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GAYLE says she loves checking out other singers when scrolling through TikTok — meaning, if you post videos of you singing in your bedroom, chances are she’s seen it.

“My favorite thing to look at on TikTok, most of the time, is just people posting their music,” the “abcdefu” singer told Seventeen. “They’re just in their bedrooms or in the bathrooms writing songs and they’re really beautiful!  The lyrics are just so stunning.”

GAYLE says she also enjoys looking at videos posted by “college students that are writing songs, even like the Berkeley kids, and their songwriting classes.”

“That’s something I really enjoy watching, or even just people playing instruments really well in ways that I could just never,” she continued. “I’m just like, ‘That’s awesome!'”

The 17-year-old hitmaker later revealed the artist she most wants to collaborate with is “Issues” singer Julia Michaels.  “I’m just going to say this over and over again until maybe, one day, she pays attention and then she can tell me ‘no’ to my face,” GAYLE joked, adding she’s “totally fine with” that.

“No pressure.  I love you and I will love you from afar,” she remarked.  “But call me.”

Gayle also revealed she wanted to be a singer since she was seven.  “I was watching this compilation of Aretha Franklin  — it was like a 15-, 30-minute video — and when I was watching it, I was just like, ‘That’s it!  That’s what I wanna do with my life,'” she recalled.  “What she was doing was just so inspiring and so powerful and I just felt something I had never felt before.”

GAYLE teased she “will definitely have more music out” and “performing more” sometime soon, adding she will also be “possibly doing some fun stuff outside of music.”

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Stranger Things is bringing the ’80s back to Netflix when season four premieres May 27 and to celebrate, several major acts from that era have come together for a one-night-only virtual bash.

The Go-Go’s, “Sunglasses at Night” singer Corey Hart and “Tainted Love” duo Soft Cell, along with current pop singer Charli XCX, are performing at the Live from the Upside Down concert, which isn’t actually a real concert — it’s part of a promotion for Doritos. 

The concept is that the artists are heading to “Doritos Music Fest ’86” in fictional Hawkins, Indiana — a fictional festival in the fictional town where Stranger Things takes place — but instead, they get transported to the show’s sinister alternate dimension, the Upside Down.

“I’ve played so many unique places, but the Upside Down is definitely a first, so I had to get in the Upside Down mood,” Soft Cell’s Marc Almond told Billboard. “It is such a mad thing to do that I had to accept it.”  The singer added he’s a major fan of the show and will crush just about anyone at Stranger Things trivia.

Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle said of the concert, “We’ve done a lot of weird things through the years and we got to dress up in real 80s clothes and make-up.” Go-Go’s guitarist Jane Wiedlin added, “There was really a lot going on, much more so than at a usual concert.”  Jane adds that the group performs on a “super-slimy and creepy” set.

Corey Hart, whose hit “Never Surrender” was featured in the third season, promised the show is “quintessential, innovative and cool.”

The concert airs June 23. You can win tickets by buying a bag of Doritos or Doritos 3D Crunch snacks or by visiting Snacks.com or Doritos.com/StrangerThings.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers and Paramore will headline the 2022 Austin City Limits Music Festival, taking place October 7-9 and October 14-16 in Austin, Texas.

The bill also includes Phoenix, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Wallows, Spoon, Oliver Tree, Manchester Orchestra, Yungblud, Wet Leg, GAYLE and Wilderado, plus Taipei Houston, the band featuring the sons of Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich.

The other headliners are Pink, The Chicks, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, Flume and Lil Nas X.

Some of the artists on the undercard will only play one of the two weekends. GAYLE, for example, will play just weekend one, while Phoenix and Wet Leg are weekend two exclusives.

Tickets go on sale today at noon CT. For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit ACLFestival.com.

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In one of the first installments of her Service95 newsletter, Dua Lipa documented what it was like to go out to dinner in New York City alone.  Now, she tells Vogue for its June/July issue that one of her goals is to do that more often…and be happy about it.

Dua, who reportedly split with her longtime boyfriend Anwar Hadid last year, tells Vogue‘s Jen Wang, “The next chapter of my life is about truly being good with being alone.”  And for “Levitating” singer,  that’s more difficult than it sounds.

After writing about her solo dinner, Dua tells Vogue, “Some people on the internet were like, ‘Oh, Dua went out for dinner on her own, blah blah, I do this all the time.’ And I think that’s amazing if you do it all the time. You must be so confident. But it was a big step for me. I was nervous — like, ‘What am I gonna do? I don’t want to be on my phone.’”

