Adele Goes Wild About Harry Kane’s Winning Goal for England

Football might be coming home, and Adele is here for it.

England is through to the final of Euro 2020, thanks to a come-from-behind semi-final win over Denmark on Wednesday (July 7).

Adele was one of the tens of millions of supporters who watched on nervously from home.

The north Londoner shared video of her celebrating the winning goal, scored by the England captain Harry Kane, his tenth for England across the past two tournaments.

“ITS BLOODY COMING HOME,” she wrote, paraphrasing the chant from the classic football anthem “3 Lions,” which is currently charging up the U.K. singles chart.

Adele has multiple reasons to feel the thrills. Kane is the marksman for her beloved Tottenham Hotspur, and England play the final (against Italy) on home turf, Wembley Stadium, where the team has a chance to wipe away 55 years of “hurt.” England has not won a major trophy since hoisting the 1966 World Cup, the final of which was hosted on the same site.

Check out Adele’s Instagram below.

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Nick Cannon Says He Had 4 Babies in the Last Year ‘On Purpose’: ‘It Ain’t No Accident!’

Nick Cannon welcomed his seventh child in July — his fourth baby in the last year — and he opened up to the City Girls about his decision to expand his family.

The “Twerkulator” rappers stopped by Cannon’s radio show to talk about their latest music video, their 2021 BET Awards performance, and how they deal with social media trolls. The 40-year-old host understands that online hate, especially when people were scratching their heads about his growing family. Cannon welcomed his seventh child and first with Alyssa Scott on June 23, a son named Zen. He and Abby De La Rosa welcomed twin boys named Zion Mixolydian and Zillon Heir a week earlier on June 14, while he and Brittany Bell welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Powerful Queen, in December of last year.

Cannon poked fun at himself about the number of baby mamas he has, saying, “I’m like a seahorse out here with how I’m procreating,” before he stopped horsing around and set the record straight. “I’m having these kids on purpose. It ain’t no accident!” he said in his defense.

“If you’re having these kids on purpose, then it’s nothing I can tell you about your life. ‘Cause I don’t want anybody telling me shit, so just be the best you,” JT replied, after she previously advised Cannon to “wrap it up.”

He has three more children: 10-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex-wife Mariah Carey and 3-year-old son Golden Sagon with Bell. Cannon told the City Girls that he knew exactly who he did and didn’t want to have children with. “Trust me, there’s a lot of people I could’ve gotten pregnant that I didn’t. The ones that got pregnant are the ones that was supposed to get pregnant,” he declared.

Yung Miami chimed in with a similar “YOLO” sentiment as JT’s, saying, “I don’t give a f— what nobody says, I’m going to live my life ’cause if I die, I want to be able to say I lived my life to the fullest. ‘Cause we only get one chance here.”

See Cannon and City Girls’ conversation about his kids around the 10-minute mark below.

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Megan Fox Has This to Say to Anyone Who Questions Her & Machine Gun Kelly’s Age Difference

Anyone who thinks Megan Fox is dating a much “younger man” might be surprised to learn that the actress is 35 and her boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly is 31, so just four years separate them.

In a new interview with InStyle, Fox slams those critics, saying they wouldn’t bat an eye if a man were dating a woman four years younger than him but act like she’s robbing the cradle.

“You want to talk about patriarchy?” Fox says. “The fact that he’s four years younger than me, and people want to act like I’m dating a younger man. He’s 31, and I’m 35. Granted, he’s lived like he’s 19 his whole life, but he isn’t 19. No one would blink twice if George Clooney was dating someone four years younger.”

So what does she have to say to anyone making a big deal about their “age gap”? “Four years? Go f— yourself,” she says. “We would have been in high school together. That’s so ridiculous that women are treated that way.”

Fox and Kelly met in March 2020 on the set of the movie Midnight in the Switchgrass. Fox’s split from husband Brian Austin Green was announced in May 2020 and reports that she and MGK were “officially dating” came out in June that year. “I ended up meeting Colson, and then literally everything exploded from there,” Fox says in the InStyle interview.

