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Axios
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Machine Gun Kelly's "Cliché" has TikTok in a dance frenzy
Machine Gun Kelly is making his case for the song of the summer. Why it matters: The Cleveland entertainer's latest single, "Cliché," made the cover of Spotify's New Music Friday playlist last week and has launched a social media trend. It could soon join songs like "Bad Things" and "My Ex's Best Friend" as one of MGK's biggest hits to date. The intrigue:"Cliché" takes its inspiration from the glory days of MTV's "Total Request Live." The music video is loaded with intentionally corny lyrics, boy band dance moves and a closing rain sequence the "Step Up" movie franchise would be proud of. What they're saying:""If 'TRL' in the nineties was still going … it would be up there," Machine Gun Kelly said while walking the red carpet at Sunday's American Music Awards. The 35-year-old, who just had a baby with actress Megan Fox, will continue his nostalgia trip by performing at the Warped Tour 30th anniversary shows in Washington, D.C. next month and Orlando in November.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Sean ‘Diddy' Combs trial has people revisiting ‘Making the Band'
Before there was 'American Idol' and 'The Voice,' there was 'Making the Band.' The reality series began on ABC in 2000, with Lou Pearlman, the man behind the boy bands the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, forming the group O-Town on the show. But it was the subsequent seasons, overseen by Sean 'Diddy' Combs, that most people associate with the franchise. 'Making the Band' moved to MTV in 2002, with Combs looking to form a hip-hop group. In the early aughts, 'Total Request Live' and MTV's reality-TV lineup carried oversized pop culture influence. 'Making the Band' has recently returned to public consciousness, due to the mogul's ongoing federal sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that include racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. One of the witnesses for the prosecution, singer Dawn Richard, first met Combs as a contestant on'Making the Band.' She testified Friday that she once witnessed Combs drag his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, by her hair. Separately, Richard accused Combs of sexual battery, sexual harassment and false imprisonment in a 2024 civil lawsuit. Combs has denied her allegations. 'It's unfortunate that Ms. Richard has cast their 20-year friendship aside to try and get money from him, but Mr. Combs is confidently standing on truth and looks forward to proving that in court,' an attorney for Combs said in a statement to CNN at the time the lawsuit was filed. Richard, whose testimony continued on Monday, is just one of the people who have worked with Combs who has said he could be tough. Viewers of the 'Making the Band' franchise witnessed glimpses of it as well. Contestants on 'Making the Band 2' lived together in New York City, where they were mentored by Combs and others as they competed to become part of mainstream hip-hop and R&B through a record deal with his Bad Boy Records. In one memorable scene, Combs requested contestants Dylan Dilinjah, Rodney 'Chopper' Hill, Lloyd 'Ness' Mathis, Sara Stokes, Frederick 'Freddy P' Watson and Lynese 'Babs' Wiley walk miles to Junior's Cheesecake in Brooklyn and return with dessert for him. They were not allowed to use any public transportation. 'Y'all can walk from here, get the cheesecake, see the city, enjoy the sights, would ya.' Combs told them. He added, 'It's not about me trying to do a mean-spirited initiation hazing act.' 'There's a bigger picture to it,' Combs said. 'In the world of music, I have to get up every day and do a bunch of s**t I don't wanna do.' The episode became comedic fodder for Dave Chappelle, who went on to parody Combs' over-the-top behavior. 'Making the Band 3' premiered in March 2005, showing Combs as he sought to put together an all-girl singing group. It lasted for three seasons and resulted in Richard, Aubrey O'Day, Shannon Bex, D. Woods and Aundrea Fimbres forming the group Danity Kane, who enjoyed success with singles like 'Touching My Body' and 'Damaged.' Richard, O'Day and Bex talked to Cosmopolitan magazine about their experiences on the show in 2018, including when Combs fired O'Day after he accused her of being 'promiscuous.' 'It wasn't about her being 'promiscuous,'' Richard said at the time. 'It was about the power to prove, I own your career.' O'Day added, 'And I'm not promiscuous. I didn't lose my virginity until my senior year of college.' 'It wasn't even about that. It gave him an excuse,' Richard said. 