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Meghan Trainor taps Kris Jenner to star in her “Mother” music video

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Meghan Trainor made a splash with her “Mother” music video, which features the famous mom-ager Kris Jenner.

Kris takes a starring role in the video as the two channel old Hollywood glamour. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star lip syncs to the feminist anthem while sashaying around in an exquisite white dress and diamond necklace in one scene.

Another scene sees the ladies wearing black velvet outfits, and showing off their eye-catching diamonds and jewelry.

The singer said in a statement about her latest offering, “This song is my response to being in the industry for almost a decade now and still finding myself in situations where I am talked down to or made to feel like my opinion isn’t valid.”

“It’s for anyone who is in a situation where they feel like they are being mansplained to and want to take their power back,” she added.

The song samples The Chordettes’ 1954 hit “Mr. Sandman,” as Meghan sings about putting men with a “God complex” in their place. “Yeah, your opinion’s so strong/ Even when you’re wrong/ Bet that feels like power to you,” she muses before reminding them they “must’vе forgot who you’re talking to.”

She also gives a shout-out to husband Daryl Sabara in this new offering, singing, “Y’all need a masterclass from my man/ Learn how to satisfy like he can/ Ain’t tryna control me and own me/ Like an old man on C-SPAN/ Bet you wish you could wife this/ Stay mad, that’s priceless.”

“Mother” is one of three new songs featured on Meghan’s deluxe version of her album Takin’ It Back, which is out now.

Judge denies Trump’s attempt to block “Access Hollywood” tape from upcoming defamation trial

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Friday denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to block excerpts of the infamous Access Hollywood tape from being used as evidence in his upcoming defamation trial.

On the tape, which surfaced before the 2016 presidential election, Trump is heard saying that he just starts kissing beautiful women when he meets them.

“It’s like a magnet. Just kiss,” he says. “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything, grab them by the p—-, you can do anything.”

Trump has dismissed the tape as “locker room talk” and has argued the material is unfairly being used to suggest he has a propensity for sexual assault.

“Plaintiff, in continuing her unabashed demand to admit the Tape, has made it clear that she wishes to convert this trial into a referendum on Plaintiff’s character and distract the jury from determining the merits of the controlling issues of this case,” Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, argued last week.

While rules ordinarily prevent such propensity evidence, the judge on Friday ruled that it can be allowed in a civil case based on an alleged sexual assault.

“It is simply not the Court’s function in ruling on the admissibility of this evidence to decide what Mr. Trump meant or how to interpret his statements,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said.

The judge also denied Trump’s attempt to preclude the testimony of two women other than accuser E. Jean Carroll. The two women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, have previously claimed Trump sexually assaulted them, which he denies.

“Mr. Trump has claimed that Ms. Leeds is a liar and that no such event ever occurred. And he will be entitled to make that argument to the jury. But that is not now the issue,” Kaplan said.

The judge left open a question of whether Carroll’s attorneys could use seven excerpts of speeches Trump gave on 2016 campaign trail. Each of the excerpts contain assertions by Trump that women who have accused him of sex assault were lying and that their looks were unappealing to him.

Carroll has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and that he defamed her in 2019 when, during his presidency, he denied her rape claim by calling her a liar and saying “she’s not my type.”

The trial is scheduled to begin next month pending a decision in a separate court that could prevent the case from moving ahead if it’s determined that Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he allegedly defamed Carroll.

Carroll has filed a separate lawsuit against Trump alleging defamation and battery under a New York law that allows alleged adult sex assault victims to bring claims otherwise barred by the passage of time.

Carrie Underwood gifts fans a surprise new song on her birthday

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Carrie Underwood is celebrating her 40th birthday Friday with a surprise new song, “Out Of That Truck.”

Out now, the uptempo breakup tune finds Carrie playing the character of a bitter ex who’s certain her old flame won’t ever get over her.

“When you’re runnin’ around in that stick shift Chevy/ I bet it drives you crazy/ Thinking about us on every other back road, baby/ You got someone new on your bench seat trying to forget me lately/ But my memory’s stuck/ So good luck trying to get me out of that truck,” the powerhouse vocalist sings in the song she co-wrote with David Garcia and Lydia Vaughn.

“It’s not an aggressive song at all, so it’s like, we didn’t wanna push it there, but just wanted it to move and have some energy,” Carrie says of the song’s production in an Instagram video. “I have an affinity for guitars, so it was just kind of one of those wanting it to take you somewhere and sing along with it. It’s just kind of a cool vibe, kind of looking at doing a country truck song in a different kind of way, just wanted it to be moving and kind of a bit of a tempo song.”

“Out Of That Truck” is the first new track Carrie has released following her 2022 album, Denim & Rhinestones. The 12-song record includes her current single, “Hate My Heart.”

India.Arie explains why she’s back on Spotify

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

India.Arie‘s explaining her decision to put her music back on Spotify. The singer left the platform last year because it hosts Joe Rogan‘s podcast, despite his “language around race,” and because of its treatment of all, but especially Black, artists.

