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Taylor Swift lets off a “feral screech” after “All Too Well” tops Billboard 100

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Taylor Swift certainly had a memorable reaction when “All Too Well” became the top song in the country. The single is now number one on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, which was no easy feat because it had to dethrone Adele‘s hit, “Easy on Me,” in order to do it.

Taylor celebrated the milestone on Twitter and hilariously wrote “*FERAL SCREECH*” when sharing the announcement. “All Too Well” is not only her eighth official chart-topper, it is now the longest-running song to hit number one.

“All Too Well,” which clocks in at 10 minutes and 13 seconds, topples Don McLean‘s nearly 50-year record, when his eight-minute and 34 second song “American Pie (Parts I & II)” rose to the top in 1972.

Taylor’s mind was blown by her history-making accomplishment, as evidenced by the tell-all emoji, and she further thanked fans in a follow-up message, writing, “I’m so proud of this song and the memories I have with you guys because of it. You truly chose this one and now you did THIS?! I’m floored. A ten minute song is at the top of the Hot 100.”

She also thanked her team for helping turn the 10-minute version of the heartbreaking ballad into “The ultimate craftsman of songs,” and shouted out collaborators Jack Antonoff and Christopher Rowe as well as sound engineer Laura Sisk and songwriter Liz Rose.

The Grammy winner is celebrating the success of her newly rerecorded Red (Taylor’s Version), which is now the number-one album in the country after debuting atop the Billboard 200.

E! News reports that Taylor has since jetted to South America to visit longtime love Joe Alwyn on the set of his upcoming movie, The Stars at Noon, which is reportedly being filmed in Panama.

*FERAL SCREECH* https://t.co/YYhcecLUfm

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 22, 2021

I’m so proud of this song and the memories I have with you guys because of it. You truly chose this one and now you did THIS?! I’m floored. A ten minute song is at the top of the Hot 100.🤯

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 22, 2021

Dua Lipa announces Service95, a world-focused recommendation platform coming in 2022

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Dua Lipa wants to help you make sense with what’s going on in the world, so she’s launching the new platform, Service95, to provide style, culture and societal insights through her well-traveled lens.

Launching in January, the service will introduce Dua’s fans to movers and shakers from across the world and share their perspectives about life, culture and style. Dua will also provide recommendations for little-known places to eat, hang out and visit that she personally finds fascinating.

The Grammy winner-turned-lifestyle-guru said she was inspired to launch Service95 because she is always curating experiences for her friends, because she loves sharing all the hidden gems and global insights she learned of while touring. Now, she wants to invite everyone into her inner circle.

“The more we share with each other, the closer we become, the wider our circles grow,” Dua said in a statement to ABC Audio. “I find huge joy in telling people what I’ve learned about in any given city and love finding connection in our shared experiences. Service95 is going to take that idea and bring it to anyone who’s as curious as I am about life.”

You can subscribe to the free, weekly Service95 newsletter via the official website.

Dua also teased her upcoming At Your Service podcast, which compliments Service95’s purpose, where she’ll tap into her journalism skills and interview hard-to-get “high profile guests” on a myriad of topics — from complex world issues to things on their radar.

“Not only am I probing them about the things I’m most curious about, I’m also treating them like the experts they are,” Dua said.

The Hollies’ to launch 60th anniversary US tour in April 2022

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

British Invasion greats The Hollies will return to the U.S. next year for the first time in two decades for a series of shows celebrating the band’s 60th anniversary.

The five-date tour kicks off on April 2 in Morristown, New Jersey, and also will visit Washington, D.C., on April 4; New York City on April 5; and Chicago on April 7, before winding down in Los Angles on April 7.

The Hollies have long been led by two members of the band’s classic lineup — lead guitarist Tony Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott. Rounding out the group’s current incarnation are lead singer Peter Howarth, bassist Ray Stiles, keyboardist Ian Parker and rhythm guitarist Steve Lauri.

“We felt like this is something no other band gets to do, celebrate six decades together,” says Hicks. “Sixty years of this band and these songs means so much to us and so many others.”

Adds Elliott, “We’re incredibly excited performing for everyone on what will be some of the most special shows in the history of The Hollies.”

The group, which was co-founded in 1962 by singers Allan Clarke and Graham Nash, scored a string of hits in the 1960s and early ’70s, including “Bus Stop,” “Stop Stop Stop,” “Carrie-Anne,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “The Air That I Breathe” and “Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress).”

Tickets for The Hollies’ U.S. tour are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting TheHolliesOfficial.com.

Prior to the trek, the band will be making a special appearance on March 31 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of the 2022 Flower Power Cruise, which sets sail from Miami on March 28.

New version of ’Nevermind’ cover lawsuit includes new photoshoot claims & cites Kurt Cobain journal entries

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

A new, updated version of the Nevermind cover lawsuit has been filed, Rolling Stone reports.

This past August, Spencer Elden sued the surviving members of Nirvana — Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic — as well as the late Kurt Cobain and his widow Courtney Love, alleging that the artwork for the seminal 1991 album, which features a photograph of a naked baby Elden swimming in a pool towards a dollar bill, amounted to child pornography.

