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Here comes a shock: Green Day has announced a new song.

The track, titled “Holy Toledo!”, will drop this Friday, November 5. It was recorded for the upcoming film Mark, Mary & Some Other People, which hits theaters, on-demand and digital that same day.

“Holy Toledo!” will be Green Day’s third new tune of 2021, following “Here Comes the Shock” and “Pollyanna.” The punk trio also released a cover of the KISS classic “Rock and Roll All Nite,” which was recorded during their Hella Mega tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer.

Green Day’s most recent album is 2020’s Father of All… On December 10, they’ll release BBC Sessions, a collection of live recordings from the band’s four performances at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in the ’90s and early 2000s.

We now interrupt your weekly BBC Live Sessions broadcasts to announce that we’ll be releasing a NEW song this week. “Holy Toledo!” from @MarkMaryMovie is out everywhere this Friday. pic.twitter.com/lraBK1BzdY

— Green Day (@GreenDay) November 3, 2021

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The day after Britney Spears put her mom on blast earlier this week in a since-deleted Instagram post, in which she alleged the conservatorship was her “idea,” Lynne Spears reportedly requested that Britney’s team pay her legal fees…to the tune of $663,000.

Entertainment Tonight reports that Britney’s mother racked up $663,202.54 in attorney fees during the ongoing conservatorship battle and requested her daughter’s team settle the bill.

Lynne’s legal fees began stacking up in 2019, when she hired the law firm Jones Swanson Huddell & Garrison LLC with the intent of learning “what they could do to get involved to help Britney free herself from what she saw was a very controlling existence,” reports ET.  The primary goal was to see if they could assist Britney “achieve independence from her conservator father Jamie Spears.”

In the paperwork, Lynne claims her daughter “enthusiastically agreed” to her mother’s help in hopes their combined efforts would “free her from the nightmare she was enduring.”

Lynne said she obtained her own legal counsel “in order to fill the gap and help pursue the basic rights to which Britney was entitled but was being denied.”  She also requested that Jamie be ousted from the conservatorship in 2019 and claims she was “instrumental” in removing TriStar Sports and Entertainment as co-conservator of her daughter’s estate.

Neither Britney, nor her legal team, has publicly responded to Lynne’s request to settle her fees. But, the day before ET reports Lynne made the request, Britney tore into her mother in a since-deleted Instagram post, claiming “she secretly ruined my life.”

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ABBA‘s reunion album Voyage arrives Friday, but the Swedish pop icons have already dropped the first trailer for their ABBA Voyage concert production, which launches next year at a purpose-built theater in London.

In the brief trailer, you can see digital “avatars” of Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid and Agnetha, looking as they did in the ’70s, performing on stage under pyramid-shaped lights.  It’s set to the group’s 1978 single, “Summer Night City.”

The avatars were created by having the real members of ABBA perform for hours while wearing motion-capture suits.  In addition to the avatars and a light show, the concert production also features a ten-piece live band.

More tickets have also been released for sale; you can now buy them for shows through December of 2022.

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In what could be a harbinger of future Oscar nominations, some of music’s top names have received nods for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards — the HMMAs — which honor composers, songwriters, and music supervisors for their work in music for film, television, and videogames.

In the category of Song: Feature Film, nominees include Ariana Grande, who co-wrote “Just Look Up” — from the upcoming Netflix film Don’t Look Up — with Kid Cudi, among others.  Cudi and Ariana both appear in the film.  Ariana is also nominated in the category of Song: Onscreen Performance for “Just Look Up.”

Billie Eilish and brother FINNEAS are also nominated in the Feature Film category for “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond film of the same name. Beyoncé is nominated for “Be Alive,” the song she co-wrote and performs for the movie King Richard, about the father of tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams.

Jennifer Hudson scored a nod in that category as well for co-writing “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home),” for the movie Respect, in which she also stars as the late Aretha Franklin.  Hudson’s also up for Song: Onscreen Performance for performing “Respect” in the film.

In the animated film category, Adam Levine is nominated for “Good Mood,” the song he co-wrote and performs in the movie Paw Patrol. U2‘s Bono is nominated for “Your Song Saved My Life,” which he wrote for the upcoming movie Sing 2 and performs with U2.

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After DaBaby‘s career was nearly derailed for the seemingly homophonic comments he made during Miami’s Rolling Loud festival, the same festival is backing the rapper’s newly announced tour.

TMZ reports that executives believe that the “Suge” rapper has grown from the July controversy, which resulted in numerous festivals banning him — including Lollapalooza plus New York’s Governors Ball — as well as intense pushback from his fellow artists, such as Megan Thee Stallion and his “Levitating” partner Dua Lipa.

At last summer’s Rolling Loud festival, DaBaby said during his set in Miami, “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light in the air.”

DaBaby not only apologized several times for his remarks, he also accepted invitations from nearly a dozen HIV organizations to speak with Black leaders about the damage his comments may have caused.  He also was open to being educated about how to do better and said he apologized to the organizations.

