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Five Seconds of Summer is celebrating hump day with brand new music. 

The Australian super group released their latest track, “Blender,” which blends both pop and punk elements.

The two-and-a-half-minute song tackles a toxic relationship that turns up the passion and the drama.

While the group sings, “I’d die for you,” they reveal just how unhealthy it is to stay with their lover.  

“All the things you said in my head/ Ricochetting off the bed/ Nothing left, what a mess/ Oh, my God, it never ends/ Now we’re stressed and depressed/ And we’re going ’round again/ In an еmotional blender,” frontman Luke Hemmings croons.

And while it’s made apparent that it’s best they separate, Luke and Calum Hood confess, “But we just can’t keep away/ When you know me like you do/ It’s supernatural, got me howling at the moon.”

The new release comes just after 5SOS took over Good Morning America on Tuesday to perform “Me, Myself & I.”

Both tracks will appear on the group’s fifth studio album, 5SOS5, which arrives September 23. The 19-track project celebrates the band’s 10-year career by featuring tracks with “reflective and intimate lyrics” about their journey, per the official release.

5SOS previously released the tracks “Take My Hand” and “Complete Mess,” which will also appear on the new album. The singers are currently on their Take My Hand World Tour and will play another sold-out show tonight at Pier 17 in New York City.

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Harry Styles‘ “Late Night Talking” music video is finally here.

The video opens with Harry waking up in his bed and reaching over for someone, only to realize the space next to him is empty. He then sees a pile of clothes on top of his speaker and begins searching around his bed before diving into the covers and traveling through a portal lined with billowing white sheets.

The tunnel leads to multiple beds and increasingly interesting scenarios — Harry is seen lying on a giant red bed lined with numerous people, and waking up in a museum, as critics walk around and inspect the art installation he’s now a part of.

And it turns out the video does contain footage of Harry rolling down the streets of London on a giant, ornate metal bed. Fans spotted the Grammy-winner shooting this particular scene in February; he apparently held up traffic as the bed was towed down the street and toward Buckingham Palace.

Harry vanishes from each bed after spending time with its residents. The video ends with him standing on a brass bed that’s plummeting from the sky. Harry finally makes peace with his situation and lays down on the bed, relaxing as clouds race up past him.

“Late Night Talking” is the latest single from Harry’s House to get the music video treatment. After the clip was posted, he took to his Instagram Story to share a behind-the-scenes clip, which teases the amount of work that went into creating the music video.

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After dropping their Through the Madness Vol. 1 EP back in January, Maddie & Tae have announced the next half of the project: Through the Madness Vol. 2 will be available in September.

“The story continues September 23,” the duo shared on social media. “Through the Madness Vol. 2 has a little something for all your feels. We can’t wait for you to hear these songs!”

Volume one of the project included personal tracks like “Madness” and “Woman You Got,” which reflects on recent life changes ripped straight from their lives: Both Maddie Font and Taylor Kerr got married within the last few years.

The duo have experienced “madness” throughout the album release process in other ways, too: They had to postpone their scheduled early 2022 tour after Taylor, who was pregnant, was placed on bed rest. After being hospitalized for a month, the singer gave birth to her daughter, Leighton, significantly early. The baby spent 53 days in the newborn intensive care unit, went home and has been thriving since.

Through the Madness Vol. 2 is available for preorder now. If you sign up for Maddie & Tae’s fan club, you can get $2 off your order.

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Muni Long and Saweetie have dropped the playful new video for their single, “Baby Boo.”

In the clip for the catch tune — inspired by the 1995 hit “My Boo” by Ghost Town DJ’s — Muni and Saweetie use the dating site Blk to get with some hot guys. Muni matches with a dude who drives a truck that sells candy and ice cream and rides around with him while enjoying some popsicles. Meanwhile, Saweetie plays basketball in her bedroom with another guy before collapsing on the bed with him.

The clip ends with the two judging what seems to be an impromptu dance contest, where squads of women and men dance to “Baby Boo” on a makeshift outdoor stage.

“Baby Boo” is the first single from Muni’s EP Public Displays of Affection Too.

Muni, aka Priscilla Renae, has co-written songs for Rihanna, Fifth Harmony, Pitbull, Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande among others. She made her BET Awards debut last month to perform her hit “Hrs & Hrs” as well as her popular track “Time Machine.”

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Yungblud has canceled a batch of upcoming North American headlining concerts scheduled for September and October.

The affected dates include September 13 in Montreal, September 15 in Toronto and October 4 in Salt Lake City. Refunds are being issued at the point of purchase.

“My family in Toronto, Montreal and Salt Lake City, due to unforeseen circumstances, my shows this fall are going to be canceled,” Yungblud says in a statement. “You now how much I hate canceling shows, it breaks my f***ing heart but this is way beyond my control.”

“I promise I will be back soon and have massive plans,” the U.K. rocker adds. “All will be made clear soon. It’s gonna be…mental.”

The headlining shows fell in the middle of a run of U.S. festival dates, including sets at Riot Fest, Louder than Life and Firefly, which Yungblud is currently still scheduled to play.

Yungblud is gearing up to release a new, self-titled album on September 2. It includes the single “The Funeral” and the WILLOW collaboration, “Memories.”

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Artists including Mötley Crüe, Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach are featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming thriller film The Retaliators.

The closing track on the compilation is a Crüe song called “The Retaliators Theme (21 Bullets),” which features Ice Nine Kills, Asking Alexandria and From Ashes to New. The tune appears to be the first new material from the “Dr. Feelgood” rockers following the four tracks they recorded for 2019’s The Dirt soundtrack, which included the Machine Gun Kelly collaboration “The Dirt (Est. 1981).”

