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    Fiona Apple Has Thought About Boycotting Grammys Due to Dr. Luke Nomination

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    While happy she is up for three awards at the 2021 ceremony, the ‘Criminal’ singer could not get her head over the fact that the controversial producer is vying for the Record of the Year prize.

    Dec 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Singer Fiona Apple has taken aim at Recording Academy chiefs for nominating controversial producer Dr. Luke for the prestigious Record of the Year prize at the 2021 awards.
    Luke has been locked in a nasty legal battle with pop star Ke$ha since 2014, when she accused him of sexual and emotional abuse – allegations he has vehemently denied.
    Kesha was invited to perform her moving track “Praying”, believed to be about her reported ordeal with Luke, at the 2018 Grammy Awards, but now the producer is nominated for his work on Doja Cat’s “Say So”, under his pseudonym Tyson Trax – and Apple, a rape survivor, cannot believe the hypocrisy.
    “Really, Dr Luke is nominated? They had (Kesha) up there singing Praying, and now they’re gonna go: ‘Oh, but it’s Tyson Trax!’,” she told The Guardian.
    Despite her Grammys criticism, Apple, who is up for three prizes at the upcoming ceremony, is excited about having all-female acts to compete against for Best Rock Performance.

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    “I immediately had this feeling: I wish I was in a room with these ladies and we could celebrate. I felt really nice for a second,” she shared, but insists that joy didn’t last long as she was drawn back to the Kesha/Luke controversy.
    “I keep going back to them putting Kesha on stage like, ‘We believe you’ – and I believe her – then two years later, f**king Tyson Trax. Not to go back to that word, but it’s bulls**t,” she fumed.
    “The feeling of wanting to celebrate with these women was genuine. But I should have that feeling anyway. I don’t know if anybody who’s nominated can help having the thought: What would I do if I won? My vision was that I would just get up there with a sledgehammer and I wouldn’t say anything, I would take the Grammy and smash it into enough pieces to share and I would invite all the ladies up.”
    “My second thought was I wonder if I can get all these ladies to boycott this s**t because of Dr Luke.”
    Recording Academy officials have yet to respond to Apple’s comments.

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    Taylor Swift Makes History as 'Evermore' Debuts at No. 1 in U.K.

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    The ‘Cardigan’ singer becomes the first artist after David Bowie to top the U.K. albums chart with two albums in the same year following the release of ‘Folklore’ sister album.

    Dec 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift has become the first artist since 2016 to top the U.K. albums chart with two different projects in the same calendar year.
    “Evermore” has debuted at number one, just five months after the pop superstar achieved the same feat with her surprise July release, “Folklore”.
    David Bowie was the last performer to pull off the double victory with “Blackstar” in January 2016, and “Best of Bowie” just weeks later, following his death from cancer.
    “Evermore” earns Swift her sixth U.K. chart-topper, becoming only the fourth female artist to boast such success, following Madonna, who has 12 number ones, Kylie Minogue, who has eight, and Barbra Streisand, who has six.
    Back in the countdown, Neil Diamond’s “Classic Diamonds” orchestral compilation climbs to number two, ahead of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe’s “Together at Christmas”.

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    Meanwhile, Mariah Carey classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has held on for a second week at number one – 26 years after its original release.
    The holiday favourite keeps “Last Christmas” by Wham! at two, and Swift song “Willow” debuts at three.
    Two other “Evermore” tracks, “Champagne Problems” and “No Body, No Crime” featuring Haim, also enter the countdown at 15 and 19, respectively.
    Taylor Swift described the creative process of making “Evermore” as “pure” as she got rid of her usual “checklist.”
    “I threw it away,” she said, “and I definitely could have gone into the pandemic thinking, ‘I’ve got to wait for everything to open up so I can do things exactly the way that I am used to doing them.’ But then about three days in, I thought, ‘Wait, this could be an opportunity for me to do things in a way I haven’t ever done them before. What would my work sound like if I took away all of my fear-based check listing that I have inflicted on myself?’ So I guess – I know the answer now.”

