Last week, Katy Perry’s fiancé Orlando Bloom turned 45 and she raved about him on Instagram, writing that he is the “kindest, deepest, most soulful, sexy & strong man I know.” But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have flaws — and she just revealed one on British radio.
While speaking to the U.K.’s Heart radio, Katy was asked to name Orlando’s “worst habit.”
“Oh my God…he loves to floss, which thank God, because some partners don’t and it’s disgusting and he has brilliant teeth,” Katy replied. “But he leaves the floss everywhere! On the side of my bed, and in the car, and on the kitchen table…I’m like, ‘There are [garbage cans] everywhere!’”
In the same interview Katy was also asked if she thinks she’s a better singer than Adele.
“F*** no!” Katy replied immediately. “Who is a better singer than Adele? You tell me that!”
It seems as though Britney Spears and her sister Jamie Lynn may be on the road to making up after getting into a heated online exchange.
On Saturday, Britney shared a lengthy Twitter post in which she clarified her feelings about Jamie Lynn, who recently did an interview in which she discussed the singer, their relationship and the past while promoting her upcoming book Things I Should Have Said, out January 18.
“Jamie Lynn… I don’t think your book is about me at all…I said some harsh things because you obviously hurt me by the things you are making up about me,” the “Toxic” singer tweeted.
Britney also clarified, “When I said only a scum person would make up things like that about someone, I could have sworn I said ‘but you’re not.'”
The star added that she loves Jamie “unconditionally,” but seemed confused that her “loyalty is still with the people that hurt me the most!!!”
“I don’t care anymore!!! Say whatever you want to say just know I do know your real heart more than anyone!!!,” Britney continued. “Just know I love you and I think you know that already more than anything!!!”
That same day, Jamie Lynn, 30, responded in an Instagram Story writing, “Britney- Just call me, I have attempted many times to speak to you directly and handle this privately like sisters should, but you still choose to do everything on a public platform,” according to People.
“In the meantime, please stop continuing the narrative that I haven’t been there for you or that I’m making things up. I’m happy to share how many times I’ve reached out to you, supported you and tried to help you. This is embarrassing and has to stop. I love you,” she concluded.
“Yo, I’m so happy right now,” the Yeezy designer, 44, said in an Instagram video on Saturday, per Hollywood Unlocked. “I just came from Chi’s party and I just gotta shout out to Travis Scott for sending me the address and the time and making sure that I was able to spend that birthday memory with my daughter to be there with the rest of the family.” He also thanked Kylie Jenner.
While Ye expressed his happiness for spending time with his youngest daughter on her special day, an insider who was close to the former couple told Page Six, “He was always having his own party for Chicago. He had it at 4 p.m. at his office downtown [in Los Angeles] that he planned, so it’s so frustrating he crashed Kim’s party and created this narrative that he wasn’t invited.”
The birthday debacle wasn’t the only drama for the Donda rapper this weekend. The day before, on Friday, he and fellow rapper Game‘s new collaboration leaked and in it Ye makes reference to his divorce from Kim and her new beau Pete Davidson.
“We havin’ the best divorce ever / If we go to court, we’ll go to court together / Matter of fact, pick up your sis, we’ll go to Kourt’s together” he raps on the track. Elsewhere he adds, “God saved me from the crash, just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s a**.”
John Mellencamp‘s latest studio album, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, gets its release this Friday, January 21, and the lauded singer/songwriter shares some details about the project in a new interview with Forbes, including how he wound up collaborating with Bruce Springsteen on three songs.
Mellencamp says the collaboration came about “quite by accident,” after he and Springsteen played together at the 2019 benefit concert for Sting‘s Rainforest Fund.
“Bruce and I…met each other years ago, but we just knew each other enough to say hi. But we did a rainforest thing for Sting and…all of a sudden he was like my big brother, and he treated me like I was his sibling, and I treated him with respect,” John explains. “And then we became really good friends, and it just kind of happened. He came to Indiana, he stayed at the house. It was great.”
Springsteen appears on the songs “Wasted Days,” “Did You Say Such a Thing” and “A Life Full of Rain.”
