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Bunnie Xo is headed to the slammer, and she’s taking fans with her. As revealed on the Friday (Nov. 21) episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, the host — who is married to Jelly Roll — has to turn herself in to serve time for unknowingly driving for years with a suspended license, with everything apparently tying back to a minor driving incident from half a decade ago.
Broaching the subject with her characteristic bluntness, Bunnie broke the news to listeners by saying simply, “You guys, I’m going to jail.”
“Why would I not tell the internet this? I tell the internet everything anyways,” she continued, laughing. “So, uh, your girl got in trouble with the law.”
The YouTuber went on to explain that she was recently pulled over by an officer who, after running her information through his system, informed her that her license had been suspended over an unpaid ticket she’d gotten in 2020 while driving home from a family vacation in Alabama. “Do I remember getting this ticket?” she said. “Absolutely not.”
Bunnie said she immediately paid off the the ticket once it was brought to her attention, assuming that her license would be automatically reinstated as a result. She was wrong.
Cut to a few days ago, Bunnie was once again pulled over for speeding — a charge she jokingly said she could not “confirm or deny” — during which time she was informed by a different officer that her license was still invalid. “He’s like, ‘Sometime this week, you need to go down to the jail and book yourself in,’” she recalled on Dumb Blonde, emphasizing that she’d had no idea the entire time that she was committing an “arrestable offense.”
“I got my lawyer on it, whatever,” she added. “It looks like your girl is gonna have to go book herself in. If I do — you guys have seen all my past mug shots — I’m going in glammed the f–k up, baby, and I’m going to vlog it.”
As Bunnie touched on during the podcast, this isn’t the first time she’s had a brush with the law. Earlier in November, she shared seven mugshots from her past arrests on Instagram, including one from when she was 26 and was taken into custody after “soliciting an undercover cop on a casino floor.”
“I’m not ashamed of these photos,” she wrote at the time. “They remind me who I used to be, & how far grace has carried me.”
In the comments, Jelly Roll — who recently shared a video of himself tearing up over his new Grammy nominations and shaving off his beard for the first time in years — praised his wife. “I would have never became the man I am with out you,” he wrote at the time. It was your story that inspired mine, it was always you I was trying to be like.”
“While people talked about us, judged us, wished on our downfall, we just stayed the course and believed what God had for us no man could take away,” added the country star, who has also been open about spending time in and out of jail when he was younger.
Watch Bunnie explain why she’s turning herself into jail below.
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Want to watch Sling TV, but on the fence about fully committing to a monthly subscription? The popular streaming platform is now offering affordable ways to tune into your favorite live TV programming without the pressure of long-term commitment. Introducing day, week and weekend passes, Sling is now offering users a way to opt into the streaming service with instant, 24-hour access to live TV, sports and entertainment for a very affordable $1 (normally $4.99), which means you save up to 80% off.
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The Sling $1 Day Pass deal is a limited-time offer running now until November 30, so act fast before the deal is gone forever.
The new passes will have three subscription offerings, highlighted by its day pass package, giving fans the ultimate flexibility to watch what they want, when they want, and then opt out. Here a breakdown for each offering:
Day Pass: pay $4.99 for an instant 24-hour access period to Sling TV. Ideal for tentpole live events, key sports games, trending shows, or awards nights.
Weekend Pass: pay $9.99 for weekend access to Sling TV. This pass is for those looking lounge and binge watch their favorite shows or catch the lineup of football games all weekend long. Sit back and relax knowing Sling TV has you covered.
Week Pass: pay $14.99 for weekly access to Sling TV. Pick and choose based on a week’s worth of upcoming programming.
“This launch is about putting control back in the hands of the fans, whether it’s tuning in for college football, professional sports, award shows, or a spontaneous movie night, all without having to sign a long-term, binding contract,” said Seth Van Sickel, Senior Vice President, Product and Operations, Sling TV in a press release. “With college football just around the corner, our new Day Pass offering is all consumers need to win on game day, for just $4.99.”
Along with the launch of Day Pass, subscribers can also add Sling Extras, add-on channel packages. These add-ons offer a way to customize your channel lineup by category. Current Sling Extra packages include, Sports Extra, News Extra, Entertainment Extra, Hollywood Extra, Lifestyle Extra, Heartland Extra and Kids Extra. Fans can add Sling Extras to their passes for $1 for Day Pass, $2 for Weekend Pass and $3 for Week Pass.
Browse and sign up for each new Sling pass in the link below.
