Less than two years ago, the idea of an NFL game being aired exclusively on a streaming system was revolutionary. Now, it’s almost commonplace, but for some fans, it can still be a frustrating affair.
Game two of the 2025-2026 NFL Season takes place tonight, but you won’t find it aired on television. Instead, YouTube will be the exclusive home for the matchup of the Chiefs and Chargers. That’s another shift in viewing habits for many people, but, on the upside, it’s one that won’t require them to sign up for another service.
Like last year, this season is off to a rolling start. The Cowboys and Eagles kicked things off last night and on Sunday, there is the usual tsunami of games.
Here’s all you need to know about tonight’s streaming exclusive.
Which NFL teams are playing Friday? And what channels are airing the games?
There’s no FOMO tonight, as the NFL is hosting just one game. As always, the home team is listed second.
How can I watch the NFL season opener for free—even if I am out of market?
In short, you can’t. Normally, we’d suggest a good HD antenna here, but that won’t do you any good for tonight’s game.
Can I stream 2025-2026 NFL games live online if I don’t have a cable subscription?
Since it’s a streaming exclusive, of course, but you’ll only have one option.
YouTubeTV
After a free trial, you can expect monthly charges of $83.
Can I watch the NFL’s opening game on Amazon?
No. Amazon Prime Video’s first matchup this year will be the Washington Commanders facing the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 11.
Why is this game being streamed on YouTube?
YouTube already has a partnership with the NFL as it is the home of NFL Sunday Ticket. But this goes a bit further than that. This will be the first time YouTube broadcasts an NFL game live, but it has streamed other major events, including Coachella earlier this year.
The NFL is hoping to reach a broader, younger audience, which tunes in more to streaming services than traditional broadcast television. Exclusive deals also are more lucrative for the league.
Will any other games be streaming exclusives this year?
Yes, several more in fact.
Amazon will largely be the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football once again, with the exception of Thanksgiving (though it will air an exclusive game on Black Friday). On Oct. 20, ESPN+ will exclusively carry to the Seattle Seahawks vs Houston Texans game.
On Christmas Day, both Netflix and Amazon will each host a streaming exclusive game. And Peacock will have an exclusive of its own on Dec. 27.
Does the NFL offer any viewing packages to watch the games I want?
It does. You have three to choose from.
NFL App
The NFL App will let you stream games that are being broadcast locally in your market on Sundays. If you want to watch an “out of market” game, you’ve got two choices.
YouTube once again is the home for this channel. Prices this year start at $83 per month for Sunday Ticket and YouTubeTV or $480 for just Sunday Ticket, if you’re a returning user (spanning the entirety of out-of-market games this season). New users can get a standalone Sunday Ticket subscription for $276.
Why is this game taking place in Brazil?
The NFL wants to become known as more than an American sport. Brazil could be a key part of that international expansion, with over 38 million fans, the league says. The first international game was held in Mexico City in 2005 and since then, the NFL has played in several international cities, including London and Munich, Germany. This is the second year in a row the league has opened the season in Brazil.
Fortune Global Forum returns Oct. 26–27, 2025 in Riyadh. CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business. Apply for an invitation.
The bad news for those holding Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) shares is that performance has been poor. They’re up less than 5% over the last year and only about 15% over five years. The one positive is that they have paid a heap of income along the way.
High income attraction
The trailing dividend yield currently stands at 9.1%, one of the highest on the blue-chip index. That’s far more than even the best-paying savings accounts, and dividends carry another advantage. Companies aim to lift payouts each year to protect investors from inflation and ideally provide some real growth too.
Over the last 15 years, Legal & General’s dividend per share has grown at an average rate of 11.75% a year. Growth has slowed lately, though, and management now expects to lift payouts by just 2% from here. Even so, the yield is forecast to hit 9.26% in 2025 and 9.43% in 2026.
Dividends are never guaranteed, of course. They must be covered by earnings, and here there are some worries. Forecast cover is just one, when investors would prefer to see at least 1.5 or ideally 2. Earnings per share have been sliding for three consecutive years, falling 62%, 43%, and 61%. No wonder the price-to-earnings ratio has soared to above 80. A P/E of around 15 is typically seen as fair value. When I first bought the stock in 2023, it traded at six or seven times earnings. It felt like a bargain then, less so today.