Read the full interview — in which Fox also talks about the cult popularity of her 2009 film Jennifer’s Body and her dreams roles now that she’s working more — here.

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Neumos in Seattle, in a Pandemic: Neumos and Barboza Host First Shows in 476 Days

As co-owner of Seattle’s popular independent venue Neumos in Capitol Hill, Steven Severin has been a staple in the Seattle music industry for more than 20 years. Roughly 10 years ago, he helped create the Seattle Nightlife and Music Association to bring together the area’s live event insiders, and for the past 16 years has helped run Neumos with its sister club Barboza and the accompanying Runaway bar.

As part of Billboard’s efforts to best cover the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts on the music industry, we have been speaking with Severin regularly to chronicle his experience throughout the crisis. (Read the last installment here and see the full series here.)

What has changed for you since we last spoke?

Neumos and Barboza opened on July 1. It was all locals and people who work for us. We had Charm the Nomad downstairs [at Barboza] which was a massive underplay for her. It sold out in, I don’t know, a week. She is killer. Upstairs we did this band Spirit Award, which is our assistant GM who is in like 17 bands. Folks from Real Estate, Deep Sea Diver and the Shins came and played. It sounded like it was pretty amazing.  

You weren’t there? 

I couldn’t be there. I can’t stand right now and there is nowhere to sit. But seeing the big line outside and hearing people talk about that – that’s what we do. That’s what we’ve done for half of my life. Literally half my life I have thrown shows and then I haven’t been able to for the last 476 days. We were closed for 476 days. Nothing can ruffle my feathers anymore if we can make it through this.  

Are there still capacity limits for your venues? 

No.  

Do people have to wear masks? 

Nope. You have to have proof that you’re vaccinated or you have to wear a mask. You just have to have a picture of your card. Our vaccination rate in King County and Seattle is super high, but people come from outside of Seattle and it makes people feel more comfortable. It makes us feel more comfortable. But yeah, it is back to 100%. It is going to be weird seeing people be shoulder to shoulder again after so long.  

Any news from the SBA about your Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application? 

[Laughs] I had a friend yesterday tell me how tired I looked. I am so tired and so frustrated. I know that [the SBA] is trying, but it is hard to just accept that it’s so screwed up. The fact that tier 2 and tier 3 people are getting paid before tier 1 is just not okay. (Ed. Note: Tier 1 applicants lost 90% or more of their revenue in 2020, while tier 2 and 3 lost 70% and 25%, respectively.) Now they say they are going to focus and only look at tier 1 applications, but it’s like, “How were you not already doing that?” That was part of the plan. We lost 90% of our income for a year. How do you go and fund somebody who has only lost 50% or even 75%? Everybody needs help, but there are some people who need more help. There are people who are going to close. I hear about it everyday. Then people are getting declined and it sounds like a mistake. The SBA is very apologetic and they sound like they are really trying, but it’s not rocket science.  

Do you personally know venues that have received their funds? 

Lots. I think it’s up to 20% of venues have been either told that they have money coming or have gotten money. (Ed. Note: According to the SBA site, just over 4,220 applicants have been granted awards, which comes out to roughly 28% of the 14,884 applications submitted.) Lots of people I know have gotten it who have really needed it. We celebrate every single one. But then there are people I helped apply and they applied way later than I did. I’m just baffled. [Laughs] Just tell me it’s coming. Just let me know so I can let that stress go.  

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Miami-Dade man accused of molesting a young girl in a Florida Keys hotel room

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Los no ciudadanos ganan poco a poco derechos de voto

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As Voting Opens for 2021 CMA Awards Nominations, Here Are the Races We’re Watching

If you’re a voting member of the Country Music Association, check your email inbox. On Tuesday (July 6), you should have received the nominations ballot and instructions for the 55th annual CMA Awards.

Voting in the first nominations round extends through July 15. A second round of voting will be held from Aug. 2-12 in which the top 20 vote-getters in the first round square off. (In the top category, entertainer of the year, only the top 15 vote-getters compete.)

Nominations in each of the CMA’s 12 categories will be announced later this summer. Final-round voting will be conducted between Oct. 1-27. The awards will be presented in November.

