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Selena Gomez recently revealed she’s no longer on social media and, after an unexpected controversy involving Hailey Bieber, the wife of ex Justin Bieber, she hinted drama is the main reason why she’s staying off the gram.

On Tuesday, Hailey shared a tutorial video on TikTok that showed her skin care and makeup routine.  Soon after, Selena posted a tutorial of her own on the same platform. 

Sure enough, that coincidence was enough to get some fans speculating that Selena was dunking on Hailey.  But Selena immediately shut down the rumors and wrote in the comments, “This is why I believe in taking care of your mental health.  Guys [I have] no idea what I did but I really am sorry.  Zero bad intention.  Deleting soon.”

While the video hadn’t been removed as of noon Wednesday, Selena turned off the comments on it.

Selena and Justin famously dated off and on for several years before going their separate ways for good in 2018.  Shortly after, the “Peaches” singer began dating Hailey and the two wed that September.

While both Justin and Selena have moved on, a small but vocal group of fans still believe the two — whom they dub “Jelena” — were meant to be and have continued to attack Hailey because of that.  Both Selena and Justin have publicly condemned the abuse.

Hailey herself has spoken out several times, most recently in April when she took to TikTok to “beg” those haters to “leave me alone” because “enough time has gone by.”  She also told those same ‘Jelena’ fans, “Go be miserable somewhere else.”

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5 Seconds of Summer have announced the title and release date for their upcoming fifth studio album. Appropriately titled 5SOS5, it’s due out September 23.

The Australian band has also released a new song from the forthcoming project: “Me, Myself & I,” co-written by Jon Bellion.  In a statement, singer Luke Hemmings says, “We’re all big fans of [his] and when he sent us the idea, we instantly connected with it.”

He adds, “‘Me Myself and I’ explores the emotional cycle of feeling like you can do everything on your own and that you don’t need anyone else, but eventually realizing that sometimes you push away the best things in your life. We love this song and hope other people connect with it as much as we do.”

The video for “Me, Myself & I” will arrive Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Luke says of the new album, “I think like a lot of people in the last couple years, the only way to look was inward…and lyrically, looking into, I don’t know, everything that happened to us was a big topic. And not doing this every day and [not] being on the road was a different experience for us.”

“The whole album is, for me, the most introspective, the most lyrically, if I can say, beautiful and…there’s just so much heart in it,” he adds.

5SOS recently revealed the track listing for 5SOS5, which features a whopping 19 tracks:

“COMPLETE MESS”
“Easy for You to Say”
“Bad Omens”
“Me Myself & I”
“Take My Hand”
“CAROUSEL”
“Older”
“HAZE”
“You Don’t Go to Parties”
“BLENDER”
“Caramel”
“Best Friends”
“Bleach”
“Red Line”
“Moodswings”
“Flatline”
“Emotions”
“Bloodhound”
“TEARS!”

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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A few rock artists are nominated for the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Oasis‘ Knebworth 1996 concert film is nominated for Best Music Documentary, along with The Beatles‘ Get Back documentary series. The award will be given out as part of the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED ceremony, a reality-focused spinoff of the original show.

Over on the scripted side, the Pam & Tommy miniseries, which tells the story of Mötley Crüe‘s Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson‘s infamous sex tape, is up for two awards: Lily James for Best Performance in a Show for her portrayal of Anderson, and the new-for-this-year category Here for the Hookup.

Meanwhile, HAIM‘s Alana Haim is nominated for Breakthrough Performance for her role in Licorice Pizza.

Both the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED will air live from Los Angeles on June 5. You can vote for your favorites now via Vote.MTV.com.

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A few rock-related TV shows and films have been nominated for 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

The Beatles: Get Back documentary series, which premiered in November 2021 on Disney+, received a nod for the Best Music Documentary honor.  Other nominees in that category include Oasis‘ Knebworth 1996 concert film, and documentaries about Janet Jackson, Kanye West and Olivia Rodrigo. The award will be given out as part of the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED ceremony, a reality-focused spinoff of the original show.

Over on the scripted side, the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, which tells the story of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and actress Pamela Anderson‘s infamous sex tape, is up for two awards: Lily James received a nod for Best Performance in a Show for her portrayal of Anderson, and while the show was nominated in the new-for-this-year category Here for the Hookup.

Both the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED will air live from Los Angeles on June 5. You can vote for your favorites now via Vote.MTV.com.

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T-Pain unveiled the lineup of his ultra-hyped Wiscansin Festival, which includes Lil Jon, Erica Banks, Kid Ink, Bleu and many others featured in this year’s roster.  

Of course, T-Pain himself will take over one of the three stages at The Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee on June 11, as will O.T., Genasis, K Camp, Softest Hard, Hannibal Buress, Krizz Kaliko, Young Cash, Mija and many others.

