Teyana Taylor will soon release the music video for “Closer to God,” her collaboration with Diddy on his The Love Album: Off the Grid.
In a short clip shared to Instagram Wednesday, Taylor’s donning a hot red bikini with a matching brim hat.
Diddy tee’d up the video by sharing the same teaser to his IG and referring to Teyana as “my sister.”
“Closer to God” is one of 23 tracks on Diddy’s fifth studio album, which features appearances by John Legend, H.E.R., JazmineSullivan, SummerWalker and more.
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Van Morrison will be celebrating his upcoming album, Accentuate the Positive, with two hometown shows.
He just announced a pair of album release concerts taking place November 4 and 5 at the Limelight in Belfast, Ireland, and urged concertgoers to “bring your dancing shoes.”
Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday, October 13, at 10 a.m. local time.
Accentuate the Positive, Morrison’s 45th studio album, has him covering some of his personal rock ‘n’ roll favorites, like the already released singles “Shakin’ All Over,” originally recorded by Johnny Kidd, and “Problems,” made famous by The Everly Brothers in 1958.
Elton John landed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Candle in the Wind ’97,” a tribute to his close friend, the late Princess Diana.
Elton first performed the song, a reworking of his 1974 single, at Diana’s funeral that September. He then recorded the track, with proceeds going to the Diana, Princess of Wales Fund. The song was released as a double A-side single with “Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” from Elton’s album The Big Picture.
The track spent 14 weeks at #1 in the U.S, and topped the charts in 20 different countries, including the U.K., Japan, Australia and more. It went on to become the first single to earn Diamond certification by the RIAA for sales of 10 million copies.
“Candle in the Wind ’97” is also the second highest-selling physical single of all time, behind Bing Crosby‘s 1942 classic “White Christmas,” according to the Guinness Book of World Records, and has sold more than 33 million copies worldwide.
The track also earned Elton a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
ZZ Top guitarist Billy F Gibbons is throwing himself a birthday party this December.
The rocker announced a trio of Birthday Jam concerts taking place December 19, 20 and 21 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. All shows, billed as “3 Nights of Rock and Blues,” will feature the LA AllStars Band and promises unnamed special guests.
The December 19 and 21 shows are already sold out, but tickets for the 20th are still available.
Gibbons’ actual birthday is December 16; he’ll be turning 74.
In the meantime, Gibbons is currently on tour with ZZ Top. They’ll hit Calgary, Canada, on Wednesday, October 11. A complete list of dates can be found at zztop.com.
When Cher, 77, started dating her 37-year-old boyfriend, Alexander “A.E.” Edwards, it made headlines, but she says she understands the fascination.
“Alexander’s got diamond teeth, tattoos, white hair, and he’s way younger. He’s a beautiful man,” Cher tells People. “Also, I think it’s fun to be interested in somebody else’s love life!”
Cher says she and the music producer met briefly last year during Paris Fashion Week, and a mutual friend later gave him her number. She reveals, “I had been telling all my friends, ‘We’re too old to go out with really younger men, and I will never fall in love on text.’ So I did what I said not to do!”
The reason Cher did it? “He’s just so special,” she says, adding, “No matter what happens, I love being with him. He makes me laugh, and we have fun. What I learned is that it’s never too late.”
“If you wrote out all the statistics, you would go, ‘Well, this is doomed.’ But we’ve been together a year, and if it was just a year, it would’ve been worth it,” she continues. “I’ve had the best time.”
“If you have happiness, you can’t think about how long it’s going to last,” the star notes. “You have to think about ‘How does it feel?’ and live in the moment.”
Edwards produced a song titled “Drop Top Sleigh” on Cher’s new Christmas album, due out October 20.
“That’s a hard thing to do when you are in love with someone and then you say, ‘OK, here, take this record and do what you want with it.’ But I had faith,” she says. “And I was so thrilled.”
For nearly two years, Jada Pinkett Smith has held her silence about the infamous Oscars slap of March 2022, when her husband Will Smith walked onstage and smacked Chris Rock across the face in front of the entire world.
Now, in newly published excerpts of her memoir Worthy, she opens up about the viral moment, writing in the book that she didn’t think what she was watching take place at the show, was real.
“I thought, ‘This is a skit.,'” Jada said, according to an interview and portions of Worthy published by People. “I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him.'”
She added, “It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn’t a skit.”
Once alone after the show, the first thing she said to her husband was, “Are you okay?”
Although Jada was annoyed and unhappy by the joke Chris Rock made about her shaved head, as a result of the hair loss disease alopecia, the 52-year-old actress revealed she was “unclear” why Will became so upset — it’s not like they were together at the time.