The CMA has announced that it will allow Morgan Wallen, who is under a cloud because of his videotaped use of the N-word in January, to compete in categories in which there are other collaborators on the project, such as album of the year, but not in individual categories, such as male vocalist of the year.

It will be interesting to see if CMA voters nominate Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album for album of the year. The blockbuster is in its 22nd week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. Long-running No. 1 albums are usually nominated in this category. Of the 27 previous albums that have topped the country chart for 20 or more weeks, 20 have been nominated in this category. The most recent album to hit that mark before Wallen’s album, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, won in this category last year.

CMA voters may or may not be not be ready to let Wallen back in their good graces. He won new artist of the year at last year’s show in November 2020 — less than three months before the video that caused his high-flying career to implode.

The eligibility period for this year’s CMA Awards is July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.

Here are seven other burning questions that this year’s nominations and awards will answer.

Will last year’s uptick in female representation in entertainer of the year continue? Last year’s entertainer of the year nominations included two female solo artists (Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood) for the first time since 1979, when Crystal Gayle and Barbara Mandrell were both in the running. (If you combine female solo artists and all-female groups, last year’s nominations constituted the best showing for females in this category since 2000, when The Chicks and Faith Hill were both nominated.) Will female artists do as well this year?

Will Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) land an album of the year nod? The original version of Fearless won in this category in November 2009. Swift was also nominated for the CMA Award for album of the year with her next two albums, Speak Now (2011) and Red (2013), before she went pop. Will Swift’s re-recorded version of Fearless, which spent its first two weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, be nominated for album of the year?

Will Kane Brown land an album of the year nod? Kane Brown’s Mixtape Vol. 1, which reached No. 2 on Top Country Albums, received an album of the year nod at the recent Academy of Country Music Awards. If the seven-song EP duplicates that fete here, the biracial Brown would be the first Black artist to land an album of the year nod at the CMA awards (as a lead or co-lead artist) since Charley Pride, who received four nods between 1969 and 1980.

Will the other albums nominated for album of the year at the ACM Awards also be nominated here? Four of the ACM nominees for album of the year are eligible here. In addition to Brown’s EP, they are Chris Stapleton’s Starting Over (which won the ACM Award), Luke Bryan’s Born Here Live Here Die Here and Brothers Osborne’s Skeletons. The Stapleton and Bryan albums both entered Top Country Albums at No. 1. Skeletons reached No. 4.

Will Underwood’s My Prayer land an album of the year nod? My Prayer wouldn’t be the first gospel or contemporary Christian album to be nominated in this category. Alan Jackson’s Precious Memories was nominated in 2006. Both albums hit No. 1 on Top Country Albums. Underwood has been nominated for album of the year five times, with Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away, Storyteller and Cry Pretty.

If My Prayer is nominated, Underwood would set a new record as the female artist with the most CMA nods for album of the year (as a lead or co-lead artist). She currently shares that distinction with Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire and Lambert. (Lambert and Lynn could also land their sixth album of the year nods, but their entries were more modest hits – Lambert’s The Marfa Tapes, a collab with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, which reached No. 7 on Top Country Albums; and Lynn’s Still Woman Enough, which hit No. 9).

Will Eric Church’s Heart & Soul put him in the album of the year finals for the fifth time? Eric Church has been nominated for album of the year with his last four studio albums – Chief (which won), Mr. Misunderstood, The Outsiders (which won) and Desperate Man. Church’s three-record opus Heart & Soul – or any of its components — could put him back in the running. Heart reached No. 3 on Top Country Albums, & made it to No. 12, Soul hit No. 2.

Will The Chicks’ Gaslighter put the trio back in the album of the year finals? The group, then known as Dixie Chicks, won in this category for Fly (2000) and were nominated for Home (2003), but weren’t even nominated in his category for their next album, 2006’s Taking the Long Way. Gaslighter, which entered Top Country Albums at No. 1, was passed over for an album of the year nod at the Academy of Country Music Awards and for a best country album nod at the Grammys. This is its last chance for major recognition at a top-tier country awards show.

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