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Christina Aguilera has made a brand new music video for “Beautiful”

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

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Hard to believe that Christina Aguilera‘s Stripped turns 20 on October 22. Ahead of her fourth album’s milestone anniversary, she announced that she’s made an all-new music video for the standout track “Beautiful.”

The singer announced on Twitter that she’ll release the new clip on October 19 and that it will contain some updated messaging to reflect today’s struggles. “Tune out and turn in. Take your space, log off, put your mind, body, and soul first,” she wrote and shared a teaser of the new video.

The clip opens to a bunch of young girls wearing teal, spandex-like outfits that show off their midriffs and legs. They are all standing in front of their phones, which are mounted to large ring lights, as they apply dramatic makeup to their faces.

As the girls prepare, they are passively listening to messaging about maintaining the perfect figure, how to look “stunning” and, also, some sexist messaging from male podcasters who insist men have it harder than women.

The new video arrives next Friday.

“Beautiful,” the second single off Stripped, was released on November 16, 2002. The song won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was also a contender for the Song of the Year Grammy. The single peaked in second place on the Billboard Hot 100 and is currently RIAA-certified Gold.

The original music video explored the themes of eating disorders and bullying. It also gained traction for featuring a gay couple and a transgender woman. The song has since been ad

HBO’s ’The Shop’ pulls Kanye West episode citing “hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes”

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

In the latest Kanye West news, Andscape, formerly known as The Undefeated, announced its popular HBO talk show The Shop will not air its recently-taped episode featuring the rapper.

As detailed in a statement provided by SpringHill Company CEO Maverick Carter, the decision stems from remarks made by Ye during the taping.

“Yesterday we taped an episode of The Shop with Kanye West,” Carter said. “Kanye was booked weeks ago and, after talking to Kanye directly the day before we taped, I believed he was capable of a respectful discussion and he was ready to address all his recent comments. Unfortunately, he used The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes.”

Carter said that while the show “embraces thoughtful discourse and differing opinions,” they “have zero tolerance for hate speech of any kind and will never allow our channels to be used to promote hate.”

“I take full responsibility for believing Kanye wanted a different conversation,” Carter said. “And apologize to our guests and crew. Hate speech should never have an audience.”

According to sources close to Andscape, during the taping, Ye reiterated the anti-Semitic remarks recently made on Twitter.

Other episode guests included rapper Jeezy and shoe designer Salehe Bembury. The show’s co-producer, LeBron James, was not present for the episode.

Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes and more announced as co-chairs for new Grammy Museum campaign

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Artists like Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes and Bruno Mars have been tapped by the Grammy Museum for a new music education campaign.

They, along with Billie Eilish and Rosalía, will serve as co-chairs for the Campaign for Music Education. The goal is to raise up to $5 million to support education programs in underserved communities and provide free admission to the Grammy Museum. The goal is to inspire the next generation of music makers, no matter their background.

Dua celebrated the new appointment on Instagram and wrote, “Access to music education has the power to not only shape music’s next generation, but also provides a creative outlet that is crucial to a child’s development. It gives students the opportunity to excel creatively, as well as in their academic performance beyond music.”

Shawn added in another statement, “Music education should be available to everyone so I am honoured to be a part of spreading the GRAMMY Museum’s reach and cultivating music’s next generation.”

Billie also lauded the new initiative and said, “I was able to visit the Grammy Museum a lot when I was growing up. We saw so many amazing artists perform that I never would’ve been able to see otherwise.” She added, “I am excited to help kids who are the same age as I was to have free access to this magical place and all that it has to offer in music education and experiences.”

The Grammy Museum is working with publishers, artists, music labels and more to satisfy their monetary goal. Funds raised will grant more students access to the museum and will “greatly expand their education and community programs,” per the press release. So far, the program has served over 435,000 students.

Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams charged with misdemeanor assault for pushing worker after game

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams has been charged with misdemeanor assault for shoving a freelancer working for Monday Night Football while walking off the field after losing the game to the Kansas City Chiefs.

According to a police report filed with the Kansas City Police Department, the crew member had to go to the hospital after Adams allegedly shoved him while the star receiver was on his way to the locker room after the loss. Video of the incident has been widely shared on social media.

If convicted, Adams could face up to 15 days in prison and a $750 fine.

Story developing…

What’s Green Day teasing for ‘Nimrod’s’ 25th anniversary?

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Is Green Day planning something for the 25th anniversary of Nimrod?

The band’s 1997 album celebrates the milestone this Friday, October 14. In a tweet Tuesday, Billie Joe Armstrong and company teased the occasion, writing, “Someone’s got a VERY big birthday on Friday…any guesses who??!”

The tweet is also accompanied by an image featuring the Roman numeral for 25, XXV.

Nimrod is Green Day’s fifth studio album, which has been certified double Platinum by the RIAA. It spawned the singles “Hitchin’ a Ride” and “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” which, despite being originally written as a breakup song, has become a staple of high school proms and graduations.

Meanwhile, Green Day is set to headline the 2023 edition of Las Vegas’ When We Were Young festival. The bill also includes Blink-182, who’s reunited with Tom DeLonge.

MTV EMA nominees: Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj & more

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Doja Cat and Lizzo are among the list of nominees for the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Nicki Minaj leads the pack with five nominations, including Best Artist and Best Song with “Super Freaky Girl.”

Nicki’s also up for Best Hip Hop Artist alongside Kendrick, Drake, Future, Jack Harlow, Lil Baby and Megan Thee Stallion.

