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Harry Styles‘ new movie, My Policeman, arrives on Amazon Prime Video this Friday, and he hopes it teaches the audience a very important lesson on love and happiness.

Harry walked the red carpet on Tuesday and answered fan-submitted questions for Amazon Prime. When asked what My Policeman meant to him, Harry didn’t hesitate to talk about the moral of the film.

“I think the story’s about wasted time, and that it’s never too late to follow your heart and do what you want,” he said. He also revealed there’s an important lesson he hopes “people take away” from the movie: “It’s never too late to follow your happiness and be brave in love.”

In the movie, Harry stars as a closeted police officer named Tom who engages in an affair with a museum curator named Patrick, played by David Dawson. The movie is set in England in the 1950s, when homosexuality was prohibited. 

My Policeman, also starring The Crown‘s Emma Corrin, arrives on Prime Video Friday, November 4.

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Takeoff, one third of the rap trio Migos, died as a result of “penetrating gunshot wounds of head and torso into arm,” according to a report from the Harris County medical examiner’s office.

The 28-year-old rapper was shot multiple times outside of 810 Billiards & Bowling in downtown Houston on Tuesday. He died at the scene of the gunfire, and the unidentified suspect is still at large.

While Houston authorities urged witnesses to step up with information about Takeoff’s fatal shooting, many in the hip-hop world mourned the tragic loss. Offset, the rapper’s cousin and group mate, recently changed his Instagram profile picture to a photo of Takeoff. 

Offset and Takeoff made several hit records alongside Quavo as part of the group Migos. Amid a rumored breakup, Offset released some solo singles. Quavo and Takeoff, aka Unc & Phew, dropped a project, Only Built for Infinity Links, last month.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Dollywood. 

As we enter holiday season, Dollywood is turning into Smoky Mountain Christmas, with more than 6 million lights and a new train experience that sends riders past displays of twinkling lights that change color to the sound of Christmas songs. 

On Friday and Saturday nights, fireworks displays will light up the sky in coordination with classic holiday tunes, while several Christmas trees adorn the Tennessee-based amusement park. 

Fans can also stop by Santa’s workshop and snack on gingerbread funnel cake, pork belly skillet and other treats. 

Among the original holiday-themed live shows are Christmas in the Smokies and Appalachian Christmas. 

Smoky Mountain Christmas runs until January 1.

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Chances are you can’t hit the road without a few must-haves; for BTS‘ Jin, there are a few possessions he just can’t live without.

Speaking to GQ, the singer revealed both the common-sense and the downright bizarre things that make his world go round.  

Jin first showed off his limited-edition blue tennis bag and matching yellow racket that have a Minions character on them. “If you’re a superstar, you can’t help yourself with limited editions,” he remarked and noted he picked this pairing because “it’s not that big.” 

Jin said he also needs a gaming keyboard because he’s been playing games since he was in elementary school. “V is the member who’s best at playing games,” he said of his fellow BTS member and added the group makes time to play games together. Jin confessed he’s “not good” at gaming, but joked J-Hope is worse than he is.

His strangest possession is his blue pajamas with an angel print that he helped design. Jin revealed the angel that appears all over his pajamas is based on the TinyTAN animated characters.

On the more mundane side of things, Jin said his wallet is super important and he can never leave home without it.

He also loves his green Louis Vuitton bag.

Jin just released his new song “The Astronaut,” which features Coldplay. He is also slated to be the first member of BTS to go into mandatory military service.

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Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has shared a new song called “Metality (The Vitality Anthem),” which was recorded for the esports organization Team Vitality.

“Metal and gaming are two constants in my life that I hold near and dear,” says Heafy. “I’ve always found that gaming and metal go so well together…it’s as if they BELONG together.”

You can listen “Metality (The Vitality Anthem),” which Heafy is releasing under the moniker Kiichi Chaos, now via digital outlets.

Earlier this year, Heafy dropped his debut album with his black metal solo project, Ibaraki. Trivium’s most recent effort is 2021’s In the Court of the Dragon.

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My Morning Jacket‘s 2011 album Circuital is getting the reissue treatment.

An expanded, deluxe version of the record will arrive December 9 and includes 10 previously unreleased demo recordings.

“Every record is like a time machine, and we all keep changing and changing,” says frontman Jim James.

