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After ribbing Justin Bieber over his partnership with Tim Hortons, Michael Bublé finally decided to see what the hype was all about.

The Grammy-winning Canadian crooner shared a hilarious video on Thursday and shows him taking an eco-friendly ride on his scooter to the local Tim Hortons and ordering some of Justin’s Timbiebs — a.k.a. the chain’s Bieber-themed version of the donut holes that they call Timbits.  

“Now that I’m home in Vancouver for the holidays, there’s something I have to do,” Michael says dramatically at the start of the video while zipping up his puffer jacket.  After scooting off to Canada’s beloved coffee chain and ordering a “big box of Timbiebs,” he sits down on the sidewalk to feast.

He also is comically singing Justin’s “Holy” as he reaches into the box and takes a bite, only to exaggeratedly belt out the “Good God!” part, as if to convey he finds the treat absolutely delicious.  He continues to sing-talk incoherently as he chews before breaking down into a fit of giggles.

“Beliebe the hype,” Michael captioned the video.

Justin’s Timbiebs are available to purchase now through December 28 at Tim Hortons and come in the limited-edition flavors of chocolate white fudge, sour cream chocolate chip and birthday cake waffle.

 

 

 

 

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Måneskin, Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, Avril Lavigne and AJR will be ringing in 2022 on the West Coast.

All four artists are performing during the LA Party segment of the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022 special on ABC.

Måneskin will be playing their viral cover of The Four Seasons‘ “Beggin’,” as well as their latest single, “MAMMAMIA.” Barker will join Lavigne for renditions of her new tune “Bite Me” and her classic “Sk8ter Boi,” while AJR will perform their hit “Bang!” and their collaborative song with Daisy the Great, “Record Player.”

The Rockin’ gets to startin’ December 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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Doja Cat is walking away from controversial producer Dr. Luke, who for years has been embroiled in a tense legal battle with Kesha.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Doja said she hadn’t “worked with [Luke] in a very long time,” and also hinted that he may have taken more credit than he was due for her success.

“There’s s*** that he’s credited for, where I’m like, ‘Hmm, I don’t know, I don’t know if you did anything on that,'” she told Rolling Stone. “The point is he’s gotten some credit for s***. And, y’know, it’s whatever. I don’t think I need to work with him again. I don’t think I need to work with him in the future.”

She quipped, “It was definitely nice of me to work with him.”

Doja later walked back those comments in an email to Rolling Stone, in which she noted that she “may have said something that someone could interpret as me saying that [Dr. Luke] had taken credit on things he didn’t deserve to.”

She continued, “I just want to be clear that I have no firsthand knowledge of that being the case and I don’t want to participate in the rumor mill. The credits on my music are accurate, and I don’t want to imply anything else.”

Doja added that she made her original remarks due to “sensitivities in the past about certain people attributing my general success to the work of others — in particular, men.”

Doja’s debut EP Purrr! and her two subsequent albums, Pink and Planet Her, came out on Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records. Luke was nominated for a Grammy in 2020 for Doja’s breakout single “Say So,” and has three nominations this year for Planet Her.

Kesha has accused Dr. Luke of sexual, emotional and physical abuse, which he’s denied.

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James Taylor and Pentatonix are two of the artists who’ve been tapped to pay tribute to legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, who’s been named the MusiCares Person of the Year for 2022.

Mitchell will be celebrated at a gala event in Los Angeles on January 29, just two days before the Grammy Awards. James Taylor’s participation is no surprise; the two have a long history together, and were romantically involved back in the day.  Another one of Joni’s ex-boyfriends, Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills & Nash, will also take part in the tribute.

Other artists who’ll be saluting Mitchell by performing her songs include country star Mickey Guyton, jazz legend Herbie Hancock, singer/songwriters Brandi Carlile and Maggie Rogers, R&B singer Leon Bridges, the band Black Pumas and this year’s leading Grammy nominee, Jon Batiste.  Batiste and Carlile will also serve as Artistic Directors for the evening.

In addition to the concert, the Person of the Year gala will also feature a silent auction.  All the proceeds will go to MusiCares, the charitable arm of the Recording Academy, which provides health and human services to musicians in need.

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The LA Party segment of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022 will bring the hip hop flava with French Montana, Polo G, and Big Boi & Sleepy Brown.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the year-ending celebration, which will air Friday, December 31 at 8 p.m. EST/PST on ABC.

Montana, who dropped his fourth studio album, They Got Amnesia, on November 19, will perform his latest single from the project, “FWMGAB,” as well as his nine-times platinum smash from 2017, “Unforgettable.”

