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Miranda Lambert teases new collaboration with Elle King

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ABCIt appears that Miranda Lambert and Elle King have another collaboration in the works. 

The two singers turned to Twitter on Monday to tease the new song, Billboard confirms, Miranda posting a photo of the two with big hair and puffy 80s style dresses, with Elle wearing a white wedding dress while Miranda dons metallic pink. The “Bluebird” singer tagged Elle in the post, alongside the shifty eyes emoji. 

Meanwhile, Elle shared another shot of the two wearing suits, Miranda in mint green and Elle in powder blue writing, “The whiskey goes down better when they don’t know who you are…” both using #DRUNK in their posts. 

This isn’t the first time the two have worked together. Elle was one of the opening acts on Miranda’s all-female lineup for her 2019 Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour. She was also featured alongside Miranda and fellow opening acts Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes and Caylee Hammack on “Fooled Around and Fell in Love,” which was named Music Event of the Year at the 2020 ACM Awards. 

Elle also has a #1 country hit with Dierks Bentley on “Different For Girls.” 

 

 

By Cillea Houghton 
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"Love Story (Taylor's Version)" is Taylor Swift's first number-one debut…on the country chart

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Beth GarrabrantTaylor Swift has just accomplished something that only country icon and American treasure Dolly Parton has managed to do before: Hit number-one twice with two different versions of the same song.

As Billboard reports, “Love Story (Taylor’s Version),” the re-recorded version of Taylor’s 2008 hit, has debuted at number-one on the publication’s Hot Country Songs chart.  It’s her first number-one debut on this chart, and her eighth number-one on the chart overall. 

But this also marks the second time that “Love Story” has been number one on this chart.  The first time was, of course, in 2008, when “Love Story” was first released, and Taylor was a huge country star.  The only other time this has happened is with Dolly Parton’s classic song “I Will Always Love You.”

The original version of Dolly’s song was number-one on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1974, and then again in 1982, in a new version Dolly recorded for the soundtrack of her movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

In a statement, Taylor tells Billboard, “This is my first time having a No. 1 debut on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and I’m so grateful to the fans for making this a possibility. They’re the ones who emboldened me to reclaim my music and they really showed up this week to see it through.”

“It blows me away that they’ve sent a song to No. 1 that had its first life over a decade ago,” she adds. “I couldn’t be happier that it happened now, and in this way.”

Taylor’s re-recording is also being played on pop radio stations.

By Andrea Dresdale
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Hugh Grant says his son "self-harmed" over lockdown school stress

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Vera Anderson/WireImage(TURKEY) — Hugh Grant now has firsthand experience with the fear and frustration parents are feeling as the COVID-19 lockdown keeps their kids away from schools. 

In an otherwise cheery interview last week, moderated by his former Song and Lyrics co-star Drew Barrymore, the pair began talking about the difficulties their kids are having with remote learning.

“It’s ghastly,” Grant admitted, before saying, “my son self-harmed himself in front of this tutor.”

The gravity of the comment apparently took Barrymore by surprise, judging by the look on her face.

“He stabbed himself…in the face with a [pen]” Grant says, mimicking repeatedly stabbing himself, “because he couldn’t do a basic bit of arithmetic.” 

During the chat, part of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s “Conversations At Home” series, the 60-year-old Undoing star said he’d moved the family out of UK quarantines to be with him in Turkey where he’s shooting a film — and where he hired a pair of teenage tutors to work with his children.

Grant has three children with his wife since 2018, Anna Eberstein, as well as two with former partner, Tinglan Hong.

Unfortunately, Grant isn’t alone: The isolation and lack of social interaction has taken a toll on remotely-taught students’ mental health all over the globe, with the experts asserting the problem is only growing as lockdowns continue.

By Stephen Iervolino
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CMA partners with Nashville chefs to feed music industry personnel

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Country Music Association The Country Music Association is launching a new platform to support musicians in need. 

CMA is expanding its Music Industry COVID Support initiative to partner with nonprofit Touring Professionals Alliance to fund the Touring Professionals Alliance Kitchen program that provides meals to employees in the live music industry who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Over the course of a month, the program brings together a range of chefs from Nashville-based restaurants including Chopped judge Maneet Chauhan of Chaatable and Sean Brock, chef at his flagship restaurant Audrey. 

Each week from February 24 though March 24, music industry professionals can sign up to receive a meal from the participating restaurant.  

“The aid provided through the Touring Professionals Alliance Kitchen goes so much deeper than simply offering meals to industry professionals in need—TPA has created an environment for our friends to come together for a brief moment of relief in what has been an incredibly difficult year,” CMA CEO Sarah Trahern says in a statement.  

Touring Professionals Alliance Kitchen is also accepting donations here. 

By Cillea Houghton 
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Chase Bryant shares his story of attempted suicide

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Jeff Ray Chase Bryant is opening up about his experience with attempted suicide.  

In a video titled “This Is Me,” Chase emotionally shares how he took a three-year hiatus from the music business after scoring two top 10 singles “Take it On Back” and “Little Bit of You” in 2015, referring to himself as “very confused” and “very sick” as he battled depression and anxiety during his rise to fame.

“I was chasing success…I wasn’t chasing happiness,” Chase recalls to People. “I was trying to be something I wasn’t.”

One night in 2018, Chase got in his truck with a long hand-written note and a .357 revolver with six bullets in it and drove to a gas station. He placed the gun to his head and screamed “sorry” at the top of his lungs before pulling the trigger. But when he looked down, he found that the gun only had five bullets in it. 

“I realized that life is too short, don’t make it any shorter,” Chase recalls of what he thought when he got out of his truck that night. “Be yourself, love the people around you, and don’t ever forget your upbringing.”

Soon after, Chase returned to his roots in his home state of Texas, which inspired his new collection of music, including the single “Upbringing” that will be released on Friday. 

“What we’re doing here is a brand new beginning. The old me will never be forgotten, that’ll always be a picture in the back of my mind,” the singer says. “But the new me is the person I’ll get to live the rest of my life with.”

If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, or worried about a friend or loved one, help is available. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 [TALK] for free confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even if it feels like it, you are not alone. 

By Cillea Houghton 
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