Jack White has made it crystal clear over the past few months that he is not playing the MAGA GOP’s games. After repeatedly slamming Donald Trump last year for everything from his controversial gold-plated White House makeover and East Wing demolition to the President’s “vile,” hate-filled obituary for beloved moviemaker Rob Reiner, White has not held his tongue when it comes to calling out the divisive rhetoric and actions of Trump 2.0.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was at it again this week when he took aim at U.S. Rep Tim Burchett after the Congressman from White’s home state of Tennessee shared a misleading AI-generated video that appeared to show the “Seven Nation Army” star telling Trump supporters to not listen to his music.

While X flagged Burchett’s original post as containing fake footage using quotes falsely attributed to White (with the links to those videos seemingly deleted from the first version), the 61-year-old Republican who has served Tennessee’s second congressional district since 2019 doubled down in his accompanying message, which tauntingly read: “That cute girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry.”

The attempt at a schoolyard jab — in keeping with the Trump administration’s frequent use of social media to mock, belittle and denigrate its perceived opponents, sometimes using AI-generated memes or videos — indeed got White riled up. In a heated response posted on Tuesday (Dec. 30), White slammed his state’s rep for going so low.

“Can you believe that a U.S. congressman, that’s right, a CONGRESSMAN (from my state no less), a once hallowed and respected position in our society, would repost an AI generated video, containing a false comment that I never said and refuted (without researching that I might add) and like a 10 year old on a playground, add to it attempted insults to my physical appearance?” White wrote. “What kind of joke are we all living in now?”

Reacting to the post’s claims that White told MAGA supporters “don’t even think about listening to my music, you fascists,” White clarified, “All of trump’s lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards that would never talk this way to anybody like me or you in person. trump really lowered the bar when he brought his scourge to this government. Neither him nor his sycophantic congressmen and women manifest class or dignity, they all just regurgitate cheap, childish, grade school bullying points and fake christian(!) rhetoric. It’s really sad how embarrassing our leadership has become, I so wish the average American conservative could have a conversation with any intelligent people in other countries around the world, just for one brief moment, and actually see just what a joke our government (and by proxy our country) has become.”

White said his great state “deserves better” than Burchett, while taking aim at giving power and a voice to what he called “low class playground bullies” such as Trump and his state’s rep. Billboard has reached out to the congressman’s office for comment.

“The great state of Tennessee deserves better Mr. Burchett but you and your cult are too dug in and blinded to even realize it,” White wrote. “Holding a bible in one hand and a flag in the other while you stomp out our democracy day by day in the service of one man’s ego so that he can use taxpayer money to receive his fake peace prize and tear down the White House brick by brick. Embarrassing. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, there will come a time in the future when none of these right wingers will admit to being a part of this cult from this time period. All the maga hats will be in landfills and actual intelligent and honorable leadership will take their place.”

Instead, White encouraged his fellow Americans to focus instead on such “highly educated and well spoken leaders” of the past including presidents John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., “because when i look around now, I’m wondering if half of these so called representatives have ever actually read the constitution that they pledged an oath to,” the rocker wrote.

Last August, White lashed out at Trump for his White House renovations, calling the all-gold-everything decor “vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy,” comparing it to a “wrestler’s dressing room.” Then, in December, White expressed his outrage at Trump’s insult-filled comments about Spinal Tap director Reiner’s death. “Trump, you disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child,” White wrote, adding that using someone’s tragic death to “promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin.”

Amy Taylor, the fearless frontwoman of Amyl and The Sniffers, has filed a lawsuit against an award-winning American photographer who she claims sold photos from a magazine shoot without permission.

In papers filed with a California district court, Taylor’s reps accuse Jamie Nelson of unauthorized commercial exploitation of images originally snapped for Vogue Portugal.

The photos, part of the so-called “Champagne Problems” series, were published in July 2025, and have been shared widely on social media. However, prints remain for sale through Nelson’s website, with prices ranging from $1,500 up to $3,600, reduced from $4,000.

The series is a “visual dialogue between two kindred spirits,” reads Nelson page, both “fiercely embodying defiance, glamour, and authenticity.”

