The track, titled “Supermodel,” is set to premiere next Friday, May 13. It’s available now to pre-save.
“Supermodel” will be first new Måneskin song since last fall’s “MAMMAMIA.” It appears to be a different track from the politically charged “We’re Gonna Dance on Gasoline,” which the Italian rockers debuted at their first Coachella set last month.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) A$AP Rocky dropped off his new song and video, “D.M.B.,” on Thursday, and the star of the cinematic visual is none other than his girlfriend, Rihanna.
Directed and executive produced by Rocky himself, through his creative agency, AWGE, the nearly five-minute-long video, shot in New York last summer, features imagery of the soon-to-be-parents having fun in the streets of Rocky’s hometown and enjoying each other’s company. As an ode to the couple’s love story, a pre-baby bump Rihanna frolics with and beside her boyfriend as the two depict a story of ride-or-die partners.
Declaring his love of women in the new track, Rocky raps, “I was lost then, but I found you / I was slim thick, with a bounce too / It’s your tough love that I’m bound to / I f**k it up, then it’s round two.”
Considering the full song title, “Dat’s My B***h,” and the fact that their baby is expected any day now, it could be safe to say Rocky isn’t letting Rihanna go anywhere, anytime soon. (Video includes uncensored profanity.)
Taylor Swift dropped yet another ‘Taylor’s Version’ re-recording of one of her songs from 1989: “This Love.” The song will be featured in the upcoming tv series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
“Thank you @jennyhan for debuting my version of This Love in the trailer for @thesummeriturnedpretty,” Taylor announced on Instagram. I’ve always been so proud of this song and I’m very [emotional] about this turn of events.”
The Grammy winner then shocked fans by revealing, “‘This Love (Taylor’s Version)’ comes out tonight at m i d n i g h t!” — and, of course, people are already hard at work piecing together what clues the singer may have left in her caption.
The working theory, which has been for some time, is that Taylor is ready to release her newly re-recorded version of her 1989 album because “This Love” isn’t the only track off the record to get a ‘Taylor’s Version’ makeover. Last year, she released “Wildest Dreams” after featuring it in another movie trailer for DreamWorks’ animated film Spirit Untamed.
It’s currently unknown when Taylor will drop her new and improved 1989, but fans are holding out hope it’ll arrive very soon.
As for the The Summer I Turned Pretty TV series, based off the trilogy of books authored by Jenny Han, it arrives June 17 on Amazon Prime Video.
Gabby Barrett shared the music video this week for her current single, “Pick Me Up,” and it’s a mini-movie that tells a love story dating back to 1962.
Things start off with a high school-aged girl, played by Gabby, who goes for a ride in the shotgun seat of her boyfriend’s truck. Fans will probably recognize the guy behind the wheel: It’s Cade Foehner, Gabby’s real-life husband, whom she met while the two were contestants on American Idol.
The next scene flashes forward to 1978, with the same couple — now married, with a young daughter running around the house. It’s another nod to Gabby’s real-life love story: She and Cade share a daughter named Baylah May, who was born in early 2021.
Though there are bills marked “past due” on the table, the pair still find time for each other, with Cade turning on the radio and leading Gabby in a dance around the living room.
Their love story stays strong into the present day: By the end of the video, Gabby’s an elderly woman in a nursing home, but Cade — also wearing makeup that makes him look older — still shows up with flowers.
“Pick Me Up” is one of four new tracks Gabby released on the deluxe version of her Goldmine album in late 2021.
(FLORENCE, Ala.) — The inmate who escaped from a Florence, Alabama, jail with a corrections officer last Friday was awaiting trial on capital murder charges. But those charges were just the latest in a litany of other offensives in his past, according to authorities in multiple states.
Inmate Casey White, 38, and Lauderdale County Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White, 56 — who are not related — should be considered dangerous, the U.S. Marshals Service warned.
Authorities said they believe Vicky White willingly participating in the escape from the Lauderdale County facility.
The pair “may be armed with an AR-15 rifle, handguns and a shotgun,” the U.S. Marshals Service said.
At the time of his escape, Casey White was facing two counts of capital murder for the stabbing Connie Ridgeway, a crime he allegedly confessed to, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Ridgeway, an Alabama mother, was found dead in her living room on Oct. 23, 2015, in an apparent murder-for-hire, AL.com reported.
He could face the death penalty if convicted, Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said.
“We really need to get Casey White behind bars again as soon as possible before someone else is hurt,” Ridgeway’s son, Austin Williams, told ABC News this week.
