This year’s Met Gala theme has officially been announced and it’s … fashion.

Vogue announced Monday (Feb. 23) that the 2026 Met Gala dress code is “Fashion Is Art,” a theme that leaves much room for interpretation. As always, the dress code is meant to reflect the theme of Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibition. This year’s exhibition theme is “Costume Art.”

The exhibit explores “centrality of the dressed body,” Vogue explained in an Instagram post. The show will feature more than 400 objects, including garments from the Costume Institute’s Collection, paintings, and other works. We can expect that this year’s Met Gala attendees will take inspiration from the show and play with the broad dress code.

Though the official guest list remains a secret, there are a few music megastars we will definitely see hit the Met Gala red carpet. For the first time in a decade, Beyoncé is set to attend the annual event — this time as a co-chair. Her fellow co-chairs include Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, while Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos serve as honorary co-chairs.

Other celebrities set to attend include members of the Gala Host Committee such as Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith and Teyana Taylor, all of whom attended last year’s event as well.

While their attendance is not confirmed, there are a few music stars known for gracing the Met Gala red carpet who we hope to see again this year. Since making her Met Gala debut in 2018, Cardi B has become a staple of the event, topping best-dressed lists year after year. Last year, Rihanna, another Met Gala favorite, arrived fashionably late to the event and revealed that she was pregnant with her third child. This year’s event conveniently falls during a break in Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. Having graced the Met Gala red carpet the last several years, the Puerto Rican superstar will hopefully attend again this year.

The 2026 Met Gala will take place May 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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The 2026 Major League Soccer season has arrived and kicked things off with a bang.

The first whistle blew on Saturday, Feb. 21, with a whopping 15 matches taking place over the course of opening weekend. Most notably, Lionel Messi and the reigning champs Inter Miami FC traveled across the country to face Los Angeles Football Club. With the away team serving as favorites, LAFC pulled off a major upset, defeating Inter Miami 3-0 in front of 75,673 fans inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was the second-highest attended MLS match ever.

For soccer fans who don’t want to miss any more on-pitch action this season, every Major League Soccer match will be available to stream with an Apple TV subscription. Unlike in previous seasons, MLS Season Pass will no longer be offered. Instead, the 2026 season will be available as part of your existing streaming plan at no extra cost. There will also be 34 games available on Fox or FS1 as well, which you can stream with DirecTV.

How to Watch 2026 MLS Season, At a Glance:

For the 2026 MLS regular season, all 30 teams in the league will play exactly 34 games, 17 home and 17 away. However, due to the upcoming FIFA World Cup in June and July, the season will be put on pause during those summer months. A couple notable dates to remember though: on July 29, the MLS All-Star Game will be played on Wednesday, July 29 in Charlotte; and on Saturday, November 7, the final day of the regular season, which is also dubbed “Decision Day 2026”, will ultimately decide who makes it into the Audi 2026 MLS Cup Playoffs.

Here’s everything you need to know about watching the 2026 MLS season online for free. Keep scrolling to learn more.

How to Watch the 2026 MLS Season Online for Free

There are three great streaming options for soccer fans to tune into the 2026 MLS season without paying dime. With Apple TV, DirecTV and Hulu + Live TV offering free trials, new subscribers can watch their favorite teams take the pitch without stressing over monthly and yearly payment plans.

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Want to watch every 2026 Major League Soccer match? Apple TV has you covered. Along with exclusive programming, all MLS games are included with a subscription to the Apple streamer. You can get a monthly subscription to Apple TV for $12.99/mo or snag an annual plan for $99. If you can’t decide, soccer fans can also use Apple TV’s 7-day free trial to stream your favorite MLS matches for free and without committing to a plan. After the trial period, users can cancel their subscription at anytime.

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A subscription to DirecTV — which comes with Fox — gets you access to live TV, local and cable channels, starting at $59.99 for the first two months of service ($69.99 per month). The service even offers a five-day free trial to watch for free if you sign up now.

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Hulu offers music programming and documentaries, such as Summer of Soul, It’s All Country, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and others. It even livestreams of popular music festivals, like Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, iHeartRadio Festival, iHeartCountry Festival and Austin City Limits Music Fest.

As an added bonus, Hulu + Live TV is automatically bundled with Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited to give you even more exclusive content including NFL games and live sports that you can only watch on ESPN.

