Richard Marx wanted a word with the parents of a rude audience member who interrupted his concert last weekend.

The veteran singer-songwriter, who’s been on a January co-headlining tour with Rick Springfield, was playing at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, on Jan. 21 when someone in the audience started loudly interrupting his 1989 song “Angelia.”

When the song was over, he addressed the crowd, singling out the talker in the room.

“I’m genuinely curious who raised you to think that anything you could yell out was more important than what we were doing,” he said from the stage, as heard in a video obtained by TMZ.

“Learn some f—ing manners, lady!” said Marx in the clip.

Marx has seen success as songwriter for other artists throughout his career, while several of his own recordings reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the ’80s and ’90s. He topped the chart in 1988 with “Hold on to the Nights,” and “Right Here Waiting” and “Satisfied” in 1989. He’s been nominated for five Grammys and is the recipient of one, the song of the year award in 2004 for “Dance With My Father,” which he wrote and composed with Luther Vandross.

Marx’s latest album, Songwriter, was released in 2022.

His mini tour with Springfield was scheduled to continue this weekend, but a group of dates were postponed when Springfield came down with the flu.

“I contracted one of the nasty flus running rampant and have not been able to shake it,” Springfield wrote to fans on Instagram. “I never want to not be at my best performing especially especially on this special show that my dear friend Richard and I have put together. We will reschedule as soon as possible and return with an unforgettable show.”

Nicki Minaj isn’t a fan of Megan Thee Stallion‘s new song “Hiss.”

On the fiery new single, Megan takes an apparent jab at Nicki’s husband, registered sex offender Kenneth Petty, while referencing Megan’s Law, a federal law requiring law enforcement to make information available about registered sex offenders.

“These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law/ I don’t really know what the problem is, but I guarantee y’all don’t want me to start/ B—h, you a p—y, never finna check me/ Every chance you get, bet your weak ass won’t address me,” the Stallion raps on “Hiss.”

Shortly after the song’s arrival on Friday (Jan. 26), Minaj hopped on Instagram Live to preview an unreleased track firing back at Meg, referencing the Houston artist getting shot in the foot by Tory Lanez in 2020. The shooting case wrapped up last year with the Canadian crooner heading to prison.

“Bad b—h she like six foot, I call her Big Foot/ The b—h fell off, I said get up on your good foot,” Nicki raps in the snippet.

The “Super Bass” rapper had a chuckle at her slick wordplay and ran back the venomous track a few times before sniping at Megan for her rapping ability during the Live: “You have three Grammys and you have to learn how to rap on the beat and be comfortable in the music.”

Nicki added on Instagram Live, “You bringing up 30-year-old tea from when this man was a 15-year-old child. You bringing up 30-year-old tea cause no man will ever f—ing love you, and lying on your dead mother.” (Megan’s mother died in 2019.)

Minaj didn’t stop there. She spoke further on the matter during a conversation Friday on radio app Stationhead. “You let everyone be thrown under the bus,” Nicki is heard saying about Meg in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). “You let DaBaby be thrown under the bus, Tory, your best friend, your mom … You better go conjure up your mother and apologize. That’s disgusting.”

Nicki has also shared numerous posts on X, calling Megan a “disgusting serpant” and writing, “Megan’s Law. For a free beat you could hit #Meganraw.” Minaj added in another tweet that she “does not condone ‘bullying,’” but called Stallion a “pathological & manipulative liar,” alleging that she’s “using ghost writers & still SUCK.”

“Hiss,” which is co-produced by LilJuMadeDaBeat and Bankroll Got It, is the second single set to land on Megan’s third album. The new track arrived two months after she launched her new era with the rock-tinged “Cobra,” which served as her first independent single since leaving 1501 Certified Entertainment. “Cobra” peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became her eighth top 10 hit on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (No. 10).

Ariana Grande is dropping more teasers for her upcoming album.

On Saturday (Jan. 27), the 30-year-old pop star took to Instagram to unveil a new alternate cover for her seventh album, Eternal Sunshine, and teased a tracklist containing two more songs from the forthcoming set.

Earlier this month, the Wicked star unleashed Eternal Sunshine lead single “Yes, And?” and announced that the album will be released on March 8.

The latest alternate cover is a beautiful photograph showing the back of Grande’s head as she sports a blonde ponytail and white dress while resting on the shoulder of a similarly dressed woman. The exclusive cover can be pre-ordered through her website here.

The Grammy winner previously confirmed that Eternal Sunshine would have multiple covers. The artwork for “Yes, And?” features close-up photo of Grande’s face and red lips, while other alternate covers find the singer posing in a white babydoll top and red tulle gloves.

