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Kesha is calling all her animals to see her live in concert when she hits the road in 2022. 

The “TiK ToK” singer relished the fact she’s finally going on tour again and unveiled a slew of upcoming dates.  “SURPRISE!!!,” she announced on Instagram. “2022 is going to be it. For all the reasons. Bout damn time. AND I’m taking the party back out on the road!!”

The tour kicks off March 21 with a stop in Milwaukee, WI and will run for seven dates before wrapping in Hollywood, Florida on March 30.  Tickets are now available for pre-sale on Kesha’s official website and will go on general sale this Friday, December 17.

Kesha, who says she “cannot WAIT to get wild N WEIRD with y’all,” will then launch her second Kesha’s Weird + Wonderful Rainbow Ride cruise.  The four-day trip departs from Miami, FL, on April 1 and will sail to Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas.

Not only will fans be able to hang out with Kesha on the boat, they’ll also be spoiled with lavish amenities, high-octane performances and some “gag-worthy activities,” per the press release.

“Due to popular demand I am returning to incite the party and enhance the boogie yet again this coming spring,” Kesha said of her upcoming plans. “Secure your tickets to ensure a night full of letting your demons run wild.”

You can reserve their spot by visiting the official Sixthman website.

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Garth Brooks is heading back to Las Vegas. 

The superstar announced on Tuesday that Garth Brooks: The ONE Man Show will take over the Dolby Live at Park MGM for a two-night stay on February 4 and 5.

“I look forward to celebrating my birthday early that weekend in Vegas,” Garth, who turns 60 on February 7, says in a statement. “Getting to sing and hear everyone singing is my favorite thing.”

Seating is limited. Tickets go on sale December 22 at 1 p.m. ET. 

Garth is no stranger to Sin City: he performed the Garth at Wynn residency from 2009 to 2014, his first multi-concert experience since 1998. 

The country giant will also continue on his Stadium Tour next year, selling more than 100,000 tickets to his concert in Baton Rogue, Louisiana. He also has stadium shows set in Orlando, Florida and Fayetteville, Arkansas before concluding the tour with a five-night stint at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland.

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Primus is bringing back the band’s A Tribute to Kings Rush tribute tour for another go-round.

The “My Name Is Mud” outfit has announced a 2022 leg of the run, set to kick off April 15 in Oklahoma City. The 46-date outing will come to a close June 25 in Las Vegas.

As with the first leg, which took finally launched this past summer after a pandemic delay, the A Tribute to Kings tour finds Primus performing Rush’s 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in full, as well as a selection of their own songs.

Tickets to the 2022 shows go on sale this Friday, December 17, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Primusville.com.

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Cardi B says several times in the Grammy-nominated hit “I Like It” that she likes her diamonds.  Now, thanks to that very song, she just added another precious gem to her collection.

The 2018 smash, which features Latin artists Bad Bunny and J Balvin, officially sold over 10 million copies as of Monday and is now RIAA-certified Diamond.  The honor comes shortly after her Maroon 5 collab “Girls Like You” earned the prestigious title.  When that happened last month, Cardi became the first female rapper to boast two Diamond-certified tracks — and now she has three.

Cardi’s breakout single, “Bodak Yellow,” was her first song to achieve Diamond certification.

“My album came out in 2018 and it’s still breaking records. I have a solo [diamond emoji] record, a feature [diamond emoji] record and now ANOTHER [diamond emoji] record from a collab with 2 people that I look up to and love so much,” Cardi wrote on Instagram. “I remember like it was yesterday when this song went #1 and now it’s Diamond. I honestly just can’t believe this is happening! I’m so proud to have two songs off my debut album go Diamond.”

The 29-year-old is already setting her sights to breaking even more records, and told her fans, “I hope I can achieve the same or even better on my next one.”

“I Like It” was the fourth single off of Cardi’s debut album, Invasion of Privacy.  The rapper promised she’s working on its follow-up, which is coming out “next year.” The album’s title and release date are unknown at this time.

 

 

 

 

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Avril Lavigne always knew what her smash-hit single “Sk8ter Boi” was worth, and that’s why she’s turning it into a movie.  The singer says she was inspired to go this route after fans begged her to do something special for the single’s upcoming 20th anniversary.

Speaking to the She Is the Voice podcast, Avril said she intends to take her 2002 single to “the next level.”

“Recently, with it being almost the 20th anniversary, a lot of people have been asking me to play this song on some TV shows, so I feel like it keeps getting brought back up and people will always reference it to me. And I’m actually going to turn this song into a film,” the Grammy nominee dished. 

Currently, no other details have been unveiled.

Avril also revealed she was inspired to write “Sk8ter Boi” after reflecting on how the status quo pits high school cliques against one another.

“It’s kind of like a missed opportunity at love,” the 37-year-old described. “The skater boy, you know, he’s in love with the preppy girl but, like, she’s too cool for him but then: ‘Five years from now she sits at home feeding the baby, she’s all alone.’  She, like, down the road wishes she would have followed her heart and not lived up to society’s expectations.”

“Sk8ter Boi,” released on September 9, 2002, was the second single off of Avril’s debut album, Let Go.