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    Paul McCartney Might Back Out of 2021 Glastonbury as He Sees the Event as Covid-19 'Super-Spreader'

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    The 78-year-old musician admits he is reluctant to take the stage at the upcoming Glastonbury music festival over coronavirus concerns as he sees the event as a potential super-spreader.

    Dec 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Paul McCartney is reluctant to headline Britain’s Glastonbury music festival in 2021 over fears surrounding the coronavirus.
    The Beatles legend, 78, had been due to top the bill at the musical extravaganza this June (20), before it was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic – and the “Hey Jude” hitmaker doesn’t expect next year’s festival to take place either.
    He said, “Glastonbury, where you’ve got over 100,000 people packed into a field? That’s a super-spreader.”
    Despite admitting they are “a long way” from being able to say if there will definitely be a festival in 2021, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has insisted bosses are doing “everything” in their power to try and get the Worthy Farm music extravaganza to take place next year.

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    The 50th anniversary of the iconic event, which was sadly cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic this summer (20), was due to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar.
    Despite being forced off the stage, the rocker has been busy making music and recently released a sequel to his classic albums, 1970’s “McCartney” and 1980’s “McCartney II”, by making a record in which he wrote and produced all the songs, as well as singing and playing all the instruments.
    Reflecting on the newly-released McCartney III, he told The Sun newspaper, “We were shocked to find ourselves in the middle of this but, for some creative people, it gave us unexpected time.”
    “I should have been rehearsing for my shows, culminating in Glastonbury, and suddenly all of that was knocked out, so I was able to do some recording,” he recalled. “I was just making music purely for me that no one really was going to hear, except me and my family. I suddenly had about 11 or 12 tracks, not knowing what to do with them… but then the penny dropped.”
    “I thought of McCartney I and II. I’d played all the instruments on those, which put this in the same class, so this should be McCartney III. I’d found a place for it.”

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    Eminem Can't Be Killed in Music Video Released With New Album 'Music to Be Murdered By: Side B'

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    Following rumors of the surprise album that circulated last week, the Detroit emcee has debuted the sequel to his January 2020 set with 16 additional tracks.

    Dec 18, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Eminem is capping off 2020 with a new album. The 15-time Grammy Award winner has surprised fans by dropping new music through “Music to Be Murdered By: Side B”, a follow-up to his eleventh studio album “Music to Be Murdered By” that was released earlier this year in January.
    Hitting streaming service at midnight Friday, December 18, the deluxe edition of his most recent LP contains 16 additional tracks. It features Dr. Dre, who appears on “Guns Blazing”, with Ty Dolla $ign, DJ Premier, Skylar Grey and more also making appearance on other tracks off the album. Dre is also reportedly responsible for co-producing “Discombobulated”.
    Along with the surprise album, Em has released a music video for one of the new tracks, “Gnat”. The Cole Bennett-directed video has the Detroit emcee playing different characters in different costumes, including one that has him in a hazmat suit.
    A real take on the global COVID-19 pandemic, one scene has him in daily outfit while wandering around the street and wearing a face mask, before he’s getting shot. He, however, survives as he’s seen waking up in a corridor despite still sporting a bullet wound on the chest.

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    On another song titled “Zeus”, Em offers an apology to Rihanna, whom he shaded in a song that leaked in 2019 featuring lyrics about him “siding with Chris Brown” despite having collaborated with the Barbadian songstress in 2010’s hit “Love the Way You Lie” and its sequel “Love the Way You Lie (Part II)”. “And wholeheartedly apologies Rihanna for that song that leaked/ I’m sorry, Rih, it wasn’t meant to cause you grief/ But regardless it was wrong of me,” he raps on “Zeus”.
    Em marked the album release with a post on his Instagram page. “Uncle Alfred heard you screaming for more… enjoy Side B,” he wrote along with the album cover art.

