Wallows has announced a new album, Tell Me That It’s Over.

The sophomore effort from the band, led by 13 Reasons Why actor Dylan Minnette, will arrive March 25. It includes the previously released song “I Don’t Want to Talk,” as well as a just-premiered tune called “Especially You,” which is available now for digital download.

“It’s about when you’re in the early stages of a relationship and you get so worried that the other person’s mind will change at the flip of a switch,” Minnette says of “Especially You.” “It’s about stressing over the smallest things for no reason, but it’s definitely self-aware about the fact that I’m doing this all to myself.”

Tell Me That It’s Over follows Wallows’ 2019 debut, Nothing Happens, which features the hit Clairo collaboration “Are You Bored Yet?”

Wallows will launch a North American headlining tour in support of Tell Me That It’s Over in April.

Here’s the Tell Me That It’s Over track list:

“Hard to Believe”
“I Don’t Want to Talk”
“Especially You”
“At the End of the Day”
“Marvelous”
“Permanent Price”
“Missing Out”
“Hurts Me”
“That’s What I Get”
“Guitar Romantic Search Adventure”

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After revealing earlier this week that her dream is to record with Rihanna and Adele, Megan Thee Stallion also has a 15-time Grammy nominee on her collabo wish list.

“Me and Jazmine Sullivan would definitely have some stuff to talk about,” the Glamour Woman of the Year honoree tells Billboard. “We’ll have the girls crying, we’ll have the girls screaming, we’ll have the girls dancing, we’ll have the girls sipping wine, [and] sitting in the backyard sipping cognac.”

She adds, “The men better go run and hide if me and Jazmine Sullivan do an EP. We need to get that in the works.”

The “Hot Girl Summer” star has been on fire over the past year, earning two Grammy nominations, and promoting several companies, including Coach and Popeyes, as well as starring in a Frito-Lay Super Bowl commercial.

Megan also signed a production deal with Netflix in 2021. She also graduated from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in health administration in December, and despite her busy entertainment career, the “Savage” rapper says she’s still committed to opening a health facility in her Houston hometown.

“I’m definitely manifesting that I will get these buildings together to open up my assisted-living facilities. I already manifested my Netflix deal, so you will see the results of my manifestations from that,” Megan says. “Whatever I say I’m gonna do, I definitely always do it.”

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Jennifer Lopez is counting down the days until her new rom-com, Marry Me, bows in theaters next Friday.  Ahead of its February 11 release, the singer/actress opened up about the challenges of making the movie’s soundtrack.

She told Billboard it was “really difficult” to make the songs for the Marry Me movie.  She plays pop superstar Kat Valdez in the film, but Jennifer said the main challenge was ensuring that Kat’s music did not come across as J. Lo songs.

“I wasn’t making it a J. Lo album. I was making a different character, and also, I was weaving the songs and writing them for the story,” she explained.  In the end, she found those eight tracks — but only after combing through “a hundred” songs that “every producer and writer” sent to her.

The singer added that she’s a big fan of rom-coms and won’t tolerate critics besmirching their contribution to entertainment.   “First of all, romantic comedies are not light movies,” said Jennifer. “They’re necessary, beautiful movies, and I don’t know why people feel like they have to put them down when everybody enjoys them so much. It’s like chick flicks. I don’t know guys who don’t love to go to the movies and watch a rom-com with me.”

Marry Me ties the knot in theaters on Friday, February 11.  To help tide fans over, the movie’s eponymous lead single was released Thursday.

In other J. Lo news, the “On the Floor” singer celebrated the second anniversary of her groundbreaking Super Bowl Halftime show with Shakira on Wednesday in an Instagram post.

“A lot has happened since then…the world has changed…that’s why I’m especially thankful to my#JLovers for being so incredible and being by my side through it all,” she wrote. 

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Coldplay‘s latest album, Music of the Spheres, features a collaboration with Selena Gomez called “Let Somebody Go,” and now it’s being released as a single.

The ballad — and possibly a music video — are coming on Monday, according to Coldplay’s socials. The announcement came with a pic of Selena and Coldplay’s Chris Martin embracing on the set of a video directed by Dave Meyers.  According to the photo, it appears as though the video was filmed last October.

Coldplay recently performed the song without Selena on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Coldplay’s collaboration with BTS on another Music of the Spheres single, “My Universe,” gave the British band its second U.S. number-one hit — more than 13 years after its first, “Viva La Vida,” in 2008.

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill appeared on back-to-back nights of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week, each offering separate perspectives on their 1883 roles and more.

