Miley Cyrus’ cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” actually mattered quite a lot to her.
In a new piece for Interview magazine, the singer tells Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich that she appreciated being able to sing the song — which appeared on this year’s Metallica Blacklist tribute album — in her true voice.
“My whole life, whether in vocal training or just continuing to hone my craft, it’s always been about, ‘Why do you sound like a man? Where’s your f****** falsetto, b****? Why can’t you sing the high octave of “Party in the U.S.A.” anymore?’” Miley says.
“In this song, I get to sing in that low register, and I get to live in that authentic, genuine sound,” she adds.
Miley points out that her voice is how she expresses herself and she’s not about to sing in a way that is “false” just to fit a mold.
“I was honored by the fact that I didn’t have to sing this song in the way that females are ‘supposed’ to sing.” she says. “You can hear that at the end of the song, when I take the gloves off and just start flying. That part of the song really grabs people. It’s that lower register of my voice. So I’m grateful to have a song where I can lean into that.”
(CINCINNATI) — A settlement in the death of a teenager who died while trapped in his car after calling 911 has included recommendations to improve the call center that failed to help him.
Kyle Plush, 16, died in April 2018 of asphyxia due to chest compression after he became stuck while trying to retrieve his tennis equipment from the third-row bench of his 2004 Honda Odyssey. He had called 911 twice to plea for help but was not located by officers who arrived on the scene, in a parking lot across the street from Seven Hills School, minutes later.
“I’m trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the … parking lot of Seven Hills,” a distressed Plush told 911 in the second call. “This is not a joke.”
A family member found Plush in the van hours later, and he was declared dead.
The two 911 dispatchers who took Plush’s calls and the two officers who were sent to search for him were named in the 2019 wrongful lawsuit against the city. The lawsuit also alleged that the former city manager was aware that the call center struggled with inadequate staffing and training at the time of Plush’s death.
As part of the settlement, the city of Cincinnati must pay Plush’s family $6 million, and long-term recommendations were made for changes to the Cincinnati Emergency Communications Center, according to a 47-page report released by the family’s attorney Tuesday.
Staffing, morale and improvements to technology were among the recommendations. The report found that employees continue to leave due to low morale, which it said results in problems the call center cannot “hire its way out of.”
Overall, the report concluded that as a whole, the call center has “extremely passionate, dedicated employees.”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Metallica and Miley Cyrus are taking their collaboration from the studio to the page.
Drummer Lars Ulrich and the “Wrecking Ball” star have interviewed each other for a piece in Interviewmagazine. In the conversation, Cyrus shares what originally inspired her to cover Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” which she performed at Glastonbury in 2019 ahead of recording it for this year’s Metallica Blacklist tribute album.
“When I think about the sentiment behind ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ it aligns completely with my morals and my values,” Cyrus explains. “When I listened to ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ and I knew that I was confirmed for Glastonbury — I actually have chills talking about this — it was the only song that I could imagine playing.”
Cyrus’ experience of recording “Nothing Else Matters” for the Blacklist album, though, felt like the “polar opposite” of playing it at Glastonbury.
“I recorded it at home, in the middle of a f***ing global pandemic, because I couldn’t leave my house,” she says. “It was no less poignant than playing it at Glastonbury — if anything, it was more powerful. The lyrics truly f***ing resonated.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Cyrus speaks on her sound becoming more rock-driven. In addition to covering songs including Temple of the Dog‘s “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and The Cranberries‘ “Zombie,” her new album Paper Hearts features Stevie Nicks, Billy Idol and Joan Jett. Her live band also includes Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney.
