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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 […]
It’s been a decade, so you might have forgotten, but when Meghan Trainor released her 100% certified bop debut single “All About That Bass” back in 2014, it was a smash. The doo-wop-adjacent song not only hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it stayed there for eight consecutive weeks.
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Trainor celebrated the 10th anniversary of her break-out smash on Monday (April 29) by dropping in to see Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show, where, not for nothing, the host noted that the song was the “best-selling song by a female artist of the previous decade. That’s insane! I feel like you need an Olympic medal for that!”
What better way to fête the firestarter than teaming up with Clarkson for a duet, during which the two singers smiled and bopped their way through the lyrics about having all the right junk in all the right places?
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“I see the magazines workin’ that Photoshop/ We know that it ain’t real/ Come on now, make it stop/ If you got beauty, just raise ’em up/ ‘Cause every inch of you is perfect/ From the bottom to the top,” Trainor sang as Clarkson added spot-on ad-libs and the two women fell into perfect harmony on the body positive pre-chorus.
“Yeah, my mama she told me don’t worry about your size/ She says, boys like a little more booty to hold at night/ And no I won’t be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll/ So, if that’s what’s you’re into/ Then go ahead and move along,” they harmonized before Clarkson took center stage on the next verse and assured her studio audience that “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.”
Trainor stuck around to chat as well, with the singer gushing about how in the years since the song has become an anthem for so many fans that she now considers it her “super power.” She also talked about her first tour in seven years and the logistics of traveling with her two young kids, with Clarkson warning that touring with children (and dogs) is going to be a challenge. “Can I give you a tip?,” Clarkson said about the guilt she noted many female musicians have about being on the road with families.
“You feel like you have to wake up with them… don’t do that!” fellow mother of two Clarkson counseled. “Cuz your voice will hate you.”
Trainor recently announced that her sixth studio album, Timeless, is due out on June 14 from Epic Records and dropped the T-Pain-featuring single “Been Like This,” as well as announcing the dates for her Timeless tour, slated to kick off in Cincinnati in September.
Watch Trainor and Clarkson sing “All About That Bass” below.
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As you’ve likely heard by now, Drew Carey had a really, really great time seeing Phish for the first time at their Las Vegas residency at Sphere earlier this month. Like, such a good time the The Price Is Right host wrote in a frenzied post afterward that he would “stick my d–k in a […]
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This week marked the start of the Playoffs rounds on season 25 of The Voice and the show brought in some serious ringers on Monday night (April 22) to help cut down each coach’s team from five to three singers before the live, public-vote rounds begin.
Team John Legend teed up a veteran of the franchise in Colombian superstar Maluma, who has been a coach on two seasons of La Voz, in both his native country and in Mexico. Meanwhile, Team Dan + Shay got a boost from rapper Saweetie, with each guest bringing their own unique set of skills to the gig.
According to EW, Maluma seemed completely at ease with the job, serving up positive notes and encouragement and some pro tips on performance and setting the mood. In a preview video that dropped before the show aired, Maluma had a lot of good advice for the Team members, from encouraging them to write their own songs to suggesting they ditch their instruments while performing live to focus on their vocals.
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That experience came through when Nathan Chester was prepping his powerhouse cover of the Beatles’ “Oh! Darling.” After Legend — whom Maluma dubbed “Juan Leyenda” — suggested that Chester put more urgency into his performance, Maluma seconded that emotion and offered up a technical note about stepping back from the mic a bit to let his voice truly shine. The dynamic due clearly were on to something, as Chester made it to the Live rounds.
Maluma also seemed to bond with Venezuelan-born singer Mafe, who stepped up majorly with a moving version of Adele’s “Someone Like You,” but failed to make the final cut; the other Team Legend Playoffs members include Bryan Olesen and Zoe Levert.
EW noted that while rapper Saweetie seemed to be an odd choice to work alongside country duo Dan + Shay, they had a good chemistry and the “Best Friend” MC seemed to really have a vibe with the female singers on the pair’s team, offering them such poetic advice as “there’s no deadline to dreams.” When 17-year-old Anya True began rehearsing her take on Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” Saweetie helpfully suggested more eye contact to connect with the studio audience.
Admittedly not a country aficionado, Saweetie suggested that singer Karen Waldrup try to focus less on being technically perfect, but instead “strive for personality,” which she definitely did on her cover of Lainey Wilson’s “Heart Like a Truck.” That was enough to punch Waldrup’s ticket through, along with Madison Curbelo and Tae Lewis.
