Scorpions is the latest band to join YouTube’s Billion Views Club. The rockers’ 1991 hit “Wind of Change” just surpassed 1 billion views on the site.
“1 Billion views on the ‘Wind of Change’ video!!! What a milestone,” the band shared on social media. “Thank you to all the Rock Believers for watching.”
“Wind of Change” was featured on the German band’s 11th studio album, Crazy World, and topped the charts in several countries, peaking at four in the U.S. The lyrics, written by the band’s lead singer, Klaus Meine, celebrate the end of the Cold War.
Limp Bizkit takes a trip to the uncanny valley with the video for the band’s song “Out of Style.”
The clip features Fred Durst and company inhabiting various world leaders, including Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, through the use of deepfake technology. If you ever wanted to see the president of Russia drink from a beer bong, then look no further.
You can watch the “Out of Style” video streaming now on YouTube.
“Out of Style” appears on Limp Bizkit’s comeback album, Still Sucks, which was released in 2021.
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The Jonas Brothers might have broken fans’ hearts in 2013 when they announced they were breaking up, but the singers say it was the right move.
A teaser for an upcoming interview with ABC News’ IMPACT X Nightline shows them addressing that six-year hiatus and how their relationship deteriorated before calling it quits.
“There were times we spoke through our dad to each other,” Joe Jonas explained to ABC News’ Juju Chang. Joe praised his dad, Paul Jonas, for being “so easy to speak to” and for acting as peacekeeper. “Just like any parent would want, you want your kids to just get along,” he said.
Joe said of taking time apart, “We needed it creatively. We needed it emotionally, probably therapy.”
Kevin Jonas jumped in, saying, “I didn’t want the band to end when it did, but we all really needed that time. The Band-Aid needed to be ripped off.”
The brothers went their separate ways in 2013 after abruptly calling off their tour on October 9 — two days before it was set to start, with insiders saying the band was dealing with a “deep rift.” On October 29, 2013, the band announced their split.
The trio spent their time apart focusing on their solo careers. They reformed in 2019.
The complete IMPACT X Nightline interview starts streaming Thursday, February 9, on Hulu.
If you can’t get enough Dolly, the record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please is looking for you.
For the first time ever, VMP is rolling out a yearlong plan to deliver a different Dolly Parton album every month.
Vinyl Me, Parton features titles that were originally available as records back in the day, namely: My Tennessee Mountain Home, Just Because I’m a Woman, 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, Hello, I’m Dolly, Jolene and New Harvest…First Gathering.
It also expands the Dolly vinyl universe with titles that were rarely, if ever, issued as an LP: Little Sparrow, Blue Smoke, Backwoods Barbie, Halos & Horns, Better Day and Those Were the Days.
“I love listening to records, and to know that fans around the world are discovering music on vinyl is wonderful,“ Dolly says. “I am really happy to see some of my favorite albums that have been out of print on vinyl or were never pressed on vinyl be made available. What’s old is new again!”
All the records have been remastered on 180g colored vinyl, with Vinyl Me, Parton set to start in April.
The set for Missy Elliott and Jack Harlow‘s Doritos Super Bowl ad was apparently filled with laughter. In a recent interview with Billboard, the rappers discussed the shoot, which actually wasn’t their first time meeting.
Missy was reminded that she and Jack met in a studio when he was still an up-and-coming rapper. Though she didn’t remember the encounter, it had no bearing on the chemistry the two had while filming “Jack’s New Angle.”
According to Missy, they “laughed as if we had met years back.” Harlow echoed the sentiment, adding, “We were laughing and joking and having a good time.” He said that he “also just wanted to hear stories about some of the things she did and where her head was at when she was making music early in her career.”
The teaser for the Super Bowl commercial recently dropped and sees Missy turning down Jack’s idea for a love triangle. In the actual ad, Jack feels his music is missing something and comes up with the idea of using a musical triangle, rather than the tasty triangle.
Jack performs with the instrument, quits music against Missy’s advice, teaches young students to use the instrument and causes the world to have “triangle fever.” Still, he loses Triangle Player of the Year to Elton John.
Harlow says Missy’s appearance in the ad was “super special,” but Elton’s was the “cherry on top.”
“That’s an icon that reaches everyone and adds even more legitimacy to the ad,” he says. “He’s so iconic and accomplished, a genius. I was thrilled that he [was] a part of it.”
Missy and Jack’s Doritos commercial is out on Youtube. It will also air during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
There was a meeting of the Trevors at the 65th annual Grammy Awards. Host Trevor Noah shared the moment in which he encountered Busta Rhymes, born Trevor Smith Jr., at the event.
In the clip posted to Instagram, Noah walks up to Busta while singing the chorus to his 2001 song “What It Is.” He then praised Busta’s performance in the tribute celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. “That was everything,” he says, to which Busta thanks him. The rapper then points out that they’re both Trevors, a fact Noah says he learned as “his biggest fan.”
