies' career changed once he admitted, ‘I'm one of those'
It's second thing Monday in London. 'I had to call the vet because the dog's got a bad paw,' Alan Davies explains. 'All her behaviour is normal, then I go to touch her paw and she goes –' he makes an alarmed dog noise. 'There's no talking to her about it. So we're off down the vet. That'll be a bargain.' We're either 30 seconds into a Zoom meeting or I'm accidentally streaming Alan Davies on YouTube. Like one of his tangential anecdotes on QI, the story is unremarkable but oddly compelling. There might even be a pay-off. 'I'm taking her at 3.30. I could call you back for an update?' After more than 35 years on stage and TV, Davies knows this space between life and funny like the back of his paw. He knew he wanted to be a comedian at 16. But it took writing three memoirs – White Male Stand-Up is out in September – to understand why. 'Eddie Izzard and I started out together in stand-up,' he recalls. 'Like me, he also lost his mother when he was six years old, and he told me early on he thinks that [seeking] the love of the audience was an attempt to replace the unconditional love of his mother. 'I wasn't having it at the time. But as I've got older I think he's probably right. It's still the case. The audience laughing and applauding makes you feel good in a way, perhaps, that I need.' Just Ignore Him is the title of Davies' 2020 book. It's something his dad used to say to undermine his credibility. This was because his dad began molesting him when he was eight or nine – two or three years after his mother died, of cancer, under especially cruel circumstances. Telling that story, after a lifetime pretending to ignore it, 'changed a lot of things', he says. 'Prose was the only way. As a comedian I'd not been able to tell it.' Nor would there be any value in his audience wondering, 'Why's he saying all this sad shit?' when he brings his new stand-up show, Think Ahead, to Australia in November. 'But I've tried to access it a bit,' he says, 'and I do that by talking about being an older comedian. 'I'm turning 60 next year. How do I approach comedy? How do I approach who I am when I'm speaking to the audience? And how was I approaching it when I was younger? Why was I behaving like I did on stage in my 20s? Why is it different? 'I can tell you why it was different: because these facts were unknown to you. I was concealing them, and I was creating a persona to navigate my life with, and I thought I'd cracked it. And then you find later in life you haven't cracked it, you've just got a facade, and the facade starts to annoy you, as much as it perhaps does those audience members who don't like your show who have spotted it. 'So it's a bit of a reappraisal. Some of that is prompted from being able to mine the material in the book.' Think Ahead, you'd assume, will be progressive by definition. 'I can't remember why I called it Think Ahead. That's probably all you need to know,' he says with a laugh. But he does know it's a relatively new headspace. 'When I started doing stand-up I was 22. I did a drama degree at university, then I started doing open spots on the London comedy circuit, which was quite a nice thing in the late '80s. It was all these little comedy clubs that were run by individuals who you'd ring on their landline, they'd put you in for a spot a few months away, then if you went down well they'd book you three months further on. 'So your diary was never more than three months ahead. After that it was literally blank for the rest of your life, and that suited me at that time. I liked that feeling of 'I'm not tied into anything'.' Those blank days are long gone. Booming comedy career aside, Davies' kids with his wife Katie Maskell – a fellow writer of books, TV and radio – are 15, 14 and nine, so school has the future block-booked for the medium term at least. TAKE 7: THE ANSWERS ACCORDING TO ALAN DAVIES Worst habit? Overeating. My nine-year-old had a taste of something the other day, and he said, 'Oh, that's disgusting. Give it to Dad.' And, sure enough, I ate it. Greatest fear? Dying. I was asked by my publishers to write a list of how many of the people in my new book are now dead, and I think there are 35. So, yeah, it bothers me. The line that has stayed with you? 'Why is it important?' [via actress Fiona Shaw]. That's a good question to ask of anything you're doing. Or watching. Especially online. Biggest regret? Not dealing with the stuff with my father earlier. Favourite book? Recently it's Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The artwork/song you wish was yours? A New England. I really revere Billy Bragg. He grew up not far from me, in Essex. If you could time-travel, where would you choose to go? I imagined being at my own funeral and seeing what people were saying. Then I suddenly had a terrible fear: what if Katie and the kids are not there? But I did a podcast with [astronomer] Brian Cox and he reassured me that time travel is impossible. So don't worry about it. 'On top of that, your own mortality comes into play,' he says. 'This is one of the hardest things to manage in life, is the length of it. I mean, we're obsessed with the length of things. How long will it take to walk to the cinema? You go on your maps app and it says nine minutes, and you're thinking, 'I could shave a minute off that'. 'How long is the film? How long will it take to cook the potatoes? We demand to know those things. But how long are you going to live for?' He makes a grunty 'dunno' noise. 'It's really troubling when you get to an age where, let's face it, people start disappearing all around you.' The suggestion that he log onto and type in his particulars makes him splutter. 'What if it says next Tuesday? Then what do you do?' In his case, probably a stand-up gig. He's described it as the love of his life, despite giving it away for 10 years when a show at the Comedy Store in London went wrong in the early 2000s. Thrown by a heckling audience, he felt his burgeoning profile as a wisecracking sleuth in Jonathan Creek and his many other TV gigs had dulled his impact. It was an Australian promoter friend, Marnie Foulis, who convinced him to get back on stage in Melbourne in 2011. He's only since stopped to write his books. But these days his 'why?' radar is ever more acute. Loading 'Once you've established that you have that skill to make people laugh, what choices you're making in the subject matter becomes more important to you. If you're 23 and you're just learning, 'Well, I need to get a laugh. Shopping trolleys! They never go straight. And then your kid goes in it, and …' Yeah, I could do five on that. 'When you get older you think, 'Who gives a shit about shopping trolleys? No one. Shut up about shopping trolleys. You're a 59-year-old man talking about shopping trolleys. What do you really want to talk about?'' One of the things that fuelled Just Ignore Him was a website called 'which is the number of men and boys who have been abused in some form or another', he says. 'It made me think about all the audiences that I play to, all the people sitting in silence with their secret troubles, and I thought, OK, I'll be the one who stands up and says, 'I'm one of those'. 'I'm not going to dwell on it. It's just a fact. It's affected me in this way and that way. And here I am with my comedy show in which it's a small part because that's how I prefer to think of it. There comes a time when you just think, 'I need to work out what it is that I've been trying to say for 35 years'. And it could take that long to get there.'
