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Snoop Dogg apologized on Wednesday to Gayle King, the lead anchor of “CBS This Morning,” after criticizing her over a recent interview in which she brought up a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant.Last week, Ms. King was subjected to a social media backlash in which her critics pointed to an excerpt from her interview with Lisa Leslie, a former W.N.B.A. star and a longtime friend of Mr. Bryant, posted on the “CBS This Morning” Twitter account.The excerpt featured Ms. King and Ms. Leslie speaking exclusively about the rape allegation against Mr. Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash with his daughter and seven other people on Jan. 26.Among those criticizing Ms. King after the interview last week was Snoop Dogg, who said in a since-deleted Instagram video, “Why you attacking us?”“Respect the family and back off,” he added, using obscenities to describe Ms. King in a video viewed more than a million times. He also posted several pictures of Ms. King, as well as her friend Oprah Winfrey, posing with Harvey Weinstein, the film mogul who has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 90 women.But on Wednesday, Snoop Dogg apologized in an Instagram post, saying that he had “overreacted” and that he was praying for Ms. King as well as for Vanessa Bryant, Mr. Bryant’s widow, and the couple’s children.“I publicly tore you down by coming at you in a derogatory manner based off of emotions of me being angry at questions that you asked,” he said in the video.“I should have handled it way different than that,” he continued. “I was raised way better than that, so I would like to apologize to you publicly for the language that I used and calling you out of your name and just being disrespectful. I didn’t mean for it to be like that. I was just expressing myself for a friend that wasn’t here to defend himself.”“I apologize,” Snoop Dogg said.Ms. King said in a statement on Thursday night that she could see both sides of the sensitive issue about Mr. Bryant’s legacy.“I accept the apology and understand the raw emotions caused by this tragic loss,” she said. “I’m deeply sorry that questions I asked added to that pain. That was never my intention.”Ms. King said she perhaps could have handled the situation better.“As a journalist, it is sometimes challenging to balance doing my job with the emotions and feelings during difficult times,” she said. “I don’t always get it perfect, but I’m constantly striving to do it with compassion and integrity.”Last week, Ms. King criticized CBS for how it had promoted the five-and-a-half-minute interview by using a 94-second video clip in which Ms. King asked Ms. Leslie about a woman’s 2003 sexual assault accusation. The criminal case was dropped and Mr. Bryant reached a private settlement with his accuser, but the subject has become a point of contention since his death.CBS News later said it had mishandled the promotion.“Gayle conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with Lisa Leslie about the legacy of Kobe Bryant,” a network spokeswoman said. “An excerpt was posted that did not reflect the nature and tone of the full interview. We are addressing the internal process that led to this, and changes have already been made.”Susan Zirinsky, the president of CBS News, in a statement issued on Saturday, stood by Ms. King’s reporting.“We fully support Gayle King and her integrity as a journalist,” Ms. Zirinsky said. “We find the threats against her or any journalist doing their job reprehensible. The interview with Lisa Leslie was comprehensive and thoughtful. We are a country where differences of opinion are welcome — but hateful and dangerous threats are completely unacceptable.”Neil Vigdor contributed reporting. More

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The ‘Hollaback Girl’ hitmaker announces on Twitter that she is still battling her health issues despite her effort to return for her ‘Just a Girl’ concerts in Sin City.
Feb 13, 2020
AceShowbiz – Gwen Stefani has scrapped a string of Las Vegas residency shows as she fights to get well after falling ill.
The 50-year-old has taken to Twitter to let fans know her “Just A Girl” concerts in Sin City are on hold due to health issues.
“I am so sad to announce that I am still unwell… I am resting and doing everything I can to return for my shows on February 14 – 22.”

Scheduled concerts on Wednesday and Thursday night have been axed.
Gwen also had to cancel her weekend performances last week because of the illness.

