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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Benny Blanco lifts the lid on ridiculous fight with fiancée Selena Gomez while recording joint album I Said I Love You First: 'She was upset'
Benny Blanco - real name Benjamin Joseph Levin - has gotten candid about the only fight he had with his fiancée Selena Gomez while recording their new joint album. The producer, 37, who recently released the 14-track album I Said I Love You First with the Calm Down hitmaker, appeared on The Project on Wednesday night where he reflected on the record-making process and working with his soon-to-be wife. Benny revealed that it was smooth sailing making an album with mega star Selena, adding that she is 'the best thing' to have ever happened to him. However, he did lift the lid on one small argument the couple had while recording the album - and it was about birds. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'She was upset that there were birds outside of the window that were chirping when she recorded and I didn't hear the birds. 'And then whenever I walked in, the birds were not happening,' he laughed. 'So the birds were our only disagreement the entire time.' Despite the couple's small spat, the multi award-wining producer dubbed Selena his 'best friend'. 'They say: "when you know, you know" and I never believed that my whole life - but I actually met my best friend.' 'If we were the only people left on earth, I would be completely fine spending every moment with nobody else in the world except her,' he sweetly said. Benny and Selena confirmed their relationship in December 2023, with the pair getting engaged a year later. 'Forever starts now,' Selena wrote at the time, showing off her sparkling diamond ring. Speaking of the upcoming nuptials, The Only Murders in the Building star admitted she's planning to ditch the classic bride and groom dance at their reception because she's too shy. 'I don't think we're looking at having one of those 'cause they're a little — I feel embarrassed,' she said on an episode of Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware. But while there won't be a traditional first dance, Selena revealed she's making room for a deeply meaningful moment — a special dance with her grandfather. 'He never got a chance to walk my mom down the aisle,' she shared. 'I wanted to give [my grandfather] the opportunity to have that.' Selena and Benny have known each other for over a decade — since 2013, when he first met her mom, Mandy Teefey. He later co-produced two of her hits Kill Em With Kindness and Same Old Love, from her 2015 album Revival. Their new album I Said I Love You First also includes a slew of featured artists such as Gracie Abrams, The Marias, GloRilla, Tainy and J Balvin, with Finneas and Charli XCX also contributing as songwriters.
CTV News
5 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Waterloo Region's Catholic school board passes motion allowing recordings at meetings
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board will allow members of the public to record their meetings again. CTV's Tony Grace explains. People will once again be allowed to record the proceedings at Waterloo Catholic District School board meetings. On Monday night, trustees debated a motion brought forward by trustee Conrad Stanley. 'The Waterloo Catholic District School Board authorizes any member of the public or media attending in its gallery to make their own video and audio recordings of any public board meeting,' the motion read. Recordings of any public school board meeting are generally allowed, but the Catholic board recently made the highly unusual decision to ban the practice. 'It's a public meeting, the public can film,' Stanley explained. Although Monday's meeting was livestreamed, Trustee Marisa Phillips acknowledged that livestreaming technology is not infallible. 'Sometimes the cameras don't always pan to the right people – these things happen. Technical difficulties,' she said. 'Sometimes in other boards I have witnessed meetings, that I have seen for myself, where microphones get accidently muted or something happens and then it just shuts off. We need to have that safety net for those types of occurrences to happen.' Safety concerns The recording ban was partially prompted by safety concerns. In a statement, the Waterloo Catholic District School Board cited a specific incident that left some of its trustees shaken. 'In April 2023, a disruption took place where individuals approached trustees and staff with recording devices in close personal proximity,' the statement said. 'Following this, video and images were shared online in ways that were perceived as targeting meeting participants.' The following September, the board consulted with security experts who recommended hiring trained security personnel, implementing a sign-in and identification process and creating designated safe spaces for meeting participants. The school board said the recommendation also included guidelines banning signs from the boardroom and restricted recording. 'I know that a few of you have brought up the concern about safety,' Phillips said. 'I echo those concerns, however, I have not seen anything since those occurrences that some of you were mentioning have even happened. There's been a wonderful job with the security guards, now we have the border around [the trustees] – we didn't have that before.' She felt passing the motion would enhance transparency and accountability as a whole. 'It shows that we have nothing to hide,' Phillips explained. 'It doesn't matter about technology difficulty or any problems, people can have that record for themselves and the media can do their jobs well.' The motion received the full support of the board. The director of education will now create a formal memo allowing members of the public to record at meetings.