“I’ve come to see myself as a kind of older sibling to the younger version of me,” he continues. “So it’s almost like I become two beings when I sing a song from the olden times: one is the person who wrote the song so long ago, the other is the current me who’s there as support for my younger self, alive forever in the multiverse. And then those two voices combine to form something new and different every time.”

Circuital, the sixth MMJ album, is the band’s highest-charting release, having debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200. It spawned the single “Holdin on to Black Metal.”

MMJ’s most recent album is 2021’s self-titled effort.

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Carrie Underwood’s latest music video is here and it’s a master class in all the different ways to get over heartbreak.

The video for “Hate My Heart” starts with five women — Carrie and four of her pals — simultaneously slamming the door on a relationship, both literally and metaphorically. In the group chat, all of them swear they’re done and they all start heading down different paths toward healing with their different coping mechanisms.

Carrie immediately heads to the gym, sprinting on a treadmill and taking all her frustration out on a punching bag. Meanwhile, one of her friends is eating ice cream and watching sad movies, another is checking out dating apps and a third is enjoying a little online retail therapy.

In a fun Easter egg for Carrie’s longtime fans, the final friend in the group is sitting in her recent ex’s car, carving her name into his leather seats — a nod to a lyric in Carrie’s 2005 megahit “Before He Cheats.”

Another scene shows Carrie onstage, singing to a packed house, as the other version of herself — the recently single version who’s been hitting the gym to ease her heartbreak — makes her way toward the front of the crowd. Finally, she jumps up and the two Carries sing face to face in the final chorus of the song.

Carrie debuted the music video for “Hate My Heart” on Facebook, and it’ll be available on YouTube on Friday. The song is the latest single off her Denim & Rhinestones album.

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While his buddy Taylor Swift breaks records on the American music charts, Ed Sheeran has made waves across the pond. He is now the first artist to have four albums simultaneously chart on the British music charts.

According to Official Charts, his albums Plus, Multiply, Divide and Equals — respectively stylized with the mathematical signs “+”, “x”, “÷” and “=” — have all spent 52 weeks or more inside the Official Albums Chart Top 10.

The only other act to chart more than one album for a year was Simon and Garfunkel, who had two.

“Delighted to find out that four of my albums have spent a year or more in the UK top 1,” Ed said of his accomplishment. “Thank you to my wonderful fans for making this possible, you’re the best. See you in 2023.”

In other Ed news, his song “Shivers” is the latest single to join Spotify’s Billions Club and becomes his eleventh single overall to amass over a billion streams. He reacted to the news on Instagram, noting that it’s not only his eleventh entry in the club, but it’s his “15th as a writer.”

“Thank you so so much for streaming it. See you next year for a new album,” he closed.

Ed added he is celebrating his accomplishment by filming “a new video for my brand new album,” which he previously teased will be called Minus — stylized as the mathematical “-” sign. 

He has yet to announce an official release date.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Music From and Inspired By, the soundtrack to the highly anticipated Black Panther sequel, drops Friday. Ahead of its release, the track list was unveiled, boasting features from over 40 international artists.

Among the guests are Nigerian stars Burna Boy and Tems, who appear on respective songs “Alone” and “No Woman No Cry.” E-40 is featured alongside Snow Tha Product on a track called “La Vida.” Fireboy DML performs “Coming Back For You,” and Future makes an appearance on “Limoncello,” which also features OG DAYV.

Other artists who guest on the soundtrack include Stormzy, Tobe Nwigwe, PinkPantheress,Rema, Blue Rojo, Bloody Civilian and Rihanna, who made her musical return with the lead single, “Lift Me Up.”

Produced by Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis and Dave Jordan, the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack will be released under the labels Roc Nation Records, Def Jam Recordings and Hollywood Records.

Göransson, who composed and produced the original songs on the album, says he and Coogler intended to create a project closely related to the film.

“Ryan and I talked about the importance of creating an immersive journey of sound and voice,” he says via a press release. “If we used a song in the film, we wanted it to be the entire song, and to be connected to the story. Thematically, we wanted to move the audience from grief to celebration. When you listen to the soundtrack, you can close your eyes and relive the experience of the movie. That was the intention.”

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Music From and Inspired By is now available for presave/preorder. The movie premieres November 11 in U.S. theaters.

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