Michael Jackson's Kids Paris, Prince and Bigi Make Rare Joint Appearance - E! NEWS

Oh, the way this family outing makes us feel.

In celebration of MJ: The Musical's Broadway opening on Feb. 1, Michael Jackson's kids gifted fans with a rare public appearance together. Wearing a red, paisley dress, Paris Jackson, 23, walked the red carpet at the Neil Simon Theatre alongside Prince Jackson, 24, and was later joined inside by 19-year-old Bigi Jackson, known to many fans as Blanket.

The family affair didn't stop there though. Inside the theater, Paris posed with her cousin TJ Jackson, the son of Michael's brother Tito Jackson. Opening night of the musical—which centers around the making of Michael's 1992 Dangerous World Tour—also brought out some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Spike Lee, Reverend Al Sharpton, Tamron Hall, Kenny Ortega, LaChanze, and Princess Sarah Culberson.

And while the sibling trio's outing was a rare one, they have recently been getting more comfortable in the public eye. Last fall, Bigi and Prince took part in separate Good Morning Britain interviews, with Prince raving about their strong bond. 

"When we were growing up, my father would say, you know, 'We could have nothing, but you look around in this room, your brother, your sister, and me, that's all you'll ever have,'" he said in October. "And that always stuck with my siblings and I, and we have such a close relationship."

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Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie among Rock Hall nominees - Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran and A Tribe Called Quest are among this year’s first-time nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Cleveland-based institution announced 17 artists and groups being considered for Rock Hall induction, including Rage Against the Machine, Pat Benatar, Dionne Warwick, Carly Simon, Judas Priest and Beck.

Beck and Simon are also nominated for the first time. Eminem, who is playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar, earned a nomination in the first year he was eligible.

This year’s class will be announced in May, with an induction ceremony planned for later this year.

“This year’s ballot recognizes a diverse group of incredible artists, each who has had a profound impact on the sound of youth culture,” said John Sykes, head of the foundation that runs the Rock Hall, in a press release on Wednesday.

Artists must have released their first commercial recording at least 25 years before they’re eligible for induction.

Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon thanked fans on Twitter for their support over the years. “This distinction is due in large part to the fact that we have an army of fans around the world who have unwaveringly supported us for the past four decades,” he wrote.

The other nominees are Kate Bush, DEVO, Eurythmics, Fela Kuti, MC5 and the New York Dolls.

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This story corrects that Beck and Carly Simon are first-time nominees, not that they are in their first year of eligibility.

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Behind Neil Young vs. Spotify, a Fraught Relationship With Musicians - The New York Times

The rocker touched off a debate about free speech and the responsibility of tech platforms. How many artists will follow him, now that streaming dominates the business?

Spotify arrived more than a decade ago with an appealing proposition: Listeners could leave their CDs and downloads behind and stream virtually every song ever released. It made the platform a top power in the music business and ushered in competitors like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal, helping reverse the industry’s nosedive.

Spotify remains the biggest music streaming service. But a few years ago it pivoted to add a buzzy format to its portfolio: podcasts. The move made the service a smorgasbord of audio entertainment — part music service, part news outlet, part always-on gabfest. It may have also set the company on a collision course with artists, and left listeners with a less-than-complete library of songs.

Last week, Neil Young kicked off a storm in the music business and on social media when he demanded that his music — including rock classics like “Heart of Gold” and “Cinnamon Girl” — be removed from Spotify. He was protesting the company’s support of Joe Rogan, its star podcaster, who has been criticized for promoting misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.

After Young and Joni Mitchell left Spotify, Rogan released a video in which he promised to balance the coverage on his podcast.Alex Trautwig/Getty Images

Even in an era when tech companies like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are constantly policing content about Covid-19 on their platforms — and facing blowback from both sides of the free-speech debate for doing so — it was a rare instance of a top musician taking a stance that would affect his bottom line. Young said that 60 percent of his streaming income comes from Spotify.

He was quickly followed by Joni Mitchell, another musical icon whose cultural influence far exceeds her commercial impact online. Then the R&B singer India.Arie and two musicians who have played with Young — the guitarist Nils Lofgren and Graham Nash — said they would also pull their music from Spotify in solidarity.

Young’s withdrawal led to quick marketing moves by Spotify’s competitors. Apple advertised itself as “the home of Neil Young,” and SiriusXM revived a Neil Young channel.

So far the commercial impact of the controversy is unclear. Many users have taken to social media to declare they were canceling their subscriptions. The company may well face questions about this from Wall Street analysts when it announces its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday.

On Sunday, after most of Young and Mitchell’s music was taken down, Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive and co-founder, published the service’s platform rules and said Spotify would add “content advisory” flags on podcast episodes about the pandemic. “It is important to me that we don’t take on the position of being content censor,” Ek said. In a video, Rogan promised to offer more “balance” on his show, and said he was a fan of Young’s and Mitchell’s (though he mixed Mitchell up with the singer Rickie Lee Jones).

