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    Bad Bunny Looking Forward to Bringing the Best Shows in History After Pandemic Ends

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    The ‘Un Dia’ hitmaker vows to create shows that are ‘the best in the world’ and ‘the best in history’ when he returns to the stage after the Covid-19 crisis is over.

    Dec 25, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Bad Bunny has promised to bring a “totally new energy” and create the best shows “in history” when he is allowed to play in front of audiences again.
    The Puerto Rican rapper has assured his fans they will be in for a treat when he is able to tour again once the coronavirus crisis comes to an end.
    Asked what his future shows will be like, Bad Bunny said, “The best in the world, the best in history – I swear that’s how I feel and what I want.”
    “Just before the pandemic and lockdown, we were getting all the details and experiences down for the next tour, and it had been incredible to see everything coming together.”

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    “Now, with all that’s happened, the feeling is different. When we do finally get onstage, it’s going to be a totally new energy. It’s going to feel really special, I think, taking everything we had already planned and adding what we’re thinking about now.”
    The “Un Dia” hitmaker, whose real name is Benito Ocasio – was recently named Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the year but he’s not letting the achievements go to his head.
    He told Rolling Stone, “The truth is, I enjoy (making music): it’s what I like the most. If there’s recognition with that, it’s extra. I’m satisfied just with getting to do what I do and having people around me who listen and support my ideas. But obviously, it feels great and makes me proud.”
    Bad Bunny admits that he needs to come up with some other hobbies in 2021 as he devotes so much time to making music.
    He explained, “I spend so much time creating, and I have more plans to keep working. Outside of music, I don’t know. I need to come up with new hobbies. I don’t have a hobby that isn’t music – it’s my work, my play, my way of relaxing. I need to sit down and find some other stuff to do.”

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    Dolly Parton's Regret for Jimmy Fallon Is the Reason Behind Collaborative Christmas Song

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    Back in October, the country music queen joined forces with the late night host to record a cover of Mariah Carey classic ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ for ‘A Holly Dolly Christmas,’

    Dec 25, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Dolly Parton has comedian Jimmy Fallon to thank for kickstarting work on her new holiday album, because she always regretted turning down the opportunity to sing with the funnyman years ago.
    The country music queen recruited the U.S. late night host to record a cover of Mariah Carey classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” for “A Holly Dolly Christmas”, and it was only after hitting the studio together that Parton decided to make it into a full duets project.
    “I didn’t think about doing a bunch of duets at the start,” she confessed.
    “When I was on (‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’) a couple of years ago around the holiday season, he had asked me if I would sing with him, Mariah Carey’s song… and I didn’t know it good enough to sing it, and I didn’t want to mess it up, so of course I said no… and it really bothered me.”

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    After teaming up with Fallon, Parton called on pals including Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, Michael Buble, and her goddaughter Miley Cyrus to get into the festive spirit with her.
    “Then I got to thinking, ‘Well, maybe I’ll get all these other guys to sing with me’,” she continued.
    “It was just one of those perfect storms, where everything fell like it was supposed to.”
    Released in October, the song opens with Dolly aksing Jimmy, “Hey, Jimmy. I don’t know how to say this without sounding all mushy and romantic.” Later, Jimmy is heard replying, “I kinda like mushy and romantic.” She then responds, “You do?” she responds, to which he says, “Yeah, especially this time of year.”

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    Carrie Underwood in Christmas Spirit Throughout 2020 for 'My Gift'

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    The country singer reveals in an interview that she headed into a winter wonderland-decorated studio over the summer to lay down her vocals for the hit album.

    Dec 25, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Country superstar Carrie Underwood has spent much of 2020 in the spirit of Christmas as she began working on her first holiday album at the start of the year.
    The singer admits working on recording and promoting “My Gift” helped to take her mind off the coronavirus pandemic and the global shutdown – and she was glad for the festive distraction.
    “I do feel like I’ve been living Christmas all year long,” she said, revealing she headed into a winter wonderland-decorated studio over the summer to lay down her vocals.
    “So I have been living in Christmas land all of 2020, which is a much better place than being in 2020 itself,” Carrie laughed.

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    And getting to record a new version of “Little Drummer Boy” with her five-year-old son Isaiah was a really special moment she will always treasure – because she didn’t expect the session to go so well.
    “I didn’t know how it was gonna work,” Carrie confessed. “I’d asked him if he wanted to be a part of the Christmas album, just come sing a song with me, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if he’ll be able to, he might get frustrated, or you know, be bored… he’s five!'”
    “So I kind of warned everybody, ‘I’m not sure what we’re gonna get, but even if we don’t get anything, and he doesn’t feel like doing it, at least I got to bring my kid to work with me, he gets to see what I do, because really I don’t think he has that much of an idea of what my job is… It was all that I could have hoped for and more. We did have a wonderful day in the studio…”
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    “He sings his heart, he doesn’t know any other way… it was just so pure and joyful and I was honoured to get to be in the room with him while he did that.”

