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Britney Spears opens up about her mental health: “I will forever be traumatized by my past experience”

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears is letting fans know that while she presents herself as happy and confident on social media, it is part of a protective facade.

Taking to Instagram to share a photo of a wet pink rose, the Grammy winner wrote, “It’s crazy … social media … everybody’s life seems so perfect and when I post things I think most of the time I’ve been utterly and completely embarrassed of my past … and who can forget those documentaries.”

Britney adds she does “try and post me looking my best,” but admits she is not being entirely truthful about having “the good life.”

“The truth is, my spirits are better but I will forever be traumatized by my past experience for life,” she said, seemingly in reference to her controversial 13-year conservatorship. “There is no way to fix me, my emotions and my sensitivity … therapy, all of it !!! I think I will need some sort of miracle for my emotions.”

The hitmaker noted her life is not “picture perfect” and confessed, “I cry myself to sleep most night … I’m insecure as hell … I don’t know how to have good posture unless I’m on camera … and I need to go to a school just to be taught how to freaking walk.”

Britney said she has “no clue” how to act when off the stage, but is “working on that,” such as learning that advocating for herself doesn’t make her “a bad person.”

In a separate Instagram post, she called out her family for vacationing in “my beach house in Destin” while she was reportedly forced to stay at a mental health facility against her will, which would draw her blood every Wednesday and leave her “weak.”

John Mayer says one of his 2012 songs is going to be “a major motion picture”

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A song John Mayer recorded back in 2012 is apparently being made into a movie … at least according to John.

As previously reported, Mayer did a livestream benefit concert from Livingtson, Montana, Sunday night to raise money for flood relief efforts in that area and played his 2012 album, Born and Raised, in its entirety. According to Moviemaker, after he played the song “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, 1967,” he said, “I wanna say one thing that might get me in trouble, ’cause that’s what I do. That song is soon to be a major motion picture.”

He added, “It’s true. It’s gonna be a movie.” The song is about a man who builds a homemade submarine and travels across the ocean, eventually making it to Tokyo.

As Moviemaker notes, two years ago people on Reddit discovered there was an IMDB entry for a film of that name. Writer and director Justin Wheelon then hopped onto the Reddit thread and confirmed that the movie was in preproduction but had been put on hold because of COVID. He added that he hoped to cast actor Joel Murray as Walt.

The IMDB page doesn’t appear to have been updated since.

Get your first listen to Elton John’s new collab with Britney Spears, “Hold Me Closer”

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

“Hold Me Closer,” Elton John‘s new collaboration with pop superstar Britney Spears, won’t be released until this Friday, but we now have our first taste of the track.

On TikTok, Elton posted a 14-second snippet of the song, which features Britney’s voice singing the chorus of Elton’s 1972 hit “Tiny Dancer” — “Hold me closer tiny dancer/ Count the headlines on the highway” — paired with Elton’s original vocal over a dance beat, with some “woo-hoos” in the middle.

The song has a vibe similar to Elton’s 2021 hit “Cold Heart,” which featured his original vocals from his 1989 song “Sacrifice,” paired with Dua Lipa singing the chorus of his 1972 hit “Rocket Man” and part of his 1983 single “Kiss the Bride.”

Get your first listen to Elton John & Britney Spears’ collab “Hold Me Closer”

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

We’ll get the full song on Friday, but we now have our first taste of “Hold Me Closer,” the collaboration between Elton John and Britney Spears.

On TikTok, Elton posted a 14-second snippet of the song, which features Britney’s voice singing the chorus of Elton’s 1972 hit “Tiny Dancer” — “Hold me closer tiny dancer/count the headlines on the highway” — paired with Elton’s original vocal over a dance beat, with some “woo-hoos” in the middle.

The song has a vibe similar to Elton’s 2021 hit “Cold Heart,” which featured Elton’s original vocals from his 1989 song “Sacrifice,” paired with Dua Lipa singing the chorus of his 1972 hit “Rocket Man” and part of his 1983 single “Kiss the Bride.”

“Hold Me Closer” is Britney’s first new music since the end of her conservatorship and, indeed, since 2016.

Zac Brown Band plans one-night-only Nashville show to benefit ALS research efforts

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Zac Brown Band has added a very special Music City show to its tour calendar. The group will play Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on September 22 for an intimate, one-of-a-kind concert experience.

The show will be extra meaningful because a portion of the proceeds are set to benefit Hop on a Cure, a foundation to help fund research for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The effort was established by band member John Driskell “Hop” Hopkins, who opened up earlier this year about his ALS diagnosis.

“Playing in Nashville, my home away from home, is always something special,” frontman Zac Brown says of the upcoming show. “This particular one is meaningful because we’re raising awareness and funds for one of our very own through Hop on a Cure.”

He adds that the band has been feeling the support from fans ever since they announced John’s diagnosis. “We see all the love and support Hop has received thus far so we’re gonna bring the house down and show folks a good time in appreciation,” Zac adds.

Tickets go on sale Friday, but members of ZBB’s “Zamily” fan club will have access to a special presale beginning Tuesday.

Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty to federal drug charges in New York

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Rapper Fetty Wap pleaded guilty on Monday in a New York federal court to conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances.

The hip-hop star, born Willie Junior Maxwell II, was indicted in September 2021 for allegedly conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Long Island.