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Observers of the indictment against former FBI director James Comey were astounded after interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan revealed in a Virginia court that she didn’t disclose both counts of the indictment to all of the grand jury. The admission – which could lead to the case being thrown out – led to Halligan being thoroughly ridiculed and calls for her to be disbarred.
Halligan admitted that her office only showed the details of the final indictment to two members of the grand jury. But the foreperson signed off as if all grand jury members saw it in full. Comey’s attorney, Michael Dreeben, argued that the admission means that “there is no indictment,” going on to argue that the case was initiated at the behest of President Donald Trump due to his animosity towards Comey. District Court Judge Michael Nachmanoff set a deadline of 5 p.m. for the Department of Justice to respond to the developments.
Former MSNOW host and lawyer Katie Phang posed a question in a BlueSky post based on Halligan’s admission: “OMFG…Did Halligan just gin up a new second indictment, sign it, and present it to the judge???”
The aftereffects shocked legal experts. Former U.S. Attorney Ty Cobb, who served in the first Trump administration, suggested for Halligan and Attorney General Pam Bondi to be disbarred over the gaffe in a Fox News interview.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, political commenter Mike Nellis roasted Halligan and President Donald Trump, who called for the indictment to be made. “The Comey case has been such an embarrassing s–t show for Trump. The grand jury rejected the indictment, so Halligan just had the foreperson sign an altered version. That’s illegal, and it means the case will be easily tossed. Idiots.”
Legal expert Marcy Wheeler opined on BlueSky that the indictment could be tossed as a result. “The indictment almost certainly goes away…Lindsey skipped the critical step of actually presenting charges to the grand jury.”
Democratic Representative Ted Lieu of California blasted Halligan who he referred to as “an embarrassment” and the Department of Justice in a post on X, formerly Twitter, calling for her resignation.
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Bad Bunny’s influence has left a permanent imprint on popular culture. Now, Yale University has decided his impact is important enough to study indefinitely.
As per Newsweek, the prestigious Ivy League institution will continue offering its course dedicated to analyzing the Puerto Rican superstar’s career. Originally launched in April, “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics” breaks down how the “MONACO” artist not only commands global fandom but also embeds political, cultural, and social commentary throughout his music. Topics explored include Puerto Rico’s threatened cultural identity post–Hurricane María and ways Bad Bunny has corrected mainstream misconceptions about the reggaeton genre.
The class’ popularity took Professor Albert Laguna by surprise — over 120 students attempted to enroll. Still, he intentionally kept the course small to maintain meaningful discussion. “I prefer small classes to develop the conversation, the connection between the students,” he told El Nuevo Día. Laguna also confirmed he plans to keep teaching the course as long as Bad Bunny remains relevant.
The timing is notable. Since being announced as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer, Bad Bunny has faced loud criticism from detractors who claim he’s unworthy of the spotlight. A petition opposing the NFL’s decision has already surpassed 100,000 signatures.
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On Thursday morning (November 20), President Donald Trump demanded the arrest of six Democratic lawmakers in a post on his Truth Social media platform, calling them “traitors” and suggesting that they be tried and put to death.
“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” he wrote, adding: “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand – We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.” In another post, Trump raged, “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
The posts were in response to a video featuring six Democrats from Congress – Senators Elissa Slotkin (MI) and Mark Kelly (AZ), and Representatives Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chris Deluzio(PA), Jason Crow (CO), and Chrissy Houlihan (PA) – directly addressing service members of their oaths in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders,” they said, concerning the administration’s strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would field a direct question about Trump’s Truth Social posts later that afternoon. When asked if each of the lawmakers (who have military and intelligence backgrounds) should be killed, she replied, “No.”
Leavitt argued that the lawmakers’ video would be a threat to national safety. “Every single order given to the U.S. military by this commander in chief, through the chain of command and the secretary of war, is lawful,” she stated.
House Majority Speaker Mike Johnson (LA), a Republican, stated that the Democratic lawmakers’ video was “wildly inappropriate” and “dangerous”. But in later comments, he would say that they weren’t “punishable by death,” and that Trump was “trying to make a point.” But several Democratic members of congress, including other observers, swiftly expressed their outrage at the comments online.
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Outside of a few big time collaborations between brands and celebrities, the hype behind the sneaker game is all but dead and while sneaker aficionados are enjoying being able to finally get pairs of their favorite grails without having to deal with hype beasts and greedy resellers, a new film explores how a few sports marketing teams helped sports footwear became a billion dollar industry.
