Dylan Scott‘s breakthrough number one, “My Girl,” was inspired by the mother of his two children, and his current hit, “Nobody,” was as well.
“Basically, I looked at Blair and I told her one day,” he explains, “I was like, ‘You know what? Nobody’s ever gonna love you the way I’m gonna love you.’ I was trying to get brownie points, you know?”
“But it worked,” the Louisiana native continues, “And then I went and wrote it, and what’s really cool is the way that the fans have [responded to] it, you know.”
Even as far back as the fall of 2019, Dylan says concert-goers were reacting to “Nobody” just as they did to his hits like “Hooked” and “Nothing to Do Town.” He believes there’s no better green light for a track to be a single than that feedback.
“When I sit down to write a song, the first thing I do when I’m writing is go, ‘Okay, can I see myself performing this song on stage and can I see the crowd enjoying it and singing it back and having a good time?'” he says.
“And so, in my opinion, the fans are, they’re the judge, you know,” he adds. “If they’re not singing along and not enjoying it, then why would I release that as a single?”
Dylan says there’s no doubt “Nobody” is his favorite song from his Nothing to Do Town EP, which came out in April of 2019.
Morgan Wallen has broken his silence amid the controversy and fallout after a video depicting him shouting racial slurs leaked online last week.
In a five minute video posted Wednesday, the 27-year-old country singer accepted responsibility for his actions and shared a stern message to fans, ordering them to stop defending his behavior.
“I let so many people down,” said Wallen, revealing that he spent the past week apologizing to those most impacted by his words and that he’s been meeting with Black leaders to “engage in some very real and honest conversations.”
After the video surfaced online, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) offered to educate Wallen about the history and harm of using racial slurs.
“One thing I’ve learned already that I’m specifically sorry for is that my words matter, that words can truly hurt a person, and at my core that’s not what I’m okay with,” said Wallen, who says he is now sober. “I know what I’m going through this week doesn’t even compare to some of the trials I heard about from them.”
“Our actions matter, our words matter, and I just want to encourage anyone watching to please learn from my mistake,” he furthered, before asking a “favor” from his fans. “I appreciate those who still see something in me and have defended me. But, for today, please don’t. I was wrong. It’s on me to take ownership of this and I fully accept any penalties I’m facing.”
As a result of the video, Big Loud Records suspended Wallen’s contract “indefinitely” and talent agency WME dropped him as a client. In addition, the 27-year-old was removed from CMT airplay, barred from ACM Award eligibility and numerous radio companies refused to play his music on air.
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Shia LaBeouf is denying all allegations of abuse lodged against him by his ex, FKA Twigs.
The stance comes two months after Twigs, born Tahliah Barnett, sued the 34-year-old actor claiming he “tormented” her, brandished a firearm while driving, and “knowingly” gave her an STD, among other accusations of similarly violent and controlling behavior during their relationship.
In response to the lawsuit, the Disturbia star’s legal team, as published by People, state that he “denies, generally and specifically, each and every allegation contained in [Barnett]’s Complaint, denies that [Barnett] has sustained any injury or loss by reason of any act or omission on the part of [LaBeouf], and denies that [Barnett] is entitled to any relief or damages whatsoever.”
In addition to denying all claims, LaBeouf is requesting that Twigs cover his legal costs and “further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.”
The news comes just after LaBeouf reportedly ended his working relationship with talent agency CAA as he takes a hiatus from acting to focus on his mental health.
(LOS ANGELES) — Juvenile great white shark populations have been increasingly moving up the California coast as climate change warms ocean waters, according to a new study.
The marine predators typically remain in warmer waters in the Southern California current, but an “unprecedented” number of sightings emerged in central California during the 2014 to 2016 heatwave, and now the sharks have migrated even farther north, the study, published Monday in Nature Scientific Reports, states.
A “dramatic increase” in baby great white sharks has been found off Monterey Bay since 2014, especially in juvenile sharks less than 2.5 meters in body length, according to the study. Small white sharks had been reported in the area prior to 2014, but the presence of juveniles had been “non-existent or extremely rare” before that point, scientists said.
Monterey Bay has always been home to larger great white sharks, but they had never ventured so far north because it was too cold, Dr. Salvadore Jorgensen, Ph.D, research associate at the University of California, Santa Cruz and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News.
The emergence of the juvenile white shark populations was “unexpected, sudden and outpaced established scientific monitoring programs,” the study states.
The baby sharks prefer a “Goldilocks” temperature range of between 60 and 70 degrees, which has shifted about 175 miles north since 2014, Jorgensen said. Through historical records and satellite imagery, the researchers determined that they are tracking a warming ocean, he said.
Juvenile white sharks on the West Coast typically reside in nursery areas off northern Mexico and southern California, and they remain in a “relatively narrow” temperature band, which is a distinct pattern within white shark populations, researchers said. White sharks are “unique” because they are endotherms, mammal-like with warm bodies, and the smaller sharks are unable to maintain the temperature in colder temperatures, Jorgensen said.