“I was, like, I’ll be his backup whenever he needs it, whenever he needs it,” Noah says. “Right here. If Spliff [Star] is busy, you call me,” he tells Busta, before breaking out into a verse from the rapper’s “Party Is Goin’ On Over Here.” Busta smiles and occasionally joins him in rapping until the video comes to an end.
“Flipmode is the greatest!!!” Noah captioned the video.
Journey is currently on their 50th anniversary tour, and it looks like there’s something special in store for fans going to their upcoming show in Austin, Texas.
Guitarist Neal Schon took to social media to tease what he’s calling a “special surprise” at the February 22 show in Austin. While he didn’t say anything else, fans think they know what it is.
Schon has said in the past that he was hoping to get Journey’s original keyboardist, Gregg Rolie, to join the tour. Fans think that’s what Schon’s teasing, especially since Rolie currently lives near Austin.
“Yes, a surprise… I wonder who lives in Texas,…hmmm, I wonder….who could it be??” one fan commented alongside a keyboard emoji, with another adding, “I’m gonna take a swing and say Mr. Rollie [sic] is gonna join you guys haha I hope my guess is right brother. Love it man, you deserve it.”
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) — A new Missouri bill takes Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, even further.
The bill says that “no nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, contracted personnel, or other administrative official at a public or charter school shall discuss gender identity or sexual orientation with a minor student” unless they’re a licensed mental health care provider and have a guardian’s permission.
The Missouri bill goes further than the Florida law, which restricts classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity through kindergarten to grade 3, by not specifying an age group and explicitly barring discussions on these topics.
The bill has already earned backlash from LGBTQ rights organizations and allies. They say the bill has the potential to erase books or lessons about LGBTQ people from classrooms and marginalizes LGBTQ students and faculty.
“The recent ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that passed in Florida was step one in erasing conversations about gender identity and sexual orientation within grade school curriculum,” PROMO Missouri, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, said in a statement. “Missouri is taking the next giant leap by aiming to stop faculty, staff, and students from talking about these and related topics at all.”
The Missouri Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee held a hearing Tuesday on Republican state Sen. Mike Moon’s proposed legislation, however committee members did not vote. PROMO Missouri protested the Tuesday hearing.
Supporters of these bills say these restrictions give parents more of a say about what their kids learn in classrooms.
Moon’s office did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Moon said the bill is “hoping to not spur the conversations, or just stay away from it altogether” and he is “hopeful” it won’t interfere with content about history, social studies and other subjects, according to the Springfield News-Leader.
Some school districts in Florida have removed books and changed curriculums in the wake of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, as well as the “Stop WOKE” law that restricts certain race-related content.
The Missouri bill coincides with the introduction of another bill from Moon that would ban transgender girls from participating in girl’s sports and would cut funding to any school that allows it.
Similar bills have been proposed in Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana and other Republican-led states.
Gorillaz has premiered the video for “Silent Running,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Cracker Island.
The clip, which mixes live action and animation, finds the virtual group trying to save their singer 2D from being sacrificed to a giant monster in some sort of evil ritual. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
The song “Silent Running” was released in January and features guest vocals from Adeleye Omotayo, who often performs with Gorillaz live.
Cracker Island, the follow-up to 2020’s Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, arrives February 24. It also includes the previously released songs “New Gold” feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown, “Baby Queen,” “Skinny Ape” and the Thundercat-featuring title track.
Other guests on the album include Beck, Stevie Nicks and Bad Bunny.
(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen arrived Wednesday at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to meet with prosecutors investigating the former president’s role in alleged hush payments to a porn actress before the 2016 election.
This is Cohen’s 15th interview with the district attorney’s office but the first since a recently convened grand jury began hearing evidence about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about a long-denied affair with Trump.
Cohen helped arrange the payment with David Pecker, then-publisher of the National Enquirer. Pecker appeared before the grand jury on Jan. 30.
The hush-money case was rejected by former District Attorney Cy Vance, but revived under current District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office has been fending off criticism of a decision not to charge Trump earlier.
“I thought it’s important not only to shed light on the evidence but also the back and forth that took place,” said Mark Pomerantz, a former special assistant district attorney who co-led the investigation until his resignation last year and the author of a new book, People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.
“The underlying question of guilt was not one that divided people,” Pomerantz told GMA3 in an interview airing Wednesday. “I think there was a fear that if you go forward with the case and don’t win, you shake public confidence in the legal system.”
Bragg has said the case Pomerantz wanted to bring, that centered on Trump’s allegedly fraudulent statements of financial condition, was “not ready” and he expressed concern the book’s publication could hurt the ongoing investigation.
“I didn’t write the book to try and help Donald Trump avoid prosecution. The message of the book is the evidence was there,” Pomerantz said.
Trump has always denied having an affair with Daniels and has called Bragg’s investigation a “witch hunt.”
