Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa’s 'dearMoon project' will take a trip around the moon next year. The passengers will include Steve Aoki, who will be accompanied by musician T.O.P, YouTuber Tim Dodd and Indian actor Dev Joshi among others. This trip will be Yusaku’s second space journey. He completed a 12-day trip to the International Space Station on the Soyuz Russian spaceship. The tycoon said in his announcement that 8 people will be aboard the SpaceX spaceship for the 'dearMoon Project'. Yusaku has been planning the project since 2018, having bought all the seats on the spaceship. Filmmaker Brendan Hall, photographer Karim Illiya, Czech artist Yemi AD and Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam are the others set to go on the journey. American Olympic snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington and Japanese dancer Miyu were chosen as backups.
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Deadmau5 Disclosed That Wearing His Mouse Helmet Gave Him an Injury
Deadmau5 humorously said that the helmet, referred to as Mau5head, which he started wearing in 2008, caused him a spinal injury. He posted an x-ray of his spine on Instagram and captioned the photo, “Wear a mouse head’ they said. ‘It’ll be fun!’ They said.” The DJ and producer, who’s real name is Joel Zimmerman, later cleared the air saying, “My neck is messed up from probably sleeping like an idiot, or slouching behind a computer. I doubt wearing a mouse head has much to do with it. I just posted a lolsy quote with it. My neck is fine ish, I just need to straighten my s**t up. it’s all good. Just sore.” Deadmau5 is one of the highest paid electronic music producers in the world. He has 6 Grammy nominations for his work. In 2007, he founded his own record label, Mau5trap.
Iggy Pop Praises Måneskin, Calls Them ‘A Really Strong Band’
Iggy Pop, referred to as the ‘Godfather of Punk’, recently worked with Italian rock band, Måneskin. The experience seemed to be positive, as Iggy Pop had nothing but praise for his younger counterparts. Iggy said, “That’s a really strong band. [Damiano David] is an amazing singer and the bass player, [Victoria de Angelis] really handles that position well and doesn’t overplay, but on stage and in their videos, she really stays with the message, woo, she’s a firecracker. The Guitarist [Thomas Raggi] is smooth and powerful, somewhere north of Joe Perry. The drummer, [Ethan Torchio] is really clever, he plays rock but I get the feeling he understands there’s a wider group of people who’ve heard dance music, techno and synthetic music so he also plays some very simple four, four beats.”
Lizzo Wins ‘People’s Champion’ at 2022 People’s Choice Awards
Lizzo won the ‘People’s Champion’ award, along with the song of 2022 for ‘About Damn Time’ at the People’s Choice awards. The People’s Champion award was a special, previously-announced award. Lizzo’s acceptance speech showed just how deserving she was of the award. In her acceptance speech, Lizzo said, “Imma be honest, when I first heard about this award, I was on the fence about whether I should accept. Because, if I’m the people’s champ, I don’t need a trophy for championing people. You know what I’m saying?” She added that she has used her platform to amplify marginalized voices since the beginning of her career. As part of her acceptance speech, she introduced activists and people who she thought are worthy of the spotlight. She then welcomed and introduced a range of human rights advocates, freedom fighters, artists and walking inspirations.