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Calgary Herald
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
'Redemption story': Singer J.D. Fortune back on stage rocking INXS tunes
Article content 'Imagine winning the lottery and the next day someone says 'Do you want to go fishing?' And you're like 'Good idea, but maybe we can do it in Bermuda.' Your brain is not thinking right. So, yeah, I should have just said 'Let's just go fishing down the street.' Now I just fish down the street and if I get to play some gigs, that's great. I don't know how else to put it, but that's the redemption I'm talking about: Just being solid and grounded and focused on the task at hand.' Article content Fortune's strange fishing allegory is the only hint of regret he shows during this interview, for which he remains perpetually upbeat and energetic. He brings that energy to his performances as well, offering revved-up versions of INXS classics such as Devil Inside, Suicide Blonde, Never Tear Us Apart and New Sensation. Article content The singer, who was born in Mississauga, Ont. but grew up in Nova Scotia, has obviously told his story many times. In 2022, he gave a lengthy interview to Andy Greene in Rolling Stone as part of the magazine's King For A Day series that featured long-form conversations between the senior writer and vocalists who had the impossible job of replacing iconic singers in popular bands. Article content Article content Fortune covers it all: his pre-fame days living in his car, his surreal experiences on the series, the pressures of joining INXS, his drug use and recovery and eventual exit from the band. He had his taste of fame. It was more than a taste, actually, since he spent nearly a decade with the band. It allowed him more time in the spotlight than many others who achieved sudden but fleeting celebrity after reality-TV glory. Article content 'Fame is not important to me,' Fortune says. 'What's important is the integrity of music and keeping it going for generations. I couldn't give a (expletive) about fame, to be honest. I've been there, done that. This is a redemption story. I should have been this guy when I won the show because, let's face it, I was put into a whirlwind, man. I went from being an obscure, unknown name to being No. 1 in nine a song I co-wrote with arguably one of the biggest bands in rock 'n' roll history. So it was a whirlwind, man. I don't know how those people on American Idol or Canadian Idol dealt with their 15 minutes of fame, but I had eight years where I couldn't even go down to the hotel lobby. In all fairness. I'm now just dedicated to these songs and my original stuff that i'm incorporating into the set.' Article content Article content He plans on taking the show around the globe again, something his experience with INXS has prepared him for. These days, he works on his own music and for various charitable causes while living in Nova Scotia. Article content 'For the past five years, I've been concentrating on going to the gym every day at 5 a.m.,' he says. 'I start my day at 3:30 in the morning. The gym opens at 5 and I'm there at 5. I work out until 6:30, 7 o'clock every single day. Then I come home and start writing music, I start rehearsing and just getting the music together. That has been cathartic in a way that I can't even describe to you, my brother. It's been revisiting stuff but also discovering new stuff.'
Forbes
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Monday, April 7
Here's some help with today's Quordle, including hints and the answers. Looking for Sunday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: Hey folks, welcome to the start of a new week! I hope you had a fantastic weekend. It's Monday, which can mean only one thing: we kickstart the week with a fun, upbeat song to hopefully get you moving. Fingers crossed it puts a smile on your face too. This time around, we're going with a few versions of the same song, 'Shout.' It's a fantastic record, and you can't really go wrong with these takes on them. First up is the original version by The Isley Brothers. It's masterful: Second, we'll go with one that was also very popular. Lulu's take on the song was a bit hit in the U.K. in both the '60s and the '80s: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder In terms of rock artists covering the track, Bruce Springsteen is arguably the most famous practitioner. But I didn't have enough time today to hunt for a great version of his cover on YouTube. So, let's go with this one by Green Day that mashes up 'Shout' with the band's own 'King For A Day.' Great fun: Before we begin, I've set up a discussion group for NYT Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot. It's also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up since I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, April 7, are coming right up. Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Today's Connections groups are... Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... A close one, but I eked out my 41st win in a row. Here's how I fared: 🟨🟦🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Since this was puzzle 666, I think the NYT missed a trick by not making this a grid themed after the number of the beast. Anyway, my opening salvo of POUND, NAIL, HAMMER and THUMP was useless. I wasn't even one away from a group there. A second guess of POUND, PULSE, BEAT and BALL was closer, in terms of things you might do while cooking ('ball' meaning to roll up some dough). Zooming out a bit, HANGER and LEVEL caught my eye in terms of things you'd need to place something on a wall. They went with NAIL and HAMMER for the blues. What I thought were a group of landforms with HILLS, CRATER, RIDGE and GORGE were up next, but I was one away from a group again. Uh oh, I was down to my last life at that point. Swapping out HILLS for CAPE made sense — replacing a plural with a singular. That got me the greens. The grid then pulled the purples together in a neat little shape, so I spotted them. It feels like a bit of a cheat to have a group of landforms and then also a reference to footHILLS in another group. Can't say I'm a fan of that. Anyway, that left the yellows for the win. That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Tuesday's game if you need them. P.S. Since today was puzzle number 666, I feel obligated to recommend 'The Number of the Beast' by Iron Maiden. I can't say Maiden are one of my absolute favourite bands by any stretch, but they have some cracking songs. This is one of them. And hey, if the intro songs didn't get you moving around a bit, maybe this one will at least get you head banging: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love! If you're so inclined, please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too Also, follow me on Bluesky! It's fun there.
