After what have surely been the strangest 14 months in recent memory for Ibiza, there is some forward motion — and a few steps backwards — for clubs on the famed island dance music mecca.

In a June 1 interview with Spanish radio station La Cadena SER, Eivissa Leisure Association manager José Luis Benítez said that a 2,000-capacity outdoor pilot event will happen either this June 25 or July 2. This event will serve to test the safety of outdoor gatherings on the island going forward, with Benítez telling La Cadena that if this event goes well and the safety protocols prove viable, venues on the island could start hosting outdoor events roughly two weeks after the test run.

To gain entry into the pilot event, attendees will be required to have received at least one vaccination dose, or must provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test result. The as-yet-unannounced host venue will also provide testing for attendees. Five hundred people will be allowed on the dance floor, while drinks will be confined to a designated seating area.

While this news presents a bit of hope for clubs on the island, when the island’s full slate of club events might return remains unclear, with Balearic Islands Health Minister Patricia Gómez on Thursday (June 3) saying that nightlife presents a “lot of risk.” While the island’s 2021 season is currently stalled, some venues including nightlight institutions Amnesia and Hï have announced closing events for September and October. 

While promoters are trying to be optimistic, the U.K. government dealt a blow to Ibiza tourism today by announcing that it’s keeping the Balearic Islands (of which Ibiza is a part of along with Formentera, Mallorca and Menorca) on its “amber” list of its traffic light system for international travel. This means that a 10-day quarantine is required for those flying from Spain to the U.K. The news is another setback to Ibiza’s return to normalcy, with UK tourists making up a sizable amount of overall visitors to the island each year.

According to Johns Hopkins University, just 20% of the Spanish population is currently vaccinated.

On Thursday night’s (June 3) new episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian opens up to her sisters about feeling “like a f—ing failure” amid her marriage issues with Kanye West.

Much of the 20th and final season of the E! reality series was filmed ahead of the February announcement that Kardashian had filed for divorce from West after six-plus years of marriage. In the new episode, we see the Kardashian-Jenner family on a December vacation to Lake Tahoe, and Khloe Kardashian reveals that Kim and Kanye had a big fight before the trip.

In a flashback scene to Kardashian crying, surrounded by sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian, Kim says through tears, “I think he deserves someone who can go support his every move and go follow him all over the place and move to Wyoming. I can’t do that! He should have a wife who supports his every move and travels with him and does everything, and I can’t.”

Since 2019, West has spent the bulk of his time on a 1,400-acre ranch in Cody, Wyoming, while Kardashian is based at their home in suburban Los Angeles.

Before her 2014 marriage to West, Kardashian was previously married to songwriter Damon Thomas and NBA player Kris Humphries. “I feel like a f—ing failure that it’s, like, a third f—ing marriage,” Kardashian tells her sisters. “I feel like a f—ing loser, but I can’t even think about that. Like, I want to be happy.”

Kardashian and West share custody of their four children together: 7-year-old daughter North, 5-year-old son Saint, 3-year-old daughter Chicago, and 1-year-old son Psalm.

Watch the scenes from Thursday’s episode about Kim and Kanye’s marriage starting at the 1:45 mark in the video below:

Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) and rapper Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group (CMG) have partnered to further develop and support CMG’s roster of artists including Moneybagg Yo, 42 Dugg and EST Gee, it was announced today.

The collaboration has already produced successes for Moneybagg Yo, who recently earned his first-ever Billboard 200 No. 1 album with A Gangsta’s Pain, which sat atop the chart for two weeks last month. 42 Dugg also scored a win with his mixtape Free Dem Boyz, which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 this week.

“With 25 years under his belt as a successful artist, label head, manager and entrepreneur, Yo Gotti has built an impressive legacy in hip hop and remains one of the most exciting voices in music,” said IGA chairman John Janick in a statement. “We look forward to working closely with Gotti’s team to continue to build upon CMG’s incredible run in our business.”