Eric Benét did not hold back in a recent Instagram video criticizing Jelly Roll, whose silence about political matters backstage at the 2026 Grammys raised concerns for the R&B singer/songwriter.

In a clip posted Sunday, Benét filmed himself lying down while speaking to the camera. “We all saw the Grammys and remember that moment where that Jelly Roll motherf—er [made] his speech,” he began, referencing the country star’s religiously charged acceptance speech when he won best contemporary country album for Beautifully Broken on Feb. 1. “Powerful speech, right? Holding the bible up in his hand, talking about what the Lord has done for him.”

Benét then compared Jelly’s onstage speech to a viral moment from backstage at the Grammys, when the country star took questions from reporters. “When he was asked, ‘What about the atrocities in the world?’ All of a sudden he was, ‘I’m just a dumb ol’ redneck, I keep my political views to myself,’” Benét said in his video.

“That n—a full of sh–,” the crooner added. “Never trust a person who will speak passionately and in great detail about love, but when it’s time to speak against hate, they ain’t got sh– to say.”

Billboard has reached out to Jelly Roll’s rep for comment.

The moment Benét was referring to came shortly after Jelly won all three of the Grammys he was up for at the Recording Academy ceremony earlier in February. When asked if he “would be willing to comment about what’s happening in the country” at a time when outrage over the fatal ICE shootings of Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti was fresh, Jelly replied that “people shouldn’t care” about his opinion.

“I’m a dumb redneck,” he added at the time. “I hate to be an artist who’s that aloof, but I’m so disconnected from what’s happening. … I didn’t even know politics were f—ing real until I was in my mid-20s in jail. When you grow up in a drug addict household, you think we have common calls about what’s happening in world politics?”

That said, Jelly also claimed in the moment that he did have “a lot to say” about political issues and promised that he would be sharing with fans in the next week, but hasn’t expanded on that in the three weeks since.

On Monday (Feb. 23), Benét posted a follow-up video to respond to some of the feedback he’d gotten on the original Jelly Roll video.

“Some of the comments were like, ‘Yo, Eric, why everyone gotta be f—ing political? He said he was gonna do some research and get back on the topics he didn’t know about,’” Benét begins in the new clip. “If you claim to be a follower of Christ, how much research do you have to do to publicly say that raping, torturing and killing children is bad? How much research you gotta do to say genocide is bad? How much research you gotta do to say that if the government is trying to take away our First Amendment right of free speech on this platform or any other or being able to protest in the street, or being able to safely protest in a street without having to be worried about being murdered, then that’s bad? I think one of the reasons we are in such a jam in this country and in the world right now is because too many people are too easily manipulated by a select few who claim to be godly but are funded by the Satanic.

“Jesus gave you an open-book test on what it means to follow him: Shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, and love thy neighbor,” he concluded. “All that other sh–, does that align with those teachings? Then it’s not political. It’s you being a good Christian to speak out against that sh–.”

See Benét’s video criticizing Jelly Roll below.

“Let the choir sing!” The Internet has been gifted (again!) with a video of Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”

Nearly two months after Interview magazine uploaded a clip of Storrie dancing and lip-syncing to the pop classic during a photo shoot, the publication celebrated Storrie’s 26th birthday on Sunday (Feb. 22) by dropping a previously unreleased video from the same shoot.

In the latest clip, Storrie playfully lip-syncs and grooves to the song, drops to his knees (timed to the lyric “I’m down on my knees”), pours water on himself, crawls toward the camera, and then leans back to look to the sky.

Since its upload on Sunday morning, the new clip has generated 7.6 million views combined, globally, on Interview’s Instagram, TikTok and Twitter accounts after a little more than a day. The original clip, uploaded Dec. 27, has generated more than 15 million clicks across those same platforms to date.

Interview’s birthday upload comes less than a week before Storrie makes his hosting debut on NBC’s Saturday Night Live this weekend. Perhaps the Queen of Pop can take a break from working on her forthcoming album (due later this year) and drop by for a cameo on SNL.

“Like a Prayer” was the title track and lead single from the album of the same name, released in 1989. The track spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the album clocked six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Storrie’s “Prayer” moments are part of the song’s ongoing revival in pop culture, alongside its use in figure skater Amber Glenn’s routine during the Olympics and its prominent placement in the 2024 film Deadpool & Wolverine.