Olivia Rodrigo recently wiped her Instagram account clean, removing previous photos she’d shared on the account. She has since uploaded two unexplained silent videos playing on an old-school television.
The first one, posted on Friday (March 26), shows an ice cream cone melting. The second one, posted on Saturday (March 27), shows snapshots of a drive by the ocean. No sound accompanied the videos, and they were posted without captions.
Rodrigo’s smash hit ‘Drivers License’ has been at the top of the Billboard charts since its release.
Justin Bieber has achieved his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with Justice. Justice knocked Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, down to No. 3; Dangerous had spent 10 consecutive weeks in a row, all from its debut, at No. 1.
27-year-old Bieber is also the youngest solo artist with eight No. 1 albums; Elvis Presley was previously held that title as the youngest artist to achieve that feat.
Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club took the No. 2 spot, with Wallen’s Dangerous falling to No, 3, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon down two spots to No. 4, and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia dropping to No. 5.
Five people were killed and one was hospitalized following a helicopter crash in an Alaskan glacier, officials said. The Alaska Department Of Public Safety said Alaska State Troopers were alerted Saturday night of reports of an overdue helicopter and crash in the Knik Glacier, roughly 54 miles east of Anchorage.
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center dispatched a rescue team and found five occupants dead. One survivor was found and transported to a hospital. They are in serious but stable condition, as of Sunday afternoon, the department of public safety said.
Torrential rains across Tennessee flooded homes and left roads impassable, prompting over 100 people to be rescued in the Nashville area. Authorities said four were found dead on Sunday in the flood’s aftermath. Mayor John Cooper said at a news conference Sunday that Nashville received more than 7 inches of rain, the second-highest two-day rainfall total ever recorded.
Nashville Fire Chief William Swann said at least 130 people were rescued from cars, apartments and homes, while about 40 dogs were moved from a Nashville boarding kennel, Camp Bow Wow, to another location. Mayor Cooper said first responders are working with the Red Cross to canvass affected neighborhoods. Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said three bodies were found after Seven Mile Creek flooded. The body of a 70-year-old man, a 46-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man. Drake said a 65-year-old man’s body was found on a golf course.
Many rivers and creeks were at or near their highest level since 2010, according to the National Weather Service. Floods in May 2010 caused 21 deaths in Tennessee and an estimated $1.5 billion in damage in Nashville.
Chris Young and Kane Brown just released the official music video fo their track “Famous Friends,” with many of the duo’s real-life friends included.
Young shared in a press release: “I can’t imagine a more perfect video for ‘Famous Friends.’ Peter [Zavadil, the director] knocked it out of the park on this one! I had a blast seeing my friends on set, and that rooftop performance with Kane is some of the most fun I’ve had in a video.”
Take a look at the video for ‘Famous Friends” at the link – here.
Up-and-coming country artist Breland has teamed up with Mickey Guyton for a remix of his autobiographical track “Cross Country,” the follow-up to his debut hit single “My Truck.”
The 25-year-old Breland co-wrote “Cross Country” with Will Gittens, Sean Small and Sam Sumser. You can take a listen to the Cross Country remix and stream the song here.
On Sunday, 31-year-old singer Jason Derulo and his girlfriend, model Jena Frumes announced they are expecting their first child together. The father-to-be wrote on Instagram, along with an announcement video: “Couldn’t be more excited for this new chapter in our life @jenafrumes.” The model captioned an image of Derulo holding her baby bump on the beach: “Mom & Dad.”
Derulo met 26-year-old Frumes at the gym just before the coronavirus pandemic, and the two began dating shortly after. They often film TikTok videos together and have shared multiple videos of one another on Instagram.
Lil Nas X has dropped the video for “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” featuring a “trip to the Garden of Eden, ancient Greece and the fiery depths of hell.” According to a statement, the title of the song is an homage to the award-winning 2017 Luca Guadagnino coming-of-age film of the same name and “begs the question: do you truly love your neighbor as yourself, enough to call them by your own name?”
“MONTERO” is the first release from the rapper since last year’s Christmas-themed “Holiday.” You van watch the “MONTERO” video – here.
A tornado tore through a housing subdivision in Alabama on Thursday, causing severe destruction. Thousands were left without power across the Deep South as strong winds and heavy downpours swept across the region. The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado warnings in Alabama and surrounding states where forecasters said strong twisters that could stay on the ground for miles. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an emergency declaration for 46 counties as the severe weather approached, and officials opened shelters in and around Birmingham.
Severe weather also hit parts of Mississippi on Thursday, a day after authorities reported a weather-related death in the southwestern part of the state. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia were also at risk of strong tornadoes, and areas in the path of Thursday’s storms included Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee.
A flash-flood watch Thursday covered northern parts of Alabama and Georgia and portions of Tennessee and western North Carolina. Up to 4 inches of rain were predicted, with higher amounts possible in northern Alabama.
President Joe Biden held his first formal news conference Thursday afternoon and was dominated by questions regarding the border crisis. The White House attempted to keep the news conference focused on the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic with a string of vaccination logistical funding announcements in the hours before it began. The president began the conference by detailing a new vaccination target, after his initial goal of 100 million vaccines was reached last week. However the President was questioned by reporters to detail actions he is taking to address a surge in undocumented migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and was not asked any direct questions about the pandemic.
Biden said his policies were not the cause of an increase in children arriving at the border, and instead blamed former President Donald Trump for neglecting Central America while in office and for implementing policies that led to overcrowding in facilities at the border. Biden said that the seasonal uptick in migration that occurs each spring before the deadly summer heat was also reason for the increase in migrant children arriving right now. The president said Thursday he would “commit to transparency” once his policies were in place, but did not provide a timeline for doing so.
Prior to Thursday’s event, Biden had gone longer without holding a formal news conference than any first-term president in decades, breaking with a longstanding tradition of taking questions from White House press corps at a dedicated event within the first month of office. Thirty reporters attended the news conference, a smaller number than normal due to distancing measures in place for the coronavirus pandemic.
