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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Less than 24 hours stand in the way between us and Taylor Swift‘s re-recorded Red album. To amp up the excitement, one of the album’s collaborators admits just being able to be a part of it made her cry.

Phoebe Bridgers, who is featured on the song “Nothing New,” tells Billboard that working with Taylor has “just been a dream.”

The indie rock artist teased, “I just am so excited to have people take it at face value the day that it comes out, because I got teary recording it. I just couldn’t be more excited.”

Red (Taylor’s Version) — her remake of the 2012 Grammy-nominated album — drops Friday.” Nothing New” is a song Taylor wrote when recording the original album, but it didn’t make the cut.  Now, it’s being released as one of the “Songs from the Vault” tracks on the re-recording.

Bridgers says Taylor’s decision to rerecord her old albums has taken the music industry by storm.

“It’s really inspiring for me and a lot of musicians,” she said. “I think a lot of people make a couple of records [and are] like, ‘Oh wow, I hit the top, I’m great now,’ and the fact that she just has always wanted more from the world — like, “No, no, no, f*** you, I’m going to make it again, I’m going to make it better, and it’s going to belong to me’ — is the coolest.”

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Get ready for a double dose of Jack White in 2022.

The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather rocker has announced not one, but two new solo albums to be released next year. The first, titled Fear of the Dawn, will arrive April 8, followed by the second, Entering Heaven Alive, dropping July 22.

The records mark White’s fourth and fifth solo releases, and his first since 2018’s Boarding House Reach.

White’s single “Taking Me Back,” which just dropped in October, is the opening track off Fear of the Dawn. The acoustic version of the song, dubbed “Taking Me Back (Gently),” closes out Entering Heaven Alive.

Along with the album announcements, White has premiered the video for “Taking Me Back,” which finds him rocking both guitar and drums while showing off his new blue hairstyle. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

Here are the track lists for Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive:

Fear of the Dawn
“Taking Me Back”
“Fear of the Dawn”
“The White Raven”
“Hi-de-ho” feat. Q-Tip
“Eosophobia”
“Into the Twilight”
“Dusk”
“What’s the Trick?”
“That Was Then (This Is Now)”
“Eosophobia (Reprise)”
“Morning, Noon and Night”
“Shedding My Velvet”

Entering Heaven Alive
“A Tip from You To Me”
“All Along the Way”
“Help Me Along”
“Love Is Selfish”
“I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
“Queen of the Bees”
“A Tree on Fire From Within”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
“A Madman from Manhattan”
“Taking Me Back (Gently)”

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Korn has announced a new album called Requiem.

The 14th studio effort from the “Freak on a Leash” metallers will arrive February 4, 2022. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s The Nothing.

Our first preview of Requiem is the lead single “Start the Healing,” which is available now for digital download. You can also watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Here’s the Requiem track list:

“Forgotten”
“Let the Dark Do the Rest”
“Start the Healing”
“Lost in the Grandeur”
“Disconnect”
“Hopeless and Beaten”
“Penance to Sorrow”
“My Confession”
“Worst Is on Its Way”

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Meghan Trainor is a first-time mom, which means she’s still learning her fair share of painful parenting lessons. However, she hopes that by sharing her biggest parenting fail “so far,” she can spare other moms from the same embarrassment.

The Grammy winner revealed to Ellen DeGeneres‘ Mom Confessions that she and husband Daryl Sabara would take their newborn son, Riley, out on morning walks. But instead of giving the baby some fresh air and sunshine, they accidentally gave him heat rash.

“We would take him on these walks out here in California, and I would come home and he would have these little red bumps all over him,” said Trainor, 27. “I sent pictures to my pediatrician after the third day in a row, and I was like, ‘What’s going on? I rub cream on him. I don’t know what this is!'”

After finding out that Riley had heat rash, the Clash of the Cover Bands judge sheepishly admitted, “I was boiling my son on my morning walks. So, don’t do that!”

Mayo Clinic says infants can develop heat rash in hot, humid weather. However, the biggest culprit is overdressing, with the institution advising parents to dress their infants in lightweight, cool clothing when in those conditions.

Mayo Clinic says heat rashes go away on their own, but notes that cool baths or being taken out of the hot temperatures can also help.

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Selena Gomez is heading back to the kitchen with a fourth season of her HBO Max show Selena + Chef.

The streamer announced the renewal of her home cooking show on Wednesday and revealed that the upcoming season will feature an exciting change of scenery. For season four, Selena, along with her friends and family, will head to a beach house to continue their cooking lessons. 

Like previous seasons, the “Lose You to Love Me” singer will expand on her cooking skills with the help of all-star chefs. They’ll also continue to highlight a different charitable organization during each episode, hopefully adding to the already $400,000 raised. 

Selena said in a statement, “I am looking forward to another season of being in the kitchen with some of the world’s best chefs. Hopefully, my skills have improved. More importantly, we’ve been able to raise money for incredible charitable organizations.”

Season four of Selena + Chef is slated to premiere next year. 

