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Lizzo is manifesting her Broadway dreams. The “Rumors” singer took to TikTok on Sunday to belt out a standout hit from Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Lizzo sang the chorus from “El Tango de Roxanne,” which is a dramatic version of The Police‘s 1978 hit “Roxanne.” The track has since gone viral on TikTok, with users fawning over Broadway star Aaron Tveit‘s phenomenal vocals. It should be noted Tveit won a Tony Award in 2020 for playing the lead, Christian, in the musical.
Lizzo embraced her inner Christian by flexing both her vocal chords and acting chops to put her own spin on the song. She captioned her video “I think I need to be in a musical now. I’ve been on broadway tiktok and I can’t get this song out of my head.”
Moulin Rouge! The Musical came running once they heard Lizzo covered their breakaway hit and raved in the comment section: “Great work, Bohemian! Now do it up the octave.” Of course, Lizzo responded with a wide-eyed blushing emoji. Musical fans also praised the “About Damn Time” singer’s performance, with many encouraging her to pursue her Broadway dreams.
This isn’t the first time Lizzo mentioned Broadway on her TikTok account. Last week, when instructing people how to properly dance along to her new hit “About Damn Time,” she revealed what she would have given to have been at the Spring Awakening reunion show, which saw the original cast of the Tony-winning phenomenon get together again to perform the songs during a one-night-only event.
Following the release last month of her album, Blue Water Road, singer-songwriter Kehlani announced the Blue Water Road tour coming to a city near you this summer.
The 28-city North American leg kicks off of July 30 in Raleigh, NC, followed by European dates in November through December. Washington, D.C. rapper Rico Nasty will join the North America stops while YouTube singer Destin Conrad will appear during all shows.
“what city you coming to?” Kehlani asked of her followers on Instagram Monday. “tickets on sale friday! performing Blue Water Road, It Was Good Until It Wasnt + more! text (510) 692-4419 for early password tomorrow,” she added.
Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets starting Tuesday, May 10, while general sale tickets will be available for purchase this Friday.
Upon its release last month, fans praised Kehlani for the vibes and vulnerability displayed on Blue Water Road. The third studio album served as the singer’s fifth consecutive project to land a top-five spot on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.
For full tour dates and ticket information, visit Kehlani’s official website.
The American Idol season 20 finale is going to be packed with country star power.
Current American Idol judge Luke Bryan, season 16 alum Gabby Barrett, and Thomas Rhett will all perform on the grand finale episode this week. Also returning to the stage is Carrie Underwood, who was crowned the champion in season four and just returned to the show to mentor the top-five contestants on Sunday night’s episode.
Thomas is set to team up with Luke’s fellow judge, Katy Perry, with whom TR collaborated on the title track of his new album, Where We Started. Gabby placed third while competing on American Idol’s 16th season in 2018, where Carrie also appeared as a mentor.
Also performing on the finale is “Strawberry Wine” singer Deana Carter, judge Lionel Richie, Sara Bareilles and Michael Bublé, who will sing with top-seven finalist Christian Guardino.
The American Idol finale airs on May 22 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
You shouldn’t expect another AM with the next Arctic Monkeys album, if drummer Matt Helders is to be believed.
Speaking during this past weekend’s DrumathonLIVE charity event about the upcoming new record from the U.K. rockers, Helders shared, “It’s never gonna be like ‘R U Mine?’ and all that stuff again…the heavy riffs and stuff.”
AM singles “R U Mine?”, “Do I Wanna Know?” and “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” were among the heaviest songs in the Arctic Monkeys catalog, and gave the group their first entries on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. While the new stuff won’t sound exactly like those songs, Helders said “there are riffs” and more “up-tempo” material, “even though it’s not loud.”
“It’s hard to explain,” he added.
Arctic Monkeys already surprised fans with their most recent album, 2018’s Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, which followed AM with a more lounge-y, piano-driven sound.
No release date or title for the new record has been announced.
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Harry Styles will help tuck British children into bed later this month. He’s the latest celeb to team up with BBC‘s children’s programming channel, CBeebies, and read a bedtime story on the show CBeebies Bedtime Stories.
