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Michael Bublé’s new video for “I’ll Never Not Love You” is out, and confirming reports, you can clearly see that his wife Luisana Lopilato is pregnant with their fourth child, confirming earlier reports that she was expecting again.

The video ends with Michael back in the same grocery store that was featured in the video for “Haven’t Met You Yet.” Luisana co-starred with him in that video, back when they were just dating. In the first video, he leaves the store alone, but in the new video, he and Luisana leave the store together, along with three kids, who may or may not be their own children Noah, Elias and Vida.  Luisana is wearing a white top that’s knotted so you can see her baby bump.

As for the rest of the video, it shows Michael and Luisana re-enacting famous romantic scenes from iconic movies, such as Casablanca, Sixteen Candles, Love Actually, Titanic, Jerry Maguire, The Notebook, The Princess Bride and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

“I’ll Never Not Love You” is the first single from Michael’s upcoming album, Higher, which is due out March 25.

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The second of two shows John Mayer was to have played at New York’s Madison Square Garden hit an unexpected bump on Monday when his drummer, Steve Ferrone, tested positive for COVID-19. But the show went on, in a different format — or, as John described it, as “a very special presentation.“

The concert Monday night featured John performing acoustically with the band, minus Ferrone.  Then, for the last five songs plus the encore, Roots and Tonight Show drummer Questlove made a surprise appearance and filled in on the drum kit. Questlove and John have been friends since 2003, when the former played on John’s song, “Clarity.”

On Instagram, Questlove posted about how it all happened, writing that he was eager to go see John’s concert, because Steve Ferrone is his drumming idol, having played with everyone from Tom Petty, Duran Duran and Eric Clapton, to Rick James, Chaka Khan and Aerosmith.

“I got out my show clothes all [excited] & then I checked my phone: ‘Ferrone got covid, can you sit in?’” Questlove wrote. “Truth be told I coulda played the whole show…I was anxious, amped, timorous, excited, scared & hyped!!  Gotta say once onstage it was gravy.”

John wrote in the comments, “What you did was unforgettable and brilliant. Thank you for saving the day.”

John also wrote on Instagram, “My boundless appreciation goes out to the legendary @questlove, who stepped in on an hour’s notice to help end the show on such a powerful and definitive note….Most importantly, I thank everyone in attendance whose enthusiasm and energy in the face of some disappointing news lifted us all to something far greater than I could have ever expected.”

John noted that the next few stops on the tour will feature the same acoustic format, minus Questlove.

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On his new double album, Macon, Georgia, Jason Aldean does some things he’s never tried before. First of all, the project was released across two discs, the first of which came out last November as Macon and the second of which, Georgia, will arrive in April.

It’s also the tenth album of Jason’s career, so he wanted to do something special. He’s never done a greatest hits package or a live album, and while Macon, Georgia doesn’t qualify as either, it does include some elements of both. Each disc ends with five live tracks of Aldean classics like “Amarillo Sky,” “Big Green Tractor” and “Any Ol’ Barstool.”

“The idea was to at least pull one live song from each of the previous nine albums,” the singer says. “Obviously, one album will have two off it. But after this long [of a career], you know, you’re trying to just get creative and find new ways to give your fans something different that you haven’t given them yet.”

But don’t expect a full greatest hits album from Jason anytime soon. “We’ve never done a greatest hits record. That’s been by choice for me,” he points out.

“I hope I got a lot more hits in the tank, so I don’t want to put out a Greatest Hits yet, because I don’t feel like I’m finished,” he reflects, but adds that his creative approach to structuring his new album was his way of giving listeners a little bit of that ‘greatest hits’ feel.

“I felt like that was sort of a way to do that, a little bit,” Jason explains.

Georgia, the second half of the country star’s double album, is due out on April 22.

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Baby number four is on the way for Michael Buble and his wife Luisana Lopilato.

According to TMZ, the baby news is revealed in a new music video for Buble’s song “I’ll Never Not Love You,” due out Tuesday. In a clip from the forthcoming video, the Canadian singer gets pulled out of a dream sequence in a grocery store. As they walk out with their children, Lopilato’s baby bump is on full display. 

Buble, 46, and Lopilato, 34, who married in 2011, are already parents to three-year-old daughter Vida and sons  Elias, five, and Noah, eight.

Buble teased “I’ll Never Not Love You” on Saturday as the sequel to his hit “Haven’t Met You Yet.”

“‘Haven’t Met You Yet’ was the beautiful start of a true romance,” he tweeted. “10 years later, the story continues in the extraordinary sequel ‘I’ll Never Not Love You’ 2.22.22.”

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Last season on American Idol, Benson Boone got a Golden Ticket to Hollywood, but then dropped out in the middle of the competition. Now he’s signed to a record label owned by Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons and has a hit with “Ghost Town” — which is about the best outcome he could’ve hoped for. 

Boone tells ABC Audio he didn’t decide to quit Idol until “far after the first round.” He notes, “When it started, I was just kind of like excited to be there and just having a good time, enjoying what I was doing. But as I went on…realizing that winning could be a possibility, that’s when it kicked in that maybe I don’t fully know why I’m there.”