Casey White was previously convicted of a 2015 crime spree involving a home invasion, carjacking and a police chase, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
After a crime spree in Alabama, Casey White stole an SUV and drove to a rest stop in Giles County, Tennessee, where he allegedly tried to carjack a semi-truck, Giles County Sheriff Shane Hunter said. Casey White allegedly opened fire but no one was hit, Hunter said.
Casey White then tried to carjack a woman and fired shots into her car, the sheriff said. She was shot and survived, he said.
He then allegedly carjacked a man at gunpoint and led police on a chase, the sheriff said. Casey White fired at police and was later arrested, Hunter said.
Casey White was sentenced to 75 years for the 2015 crime spree, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
He has also been convicted of trying to kill an ex-girlfriend and kidnap her roommates, AL.com reported.
The U.S. Marshals warns that, after his arrest in 2015, Casey White “made threats against his ex-girlfriend and her sister,” saying “if he ever got out, he would kill them.”
Now that he’s on the run, the U.S. Marshals said authorities have spoken to Casey White’s “potential targets” and “have taken appropriate protective actions.”
Casey White previously planned an escape from the Lauderdale County Detention Center in the fall of 2020, but officials thwarted the plot before he could attempt it, Singleton said. When officials got word of the plot, they found a homemade knife in his possession and learned that he was planning to take a hostage, the sheriff said.
Casey White was subsequently transferred to a state prison, where he remained until February 2022, when he returned to the Lauderdale County facility for court appearances related to Ridgeway’s murder, the sheriff said.
Vicky White and Casey White disappeared on Friday morning, after Vicky White allegedly told her colleagues that she was taking Casey White to the Lauderdale County Courthouse for a “mental health evaluation,” the sheriff said. He didn’t have a court appearance scheduled, Singleton said.
Vicky White also allegedly told her colleagues that she was going to seek medical attention after dropping the inmate off at court because she wasn’t feeling well, but Singleton said his office confirmed that no appointment was made.
Vicky White planned to retire; Friday — the day of the escape — was her last day, the sheriff said.
The pair may be driving a 2007 orange or copper Ford Edge with minor damage to the left back bumper, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
ABC News’ Whitney Lloyd contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — A new, imposing eight-foot-high fence was erected overnight at the U.S. Supreme Court in the wake of protests over a bombshell draft opinion on abortion.
The leaked ruling, not yet final but confirmed to be authentic by the court, indicated its conservative majority is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade — the landmark decision that has guaranteed a woman’s right to abortion for almost the past 50 years.
Abortion rights activists — and some anti-abortion protesters — have rallied at the Supreme Court each day since Politico reported the draft document on Monday, including the preliminary votes of the majority.
More protests were expected on Thursday.
Neither the Supreme Court nor Capitol Police have said anything publicly about possible threats to the court or the justices.
The protests outside the court’s marble front steps have been largely peaceful, prompting some to question why the new security barrier — reminiscent of the unscalable fencing placed around the U.S. Capitol after the violence of Jan. 6, 2021 — is necessary.
John Becker, a spokesperson at Catholics For Choice, said the measures appear “ominous and disproportionate to what has actually been transpiring on that plaza.”
But the court has often been a magnet for threats and security concerns. Just two weeks ago, a man reportedly described as an environmental activist died after setting himself on fire on the court’s front plaza, possibly related to his views on climate change.
A Supreme Court spokeswoman declined to comment on the fencing, citing a longstanding policy of not discussing security operations.
The justices are scheduled to next meet in person for a private conference on May 12. A final decision in the abortion case, which centers on a Mississippi law banning the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy, is expected by the end of June or early July.
In the draft opinion, dated Feb. 10, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” adding, “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.”
If the draft document written by Alito were to hold as written, access to abortion across the country could be upended. Thirteen states have so-called “trigger laws” in place to swiftly ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is repealed.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are working to bring forward legislation to codify abortion rights at the federal level. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he plans to hold a vote as soon as next week.
The House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act to codify Roe last fall but the bill has stalled in the Senate. Any other legislation would likely meet a similar fate in the evenly divided chamber.
The Supreme Court’s leaked opinion draft’s language has sparked concern that other unenumerated rights may be at stake, including gay marriage and contraception.
“This is about a lot more than abortion,” President Joe Biden said while giving remarks at the White House on Wednesday.
“What are the next things that are going to be attacked?” Biden asked. “Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history — in recent American history.”
