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Kelly Clarkson gave one of Billy Joel‘s many classic songs a spin for the Wednesday (March 15) episode of her namesake talk show, opting for the Piano Man’s 1978 track “My Life” for the program’s Kellyoke segment.
Accompanied by her band Y’all, the American Idol alum injected the popular track with her signature belt and stunning vibrato, and even gave the camera a knowing wink while singing her rendition.
“I don’t need you to worry for me ’cause I’m alright/ I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home/ I don’t care what you say anymore this is my life/ Go ahead with your own life leave me alone,” The Voice coach sang on the chorus.
“My Life” was released as the first single from Joel’s sixth studio album, 52nd Street. The track made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1978, and peaked at No. 3 on the all-genre tally in January 1979. The track spent 18 weeks on the Hot 100. 52nd Street was a smash, spending a total of 76 weeks on the Billboard 200, eight of which were at the top of the chart.
In the past few weeks, Clarkson has covered Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979,” Death Cab for Cutie’s “You Are a Tourist” and more.
Watch Kelly Clarkson take on Billy Joel’s “My Life” in the video above.
Rina Sawayama is gearing up to make her feature film debut in John Wick 4 this spring. Ahead of the release of the movie on May 27, the “Hold the Girl” singer sat down for an interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday (March 15) to talk about how she was cast, what the stunt work was like and her experience working with Keanu Reeves.
“It was honestly like a Hollywood dream situation,” the pop star said of being cast as Akira Shimazu in the movie. “I’d been doing self tapes in the background for a couple years. I’ve never actually landed anything. I came very close, though, actually getting The Matrix, which is a whole different story. I actually got a called out of the blue from Chad Stahelski, the director. He said, ‘I’m trying to find this role and I’ve seen your music videos, and I see that you act and I can see that you do dance and choreography and fight scenes … What are you doing for the next three months?’”
Two days later, Sawayama said, she was in Berlin filming for John Wick 4. Her time on set came to a brief halt early on after sustaining a minor injury while trying to perform the action choreography, and needed to take a week off to recover.
“Chad and John Wick …the style of shooting of action is that you shoot from start to finish. It’s not very choppy in terms of the cuts, and so you need to learn the choreography from start to finish,” she explained. “It’s long sequences, and actually on the first week, I pinched a nerve in my back just doing the most basic moves, so that was so not cool. After a week, I had the best medical treatment and got better and I was able to learn it all. Five weeks, it felt like it wasn’t long enough. I wanted more time.”
Of working with the movie’s star, Keanu Reeves, Sawayama revealed that decades-long reports of him being kind and easy to work with are indeed true. “He was so sweet. Obviously knowing it was my first role, [he was] just looking after me behind the scenes,” she explained, adding that when the cameras stop rolling, Reeves is humble. “He’s not a very showy person. He does things a lot behind the scenes to make sure everyone is feeling OK. So kind, and honestly, he can turn off the celebrity, which is a weird thing to say. You think someone like Keanu walking around on set has an air of celebrity around them constantly, but he’s just there to work. I didn’t feel intimidated at all.”
During the summer, the pop star will hit up the music festival circuit. She’s also set to perform at Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Roskilde, Mad Cool and others before concluding at Lollapalooza Berlin in September.
Watch Sawayama talk about filming John Wick 4 in the video above.
Patti LaBelle was ready to let her soul flow. On That’s My Jam’s Tuesday (March 14), the iconic singer stepped up to the plate to give the wheel a spin, which got her playing a game of Nonsense Karaoke.
“Now this one is tricky,” host Jimmy Fallon explained to her and the audience. “You’re gonna have to sing a well known song, but the lyrics have been replace with total nonsense.” This time, the comedian spun the wheel and revealed that the track LaBelle would sing was none other than “Lady Marmalade.”
“A pet unicorn that I had in my dreams/ I go off the cuff with my tweets/ No thanks, bro/ I’ve got a bucked of dough, oh!/ Cook me a frittata, Donna/ Can I get a volunteer?/ International low-lord drama/ Office rerun Michael Scott,” the 79-year-old sang on the reworked version of her hit track, at one point remarking, “Oh, I hate this. Come on!”
The song, made popular by the group Labelle — which consisted of LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash — in 1975, the track served as their signature hit. The tune spent a total of 18 weeks on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at No. 1 in March 1975. The track later saw a resurgence in the 2000s when Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Mya and Lil’ Kim covered it for the Moulin Rouge! movie soundtrack; the updated version of the song also peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Watch LaBelle sing the nonsense karaoke version of “Lady Marmalade” in the video above.
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The third and final season of Ted Lasso premieres on Apple TV+ on Wednesday (March 15). Season three finds “the newly promoted” AFC Richmond facing “mockery as pundits predict they’ll finish dead last this season,” according to Apple TV+.
