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    Jason Isbell and Wife Amanda Shires Leave CMA Over John Prine In Memoriam Snub

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    The former member of Drive-By Truckers and his wife decide to return their Country Music Association memberships after the organization failed to pay tribute to John Prine at awards show.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have relinquished their Country Music Association (CMA) memberships after the organisation apparently failed to recognise the deaths of John Prine and others at the 2020 awards show.
    In a statement on Twitter, Isbell insisted the “failure to mention John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver at the CMA’s” was behind the pair’s decision to “return our membership cards.”
    Prine died in April (20) at the age of 73 after he contracted the coronavirus in March and, while late country stars Charlie Daniels, Kenny Rogers, and Joe Diffie each received tributes, Prine, along with Walker and Shaver, did not.

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    Fellow country music artist Greg Freeman asked Isbell if he would consider staying on in order to work on change from within the institution, explaining that, “Calling it quits might not shake things up. Using your power as an influential artist and voting member could, though.”
    However, Isbell was unconvinced, writing, “I feel my energy is best spent elsewhere,” with officials remaining adamant in a statement to Fox News that “The CMA Awards broadcast historically does not include an In Memoriam segment.”
    “An In Memoriam did air in 2017 to honor the victims of the tragic shooting at Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas,” they shared. “In order to recognize those we have lost each year, the CMA does include an In Memoriam tribute on our website and in our annual CMA Awards Program Guide, which was mailed to CMA members ahead of this year’s broadcast.”
    “To note, this year’s In Memoriam includes those lives lost prior to the program guide’s printing deadline of October 14, 2020.”

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    Lzzy Hale Calls 'The Magic of Christmas Day' Collaboration With Dee Snider 'Insanely Epic'

    The Halestorm frontwoman has replaced Tarja Turunen on Twisted Sister singer’s holiday single, which was originally a hit for Celine Dion titled ‘God Bless Us Everyone’.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Halestorm star Lzzy Hale has replaced Tarja Turunen on Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider’s “The Magic of Christmas Day” holiday single.
    The track was originally a hit, titled “God Bless Us Everyone”, for Celine Dion, but songwriter Snider has reclaimed it for the 2020 festive season.
    Earlier this year (20), he announced ex-Nightwish singer Turunen would be joining him on the track he wrote as a gift for his wife, but the tune dropped on Friday (November 13), with Hale dueting with Dee.

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    “I knew I needed to bring in a young powerhouse vocalist to not only duet with me, but light a Yuletide fire under my a**,” Snider explains. “I only knew of one rock vocalist who could deliver on all those fronts, and she did in spades: the incredible Lzzy Hale.”

    “If you’re ever, in your life, gonna go full-on, all-gas, no-brakes… you do it Dee Snider-style,” his Christmas song partner adds. “I was so honoured to get the call from Dee on his holiday classic ‘The Magic of Christmas Day’. After exchanging a few very affectionate ‘f**y yous’ as we rediscovered our respect and admiration for each other’s talent, the final recording is insanely epic.”
    The 37-year-old singer and rhythm guitarist continues, “Thank you so much to everyone for having me. And considering we will all be experiencing a very different holiday season in 2020, I hope that this song brings you joy and puts a smile on your face. God bless us everyone!”
    It hasn’t been explained why Hale replaced Turunen.

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    Taylor Swift Reveals How Aaron Dessner Played Big Part in Early Release of 'Folklore'

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    When speaking to Paul McCartney about her collaboration with The National co-founder, the ‘Cardigan’ singer spills the idea began with their conversation during a chance encounter in 2019.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift was compelled to write and record her new album “Folklore” following a conversation with The National’s Aaron Dessner.
    The superstar, who unexpectedly released her eighth LP in July, tells Paul McCartney in an interview for Rolling Stone that her collaboration with Dessner came about following a chance encounter in 2019.
    “I had met him at a concert a year before, and I had a conversation with him, asking him how he writes. It’s my favourite thing to ask people who I’m a fan of. And he had an interesting answer,” she explains.
    “He said, ‘All the band members live in different parts of the world. So I make tracks. And I send them to our lead singer, Matt (Berninger), and he writes the top line.’ I just remember thinking, ‘That is really efficient’,” recalls the ME! singer. “And I kind of stored it in my brain as a future idea for a project.”

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    When the pandemic hit, Taylor emailed Aaron Dessner and asked, “Do you think you would want to work during this time? Because my brain is all scrambled, and I need to make something, even if we’re just kind of making songs that we don’t know what will happen…”.
    “And it turned out he had been writing instrumental tracks to keep from absolutely going crazy during the pandemic as well, so he sends me this file of probably 30 instrumentals, and the first one I opened ended up being a song called Cardigan,” she shares, referring to the first single from “Folklore”.

