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As Shakira gears up for her 12th studio album, the Colombian superstar has called on Ozuna for collaboration on her new single, "Monotonía."

The song lyrics spell out the boredom of when a couple gets too comfortable in a relationship.

The two also star in a wild video that starts off with Shakira singing to Ozuna in the snack aisle of a grocery store before a bazooka blows a large hole in her chest. Somehow still alive, she picks up her still-beating heart in an attempt to keep the romance alive.

Both the video and single were officially released this week.

TL;DR:

• Shakira has called on Ozuna for collaboration on her new single, "Monotonía."
• The song lyrics spell out the boredom of when a couple gets too comfortable in a relationship.
• Both the video and single were officially released this week.

Post Malone fell and twisted his ankle on stage this week during a concert in Atlanta. He remained on his back for a bit and then finally got up and told the crowd that he tripped on the little holes in the middle of the stage where fire comes out of.

He told the audience, "So, if my dance moves aren't 100 percent, you gotta forgive me tonight, ladies and gentleman. I'ma do my best."

While Post played it off cool as a minor twist, concert attendees noticed that he was struggling to walk on stage as the show proceeded.

He recently spent time at the hospital and had to cancel shows after falling in a hole on stage in St. Louis.

TL;DR:

• Post Malone fell and twisted his ankle on stage this week during a concert in Atlanta.
• While Post played it off cool as a minor twist, concert attendees noticed that he was struggling to walk on stage as the show proceeded.

Harry Styles' former Los Angeles mansion has just hit the market for $7.955 million.

The Grammy winner purchased it in 2016, when he was only 22. According to the New York Post, it was listed a year later for $8.5 million, but he cut the price several times before finally finding a buyer.

Located just above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West, the 4,000 square-foot, four bedroom home features a cabana, a home theater, gym, office, and private terrace, as well as a pool and hot tub.

The current owners could make a nice profit from it, records show Styles sold the home in 2019 for $6 million.

TL;DR:

• Harry Styles' former Los Angeles mansion has just hit the market for $7.955 million.
• Located just above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West, the 4,000 square-foot, four bedroom home features a cabana, a home theater, gym, office, and private terrace, as well as a pool and hot tub.
• Styles sold the home in 2019 for $6 million.

Kanye West has apologized for comments he made about Jewish people. During an interview with Piers Morgan, when asked if he apologized about hs "Def Con 3" comments, he said "No. Absolutely not." Piers responded, "That is as racist as anything you say you've been through, and any pain you've experienced, it's the same thing." Ye responded, "Yeah, obviously, that's why I said it." Morgan said, "So you said it knowing it's racist?" Ye replied, "Yes. I fought fire with fire. I'm not here to get hosed down, it's a different type of freedom fighter."

He later said, "I will say I'm sorry for the people that I hurt with the Def Con. I feel like I caused hurt and confusion and I'm sorry for the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I'd been through. And I used my platform where you say, ‘Hurt people, hurt people.' And I was hurt."

In a second clip from the interview, he said, "I really want to give you guys a big hug. I want to word it, in not like a political way but a presidential way. Which means what I knew a president to be when I was growing up."

Meanwhile, during the interview, Kanye also said that President Biden's refusal to meet with Elon Musk was "retarded." He said, "The President of the United States does not have meetings with Elon Musk. That is f***ing ... Hey, here, come, come get me ... That's f***ing ret***ed. I know I'm not supposed to say that Biden, but that's f***ing ret***ed, Biden."

Megan Thee Stallion and boyfriend Pardison Fontaine posted some rare personal photos online.

One is provocative with him playing a video game, focused on the screen, while Megan lies in front of him with her legs wrapped around his waist.

The other is a mirror selfie of the couple with her hand on his jaw and his arms around her waist.

She doesn't post about him often, but for their first Valentine's day together, he swept her away on a private jet filled with roses to take her to lunch at an extravagant restaurant.