Speaking to Billboard, India said she pulled her music off Spotify in protest and “in the name of my own dignity.”

“I’ve been in the music industry for 24 years … and I know too much about how racism functions in the music industry to be comfortable with what I saw,” she said. “And so knowing that Black music sells most of the music, and just how important Black people are in the [music industry], and in the creation of music … Knowing that Black music does the most streams [and how] streaming has deeply affected people’s ability to make a living as songwriters, and then they just throw it in our face that they’re given [sic] this man who uses racist language $200 million — for me, my dignity could not stand it.”

India said she has “watched people’s checks dry up” since the introduction of streaming platforms, which she says gives most of the money to record labels. She notes a payment then goes to Spotify, before the label and streaming services pay the artist whatever they deem the value of a stream.

Despite that, India’s decided to return mainly because of two recent changes: She’ll begin getting royalty payments this year, and National Music Publishers’ Association President/CEO David Israelite won a lawsuit that increases songwriters’ royalty rate from 10.5% to 15.1% for stream payments between 2018 and 2022.

“When those two things shifted, I put my music back up,” she said. “Cause I want my checks. And not only do I want my checks, I deserve my checks.”

Lil Nas X hangs with Miley Cyrus, Dua Lipa, Elton John and more at Versace fashion show

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Lil Nas X rubbed elbows with some of music’s biggest names at the Versace Fall-Winter 2023 Fashion Show. He was seen palling around with Dua Lipa, Elton John and Miley Cyrus — to name a few.

He shared a collage of images to his Instagram, in which he also displayed the head-turning ensemble he wore to the event. He captioned the post “I [heart] donatella.”

Donatella Versace replied in the comments, “And I love you!!!!!!”

The rapper donned a sheer crop top tank that was embellished with dazzling white crystals and a pleated, black leather skirt with a similar stream of beads cascading down the front. He accessorized with matching black boots and a boxy clutch.

Lil Nas X also got his fans hyped by sharing two snaps of him sandwiched between Sir Elton and Miley. He put up an image of him posing with Dua and another photo of him posing with actress Anne Hathaway.

Variety journalist Mark Malkin shared a video to his personal Instagram showing Lil Nas X hanging with Elton and Miley. Elton featured both on his album The Lockdown Sessions, while Lil Nas X featured both Miley and Sir Elton on his Montero album on the respective songs “Am I Dreaming” and “One of Me.”

The rapper also chatted with Variety while walking the red carpet and disclosed his outfit wasn’t what he planned on wearing for the evening. “At first, this outfit was a little more conservative,” he said, adding, “But now it’s really cute and slutty — my favorite two things.”

The fashion show took place at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Wednesday night.

‘Selective’ edit: Chris Rock’s ‘Concussion’ joke flub deleted from Netflix special

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

(NOTE LANGUAGE) During Chris Rock‘s widely hyped live special, Selective Outrage, he flubbed a joke in the heat of the moment — but Netflix has now apparently edited it out.

The bit came in the closing minutes of the stand-up, which was filmed live from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre March 4, when Rock was fired up talking about Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and that notorious Oscars slap.

As Rock worked up to a thunderous, literal mic-drop ending, he vented of Jada, “Years ago, his wife said I should quit the Oscars; I shouldn’t host ’cause her man didn’t get nominated for Emancipation.” However, Rock quickly admitted, “No, not Emancipation, I f***ed up the joke.”

He quickly reset, with the joke that now stands on its own in the special, the seamless edit apparently hidden with a cutaway to the crowd. “She said that me, a f***ing grown-a** man, should quit his job because, ‘My husband didn’t get nominated for Concussion,’ and then [Smith] gave me a concussion!”

Emancipation came in later, when Rock said that after the slap he found himself cheering for Smith getting beaten onscreen in the runaway slave drama.

Jada announced in 2016 that she was skipping the ceremony after Will’s Concussion snub. During the Oscars telecast that year, host Rock jabbed, “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna‘s panties. I wasn’t invited.”

Pete Townshend’s first single in 29 years, “Can’t Outrun The Truth,” coming March 24

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Pete Townshend fans won’t have to wait much longer for his new solo single. After teasing the track last month, The Who rocker finally announced the song “Can’t Outrun The Truth” will drop March 24 and shared a snippet of it on social media.

“Can’t Outrun The Truth” is Townshend’s first solo single in 29 years and will be accompanied by his first solo video in 40 years. The track was composed and produced by Townshend’s wife, Rachel Fuller, under her nom de plume, Charlie Pepper.

Rachel shares that the song was inspired by the feelings of isolation many were dealing with during the pandemic: “I really started to think about how unbelievably difficult this period of time was going to be for so many people.”

She added, “I wrote lyrics and then I sat at the piano and wrote the music, and then I thought, ‘Oh, I really would like to record it, because it’s really not a bad song at all’ – and my singing days are long over. So, I asked Pete to record the demo.”

A portion of each “Can’t Outrun The Truth” download will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust. The song is available for preorder now.

