Big MachineFor Florida Georgia Line, Life Rolls On this week, as their fifth studio album arrives on Friday.
The sixteen-track collection kicks off with the duo’s latest top ten hit, “Long Live.”
“We wrote this song on the Can’t Say I Ain’t Country Tour,” Brian Kelley recalls, “on our bus with some good buddies, and it was a good time. Before a show, I think we were just kind of kickin’ around ideas and somebody threw out ‘Long Live’ or ‘Long Live Nights Like These’ and we were off to the races.”
From there, Brian, Tyler Hubbard, and their co-writers started a nostalgic stroll down memory lane.
“I think we just started talking about things that mean a lot to us,” Brian continues, “the simple things: workin’ hard, playin’ hard, families, good friends, good times, Walmart parking lot parties. Hey, love ‘em — always have!”
For FGL, the sentiments in “Love Live” have only intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“You know, this song has taken on a new meaning for us, I think, even in the midst of these uncertain times,” Brian reflects.
“Crank it up and let’s celebrate this amazing life we do get to live!” he adds. “Let’s celebrate all the wins that we get baby.”
Life Rolls On is far from the only new music these days from FGL. They’re also climbing the chart with “Drinkin’ Beer Talkin’ God Amen” with their former housemate Chase Rice, as well as Tyler’s duet with Tim McGraw on “Undivided.”
They’re featured on the track “It’s About Time” on Russell Dickerson‘s Southern Symphony album, too.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company(TAMPA BAY) — The Super Bowl ended with Tom Brady adding his seventh championship ring to his impressive collection after he took the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-7 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, some commercials scored big with the audience — and if it wasn’t part of the parade of infinite celebrity cameos, it was the teaser trailers.
Here’s a look at some of the most talked about ads that debuted during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Movies
Disney uploaded another sneak peek of their upcoming animated fantasy adventure Raya and the Last Dragon, which stars Awkwafina and Kelly Marie Tran, which partially answered why the world is so broken. In addition, the trailer also showed more about Awkwafina’s… well… awkward dragon character, who wasn’t so sure about swinging across a large fissure on Raya’s back. The movie is due out March 5. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.
Disney unveiled the first look of its upcoming series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which tells the story of the two heroes adjusting after Captain America permanently hangs up his shield. The series, starring Anthony Mackie as Sam (AKA Falcon) and Sebastian Stan as Bucky (AKA Winter Soldier,) also gives the audience a glimpse of their team dynamic — or lack thereof — as they fight their way through a barrage of bad guys. The series is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 19. Marvel is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
After having its release bumped because of COVID-19, the audience enjoyed a sneak peek of the highly anticipated F9: The Fast Saga and showed off even more high-octane chases, death-defying stunts and some pretty spectacular special effects. Although the snippet doesn’t reveal a release date, the movie is said to hit theaters “soon.”
Fans earned a sneak-peek of M. Night Shyamalan’s horror flick Old, which tells the story of a beach with magical properties that age people — sometimes dramatically. Children turn into adults, a woman’s early pregnancy jumps into the third trimester and adults threaten to age out of existence. The movie is due out in July.
Coming to theaters on April 2 is Nobody, which tells the story of a family man (Bob Odenkirk) who harbors a dark secret. After he finds himself in the crosshairs of a powerful drug lord, he makes them wish they never learned the name Hutch Mansell.
Coming to the streamer Paramount+ is the Yellowstonespinoff, Y:1883. The series released its first teaser during the Big Game, which serves as the Dutton family’s origin story. The series is set to premiere later this year.
Celebrity-driven
M&M’s tapped Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy for their commercial, which shows people offering bags of the chocolate coated candy as a form of apology for doing something annoying, like taking too long at confession or “mansplaining.” However, when it comes to Levy, he offers a bag of apology to the Yellow and Brown M&M’s for “eating your friends.” The commercial ends with Red locked in Levy’s car, with the actor admitting he intends to eat him, too.
Dolly Parton updated her classic workplace anthem, “9 to 5,” in honor of those who get home from their day jobs just to spend their evenings working on their side hustle. The new song, “5 to 9,” is part of an ad campaign for website creation and hosting company Squarespace. The commercial featured the lyrics, “Working 5 to 9, you’ve got passion and a vision / ‘Cause it’s hustlin’ time, whole new way to make a livin / Gonna change you life, do something that gives it meaning / With a website that is worthy of your dreaming.”
Michael B. Jordan played a super-sexy Alexa for Amazon’s new Super Bowl commercial. The hilarious commercial takes place at Amazon’s headquarters, where several employees are admiring the new sphere-like Amazon Echo before a female employee thinks of the one way they could perfect the Echo’s vessel — if it was s built into this year’s People‘s Sexiest Man Alive.
