Music

Britney Spears, like many people, is an outspoken fan of Euphoria, and a since-deleted Instagram post has fans buzzing that she could make a cameo on the popular HBO drama.

Sharing a short video of her hanging out with The Weeknd and Euphoria director Sam Levinson, the Grammy winner revealed, “Here’s me today meeting the director of @euphoria today and @theweeknd,” which has fans scrambling over the possibility of Britney’s return to acting.

Britney’s fiancé, Sam Asghari, further fueled rumors by commenting, “New character in Euphoria?” In addition, The Weeknd commented with a single red heart emoji.

While the “Toxic” singer spent much of her post focusing on Euphoria, fans also pointed out The Weeknd is currently working on a music-industry drama series called The Idol, which he co-wrote with Levinson. The series follows a female pop star who falls in love with a Los Angeles club owner who is also a cult leader. 

That series is currently going under a “new creative direction,” which means the show’s “adjusting its cast and crew accordingly,” according to an HBO spokesperson. It is currently unknown how or if Britney fits into the equation.

Also in Britney’s post, she spoke about having clarity in her life and opened up about being forced into “840 hours” of therapy against her will. She also revealed that, seven months prior to being committed against her will, she had been meeting with charities to help Hillary Clinton “cut the red string for the key to Las Vegas,” but the opportunity never arose. “That’s Hollywood for you,” she remarked.

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Scotty McCreery was a baseball player in high school, but his focus has since shifted to a more mellow sport: golf. 

When he’s not on the road entertaining his legion of fans, you can find Scotty on a golf course, who plays about two or three times a week when he’s at home. The singer has been playing golf since he was six years old and said he ended up with a score of 74 in his best round of golf. “I was pretty pumped,” he tells PGA Tour. 

As for his favorite course in the country, Scotty cites Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. “It’s like walking into the Land of Oz, it’s unbelievable,” he describes, adding that Tiger Woods is his favorite player of all time. 

While he plays golf for fun, the North Carolina native says that being onstage is where he feels most comfortable, noting that the similarity between golf and singing is the pressure. 

“In golf, you got to hit the shot. When people are watching onstage, thousands of folks out there watching, you got to make sure you deliver. I enjoy the pressure when I’m singing, golf wise probably not so much,” Scotty laughs. “I don’t mind the pressure onstage.” 

Among the many other golf fans in the country community are Darius Rucker, Charles Kelley of Lady A and Jake Owen. 

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Ever since Kelly Clarkson started doing fan-voted cover songs in her live shows, people have asked for her to release those covers. The call intensified after Kelly made cover songs, aka “Kellyoke,” a daily feature of her talk show.  In other words, we’ve been waiting a lifetime for a moment like this — and now we’re finally getting it.

Kelly has announced that a six-song EP titled Kellyoke will arrive June 9. It’ll feature Kelly’s takes on Linda Ronstadt‘s “Blue Bayou,” The Weeknd‘s “Call Out My Name,” Radiohead‘s “Fake Plastic Trees,” Whitney Houston‘s “Queen of the Night” and Billie Eilish‘s “Happier Than Ever,” the latter of which is out now on all digital platforms. 

Kelly originally performed “Happier Than Ever” on her show September 30 of last year. In this studio version, she definitely does not shy away from the profanity in the song.

“Music is in the DNA of everything I do, so when The Kelly Clarkson Show started we knew it was the perfect way to kick off every episode,” Kelly says in a statement. “Over 500 songs later, and we’re still not running out of amazing artists to pay tribute to. Picking just six was near-impossible, but these songs have been some of my favorites. Thanks for singing along with me, y’all!”

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez are among the celebrities who took to social media to express their grief, shock and outrage over the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday that left 19 children and two adults dead.

On Twitter, Taylor posted a video of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr making an impassioned plea for gun control. “I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there…I’m tired of the moments of silence. Enough,” said an emotional Kerr.

Taylor captioned the video, “Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde. By Buffalo, Laguna Woods and so many others. By the ways in which we, as a nation, have become conditioned to unfathomable and unbearable heartbreak. Steve’s words ring so true and cut so deep.”