“I love having these authentic, real rock dudes in my band,” Cyrus says. “We even revisit songs that I wrote before I was able to make this huge sonic pivot in my career, before I discovered rock and roll. Now, we cover my own songs. We take my original songs, and turn them on their head, and make them kick a**.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final Houston 9 Boston 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Final L.A. Dodgers 6 Atlanta 5
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Milwaukee 127 Brooklyn 104
Final Golden State 121 L.A. Lakers 114
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Buffalo 5 Vancouver 2
Final San Jose 5 Montreal 0
Final SO Dallas 2 Pittsburgh 1
Final Florida 4 Tampa Bay 1
Final Washington 6 Colorado 3
Final New Jersey 4 Seattle 2
Final Detroit 4 Columbus 1
Final Nashville 2 Los Angeles 1
Final N-Y Islanders 4 Chicago 1
Final OT Minnesota 6 Winnipeg 5
Final Edmonton 6 Anaheim 5
Carrie Underwood is exposing her husband’s bad habits in a hilarious new TikTok video centered around her latest single, a duet with Jason Aldean called “If I Didn’t Love You.”
As the song plays in the background, Carrie pans the camera to piles of laundry on the floor, taxidermied animals hanging on the walls and an out-of-control hat collection. “I must truly love him…Who can relate?” she wrote in the caption of her video.
The hit duet will feature on Jason’s upcoming album, Macon, which is due out November 12. Carrie recently revealed that she and Jason had planned to work together for years, explaining, “I feel like I always knew at some point I’d probably sing with him officially, and this just seemed like the stars were aligning and it just seemed like it was going to be the perfect fit.”
“If I Didn’t Love You” is currently nearing the top spot at country radio.
Issa Rae is opening up about her wedding to Louis Diame and why she decided to share some of those moments with the world.
During an interview on the Tamron Hall Show, the Insecure creator and star revealed that the only reason she posted photos from her wedding day was to get ahead of the story.
“I worked with Vera Wang, who were really great, and they wanted to post the photo and at the time, I was like, ‘OK, yeah, no problem.’ And then later, you know, I was like, ‘Oh, they’re gonna post the photo before me.’ Let me tell it my way, in the best way I know how and that’s the only reason that I let it go,” she explained of the July Instagram post. “I wanted to release the photo my way first without having them release it.”
While Insecure star’s marriage may have come as a shock to fans, she shared that it wasn’t a surprise to friends and family. And the actress, writer and producer gushed that her wedding, overall, was “just a beautiful experience.”
“People tell you that it goes by fast, and they’re right,” Rae admitted. “But my thing was, it was a party. At the end of the day, it was just a big party. And it was a lot of fun. And I’m really blessed, I feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who took the time out to just come and celebrate and that’s something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.”
Of Mice & Men has announced a new album called Echo.
The seventh studio effort from the SoCal metal outfit — and their first since 2019’s EARTHANDSKY — will arrive on December 3. It consists of the songs from OM&M’s recent EPs Timeless and Bloom, as well as a third and final EP, Ad Infinitum.
“Echo is a snapshot of the last year-and-a-half of our lives,” OM&M says. “It covers loss and growth, life and impermanence, love, and the infinite — how the most wonderful and most tragic parts of the human experience are deeply intertwined.”
Along with the album announcement, Of Mice & Men has also shared another new song from the record, “Fighting Gravity.”
With the Timeless and Bloom EPs already out, along with the single “Mosaic” and now “Fighting Gravity,” there are actually only two songs left on Echo that have yet to be heard: the title track, and a cover of Crosby, Stills, and Nash‘s “Helplessly Hoping.”
In honor of late Rush drummer Neil Peart, Modern Drummer magazine has announced the launch of an annual scholarship in his name that’s geared toward inspiring a young drummer to pursue a career as a musician.
The “Neil Peart Spirit of Drumming Scholarship” will provide the chosen recipient with 52 weeks of free drum lessons from respected drum instructor Dom Famularo, as well as a one-year subscription to the Modern Drummer All Access service, and a selection of classic Rush albums.
Entrants must be between 14 and 21 years old, not a professional musician, and not under any entertainment contract or sponsorship that Modern Drummer would consider a conflict with scholarship’s spirit.
To be considered for the scholarship, potential recipients must submit a video displaying their drumming skills running two minutes or less, as well as a brief essay explaining why the scholarship will make a significant positive impact on their life and playing, and how they’ve been inspired by Peart and his legacy.
Submissions, which can be made at ModernDrummer.com, must be received before November 26 of this year.