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Hello. Hello. Do I call you Tones? Or Toni? Tones. I can’t even believe that this is my life sometimes. It’s going number one in so many countries. Dance Monkey. Dance Monkey. Dance Monkey. For anyone that thinks that I’m, like, an overnight success just doesn’t know about, like, the hard yards I’ve already put in. I used to work at a surf shop on Bourke Street which is the really busiest part of Melbourne. And there was like, you could busk on Bourke Street. I really, really wanted to busk. I couldn’t even play an instrument at this point. One of my friends was like, you should come to Byron because you can literally just park up and busk out of the side of your van. And I was like, OK, I’ll give it a go. So I bought a van and moved to Byron Bay and started living in my van. What was your impression of Byron Bay when you first got there? I said, ”I don’t think I’m going to fit in here.” There’s a lot of buskers in Byron but very acoustic guitar. It’s very like, bohemian. So probably the first time anyone’s pulled out a keyboard on the street, let alone like the drum pad, the synthesizers, and the loop pedal and the harmonizers. I stumbled across her when she was busking in Byron in September 2017. It was the very first time she’d tried busking. I heard that and I said to my wife like, “Whoa. That was pretty cool.” He gave me his card said entertainment lawyer on it. And I said to him, I don’t have any legal issues. Tones was my first management client. She came in and lived with me and my family for a while after there and worked out of my studio a lot in that first year while she was busking. I’d go up every Monday, Tuesday and stay there. Write music. Go busk for the week. I was busking day, day, day, day. In the winter when no one else would busk. In the rain, when no one else would be busking I would be busking. It wasn’t about the money. It was about, no matter what, being able to get more fans. So there might be 20 people that night that would otherwise never know who I was. When did it hit you that your busking was becoming a thing, that you were an attraction? I know that there was a point where I realized if I posted on my social media and said, I was busking somewhere people would come. Other buskers started getting angry at me. Some started a Facebook group. And we’re like we’re going to run Tones out of town. Like for no reason. They just hated how big the crowds were getting. People don’t walk past Tones. No one does. By the second song there were always like 10, 20 people. By the fifth, the crowd was hectic every single time. I love busking. There’s so many good amazing people on the street. The reason that I’m here. But there was one night, that was very frustrating. And I wrote a song about that. People grab my hand and be like, you know you stopped me dead in my tracks when I was walking by. Please just sing one more song just one more song. I’m just going to get my husband. I’m literally just repeating what people tell me. That’s why if you replace dance with the word sing it’s just about me busking. I always wanted to do a song with a bass drop chorus. I really like that song that’s like You just want attention. You don’t want my heart. I loved how it was like [sings] So I played some bass. And I kept that loop. I put the other loop down. I sang what I’d already written, it just felt so right. I wrote Dance Monkey in half an hour and then it was done. Just watching her busk with it early on people just loved it. And we’re like, this is going to be a cracker. Like a proper cracker. You guys basically specialize in buskers at this point. Essentially we just like working with buskers that’s the thing we like working with people that want to create art, and tour and make their life music, and buskers do that. Did Tones have original music when you guys first made contact with her? Yeah. Absolutely. “Johnny Run Away” was the most developed demo and that was the first release we put out. That caught fire real quick in Australia, crossed over to commercial radio, which was huge. In Australian terms, “Johnny,” it doesn’t get any better than that for a debut. Even though like my song was getting high rotation on like, all the mainstream radios, that does nothing. You have to keep busking, and I didn’t want to work at Woolworth’s. So when did you first hear the demo for “Dance Monkey?” I never heard a demo. She came into the studio and played me the song how she played it. And then it was sort of our job in the studio to make it I guess like “radio friendly.” Just about that bass drop, making sure that it was not too straight, that it really swung. We set up “Dance Monkey” and we’re going to release it. I was like, “Look maybe it’s just a live track. Maybe it’s just a banging live. Maybe it doesn’t do as well as ‘Johnny.’” I was trying to just, I don’t know, just keep expectations in check. Dave said to me that “Don’t be upset if this song doesn’t live up to ‘Johnny Run Away.’” Because that song is probably more of a radio hit, which is apparently everything that matters these days. Now she forever tells a story that “This is the song that my manager Dave said was probably not a radio song.” It’s like the biggest song in the world right now. In Australia, it’s broken the record of any female artist ever. Any Australian artist ever and any song at number one, the most consecutive weeks. A lot of songs become big in Australia. Some of them cross over to the UK and other European countries, but not all of them can make the leap to America. What does it mean for your song to break in the U.S.? Is that meaningful to you? That is like another whole universe in itself. It’s like breaking the U.S. is like re-releasing “Dance Monkey” again to the world. Do you ever feel guilty that the song that helped you make it is sort of complaining about the very thing that helped you make it? No, I’m writing it about the girl that knocked over my keyboard and the guy that tried to steal my money and the two guys that were literally yelling out “Again! Again! Again! Again! Again!” right in my face and the guy that walked past me and said, you’re [expletive] All in like 30 minutes. Have you been back to busk since ”Dance Monkey” hit number one? It’s very hard to do. I want to dress up as Old Tones from the “Dance Monkey” film clip and go busk. People ask me how I feel I get a little bit frustrated because I don’t know how I feel. But like sometimes I have those small moments when you’re driving in your car on your own and you just think to yourself “Holy [expletive] I have the most streamed song in the world right now. More