Whether that will be enough to quell a further artist revolt is yet to be seen, though Young’s gauntlet immediately became a cultural talking point. On Tuesday’s episode of “The View,” on ABC, Joy Behar called on younger stars like Taylor Swift to choose sides. “Let’s see some young people do it,” Behar said. “Let’s see Taylor and those guys take a stand.”

Mitchell, who received the Kennedy Center Honors last December, asked for her music to be moved from Spotify following Young.Tom Brenner/Reuters

Even the White House has weighed in. At a news briefing on Tuesday, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Spotify’s response and said: “This disclaimer, it’s a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out mis- and disinformation, while also uplifting accurate information.”

For longtime observers of Spotify, the Young episode is the latest strain in the company’s complex and frequently troubled relationship with artists. Much of that trouble has been over money. In 2014, Swift removed her entire catalog from Spotify, saying that the service’s “freemium” model — it has an ad-supported tier that lets users listen for free, and offers paid subscriptions to remove ads and add other perks — because, she believed, it did not fairly compensate artists for their work; it was nearly three years before she added her music back.

Recently, many musicians have spoken out over what they see as the unfairness of the streaming model overall — in which each stream usually generates just a fraction of a cent in payments — though Spotify and YouTube have borne the brunt of that critique.

Spotify has stumbled over questions of censorship before. In 2018, it briefly attempted to remove from playlists songs by R. Kelly and the rapper XXXTentacion — who had both been accused of sexual misconduct — through a “hateful conduct” policy, but canceled the initiative after an outcry in the industry.

But Spotify is no longer so easy for any artist to walk away from. Streaming now accounts for 84 percent of sales revenues in the United States, according to industry data, and Spotify has 172 million paying subscribers — about 31 percent of the worldwide total, and more than double that of its closest competitor, Apple Music, according to Midia Research, a market research firm.

That has made Spotify a key financial partner of record companies, and a “necessary evil” for artists, said George Howard, an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music and a former record and digital music executive.

“Not many artists would say, ‘I love Spotify,’” Howard said. “But many labels, whether they like or dislike Spotify’s values, are absolutely delighted by the fire hose of money that has flowed to them.”

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What you may have already heard. The audio streaming service Spotify is facing calls to take action against Joe Rogan, a popular podcast host, after he was accused of promoting Covid-19 misinformation on his show. This standoff is different from similar controversies in a few key ways. Here’s a closer look:

Platform or media company? Spotify says it isn’t responsible for content posted on its platform, as social networks have argued for years. But since Spotify paid for the exclusive rights to Mr. Rogan’s show, critics say that puts an extra onus on the company to take responsibility.

The “Wild West” of media. While some social media giants have made efforts to try to stop the flow of Covid misinformation, false statements go largely unchecked on radio and podcasts. In response to the Rogan controversy, Spotify’s chief executive said that the company would not take on the position of “content censor.”

Spotify stars have leverage. Spotify makes most of its money from subscriptions, so it would suffer financially if there were a wave of cancellations. That means Spotify needs to have popular content in its library, so musicians could force change by removing their music, as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have done.

Too big to remove? Rogan is one of the most consumed media products on the planet, making it difficult for Spotify to remove him without losing subscribers as well. This is in contrast to ad-supported platforms like Twitter, which have banned high-profile users for spreading Covid misinformation.

Rogan’s position within Spotify’s business has made his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” an important target for critics. While many podcasts are distributed widely to multiple platforms, Rogan’s is exclusive to Spotify, after a 2020 licensing deal that has been reported to be worth $100 million or more, though Spotify has never confirmed that figure. As critics see it, that makes Spotify the publisher of Rogan’s show, and therefore acutely responsible for it.

So far, some of the sharpest responses to Spotify have come from its own podcast hosts. On Monday, the hosts of “Science Vs,” another Spotify podcast, said on Twitter that the company’s support of Rogan “has felt like a slap in the face,” and announced that the show would comb through the claims made by Dr. Robert Malone, a guest on Rogan’s show on Dec. 31, whose remarks drew a sharp rebuke from public health experts. The author Brené Brown, whose Spotify shows like “Unlocking Us” have been heavily promoted by the company, said over the weekend that she will not be releasing any further podcasts “until further notice.”

Brené Brown said that she will not be releasing any further podcasts “until further notice.”Suzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Few expect a stampede of musicians to leave the service, especially major new artists, given the primary role that Spotify plays in getting their music heard and in driving much of their other business, like touring.

“It would take a really brave new frontline artist to go, ‘I’m going to say something which might antagonize half my fan base,’” said Mark Mulligan of Midia.

