Lindsay Ell has been through some difficult moments. She went through a public breakup, grappled with heartache and ultimately channeled those emotions into heart theory, her most intimate and revealing work to date.
She’s also learned a lot about self-love and what she’s looking for in a partner, the singer tells People.
“What bad breakups teach us is what we don’t want and what we truly do want,” Lindsay says. “Sometimes, it’s just the right relationships at the wrong time. Or sometimes, we fall in love with the wrong people for us.”
But by this point in her life, she’s learned to be happily single and feel truly comfortable with who she is as an artist and a person. “My insecurities make me who I am, and no one can be a better version of you. And you will find the right person who will like that,” she notes.
In the meantime, Lindsay has also used her hard-earned wisdom to support friends as they navigate their own heartbreak, like Carly Pearce. Carly went through a very public divorce in 2020 after marrying fellow artist Michael Ray just eight months earlier.
Now, Carly’s got a new man in her life, and Lindsay says it feels good to see her friend happy again. “Going through that heartbreak and then coming out of it — that’s just such a cool thing to watch a good friend experience that for themselves,” she adds.
Machine Gun Kelly has revealed the track list and guest artists appearing on his upcoming album, Mainstream Sellout.
In addition to the previously released “Emo Girl” featuring WILLOW and “Ay!” featuring Lil Wayne, the 16-song set includes collaborations with Bring Me the Horizon, blackbear, iann diorr, Gunna and Young Thug, as well as a second tune with Wayne, plus an appearance from SNL cast member and future astronautPete Davidson.
Also on the track list is the single “Papercuts,” which was released last year back when the album was called Born with Horns.
Mainstream Sellout arrives March 25. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, which was also produced by Blink-182‘s Travis Barker.
Here’s the Mainstream Sellout track list:
“Born with Horns”
“God Save Me”
“Maybe” feat. Bring Me the Horizon
“Drug Dealer” feat. Lil Wayne
“Wall of Fame (interlude)” feat. Pete Davidson
“Mainstream Sellout”
“Make Up Sex” feat. blackbear
“Emo Girl” feat. WILLOW
“5150”
“Papercuts”
“WW4”
“Ay!” feat. Lil Wayne
“Fake Love Don’t Last” feat. iann dior
“Die in California” feat. Gunna & Young Thug
“Sid & Nancy”
“Twin Flame”
In addition to breaking multipleBillboard records, Foo Fighters‘ “Love Dies Young” has the honor of soundtracking the credits to the band’s new horror movie, Studio 666. As frontman Dave Grohl tells ABC Audio, the track was inspired by one of his personal favorite groups.
“I was basically trying to write a melody that was, like, a hard rock version of an ABBA song,” Grohl explains. “I think that’s as close as I’m ever gonna get.”
Grohl describes “Love Dies Young” as a “tortured love song,” with an ABBA-esque “structure” and “melody.”
“And the beat, it’s got that disco beat to it,” he says. “It’s basically an ABBA song with huge guitars.”
As for the track’s chugging riff, guitarist Chris Shiflett credits that to some goofing off in the studio.
W”e started doing that riff kind of as a joke, if I remember correctly,” Shiflett says. “We were sitting there tracking guitars, going into the ‘Eye of the Tiger’ thing or whatever, and then we were, like, ‘Oh wait, that’s kinda good!'”
Grohl adds, “If everyone’s in a good mood and laughing when you listen to something back, it’s probably a good idea to keep it.”
“Love Dies Young” is the current single off Foo Fighters’ 2021 album, Medicine at Midnight.
Studio 666, meanwhile, is in theaters now. It’ll be available on-demand beginning March 18.
Jack White is urging the three major global record labels — Sony, Universal and Warner — to rebuild their own vinyl pressing plants.
The White Stripes/Dead Weather/Raconteurs rocker’s plea comes as vinyl production turnaround time has slowed immensely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing bands to delay their album releases.
“Vinyl records have exploded in the last decade, and their demand is incredibly high,” White says in a video. “A small punk band can’t get their record for eight to 10 months. I now ask the major labels…to finally build your own pressing plants again.”
He adds, “As the MC5 once said, ‘You’re either part of the problem, or part of the solution.”
In an accompanying written statement, White shares how he founded Detroit’s Third Man Pressing plant in 2017 for “anyone and everyone who walks in the door and wants to press a record.”
“In the last year, I’ve doubled down and invested in even more record presses, more employees to run them, and more shifts to try and accommodate the insane growing demand for vinyl product,” White says.