The shoot took place at Nelson’s “iconic vintage pink palace in Los Angeles,” and captures Taylor’s take-no-prisoner’s punk spirit, and wicked sense of Aussie humor.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the court documents include a portion of a letter sent by the band’s manager Simone Ubaldi, co-director of Sundowner Artists, to Nelson, addressing the commercialization of the photos.

“I cannot be clearer about this — [Ms Taylor] does not want you to sell images of her face, or her body as fine art prints,” the letter reads.

“If you had been transparent with her in advance of the shoot about your desire/intentions to sell the photos, she would have said no to the shoot.

“We simply would have said no to the shoot.”

Billboard reached out to Taylor and Nelson’s respective reps for comment.

Nelson’s photography has appeared in many celebrated publications, including Vogue, Playboy, and Vanity Fair, and she has worked with a long list of recording artists, including Halsey, Camila Cabello, Gwen Stefani, Megan Thee Stallion, and Maren Morris.

Amyl and The Sniffers are arguably Australia’s hottest rock band right now. The rockers are coming off a barnstorming year, during which they played Glastonbury Festival, earned a BRIT Award nomination, cleaned up at the ARIA Awards with four wins, and scored a first-ever nomination for the 2026 Grammy Awards.

Taylor took her own leap into electronic music with “you’re a star,” a collaboration with Fred Again, and the group opened for AC/DC on the legendary Australian rock band’s stadium tour of Australia. Amyl’s appearance was an early “bogan Christmas” present to fans of AC/DC, “the best band in the f—ing world,” Taylor said at the tour finale, Dec. 18 at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.

Olivia Dean is still doing all the talking on Australia’s charts in 2026.

The English singer and songwriter starts the New Year on a high in the land Down Under, where she completes another chart double.

Dean’s sophomore album The Art Of Loving (via Universal) leads the ARIA Albums Chart for a fifth non-consecutive week, while “Man I Need” rules the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh week.

According to ARIA, “Man I Need” becomes the longest reigning single by a solo female artist since Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” topped the leaderboard for eight weeks in 2024.

Add another week and you have the longest-running No. 1 by a female English artist, Kate Bush, whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” topped out for nine weeks in 2022, thanks to its sync in season four of Stranger Things. The all-time crown belongs to Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey,” a monster which led the ARIA Chart for 24 non-consecutive weeks in 2019 and 2020.

Further down the latest ARIA Singles Chart, published late Friday, Jan. 2, Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall In Love)” dips 5-7 and “Nice To Each Other” holds at No. 9. The Brit will show her fans some love this October, when she embarks on a six-date east coast arena tour of Australia and New Zealand, produced by Handsome Tours and Laneway Presents.

No new titles appear on the latest singles frame, and the only homegrown recording to make an impact is Tame Impala’s “Dracula” (Columbia/Sony), improving 41-37.

Over on the ARIA Albums Chart, the entire top 10 is stacked with albums that have logged at least one week at No. 1. All are pop, with the exception of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary Edition) (via Columbia/Sony), down 7-8, and Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia (Columbia/Sony), down 8-10.

Just one title debuts in the top 50, $uicideBoy$’s Thy Will Be Done (Orchard). It’s new at No. 32. Thy Will Be Done is the New Orleans, LA hip-hop duo’s sixth studio album, and the followup to 2024’s New World Depression, which peaked at No. 6 in Australia.

Holding at No. 19, Tame Impala’s Deadbeat is the highest-ranked of the eight homegrown releases on the national albums tally.

Este Haim and Jonathan Levin are married. The bassist of sister trio Haim and the tech entrepreneur tied the knot in California on New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31) in a wedding celebration with family and friends — a day Este’s “been looking forward to since I was five,” she tells Vogue, who documented her final dress fitting at Louis Vuitton ahead of her wedding day.

Among those in attendance for the bride and groom’s big day were Taylor Swift and Stevie Nicks, spotted together in photos captured by paparazzi from a distance (and later published by People).

Swift — wearing a formal, gold-sequinned gown fit for a New Year’s Eve gala — is a longtime, close friend of Este, Danielle and Alana Haim. They’ve also collaborated musically on “No Body, No Crime” (from Swift’s Evermore; Este’s even a main character in the song) and “Gasoline” (from the expanded edition of Haim’s Women in Music, Pt. III). Swift’s fiancé, Travis Kelce, was not seen in images from the wedding.

