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Olivia Rodrigo took the piano to sing her smash debut single “Drivers License” on Friday night — during the first of four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on her “Guts” World Tour — it was almost as if she had outgrown the song.Just three years ago — when the breakup ballad floored it to No. 1 in 2021, putting the pop ingenue on the fast track to three Grammys — Rodrigo had yet to graduate from Disney’s “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” So singing about the rite of passage of getting your driver’s license made her feel just like the 17-year-old that she was when she wrote, recorded and released her first of three chart-toppers.Flash forward to April 2024, and Rodrigo has made Disney a distant memory, leaving “High School Musical” in 2022, graduating from playing Radio City Music Hall on 2022’s “Sour” Tour to making her headlining debut at the big daddy of New York arenas.

according to 12News.The “Workin’ on” singer was transported to Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa where he is in the Intensive Care Unit.Ford was listed in stable but critical condition, the outlet added.The Post has reached out to his reps for comment.Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, is prominent on the country-rap music scene and has been featured on several tracks with other country music stars.He, alongside Brantley Gilbert, co-wrote “Dirt Road Anthem” which the duo originally recorded before Jason Aldean made the song famous on his 2010 album “My Kinda Party.” Ford has also collaborated with various stars including Jake Owen, Chase Rice, Walker Hayes, Toby Keith, Lady A and Willie Nelson.In 2022, Ford was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, a chronic neuromuscular autoimmune disease that causes weakness in the voluntary muscles.The singer previously said the disease affected his eye more than his throat or face.“It hadn’t really affected my throat, but it really affected my eye. I had no control over my right eye,” Colt told Taste of Country in 2023.

Taylor Swift fans for “putting words into my mouth” after she seemingly shaded Swift for not being environmentally conscious. “Okay so it would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth and actually read what I said in that billboard article,” the 22-year-old singer wrote in an Instagram story.

BBC. “It’s very clear.

The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature.A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk crooner Bob Dylan’s award from the sainted Swedish institution of an example of how much music has changed. To draw their conclusions, a team of researchers from Europe pored over the words to roughly 12,000 songs in English across a variety of genres from rap to rock to R&B, written between 1980 and 2020, The Guardian reported.Their findings were exactly as anyone over the age of 40 might have suspected — lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, angrier and more self-obsessed.“What we have also been witnessing in the last 40 years is a drastic change in the music landscape — from how music is sold to how music is produced,” said senior study author Eva Zangerle, recommendations systems expert at the University of Innsbruck.The study declined to name and shame any newer artists, but instead spoke of how lyrics can be a “mirror of society,” reflecting a culture’s shifting values and preoccupations.The study, published in Scientific Reports, concentrated on emotions expressed, repetitiveness and word choice, particularly to see how often difficult or unusual words were used.

So decreed Queen B in a rare lengthy Instagram post about “Cowboy Carter,” which is “Act II” in her “Renaissance” trilogy that began with the underground house beats of her 2022 album that had us buzzing and bopping to “Break My Soul,” “Cuff It” and “Alien Superstar.”And while it may seem like a hair-whipping flip to take it from the ballroom to the barnyard on her latest, it is not as radical of a departure as it may seem for Bey herself, who hails from Houston, Texas, and is as Southern as any hummingbird could be.“They used to say I spoke ‘too country’/And the rejection came, said I wasn’t ‘country ’nough’/Said I wouldn’t saddle up/But if that ain’t country, tell me, what is?” she sings with a snarl in her twang on “Ameriican Requiem,” the autobiographical manifesto that opens the album.This is Bey unplugged, raw and rootsy, two-stepping across the color lines that took “Texas Hold ’Em” — the banjo-picking bluegrass stomper that previewed “Cowboy Carter” last month — all the way to No.

famous mom’s album “Act II: Cowboy Carter.”The country music-inspired record dropped on Friday, with Rumi appearing on the single “Protector.”“Mom, can I hear the lullaby, please?” Rumi croons on the track as the Grammy winner, 42, then sings: “And I will lead you down that road if you lose your way/ Born to be a protector, mm-hmm/ Even though I know someday you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your projector, mmm, mm-hmm.”“Even though I know some day you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your projector, yeah, yeah/ And even though I know some day you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your protector, born to be a protector,” Beyoncé goes on.Rumi — who is the twin sister of brother Sir Carter — is not the only singer in the family. Alongside parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z, older sister Blue Ivy, 12, also has some pipes on her.

an interview with Billboard, the singer, who recently won her second Oscar for her song “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie,” denounced the growing music industry practice of releasing multiple “vinyl variants.”A vinyl variant is a different pressing of the same album with slight alterations, such as multiple color options or even including additional tracks. Offering several versions encourages super fans to buy all of them.

Whole Lot of Love.”Singer Duffy made her first public statement in nearly four years with an Instagram video posted Tuesday.“One day you’re going to see it, that happiness was always about the discovery,” the voiceover in the video says. “The hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to yourself.”“One day you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others,” it continues.

Diana Ross.I will never forget mini me waiting with my dad where she was expected to make her grand entrance through the audience and to the rotating stage at Valley Forge Music Fair in the Philadelphia suburbs.Seeing the Supreme One come out in a flurry of feathers and sequins to “I’m Coming Out” — the 1980 Chic-produced classic and enduring LGBTQ anthem that she recorded without realizing that “coming out” was a declaration of queer liberation — it was like witnessing a real-life goddess on earth. Right there in Devon, Pennsylvania.For me, the love for the artist, the legend born Diane Ross 80 years ago on March 26, 1944 — her birth certificate was mistakenly filled out with the name Diana — has been an endless one.She had me from the moment I got my little hands on my dad’s 8-track tape of her eponymous 1976 album, as her meticulously beat face stared out at me before enchanting me with her No.