Perth Now
28-07-2025
- Perth Now
Perth all-girl band relive glory days in iconic film sequel
It's the song that burned bright as a teenage anthem in the early 2000s, and now Take Me Away by Perth band Lash is being introduced to a new generation of fans. The song, with it's iconic sing-a-long chorus of I don't wanna grow up/I wanna get out , was brought to global fame by the 2005 hit film Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. It's now being featured in the films sequel and the band behind the tune are finding themselves back in the spotlight. 'It's taking me back into a time capsule,' former member of Lash Belinda-Lee Reid says. Reid wrote Take Me Away when she was 18, but Lash were already a well established band. They formed in 1996 when the members were just 13 years old. They signed to Festival Mushroom Records in 2001 just as the teenagers were finishing high school, and they relocated to Sydney to record an album. 'We were actually sitting around a lot during the time of writing songs and we were stuck in a studio,' Reid says of when she wrote Take Me Away. 'We had a lot of teenage angst - we were angry little teenagers.' Perth rock band Lash as they appeared on the cover of Smash Hits magazine in May 2001. Take Me Away was their first single off their album, The Beautiful and the Damned. Credit: Unknown / Supplied Lash in 2002. Belinda-Lee Reid is second from left. Credit: Unknown / Supplied Take Me Away peaked at number 33 on the Australian Singles Chart in 2001, and would have faded into obscurity if it hadn't been picked up two years later by the producers at Disney when they were searching for music for Freaky Friday. Ionically, the band never capitalised on their biggest hit as the request from Disney came just as the band was on the verge of splitting up. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003 film Freaky Friday which featured the Lash song, Take Me Away Credit: Unknown / Supplied 'It came at a time when our career had kinda ended,' Reid says. 'We had already dissipated as a band when they decided to use it. One of the girls wanted to start a family and that was it - the band was capooty. At first they wanted us to fly to America to re-record it and we were going to sing it, but then 9/11 happened so we didn't go. And then Kelly Osborne was supposed to sing it but then her mum, Sharon Osborne got cancer so she didn't sing it, so (US band) Pink Slip ended up recording a cover of it which became the hit.' While the Pink Slip cover was initially better known, Reid says as the years have gone by, US fans have sought out the Lash original, which now has more than 10 million streams on Spotify. Another Lash song, Beauty Queen, is also featured in the Freaky Friday film, with Reid doing the vocals. Now in her 40s, Reid says her teenage years as a rock star feel a million miles away. After Lash split up, the band went their separate ways. Guitarist Jessica Bennett is a producer at her own music studio in Melbourne, Love Shack Studios. Drummer Jac Pearson is a scientist living in Wales and singer and bass player Micaela Slayford is a mum of four and based in Fremantle. Reid is now a real estate agent in Fremantle. Lash broke up when the members were 23 and Reid says making the transition from music to the working world wasn't easy. 'Getting into the workforce when I finished my music career was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do,' Reid says. 'There was nothing on my CV. They'd say 'where have you been for the past six years?' And I would say 'well, I've been doing music.' Belinda-Lee Reid in 2025. After her time as a teenage rock star, Reid entered the Real Estate industry and today works for the Carlin Team in Fremantle. Credit: Ilkka Kadala 'It was just so hard to get into a career straight after coming out of it. It was almost like that movie, Almost Famous, where you come off the circus wagon and you just go, 'Oh my gosh, what do I do now? This is just so weird'. 'I am now with Carlin Real Estate, the Tom Carlin team, I have done Real Estate since 2008 and I love it, I love working with people, I love selling houses and I love real estate.' Reid has been invited to attend the premier of Freakier Friday in Sydney next week, where she can final reveal in the success of the song she penned when she was a teenager. 'Apparently Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are going to be there. So hopefully I get to meet them and have a little fancy photo with them,' Reid says.
