The playoff-bound Buffalo Bills celebrated their very last game at Highmark Stadium in style on Sunday (Jan. 4) with a decisive 35-8 shellacking of 3-14 downstate doormats the New York Jets. The win was important not just because it punched the No. 6 seed team’s ticket to play the No. 2 seeded Jacksonville Jaguars in the wild-card round on Sunday (Jan. 11), but also because it marked the team’s final game at Highmark Stadium after a 53-year run.

How did the team celebrate? By playing the most beloved hit from one of the city’s most-beloved bands: the Goo Goo Dolls‘ “Iris.”

Fans who had already braved hours in frigid 20-degree weather to watch the walk-over stuck around after the final seconds ticked off, with the more than 70,000 in attendance joining together to sing the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” in the closing minutes before fireworks burst over the stadium as Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” played on the stadium’s speakers.

Then came the moment that really brought it all home. A five-minute highlight reel honoring Highmark featuring the band’s 1998 Billboard Hot 100 No. 9 hit. A fan video from the special moment showed the bundled up masses singing a round of “And I don’t want the world to see me/ ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand/ When everything’s made to be broken/ I just want you to know who I am” as they savored the final moments in what was the league’s fourth-oldest stadium.

On Tuesday (Jan. 6), the John Rzeznik-led band posted a bit of the video, including images of current players wistfully watching the montage on the Jumbtron and thanked the team for the special moment. “What an incredible honor to have ‘Iris’ played as the very last song at Highmark Stadium,” they wrote on Instagram. “Home to the @BuffaloBills for 53 seasons !!!!”

Last week, the long-running group celebrated “Iris” reaching three billion streams on Spotify. The Goo Goo Dolls are gearing up for a summer U.S. tour with Neon Trees with a spot at the Innings Festival in Tempe, Ariz. on Feb. 20, followed by a run of Canadian dates in March and April.

Debbie Gibson detonated a blast from the past when she stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night (Jan. 6).

The chart-topping singer-songwriter, stage and screen actress and now book author had the place partying like it was 1989 with a performance of “Electric Youth,” the title track from her sophomore album.

Gibson worked the keys, busted some dance moves, and looked heathier than most of us in the shadows of Christmas, as she hit an uptempo version of her top 40 hit, with support from the Cletones.

“Electric Youth” gives its name to Eternally Electric (subtitled The Message in My Music), her new memoir.

“It felt like right now … this is my true second act,” Gibson recently told Billboard of Eternally Electric, published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Shuster. “It’s been for about five, six years. It really has been this rebuilding time and this reconnecting time with my audience. It just felt like a really fun perspective to be in the middle of it, and for the party to be going — not to be like, ‘I’m going to sit back now in old age and reflect on the good old days.’ These are the good old days that I’m living right now.”

“Electric Youth” peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the final year of the ‘80s, and is one of her 11 singles to impact the chart, a tally that includes two No. 1s. Its parent led the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks.

Now aged 55, Gibson’s still got that electric youth coursing through her veins. In 2021, she released her first proper album in 20 years, The Body Remembers, which hit Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. She followed in 2022 with her first seasonal collection, Winterlicious, which decorated the top 20 on Top Holiday Albums.

Watch Gibson’s late night performance below.

Béla Fleck is the latest artist to cancel his appearance at the Kennedy Center, citing the “charged and political” atmosphere that now hangs over the institution.

The 19-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist and bandleader was booked to play with the National Symphony Orchestra in February, but is now part of a growing artist exodus, triggered by president Donald Trump’s takeover.

“I have withdrawn from my upcoming performance with the NSO at The Kennedy Center,” reads a social post from Fleck. “Performing there has become charged and political, at an institution where the focus should be on the music. I look forward to playing with the NSO another time in the future when we can together share and celebrate art.”

I have withdrawn from my upcoming performance with the NSO at The Kennedy Center. Performing there has become charged and political, at an institution where the focus should be on the music. 

I look forward to playing with the NSO another time in the future when we can together… pic.twitter.com/dnzoAZzzAF

— Béla Fleck (@belafleckbanjo) January 6, 2026

As previously reported, the month of December was an particularly eventful one for the Kennedy Center, during which time the venue was controversially renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, with new signage installed. Then came the boycotts, the threat of retaliatory lawsuits, and the Dec. 23 broadcast of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, which delivered all-time low ratings.

Efforts to rename the Kennedy Center, reportedly approved by its board, could face legal hurdles. The original laws that guided the creation of the Kennedy Center specifically prohibited the renaming of the building. It would take an act of Congress to change that now.