According to Deadline, a new docuseries dubbed The Sneaker Boom will be exploring how up and coming NBA stars and marketing execs at sneaker brands helped turn a once struggling apparel market into a multi-billion dollar movement that impacted the street culture worldwide and turned helped turn NBA stars into household names at a time when Michael Jordan was dominating all facets of the game.
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Brought to us courtesy of Sean Menard, the five-episode docuseries follows the maverick marketing and advertising execs who rolled the dice on NBA rookies who seemed bound to make an impact on the NBA such as Allen “The Answer” Iverson, Grant Hill, Larry “Grandmama” Johnson and Afernee “Penny” Hardaway. While none of these men were able to hoist an Larry O’Brien trophy mainly due to one Michael “Air” Jordan, they’re sneaker lines were huge hits and actually able to stand the test of time, and now we’ll be seeing how exactly marketing execs made that happen.
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Original interviews and never-seen-before archive footage build the picture, while the title sequence was created by a team of miniature artists, who also created era-accurate boardrooms where brands competed to sign future NBA stars to multi-million dollar contracts.
“We’re thrilled to finally share this series with audiences – starting with my home country of Canada,” said Menard. “Shining a light on the pioneers behind these iconic athletes will hopefully inspire a whole new generation, while offering long-time fans a fresh and nostalgic look at a magical era in sports and culture.”
We wonder if this series will help conjure up interest in their retro sneakers. Sure couldn’t hurt.
Check out the trailer for The Sneaker Boom below and let us know if you’ll be checking it out on the Canadian streaming service Crave this weekend.
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A week after announcing his retirement from music, Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, 74, added an emotional coda to his nearly six-decade music career. The group released the moving music video for a remix of the title track from the band’s 2011 album, “Forevermore,” produced by the singer and featuring a new orchestral arrangement from the Hook City Strings.
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The video directed by Payton Murphy is a trip down memory lane, featuring shots of a grey-haired Coverdale, famous for his flowing blonde hair, singing the tune’s nostalgic lyrics amid shots of his family and wife of 28 years Cindy Barker. “Looking back across the years/ The good times and the bad/ All echo in my mind,” Coverdale sings plaintively from a room festooned with candles and draped in white curtains, lamenting the mix of “sweet and bitter memories” he’s left behind.
“For you will be my life/ And I will feel your heart beat forevermore,” he croons while pounding his fist over his heart as the all-white-clad string players add a layer of extra gravitas to the already elegiac song in the clip that has the feel of a memorial video.
Coverdale revealed his plans to hang it up last week in an Instagram video in which he sipped a glass of wine while delivering the news. “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, brothers and sisters of the Snake, a special announcement for you,” Coverdale said in the clip. “After 15 years plus… the last few years have been very evident to me that it’s time really for me to hang up my rock and roll platform shoes and my skin-tight jeans. And as you can see, we’ve taken care of the lion’s wig. But it’s time for me to call it a day. I love you dearly. I thank everyone who’s assisted and supported me on this incredible journey. All the musicians, the crew, the fans, the family. It’s amazing.”
In addition to fronting 1980s metal act Whitesnake — whose 1987 smash “Here I Go Again” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 28 weeks on the chart, followed by No. 2 hit “Is This Love” later that year — Englishman Coverdale replaced singer Ian Gillan in Deep Purple in 1973, fronting that band until their break-up in 1976. He released a pair of R&B/blues-influenced solo albums in the late 1970s before forming Whitesnake in 1979. He later also formed a duo with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, releasing the album Coverdale-Page in 1993.
In the ensuing years Coverdale bounced between more solo work and a series of reunions with Whitesnake until a sinus infection in 2022 stopped him from touring with the group.
Watch the “Forevermore” remix video below.
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Imogen Heap has always been known as an innovator in the music industry. The British singer, songwriter, producer and technologist has been experimenting with cutting edge tools to push her creativity forward since she first began releasing music over 25 years ago.
Now, as AI music continues to make headlines in the music industry and infiltrates the songwriting process, Heap is working on ethical ways to incorporate it into her own work. Recently, she released the song “I AM___,” a 13-minute epic that featured a collaboration between Heap and AI.Mogen, her self-trained AI voice model, and by collaborating with her digital self, Heap forces listeners to consider big questions, like the nature of art and self-identity.
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She’s also working on a company called Auracles, which recently announced a partnership with SoundCloud designed to create a verified digital ID for musicians that, in the age of AI, helps them track their music’s uses across the internet, grant permissions for approved uses of their work and create “the missing foundational data layer for music.”
