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Kelly Clarkson is not backing down in her ongoing divorce battle with ex Brandon Blackstock and is pouring all of her spare time into making sure she comes out on top.

A source spoke with US Weekly about Kelly’s legal drama and they dished, “She is devoting 100 percent of any free time she has preparing for the trial.  When not filming her talk show, she is hunkered down with [attorney] Laura Wasser.”  They continued, “She will not even entertain the idea of settling with Brandon.”

Kelly filed for divorce in 2020, citing “irreconcilable differences” and she was declared legally single in 2021.  Since then, the two have been locked in an intense legal battle over finances.  Most recently, she surrendered about five percent of their hotly contested ranch in Montana to her ex-spouse after failing to legally evict him from the property.

But, that appears to be all the “Piece by Piece” singer is willing to part with, as the spy continued, “He will not get one penny from her that isn’t ordered by the judge. It’s going to be nasty.”

Kelly and Brandon wed in 2013 and share two children, seven-year-old River and five-year-old Remington.

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After a tumultuous couple of years of pandemic-related shutdowns and uncertain touring conditions, Miranda Lambert is getting back into the swing of her live show with the return of The Bandwagon Tour, a co-headlining run with Little Big Town.

The singer knows that another COVID-19 surge could affect those plans, but she’s ready to get back to doing what she does best, she explains in an interview with Rolling Stone.

“There’s constant changes. I’m constantly Googling things,” Miranda notes. “…The biggest point is, we’re in control of nothing. For all those people who are planners like me, I have to really find my inner Zen.”

She’s not downplaying the severity of the pandemic. In fact, the singer reveals, she’s had a bout with the virus herself. “I know [COVID is] a real thing; I’ve had it,” she explains. Still, she adds, she’s “ready to move ahead.”

“All the conversations and all the battles and all of that, it comes down to I want to do my job and I want to just live my life,” Miranda goes on to say. “I’m proceeding as if that’s happening.”

The Bandwagon Tour will launch in early May.

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Post Malone made waves in the music scene thanks to his singles “Sunflower” and “Circles.”  But, in an intimate new interview, the hitmaker admits he had been quietly struggling against burnout.

Speaking to Billboard, Posty revealed he almost crashed and burned at the start of the pandemic.  The singer says he threw himself into his work following the release of his debut single, “White Iverson,” in 2015 and spent the next four years racing to get a song to top the Hot 100. 

“You think about everything at the same time, and it’s f***ing overload,” he recalled. “There’s a lot riding on the music. There’s a lot riding on just being able to keep making songs. And that’s hard to do because you’re like, ‘F*** — I already talked about everything.’ And you kind of run out of ideas, and that’s scary s***.”

Posty says that anxiety ballooned at the start of the pandemic and he fell into a creative slump.  “I used to love playing the guitar — I hardly play the guitar anymore. I used to love making beats… I lost that, and the hardest part is getting it back,” he said, adding that he retreated to Utah to reignite his spark. 

Finding solitude in the Beehive State worked like a charm, he says, and he began working on the followup to his third studio album, Hollywood’s Bleeding. He has since released two singles off his forthcoming effort, twelve carat toothache — “One Right Now,” a collab with The Weeknd, and “Motley Crew.”

Posty says the goal of his new music is to “speak more to how I’m feeling at the moment: the ups and downs and the disarray and the bipolar aspect of being an artist in the mainstream.”

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Shinedown has announced a new album called Planet Zero.

The seventh studio effort from Brent Smith and company will arrive April 22. You can listen to its lead single and title track now via digital outlets.

“If we shut each other down and allow ourselves to be divided by the information we consume and the way we talk to each other, we lose our humanity,” Smith says. “When you look outside of your phone, you’ll see there are so many people doing good things and trying to take care of each other. But we’re starting to see parts of society slip into an unknown.”

“Planet Zero was written for all of us,” he adds. “The fact is that we’re all here on this planet no matter what, so it’s time to actually move forward together with empathy, perseverance and strength. With that said…welcome to PLANET ZERO.”

Planet Zero follows Shinedown’s 2018 album ATTENTION ATTENTION, which spawned the singles “DEVIL,” “GET UP” and “MONSTERS.”

Shinedown launches a U.S. tour with support from Ayron Jones Wednesday night in San Francisco. They’ll hit the road with The Pretty Reckless and Diamante in April.

Here’s the Planet Zero track list:

“2184”
“No Sleep Tonight”
“Planet Zero”
“Welcome”
“Dysfunctional You”
“Dead Don’t Die”
“Standardized Experiences”
“America Burning”
“Do Not Panic”
“A Symptom of Being Human”
“Hope”
“A More Utopian Future”
“Clueless and Dramatic”
“Sure Is Fun”
“Daylight”
“This Is a Warning”
“The Saints of Violence and Innuendo”
“Army of the Underappreciated”
“Delete”
“What You Wanted”

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Janet Jackson‘s two-part Lifetime/A&E documentary is coming out on Friday, and the second half of it reportedly contains an unexpected guest: Justin Timberlake.

“Justin is in it. I was told he is going to be in the documentary. It’s like this big secret. He’s the surprise, just like the Super Bowl,” a source familiar with the production told Page Six.

