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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt went viral overnight after losing their home in the LA wildfires. The couple talk about Heidi’s newfound success in music with her album, ‘Superficial,’ and “I’ll Do It” making its way up various charts, her new song “Prototype,” how Beyonce helped spice up date nights and more!
Heidi Montag:
I can’t thank everyone, not for playing it, for making videos, for streaming it, for like, helping our families
Tetris Kelly:
From losing their home in a devastating wildfire, to fans, returning a 15 year old song and album to the top. And today, releasing brand new music. We talked to Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt on TikTok Live about everything from the tragedy to new music and Taylor Swift to Beyonce.
Spencer Pratt:
We’ve actually… Heidi’s played more Beyonce.
Tetris Kelly:
We break it all down in this week’s ‘Music You Should Know.’
Spencer Pratt:
The audience is… it’s like its own American Idol they are making Heidi, this pop star, and it’s all audience driven. So it’s like a live reality show where the audience keeps pushing her to the top. And it’s like a weird glitch in the matrix.
Tetris Kelly:
After losing their home in the fire destroying large neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Spencer saw a huge boom in his social following.
Spencer Pratt:
Cheers. Thank you to a million followers on TikTok. Who would have thought all I needed is our house to burn down?
Tetris Kelly:
It happened in time with the 15th anniversary of Heidi’s album, ‘Superficial,’ and song, “I’ll Do It,” which hit No. 1 on iTunes, as fans and even celebs rallied behind the project, and they even got ‘Hill’s’ cast support.
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Tim Finn, the celebrated New Zealand singer and songwriter, has signed a worldwide publishing deal with Kobalt.
Announced this week, Kobalt will administer Finn’s entire catalog of songs, which includes Split Enz’s “I Hope I Never,” “I See Red” and “Six Months In A Leaky Boat,” and “I Got You,” which reached No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. Also included is Crowded House’s “Four Seasons In One Day,” “It’s Only Natural,” and “Weather With You,” plus solo works.
“We are thrilled to announce this new partnership with Tim Finn, a legendary figure in the world of music,” comments Simon Moor, managing director of Kobalt for the APAC region. “From his groundbreaking work with Split Enz to his contributions to Crowded House and his illustrious solo career, Tim has consistently showcased his incredible songwriting talent.”
Adds Finn: “Simon Moor and his team at Kobalt are energized music lovers. I’m excited to see what we can do together. It feels like a new chapter is waiting to be written for me and my songs.”
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Finn formed Split Enz in his homeland in the early 1970s. By the time Split Enz called it a day in December 1984, the band had banked a treasure chest of hits, including “Message to My Girl,” “My Mistake” and “Dirty Creatures”.
At that stage, Finn had already launched his solo career. His debut from 1983, Escapade, cracked the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 161.
Finn briefly joined forces with his younger brother and former Split Enz bandmate Neil on the third Crowded House project, Woodface, released in 1991. Woodface hit No. 82 on the Billboard 200.
A told, four Split Enz albums crashed the U.S. albums tally and the band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2005. Crowded House’s elevation came in 2016.
Finn’s latest work has included songs and soundtracks for film, television and musical theater, including Ladies in Black, for which he received a Helpmann Award for best new Australian work. His most recent solo album, 2021’s Caught by the Heart, is a collaboration with Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, who produced the Split Enz album from 1976, Second Thoughts.
Boasting 13 global offices, Kobalt serves over 1 million songs, representing the likes of Roddy Ricch, Max Martin, Karol G, Andrew Watt, Stevie Nicks, Phoebe Bridgers, The Lumineers, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney and others.
Duran Duran has paid tribute to the late American filmmaker David Lynch, whose brilliant and bizarre films laid the inspirational groundwork for a young Nick Rhodes.
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Writing on the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band’s Instagram, Rhodes remembers Lynch as “a creative superhero” from “the moment I first saw his film Eraserhead as a teenager.”
The keyboardist continues, “His imagination, innovation, style and humour will remain an enormous inspiration.”
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Duran Duran has a special connection with the auteur, who died has following a battle with ill health. Back in 2011, Lynch directed the Duran Duran episode of American Express’ “Unstaged” concert series. “The stranger it is, the more beautiful it will be,” Rhodes, the group’s founding keyboardist, told Billboard.com at the time. “What appeals to us very much about working with David is that we like the way he thinks about things and how he’s always gone out on a limb to make things different than anybody else. He works completely outside of the system, and that’s what we try to do. I think the combustion between us and David should create something that nobody’s ever seen before, something mysterious and magical and surprising.”
A new cut of Duran Duran: Unstaged was released in cinemas in 2014, starring the original band members Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor, plus guest performers Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), Beth Ditto (Gossip), Kelis and Mark Ronson. The following year, Duran Duran delivered a three-song finale at a concert tribute to the music of Lynch.
Lynch’s death at 78 comes just five months after he announced that he was housebound over fears he’ll contract COVID-19 after being diagnosed with emphysema from many years of smoking.
A native of Missoula, Montana, Lynch was a master of the surreal, whose dark cinematic touches are known to the creative community as “Lynchian”. Several of his films scored Oscar nominations, including The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. Though he never won a competitive Academy Award, Lynch was presented with an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2019.
“Curious about the unknown and never afraid of a dark alley, he was an uncompromising, experimental artist, with a truly unique vision,” writes Duran Duran’s Rhodes, in a post that’s accompanied with a candid photo of Lynch and Rhodes comparing cameras, with the band’s drummer Roger Taylor looking on.
Thanks in part to the inspiration provided by Lynch, Rhodes has pursued the art of photography since his youth, and has exhibited collections and published several books on his works. “Sadly,” Rhodes writes, “the weather today in California is stormy and there is no lucky number.”
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