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In the Dave Meyers-directed visuals, the Cuban songstress plays a struggling actress who is frustrated that she’s unable to convince producers to take her seriously.
Feb 13, 2020
AceShowbiz – Camila Cabello finds her hero in DaBaby. On Wednesday, February 12, the “Havana” hitmaker released a brand new music video for “My Oh My”, the final single from her second studio album “Romance”, unveiling the “BOP” rapper’s part in making her a cinematic star.
The black-and-white promo, which oozes 1920s Hollywood vibes, starts with the 22-year-old singer being presented as a struggling silent movie star. Aspiring to be more than just a doll face, she is left frustrated by her inability to convince film producers to take her seriously and to let her be a heroine in a movie.
It is not until the former member of Fifth Harmony goes to a bar that she meets up-and-coming movie mogul DaBaby. Breaking out of her good girl mold, she impresses him with her sword-wielding skills. After he buys her out of her contract, colors comes to her world and she lands a starring role in his production of “La Bonita Blade” where she is introduced as “Killer Cam.”
The music video comes from the hands of director Dave Meyers. In less than 10 hours since its debut on YouTube, it has gotten more than 2 million views. The song itself has stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for nine weeks. It peaked at No. 31 since its release in early January, joining her hit single “Senorita”, which also came from the same album, in the chart.

Prior to the release, Camila made use of social media to tease a number of her looks featured in the video. Along with the photos, the girlfriend of Shawn Mendes asked her followers, “what do you think will be the storyline of the music video for my oh my ? we’ll see who’s proven right next week hehehehehe.”

On the release date of the video, Camilla once again turned to Instagram to share a mock poster of it. She wrote on its caption, “WATCH AN UP AND COMING FILM MOGUL AND A STRUGGLING ACTRESS FIND EACH OTHER IN THIS THROWBACK ADVENTURE!!!!!!!!! finally!”

