If you’ve ever wondered what goes in to making a music video for a big country single, you’re in luck: Carrie Underwood is giving fans the inside scoop on filming the video for her new single, “Ghost Story.”

The behind-the-scenes clip introduces fans to the ornate, historic Los Angeles theater where it was filmed, with the singer describing how it’s the perfect setting to capture all the drama of the song.

“The vibe of the ‘Ghost Story’ video is just very cinematic, and the stage is just absolutely incredible. The backdrop, it’s like you’re in a dream,” Carrie says. “It’s just very beautiful, and a lot of stuff that we’re doing is being shot at super high speed and then we’ll slow it down, so it’ll be all wispy-looking and dreamlike.”

Carrie introduces fans to her video director and shares a glimpse into how some of the shots were created, such as one scene where she’s walking up a staircase wearing a flowing, textured red cape.

“My favorite part of filming the ‘Ghost Story’ video was probably just getting to try new things,” she continues. “I want things to look different, to feel different, to be different than anything I’ve ever done before.”

“Ghost Story” is the lead single off Carrie’s latest album, Denim & Rhinestones. This fall, she’ll take her new batch of music out on the road for the Denim & Rhinestones Tour.

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John Feldmann is following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift with Goldfinger‘s latest release. 

The long-running ska-punk outfit has debuted rerecorded versions of the songs “99 Red Balloons,” “Superman” and “Here in Your Bedroom.” As Feldmann tells ABC Audio, he jumped at the chance to put a new coat a paint on the tracks, especially after a clause in his original record deal preventing him from making rerecords expired.

“As I get on with my life, I just wanna own my masters,” Feldmann laughs. “I just love these songs so much.”

The project also allowed Feldmann to work with frequent collaborator Travis Barker, who plays drums on all three rerecords. Along with the Blink-182 drummer, Avril Lavigne and Biffy Clyro‘s Simon Neil guest on the new versions of “Here in Your Bedroom” and “Superman,” respectively.

On “Here in Your Bedroom,” not only does Lavigne give the song an alternate perspective by singing the second verse, but it also represents a “full-circle” moment for the Queen of Pop-Punk.

“[Lavigne] said that the first time she ever stage dove was at a Goldfinger show when she was like 15 or 16,” Feldmann shares. “Like, we’re playing Toronto, Avril Lavigne is a kid [and] is stage diving at one of our shows, and now she’s singing on a song that I wrote when I was 25. It’s pretty awesome.”

Meanwhile, Neil listened to “Superman” while playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater as a kid, as many others did.

“[Neil] was, like, ‘Dude, I grew up on that song, it changed my life, so I’d love to be part of it,'” Feldmann recalls. “So having Simon was incredible.”

The rerecords are included on the new, deluxe version of Goldfinger’s 2020 album Never Look Back, out now.

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OneRepublic‘s “I Ain’t Worried” features in Tom Cruise‘s new movie, Top Gun: Maverick, and the hitmakers credit the actor for inspiring the hit single.

Speaking with Billboard, frontman Ryan Tedder recalled being shown a rough cut of the film’s dogfight football scene and Cruise asking him, “What do you hear?”

“I said, ‘I hear a little Beach Boys … Gorillaz … and this kind of whistle thing,'” he recounted — and got to work on packaging a song around the whistle note with bandmate Brent Kutzle.

That song proved to be a hit. Not only does it feature in the new Top Gun movie, it is climbing up the Billboard charts.  The song received an even bigger boost thanks to the powers of TikTok, with the birth of the “Rooster wiggle.”

The trend pokes fun at a scene in the movie where Miles Teller‘s character wiggles shirtless on the beach as “I Ain’t Worried” is playing.

“Rooster wiggle” has now become a top tag, earning over 1.5 billion views on TikTok, which has been a boon for “I Ain’t Worried.”

But, had Tom Cruise not asked Tedder to really listen to the sounds going on in that dogfight football scene, we never would have had that awesome song.

“The beauty of it was that I wasn’t trying to write some huge global record — it’s not following any pop math,” he recalled. “It wasn’t written to sound obvious.”

So, after creating the song, he approached Cruise to ask him what he thought about “I Ain’t Worried.”  The award-winning actor apparently told him, “I think it’s a bull’s-eye.” 

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