FTSE 100 income play
The insurer remains profitable. First-half results published on 6 August 2025 showed pre-tax profits up 28% to £406m, helped by strong demand for institutional retirement products.
Legal & General’s solvency ratio is steady at 217%, while net debt has dropped from £4.71bn to £3.39bn. Yet broker RBC Markets has flagged a few issues. It notes that profitability in the pension ‘bulk annuity’ market is still under pressure, and warns the outlook for fee income from asset management and retail operations looks weaker. The group trails peers both on price-to-book and return on equity ratios.
Shareholder payouts
Let’s say someone owns 1,696 shares, worth just under £4,000 at today’s price of 235.5p. The shares went ex-dividend on 21 August, and the 6.12p interim dividend will be paid on 26 September. That means a payout of around £103. Reinvesting that could buy another 44 shares, lifting the total holding to about 1,740.
The bigger cheque should come next June. If the final dividend rises 2% from last year’s 15.36p, 1,740 shares deliver about £267. Added to the interim, that’s £370 of income from a £4,000 investment. Which is pretty handy. Any share price growth is on top.
It’s hard to know when Legal & General will get back on track, although I expect high-yielding dividend stocks to look even more attractive when interest rates finally start to fall. I think investors could consider buying with a patient outlook. With luck, they’ll get plenty of income while they wait for the shares to kick on. Yet, it’s still trailing FTSE 100 rivals like Aviva, M&G, and Phoenix Group Holdings, and investors might want to explore them first.
Certifications are already shifting wage structures, with certified staff receiving faster promotions and higher bill rates, Gogia said. But he emphasized that courses must explicitly include bias, fairness, and privacy considerations — “ethics cannot be bolted on later.”
Political maneuvering meets market strategy
OpenAI cleverly tied its initiative to public policy, announcing it as part of White House AI literacy expansion efforts. “OpenAI is playing a double game: securing credibility as a responsible innovator while also shaping national workforce standards to its own design,” Gogia observed.
The workforce disruption is accelerating. McKinsey research estimates 400 million to 800 million people worldwide may need new jobs by 2030 due to automation. Goldman Sachs analysis identified the jobs most at risk: computer programmers, accountants, legal assistants, customer service representatives, and credit analysts.
Unity is to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games accessible for blind players cheaper for developers, .
Screen readers narrate on-screen menus so blind and low-vision players can navigate a game or a piece of software without additional assistance. Typically, screen reading software is custom-built for each game, which can make them resource-intensive for developers to implement. “Building something like that from scratch has to be decided upon early in development so you have the time/resources allocated to make it properly,” Steve Saylor, an accessibility consultant and creator, . “Having it in-engine can mean the heavy lifting is done for you, and the cost of time/resources now is significantly lower.”
Unity previously offered APIs for both Android and iOS’ built-in screen readers in its Unity 6.0 release, but hadn’t yet added support for Windows Narrator or macOS VoiceOver. With this new alpha and its eventual release as Unity 6.3, developers creating games with Unity will have access to a native screen reader in all of the engine’s major platforms. Considering how popular Unity is as a game engine, that could vastly improve the accessibility of future games.
John Candy was one of Hollywood’s most beloved comedic actors, stealing scenes in classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings. With his larger-than-life presence and everyman charm, the Canadian star brought joy to audiences around the world.
His sudden death in 1994 left fans and colleagues devastated, cutting short a career filled with unforgettable performances. Now, more than three decades later, the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me revisits his life, legacy, and the circumstances surrounding his passing.
Find out more below.
What Were John Candy’s Most Famous Movies and TV Shows?
Candy became a household name through his memorable work in both film and television. He was part of the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV, where his characters like Johnny LaRue and Yosh Shmenge made him a fan favorite. On the big screen, he starred in classics such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Uncle Buck (1989), Cool Runnings (1993), Splash (1984), Spaceballs (1987), and The Great Outdoors (1988). He also made a cameo in Home Alone (1990) as polka band leader Gus Polinski, one of his most beloved roles despite its brevity.
Promotional portrait of Canadian actor John Candy (1950 – 1994), against a blue background, for the film ‘Delirious’ (directed by Tom Mankiewicz), Los Angeles, California, 1990. (Photo by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images)
How Old Was John Candy When He Passed Away?
Candy died in 1994 at the age of 43.
What Was John Candy’s Cause of Death?
