Post Malone and 21 Savage‘s blood-soaked video for “Rockstar” has just scored membership in YouTube’s Billion Views club.
The clip for the 2017 #1 hit has racked up more than 1 billion views on the streaming platform. It’s also Posty’s third clip to do so, after “Sunflower” and “Congratulations.”
“Rockstar” was the lead single from Post’s 2018 album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, and was Post’s first #1 hit; it ended up spending eight weeks at #1.
Posty’s new album, Twelve Carat Toothache, is out now. After spending the summer performing at festivals, he’ll kick off his headlining tour September 10 in Omaha, Nebraska. Tickets are on sale now.
While getting ready for a show on Kenny Chesney’s Here and Now Tour earlier this week, Carly Pearce decided to hop on TikTok and share a few fun facts with her fans — 14 fun facts, to be exact.
“I have been 5’8″ since I was in the fifth grade,” Carly begins, going on to list a number of little-known facts, as well as some things that fans probably already know.
For example, many listeners already know that Carly is a proud dog mom to two shih tzus named Johnny and June — they make frequent appearances on her social media account — but did you know that they aren’t her only pets named after country legends? Her chocolate lab is Retta Lynn, after Loretta Lynn, and she also has a cat named after Emmylou Harris.
“I sing country music, I guess I have a full country band,” Carly jokes.
The singer also admits to a “small addiction” to Orbit chewing gum, holding up three packages for the camera. “I go through one of these every day, and yes, that’s a three-pack,” she admits.
Carly also says that she lives with 12 people on her bus, including “a lot of boys,” but out of all of them, “I’m the raunchiest and the grossest,” she says with a smirk. That might explain her love of fart jokes, she goes on to say: “I think farts are the funniest thing in the whole world.”
At the end of the video, Carly’s makeup is on and she’s ready for her show, including her signature wavy blond locks.
“And last but not least, see all this hair?” Carly concludes. “She’s fake.”
It’s Pride Month, and one artist who’s always had the support of the gay community has used the opportunity to come out publicly.
Paula Cole, the Grammy winner best known for her hits “I Don’t Want to Wait” and “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” tells ABC Audio, “Honestly, I’m the ‘B’ in LGBTQ. And it took me years to be able to say that.”
Paula spoke with ABC Audio before performing at the Garden Party Celebration of Pride event at The Center, New York’s LGBTQ community center. Regarding coming out, she credited her daughter and her “daughter’s generation” for “bringing that fluidity to my attention,” adding, “I feel celebratory in kind of acknowledging that part of myself.”
While noting that she’s “always been part of the community,” Paula added, “But to be more vocal about it in public is very freeing and wonderful.”
Explaining why she hasn’t spoken about it before, Paula said, “I’ve been very shy about it. I’m an introvert, and also, it’s a nebulous place to be for us Gen-X’ers. I’m 54 and there was just no place [to be open about it].”
Recalling how she attended a Pride Parade in the early ’90s and saw people yelling at bisexual women to “make up your f***ing mind!” Paula said, “I felt like, ‘O.K. I don’t know how to be, I don’t know what I am’…and years passed.”
But, she continued, “Then comes new generations, and then comes new thought processes, openness, fluidity…and I understand who I am, and it’s beautiful.”
Of the event, Paula noted, “The gay community has always been so loving to me. And they stood by me loyally…y’know, hits come and go, [but] this is my community…so I’m home.”
Details have been unveiled for the second annual Monsters on the Mountain festival, a three-day hard-rock extravaganza that will take place August 19-21 at The Gatlinburg Convention Center in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Set in the scenic Great Smoky Mountains, the event will feature over 30 performers, including Night Ranger, Quiet Riot, Extreme, Nelson, Cinderella‘s Tom Keifer, Ratt‘s Stephen Pearcy, Kip Winger, ex-Mötley Crüe frontman John Corabi, Autograph, Queensrÿche and Firehouse.
In addition to the performances, Monsters on the Mountain will offer a variety of interactive events and activities, including photo opportunities with the performers, a rock ‘n’ roll merchandise vendor market and a rock-themed art gallery.
Tickets for the festival are available now, with three-day packages starting at $349 per person, and single-day tickets starting at $175 for August 19 and 20, and at $155 for August 21.
The Monsters on the Mountain festival is organized by the same people who bring you the Monsters of Rock Cruise, the next installment of which is scheduled to set sail in April 2023.