Gwen Stefani, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton told an alternate story as to how Gwen and Blake became an item — teaming with T-Mobile to explain how a bad cell connection can lead to a misunderstanding from Adam, which leads to a disastrous blind date.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher teamed with Shaggy to bring his 2000 hit “It Wasn’t Me” to life for a Cheetos commercial. Mila was caught orange-handed stealing her husband’s beloved snack, who sings the reggae hit before Shaggy takes over with the updated lyrics. Meanwhile, Mila — whose face and fingers are covered in orange dust — continually says, “Wasn’t me” when asked repeatedly if she stole the Cheetos.
Tracy Morgan teamed with Dave Bautista and Liza Koshy for a Rocket Mortgage commercial, where the three showed why “pretty sure” sometimes doesn’t cut it — like if parachutes work or if murder hornets deliver a killing sting.
Matthew McConaughey, Mindy Kaling and Jimmy Kimmel teamed up to usher in the grand return of Doritos 3D snacks. Set to Queen’s “I Want to Break Free,” a two-dimensional McConaughey hilariously tries to get back to his old self. His current form is very prone to being blown away by a small breeze or sucked up by a Roomba.
Amy Schumer needed more mayo in a commercial for Hellmann’s, where she just buys an obscene amount of the condiment before bagging them in her special Hellmann’s bag.
Timothée Chalamet and Winona Ryder teamed for a Cadillac commercial that offered up a potential continuation of Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands — by literally asking what happened if the two had a son, named Edgar.
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey reprised their respective roles as Wayne and Garth in a Wayne’s Worldspot for Uber Eats, which also featured Cardi B while DoorDash tapped Hamilton and Snowpiercer star Daveed Diggs along with The Muppets to show off how much easier the apps can make life.
Don Cheadle stumped for Michelob ULTRA to advertise their new organic seltzer brand by hosting a challenge over who can spot the celebrity and who is a lookalike — spoiler, Cheadle is the only celebrity to star in the commercial rife with very convincing doppelgängers.
Will Ferrell explained how much he hated Norway in an ad for General Motors, which also starred Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina in a race to lay the smackdown on the green-energy country. The issue is everyone travels to a country that ISN’T Norway, like Finland or Sweden.
Budweiser tapped stars from commercial past, such as Post Malone, Cedric the Entertainer and the Bud Light Knight to clean up a major Bud Light spill on the freeway.
Terry Bradshaw, Jerome Bettis, Marshawn Lynch, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Peyton and Eli Manning, and Deion Sanders all appeared for Frito-Lay for a “Twas the Night before Super Bowl” commercial.
John Travolta, Martha Stewart, The Office star Leslie David Baker, The Mandalorian‘s Carl Weathers NASCAR star Kyle Busch and fitness instructor Emma Lovewell teamed for Scotts Miracle-Gro Super Bowl commercial. The 45-second spot, which features Travolta dusting off his moves from Grease, advertises the company’s “The Dream Lawn and Garden Giveaway,” where one lucky person will win exactly that.
Nick Jonas aged himself up for Dexcom’s Super Bowl commercial. The commercial advertises a new technology that allows diabetics like Nick to check their blood sugar levels without having to prick their fingers and test their blood.
Nine Inch Nails’ Atticus Ross also starred in an uplifting Anheuser-Busch commercial, which celebrated “life’s most meaningful moments” that happen over a beer.
Serena Williams teamed for Michelob ULTRA for their commercial about having a “happy” Super Bowl. The ad explores what comes after the big win and why joy should be the whole game.
Notable ads
The Internet has awarded Huggies for their innovative Big Game commercial because the company opted to go-real time and share images of babies born on February 7, 2021. The commercial was their welcome into the world.
As for the funniest, Samuel Adams managed to give the Internet a good “tee hee” by parodying the Budweiser Clydesdales — who were noticeably absent from this year’s commercial roundup — to which the commercial explains how “Your Cousin from Boston” accidentally turned them loose.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Utah 103, Indiana 95 Miami 109, New York 103 Charlotte 119 Washington 97 Phoenix 100, Boston 91 Sacramento 113, LA Clippers 110 Portland at Charlotte (Postponed)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Philadelphia 7, Washington 4 Vegas 4, Los Angeles 3 Detroit 4, Florida 1 Chicago 2, Dallas 1 (OT) Carolina 6, Columbus 5 Arizona at Minnesota (Postponed) Colorado at St. Louis (Postponed)
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Tampa Bay 31, Kansas City 9
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Villanova 84, Georgetown 74 Indiana 67, Iowa 65 Valparaiso 74, Drake 57 Xavier at Villanova (Postponed)
(NEW YORK) — Two weather stories continue to unfold across the U.S. this weekend, one being a winter storm moving into the Northeast and the other being a major push of polar air into the Midwest that will linger through the next week.