According to Rolling Stone, Elden’s lawyers amended the suit in a new filing this week to include new claims, such as that photographer Kirk Weddle, who’s named as an additional defendant, also took photos of Elden “dressed up and depicted as Hugh Hefner,” the notorious founder of Playboy.

Additionally, the suit now cites various journal entries written by Cobain — which were published posthumously in the 2002 book Journals — in an effort to illustrate that the design of the Nevermind cover was sexual in nature.

While he Nirvana members, Love and Weddle are still named in the suit, ex-Nirvana drummer Chad Channing has been removed as a defendant. Channing’s initial inclusion in the complaint was confusing, since he had left Nirvana in 1990, before the band recorded Nevermind.

Requests for comments from both Elden’s lawyer and the legal team for the defendants were not returned to Rolling Stone.

Since originally filing the suit, Elden has Nirvana to censor his genitalia in any future editions of the Nevermind. A 30th anniversary edition of the album was released earlier this month with the original artwork intact.

Nirvana has not issued any official public statement regarding the suit, though Grohl has made a few veiled comments in recent interviews, including telling the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he had “many ideas” about changing the Nevermind cover if need be.

Michael …Spaceman? ‘Good Morning America’ co-host Michael Strahan going to space aboard next Blue Origin flight

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan will fly to space on Blue Origin’s next space flight.

The Dec. 9 mission will be the New Shepard rocket’s third human flight this year and marks the first with a full astronaut manifest of six crew members in the capsule, according to Blue Origin.

Liftoff is targeted for 9:00 am CT on Thursday, Dec. 9 from the company’s Launch Site One facility in a remote area in the West Texas desert.

Strahan joins Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard — the first American to fly to space and the namesake of New Shepard — and four others on the space flight.

Space industry executive and philanthropist Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, and Bess Ventures founder Lane Bess and his child, Cameron, will also be part of the crew for New Shepard’s 19th mission. Lane and Cameron Bess will become the first parent-child pair to travel to space.

Blue Origin invited Strahan to join the crew of this flight. As a crew member, Strahan will receive a stipend, which is being donated to The Boys & Girls Club.

On July 20, 2021, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was among the history-making crew aboard Blue Origin’s first human flight along with his brother, Mark Bezos. Also onboard were the oldest and youngest people ever to go to space: pioneering female pilot Wally Funk, 82, and Oliver Daemon, 18.

On Blue Origin’s second crewed mission in October 2021, actor William Shatner, 90, set a new record as the oldest person ever to go to space.

Dion raves about new album ‘Stomping Ground,’ featuring “the greatest guitar players on the planet”

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Dion DiMucci has just released his new studio album, Stomping Ground, the doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll great’s second star-studded collaborative project in just over a year.

A follow-up to 2020’s Blues with Friends, this record includes contributions from Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa, ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons, Mark Knopfler, Peter Frampton, Boz Scaggs, Rickie Lee Jones and more.

Dion tells ABC Audio that he had a lot of fun working on Stomping Ground, and he couldn’t be happier with the project.

“I’m writing some of the best songs in my life, singing better than ever, the way I express stuff,” he maintains. “I have more confidence than ever, and I have these great tracks with the greatest guitar players on the planet on them, and making music with great artists and friends, and making friends with this music.”

Clapton lent his guitar talents to a song called “If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Dion says that when it came time for Eric to record his part, “he said…’I’m gonna play this standing up like I’m playing for 20,000 people.’ And he did, man. He walked in the studio and did this thing, and I tell you, it sounded like he was 19 years old.”

Springsteen and Scialfa, who also appeared on Blues with Friends, are featured on the new song titled “Angel in the Alleyways,” with Patti singing and Bruce contributing harmonica and tremolo guitar. Dion says Springsteen told him that Scialfa was responsible for “the whole arrangement” of the tracks they recorded.

Gibbons, another Blues with Friends contributor, plays guitar on the tune tune “My Stomping Ground.”

Dion says of Billy, “His guitar playing is so simple and recognizable…and so potent.”

Here’s the full Stomping Ground track list:

“Take It Back” — with Joe Bonamassa
“Hey Diddle Diddle ” — with G.E. Smith
“Dancing Girl ” — with Mark Knopfler
“If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll” — with Eric Clapton
“There Was a Time ” — with Peter Frampton
“Cryin’ Shame ” — with Sonny Landreth
“The Night Is Young ” — with Joe Menza and Wayne Hood
“That’s What The Doctor Said ” — with Steve Conn
“My Stomping Ground ” — with Billy Gibbons
“Angel in the Alleyways ” — with Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen
“I’ve Got to Get to You ” — with Boz Scaggs, Joe Menza and Mike Menza
“Red House ” — with Keb’ Mo’
“I Got My Eyes on You Baby ” — with Marcia Ball and Jimmy Vivino
“I’ve Been Watching ” — with Rickie Lee Jones and Wayne Hood

“So happy and extra grateful”: Thomas Rhett, Brett Young and Carly Pearce reflect on Thanksgiving traditions

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

When it comes to celebrating Thanksgiving, each country star has their own traditions. For Thomas Rhett, Brett Young and Carly Pearce, those traditions vary from favorite foods to reflecting on meaningful milestones.

