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Carly Pearce has built a reputation for teaming up with some of country music’s best voices, creating unforgettable duets that have helped define her career. From the emotional “We Don’t Fight Anymore” with Chris Stapleton to chart-toppers like “I Hope You’re Happy Now” with Lee Brice and “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” alongside Ashley McBryde, Pearce has proven she knows how to pick the perfect duet partners.
Even with an impressive list of collaborations under her belt, the Grammy-winning artist has plenty of names still on her wish list.
“Chris was my top dream, like period, so it’s been kind of crazy for me to think about, you know, what else?” Pearce shared. “But I would say a few people – I love Lee Ann Womack, I love Alison Krauss and Union Station, I love Cody Johnson, I love Brothers Osborne. So yeah, there’s definitely other people. I just, I love great voices.”
Pearce could even team up with a new collaborator on her upcoming studio album, expected later this year. She teased plans to “collaborate with one of the biggest artists in our format and also one of my childhood heroes.”
While fans will have to wait for more details about this exciting collaboration, Pearce has given a glimpse of the album’s direction with recent releases “Dream Come True” and “Church Girl.” In a recent interview with Country Now, she revealed that this chapter of her music will feature some of her most honest and personal songs yet, a result of her decision to focus on creating music that fulfills her, rather than chasing awards or chart success.
“It’s been a decade since ‘Every Little Thing’ came out. And [I’m] just kind of reevaluating, ‘okay, what do I want the next 10 years to look like? And what is success to me?’ Because I’ve had all these big on paper things. Did it change the way that I felt about myself? No. So that means I got to do some work,” Pearce told us. “And what do I need to do to make Carly whole without accolades? So I’ve kind of been on that part of the journey…”
With this new album, fans can expect Carly Pearce to step beyond the “heartbreak girl” image she’s become known for.
“I think what this record did is it pushed me. What else do I care about? What else do I believe in? What else are the facets that maybe people don’t know about me? Maybe my closest friends know about me, but others don’t,” she reflects. “And pushing that vulnerability made me more excited, not scared. Just like, let’s go. I didn’t even know I had all this stuff. I’m five records in and I’m like, wait, there’s so much more here. Cool.”
Carly Pearce is bringing some of her new songs on the road on her Inside The Dream Tour, bringing her live show to fans in the UK and Ireland later this year. For more tour dates, click HERE.
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Kody Brown no longer has a spiritual union with Meri, Christine or Janelle Brown.
He is legally married to only one woman at this point, Robyn Brown.
In other words: Kody no longer has any sister wives in his life.
And yet… we now have it on a very reliable authority that the TLC reality show Sister Wives will continue to air new episodes!
In a recent interview with Growing Up in Polygamy YouTube channel, Mykelti Brown Padron — the daughter of Christine and Kody — told the hosts that executives appear to have picked up the series for a 21st season.
“I will say that none of the parents have the same filming schedule that they used to have,” Mykelti explained, confirming that shooting has gotten underway, even if it looks different from the past.
“It’s been two weeks of filming, two weeks off,” she added. “But this last six months or so, the filming has been very, very minuscule. It’s sporadic. So, filming has been less.”
TLC has not yet made any announcements about the future of Sister Wives.
The network has continued to support the show despite the many changes that have taken place of late within the Brown household.
As Mykelti herself admits, there really can’t be that many seasons remaining of Sister Wives.
“I think [the show] is fizzling. Because it’s not Sister Wives anymore. You know, they’re all ex-wives now,” she told the aforementioned outlet.
Indeed, Christine left Kody in late 2021; Janelle did the same a few months later; and then Meri and Kody confirmed their divorce in early 2023.
On the latest run of the program, Kody went around to his former spouses and tries to issue an apology for all the terrible ways he treated them.
For her part, though, Mykelti would sort of prefer it if Kody worked on his relationships with his children.
“Several of my siblings have blocked him,” Mykelti said during this new interview. “I know which ones have, but I’m not going to say it, but I do know that there are several of my siblings who have told him point-blank, ‘Do not ever contact me again.’”