The BBC made the announcement Monday, saying Harry has chosen to read the book In Every House, on Every Street, penned by author Jess Hitchman. In addition, Harry will be dressed and ready for bed himself, wearing his pajamas for the read-along.
In a teaser, Harry says of his chosen book, “Tonight’s bedtime story is about a house full of love and laughter.” The story follows different families and celebrates their diverse households.
Harry now joins a growing list of artists to have entertained children on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, including Ellie Goulding, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Dolly Parton and many others.
Harry’s read-along will go live at 6:50 P.M. U.K. time on May 23 on the CBeebies channel. Fans can also listen via the BBC’s iPlayer.
(HOUSTON) — A fight between two groups of people led to a shooting Sunday that left two men dead and three others hurt at a busy Houston flea market, where thousands of people were shopping, authorities said.
The incident unfolded around 1 p.m. at the popular Sunny Flea Market held at the Tia Pancha Center in North Houston, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
All five people shot were involved in a fight and several are suspected of allegedly pulling guns and firing, sparking panic and causing innocent bystanders, including children, to run or dive for cover, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies responding to the call found two men dead at the scene and three others critically wounded.
“A busy Sunday at the flea market with thousands of patrons when this incident went down,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “For now, it appears the wounded were all likely participants in the altercation.”
The sheriff’s office emphasized that the shooting was “not a random act of violence.”
“There is a lot of people … just trying to come out and enjoy the flea market, have something to eat and something to drink, so it’s very tragic,” said Maj. Susan Cotter, of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
No innocent bystanders were injured, Cotter said.
Two pistols were recovered at the scene, officials said.
Two possible suspects were detained at the scene and a third possible suspect was among those critically injured and taken to a hospital, according to the sheriff’s office.
The investigation is ongoing. One man who was uninjured was arrested for his alleged role in the shooting and charged with tampering with evidence, the sheriff’s office said. He was identified by the sheriff’s office as 27-year-old Angel Flores-Lopez.
Sheriff’s office investigators are combing over video and interviewing witnesses in an effort to identify the shooters, and determine what prompted the fight and shooting.
Family members of one of the men killed identified him as Juan Romero, 29, according to Houston ABC station KTRK-TV.
Romero’s sister, Yeraldi Romero, told KTRK that her brother went to the flea market to enjoy his Sunday, like any other weekend. She said her brother was with their cousin, who was one of those wounded and hospitalized.
“This tragedy happened and I don’t know why,” Yeraldi Romero said. “He always made everyone laugh, very happy, joyful, so it just really hurts because he’s my older brother and I look up to him. It’s very hard.”
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The relatives of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, the oldest victim slain in this weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, were overcome with emotion at a news conference on Monday.
Ruth Whitfield was a loving wife of 68 years, a devoted mother of four children and a beloved grandmother, her family said.
She was among the 10 people, all of whom were Black, who were gunned down in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Authorities are calling Saturday’s massacre a “racially motivated hate crime.”
Through tears and hugs, her family gathered on Monday to speak to reporters alongside attorneys including civil rights attorney Ben Crump. One family member broke down and sobbed multiple times during the news conference.
Ruth Whitfield went to visit her husband every day in the nursing home where he’s lived for eight years, one of her sons, Garnell Whitfield, a former Buffalo fire chief, told reporters.
He said he doesn’t know how to tell his father that his primary caretaker is gone.
“There’s nothing we can do that’s going to take away the hurt, take away these tears, take away the pain, take away the hole in our hearts. Because part of us is gone,” he said. “For her to be taken from us and taken from this world by someone that’s just full of hate for no reason … it is very hard for us to handle right now.”
He went on, “What I loved most about my mom is how she loved us, how she loved our family unconditionally. How she sacrificed everything for us.”
Daughter Robin Whitfield said, “My mom was my best friend. We went fishing together, we went camping together.”
To the shooter, she said, “How dare you?”
Daughter Angela called her mother an “86-year-old powerhouse. She was beautiful, she was immaculate and she loved us.”
Garnell Whitfield added: “We’re not just hurting — we’re angry … this shouldn’t have happened. We do our best to be good citizens … we believe in God, we trust him, we treat people with decency and we love even our enemies.”
