Kelly Clarkson Sings to Every ‘Narcissist’ Out There With Heartbreaking Kellyoke Cover

Kelly Clarkson delivered another showstopping performance as part of her “Kellyoke” segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show Friday (April 29), this time singing to every “Narcissist” out there.

The American Idol alum sang a moving rendition of rising singer Avery Anna’s tune “Narcissist” and received a standing ovation from the live studio audience.

Clarkson also received social media love from an elated Anna, who wrote on Twitter, “I am freaking out,” alongside exploding-head emojis. Earlier on Friday, Anna shared a video of Clarkson’s performance on her Instagram Story. The aspiring star wrote, “You guysssssss this is insane.”

The song opens with the gripping lyrics, “Out of touch with my feelings/ I can’t help it if I’m happy or sad/ Today I cried for no reason/ Made me feel like a psychopath/ I should hate you ’cause I love you/ You should hate yourself for treating me like that/ We both know you only love you/ Did you know they got a name for that?”

With such a heartbreaking message, Anna’s song might have struck an emotional chord for Clarkson, who finalized her split from ex-husband and father of her children Brandon Blackstock last month. She filed for divorce in 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

In addition to hosting her own daytime talk show, Clarkson co-hosts NBC’s new singing competition American Song Contest alongside Snoop Dogg.

Watch Clarkson cover Anna’s original song “Narcissist” below:

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Florida’s Vibra Urbana Expands West to Las Vegas: ‘It Goes Beyond a Music Festival’

In only two years, the Florida-based Vibra Urbana Music Festival has gained the respect of music lovers and artists nationwide, becoming reggaeton’s hottest ticket.

Despite its inaugural event taking place in February 2020 in Miami, just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, founder and partner Javier Caso not once thought the festival was going to flop. “It was a win or lose but we knew at the end of the day that if we were doing something we love, it would be reflected through the product we put out,” he tells Billboard.

It was definitely a win for Miami-based organizers Caso, David Adan, Lesty Adan, Kirk Taboada and Ian Ruzal-Bron as the music festival returned in 2021 for two summer shows in Orlando and two winter shows in Miami, racking up more than 90,000 collective attendees.

Now they are trying their luck on the West Coast, making their debut stop in Las Vegas this weekend (April 30-May 1), promising a lineup with more than 30 urban acts each day, including Anuel AA, Don Omar, Nicky Jam, Rauw Alejandro and Tego Calderon, to name a few.

“It’s the party capital of the U.S., possibly the world, so why not throw one massive party in the desert?” says Taboada, who’s produced events in Miami since 2005. “Las Vegas is a huge market and since there are a lot of residencies and festivals there, we felt Latin [urban] needed to be represented as well.”

Similar to its Orlando and Miami lineups, the Las Vegas Festival Grounds will see three different stages featuring the iconic big dogs of reggaeton (Nicky Jam, Don Omar, Ivy Queen, Tego Calderon, De La Ghetto, Arcangel), the hottest acts of the moment (Anuel AA, Nio Garcia, Rauw Alejandro, Sech), and also the rising stars (Tiago PZK, Tokischa, Boza, Mora).

Don Omar, Nio Garcia

Don Omar & Nio Garcia

“That’s our DNA. We want to give new artists the opportunity to shine, and that’s why we do the three-stage concept,” Ruzal-Bron explains. “We know we’re taking some big dips on these up-and-coming acts, but we’re not going to stop because the genre has so much growth to do. We’re really looking forward to seeing how fans on the West Coast react to that.”

Or as Caso simply put: “We are honoring the past, the present and the future.”

Up next, Vibra Urbana is set to return to Orlando’s Central Florida Fairgrounds in the summer, with confirmed acts Farruko, Myke Towers, Eladio Carrion, Lunay and many more. In between festivals, they will kick off a concert series called “Vibra Urbana Presents” beginning May 14 with Blessd in Miami’s “Oasis.”

“We want to be the biggest party in reggaeton,” says Ruzal-Bron. “We’re going to start doing hard-ticket shows for acts that we believe in and have great relationships with. There was a void in the South Florida market for good concerts for some of these not arena-level reggaeton acts.”

“We’re giving these artists who have a lot of momentum a platform,” Caso elaborates. “We’re helping out the artists, we’re helping out the brand, and we’re proving more parties for our fans. Vibra Urbana is our baby but it also has the connotation that it goes beyond a music festival.”

For more information on upcoming events, visit VibraUrbanaFest.com.

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Here Are the DMs Jack Harlow Sent to ‘Hometown Hero’ Bryson Tiller When He Was 17

Years after then-teenager Jack Harlow messaged Grammy-nominated singer/rapper Bryson Tiller, crediting him for bringing Louisville artists to the mainstream, Tiller is putting his support behind the rising star.

“Get ready for my bro Jack’s new album. Soon you’ll see why he is number 1. MAY 6th,” Tiller tweeted on Thursday.

Harlow replied, tweeting, “Dreams come true,” alongside a series of direct messages he previously sent the “Don’t” hitmaker.”

In the messages, dated June 30, 2015, Harlow wrote to Tiller, “Just wanted to hit your DMs and say thank you for what you’re doing for the 502. truly putting us on the map.”

In the next message, Harlow added, “Obviously we are from the same city and have a lot of mutual friends but I can’t describe how f—ing dope it is to watch.”

Harlow later wrote, “I’m a massive fan dude and study your every move. I just turned 17 and I’m very confident in my craft and trajectory of my career.”

