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Pitbull is always up for a party, especially if it involves people getting down to his music. That’s why Mr. 305 couldn’t help commenting when the new season of Bridgerton used one of its signature instrumental classical takes on his iconic 2011 hit “Give Me Everything” to score a window-fogging make-out carriage scene between Colin […]
Billie Eilish is not what you think she is. Except now, she told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night’s (May 21) The Late Show, she finally is what she’s always wanted to be. “I think that with Hit Me Hard and Soft it’s like the first time since I’ve been an adult and maybe ever in my kind of creative life… it truly is the most genuine thing I’ve ever made,” she said of her just released third studio album.
“It feels very, very me and it feels like all of the music is exactly who I am, all the visuals are exactly who I am and that’s honestly terrifying and that’s why I’m literally shaking right now,” she told Colbert, who parried back that exposing yourself like that requires vulnerability and removing the mask from the character you’re created to protect you.
Asked what she meant in a recent Rolling Stone cover story in which she said up until now she felt like she was playing a character, Eilish said after putting out her first songs as a “very young” teenager, she felt like audiences thought of her as “one thing,” leaving her little room to do anything but what people thought she was.
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She called her previous album, 2021’s Happier Than Ever, a “reaction of, ‘you can’t tell me what to do! I’m gonna do whatever I want to do and here it is!’ And I think I may have gone a little… I really wanted to prove a point and so I think I went so far, but that’s kind of what I needed to do. I needed to play this whole thing of, ‘I’m not what you think I am.’ I thought at the time that it was very me and I realized in hindsight I was just trying to be seen and express myself and show that people can be multi-faceted and I am one of those people.”
Eilish also noted that she’s willing to suffer for her art, describing waking up at 7 a.m. the day after the most recent Grammy awards and driving to some “random” place in Santa Clarita to spend six hours inside a 10-foot deep water tank, fully clothed, to shoot the cover of the album. “Dude, I was wearing big, long pants, like giant Pro Club shorts. I was wearing a thermal long sleeve, a button-up flannel, a tie, rings, arm warmers, bracelet and a weight. I had a weight strapped to me,” she said, proudly affirming that it was all her idea.
In another segment, Eilish had a laugh when Colbert asked about a quote from her 2021 doc, The World’s a Little Blurry in which she described her family as “a song” in painting her musical upbringing. “Dude, my family is so musical and we always have been, and we remain that way,” Eilish said. “I grew up thinking that every family was like that. I thought that everyone was singing all the time and playing music with their family.”
When the audience chuckled, Eilish turned to them and swore that she actually thought all families were like that. “We’re big fans. Our whole family, we are music fans,” she said. “We love music and I think that’s really what it all stems from.” The night before, she noted, the whole fam sat around singing and playing guitar while harmonizing to the Beatles. “That’s what it’s always been and it’s so wonderful.”
Colbert also mentioned that Lana Del Rey introduced Eilish at Coachella last month, calling the 22-year-old singer “the voice of our generation. No pressure. How did it feel to have an artist you admire describe you that way?” he asked.
Eilish said it was “ridiculous,” returning the compliment by calling LDR the voice of her own generation, doubling-down by saying that Del Rey is one of the “top three reasons” that she is the person and artist that she is, as well as the reason she started making music to begin with. “It was crazy to hear her say that,” Eilish said. “I love her so much.” Then, while ticking off her early musical inspirations — which included such throwback legends Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Julie London and Johnny Mathis — Colbert asked if Eilish would ever consider recording a standards album and she lit up with a sly smile.
“Yeah, yeah, I would love to do that some day,” Eilish said with a happy grin.
When Colbert asked what song she was planning to perform that night, Eilish blushed a bit, laughed and said she would be performing “Lunch.” She then closed out the night with brother/producer Finneas and her band, singing the homage to sapphic love on a dark stage lit by strobing lights while rocking a backwards plaid cap, oversized baseball jersey and striped tie and plaid culottes.
Watch Eilish perform “Lunch” and talk about her new album below.