'It was to let you know, 'This is my show, this is my s**t, and I want to prove to you that it's my s**t and I'm going to show you how much power I have over you by saying I'm going to control your lives.'' She described Combs' behavior as 'extremely sexist.' Bex pointed out that O'Day didn't shy away from conflict with Combs. 'Whenever you had conversations with him, it was almost like you were asking, 'Is this OK?,'' Bex told the publication. 'And Aubrey didn't like to bring the apprehension, so she was like, 'No! This is what it is.' He didn't like that.' Combs did not comment at the group's remarks at the time. O'Day hasn't stopped speaking up. She's offered criticism of Combs and how she has said he treated her in interviews over the years. On a recent episode of the 'Amy & T.J' podcast, O'Day criticized Combs as a parent because six of his seven children, ages 18 to 33, have been present during some of the explicit testimony at his criminal trial, calling it 'selfish.' 'The fact that the kids are marching up to that court,' O'Day said. '[I] don't know any father that would want their children to sit through [that kind of] testimony.' And while O'Day was in New York City, she said on the podcast that she is not scheduled to be called to testify in his criminal trial. 'I posted on my Instagram that I was here in New York and enjoying myself because I wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am not here testifying,' she said. 'Making the Band' ended in 2009.
New York Times
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse' Review: Down the Y2K Clickhole
The image is instantly familiar: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears crammed into a car, caught in a paparazzi flash, on the cover of The New York Post. That iconic photograph, from 2006, and the inside article's headline — '3 Bimbos of the Apocalypse' — conjures a time when Calvin Klein boxers peeked out from low-rise jeans, pop star aspirants pinned their hopes on MTV's 'Total Request Live,' and a juicy tabloid meltdown could end a career. In 'The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse,' a deliciously fizzy new musical from Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley that opened Tuesday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, something is different in this version of the photo. The painted tableau of the three bimbos that looms briefly onstage contains a previously unnoticed detail: a slim wrist, at the edge of the frame, dangling a charm bracelet that spells out 'Coco.' Now, in 2025, a Zillennial internet sleuth who goes by Brainworm (Milly Shapiro) fills us in: Coco was a one-hit wannabe who had uploaded her own music videos to YouTube in the hopes of going viral, or at least bacterial, before she disappeared. We see the red-maned Coco (Keri René Fuller) appear onstage in a midriff-exposing top, belting out a murderously upbeat tune. 'I don't think therefore I am!' she sings before needling her listeners: 'the less you try / the more they cry out for ur bag of tricks / (they're dumb as bricks).' The song is catchy as hell, and plays like an underdog bid for MTV immortality. Brainworm enlists the help of two other 'worms' — teenage shut-ins who also spend their waking lives online — to track down Coco: Earworm (Luke Islam), who sports cat ears and decodes pop culture and fashion, and Bookworm (Patrick Nathan Falk), who sifts through media and politics from his Nebraska bedroom. Like Brainworm, who identifies as an 'intersectional feminist' and specializes in tracking down missing girls, they are descendants of and Tumblr true-crime threads. Soon, they fall into a clickhole of clues. An obituary for Coco surfaces, which mentions that she 'went on a bender and spiraled out of control.' Grainy flip-phone photos are studied. Is that a knife jammed into a clothing rack? Could it have been used as a murder weapon? And what to make of the 'Coco' charm bracelet Brainworm received from an anonymous sender? Is it a hoax? In their search, the worms leave no monogrammed outfit unturned. (Cole McCarty's costumes revisit the era's rhinestone-studded jeans, velour tracksuits and garish, faux-glam accessories.) And lyrics to Coco's song are obsessively analyzed. The best of the musical's tunes, which includes Coco's ecce bimbo opener as well as more speculative numbers sung by the worms in places like Walmart, have the tingle of soda pop reaching a tender spot at the back of your throat. (The music director Dan Schlosberg leads a small but mighty band upstage.) While it has become a trope for shows to display projections of group chats or online comments (often with redundant