Candy passed away from a heart attack on March 4, 1994, while filming the Western comedy Wagons East in Durango, Mexico.
Did John Candy Face Health Issues Before He Died?
Yes, Candy had faced several health challenges prior to his passing. He struggled with obesity for much of his life, and he also dealt with high blood pressure.
Candy spoke openly about anxiety and panic attacks, which sometimes accompanied the pressures of fame. Despite efforts to lose weight and make lifestyle changes, his health issues contributed to the heart problems that led to his untimely death.
Majorca has seen a huge decrease in number of German tourists visiting the island. The fall in German holidaymakers visiting the popular destination had been confirmed by a downward trend that had started in May. It came after a prolonged period of growth, but come May the trend reversed and dropped, and in July, Majorca saw a fall of more than 8%.
However, the decline in German tourists is not as a result of the protests and anti-tourism campaigns as many might believe, but instead the Germany economy.
Alvaro Blanco, director of Turespana’s bureu in Berlin, has said that “the economic situation in Germany isn’t helping”, in reference to a fall in German GDP, increasing level of unemployment and a rise in prices for products and services across the country.
He added that all of these factors are impacting foreign holiday destinations as well as Germany as a destination, reports Majorca Daily Bulletin.
When it comes to German tourism across the Balearics, 90% of it is in Majorca. However, with Majorca’s increased prices and the economic conditions in Germany, it has led to holidaymakers seeking alternative holidays that are more affordable.
Carlos Cendra, marketing and communications director for Mabrian, a tourism data consultancy, said: “The German consumer climate is, in general, less optimistic, and this reduces spending intentions.
“The German tourist market is very sensitive to price fluctuations, and when the consumer climate is less encouraging, this sensitivity is great.”
Marbian provides information to the Baleric Goverment and island councils. The company compared tourism data to Antayla and the Turkish Riviera and found that flight capacity for Antalya had increased 8% this summer.
It also found that in July and August the average hotel stay cost €92 per night, whilst in the Balearics it was €292.
Wolfgang Engstler, German consul in Majorca, said: “German tourists are having to pay more attention to their budgets and can no longer spend so much money on holiday. Given that flights and hotels in Majorca have risen significantly in price, there is generally less money left for other purposes.”
While the protests across Spain have been covered by German media, Mr Engstler doesn’t believe this is the driving factor in the fall in tourist numbers.
He added: “For families, the evolution of prices, coupled with lower budgets, are the decisive factors.”
Things go from bad to worse for a presumably happy couple played by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the first-look trailer for the new psychological thriller Die My Love, released by Mubi on September 5.
Set to the tune of “The Clapping Song” by Shirley Ellis, the clip opens with Grace (Lawrence) and her husband Jackson (Pattinson) sharing a kiss while crawling through a field of grass. Then, we see the pair laughing and smiling in the kitchen of their home. After Jackson kisses her and walks away, Grace stands there in silence with a nonchalant expression on her face before slumping over, almost as if in defeat. What comes next is a sequence of startling events, from Grace and Jackson yelling at each other to one of their characters carrying a knife outside their house. LaKeith Standfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek round out the ensemble cast. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the full synopsis for Die My Love:
Die My Love centers on Grace (Lawrence) and Jackson (Pattinson), a loving couple who leave New York for an inherited home in the country. After welcoming a baby, Grace begins to mentally unravel and finds herself empowered in unexpected ways
Die My Love debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Lynne Ramsay, known for the 2017 crime thriller You Were Never Really Here, directed the film from a script she co-wrote with Alice Birch, which is based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel of the same name. Jennifer Lawrence serves as a producer alongside Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, Justine Ciarrocchi, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill and Molly Smith.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Performance in ‘Die My Love’ Is Already Generating Oscar Buzz
Following Die My Love‘s Cannes debut, critics praised Lawrence’s “astonishing” and “uninhibited” portrayal of a first-time mom battling postpartum depression, leading some to believe that she could take home an Academy Award. As many will recall, Lawrence won her first Oscar for her performance as Tiffany Maxwell in 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook, taking home the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 2013 ceremony. Is it possible that Jennifer Lawrence could take home her second Oscar for Die My Love? We’ll just have to wait and see; fortunately, awards season is right around the corner.