In case Jurassic Park: Dominion isn’t enough dinosaur action for you, DreamWorks Animation has released the trailer for the final season of the animated series Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous.
The award-winning show centers on a group of kids whose trip to a dinosaur-themed summer camp goes, well, all Jurassic Park. The fifth season has the gang plotting their escape from the camp with the help of Kenji’s dad, but when one when of the campers turns on his friends, the others must band together if they have any chance of saving the dinos and finally getting home.
Dropping on Netflix July 21, this season will feature the voices of guest stars, including Haley Joel Osment, Glen Powell and Jameela Jamil.
(NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Jun 23, 2:58 pm
Ukraine granted candidate status for EU membership
The European Council has granted Ukraine and Moldova candidate status for EU membership, European Council President Charles Michel tweeted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the announcement on Twitter, calling it a “unique and historical moment,” adding, “Ukraine’s future is within the EU.”
It could take years for Ukraine to become an EU member. Five other countries that have been granted candidate status are currently negotiating their EU membership: Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
Jun 23, 2:08 pm
Russian forces advancing on Lysychansk in Luhansk region
Russian forces are advancing toward the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, putting the Lysychansk-Severodonetsk pocket “under increasing pressure,” the British Defense Ministry said. Some Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from Lysychansk, “probably to avoid being encircled,” the officials said.
The Ukrainian army claims Ukrainian soldiers stopped the Russian offensive in the southern outskirts of Lysychansk on Thursday, inflicting losses and forcing them to retreat, and that to resume the offensive, Russian forces put forward reserves.
-ABC News’ Fidel Pavlenko
Jun 23, 1:05 pm
$450 million military aid package to be announced
The U.S. is expected Thursday to announce a new $450 million military aid package that will include more High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS.
Ukrainian Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov tweeted Thursday that the initial HIMARS package from the U.S. has arrived in Ukraine, and he thanked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for the “powerful tools.”
The new aid package will include more small arms, grenade launchers, vehicles and patrol craft.
The U.S. has committed over $6 billion to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began, according to the Pentagon.
-ABC News’ Luis Martinez
Jun 23, 6:26 am
More than 8 million have fled Ukraine, UN says
More than 8 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, according to an update by the United Nations.
More than 4 million Ukrainians fled through Poland — by far the preferred route for the displaced, the U.N. report said. Hungary, the second most used route, reported just over 800,000 crossings.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Max Uzol, Fidel Pavlenko and Yuriy Zaliznyak
Jun 23, 6:08 am
Belarusian military flexes its muscle near Ukrainian border
The Belarusian Defense Ministry announced “mobilization exercises” on Wednesday in the Gomel region bordering Ukraine.
The military drills, scheduled to last until 1 July, will include special operations forces as well as freshly called up conscripts, Belarusian officials said on Telegram.
The Belarusian army has already been placing wooden dummies of tanks on the Ukrainian border to demonstrate their presence, Ukrainian Ministry of Defense spokesperson Alexander Motuzyanyk said on Wednesday.
Real weapons are arriving near the Ukrainian border, too, with a new batch of Russian missiles for the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system being brought to Belarus on Tuesday night, local monitoring groups reported. The delivery included at least 16 missiles, with the likely addition of one Pantsir missile defense system, the report said.
Still, Ukrainian officials maintain that “at this stage of the war,” there is no imminent threat “of the Belarusian army invading” Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, said on Wednesday as cited by local media.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Max Uzol, Fidel Pavlenko and Yuriy Zaliznyak
Jun 23, 5:39 am
EU shifts to coal as Russia tightens gas tap
The European Union will temporarily shift back to coal to cope with slowing Russian gas flows, an EU official said on Wednesday, as a tight gas market and rocketing prices set off a race for alternative fuels.
The International Energy Agency warned Russia could cut gas supplies to Europe completely this winter.
“Europe should be ready in case Russian gas is completely cut off,” IEA chief Fatih Birol told The Financial Times on Wednesday.
While Russia denies premeditated supply cuts, several European countries, including Germany and Italy, reported a dip in gas flow via pipelines from Russia over the past week.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Max Uzol, Fidel Pavlenko and Yuriy Zaliznyak
Jun 22, 7:31 am
Turkey raises hopes for grain exports
A four-way summit discussing ways to export grain blocked in Ukraine will be held in Istanbul in less than 10 days, Turkish presidential sources told local media on Tuesday.