Roberts confirmed the draft was authentic on Tuesday, stating he’s directed the start of an investigation into the leak. Supreme Court Marshall Gail Curley, a career Army lawyer, will lead the probe.
“We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce — permanent employees and law clerks alike — intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law. Court employees have an exemplary and important tradition of respecting the confidentiality of the judicial process and upholding the trust of the Court,” Roberts said in a statement. “This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.”
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
Slash has premiered the video for “April Fool,” a track off 4, his new album with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators.
The clip captures footage of the song’s live debut during Slash and company’s concert at Nashville’s historic Grand Ole Opry House this past March. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
4, the aptly titled fourth Conspirators album, was released in February. It also includes the single “The River Is Rising.”
While the Conspirators don’t have any more tour dates currently announced, Slash is set to return to the road in Guns N’ Roses, beginning with a headlining set at Florida’s Welcome to Rockville later this month. GN’R will the launch a European tour in June, followed by a trip to South America in September.
After being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefit concert honoring the late civil rights icon John Lewis is back, and co-headlining this year’s event will be Maroon 5 and Usher.
The two acts will perform at this year’s Beloved Benefit, taking place July 7 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The event is designed to bring the city’s communities together and rally for positive change. Its goal is to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.‘s vision for a brighter future, where all people work together to end poverty and racism.
The Beloved Benefit has currently raised over $5 million for its cause. This year’s event will fund several nonprofits that focus on community and economic causes.
Rep. John Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders that organized the transformative 1963 March on Washington, D.C. with Dr. King, and subsequently dedicated his life and service to civil and human rights issues. The 80-year-old congressman died in July 2020 of pancreatic cancer.
The Beloved Benefit was initially scheduled for this February, but it was pushed back a few months in light of the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. Tickets are on sale now at the event’s official website.
Dolly Parton may not consider herself a rock ‘n’ roll great, but now that she’s a 2022 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, she says she’ll just have to live up to the title.
The singer says she still isn’t sure if she’ll be able to attend the November induction ceremony, “but if I do, I’m going to sing the hardest style rock ‘n’ roll song I could ever muster up just to show that I can do it,” she tellsBillboard.
Dolly’s inclusion in the Hall’s class wasn’t without challenge. She initially declined her nomination, saying that — as someone who’s primarily worked in the country genre — she didn’t feel she’d earned it. But the Hall disagreed, leading Dolly to amend her statement, saying she’d misunderstood the criteria for inclusion.
The superstar says her husband is the “rock freak” of the house, but she’s still a fan of the genre. “I love the Rolling Stones. I always wanted to do the song, ‘Satisfaction,’” she continues, hinting that any Hall of Fame induction ceremony performance she’d give just might have to feature Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
“I may have to drag Mick’s guys up there to help me sing it,” says Dolly. “…I may do a version of something like [Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ] ‘Free Bird’ and do my own versions of some classic things that I think would make good rock ‘n’ roll songs.”
Dolly adds that she’s always wanted to make a rock ‘n’ roll album, and her induction might be the push she needs to make it happen. “Now I may have to call my album Rock Star!” she says.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Gala is set for November 5 in Los Angeles.
The “Strength of a Woman” digital cover for Ebony magazine’s May issue shows cover star Viola Davis, in all of her Black woman grace and beauty.
Upon delving into the in-depth and personal interview piece, penned by former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Davis shows why she’s one of the most respected and successful stars in the entertainment business today.
In the follow up to her intimate sit-down with Oprah ahead of her memoir Finding Me, released April 26, Davis told Lance Bottoms of the powerful journey that came with telling her story.
“It was emotional because when you write it, you feel the moments that were and are still very painful. Then you see the moments that were also filled with strength and resilience,” she said.
While Lance Bottoms says that as a Black woman, she connected with the book in a particular way, Davis emphasized her mission to write a story for everyone.
“I did this to give people a great dose of truth,” she said. “Yes, I have so-called made it to the ‘mountaintop,’ but not without scars and bruises.”
Throughout the piece, Davis shares personal thoughts on the trauma re-lived while writing, struggles with health and stress, and her family: her parents, husband, and daughter Genesis, whom they adopted in 2011.
“That’s the hardest part of parenting,” Davis proclaims. “It’s impossible to protect your kids from the world. The only thing that I could do is give her what is in me.”
Early on in the piece, Lance Bottoms admits she can’t quite find the words for her “genuine” and “magical” conversation with Davis. But attempting to summarize her experience, she quotes the late, great Maya Angelou: “People will forget what you did, but not how you made them feel.”