Taylor’s friend Selena Gomez, a Texas native, wrote on Twitter, “Today in my home state of Texas 18 innocent students were killed while simply trying to get an education. A teacher killed doing her job; an invaluable yet sadly under appreciated job. If children aren’t safe at school where are they safe?”

Including a link to the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Selena added, “It’s so frustrating and I’m not sure what to say anymore. Those in power need to stop giving lip service and actually change the laws to prevent these shootings in the future.”

And at her concert in LA on Tuesday night, Olivia Rodrigo told the audience she was “devastated” about the shooting, and added, “We should never have to worry about our safety or our lives at places that are dedicated to our learning and growing. And I’m so heartbroken that this is the reality that we’re living in — and we need stricter gun control laws in America.”  The audience cheered her remarks.

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Ice-T is laughing off the critics. 

Over the weekend, Ice-T’s wife, Coco Jones, shared a snapshot of their 6-year-old daughter, Chanel, sitting in a stroller during a family trip to the Atlantis Bahamas that sparked a ton of backlash from users who thought the child was too old for the wheeled chair.

Multiple outlets picked up the story including CNN, which prompted the Law & Order: SVU star to tweet on Tuesday, “Lol… CNN? Really? MFs ain’t got s*** else to talk about.. F em all. Smh. Lol”

The photo shared by Jones was a mirrored selfie of the family, with Chanel looking bored while sitting in the stroller with the caption, “A stroll through the @atlantisbahamas shops… Chanel is so over it unless theres something cool to see.. Her face transitions instantly.”

It didn’t take long for users to express their disapproval, with one person commenting, “Isn’t she like 6 yrs old! Should she be out of a stroller by now?!”

Another wrote, “A stroller really? Let that girl grow up.”

It wasn’t all criticism, though. There were some that defended the use of a stroller, like one person who questioned, “Why are people complaining about the stroller? You going to pick her up when she gets tired? Its not like she has a bottle and a pacifier. Relax.”

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Does Luke Combs have a collaboration with Miller Lite in the works? 

Luke took to Instagram to offer a look at a new beer can designed in his honor. In the video, Luke can be seen holding what appears to be a normal can of Miller Lite. “Wait for it …” he says. When he turns the can over, he reveals an elaborate illustration that shows the hit singer in his signature black collar shirt with a Miller Lite hat on his head, his name written in red lettering above.

The portrait is accompanied by sketches of a guitar, bass fish and the singer with a microphone in hand performing in front of a cheering crowd. “Nothing picks me up like a @millerlite beer can…,” Luke writes in the caption, referencing a line in his song, “Beer Can,” off his debut album This One’s For You. 

The hitmaker is not shy about his love of the libation, as evidenced by his Platinum-selling, #1 hit “Beer Never Broke My Heart.” 

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As the definition of “alternative” continues to shift over time, electronic band Bob Moses now has the #1 single on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart.

The duo, made up of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance, grabbed the top spot on the ranking this week with “Love Brand New,” a track off their new album The Silence in Between. Speaking with ABC Audio, Vallance shares that “Love Brand New” was influenced by a “pioneer of mixing dance music with alternative”: Trent Reznor.

“He’s maybe one of the best people at it,” Vallance says of the Nine Inch Nails frontman. “I think we can’t help but be inspired by acts like him, or acts that inspired him, like Tears for Fears or New Order or Depeche Mode.”

In fact, Vallance describes the very beginning of “Love Brand New” as a “little nod” to Reznor and the NIN classic “Closer.”

“We were obviously locked away not playing shows, and so … we dug into records from the past as sources of inspiration,” Vallance shares.

“Love Brand New” is Bob Moses’ first #1 Alternative Airplay single, which is fitting, given it was one of the first Bob Moses songs to feature outside co-writers: Swedish duo John Martin and Michel Zitron.

Howie shares that he and Vallance were initially “nervous” about a songwriting collaboration — “Writing songs can kinda be an intimate thing,” he says — but found it to be a rewarding experience.

“Now that we feel that we’ve really created a strong identity as the two of us, I think that we feel comfortable … [with] being able to open ourselves up to that new spark of creativity without letting too much outside influence steer us away from what we know Bob Moses is,” Howie says.

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