Jessica Simpson is getting her groove back after her split from estranged husband Eric Johnson. The 43-year-old pop star behind hits such as “I Wanna Love You Forever,” “I Think I Love You” and “With You” performed her first show in 15 years at the Recording Academy’s Block Party at South by Southwest in Austin, … Read more
This is giving business trips a whole new meaning. People are turning to psilocybin to help them climb the career ladder — and making a vacation of it by attending cushy retreats, sometimes dropping magic mushrooms with coworkers or their bosses in the hopes of doing “conscious business.” “What people are looking for is to … Read more
It’s been six long years since Justin Timberlake’s last studio album, 2018’s “Man of the Woods,” on which the pop superstar got his Americana on. But many of the fans who had rocked their bodies to his previous hit LPs — from 2002’s “Justified” to 2006’s “FutureSex/LoveSounds” to 2013’s “The 20/20 Experience” — weren’t feeling … Read more
It’s never a good sign when a pop superstar like Justin Timberlake moves on from the first single to the second one within less than a month. Especially when you’re launching a critical comeback attempt like “Everything I Thought It Was” — his first album since 2018’s “Man of the Woods” — which arrives on March … Read more
They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But apparently that doesn’t apply to Usher’s sold-out “My Way” residency, which led to him scoring the biggest gig in music — the headlining spot at the Super Bowl halftime show — at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas last Sunday. After his epic halftime show — … Read more
He’s bringing sensitive back. Justin Timberlake’s highly anticipated comeback single, “Selfish” — which dropped Thursday morning — finds the pop superstar getting in his falsetto feels over a smooth midtempo groove. “So if I get jealous, I can’t help it/I want every bit of you, I guess I’m selfish,” he sweetly croons in the chorus … Read more
He didn’t mean to craft a rags-to-riches story when he left his parents’ wholesale tire business in 2017, but Queens native Jared Kugel, 36, was so sure that the world needed a search engine for tires that he even convinced an investor he met on LinkedIn to provide the seed money for his startup. “My … Read more
On Dec. 3, 1968, Elvis Presley emerged from eight years of shallow Hollywood mediocrity to reclaim his crown as the unmistakable King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. An hourlong NBC special, “Elvis,” taped the previous June in Burbank, featured a slim, black-leather-clad Presley, 33, in a pared-down, informal, acoustic concert before a small studio audience. It … Read more
Having just won for best lead actor at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday, Oscar hopeful Brendan Fraser may be living his best life right now. But the 54-year-old star of “The Whale” almost didn’t survive filming his 1999 hit “The Mummy.” In fact, on Tuesday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Fraser revealed that … Read more