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Like a lot of celebrity couples, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have made a point of keeping their family life private, which so far has meant that the world has not gotten many glimpses of their three-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom. But on Sunday night (May 12), the adorable toddler made a brief appearance on […]
Snoop Dogg is diversifying his already sprawling media footprint with yet another high-profile TV gig. The Long Beach legend who is slated to make his Olympic debut this summer when he joins the NBC team for nightly reports from the 2024 games in Paris in July will be back on our screens in the fall […]
JoJo Siwa proved she totally gets the joke on Monday morning (May 6) when she posted her reaction to a hilarious bit from this weekend’s “Weekend Update” in SNL where cast member Chloe Fineman tried to channel the off-the-charts energy of Siwa’s latest transformation. In a since timed-out Instagram Story post, Siwa, 20, gushed about […]
Xzibit seems to be teasing a return to the garage. The “What U See Is What U Get” rapper gave fans of his beloved MTV automotive makeover show Pimp My Ride some reason to get revved up when he posted an image on Instagram on Wednesday that suggested he’s rebooting the series. Explore Explore See […]
Here’s the thing: Drew Carey really, really enjoyed seeing Phish at Sphere in Las Vegas. Like, so much that he cannot, and will not, stop raving about the show that pried open his brain and spilled it out all over the Strip. But now he’s tripling down by suggesting that the Vermont jam band’s show made the $2 billion venue’s debut act look like pikers by comparison.
His latest rave came during an appearance this week on Phish Radio on SiriusXM during which Carey further dove into his life-changing experience. “I was just like a casual U2 fan,” the Price is Right host said about the rock icons who opened the venue with their run of 2023-2024 shows. “My friend of mine’s really into it. He goes, ‘hey, let’s go see U2 at the Sphere,’ and I thought, ‘yeah, at the Sphere, I’ve always wanted to see the Sphere. Might as well. I went [and] it blew my mind how great it was and I told all my friends and I talked to the Price Is Right audience how great it was.”
He loved it so much he went the next two weekends in a row, even flying some of his friends in from Cleveland so they could have the exSphere-ience before the band wrapped up its 40-show run in March.
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“And then, like three songs into Thursday night with Phish at the Sphere I honestly was like kind of mad,” Carey said. “I wanted to call U2 and get my money back… That made them [U2] look like a bar band honestly.” Now, don’t get Carey wrong, he said U2 put on a “great show,” but he felt like Phish “took full advantage of the audio and the video in that place.”
As you may have heard, Carey has been ranting about the molecule re-arranging experience he had at the Phish shows. First, he tweeted that the show made him feel like, “I swear I just talked to God I would give you all my money, stick my d–k in a blender and swear off p—y for the rest of my life in exchange for this. Bro I met God tonight for real. I feel like I just got saved by Jesus no lie.”
Like any good Phishead, he took his show on the road, appearing on Taylor Tomlinson’s show After Midnight the next day where he absolutely shocked his fellow comedians on the panel, and Tomlinson, with his bananas reaction. “So, I saw Phish at the Sphere this weekend. Never saw Phish, didn’t know a Phish tune, and they f–king blew my mind off so hard… I had a bunch of girls with me, and I thought to myself is this what it’s like to…” Carey said, as censors bleeped what appeared to be a graphic sexual description.
Phish being Phish, they loved Carey’s enthusiasm and sent him the perfect gift: A Vitamix blender (see above). Singer Trey Anastasio even signed it, writing, “Thank you Drew! See you next time, happy blending!”
Listen to Carey talking Phish below.
Reba McEntire told Jennifer Hudson that she is fired up to host the ACM Awards for the 17th time on May 16th, especially after watching Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks do the honors last year. “They were having so much fun I said, ‘Wait a minute, I want to do that!’” she said on the singer’s daytime talk show on Thursday (May 2).
The 59th annual ACMs will take place in Frisco, Texas at the Ford Center again and will air on Amazon Prime, marking McEntire’s return to the hosting gig for the first time since 2019. When Hudson suggested they should just rename it the “Reba McEntire Country Music Awards” as she unspooled clips of Reba’s many previous hosting stints, the singer smiled as she looked at some of her signature glittering outfits over the years.
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When Hudson asked what was on tap this year, McEntire said her team of fashion experts have picked out some pieces that are unlike anything she’s ever worn before. “I wear a lot of what we call ‘Miss America dresses,’” McEntire said, describing one such 35-pound piece her stylist presented for perusal that nearly bent her arm. “I said, ‘I’m trying to lose weight not gain weight,’” McEntire joked about the hefty dress she suggested her stylist try on instead.
