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Pink teased she had something up her sleeve when she sang what fans believed were lyrics to a new song on Monday. They were right.

The Grammy winner announced a forthcoming track that she said was born out of frustration. “Woke up. Got heated.  Wrote song,” she tweeted while sharing some lyrics scribbled down in black ink on a white napkin. She added the track is “Coming soon.”

Sharing a close-up of her written work, the lyrics read, “I think it might rain today/ Ash on the ground/ Took all the heat we could take/ And then burned it down.” Another picture shows the song’s title written on the other side of the napkin, with the hastily-written words digging into and tearing into the delicate fabric.

Earlier this week, Pink teased her new track in a black-and-white video that showed her singing another handful of lyrics. “You can call me irrelevant, insignificant/ You can try to make me small,” she sang while pinching her thumb and index together.

The “Just Like Fire” singer has been tangling with online haters after publicly telling abortion rights opponents to never listen to her music again. The fiery statement was made shortly after the Supreme Court ruled last month to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion.

Since then, Pink has dealt with her fair share of angry individuals telling her to stay out of politics and claiming it’s her job to just sing and entertain. After being told to basically “shut up and sing” for weeks, she went and did just that.

No release date for “Irrelevant” has been given at this time.

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Rob Zombie has premiered the first full trailer for his film adaptation of The Munsters.

The clip, which Zombie posted to his Instagram, focuses on the origin of the relationship between Herman and Lily Munster, played by Jeff Daniel Phillips and Sheri Moon Zombie, respectively.

A voiceover in the trailer proclaims, “Rob Zombie, the director of House of 1000 Corpses, Halloween and The Devil’s Rejects, brings you the greatest love story ever told.”

The preview also illustrates the goofy, lighthearted tone of the film, which may be surprising for fans of his otherwise violent and gory filmography. Zombie previously confirmed that his Munsters will be rated PG in an effort to stick to the vibe of the original ’60s sitcom.

The Munsters is set to debut in September. The cast also includes Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa Munster plus Lost alum Jorge Garcia, Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira and original Munsters actors Butch Patrick and Pat Priest.

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New shoe alert! Billie Eilish is once again teaming with Nike for a new set of sustainably made sneakers — her fourth overall.

Sneaker News shared the first images of Billie’s upcoming “Sequoia” line, a Nike Air Force 1 High build, which is made of environmentally friendly matter.

Looking much like her recently sold-out “Mushroom” line, this new high strap offering features a darker color motif with charcoal-colored laces, fabric, straps and sole. Again, this new shoe is created from recycled materials and is made from synthetic nubuck — a type of buffed, durable leather.

Billie is vegan, which explains why she would steer clear of animal byproducts being in her new collaboration.

It is unknown at this time when she will drop her new Sequoia sneaker line, but Nike has released the official images and that is leading fans to believe more information will arrive shortly.

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Death Cab for Cutie has released a new song called “Here to Forever,” which will appear on the band’s upcoming album, Asphalt Meadows.

“It’s a song both about our impermanence and the anxiety of these times,” says frontman Ben Gibbard. “It’s also about wanting to believe in something bigger even when it feels like nothing is out there.”

You can listen to “Here to Forever” now via digital outlets. Like the previously released single “Roman Candles,” “Here to Forever” is accompanied by a video directed by filmmaker Lance Bangs, who’s previously worked with artists, including Nirvana, R.E.M. and Green Day. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.

Asphalt Meadows, the 10th Death Cab album, arrives September 16. After finishing off a batch of summer dates this week, Gibbard and company will launch a full U.S. tour in support of Asphalt Meadows in September.

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Alice in Chains is the latest band to get the Funko Pop! treatment.

The toy company has teamed up with the grunge rockers to create a new line of its ever-popular big-headed vinyl figures to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of AiC’s 1992 album, Dirt.

“This year marks the 30th anniversary of Dirt, and we’re starting the celebrations early with our Funko Dirt Pop! Collection,” the band says.

The package includes Pop! versions of each member of the Dirt lineup — frontman Layne Staley, guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney — accompanied by the album artwork. It’s set to be released November 30 and is available to pre-order now.

