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Welcome to the jungle. Machine Gun Kelly went absolutely feral over Megan Fox’s recent bikini photo shoot, for which she posed like a wild animal perched in the trees. In the images shared to Fox’s Instagram Saturday (July 15), the Jennifer’s Body actress models on all fours atop a thick tree branch, showing off an […]
Dolly Parton may not have a “9 to 5” schedule, but she plans on working until the end of her days. During an interview with Greatest Hits Radio‘s Ken Bruce that aired on July 13, the country icon shared her thoughts on retiring, and how she’d like to go out. “I always believed that if […]
Demi Lovato has one major collaboration on her bucket list. In a Friday (July 14) interview with Andy Cohen for his SiriusXM show, the “29” singer revealed that Kelly Clarkson is on her dream list and noted that the pair have talked about working on a song together sometime in the future. “I’ve never worked […]
Demi Lovato was lucky to survive her 2018 drug overdose, immediately after which the musician suffered three strokes and a heart attack. But in a raw new interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM, Lovato shared that almost exactly five years out from the near-fatal incident, they still experience hearing loss and vision impairment as a result.
“I wouldn’t change my path because I don’t have any regrets,” the 30-year-old “Cool for the Summer” singer began. “When I think about things, the closest thing that I get to a regret is when I overdosed … that overdose caused me a lot of … it actually caused a disability. I have vision impairment and hearing impairment to this day.”
“I don’t drive because I have blind spots in my vision,” she continued. “It’s a daily constant reminder. You know, anytime I look at something, like, I have blind spots in my vision when I look at your face, and so it’s a constant reminder to stay on the right path because I never want that to happen again.”
Lovato was rushed to the hospital July 24, 2018, after overdosing on heroin, having relapsed earlier that year after six years of sobriety. The former Disney star is now sober, revealing last year they completed another round of treatment in 2021 before starting work on 2022 album Holy Fvck.
“Luckily in the mind state that I’m in now — you know, being sober, having a clear head — I just think in a more positive mind space and I’m not focusing on the shame at all,” she reflected. “I know I have a lot of sympathy for where I was at that time and the choices that I made and I understand why it happened and what happened, but there’s no shame that comes with it because it was just a life lesson that I had to learn.”
In recent years, Lovato has pivoted from pop to rock music — even holding a “funeral” for their former genre — and recently announced that an album of rockified versions of older pop hits such as “Heart Attack” and “Sorry Not Sorry” called REVAMPED is dropping in September. But Lovato also told Cohen that she’s not necessarily done with pop music forever and even dreams of collaborating with Kelly Clarkson someday.
“I never say never because you never know what’ll happen, but I’ve just been really influenced by rock music and it’s what I have fun performing live,” Lovato shared. “It was just the path that I took at that time and then when I started, I got sober and I was reevaluating everything in my life including my music and I was like, ‘What makes me happy?’ Like, that’s the most important question and I was like, ‘What makes me happy is listening to rock music and performing rock music.’”
Watch Lovato on SiriusXM above.
Demi Lovato is ready to rock. On the heels of releasing a rocking version of her 2017 hit “Sorry Not Sorry” featuring Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash on Friday (July 14), the singer also announced that she’s prepping an entire album featuring amped-up versions of some of her biggest hits. REVAMPED is slated for release […]
Songs from Lil Uzi Vert’s new album Pink Tape take the top three spots on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated July 15, led by “Werewolf” featuring Bring Me the Horizon, which debuts at No. 1.
“Werewolf” earned 6.7 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads June 30-July 6, according to Luminate.
Lil Uzi Vert leads Hot Hard Rock Songs for the first time in their second appearance on the list. They previously made the survey as featured on Bring Me the Horizon’s “AmEN!,” which debuted at No. 12 on the June 17 tally and ranks at No. 21 on the latest chart.
As for Bring Me the Horizon, the band now boasts four Hot Hard Rock Songs No. 1s, tying Falling in Reverse for the most dating to the chart’s 2020 inception. The Oli Sykes-fronted group first reigned with “Parasitve Eve,” followed by “Obey” (with Yungblud) and “Teardrops,” all in 2020.
In between the commands of “Teardrops” and “Werewolf,” Bring Me the Horizon rose as high as No. 3 with “LosT” in May 2023.
“Werewolf” is followed on Hot Hard Rock Songs by “CS,” a cover of System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!,” at No. 2, and “The End,” featuring BABYMETAL, at No. 3 (around 5 million streams each).
Lil Uzi Vert is the second act to occupy the top three of Hot Hard Rock Songs in a single week, following Van Halen, which took up Nos. 1-3 on the Oct. 17, 2020, tally following the death of guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
Concurrently, the three songs rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on Hard Rock Streaming Songs in the same order. “Werewolf” also tops Alternative Streaming Songs, while “CS” and “The End” appear at Nos. 6 and 7, respectively.
The all-rock-genre Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ranking sees “Werewolf” start at No. 5, followed by “CS” at No. 8 and “The End” at No. 10.
Of the trio, “Werewolf” makes the all-format Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 81. It’s Bring Me the Horizon’s second time on the chart, following the No. 68-peaking “Maybe,” released with Machine Gun Kelly, in April 2022.
“Werewolf,” “CS” and “The End” are three rock-flavored songs from rapper Lil Uzi Vert’s wide-ranging Pink Tape, which concurrently debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 167,000 equivalent album units earned, as previously reported.
Fall Out Boy reaches the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead act for the first time since 2016, as its update of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” debuts at No. 94 on the July 15-dated tally.