According to Turkish officials, a military delegation will head to Russia this week to discuss details. On top of Russian and Ukrainian delegations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the UN Secretary General António Guterres are likely to attend the Istanbul summit, local sources said.
The lives of about 400 million people in different countries depend on Ukrainian food exports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.
-ABC News’ Edward Szekeres, Tatiana Rymarenko, Fidel Pavlenko and Natalya Kushnir
Stage and screen star Beanie Feldstein just posted to Instagram some good news: She’s engaged to girlfriend Bonnie Chance Roberts.
Alongside a shot showing Roberts on bended knee, with the Funny Girl star covering her mouth in surprise, Beanie noted, “I do, bon.”
Other photos in the series show Feldstein and Roberts celebrating the moment along with friends, including Ben Platt and Beanie’s beaming brother, Jonah Hill.
Feldstein, who recently portrayed Monica Lewinsky in the miniseries Impeachment: American Crime Story, has been with Roberts for four years. They met in 2018 when Roberts was a producer on Beanie’s film with Lily Allen and Jameela Jamil called How to Build a Girl.
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Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine briefly speaks on founding bassist David Ellefson‘s departure from the band in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
Ellefson, who formed Megadeth with Mustaine in 1983, was fired from the group in May 2021 after sexually explicit videos of him leaked online. Since the tweet announcing Ellefson’s departure, Mustaine has not publicly commented much on the situation, aside from revealing that Ellefson’s bass parts on the new Megadeth album would be re-recorded by someone else.
Speaking now with Rolling Stone, Mustaine shares, “With everything that had taken place over the past, 10, 20 years with my relationship with our past bass player, it just became time to…it’s so uncomfortable for me to talk about.”
Ellefson was previously absent from Megadeth when Mustaine reformed the band in 2004, which led to a legal battle between the two. He eventually rejoined the group in 2010.
When Ellefson was fired last year, he alluded to an “already strained relationship” between him and his now-former bandmate.
“It was hard on me letting him go,” Mustaine now says, adding “I’m happier now than I’ve ever been.”
Megadeth’s new album The Sick, the Dying…and the Dead! will be released September 2. The parts that Ellefson had already recorded for the album were replaced by Testament bassist Steve Di Giorgio. Megadeth has since recruited returning member James LoMenzo to be the band’s official new bassist.
A good chunk of Luke Combs’ catalog is devoted to beer-drinking and small-town party anthems, but his latest single, “The Kind of Love We Make,” is a little bit steamy.
The new track — off Luke’s Growin’ Up album, which comes out tomorrow — describes finally finding some time alone with your significant other. But Luke says that the first time he played it for his wife, Nicole, her reaction wasn’t nearly so romantic.
“She was like, ‘Geez,’ and she gave me one of those eye rolls,” Luke tells Billboard.
The singer quickly adds that it wasn’t as if he was expecting Nicole to swoon when she heard the sexy new love song. The couple has a relaxed, fun-loving dynamic, he says, that’s more about humor and having fun than it is about high-drama romance.
“We have a great relationship and we’re totally not afraid to make fun of each other either. We get a lot of laughs out of stuff like that,” Luke continues. “She’s great. She just takes everything with a grain of salt. She keeps me humble, let’s put it that way.”
The couple is currently celebrating the birth of their first child, a son named Tex Lawrence, who arrived on Father’s Day.
Kelly Clarkson tackled Demi Lovato‘s heart-wrenching ballad “Anyone” on her daytime talk show on Wednesday, and Demi could hardly hold back their excitement.
Taking to their Instagram Story, the Grammy nominee raved, “A dream come true!” Demi continued, “Grew up singing to Kelly Clarkson and now she’s covering my song… You crushed this Kelly!! Love you!!”
Demi previously revealed they penned the single as an unknowing “cry for help” amid their addiction struggles in 2018. Four days after recording the track, Demi suffered a near-fatal overdose. They ultimately chose to release the personal single on their seventh studio album, Dancing with the Devil… the Art of Starting Over.
Demi also took a stroll down memory lane in their Instagram Stories to prove just how long they’ve admired the American Idol winner. Sharing a throwback video from when they were a young teenager, Demi wrote, “Me covering Kelly Clarkson at 13/14 ish. Life long fan.”
The song Demi was covering back then was Kelly’s 2003 single “The Trouble With Love Is.”