BreakingNews.ie
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Paul McCartney was ‘pretty terrified' to work with Barbra Streisand on new duet
Sir Paul McCartney has said he felt 'pretty terrified' while recording a new duet with Barbra Streisand. The Beatles star, 82, recorded a version of his track, My Valentine, with Streisand for her new album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two. Advertisement Speaking about the session, he said in a website post: '(It was) nerve-wracking. Nail-biting! I did the session with her in LA and I was pretty terrified. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Barbra Streisand (@barbrastreisand) 'I think the session was about three hours, you know, a normal kind of session, and it was produced by my friend Peter Asher. 'But it started off with a big 40-piece orchestra on the Sony lot, which is one of the old Hollywood film studios; it's very impressive. And we were on 'The Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage', so no pressure there! 'I thought, 'Well, this will be easy because it's my song, it's My Valentine. What can go wrong?' But what I'd forgotten was that they'd arranged it so that it had to go in Barbra's key and then in my key. Advertisement 'So, to get from Barbra's key into mine was kind of difficult, and I had to launch in not knowing what key I was in. Mine was lower, hers was higher. It wasn't easy at all!' He added: 'I thought if Barbra is going to do my song, I've got to encourage that. And she was great. 'I didn't realise how rounded she is, creatively. They were filming the session and as soon as we went in, she said, 'Who put that camera there? That shouldn't be there, bring it over here. And what about those lights?' I thought, 'Wow, you're directing it!' 'But then I suddenly remembered she's directed three big movies. She's a smart cookie.' Advertisement Entertainment Kneecap announce surprise London performance hours... Read More Ahead of the song's release last Friday, the Funny Girl star, 83, said in an Instagram post: 'What a joy it was to record 'My Valentine' with @paulmccartney. To share time with him in the studio was truly special!' The album, set for release on June 27, acts as a sequel to her Grammy-nominated record Partners from 2014. My Valentine, which has been covered by Canadian singer Michael Buble, featured on Sir Paul's 2012 album Kisses On The Bottom.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'I was 300 miles away, then Bruce Springsteen was in my kitchen'
The owner of a tiny Stockport music studio has told how he raced 300 miles back home from holiday - after getting a call telling him veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen wanted to book himself a recording session. Martin King, who runs a modest outfit tucked away in the borough's suburbs, had been enjoying a break in Hampshire, and admitted his first thought was: 'Is this for real?' But, in spite of his reservations, he told the Manchester Evening News he had no choice but to make the mammoth journey back to Greater Manchester to meet The Boss. READ MORE: The seaside town near Greater Manchester with a beach bar and amazing sunsets READ MORE: Bruce Springsteen pops in to see the Lads just minutes before sell-out Co-op Live show 'I didn't know for sure he was going to show but just the possibility was worth the trip back," he said, adding it was even more 'surreal' when Bruce and his team walked into the kitchen. Springsteen has been hitting headlines during a three-night residency at the 23,500 capacity Co-op Live venue, the first of his 16-date Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. On the first night of his stay in the city, the 75-year-old took aim at President Donald Trump with a fiery barb describing 'dangerous times' currently being faced in the USA. But the Boss, known for hits like Born to Run and 'Dancing in the Dark, was in a slightly less confrontational mood as he wandered around the Stockport studio, snapping photos and had a great sense of humour. Martin said: 'What made me laugh is I asked him if I could take some photos with him and I just haven't got the technology skills to take a selfie, I couldn't get it to work, and he said to me with a smile on his face, 'Let me do it, I'm good at these''. Speaking about why he thinks Bruce liked his studio, Martin said perhaps it reminded the global artist, in some way of the kind of place he recorded in when he was starting out. He continued: 'It's pretty down to earth here and has a comfortable vibe so hopefully he felt relaxed.' Reflecting on the finest moment of recording the septuagenarian rocker Martin said it was when Bruce listened back. 'He was listening so intently, it was about the music for him, and it felt for me at that moment that it doesn't matter if you're famous or if you're a young musician starting out, ultimately the commonality in it all is the music.' He said the star, who will play his last show at Manchester's Co-op live last night (May 20) has an 'amazing personal aura'. He added: 'He inspires a respectful reverence in everyone around him. It's not surprising given decades of success in the music industry built on genuine artistic and personal integrity still so evident in his live shows.'
