If you’ve ever wondered how Taylor Swift‘s “Cruel Summer” would sound sung by a gravelly voiced, burly dude with a beard and a face full of tattoos — well, Teddy Swims has you covered.
In a performance for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, the “Lose Control” singer starts out singing the song as a hushed, soulful ballad. But when the bridge kicks in, so does an electric guitar, and the song’s energy along with it.
Fans raved over Teddy’s take on the #1 hit, with one commenting, “This version is so heartfelt, somehow tender and powerful at the same time. and teddy made me want to CRY that is all.”
“I NEED IT ON STREAMING NOOOOW,” wrote another. “I think I like this version better no offense to Taylor swift,” added another.
Perhaps Teddy will sing the song live when he hits the road for his I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy tour, which starts in Lincoln, California, on March 22 and is set to wrap up April 4 in Orlando, Florida. On April 5, he’ll play the Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale.
“‘Carsick’ is about the moment you want to get off the ride,” the “Blood in the Cut” artist says. “When the chaos isn’t fun anymore. I tried to capture both the dizzying feeling of being in a toxic relationship and the freedom that comes with leaving it.”
You can listen to “Carsick” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying visualizer streaming now on YouTube.
“Carsick” follows K.Flay’s new album, MONO, which dropped in September. K.Flay will launch a U.S. tour in support of the record in March.
A new trailer for the upcoming season 3 premiere of Abbott Elementary has arrived, and it shows off the first look at what is in store for our favorite gang of teachers this time around.
“You guys missed a lot,” series creator and star Quinta Brunson says in character as second-grade teacher Janine Teagues.
She’s not wrong – the season 2 finale aired over eight months ago in April 2023. To make up for lost time, the supersized season 3 premiere will be an hour long.
“Welcome back slackers,” fan-favorite character Principal Ava Coleman, played by Janelle James, says over the school’s loudspeakers. “I’ve got cameras all over this joint.”
The trailer cuts to Ava watching over the school’s security camera system with a box of popcorn in hand, enthusiastically laughing as she creates chaos.
We also see flashes of the other main cast, such as Tyler James Williams as Gregory Eddie, Chris Perfetti as Jacob Hill, Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard and Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti.
The trailer ends with Brunson’s Janine introducing iPads into her classroom. “You guys are going to be the first to use our brand-new iPads,” she tells her students. Quickly, however, Janine learns that every iPad’s battery is dead except for one. All the children huddle up together to use it.
“Is it fun doing it all together?” Janine asks her kids.
“No,” they tell her honestly, before she delivers one of the series’ signature deadpan stares into the camera.
The season 3 premiere of Abbott Elementary airs February 7 on ABC and drops on Hulu the next day.
If a Bailey Zimmerman song has resonated with you, you can thank him for that.
The fast-rising country star recently shared that when he writes and sings, he’s always making sure it’s something listeners can relate to.
“I remember being 15, 16, going through heartbreaks and 17, 18, 19, going through heartbreaks and going, ‘Man, I wish I had a song that said this. I wish I had a song that would talk about this because this is what I’m going through,'” Bailey recalls.
He says those personal breakups serve as inspiration for his songs.
“When I found music and started doing music, I really just [thought], ‘How can I make people feel like this is their song and I wrote this about them, but still make it true to me as well?'” he shares. “That’s what my goal has been this whole time.”
Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir is set to be posthumously released later this year.
Random House just announced that it collaborated with the late singer-songwriter’s daughter Riley Keough on the yet-to-be-titled book, debuting October 15.
According to a press release, Presley’s “raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir will lift the veil on one of America’s most storied families, sharing intimate memories of Lisa Marie’s remarkable, tumultuous life while offering a poignant exploration of the bonds between a mother and daughter.”
The audiobook version will be read by Daisy Jones and the Six Golden Globe nominee Keough and include never-before-heard recollections in Presley’s own voice.
“Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’ daughter,” Keough said in a statement. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one.”
Riley continues, “I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.”
The press release notes that the memoir is “composed mostly of Presley’s own words,” with Keough “filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother.”
The publisher promises the work will explore “the unconditional love [Lisa Marie] felt from her father … her complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla, her own wild love stories” and “the shattering loss” of Lisa Marie’s son, Riley’s brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide.
Presley, the only daughter of the late superstar Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, died January 12, 2023, at age 54.
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he’s decided who his vice presidential pick will be if he wins the 2024 Republican nomination — but his campaign quickly downplayed that claim, saying the issue hasn’t been discussed in “any great detail.”
“I know who it’s going to be,” Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum during the network’s town hall on Wednesday, which he attended instead of the latest GOP primary debate.
Pressed on who that running mate is, Trump retorted, “I can’t tell you that really.”
Those comments seemingly caught his top aides off guard.
“All I know is what I heard tonight, and I’m not gonna categorize it any other way than that,” senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita told reporters following the town hall.
Pressed on what types of conversations have happened around a potential vice presidential candidate pick, LaCivita said the talks have been minimal.
“I’m sure that when the time to discuss a VP … comes, everybody will know,” he added.
Multiple names are being floated for who could potentially be Trump’s running mate, including South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a former primary contender who has said he’s not interested in being vice president.
Those politicians have all spent time on the campaign trail touting Trump’s policies and repeatedly affirming their support for the former president. (Former Vice President Mike Pence, Trump’s previous running mate, broke with him in the wake of Jan. 6.)
Trump on Wednesday also spoke approvingly — if, perhaps, jokingly — about someone who until recently was running against him in the primary.
“I’ve already started to like [Chris] Christie better,” Trump said to laughs about mending relationships with his Republican challengers ahead of the general election.
However, Trump quickly threw cold water on the possibility of tapping the former New Jersey governor to be his vice president.
