A new study claims One Direction has the most positive fan base, while Rihanna‘s followers are the most negative.  

WordTips observed the 186 biggest fan followings on Twitter, including the type of language fans have used, and calculated the number of negative versus positive expressions per 1,000 words. 

While 1D’s followers heaped praise onto the group, Rihanna wasn’t so lucky.  The study claims her fans are becoming antsy in anticipation of her promised new album, for which they’ve been waiting for over six years, and are complaining about it in droves on Twitter, with 186 negative words per 1,000. 

This also means Rihanna’s fans are more negative than those who play Call of Duty, says the study, which ranked them in second place, with 184 negative expressions per 1,000 words.  

The artist with the second-most negative fan base was The Weeknd, followed by Cardi B in third.  

As for One Direction, their fans uttered 322 positive words out of 1,000, but that doesn’t mean there are no negatives: their angrier fans are the fifth-most negative in the survey.

The haters weren’t hating on Taylor Swift, either, who is tied in second place with reggaetón superstar Daddy Yankee.  Both fan bases uttered 315 positive words per 1,000.   Zayn Malik — who famously left 1D — had the fourth-most positive fa nbase on Twitter, with 309 positive interactions out of 1,000. 

Also boasting the happiest fans was Shawn Mendes in fifth place.

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Sam Hunt played a headlining set at Florida’s Strawberry Festival over the weekend, and he had a very special guest join him onstage.

During his show-closing performance of “Body Like a Back Road,” Sam invited Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski — known to his fans as “Gronk” — to join him in the spotlight. Gronk was clearly a fan, singing and dancing along to Sam’s hit single as he bent over to greet fans in the front rows.

Sam has been absent from the spotlight ever since news broke that he was getting divorced from his wife Hannah Lee Fowler, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child. Sam and Hannah never publicly announced the pregnancy, but court documents pertaining to the divorce reveal that she’s due in May.

Sam’s newest release is “Wishful Drinking,” a duet with Ingrid Andress.

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Mod Sun has premiered the video for his latest single, “Rich Kids Ruin Everything.”

The clip finds the “Flames” rocker with a group of friends in an empty parking lot as they perform an elaborately choreographed dance with shopping carts. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

“A shopping cart represents the perfect duality of consumerism and people with nothing,” Mod says. “For this song, I wanted to make an art piece instead of a narrative.”

“We see so much of the same thing in videos lately,” he adds. “My goal is always to push the boundaries of not repeating myself. I’ve never had a video with dancing and choreography before and I think this is the perfect song for it.”

“Rich Kids Ruin Everything” dropped last week. It’s the lead single off Mod’s follow-up album to 2021’s Internet Killed the Rockstar, which features the Avril Lavigne collaboration, “Flames.”

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Following its inclusion in the hit movie The Batman, streams of Nirvana‘s “Something in the Way” increased by more than 700%. Now, the song — featured on the band’s landmark 1991 album Nevermind — has taken over the Billboard charts.

The song has debuted at number five on Billboard‘s Hot Alternative Songs chart and number six on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. That’s thanks to the fact that its downloads increased by nearly 1900%, and it was streamed close to eight million times between March 4 and March 10.

Meanwhile, “Something in the Way” is number two on the Rock Streaming Songs and Rock Digital Song Sales charts, and number four on the Alternative Digital Song Sales and Alternative Streaming Sales tallies. It’s number 20 on Digital Song Sales, and number 27 on Streaming Songs. This marks Nirvana’s first appearance on the latter chart, which has existed since 2013.

But wait, there’s more. Nevermind is now number one on both the Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts.  It’s the album’s second appearance on top of both charts; the first happened last year, in connection with the album’s 20th anniversary.

“Something in the Way” is used multiple times in The Batman, and was also heard in the movie’s trailer. In fact, the song heavily influenced writer-director Matt Reeves‘ interpretation of the comic book icon. Speaking to Esquire magazine, Reeves said his Caped Crusader is “like a Batman Kurt Cobain.”

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Michelle Branch is the latest celebrity to be mom-shamed — but it happened to her in real life, not online.

On Twitter Tuesday, a furious Michelle posted, “I just got shamed by another mother (who was holding her own young infant!) for nursing my 6 week old baby on a bench at a playground while my toddler was playing.”

Adding the “mind blown” emoji,” Michelle added, “She said I wasn’t ‘being modest.’ I am in shock that this kind of judgement was coming from a fellow mom!”

She continued, in a separate tweet, “…and to clarify, I had a nursing tank top on and was seated away from others. It’s not like I walked into the crowd and whipped my t**s out. Being a mom is hard enough. Can we not judge one another for how we feed our babies?”