The cast includes Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Phil Dunster, Brendan Hunt, Ellie Taylor, Jeremy Swift, Nick Mohammed, Sam Richardson, Cristo Fernández, Anthony Head, James Lance, Toheeb Jimoh, Sarah Niles and Jodi Balfour.
Sudeikis confirmed that the Emmy-winning series will end after its third season. “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we were hoping to tell, that we loved to tell,” Sudeikis told Deadline.
“The fact that folks will want more and are curious beyond more than what they don’t even know yet —that being season three — it’s flattering. Maybe by May 31, once all 12 episodes of the season [have been released], they’re like, ‘Man, you know what, we get it, we’re fine. We don’t need anymore, we got it.’ But until that time comes, I will appreciate the curiosity beyond what we’ve come up with so far.”
Read on for details on how to watch Ted Lasso.
How to Watch Ted Lasso Season 3 on Apple TV+
The first episode of Ted Lasso season three drops on Apple TV+ on March 15. New episodes will premiere Wednesdays.
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Watch the trailer for Ted Lasso season three below.
Kelly Clarkson just put an end to Blake Shelton‘s fibbing. After the country crooner told one lie too many while speaking to a contestant on the Tuesday (March 14) episode of The Voice, his fellow judge made him take a lie-detector test — and he definitely didn’t pass.
It all started when Shelton fudged details of his athletic ability after hopeful Chloe Abbott revealed she’s a runner currently training for the Olympics. “I’ve been training for the U.S. curling team for a couple years now,” he said, earning disbelieving laughs from fellow judges Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper. “I just didn’t know how much different it is for track and field.”
Clarkson, however, wasn’t having it. “Is anybody else just sick of Blake lying?” she said, before instructing host Carson Daly to bring out a lie-detector machine.
One of the first things the “Stronger” singer wanted to know after Shelton was hooked up to the machine was whether he’d used a secret block on Clarkson. “I still don’t think that was me,” he replied, before getting exposed almost immediately by a flashing red “FALSE” sign.
“Am I truly your favorite coach?” Clarkson followed up.
“Absolutely,” he answered. But once again, he was deemed a liar by the equipment. “This thing doesn’t work!”
Clarkson gave Shelton a pass for that question, though, as the country star’s own wife, Gwen Stefani, was previously a Voice coach. But that’s when Daly went in with a below-belt question regarding the “God’s Country” singer’s pop-star spouse.
“Did Gwen marry you out of sheer pity?” Daly asked, to which Shelton finally answered honestly, “Probably.”
The OG Voice coach is currently competing for his last shot at winning, as he previously announced that this season would be his last on the show. With nine victories up his sleeve, the musician is the only coach to have been on the judges panel for all 23 seasons thus far of the competition series.
Watch Blake Shelton fail a lie detector test on The Voice above.
It’s fair to say that the early signs for Ted Lasso weren’t particularly promising. For one thing, it was adapted from a commercial – specifically, a 2013 ad for NBC Sports. (Remember how TV shows based around the Geico Cavemen and FreeInternet.com’s Baby Bob turned out?). And its concept – an American football coach trying his hand at Premier League soccer without even a basic grasp of the English game – suggested the sitcom would be a clumsy mix of broad, boorish comedy and tired culture-clash tropes.
Instead, the Jason Sudeikis vehicle became the jewel in Apple TV+’s crown, a favorite at both the Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards. For many people in the early stages of the pandemic, it was a prime source of feel-good entertainment that pretty much restored their faith in humanity. Alongside Roy Kent’s constant grunts, Jamie Tartt’s himbo antics and the titular character’s eternal optimism, its soundtrack was an integral part of its success. And we’re not talking about the inspired needle drops, either.
Ted Lasso almost rivaled its home network’s Broadway homage Schmigadoon! for musical set pieces during its first 22 episodes, with several characters bursting into song at the drop of a hat or busting moves in the unlikeliest of places. It even found the time to replicate a highly choreographed routine to a turn-of-the-century boy band’s classic hit.
With the adventures of the fictional AFC Richmond continuing on a newly released third season, here’s a look at nine of the resolutely heart-warming show’s greatest music moments.
Miming to Phil Collins (Season 2, Episode 10)
Turns out that Ted Lasso has something in common with American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman. Thankfully, it’s not a love of chainsaw-wielding serial killing, but a fondness for the master of ‘80s adult contemporary pop. Here, the fish out of water firmly gets his groove on to Collins while getting suited up for the funeral of Rebecca’s father. Sadly, the sound of the Phil Collins/Phil Bailey duet “Easy Lover” can’t prevent the anxiety attack that makes the normally dependable coach several minutes late.
