Kaiser CunninghamTikTok user Kierra Lewis has Chase Rice cracking up with her reaction to his song, “Ride.”
In a viral TikTok video that’s amassed more than five million views, Kierra doesn’t hold back in her exuberant reaction to hearing the sensual song for the first time.
“This song had me acting a fool” she exclaims, with a picture of the single art behind her.
“I felt like I was in a scene of 50 Shades of Grey,” she adds, with Chase laughing all the while and calling Kierra his “hero.”
“Even if I gotta send a letter to heaven myself, I’m getting my prayers answered. I’m getting me a country man in 2021,” Kierra declares.
Originally co-written and recorded by pop singer SoMo, Chase released a cover of “Ride” in 2014 on his debut album, Ignite the Night, which reached #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard 200.
John Shearer/Getty Images for People Magazine(LOS ANGELES) — Jon M. Chu will direct Universal Pictures’ film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, Wicked.
After Deadline shared the announcement on Tuesday, Chu, who also directed 2018 smash-hit Crazy Rich Asians, as well as the upcoming adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, took to Twitter to confirm the news and share how meaningful the project is to him.
“Most of my life I have felt out of place, weird and different,” he wrote. “I hid behind my camera because people liked to be filmed and I could disappear. I used my short films to wow people so I could feel valued. I felt GREEN in all the ways.”
“But when I saw Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman‘s WICKED over 15 years ago as it was being workshopped in San Francisco I couldn’t unsee it,” Chu said.
“So to think that I have been invited to bring this timeless story to the biggest screens all around the world for people to experience with their family, best friends and total strangers…of all walks of life, ages, shapes and colors is like I’ve been invited to Oz by the Wizard himself.”
Book writer Winnie Holzman and composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz, who adapted Gregory Maguire‘s bestselling novel into the three-time, Tony Award-winning musical, will also work on the screenplay for Universal’s film adaptation.
Oscar-nominated producer Marc Platt will produce the film adaptation, Universal Pictures confirmed.
“Children alone knew about the magic of Oz through the original novels published from 1900 on,” Maguire toldGood Morning America in 2019. “When the famous MGM film, The Wizard of Oz, was made in 1939, the grownup world got in on the love affair. In 2021, Wicked’s story and its message will belong to the world in a new way.”
Rick Diamond/Getty ImagesGarth Brooks is one of the best-selling artists of all time, but he knows who the real star is when it comes to his and wife Trisha Yearwood‘s version of the number-one pop hit “Shallow.”
The couple sent a buzz of excitement through their fanbases when they announced they were recording a studio version of the Academy Award-winning song by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, after they’d performed an acoustic version during their CBS special last spring.
The enthusiasm for the couple’s rendition has yet to dissipate, with fans making it a point to tell the CMA Entertainer of the Year how awed they are by Trisha’s voice.
“In my world, you get used to this right here: ‘Hey man, Garth, I love you, but…’ And you know it’s coming, and that’s what I’ve heard about ‘Shallow,’” notes the superstar singer. “‘Hey, Garth, big fan, love your stuff, but, come on man, the queen, she’s singing her a** off!’”
“Well, she always does,” Garth says of Trisha. “But this was one of those things where she really got to show everybody second or third gear.”
Garth and Trisha’s version of “Shallow” is included on Garth’s latest album, FUN.
ABCDan + Shay and Darius Rucker are heading to Oates Fest.
The two country acts are among the newly announced additions to the lineup alongside Sara Bareilles, Gavin DeGraw, Jewel, Matt Nathanson, Louis York and others.
Multi-genre artists previously announced for the inaugural Oates Song Fest 7908, created by Hall & Oates member John Oates and his wife Aimee, include Dave Grohl, Hall & Oates lead singer Daryl Hall, “Say Hey” singer Michael Franti, Keb Mo, Big & Rich‘s Kenny Alphin and more.
“This will be an entertaining and innovative way for the music community to share their songwriting creativity in an effort help feed Americas’ hungry families in need,” John describes of Oates Fest in a statement.
The virtual event serves as a fundraiser for Feeding America. The livestream is free to watch and viewers will be able to donate to Feeding America throughout the show. It streams on nugs.net on March 20 at 9 p.m. ET.
FOX/Guy D’Alema(NEW YORK) — Fox’s medical drama The Resident found an interesting way to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Its recent season premiere showed both the danger and the toll the pandemic is still taking on the medical front line workers and their families as the country continues to grapple with the disease, but did so in flashbacks. In the first episode, series regular Denitra Isler’s Nurse Hundley nearly dies from the coronavirus, while Manish Dayal’s Dr. Pravesh loses his father to the disease.
But the show then jumped forward a year, imagining the virus threat has passed both us and the staff of the show’s Chastain Memorial Hospital, though they still grapple with its aftermath.
The producers’ choice to make The Resident post-pandemic was an interesting one, star Malcolm-Jamal Warner tells ABC Audio. He explains that, even as the show’s cast and crew has to deal with strict on-set COVID-19 safety protocols, it would be difficult to do a TV show where every storyline followed the disease.
“I mean, do we deal with, you know, how it really is and everybody has a mask?” asks Warner, who plays star surgeon A.J. Austin. “But then it’s like, well, no one’s going to want to watch a TV show when everybody has masks on in every single scene.”
Warner also said making the action post-pandemic provides some much-needed escape for the show’s viewers. “So I think that was a big consideration that they did think about,” he says of the show’s creative team.
Kaiser CunninghamTikTok user Kierra Lewis has Chase Rice cracking up with her reaction to his song, “Ride.” 