That board looks a lot different than it did a year ago. In February 2025, Trump abruptly fired members and installed himself as chair, writing in a post on Truth Social at the time, “At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN.”

Weeks later, the newly installed members of the Kennedy Center board, handpicked by Trump, officially elected Trump as board chair.

Politically, Fleck sits at the other end of the spectrum from Trump’s far-right MAGA movement. In 2020, the celebrated artist performed at rallies for Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator from Vermont.

Celebrities who have disassociated themselves from the Kennedy Center last year include Rhiannon Giddens, Issa Rae, Renee Fleming, Shonda Rhimes and Ben Folds. The landmark musical Hamilton and play Eureka Day also scrapped performances at the center, while jazz supergroup The Cookers pulled out of a planned New Year’s Eve concert, and musician Chuck Redd canceled a Christmas Eve performance.

Fleck’s touring plans for 2026 remain unaffected, and kick off Jan. 31 at Celtic Connections in Glasgow. Scotland.

When Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin announced in 2014 they were separating after more than a decade of marriage, their joint statement infamously introduced a two-word phrase to the pop-culture vernacular: “conscious uncoupling.”

It feels quaint now to look back on a time before we knew the term — which refers to a relatively amicable breakup or divorce — but at the time, the exes faced a lot of backlash in the media for what was perceived as a self-important way to describe a split. In fact, the response was so negative that Paltrow says she lost a job over it.

The Oscar-winning actress and entrepreneur appears on the latest episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, and the surprising anecdote came when the Saturday Night Live alum asked Paltrow if she’d ever been fired. After sharing a story of losing her gig working at a toy store when she was 12, Paltrow transitioned to the more serious story.

“You know, I was supposed to do a movie at one point, and it was right after the kind of ‘conscious uncoupling’ thing with Chris,” Paltrow told Poehler. “And there was a lot of harsh stuff in the press, and I think the distributor was like, ‘This might be too hot to touch.’ So that was great, because I was getting a divorce and then I got fired, which was awesome,” Paltrow added sarcastically.

The Goop founder explained that she was just trying to find a better way through an incredibly hard time in her life, and the “conscious uncoupling” idea — introduced by sociologist Diane Vaughan back in the 1970s — gave her that framework.

“Say you had a really nasty divorce or your parents had a really nasty divorce, and then you hear this idea that it doesn’t have to be done this way,” Paltrow said of why people had a harsh reaction to the phrase. “I think the implicit learning is like, ‘Oh f—, they’re saying I did something wrong,’ which of course is not the intention. But of course, that makes sense to me. ‘Is the inference that I messed someone up?’ Like, that’s not a nice thing to contemplate. So I do understand why it was so personal for people, because it was. You only see that kind of reaction when it’s personal.”

Martin and Paltrow met and began dating in 2002 and were married the next year. Before their 2014 separation, they had two children together: 21-year-old Apple and 19-year-old Moses.

Watch Paltrow’s full Good Hang interview — with the firing talk starting around the 22-minute mark — below.

To pen the theme for a James Bond movie is one of the most coveted gigs in music — and Oasis‘ Noel Gallagher is ready to throw his hat in the ring.

As rumors continue to percolate about the future of the legacy franchise, the Gallagher brother told TalkSports in an interview Monday that he’d love to contribute an original song to the next Bond film, whenever it comes to be. When asked how he’d respond if he were offered the gig by longtime Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, Noel quipped, “I’d say, ‘All right, Babs.’”

“Absolutely, yeah, of course, it’d be an absolute honor!” the British singer-songwriter continued. “I think those kind of things should be done by Brits, not Yanks.”

The Manchester, England, native added that he’d also be down to play a bad guy in the next movie — specifically, “a Mancunian villain.”

The musician’s comments come amid mounting speculation about who will play James Bond in the 26th installment, details of which have long been under wraps. Some people think Callum Turner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Regé-Jean Page, Henry Golding or Damson Idris will get the gig — which has been portrayed by Daniel Craig in the five most recent films — although Deadline reported this past September that director Denis Villeneuve is looking for an unknown British actor to fill the role.

And while Noel made his feelings about Americans dabbling in the Bond song canon clear, many of the franchise’s most successful themes have been penned and performed by U.S.-born artists. Most recently, Billie Eilish and Finneas won an Oscar for “No Time to Die,” while Carly Simon, Madonna, Rita Coolidge, Nancy Sinatra, Jack White and Alicia Keys all scored Billboard Hot 100 hits with their Bond anthems.