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Carly Pearce isn’t done sharing the story of 29 with her fans just yet. 

The CMA Female Vocalist of the Year has extended The 29 Tour into 2022, with 11 additional headlining dates. Kicking off on March 10 at the Walker Theatre in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carly will make stops in Springfield, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Albany, New York and more. 

She’ll also perform two shows in her home state of Kentucky, at The Brown Theatre in Louisville and the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland. The tour wraps on April 9 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at The Opera House.

“The experiences that allowed me to write 29 and 29: WRITTEN IN STONE were some of the most difficult moments of my life but seeing so may faces singing every word of these 15 songs night after night, reminded me of how powerful honesty can be in connecting us with others,” Carly shares in a statement. 

Following the devastating tornadoes that tore through Kentucky this weekend and claimed the lives of nearly 80 people people, the Taylor Mill native has partnered with nonprofit PLUS1 to donate $1 from each ticket sale to storm recovery efforts. 

The “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” singer launched The 29 Tour in November. Tickets for the new leg go on sale Friday.

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Katy Perry’s mentioned that she’ll be offering NFTs — basically, unique digital collectibles — in connection with her upcoming Las Vegas residency PLAY. But to set the stage for that, she’s got her first set of NFTs going up for sale tomorrow.  Unlike most NFT drops, though, this sale includes an actual, physical thing: the massive “Golden Lion” prop she rode into the stadium when she played the Super Bowl in 2015.

The “Golden Lion” is one of the items in the new NFT sale, called The Roar Package: Looking Back While Moving Forward.  If you buy the “Golden Lion” NFT, you’ll then redeem it to receive delivery of the prop, which weighs 2200 pounds, and measures 22 feet long and 16 feet high. 

On the cheaper side, for $100, you can purchase “Mirror Motivation,” an animated digital image of Katy hyping herself up in the mirror before she entered the stadium at the Super Bowl.

And for just $25, you can buy “Ignite the Light,” a digital image that shows a photo of the huge shooting star prop she rode on during the Super Bowl performance, and an animated graphic of it exploding into a firework.

You can pre-register now and fund your account to be ready to buy by visiting Katy.ThetaDrop.com.

This is all a buildup to the December 29 opening of PLAY. In a statement, Katy says, “The NFTs concept is new and exciting, so I’m thrilled my fans and I get to be early adopters in this new world.”

She adds, “In addition to the digital NFTs, these drops will include the opportunity to get tangible collectibles as well, so you can come away with some one of-a-kind, incredible pieces of pop culture history.”

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Britney Spears is letting the world know how she really feels about that 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer. 

In a lengthy Instagram post, the 40-year-old pop star shared some harsh words for the journalist.

“Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago? What was with the ‘You’re in the wrong’ approach?? Geeze…and making me cry???” she said, according to screenshots obtained by People.

“Seriously though…I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone,” Britney continued. “My manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television and she asked if I had a shopping problem!!! when did I have a shopping problem?”

The “Toxic” singer also referenced her split from Justin Timberlake, noting that the interview came just two days after their breakup. 

“Something I never shared when I had that break up years ago was that I couldn’t talk afterward,” she said. “I was in shock…pretty lame of my dad and three men to show up at my door when I could hardly speak…two days later they put Diane Sawyer in my living room…they forced me to talk!”

Britney added that unlike before when she was “a baby,” she now knows how to speak up for herself. 

Referring to one of the questions Sawyer asked during the early aughts interview, Britney wrote, “She said ‘a woman or a girl’ …I would like to say now, ‘Ma’am I’m a catholic slut!!! She can kiss my white a**.”

Reps for Sawyer did not immediately answer People‘s request for comment. 

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Since releasing the mega-hit “Shut Up and Dance” in 2014, WALK THE MOON certainly hasn’t shut up, but definitely has kept dancing.

The trio has followed “Shut Up and Dance” with singles including 2017’s “One Foot” and this year’s “Can You Handle My Love??”, the lead track off the new WTM album, HEIGHTS. While those tunes haven’t quite matched the record-breaking feats of “Shut Up and Dance,” they’ve marked important creative steps for the group.

“We’re all really grateful for ‘Shut Up and Dance,'” guitarist Eli Maiman tells ABC Audio. “It put a lot of gas in our tank.  We can continue to be able to put out music and to be able to do more of what we want to do because we’ve been propelled by…this massive thing that was ‘Shut Up and Dance.'”

Maiman adds that WALK THE MOON doesn’t feel pressure to deliver another “Shut Up and Dance.”

“Don’t get me wrong, if something else goes as huge as ‘Shut Up and Dance,’ we’d be thrilled, but we’re not reaching for it,” he explains. “We’re able to do things that are really true to who the band is, as we evolve as human beings and live our lives.”

In returning to the road this past fall for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, WALK THE MOON was reminded how special it feels to play “Shut Up and Dance” live, despite playing it so many times.

“We don’t like practicing ‘Shut Up and Dance,'” Maiman laughs. “But playing ‘Shut Up and Dance’ is great. When the audience shows up and they’re singing and they’re dancing and they’re jumping and they’re sweating and they’re doing the whole thing, it’s magic every single night.”

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