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Machine Gun Kelly has announced a new song called “More Than Life.”

The track is set to premiere alongside a video this Friday, June 10. You can check out some clips from the video shoot now via Kelly’s Instagram.

“More Than Life” follows MGK’s new album, Mainstream Sellout, which was released in March. The Travis Barker-produced record includes collaborations with Bring Me the Horizon, WILLOW and blackbear.

News about the new song arrives just as Machine Gun Kelly is about to launch his summer tour, which begins Wednesday in Austin, Texas. The outing includes a rotating set of openers, including Barker, WILLOW, blackbear and Avril Lavigne.

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Queen Latifah is speaking out about her weight and why she’s angry about being categorized as obese.

The actress and singer opened up on a new episode of Red Table Talk about the day a personal trainer told her she would be considered obese.

“I was mad at that,” Latifah said in a clip for Wednesday’s episode of the Facebook Watch show. “It pissed me off,” she said, stunned at finding out that what she thought of as being “just thick” turned out to be “30% over” where she should’ve been in terms of weight, according to the trainer. 

“She’s showing me different body types and she’s telling me, this is what your BMI is, this is what your weight is, and you fall into this category of obesity,” said The Equalizer star, referring to body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Latifah also opened up to Red Table Talk hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris about the scrutiny she received early on in her acting career, including during her time on the hit ’90s show Living Single. 

”We looked like four women who live in Brooklyn, and that’s what we were supposed to be representing,” she said. “But the word came down that we needed to lose weight.”

As a result of her desire to spark more conversation around weight loss and obesity, Latifah joined the It’s Bigger Than Me campaign and is currently on a three-city tour encouraging honest discussion with audience and panel members. 

She told ABC Audio of the tour, “The only way we’re going to change the stigma that comes along with it and really educate people is to sit down, to have conversations.”

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The documentary about George Michael, narrated by the late star, arrives in theaters June 22, and an exclusive new clip takes a deep dive into the origins of the late singer’s revolutionary “Freedom ’90” music video.

Elton John makes an appearance in the nearly two-minute clip and discusses how George’s work permanently changed the music industry. “It changed the whole face of how videos were done,” said Sir Elton. “The video said everything. It was genius and it was a revolutionary thing.”

George didn’t want to be featured in the music video and instead asked five supermodels to star in “Freedom ’90.”  

“It was a specific group of women that George wanted that had just been on the cover of British Vogue that was shot by Peter Lindbergh. It was like, ‘He wants you five and it has to be all you five,'” recalled model Cindy Crawford.  

Added Naomi Campbell, who was also in the music video, “George pitched it to me in L.A. and his exact words were, ‘You’re the leader of the gang and unless you say yes, the rest of the girls won’t.'”

George Michael Freedom Uncut explores the late singer’s career following the release of his 1987 album, Faith, which skyrocketed him into fame, through the release of his 1990 follow-up work, Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1. That period in his career saw George fight for his artistic freedom while grieving the loss of his mother and first real love.

Visit GeorgeMichaelFreedomUncut.com to purchase tickets and see a list of theaters showing the film.

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Carly Pearce’s latest single, “What He Didn’t Do,” is about as personal and specific as it gets. The chorus is a laundry list of all the reasons why a relationship ended in a breakup.

Her significant other, she sings in the song, didn’t “Treat me right, put me first / Be a man of his word / Stay home ‘cause he wanted to,” and so much more. It’s easy to read Carly’s personal, and very public, story into those lyrics: In 2020, she divorced fellow artist Michael Ray after eight months of marriage.

And while some might suggest that Carly shouldn’t inject too much of her own story into her music, the singer says in an interview with her record label that as a songwriter, she’s got a mandate to tell the truth.

“People might think that I write too much of my story, but for me, that’s my duty,” she says. “And I feel like when I am writing my story I am writing other people’s story, and this song proves it.”

The single — which comes off her 29: Written in Stone album and follows her chart-topping duet with Ashley McBryde, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” — is one of the most-requested songs on the album, Carly says.

“I’ve never had a song that just — organically, socially — people ask for it in everything that I do,” she says. “Whether it’s online or in a tweet or in a DM or if I’m doing an interview, or radio stations have asked me about it.”

Truth-telling has been a major theme throughout Carly’s current album cycle, and that authenticity has paid off. She recently became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

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Christina Aguilera will headline LA Pride this Saturday. Ahead of the festivities, the “Beautiful” singer explained why she is a staunch defender of the LGBTQ community.

“I’m all about people standing up for what they believe in, which is why I think the LGBTQ+ community feels connected to me. We’ve all come from struggle; We’ve all had to fight to be heard,” she wrote in a People op-ed. “Being an LGBTQ+ ally is not something that’s short-lived. It’s in my DNA.”

The Grammy winner has felt a connection with the community ever since she entered the music industry. “I had a hard time feeling like I had to look and act a certain way to fit into the pop star mold. But I did not want to be this safe, conventionally pretty, precious thing,” she recalled, which is what led her to ditch the facade and embrace who she truly was with her 2002 album, Stripped.

“It was the first album where I told stories that I really believed in,” she wrote, explaining it was an outlet to share her “personal struggles.” She added she’s “proud” of the “Beautiful” music video, which featured a gay couple and a trans woman.

“I wasn’t thinking too much about it beyond wanting to show people owning who they are. It was somehow taboo at the time, but it represented something so true,” said Christina. “I still hear stories about how that video has helped people, and it means everything to me.”

Christina adds the LGBTQ community has helped her over the years and has become “my support system and family.”

She says her connection with the community matters more to her than her “accolades and awards” because, as she stated, “They’re my people.”

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Chlöe Bailey‘s new business venture might be the hottest one yet. The Grammy-nominated singer announced a partnership with DoorDash and the creation of a new hot sauce called “Make Em Sweet.”

“a little sweet, a lot of heat. like me 🥰 dropping some 🔥 with @doordash tomorrow,” Bailey said on Instagram Tuesday ahead of its release. 

The limited-edition hot sauce, which will be available exclusively to DashPass members starting June 9, is made up of ghost, peri peri and cayenne peppers. 

For those looking to try out “Make Em Sweet,” head over to Bailey’s Instagram Story Thursday at 3 p.m. ET for the special link.

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