“When I was five, I had this vision of me coming down a spiral staircase. Like there’s a scene in Cinderella that probably is what I’m kind of mimicking. I would come down in this giant ballroom gown, descending down, and then my fiancé, husband, would be at the bottom [and] grab my hand,” Este shared in a video filmed by Vogue.

Este’s wedding dress was designed by her friend Nicolas Ghesquière, women’s creative director at Louis Vuitton. She also had two alternate designs created to wear at the reception and after-party.

Though Haim publicly announced her engagement to Levin in February with a cheeky Instagram post revealing she was “TAKEN,” her beau had proposed on Dec. 22, 2024 — and the mid-hike proposal took the bride-to-be by surprise. “I had Mario Badescu acne medication on, my hair was in a top knot, I had no makeup on, I was in sweats and sneakers,” she said, recalling that she screamed in excitement and got some fellow hikers to take their picture.

As the Haim sisters point out in their video for Vogue, Este’s the first of the three to marry.

Haim’s latest studio album, I Quit, was released in July and reached No. 2 on the Top Rock Albums chart, No. 3 on Top Alternative Albums and No. 25 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

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There’s no better way to ring in the new year than with a new chance to find love. At least that’s what contestants are hoping for on Second Chance Love, a new reality dating series that gives five couples who previously dated, another chance to reconnect.

Hosted by TLC singer Chilli and her real-life boyfriend, actor Matthew Lawrence, Second Chance Love premiered on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1 and is streaming now on Hallmark+. The eight-episode series is airing exclusively on Hallmark+, which is the streaming arm of Hallmark Channel, and new episodes premiere each Thursday. You won’t be able to watch Second Chance Love on traditional TV, as the unscripted series is only airing (for now) on the Hallmark+ streaming platform.

So how do you get Hallmark+? Amazon Prime members can get a week-long free trial here to test out the service with no commitment. The free trial will let you watch Second Chance Love online free, with the ability to stream the dating show on your phone, computer, tablet or smart TV (via the Hallmark+ app).

You can cancel at anytime or continue on with a Hallmark+ subscription for just $1.99/month for your first two months as part of a Prime Channel promotion right now. The new deal saves you 75% off the regular monthly price of $7.99 but you’ll want to act fast as the Hallmark+ promotion is ending soon.

Only Amazon Prime members have access to the Hallmark+ streaming deal. If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can get a 30-day free trial to test-drive the service here.

Shot on location in Sardinia, Italy, Second Chance Love features five couples who dated anywhere from five to 40 years ago, as they reunite at a romantic Italian resort to see if the sparks are still there. The couples will all go on intimate dates, have candid conversations and undergo various challenges to “revisit their pasts, confront unfinished business, and rediscover what once brought them together,” per a press release.

“Five pairs of first loves reunite for a two-week journey filled with nostalgia, emotional reflection, and intimate dates,” the release teases. “Led by our hosts, they revisit their pasts, confront unfinished business, and rediscover what once brought them together. As they build new memories and lean on each other for support, one big question remains: will they rekindle the spark they once had or discover that love belongs in the past?”

The diverse cast includes couples ranging from the ages of 30 to 70, while hosts Chilli and Lawrence (who’s also currently recording his Brotherly Love podcast with brothers Joey and Andrew), are 54 and 45, respectively. The two recently told Sherri Shepherd on her eponymous talk show that they feel uniquely positioned to host the dating series, as they’ve also had to go through the relationship ringer to find each other.

“Working with Hallmark is a dream come true because the brand represents good quality content,” Chilli says. “I’ve always been very specific about brand alignment because representation matters in every aspect of partnership. I love what Hallmark stands for, and this project is special to Matthew and me for several reasons. As executive producers and hosts, we can’t wait to share the inspiration behind the pursuit of true love.”

“Studies show that nearly 80% of reunited first loves stay together for years, often for life,” adds David Stefanou, head of Unscripted Programming at Hallmark Media. “There’s something undeniably powerful about a love that endures, even across time and distance. It’s a theme that has defined so many of Hallmark’s most cherished stories, and with Second Chance Love, we’re bringing that magic into the real world. We’re giving couples the chance to rediscover a connection that may have never truly faded.”

Watch Second Chance Love online for free with a free trial to Hallmark+ here.