voice-over), 'Bimbo' refreshingly steers clear of such contrivances. Under Rory Pelsue's fluid direction, we hear online comments voice-bombing Brainworm's internal monologue. They range from fetishistic ('show me your toes') to hostile ('my day sucked and you made it worse'), and are alternately read aloud by Brainworm and menacingly embodied by the other worms. Unsurprisingly, the more vicious the comments, the greater the number of viewers on the worms' TikTok channels. Breslin and Foley, whose previous work includes 'Circle Jerk' — a fantasia about the creation of an indomitable influencer — bring a similar fascination with the desires and insecurities of the extremely online to 'Bimbo.' But their new musical also ventures beyond cybernated spheres into a world largely devoid of technology. In this analog world, we meet Coco's mother (Sara Gettelfinger) and sister (Natalie Walker), who reveal a very different side of Coco. To say more would spoil the plot-twisty show, which wastes not a second of its 90 minutes. (Some of those soap-operatic turns recall Michael R. Jackson's equally ambitious, though less disciplined 'White Girl in Danger.') Especially in its latter half, 'Bimbo' traverses the gap between the very online and the very not online with exuberant intelligence. Earworm and Bookworm have a lovely number about who they are in their private realities, when no one's looking at them. For a show about pop stardom and fandom, it has a surprising amount to say about oblivion — and our inalienable right to it.
Forbes
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Fall Out Boy's Biggest Hits Will ‘Never Die'
Fall Out Boy's Believers Never Die returns to four Billboard charts, as a vinyl sale and a major ... More anniversary reinvigorated renewed interest in the greatest hits set. NEW YORK - OCTOBER 11: (U.S. TABS OUT) (L to R) Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joseph Trohman, and Andrew Hurley of Fall Out Boy pose for a photo backstage during MTV's Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios October 11, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by) It's been about a year since Fall Out Boy stopped promoting its most recent album, So Much (for) Stardust. The group dropped a music video for a final single in February 2024 and has remained fairly quiet in terms of new music since. The outfit, which helped bring emo and pop punk music to the forefront more than 20 years ago, wrapped its tour in support of the set in May of last year, and while the rockers may be working on new material, there's been no major announcement just yet. The band is back on the Billboard charts this week — not with a new release, but with a fan-favorite collection. Fall Out Boy reappears on four Billboard rankings in the United States this week, and on each and every one of them, with the same album: Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits. The set moved another 11,500 equivalent album units in the past tracking frame. That figure comes from Luminate, the organization that compiles streaming and sales data for Billboard's tallies. It's enough to send the collection back to the Billboard 200 at No. 117. Believers Never Die also returns to a trio of genre-specific rankings, in addition to the Billboard 200. It sits highest on the Top Alternative Albums chart, landing at No. 12. The set settles five spots lower on the Top Rock Albums tally and comes in at No. 21 on the combined Top Rock & Alternative Albums list. Understandably, Believers Never Die performs best on rankings focused on individual styles, where the competition isn't quite as fierce. The collection has previously peaked at No. 8 on the Top Alternative Albums list and No. 10 on the other two, where it currently resides. On the Billboard 200, however, the hits-packed release has never reached the same heights. Instead, it topped out at No. 77 during the 40 weeks it has spent somewhere on the busy roster. Fans may be revisiting Believers Never Die for several reasons. The group's breakout album, From Under the Cork Tree — which produced several of the singles featured on the compilation — is turning 20 years old in May 2025. The milestone has prompted many casual listeners and longtime supporters to revisit those tracks on streaming platforms, and all those plays may be funneled toward the compilation instead of From Under the Cork Tree, based on some of Billboard's rules. Believers Never Die was also recently discounted on vinyl via Amazon. The price cut likely spurred many fans who had always wanted a copy of the compilation on wax, but had never decided to pull the trigger and buy one, to finally make a purchase.