“Comfort is the thing, right girls?” McEntire asked the audience after describing how some dresses are good for a walk-out-and-introduce, while others need to have a different feel and look if she’s doing her show-opening monologue.
McEntire teased the new album coming out “soon,” as well as a single she’s debuting at the ACMs and a new sitcom called Happy’s Place for NBC, which is awaiting a pick-up from the network. After Hudson gushed about the theme song for Reba’s beloved self-titled early 2000s sitcom — which the host said was one of her mom’s favorite shows — the pair bonded over the series’ inspiring theme song, “I’m a Survivor,” which got Jennifer so excited she asked if they could do a duet on the track.
“I get to sing with Reba y’all!,” Hudson squealed. The women then harmonized on the verse about a single mom working two jobs, joining their voices as they crooned, “I’m a survivor.”
McEntire also talked about her longevity, describing entering the music business nearly half a century ago “totally ignorant” about how it worked, slowly learning to trust her instincts as she built up success-after-success. “And when I’d get an idea they said, ‘oh, that’s a good one!,’ or I’d chose a song and they’d say, ‘oh, that’s a good one,’ then it gives you confidence and you can move forward and have more ideas,” she said.
The conversation also touched on McEntire’s second season as a coach on The Voice, with the country veteran saying that she’s no longer the “new kid on the block” after Gwen Stefani, Niall Horan and John Legend made her feel welcome during her first go-round last year. “But it took a while. It’s like going to a new school in sixth grade when everybody’s been together since pre-school,” Reba said of stepping in for Blake Shelton.
But this season, with fellow country act Dan + Shay, Legend and Chance the Rapper, McEntire said “we’ve had a blast,” though she demurred when asked whose rival team she thinks is her biggest competition while praising her team for their “heart and soul.” When Hudson wondered if McEntire is more enticed by the story, the style or the talent of her prospects, Reba said, “when you’ve got all three of those that’s when it’s really magic and that’s what my three artists [Josh Sanders, L. Rodgers and Asher HaVon] have.”
Watch McEntire on The Jennifer Hudson show below.
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Doja Cat likes to play around. And during her visit to The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (May 1), the “Paint the Town Red” singer/rapper was in an especially playful mood while discussing the wild outfits her dancers wear on the tour in support of her Scarlet album. Previewing the hair-forward upcoming European leg of her Scarlet tour, Doja told host Jimmy Fallon, “I wanted it to be modeled after hair, that’s the theme, hair, so it’s going to be a very hairy show.”
Fallon noted that last month Doja became the first female rapper to headline Coachella, cueing up a clip of a performance of “Demons” from that gig during which her dancers bopped around stage in gigantic, white-fur-covered yeti-like costumes. That naturally led to Doja offering Fallon a chance to get in on the action by modeling one of the hair suits, which he awkwardly pulled on, unable to properly cinch up the furry pants.
What followed was a hirsute Fallon bopping and bouncing along to the Roots’ funky beat as he learned some of Doja stage choreo, waving his arms and grabbing the air while holding up the pants with one hand.
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The interview also touched on Doja’s early performance “dance battles” as a kid and the dance crew she was in as a teenager, as well as her memory of her first-ever concert: Earth, Wind & Fire. While checking out her mom’s favorite band, the then five-year-old Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini was unexpectedly given her first spotlight. “It sounds like a lie, but I was pulled up on stage because we were in the front and, like a tiny little peanut like this going ‘ahhhh!!!’… I get it,” she laughed.
Her second show as just as epic, also with her mom: Beyoncé. That time, though, mother and daughter were as far as possible from the stage in the rafters, with only Bey’s whipping hair visible from that nosebleed vantage. “Saw a tiny little Beyoncé, but it was great,” she said.
Doja returned later in the show for an intense performance of the slow-burn Scarlet deluxe edition track “Acknowledge Me,” joined by an angelic six-member choir and full band on a smoke-shrouded stage during which she, of course, wore a white hair coat over white bodysuit.
Watch Fallon’s hairy dance and the “Acknowledge Me” performance below.
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Cher totally gets that it’s a fun parlor game to make jokes about her dating much younger men. But the joke is on you, because the 77-year-old ageless pop wonder has the very best reason for romancing men half her age. “I’m really shy when I’m not working and kind of shy around men,” she […]