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Mac Davis, Iconic Artist & Elvis Songwriter, Dies at 78
Mac Davis, renowned for writing such hits as “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation” for Elvis Presley, as well as commanding his own five-decade career that spanned the stage and big and small screen, died Tuesday night (Sept. 29) following heart surgery. He was 78. “Mac Davis has been my client for over 40 years, and, more importantly, my best friend,” Davis’ longtime manager Jim Morey said, in announcing his death. “He was a music legend, but his most important work was that as a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. I will miss laughing about our misadventures on the road and his insightful sense of humor. In addition to Presley, among the artists who recorded Davis’ compositions were Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Tom Jones and Johnny Cash. But the Gramm...
Madonna’s Son David Banda Grooves to ‘Like a Virgin’ at His 15th Birthday Party
Madonna threw a raging backyard 15th birthday party for her son David Banda recently. The 62-year-old pop icon adopted Banda when he was just 13 months old after meeting him in 2006 at an orphanage in Malawi that she had helped fund, and it’s clear their bond has only grown stronger over the years. In a clip from the party that Madonna posted to Instagram on Monday (Sept. 28), the singer and Banda share a tender moment, with David giving Mom a big smooch and the pair explaining the origin of the teen’s birth name, which he said means “speaks the truth.” “Do you think you’ll be able to live up to that?” Madonna asks him. “Definitely, I’m currently living up to it. I love you. That’s the truth right there,” he says, kissing hi...
BLACKPINK Reveal Tracklist for The Album
With only days to go until The Album is unleashed, BLACKPINK have revealed the eight-song tracklist. Along with the Selena Gomez duet “Ice Cream”, The Album features one other eye-catching collaboration: Cardi B will be joining Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa on “Bet You Wanna”. The record-breaking lead single, “How You Like That” — which amassed 82 million views in 24 hours — will jump-start the listening experience. Other track titles include “Pretty Savage”, “Lovesick Girls”, “Crazy Over You”, “Love to Hate Me”, and “You Never Know”. Editors’ Picks The Album arrives officially on October 2nd, and pre-orders are ongoing. In 2019, BLACKPINK shared the Kill This Love EP, which included one of our favorite songs of the year. Since then, South Korea’s m...
Billie Eilish’s Apple TV+ Documentary Due Out Early 2021
Billie Eilish’s long-in-the-works documentary from Apple TV+ has formally been announced today. Titled The World’s A Little Blurry, the feature film will hit theaters and Apple’s premium streaming platform in February 2021. The existence of the doc was first revealed in December 2019, when Apple TV+ acquired the project for a whopping $25 million dollars. The World’s A Little Blurry is expected to highlight Eilish’s incredible rise to fame, as well as showcase personal, behind-the-scenes moments from throughout her young yet already historic career. One of those private scenes, a throwback look at the pop megastar’s first piano lessons, is featured in the film’s newly unveiled teaser trailer. Watch below. The forthcoming doc was produced by Apple Original Films, in association with In...
Kis-My-Ft2 Leads, Arashi’s New Bruno Mars-Produced Single Bows at No. 6 on Japan Hot 100
J-pop boy band Kis-My-Ft2’s “ENDLESS SUMMER” debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Sept. 14 to 20, selling 180,763 copies in its first week. The septet’s 26th single leads physical sales and look-ups, while also performing well in Twitter mentions (No. 3) and radio airplay (No. 27). Arashi’s new single “Whenever You Call” — an all-English R&B ballad produced by Bruno Mars — dropped digitally last Friday (Sept. 18), and the highly anticipated track racked up 58,989 downloads in just three days to blast in at No. 1 for the metric this week. The song also buzzed on Twitter (No. 1) and fared well in video views (No. 9), bowing at No. 6 on the Japan Hot 100. [embedded content] This week sees two other acts besides the two Johnny’s boy bands debuting in the top 10, wh...
Sophie Turner Shares Glowing Pregnancy Photos 2 Months After Giving Birth
After a relatively quiet pregnancy, Sophie Turner gave birth to her first child with Joe Jonas back in July. Now, the Game of Thrones actress is finally sharing some sweet moments from her time with a bun in the oven. In a series of Instagram photos posted on Sunday (Sept. 27), Turner is seen showing off her baby bump while smiling with her dog in the pool, and lounging in the sun in a bikini. Another photo finds the actress in a pajama set from the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, with Jonas’ hand seen on his wife’s stomach. See the photos here, here and here. According to TMZ, the baby girl arrived on July 22, and is named Willa, though Jonas and Turner have yet to publicly confirm the name or gender. The addition to the family comes just a year after the Jonas Br...
