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      Garth Brooks Thanks Lady GaGa's Team for Helping Him Get Ready for Inauguration Performance

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      The country music singer has reached out to the Mother Monster on social media to express his gratitude after her hair and makeup team helped him get ready for inauguration gig.

      Jan 23, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Country star Garth Brooks needed a little help from Lady GaGa’s hair and makeup team to look camera ready for his Inauguration Day performance in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (20Jan21).
      The hitmaker, who sang “Amazing Grace” after Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s 46th President, has publicly thanked Sarah Tanner and Frederic Aspiras for agreeing to give him a touch up before the big gig, which was watched by millions around the world.
      Taking to Twitter, the grateful star wrote, “@ladygaga You were fabulous today and everyday A national treasure. Please tell Frederick (sic) and Miss Sarah thank you for me! They saved a cowboy today.”
      “Oh, and tell Miss Sarah to hug her momma for me!”
      Aspiras has responded, “It was truly an honor helping you with hair for your beautiful inauguration performance.”

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      Lady Gaga performed the U.S. National Anthem during the inauguration.
      Both Garth Brooks and Lady GaGa along with another musical guest Jennifer Lopez were lauded for their moving performances.
      Sophia Bush wrote, “That moment. Inviting everyone in America to sing ‘Amazing Grace’ together … it was hard to get the words out through tears. But it felt beautiful to do that with folks all across the country.”
      “Amazing Grace, indeed,” remarked Kim Cattrall.
      Meanwhile, Bette Midler hailed GaGa for her “sensational version” of the national anthem and applauded J.Lo for “another great new version of two American standards.”
      Monty Python star Eric Idle was moved to tears by Gaga’s delivery and “The Hangover” star Ed Helms declared, “I AM GAGA FOR GAGA!!! So amazing!!!”

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      Five Songs to Listen to Right Now

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      Five Songs to Listen to Right NowJon ParelesListening in New York CityAly & AJ, ‘Listen!!!’Blippy synthesizers, major chords, giant martial drums — this has to be a happy song, right? Well, no. “Listen!!!” is a plea to a partner who’s oblivious or worse: “I’m feeling like I’m a hostage here,” Aly & AJ sing amid the sonic jubilation. More

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      He Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One.

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Biden AdministrationliveLatest UpdatesReview of Russian HackingBiden’s CabinetPandemic ResponseAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyHe Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One.In his inaugural address, President Biden quoted Gene Scheer’s song, a patriotic hymn championed by the opera star Denyce Graves and recorded by Norah Jones for a Ken Burns soundtrack.Gene Scheer was watching the inauguration on television when President Biden suddenly began quoting “American Anthem,” a song he wrote more than 20 years ago.Credit…Lauren Lancaster for The New York TimesPublished More

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      DaniLeigh Defends Her Mixed Heritage After Accused of Colorism in New Song 'Yellow Bone'

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      The ‘Breakfast Can Wait’ singer unapologetically responds to the backlash after she shares a preview of her upcoming music, which she claims she composed to celebrate ‘my light skin baddies.’

      Jan 22, 2021
      AceShowbiz – It’s quiet a rowdy day for DaniLeigh. While she attempted to entertain her fans by teasing her new music, her good intention has backfired. The R&B songstress has come under fire after she shared a preview of her upcoming song “Yellow Bone”.
      Many accused the Miami-born artist of colorism in the song, which she claimed she composed to celebrate “my light skin baddies.” The critics mostly pointed out her Dominican heritage and took issue with her use of terms typically associated with the black community to describe herself.
      One of the critics was social media and digital media marketing strategist Karen Civil, who tweeted, “Danileigh could’ve kept that song in the trash…” Another challenged her claim about being partly black, “me trying to find where the black coming from….”