Grande’s other big reveal on Saturday was a teaser of the Eternal Sunshine‘s 13-song tracklist in her Instagram Story. The opener is titled “Intro (End of the World), the fifth song is “Eternal Sunshine,” and song No. 9 is “Yes, And?” No other songs were revealed at press time.

This week, the Victorious alum scored her eighth No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as her latest single “Yes, And?” debuted in the top spot on the chart, less than two months ahead of her March-slated Eternal Sunshine.

“it is overwhelming and so sincerely moving to see how many of you this song has resonated with,” Grande wrote in her Instagram Story on Jan. 22. “it is such a gift to feel so seen and held by you! thank you for your positivity, for your support and for everything. you have no idea how much you mean to me! this is absolutely because of and entirely for you. thank you!”

The star’s latest album rollout follows her yearslong break from music, having spent the time since 2020’s Positions focusing on her R.E.M. Beauty business and her role in the upcoming live-action adaptations of the Broadway musical Wicked. In the past three years, her pop star endeavors have only spanned guesting on other artists’ songs here and there (such as the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Die for You” with The Weeknd and “Met Him Last Night” with Demi Lovato) and releasing a 10th anniversary edition of her debut album, Yours Truly.

Check out Grande’s newest Eternal Sunshine alternate cover on Instagram below.

A jury found Friday that celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D did not violate a photographer’s copyright when she used his portrait of Miles Davis as the basis for a tattoo she put on the arm of a friend.

The Los Angeles jury deliberated for just over two hours before deciding that the tattoo by the former star of the reality shows “Miami Ink” and “LA Ink” was not similar enough to photographer Jeffrey Sedlik’s 1989 portrait of the jazz legend that she needed to have paid permission.

“I’m obviously very happy for this to be over,” Von D, who inked her friend’s arm with Davis as a gift about seven years ago, said outside the courtroom. “It’s been two years of a nightmare worrying about this, not just for myself but for my fellow tattoo artists.”

The eight jurors made the same decision about a drawing Von D made from the portrait to base the tattoo on, and to several social media posts she made about the process, which were also part of Sedlik’s lawsuit. And they found that the tattoo, drawing and posts also all fell within the legal doctrine of fair use of a copyrighted work, giving Von D and other tattoo artists who supported her and followed the trial a resounding across-the-board victory.

“We’ve said all along that this case never should have been brought,” Von D’s attorney Allen B. Grodsky said after the verdict. “The jury recognized that this was just ridiculous.”

Sedlik’s attorney Robert Edward Allen said they plan to appeal. He said it the images, which both featured a close-up of Davis gazing toward the viewer and making a “shh” gesture, were so similar he didn’t know how the jury could reach the conclusion they did.

“If those two things are not substantially similar, then no one’s art is safe,” Allen said.

He told jurors during closing arguments earlier Friday that the case has “nothing to do with tattoos.”

“It’s about copying others’ protected works,” Allen said. “It’s not going to hurt the tattoo industry. The tattoo police are not going to come after anyone.”

Allen emphasized the meticulous work Sedlik did to set up the shoot, to create the lighting and mood, and to put Davis in the pose that would make for an iconic photo that was first published on the cover of JAZZIZ magazine in 1989. Sedlik registered the copyright in 1994.

And he said that subsequently, licensing the image to others including tattoo artists was a major part of how he made his living.

Von D said during the three-day trial that she never licenses the images she recreates, and she considers work like the Davis tattoo a form of “fan art.”

“I made zero money off it,” she testified. “I’m not mass-producing anything. I think there is a big difference.”

Her attorney Grodsky emphasized for jurors that that lack of an attempt to cash in on the image was essential to the tattoo being a form of fair use, an exception in copyright law used for works including commentary, criticism and parody.

Allen argued in his closing that the social media posts about the tattoo were a promotion of her and her studio, and thus a form of monetizing the image.

If jurors had sided with Sedlik, they could have awarded him as little as a few hundred dollars or as much as $150,000.

Von D was among the stars of the reality series “Miami Ink” then was the featured artist on its spinoff “LA Ink,” which ran on TLC from 2007 to 2011.

The 41-year-old Von D, whose legal name is Katherine von Drachenberg, was already a prominent young tattoo artist when she became a TV personality through her appearances on TLC’s “Miami Ink” starting in 2005 on TLC. She was the central star of its spinoff, “LA Ink,” which ran from 2007 to 2011 and made her possibly the most famous tattoo artist in the country.

Von D said that despite the victory, she’s not enthused about getting back to work.

“I think I don’t want to ever tattoo again, my heart has been crushed through this in different ways,” she said. “We’ll see with time.”