Scottish Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Davina McCall sends support to Emma Willis after star revealed secret heart operation in shock post
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DAVINA McCall has sent her support to celeb pal Emma Willis after she revealed her secret surgery on her heart. The former Big Brother anchor, 57, who recently had a benign brain tumour removed, issued public well-wishes to The Voice UK presenter, 49, after Emma revealed she went under the knife a few weeks ago following her shock diagnosis. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 6 Davina McCall has sent her well-wishes to Emma Willis following her heart surgery Credit: Instagram/@emmawillisofficial 6 The duo have both undergone operations of late Credit: Getty 6 Emma went in for surgery after being 'blissfully unaware' she had a hole in her heart Credit: Instagram/@emmawillisofficial Praising her Busted husband Matt Willis for never leaving her side during her keyhole heart surgery, Emma then shared snaps of herself in hospital as she made her huge health reveal on Wednesday. Now Davina, who has candidly shared her surgery scars with her followers, has taken to Instagram to share her positive vibes. In a kind comment she wrote: "Oh Wow!!! !!!!! What a shocker!!! "Thinking of you all and sending you huge healing hugs." On Tuesday, ex Big Brother anchor Emma stunned fans as she revealed she had been "blissfully unaware" she had been living with a hole in her heart. After uploading a series of snaps showing her in the hospital ward, the mum-of-three wrote on Instagram: "A big humungous THANK YOU to the team at the Royal Brompton Hospital for their care and support. "A few weeks ago, I had keyhole heart surgery, which feels very strange to write, and even stranger when I say it out loud. "From investigations last year, to diagnosis and then surgery, they were absolutely incredible. As was @mattjwillis who never left my side. "Turns out, I've been pottering around for 48 years blissfully unaware I had a hole in my heart. Watch as Love Is Blind UK's Emma Willis breaks down in tears and sobs as she opens up about marriage to Matt "Isn't it bonkers what's happening in our bodies that we have no idea about… "What blows my mind even more is the wonders of modern medicine, and the spectacular people that save, fix and help us every single day. "Can you imagine what it must feel like to have a pair of hand that can do that job?! They are the real superstar…" TV presenter Emma, who shares Isabelle, Ace, and Trixie with husband Matt, is the latest celebrity to bravely open up about their health struggles. Emma Willis' TV Timeline 2002-2003 - MTV UK 2002-2003 - Total Request Live UK 2007-2008 - I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! NOW 2008-2014 - The Hot Desk 2010 - Live From Studio Five 2010 - The Real Hustle 2010 - Big Brother's Little Brother 2011-2015 - Big Brother's Bit On The Side 2013 - Prize Island 2013-2018 - Big Brother/Celebrity Big Brother 2014-present - The Voice UK 2015 - Reality Bites 2015 - Prized Apart 2018-present - Emma Willis: Delivering Babies 2019-2021 - The Circle UK 2021-present - Cooking With The Stars 2023-present - Love Is Blind UK We then revealed the six signs of the silent killer that left Emma in hospital. Her Big Brother predecessor Davina McCall had a benign brain tumour removed recently and former BBC Radio DJ Fearne Cotton underwent surgery on two tumours on her jawline. DAVINA'S STORY The my Mum Your Dad host underwent an operation to remove a benign tumour in November. Davina was diagnosed with a benign but very rare tumour purely by chance after being offered a scan a few months ago. The star — mum to Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18, from her former marriage to TV presenter Matthew Robertson — sought further medical advice before opting for a craniotomy. Just last month, she revealed she had the "all clear" after the life-saving surgery. 6 The Voice presenter praised husband Matt Willis for being by her side Credit: Instagram/@emmawillisofficial 6 Davina said she was sending Emma 'huge healing hugs' Credit: Instagram
