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15 May 2023

Hailey Bieber Definitely Wants to Have Babies With Justin Bieber But Admits ‘I Get Scared’

Hailey Bieber can’t wait to start a family with husband Justin Bieber. If only she could get over her nerves. The 26-year-old model told The Sunday Times that after nearly five years of marriage to the pop star the conversation is definitely happening.

“I literally cry about this all the time,” Hailey told the paper according to People. “I want kids so bad but I get scared. It’s enough that people say things about my husband or my friends. I can’t imagine having to confront people saying things about a child.” The Biebers have gotten used to being the subjects of intense public scrutiny during the course of an on-and-off relationship that began in 2015, including in March of this year when she thanked Justin’s ex, Selena Gomez, for tamping down rumors of an alleged feud.

“We can only do the best we can to raise them,” Hailey added of their potential future offspring. “As long as they feel loved and safe.” It’s not he first time Hailey has broached the subject of having kids. Last August, the Rhode founder told Harper’s Bazaar that being married and planning for a family is hard work.

“He’s still the person that I wanna be rushing back to,” Hailey told the magazine. “I might fly somewhere and go do a job, but I can’t wait to come back and hang out. I feel like that’s because of the effort that’s been put in on both sides. At the end of the day, like, he’s my best friend, but it still does take a lot of work to make it work. And then I know eventually, when kids come in the picture, that’s going to be a whole other season of navigating how to make that work.”

Justin hasn’t been shy about having baby fever, either. During a chat with his old pal Ellen DeGeneres in 2020, JB said he’s down to have “as many as Hailey is wishing to push out… I’d love to have myself a little tribe. But, yeah, it’s her body and whatever she wants to do… I thinks she wants to have a few.”

A year later they still had babies on the brain in a clip from Justin’s Amazon Prime doc, Justin Bieber: Our World. “My intention for 2021 is to continue to set goals and have fun while doing them,” Bieber said in one clip, adding, “make sure I put my family first, and hopefully we squish out a nugget.”

Justin has been laying low since revealing last summer that he suffers from the Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which caused partial facial paralysis and forced the singer to cancel his Justice World tour as a result of the diagnosis.

15 May 2023

Miley Cyrus Announces ‘Jaded’ Music Video With a Topless Teaser: Watch

Miley Cyrus is getting vulnerable in her next music video, which arrives in less than 24 hours. The 30-year-old singer has announced that Endless Summer Vacation standout “Jaded” will be the next song to get an official visual via a dreamy teaser video posted to her social media accounts Monday (May 15).

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In the teaser, a hazy vignette covers shots of Cyrus’ tattooed hands before panning up to reveal her face. Wearing nothing but a pair of dark blue jeans, the pop star folds her arms over her bare chest while lying upside down on white bed sheets, smiling ever so slightly at the camera.

“JADED,” reads text in the video, in between shots of Cyrus. “TOMORROW.”

On Twitter, she confirmed that the project will drop on her YouTube channel at noon ET on Tuesday (May 16). After it arrives, “Jaded” will become the third single — or at least, the third song to get the music video treatment — off her March-released eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation. Previous singles include eight-week Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Flowers” and its followup, “River,” both of which have corresponding music videos.

The “Party In the U.S.A.” singer first teased the video a couple days prior to the announcement, sharing photos that are now clearly from the “Jaded” shoot on Instagram. “You’re lonely now & I hate it,” she wrote in the caption, using lyrics from the song’s chorus.

Earlier this month, Cyrus celebrated the triumph of “Flowers” becoming the fastest song to ever reach 1 billion streams on Spotify. “Thanks a billion,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “I love you.”

Watch Miley’s “Jaded” video teaser above.

15 May 2023

Reba McEntire Joining Upcoming Season 24 of ‘The Voice’

NBC announced the cast for the upcoming fall season of The Voice on Monday morning (May 15), revealing that former judge John Legend will be back in the mix in addition to returning castmate Gwen Stefani.

The two will be joined by Niall Horan in his second season, with one-time Voice hold-out country icon Reba McEntire filling the final slot for season 24. The quartet will take over for the current season’s team leaders, which include Chance the Rapper and the lone original remaining seat-filler, Blake Shelton, who is hanging it up after 12 years during season 23’s two-night finale on May 22-23.