The “Nail Tech” rapper concluded by calling Tiller a “hometown hero,” writing that he hopes they meet one day.

At the time, nearly seven years ago, Tiller replied, writing, “Thanks man I appreciate it. keep working. anything is possible.”

Since then, Harlow has appeared atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice. His collaborative track “Industry Baby” with Lil Nas X earned his first No. 1 on the list, while he made his No. 1 debut as a solo artist last week with the release of “First Class.”

With his new album Come Home the Kids Miss You out next month, some fans believe Harlow and Tiller may release a collab.

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Bob Elkins, Actor In Loretta Lynn Biopic ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ Dies at 89

Bob Elkins, who had a small but pivotal role as a radio disc jockey in Coal Miner’s Daughter, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Cold Spring, Kentucky, a publicist announced. He was 89.

In the 1980 Michael Apted-directed drama, nominated for best picture, Elkins’ Bobby Day is eventually convinced by Loretta Lynn (Oscar winner Sissy Spacek) and her husband, Doo (Tommy Lee Jones), to play her first record, which sends the country singer on her way to superstardom.

A native of West Virginia who was well known in Cincinnati’s theater community, Elkins also appeared with Soupy Sales in This Train (2001), with Lynda Carter in Tattered Angel (2008) and in such other films as The Dream Catcher (1999), April’s Fool (2001) and The Greater Good (2006).

He received a best actor award from the Dublin Film and Music Festival in Ireland for his turn as a homeless man in the independent short film Homefree (2002).

Also in 2002, he played the father of a trapped coal miner in the ABC telefilm The Pennsylvania Miners’ Story and a German admiral in James Cameron’s Expedition: Bismarck for the Discovery Channel. Later, he showed up on a 2011 episode of Showtime’s Homeland.

This article originally appeared in THR.com.

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Lizzo Talks Performing at Coachella With Harry Styles: ‘That’s My Guy’

The music world’s beloved “Hizzo” is alive and well, as Lizzo recently joined Harry Styles for his headlining set at Coachella Weekend 2 on Friday (April 22), where the duo performed One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.”

Lizzo recently sat down with Audacy’s Kevan Kenney, where she discussed taking the desert’s main stage with her superstar pal. “Well, first Harry was going to do a Tupac hologram, and I was like, ‘I don’t know, I feel like somebody already did that,’” she joked of Styles’ set and how their collaboration came to be. “The crazy thing is, it really was genuinely a surprise. I found out Wednesday night. I was genuinely going to Coachella to see Harry, I love his music, that’s my guy, I’m a fan. I’m going to pull up, celebrate my birthday early. Wednesday night, it was like, ‘Do you want to come and rehearse ‘I Will Survive’, we ran it three times in his trailer, and we just did it…He did a cover of ‘Juice’, and I did a cover of ‘Adore You’, and then we did ‘Juice’ together, and I was going to do a show with him, and his show got rained out by hurricane rain in Miami, so we never got to scratch that itch, and we finally did it three years later.”

“It was really, ‘Are we doing this thing?’ He’s very poetic, and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, we’re doing it,’” she added to Ryan Mitchell of Channel Q. “Hee was like, ‘Let’s sing ‘I Will Survive,’ and the next day I was in his trailer. I got a taste of the main stage, I want the whole thing.”

Lizzo is also released her highly-anticipated new single, “About Damn Time,” on April 14, which serves as an introduction to her upcoming album, Special, set to release on July 15.

“I know when it’s mastered,” she said of the upcoming album. “I sat in the mastering room and listened to all the levels. I chose the exact right time stamps for when it should end and begin. The overlap and how the flow of the album goes, and you’re like, ‘It’s done now.’ I didn’t do that on ‘Cuz I Love You’. I was too much in a whirlwind to do the time. There’s some songs ’til this day that go in too fast, because I just didn’t have the time.”

Listen below.

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Keri Hilson, Dru Hill, Mary Mary & More to Be Recognized at Black Music Honors

The seventh annual Black Music Honors will celebrate the achievements of some of the biggest names in music during a two-hour ceremony on May 19, live from the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.

R&B group Dru Hill will receive the Urban Music Icon Award, after landing five hit albums on the Billboard 200 chart and 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. “Can We Talk” hitmaker Tevin Campbell will be honored with the R&B Icon Award after placing four albums on the Billboard 200 and 13 tunes on the Hot 100. Sister duo Mary Mary, who released four No. 1 projects on the Top Christian Albums chart, will be presented with the Gospel Icon Award.

Fan-favorite singer Karyn White, who placed three albums on the Billboard 200 and released eight Hot 100 hits, will be recognized with the Soul Music Award. “Pretty Girl Rock” songstress Keri Hilson, behind two Billboard 200 albums and 10 Hot 100 hits, will receive the Music and Songwriter Icon Award. And for their decades-long discography and influence, iconic R&B group The Whispers will receive the Legends Award. The legendary singers have released 16 Billboard 200 albums and 12 Hot 100 hit songs.

Singer and actress LeToya Luckett will co-host the event alongside actor/comedian DeRay Davis.

“We are more than excited to return to in-person taping for the first time in nearly three years with a live audience,” Don Jackson, founder and executive producer of the Black Music Honors, said in a statement. “The pandemic had an unprecedented impact on the music industry and we’re honored to celebrate, commemorate and honor music trailblazers who have paved the way for the next generation of music and culture.”

Tickets to attend the live taping on May 19 are available for purchase via Ticketmaster. The TV special will air via national broadcast syndication from June 4 to July 3. It will also air on Bounce TV on June 25 amid Black Music Month.

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