Today's Hit Music For Eastern Iowa
The Weeknd is back with a new video for his single “Snowchild,” off his After Hours album.
The clip was done by Japan’s D’ART Shtajio studio, and it features The Weednd — aka Abel Tesfaye — in his many personas over the years, from being in a house of balloons, to transforming into a starboy to being among black panthers.
You can check out the nostalgic clip for “Snowchild” at the link: here
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Jason Derulo has released the video for his latest single, “Take You Dancing,” which premiered on YouTube. The video capitalizes on the success Derulo has had with TikTok, and the singer even referenced one of his viral TikTok dance videos in the track’s visual.
After getting out of a 12-year label deal, Derulo is working as an independent artist, creating music with various labels. He also believes that tracks like “Take You Dancing” will provide relief from the tension that has taken over the world. “In these times, we all need a song that’s going to uplift us,” the singer said. “Hopefully ‘Take You Dancing’ can be a light in these trying days.”
Watch Jason Derulo’s video for “Take You Dancing” at the link: here
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TV’s longest running medical drama, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, will take on the coronavirus pandemic in season 17.
Showrunner Krista Vernoff revealed. “There’s no way to be a long-running medical show and not do the medical story of our lifetimes. Every year, we have doctors come and tell us their stories, and usually they’re telling their funniest or craziest stories. This year, it has felt more like therapy. The doctors come in and we’re the first people they’re talking to about these types of experiences they’re having. They are literally shaking and trying not to cry, they’re pale, and they’re talking about it as war—a war that they were not trained for. And that’s been one of our big conversations about Owen, is that he’s actually trained for this in a way that most of the other doctors aren’t.”
Vernoff says the show has a “responsibility” to portray what’s happening right now. “I feel like our show has an opportunity and a responsibility to tell some of those stories,” she said. “Our conversations have been constantly about how do we keep alive humor and romance while we tell these really painful stories.”
Season 16 of Grey’s Anatomy was not able to finish filming, with four episodes left in the season when production was shut down due to the pandemic. However, season three of spinoff Station 19 did finish production, and the two shows would have shared a few storylines had Grey’s been able to finish out its season. As a result, Vernoff said that they had to “pull some scenes and some dialogue” from the finished finale of Station 19, which featured a hospital bombing, Vernoff said she did not plan on returning to those four planned episodes.
Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 will return to ABC this fall.
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Kim Kardashian West has spoken out about her husband Kanye West’s bipolar disorder amid erratic behavior on Twitter over the last few days.
Kardashian, who has never spoken publicly about her husband’s bipolar disorder, issued a lengthy statement on Instagram defending West. She noted that she has avoided speaking about this subject publicly out of respect for her kids as well as her husband’s right to privacy: “As many of you know, Kanye has bi-polar disorder. Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand,” Kardashian’s statement shared to Instagram begins.
Kim said Kanye is a “brilliant and complicated” person that is simply struggling to deal with his mental illness at times: “He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressure of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder,” she wrote. “Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.”
The reality star’s statement comes hours after he reportedly posted and subsequently deleted a tweet in which he claimed he wanted to divorce her. However, she made it clear she stands by him no matter the struggle. She seemingly confirmed that West’s recent behavior, including his presidential campaign rally and tweets, are part of an issue involving his mental health. She requested privacy and “compassion and empathy” from others, concluding: “We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most.”
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Kim Kardashian West has spoken out about her husband Kanye West’s bipolar disorder amid erratic behavior on Twitter over the last few days.
Kardashian, who has never spoken publicly about her husband’s bipolar disorder, issued a lengthy statement on Instagram defending West. She noted that she has avoided speaking about this subject publicly out of respect for her kids as well as her husband’s right to privacy: “As many of you know, Kanye has bi-polar disorder. Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand,” Kardashian’s statement shared to Instagram begins.
Kim said Kanye is a “brilliant and complicated” person that is simply struggling to deal with his mental illness at times: “He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressure of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder,” she wrote. “Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.”
The reality star’s statement comes hours after he reportedly posted and subsequently deleted a tweet in which he claimed he wanted to divorce her. However, she made it clear she stands by him no matter the struggle. She seemingly confirmed that West’s recent behavior, including his presidential campaign rally and tweets, are part of an issue involving his mental health. She requested privacy and “compassion and empathy” from others, concluding: “We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most.”
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Dua Lipa teased on Twitter her upcoming J Balvin and Bad Bunny collaboration called “Un Dia (One Day).” The collab will be Dua Lipa’s first release since her Future Nostalgia album landed in March.
Dua Lipa has hinted that a new Normani collaboration might be released in future, and confirmed that she did work with Miley Cyrus on a song, but they “actually ended up deciding that we wanted to get into the studio and do something different”. Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny has already released two surprise albums this year – LAS QUE NO IBAN A SALIR in May, and YHLQMDLG in February. J Balvin released his fifth LP Colores in March.
“Un Dia (One Day)” featuring Dua Lipa, J Balvin and Bad Bunny will officially arrive on Friday, July 24th.
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Maroon 5 announced on Instagram that they’ll be releasing a track called “Nobody’s Love” today, Thursday, July 23.
They revealed the news by posting a series of the same image in different color schemes. It features a woman standing on some rocks near the ocean, with a smiley face image in the top right corner. “‘Nobody’s Love’ o 7.23 o 9PM PST,” they captioned the photos.
Nobody’s Love follows Maroon 5’s hit single, “Memories.” In other news, Maroon 5 announced rescheduled dates for their 2021 North American tour, which had been postponed due to COVID-19.
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Kanye West thanked comedian Dave Chappelle on Tuesday morning for “hopping on a jet to see me doing well.” This comes after West posted a flurry of troubling — and now-deleted — tweets on Monday night.
West posted a video of himself with Chappelle and others in Wyoming in which he challenged the comic to tell a joke, on the spot, to lift their spirits. “Uplifting joke?,” Chappelle said in the nearly two-minute clip. “You know I don’t write them.”
West tweeted that Chappelle was “a God send and a true friend” after his visit. The two have known one another since West appeared on “The Chappelle Show” in 2003. Chappelle has dealt with rumors about his mental health after he walked away in 2004 from his hit Comedy Central series — and the $50-million deal that came with it — and disappeared to South Africa. The comedian later told Oprah Winfrey that stress and pressure from network execs caused him to bolt.
West has openly spoken out in recent years about struggling with his mental health, and recently has raised renewed concerns since announcing on July 4 that he was running for president.
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Oscar winning actors Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts will reunite to star in the Netflix drama Leave The World Behind. The actors, who starred together in 1993 legal thriller The Pelican Brief, are set to appear in the movie adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s upcoming novel of the same name.
According to Netflix, Leave The World Behind tells a “magnetic story about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.” Leave The World Behind will explore ‘themes of parenthood, race and class,’ Netflix said.
Roberts, who won the best actress Oscar for Erin Brockovich, will play the mother of one family while Washington, the best actor winner for his portrayal of a corrupt police officer in Training Day, stars as the father of the other.
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24-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara will drop her new EP This Summer: Live Off The Floor, along with eight live in-studio performance videos.
The EP holds a special significance for the Grammy Award-winning artist, who will be donating her share of net royalties to humanitarian organization Save The Children for the next 21 years. “I really wanted to do something where I could help everyone,” Cara says. “When thinking about changing the world… I think helping and protecting and educating kids is the most important and crucial step to that cause those are the future leaders.”
This Summer: Live Off The Floor features live versions of six songs including, “Ready” and “Rooting For You”, as well as her original song “I Choose” from the Netflix animated film “The Willoughbys”, in which she made her acting debut as the lead character.
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