Ted covers Kenny Rogers (Season 1, Episode 2)
Ted Lasso cleverly uses music to develop characterizations. Who can forget the dorky Colin reciting the lines to Drake’s “Jumpman,” earning the respect of his cooler teammates in the process? Or when Higgins shared the romantic story of why his ringtone is The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow”? Early on, Ted tries to break down Rebecca’s barriers with a discussion about their first concerts. It doesn’t exactly work, but we do learn that they’re fans of Kenny Rogers and Spice Girls, respectively, with the coach even throwing in a bit of “The Gambler” for good measure.
The street performer (Season 1, Episode 4)
Ted Lasso thrives on showing the good in mankind. But we’re still not quite sure that a crowd who’d paid good money to see chart-topping superstar (well, in the U.K. at least) Robbie Williams would be quite so understanding that he’d been replaced by someone literally pulled off the streets. But there’s no denying that dreadlocked Cam Cole – a real-life one-man-band who’s apparently been a staple of the Camden Town busking scene for years – tears the charity function’s roof off with his raucous brand of grungy blues.
Jazz scatting (Season 2, Episode 7)
Not every Ted Lasso musical moment has to drive the narrative. In one of its daftest scenes, Rebecca, Higgins and Keeley try to hide the fact they’ve been talking about Roy and (to paraphrase Destiny’s Child) scat some jazz when he suddenly enters the room. The AFC Richmond hardman seems entirely nonplussed anyway when his girlfriend admits that he’d just been the topic of conversation. But that doesn’t stop Higgins and Rebecca from continuing to commit to the cover-up as the club’s power couple walks away. They sounded pretty harmonious, too.
Coach Beard’s hula hooping (Season 2, Episode 9)
Bottle episode “Beard After Hours” is undoubtedly Ted Lasso’s most divisive, with some praising it as an inventive palate cleanser which allowed the show to deviate from its “aww, shucks” template and others dismissing it as self-indulgent filler which proved that Coach Beard is best in small doses. Whatever your view, it’s still hard to resist the anthemic nightclub finale in which Ted’s typically deadpan sidekick loses all inhibitions and throws some shapes, including some impressive hula hooping, to the joyous sounds of Martin Solveig’s early ’10s club classic “Hello.”
The karaoke session (Season 1, Episode 7)
You get three Ted Lasso performances for the price of one in this karaoke scene, albeit of varying quality. Sam’s tone-deaf rendition of Oasis’ “Wonderwall” proves he shouldn’t give up the day job, while we can only be thankful that Coach Beard’s demented take on Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” was restricted to just a few seconds. On the other hand, Rebecca’s pitch-perfect version of “Let It Go” — adorably mimed along to by unlikely Frozen fan Roy — revealed that actress Hannah Waddingham is truly a double threat.
The Christmas sing-along (Season 2, Episode 4)
A show as inherently warm and fuzzy as Ted Lasso was always going to master the festive sing-along. And season two’s “Carol of the Bells” didn’t disappoint, throwing in a busker’s rendition of Wham!’s “Last Christmas” before allowing Waddingham to show off her impressive pipes again during a snow-capped street party. Rebecca channels Darlene Love with a powerhouse version of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” that even inspires Higgins to bring out his double bass. Waddingham is seriously missing a move if she doesn’t record a holiday album soon.
The “Bye Bye Bye” dance routine (Season 2, Episode 11)
“It’s like I’m a marionette,” barks Ted during a training session amid AFC Richmond’s quest for promotion. “That’s why the song’s on the album No Strings Attached.” Here, the exasperated coach appears to be more invested in the team nailing their routine to *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” than securing a route back to the Premier League. Of course, the usually mild-mannered man has altruistic intentions: he simply wants to thank departing psychologist Sharon with a burst of early ‘00s boy band magic. Sudeikis’ moves are so on point here that Chasez, Bass and co. should perhaps think of tapping him as a Timberlake replacement.
The Rickroll (Season 2, Episode 10)
Who knew that Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” had the capacity to reduce you to tears? While struggling to find the right words to say while eulogizing the father she had mixed feelings toward, Rebecca turns to the shimmying ‘80s pop star for comfort. It takes a while for the grief-stricken chairwoman to get into her stride, but she even ends up committing to the Rickroll track’s call-and-response as the rest of the funeral congregation joins in. It’s the kind of beautifully bittersweet moment that Ted Lasso does so well.
When a star is born, grab your sunglasses and step out the way.
Kate Cosentino, a 23-year-old talent from Kansas City, shone bright when she stepped onto NBC’s The Voice stage Tuesday night (March 14), for her Blind Audition.
It was a starry performance, judge Niall Horan would go on to say. He should know when he sees one.