Earlier this year, McEntire was asked if she thought she’d make a good replacement for Shelton, revealing that she was almost one of the OG Voice judges. She told ET that she was originally offered a role on the show before it debuted in 2011 before producers pivoted to Shelton.

“I got [a look at] the Holland version of The Voice. They sent it to me and I said, ‘I can’t see me doing that,’” she said in Feb. of her feelings after seeing the original version of the show that has spawned a global franchise. “Because, you know, I’m a gypsy at heart,” said McEntire, 68 of her desire not to be tied down to one project for so long at the time.

McEntire did not end up completely abandoning the show, though, serving as a mentor to Team Blake in 2011 and then returning again in 2015. Stefani is also no stranger, serving as a coach during six different seasons (7, 9, 17, 19 and 22), while Legend was a coach during seasons 16-22.

Check out NBC’s announcement below.

15 May 2023

Kim Petras Announces New Album & Models for ‘Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’ Cover

Woo-ah, indeed! Kim Petras shared two major bits of news on Monday (May 15): Her major-label debut is finally on its way and she’s on the cover of the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

Titled Feed the Beast, the German pop princess revealed the album’s release date and what looks like the cover art on social media, writing, “The story begins on June 23rd. Feed The Beast” and offering a link for fans to pre-save the album on streaming platforms. The accompanying artwork is missing Petras altogether, though, opting instead to show a fantastical sword propped up against a giant obsidian rock against a midnight blue sky.

So far, Feed the Beast is expected to contain Petras’ previously released singles “If Jesus Was a Rockstar,” “Brr” and “Alone” featuring Nicki Minaj.

The singer’s loyal army of Bunheads were ecstatic over the announcement, with one writing, “CMON DEBUT!” in the comments, and another joking, “Kim don’t turn around the beast is behind you.”

Meanwhile, for this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, the trans Grammy winner joins Martha Stewart, Megan Fox and model Brooks Nader as one of four cover models, wearing an iridescent gold bikini top designed by Natalia Fedner.

To celebrate her groundbreaking cover, the recent Billboard Women in Music Chartbreaker honoree — who’s also on the May/June cover of Out — is set to perform a special concert presented by Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Friday (May 19) at Hollywood, Fla.’s Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.

Later this summer, Petras will mark the release of Feed the Beast with another high-profile show — this one as part of Today‘s 2023 Citi Summer Concert Series on the day of the album release.

Check out Petras’ announcement of Feed the Beast below and get a look at her stunning SI Swimsuit cover here.

15 May 2023

Taylor Swift Recalls Surprising Her Mom With Secret ‘Fearless’ Track During Mother’s Day Concert

Taylor Swift and her mom had the best day this Mother’s Day. While closing out her three-night Eras Tour run at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on Mother’s Day (May 14), the pop star gave an emotional performance of her 2008 tribute track for Mama Swift, “The Best Day” — but not before recalling the sweet story of how she sneakily surprised her mom with the song all those years ago.

“I secretly recorded a song on Fearless,” she told the crowd, sitting at her piano for the second of her two nightly surprise songs (the first one was “Hey Stephen,” another Fearless favorite). “It was very sneaky and fun.”

The “Anti-Hero” singer went on to say that it was very difficult to write and record “The Best Day” without her mom knowing, as she was just 16 or 17 at the time. “I wrote this song just compiling these sort of core childhood memories I had of not just her as a mother, but her as a friend,” she continued.

After playing it for the first time for her mom, Andrea Swift, she asked, “Did you like the song?”

Andrea, however, didn’t even realize it had been written about and for her. “It’s such a beautiful song. Where did you find it? It sounds exactly like the things we went through,” Swift’s mom replied, according to the star.

“I was like, ‘Mom, I wrote it and recorded it secretly, it is our memories,” Swift explained to her, which she said moved Andrea to tears. “It was the sweetest thing ever because I just think she couldn’t have comprehended that I would write a song about the two of us.”

The 12-time Grammy winner admitted that the song makes her emotional as well, and that she would try her best to get through the whole thing without getting choked up.

Swift also gave another shoutout earlier in the night to Andrea, who was seen watching the show from a box seat with the musician’s dad, Scott, as well as The 1975’s Matty Healy, Swift’s rumored romantic interest. “Mother’s Day’s awesome,” she said during the Evermore portion of the setlist. “My mom’s my best friend, I’m obsessed with my mom.”