The pair met while working on Megan's song "Savage" and soon after, they confirmed their romance during an Instagram Live session.

Meanwhile, Megan also denied that her and Pardi are engaged. The rapper, who was spotted wearing a huge rock while celebrating their anniversary, tweeted, "Lol as nice as last night was, we are not engaged."

TL;DR:

• Megan Thee Stallion and boyfriend, Pardison Fontaine posted some rare personal photos online.
• One is provocative with him playing a video game, focused on the screen, while Megan lies in front of him with her legs wrapped around his waist.
• The pair met while working on Megan's song "Savage."

Rihanna has announced her new activewear line called Savage X Fenty. The new line will consist of lingerie inspired details, vibrant colors, low cut bras and bodysuits ranging from XS to 4X.

The singer told Vogue, "I want people to feel sexy, carefree and powerful when they put these pieces on. We think of sport as how you move through your life."

She added, "I was inspired by everyday life. Everything is a sport. Being pregnant is a sport. For me, it was about fit and fabric, and I let Adam Selman play with everything else. The pieces are sexy and snatch you, but it's functional and that's what describes the whole Sport collection. Sexy. Functional. Fashion."

The new line will launch on November 9th.

Demi Lovato brought out Johnny Rzeznik to perform at her show in in New York. The Goo Goo Dolls frontman was a big surprise to the audience which sang along with him and Lovato to his 1998 hit, "Iris." Rzeznik is from the area and is native to Buffalo, New York.

Billboard reports that Glass Animals' song "Heat Waves" has broken the record for the longest charting Hot 100 single. "Heat Waves" has now spent 91 weeks as one of the most-played songs in the US, edging past the previous record of 90 weeks set by The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights." The top five is rounded out by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" (87 weeks), AWOLNATION's "Sail" (79 weeks), and Dua Lipa's "Levitating (77 weeks).

Machine Gun Kelly is tired of being "laughed at" as an actor and hopes his new film, Taurus will convince studios to take him seriously.

He told Movie Maker magazine that this was either his 14^th or 15th movie. He said, there are roles that come across that he loves, but says he gets laughed at because they don't know who he is or they do know him and the studios don't believe that he can handle it.

According to Kelly, this movie is one step towards showing them that he can.

His fiancée Megan Fox is also in Taurus, which was released at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

TL;DR:

• Machine Gun Kelly is tired of being "laughed at" as an actor and hopes his new film, Taurus will convince studios to take him seriously.
• He says the studios don't believe that he can handle it.
• His fiancée Megan Fox is also in Taurus, which was released at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Zoe Kravits is credited as a co-writer on two of Taylor Swift's Midnight tracks.

A tweet from The Swift Society shows that the High Fidelity actress shares credit on "Karma" and "Lavender Haze."

The "Cardigan" singer's boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, also gets a co-writing credit for "Sweet Nothing" under his pen-name William Bowery. And Lana Del Rey both co-wrote and appears on the track "Snow on the Beach."

In total, Swift co-wrote 11 out of the 13 songs with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, and "Vigilante S**t" is the only track Swift wrote alone.

Billie Eilish has announced two new hometown dates to her Happier Than Ever Tour.

The "Bad Guy" singer will perform two shows at LA's Kia Forum on December 15th and 16th.

She wrote on Instagram Tuesday (Oct. 18th), "I'M COMING BACKKKKKKKK!! 'Happier Than Ever, the hometown encore!!!!!!!' LA i am so excited to see you one last time for the year!!!"

Tickets go on sale October 26th.

The mother of George Floyd's daughter has sued Kanye West for $250 million following the comments he made about Floyd during an episode of Drink Champs. According to TMZ, Floyd's family issued a cease-and-desist letter to West — who claimed that Floyd died as a result of fentanyl use and that he was not strangled by a cop.

In a press statement, Roxie Washington, the mother of Gianna Floyd, said that Kanye made "false statements about George Floyd's death to promote his brands, and increase marketing value and revenue for himself, his business partners, and associates."