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Cosentino covered Dionne Warwick‘s “I Say a Little Prayer,” doing so in her own pace, stripped down, and with an electric guitar. Though her outfit screamed “clown couture” (her words), Cosentino’s played with no fuss, going with a finger-picking jazzy style, and without overriding effects.
Kelly Clarkson turned first and led a domino effect, as Chance the Rapper and Horan swiftly fell for her charms.
“Amazing,” Chance said at the wrap. “You got such a cool vibe to you.” The hip-hop star paid tribute to her “full voice” which carries a “lot of joy that comes out of it.”
Clarkson moved. “You have such a pretty alto register,” said the country-pop star, “kind of like lullaby-ish. You really could go so many places.”
And with that, the sales-pitch was on.
Horan didn’t muck about. He opened strong: “Would you like to be on my team?” Her choice of song was an indication of high quality and standards. “You could go all the way. You’ve given us this really really famous massive hit that’s really tough to sing. There’s an already-made star in there. You’ve got this Italian confidence.”
Will this star being a shooting one, will it go supernova, or light the canopy for years to come
We’ll wait and watch. In the meantime, Horan will guide the artist into the next phase of the talent competition.
Watch below.
TWICE dropped by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Tuesday (March 14), where they chatted with the American Idol alum about visiting the U.S. and the things they like to do in the country.
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Sana revealed that, of course, she loves meeting TWICE’s passionate fanbase, affectionately called ONCE, face-to-face. Hilariously, she added that she love Takis chips.
Momo noted that she enjoys visiting the grocery stores in the United States, while Dahyun revealed that she loves eating hamburgers, pizza, chocolate, pasta and potatoes. “I found my sister in the group,” Clarkson playfully replied.
The group also performed their sparkling new single, “Moonlight Sunrise,” which is featured on the idols’ new mini-album, Ready to Be. The recently released project also contains fan favorite tracks such as “Set Me Free,” “Got the Thrills” and “Blame It on Me.” The full-length’s release marks the first time TWICE has been in the U.S. for a comeback and on March 2, TWICE was also honored with the Breakthrough Artist Award at Billboard’s Women in Music event. After receiving the award from Sabrina Carpenter and giving a sweet acceptance speech, the girl group performed “Moonlight Sunrise” onstage.
Watch their Kelly Clarkson Show performance below.
Good news, Arianators: The first part of Jon M. Chu’s Wicked adaptation will be premiering in theaters a month earlier than expected, the directorannounced on Tuesday (March 14).
Chu excitedly shared the news via Instagram, writing that he and his team were “deep into shooting WICKED here in London” before officially announcing the new release date. “Bring the family, bring your friends…it’s going to be a ride!!! appreciate all your support through this long production process. Shooting two movies at once is no small feat.”
The film version of the hit Broadway musical — which will star Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba — was initially meant to hit theaters on Christmas Day of next year (Dec. 25, 2024). But in the spirit of giving thanks, Wicked Part 1 is now set to be released next Thanksgiving (Nov. 27, 2024), meaning that fans can catch the film one month sooner.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the original release date was pushed up reportedly in order to help the film “build an audience over the year-end holidays,” while also remaining “beneficial from a consumer products standpoint.”
Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Keala Settle, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater and others are also set to star in the film. Yeoh, who took home the Academy Award for best actress on Sunday (March 12), said earlier this year that she was “really looking forward” to getting to film alongside Grande and Erivo. “Those two are so adorable, so gorgeous, so talented,” she said.
See Chu’s announcement about ‘s new release date below.
A new contestant hit The Voice stage on Monday night’s episode (March 14) to prove that being hearing impaired doesn’t mean she can’t still rock the mic.
ALI, a 24-year-old hopeful from Walnut, Calif., chose to audition for the spinning chairs with a cover of Roberta Flack’s classic title track to her 1973 album Killing Me Softly. “I heard he sang a good song, I head he had a style/ And so I came to see him and listen for a while,” she sang, with her very first vocal runs at the end of the stanza earning an immediate chair turn from both Kelly Clarkson and Chance The Rapper.
However, it was only after she wrapped up her audition that the singer revealed her hearing loss to the coaches. “A fun fact about me is I am hearing impaired,” she said. “I wear two hearing aids, I was born deaf. I’m so blessed to be able to share this.”
“What!? Oh my god, that’s crazy,” Clarkson marveled, later telling ALI, “Your runs were so intricate and cool and different. That’s a gift.”
Though he didn’t turn his chair, Niall Horan agreed with his fellow coach, saying, “You were amazing. But the second they turned, I knew you were set up,” he said, before getting an unexpected catch in his throat. “You are incredible,” he continued after maintaining his composure. “Any sort of adversity that you’ve had in your life, you are just jumpin’ hurdles here and it’s incredible to watch. So I wish you the best of luck, ALI.”
Watch ALI’s audition and find out who she picked as her coach above.