    Prior to this, the 48-year-old star never addressed rumors about the deluxe edition. Fans, however, got their hope high after Dem Jointz fueled the rumors by revealing the “Music to Be Murdered By: Side B” cover art among several projects he said he worked on this year. “Even Thru The S**t-Storm, Thank God For Another Successful Year!! . . . #ProducedWrittenMixedByDemJointz,” he captioned it.

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    Taylor Swift Enjoyed Recording 'Evermore' Without Having Her Usual 'Checklist'

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    The ‘Cardigan’ singer gushes about the ‘pure’ way she made her latest studio album ‘Evermore’ as she talks about the creative process of the new studio installment.

    Dec 18, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Taylor Swift enjoyed not having to “check a list” with her latest albums.
    The “Cardigan” hitmaker released “Folklore” and its sister album “Evermore” this year (20) and has enjoyed being able to pen songs without a usual “checklist” in her mind as she used to feel a “lot of pressure” to craft particular types of songs.
    Speaking about her spontaneity on the records, she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, “Pure is a really, really perfect word for that because what happens to you as your career builds and builds and builds and builds is that if you’ve accomplished a thing in the past, all of a sudden you’re expected to accomplish that thing plus another new thing, plus this other thing over here.”

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    “It becomes sort of like I had felt at times when I felt a lot of pressure, I had felt like I was doing some sort of obstacle course. And that’s not how you should feel when you’re creating. You shouldn’t feel like, ‘I need to make a tracklist where this one’s for the stadium show, this one’s for radio, this one’s for people who want to get in their feelings.’ Check, check, check, and you can end up doing that.”
    And Taylor also revealed it is something other artists like Ed Sheeran have felt too.
    “And it’s good to have friends who are artists who have similar pressures,” she continued. “Like Ed Sheeran and I talk about this a great deal. This was a time when we both stepped back, and I would say to him, ‘This is the first time I felt like I threw the checklist away.’ Like I threw it away and I definitely could have gone into the pandemic thinking, ‘I’ve got to wait for everything to open up so I can do things exactly the way that I am used to doing them.’ But then about three days in, I thought, ‘Wait, this could be an opportunity for me to do things in a way I haven’t ever done them before. What would my work sound like if I took away all of my fear-based check listing that I have inflicted on myself?’ So I guess – I know the answer now.”

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    S Club 7 Plotting Reunion

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    According to Tina Barrett, she and fellow bandmembers Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt], Bradley McIntosh, and Paul Cattermole are in talks for reunion.

    Dec 18, 2020
    AceShowbiz – S Club 7 are in talks to reunite and make new music as a seven-piece after being inspired by Steps’ successful comeback.
    Band member Tina Barrett – who was joined by Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, and Paul Cattermole in the classic line-up – has revealed she has discussed writing new music together with her former bandmates, 17 years after they split.
    The reunion talks, she says, were inspired by their 90s rivals, who recently reached No2 in the Official UK Chart with their album, “What the Future Holds”.
    “We ­definitely want to do something new together,” Tina told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column. “We’re all older now so we could do something that reflects how we are now – not such a teeny-bopper sound, something more credible.”

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    “Looking at a band like Steps who are quite ­similar, they’ve done new music and they’ve done incredibly well. We’d be silly not to. Everyone really enjoyed the last reunion so this time around everyone’s more up for it. I’ve chatted to pretty much everyone and I think we’re all up for it. So it’s just about getting it in the diary. I’m pretty sure it will happen.”
    The “Reach” hitmakers last reunited in 2015 for their ‘Bring It All Back’ tour.
    And despite Hannah and Paul previously being in a relationship together, Tina insisted that won’t cause any issues.
    “Obviously it’s life – you’re with someone and then you break up and some people still have to work with them,” she said. “Sometimes it is hard but you do have to ­separate work from real life. Hannah and Paul are both very professional so it’s fine. I know Paul is up for it.”
    S Club 7 scored four number one singles, sold more than 13 million albums worldwide and had their own hit TV show.

