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Taking Back Sunday has teamed up with superstar DJ Steve Aoki for a remix of the band’s classic track, “Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut from the Team).”

“[Aoki] was kind enough to do a remix of a song we wrote in our parents’ basements,” TBS says. You can listen to the updated recording now via digital outlets.

The remix follows Taking Back Sunday’s performance with Aoki during the When We Were Young festival. They played their collaborative song “Just Us Two,” which appears on Aoki’s latest album, HiROQUEST: Genesis.

Footage from the When We Were Young set is featured in a video accompanying the “Cute” remix, which is streaming now on YouTube.

The original “Cute” appears on Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 debut album, Tell All Your Friends.

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Bad Bunny has been crowned Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2022. The streamer lauded his sixth album, Un Verano Sin Ti, for being the most streamed of the year; it is now the biggest Latin album of all time.

Jin is the fifth member of BTS to score a solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “The Astronaut.” The song bowed at number 51 after fans streamed the track 4.9 million times and snapped up 44,000 downloads.

Billboard reports Aaron Carter‘s memoir, An Incomplete Story of an Incomplete Life, comes out November 15. The book was put together by author Andy Symonds, who had interviewed the late singer over the course of three years.

Halsey signed a global publishing deal with BMG, which covers their newly released singles “So Good” and “Stay With Me” — as well as all other songs they release in the future, reports Billboard.

In more Billboard news, Sia‘s “Unstoppable” is number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at number 28 on the Hot 100. The song was part of her 2016 album, This Is Acting, which produced “Cheap Thrills.”

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “Despacito” has been viewed 8 billion times on YouTube. It’s the most watched video on the platform. Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape Of You” is second, with 5.8 billion views.

Tate McRae covered Katy Perry‘s “The One That Got Away” for BBC Radio 1. Tate shared the video and tweeted, “One of my fav songs.”

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If you’ve watched Fat Joe‘s interviews or caught one of his Instagram Live sessions, you know the rapper has a knack for storytelling. His latest anecdotes appear on an episode of Red Table Talk, where he opens up about everything from his humble beginnings to the reason he decided to get into the rap game.

In his conversation with Jada Pinkett Smith and company, Joe recalled some of the toughest moments of his childhood. He remembered the time his best friend sided with bullies and beat him up — a moment that triggered the transition from “sweet Joe” to a more ruthless Joey Crack.

He also reflected on growing up with an abusive father. Joe says he was 14 when he had enough of the abuse. His dad had attempted to kick him, but Joe grabbed his legs in an effort to stop him. He then made the decision to leave his home and “started hustling the next day.”

With a life in the streets, Joe got shot in front of his mother after an altercation with a man on the Fourth of July. He credited his friend Diamond D of the Diggin’ in the Crates Crew for encouraging him to pursue a music career.

Elsewhere in the interview, Fat Joe mourned the loss of his friends, the late Notorious B.I.G. and Big Pun. He also discussed the advice Lil Wayne gave him when he went to jail for failing to file tax returns with the IRS — a bid he said happened because his accountant stole his money.

On the topic of Kanye West, who’s facing backlash for antisemitic comments, Joe said he told Ye to “get focused and look to God ’cause God is the answer.”

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The original Black Panther broke presale records and its forthcoming sequel, Wakanda Forever, has already made a mint.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sequel, which debuts Friday, has already scooped up $45 million in presales alone. Those numbers could balloon to the $60 million range — which would outpace the $55 million the first Black Panther made in presales back in 2018.

The trade posits that the movie could be on track for a $325 million opening worldwide, if the numbers hold.

According to a 2021 survey of 6,000 moviegoers conducted by online ticket retailer Fandango, Wakanda Forever ranked as 2022’s most anticipated film.

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Sammy Hagar is hopeful that the shelved Van Halen song “Between Us Two” will eventually get released.