She continued, clearly critical of her father:
“So obviously with those, he’s still going to generalize us, and he’s not going to name us by name. But he isn’t actively reaching out [to them] and seeking that relationship.”
On the November 6 episode of Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Brown actually broke down while admitting to his own shortcomings as a father to his sons and daughters.
“I should have had a stronger relationship with my children,” Brown told a couple fellow contestants on this reality program.
“I’m at a place in my life now where I’m very willing to say that I’ve been wrong,” he added, actually starting to cry on air.
“My failures were because I didn’t know about being a good dad and husband, and I thought I did. I really thought I did, and I misunderstood that. I did it wrong in so many ways, and I hated being blamed for it, and so it made me resistant to ownership.”
Sounds like a fresh perspective.
However, Mykelti added of her father’s attempts to reconcile when speaking to the aforementioned channel:
“I think he could try harder. He’s not trying as hard as he could, and there’s room for improvement.”
Sister Wives Season 21: It Looks to Be Happening! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Ella Langley is calling on her fans to help her make country music history.
Early Thursday morning, the buzzed-about country star took to Instagram Stories with an urgent plea, revealing that her latest single, “Choosin’ Texas,” is locked in a tight race for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, going neck and neck with Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need.”
According to Langley, one final push could make all the difference.
“Y’all have put me in a position to do something only a few females in country music have ever done,” she shared. “I’m being told we’re neck and neck on getting the #1 and if we have one last push on iTunes we might make country music history.”
She went on to explain just how rare the achievement would be, adding, “Less than 10 women in country music have gotten a number one on Billboard. I know we can do it.”
If “Choosin’ Texas” claims the top spot, Langley would join an elite group of women who have reached No. 1, marking a major milestone in her fast-rising career.
The milestone would mark another major accolade for “Choosin’ Texas,” which surged to No. 1 on the Billboard Streaming Songs chart this week, becoming just the fourth country song by a lead woman to top the chart in its 13-year history. The track also hit No. 1 on both the U.S. Spotify Chart and the Apple Music U.S. Songs Chart on Friday (Jan. 30) and is set to officially impact pop radio this week.
“Choosin Texas” was written by Langley with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor. The song was born during a writing retreat.
“We wrote a bunch of songs together, but the second one really stuck with me. Miranda, being from Texas, started telling us one of her wild stories about drinkin’ and doing something ridiculous, and I said, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell.’ As soon as I said that, we all just looked at each other like —yep, that’s it! That’s the next song,” Langley previously recalled. “She’s from Texas, the girl he went with. And I thought well…you know I love a song like that.”
The song serves as the lead single off Langley’s forthcoming sophomore album, Dandelion, which is set to release on April 10.
In support of the album, Ella Langley will headline her Dandelion Tour, kicking off May 7 in Toledo, Ohio, and running through August 15. The 16-date run will bring her to arenas and amphitheaters across the U.S., with stops in cities like St. Louis, Oklahoma City, and Austin, before wrapping in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Bad Bunny may have won Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
But Erika Kirk says he still can’t hold a candle to Kid Rock.
As we previously reported, Erika and Turning Point USA will be hosting their own halftime show on Super Bowl Sunday — an alternative for viewers who are inexplicably offended by the fact that Bad Bunny is headlining the actual halftime show.
No one has ever attempted to upstage the biggest broadcast of the year before.
But Erika is confident that her All-American Halftime Show will draw a massive crowd.
In fact, she believes that the concert — featuring Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett — will be watched by a “larger audience” than Bad Bunny’s performance with special guests Green Day.
“For us to be able to provide an alternative that’s pro-America, that’s just pro everything, that that’s not the opposite of what they’re putting out there, I don’t want to go into details and bash that, because there’s apparently an audience that wants that,” Kirk said during a recent appearance on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum (via Newsweek), adding:
“But there’s a larger audience that wants ours. And so we are going to make it very amazing. I’m so excited.”
Erika, of course, is the widow of Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed during a speaking engagement in September.