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for John Janick, Steve Berman, Nicole Wyskoarko and the entire Interscope team and their track record of success,” added Gotti. “We share the same vision about winning – we want to break barriers, disrupt the industry and develop the next generation of superstars. I’m thrilled to partner with them as I continue focusing on CMG’s expansion.”

Founded in 2012, CMG has also worked to develop the careers of Blac Youngsta and BlocBoy JB.

“Gotti’s decades long ability to consistently identify the next important wave of talent is very rare in our business,” said IGA co-head of A&R Nicole Wyskoarko. “We’re excited about all of the new artists he and his team are currently developing and can’t wait to get started.”

At each year’s Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy distributes a program book to attendees. It’s mostly devoted to nominees and special merit honorees, but it also includes a full page of head shots of past chairs of the academy’s board of trustees. The list goes all the way back to James B. Conkling, who was acting national chairman from the academy’s founding in 1957 to 1961. The joke among Grammy insiders is that it’s a sea of white men until you get to Leslie Ann Jones, who served as chairwoman from 1999–2001.

That isn’t quite true. The roster of past chairs includes Nesuhi Ertegun (1964-65), a Turkish-American who was born in Istanbul when it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and George Avakian (1966-67), an Armenian-American who was born in present-day Russia.

But if it isn’t literally true, it sure feels true, as you can see on page 131 of this year’s program book.

But things are changing in the Recording Academy, just as they are in America. The announcement on Wednesday (June 2) that Tammy Hurt has been elected to succeed Harvey Mason Jr. as chair marks the first time in academy history that back-to-back chairs have been people other than white men.

Jones, the first woman to serve as chair, was followed in that post by three white men: Garth Fundis (2001-2003), Daniel Carlin (2003-2005) and Terry Lickona (2005-2007).

Jimmy Jam, the first Black man to serve as chair (2007-2009) was followed by a white man, George J. Flanigen IV, who served a double term (2009-2013).

Christine Albert, the second woman to serve as chair (2013-2015), was followed by a white man, John Poppo, who also served a double term (2015-2019). Poppo was followed by Mason and now Hurt.

The changes go beyond just the chair role. As Billboard reported, for the first time in academy history, no white men were elected to any of the four key board positions. Two Black men, Rico Love and Om’Mas Keith, were elected vice chair and secretary/treasurer, respectively. Albert continues as chair emeritus.

The academy didn’t call attention to these history-making moves in its press announcement. Nor did Mason, who was named the academy’s president/CEO last month. They preferred to let the moves speak for themselves.

“I’m in awe of the amazingly talented group that’s been elected to lead this new era of the Academy and really excited at the possibilities as I start this journey with Tammy, Rico, Om’Mas, and Christine,” said Mason in a statement. “I know this group is going to do great work as we continue to transform the Academy and support the music community.”

Hailey Bieber chatted with Insecure actress and comedian Yvonne Orji on Wednesday (June 2) about navigating their relationship with God in the entertainment industry.

During one of her “A Conversation With” segments on YouTube, Bieber opened up about struggling to stick to the modest profile of a Christian as a model and how some of her shoots and social media posts have attracted negative attention from other religious people.

“I’ve met Christian people that are just super judgmental and made me feel like I’m a bad person because I don’t live my life the way they think I should live my life,” Bieber said. “And I felt weird about posting certain photos of myself or feeling like, ‘People in the church are gonna see this. Am I doing something wrong? Am I setting a bad example?’ And the reality is no!”

The reality is that hers and husband Justin Bieber’s faith is “the biggest thing” that grounds their relationship. “If we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t even be here. We wouldn’t even be together.”

The 24-year-old model also talked about how she’s feared some of her shoots that require showing more skin and wearing lingerie would receive backlash from other Christians who don’t label her as “modest.” While Orji recalled the struggle to sign the nude waiver required for shooting sex scenes on Insecure, Bieber revealed she would never model while completely nude.

“I think I also take a place where I’m like, ‘OK, I wouldn’t want to ever be shot naked, but props to any woman who’s comfortable doing that,’” she told the Bamboozled by Jesus author.

Watch their conversation below.