Washington continued, saying that West stated "malicious falsehoods" about Floyd in order to profit from his death and the family's trauma.

Attorney Nuru Witherspoon, partner at The Witherspoon Law Group added, "The interests of the child are priority. George Floyd's daughter is being traumatized by Kanye West's comments and he's creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her."

West's Drink Champs interview has been removed from YouTube and Revolt TV.

JACK HARLOW TO RETURN TO KENTUCKY FOR 'NO PLACE LIKE HOME' SHOW: Jack Harlow has announced plans to return home to Louisville, KY for the second annual, No Place Like Home show, taking place on December 18th at Louisville's KFC Yum! Center. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday (October 21st).

JIN TO DROP SOLO SINGLE 'THE ASTRONAUT': Jin will release his new solo single "The Astronaut" on October 28th. Big Hit Music announced Tuesday (October 18th) that the BTS singer's first solo track will express Jin's fondness for his fans, ARMY. According to the promotion calendar, he will unveil the "The Astronaut" poster on October 20th, concept photos on October 24th through the 26th, and a music video teaser on October 27th.

CAMILA CABELLO DITCHES DATING APP AFTER ONE DAY: One day was long enough for Camila Cabello to realize that dating apps aren't for her. She told Drew Barrymore Tuesday (Oct. 18th) that she deleted the app after 24 hours because she couldn't be sure of her suitors' intentions. The "Havana" singer explained, "The first guy that DM'd me was like an aspiring singer-songwriter from Nashville and I was just like, I feel weird cause somebody could be using me."

Kurt Cobain's estate has slammed the adaptation of Gus Ban Sant's dramatized film Last Days by London's Royal Opera House, saying that the production is an "unauthorized attempt" to continue exploiting the fictionalized story the late singer's final days.

The estate said in a statement, "Last Days has been created and written without permission. This show, just like the movie, is an unauthorized attempt to benefit from the brief meeting set up with Kurt and Gus Van Zant. This one meeting has been exploited for profit for thirty years now and enough is enough."

A spokesperson for the Royal Opera House issued the following response, "The Royal Opera's production of Last Days is adapted from Gus Van Sant's cult film of the same name, released in 2005. It is a fictionalized account, and was produced with the permissions of Gus Van Sant and HBO."

Taylor Swift is going on tour.

A message on the singer's UK site confirms that Swift will hit the road in support of ‘Midnights."

Pop Crave reports that fans who order her forthcoming album from the official UK store before October 21st will get special presale code access or yet to be announced Taylor Swift UK show dates.

Dove Cameron recently opened up to Variety about hitting it big with the queer anthem, "Boyfriend."

She told the outlet. "Growing up, always knowing that I was queer, there were instances of queer songs being on the radio, but I don't remember them being so indistinguishable from a song about a straight couple. I always saw queer relationships being fetishized or objectified or held in this kind of laissez-faire, male-gaze attitude, especially when it came to two queer women.

"And then to see people embrace it without even discussing the novelty of having a queer song — where there's no pretense, there's nothing about the song that makes it any different than if a man was singing about a woman or vice versa — I think it's incredibly special."

Growing up as a queer kid wasn't always easy for the former Disney channel star. Despite her on-screen success, she didn't always have an easy time at school.

Cameron said, "I was basically just the opposite of cool, right? I feel like all the popular kids are always the ones who are super like-minded and they don't really care about that much, they're organized around a sport or a certain activity. And I was just like crying all the time, drawing Sharpie tattoos on me, wanting to be a vampire or a boy. I would come to school as a hundred different characters because I was just so expressive."

"Boyfriend" topped out as No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum in the United States.

Kanye West's latest controversial Drink Champs interview has been taken down from YouTube. According to B. Scott, yesterday (October 17th), just two days after the interview premiered on Yutube, it was removed from both the Revolt and Drink Champs Youtube channel. Kanye and Drink Champ hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, along with Kanye received backlash for the interview, where Kanye said that George Floyd died from fentanyl, and was not choked to death.