While attending the Cannes afterparty (hosted by The Hollywood Reporter) earlier this year, Lawrence spoke to the publication and shared how becoming a mother of two has changed her viewpoint on acting. As she said:
“It changes your whole life, but it’s brutal and incredible. I didn’t know that I could feel so much, and my job has a lot to do with emotion, and they’ve opened up the world to me. It’s almost like a blister or something, so sensitive. So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best, and they’ve changed me.”
Catch Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in Die My Love, coming to theaters on November 7, 2025.
Headshot Of Jennifer Lawrence In The 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
Orson Welles is one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. After directing several high-profile stage productions and hosting his radio anthology series, Welles’ first film was Citizen Kane (1941) – which he co-wrote, directed, and starred as the titular character Charles Foster Kane – and is now widely regarded as one of the best movies of all time.
Throughout his career, Welles directed twelve additional feature films, including highly celebrated works such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Othello (1951), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (1962), and Chimes at Midnight (1966). Despite his towering achievements and influence, Welles was an outsider to Hollywood’s studio system at the time, and often found himself fighting with studios for creative control.
The Magnificent Ambersons Set For Restoration Using AI
The Magnificent Ambersons is set for a new restoration using artificial intelligence. Written and directed by Orson Welles, the 1942 film follows the pampered heir of the declining Amberson wealth who drives a wedge between his widowed mother and the man she has long cherished. Its cast includes Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, and Ray Collins, with Welles narrating.
During editing, Welles lost creative control to RKO Studios, who changed the film significantly, including altering the ending to be more optimistic. While Welles’ original notes still exist, about an hour of footage was permanently destroyed and never found. Despite being released in a heavily altered form, The Magnificent Ambersons is still widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Showrunner will reconstruct the missing footage from The Magnificent Ambersons using artificial intelligence. The Amazon-backed company recently unveiled a new AI model capable of producing long and complex narratives, eventually extending to live-action feature-length films. The service already enables users to create custom TV episodes from just a short prompt.
Since Showrunner does not hold the rights to the film, the project will not be commercialized. They plan to combine AI with traditional filmmaking methods to re-create the lost footage, including filming certain sequences with live performers, then applying AI-driven face transfer to replicate the appearance of the original cast. The team will also rely heavily on the film’s extensive archive of set photos to guide the reconstruction.
Our Take On The Magnificent Ambersons Being Restored Using AI
While AI’s further encroachment into Hollywood is troubling, signaling a slippery slope toward automated content creation, this specific project appears to preserve the human touch. Leading the project is filmmaker Brian Rose, who has dedicated the past five years to reconstructing 30,000 lost frames from the film, recreating the physical sets as 3D models to accurately map camera movements in line with the script and archival photos.
Rose has also restored the framing and timing of each scene, forming the backbone of the re-creation. Assisting him is Tom Clive, a VFX specialist skilled in face-swapping and de-aging techniques. This effort to restore The Magnificent Ambersons appears to be using AI as a creative tool to enhance human artistry, rather than replace it.
For 15 years, Dylan Shepherd’s band was as close as you could get to seeing Oasis onstage.
Shepherd fronts Supersonic, an Oasis tribute act that’s nailed every detail of their Manchester heroes’ live sets, from Liam Gallagher’s anorak jacket-bedecked swagger to the precise jangle of his brother Noel‘s guitar. For fans worried that the famously acrimonious Gallagher brothers would never reunite after their chaotic 2009 split, Supersonic was a solid alternative.
Never has a band been happier to be upstaged.
“Like everyone else, we were shocked and elated when Oasis announced they were getting back together,” Shepherd said. “We came up with the concept of going and doing a bunch of shows in cities just before them to get people even more fired up, if that’s even possible.”
On Friday, just before Oasis plays the Rose Bowl, Supersonic will headline the Whisky a Go Go, the site of Oasis’ infamous drug-fueled meltdown onstage in 1994. Supersonic will likely behave better than the Gallaghers, but for Angeleno Anglophiles, this week’s revelry is on par with Taylor Swift’s Eras tour or a BTS reunion coming to town.
For one weekend, L.A. will more or less become Manchester with palm trees.
“We went to their first Manchester show in July and it was unbelievable, the atmosphere was just buzzing,” Shepherd said. “Out of every shop window, every bar, you could hear Oasis, and they sounded better than they ever have.”