The music festival will serve as a send off of T-Pain’s almost sold-out The Road to Wiscansin Tour.  Three stages will be erected on the grounds, suited for nonstop performances.  T-Pain said this festival is the first one he’s ever organized, but he’s already planning to turn Wiscansin into an annual thing.

Doors to the grounds open at 3 p.m. on June 11. Tickets are on sale on the official website, but some experiences have already sold out.    

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Fans will be able to watch the public memorial service for Naomi Judd live: It’s being aired commercial-free on CMT.

The event, called Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration, will be held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Sunday, May 15 at 6 p.m. ET. Wynonna Judd — Naomi’s daughter and The Judds duet partner — will pay tribute to the late country legend during the ceremony, as will Naomi’s other daughter, actor Ashley Judd.

More performances and special appearances from Naomi’s friends and fellow country stars are expected to be announced in the days ahead.

Naomi died unexpectedly on April 30, just one day before The Judds were scheduled to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Wynonna and Ashley issued a statement announcing the news. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement reads in part.

In the wake of her death, CMT re-aired The Judds’ final performance of “Love Can Build a Bridge,” which originally took place during the 2022 CMT Music Awards. The televised memorial service will “celebrate her timeless voice, unforgettable spirit and the immense impact she left on our genre through the best form of healing we have — music,” according to a statement from CMT.

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Kelly Clarkson has been quiet on the music front as of late, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been hitting up the studio. Kelly hinted to Extra that fans should start preparing a new space on their album racks because new music might be on the way.

“I do have something coming out,” the “Catch My Breath” singer teased. “I don’t want to excite people — it’s not maybe what people think — but it is something to kind of bridge to another project.”

When asked to compare her new project to previous works, Kelly replied, “Musically, it’s similar to… I can’t describe it, really.  It’s hard to do.”

Aside from last year’s Christmas album, When Christmas Comes Around…, Kelly hasn’t released new music since 2017’s Meaning of Life, which contained the hits “Love So Soft,” “Heat” and “I Don’t Think About You.”

In other Kelly news, she recently revealed the Mother’s Day gift she received from her kids’ nanny made her tear up.  “I’m a single mom, right? So I’’m either at work or with kids,” she told the outlet. “So my nanny — I literally almost cried —  she walked into the kitchen and was like, ‘Hey, for Mother’s Day, I’m going to give you the gift of time and you can just do whatever you want.'”

“I almost broke down, I was like, ‘What?'” Kelly recalled. 

Kelly shares seven-year-old River and six-year-old Remington with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.

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Ashanti says Taylor Swift inspired her to re-record her eponymous debut studio album, which turned 20 this year.

The Grammy winner told Metro.co.uk, “I’ve always had the idea to go back in and re-record and gain the masters,” and says she felt “empowered” to do so after Swift announced she was re-recording her first six albums.

“I think Taylor is amazing for what she’s done and to be able to be a female in this very male-dominated industry, to accomplish that is amazing,” Ashanti praised.  The “Foolish” singer says she is delighted to see women gaining equal ground in the music space, because it benefits everyone.

“More of us have to continue that narrative of women empowerment, and just artists as a whole. Owning your property and getting a chance to have ownership of your creativity is so so important,” she declared. “Male, female, singer, rapper, whatever, I hope this is a lesson for artists to get in there and own.”

Ashanti said it’s “super cool” to re-record her old hits and says her mother is helping her commemorate the nostalgic journey.  “It’s been a really cool vibe and my mom has been getting footage of me going into the booth and she’s like, ‘Wow, this is crazy! When you were recording this 20 years ago at a studio in New York and now you’re here redoing it,'” Ashanti remarked. “It’s a surreal feeling so I’m super excited about it.”

Ashanti also revealed she doesn’t like performing “Rock wit U,” even though she loves the song.  “That’s one of my biggest records and I have a good time, but sometimes it’s just like, ‘ugh,'” she joked.

Ashanti arrived April 2, 2002 and scored her three Grammy nods.

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Thomas Rhett’s Bring the Bar to You Tour launches next month, and by the time it does, he’ll be ready: The singer says he and his band are getting serious about rehearsals.

“We rehearse ourselves into the ground, so that the first show of the tour doesn’t feel like the first show of the tour,” he explains, according to CMT. “It already feels like you’re in your rhythm.

Of course, all that practice can be pretty grueling — “I think the band, at times, has definitely wanted to kill me, just for the amount of time we rehearse,” TR notes — but the singer says he knows from experience how important it is to be ready when you hit the stage.

“I’ve done so many cold starts to tours, especially in my early days, that I never wanted to experience that when I became a headliner,” he adds.

The Bring the Bar to You Tour launches June 17. The run takes its name from a song off of Thomas’ latest album, Where We Started, featuring the lead single “Slow Down Summer.” He’s got a massive batch of new music to choose from in his set list, with more to come soon: The singer’s said he plans to release Side B of his Country Again project at a later date this year.

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