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The former One Direction member has responded to swirling speculations suggesting that he was about to release ‘Fugir’, a new song with Brazilian artist Rafael Allmark.
Feb 13, 2020
AceShowbiz – Zayn Malik has no plans to return with new music despite online rumours suggesting he’s set to drop a new collaboration this week (begins February 10).
Fans on Tumblr began speculating the former One Direction singer was gearing up for a comeback when one user shared a blog post explaining he was set to drop a new track with Brazilian artist Rafael Allmark on Wednesday.
The tune, titled “Fugir”, was rumoured to only be available on iTunes Brazil and was released on the singer’s 2019 self-titled EP. Zayn had reportedly contributed a new English verse to the track.
However, taking to Twitter, the “Pillowtalk” hitmaker denied all knowledge of the release, writing to fans: “Yo! thank you so much for letting me know about this.”
“I do not have any new collaborations coming so please just keep checking here for any news. You know you will always be the first to know. Spread the word.”
Fans quickly took to the comments to interact with the star following the rare social media post, and begged him to release new music soon. Some also used the “#FreeZayn” hashtag, suggesting he was being held back from releasing new projects by his record label, RCA Records.

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The Christian music troupe has been set to perform at the Credit 1 Arena a few hours before Team LeBron takes on Team Giannis in the National Basketball Association game.
Feb 13, 2020
AceShowbiz – Kanye West is returning to his hometown of Chicago, Illinois to showcase his Sunday Service choir at the NBA All-Star 2020 weekend.
The Christian music troupe led by the rapper will perform at the Credit 1 Arena in the city on Sunday (February 16), a few hours ahead of the National Basketball Association game, which kicks off in the evening and features Team LeBron battling against Team Giannis for the win.

Kanye West announces his Sunday Service in Chicago.
The NBA All-Star performance takes place just weeks after Kanye’s Sunday Service headed to Miami, Florida to offer a spiritual show before Super Bowl LIV, which saw Jennifer Lopez and Shakira headlining the halftime show before the Kansas City Chiefs prevailed over the San Francisco 49ers.

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‘Joker’, ‘Hustlers’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, in the meantime, gets outshone by ‘Blue Story’ for Best Film, whereas ‘Peaky Blinders’ lands Best TV Series kudo.
Feb 13, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey and YUNGBLUD were among the early winners at the NME Awards in London on Wednesday night, February 12.
Grammys queen Eilish added another award to her haul, claiming the Best Song in the World trophy for “Bad Guy”, while Del Rey’s “Norman F**king Rockwell” was named Best Album in the World, and YUNGBLUD picked up Best Music Video for “Original Me”.
There were also wins for Liam Gallagher (Best Music Film for “As It Was”), slowthai + Mura Masa (Best Collaboration), Easy Life (Best New British Act), The Cure (Best Festival Headliner), and Foals (Best Live Act), while Courtney Love was handed the Icon Award and rockers The 1975 scored the Innovation Award.
And there was a big upset in the Best Film category, with “Blue Story” beating out “Hustlers”, “Joker”, “Midsommar”, and “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”, while “Peaky Blinders” triumphed over “End of the F**king World”, “Fleabag”, “Stranger Things”, and “Top Boy” to land the Best TV Series prize.
NME Awards 2020 winners is:
Best Live Act supported by Copper Dog Whiskey: Foals
Best Festival Headliner supported by CanO Water: The Cure
Best New Act In The World: Clairo
Best Festival In The World: Glastonbury
NME Radar Award: beabadoobee
Innovation Award: The 1975
Best Music Video: YUNGBLUD – “Original Me”
Best New British Act supported by Nordoff Robbins: Easy Life
Best Collaboration supported by Brixton Brewery: slowthai + Mura Masa
Icon Award: Courtney Love
Best Film: “Blue Story”
Best Podcast supported by Dax: “Have You Heard George’s Podcast?”
Best TV Series supported by 19 Crimes: “Peaky Blinders”
Best Music Film supported by Didsbury Gin: Liam Gallagher: “As It Was”
Best British Song supported by Piper-Heidseick: AJ Tracey – “Ladbroke Grove”
Best Song In The World: Billie Eilish – “Bad Guy”
Best British Album: Lana Del Rey – “Norman Fucking Rockwell”
Songwriter Of The Decade: Robyn
Best British Solo Act: FKA twigs
Best Solo Act In The World: Taylor Swift
Best British Band supported by Pizza Express: The 1975
Best Band In The World: Slipknot
Godlike Genius Award: Emily Eavis