The scholarship originally was announced during the 2020 Modern Drummer Festival by Neil’s widow, Carrie Nutall-Peart. The first recipient of the scholarship will be revealed at this year’s festival, and the honoree will be featured in an upcoming issue of Modern Drummer.
Peart, widely considered one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, died in January 2020 of brain cancer. He was 67.
Ken Jeong has starred in the blockbuster movies like The Hangover, had his own sitcom, Dr. Ken, and been a part of beloved TV shows like Community. But he’s also famous for being famously bad as a judge on The Masked Singer.
The Nick Cannon-hosted hit has Ken, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke trying to figure out whose pipes are piping out of a collection of crazy mascot-like costumes — and bad guesses turn out to be just as fun as the reveals.
Jeong, who pursued a dream of acting after years of being a physician, explained to ABC Audio that his gig on the show is all about having a good time.
“Personally, I’ve achieved everything I want to achieve, and then some, and I feel like the rest of my life is just trying to have fun…for the rest of my days,” he admits.
“Like if you watch me on The Masked Singer… I literally just have fun being bad at that game, you know?” he says with a laugh. “And so I think if the public now just senses that I’m just trying to have a good time, you know, all the time, I think that’s I think that’s part of connection. I think that’s part of entertainment.”
You can check out Ken doing what he does worst, and loving it, when The Masked Singer airs tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Fox.
(CHICAGO) — A battle pitting the mayor of Chicago and the superintendent of the police department against some officers defying a vaccine mandate for all city employees heads to a courtroom on Wednesday where the police union is asking a judge for a temporary restraining order.
The courtroom showdown comes even as police Superintendent David Brown said compliance with the COVID-19 shot mandate by officers and civilian employees of his agency went up to 67% on Tuesday from 64% a day earlier.
“I will say and do anything to save an officer’s life,” Brown said during a news conference on Tuesday. “If it takes going through a counseling session, going to a no-pay status, going to internal affairs or a direct order, if that’s what it takes, I’m willing to do it.”
As of Tuesday, about 2,000 officers had yet to upload their vaccine or testing status on a city online portal and, so far, 21 officers have been stripped of their police powers and sent home without pay, Brown said.
Brown said “several hundred” hold-out officers were summoned to police headquarters this week and given a chance to change their minds and hear of the consequences they face for refusing.
“I don’t know if we’ve changed their minds or if they’ve made the decision themselves to get in the portal,” Brown said.
City officials released an update on the vaccine mandate on Monday showing that 79% of all city employees had complied and registered their vaccine status on the online portal. Officials said 84% are fully vaccinated.
The police department has the lowest level of compliance, officials said.
The mandate set a deadline of last Friday for employees to comply.
The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that represents officers, has asked Cook County Circuit Court Judge Cecilia Horan to issue a temporary restraining order against the mandate. A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Wednesday.
At the same time, the union is asking Horan to recuse herself from the case after she granted the city a temporary restraining order on Friday barring FOP President John Catanzara from publicly telling union members to defy the mandate.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Catanzara’s statements are allegedly putting the public in danger.
“By doing so, and by predicting that 50% or more officers will violate their oaths and not report for duty, Catanzara is encouraging an unlawful strike and work stoppage which carries the potential to undermine public safety and expose our residents to irreparable harm, particularly during an ongoing pandemic,” Lightfoot wrote in a court filing.
Following the ruling, Catanzara posted a video on the union’s YouTube channel informing members that he has been silenced.
“Everybody has to do what’s in their hearts and minds, whatever that is,” Catanzara said in the video. “But I will just leave you with this: policy starts at the top in this city and it has proven time and time again that the top of this city’s policy needs to change.”
Holding up a sign bearing a so-called “Thin Blue Line” flag with the words “John Catanzara for Mayor 2023,” he said “enough is enough.”
With Chicago in the midst of a surge in violent crime with shootings up 9% this year over 2020, some city leaders said they fear Lightfoot and Brown are playing with fire by taking officers who don’t comply with the vaccine mandate off the streets.
“We are simply not in a position to fire 2,000 police officers right now,” Second Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins told ABC station WLS in Chicago. “We can’t do that. That is not in our best interest.”