    “It really happened rapid-fire like that. He’d send me a track; he’d make new tracks, add to the folder; I would write the entire top line for a song, and he wouldn’t know what the song would be about, what it was going to be called, where I was going to put the chorus,” she remembers. “I had originally thought, ‘Maybe I’ll make an album in the next year, and put it out in January or something’, but it ended up being done and we put it out in July.”
    The experience, she says, has completely altered her view on songwriting, because “there are no rules anymore”. Taylor smiles: “If you take away all the parameters, what do you make? And I guess the answer is ‘Folklore’.”

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    Taylor Swift Enjoyed One of the Best Nights of Her Life Jamming With Paul McCartney

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    The ‘Lover’ singer recalls spending one of the most fun nights of her life partying with the former Fab Four and having a blast playing music at the celebrity gathering.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift enjoyed one of the “best nights of her life” jamming with Paul McCartney.
    In a joint interview for Rolling Stone magazine, the pop star calls “Hey Jude” singer Paul “the catalyst for the most fun times ever” as she laments the fact the COVID pandemic got in the way of a planned joint performance at the Glastonbury festival this summer (20).
    “If this year had gone the way that we thought it was going to go, you and I would have played Glastonbury,” she says. “And I remember thinking it would have been so much fun because the times that I’ve run into you, I correlate with being some of the most fun nights of my life.”
    “I was at a party with you, when everybody just started playing music… I was playing (Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters song) Best of You, but I was playing it on piano, and he didn’t recognise it until about halfway through.”

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    Grohl, who was also at the gathering, joined Taylor on drums, but the “Let It Be” star admits that when it comes to impromptu performances, he needs encouragement to get up onstage, noting, “Reese Witherspoon was like, ‘Are you going to sing?’ I said ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ She said, ‘You’ve got to, yeah!’ She’s bossing me around.”
    “I love that person, because the party does not turn musical without that person,” says Taylor, adding, “If nobody says, ‘Can you guys play music?’ we’re not going to invite ourselves up onstage at whatever living-room party it is.”
    “I seem to remember Woody Harrelson got on the piano, and he starts playing Let It Be, and I’m thinking, ‘I can do that better,’ ” laughs Paul. “So I said, ‘Come on, move over, Woody.’ So we’re both playing it. It was really nice.…”
    “I love people like Dan Aykroyd, who’s just full of energy and he loves his music so much, but he’s not necessarily a musician, but he just wanders around the room, just saying, ‘You got to get up, got to get up, do some stuff,’ ” he adds.

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    Justin Bieber, Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry Among Amazon's Christmas Playlist

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    The new 2020 collection of festive favorites features the originals and covers by the likes of Bieber, Underwood, Perry, Mary J. Blige, and more other artists.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Justin Bieber’s version of Brenda Lee’s 1958 holiday classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and Mary J. Blige’s take on WHAM!’s “Last Christmas” will be part of the new Amazon Original Songs collection of festive favourites.
    The company reached out to stars and asked them to record their favourite Christmas tunes and now the originals and covers by the likes of Carrie Underwood, Jess Glynne, and new mum Katy Perry will be available to fans for the price of a donation to their chosen charities.

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    Announcing the initiative, Bieber reveals “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has always been “one of my favourite songs to celebrate the holidays.”
    “I’m excited to team up with Amazon Music to share my own version, with my fans,” Bieber said in a statement. “I’m so thankful to be able to spend the season with loved ones, and to also use this opportunity to give back to LIFT, Inner-City Arts and Alexandria House: three incredible organizations that I’ve supported in the past. I hope my fans join me in reaching out to the communities and organizations they care about, to help spread joy to those who need it most.”
    Blige recorded her WHAM! cover to raise funds for the Mary J. Blige Center for Women and Girls, and added, “I’ve always loved how Last Christmas walks the line between being upbeat and heartbroken – all while still remaining one of the catchiest holiday songs. It’s one of the most unique holiday songs, and I’m excited for my fans to hear my take on it this holiday season on Amazon Music.”

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    Pharrell Williams Amazed by Rihanna's 'Different' Direction for New Album

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    The ‘Happy’ hitmaker says ‘wow’ when talking about RiRi’s next studio installment as he hints at her ‘different’ direction for the much-anticipated music project.

    Nov 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Pharrell Williams has offered up some intriguing hints about Rihanna’s forthcoming album.
    The “Happy” hitmaker sat down for a profile interview with Allure and teased Rihanna’s hotly anticipated ninth album, which she’s been hinting at for quite some time.
    “Rih is in a different place right now,” shared the star of her new music. “Like, wow. She’s from a different world.”
    He went on to tease, “I’m willing to bet, because Venus is gaseous, that if they had a telescope that could zoom through all that s**t, you’d see Rih laying there naked.”
    Rihanna first revealed that she was working with Williams with a snap on her Instagram Story, showing a soundboard suggesting she’d teamed with The Neptunes – Pharrell’s hip/hop-funk production team with Chad Hugo.

