Month: January 2021

Nicki Minaj has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit to avoid going to trial. The rapper, 38, must pay singer-songwriter, Tracy Chapman, $450,000 for illegally using her 1988 song "Baby Can I Hold You" on her 2018 track "Sorry." Minaj also agreed to pay Chapman's legal fees. The offer was accepted on Thursday, per Page Six.  Chapman filed the lawsuit in October 2018 after "Sorry" was leaked to DJ Funkmaster Flex and it went viral online. The song wasn't apart of Minaj's album "Queen." NICKI MINAJ FIRES BACK AT TRACY CHAPMAN'S COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT The 56-year-old claimed Minaj asked for permission to use her song and Chapman didn't agree to the terms. Then, Minaj allegedly went ahead and used part of the song anyway. "We settled for one reason only. It would have cost u...

Dolly Parton has provided the world with such iconic songs as "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," but fans will have to wait until 2045 to listen to the country star's "secret song." The 74-year-old reportedly revealed in her new book "Songteller: My Life in Lyrics," that she has an unreleased, unheard track locked away at Dollywood's DreamMore Resort. The idea for the surprise came from her team as a marketing project. The song is supposedly sealed in a chestnut wood box (built by her uncle) in a glass display case. "It would be a song that will never be heard until 30 years from the time we opened the resort. They said, 'You’ll be long dead,'" Parton writes, according to Taste of Country. "I said, 'Well, maybe not. I'll be 99. I’ve seen people live to be older than that.' DOLLY ...

WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first live-action Disney+ series, will have a special two-episode premiere. In a press release first spotted by ComicBook, Disney said the first two episodes of the series will air together on January 15th. After that, the third episode will start streaming on January 22nd. In the past, Disney has typically stuck to a one episode per week release cadence, though the company has made exceptions in the past. The first two episodes of The Mandalorian’s first season came out within days of one another, for example.  Disney didn’t say why it decided to handle the show’s premiere in this way. Whatever the company’s reasoning, the two-episode premiere should be a treat for Marvel fans, particularly given that hasn’t been new MCU...

After giving disco fans night fever in the ‘70s, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees is turning to his first love – country music. The 74-year-old has released a new album titled "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook Vo.1," a collection of Bee Gees music reworked as duets with notable artists from Nashville, including Dolly Parton and Keith Urban. The last living Gibb brother, who has kept the family’s musical legacy going as a solo artist, emigrated from the U.K. to Australia as a child. However, Gibb told NPR on Friday that he’s been passionate about American country music for many years. "Since I was about 9 or 10 years old," Gibb explained. "It was really in my system and it never left. Bluegrass music and country music is really what I care about more than anything else. Once all my b...