“I don’t see it. That would be an upset,” he said.
Others have suggested a ticket with Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley would be a strong duo to defeat President Joe Biden; however, Trump allies have firmly opposed that idea in light of Haley’s challenge to Trump in the primary.
Noem recently said during an appearance on Newsmax that it would be a “mistake” for the former president to pick Haley as his running mate.
Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, has said he would go to “great lengths” to assure Haley doesn’t join the Trump ticket.
Even Haley herself has publicly remained focused on defeating Trump, playing down the possibility of a No. 2 role without, as opponent Ron DeSantis has often noted, definitively ruling it out.
“First of all, I don’t play for second — I never have,” Haley told a voter last week, “and I’m not going to start now.”
Elvis Costello and Christopher Cross are among the artists set to perform at The Nearness of You Concert, happening February 6 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room in New York City.
The event, which will honor 15-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker, will also feature performances by Costello’s wife Diana Krall, jazz singer Dianne Reeves and saxophonist Branford Marsalis.
The concert is a benefit to support cancer research at Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Previous Nearness of You concerts featured artists such as James Taylor, Paul Simon and Chaka Khan, and have raised nearly $5 million for cancer research.
ABC’s well-performing medical drama The Good Doctor will end with its forthcoming seventh season, ABC Audio has confirmed.
The show from Sony Pictures Television and ABC Signature centered on Freddie Highmore‘s autistic physician Dr. Shaun Murphy, and the “obstacles, triumphs and milestones his character, as well as his colleagues” faced at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.
The series ranked as the #1 entertainment show in the Monday 10 p.m. hour last season in the key 18-49 demographic.
In a statement, Highmore called playing Dr. Shaun Murphy “an immense privilege and one of the most remarkable and rewarding experiences of my life.”
The English actor expressed gratitude to the show’s executive producers David Shore and Liz Friedman, “and lovely cast, writers, and crew who made this show possible.”
Highmore continued, “Caring deeply is what got us here. Thank you to Sony and ABC, and to everyone who has watched along at home.”
He added cheekily, “With love from Vancouver… tequila, stat!”
The final season of The Good Doctorkicks off Tuesday, February 20, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
(WARREN, Ohio) — A grand jury decided Thursday not to indict an Ohio woman on allegations that she mishandled the remains of a fetus after miscarrying her pregnancy at home.
The case had alarmed reproductive rights groups and legal experts who said there is no clear guidance on how to handle an at-home miscarriage and that police and local prosecutors overreached by charging the woman, who is Black, with “abuse of a corpse.”
Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, was arrested last October and pleaded not guilty to the charge. If convicted, she would have faced up to a year in prison. Because the grand jury decided not to indict, the case has been dropped.
Supporters has been planning a rally at the courthouse Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET, according to local reports.
According to the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office, Watts’ water broke last September when she was 21 weeks and five days pregnant. A fetal heartbeat was present, but her doctors at Mercy Health – St. Joseph Warren Hospital recommended that Watts be induced to prevent a life-threatening infection from developing.
At the time, Ohio allowed abortions up to 22 weeks gestation unless a woman’s life was at stake.
The coroner’s report said Watts then signed herself out of the hospital against medical advice “to process the information she was told.” She returned to the hospital the next day, but again left a second time against the advice of doctors.
The hospital declined to comment, citing privacy concerns.
Two days later, Watts delivered the fetus at home over a toilet. She then returned to the hospital, where she told authorities she thought she had taken the fetal remains out of the toilet and placed them in a black bucket.
The fetal remains were found wedged inside the toilet bowl, according to the coroner’s report.
“Not wanting to destroy any evidence, the bottom portion of the toilet was removed” and taken to the local morgue “for further investigation,” the coroner’s office wrote.
A subsequent autopsy showed that the baby had died before being born due to a spontaneous miscarriage and that no illicit drugs were present. Watts was arrested two weeks later on accusations of “abusing a corpse.”
During a hearing in November, Watts’s attorneys argued that she had gone to a hospital before the miscarriage and waited for hours before leaving and miscarrying at home.
Assistant prosecutor Lewis Guarnieri argued to have the case move forward, which was agreed to by Warren Municipal Court Judge Terry Ivanchak.
Ivanchak referred the case to a grand jury, arguing there was “probable cause” of a crime. He has since retired. The case would have been tried by Judge Andrew Logan.
The local police and the city attorney of Warren, responsible for initiating charges against Watts, have not responded to requests for comment.
Watts’ attorney has also not responded to requests for comment.
Dennis Watkins, the Trumbull County prosecutor, said after receiving charges from the city attorney of Warren, it was “duty bound” to put the case before a judge, who found there was “probable cause” a crime had been committed.
In a statement released following the grand jury’s decision, Watkins said his office believed Watts “did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statue of Abuse of a Corpse as alleged in the complaint.”
“We respectively disagree with the lower court’s application of the law,” he said in the statement.
The charge against Watts occurred before Ohio voters passed an amendment in the November 2023 election to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution.
The ballot measure ended an earlier effort in Ohio by Republican lawmakers to enforce a near-total abortion ban after six weeks.
Jon Pardi and his wife, Summer, are expecting a girl.
Summer shared an Instagram Reel on Thursday, January 11, of their recent gender reveal.
The clip opened with Summer getting an ultrasound as their 11-month-old daughter, Presley Fawn, sat atop her belly. The couple then find out the gender of their second child when they each pull a slice of pepperoni pizza out of the box. Pink papers under the pizza were revealed, indicating a girl.
Jon and Summer welcomed Presley on February 18, 2023.
Jon’s latest studio album is Merry Christmas From Jon Pardi. He’s approaching the top 40 with his Luke Bryan-assisted new single, “Cowboys and Plowboys,” the first preview of Jon’s upcoming new record.