Asked how her late husband would feel about the All-American Halftime Show, Erika enthusiastically replied that he would be thrilled.
“He [Charlie Kirk] would be fist-pumping with this. He’d be so stoked,” she said.
“The artists that have teamed up with us, I just want to say thank you to them… It’s very brave of them to do this.
“And they have partnered with us without hesitation. And it’s actually been a huge blessing. And it’s going to be an unbelievable halftime show.”
Erika went on to say that she considers the alternative halftime show to be the ultimate tribute to Charlie.
“What better way to honor him than just to get in the middle of this and be able to offer an alternative to families?” she asked.
Several conservative influencers have already vowed to turn off Bad Bunny and tune into Erika’s broadcast.
“I’ll take this over Woke Bunny any day of the week,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted after the lineup was announced.
But will it really draw a “larger audience” than the actual Super Bowl halftime show? Seems unlikely, but only time will tell!
Erika Kirk Says Turning Point USA Super Bowl Halftime Show Will Draw ‘Larger … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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She can forgive, but will never forget.
Britney Spears is opening up about her feelings amidst what looks like repeated pushes to give her family financial control over her again.
After so many years in that dreadful conservatorship, she feels “lucky to even be alive.”
Now, she feels “scared” of her family. And can you blame her?
On Wednesday, February 4, Britney took to her Instagram page to share a very personal post.
“As people, all we really want is to feel connected to each other and never feel alone,” her caption began.
“For those of you in your family that have said to help you is to isolate you,” Britney wrote, “and make you feel unbelievably left out … they were wrong.”
It is clear that she is talking about her own harrowing years under a conservatorship. It is also clear that she knows that she is not the only person to have suffered under a family’s control.
“We can forgive as people,” Britney expressed, “but u don’t ever forget.”
“Yearning and longing for contact is always crucial !!!” Britney then affirmed.
“I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive,” she acknowledged.
Britney continued: “With how my family treated me once in my life.”
She then revealed: “And now I’m scared of them.”
Considering the extent to which many believe that at least some of her relatives want to get her back under their financial control, that sounds very sensible.
“It’s weird how God works in mysterious ways,” Britney commented.
“My friends, what do you think he is saying today ???” she asked, presumably probing her Christian fans for input.
“Because to be totally honest with you,” Britney confessed, “no matter what he says, they will never take responsibility for what they did.”
On a brighter note, she continued: “So I’ve made cheesecake today and I must say it’s pretty damn good.”
Britney added: “My neighbor joined me with milk !!!”
At the end of her caption, Britney wrote: “PS I haven’t danced in a month because I broke my toe twice!”
We’re so sorry to hear that!
In December, we reported on Britney’s injury.
While there are certainly some very loud people who seem to become enraged when she dances (or try to frame it as something that should see her stripped of her human rights), we hope that she heals up quickly.
And it’s good to hear that she had a neighbor who could bring over some milk. Borrowing baking ingredients is an old-timey trope among neighbors, but it happens less and less as our culture’s toxic individualism leaves us more and more alone.
Britney is far from the first adult who had to claw their way out of their toxic family’s control.
It’s just that most people don’t have such a public spectacle surrounding their fight for freedom.
(Also, countless people remain under their family’s thumb — and not ever awful parent needs a conservatorship to do it)
It’s very clear that Britney knows that she’s not alone in still feeling shaken by her years without core human rights.
Right now, it sounds like she’s aware of the push to use her every word and action to turn public consensus away from her rights. Hopefully, no one will fall for it.
Britney Spears: I’m Lucky to Be Alive! I’m Still Scared of My Family! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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By: Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon
Alaska lawmakers advanced a bill on Friday that would create new state felony charges for the crime of using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material.
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed House Bill 47, sponsored by Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer on Friday. CSAM, formerly referred to as child pornography, is any material that visually depicts sexually explicit or obscene conduct involving a child under the age of 18.