He now faces a five-year mandatory minimum sentence and remains in custody after his bond was revoked earlier this month.

Maxwell was arrested on October 28, 2021, during the Rolling Loud Music Festival in Queens, New York. He and five others were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances across Long Island and New Jersey.

Maxwell initially pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was released on a $500,000 bond on November 5, 2021, but was arrested in New Jersey on August 8 on charges he violated the conditions of his pretrial release.

The rapper displayed a gun and threatened to kill “John Doe” during a December 11, 2021, FaceTime call, according to federal prosecutors.

The FBI obtained a video recording of the call in which Fetty Wap “is shown holding a gun and pointing it towards John Doe,” according to the affidavit.

“The defendant then says to John Doe ‘Imma kill you and everybody you with,’ which he then repeats one more time. The defendant then continues to threaten John Doe, saying ‘I’m gonna kill you,’ a threat which he repeats several more times throughout the video call,” the affidavit said.

ABC News has reached out to the rapper’s representatives but a request for comment was not immediately returned.

A sentencing date has yet to be set in this case.

New album featuring rerecorded Grass Roots hits due out in September

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

A new album titled Let’s Live for Today featuring updated versions of well-known songs by the veteran pop-rock group The Grass Roots will be released on September 9.

The 15-track collection features vocals by longtime Grass Roots lead singer and bassist Rob Grill that were recorded in 1997, 14 years before his 2011 death from complications of a stroke at age 67.

The album boasts renditions of such late 1960s and early ’70s hits as “Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Sooner or Later,” “I’d Wait a Million Years” and “Temptation Eyes.”

The record also features contributions from MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, as well as veteran garage rockers The Fuzztones, Texas psychedelic act Night Beats, Canadian alt-country group Dead Ghosts, Danish/Brazilian retro-rock duo The Courettes and British electronic duo The KVB.

Kramer play on one of three versions of “Midnight Confessions” that appear on the album. The Courettes lent their talents to the lead track, “Wait a Million Years,” which has been released as an advance digital single.

Let’s Live for Today can be preordered now and will be available via streaming platforms, on CD and as a limited-edition purple-splatter vinyl LP.

Here’s the album’s full track list:

“Wait a Million Years” (The Courettes Mix)
“Midnight Confessions” — featuring Wayne Kramer
“Let’s Live for Today” (The Fuzztones Mix)
“Temptation Eyes” (Night Beats Mix)
“Sooner or Later” (Dead Ghosts Mix)
“Bella Linda”
“Heaven Knows”
“Midnight Confessions” (The KVB Mix)
“Things I Should Have Said”
“Sooner or Later”
“Wait a Million Years”
“Temptation Eyes”
“Let’s Live for Today”
“Midnight Confessions”

Josh Groban to sing national anthem before NASA’s Artemis I launch

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Josh Groban‘s upcoming performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” will be a blast … literally.

Josh has been tapped to sing the national anthem at next week’s launch of NASA’s Artemis I, a mission that will test NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft by sending it on an uncrewed flight test around the moon. The test will pave the way for future lunar exploration.

The rocket will launch Monday, August 29, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Josh, performing with jazz legend Herbie Hancock, will sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” There will also be appearances from Captain America himself, Chris Evans, plus Jack Black and Keke Palmer. In addition, the Philadelphia Orchestra and cellist Yo-Yo Ma will perform “America the Beautiful.”

You’ll be able to watch the whole thing live on the NASA app and on NASA’s website.

Mitchell Tenpenny plots This is the Heavy Tour as “At the End of a Bar” goes #1

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Mitchell Tenpenny is currently sharing the #1 spot at country radio with his pal Chris Young as their duet “At the End of a Bar” sits atop the chart.

“I’m just so excited to have a #1 with this song. It’s a special song and a great story about how it was written. Even cooler to have it with one of my best buddies,” Mitchell says. “Chris has become one of my best friends, so to get to celebrate this together is special in itself.”

To celebrate, Mitchell’s announcing the first round of dates on his This is the Heavy Tour, a trek named for his new album. The singer has set 10 dates, which will kick off in January in Salt Lake City and last through the end of February.

Among the shows he’s booked are two hometown stops in Nashville, where Mitchell will play back-to-back dates at famed venue the Ryman Auditorium. Those shows will take place February 3 and 4.

Mitchell’s This is the Heavy album is due out September 16. This Friday, he’ll release another new track off the album ahead of release day, called “Good and Gone.”

The National premieres new song “Weird Goodbyes,” featuring Bon Iver

August 22, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The National has premiered a new song called “Weird Goodbyes,” featuring Bon Iver.

The track, which is available now via digital outlets, follows the “Fake Empire” outfit’s 2019 album, I Am Easy to Find. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, guitarist Aaron Dessner confirms that a new record is in the works.

“I wouldn’t say it’s super heavy … it’s emotional,” Dessner explains. “There’s a way of writing about disillusionment and disconnect and wanting to escape or reconnect … It actually feels very direct in a way.”

“It reminds me of older songs, even ‘Boxer’ era,” he adds. “We’re really excited … we’re very close.”

Since releasing I Am Easy to Find, The National’s been introduced to a whole new group of fans by guesting on the Taylor Swift song “coney island.” The track appears on the pop superstar’s 2020 album evermore, which, like predecessor folklore, was co-produced by Dessner.

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