Maren Morris Releases Pro-BLM, Pro-Dreamer Video for New ‘Protest Song,’ ‘Better Than We Found It’ (Watch)

BTS will be holding the South Korean leg of their ‘Permission to Dance On Stage’ tour next month.In a statement posted to the fan community app Weverse earlier today (February 16), Big Hit Music announced that the septet will be performing at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium on March 10, 12 and 13. The upcoming shows will mark the group’s first in-person concerts in South Korea after two and a half years, following their ‘Love Yourself: Speak Yourself (The Final)’ world tour in October 2019.Notably, their March 10 and 13 shows will be streamed online simultaneously, while their March 12 show will be available for “live viewing” in theaters worldwide.

Seth Rogen is taking a not so fond trip down memory lane!

Coachella and Stagecoach just made some big announcements about their upcoming music festivals.

Lizzo looks radiant in red during a date night out in Los Angeles on Monday night (February 14).

Brand new images from HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife series have been released.

Kate Hudson‘s son Ryder Robinson is going Instagram official with his new girlfriend!

Ralf Rangnick says Manchester United's wingers were told to attack Brighton's centre-backs in the second-half in a tactic that resulted in the dismissal of Lewis Dunk.

Paul Pogba's knack for effecting games off the bench continued in Manchester United's 2-0 Premier League win over Brighton.

Blake Lively might start wearing her director's cap more often!ET spoke to the 34-year-old actress on the red carpet at Michael Kors' Fall-Winter 2022 show at New York Fashion Week Tuesday night where she spoke about her recent Academy of Country Music Awards nominations and showing up for the beloved designer.«Academy of Country Music was not on my vision board,» Lively admitted about two ACM nominations for producing directing the music video for Taylor Swift's track, «I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version).»As far as what or who she'd like to direct next, Blake's undecided, though she might have another Queen B in mind.«Oh my gosh, I don't know, I don't know. Tell Beyoncé to stop calling me!» Lively joked.On a more serious note, Blake, who attended the show with her sister, Robyn, shared why it was so important for her to be at Kors' show.«I mean honestly, Michael was the first person to invite me to any fashion event, and he always shows up for me, so, I think that's one of the best things you can do in life for people, show up,»  star shared.Blake wowed in a powder blue sequined two-piece bra and skirt set which she paired with a matching blazer jacket, powder blue heels and metallic white clutch. She wore her long, blonde locks down and in loose waves, only breaking her monochromatic look to rock a bold, red lip.It was an important show for Robyn, too, who said she last attended Kors' show three years ago on Valentine's Day.«I couldn't miss it, is just so special for me because I don't get to do this very often, but I did come with you how many years ago, I think it was like three years ago,» she said.

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Cynthia Littleton Business EditorIn their last outings as leaders of ViacomCBS, the executive team led by Shari Redstone and Bob Bakish finally started to sound like they have a solid plan to compete in streaming.On the day ViacomCBS unveiled its corporate rebrand to Paramount, starting as of Feb. 16, the company put on a nearly three-hour virtual presentation for investors that demonstrated how much its operations have been turned inside out to focus on streaming growth opportunities.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMuch as we love having music as an escape, like last week’s stellar socially relevant song from Maren Morris, we’re starting this Fri 5 with a song that couldn’t be more important: Jhene Aiko’s “Vote,” from last and this weekend’s voting-themed episode of “Black-ish.” Like the show, the song’s lyrics deal with real-life issues affecting people’s ability to find time to vote in a country where — we’ll say it — THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT AND PARTY are making it as difficult as possible for the average person, and particularly minorities.“I just wanna focus on my vote/ I ain’t got no time, I gotta work,” she sings.

Paul McCartney has discussed how Bob Dylan influenced some of The Beatles‘ earliest songwriting.Speaking in a new BBC Radio 2 documentary to mark John Lennon‘s 80th birthday, McCartney was asked about the band’s “interpersonal, reflective” song-writing and whether it had been influenced by the US icon’s earlier work.He told Sean Lennon: “We certainly got a lot from Dylan and I know I had one of his first LPs at home before The Beatles. I used to play that quite a lot so I was steeped in him and I think your dad was too, but that was just one of the influences.“There’s an awful lot more because ‘Strawberry Fields’ and ‘Penny Lane’, those are very much us remembering our youth.

Maren Morris holds onto her son, Hayes Hurd, in her brand new music video for “Better Than We Found It”.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a week when nearly everything you read makes you wince, duck or want to run, here’s a bunch of songs that both reflect and offer refuge from the trainwreck of 2020.Two songs that reflect this reality have already been covered in Variety’s virtual pages this week: Maren Morris’ brave and conscience-tugging “Better Than We Found It,” a clear call from a new mom to take this moment to reflect on the decisions we’re making today and what they’ll mean for future generations – in other words, #VOTE with your conscience. On a similar note, Jojo’s “The Change” is the official theme song of the Biden-Harris campaign and was written by  written by Diane Warren (see Variety’s exclusive interview with the two of them

Maren Morris spoke to the current cultural moment with a powerful protest song inspired by her baby boy, Shawn Mendes launched a «Wonder»-ful new era with a soaring, introspective single, and DaBaby joined Dua Lipa for a remix that will leave you «Levitating.»Plus, BLACKPINK dropped their first full Korean-language album, Mariah Carey released her collection and Dolly Parton blessed us with her new holiday album!Read on for some of our favorite recommendations for new songs and albums to listen to this week — plus, where you can stream them now!Morris welcomed her first child, son Hayes, earlier this year, amid the cultural unrest and coronavirus pandemic that has thrown America into chaos.

Maren Morris is back with new music.

Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan and Maren Morris will all perform at this year’s show -- and they're all also nominated with some of the year's best music videos and performances.McBryde and Dan + Shay are two of the top nominees at this year's Music Awards — country music’s only entirely fan-voted awards show -- tied with Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett. All scored three nods apiece and are competing in the coveted «Video of the Year» category. 

They also followed this up with Don’t Talk Just Kiss and Deeply Dippy.The band opened for the likes of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and David Bowie at the peak of their success.Back in 2017, Taylor Swift used their chorus from I’m Too Sexy to inspire her track Look What You Made Me Do.After the song was released, the duo gave their blessing, by labelling the updated version as “marvellous reinvention”.The band were approached by Taylor's team before the song's release and gave their permission for the song to be used.They recalled: “We had people on the phone from the US just checking that we were okay for her to use it and that we were cool with it and weren't going to kick up a fuss."“Which, obviously, we didn't," band member Richard Fairbrass

Prep and American Wife. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she studied at Stanford University and earned her master’s degree at the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Happy Birthday Olivia Newton–John! The Australian actress, who is celebrating her 72nd birthday, has been in the spotlight since the release of Grease in 1978. Her star has continued to rise over the years, as she pursued a career on screen, and in the recording studio. She’s now one of the most recognizable movie musical stars of all time, but her career actually began at the age of 14 when she created an all-girl group, called Sol Four, with three of her classmates.