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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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Coachella 2022 has found new headliners in Billie Eilish and Kanye West, sources tell Variety, with Swedish House Mafia in the mix to be the third. 

The news comes after the annual music festival, originally set for April 2020, was postponed four times due to the pandemic. It was first bumped to October 2020, then to April 2021, October 2021 and, most recently, April 2022.

Coachella’s original headliners were supposed to be Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine. However, Ocean moved his appearance to 2023 and after November’s Astroworld tragedy, Scott was dropped from the lineup.

Currently, Coachella is set to take place in Indio, Calif. over the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022. Tickets are already sold out.

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Foo Fighters are kicking off 2022 by setting a new Billboard chart record.

Dave Grohl and company now have a total of 14 top-10 hits on the Rock & Alternative Airplay ranking, which measures radio airplay across rock and alternative formatted stations. That breaks what was previously a three-way tie for the most top-10s on the 12-year-old chart with Twenty One Pilots and Cage the Elephant, who both have 13.

The Foos earned the record thanks to their song “Love Dies Young,” the fourth and current single off the band’s 2021 album, Medicine at Midnight. Each of the record’s previous three singles —  “Shame Shame,” “Waiting on a War” and “Making a Fire” — also hit the top 10 on Rock & Alternative Airplay.

In addition to breaking Billboard records, Foo Fighters’ 2022 — or, as one might call it, 202Foo — includes returning to the road in continued support of Medicine at Midnight, as well as the premiere of Studio 666, a new horror-comedy film starring all of the band members.

In related news, it was just announced that the Foos will appear on the upcoming Jim Henson Company series Fraggle Rock: Rock to the Rock, set to premiere January 21 on Apple TV+.

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While some people may dread turning 30, Selena Gomez says she’s looking forward to celebrating her milestone birthday on July 22.

Telling People she’s “excited” to turn the big 3-0, Selena declares, “I love growing up.  When I was younger, I was scared of it, and I thought by now my life would look so different.”

Now, says Selena, “I’m like, ‘Wow, this is not what I ever expected, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.'”

The Grammy nominee said she has good reason for being enthusiastic about getting older: “I stopped caring about what people have to say, and that’s been wonderful.”

Looking back at how much she’s grown since turning 20, Selena remarked, “A lot has changed for me in a lot of good ways.”  One of those good changes, she says, is finally being able to call herself a Grammy nominee after her Revelación album was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album.

“I’m so excited,” she declared. “I couldn’t be more proud.”  The Only Murders in the Building star also notes the positive effect the Grammy honor had on her music, which was that it lit a “good fire under my a**.”   

Selena, who says she “put my heart and soul” into Revelación, also reveals she is working hard on her next studio effort — although she admits that Grammy nod has now made her “more nervous” about her new work.

Selena did not reveal the title or release date of her upcoming studio album. 

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Reba McEntire‘s recurring role on Young Sheldon is going strong, as she returns tonight. And while a full-fledged reboot of her own eponymous sitcom has proven elusive, the CBS show could set the stage for a small one.

“Loved working with Annie Potts on Young Sheldon,” Reba told reporters in the fall. “We’ve just gotten through doing an episode and I’m going back in another month to do it again. Rex [Linn] is on his way soon to go back to shoot an episode.”

By all accounts, the Young Sheldon set is a veritable mutual admiration society. Of course, Linn is Reba’s real-life love, and while Potts plays the girlfriend of her ex-husband, Craig T. Nelson, on Young Sheldon, the Designing Women actress couldn’t be fonder of her.

“Hey y’all! Look who’s back!” Potts shared on Instagram this week, along with a shot of the two laughing. “Tune in this Thurs to find out what’s so darn funny… We just LOVE it when @Reba is here!”

Since the Ethel to her Lucy from the Reba sitcom is also on Young Sheldon in an almost-unrelated storyline, the country music superstar dreams of sitcom worlds colliding.

“Melissa Peterman‘s on it,” Reba explains, “so we’re all trying to find a way to get the writers to put Annie Potts, Craig T. Nelson, Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn and myself in one episode.”

“Wouldn’t that be fun?” she beams. “I love Young Sheldon!”

You can check out the episode titled “An Expensive Glitch and a Goof-Off Room” tonight at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

Meanwhile, Reba reveals her potential NBC series, an extension of 1991’s Fried Green Tomatoes with the legendary Norman Lear, likely won’t happen.

“Fried Green Tomatoes,” unfortunately, kinda has gone away for right now,” she says.

 

 

 

 

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American Idol host Ryan Seacrest doesn’t have any children, but he says he’s getting valuable experience by working with Katy Perry, who brings her daughter Daisy Dove to the set.  In fact, Ryan predicts that one day, he may actually be capable of being left alone with her.

Speaking to People, Ryan says he’s “practicing” his child care skills with Daisy, who’s 16 months old, so he can be ready if and when Katy ever does decide he’s experienced enough to babysit.

“She’s mentioned the babysitting opportunity, just not officially,” Ryan laughs. “She and Orlando [Bloom] have never officially said, ‘Hey, Ryan, we’re going out tonight. You’re in charge all by yourself.’ But I would be willing.”

“I think she knows that I’m practicing and at the right point, I will be ready to be alone and be a great babysitter or uncle to Daisy as well,” he adds.

Ryan, 47, told WSJ. Magazine last month, “I do want to have kids. But I haven’t even gone down that path, which is nuts at my age. I think in the last year, it’s become clear to me that yes, I do want to do that…. I want to be available and present.”

Katy and Ryan, along with Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, will return for the landmark 20th season of American Idol February 27 on ABC.  The three judges and the host recently starred in a hilarious video that imagines what they’d all be doing today if they hadn’t been discovered. As the video imagines it, Luke would be a bartender, Lionel would be an art teacher, Katy would be manning a fireworks stand and Ryan would be hosting bar mitzvahs.

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