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    Migos: Releasing New Album in 2020 Doesn't Make Sense

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    Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff have completed their next studio installment but they wait until next year to release it because they want to be able to promote it properly.

    Dec 25, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Migos will release their new album “at the top of the year.”
    The trio – comprising Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff – had been expected to release the follow-up to 2018’s “Culture II” early in 2020 but the record was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and now they have confirmed that work on the LP is complete and fans shouldn’t have to wait too much longer for it.
    Quavo explained the group had taken the decision to delay the record because they want the “commotion” of being able to promote it properly and to perform in front of their fans.
    Speaking on The ETCs podcast, he said, “We done with the album, we just waiting on 2021, man, so everything can crank up. We don’t wanna drop it right now. We want the commotion, we want to move, we want to be outside. We want to drop it and go on tour. We want to have an album listening and have people in the thang and really hearing the album.”

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    “I can’t drop no album and let the internet judge my album. It just don’t make sense. I just want to be with the people. I want to touch the people and that’s what we gon’ do at the top of the year.”
    And the rapper admitted he’s ready for social distancing measures to end so he can perform and get close to fans.
    “I’m ready to crowd surf. I’m ready to go crazy again… moshpit,” he grinned.
    Although the “Bad and Boujee” hitmakers previously insisted the album wouldn’t be called “Culture III” as expected, Quavo referred to it by that title throughout the new interview.
    “Culture II” featured guest appearances from the likes of Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Post Malone, and Travis Scott, but it’s not yet been revealed who will feature on the new record.

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    Snoop Dogg Appears to Respond to Eminem's 'Zeus' Diss

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    The ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ emcee previously provoked Slim Shady with his controversial remarks during his appearance on ‘The Breakfast Club’ back in July, saying that Em ‘had zero respect in rap.’

    Dec 24, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Snoop Dogg may have been clapping back at Eminem following his diss on the song “Zeus”. Snoop, who has been making use of his Instagram account to share some inspirational quotes, appears to respond to the shade in one of his posts featuring a quote being hated.
    “Back in the day if someone hated you, it meant you did something WRONG. now a days it means you did something RIGHT!!” read the quote that the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” emcee shared on the photo-sharing site. Alongside that, the rapper wrote in the caption, “Carry on.”

    While he didn’t name any name on the post, fans quickly speculated that it was Snoop’s response to Eminem’s diss. Suggesting the rapper to respond with a new song instead of a subliminal post, one person wrote in the comment section, “Subs are weak Snoop, pick up the mic or the phone.”

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    Further slamming Snoop, another user added, “Eminem is twice the rapper ull ever be.” Someone even thought that “Snoop is scared of Eminem,” while one user believed that “em beat” him.
    “I love snoop but come on u can’t say s**t about someone who was brought up by the same person are u, dre built u like he did em without Dre u wouldn’t be relevant just another dope rapper forgot in the 90s who didn’t have the rep to stay in the eyes of the people,” another person opined, referring to Dr. Dre. Meanwhile, actress Viola Davis showed a strong agreement to Snoop’s quote as she wrote, “Yup!”
    On the song “Zeus”, which os off his surprise new album “Music to Be Murdered By – Side B”, Em rapped in the third verse, “Diplomatic as I’m trying to be, last thing I need is Snoop doggin’ me, man, dogg, you was like a God to me, nah, not really, I had ‘dog’ backwards, but I’m starting to think, all these people takin’ shots at me, s***, it’s no wonder.”
    The tension between Snoop and Em started after the former made some controversial remarks during his appearance on “The Breakfast Club” back in July. “Eminem, the great white hope. White rappers had zero respect in rap,” Snoop said at the time. “Dr. Dre has probably put Eminem in the position that he would be considered one of the top 10 rappers ever. I don’t think so, but the game thinks that he’s [in the] top 10 lyricists and everything that comes with it. That’s just because he’s with Dr. Dre.”
    He went on adding, “There’s some n****as in the 80s that he couldn’t f**k with. Like Rakim, like Big Daddy Kane, like KRS-One, like LL Cool J, like Ice Cube.”

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    Kid Cudi Breaks Record on Billboard Chart With 'Man on the Moon III' Song

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    The ‘Day ‘n’ Nite’ hitmaker makes history as he’s climbing Billboard music chart with the opening song of the final installment of his ‘Man on the Moon’ album series.

    Dec 24, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Kid Cudi has scored a new U.S. chart record with a 37-second song.
    “Beautiful Trip”, the opening song of his new album “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen”, has become the shortest song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
    The track sneaks into the countdown at number 100, beating the previous record of 45 seconds, held by Japanese comedian Piko-Taro’s “PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)”.
    Meanwhile, “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen” is at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, one place behind Taylor Swift’s “Evermore”.