The Playoffs roll on next week with performances from Team Reba and Team Chance.
Check out some of Monday night’s performances from Team Legend and Team Dan + Shay below.
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Kim Kardashian did not address the one topic America was dying to hear about on Monday night (April 22) when she hit the couch on Jimmy Kimmel Live!: her feelings on theories that Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department diss track “thanK you aIMee” is about her.
The American Horror Story: Delicate star did, however, cover a wide variety of other random topics, including being Madonna’s dog walker as a kid, the origin of her nipple-forward Skims Ultimate Nipple Bra shapewear and her current feelings on former one-term president Donald Trump in the midst of his hush money trial in New York for paying off a porn star.
Kimmel seemed most charmed by the Madonna stories, which included Kim describing how she lived next door to the pop superstar when she was a kid. “She was my next door neighbor when I was like seven or eight years old,” Kardashian said. “I was her dog walker. Kourtney and I would walk her dog after school… in exchange for her jewelry… She was transitioning out of the 80s neon phase, so one day she just walked downstairs and handed us a shoebox of all these neon bracelets and Kourtney and I went to school and everyone was like, ‘Oh my God I love your bracelets!’ And we were like, ‘Thanks, Madonna gave them to us.’”
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Sadly, she doesn’t still have the haul, and as Kimmel lamented, the sisters missed out on the pointy bra era castoffs. And while the K gang did not trick-or-treat at Madonna’s as kids, years later, Kardashian watched the singer shoot her “Cherish” video with photographer Herb Ritts. “Me and my friend were on the beach and it was the most magical moment ever,” Kardashian said of the sensual black-and-white clip whose every wet-and-wild frame he seemed to have committed to memory.
Though she never in her wildest dreams imagined it, as an adult Kardashian said she was once again neighbors with Madge, whom she’d run into occasionally when they went trick-or-treating with their kids. You would never know it, though, since Kim said she and Madonna both wore ski mask costumes to stay incognito. “We both had like masks on and we were going to the same house and then we looked at each other and I was like, ‘M? Kim?,’” she recalled of their incognito meet cute again moment.
In a rapid-fire segment, Kardashian, 43, responded to a series of what sounded like weird internet rumors about herself, most of which turned out to be true. Among them: does she really blow dry her jewelry before putting it on? (yes, because she hates being freezing when putting cold metal on her skin). She also confirmed that she washes her feet before getting into bed every night, sleeps with her eyes slightly open (per videos taken by her sisters), she celebrated her 14th birthday at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, had a fitness DVD called Kim Kardashian Fit In Your Jeans By Friday, can change a tire and has an assistant whose job it is to take the cardboard sleeve off her Starbucks orders because the sound of cardboard getting moved off the cup is “like nails on a chalkboard” to her.
In fact one of the only things Kimmel floated that wasn’t true was a rumor that Kim has six toes on one foot.
Kimmel heaped praise on Kardashian for inventing a bra with built-in nipples, with the host getting slightly thrown off when Kim said they got “amazing” feedback from breast cancer survivors on the product, a sobering fact that seemed to derail what sounded like Jimmy’s more lascivious planned line of questioning. Fun fact, the nipples in the bra are fashioned after the shape of Kardashian’s breasts and she can definitely spot their tell-tale form from afar on someone else.
Kim also said she’s working on the upcoming launch of a line of shapewear for men, which, of course, led to Kimmel sidekick Guillermo strutting out in a be-thonged bodysuit that left nothing to the imagination. The conversation was mostly light, though Kimmel did ask Kardashian about the current state of her relationship with the twice-impeached former president, whom she visited in the White House in 2020 with three women whose sentences Trump cut short following the fellow reality star’s lobbying.
“I don’t think he likes me very much,” Kardashian said diplomatically. “But… I think he did amazing stuff with prison reform and let a lot of people out and signed an amazing bill with the First Step act and that’s what I’ll focus on.” For the record, after Kimmel earlier played a series of doctored videos of the four-times indicted Trump passing gas — as he’s been rumored to be doing quite often between reported naps during his New York trial for paying hush money to a porn actress to keep their affair quiet — Kardashian smiled and gently said, “no.”
“So he saves that for court situations?,” Kimmel quipped.
Watch Kardashian’s Kimmel interview below.
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