The trailing cold front from the storm in the east is bringing some severe weather to parts of Florida and a tornado watch has been issued for parts of the state until 7 a.m., including Tampa Bay which is hosting the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Heavy snow is moving through the mid-Atlantic this morning and will begin to push into the major northeast cities through the morning hours.
Snowfall rates could reach 2 inches per hour in the heaviest bands of snow during the day today.
The ultimate location of these heavy bands will determine which areas get the most snow and which areas will get only a little.
In those heavier bands, visibility could quickly deteriorate and the most intense snowfall is expected in the Northeast through afternoon with the storm leaving the region early evening hours.
The latest computer model guidance is identifying that some of the heaviest bands of snow will likely remain just offshore.
However, there still is a potential for a couple of scattered heavy bands to moving to the northeast region on Sunday.
Due to some of these changes, anywhere from 1 to 6 inches of snow is possible in the Northeast on Sunday with the most being in southeast New England.
In and around the New York City area, 2 to 4 inches of snow is likely and, regardless of exact snow amounts, dangerous travel is expected.
Behind this storm, life threatening wind chills continues to dominate the Midwest with wind chills reaching as low as -50.
Wind chills this morning in major cities like Chicago and Indianapolis are well below zero and even parts of the South are getting some of their coldest air of the season with wind chills in the teens and single digits.
The main weather story through the upcoming week with be the brutally cold air that will persist over the central U.S.
The most notable point about this cold air is the duration of how long the cold air seems to be sticking around in the Midwest.
Several disturbances will ride the jet stream at the edge of this brutally cold air and bring some quick moving hits of snow across parts of the Midwest and Northeast this week.
Most of these systems appear to be quick moving though and only should only bring light snow to most regions.
Toward the end of the week, however, a couple of more organized systems could bring some widespread winter weather impacts, although it remains unclear how impactful the end of the week wintry weather will be at this point.
Unfortunately, the brutally cold air looks like it will expand its grip significantly by the end of the week and will dominate much of the eastern and central U.S. with even the east coast and southern regions seeing well below average temperatures.
(SALT LAKE CITY) — Four skiers are dead after an avalanche Saturday in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, authorities said.
The avalanche occurred in a backcountry region of Millcreek Canyon. Eight skiers were in the area of Wilson Basin, which is not affiliated with any ski resorts, when they triggered the avalanche, Sgt. Melody Cutler of Millcreek’s Unified Police Department said.
All eight were caught in the avalanche. A couple of skiers were able to dig themselves and the deceased skiers out, Cutler said.
Rescue crews were notified of the avalanche at 11:40 a.m. local time. The four survivors had minor injuries and were rescued via helicopter. Rescue teams were working to bring the deceased off the mountain, Cutler said.
The ages of the skiers range from early 20s to late 30s, Cutler said.
The accident occurred amid warnings of high avalanche danger for the region.
At 7 a.m. local time Saturday, the Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center issued a backcountry avalanche warning for the mountains of northern Utah. It remains in effect through 6 a.m. Sunday.
Cutler stressed that it’s important to pay attention to those warnings.
“There’s been advisories out recently about the very high avalanche danger that exists with the current conditions,” Cutler told Salt Lake City ABC affiliate KTVX. “This is a very unfortunate circumstance with these conditions.”
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox reacted to news of the deadly avalanche on Twitter.
“This is a terrible tragedy and our prayers go out to the victims and families involved,” he said. “We are grateful to the first responders and others who engaged in this rescue and recovery effort. With avalanche danger high right now, please exercise extreme caution.”
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Canyon Search and Rescue Unit, Unified Police Department, Unified Fire Authority and others were involved in the response, Mayor Jenny Wilson said.
“We are heartbroken over the tragic news of four fatalities as the result of an avalanche in the Millcreek Canyon area this afternoon,” Wilson tweeted. “We deeply mourn the loss of life due to this devastating incident.”
This is Utah’s third fatal avalanche this year, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
Two people died last month in separate avalanches in the Salt Lake region.
On Jan. 30, a 57-year-old man was killed while skiing in the backcountry adjacent to the Park City Mountain Resort’s Canyons Village. Three weeks earlier, a 31-year-old snowboarder was buried after descending a slope with another skier in the backcountry of the Canyons Village area on Jan. 8.
Big MachineFor Florida Georgia Line, Life Rolls On this week, as their fifth studio album arrives on Friday.
