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After Twitter exploded Tuesday with rumors of a Jill Scott sex tape, the three-time Grammy winner has responded.

“Say word!?!” Scott tweeted alongside a GIF of herself taking her bows onstage in front of an adoring crowd. “I expect this energy when my new movies, albums and tv show drop. Ya’ll too much. #headedbacktowork #hydrate.”

After numerous people tweeted that they searched for an X-rated Jill Scott video and could not find it, they realized that the rumors were simply idle gossip.

“It’s no Jill Scott sex tape that mf was lying. How you gone start a rumor like that?! Report his account,” one person wrote. 

Another fan chimed in, “You know what, if y’all lying about this Jill Scott flic you’re going to hell and ya mami cant save ya.”

Yet another person referenced the Jussie Smollett scandal, writing, “Honestly this is worse than Jussie telling the world he was jumped at 3 a.m. outside of a subway restaurant in the middle of the winter for no reason.”  The former Empire star was convicted in December on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for making false police reports and staging a fake hate crime against himself in Chicago in January 2019.

As the rumors about Scott die down, she’s continuing to focus on acting after a very successful recording career from 2001-2015. She starred in the BET series The First Wives Club from 2019-2021, and in November, she starred in the Lifetime movie Highway to Heaven.  Scott also starred for one season in 2008 in the HBO series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

Say word!?! I expect this energy when my new movies, albums and tv show drop. Ya’ll too much. #headedbacktowork #hydrate pic.twitter.com/9uGO2PFhtK

— ⭐Jill Scott⭐ (@missjillscott) January 5, 2022

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Pentatonix member Matt Sallee is a married man.  The bass singer revealed on Twitter that he recently tied the knot with girlfriend Sarah Bishop.

“Mr. & Mrs. Sallee,” he captioned the announcement, along with a green heart emoji. He shared a happy photo of the two at their wedding; Matt’s wearing a classy black tuxedo while Sarah’s dressed in a strapless lace gown with intricate floral stitching.  The photo also clearly shows their wedding bands.

Writing about the wedding, Matt shared in an emotional Twitter update, “Overwhelmed!!! Yesterday was perfect.”  

One Twitter user shared additional photos of the ceremony, which show the two moments after saying “I Do,” stepping onto the dance floor at their reception and enjoying a sweet kiss.

Matt proposed to Sarah on October 11, 2020 and shared a sweet video on his personal Instagram detailing how he popped the question.

Matt and Pentatonix wrapped up their Evergreen tour at the end of December.

Mr. & Mrs. Sallee 💚 pic.twitter.com/GQVtuHVL47

— Matt Sallee (@mattsalleemusic) January 4, 2022

 

 

 

 

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Spoon has released a cover of the David Bowie song “I Can’t Give Everything Away.”

The original track appears on the late “Life on Mars?” legend’s final album Blackstar, which was released just days before his death in 2016. You can listen to Spoon’s version streaming now exclusively on Amazon Music.

“I Can’t Give Everything Away” was also memorably covered by Nine Inch Nails during their 2017-18 tour.

Bowie would’ve celebrated his 75th birthday this Saturday, January 8. To mark the occasion, the streaming platform Rolling Live Studios is airing a Bowie tribute concert that day, featuring artists including Billy Corgan, Noel Gallagher and WALK THE MOON.

In other Spoon news, the band recently released a live video for their latest single, “The Hardest Cut.” The clip, which you can watch on YouTube, was filmed last September in Los Angeles.

“The Hardest Cut” is the lead single off Spoon’s upcoming album Lucifer on the Sofa, due out February 11.

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MRC Data, which tallies sales information for Billboard‘s charts, has crunched the final sales numbers for 2021, and Adele, Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo all came out on top.

Adele’s album 30 is officially the top-selling album of 2021, with 1.464 million copies sold across all formats: CD, vinyl LP, cassette and digital downloads.  It was the only album to sell a million copies in 2021.  Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) and Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR were the second and third top-selling albums of the year.

Speaking of Taylor, four of her releases made the list of the 10 top-selling albums of the year: In addition to Red, the list also includes evermore, folklore and Fearless (Taylor’s Version).  That’s the first time since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991 that one artist had four of the year’s 10 best-sellers.

While Adele’s 30 was the top-selling album of the year, controversial country star Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album was the most popular album of the year, with 3.226 million equivalent album units earned.  That’s a different measurement from album sales, and takes into account the massive amount of streaming the album received.