Dua tells Vogue that her next solo “date” will be going to the movies. “I want to know I can just be there for myself, you know?” she explains.

Dua will have to fit that in between tour dates; she’s currently on the European leg of her Future Nostalgia tour. She’s also working on her next album, which she says is about half written.

“I’ve definitely grown up,” she says of the new material. “Overall, whether it’s sonically or in terms of the themes, I’ve matured. It’s like I’m coming into my power and not afraid to talk about things. It’s about understanding what I want.”

Vogue‘s June/July 2022 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on May 24th.

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After a viral, rambling Instagram Live interview with rapper and The Wendy Williams Show fill-in host Fat Joe, Wendy Williams herself says she’s “absolutely” ready to come back to her talk show.

However, an insider tells Page Six that’s not in the cards.

In the remote interview, conducted from Wendy’s “sexy” apartment in New York City, Williams addressed her money issues and vowed she’s coming back to her eponymous show. Williams is currently in a legal fight dispute with Wells Fargo after they denied her access to her bank account in February, claiming she needs supervision.

Fat Joe equated the situation to that of Britney Spears, when a conservatorship denied her access to her assets. “Why did you just get up and leave?” Joe asked Williams about her show.

“Because somebody stopped giving me my money,” she said. “Somebody stopped giving me my American Express.”

Williams said of her current situation, “…I need my money. I’ll talk about it when I get my show back. I have people that will get it done. I don’t feel like I will go away. I will get bigger and bigger and bigger, and bigger, and I’ll talk about it…”

Wendy maintained she was “absolutely” coming back to The Wendy Williams Show, adding, “I love being on my own show, and I love that people love to watch it all the time.”

However, Williams’ former air slot has already been given to Sherri Shepherd, one of her one-time fill in hosts. “It’s done. Logistically, it won’t work,” an insider told Page Six of Williams’ return

Wendy told Joe she won’t be watching Shepherd: “That’s not really my thing.”

As for her interview, the production company behind Wendy’s show, Debmar-Mercury, is apparently not happy it happened it all, according to Page Six. “[Fat Joe] didn’t give them a heads-up about it and she did not appear well,” the insider said. “…At times, she couldn’t even complete a sentence.”

Calling her “uninsurable,” the source said, “…She did not have the mental and physical capacity to host her show. [Debmar-Mercury] wanted her back more than anybody. They would’ve loved for her to finish out this chapter.”

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Miranda Lambert and Elle King are taking the stage at the Billboard Music Awards. 

The two will perform their chart-topping hit, “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” which recently became the first duet by two female country artists to hit #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart since Reba McEntire and Linda Davis‘ “Does He Love You” in 1993. It was also named Video of the Year at the 2022 ACM Awards. 

“Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” is nominated for Top Rock Song at the BBMAs, while Miranda is also up for Top Country Female Artist. 

Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood are among the other nominees at the Billboard Music Awards, which will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. 

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill certainly had a memorable wedding anniversary filming a particularly challenging scene on the set of 1883.

Tim recalls that the couple’s 25th anniversary happened to fall on the day they filmed the episode where the Duttons have to make the treacherous journey across the river in the dead of night, with Faith’s character Margaret tasked with carrying the wagon. 

“I was scared to death for it. We did that scene at 3:30 a.m. in 36-degree weather. We were soaked. And it was our 25th wedding anniversary,” Tim recounts to USA Today of the grueling filming experience. 

Despite the harsh conditions, Tim admits that Faith actually enjoyed the experience, so much so she became an “expert” at hauling the wagon. “She spent most of her time driving the wagon and was pretty darn good at it,” he praises. “She had more fun doing that than anything.” 

As for how the couple commemorated the special occasion? “We went home and went to bed as the sun was coming up to get ready for the next shoot,” he recalls. “But it was certainly an exciting 25th wedding anniversary.” 

1883 served as the 10-episode prequel to Yellowstone. 

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Congratulations are in order for Tyga and Doja Cat who recently nabbed a number one chart spot for their single, “Freaky Deaky.”

According to music data site Mediabase, the hit single, released in February of this year, landed at number one on the U.S. Rhythmic Chart.

“Freaky Deaky” is the second collaboration from Tyga & Doja, and debuted at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March, following Doja’s RIAA-certified double-Platinum hit, “Juicy,” off her debut album, Amala. 

Doja Cat is expected to add a few more “wins” to her repertoire this Sunday: the “Say So” singer is nominated for a leading 14 Billboard Music Awards this year, including Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top 100 Artist. 

The 2022 Billboard Music Awards airs live on May 15 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

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