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Justin Timberlake is back, as the superstar unveiled his sixth studio album, Everything I Thought It Was, on Friday (March 15). The project is his first full-length album since 2018’s Man of the Woods. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The album features previously released singles “Drown” […]
Kelly Clarkson tapped into her country roots during The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (March 14), when she took on Chris Stapleton’s “White Horse” during her popular Kellyoke segment. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Texas native performed the 2023 track backed by her instrumentalists, affectionately […]
Stephen Colbert is as loyal a Swiftie as they come. On a recent episode of The Late Show, the talk show host told his guest of the night, Paul Rudd, that he would go to life-or-death extremes to make Taylor Swift happy — all because she treated his daughter with kindness more than a decade ago.
Recalling how he took his daughter Madeline — who was 14 at the time — to the Grammys in 2008, Colbert gushed Wednesday night (March 13), “Taylor was so nice to her that, to this day, I would murder for her if she wanted me too.”
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“I’m like, ‘Whatever you want, my queen,’” he added. “‘I will murder for you.’”
The Colbert Report alum previously told the story of how he introduced Madeline to Swift at the Grammys in a 2022 clip from his late-night show. “She turns around and goes, ‘Pretty girl!’ and comes and puts her arms around her and goes, ‘Oh you look amazing!’” he recalled at the time, mimicking how the “Anti-Hero” singer wrapped his daughter in a big hug. “She just praises my daughter for how she looks for, like, 30 seconds.”
“I would jump off a cliff into a pit of spikes for that woman for how nice she was to my daughter,” he’d added. “You’ve got to remember that!”
On Wednesday’s episode, Rudd also opened up about his love for Swift, especially when it comes to her effect on the NFL since dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “This whole thing is very exciting,” the actor, a longtime Chiefs fan, told Colbert. “I see those stories about the dads and their daughters, and their interests in watching the games together. I get all choked up watching it.”
In May, the Ant Man star attended one of the 14-time Grammy winner’s Eras Tour shows at MetLife Stadium, where he accepted friendship bracelets from fans and bumped into singer-songwriter Claud — who then invited him to star in the Phoebe Bridgers-backed artist’s music video after confessing they had another track coincidentally titled “Paul Rudd.”
“I thought, there’s so much support and love and positivity,” Rudd said of the concert. “To feel that feeling with that many people — it was incredible.”
Watch Colbert and Rudd discuss their Swiftiehood below.
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Justin Timberlake kicked off his Everything I Thought It Was era with a bang on Wednesday night (March 13), where he celebrated the upcoming released with a one-night-only concert at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, which not only featured appearances from Coco Jones and Tobe Nwigwe, but also brought *NSYNC together for the ultimate reunion. Explore […]
Ariana Grande‘s late ’90s, early aughts R&B-infused track “The Boy Is Mine” just got a stamp of approval from one of the era’s greats: Christina Aguilera. In an Instagram video shared by the “Beautiful” singer Thursday (March 14), she shows off her glamorous beaded leotard and black boots as a wind machine creates ripples through […]
Justin Bieber has been a chart-topping pop star for most of his life, signing with Scooter Braun at just 13 years old after captivating the web with his covers on YouTube. At 27, the baby-faced, swoop-haired Canadian singer became the youngest solo artist in history to notch 100 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, a […]
On the latest episode of Sean Evans’ Hot Ones Thursday (March 14), Zayn Malik recalled a time he encountered something even more fiery than the tear-inducing wings on the show: a pyrotechnical mishap at a One Direction concert many years ago, during which he saved bandmate Harry Styles from walking straight into special-effects flames.
“It’s actually amazing, ’cause it makes me look great,” the “Pillowtalk” singer joked of his superhero moment. “On stage, Harry was right next to a pyro, and the pyro was about to go off, because they were on timers. He had a towel over his head, and he had his head over the pyro and he didn’t see that the pyro was there.”
In footage from the 2013 incident, a concerned-looking Malik darts over to the “As It Was” musician — too busy wiping his face and hair with a towel to notice where he was going — and moves him away from the flames just in time. Meanwhile, Niall Horan and Liam Payne continue on with their business on stage, with only Louis Tomlinson appearing to notice what was happening to the side.
