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    Cardi B Denies Plagiarizing Jersey Rappers for Her New Song 'Up'

    The ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker appears to dismiss the allegations, noting that she’s not a producer so if someone has issues with a beat, she suggests the person to ‘take it up with them.’

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Cardi B just released a new single “Up” on Thursday, February 4 and it already sparked controversy. On the same day, New Jersey rappers Mir Fontane and Mir Pesos took to Twitter to suggest that the Grammy-winning raptress plagiarized their hook for her new track.
    “@iamcardib we want my money,” wrote Mir Pesos on the blue bird app. As for the receipt, Pesos attached a mash-up video of Cardi’s new single with his 2020 song “Stuck” with Mir Fontane. Both songs have rappers rapping, “Up then it’s stuck,” in the chorus in melody and beat that is undeniably similar.
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    In response to stealing allegations, Cardi responded in a tweet, “F**k the drama .RUN THE NUMBERS UP !!!” Cardi then posted a clip from August 7 Instagram Live session she had with Megan Thee Stallion in which she previewed “Up”. “AUGUST 7th now go check buddy’s date,” Cardi told Fontane.

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    Later, Fontane noted that while the music video for “Stuck” on September 15, 2020, they “previewed ‘STUCK’ on August 6th at the end of this video and recorded it even earlier than that, Respectfully.”
    The “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker then appeared to dismiss the allegations. “Naaa im the type of person that avoids problems & court days. If i get inspired by a song I wouldn’t mind giving a percentage or couple of thousand but I never Hurd if this man,” so she told a fan. “I’m glad while I was recording this song in August I was playing wit the hook on this live.”
    The wife of Offset further noted that she’s not a producer. If someone has issues with a beat, she suggested the person to “take it up with them.” Unfazed by the accusations, Cardi also revealed that drama “doesn’t even bother me.”

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    Dashboard Confessional Reunite With Injured Frontman for Special Valentine's Day Concert

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    ‘Lonely Hearts and Lovers’ will be Chris Carrabba’s first performance with his bandmates since he suffered ‘severe but not life threatening’ injuries from a motorcycle accident in June 2020.

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Rockers Dashboard Confessional are returning to the virtual stage for a special Valentine’s Day (February 14) set, eight months after frontman Chris Carrabba was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
    The singer suffered “severe but not life threatening” injuries back in June (20) and faced months of recovery, but he recently reunited with his bandmates to perform for the first time post-accident at the Riverside Revival Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
    The “Lonely Hearts & Lovers” gig was filmed, and will debut at 7 pm ET on the most romantic day of the year.
    “Nearly a year ago, our 20 year celebration came to a halt when everyone’s lives were changed by COVID,” Carrabba shared in a statement.
    “Then, I was in an accident that left me worried that I would never be able to play music again. I received so much kindness from people I know and people I don’t know.”

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    “The kindness that I received from friends, family, and total strangers was incredible. Over the last 20 years, you have given me so much, and I am just so grateful.”
    “I can’t explain what it felt like to get back in the room with my bandmates and play music again,” he continued.
    “This year has been hard for everyone and we all are missing each other more than ever. I know we can’t be together until it is safe for everyone to do so, but I miss hearing your voices, and seeing your faces. I’d be so pleased to see you…”.

    Tickets for the show cost $15 (£11) and are available to purchase via the band’s website.

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    Rita Ora Wipes Her Instagram Clean Before Announcing New EP

    The ‘Hot Right Now’ singer draws attention to herself by deleting her entire Instagram posts before hyping up the upcoming release of her new mini album titled ‘Bang’.

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Rita Ora sparked concern on Thursday night (04Feb21) when she deleted her entire Instagram grid, before returning just hours later to announce the upcoming release of a new EP.
    The “Hot Right Now” star caught the attention of her fans by getting rid of every single picture on her Instagram page, but then teased her comeback by posting a promotional picture for her new record “Bang”.

    Rita told fans she had teamed up with Kazakh DJ Imanbek and French star David Guetta for her latest offering, which will drop 12 February (21).
    In a second post, the singer is seen wearing a barely-there leotard and wet look hair as she seductively winks to the camera and bites her tongue.

