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The speculation can stop now: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.

Taylor announced the news on Instagram on Tuesday with the caption, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” She posted a photo of herself and Travis in a flower-filled garden, with Travis kneeling in front of her. There are additional photos of the two embracing, and one of Taylor showing off her gold and diamond ring.

ABC News has confirmed the big news, which came after the happy couple spoke in detail about their relationship on Travis and his brother Jason Kelce‘s New Heights podcast earlier in August.

ABC News has also confirmed that Taylor’s ring is an old mine brilliant cut designed by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry.

Taylor and Travis have been dating since 2023. Their relationship began in July of that year, when Travis said on the podcast that he was upset that he hadn’t gotten to meet Taylor when she performed in Kansas City on the Eras Tour. His comments set off a chain of events that led to the two meeting and, eventually, becoming romantically involved.

Their relationship first became evident when Taylor appeared at one of Travis’ games in September 2023. The two then were photographed holding hands that October, confirming their relationship.

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Lil Nas X‘s dad says the “Old Town Road” rapper is doing fine and feels bad about the incident that led to him being charged with four felony counts.

Speaking to multiple reporters in a video captured by TMZ, Robert Stafford said that his son was “in good spirit [sic] and he’s very remorseful for what happened.” Stafford added, “It can happen to any family. He’s gonna get the help that he needs and just keep him in your prayers and give him the same grace and mercy that God give [sic] everyone.”

“He’s doing great mentally,” Stafford added.

Lil Nas X, born Montero Lamar Hill, was arrested and taken to a hospital on Aug. 21 after he was seen roaming down a street in Los Angeles, nearly naked, sources told ABC News at the time.

He appeared in person at the Van Nuys courthouse on Monday afternoon to enter a not guilty plea, according to Los Angeles ABC station KABC.

The 26-year-old rapper was charged earlier in the day with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer. All four counts are felony charges, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

ABC News has reached out to reps for Lil Nas X for comment.

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Korn frontman Jonathan Davis‘ pet brand, Freak on a Leash, is hosting a dog adoption event in New York City.

The pop-up — or, should we say, pup-up — takes place Tuesday starting at 4 p.m. ET at Brooklyn’s Bushwick Bark shop. Attendees will be able to adopt dogs, who will be modeling Freak on a Leash items.

A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit Brooklyn’s Bada** Animal Rescue organization.

Davis launched Freak on a Leash in 2022. The brand’s name, of course, is a reference to Korn’s late ’90s nu metal classic.

Korn is playing shows with System of a Down at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Wednesday and Thursday. They’re launching a Canadian tour with Gojira in September.

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Spoon has released two new singles, “Chateau Blues” and “Guess I’m Fallin in Love.”

“We started work on an album this year,” frontman Britt Daniel writes in an Instagram post, “and the way that normally goes, we write, we rehearse, we record, we mix, we get it all wrapped up tightly and then start putting songs out into the world.”

He continues, “But as we finished up the first two songs for the LP, it crossed somebody’s mind and eventually all of ours that these two really should come out now. Let’s get them out there.”

The new tracks follow Spoon’s 2022 album, Lucifer on the Sofa, which includes the single “The Hardest Cut.” They also put out an EP, Memory Dust, in 2023.

Spoon launches a U.S. tour Tuesday in Santa Ana, California, which includes dates with Pixies.

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Old Dominion‘s getting ready for one of the busiest nights ever at their Midtown Nashville bar, Odie’s, as the band treats fans to an unexpected concert.

“Surprise! We couldn’t let Barbara week go by without throwing a party,” they announced on their socials. “Pop-up show this Wednesday (8/27) at @odiesbar! Doors at 5pm, music at 7pm. 21+ only, first come first serve.”

If you’d like to skip the line, the bar’s official Instagram account is running a contest that ends Tuesday at 7 p.m. CT that could put you at the very front. 

OD’s sixth studio album, Barbara, arrived Aug. 22. It features 13 tracks, including their new single, “Making Good Time.”

After their Odie’s pop-up, the CMA and ACM group of the year will continue their How Good Is That World Tour Friday at The Colosseum at Caesars in Windsor, Canada.  

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Miley Cyrus‘ father, Billy Ray Cyrus, celebrated his birthday on Monday, and she gave him a very special gift.

Billy Ray wrote on Instagram, “For my birthday, Miley gave me the gift of music and wrote me a song called Secrets and got my favorite musicians Fleetwood Mac to play on it! I love you Mile.”

You can hear a snippet of the song on Billy Ray’s post. Miley sings, “Secrets, I want to keep your secrets/ Like sunlight in the shadows/ Like footsteps in the grass/ I won’t ever break my promise/ Like a songbird in the silence/ Like stones against the glass.” 

According to People, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and drummer Mick Fleetwood are credited on the track.

While appearing on Monica Lewinsky‘s podcast in June, Miley spoke about the song, which she said was part of a new album she’s working on. She said she wanted her father to share family secrets with her, “even though I didn’t really want to know.”

“I wanted to be the one he felt safe enough to tell me the things that were damning and damaging to the family,” she added. “I wanted him to think that as a middle child, I’m old enough that I could take some of that. And I always wanted my family to feel like I was the safe place — that I had the white flag when they came to talk to me.”

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Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren Akins, are writing the remix of his 2018 hit “Life Changes” — quite literally.

The two used the chart-topping single to announce they’re expecting their fifth child in a new Instagram video. 

“Well, I was wrapping my head around being a dad,” TR sings as he plays guitar beside Lauren, who’s holding pictures of her sonogram. “Big wrench got thrown in the plans that we thought we had.”

“Now Lauren’s showing, got one on the way,” he paused, altering the original lyric to match his life. “That’s five under 10. Hey what can I say? Yeah life changes. You wake up ain’t nothing the same. Yeah life changes.”

While the two didn’t reveal the due date or gender of their baby, one thing’s for certain: “We’ve got some really excited big sisters in our house,” TR added. “God is so good.”

Willa Gray Akins is 9, followed by 8-year-old Ada James Akins, 5-year-old Lennon Love Akins and 3-year-old Lillie Carolina Akins. 

It’s a good time careerwise for Thomas, as well. This week “After All the Bars Are Closed” tops both the Mediabase and Billboard Country Airplay charts.

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It’s the partnership you’ve all been waiting for: Ice Cube and Goodyear Blimp.

The rapper is marking his new headlining tour, as well as the Goodyear Blimp’s 100th anniversary, by having blimp flyovers at select tour dates on his Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude trek.

Of course, Ice Cube’s connection to Goodyear goes way back. In a lyric from his 1993 single “It Was a Good Day,” he rhymes, “Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp and it read, ‘Ice Cube’s a Pimp.'”

The partnership kicked off Sunday in Orlando at the BIG3 Championship, a basketball league founded by Cube.

“From the beginning, I always thought you had to dream big if you really wanted to make it big,” Cube says in a statement. “The idea of the Goodyear Blimp championing my name was a metaphor for the sky being the limit, yet here we are with Goodyear as a partner and the blimp flying in the Orlando skies, saying, ‘Ice Cube’s a Pimp!’”

Goodyear is also a sponsor on Cube’s tour.

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