Each year, Thomas happily takes on the task of prepping the turkey, turning the job into a countrified experience with a grill and beer in hand.

“When it comes to Thanksgiving, I am the turkey guy. I love to smoke food. I love to stand by the grill with a cold beer for hours upon end watching a brisket smoke, doing ribs,” he explains. “Around Thanksgiving, I am the guy that does the turkeys, and it is a job that I love to do.”

While Thomas enjoys taking on the turkey, Brett is adamant about the one popular food dish he is not a fan of: cranberry sauce. The hit singer recalls a humorous memory growing up in California of how his grandmother, Bonnie, was particular about “massaging” the can of cranberry sauce.

“I’ll never forget one Thanksgiving, she perfectly got it out onto the plate, and then my dad was giving the blessing, and my uncle Scott started smooshing it up. My grandma interrupted the prayer because he was ruining the perfect can-shaped cranberry,” he shares. “I hate that. Fruit on meat never works for me. So cranberry sauce never makes it on my Thanksgiving plate, ever.”

Though food is a mainstay for Thomas and Brett, this year, label mate Carly is counting her blessings when it comes to the success she’s achieved, from releasing the critically acclaimed album 29: Written in Stone to winning Female Vocalist for the first time at the CMA Awards.

“So many of my dreams have come true this past year in a way that I never thought could actually happen, especially in one calendar year,” she expresses. “I think I’m just going into this holiday season feeling so happy and extra grateful just for where I’m at in my life.”

Jack Antonoff criticizes “herbs who sell crap” in celebrating Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” hitting number one

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Jack Antonoff has no time for people who want to unnecessarily shorten songs.

That much is clear in the Bleachers frontman’s reaction to Taylor Swift‘s new version of her beloved song “All Too Well” debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

“All Too Well” is included on Red (Taylor’s Version), a newly re-recorded edition of her 2012 album, Red. The updated collection also features a 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” which Antonoff co-produced alongside Swift. Billboard combined the data for both Taylor’s Version recordings of “All Too Well” in determining its Hot 100 position.

In a tweet celebrating the news, Antonoff writes, “Wild to be a part of a 10 minute number 1!”

He adds, “The takeaway of a 10 minute song hitting number 1 is to not accept the narrative that people have no attention spans. That idea is created by herbs who sell crap. Long live the audience who wants it ALL. I love you.”

“All Too Well” is now officially the longest song to ever hit number one on the Hot 100, besting Don McClean‘s eight-minute, 37-second “American Pie.”

Mary J. Blige admits she’s uncomfortable with her sex scenes in ‘Power Book II: Ghost ‘

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

After 15 years of marriage, Mary J. Blige endured a bitter divorce from Kendu Issacs that was finalized in June 2018. Now, as she enjoys the single life as a singer and actress, she admits that her sex scenes in Power Book II: Ghost are difficult.

The Queen of Hip Hop Soul stars in the series as crime-family queen Monét Tejada, whose husband Lorenzo is serving a prison sentence.

“My most challenging scenes period are just those love scenes. Having to kiss strange people, just — I hate it,” Blige tells Essence. “But, we’re acting…I just have to remove Mary out of it because I hate strange people that I don’t know touching me and kissing me. So I have to really ACT. Or it’s going to look like this cringes.”

Before joining the cast of Power Book II: Ghost, the second season of which debuted Sunday, Mary proved her acting talent with her Oscar-nominated role for Best Supporting Actress as Florence Jackson in 2017’s Mudbound. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Mighty River” from the film. Mary also portrayed famed singer Dinah Washington in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson.

Mary knows that her Power Book II character Monét is hard, and for the new season, she hopes that viewers see her softer side.

“Just [excited for fans] to see the twists and turns. Monét has like a little human side, she’s not just all monster,” the nine-time Grammy winner says. “She actually is always ready to cheat and all that stuff is going on. She’s a little messy.”

Mariah Carey planning “gritty” adaptation of her memoir, new Christmas book

November 23, 2021 by WDNY Radio

Mariah Carey is all about Christmas right now, but she’s already thinking ahead to what she wants to do in 2022 — like making a movie out of her best-selling memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

Speaking to Extra, Mariah says, “I’m working on some really exciting stuff for next year, the adaptation of my memoir with Lee Daniels…We need it to be gritty. It’s not gonna be…sweet…it’s a very real situation.” Lee directed Mariah in the acclaimed movies Precious and The Butler.

Mariah says she’s also “working on another Christmas book,” but adds, “We’ll talk about that next year.” In 2015, Mariah put out a children’s book based on her signature tune “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

As for the holidays this year, Mariah’s AppleTV+ special Mariah’s Christmas: The Magic Continues streams on December 3. On it, you’ll see her sing her new holiday song “Fall In Love at Christmas,” featuring Khalid and Kirk Franklin, and she tells Extra that she’s also performing a new version of Darlene Love‘s classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

But first, let’s get through Thanksgiving. Mariah tells Extra that she’s cooking “greens” for Thanksgiving dinner, bragging, “I’ve been heralded for my greens.”

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