The reimagination bows with 4.7 million official U.S. streams, 767,000 radio audience impressions and 9,000 downloads in the June 30-July 6 tracking period, according to Luminate.
It’s Fall Out Boy’s first entry on the Hot 100 as a lead act since “Irresistible,” which spent its final week on the survey dated March 5, 2016, after peaking at No. 48 that January. Since then, the band made the list with one track: featured on Lil Peep and ILoveMakonnen’s “I’ve Been Waiting,” which reached No. 62 in April 2019.
Fall Out Boy now boasts 21 charted Hot 100 hits, dating to its first in 2005, paced by the No. 2-peaking “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” in February 2007.
Concurrently, Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” vaults 44-6 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs in its second week on the chart after debuting via a partial week of streams, sales and airplay on the July 8 ranking (as the song was released June 28). It also debuts at Nos. 3 and 5 on the Hot Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs lists, respectively.
Its first full week of sales prompts the song to land its first week at No. 1 on Rock Digital Song Sales and Alternative Digital Song Sales as well. It’s the band’s first ruler on both since “Uma Thurman” in 2015.
The new song’s streaming count is also enough to score debuts at Nos. 11 and 20 on Alternative Streaming Songs and Rock Streaming Songs, respectively.
On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” debuts at No. 43. The band’s current radio single, “Hold Me Like a Grudge,” concurrently appears at No. 46, while that song’s predecessor, “Love From the Other Side,” ranks at No. 3 in its 25th week on the survey.
Interest in the new version of “We DIdn’t Start the Fire” also spurs streams and sales gains for Joel’s 1989 original. The song, which topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1989, enters Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, where older songs are eligible to appear if ranking in the top half and with a meaningful reason for their resurgences, at No. 21, thanks to 2.6 million streams, up 44%, and 1,000 downloads sold, a 104% vault.
Thanks to Fall Out Boy’s update, Joel earns his first Hot 100 writing credit since the Glee cast‘s cover of his 1983 hit “Uptown Girl” reached No. 68 in 2011. (Notably, Olivia Rodrigo, new atop the Hot 100 this week with “Vampire,” shouts out Joel and “Uptown Girl” in her No. 3 hit from 2021, “Deja Vu.”)
Fall Out Boy’s edition of the song alters Joel’s original lyrics to include names and events in the news since Joel’s 1989 original, referencing the likes of Y2K, Harry Potter, SpongeBob SquarePants, Stranger Things and Taylor Swift.
In an interview with BBC Radio2, Joel said that he has heard the new verses. “Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40-year span. Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Out Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away.”
Fall Out Boy dropped a surprise cover of Billy Joel‘s 1989 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire” on June 28 featuring the group’s modern update of the Piano Man’s breathless blitz through 20th century history. Out were Joel’s Boomer-skewing stream-of-consciousness lines about such h-bombs, Studebakers, Liberace, Marilyn Monroe, Harry Truman, Doris Day, Einstein, Peyton Place and children of thalidomide.
In were the Chicago emo rockers’ updated references (from 1989 to the present) to Rodney King, deep fakes, Kurt Cobain, Harry Potter, MySpace, QAnon, Ballon Boy, Fyre Fest and Stranger Things, among many others. In a recent BBC Radio2 interview Joel said that he’d heard the new verses and weighed in on the effort. “Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40 year span,” he said. “Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Out Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away.”
If you need a guide to follow along to the lightning-speed tumble of references in FOB’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” find the lyrics below:Captain Planet, Arab SpringL.A. riots, Rodney KingDeepfakes, earthquakesIceland volcanoOklahoma City bombKurt Cobain, PokemonTiger Woods, MySpaceMonsanto, GMOs
Harry Potter, TwilightMichael Jackson diesNuclear accidentFukushima, JapanCrimean peninsulaCambridge AnalyticaKim Jong UnRobert Downey Jr., Iron Man
We didn’t start the fireIt was always burning since the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fireNo, we didn’t light it but we’re tryin’ to fight it
More war in AfghanistanCubs go all the way againObama, SpielbergExplosion, LebanonUnabomber, Bobbitt, JohnBombing, Boston MarathonBalloon Boy, War On TerrorQAnonTrump gets impeached twicePolar bears got no iceFyre Fest, Black ParadeMichael Phelps, Y2KBoris Johnson, BrexitKanye West and Taylor SwiftStranger Things, Tiger KingEver Given, Suez
We didn’t start the fireIt was always burning since the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fireNo, we didn’t light it but we’re tryin’ to fight it
Sandy Hook, ColumbineSandra Bland and Tamir RiceISIS, LeBron JamesShinzo Abe blown awayMeghan Markle, George FloydBurj Khalifa, MetroidFermi paradoxVenus and Serena
Michael Jordan, 23YouTube killed MTVSpongeBobGolden State Killer got caughtMichael Jordan, 45Woodstock ’99Keaton Batman, Bush v. GoreI can’t take it anymore
We didn’t start the fireIt was always burning since the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fireNo, we didn’t light it but we’re tryin’ to fight it
Elon Musk, KaepernickTexas failed electric gridJeff Bezos, climate changeWhite rhino goes extinctGreat Pacific garbage patchTom DeLonge and aliensMars rover, AvatarSelf-driving electric carsSSRIsPrince and The Queen dieWorld Trade, second planeWhat else do I have to say?
We didn’t start the fire (we didn’t start it up)It was always burning since the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fire (we didn’t start it up)But when we are gone, it will still go onand on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and onWe didn’t start the fire (fire)It was always burning since the world’s been turning
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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Billy Joel
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