Still married, yes, but separated, she said.
“We had been living separate lives and were there as family, not as husband and wife,” she wrote in the book. “But when I hear Will yell ‘wife’ in the chaos of the moment, an internal shift of Oh s*** … I am his wife! happens instantly.”
Jada wrote that in living through the incident she was reminded of her humble upbringings in the rough neighborhoods of Baltimore and that despite whatever had happened, or was about to take place, she was reminded, “Will and I are in this together.”
Jada Pinkett’s new memoir, Worthy, will be out Tuesday, October 17.
Britney Spears was reportedly pulled over by the California Highway Patrol last month for driving without a license, as per court records obtained by Page Six.
The incident is said to have occurred on September 10, with Spears allegedly committing two infractions, resulting in a balance of $1,140 in fines. According to the outlet, who obtained court records, the first violation was for not having a valid license in her possession, and the second was for failing to provide proof of insurance to the officer.
However, Spears’ attorney, Mathew Rosengart, told Page Six, “Britney at all times had a license and insurance; this is the functional equivalent of a parking ticket.”
Notably, Spears had regained the freedom to drive her own vehicle only a few months before the termination of her contentious conservatorship in November 2021.
Corey Kent doesn’t just release songs that sound good. His songs are typically autobiographical and packed with lyrics that give you a glimpse of who he is.
“‘BiC Flame’ and ‘Something’s Gonna Kill Me’ are autobiographical songs that tell you something about me as a person,” shares Corey. “Those aren’t songs that I just am dreaming up, thinking, ‘What would other people like to hear?’ Those are me telling you about me.”
“And what’s really cool is I feel like the fans are connecting and they’re getting a sense for who we are, who those guys on the stage are, off the stage, by what they say and play on the stage. And I’ve loved it,” he adds.
Even after notching his first #1 hit with “Wild as Her,” Corey says that at his core, he’s really just a musician who loves playing live shows.
“Man, at the heart of it, I’m a live musician,” he notes. “That’s all I will ever be. I had an awesome moment with a hit song, and I hope that continues. But my heart lies in live music.”
“Something’s Gonna Kill Me” is the follow-up single to “Wild as Her.” Both tracks are off Corey’s latest album, Blacktop, out now.
One of Olivia Rodrigo‘s celeb BFFs is Tate McRae, who appears in the video for Olivia’s hit “bad idea, right?” But the Canadian singer says it’s highly unlikely the two would team up to write a song together — at least not intentionally.
Speaking toEntertainment Tonight, the singer says of Olivia, “We would never even think about, like, whipping out a piano or a guitar while we hang out. We always want to talk about just nothing.”
Tate says she’s happy to have found a true friendship in a fellow artist like Olivia, because she says more often than not, people have ulterior motives.
“Finding genuine people who have all the right intentions I think is really rare,” she says. “So when I do find them, I’m like, ‘I love you and I will care for you forever.’ We got each other’s backs and we don’t do weird s***.”
“I think that’s really special and cool and I have quite a few people that I feel like I found in the last couple of years,” she adds.
Meanwhile, Tate says her hit “Greedy” is a good representation of her next era: It’s “a little savage, a little rebellious,” she tells ET.
“[It has a] a very different sound palette,” she said of the new music she plans to release. “I think it’s a lot more pop than anything I’ve ever done. It feels like grungy, heavy, and very hard pop, which is really cool. You can get down and dance to it, but also it feels like it’s more feistier side of my personality coming out instead of more vulnerable side.”
May Pang, the woman who had an 18-month relationship with TheBeatles‘ John Lennon in the ’70s, is telling her story in the new documentary The Lost Weekend: A Love Story. But she says it took a while for her to be ready to share it on the big screen.
She tells ABC Audio that while she previously released a book about their romance, putting it on the big screen is much different.
“We’re in an age right now that people rather see something than read it,” she says. “And I think it makes a bigger impact on my story.”
May was working as Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal assistant when the couple decided to separate in 1973; Yoko told Pang she wanted her to date her husband. The movie covers their happy time together in Los Angeles and New York; it also touches on how Pang helped Lennon rebuild his fractured relationship with his son Julian,as well as his musical friends.
When their relationship ended, it was often referred to as The Lost Weekend, but Pang hopes the movie shows folks that what they had was real.
“There was a lot of good that came out of that for both him and, you know, myself,” she says.
And Pang says she has few regrets about their time together, which she claims didn’t actually end when John finally returned to Yoko.
“I knew that he wasn’t completely 100% happy because he was one of those type of people, once you are over, it’s over,” she says. “But it wasn’t when it came to me.”
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story comes to VOD and Blu-ray on Friday, October 13.