See clips of Taylor sending love to Andrea at Sunday night’s Eras Tour show below:

15 May 2023

Taylor Swift Fan Says Singer Proved ‘She Has Our Back’ During Philadelphia Incident With Security Guard

If you didn’t already know that Taylor Swift has Swifties’ backs, now you know. A fan who was on the receiving end of some Taylor largesse on Saturday night during the singer’s second night performing her Eras Tour at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field spoke to Good Morning America on Monday (May 15) about what it felt like to have Swift come to her aid during the show this weekend.

As chronicled in a number of fan videos, the incident came during Swift’s performance of “Bad Blood,” when the singer asked a security guard to ease up on Swifties dancing along to the show. “She’s fine,” Taylor said in the midst of the song’s chorus in which she appeared to call out the unnamed guard. “She wasn’t doing anything. Hey, stop! Stop!”

Now the fan, identified by GMA as Maryland third grade teacher Kelly Inglis Kelly, said she and her friends were dancing along to “Bad Blood” in their front row seats when, for some reason, the security guard allegedly began making demands.

“He kept telling me to stop. He kept telling me to like calm down and not to dance,” Kelly told GMA. “And I guess she noticed and she yelled at him and told him to leave me alone and that I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

Kelly also spoke out on a friend’s TikTok feed, explaining, “I was the girl that Taylor talked to last night. Basically, the guard had been harassing our group all night, just to like… he just kept telling us not to touch the rail, and like anytime we did anything he was on top of us. We’re dancing, we’re having fun, and he didn’t like it. And Taylor noticed that I was having fun and that he didn’t like it, and she didn’t like it, and then he basically, like, got escorted out. And then they offered us free tickets for tonight [Sunday ].”

In the end, Kelly said, “it wasn’t this big crazy thing. It was just a bunch of girls having a good time and he didn’t want us to have fun.”

The teacher thanked Swift for speaking up during the show. “I think it means so much to everybody else, so her fans know that, like, she has our back,” Kelly said. Swift’s spokesperson had not returned Billboard’s request for comment at press time and GMA said a rep for Lincoln Financial Field would not comment when reached.

Kelly said she was back at the venue on Sunday night for the final gig of the three-night stand. Other standout moments during the Philly show included the nightly surprise song portion of Swift’s set, which included Fearless deep cut “Forever & Always” (requested by her friend Lena Dunham) and 1989 standout “This Love.”

Swift is moving on to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on Friday (May 19) for another three-night stand.

See Kelly’s TikTok below.

15 May 2023

Riley Keough Pays Tribute to Late Mother Lisa Marie Presley on First Mother’s Day Since Her Death

Riley Keough was definitely missing her mom on the first Mother’s Day since Lisa Marie Presley‘s shocking death on January 12 at age 54. “Lucky to have had the best and most deeply loving mama I could have asked for,” wrote the Daisy Jones & the Six star in an Instagram post that also included a vintage pic of Lisa Marie cradling her as a baby alongside Keough’s dad, musician Danny Keough.

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Keough’s Daisy Jones co-star, Sam Clafin was among a number of fellow stars offering Riley some love (via heart emoji) on Sunday, along with Lindsay Lohan, Rosanna Arquette and others.

Lisa Marie, Elvis’ only child, died unexpectedly in January from cardiac arrest just days after she appeared at the Golden Globes with mother Priscilla Presley to celebrate director Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated biopic, Elvis.

Keough has grieved in private since her mother’s passing, but just after Lisa Marie’s death the actress shared the last photo of the two together. “I feel blessed to have a photo of the last time I saw my beautiful mama. Grateful @georgieflores took this,” she captioned the pic of herself and her mother cozied up while out to dinner together.

A public memorial was held at Elvis’ iconic home in Memphis, TN on Jan. 22 with performances by Axl Rose, Billy Corgan and Alanis Morissette, with pal Rose making a rare public speaking appearance as he shared some heartfelt words about his friend before performing a solo version of GNR’s “November Rain.”

Check out Keough’s Mother’s Day tribute below.

15 May 2023

Halsey Makes Surprise Appearance at Suga’s L.A. Show For Live Debut of ‘Suga’s Interlude’

Halsey helped Suga close out his three-night stand at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Sunday night (May 14) by joining the BTS member for the live debut of their 2020 joint track “Suga’s Interlude” from Halsey’s Manic album.