      Defending her claim, DaniLeigh insisted, “I’m Dominican… I’m Spanish, I’m black I’m white .. leave me alone.”
      But people were not buying it, with one asking, “since when was spanish a race…?” Another reminded DaniLeigh, “you are caucasian.” Someone else had a harsher comment, writing, “Dani Leigh is not a yellow bone she is a snow possum. Another Afro Latino with no Afro.”
      “Don’t lie now … we seen ur parents,” another claimed. Someone else said, “I knew Dani Leigh was sick in the head after she lied on my sister,” referring to DaniLeigh’s previous tweet about an encounter with Beyonce Knowles.

      But DaniLeigh stood by her ground and clapped back at the haters in a series of now-deleted tweets. “Why can’t I make a song about for my light skin baddies ?? Why y’all think I’m hating on other colors when there are millions of songs speaking on all types.. why y’all so sensitive & take it personal .. gahhhh damn,” she explained her intention.

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      “Congratulations y’all gotta another thing to say about me when u hate … it’s all good ..,” she wrote in another post. “only God can ‘cancel’ me… that s**t don’t mean s**t to me bc the people around me are the ones that know my heart and intention and real life … I’m sorry if I offended u.”
      Refusing to be dragged down, she added, “Ima keep letting God bless me .. while y’all sit back and judge me && sit behind y’all lil phones and type s**t about another woman .. y’all all HATERS. YALL DON’T KNOW ME.”

      “And I said is what he want !!!!” she insisted. “Not what the world want … I’m talking about myself … stop playing w me . Y’all NOT FOR ME. Done talking .. bout to post how fine I looked yesterday.”
      Also weighing in on the controversial song was Future’s baby mama Eliza Reign. “I try not to speak on every lil thing I see on the net, but Forreal, it’s already enough division with black people,” she wrote, disagreeing with DaniLeigh’s intention with the song. “It’s 2021, why people with platforms out here telling their fans they have a preferred skin tone?”
      Calling it “a touchy subject,” Eliza explained what’s wrong with DaniLeigh’s lyrics while shading her, “but then again we shouldn’t expect a person who isn’t even black (redbone or chocolate) to understand how it’s offensive.” She pointed out, “Redbones are lighter toned black women by the way not Hispanic but go off mami.”

      Another schooled DaniLeigh about the difference between a “yellow bone” and a “red bone,” to which the singer admitted her mistake as replying, “damn my bad.”

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      Billie Eilish and Rosalia Look Haunting in Dark Music Video for 'Lo Vas A Olvidar'

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      The Grammy winner, who sings mostly in Spanish on the track, reveals during her appearance on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that she involved her entire family when she worked on the English lyrics.

      Jan 22, 2021
      AceShowbiz – The most-anticipated music video for “Lo Vas Olvidar” is finally here. Unveiled on Thursday, January 21, the dark and moody visuals of Billie Eilish and Rosalia’s Spanish-language collaborative track sees the two stars being surrounded by darkness.
      The music video of the stripped-back track is directed by Nabil, who has previously worked with musicians such as Kanye West, Frank Ocean and FKA twigs among others. “Dime si me echas de meno’ aun (Tell me if you still miss me),” Rosalia sings. Later, Billie continues, “Dime si no me perdonas aun (Tell me if you still don’t forgive me).”

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      Billie, who sings mostly in Spanish on the track, revealed during her appearance on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Thursday, January 21 that she involved her entire family when she worked on the English lyrics. In addition to her brother and collaborator Finneas, the Grammy-winning artist sat down with her mother and father in the studio after their Friday tradition of dinner for the final English lyrics.
      “So my mom, my dad, Finneas, me, Finneas’ girlfriend Claudia, we all came down to the studio, and we listened, and me and Finneas were like, ‘Should we just write this line right now?’ ” the Grammy-winning artist shared. “So I was sitting in the room with my entire family. We both, all of us, including my dad and my mom, they were like, ‘What if it was like….’ We were all giving ideas. So technically they should have a writing credit, because we all wrote that line right at the end.”
      Billie added that she managed to convince Rosalia to let her sing in Spanish. “I remember when we were writing the song, I remember her saying something about, ‘It should be in English.’ And I was like, ‘No, no, no. It should be in Spanish. It’s so beautiful.’ And I’ve always loved music that isn’t in English,” the “Bad Guy” singer told Zane. “I like tons of music from languages I don’t even speak. … I’ve been really intrigued by it pretty much my whole life. There’s so many Russian songs I like, and Spanish and French.”