Dirt, Alice in Chains’ sophomore album, will officially turn 30 in September. The RIAA quadruple-Platinum album spawned AiC classics, including “Them Bones,” “Rooster,” “Would?” and “Down in a Hole.”

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Shawn Mendes postponed his tour for three weeks so he could “take care of myself and my mental health,” but as a source tells People, that’s actually a good thing.

According to the source, “being in the public eye has long put a lot of pressure” on Shawn, and in the past, he’s found it hard to find “a balance between work and taking care of his mental health.” But the good news, the source adds, is that Shawn is “now able to identify triggers that make it necessary for him to slow down and focus on his health.”

“He wants to give 100 percent of his energy and focus to his tour and his fans,” the source adds.

In a statement to fans announcing the postponement, Shawn explained that he’d initially felt ready to go on tour, but that decision was “premature and unfortunately, the toll of the road and the pressure has caught up to me, and I’ve hit a breaking point.”

Shawn has previously spoken about his struggle with anxiety, which inspired his hit “In My Blood.” Back in April, long before he started his tour, he posted a message on Twitter saying that he’s a “23-year-old who constantly feels like he’s either flying or drowning.”

He added, “Even with so much success, I still find it hard to feel like I’m not failing.”

The following week, Shawn wrote on Instagram, “i’ve been going through it lately. Tryna be the best ain’t really doing it for me anymore if i’m honest.”

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Daniel Kaluuya burst onto the Hollywood scene with a leading role in Jordan Peele‘s Get Out, however, during a recent interview the British actor admitted that it almost didn’t happen. 

While chatting with Peele for Essence, Kaluuya revealed that he almost quit acting altogether before getting the starring role. 

“I’ve never told you this, but when you reached out to me and we had that Skype, I was really disillusioned with acting,” he admitted. “I had stopped acting for like a year and a half.”

“I checked out, because I was just like, this isn’t working,” he continued. “I wasn’t getting roles, because racism and all this kind of stuff — so you reaching out was like, Okay, I’m not crazy. It’s proper. It’s going to be all right.”

Kaluuya went on to share that following Get Out he became more intentional about projects he decided to partake in, telling Peele, “I was just like, If it’s not a ‘F*** yeah,’ it’s a no. That kind of cleaned house.”

“A ‘F*** yeah’ to me is when you’re doing plays, you’re doing it for 400 pound a week. That’s pre-agent, pre-tax, pre-everything. So I was like, Would I do this for 400 pound a week? And if the answer was yes, then all right, cool, I’ll do it,” he explained. “I want to go into places that I don’t know I can. I want three-dimensional characters. I want to tell the story, no matter how big or how small.”

Using his role in Widows as an example, Kaluuya added, “I’m not in the film that much, but my character had an arc — he had a story and an evolution. As long as that’s there, then I can engage with it.”

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Once upon a time, Ne-Yo was considering signing Lucky Daye — that is, until Ne-Yo says Daye betrayed his trust. 

While appearing on Sunday’s episode of the Frequently Asked Questions podcast, Ne-Yo revealed that he was working with and had hoped to sign Daye, who was working under his birth name David Brown at the time.

“The remix to ‘Miss Independent’ with me, and Jamie Foxx, and [Fabolous]? Jamie Foxx’s verse — Lucky Daye wrote that verse. He wrote the verse because it was supposed to be him,” Ne-Yo said of the 2008 hit. 

Things went south apparently after Ne-Yo offered his home to the “Over” singer, with one stipulation. 

“I was going on a short little run or whatever, and I let Mr. Daye stay at my house. Now at this point, I have a big beautiful house, and I’m like, ‘Bruh, you’ve got full reign of the crib. You can go wherever you want to go, do whatever you want to do — just don’t go in my room,'” the “Because of You” singer recalled telling Daye. 

Turns out Daye completely disregarded Ne-Yo’s rule, which led to the downfall of their partnership.

“I come back one morning. Open the door up, I don’t see this dude nowhere. I go upstairs to my room. Sure enough, he’s asleep with a chick in my bed,” Ne-Yo said. 

Daye has since made a name for himself, signing with Keep Cool Records and RCA Records in 2018 and winning a 2022 Grammy Award for his album Table for Two. 

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