During Faith’s stop on the show, she looked back on her “terrifying” experience singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, saying that it was “the most extraordinary amount of pressure ever.”

By the time she sang at the Super Bowl, she knew first-hand the perils of what could go wrong: Early on in her career, she sang the national anthem at a Dallas playoff game, and completely blanked on the lyrics.

“I’m walking out to the center of the field, with this…very generous woman that was walking me out, and I say to her, ‘Would you happen to know just the first word of the national anthem?’” Faith remembers.

“And she said, ‘Seriously?’ And I said, ‘I’m serious. I’m very serious,’” she continues. “She said, ‘Honey, I don’t know.’”

Fortunately, once the spotlight hit and it was Faith’s time to sing, the words came to her. But she had a back-up plan — if she couldn’t remember the words, she was going to pivot and sing “Amazing Grace.”

“I thought I would sing ‘Amazing Grace’ and be forgiven!” she adds.

This year’s Super Bowl is coming up, and another rising country superstar will sing the national anthem in 2022: Mickey Guyton was just announced as the performer, much to Faith’s excitement.

“I am such a huge fan and supporter. She is going to slay it,” Faith adds.

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After Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine co-founded Beats Electronics in 2006, they focused on creating educational opportunities for minority youth in Los Angeles. In 2013, they donated $70 million to the University of Southern California to create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation.

Now they are collaborating with Adidas to design a new education program in South Los Angeles that blends fashion, technology, and entrepreneurship, according to Rolling Stone. Adidas says in a statement, “Design and creative hobbies have become more than just that – they are an opportunity for youth to explore a future that can become a career.”

In addition to the new program with Adidas, Iovine, and Dre, who is performing in the Super Bowl halftime show, are launching a magnate school in South LA, set to open on September 22, 2022. Many youth in South LA come from low-income families, however Iovine says they can overcome their obstacles.

“A lot of these kids, they have all these words for them: under-served, disadvantaged,” the entrepreneur says. “But what they really have is superpowers.”

Iovine and Dre have become a super duo, producing several multi-platinum albums, and launching Beats by Dre. They were the subject of the 2017 Grammy Award-winning HBO docuseries, The Defiant Ones.

“We come from two different cultures, and we’ve collaborated for 30 years now,” the Interscope Records co-founder says. “We really complement each other.”

Following their success in music and audio, they hope for similar results in affecting education. “I grant that it’s a big idea, but we also believe that if you were to create a spark that’s powerful enough, a fire will happen,” Iovine says. “We think that this will catch on.”

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Oliver Tree has released a new song called “Freaks & Geeks,” a track off his upcoming album, Cowboy Tears.

The tune continues the “Life Goes On” artist’s folksier sound, first heard on the Cowboy Tears lead single, “Cowboys Don’t Cry.”

“Freaks & Geeks” is available now for digital download. It’s accompanying video, which finds Tree adding a bit of a Hot Topic goth-twist to his cowboy getup, is streaming now on YouTube.

Cowboy Tears will be released February 18. It’s the sophomore follow-up to Tree’s 2020 debut, Ugly Is Beautiful.

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Following her Lifetime/A&E documentary which was viewed by over 15 million people last weekend, Janet Jackson is raising money for a girls charity by selling some of her vintage concert merchandise.

Fans can purchase items from four of her tours: janet. 1993-1995, The Velvet Rope 1998–1999, All For You 2001–2002, and Rock Witchu in 2008. Proceeds will be donated to the non-profit organization Girls Leadership that teaches girls to exercise the power of their voice through programs grounded in social emotional learning.

Janet has partnered with The RealReal company for the sale, and the company is also contributing $10,000 to Girls Leadership. Merchandise is available on TheRealReal website. 

“The sooner we can teach our girls how to speak up for themselves and to stand up for one another and in what they believe in, the better position they’ll be in as they get older,” the five-time Grammy winner says in a statement. “Women need to support one another more from day one and that starts from when we’re younger. We owe it to the younger generation to teach them, so they make fewer mistakes than we did.”

Jackson’s two-part doc dominated television over the weekend, scoring the best ratings for a non-fiction premiere on cable since ESPN’s The Last Dance in 2020, and the best ratings for a Lifetime non-fiction show since 2019’s Surviving R. Kelly.

The documentary also sent viewers rushing to download her music, too. Three of her albums — Control, Design of a Decade and Rhythm Nation — hit the top 10 on the iTunes U.S. chart, and she had a total of eight albums in the chart’s top 20 overall.

Lifetime will re-air the documentary this Friday, February 4 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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