What’s Trending: Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
#Rihanna
o The singer has found major success as a makeup mogul and a fashion designer but everyone wants to know, when is the new album coming out?
o She says she is just taking her time to “experiment.”
o She also says that her new music will be unlike anything else you’ve ever heard from her before.
o She said, “You’re not going to expect what you hear. Just put that in your mind.”
o It’s been five years since her last album, ANTI.
o She was just in town watching her boyfriend A$AP Rocky perform at Life is Beautiful.
#SNL
o The show returns on October 2nd with four new shows!
o Yesterday they announced the first four weeks of hosts and their respective musical guests!
o Owen Wilson will kick off the season on October 2nd with musical guest Kacey Musgraves.
o On October 9th, Kim Kardashian West will host with Halsey as the musical guest.
o Rami Malek hosts on October 16th with Young Thug performing.
o And Jason Sudeikis returns to SNL to host with Brandi Carlisle performing.
#Drinking
o Study: 1 in 5 Americans turned to “heavy drinking” to cope with pandemic stress.
o “Heavy drinking" was defined as having had two heavy drinking days in a single week at least twice in the previous 30 days.
o A "heavy drinking day" was defined as four or more drinks containing alcohol for women and five or more drinks containing alcohol for men.
o Women, in particular, increased heavy-drinking days by 41%
#McDonalds
o They’ve announced that they’ll be phasing out plastic toys in Happy Meals.
o They’re not ditching the toys themselves, just the plastic which they say will “drastically” cut by 2025.
o That goal will reduce unrecycled “virgin” plastic use by 90% and that’s significant because McDonald’s sells more than 1 billion toys each year.
o They’re also planning to recycle old plastic toys to make new restaurant trays.
o As for the future, McDonald's is working with toy companies to develop things like three-dimensional cardboard superheroes, or board games with plant-based pieces
o The new toys will begin rolling out in January.