He called out U.S. leaders for not protecting them and said he’s speaking out in hopes of contributing to positive change.
“We need help. We’re asking you to help us, help us change this. This can’t keep happening,” he said.
Garnell Whitfield told ABC News on Sunday that his mother went to the nursing home nearly every day. It was important to her to be “taking care of him, making sure he was well cared for by the staff, washing, ironing his clothes, making sure he was dressed appropriately, making sure his nails were cut and clean and shaved,” he said.
Even as her own health began to weaken, Ruth Whitfield still tried to visit her husband each day, taking days off only when she felt too debilitated to make the trip, her son said.
After suffering “a very difficult childhood,” Ruth Whitfield “was all about family” when she became a mother, Garnell Whitfield said.
“And she rose above it, and she raised us in spite of all of that, being very poor,” he said. “She raised us to be productive men and women.”
Latto is letting fans know how she really felt when she watched Mariah Carey retool her smash hit single, “Big Energy.”
The rap track samples the 1981 song “Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Club, which was re-popularized by Mariah’s 1995 hit, “Fantasy.” While “Big Energy” has been out since last September, it received a major boost after Mariah hopped into the studio with Latto for an all-new remix.
“I think I was in shock,” the rapper told Entertainment Tonight at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards when recalling watching Mariah belt her high notes. “It was so natural for her.”
“She was literally just getting her makeup done like, singing. I’m like, ‘Girl, are you a human?,'” Latto continued, adding that Mariah “was so cool and humble” to work with.
“So normal… I literally overthink the whole process. I was like,’What do I say? how do I act? I don’t wanna do too much, I don’t wanna do too little.’ But she was so cool, and she made the whole process very, very fun,” Latto added. “You know, this stuff can be overwhelming, she made it fun.”
Latto said Mariah’s support means “everything” to her. “Mimi is a legend, and my mom and my aunts are superfans. Growing up, I remember seeing her posters on their wall, and physical CDs,” she raved. “Mimi is that girl, and I got a song with her so it’s all up from here.”
Latto later performed her hit on the BBMA stage, though without Mariah.
On Monday, Fox announced its upcoming slate for the fall season, and in addition to returning hits like 9-1-1: Lone Star and The Cleaning Lady will come new shows with serious cred.
Included is the “Texas-sized drama” Monarch, centering on “America’s first family of country music” and starring Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon and country superstar Trace Adkins.
Also in the mix is Alert, a drama series produced by Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and focusing on the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit.
Fox is also adapting the award-winning BBC drama Accused, which looks at a crime through the eyes of the defendant.
Gordon Ramsay will continue his long relationship with the network with a new series called Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars, in which the famed chef will search for “the next food and drink entrepreneur,” and which will see him investing his own money in their efforts. Additionally, his Next Level Chef will return, as well as his long-running Hell’s Kitchen.
On the animation side, some newcomers will join longtime Fox tentpoles The Simpsons and Bob’s Burgers, including Grimsburg, in which executive producer Jon Hamm will voice the title character, an ace detective who can’t crack the case of his own family.
Additionally, Emmy-winning Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon will debut Krapopolis, an animated show starring the voices of Ted Lasso Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham and What We Do in the Shadows star Matt Berry. The show, billed as the first-ever animated series curated entirely on the Blockchain, will center on “a flawed family of humans, gods and monsters that tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.”
The Blockchain relationship will also see Krapopolis producing exclusive NFTs and other digital collectibles.
After being announced as part of the 2022 Riot Fest lineup, beloved emo outfit Sunny Day Real Estate has announced a full North American tour.
The outing launches September 13 in Lawrence, Kansas, and will wrap up December 18 with a hometown show in Seattle. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 20, at 10 a.m. local time.
Sunny Day Real Estate last played a show in 2010. The reunion will feature original frontman Jeremy Enigk, guitarist Dan Hoerner and drummer William Goldsmith. Bassist Nate Mendel, who went on to join Foo Fighters, won’t be taking part.
Goldsmith was also a member of Foo Fighters, but left the band acrimoniously after his drum parts for 1997’s The Colour & the Shape were re-recorded by Dave Grohl. His departure led to Taylor Hawkins joining the Foos.