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      Hillary Scott of Lady A Came Close to Do Solo Debut With Carrie Underwood's 'Jesus, Take the Wheel'

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      Looking back at the hit song that launched the ‘American Idol’ alum into stardom, the ‘Need You Now’ singer reveals it was pitched to her before she teamed up with Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood.

      Jan 22, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Carrie Underwood’s breakthrough hit “Jesus, Take the Wheel” was almost recorded by Lady A’s Hillary Scott.
      The “Need You Now” singer tells Taste of Country the track was pitched to her when she had a solo development deal with a Nashville, Tennessee record label before she became a member of what was then Lady Antebellum.
      “It was one of my favourites, and then that was all right in the time she (Underwood) was on American Idol,” Scott recalls. “She was a country artist on American Idol, which was amazing, and that song really spoke to her.”
      Carrie went on to win the talent show and released “Jesus, Take the Wheel” as the first single from her debut album, “Some Hearts”, in 2005. It went to number one the following January (06) and helped Carrie pick up the Academy of Country Music Award for Single of the Year and Grammys for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

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      “She goes on to take it and it’s a huge hit and the message of the song is so beautiful,” Scott notes. “It’s neat to have watched the journey of that song.”
      Scott went on to form Lady A with Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood in 2006.

      That aside, Lady A was surprised to find out that they were invited to Grand Ole Opry. “An invitation into the @opry makes country artists like us feel like we will always have a home—a place to celebrate country music, play our songs, visit with our friends and fans…a place to belong. Thank you @opry and thank you @dariusrucker for sharing the good news with us.
      she wrote on Instagram.

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      Bob Dylan Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit by Late Co-Songwriter's Wife

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      The ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ hitmaker and Universal Music Group have been named defendants in a lawsuit launched by the wife of his late co-songwriter over alleged unpaid royalties.

      Jan 22, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Bob Dylan and Universal Music Group are being sued for $7.25 million (£5.3 million).
      The legendary singer/songwriter sold the rights to his entire song catalogue – which includes tunes that span his 60-year career – to the label in December for over $300 million (£219 million), but Claudia Levy, the wife of the late Jacques Levy, has claimed her spouse’s estate have not received any money from the deal.
      Levy – who died in 2004 – co-wrote seven of the nine songs on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire”, and Claudia insisted in a claim made to Manhattan’s Supreme Court that his estate is owed 35 per cent “of any and all income earned by the compositions” including “35 per cent of the purchase price paid to the Dylan defendants.”
      The suit highlighted the fact “Desire” topped the Billboard Pop Album chart for five weeks and the double platinum-selling record was ranked 174th on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
      Levy’s company and his wife asked for their “rightful share” of the sale to UMG around a week after it was completed last month (Dec20), but the “Like a Rolling Stone” hitmaker and his companies have refused to pay out, the court documents allege.

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      And the court papers claimed the refusal followed a pattern of Dylan not giving Levy songwriting credit throughout the years, including in 2019’s Martin Scorsese film “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story”.
      The suit said, “The Dylan defendants have engaged in a civilly wrong pattern and history of intentionally and maliciously ignoring and disregarding plaintiff’s rights, including those to income and any and all revenue generated by the compositions, including the subject buy-out of the catalogue sale.”
      And Claudia’s lawyer, Richard Golub, told the New York Post newspaper, “There is a great creative history between Jacques and Bob.”
      A lawyer acting on behalf of the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer insisted there was no money owed to the estate.
      Orin Snyder said in a statement, “This lawsuit is a sad attempt to unfairly profit off of the recent catalog sale. The plaintiffs have been paid everything they are owed. We are confident that we will prevail. And when we do, we will hold plaintiffs and their counsel responsible for bringing this meritless case.”
      A spokesperson for Universal Music Group declined to comment.

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