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    Rita’s decision to erase her Instagram page and start again came after she reportedly lost 200,000 followers on the social media site due to her rule-breaking during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.
    The singer was so desperate to celebrate her 30th birthday and socialise, she invited friends to join her at Casa Cruz on 28 November (20) – just four days before London’s second lockdown was lifted.
    The bash was busted by police and venue officials were heavily fined, a cost Ora took care of as she issued a public apology for her “serious and inexcusable error of judgment.”
    She’s now in Australia, where she is quarantining in a hotel for 14 days ahead of reprising her judging role on “The Voice Australia”.

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    Cardi B Locks Lips With Her Female Dancers in New Racy Music Video 'Up'

    The ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker has released a new raunchy music video in support of her ‘cocky’ single called ‘Up’ which is inspired by the Chicago Drill music.

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Cardi B has hailed her new song, “Up”, as “more cocky” compared to her “very sexual” hit, “WAP”.
    The 28-year-old rapper has dropped her first track of 2021 and the eye-popping music video, which is helmed by Tanu Muino, who flew from the Ukraine to shoot the promo. Cardi bids farewell to 2020 with a funeral for the unprecedented year with a gravestone with “RIP 2020” on it and also locks lips and tongues with a group of female dancers in the racy video.
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    And she’s explained that she didn’t want to repeat herself and recreate another video and song like “WAP”, and insisted the goal was to create “something more gangster” and inspired by the Chicago Drill music scene.
    She told Zane Lowe on Apple Music: “I wanted to do something really different. It took me more than a month …we started rehearsing in December for this moment …The grind don’t stop. I thought that my last song was more sexy … I wanted to do something more gangster, more cocky.”
    “My last song was very sexual, very sexual. So I always want my next songs to be different than the one before. If a topic on one of my songs is money, the other topic I want it to be about something else. When I started rapping, when I first put music out, like my mixtape, it was all … This might sound crazy, but I got really inspired of Drill Chicago music. I was young, and I liked that and everything, so my mixtape was very all about gangster violence. If it’s up, then it’s stuck. That’s where I wanted to take it with this record.”
    “Up” is set to feature on Cardi’s follow-up to her 2018 critically-acclaimed debut studio album, “Invasion of Privacy”.

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    Foo Fighters Spooked by Ghosts While Recording New Album in Haunted Mansion

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    Dave Grohl and his bandmates are left feeling ‘creeped out’ as they felt a presence while recording their new studio album ‘Medicine at Midnight’ at an old spooky house.

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The Foo Fighters were “creeped out” while recording their new album “Medicine at Midnight” at a “haunted” house.
    Dave Grohl and his bandmates won’t be rushing back to the 1940s mansion he had rented a decade ago, where they worked on the new album, after they were left spooked by ghosts.
    The “Walking After You” rocker claims he heard unexplained footsteps and felt a presence next to him while recording.

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    The 52-year-old frontman told USA Today, “So there was a house down the street from where I live that I actually rented about 10 years ago. It was an old house built in the ’40s, I believe – just the quintessential creepy house. The person that owns the place told me stories like, ‘Oh, Joe Cocker used to party here with the guy that played Grizzly Adams (Dan Haggerty).”
    “When I lived there, I didn’t consider it to be a spooky house. My kids did. My daughter, Harper, would see things and other people in her room at night, but she was three years old at the time… But when we came back to record this (album), everybody felt creeped out and you could go one of two ways: You could run screaming out the front door with your tail between your legs or you could put your head down and make nine songs and then get the f**k out of there. That’s basically what we did.”
    Asked if he saw any ghosts, he said, “I’ve never been that paranormal experience television show-type person. I’ve never wandered around my basement with infrared goggles looking for heat sensors. The worst part is just feeling it. It’s not like you’re seeing floating bedsheets and vomiting pea soup – it’s like you feel somebody next to you or hear footsteps or have reoccurring dreams of an old woman in a muddy sweater barefoot in your living room. Things like that.”
    But the spirits in the mansion helped the band produce a great album. “Maybe whatever was in that house influenced us to make our first boogie-rock production,” Grohl added. “So hallelujah! Whatever the f**k it was, it worked.”

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    The Weeknd: There's No Room for Special Guests at My Super Bowl Half-Time Show

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    The ‘Blinding Lights’ hitmaker teases what to expect from his upcoming performance at the highly-anticipated football game, confirming that there won’t be any special guests.