Big Boi will be joined by Brown for the Outkast classic “The Way You Move” from the 2004 Grammy winning album, Speakerboxx/The Love Below. They’ll also perform their new release, “Animalz.”

In addition, Polo G will take the stage for his triple-platinum hit, “Rapstar” and his latest, “Smooth Criminal,” from his third studio album, Hall of Fame. He’ll also team with Mae Muller for the current “Better Days.”

As previously announced, Ciara will host the LA Party with D-Nice on the turntables.  Plus, Ryan Seacrest and co-host Liz Koshy will be broadcasting live from New York’s Times Square, and Billy Porter will count down to 2022 from New Orleans

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Avril Lavigne says her upcoming album will be a blast from the past, taking back to 2002 and the pop-punk sound of her debut album, Let Go. Teasing her upcoming music with Entertainment Weekly, Avril said she’s “really stoked” about her new body of work.

 “To the core, I’m a kid from a small town who listened to bands like Blink-182 and Green Day and NOFX in high school, and I tapped into that,” the Canadian singer noted. “But I also was writing power ballads like ‘I’m With You’ and stuff like that [when I first started out], so this time I just wanted to have fun and rock out. It just felt like it was time to make this type of an album.”

The Grammy nominee said she began working on her new music last November and put it together with “a bunch of my friends” — like Goldfinger frontman John Feldman and Blink drummer Travis Barker — because she “didn’t have a label or managers at the time.”  

Because the “Bite Me” singer was left to her own devices, Avril said she was able to “do exactly what I wanted and what I feel like I’ve probably wanted to do for a long time.”

“We used live guitars and live drums and didn’t hold back,” she teased. “It’s fun. It’s just pure rock & roll from front to back. There’s a lot of reflecting upon different relationships that I have gone through and where I’m at.”

The twice-divorced star summarized her new album as being “fun and feisty and light” because she’s “kind of poking fun at myself that I’ve gone through a lot in love.”

The album follows her 2019 offering, Head Above Water.  A release date has not been announced.

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Avril Lavigne, AJR, Måneskin, OneRepublic and Walker Hayes are just a few of the many artists who’ll be ringing in the new year on ABC December 31.

They’ll all be performing as part of the Los Angeles party segment of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022, which kicks off at 8 p.m. EST/PST on ABC.

The celebration will be introduced by Ciara, joined by Club Quarantine’s D-Nice on the turntables. Avril will perform her new song “Bite Me” and classic “Sk8ter Boi,” backed by her pal, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. AJR will sing “BANG!,” and perform their recent single “Record Player” with duo Daisy The Great.

Måneskin will, of course, perform “Beggin’,” as well as their recent single “MAMMAMIA,” while OneRepublic will perform “Counting Stars” and “Run.”  Walker Hayes will do his viral crossover hit “Fancy Like,” as well as his new single “AA.”

In addition to those performers, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will perform “Can’t Hold Us,” as well as the new single “Next Year,” while Australian rapper Masked Wolf will do his global smash “Astronaut In the Ocean,” as well as “Pandemonium.” 

Mae Muller and Polo G will perform “Better Days,” and Polo will do “Rapstar” and “Smooth Criminal” solo. Also on the hip hop tip, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown will perform the Outkast hit “The Way You Move.”

Ryan Seacrest, joined by co-host Liza Koshy, will hold things down live in New York’s Times Square, while Billy Porter counts down to 2022 from New Orleans and Roselyn Sanchez does the same in Puerto Rico.

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Before Ridley Scott directed Lady Gaga to critical acclaim and award nominations in House of Gucci, Bradley Cooper directed her to an Oscar nomination in A Star Is Born.  Now, during a conversation for Variety, the two directors are discussing the moments when the superstar singer most impressed them during filming.

Cooper tells Scott, “For me, with working with her, I remember the thing that blew my mind. It seemed simple but I thought it was a tall order, when my character brings [her character, Ally] onstage for the first time. I truly believed that that person had never been on a stage before.”

He continues, ” And I remember thinking, “How is she pulling this off?” That I actually believe on every level — as the director, as the character — that this person has never been in front of 20,000 people before. That was really kind of mind-blowing.”

As for Scott, he said the moment in House of Gucci where Gaga impressed him was the scene when her character, Patrizia, is told that her husband, Maurizio, played by Adam Driver, wants a divorce.

“She lost it so well and so real that I felt it had to be reflective of something that had happened to her, because it definitely hurt her,” Scott recalled. “And from that moment I was watching her, I felt, ‘My God, she just owns it.’… I think that was one take…I was saying, ‘I think you just did it, don’t you?’ And she said, ‘Yes, I did it.’ That was it.”

Gaga has already won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for House of Gucci. She’s also nominated for a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice award and many other accolades.

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