N.O.R.E. apologized for doing the interview yesterday morning. He said during a radio interview, "When I look back at the interview, I was like, 'Damn, N.O.R.E., why did you wait two hours to address that?' Even though I did feel like I addressed it. I addressed it way too late. The interview way too long. And I'm embarrassed...I can blame this all on Kanye West, I'm not. I want to sit back and say I was irresponsible for letting it go."

He later said in another radio interview, "I apologize to the George Floyd family. I apologize to anyone who was hurt by Kanye West's comments," N.O.R.E. doubled down on The Breakfast Club.

KANYE SPEAKS ON BEING CALLED AN ANTI-SEMITE

During a new interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, Kanye West opened up about being called an anti-semite. He said, "I don't like the term antisemitic. It's been a term that's allowed people, specifically in my industry, to get away with murder—sometimes literally—and get away with robbing and doing bad to people. … You're saying it's antisemitic, but I don't believe in that term. One thing is, Black people are also Jew. I classify as Jew also, so I actually can't be a antisemite. So the term is actually, uh, it's not factual."

He continued, "Everyone wants to shoot the messenger. … ‘You have to understand'—but the thing is, the Jewish people that I'm talking about don't have to understand. And that is that privilege that I'm not going to allow."

He added, "When I wore the ‘white lives matter' t-shirt, the Jewish underground media mafia already started attacking me. They canceled my four SoFi Stadium shows, they had the press—the same people, the…outlets that when I was arguing with Pete Davidson and Trevor Noah, they called me an abuser for arguing with people about my ex-wife and my family, and when I get to see my kids and when I don't. And they just immediately disrespect me, they keep the ‘crazy' narrative going, they never call me a billionaire. We never talked about, even on this one right here, hey: tycoon, billionaire, visionary, inventor. These are never used."

KANYE WEST TO ACQUIRE CONSERVATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM 'PARLER'

In other news, Kanye West is set to purchase conservative social media platform Parler. According to CNBC, In a statement, the brand said, "In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves."

It looks like new music from Rihanna will be coming soon. According to Hits Daily Double, the singer has reportedly recorded two songs to be included in the upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack.

Rumors swirled in late 2020 that RiRi would actually be cast in the film but that rumor was false.

Sam Smith will release Gloria, their fourth studio album, on January 27th, 2023 via Capitol Records.

Smith said of the album, "It feels like emotional, sexual and spiritual liberation. It was beautiful, with this album, to sing freely again. Oddly, it feels like my first-ever record. And it feels like a coming of age."

Since its release last month, the lead single "Unholy" has already captured the No. 1 spot on three Billboard charts – Global 200, Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales.

Reports say that Janet Jackson is going on a worldwide tour next year. Accordng to The Jasmine Brand, reports say that Janet will perform in London for the first time in ten years. In a recent interview, a music source said, "Janet has been preparing for her music comeback for a while and is gearing up for a performance that packs a punch."

The source continued, "She is so grateful to her fans for sticking by her while she has had a few years out to start a family and wants to thank them with an amazing production. It will focus on the reissue of her 1997 album ‘The Velvet Rope' as well as some brand new material. It's a massive deal."

JACK HARLOW TO PULL DOUBLE DUTY ON SNL: Jack Harlow will pull double duty on Saturday Night Live next weekend. The rapper will host and perform on the October 29th episode. His upcoming appearance will mark Harlow's first hosting debut and second time as a musical guest.

BTS WILL GO ON HIATUS TO COMPLETE MILITARY SERVICE: BTS will go on hiatus until 2025 so they can begin heir mandatory military service. The septet's agency BigHit Music announced Monday (October 17th) that they will take time off until each member has completed their tour of duty. According to the New York Times, under South Korean law, all able-bodied men must enlist in the military by the time they turn 30 and are expected to serve at least 18 months.