As the story goes, the “Panama” outfit originally wrote “Between Us Two” toward the end of the Van Hagar era for the 1996 movie Twister. While the disaster flick featured a theme composed by Eddie and Alex Van Halen, “Between Us Two” didn’t end up making the soundtrack and was eventually lost to time.

Speaking with Consequence’s Kyle Meredith with… podcast, Hagar confirms the song was indeed recorded and is somewhere in the Van Halen “archives.”

“I don’t know if I can resurrect it, but we got it; it’s done,” Hagar says. “It’s in the archives; they’ll find it. They’re looking through the archives right now to try to remaster some of the old stuff from my era. They’ll find it. That’s gonna be a treasure.”

Hagar notes that if the song were to finally come to light, it “would have to go through the Van Halen camp,” which he describes as “a little dysfunctional.”

Of course, given all the drama around the supposed Eddie tribute plans, which the late guitar icon’s son Wolfgang Van Halen said “never even got off the ground,” “dysfunctional” might be an understatement. So for all the “Between Us Two” believers out there, maybe don’t get too excited.

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Britney Spears has condemned the documentaries that were made about her life and says she doesn’t want more to be made.

Taking to Twitter, she seemingly referenced the Framing Britney Spears and Controlling Britney Spears documentaries that fans once praised for shedding light on her controversial conservatorship.

“I want to thank the head people who did all the documentaries to help free Brit Brit !! I mean such classy footage,” Britney sarcastically began her post. “The best part was when my old assistant [Felicia Culotta] talked about how I went through the neighborhood passing out 100 dollar bills when my first song came out !!! I wish I could go inside the heads of people like my dad and her and really try to understand why people lie and make up such things like that !!!”

Britney continued, “Wasn’t it already bad enough what they did to me and on top of it everybody is getting together and doing the trashiest docs I’ve ever seen in my life saying it’s TO HELP ME ??? You must be some clever folks !!!! It was so embarrassing!”

Brit maintains the documentaries did not help her, saying “I am a person … I’m not a robot or a science experiment.”

Britney also alleged on Instagram that the reason she has nerve damage is because she has “not been able to breathe for the past 3 years” because her inhaler was confiscated. She claimed to have used one “for the past 20 years.”

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Zac Brown Band is nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2022 CMA Awards, and frontman Zac Brown says he’d love to be able to score a win for the home team.

“I would love [to win], really, for my band,” the singer tells ABC Audio. “They deserve it.”

ZBB isn’t necessarily a darling at award shows: Though they’ve been nominated many times, they haven’t won a trophy since back in 2010 when they were named New Artist of the Year.

“We’re kind of outlaws of a lot of things,” Zac says, “…and this kind of, you know, one of those things….We’ve got great perspective on things, but I would love for them to have a win and actually get a trophy.”

Still, in the grand scheme of things, they’ve already won, he notes. “The country music fans, and the people that show up at our shows, that’s how we win,” Zac points out. “We win an award every single night that we go play.”

The 56th annual CMA Awards airs tonight, November 9, at 8 p.m. on ABC; the ceremony will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

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Snoop Dogg‘s evolution throughout the years has seen him go from rapper to full-fledged businessman. From his California upbringing and his early days on Death Row records to his life as a father, and his many businesses and gigs, Snoop has a story to tell, and he’s doing just that in an upcoming biopic.

According to Deadline, Universal Pictures is developing the project, which will be the first film released under Snoop’s Death Row Pictures. He’ll serve as producer alongside Sara Ramaker and director Allen Hughes. Joe Robert Cole, who co-wrote Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has been tapped to write the script.

“I waited a long time to put this project together because I wanted to choose the right director, the perfect writer, and the greatest movie company I could partner with that could understand the legacy that I’m trying to portray on screen, and the memory I’m trying to leave behind,” said Snoop in a statement. “It was the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.”

There’s no word on when Snoop’s biopic will go into production, but it will feature music from his discography.

Universal previously released the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton in 2015; it grossed over $200 million and earned an Academy Award nomination.

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