Mellencamp tells Forbes that rather than a collection of disconnected individual songs, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack features 12 tunes he wrote from the perspective of a specific character.
“[A]ll the songs are really one guy speaking,” John notes. “It’s just one guy talking about his life, his future, his self.”
Mellencamp also addressed how his singing voice has changed as he’s gotten older, admitting he’s pleased with its weathered quality.
“I was happy when I heard me sing [the new song] ‘Gone So Soon,’ that I sounded like Louis Armstrong,” the 70-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer maintains. “It wasn’t anything I tried to do, it’s just that cigarettes take their f***ing toll on your vocal cords…But I’m happy that I sound that way.”
Last year, singer/songwriter Emmy Meli wrote some “little mantras” for herself, put them to music and posted it on TikTok. Now she’s got a hit on her hands…and she’s started a whole movement.
Emmy wrote the affirmations that she turned into her empowerment anthem “I Am Woman” — not a cover of Helen Reddy‘s 1972 hit “I Am Woman” — by picking “qualities about me that I thought were unique, that I wanted to pay some more attention to,” she tells ABC Audio. After adding a melody and a beat, she decided to share it online.
“I thought, ‘Hey, this is a really cool message, and I think there are probably women out there who need to hear this too,'” she explains. “And I posted it on a Tuesday night and then got up on Wednesday…and…my friends were texting me, ‘Emily! Emily! Open Tik Tok, look at what’s happening!'”
People started using the song in TikToks to illustrate the lyrics’ messages, like “I’m unbeatable” and “I’m creative.” Soon, Emmy realized what an impact it was having.
“It wasn’t just, ‘Oh, here are some photos of me that I feel beautiful in,'” she notes. “It was people sharing their art…It was female athletes. It was mothers sharing their stories. It was sexual assault survivors sharing their stories. And it was way more than just a random TikTok trend.”
Even celebrities got involved:Ashley Graham, Jada Pinkett Smith and Gabrielle Union are just some of the stars who used “I Am Woman” in TikToks. So which one was she most excited about?
“At first, Ashley Graham,” says Emmy. “I was like, ‘O.K. no way!’ because I’ve looked up to her for a long time.”
She laughs, “And then Jada Pinkett Smith — like, that’s just surreal…So, honestly, all of them!”
More bad news for Celine Dion fans: Her North American tour dates for her Courage World Tour have been canceled.
Last year, Celine postponed the launch of her new residency show at Resorts World Las Vegas due to “severe and persistent muscle spasms.” That same issue is the reason why the tour dates — which were set to start March 9 in Denver and run through April 22 in Washington, D.C. — have now been scrapped.
“I was really hoping that I’d be good to go by now, but I suppose I just have to be more patient and follow the regimen that my doctors are prescribing,” the Canadian superstar said in a statement. “There’s a lot of organizing and preparation that goes into our shows, and so we have to make decisions today which will affect the plans two months down the road.”
She added, “I’ll be so glad to get back to full health, as well as all of us getting past this pandemic, and I can’t wait to be back on stage again. Meanwhile, I’ve been very touched by all the words of encouragement that everyone’s been sending to me on social media. I feel your love and support and it means the world to me.”
Fans who bought tickets with a credit card will get automatic refunds.
Celine still plans to complete the European leg of her tour, which is is set to start May 35 in Birmingham, England.
The Scorpions have just released the title track of their forthcoming studio album Rock Believer, which is due out on February 25.
The tune, which is available now via digital formats, combines a catchy melody sung by frontman Klaus Meine with soaring rock accompaniment highlighted by harmonized guitar solos.
Meine, who wrote the song’s lyrics, notes, “Over the years, we’ve heard people say lots of times that rock is dead. But there are still millions of rock believers out there all over the world that prove them wrong. Our fans are the best in the world. We’ll see you someday somewhere out there, because we’re Rock Believers, just like you.”
As previously reported, the “Rock Believer” single’s cover art was designed by Klaus Voormann, who famously created the cover of The Beatles‘ classic 1966 album Revolver. A music video for the song will premiere on The Scorpions’ YouTube channel this Tuesday, January 18, at 12 p.m. ET.
