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One of Alessia Cara‘s two new songs is called “Shapeshifter,” and in the new video for the track, she takes the song’s title to heart, portraying five different characters.

Alessia portrays a wealthy woman whose husband is cheating on her, as well as the husband, the private detective she hires to find out the truth, and the two women suspected of being the husband’s mistress: the housekeeper and the gardener.

While we don’t find out the characters’ names in the clip, Alessia has named them all, and has been introducing them on her social media for the last week.  For example, the husband and wife are named Theodore and Inga Pomodoro, while the private investigator’s name is Melba D’Angelo.

In a twist ending, Melba finds Theodoro making out with someone she thinks is the gardener. But when that person turns around, it’s actually, er…a sheep. A surprised Melba stumbles backward and falls into the pool — and surprise! We cut to Alessia herself emerging from the ocean in a red dress, in a scene from her previous video, “Sweet Dream.”

In other words…it was all a dream.  And the hint was the sheep: Alessia’s co-star in the “Sweet Dream” video is a real sheep named Lola.

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Jason Aldean and fellow country superstar Carrie Underwood mix high-drama harmonies and powerhouse vocals on their new duet, “If I Didn’t Love You.”

The new song officially arrived Friday, after Jason started teasing it — and his big mystery duet partner — earlier in the week. According to Billboard, Jason says that Carrie’s vocal contributions made the song even better than he’d imagined it could be.

“She did her thing like only Carrie can,” he explains. “And I don’t know how, but she made the song sound even better than what we’d expected. It’s a really special song to start this album.”

“If I Didn’t Love You” is the first single off Jason’s upcoming tenth album. “We were pretty close to finishing up this album, but this song came in and we knew we had to record it. I went ahead and put my vocals down while we asked Carrie in the meantime,” he details.

“Luckily, she loved the song,” Jason adds, “and it was kind of like a rocket from there.”

It’s not Jason’s first time finding musical magic with a turbo-charged male-female duet. His 2010 collaboration with Kelly Clarkson, “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” was a massive hit. Then, in 2018, he and Miranda Lambert topped the country charts with their “Drowns the Whiskey.” 

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The short-lived but beloved performance series From the Basement has found a new home on The Coda Collection.

Amazon Prime Video’s new, music-focused subscription streaming channel will air archival episodes from the program, beginning with Radiohead‘s 2011 appearance on the show.

Additionally, The Coda Collection has premiered a new, exclusive interview with From the Basement curator, frequent Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.

Other installments to be added at a future date include sets by Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Iggy & the Stooges and Gnarls Barkley.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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All Good Things has announced a new album called A Hope in Hell.

The record, which will include the band’s hit single, “For the Glory,” featuring Hollywood Undead‘s Johnny 3 Tears and Charlie Scene, is due out August 20.

Along with the album news, All Good Things has also shared another track from A Hope in Hell, “The Comeback,” which features Craig Mabbitt of Escape the Fate. You can download that now via digital outlets.

“For the Glory,” meanwhile, currently sits in the top five on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

All Good Things will hit the road in August while opening for P.O.D.‘s 20th anniversary Satellite tour.

Here’s the A Hope in Hell track list:

“Kingdom”
“Hold On”
“For the Glory” feat. Johnny 3 Tears and Charlie Scene
“Sirens”
“Do It Now” feat. Hyro the Hero
“Push Me Down”
“Machines”
“Undefeated”
“Lights Out”
“The Comeback” feat. Craig Mabbitt
“Four Letter Words”
“End of the World”
“A Hope in Hell”

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Ava Max has released a surreal new video for her latest single, “EveryTime I Cry.”

In the clip, Ava wake up in a desolate landscape, battered and bruised, but then the sheer power of her tears creates an ocean.  We also see her perched in a tree above a waterfall in a lush landscape, and standing on lily pads in a pond, wearing a variety of over-the-top looks.

According to a press release, the clip depicts Ava using her “vulnerability” — represented by her tears — “to become a fairy who saves the planet.”

“This video demonstrates power within vulnerability,” said Ava. “I wanted to tell a story that has the viewer watch me turn weakness into strength.”

Released last month, “EveryTime I Cry” was Ava’s first new music of 2021, but she told fans that it’s not from a new album, but rather is a “continuation” of her 2020 debut album, Heaven & Hell.

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A Tuesday fire at a New Orleans mansion belonging to Beyoncé and Jay-Z is now under investigation as “simple arson.”

An eyewitness tells ABC affiliate WGNO that “a man was seen running from the home and that the fire.”