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    “Gang. back in the STU,” she captioned the photo.
    Fans have been longing for Rihanna’s new LP ever since the release of her 2016 effort “Anti” and she hasn’t shied away from teasing the release – while keeping from sharing too many details.
    “I just want to have fun with music,” she told the Associated Press following her Savage x Fenty Vol. 2 event earlier this year.
    “Everything is so heavy. The world that we live in is a lot. It’s overwhelming every single day. And with the music, I’m using that as my outlet.”
    While details of the studio project are still kept under tight wraps, RiRi previously gave a clue on what to expect from her. “You do pop, you did this genre, you do that, you do radio, but now it’s just like, what makes me happy?” she explained. “I just want to have fun with music. Everything is so heavy. The world that we live in is a lot. It’s overwhelming every single day. And with the music, I’m using that as my outlet.”

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    Lil Nas X Is Futuristic Santa in 'Holiday' Music Video

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    Following up the ‘Back to the Future’-themed teaser, the official full video for the rapper’s Christmas song sees him as an unorthodox Santa Claus dressing in silver.

    Nov 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lil Nas X is back to spread the Christmas spirits early. Just in time for the Yuletide season, the Grammy Award-winning rapper debuted his new song aptly titled “Holiday” along with its official music video on midnight Friday, November 13.
    Picking up where the “Holiday” teaser left off after the “Old Town Road” hitmaker ditched his cowboy ensemble for a Santa Claus costume, he does take the baton as Father Christmas with a twist. Instead of donning the classic red outfit, he’s clad in silver as he appears to portray Santa from the future, playing along with the “Back to the Future” homage in the teaser.
    Lil Nas also portrays three other characters within a gigantic, sci-fi Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole. One of them sees him in a black robotic costume as he seemingly depicts a character from a video game. He then trades the all-black ensemble for a striped outfit which has spikes on it and matches his hairstyle, while riding a red car.

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    The fourth character is dressed in silver with a sleeveless top and a short skirt, while sporting long silver braids. He’s dancing with some robots in the background during the chorus which goes, “Ayy, it’s a holiday/ I got h**s on h**s and they outta control, yeah/ Ayy, it’s another way/ All my n***as on go and I hope that you know it.”
    The video ends as Lil Nas’ Santa takes a ride across the United States in a high-tech sleigh, a Christmas-red Dodge Challenger, pulled by robotic reindeer, which flies past his own versions of Mount Rushmore, the Hollywood sign, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and Times Square.
    “Holiday” is produced by Tay Keith and Take A Daytrip. It marks Lil Nas’ first new single in almost two years after he released “Rodeo” featuring Cardi B and Nas, which peaked at No. 22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. He is expected to perform the new song at a virtual concert this Saturday, November 14th, on the children’s video game Roblox.

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    Megan Thee Stallion Announces Release Date of Her Debut Album 'Good News'

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    The ‘Hot Girl Summer’ rapper is scheduled to perform her new track, which will be released on November 20, at the 2020 American Music Awards, which will broadcast on Sunday, November 22.

    Nov 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Megan Thee Stallion has really good news for her fans! On Thursday afternoon, November 12, the Hot Girl Summer announced her debut album, which is appropriately titled “Good News”, in a new Instagram post. The upcoming album is set to be released on November 20.
    The Houston raptress shared in the photo-sharing platform a picture of an art of the highly-anticipated set. The “Savage” hitmaker could be seen being trapped in a glass case while seemingly naked. She covered her modesty with a newspaper that features headlines inspired by her.
    “Hotties , I first want to say thank you for riding with me, growing with me, and staying down with me since my first mixtape Rich Ratchet !” she wrote in the caption. Seemingly referring to her shooting drama involving Tory Lanez and her ex-BFF Kelsey, Megan added, “Through this rough a** year we’ve all been having I felt like we could all use a lil bit of good news. So with that being said MY OFFICIAL ALBUM ‘GOOD NEWS’ IS DROPPING NOVEMBER 20TH PRE ORDER WILL BE AVAILABLE TONIGHT #GOODNEWSMEGAN.”

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    Fans were unsurprisingly excited for the new album as one wrote in the comment section, “YASSSS QUEEN WE WANT MEGNIKA.” Another fan added, “OMFG YASSSSS THIS IS REALLY #GOODNEWS I CANT WAIT TO HEAR IT!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!” One person was so eager, saying, “MAMA DROP THE TRACKLIST !!”
    Fellow celebrities also sent support in their comments. Tokyo Vanity wrote, “4th quarter pressure,” while La La Anthony said, “Congrats…can’t wait!!!” “Hidden Figures” actress Taraji P. Henson also raved about her red locks, writing, “COME ON REEEEDDD #REDHEADSHAVEMOREFUN.”
    “Good News” follows Megan’s recent project “Suga”, which was out back in March, and “Fever”, which was released in 2019. The rapper also released several hit singles and collaborative songs including “Girls in the Hood”, “WAP” with Cardi B and “Savage” remix with Beyonce Knowles. The last two tracks debuted atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
    Megan is scheduled to perform her new track at the 2020 American Music Awards, which will broadcast on Sunday, November 22 at 8 P.M. on ABC.

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