It was after he dropped out that Dan Reynolds contacted him.  Benson, who says he’d been “listening to Imagine Dragons’ music my whole life,” tells ABC Audio, “He reached out to me just over Instagram and said he loves my vibe and my voice, and he would love to work with me.”

“I had never written any of my own music, so I flew out to Vegas for like three days to work with him,” Benson continues. “At the end of that, he said he really liked working with me and he really liked my personality, and so I literally packed up and moved to Vegas the next day. It was crazy! But yeah, he, like, has been my mentor through all of this.”

Seems as though Dan was a pretty good mentor: Benson’s hit “Ghost Town” is now on the radio airplay charts right alongside Imagine Dragons’ latest hit, “Enemy,” from the soundtrack of the animated series Arcane.

On Friday, Benson released the follow-up song to “Ghost Town,” “Room for 2.”  He says the song is “basically just a journal entry about this girl…who makes me feel like I’d do anything for her.”

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Last week, Puscifer announced their first U.S. tour in support of the band’s latest album, Existential Reckoning. The record dropped in October of 2020, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, which sent the world into its own existential reckoning.

Reflecting on Existential Reckoning, frontman Maynard James Keenan tells ABC Audio he feels the album “definitely reflected the time” of its release.

“I do have a lot of conversations with my friends, check in on ’em, see where they’re at,” Keenan shares. “I feel like that album definitely reflected a median feeling between most of my close friends. I feel like like we kind of captured that.”

With the pandemic now nearing the end of its second year, Keenan thinks Existential Reckoning hasn’t lost its relevance.

“That album’s still unfolding for us, still, right now,” he says.

Existential Reckoning is the most recent album Keenan’s released, following A Perfect Circle‘s Eat the Elephant in 2018 and Tool‘s Fear Inoculum in 2019. During the pandemic, Keenan says he hasn’t been working on new music as much as he’s been focused on his other career: wine-making.

“I think more than the audio, visual, three-dimensional arts, instead I’ve kind of turned more toward just the farming,” he says. “Just having that connection to with seasons and harvest, I feel like I kind of turned a little bit more toward growing — literally.”

Puscifer’s tour launches in June. Keenan’s currently on tour with Tool.

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If you had any doubt Lady Gaga was meant to play the villainous Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci — think again.  One of the film’s producers revealed Gaga was part of the movie from the start.

“We sent the script to Gaga first because it is Patrizia’s story,” producer Gianina Scott revealed in a behind-the-scenes clip, according to ELLE. “And she totally connected with it. After we had her, we knew that we could get an amazing cast to join her in this crazy journey.”

Gaga also shared her thoughts on the drama and praised director Ridley Scott‘s vision, saying he “understands the emotional quotient of a script and he makes room for humanity and for humor. He gave us the space for it to be fun, with a not-so-funny subject.”

Scott also shares his insights in another behind-the-scenes interview, saying while Gaga was hooked from the start, it’s not usually that easy.  “The hardest single thing to do is get what you want to do on paper,” Scott said. “Cast will come flocking to a great script with a good director.”

All these interviews and other bonus content will be made available on February 22, when House of Gucci is released on DVD on Blu-Ray.  The disc will also feature an exclusive chapter called “The Lady of the House,” which will break down Gaga’s interpretation of Patrizia, as well as “her powerhouse charisma and unwavering dedication breathe life into this complex character,” per the press release.

Gaga was famously predicted to score her second Best Actress Oscar nod for her role in House of Gucci, but did not appear among this year’s nominees. 

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Cardi B made history as the first female rapper to have three Diamond single certifications from the RIAA in December, but she’s not solely relying on her music sales.

The “I Like It” rapper has numerous endorsements, and recently introduced her vodka-infused whipped cream, Whipshots. Whether she’s recording a song or selling a product, Cardi says everything has to be high quality.

“If it was just mediocre, people would just be like, ‘ah, whatever.’ Things are always going to sell when you have hardcore fans, but I wanted [Whipshots] to be big. Like, bigger than life and that is always the goal,” Cardi tells Complex. “I love my product. It’s delicious and it’s very strong and everybody keeps giving me positive feedback.”

She continues, “This is not only dessert. I wanted a party starter. I wanted something that is like, when I’m in Miami, I start giving [out] these Whipshots on a yacht and all of these girls start having fun. [Or] when I’m in my grandmother’s house and we try to get the party lit because my family likes to have a good time.”

Meanwhile, the 29-year-old entertainer has been the victim of social media attacks, and last month, she was awarded nearly $3 million in damages in her libel lawsuit against blogger Tasha K. She is also protecting her three-year-old daughter Kulture by making her Instagram account private after numerous hateful remarks.

Cardi says her loving fans help her maintain a positive spirit despite the haters.

“Every single time I feel like the whole world is against me, they let me know that, no, there’s still a whole group of people that love the f*** out of me,” she notes. “And hey, I got 120 million followers, like, hello!”

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