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    Adele Teams Up With Former Pearl Jam Drummer for New Music

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    The ‘Chasing Pavement’ hitmaker has officially been back in the recording studio, working on a new music with Matt Chamberlain, the ex-drummer of Pearl Jam.

    Dec 18, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Former Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain worked on new music for singer Adele “this past week.”
    The session musician – who has played for the likes of late music legend David Bowie, Sir Elton John, and Bob Dylan – revealed he was in the studio with the “Hello” hitmaker recently and has recorded some drum parts for the Grammy-winner’s new tunes for her long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s 25.
    Matt admitted he got “chills” hearing Adele’s “powerful and emotive” voice.
    Speaking on “The Eddie Trunk” podcast on SiriusXM, he spilled, “I mean, this past week I just did, I generally do sessions with people – I’m like a session musician I guess, that’s my day job – and I just got to work on some new music for Adele, and to hear that voice in my headphones was getting me chills.”
    “It was just so powerful and emotive. You know her voice, but to be across the room from somebody doing that, it’s just insane.”

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    “You hear it on the radio and whatever and you go, ‘Yeah, it’s really good,’ but to be in the room with these people and feel that energy, it’s just so heavy.”
    “She’s writing some new material with her songwriter Rick Nowels, she wanted to do it with some drums and so we just put our masks on, she was in the room – yeah, holy s**t.”
    Eddie’s update comes after it was revealed Adele recently returned to London to work on her new music.
    A source claimed, “Adele wants to lay low while she’s here, which is easy with shades and a face mask. People don’t recognise her like they used to anyway. She’s not been able to release new music yet and she’s totally focused on that and getting each track just right. She still has a network of people she works with and links up with when she is over here.”
    The “Skyfall” hitmaker has also been working with Raphael Saadiq and John Legend on the new album which doesn’t yet have a release date.

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    Big Sean and Jhene Aiko Turn Romance Into '90s Films Homage in 'Body Language' Music Video

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    The visuals for the ‘Bounce Back’ rapper’s new song off ‘Detroit 2’ displays the on-again-off-again couple reenacts classic scenes from such movies as ‘Poetic Justice’ and ‘Waiting to Exhale’.

    Dec 17, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Big Sean and Jhene Aiko got nostalgic for the music video of “Body Language”. On Wednesday, December 16, the “Bounce Back” rapper released the visuals for his latest single, offering fans a ’90s film homage twist to his romance with his on-again-off-again girlfriend.
    Directed by child., the nearly 5-minute promo opened with the 32-year-old MC tackling on Larenz Tate’s character Darius Lovehall from 1997 film “Love Jones”. After he rapped his lines at what seemed to be an open mic night, the scene transitioned to him as a postal worker making his way to his love interest which served as a homage to “Poetic Justice”.
    Aiko entered the scene by playing Sean’s love interest, a salon employee originally played by Janet Jackson in the 1993 film. Throughout the promo, the “To Love & Die” singer could also be seen setting ablaze her ex’s car, mimicking what Angela Bassett did in “Waiting to Exhale”, and reenacting Nia Long’s iconic cab conversation from “Love Jones”.

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    The steamy music video has also recreated a scene from another classic ’90s romance film “The Best Man”. Near the end, Sean got to relive what Taye Diggs’ character Harper experienced at his best friend Lance Sullivan’s bachelor party. Sean’s collaborator for the song, Ty Dolla $ign, popped into the scenes one in a while to tie up the love stories together.
    On the day of the music video release, Sean shared on Instagram a clip from the promo. Along with it, he wrote, “Know it’s a lot on ya mind, but I need ya focus now! Body Language music video out now @Jheneaiko n @tydollasign #Detroit2 Run this up, this one of them ones.” He also put out a number of stills with a caption that read, “Big homage paying to a few of my favorite flicks growin up.”

    “Body Language” came off Sean’s fifth studio album, “Detroit 2”, which debuted at the top of Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. It was written by him along with Dolla $ign, Aiko and producer Key Wane. Its music video was Sean’s second release in one month following the dropping of “Wolves” video featuring Post Malone and his own mother.

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