FFDP and Papa Roach’s contributions to the soundtrack are the previously released songs “Darkness Settles In” and “The Ending,” respectively. The track list also includes The Hu, Nothing More, Bad Wolves, Classless Act and Eva Under Fire among many others.

The Retaliators — which is being produced by Better Noise Films, an offshoot of the Better Noise Music record label — premieres in theaters September 14, and the soundtrack will be released September 16. Its cast includes Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee and Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix as well as members of Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Evan Under Fire and Bad Wolves.

You can watch a new trailer for The Retaliators now on YouTube.

Here’s the soundtrack’s track list:

Papa Roach — “The Ending”
The HU — “This Is Mongol”
Eva Under Fire — “Blow” feat. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills
From Ashes to New — “Scars That I’m Hiding” feat. Anders Fridén of In Flames
Asking Alexandria — “Faded Out” feat. Within Temptation
Tommy Lee — “Tops” feat. Push Push
Classless Act — “Classless Act” feat. Vince Neil of Motley Crue
Five Finger Death Punch — “Darkness Settles In”
Nothing More — “Tired of Winning”
Crossbone Skully — “Evil World Machine”
The HU – Wolf Totem” feat. Jacoby Shaddix
Bad Wolves — “If Tomorrow Never Comes” feat. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills
Cory Marks — “Burn It Up”
Hyro the Hero — “Who’s That Playing on the Radio?” feat. Mick Mars and Danny Worsnop
Cory Marks — “Blame It on the Double” feat. Tyler Connolly and Jason Hook
All Good Things — “For the Glory” feat. Hollywood Undead
From Ashes to New — “Barely Breathing”
Mötley Crüe — “The Retaliators Theme (21 Bullets)” feat. Ice Nine Kills, Asking Alexandria and From Ashes to New

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 Doja Cat is hemorrhaging followers after publicly calling out Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp on a TikTok live. 

The social media shake-up came after the “Say So” singer said that she was “disappointed” the 17-year-old actor shared their private messages about her crush on Joseph Quinn, who played rocker Eddie Munson on the show.

“When you’re that young, you make mistakes,” she had said, according to a fan-recorded video. While she did give Noah the benefit of the doubt that he wasn’t being malicious, Doja also said him posting “a private conversation between me and him” was “socially unaware and whack.”

“That’s like borderline snake s***. That’s like… weasel s***,” she continued. “I made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing.”

Since she made those statements, over 240,000 people have unfollowed the Grammy winner, NME reports.  Based on analytic data, Doja went from 24.34 million followers to 24.14 million followers in a week.

As for Noah, his follower count has increased — with his numbers jumping from 24.25 million to 25.17 million followers in that same span of time.

Neither of the two has spoken out about the incident. Noah has since deleted the video in question that sparked the whole debacle.

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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ashanti joined Good Morning America Wednesday to chat about her re-recorded, self-titled debut album and when fans can finally expect it. 

The “Princess of R&B” is re-doing the hit collection — which was released 20 years ago — to have full control over her work and to own the masters to the songs. She told Robin Roberts the award-winning collection will be out “before the end of this year.”

“There’s so much going on. So I’m in the studio and I’m re-recording as an NFT, so I’m very excited about that,” she said before reiterating, “It will definitely be out later this year.”

During her appearance on the morning show Ashanti, 41, performed her brand-new song “Falling for You” and was joined by special guest Ja Rule for a medley of popular hits “Rock Wit U,” “Happy” and “Mesmerize.”

The superstar singer says her relationship with labelmate Rule is still “so organic” after many years of working together. 

“It’s amazing for us to still be touring and doing our records and just getting so much love from the people, it’s an amazing feeling,” she said. “We have such a mutual respect for one another and it’s always been like that from day one.”

Ashanti’s new book, My Name is a Story, went number one on Amazon Wednesday, the same day as her mother’s birthday. She says she wrote the children’s story to encourage young kids “to be empowered to celebrate having a unique name.”

Ashanti said she’d remind her younger self “to always be encouraged, to dream big, to think outside of the box, never get discouraged, follow your dreams, always, always, always.”

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It seems like just yesterday that country fans from across the world were filing into Nashville for CMA Fest — one of the biggest music events of the year — but it’s already been a month and a half since the festival wrapped.

Fortunately, in the coming weeks, you can revisit all the CMA Fest fun with an ABC special hosted for the first time by Dierks Bentley and Elle King.

“I think Elle brings so much to the table,” says Dierks of his co-host and “Worth a Shot” duet partner. “Onstage she’s just a riot and also super talented — a great combination of talent with comedic humor. A lot of spontaneous moments between the two of us and just a lot of laughs.”

“I am co-hosting this whole she-bang,” Elle adds. “Not only do I get to do it with my buddy Dierks, I also get to see all these incredible performances and be a part of a big party!”

The “CMA Fest” ABC special will revisit some of the most unforgettable performances from the festival. Filmed at Nissan Stadium, the show will provide a front-row seat to mainstage performances from Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Luke Combs, Thomas Rhett and a slew of other stars.

The special airs on August 3 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. It’ll be available to watch the next day on Hulu.

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Move aside, Tony Stark: a different “Iron Man” is coming to San Diego Comic-Con.

Ozzy Osbourne will be making his debut at the famed pop culture convention on July 22. The metal legend and comic book artist and writer Todd McFarlane will reveal artwork for a new comic book included in certain special editions of Ozzy’s upcoming new album, Patient Number 9. Ozzy and McFarlane will also be signing autographs.

McFarlane previously directed the video for the Patient Number 9 title track, which premiered in June. The Spawn creator also designed a variant album cover for Patient Number 9 alongside fellow artist Jason Shawn Alexander.

Patient Number 9, the 13th solo Ozzy album and the follow-up to 2020’s Ordinary Man, will be released September 9.

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