While Third Man may “benefit in the short term” from being one of the few operational pressing plants, White writes, “In the long term it ultimately hurts everyone involved in the vinyl ecosystem given the bottlenecks and delays.”
“Something needs to be done,” White says. That something, he feels, is for Sony, Universal and Warner to “help alleviate this unfortunate backlog and start dedicating resources to build pressing plants themselves.”
“The issue is not big labels versus small labels, it’s not independent versus mainstream, it’s not even punk versus pop,” White writes. “The issue is, simply, we have ALL created an environment where the unprecedented demand for vinyl records cannot keep up with the rudimentary supply of them.”
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While Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating” recently made headlines for inspiring not one but two copyright-infringement lawsuits, it shows no sign of slowing down on the Billboard Hot 100. In fact, it’s just broken a longstanding record.
“Levitating” has just racked up its 70th week on the Billboard Hot 100, which is the most ever for a song by a female artist. The previous record of 69 weeks was sent in 1998 by LeAnn Rimes‘ “How Do I Live.” “Levitating” spent 41 of its weeks on the chart in the top 10 — again, the most ever for a song by a woman.
In the history of the Hot 100, which dates back to 1958, only four other songs have spent at least 70 weeks on the chart. Leading the pack is The Weeknd‘s “Blinding Lights” with 90 weeks, followed by “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons with 87 weeks, “Sail” by AWOLNATION with 79 weeks, and “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz with 76 weeks.
A couple of songs that are currently on the chart might just hang around long enough to challenge those numbers, though: Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves,” which is number one for a second week, has spent 60 weeks on the Hot 100 so far, while The Weeknd and Ariana Grande‘s “Save Your Tears” has been on the chart for 62 weeks. It’s currently #17.
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Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates has added a six-show second leg of dates in the Western U.S. to his recently announced spring solo tour featuring Todd Rundgren as opening act.
The new run kicks off May 12 in Seattle and also features concerts on May 14 in San Francisco; May 16 in Los Angeles; May 18 in Denver; May 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and May 22 in Austin, Texas.
Tickets for the newly added shows go on sale to the general public this Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. local time via LiveNation.com. Pre-sale tickets also will be available for most of the concerts. Visit LiveNation.com for more information.
As previously reported, Hall’s trek with Rundgren begins with an eight-date series of concerts that runs from an April 1 concert in Chicago through an April 16 show in National Harbor, Maryland, and includes stops at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and New York City’s Carnegie Hall on April 5 and April 14, respectively.
The tour coincides with the April 1 release of Hall’s first-ever solo compilation, BeforeAfter, a 30-track collection that features selections from all five of Daryl’s solo studio albums, as well as eight performances from his acclaimed TV/web series Live from Daryl’s House, six of which are previously unreleased.
The Live from Daryl’s House performances include duet between Hall and Rundgren on Todd’s 1978 hit ballad “Can We Still Be Friends.”
Last year, Madonnathreatened singer/rapper Tory Lanez over what she called his “illegal” usage of her song “Into the Groove” in his track “Pluto’s Comet.” Now, Lanez is under fire for his alleged use of another ’80s classic by an iconic pop star.
Variety reports that the estate of the late George Michael is trying to get Lanez’s song “Enchanted Waterfall” taken down from digital streaming services for what it says is the unauthorized sampling of George’s 1985 smash “Careless Whisper.”
A statement obtained by Variety states that the “requested permission for this use had been declined in June 2021,” noting that the estate is taking “immediate action…to prevent further exploitation,” adding, “We will not tolerate any unauthorized use of any songs within the catalogues of George Michael and/or Andrew Ridgeley.” George and his Wham! bandmate Ridgeley co-wrote “Careless Whisper.”
Variety notes that the song was removed from Spotify earlier this year, but it’s still up on YouTube and Apple Music.
Lanez already has enough legal problems: He’s been accused of shooting rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion in the feet in 2020. The next hearing in his trial is scheduled for April 5.
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Though rumors about the fate of the daytime talk show The Real have been circulating since last week, show host Loni Love says there is no official word yet.
In an Instagram post on Sunday, the comedian solicited grace for more than 100 crew members who will be affected if the show does come to an end.
“It’s been a busy few days but I got a call from the studio…no official decision has been made about #TheReal …I will be ok but please give grace to the 150 crew members this may affect,” Loni wrote. “We will finish Season 8 and wait for official word.”