Nicki Minaj accidentally suffered a wardrobe malfunction that exposed her breast during an Orlando, Fla., concert on Friday. According to a video posted on Instagram, the incident occurred at the Kia Center during Minaj’s “Pink Friday 2” tour when the singer was passing around her microphone to fans while singing the chorus of her 2014 hit “The Night Is Still Young.” Minaj, 41, can be seen holding onto the yellow material of the dress as she hands the mic to someone in the crowd.The nip-slip occurred after the “Super Bass” singer told someone to put down their phone “and live in the moment.” “Oh my God, my boob,” the singer mouthed. The visibly shocked “Anaconda” singer quickly fixed her outfit before demanding the audience member to return the microphone.

peptic ulcer disease that forced him to take a six-month break from his world tour with the E Street Band.Indeed, at one point, the man who was born to roar was scared that he might never perform live again.“When I had the stomach problem, one of the big problems was I couldn’t sing,” said Springsteen, 74, in an interview on SiriusXM’s “E Street Radio With Jim Rotolo” program.“You sing with your diaphragm. My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know? So, I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.”Springsteen feared the worst-case scenario.“Before people told me, ‘Oh no, it’s gonna go away, and you’re gonna be OK.’ [But] you’re thinking like, ‘Hey, am I gonna sing again?’” said Springsteen.

Jennifer Lopez is still getting ruthlessly mocked. Last week, she got trolled for a clip from her film “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.”And now, Lopez’s Bronx go-to bodega order is going viral.

commented. “I’m not even trying to be funny when I say I thought this was Megan Rapinoe,” a second person said, referring to the former winger of the USWNT who retired in Nov.

battle with peptic ulcer disease. “Phoenix, first I want to apologize if there was any discomfort because we had to move the show last time,” Springsteen told the crowd toward the end of the show, per the Associated Press. “I hope we didn’t inconvenience you too much.”The nearly three-hour show featured all of the Boss’ greatest hits and his equally talented E Street Band — minus Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, who serves as an extra singer and guitarist.

The Sunday Times asked if the jam-packed talk was valid, she said: “Not true.”In 2022, Shakira and Piqué announced their split after 11 years together. The exes share sons Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.“For a long time I put my career on hold, to be next to Gerard, so he could play football,” she added to the outlet.“There was a lot of sacrifice for love.”In January 2023, reports claimed that a container of fruit jelly made the Colombian singer suspicious of the athlete’s alleged infidelity.ShowNews Today said at the time that Shakira came home one evening to find the jam — which was a flavor that no one in her family enjoys — missing from the glass receptacle.The lost spread caused the “Whenever, Wherever” musician to become doubtful and led her to believe that someone else had been in her home.Shakira and Piqué first crossed paths on the set of the music video for her song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa”) in 2010.The sports star has been dating Clara Chía Martí since 2022, while the “Oral Fixation” singer has been previously linked to F1 star Lewis Hamilton.Shakira appeared to slam the new couple in her songs “TQG” and “BZRP Music Session #53,” which dropped last year.

that Bruno Mars owes the company $50 million in gambling debt.“We’re proud of our relationship with Bruno Mars, one of the world’s most thrilling and dynamic performers. From his shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM to the new Pinky Ring lounge at Bellagio, Bruno’s brand of entertainment attracts visitors from around the globe,” the company told the Post in a statement.“MGM and Bruno’s partnership is longstanding and rooted in mutual respect. Any speculation otherwise is completely false; he has no debt with MGM,” the statement continued.

living on prayer.Jon Bon Jovi hopes to tour again after recovering from “major” vocal cord surgery. “Oh I don’t know about a tour,” Bon Jovi, 62, told Mix 104.1 Boston in an interview on Friday. “It is my desire to do a tour next year but I’m just still recovering from a major surgery.” “Although I’m well on the road to recovery and was able to take my time and do a song a day when I made the record, the “Dead or Alive” crooner continued.

took to Instagram to update fans on her health struggles on Friday, which also marked International Stiff Person Syndrome Awareness Day. Dion — who has been suffering from the illness since 2022 — smiled in an accompanying photo with her three sons, René-Charles Angélil, 25, and twins Nelson and Eddy, 13.She shares her sons with her late husband, René Angélil, who died in 2016.She thanked her fans and family for sticking by her side amid her harrowing health crisis.“Today the world recognizes International SPS Awareness Day,” the “My Heart Will Go On” crooner penned.“Trying to overcome this autoimmune disorder has been one of the hardest experiences of my life, but I remain determined to one day get back onto the stage and to live as normal of a life as possible.

Justin Timberlake’s last studio album, 2018’s “Man of the Woods,” on which the pop superstar got his Americana on.But many of the fans who had rocked their bodies to his previous hit LPs — from 2002’s “Justified” to 2006’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” to 2013’s “The 20/20 Experience” — weren’t feeling the flannel on JT.And, by his lofty standards, “Man of the Woods” was the first (relative) flop of his career. It was the first real misstep from a man who had seemed to have all the right moves as he smoothly grooved from curly haired boy-bander to sexy-MFing solo sensation.But on “Everything I Thought It Was,” Timberlake, now 43, is back to being a Man of the Dance Floor, a Man of the Bedroom and even, once again, a Man of the Boy Band.(Yup, *NSYNC is back!)Suffice to say, Chris Stapleton is nowhere to be found on this joint.Clearly, Timberlake is trying — almost desperately — to make up for lost time on his sixth solo LP, which stretches out to 77 minutes.And no, it’s not a double album.

Lt. Robert Walsh, a bagpiper and FDNY paramedic, typically plays funerals and memorials, but those who enjoy the sound of the woodwind instrument can also catch him in a more convivial setting. He regularly practices in Central Park along the west side of the 102nd Street Transverse, where he draws in droves of fans.