There will also be 200 12-inch singles of “Can’t Outrun The Truth,” featuring artwork by Damien Hirst and Pete’s “Let My Love Open The Door” on side B. Each one will be signed by Townshend and will be sold at the upcoming Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall from March 21 to 26. All proceeds from those sales will go to the charity, as well.

Depeche Mode on ‘The Last of Us’ reviving “Never Let Me Down Again”: “That was nuts”

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

While Depeche Mode has a new single, “Ghosts Again,” and a forthcoming album, Memento Mori, one of their classic hits, “Never Let Me Down Again,” has been enjoying new life thanks to its inclusion in the hit HBO series The Last of Us — a phenomenon that the band says they never expected.

The original version of the 1987 Depeche classic was used in the first episode of The Last of Us, and a haunting cover version by Jessica Mazin was included in episode six. Streams of the original song in the U.S. rose more than 220% after that first episode, which used the song as part of the plot: The characters play tracks from the ’80s over the radio as code to indicate trouble.

“That was nuts,” singer Dave Gahan tells NME. “We didn’t expect that. It’s like it’s our time again and you can feel it in the air.”

He adds, “It’s amusing to me, because we’ve f***ing worked hard and we’re getting this weird recognition again of, ‘This band are important and cool and they deserve to be here.’”

Guitarist/keyboardist and singer Martin Gore notes, “It’s incredible that we got that boost. We’re fortunate in that we seem to attract a young audience anyway. With each record there are 20-year-olds getting into it.”

“But that’s just one track,” he continues. “I hope that anyone who discovered that song would be interested to get into everything else we’ve done.”

They can start with Memento Mori, which comes out March 24. Gahan tells NME the title is Latin for “Remember you must die” — fitting, perhaps, since it’s their first album since the 2022 death of founding member Andy Fletcher.

West slammed with more snow and rain, threatening flooding; East to see heavy, wet snow

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — More than 70 million people in 23 states from California to Connecticut are under flood, heavy snow, blizzard and high wind alerts on Friday as multiple storms move across the country.

By Friday morning, more than 4 inches of rain had already fallen in Northern California, pushing rivers over their banks.

Heavy rain is expected to move into Southern California Friday morning with flooding possible north of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara. Rain will continue in Los Angeles into the evening and will begin to taper off on Saturday.

A flash flood warning was issued for northwestern San Luis Obispo County in southwestern California and will remain in effect until Friday 10 p.m. local time.

Between 2 to 5 inches of rain has fallen in many areas of California, with local amounts upward of 7 inches in the mountains. An additional 4 to 8 inches of rain are possible throughout the day.

There is the potential for especially dangerous flooding by late Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

A flash flood warning was in place Friday morning for central Santa Cruz County in Northern California due to heavy rain falling in the San Lorenzo River near Big Trees. The river was rapidly rising and is expected to be in a major flood stage.

But California is not done with rain after this storm. More rain is expected in Northern California over the weekend and into next week.

Heavy snow fell near Redding, California, on Friday shutting down parts of Interstate 5. Some of the heavy snow from the California mountains will move into the Rockies, where a winter storm warning and an avalanche watch have been issued.

Locally, the Rockies could see 1 to 2 feet of snow, with the Sierra Nevada Mountains seeing additional 3 to 4 feet this weekend.

Snow for Midwest and Northeast as well

Part of the western storm will move east over the weekend, bringing blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest and the Northern Plains.

In the East, a separate storm system is moving from the Great Lakes into the Northeast with heavy, wet snow.

A winter weather advisory is in place in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, where some areas could see several inches of snow overnight. New York City could see up to an inch of snow by Saturday morning.

To the south, severe thunderstorms are possible with damaging winds, few tornadoes and large hail. Oklahoma and Arkansas will be in the bull’s-eye on Saturday.

On Sunday, severe weather will impact an area from Mississippi to Georgia, including Jackson; Birmingham, Alabama; and just south of Atlanta. Damaging winds and hail will be the biggest threat.

The Jonas Brothers suggest a tour announcement is “coming very soon”

March 10, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The Jonas Brothers will release their hotly anticipated new effort, The Album, in May — and fans are naturally wondering if this means the boys will head out on tour.

Kevin Jonas seemingly confirmed the trek when chatting with E! News, saying, “We haven’t announced the tour, but it will be coming very soon.”

He also added, “We are going to be doing a bunch of shows leading up to the album release, as well. A lot of exciting things this year and the years to come.”

One such cluster of shows promoting the upcoming album will be the brothers’ Broadway residency, which kicks off March 14. The trio previously revealed each night they’ll play a different album from start to finish — ranging from their self-titled debut right up to their upcoming release.

When talking about The Album, said Nick Jonas, “We’re taking the roots of what our sound is … but also going back to our roots and pulling from those ‘70s influences we grew up listening to.”

The brothers said they grew up listening to The Bee Gees, Boston and Stevie Wonder.

Joe explained why he’s glad the group took their time on their next album. “A lot of things happened obviously in the last couple of years, so we never got the time to just connect, stay in one room and work on new music,” he said. “To be able to do that and have that outcome that we had, we are so thrilled.”

The Album drops May 12.

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