In a time when giant pop tours are the barometer of health for the live music industry, Oasis’ reunion feels both old-fashioned and refreshing — a hard-partying, live-wire rock band is suddenly the hottest ticket in town. The band’s shows in the UK transformed its city centers with a fervor closer to national heritage than mere rock band fandom.
Now, for the first time since 2008, it’s L.A.’s turn.
Anyone who has seen the documentary “Depeche Mode: 101” or attended a Morrissey show with a Chicano-heavy crowd knows that L.A. turns out for its idols across the pond. Some superfans here couldn’t wait for the band to make it over.
“I’ve been a fan since the ‘90s, but I never got to see them back in the day and I’ve just been waiting for them to resolve things,” said Rose Ghavami, an L.A. promoter and DJ who flew to the U.K. for two Oasis shows. That wasn’t nearly enough, though.
Fans of rock band Oasis arrive for an exhibition of photographer Kevin Cummins’ work on the band at Musichead Gallery in West Hollywood on Sept. 4, 2025.
(Etienne Laurent / For The Times)
“I’m crazy. I’m going to the Rose Bowl on Saturday and then to see them in Mexico City the following weekend. Centering travels around these concerts has been super-emotional. I definitely cried alongside with everyone, singing every word,” Ghavami said.
Between those shows, she’s hosting an Oasis-themed pre-party at Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake on Friday. Among her contingent of Britpop fans here, she sees parallels to another group’s historic sweep of American stadiums.
“I wasn’t around for Beatlemania, but this feels similar to that,” Ghavami said. “It’s usually cringe to wear a band’s shirt to their concert, but this gets a pass because people were head to toe in gear from their bucket hats to their socks. I see people walking down the street here with Oasis gear, and you stop each other to ask ‘Are you going to the show?’”
Shoppers showing off their Oasis merch
(Vivien Killilea)
Indeed, the lines at the Oasis pop-up merch mart in Hollywood have been formidable, as fans rushed to commemorate the reunion they feared might never come. The tour’s rapturous reviews — and a notable lack of drama between the Gallaghers — cemented this as the must-see rock event of the year.
Even for seasoned Oasis tour vets, the outpouring of goodwill and camaraderie between the band and fans has been invigorating.
Kevin Cummins is a British photographer who captured the group in its earliest days, just before releasing its debut LP “Definitely Maybe.” He’s exhibiting shots from his book of that era, “Oasis: The Masterplan,” at Musichead Gallery in Hollywood starting this week. Even he’s taken aback by how frictionless and joyful this reunion has been.
“I watch football with Noel in England, and we’d talked about a reunion on and off over years. He’d always say no, it’ll never happen, it won’t work,” Cummins said. “So I was as surprised as anybody about the scale of these gigs and the reception they’re getting. When I speak to Noel after the gigs, he says each is better than last one. I don’t think even they quite believe how huge this has become.”
Cummins has photographed the band for three decades, and always admired how Oasis fans identified with their working-class insouciance and biting humor. In a political climate where every cultural figure can become instantly polarizing, Oasis’ reunion was the closest thing the U.K. got to a national consensus.
In an L.A. ravaged by fires, ICE and a doom-stricken mood in its hallmark entertainment industries, Oasis’ return is a rare spectacle to look forward to as well.
Liam Gallagher, left, and Noel Gallagher, right, from the band Oasis perform during their reunion concert on Friday, July 4, 2025, in Cardiff.
(Scott A Garfitt / Invision / AP)
“In England, the gigs were a time of renewal, if that’s not too corny,” Cummins said. “This year has been pretty miserable year politically, so this tour has come along and been great distraction. Oasis has always been a band people were fiercely proud of, and this is like going to football game where 80,000 people are rooting for same team.”
All week, L.A. bars and nightclubs have packed their calendars with Oasis-themed parties. Regulars at Club Underground, a decades-long British indie night now at Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown, would naturally get in on the occasion.
“Every week, ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ is our closing song,” said Lawrence Gjurgevich, who throws Club Underground as DJ Larry G (naturally, they’re throwing a pre-party Friday night). Affection for Britpop in L.A. “Goes back to the original KROQ, which played bands like New Order, the Smiths, the Cure,” he said. “There’s always been a lineage here that continues with bands like Arctic Monkeys and Fontaines D.C.”