One kink may be whether artists have the contractual right to remove their music. Their recordings are typically controlled by record companies, which strike licensing deals with online services like Spotify.

Some artists’ contracts with their labels may give them the right to pull their music from online outlets for certain reasons, but others don’t, said Jeffrey M. Liebenson, a lawyer who has represented both record companies and digital services. And even if those rights are exercised, a service could raise objections to a mass exodus.

“Sometimes, the label can request a takedown if there’s a bona fide artist relations issue,” Liebenson said. “But the platform can get a little concerned: ‘Are they doing this because they have a legitimate artist relations issue, or are they waging a war against us?’”

In a public statement last week, Young thanked his record label, Reprise Records, a division of the Warner Music Group, as well as his music publishers, for standing by him. He also shot a flare up for other artists to follow his lead, but seemed to know already that their numbers may be small.

“I sincerely hope that other artists can make a move,” Young wrote, “but I can’t really expect that to happen.”

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Nick Cannon began celibacy journey after Bre Tiesi pregnancy news - Page Six

Nick Cannon says he was advised to remain celibate after learning that Bre Tiesi was pregnant with his eighth child.

“My therapist was one of the [people] who said that I should probably be celibate because I had shared that news, that Bre was pregnant,” the comedian, 41, told Angela Yee on Monday’s “Rumor Report.”

“That was the reason why I started my celibacy journey back then … I was [celibate] because I was dealing with [this].”

Cannon admitted that he felt like his life was “out of control” at the time.

“Honestly, the celibacy did help me through the journey of getting one with myself and dealing with this,” he admitted. ”So now everyone knows why I was actually being celibate.”

The “Wild ’N Out” star revealed that Tiesi is 20 weeks along and that he did not break his celibacy journey, saying, “For anyone who’s thinking, ’No, he wasn’t celibate,’ I was.”

He clarified, however, that he is no longer celibate, joking that he “made it almost to [the] new year,” then added more seriously, “I made it to 2022.”

Nick Cannon admitted he started his celibacy journey after discovering Bre Tiesi was pregnant with his child.

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Cannon revealed in September 2021 that his therapist told him to abstain from sex after welcoming four children with three different women in under a year. He claimed at the time that he was going to remain celibate until 2022.

He then announced that he and Tiesi were expecting their first child together in January.

The “All That” alum welcomed three children in June 2021 alone: Zen (who died in December 2021 from brain cancer at 5 months old) with model Alyssa Scott, and twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir with Abby De La Rosa.

Six months prior, Cannon and ex Brittany Bell welcomed daughter Powerful Queen. The two also share a 4-year-old son named Golden.

He and Bre Tiesi announced that they were expecting a child together in January.

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Cannon also shares 10-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey.

He previously stated that he intentionally fathered all of his children last July in an interview for the Power 106 radio show.

“I don’t have no accident[s],” he said at the time. “Trust me, there’s a lot of people that I could’ve gotten pregnant that I didn’t.”

He added, “The ones that got pregnant are the ones that were supposed to get pregnant.”

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‘SEAL Team’ Renewed For Season 6 By Paramount+; Will More CBS Dramas Make Move To Streamer? - Deadline

The David Boreanaz-led SEAL Team will be back for another go-round on Paramount+. The ViacomCBS streamer has renewed the military drama series for a 10-episode sixth season.

This makes it 2-for-2, with both CBS drama series that moved from CBS to Paramount+ in May, Evil and SEAL Team, earning pickups for another season as Paramount+ originals.

The decision is not a surprise. In Paramount+’s 2021 end-of-year report on its top original content performers, the streamer revealed that the most-watched original drama series on the platform was SEAL Team, followed by Evil. (Paramount+ classifies drama Star Trek:Discovery a sci-fi series.)

Both crime series already had done well on Paramount+/CBS All Access while they were airing on CBS; their transition to streaming-only appears to have brought over loyal viewers from the broadcast network, which had been the goal for the move.

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“What we were able to see is great engagement and activations of subscribers coming to SEAL Team first when they sign up for Paramount+, so we are really pleased with the results,” Paramount+’s Chief Programming Officer Tanya Giles  said during the streamer’s portion of TCA. “It is one of our top performers in originals, so we know that the fan base was able to find the show and find Paramount+.”

ViacomCBS has been aggressive about switching platforms and building up Paramount+, as also evidenced by the moves of Younger and Halo from TV Land and Showtime, respectively, to the streamer as well the decision to put all post-Yellowstone series from Taylor Sheridan on Paramount+.

