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Sure, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took home the championship at Super Bowl LV on Sunday (Feb. 7), but Blake Shelton was the real star of the show when he appeared alongside Gwen Stefani and Adam Levine in a T-Mobile commercial.
When discussing the hilarious ad with EW, Shelton said the response was incredible. “Of all the things that I’ve been fortunate enough to have happen in my life, I don’t know that my phone has ever erupted — I mean my phone was smoking last night,” he shared in a virtual interview alongside Voice coaches Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Nick Jonas, host Carson Daly and showrunner Audrey Morrissey. “You realize, ‘Oh my God, nobody has ever really watched me win an award.’ I know that now. But everybody watches the Super Bowl. Now it’s confirmed: I know every contact in my phone was watching that game.”
The commercial found Stefani “a few years ago” FaceTiming her then-fellow Voice coach Levine, revealing that she’s “ready to start dating again.” When describing her ideal man, she detailed someone “maybe from another country,” “cultured,” and “not threatened by a strong, confident woman.” However, her spotty cell service had the Maroon 5 frontman thinking Stefani wanted someone “completely country,” “uncultured,” and “threatened by a strong, confident woman.”
In walks the ideal candidate, country superstar Shelton, and the rest is history. The couple, who have been dating since 2015, got engaged in October 2020.
On filming the ad, the country crooner added, “It was funny, we had a blast. When I read the script, I thought it was a great idea. I thought it was so funny. Because people still don’t really understand why she’s with me. And fair enough, right? So I loved being able to spin that out.”
Jonas also touched upon his experience transforming into an elderly man in the Super Bowl commercial for Dexcom, a glucose monitoring system that helps people with diabetes keep tabs on their glucose levels without having to prick their fingers.
“I think it was a fun way to put diabetes, something I live with every day, on a stage as big as the Super Bowl,” the “Jealous” singer explained. “You had to do something off the top that was a little alarming, like making me look like a 95-year-old man.”
See the full EW clip here.
YFN Lucci has been released on bond following his arrest for murder, Billboard can confirm.
The Atlanta rapper (real name Rayshawn Bennett) was booked into Fulton County jail last month in connection with a Dec. 10 shooting, which left one man dead and another injured.
An “exhaustive investigation” by the Atlanta Police Department labeled him as a suspect, prompting Lucci to turn himself in.
Currently, he is out after being granted bail.
In a statement from Lucci’s lawyer, his reps negotiated with the prosecution a $500,000 bond which was finalized this morning (Jan. 8), ahead of a bond motion on Tuesday.
Bennett was released shortly before 4pm. The bond conditions include that he must surrender his passport and wear a GPS ankle monitor, his lawyer explains.
A video announcement from Atlanta PD in January confirmed that Lucci faces the charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity as well as possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Lucci was featured on OMB Peezy’s “Hustle,” which hit streaming services a week after the alleged shooting and dropped his Wish Me Well 3 mixtape on Dec. 4.
Shortly before surrendering to authorities, Lucci rolled out a new music video with Mozzy for their collaboration “Rolled On.”
CBS teased its Silence of the Lambs sequel series Clarice on Sunday (Feb. 7) with a Super Bowl trailer that featured a snippet of Brandi Carlile’s take on John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
The cover was made available on streaming platforms Monday (Feb. 8), just one day after Carlile unveiled the song’s eerie lyric video. In the clip, scenes from Clarice weave among the lyrics as the singer’s haunting vocals soar through the vignette.
The series will star actress Rebecca Breeds as FBI Agent Clarice Starling, who revisits her childhood on a farm after becoming famous for catching serial killer Buffalo Bill, and reflects on how her past has influenced her life. Clarice is set one year after The Silence of the Lambs.
Clarice, featuring Carlile’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” premieres on Thursday (Feb. 11). Listen below.
Dolly Parton didn’t just rework her 1980 hit “9 to 5″ for her first Super Bowl ad; she also reworked her pink nail set as an instrument for an a cappella performance Monday (Feb. 8).
Parton looked pretty in pink for her effortless rendition of the revamped song, now dubbed “5 to 9,” which honors professionals using their off-hours to work on passion projects. The spot, for the website-building and e-commerce platform Squarespace, aired Sunday during the Super Bowl.
“Working 5 to 9, making something of your own now/ And it feels so fine to build a business from your know-how/ Gonna move ahead, and there’s nothing that you can’t do/ When you listen to that little voice inside you,” Parton sings on the revamped version. “Yeah 5 to 9, you’ve got passion and a vision/ ‘Cause it’s hustlin’ time, whole new way to make a livin’/ Gonna change your life, do something that gives it meaning/ With a website that is worthy of your dreaming.”
The Squarespace ad features a bunch of disinterested co-workers at a grayscale office waiting till the clock strikes 5 so they can finally pursue their own passions, as their cubicles transform into colorful workspaces. Parton doesn’t make an official appearance in the commercial, but she does make a cute cameo, winking at the camera from the cover of the fictional Five-Nine magazine.
Parton features her own side hustle, the singer’s namesake fragrance Dolly that has its own Squarespace site, during her “5 to 9″ a cappella performance.
Watch it below.
Cardi B gave pianist Chloe Flower her flowers over the weekend after she added some dazzling keys to her latest single “Up.”
Flower uploaded a nearly 40-second clip of her performance from a disco-ball-inspired piano in a high-rise New York apartment. She played the keys for the Bronx rapper’s rich performance of “Money” at the 2019 Grammy Awards, when Cardi took home the best rap album award for Invasion of Privacy, which was also nominated for album of the year.
“Woke *UP* to a new Cardi B hit, and I had to cover it!” Flower wrote on her socials. “I don’t know if y’all know, but Cardi B is one of the few female artists that is truly supportive of other women in the arts. I know from experience (Grammys 2019 performance of Money). She allowed me to shine, and gave the opportunity to really share a stage with her. I will be forever grateful and I hope to be like that for other female artists one day.”
Cardi shared Flower’s clip on Twitter, writing, “I can’t wait to work with you again .”
See Cardi B’s reaction as well as Flower’s “Up” piano performance below.