To talk through how she’s using AI in a responsible and creative way as well as the 20th anniversary of her seminal album Speak For Yourself, Heap joined Billboard‘s new music industry podcast, On the Record w/ Kristin Robinson, this week.
Below is an excerpt of that conversation.
Watch or listen to the full episode of On the Record on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts here, or watch it below.
You’ve been watching this space for a long time, but when do you feel like you noticed a shift when everyone else started paying attention?
I feel like the silver lining, really, we definitely are at that place where it’s very confusing right now, and we do need some clarity, but we are, we can do it. There are tools, and everybody wants it. So I feel like the silver lining, really, of this dark cloud that’s on my seat as AI music taking over, is that we are going to get the data layer of works, we’re going to get this complete data layer of works because people will want to prove not only that they’re human, but they want to go there. They want to actually say, “No, I’m human and these are all my works that I actually contributed to.”
Hallwood Media is the first music company to be open about signing so-called AI artists like Xania Monet and imoliver. Do you think that major labels will start signing AI talent, or talent that uses AI very heavily, in the next few years?
I think a lot of things when you say that. I feel a lot of major labels are signing music that sounds AI generated to me anyway, it’s just like, ‘oh, that just sounds like that last thing and that last thing’ — nothing’s changed. So, it wouldn’t surprise me. I thought that that would happen, and wherever there’s money, obviously they’ll go if they think they can make money out of this artist.
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You recently released a 13-minute song called “I AM__” which featured you singing alongside AI.Mogen, which is essentially your own AI voice model. Why did you decide to collaborate with yourself, and what were you trying to say artistically?
It’s kind of a very long winded, kind of silly way to do things, but I did it as a statement. I did it to rile people up, I suppose, and just be able to have this conversation. Because the song, in the beginning, it takes you through this journey of what I’ve experienced over the last four years where I started to think about, ‘Who am I? What am I? And this ego, what is it?
And then I started to think about AI. Because what is AI? What can I feel that AI can’t feel? The noise section in that song is like the annihilation of my ego —I’m not saying I have no ego now — But then, after I needed a section for after care. I wanted to explore this idea that AI is our child. AI is something that we are raising together, as the as the mother and father. Right at the end, there’s the voice of AI.mogen. I wanted it to be an AI voice, even though I had to sing everything. The way I made this is I sang all the parts, and then I put it through my AI model so that the model of my voice is then singing the words. It’s like changing the sound on a on keyboard.
Yeah, so like a voice filter over your own performance, but this filter is also you in a way?
Yeah, and I wanted to trick people. After this quite traumatic noise section, they would feel something, and that voice would not be my voice would be the AI agent’s voice. I wanted to create a discussion. I wanted to, you know, show people that we already don’t know the difference between AI and human, but does it matter? I do say in the title, it’s AI.mogen, but it was all ethically sourced. It was all done in the best way possible. And it’s my own voice, and I didn’t use any, I didn’t generate any music.
Of course, some people already canceled me for, you know, even saying that AI is in my music. So many people have said: ‘You use AI to generate the song?’ I was like, ‘No, I did not. I wish I could, because it took me four years to do it with 100s of hours,’ but the point of this is everybody is fearful of it, but we can still feel. And what is art? Art something for someone, not to somebody else, but if a sense of it, it speaks to you and it makes you feel something does it matter if it makes you recognize something in yourself? I mean, essentially, or AI is generated from human.
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I love that you’ve been able to make this model that is totally within your control. I think the thing that gets scary is when anyone can create another person’s voice model online. I think such an important part of being an artist is having the taste and the curation to know what you want to say and don’t say. In an age of AI, it feels like you’re losing a lot of control over yourself. Do you have fears around that?
I mean, we already have lost control. People basically, you know, say that we’ve written something when we haven’t, and they don’t credit us when we have been a part of it. But that’s still very much less. I do think it’s gonna, really, it’s just gonna, it’s gonna force us into creating something that will make sense of what we have already and for the future, so that we can put a flag in the sand as humans and go, okay, up to this point, it was human generated. Again, I think it just comes down to this core missing piece that we don’t have which is an ID layer, like, identifying home for each individual.
AI almost completely lowers the barrier to entry for making music. As a trained musician, I’m wondering what your thoughts are on that?
Why not? Anyone who has spent 10,000 hours perfecting your craft will always have an edge. If you generate anything off these services right now, you’re just going to sound like 99.99% of other people who did that too, but if you have an edge, if you have a real something there that connects with people, you use these models differently. But, yeah, this helps everyone move forward. I don’t have problem with that at all.