Forbes
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Don Felder's Decades-Old Demos Inspire His Latest Solo Album ‘The Vault'
Don Felder. When former Eagles guitarist Don Felder was in the process of moving to Beverly Hills after living in Malibu, California, for nearly 30 years, he put away his recording equipment and tapes of unreleased music (going back as far as 1974) into a storage locker in 2000. It was only a few years ago that Felder returned to the locker and rediscovered the contents that he had almost forgotten about. 'I started looking around, and there were these 24-track tapes of all the albums that I had worked on in storage there,' he says. 'There were tapes of all the demos that I made when I had a 16-track machine. And Eagles things that we recorded live when they were working at my studio — we would rehearse out there and I put it on a tape and record so we could hear great ideas if something kind of ran by.' Felder grabbed some cassettes, brought them to his home studio and transferred them to digital. The rediscovery of those demos inspired Felder to rerecord them that now appear on his latest solo album The Vault: Fifty Years of Music, which comes out Friday. 'I had all these ideas that I had completely forgotten about over the decade,' he says. 'I found a couple from the '70s, a couple from the '80s, some in the '90s. And then finally, I think I had six [tracks] One of the earliest songs from The Vault is 'Move On,' which dates back to 1974 when Felder first hooked up with the Eagles; he would later co-write some of the band's most notable songs including 'Victim of Love,' 'Those Shoes' and the iconic 'Hotel California.' 'After I joined the band, I made the very first demo for my submission,' he says. 'But I didn't have any instruments. I took a cardboard box, put a microphone on it, and played a drum beat. And then I played a little rhythm guitar and a bass part. Then I started playing slide on it. 'When I submitted it to [Don] Henley, he said, 'I like that slide part. Let's write a song called 'Slide On." I went, (laughs) 'It sounds a little corny to me.' Anyway, I had been in a relationship with somebody for five years. It was done. It was time to move on. And I went, 'That's what that song should be about. But instead of 'Slide On,' let's write 'Move On.'' So that's the track from 1974 that's on the album – that idea.' Another demo revisited for the new collection is the reflective 'Hollywood Victim,' whose origins go back to the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour in 1994. 'I thought it would be a really nice, kind of cool, laid-back look at L.A. and the ugly underbelly of Hollywood in that song,' Felder explains. 'But we just literally had no time to record a fifth song. We barely got four songs done and the live shoot and the mixing and rehearsals and out on the road. So it fell to the wayside. Anyway, I kept thinking about that. And when I heard the demo that I had written, I went, 'I'm going to finish that. I like that track.' It was refreshing to look at some of my old ideas and go, 'Not bad. Let's take this and try to do something with it.'' Like his 2019 album, American Rock 'n' Roll, The Vault contains a bevy of A-list guest musicians such as guitarist Steve Lukather, keyboardist David Paich and singer Joseph Williams of Toto; bassists Nathan East and Matt Bissonette; keyboardist Greg Phillinganes; and drummers Todd Sucherman (Styx), Gregg Bissonette and Jim Keltner. 'All of those musicians are friends,' Felder says. 'So we have a great time making records and hanging out together…It's fun to work with great people that it's easy to work with and you have fun with. That's what it's all about. ' In addition to the unearthed material, The Vault unveils newer material such as the anthemic 'Free at Last' and 'Digital World,' a reggae-influenced commentary about society's obsession with smartphones and other electronic devices. Another new song written for the new album is the uptempo 'I Like the Things You Do,' inspired by Felder's romantic partner Jaden. 'We go to the gym quite often and we run right next to each other,' he says.'She runs faster than I. I'm running at the same tempo as that song, not knowing it. And I start hearing, 'I like the things you do,' that chorus running over in my head. 'I picked up my phone,' he continues. "I'm running on the treadmill. I start singing it into my phone so I don't forget it. And the guy next to me looks over like, 'What the hell are you doing?' But if I didn't record a little bit of it, it would just be gone. I came back later and I said, 'That's a good idea. I'm going to start that.' So I put together a little drum loop, played bass on it, and put together the progression, and started working on the track.' Predominantly consisting of guitar-fueled rockers, The Vault closes with 'Blue Skies,' a poignant acoustic number featuring a string quartet. It's a tribute to Felder's former Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey, who died in 2016. 'I had been tinkering around with an instrumental acoustic guitar piece,' he says. 'And I've been working on the idea that I could sit down, put a mic on it, and play something that was a really pretty acoustic guitar… I went, 'What if I took one of these acoustic ideas I've got and I put a string quartet?' 'They [the string musicians] came in, played on it. And it was a really beautiful little idea. While we're there, all the girls in that quartet, I had them saying, 'I'll forever be wishing you blue skies.' And if you listen to it, it's really, really, very low in the very last couple of progressions there. I thought it was a lovely way to give Glenn a big hug and a kiss goodbye, 'And I wish you nothing but blue skies.'' The most well-known song on the album is an updated version of the rocker 'Heavy Metal (Take a Ride),' which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1981 animated cult movie of the same name. It's regarded as Felder's most well-known track as a solo artist. 'It was all analog,' he says of the original recording. 'And the mastering techniques were limited. So I kept hearing it and going, 'I'd sure like to take that song and make a fresh 96K Pro Tools with high-end mastering, great microphones, and redo it so it sounds like 2025.' There's no way you can go back and get an old mixtape and make it sound right. It is what it is. So I thought, 'I'll freshen that thing up, give it a facelift.' And it was fun to do it.' Following the release of The Vault, Felder will be sharing the bill this summer with Styx and former REO Speedwagon singer Kevin Cronin for the Brotherhood of Rock tour starting May 28. Those three acts have previously shared the same stage in what has become almost an annual tradition. 'We've toured together a whole lot,' says Felder. 'The best part of that whole thing is that we all know each other so well. All the crew members and the front of house guys — it's a big family. And there are no divas. There's no hissy fits. There's no ego. We're just having a great time on stage and off stage, playing music with a lot of people that you like. So why not do that if you can instead of having to deal with other parts of the music business that aren't quite so enjoyable?' Felder says he plans to continue to 'rock 'til I drop,' but jokingly adds: 'Hopefully, it won't be during 'Tequila Sunrise.' Maybe during 'Hotel California' or 'Life in the Fast Lane' or something that's more of a rocking song — but as long as I can get up and do it, and people are loving it. And by the end of my set, everybody's standing up. They got their iPhones out. They're filming me playing 'Hotel' and dancing and rocking. How do you get a better, exciting life than doing that?'