SEAL Team and Evil’s successful relocation from CBS to Paramount+ is encouraging news for creators of CBS series whose shows might be on the bubble. There are no obvious new targets right now as most CBS dramas are drawing solid linear viewership (with the exception of newcomer Good Sam, for which there is not enough data yet, and departing Bull). Still, should the broadcast network’s brass run out of real estate when putting together the fall 2022 schedule, a move to Paramount+ is now a realistic option for a show like recently renewed CSI: Vegas, whose strength has been mostly in delayed viewing and streaming, or S.W.A.T. 

That is if a deal can be made. Evil, SEAL Team — as well as CSI: Vegas — are produced by CBS Studios, making a transition from one ViacomCBS outlet to another an easier business proposition. Other CBS series, like S.W.A.T., are co-productions, which is a complicating factor. Last year, CBS freshman drama Clarice had been picked up by Paramount+, but the move fell through after an agreement with co-producer MGM could not be reached. (CBS Studios’ co-producing deal with Sony TV on S.W.A.T. is believed to be so lucrative for CBS that it has allowed the series to sail through renewals at the network so far.)

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Season 6 will be SEAL Team‘s shortest to date. The series, which relocated to Paramount+ for its fifth season after four seasons on CBS, produced 16-22 episodes a season while on CBS. Season 5 consisted of 14 episodes — four that premiered on the broadcast networks and 10 that launched exclusively on Paramount+. The 10-episode Season 6 order is in line of typical season lengths on streaming.

SEAL Team follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask of them. Max Thieriot, Neil Brown Jr., AJ Buckley and Toni Trucks also star.

The renewal comes on the heels of the Jan. 23 Season 5 finale, which ended with a big cliffhanger as Bravo found themselves under a missile attack in Mali.

“We are very excited to welcome SEAL Team back for another season on Paramount+,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount+ Original Scripted Series. “The show’s loyal fanbase followed the series to its new exclusive home, and it has proven to be a high-performing title for the service, consistently in the top 10 most-watched original series. We can’t wait for the fans to see what our brilliant creative team has in store for Team Bravo next season.”

SEAL Team is produced by CBS Studios, and executive produced by Spencer Hudnut, Christopher Chulack, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Mark Owen and David Boreanaz.

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Joe Rogan Shares Incorrect Coronavirus Story Just 24 Hours After Apology - HuffPost

About 24 hours after apologizing and promising to “have all the pertinent facts at hand” when discussing the coronavirus pandemic, Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan tweeted and then deleted an incorrect story about the drug ivermectin.

The medication has become a cause in right-wing media circles and Rogan ― one of its biggest backers ― tweeted: “Well lookie here” along with a story claiming the drug was effective against omicron in a phase III clinical trial.

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That turned out to be incorrect and the story was updated.

Although Rogan deleted his tweet, he did not issue any kind of correction or followup statement. However, his tweet was preserved online by several people, including CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale:

Rogan’s tweet came hours - like more than 10 hours - after Reuters corrected its story to make clear this company did *not* say ivermectin had been found effective against omicron in a clinical trial. Good thread here (https://t.co/LCjqR74q1m) on what the company did say. pic.twitter.com/NBACtsvryp

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 1, 2022

Ivermectin is approved for use for parasites and other conditions in humans and animals. While there is no clinical trial evidence that it is effective against coronavirus, research is currently under way.

Rogan, who reportedly received $100 million from Spotify for the rights to his podcast, has talked up ivermectin on his show and even took it himself ― along with multiple other treatments ― when he got sick with COVID-19.

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Rogan and Spotify have come under fire recently for spreading misinformation about the virus and the vaccine. Last week, rock legend Neil Young pulled his music from the company because of Rogan’s popular podcast.

“They can have Rogan or Young,” Young wrote at the time. “Not both.”

Other artists soon followed, most notably iconic singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Rogan, who called himself a fan of both musicians, issued an apology of sorts and vowed to provide more balance in his discussion of the pandemic.

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That vow seems to have lasted about 24 hours.

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Moses J. Moseley, 'Walking Dead' actor, dead at 31 - CNN

(CNN)Moses J. Moseley, who portrayed one of the zombies on "The Walking Dead," has died, his talent manager Gail Tassell confirmed to CNN Tuesday.

He was 31.

"We are heartbroken by his loss and he will forever be in our hearts and deeply missed," Tassell told CNN. "He was a very beautiful person and an extremely talented actor. There really are no words to express the tragic loss of Moses. We just absolutely loved him."

Tassell said Moseley's death is currently being investigated after he went missing recently.

His family contacted the in-vehicle safety and security company OnStar, which was able to track and locate Moseley's car in the Hudson Bridge area of Stockbridge, Georgia, where his body was located, according to Tassell.

Moseley worked on "The Walking Dead" from 2012 to 2015 and portrayed one of the zombies that followed the character Michonne, played by Danai Gurira.

Other acting work included his appearances in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Queen of the South" and "Watchmen."

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