This year’s list includes 17 first-time nominees, such as Summer Walker, Baby Keem, Saucy Santana and Shenseea, who’s up for Best Push (breakthrough artist).

Earning nods for Best R&B artists are Chlöe, Givēon, H.E.R., Khalid, Summer Walker and SZA.

The 2022 MTV EMAs will take place November 13 in Düsseldorf, Germany and will air live on MTV throughout 170 different countries. The show will be available to stream globally on Paramount+ beginning November 14.

For the full list of nominees and to vote for your favorites, visit MTVEMA.com.

Bryan Adams to appear on new episode of Mary McCartney’s vegetarian cooking show

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Four new episodes of Mary McCartney Serves It Up, the discovery+ cooking series hosted by Paul McCartney‘s daughter Mary, will air in the coming weeks, starting with a show that premieres Tuesday, November 1.

Among Mary’s guests will be rocker Bryan Adams, who like McCartney also is an accomplished photographer. Bryan will join Mary to make a “Skillet Flatbread Caponata Pizza.”

Mary McCartney Serves It Up is a half-hour program that features Mary whipping up quick and easy dishes that showcase her “accessible vegetarian food philosophy,” while exchanging stories with her various guests.

Other guests on the upcoming episodes of Mary McCartney Serves It Up will include 50 Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan, Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri, singer-songwriter Celeste and designer Henry Holland.

Among Mary’s previous guests were her famous dad and Dave Grohl, who were featured on episodes from the series’ second and first season, respectively.

Mary also is a cookbook author and filmmaker. Her feature-length directorial debut, If These Walls Could Sing, a star-studded documentary about London’s Abbey Road Studios, will get its TV debut soon on Disney+.

Eric André, stand-up Clayton English sue over alleged racial profiling at Atlanta airport

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Actor and stand-up comedian Eric André, along with another Black comedian, U.K. funnyman Clayton English, have filed suit against Clayton County, Georgia over what they claim were “racial profiling and coercive stops” at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Local ABC News affiliate WSB-TV reports the pair spoke at a press conference detailing their suit, claiming their Fourth and 14th Amendment rights were violated.

English, who lives in Atlanta, claims he was randomly searched on Oct. 30, 2020 when traveling from Atlanta to Los Angeles.

On April 21, 2021, André says he was trying to make the same trip when he was stopped on the jet bridge on the way to the plane.

“I was blocked in a jet bridge by two police officers who interrogated me about drugs,” André said at the press conference. “I didn’t see any other Black people boarding at the time. It’s hard to believe I was selected at ‘random’ for questioning.”

The veteran of The Eric André Show and HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones among other shows called it “a humiliating and degrading experience.”

The attorneys representing the two men are calling for the airport stop program to be terminated.

According to WSB, the lawyers alleged that in the eight months before André’s stop, 56% of the hundreds of passengers stopped by CCPD were recorded as Black. But overall, only 8% of airline passengers in the U.S. are Black.

Barry Friedman, co-founder of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law and the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, commented, “These are cases of flying while Black, plain and simple. Every day in America, people of color are unjustly stopped on the pretense that these encounters are consensual. It is humiliating, it is deeply inappropriate, it is unconstitutional, and it must stop.”

‘American Idol’ runner-up Willie Spence dead at 23 following car accident

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

According to a local Tennessee news report, American Idol runner-up Willie Spence died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a car accident there. The singer was 23.

The “tragic news” from outlet Douglas Now was confirmed by Katherine McPhee, who posted about the contestant with whom she performed in season 19 of the show.

McPhee posted a video to her Instagram Story of her and the “sweet” singer together. “Only 23 years old. Life is so unfair and nothing is ever promised,” she captioned, adding, “God rest your soul Willie. It was a pleasure to sing with you and to know you.”

McPhee also posted the last video Spence shared on social media, which incidentally shows him singing in his car on Tuesday. “He posted this right before the accident,” McPhee wrote, adding a sobbing emoji.

Three SWAT officers shot, injured in Philadelphia; police call level of gun violence ‘ridiculous’

October 12, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(PHILADELPHIA) — Three members of a Philadelphia SWAT team were shot while serving a warrant Wednesday morning, according to police, who again pleaded for an end to the city’s gun violence.

It appears all the injured officers will be OK, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said.

This shooting occurred just after 6 a.m. as SWAT officers tried to serve a warrant on a person who was wanted for an August homicide and was suspected of participating in multiple armed robberies, Philadelphia Police First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford said at a news conference.

As officers approached the door, the 19-year-old suspect shot at them through the door and window, Stanford said.

The suspect tried to flee, and when the SWAT officers followed, the suspect fired at them, according to Stanford.

SWAT officers returned fire and the suspect was pronounced dead at 7:32 a.m., he said.

Two of the injured officers are expected to be released from the hospital later on Wednesday, Stanford said. One officer was struck in the leg, one in the hip and the third was hit in the upper chest, Stanford said.

“It’s good to see them sitting up, talking, and their families around them,” Kenney told reporters.

Stanford called the level of gun violence in Philadelphia “ridiculous,” adding, “it’s enough.”

“There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t either have a child that is shot, or multiple people shot, because there are too many people out here carrying guns and they don’t have consequences,” he said. “Some people need to be in jail.”

“This should not be happening — this is not normal,” he said. “Unfortunately we have come to believe that this is the normal course of events — it’s not … it is troubling.”

Stanford stressed that Wednesday’s suspected gunman was just 19 years old.

“Something has been broken in this young man’s life for a long time, and it just didn’t start today,” he said.

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