Meanwhile, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” was the most-streamed song of 2021 in the U.S., with more than 804 million on-demand audio and video streams combined. It’s followed by Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” and “good 4 u.” “Levitating” was also 2021’s top radio song. The top-selling digital song of 2021 was BTS‘ “Butter

Overall, U.S. album sales increased for the first time in a decade — not coincidentally, 2021 and 2011 both boasted new albums by Adele.  For the first time in the modern era, vinyl outsold CDs, while physical album sales overall — CD, vinyl LP and cassette — were up by nearly 22%.

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The daughter of former Coal Chamber bassist Rayna Foss has denied reports that her mother is missing.

This week, several outlets picked up on an article published last September by a New Orleans news station that reported Foss had been missing from the group home where she was living. The article also stated that the New Orleans Police Department was asking for any information regarding Foss’ whereabouts.

In an Instagram post that went up Wednesday, Foss’ daughter Kayla Rose writes that she has “no idea” where the reports of her mother’s disappearance are coming from.

“I spoke to my mother as recently as yesterday, and we have never lost contact,” Rose writes. “My grandparents have also been in contact with my mother, and we all know exactly where she is. I have a message in to the New Orleans Police Department advising them of this and am waiting for them to respond.”

Rose also denies apparent reports of a “feud” between her father, Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose, and the lead singer of Coal Chamber, Dez Fafara.

“My dad and Dez are friends and have been for a long time,” Kayla says.

“I’m confused where all of this started from, but it can stop now,” she concludes. “Hopefully there won’t be a next time, but maybe someone can check before running these stories that end up disrupting my entire family in the future.”

Foss was an original member of Coal Chamber, playing on the now-defunct band’s first three albums before leaving the group in 2002. Coal Chamber’s 1999 album Chamber Music notably included a cover of Peter Gabriel‘s “Shock the Monkey” with guest vocals by Ozzy Osbourne.

 

 

 

 

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Kesha marked the 12th anniversary of her debut studio album, Animal, in an emotional message to fans on Thursday.  The “Tik Tok” hitmaker reflected on how much has changed since fans first heard her voice on the radio and thanked them for supporting her for over a decade.

“Animals. F***. 12 years. I can’t even believe it,” Kesha, 34, began the lengthy caption, and described how music was her first love, writing, “I remember dreaming of putting out music since I can remember remembering. Since I can remember talking. I always talked a lot, but I was ALWAYS singing.”

Kesha also shared how several singles from the Animal album came to be, including “Boots & Boys,” “Blah Blah Blah,” “Stephen,” “Dinosaur,” “Harold,” and “Your Love Is My Drug.”   When discussing “Backstabber,” she marveled that the song “is trending 12 years later, on an app named after my first single,” a reference to “TiK ToK.”

Her tone switched when discussing the album’s title track, reavling it was written with her mom, Pebe Sebert, who “pushed me to show my emotion even when I felt like such a loser for it. Show your heart. Speak the truth. I didn’t understand how right she was.”

“I fought so hard to be [tough]. To not care. But the truth is I care so much, I try too hard, I love too deep and thats brought me to all of you,” Kesha continued. “Today I’m reminded of our first date, me&u. Animals, the soundtrack of when we first met. When we fell in love & you stayed through the hard stuff. U have loved through the fun and very f****** ugly.”

Kesha closed by telling fans she’s forever grateful she isn’t “alone in this life” because of their support over the past 12 years.

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GAYLE made her national TV debut Wednesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and in addition to performing her breakout hit, “abcdefu,” she told the story of the artwork that goes along with the song — and it’s not pretty.

The “abcdefu” single artwork is an x-ray of a hand with the middle finger broken at a pretty crazy angle.  Turns out that’s the actual x-ray of GAYLE’s actual middle finger, which she broke while attempting to drag her dog out from under the bed so she could take her out.

“I tripped and fell at the same time and I went to catch myself,” GAYLE explained, noting that she landed on her middle fingers.  “It was disgusting. It was terrible,” she laughs.  Then, her mom — who had just had knee replacement surgery two weeks prior — had to drive her to the hospital.

“She’s trying to drive me [to the hospital]…she has a really bad gag reflex, if she sees anything that grosses her out…she was sitting there dry-heaving, and I’m like, ‘IT’S MY HAND This is my hand! You’re gonna throw up on my hand!'” the teen singer recalled, as Fallon cracked up.

GAYLE also talked about how “abcdefu” initially blew up on TikTok, and noted how amazed she is that it led to her Tonight Show appearance.  “The fact that I’m here…I pretended that I’ve been sitting on this couch for years in my house, and now I’m here!” she marveled. “And it’s thanks to this app on my phone!”

The singer also revealed that she has a new single coming out this month.

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