Mariah Carey Says She Worked On an Alternative Album While Recording ‘Daydream’
Mariah Carey was recording Daydream by day and a very different album by night in the mid-’90s. In her new memoir, the pop star reveals that she worked on a rock album with the band Chick around the time period of the Daydream sessions. “Fun fact: I did an alternative album while I was making Daydream,” Carey wrote on Twitter, where she shared an excerpt from her upcoming book, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, Sunday afternoon (Sept. 27). “Just for laughs, but it got me through some dark days.” “Here’s a little of what I wrote about it in #TheMeaningOfMariahCarey,” she said. Carey added in her tweet, “S/O to my friend Clarissa who performs the lead w/ me as a hidden layer.” In the excerpt, she admitted, “I actually started ...
Lance Bass Says Justin Timberlake & Jessica Biel Have Welcomed Baby No. 2: ‘They’re Very, Very Happy!’
Justin Timberlake is a dad of two! The confirmation came from none other than his former fellow *NSYNC band mate Lance Bass. “We have talked several times and we knew before anyone else did,” Bass revealed about the new baby’s arrival after Entertainment Tonight‘s Katie Krause asked him on Friday (Sept. 25) about reports that the singer-actor and wife Jessica Biel are now a family of four. “It’s been a fun celebration and they’re very, very happy!” “It’s all about baby! It’s all about the new one they just brought in,” Bass added about their discussions in the *NSYNC group chat. “It’s all been conversations about a newborn.” While the singer-turned-podcaster revealed the little one’s arrival, he...
Fans Choose Zayn’s ‘Better’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
Zayn‘s latest song “Better” has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Sept. 25) on Billboard, choosing the 27-year-old singer’s mellow R&B ballad as their favorite new music release of the past week. “Better” brought in 91 percent of the vote this week, beating out new music by Travis Scott (“Franchise”), SuperM (“Super One”), Jennifer Lopez and Maluma (“Pa’ Ti” and “Lonely”) and others. “Better,” co-written by Zayn, is slated for his upcoming third album, which is described in a release as his “most personal project to date. With total creative reign on his third album, Zayn is making the music he has always wanted to.” The accompanying video, direc...
Chrissy Teigen Pays a High Compliment to Miley Cyrus
Chrissy Teigen is spending her Saturday turning up some Miley Cyrus tunes. She took to Twitter to share one of the singer’s live performances from over the summer, raving about her vocals. “sounding like a weed smoking dolly angel,” Teigen commented on the clip of Cyrus covering The Beatles‘ “Help” in an empty Spieker Field at the Rose Bowl for June’s “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future” concert. “her voice is so different from anyone out there now,” she wrote. “I love it.” “Global Goal” streamed over the summer to shed a light on communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “I dedicated this performance to everyone who is working tirelessly for testing, treatments and vac...
Zayn Unveils New Single “Better”: Stream
Zayn has returned with his first solo single in two years, “Better”. This is the first preview of his forthcoming third album, the follow-up to 2018’s Icarus Falls. “Better” is a velvety R&B love jam about the sexiest thing there is: open communication. Zayn asks his lover to express her negative emotions now, rather than waiting for the problem to get worse. “Why? Why wait to fight?” he croons, later wondering, “Can we save tears in your eyes?” The music video was directed by Ryan Hope and the concept seems simple enough: Zayn starts out shirtless, and then he gets dressed in slow motion. But there are also brief cutaways to people watching him through binoculars or listening to tape recordings, which suggest that the pop star might be under surveillance. Paparazzi? Foreign ...
Halsey Slams Tory Lanez’s ‘Daystar’ & His Attempt to ‘Profit Off of His Violence’ Toward Megan Thee Stallion
Tory Lanez caused an uproar across social media on Thursday night (Sept. 24), when he teased that he would finally break his silence after Megan Thee Stallion revealed that the Canadian rapper shot her in the leg during a July confrontation. Instead of coming clean, the 28-year-old rapper and singer, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, unveiled a 17-track album Daystar, with the lead track “Money Over Fallouts” featuring the line, “Gotta see a couple questions: how the f–k you get shot in your foot, don’t hit no bones or tendons?” “Megan people tryna frame me for a shootin’…Knowin’ I ain’t do it but I’m comin’ at my truest,” he also claims on the track. Despite the controversy, Day...