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Travis Scott‘s attorney has issued a statement saying that authorities should stop insinuating that the rapper is to blame for the tragedy at last weekend’s Astroworld Festival — which left eight fans dead and hundreds more injured — because Scott didn’t immediately stop the show.

In the statement, obtained by ABC News, Attorney Edwin F. McPherson said, “There has been multiple finger-pointing, much of which has been by city officials, who have sent inconsistent messages and have backtracked from original statements.”

McPherson goes on to say that Houston Police Chief Troy Finner had been quoted as saying that officials felt they couldn’t stop the concert because there were 50,000 people there, and they were concerned that “a group [of fans] that young” would start to riot.  However, McPherson says that Finner later stated that it was Travis Scott’s responsibility to stop the show.

McPherson notes, “It was reported that the Operations Plan designated that only the festival director and executive producers have authority to stop the show, neither of which is part of Travis’s crew.”

McPherson also points out that at 2019’s Astroworld Festival, it was the Houston PD that “shut down the power and sound…when the performance ran over 5 minutes.”

“Investigations should start proceeding over finger-pointing so that together, we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from happening again,” McPherson concludes.

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It looks like Kanye West and Soulja Boy are officially back on good terms — at least for now.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Yeezy founder shared a screenshot of a brief text conversation, where he seemed to apologize to Soulja for leaving him off of Donda, his most recent album. 

“Yo it’s Ye. Love you bro. I should have told you I wasn’t gonna use the verse,” Ye admitted. Soulja responded, “Love you too bro. That’s all I wanted.” The post, captured by The Shade Room, has since been deleted. 

The beef between the two rappers originally started in August, when Ye’s highly anticipated album Donda was released and Soulja’s verse was nowhere to be found on it. The 31-year-old rapper apparently was supposed to be featured on “Remote Control.”  After learning the news, Soulja went on a Twitter rant, slinging insults and other verbal jabs at the Chicago native. 

Fast-forward to last week, when Soulja’s rage was reignited when Ye appeared on the Drink Champs podcast and said that the reason the verse was left off was because it wasn’t good enough. 

“Yo album was trash,” Soulja fired back during a livestream over the weekend. “You said my verses wasn’t hard,” he continued. “Just ’cause it’s your album don’t mean you get to pick what’s hard. Put it out and let the people decide.”

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In a night full of upsets and surprises, the virtual press room backstage at the 55th CMA Awards Wednesday night in Nashville was surprisingly quiet — perhaps because the majority of the winners were absolutely stunned.

Luke Combs walked back, just moments after picking up his first — and perhaps already overdue — trophy for Entertainer of the Year. Well-known for lavishing gifts on his parents and both helping and sharing credit with unsung singers and songwriters, he vowed to stay true to his North Carolina roots as the most prestigious mantle in country music falls on him. The president of his label, Sony Nashville, even interrupted one of his answers to pop in and give him a huge hug.

Four-time winner Chris Stapleton — never famous for his gift for gab — stayed the longest, recognizing how crucial his wife Morgane is to his success, as she stepped in at one point to wipe the sweat from his face. The five-time Male Vocalist of the Year acknowledged he takes pride in upholding that standard, while also being tight-lipped about his upcoming collaborations with both Adele and Taylor Swift.

Though largely still in shock, first-time Female Vocalist winner Carly Pearce managed to be somewhat more composed than she’d been onstage at Music City’s Bridgestone Arena, acknowledging that a long line of strong women from her native Kentucky had paved the way for her to chase her childhood dream of singing country music, and also navigate her way out of a very public and painful divorce.

Vocal Duo Brothers Osborne closed out the night, marking a huge milestone for country music, as TJ and John reclaimed the category they’d won three times before, after a year that saw TJ make the unprecedented move of coming out as a gay man.

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The new documentary Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free – The Making of Wildflowers gets its worldwide release today at 12 p.m. ET as a free streaming event on Tom Petty‘s official YouTube channel.

The film, which will be shown in 4K resolution, is part of the YouTube Originals series.

As previously reported, the movie focuses on the fruitful recording sessions that yielded Petty’s acclaimed 1994 solo effort Wildflowers, plus many other songs that remained in the vaults until the Wildflowers & All the Rest box set was released last year.

The movie features previously unseen footage shot by director Martyn Atkins during the recording of Wildflowers, archival commentary from Tom, and newly filmed scenes of producer Rick Rubin and founding Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench sharing recollections of the sessions.

Tench says he considers Somewhere You Feel Free “an illuminating film.”

“[Y]ou get people’s perspective on the making of the record,” he tells ABC Audio. “And…you get Tom speaking about his thoughts about making the record, and where he was at when he made the songs, and where he was at when he decided he didn’t want to do it with all of The Heartbreakers, and do it as a…’solo’ record. And you find out all of this, as well as getting to see footage from the sessions, and getting to see him just messing around and goofing around, which is always good.”

Benmont says among his favorite parts of the movie were the segments capturing him chatting with Rubin and Campbell, who co-produced Wildflowers with Petty. He notes that before they filmed the conversation, the three of them had never sat down to talk about the album before.

“[I]t was fun and interesting,” Benmont declares. “I found out stuff I didn’t know.”

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