Rolling Loud believes that DaBaby has learned his lesson and, because of that, has signed on to present his recently announced 22-stop Live Show Killa Tour.  The tour kicks off November 26 in Chicago and is slated to complete on February 6, 2022 in Los Angeles.

A Rolling Loud representative told the outlet they agreed to present the tour because they believe in second chances.

Tickets are available now on DaBaby’s website and the Rolling Loud representative emphasized everyone is welcome to attend.

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If the CMA-nominated video Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd made for “Chasing After You” leaves you dizzy, it’s possible for you to practically step into it.

“The tabletop/spinning part… was done in a studio,” Maren explains. “But the rest of the video, we shot at The Hermitage Hotel here in [Nashville], which I had never been to before, but it’s beautiful.”

“And they were nice enough to let us shoot for the day,” she continues. “But [it] just really had that kind of arched ceiling and walkways and kind of old vibe that we wanted.”

Shot while the legendary Music City destination was shut down due to COVID-19, the clip was largely centered in  the hotel’s restaurant and renowned watering hole.

Ever the supportive husband, Ryan reveals his wife did a lot more than just show up and lip sync.

“Maren did a lot of the video conceptualizing with the director, TK McKamy, so she actually deserves most of the credit for all of that,” he says, adding, “That bar is so cool… Oak Bar, yeah.”

“I know it’s a historic hotel…” Maren interjects. “We should tell more people like, ‘Hey, come to the Hermitage Hotel. It’s where we shot “Chasing After You.'” 

The hotel’s revamped restaurant and bar, Drusie & Darr, is set to open around the middle of the month, perhaps an appropriate place for Ryan and Maren to celebrate, should they take home trophies for Musical Event or Music Video for their duet.

Maren also defends her Female Vocalist title on the 55th CMA Awards, which air live from Nashville Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.  

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Eagle-eyed fans believe Ed Sheeran found a not-so-subtle but perfectly on-brand way of telling the world just how many kids he plans on having.  Thanks to a new tattoo on the “Shivers” singer’s back, fans firmly believe he is aiming for a family of six.

Sheeran, who is married to Cherry Seaborn and is the father of their 1-year-old daughter Lyra Antarctica, recently got his little one’s footprints tattooed as a framed picture on the back of his right shoulder.

However, as seen in his new “Overpass Graffiti” music video, fans noted that there are three additional empty picture frames also inked onto his back — leaving many to believe they are reserved for three more sets of tiny footprints.

According to British publication The Sun, their assumptions are correct.  A source close to the Grammy-winning singer spilled, “Ed’s new tattoos represent the four children he hopes to have. He has Lyra’s footprints in one and is saving the other spaces for the three more kids he wants.”

Sheeran backed up the source’s intel and recently told the outlet that, while he would “love more kids,” he will defer to his bride because “it’s her body.”

He also proved that he’s Seaborn’s biggest fan when revealing why he is so “proud” and “in awe” of her.

“She did a whole Cambridge degree which she started two weeks before giving birth, new baby, and I went to her graduation three days ago at Jesus College and people were saying like, ‘How did she do this with a baby?,'” he laughed.

Ed and Cherry wed in a secret ceremony in 2018 and welcomed Lyra in August 2020.

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ABC airs the latest in its Family Singalong franchise tonight: The Queen Family Singalong, paying tribute to the iconic British band via songs belted out by the likes of OneRepublic, Adam Lambert, Alessia Cara and Pentatonix.  But the a capella group says it was tough for them to convince the show’s producers to let them sing their preferred song from the Queen catalog.

“We actually fought for that song!” Pentatonix member Matt Sallee laughs. “We said, ‘Oh, please can we do ‘Somebody to Love?’ ‘Cause it has so many harmonies and so many vocal parts, and it’s just so theatrical and it just fits an acapella arrangement really well.”

The problem, member Scott Hoying explains, was “The people running the show had some ideas of what [songs] we could do.”

“They were like, ‘We really are inspired by y’all doing this song.’ And we were like, ‘We’re so down for that…But can we do ‘Somebody to Love?'” he laughs. “And they were like, ‘We’ll see.'” 

Ultimately, Pentatonix got the green light. “We were really excited to get to do it,” adds Matt. “I mean…Queen! They’re massive…they’re iconic… all the words, you know? And so what an honor to be able to be a part of an event like that.”

Other performances include OneRepublic doing “We Are the Champions,” Alessia Cara doing “Killer Queen,” and Adam Lambert, who’s currently the lead singer of Queen in real life, belting out “The Show Must Go On.”

“You’re going to hear Queen songs in new and different ways that you’ve not heard them before… and I think there’s a lot of surprises in there as well,” says Adam, adding, “I can’t wait for people to see it!”

The Queen Family Singalong airs tonight at 8 p.m EDT on ABC.

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