In response to a fan, Michelle further wrote, “I was in shock, so I didn’t say anything back. I’m fuming!”

Michelle and her husband Patrick Carney of the alt-rock band The Black Keys welcomed their daughter, Willie Jacquet Carney, on February 2.  She and Carney also share son Rhys James Carney, who’s three.  From her previous marriage, Michelle has a 16-year-old daughter, Owen.

Fans online rushed to Michelle’s defense, with one pointing out, “Modesty ain’t gonna feed that baby.”

Another added, “Ugh, that’s so frustrating, especially when it’s coming from another mom! Why is providing nourishment to our babies seen as a shameful thing?”

“It’s 2022, women should breastfeed their babies wherever whenever the f**k they need to,” stated a male fan, to which a female fan replied, “In most (if not all) 50 states we are allowed to by law!”

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Cardi B is continuing to give her hot music takes, whether her fans like it or not.  Recently, the “WAP” rapper revealed she’s a fan of emo rock — or at least, one particular artist.

Taking to Twitter, the singer shared a clip of My Chemical Romance‘s 2004 hit “I’m Not Okay (I Promise),” where lead singer Gerard Way dramatically belts out the song’s chorus.  The track was the lead single off the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which came out the same year.

Remarked Cardi, “They don’t make music like this anymore.” 

It didn’t take long for the band to catch wind of the conversation and hit Cardi up in the comment section.  
“Grazie mille Cardi!,” they wrote, which is Italian for “a thousand thanks” in English.  My Chemical Romance is from New Jersey, not Italy, but whatever.

Of course, this cordial back and forth has fans wondering if the Grammy winner is considering a new collaboration featuring MCR, or if she’s hinting that her next music era will come with an emo twist.

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Though “a bit apprehensive” to join the slave thriller, Alice, Keke Palmer says it was her character’s empowerment that inspired her to take on the role. 

In an interview with ABC Audio, the Akeelah and the Bee star explained why she felt it was necessary to take part in telling the based-on-true-events story of her character, Alice, an enslaved woman who escapes her owner and, alongside co-star Common, later seeks revenge.

“When I first heard ‘oh, it’s a slave movie,’ I was definitely a bit apprehensive because I’m used to one specific style or perspective that’s portrayed in a history or a Black-American slave history narrative. And it usually does not involve a lot of empowerment,” the 28-year-old actress said. “But when I read the script, not only did I see the character Alice and how she exists throughout the film was dynamic, but also it went in a place of empowerment and hope and having faith and choosing and taking a hold of freedom.”

The “film of freedom” according to first-time director Krystin Ver Linden, takes viewers on an interesting journey, having introduced an enslaved Alice on a 19-century Georgia plantation and then transporting her to the year 1973. On a mission to repay her slave owner, Paul, played by Jonny Lee Miller, Alice comes into a redefined, empowered version of herself and vows to take back her dignity.  

Palmer says she also learned about Black history by being a part of the film and was on board to help educate others on “things taken out of the history books.”

“I think when we understand and learn more about these truths, they allow us to see the oppression that’s still happening today,” she said. 

Alice premieres in theaters March 18.

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Limp Bizkit is returning to the road.

The “Break Stuff” rockers have announced a U.S. headlining tour for this spring, kicking off April 28 in Tampa, Florida. The trek will wrap up May 31 in Ontario, California, and will make a stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden along the way.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit LimpBizkit.com.

Limp Bizkit will be touring in support of their new album Still Sucks, which dropped last Halloween after a 10-year wait.

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Fast-rising hitmaker Hardy first made a name for himself as a songwriter who crafts country radio hits for the likes of Florida Georgia Line, Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley and Cole Swindell, but his latest release showcases his rocker edge.

The new song, “Sold Out,” officially arrived on Wednesday after Hardy spent months teasing it and playing it live. Backed by metal-inspired, screeching vocals and hard-charging guitarwork, the song sounds more like a hard rock tune — but the lyrics are the singer’s mission statement of his unapologetically redneck lifestyle.

“I’m still the same ol’ redneck f***, don’t give a damn / Ain’t afraid to throw a dead buck on my Instagram / Grain alcohol in my cup / Got the whole house wall to wall / And I still ain’t sold out,” he sings in the chorus.

Hardy’s been a busy guy over the past couple of years, putting out his studio debut, A Rock, plus two collaborative Hixtape projects featuring the likes of Ronnie Dunn, Jon Pardi, Jimmie Allen, Chris Lane, Brothers Osborne and many more. His newest single, “Give Heaven Some Hell,” is currently in the top-fifteen and rising at country radio.

But that’s not all: As his artist career takes off, Hardy’s continued to write hit songs for other stars, and he picked up the Songwriter of the Year trophy at the ACM Awards earlier this month.

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