Following the video’s premiere, The Scorpions will be hosting a special after-party and Q&A event that will be accessible to subscribers of the YouTube Premium service. You can submit questions for the band members now in the comments section of this Facebook post.
Rock Believer‘s title track is the second advance song issued from the album, following “Peacemaker.” You can pre-order the album now.
The Scorpions will kick off their 2022 tour itinerary in support of Rock Believer with a nine-date Las Vegas residency at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, running from March 26 to April 16. Visit The-Scorpions.com for more info.
Red Hot Chili Peppers were among the 10 highest paid musical acts of 2021, Rolling Stone reports.
The “Under the Bridge” outfit ranks at number six on the list with a total of $145 million earned last year, the vast majority of which came from the reported $140 million sale of the band’s publishing catalog to the company Hipgnosis.
Number one on the list is Bruce Springsteen, who took in $590 million, also in large part to the sale of his publishing copyrights and master recordings. Mötley Crüe, another act that unloaded their master recordings in 2021, sits at number nine on the ranking with $95 million.
Red Hot Chili Peppers will look to add to their 2021 earnings with a massive global tour this year, which kicks off with a European trek in June before hitting the U.S. in July. The outing marks RHCP’s first full live run since guitarist John Frusciante rejoined the group in late 2019.
As Loverboy prepares to return to the stage for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, the veteran Canadian rockers have released a brand-new single, “Release,” that they recorded remotely during lockdown.
The hard-rocking, ’80s-influenced song is available now via streaming services, while a video for the tune has premiered at Loverboy’s YouTube channel. The clip features the band performing the song together, mixed with archival footage of the group playing at various concerts.
Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean began writing “Release” for a heavy-metal band that wanted him to collaborate with them, but when the project fell through, he decided that the song could work as a tune for his own group.
“It started out as a frustrated call to action, after months of lock down, and morphed into a metal anthem about the loyalty and commitment of that audience,” explains Dean, who says the lyrics were inspired by the 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey.
Paul adds, “The communal aspect of heavy rock is almost like a religion. I’ve always been a big metal fan; my son and I have seen many of those bands in concert.”
Dean enlisted his Loverboy band mates to help finish the song, including frontman Mike Reno, who contributed some lyrics as well as lead vocals.
Paul also praises Loverboy drummer Matt Frenette, who sent him seven different drum takes to choose from for the track.
“That was amazing,” Dean enthuses. “It totally blew me away.”
Loverboy will play their first concert in nearly two years on January 23 in Ridgefield, Washington. The band has a variety of other headlining shows scheduled leading up to their upcoming spring/summer tour with Styx and REO Speedwagon, which kicks off May 31 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Maroon 5 has three Grammy Awards and, now, it has three RIAA Diamond-certified singles after their 2015 hit “Sugar” sold over 10 million copies. Coincidentally, the single turned seven on Thursday so its new recognition from the RIAA seems like one heck of a birthday present.
Maroon 5 took to Instagram to celebrate the tremendous news, using a well-chosen emoji to indicate that their minds are blown by their latest accomplishment.
The Adam Levine-fronted band said they are “Forever indebted to the world’s greatest fans.” Sharing an edited picture of the single’s cover art, where the girl is biting down on the new RIAA certification, the hitmakers continued, “Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us achieve our 3rd @riaa_awards [diamond emoji] certified single. #Sugar has gone 11x platinum.”
Just last month, Maroon 5 notched their second RIAA Diamond-certified hit thanks to their “Girls Like You” collab with Cardi B. They first snagged the honor with their 2011 hit “Moves Like Jagger.”
The “What Lovers Do” hitmakers are now tied with Imagine Dragons for the band boasting the most Diamond-certified singles.
In August 2021, ID celebrated two of their songs surpassing 10 million sales — “Believer” and “Demons” — and became the first band to notch three Diamond-certified tracks, according to Chart Data. Their other song “Radioactive” previously snagged the honor in July 2015.