Taylor Swift revealed the "Midnight Manifest" on Instagram Sunday (October 16th) night.

A desk calendar shows the singer has big plans for the release of Midnights.

On Thursday (October 20th) a teaser trailer will drop during the third quarter of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video. Then, at midnight on Friday (October 21st) the album will drop followed by a "special very chaotic surprise" at 3 a.m. ET and the premiere of her "Anti-Hero" music video at 8 a.m. ET. Additionally, the #TSAntiHeroChallenge will debut on YouTube Shorts along with lyric videos.

Swift doesn't appear to slow down after album release day. The second Midnights music video will drop at midnight on Tuesday, October 25th and she will also make two talk show appearances that week: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Monday, October 24th and The Graham Norton Show on Friday, October 28th.

Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez posed for photos together at an event in Los Angeles on Saturday (October 15th) after debunking rumors that they feuded over their relationships with Justin Bieber.

The two of them were even photographed hugging at the Academy of Motion Pictures second annual gala by Tyrell Hampton. The photographer shared the image to his Instagram page Sunday (Oct. 16th) with the caption, "Plot twist."

Hailey recently told the Call Her Daddy podcast of their rumored fued, "It's all respect. It's all love. … Neither of us owe anybody anything except respect. I respect her a lot, and I think there are no expectations between us. I respect her."

She added, "Everybody on our side knows what happened, and we're good, and we can walk away from it with clarity and respect."

Kanye West is facing backlash once again for comments he made on the Drink Champs podcast this past weekend. During the interview, Ye said that George Floyd wasn't murdered and that Candace Owens proved it in her new documentary. He explained, "The George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put up, one of the things that his two roommates said was ‘they want a tall guy like me'….and the day that he died he said a prayer for eight minutes….they hit him with the fentanyl….if you look the guys knee wasn't even on his neck like that."

Meanwhile, the family of George Floyd released a statement via their lawyer, that said they are considering suing Ye. Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt tweeted yesterday (October 16th) that Ye made "false statements" about the manner of Floyd's death. He wrote, "While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye's false statements about the manner of his death. Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family's fight."

An independent autopsy found that Floyd died from "asphyxia due to sustained forceful pressure."

Stephen Jackson, former NBA player and friend of Floyd, posted a video in response to West's comments, telling West to talk to people who actually knew Floyd, instead of believing "clout chasers" who have made a living off of dishonoring Floyd's name.

YE SAYS DRAKE IS THE GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME

Elsewhere in the interview, Ye revealed that Drake is "the greatest rapper of all time." When asked what he meant when he said that Drake was the type that would "f*ck ya baby mamas mama." Ye responded, "Cory knows what it means."

He also doubled down on his comments on his Jewish people, saying that his comments aren't offensive because black people are the real Jewish people. He said, "Jewish people have owned the black voice. Either it's through us wearing the Ralph Lauren shirt, or it's all of us being signed to a record label or having a Jewish manager, or being signed to a Jewish basketball team, or doing a movie on a Jewish platform like Disney. I respect what the Jewish people have done, and how they brought their people together."

He also reacted to ex-wife Kim saying that she slept wth Pete Davidson in front of a fireplace to honor her grandmother, saying, ‘Kim is a Christian. On TMZ I just saw yesterday it said, "Pete Davidson and Kim had sex by the fireplace to honor they grandmother. It's Jewish Zionists that's about that life, that's telling this Christian woman that has four Black children to put that out as a message in the media."

He added, "So when I drive by and I see the Hulu ads and I see the JP Morgan ads, I'ma let y'all know right now, the devil is a defeated foe."

TRUMP SAYS KANYE IS ‘CRAZY'

Meanwhile, even Donald Trump is commenting on Kanye's latest antics. According to Rolling Stone, sources say that Trump says Ye is acting too "crazy" and needs some professional "help."