The Real first aired on local Fox stations back in the summer of 2013, and then became a nationally syndicated show later that year; it has gone on to acquire NAACP and Emmy awards. The show originally featured current hosts Jeannie Mai, Adrienne Bailon and Loni Love, along with Tamar Braxton, who exited in 2016, and Tamera Mowry, who left in 2020.
If The Real is canceled, it will be added to the list of recently canceled talk shows hosted by people of color, including Wendy and Nick Cannon.
She’s about to launch her latest film, The Lost City, on March 25, but after that, Oscar winner Sandra Bullock is going back to being a full-time mom.
The adoptive mom of Louis, 12, and Laila, 10, commented to Entertainment Tonight, “I take my job very seriously when I’m at work.”
And now, she says? “…I just want to be 24/7 with my babies and my family.”
Calling being home “the place that makes me happiest,” Bullock noted her break is,”gonna be for a while,” with her attention focused on her kids, “servicing their every need” and acting as “their social calendar.”
The Lost City stars Channing Tatum as a Fabio-like cover model who attempts a rescue after Sandra’s romance novel author is kidnapped by an eccentric rich guy, played by Daniel Radcliffe. Oh, and Bullock’s buddy Brad Pitt also stars, as a dashing guy who, unlike Tatum’s character, is actually qualified for such a rescue mission.
(HONG KONG) — China is facing its worst COVID crisis since early 2020, when the world first witnessed an entire population locked down to contain the coronavirus in Wuhan and its surrounding province.
Two years on, it’s now sending tens of millions of people into lockdown in the entire northeastern province of Jilin, where 24 million people live, and the southern cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan, with 17.5 million and 10 million, respectively.
China, the last major country to relentlessly pursue a Covid-zero policy, reported 1,437 cases across dozens of cities on Monday. That’s a fourfold jump in a week.
Although record case numbers are testing the resilience of China’s no-tolerance approach, there is no sign the country is willing to pivot to ‘living with the virus.”
The epicenter of the omicron variant outbreak is the Northeastern Jilin province, where 895 cases were recorded, but there are also outbreaks and containment measures in place Shanghai, the financial powerhouse, and Shenzhen, the southern tech hub.
Authorities announced on Monday afternoon that all 24 million people in Jilin province would go into lockdown, including the previously locked down city of Changchun. It’s the first provincial lockdown since Wuhan and Hubei in January 2020.
On Sunday, China ordered all of Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents into a seven-day lockdown, with three rounds of testing. All public transport is halted and all businesses, except essential services, will be closed until March 20.
As a result, Apple supplier Foxconn has shut two of its plants in the area and relocated production elsewhere.
The lockdown and outbreaks threaten manufacturing and tech production in Shenzhen, known as China’s Silicon Valley. It’s home to Huawei and Tencent, and is home to one of the country’s key ports.
Professor Heiwai Tang at Hong Kong University told ABC News that he doesn’t expect these week-long lockdowns to have a significant impact on the country’s gross domestic product.
“It seems the lockdowns will be shorter this time with more tracking, which means a short disruption of work and production,” Tang said. “If it ends up lasting for weeks it’s another issue, including inflation risks.”
Professor Michael Song from Hong Kong’s Chinese University estimated that the two-month lockdown in Wuhan cost China 2% of its GDP.
There’s immense pressure on local authorities to contain the virus, with state media reporting that the Jilin City mayor and the head of the Changchun city health commission were dismissed from their roles over the weekend.
Shanghai-based virologist Zhang Wenhong called the flare-up “the most difficult moment in the past two years” of China’s efforts to stamp out the virus. Shanghai has so far avoided a full-scale lockdown.
Across the border from Shenzhen, neighboring Hong Kong is also still tackling its deadliest wave yet, driven by Omicron. Hong Kong recorded 26,908 cases and 286 more deaths on Monday, officials said. Hong Kong’s death rate is the highest in the developed world, in part because of sluggish vaccination rates among the elderly.
Mega isolation facilities are being built across the Hong Kong for people with mild cases. One facility, with 3,900 beds, was built in a week. ABC News witnessed several busloads of people arriving at the facility from all over the city.
Self-titled “Asia’s world city,” Hong Kong is undergoing strict social-distancing measures and still has strict border measures in place, leading to an expat exodus. Many businesses are closed until late April.
The mental-health strain of the strict lockdown has also becoming apparent. Last month, police reported three suicide attempts in 27 hours at one of the quarantine camps.