The New Orleans Fire Department didn’t reveal the extent of damage, but reported that 22 firefighters battled the blaze for more than an hour.

Neighbors said the home has been vacant for years and has become run down, though Beyoncé and Jay-Z have a “great gardener who takes care of the boxwoods.”

The three-story property was built in 1926 and was initially a church, WGNO reports.

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In his first major interview since February, when a video of him using the n-word at the end of a night of partying led to his swift removal from the spotlight, Morgan Wallen is opening up about the incident.

“It just happened,” he told Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan on Friday of the night in question, explaining that it was the last night of weekend filled with partying with some “longtime friends” who were in town.

“We say dumb stuff together. In our minds, it’s playful,” Morgan continued. “It sounds ignorant, but that’s really where it came from.”

He went on to say that his use of the word wasn’t intended to be derogatory, explaining the mistake came from ignorance and adding, “I don’t think I sat down and was like, ‘Hey, is this right or is this wrong?’”

After the tape’s release, Morgan’s promising path toward superstardom came screeching to a halt. His record label suspended his contract and his music was removed from a variety of radio networks and streaming services.

During the months that followed, Morgan says he accepted invitations to speak with advocacy organization the Black Music Action Coalition, and also with other prominent Black music industry members, like Kevin Liles, Eric Hutcherson and gospel singer BeBe Winans.

Morgan also spent 30 days in a rehab facility, “Just trying to figure it out,” he explained.  “Why am I acting this way? Do I have an alcohol problem?”

He also donated $500,000 to BMAC and other Black-focused organizations. The figure is what he and his team estimated he made from the spike in his album sales following the incident.  Regarding that, Strahan asked Wallen if he felt country music has a race problem.

“I mean…it would seem that way, yeah,” Morgan replied, though he added, “I haven’t really sat and thought about that.” 

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Recently, Shawn Mendes revealed that his girlfriend, Camila Cabello, coached him through the Spanish parts of his contribution to a remix of the song “KESI,” by Latin star Camilo.  But now Camila says Shawn is really getting into the whole Spanish thing.

“That studio session, I was riding him so hard,” Camila tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “He was like, ‘That’s good’…[and] I’m like, ‘Do what you want, but it isn’t right, I’m just saying.’ But he, apart from that song, really has also fallen in love with Latin culture.”

“He is taking Spanish lessons to [really] learn to speak Spanish,” she adds. “So he already had some ground covered before that.”

When Zane comments that Shawn is “really good-looking” — duh — Camila responds, “I know. It’s great when he does things that are weird and dorky because I feel it makes him…just, his handsomeness makes me not as nervous.”

Speaking to Zane about her new song “Don’t Go Yet” and her new album, Familia, Camila says the forced break due to the pandemic taught her “how to be I think a human and develop interests and passions outside of the studio and outside of music and outside of that. And I think that brought me really close to my family.”

“Before that break…I hit such a low point and I was struggling so much and kind of feeling so isolated,” she adds. “It ended up really solidifying, I feel, this idea of true happiness and it really coming from my connection to my life and to the people around me.”

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A judge has ruled that Dr. Dre must pay his ex-wife, Nicole Young, roughly $300,000 a month in spousal support.  The two had been married for 24 years before Young filed for divorce in 2020, citing irreconcilable differences. 

According to Entertainment Tonight, Young will receive over $3.5 million a year from Dre, born Andre Romelle Young.  The court ruled that the support will be paid “in a like manner until the party receiving support remarries or enters into a new domestic partnership, death of either party or until further order of the court.”

The seven-time Grammy winner is also responsible for paying expenses for their two homes, located in Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

Young’s representative, Melissa Nathan, was pleased with the outcome and told the outlet, “The support order is consistent with what he has already been paying since the initial separation and is a fraction of what Nicole and her lawyers demanded.”

Still, both reportedly remain locked in a battle over their prenuptial agreement, with Dre claiming it’s legally binding and should be upheld, while Young says the document is invalid. A judge will rule later on the prenup, which will determine how the former couple will divide the property they own.

The spousal support ruling comes on the heels of a Los Angeles County judge declaring that the “I Need a Doctor” rapper is legally single after he requested for a change in his marital status in March, insisting that his relationship with his estranged wife cannot be repaired.

“Marital or domestic partnership status is terminated and the parties are restored to the status of single persons,” the judge declared at the time.

Dre, 56, and Young, 51, wed in 1996. They share two children: Truice, 24, and 20-year-old Truly.  

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