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    A follow up to his albums “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” (2009) and “Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager” (2010), “The Chosen One” came four years after Kid Cudi’s sixth studio effort “Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'”.
    Back in 2016, the rapper initially said he was unsure about doing another “Man on the Moon” album.
    But in a new interview recently, he said he was able to deliver the long-overdue project because “the whole flow of my life is like so in tune with like everything that I want it to be.” He told Apple Music host Zane Lowe, “Everything’s in place. And I’m happy, you know?”
    “I truly believe that my heart is in the light and that’s who I am,” he went on. “As long as I keep focus on the mission, write music that helps kids, pushing myself to make new experiences and try new things and be a better artist and a better man in their life, whether it’s to my girlfriend or to my baby mom or to my mother or to my sister – [I’m] just trying to be better.”

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    Megan Thee Stallion Thinks Men Are Against 'WAP' Due to 'Fear and Insecurity'

    This is not the first time for either Megan and Cardi B to defend the hit song from criticism with the ‘Bodak Yellow’ femcee weighing in on the matter during her appearance on Australia’s ‘The Kyle and Jackie O’ show.

    Dec 23, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Megan Thee Stallion is weighing in on the criticism over her and Cardi B’s collaborative song “WAP”. In a new interview for British GQ magazine, the “Good News” artist revealed that people, especially men, oppose the raunchy song because they “just don’t know what to do when a woman is in control and taking ownership of her own body.”
    She went on saying, “I feel like for a long time men felt like they owned sex and now women are saying, ‘Hey, this is for me. I want pleasure. This is how I want it or don’t want it,’ it freaks men the hell out.” The Houston raptress also noted that “it just comes from a place of fear and insecurity, like why would anyone be mad about my WAP? It belongs to me.”

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    This is not the first time for either Megan and Cardi to defend the hit song from criticism. During her interview on Australia’s “The Kyle & Jackie O” show, the “Bodak Yellow” femcee weighed in on the matter, saying, “The people that the song bothers are usually conservatives or really religious people. But my thing is…I grew up listening to this type of music. To other people it might be vulgar, but to me, it’s almost really normal.”
    Cardi was also aware that the song is not for children, noting that she didn’t want her 2-year-old daughter Kulture, whom she shares with rapper Offset, to listen to it. “Of course I don’t want my child to listen to the song. But, it’s like, it’s for adults!” she said. “It’s what people want to hear. If people didn’t want to hear it, if they were so afraid to hear it, it wouldn’t be doing so good.”
    Among those who publicly criticized the song was hip-hop vet Snoop Dogg. The “Mac and Devin Go to High School” actor shared his two cents on “WAP” during his virtual interview with host Julissa Bermudez for Central Ave on Thursday, December 10. Alluding that the song is too raunchy for his taste, Snoop opined, “Oh my God. Slow down. Like, slow down. And let’s have some imagination. Let’s have some, you know, privacy, some intimacy where he wants to find out as opposed to you telling him.”
    He went on saying, “To me it’s like, it’s too fashionable when that in secrecy, that should be a woman’s…that’s like your pride and possession. That’s your jewel of the Nile. That’s what you should hold onto. That should be a possession that no one gets to know about until they know about it.”

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    Selena, Salt-N-Pepa, Talking Heads Among Honorees for Lifetime Achievement Awards at 2021 Grammys

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    The recipients for the upcoming Grammy Lifetime Achievement award have been officially announced by the Recording Academy, a month after the nominations were revealed.

    Dec 23, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Tragic Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla is set to posthumously join rap pioneers Salt-N-Pepa and rockers Talking Heads among the recipients of the 2021 Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement honours.
    Also set to be feted with the Special Merit Awards are hip-hop icons Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, opera singer Marilyn Horne, and late jazz musician Lionel Hampton.
    Recording Academy officials have additionally named the stars selected for the Trustees Awards, with R&B legend Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, saxophonist Benny Golson, and noted producer and engineer Ed Cherney, who lost his battle with cancer last year (19), due to be saluted for their “significant contributions… to the field of recording” while engineer Daniel Weiss has been recognised with the Technical Grammy Award.

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    “As we welcome the new class of Special Merit Award honorees, it gives us a chance to reward and recognize the influence they’ve had in the music community regardless of genre,” Harvey Mason, Jr., Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy, shared in a statement.
    “As a music creator and music lover, I am grateful that we are able to look back at our influences and see the impact that they have made on our community. In a year where music has helped keep us together, I look forward to honoring this iconic group of music creators.”
    All of the honourees will be celebrated at a special ceremony on 31 January (21) although it’s yet to be announced if the event will be a virtual affair amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
    The Class of 2020 was made up of Iggy Pop, Chicago, Public Enemy, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, John Prine, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

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