    Feb 6, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The Weeknd “wouldn’t bet” on there being any special guests when he headlines the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
    The “Blinding Lights” hitmaker has confirmed he won’t be joined on stage by any other stars as he performs when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday (07Feb21).
    Speaking to the NFL network, he insisted there wouldn’t be any surprise guests popping up, sharing, “I’ve been reading a lot of rumours. I wouldn’t bet on it. There wasn’t any room to fit it into the narrative and the story I was telling in the performance. So yeah, there’s no special guests.”

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    And the 30-year-old singer has teased a few details about Sunday’s performance.
    He told reporters, “Due to the Covid and for the safety of the players and the workers, we built a stage within the stadium. We’re also using the field as well, but we wanted to do something that we’ve done before. I’m not going to tell you anything else because you’ll have to watch on Sunday.”
    The Weeknd – who is following in the footsteps of stars like Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez by playing the gig- previously admitted he was “humbled” to get the coveted performance slot.
    “We all grow up watching the world’s biggest acts playing the Super Bowl and one can only dream of being in that position. I’m humbled, honoured and ecstatic to be the centre of that infamous stage this year,” he smiled.

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    H.E.R. Teases Her Super Bowl Performance

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    The ‘I Used to Know Her’ singer teases what to expect from her upcoming rendition of patriotic song ‘America the Beautiful’ at the highly-anticipated football game.

    Feb 5, 2021
    AceShowbiz – H.E.R. is planning to put her own spin on “America the Beautiful” when she performs it at the Super Bowl this Sunday (07Feb21).
    The singer, real name Gabriella Wilson, will take to centre field to belt out the Ray Charles’ tune before the big game, and told Entertainment Tonight that she’s been watching previous renditions to ensure that she brings something different with her performance.
    “Honestly, I am so excited to just be performing at the Super Bowl,” she explained. “It’s a huge stage and it doesn’t get any bigger, you know? But I think the goal, for me, is to make (the song) my own. I’m a huge fan of the different versions of America the Beautiful, but I really want to bring some different elements in there… make it H.E.R.”

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    “I’ve been in rehearsals a lot, and I’ve been watching a lot of other performers. I’m just going to try to tell myself to have a really good time. But I’m going to be in there, getting my warmups in, and just praying that everything goes well.”
    It’s been a big week for H.E.R. – who also received her first-ever Golden Globe nomination on Wednesday (03Feb21) for her original song, “Fight for You”, from “Judas and the Black Messiah”.
    Asked what it feels like to receive such an honour, she grinned, “Oh my gosh, it means the world! I really can’t believe it. I didn’t imagine this happening, so to be recognized by the Golden Globes off of a song I already enjoyed making for an amazing movie, it’s crazy.”
    “My phone was just blowing up with ‘Congratulations’ (this morning) and I was so confused. I was like, ‘For what?’ and then, as I figured out what was going on, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a Golden Globe nomination.’ I was not expecting it. It was amazing.”

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    The Weeknd Won't Perform in Center Field at Super Bowl Due to Covid-19 Concerns

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    The ‘Blinding Lights’ hitmaker won’t take over the center of the field during his Super Bowl Half-Time show because of health and safety restrictions amid pandemic.

    Feb 5, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The Weeknd will not take to the field for his half-time show performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday (07Feb21) – his gig will be set in the stands at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
    Performers traditionally take over the centre of the field after the first half of the big game, but health and safety restrictions have driven the “Blinding Lights” singer to the terraces.
    A source tells Page Six the show will be “phenomenal, different and historic,” put together by a fraction of the people usually employed to set up and take down a stage in record time.

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    “It’s a total of 1,000 people, and they can’t touch the field,” an insider says. “How do you pull off a show that’s not on the field and is as impactful as it’s ever been with same level of entertainment? Wait till you see it, it’s beautifully done.”
    Another source tells the outlet that staging a virtual show from another stadium was ruled out almost as soon as The Weeknd signed on to perform. “The whole idea of Super Bowl half-time is that you’re able to experience that,” the insider adds, “The NFL (National Football League) didn’t want the fans in attendance not to have that experience. The easy way out is to have it somewhere else, but it is part of the overall Super Bowl.”
    Super Bowl executive producer Jesse Collins previously told Entertainment Tonight, “We’re gonna use the stadium to present the half-time show in a way that it’s never been presented before… Instead of focusing on what we can’t do (due to the pandemic), it’s like, ‘Look at what the opportunities are because of the cards we’ve been dealt’.”

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