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“You see me run from one side of the stage and push him out of the way,” Malik continued in between bites of spicy chicken. “And the pyro explodes in front of his face — that was really dangerous.”
The former boy bander also fondly reminisced about the group’s go-to song for when technical difficulties with the speaker system occurred at shows. “We’d just burst into ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’ a capella,” he told Evans, laughing. “Just do the whole performance of that until the microphones were working again.”
“That was the thing that we had in our back pocket always like, ‘If the microphone goes, we’ve always got that,’” he added. “As if it was some amazing performance. Funny times.”
The new interview comes just one day after Malik announced his fourth solo album, Room Under the Stairs, which will arrive May 17. The artist told Evans that the project features a “very different sound” compared to anything he’s preciously released, adding that it’s “really raw and honest.”
“I hope people get that when they listen to it,” he continued. “I hope they get some insight into how I’m feeling and the things I’ve been going through over the last six or seven years while I’ve been writing this record.”
“I recorded most of it in a tiny little shoe cabinet in my house,” Malik added. “I felt like it was fitting to name it after that room so people can get even more sentiment into what the whole idea behind it was.”
Watch Malik on Hot Ones above.
Jennifer Lopez has added, and subtracted, a number of dates on her upcoming 2024 This Is Me… Now the Tour. The singer/actress’ first North American tour in five years lost seven stops this week according to listings on Ticketmaster, which now shows that a run of shows from August 20-31 have been canceled and dropped from the itinerary; at press time sources tell Billboard that the dates were scotched due to routing issues but that new shows have been added and will be announced soon.
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The now canceled gigs were slated to take place on August 20 in Cleveland at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, August 22 in Nashville at Bridgestone Arena, August 24 in Raleigh at PNC Arena, August 25 in Atlanta at State Farm Arena, August 27 in Tampa at Amalie Arena, August 30 in New Orleans at Smoothie King Center and August 31 in Houston at Toyota Center; those dates were part of the original routing announced on Feb 24.
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In the meantime, Live Nation announced on Thursday (March 14) that in response to demand, Lopez has added second dates in Miami, Toronto and New York. The 30-city tour that is scheduled to kick off on June 26 in Orlando at the Kia Center, will now feature an additional date at Kaseya Center in Miami on June 29, a second night at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on August 3 and a double-up on August 17 at Madison Square Garden in the singer’s hometown of New York, which is now the final announced date on the tour.
Lopez is hitting the road in support of her This Is Me… Now album — which debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 — and the pair of companion films, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and The Greatest Love Story Never Told, which were all released last month.
Tickets for the newly added dates are on sale now via a JLo Fan Club presale, as well as Citi and Verizon presales, with the latter two ending at 10 p.m. local time on Thursday (March 14).
Revised This Is Me… Now The Tour dates below.
June 26 — Orlando, FL @ Kia Center
June 28 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
June 29 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center – new date
July 2 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
July 3 — Edinburg, TX @ Bert Ogden Arena*
July 5 — San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
July 6 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
July 9 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
July 11 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum
July 13 — Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center
July 16 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
July 17 — Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
July 19 — Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure Arena
July 20 — Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena*
July 22 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
July 24 — Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center
July 26 — Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
July 27 — Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse
July 30 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
July 31 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
August 2 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena*#
August 3 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena*# – new date
August 5 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre*#
August 7 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
August 9 — Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
August 10 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
August 13 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
August 14 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
August 16 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 17 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden – new date
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Dua Lipa is stepping into a new era following the announcement for her upcoming album Radical Optimism, but not before having her past few years of Future Nostalgia immortalized by Madame Tussauds. The museum’s Orlando location will unveil a new wax figure of the 28-year-old singer Friday (March 15), paying tribute to her Future Nostalgia […]
Meghan Trainor is all new, unveiling a fresh single, album announcement and tour dates Thursday (March 14) — but somehow, she’s staying timeless at the same time. The Grammy winner revealed that her sixth studio album, Timeless, is set to arrive June 14 via Epic Records, sharing the album cover — on which she poses […]