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John Cena announces WWE retirement after two decadesBig Pineapple Music Festival bucks the trend by pushing ahead with 2024 eventKendrick shuts the door on Drake beef with Not Like Us music videoThe Wiggles enter their centenarian eraAus politicians' Midwinter Ball fashion trashed by Twitter One more chair smash and he's out: John Cena announces retirement from WWE

You could barely hear John Cena over the sound of distraught fans as the actor/wrestler announced his retirement from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) over the weekend.

Cena delivered a heartfelt speech at the WWE's Money in the Bank event in Toronto, saying his final competition will be in 2025.

"I've been doing this for a while, I've been in WWE for two decades and in that time I've seen incredible waves of prosperity … and I've also seen tremendous hardship," he said.

Cena told reporters after the event that he feels physically "at my end", but that doesn't mean he needs to distance himself from the sport he loves.

The 47-year-old was contracted into the WWE in 2001, originally performing under the moniker Doctor of Thuganomics, a rapper character decked out in gold chains and a backwards hat who challenged his wrestling opponents to rap battles.

Cena made the leap to acting in 2006, starring in action movie The Marine. Since then he's starred in studio comedies including Blockers, played the Peacemaker in multiple DC productions, and most recently starred alongside Zac Efron as the title character in Ricky Stanicky and as a Fak brother in season three of The Bear.

On Sunday, Cena promised fans a farewell tour before he hangs up his shorts, and said he would remain involved with the wrestling franchise that launched his career.

In addition to being a 16-time WWE champion, as of 2022 Cena also holds the Guinness World Record for Most Wishes Granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, at an eye-watering 650 wishes granted.

Let's hear it one last time for a real one.

— Velvet Winter

The return of the Big Pineapple Music Festival

We've brought you far too much bad news about music festivals lately, so it's exciting to instead report on the return of a beloved event.

Sunshine Coast's Big Pineapple Music Festival has had a few years off, but it is bucking the trend of festival collapse as seen with the likes of Splendour in the Grass and Groovin the Moo, and will return in fine style this October.

The line-up is suitably big and juicy, packed with some of our country's finest across a broad range of genres.

Its six headliners speak to the breadth of Australian music, with metalcore faves The Amity Affliction, pop superstar Tones and I, hip hop legends Bliss n Eso, electronic party starters Golden Features and Peking Duk, and indie pop wonder Vera Blue leading the charge.

The Big Pineapple itself has had a big face lift lately, and a party of this magnitude seems the perfect way to celebrate the old girl's new lease on life. It all goes down on Saturday October 19.

— Dan Condon

Kendrick Lamar releases 'Not Like Us' video to rub his victory in Drake's face

Do not cross Kendrick Lamar. His feud with Canadian star Drake has been the biggest thing to happen to rap music in recent memory.

After widely being declared the winner with the release of chart-topping diss track 'Not Like Us', the Compton MC enjoyed a victory lap last month, performing the song five times in a row at a hometown concert celebrating the LA rap scene on Juneteenth (a holiday to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US).

On the Fourth of July (America's "White holiday"), Lamar released the video for 'Not Like Us', which hits like a figurative victory lap on Drake's grave.

A lot of Compton folks turned out for the proverbial wake, chanting and vibing in the clip, which was directed by Lamar and long-time collaborator Dave Free and has racked up more than 32.5 million views since it was released.

The video has cameos from LA locals, some of which are strategically targeting Drake, including Tommy the Clown (who invented the "clowning" dance style, later known as "krumping") and NBA star DeMar DeRozan (who used to play for Drake's home team, the Toronto Raptors).

There's way more artfully shot, symbolic jabs at Drake than we have space to unpack here, but let's go over some of the highlights.

In the first verse, Lamar accuses Drake of being a "certified paedophile" and a lot of the crowd scenes are filmed outside the Compton Courthouse. Kendrick is also shown skipping across a hopscotch court during the lyric, "It's probably A minorrrrr."

Lamar's fiancée, Whitney Alford, and their children, Uzi and Enoch, appear in a sequence happily dancing, countering allegations made by Drake of domestic abuse and illegitimate children.

Lamar is also shown hammering a piñata shaped like an owl – the logo of Drake's record label, OVO – and the video concludes with him staring down a real-life owl placed inside a cage.

At this point, we can well and truly consider the coffin nailed shut.

— Al Newstead

The Wiggles announce their 100th album

Have you kept track of how many releases The Wiggles have put out? It's hard to believe (and even harder to fact check) but the iconic children's entertainers are set to drop what they're calling their 100th album next month.

It's titled Wiggle and Learn: 100 Education Songs for Children, and will feature ONE HUNDRED classic and new songs. Wow.

The Australian children's entertainment juggernaut began with just four guys in 1991 and, after winning triple j's Hottest 100 in 2021, has since grown to include a roster of eight Wiggles (including Caterina Mete, who recently gave birth to identical twin girls) and their loveable associates (shout out to The Tree of Wisdom).

The group is currently doing a string of shows in smaller venues (my two-year-old checked out Friday's gig at St Kilda's Palais Theatre and her review was to the point: "I saw The Wiggles. They opened [what? unclear]. Can I see them again tomorrow?").

But children and their carers can also catch the group live in arenas across the country at the end of the year for their Wiggle and Learn BIG SHOW! (not my caps, all theirs).

— Hannah Reich

'The Menswear Guy' aka @dieworkweek had a go at Australian politicians at the Midwinter Ball

Don't worry if you have no idea what any of that really means. The TL;DR is: Australian high society descended on the Great Hall of Parliament House mid-last week for the annual Midwinter Ball, at which politicians and their partners cosplay being American, dressed in their black-tie finest.

And for some reason, Canadian fashion commentator Derek Guy — better known as "The Menswear Guy"/@dieworkeek on X/Twitter — decided to pay attention. This was despite, by his own admission, not knowing anything about Australian politics.

No one was safe from his critique. Not the Nationals leader David Littleproud, not Treasurer Jim Chalmers, and *definitely* not Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Have a look, have a laugh, and consider cummerbunds deeply for perhaps the first time in your life.

— Yasmin Jeffery