In 2004, Justin and Janet shocked the world when they performed JT’s song “Rock Your Body” at the Super Bowl and Justin tore off part of Janet’s costume, exposing her breast.  Janet’s career suffered, while Justin emerged unscathed: He was even invited back to headline the Super Bowl in 2018.

In recent years, the entire incident has now been re-examined as an example of white privilege and systemic racism. Justin apologized to Janet last year via social media.

The Lifetime doc is four hours long, but insiders tell Page Six that only three hours have been provided to reviewers in advance. One claimed that Janet is being so secretive about the film that “Lifetime hasn’t even seen [it] yet.”

A trailer for the doc features Janet’s brother Randy telling Janet, “Justin and his team have been trying to contact us about you doing the Super Bowl,” but that’s the extent of any mention of JT.

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It’s been 20 years since Mandy Moore starred in the coming of age film, A Walk to Remember, which begs the question — how would she feel about a reboot?

“I would love that,” Moore told People. 

The This Is Us star, who starred in the early aught’s movie alongside Shane West, also revealed who she could see taking over her role as Jamie Sullivan telling the outlet, “I don’t know, Olivia Rodrigo or something like that.”

“Someone could redo this film. I would love to see it,” she adds. “It’s been long enough that, yeah, I feel like we’ve earned our place in cinematic history for a reboot at this point.”

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Could a Snoop Dogg and Sade collaboration be on the way? If it were up to the “Gin and Juice” rapper, the answer would most definitely be yes.

In a video clip shared by TMZ, Snoop revealed that he would love to link up with Nigerian-British singer for a song. 

“Maybe Def Jam and Universal can hustle that. I didn’t think it could happen,” the 50-year-old Super Bowl headliner said.

He added, “Watch out. We’ll put it in the air. Put a bat signal up saying, ‘You can call me.'”

Snoop then recalled attending one of Sade’s concert’s and being “too nervous” to meet the singer-songwriter.  

“I went to her concert, I went to see her perform on time. I went with Heavy D and LL Cool J. She had all these visual effects where she disappeared and she was in the top of the sky, she was [amazing],” he said. “They was like ‘Do you wanna go meet her?’ And I was like ‘[no].’ I was nervous as a motherf*****. Like, nah. I was too nervous!”

Instead of meeting the soul singer, Snoop told his crew that they needed to leave because “there’s going to be a lot of cars trying to get out of here.”

There’s no current plan for the two artists to collab, but never say never. 

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In GAYLE‘s breakthrough hit “abcdefu,” she gives her boyfriend, all his friends and his entire family a big “F-You” and tells them they can all “F off”…but makes sure to make an exception for his dog.  GAYLE says that was deliberate, because even though she’s so done with the guy, she really does miss his pooch.

“I love dogs in general, but I did love his dog. Like, his dog was the sweetest thing ever!” she tells ABC Audio. “But overall, in general, I’m a big fan of dogs!”

Continuing to gush about the pupper, GAYLE says, “I think she was a [Shiba Inu]. It was like the cutest little thing. It was so cute. I miss it soooo much.”

And what makes it worse, she says, is that because her ex and his family no longer live in the same state as she does — Tennessee — she’ll likely never see the dog again.

“That was just the weirdest thing about the breakup,” the 17-year-old singer laments. “It was long distance at the end. And so, because of that, like, once you break up with somebody who lives in a different state, like, the odds of you running into them are so low.”

“And I was just like, ‘I’m never going to see you [by] accident…I’m never gonna see your dog [by] accident’…It made me sad!” she explains. 

GAYLE does have a dog of her own at home, though: When she was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she explained that when she tried to drag the dog out from under her mom’s bed, she tripped and broke her finger — and she turned the X-ray of her finger into the artwork for “abcdefu.”

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Jordan Davis and Walker Hayes have a special connection thanks to Walker’s hit, “Fancy Like”: songwriter Josh Jenkins.

“One of the co-writers on ‘Fancy Like,’ Josh Jenkins, helped me write ‘Buy Dirt’ too, so I’m just over the moon for him,” Jordan praises. 

For Jordan, writing “Buy Dirt,” his hit collaboration with Luke Bryan that is #1 at country radio this week, was a family affair, as he got to write the meaningful song with his own brother, Jacob Davis, alongside the brother duo of songwriters Josh and Matt Jenkins. 

“The brother duo, we had a special day that day. Those are three of the best songwriters, in my opinion, in Nashville, and so we don’t get that song if I don’t have those guys with me. I can’t write a song like that by myself. I kind of just got out of their way on that one,” Jordan describes of the writing session.

While Josh is one of the masterminds behind “Fancy Like,” it was his brother Matt who pitched the idea for “Buy Dirt,” Jordan knowing instantly that this story needed to be told. 

“Matt Jenkins came in and was like, ‘what if it’s something, ‘Buy Dirt,’ like what you do with the piece of dirt that you have? What you do with your house, what you do with the way you raise your kids, what you do with the way you spend your time?'” Jordan recalls. “And when he said that, we all were just like, ‘that’s what we’re writing today.'” 

“Buy Dirt” marks Jordan’s fourth #1 single following “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot,” “Take It From Me” and “Singles You Up.”  

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