Gjurgevich lost his home in the Eaton fire, and while he’s buried in the rebuilding process, these Oasis shows are both a respite and a reminder of why he made a life in L.A.’s music scene. “The shows are in our backyard, which is amazing,” he said. “We’re rebuilding and it’s heavy, but this has been something to look forward to, a place to make new friends.”
Even young newcomers, who missed Oasis in its boozy ‘90s heyday and 2000s collapse, are compelled by this tour, said Holiday Kirk, an L.A. promoter, writer and memelord (who is partially responsible for the nu-metal revival among Gen Z).
“If you’re under 25, you don’t remember how omnipresent Oasis was. You couldn’t get away from them, they could park singles at number one by sheer will,” Kirk, who in his early thirties, said.
Kirk is pivoting to Britpop for an Oasis-heavy pre-party at Gold Diggers on Friday. There’s certainly a nostalgia factor for older fans, but also a curiosity from younger ones about a band that slung insults, fists and cocaine in equal measure while writing some of its era’s most affecting songs.
A fan, Rose, looks at British rock band Oasis’ pictures shot by photographer Kevin Cummins displayed for an exhibition.
(Etienne Laurent / For The Times)
Gen Z fans are “fascinated by the idea of being an uncompromising rock band and conquering the world. That’s so far out of anyone’s conception of what’s possible today,” Kirk said. “Can you imagine Sabrina Carpenter, in an interview, saying she hated Taylor Swift? It’s so fun to think that you can do that and it wouldn’t ruin your career. I’ve seen so many Liam Gallagher fancams on TikTok where the comments are like ‘OMG, so babygirl’” — a Gen Z term of endearment for older men — “because no other frontman has had that swagger since.”
Even for fans left out of the Rose Bowl shows, the Alamo Drafthouse cinema in downtown L.A. screened the 2016 Oasis documentary “Oasis: Supersonic” this week to offer a taste of the band at its incendiary peak.
“There’s such an appeal for young audiences to see these cultural documents of a world before the celebrity became so image-conscious and considerate of stakeholders,” said Jake Isgar, the head of specialty programming for Alamo Drafthouse. “The Gallagher brothers can’t help but be themselves, and that’s why people are so drawn to them.”
A detail of a contact sheet of British rock band Oasis by photographer Kevin Cummins.
(Etienne Laurent / For The Times)
While Pasadena will be the center of the rock and roll universe this weekend, Oasis posted a live map of pre-parties and band-historic sites in Los Angeles where the devoted can take a pilgrimage. (Yep, the Whisky is on there.) It’s been a brutal year for so many in L.A., and the chance to finally throw back as much beer as the Rose Bowl will serve you and scream along to “Acquiesce” and “Morning Glory” is proof anyone — even the Gallagher brothers — can find a way to reconcile and recover.
“I’ve seen people bringing their children to these shows, multiple generations having communal experiences. I can’t think of another band that could have this impact,” Ghavami said. “After ICE raids, fires and political tension, things are awful. We need to bring joy back to people. Something simple like one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. I’m excited to be alive for it.”
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes.
BLACKPINK‘s JENNIE is going solo once again, but not in the way you might think. After partnering with Beats last year to help promote the brand’s Solo 4 earbuds, the K-Pop star is back and this time with her very own Ruby red collaboration. Unveiled earlier this week, Beats and JENNIE are releasing a special edition colorway of the Solo 4 headphones.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
The collab features a Ruby red base with unique “R” and “J” details, and an embellished UltraPlush ear cushion with symbols inspired by the megastar. The headphone are also adorned with an attachable red ribbon, tied into a bow on each side. The fiery, monochromatic design is a nod to JENNIE’s debut studio album, Ruby.
Beats x JENNIE Solo 4 Special Edition
The headphones were launched alongside a new ad campaign featuring the limited-edition device blossoming from a bed of flowers set to the Ruby track “Like Jennie.” Watch the official campaign below.
“Beats has been part of my everyday life and creative process, so collaborating with them in this way feels very special,” said JENNIE in a statement. “I’m excited for people to experience my music in a new way through these headphones.”
The Beats x JENNIE Solo 4 headphones are available beginning today, (Friday, September 5) on Apple’s website and Best Buy for $199.99. Shop below. Also, if you’re in the market for earbuds, the transparent red colorway of the Beats Solo Buds from last year’s campaign featuring the K-Pop star are still available online as well. Shop both headphones below before they sell out.