The growing migration is signaling the “real danger” of climate change and “the way that oceans are changing so quickly,” he added.
However, although the juvenile sharks have been migrating north, their overall habitat has declined as climate change redistributes marine species and ecosystems, according to the study.
The ecosystem in the Northeast Pacific waters has experienced extreme conditions over the past decade, highlighted by unusually warm conditions from 2013 to 2016, according to the study. In the fall of 2014, a warm mass of surface water, often described as the “Pacific Warm Anomaly” or “the Blob” entered Southern California and created persistent warm waters that endured the El Nino events in 2015 to 2016 and 2018 to 2019, scientists said.
The warming anomalies over multiple years has caused widespread shifts in species, multiple unusual mortality events and impact to commercial fisheries across the region.
In addition, the sharks are the “single greatest mortality source” facing Southern sea otters as reports of strandings of the threatened species with shark bites increase. When the juvenile white sharks bite the sea otters, it is investigative, rather than consumptive, as sea otters and their lack of blubber are not a food source for great white sharks, according to the study.
The shift in shark population is also significant because it can potentially create problems with commercial fisheries, protected species conservation and public safety concerns, according to the study.
It was members of the communities that discovered the uptick of juvenile white sharks in the area, Jorgensen said.
“It was our job as scientists to find out what’s happening,” he added.
Kelly Sorenson, owner of the On The Beach Surf Shop in Monterey, told ABC News that he was surfing with his sons at Del Monte Beach on the south end of Monterey Bay in 2019 when they saw a juvenile shark about 20 yards out. However, he said he was not threatened by the young shark’s presence.
“You’re already aware, swimming in that zone,” he said. “You know, they’re juvenile. As long as mommy’s not out there, that’s fine.”
In May 2020, a surfer was killed in a shark attack about 100 yards off the shore of Manresa State Beach on the north end of Monterey Bay.
A drone photographer told local Bay Area news station KRON at the time that he had observed dozens of great white sharks swimming in the area in the days before the attack
Sorensen said that while he believes drones are making the sharks more visible, he is now “more aware” that they’re out there.
“They’re the talk of the town when people see them,” he said.
(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — The Kansas City Chiefs have placed outside linebackers coach Britt Reid on administrative leave amid an investigation into a car crash that left two young children injured.
“Outside Linebackers Coach Britt Reid has been placed on administrative leave following last Thursday’s multi-vehicle accident,” the professional football team said in a statement Tuesday. “We remain in the process of gathering information on the incident, and we will continue to assist local authorities as requested.”
Reid, 35, was involved in a three-vehicle collision on a highway near the Kansas City Chiefs’ training complex next to Arrowhead Stadium on Feb. 4. Reid was driving a Ram pickup truck when he struck two vehicles that were stopped on the side of southbound Interstate 435 just after 9 p.m. local time, according to a search warrant filed in Jackson County Circuit Court on Saturday by a detective with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department.
A 4-year-old child who was in the back seat of one of the vehicles that was hit was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. A 5-year-old child who was also in the backseat was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. All other vehicle occupants suffered minor injuries, according to a press release from the Kansas City Missouri Police Department.
“The 5-year-old child injured in this incident remains in critical condition with a brain injury,” police said in a statement Monday.
The Kansas City Chiefs has identified the critically injured child as Ariel Young.
“Our focus remains on Ariel Young and her family,” the team said in the statement Tuesday. “We have reached out to the family to offer our support and resources to them during this difficult time, and we will continue to pray for her recovery.”
Police have said they are investigating whether Reid was impaired before the crash and that the probe could take several weeks.
ABC News has reached out to Reid for comment. It was unclear whether he has obtained legal representation.
The search warrant filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, which was obtained by Kansas City ABC affiliate KMBC, requested access to Reid’s cellphone to “determine if there was any phone activity prior to or at the time of the crash, that may have distracted his attention, and whether the phone was used after the crash to communicate about the incident with other persons.” Police seized Reid’s phone on Saturday, shortly after the warrant was granted, according to KMBC.
Reid did not travel with the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl LV in Tampa last weekend because he was still hospitalized, a source told ESPN’s Dianna Russini. He could be hospitalized for days due to his injuries, the source said.
Reid’s father, Andy Reid, who is head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, addressed the crash during a press conference Sunday night after his team lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Super Bowl.
“My heart goes out to all those that were involved in the accident, in particular the family with the little girl who is fighting for her life,” Andy Reid said. “And listen, it’s a tough situation. I can’t comment on it any more than what I am here, so the questions that you have I’m going to have to turn those down at this time. But just from a human standpoint, my heart bleeds for everybody involved in that.”
ABC News’ Nicholas Cirone, Katie Conway, Matt Foster, Henderson Hewes and Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.
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