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Blanco Brown unveils gritty video for “CountryTime,” the song that helped inspire Netflix’s 'Ginny & Georgia'

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Nathen McEvoyThe same week that his Parmalee duet, “Just the Way,” is sitting at the top spot on country radio, Blanco Brown dropped the music video for his fast-paced “CountryTime.”

The video offers stark visuals to go along with the song’s story, following a man going through financial desperation who considers robbing a bank, but ultimately decides on a different path.

Blanco originally slated “CountryTime” to be his debut single, intending it to be an introduction to his patented musical blend of country and hip-hop influences, aka ‘TrailerTrap.’ But he decided to hit pause on the song after creating “The Git Up,” which became a triple-platinum viral hit in 2019.

Now, “CountryTime” is ready to have its moment, propelled in part by its feature two weeks ago in an episode of Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia. The creator of the show, Sarah Lampert, says she was inspired by the song while writing scenes for Georgia, one of the show’s title characters.

“I heard the song on a playlist randomly when I was working and it immediately became Georgia’s song when I was writing,” Sarah explains. “Georgia has to balance so many different things: She’s beautiful, brilliant, devious, loving, dangerous and funny. The song felt like that for me.”

Between notching his first-ever radio chart-topper and releasing his “CountryTime” video, it’s been an exciting few weeks for Blanco. He’s not taking any of it for granted, following his near-fatal motorcycle accident last year.


By Carena Liptak
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Dolly Parton is getting her own Jeni’s Splendid ice cream flavor

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ABC/Image Group LAJust when you thought Dolly Parton couldn’t get any sweeter, the singer’s got her very own Jeni’s Splendid ice cream flavor in the works.

The specialty ice cream brand announced their newest collaboration on social media this week with an illustration of the country legend herself, after teasing a big partnership in the works since last weekend. There’s no word yet on what the flavor will be.

The partnership will benefit Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which gifts free books to children under the age of five around the world.

Joining forces with Jeni’s Splendid is just the latest sweet team-up for Dolly, who added a 10th Grammy trophy to her collection over the weekend when she won Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for her Zach Williams duet, “There Was Jesus.”  It’s the second consecutive year Dolly’s won that award; last year, she won the same title for “God Only Knows,” her duet with For King & Country.

By Carena Liptak
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“Monumental and exciting and unexpected”: Gwen Stefani gushes over her first ACM nominations

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Getty Images/Getty Images for Children’s Diabetes FoundationPop mainstay Gwen Stefani is getting her moment of country stardom, with two back-to-back chart-topping singles and now, her first ACM Awards nomination, together with her fiancé, Blake Shelton.

In an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week, Gwen says it’s a big deal to her to find success in a genre that she’s just dipping her toes into for the first time. She’s also giving plenty of credit to her duet partner and soon-to-be husband, who sings with her on hit singles “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere.”

“I mean, I really just hopped on a couple of songs,” Gwen says. “Which was an honor. I mean, Blake Shelton has 27 number-one radio hits.”

As for her country success? Gwen says she’s just as surprised as anyone else.

“To be on a song that goes number-one in a genre that I have no business being part of — twice! — and now up for these awards, it’s pretty monumental and exciting and unexpected,” she points out.

Gwen adds that getting to know country music a little bit better has taught her a lot, especially when it comes to songwriting.

“The whole genre is just such an incredible writing community…I feel so much respect, and I’ve learned so much from all the songs Blake has show me, and just the different artists. I relate to that because I’m a songwriter,” she continues.

Blake and Gwen are nominated in the ACMs Music Event of the Year category for “Nobody but You.” They’ll find out whether they’ve won when the show airs on April 18 on CBS, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET.


By Carena Liptak
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'Broad City' vet Ilana Glazer pregnant with first child

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Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Glamour(NEW YORK) — Mom to the Ond: Broad City star Ilana Glazer revealed to Entertainment Weekly that she’s expecting her first child with David Rooklin, to whom she’s been married since 2017.

The 33-year-old showed off her baby bump in a series of stunning pics for the magazine, while promoting her upcoming movie False Positive. 

The thriller, which she also co-wrote, has Glazer playing a woman desperately trying to conceive, and who undergoes what turns out to be a horrifying IVF treatment. The irony wasn’t lost on Glazer.

“This was not supposed to happen this way, but it’s just so eerie and cosmically funny that it has,” she says of being pregnant IRL after playing that character. “I’m lucky; I’m in control, unlike our protagonist. I don’t feel like I’m having the rug pulled out from under me in any way.”

Ilana noted she’s lucky to have “amazing role models” for pregnancy around her, adding, “There are certain trends in society of how pregnancy should look — the shoulda coulda wouldas that are put on women all the time but are so amplified in pregnancy. I’m specifically seeking out the most spiritually healthy and welcoming experience.”

The movie, in which Justin Theroux plays her husband and Pierce Brosnan her sinister doctor, debuts on Hulu June 25.

By Stephen Iervolino
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Cara Delevingne opens about her struggle with embracing her sexuality

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ABC(LONDON) — British actress Cara Delevingne is comfortable in the skin she’s in, but she admits she struggled to come to grips with her sexual identity when she was younger.

Delevingne, who is openly pansexual, chatted Tuesday with Gwyneth Paltrow on The goop Podcast about growing up in an “old-fashioned household” where being straight was the status quo.

“I didn’t know anyone who was gay, or I didn’t know that was a thing,” the 28-year-old actress confessed. “Actually, I think growing up… I wasn’t knowledgeable of the fact that I was probably quite homophobic.”

Admitting she used to be repulsed by “same sex anything,” Delevingne said she internalized and equated being queer to being “disgusting,” so she forced herself to believe she “would never” do anything like that.

So, when she started to suspect she wasn’t straight, it caused her mental health to spiral because of the shame.

“I had a best friend when I was a kid who actually I liked more than they liked me,” the Suicide Squad star explained, saying it triggered “massive depression” and “suicidal moments.” 

“I was so ashamed,” Delevingne furthered, noting how her old ideas still have maintained a “complicated” hold on her. “There is still a part of me where I’m like, ‘Oh, I wish I could just be straight.’ There is still that side to it.”

Now, the British actress says she has learned to”love so much and accept” that part of herself, adding she credits her “self-discovery” for giving her the courage to leave her modeling career — an industry she said made her “so unhappy” because “I wasn’t following my truth.”

“That whole thing of just having to fit into the box that feminine,” Delevingne expressed, “I’m an androgynous person, definitely, but I [also] love being a woman.”

By Megan Stone
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