Vance told lawmakers that AI-generated CSAM is a growing problem that is already affecting Alaska communities. “AI-generated CSAM poses serious risk to children by enabling perpetrators to produce highly realistic virtual images of child abuse,” Vance said in a presentation to lawmakers ahead of the vote. “These images are often indistinguishable from real ones, complicating identification by experts and overwhelming law enforcement’s ability to identify real victims.”
Additionally, she said AI-generated images can be used as blackmail. “These realistic, synthetic images create new avenues for predators to exploit minors and their families through extortion and financial coercion, significantly escalating harm and trauma,” she said.
Vance said she introduced the legislation after an Army soldier stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson was arrested for creating AI-generated CSAM in 2024.
Vance said the case revealed to her that Alaska law does not have a statute addressing AI-generated CSAM. “But that soldier was prosecuted under federal law, not state law,” Vance said. “Currently, Alaska must rely on federal prosecutions due to our lack of a statute addressing this issue.”
She said she has heard from constituents that the state’s lack of AI-specific CSAM laws is a concern.
“I also had some mothers in Homer contact me probably about a year and a half ago now that their 13-year-old daughters had been subject to the use of AI,” Vance added. “They went to law enforcement, and Homer Police Department said, ‘Alaska statutes do not address AI-generated use of images.’ And so this hit really close to home for me.”
Homer Police Department officials said they investigated the case and the Kenai District Attorney’s Office charged two middle school boys with exploitation of a minor after they created AI-generated nude images of classmates.
While there is no Alaska state law specifically addressing AI-generated CSAM, there are statutes that prohibit the viewing, possession or distribution of CSAM.
“Basically, any depiction of photograph, audio, video recording, drawing, anything like that, if it depicts children being involved in certain sexual simulations or exploitation, then that’s considered exploitation of a minor,” said Lt. Ryan Browning with the Homer Police Department. “We felt like that was enough to meet the probable cause for the statute.”
Statewide, the Alaska Department of Public Safety works with local and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate each CSAM case reported, said Austin McDaniel, director of communications for the agency.
McDaniel said the department does not have data available on the number of recent cases involving AI generated materials. By email, he said the department has received reports of AI-generated CSAM, but he said those reports are not “prevalent.”
He said a team of more than ten investigators work in a unit within the Alaska Bureau of Investigation focused solely on CSAM-related crimes.
“All that they do is child sexual abuse material investigations, or CSAM investigations, and they certainly and unfortunately, stay busy throughout the year,” he said. He noted a “vast number” of cases are reported to the Anchorage Police Department.
State public safety officials received 330 reports of alleged CSAM or child exploitation related crimes in 2024, the most recent year of publicly available data. “We go through and investigate those instances, refer charges to state prosecutors, or work very closely with our federal partners when it might be better to pursue federal charges against somebody versus state charges,” McDaniel said.
Sexual violence is prevalent across Alaska — and 51% of reported victims were minors in 2024. McDaniel noted the most common age of victims of sexual offenses is 13 years old.
“So between our CSAM investigations or child sexual abuse investigations, you know, we are certainly kept very busy,” he said. “And we are working across the state, around the clock to investigate those instances and to hold anyone that victimizes Alaska’s kids accountable for their actions.”
Angela Kemp, deputy attorney general for the criminal division of the Alaska Department of Law, said currently the state has to prove that an actual child was used to create the sexual abuse material to prosecute the case. She said investigators use digital forensic tools to determine if the material is AI-generated, or whether there is a child victim.
“For cases where we cannot prove an actual child was used, law enforcement works with our federal partners to determine whether the conduct can be prosecuted under federal law,” she said.
Vance said if the legislation is passed, it would criminalize all possession of AI-generated CSAM. “It’s hard to distinguish if there was a real victim involved, or if it is all generated through AI technology, this bill would allow them to say all of it is prosecutable,” she said.
The bill would also enact new sentencing guidelines for AI-generated CSAM, and depending on the charges and prior felony convictions, offenders could face two to 99 years in prison.
The bill has been referred to the House Rules Committee, which will determine whether it will go to the full House of Representatives for a vote. If passed, the bill would need to be considered and approved by the Senate to become law.