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Lyle Mays, a keyboardist, composer and arranger best known for his long association with the guitarist Pat Metheny, died on Monday in Simi Valley, Calif. He was 66.His death, at Adventist Hospital, was announced by his niece Aubrey Johnson, a jazz singer. She did not specify the cause, saying only that he died “after a long battle with a recurring illness.”Mr. Metheny has long been one of the marquee names in jazz. But the albums he made with his working band from 1978 to 2005 for ECM, Geffen and other labels were always credited to the Pat Metheny Group, never just to Mr. Metheny. And Mr. Mays was an integral part of that lean quartet from its early days, whether giving depth and color to its sound on synthesizers or soloing gracefully on grand piano.The group gained fame by merging jazz ideas with a rock sensibility; its later incarnation as a larger ensemble incorporated musical ideas from other parts of the world, notably Brazil.He also wrote, in collaboration with Mr. Metheny, many staples of the group’s repertoire, among them “San Lorenzo,” “American Garage” and “James.”The personnel of the Pat Metheny Group changed several times over the years. Besides its leader, Mr. Mays was the band’s only constant.“Lyle was one of the greatest musicians I have ever known,” Mr. Metheny said in a statement on his website, adding, “From the first notes we played together, we had an immediate bond.”His contributions to the Pat Metheny Group earned Mr. Mays 11 Grammy Awards. For his work both with Mr. Metheny and on his own, he had a total of 23 Grammy nominations.Lyle David Mays was born on Nov. 27, 1953, in Wausaukee, a village in eastern Wisconsin. His parents encouraged his interest in music and were musically inclined themselves. His father, Cecil, a truck driver, taught himself to play guitar; his mother, Doris (Olson) Mays, who worked in a bank, played piano and organ in a local church.Mr. Mays himself began playing organ in church at 9 and developed an interest in jazz not long afterward. After attending the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, he transferred to North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas), where he played piano in the school’s celebrated One O’Clock Lab Band while composing and arranging its music. He wrote all the compositions and arrangements on the band’s Grammy-nominated album “Lab 75.” He left in 1975 to tour with Woody Herman’s big band.Mr. Mays met Mr. Metheny in 1974 at the Wichita Jazz Festival in Kansas. They first recorded together in 1977 on Mr. Metheny’s album “Watercolors” and formed the Pat Metheny group shortly afterward. The group’s first album, released the next year, was titled simply “Pat Metheny Group.”Their other ventures included writing the score for the John Schlesinger spy thriller “The Falcon & the Snowman” (1985), starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. That score included a collaboration with David Bowie, “This Is Not America,” which was a Top 40 hit.Mr. Mays and Mr. Metheny released one album as co-leaders, the atmospheric and whimsically named “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls” (1981). Reviewing it for The New York Times, Stephen Holden called it “a winning combination of electronic innovation and neo-Romantic lyricism,” and noted that Mr. Mays “dominates the record.” In a recent Facebook post, the bassist Christian McBride, another longtime Metheny associate, called it “one of the most moving documents of pure beauty ever made.”Mr. Mays is survived by two sisters, Joan Johnson and Jane Tyler.Mr. Mays also performed or recorded with Joni Mitchell (on her “Shadows and Light” tour and album), Bobby McFerrin, Rickie Lee Jones and others. He recorded a few albums as a leader, among them “Fictionary” (1992), a trio recital with Marc Johnson on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, and “Solo: Improvisations for Expanded Piano” (2000).His last recording with the Pat Metheny Group was “The Way Up,” released in 2005. He stopped making music professionally in 2011, although, he said in a 2016 podcast interview for the magazine Jazziz, “I kind of feel like the music industry has left me.” In recent years he worked as a software consultant.Among his other nonmusical pursuits, Mr. Mays was a self-taught architect. His designs included a house for his sister Joan. More