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Megan Thee Stallion didn’t take her collaboration with Dua Lipa lightly: “I waited till I had the perfect one”

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa smashed it out of the park with their new collab, “Sweetiest Pie,” and Meg revealed that was all by her design.

Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the “Savage” rapper revealed how the hot track came to be. “I be seeing everybody making mashups of me and Dua songs and I’m like, ‘No, this sounds too good. We have to make a song,'” Meg explained. “So when I hit her up about it, I was like, ‘Dua, I really want us to do a song, but I got to find that right beat. It has to be perfect.'”

The Grammy winner continued, “I didn’t just send her no any track. I waited till I had the perfect one and I feel like we both came to a mutual agreement that it was greatness.”

Meg explained she wanted her collaboration to feel “organic,” too, adding, “I want us to both really thrive on it and really shine.”

Meg said working with Dua was a blast — even though she worried at first if the “Levitating” singer was unfriendly. “When I first saw her on Instagram, I was like, oh my gosh, I don’t know what it’s given. She really look kind of mean,” the rapper admitted, “When I met her, I was like, ‘Love, you might be my friend.’ She is so cool. She’s so chill.”

“It was just super easy the whole time, and I really liked that about her,” Megan said when describing what it was like working together. “Because she could be a diva, but she is just so humble. We are all divas in our own right… Shout out to a kind person in the industry because you don’t meet a lot of them.”

Muse teases new song “Compliance,” due out next Thursday

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Muse has another new song on the way.

The track, titled “Compliance,” will arrive next Thursday, March 17, and is available to pre-save now. It follows the single “Won’t Stand Down,” which dropped in January.

In a tweet announcing the new tune, Muse says, “Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability.”

“Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms and religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables,” the band continues. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason and compassion. They just need our Compliance.”

The “Compliance” news follows a teaser video released earlier this week, which features a group of masked soldiers in a desert tearing down giant statues of the three Muse band members while a chorus chants the line, “The will of the people.”

“Compliance” and “Won’t Stand Down” follow Muse’s most recent album, 2018’s Simulation Theory.

Cardi B walks away from new comedy movie ‘Assisted Living’; film no longer happening as of now

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Since Cardi B recently pulled out as the star of the used-to-be-upcoming film Assisted Living, production company Paramount Players pulled the plug on the project until further notice.

According to Deadline, the $30 million film was just a week away from starting production, and the reason for Cardi’s pullout is that the Grammy-winning artist is overextended.

In Assisted Living, Cardi B was to play Amber, a small-time crook on the run after she’s wrongly accused of a crime. After struggling to find someone to take her in, Amber disguises herself as an elderly woman and hides out in the one place no one will look — her estranged grandmother’s nursing home.

Though legal action is often the follow-up in a situation like this, sources tell Deadline the hope is to put the pieces back together to begin production later this year.

Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” jumps over 700% in streaming following ’The Batman’ premiere

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The Batman has a whole lot of people listening to Nirvana‘s “Something in the Way.”

According to Billboard, streams for the Nevermind closer — if you don’t count the hidden track “Endless, Nameless” — have increased about 734% in the first four days since the Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz-starring film premiered last Friday.

“Something in the Way” is used multiple times in The Batman, and was also heard in the movie’s trailer. In fact, the song heavily influenced writer-director Matt Reeves‘ interpretation of the comic book icon.

“Early on, when I was writing, I started listening to Nirvana, and there was something about ‘Something in the Way’…which is part of the voice of that character,” Reeves told Esquire magazine.

“When I considered, ‘How do you do Bruce Wayne in a way that hasn’t been seen before?’ I started thinking, ‘What if some tragedy happened and this guy becomes so reclusive, we don’t know what he’s doing? Is this guy some kind of wayward, reckless, drug addict?'” the filmmaker explained. “And the truth is that he is a kind of drug addict. His drug is his addiction to this drive for revenge. He’s like a Batman Kurt Cobain.”

The Batman is in theaters now.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts to release acoustic album, ‘Changeup,’ this month; listen to lead track

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will release their first-ever acoustic album, Changeup, on March 25.

The album is a 25-track collection featuring new, unplugged versions of songs spanning Joan Jett‘s entire career, from her work with the trailblazing 1970s all-female group The Runaways through to some of her most recent songs with The Blackhearts.

In advance of Changeup, Jett and the Blackhearts have released the lead track, a rendition of “(I’m Gonna) Run Away,” a song from Jett’s third album, 1981’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, the first featuring The Blackhearts. It’s available now via streaming services, and you also can check out a lyric video on YouTube.

Among the other tracks are acoustic versions of Jett’s early hit “Bad Reputation” and “Androgynous,” her cover of Tommy James and the Shondells‘ “Crimson and Clover,” the Runaways classic “Cherry Bomb,” the Bruce Springsteen-penned “Light of Day,” and a wide variety of deeper cuts.

Fans got their first taste of Changeup last year, when the unplugged rendition of “Bad Reputation” was released via digital outlets.

Changeup initially will be avaiable as a digital download, at streaming services and in the immersive audio formats Sony 360 RA and Dolby Atmos. A vinyl version will be released at a later date.

Meanwhile, Jett and the Blackhearts have a series of spring U.S. headlining dates scheduled lading up to the group’s stint on the major summer trek dubbed The Stadium Tour, which also features Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Poison. That outing kicks off June 16 in Atlanta. Visit JoanJett.com for her full itinerary.