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In a video of the special moment posted by the Forum, Suga smiled broadly as Halsey sang “I’ve been trying all my life/ To separate the time/ In between having it all and giving it up,” while the packed house held up their flashlights to illuminate the arena. “Shout out to Halsey!” Suga enthused as the song wound down and the crowd screamed in delight.

The old friends then talked about how long it had been since they shared a stage, with Halsey noting that the last time Suga was in L.A. he came to her house, “and now I feel like I’m in your house,” she added with a laugh. Suga’s North American tour kicked off on April 26 and is slated to wind down with a two night stand at Oakland Arena on Tuesday (May 16) and Wednesday (May 17).

The singer — in the midst of a global tour in support of his debut solo album under his Agust D alter ego, D-Day — is slated to head to Asia after the American swing, kicking off with a three-show stand at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition Center in Tangerang Regency, Indonesia on May 26-28.

Suga set a new high for a BTS member on the Global Charts when he scored four debuts on the Global Excl. U.S., including the May 6-dated chart’s highest new entry, with “Haegeum” kicking off at No. 12. In addition, “Amygdala,” “Huh?!” with fellow BTS member J-Hope, and “D-Day” followed at Nos. 127, 182 and 200, respectively. Once you add in “People Pt. 2,” Agust D’s duet with Iu, jumping up from No. 108 to No. 64, Agust racked up five songs on last week’s Global Excl. U.S. ranking. That’s more songs in one week than any BTS member has simultaneously charted as a soloist, surpassing Jimin’s recent four song swing on the April 8 chart.

Check out footage of the performance below.

15 May 2023

‘American Idol’ Season 21 Finale to Feature Keith Urban, Jelly Roll, Pitbull, Kylie Minogue & More

After Sunday night’s (May 14) semi-final that cut the roster of American Idol hopefuls to just three — Colin Stough, Megan Danielle and Iam Tongi — season 21 of the series is gearing up for a major finale. Next Sunday’s (May 21) three-hour finale will air live coast-to-coast on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. ET and feature the return of former panelist Keith Urban, who will be back on Idol to mentor the top three (and perform), as well as performances from judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan.

In addition to this year’s top 12 returning to the stage one last time, producers announced the typical cornucopia of guest performers on tap for the finale, including season two winner/runner-up Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, as well as Ellie Goulding, Jelly Roll, Pitbull, TLC, James Blunt, Jazmine Sullivan, REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin, Kylie Minogue, Lainey Wilson and Lauren Daigle.

Sunday’s “Disney Night” presented the end of the dream for eliminated contestants We Ani and Zachariah Smith on a night when Hawaiian high-schooler and season-long top contender Tongi did it again with a flawless performance of “Lava” from the Pixar short, as well as a touching run through Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam’s “Father and Son.”

Danielle also impressed with her take on the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil track “You Can’t Stop the Girl” and “Carried Me With You” from Onward, while country singer Stough rocked “Real Gone” from Cars and “Nobody Knows” from Pete’s Dragon. Sara Bareilles also dropped by to sing “When You Wish Upon a Star” with the top five and The Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey performed the movie’s “Part of Your World.”

14 May 2023

10 Things to Know About Frank Sinatra, Who Died 25 Years Ago Today

Sunday (May 14) marks 25 years since Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82. That’s hard to imagine, because he remains an icon and a cultural force. His compilation Nothing but the Best reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in May 2008, a decade after his death. Jay-Z gave him a shout-out in “Empire State of Mind,” his 2009 smash with Alicia Keys: “I’m the new Sinatra, and since I made it here/ I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere.”

Sinatra had major hits spanning 40 years, from “I’ll Never Smile Again” in 1940, which he recorded with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, to “Theme From New York, New York” in 1980, in which he took a song Liza Minnelli had introduced three years earlier in the film of the same name and simply took it to another level. It became his final top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sinatra had four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (which originated in 1956): Come Fly With Me (1958), Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958), Nice ‘N’ Easy (1960) and Strangers in the Night (1966).

He topped the Billboard Hot 100 (which originated in 1958) twice — with “Strangers in the Night” (1966) and “Somethin’ Stupid,” a duet with his daughter, Nancy Sinatra (1967).

Sinatra won nine Grammys and an Oscar. His classic 1965 TV special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music won an Emmy for outstanding musical program, but he didn’t personally win for it and never officially won an Emmy. (I hate it when that happens!)

Here are 10 facts you should know about Sinatra.