Here’s the complete track list of Changeup:

“(I’m Gonna) Run Away”
“You’re Too Possessive”
“Long Time”
“Victim of Circumstance”
“Coney Island Whitefish”
“Love Is Pain”
“Oh Woe Is Me”
“You Drive Me Wild”
“Frustrated “
“Bad Reputation”
“Fake Friends”
“Fresh Start”
“Soulmates to Strangers”
“Make It Back”
“Fragile”
“I Love Playin’ with Fire”
“Cherry Bomb “
“I Want You”
“Crimson and Clover”
“A 100 Feet Away”
“Androgynous”
“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got”
“School Days”
“Good Music”
“Light of Day”

Cole Swindell, Josh Turner join the Amp at Dant Crossing concert series in Kentucky

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Cole Swindell and Josh Turner are two of the latest country acts to join the 2022 Amp at Dant Crossing concert series lineup.

The multi-month event, spanning from May through October, is a series of shows that take place at a 2,000-seat amphitheater in the hills of Kentucky’s bourbon country. Cole will kick off the event with a performance on May 6, while Josh is its final scheduled artist, with a show on October 7.

A host of other country stars will also appear on the stage in the dates in between. Tracy Lawrence, Lee Brice, Justin Moore and Sara Evans are all also slated to appear, along with rock, Americana and blues acts including Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marshall Tucker Band and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Tickets for the concert series are on sale now.

Listen to new Imagine Dragons song, “Bones”

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Imagine Dragons has premiered a new song called “Bones.”

According to Rolling Stone, the track will appear on ID’s upcoming album Mercury — Act 2, the aptly titled follow-up to Dan Reynolds and company’s latest effort, 2021’s Mercury — Act 1. A release date for Act 2 has yet to be announced.

You can listen to “Bones” now via digital outlets.

Imagine Dragons’ ongoing Mercury U.S. tour continues Saturday in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, ID’s current single, “Enemy,” a collaboration with JID for the Netflix animated series Arcane, is the number-one song Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chat, and has been for the past five weeks.

Report: Is Britney Spears buying Drake’s old home?

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Britney Spears previously told fans she’s “in the process of buying a new home.” Now it appears she may be settling on buying Drake‘s estate.

TMZ captured Britney checking out the “One Dance” rapper’s Hidden Hills property, dubbed the YOLO Estate, which hit the market on Monday. Interest in the sprawling estate has been hot, with TMZ reporting each showing has amassed somewhere between 20 to 30 guests.

Britney and fiancé Sam Asghari were among the many spectators, but not much else is known about their visit or what they think about Drake’s old stomping grounds.

The house is actually three houses combined into one package that’s selling for a cool $14.8 million. The estate has its own theater, swimming pool, waterfalls, tennis courts, bars and a recording studio.

Last month, Britney told fans via Instagram, “It’s time for change!!!!” She continued in the post about her current home, “I’ve lived in this house for 7 years…I’ve been pretty modest about the home I live in now !!!!”

Britney’s apparent house shopping comes in the wake of reports that she signed a tell-all book deal worth $15 million, which should help with a down payment on her future place.

Bryan Adams says making new album ‘So Happy It Hurts’ allowed him to “clear out” his “coat pockets”

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Bryan Adams‘ new album So Happy It Hurts, released today, was created during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. But unlike some artists who made records during that time because they didn’t have anything else to do, Bryan says this particular album was always on his “to-do” list.

“I was going to make a record, but once the lockdown kicked in, I just completely immersed myself in it,” Bryan tells ABC Audio. “And it didn’t take very long ’cause I had a fair amount of ideas.”

“I finally got to clear all the pieces of paper out of my coat pockets that had all these things written on them, and put them all on a big board in the studio,” he adds. “And just one by one, [I] went through them to see which ones were working.”

But due to the pandemic, Bryan says he had to do all the recording himself.

“I decided to live my lifelong dream of being a drummer,” he explains. “Every day I would go in and mess around with the songs and put down rough drum tracks. And if in the next morning it didn’t sound great, I would just record it again.”

The album’s sole guest is Monty Python legend John Cleese, who delivers a dramatic yet comedic intro to the song “Kick A**.” Bryan first met Cleese when he photographed him for a charity project, and then unexpectedly ran into him again.

“We were [seated] together at a lunch and I had this song…,” Bryan recalls. “I’d put my voice at the beginning, and I didn’t really like it. So when I was talking to him, I was just noticing how well he spoke. And I said, ‘John, would you be interested in doing the narration for a song?’ And he went, ‘Well, of course!'”

Yungblud premieres new single, “The Funeral”; watch Ozzy Osbourne-starring video now

March 11, 2022 by WDNY Radio

After a week of teasing, Yungblud has premiered his new single, “The Funeral,” alongside a video starring Ozzy Osbourne.

The clip, which streaming now on YouTube, begins the Prince of Darkness peering over the “Fleabag” rocker lying down in a coffin in an otherwise empty room. “Hang on, is this a f***ing funeral?” Ozzy asks. “Where the f*** is everybody?”

Cut to Yungblud rocking out the Billy Idol-esque tune in front of a moshing audience. When he leaves the club at the end of the video, he’s immediately hit by a car driven by Sharon Osbourne.

“What the f*** was that?” Ozzy asks from the passenger seat, to which Sharon responds, “Just some f***ing poser.”

The metal legend then declares, “Ah, run him over again then.”

“The lyrics are literally me listing off everything I’m insecure about,” Yungblud says of “The Funeral,” which is available now via digital outlets. “If you identify with what you don’t like about yourself and own it, no one can say anything that you haven’t already said to yourself. You become bulletproof.”

“This song’s about owning those insecurities and just being f***ing fearless,” he adds. “It’s about ego, death, rebirth and f***ing dancing on your grave.”

“The Funeral” follows Yungblud’s 2021 single “Fleabag,” which currently sits in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart. Yungblud’s latest album is his 2020 sophomore effort, Weird!

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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