Chaka Khan Reveals the Inspiration Behind Anthemic New Single 'Woman Like Me' (Exclusive)

Kanye West is inspired by "the children" and "the homeless". The 'Jesus Walks' rapper - who has North, nine, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and three-year-old Psalm with ex-wife Kim Kardashian - has shared a cryptic note on Instagram urging creatives of all types to look to similar places for ideas. He wrote: “Look to the children… Look to the homeless… As the biggest inspiration for all design.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLil Rel Howery has lined up his second HBO stand up comedy special, Variety has learned exclusively.This will be Howery’s second HBO stand up special after 2019’s “Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw.” The new special will tape in Howery’s hometown of Chicago in the coming weeks. It will then be available on both HBO and HBO Max.“Getting the opportunity to do another comedy special with HBO is a dream come true, but even more so this time around because I’m excited for the world to see what happens when I go back to my roots,” Howery said.

Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are making music again, and Snoop seems excited about what they're coming up with.The rapper and actor spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier on the red carpet at the premiere of his new film, , in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and teased just a bit about what the two are working on.«We're cooking up a little something,» Snoop shared. «I don't wanna talk about it too much, but we're back together again.»«It's been 30 years since we worked on a record, and we're doin' something, we're workin' on something,» he added with a smile.Snoop's been working on a lot of projects recently, including working with BTS on Benny Blanco's new track, «Bad Decisions.»«Hey, I just try to stay active,» Snoop said of the collaboration. «The youngsters, they reach out, they call me… I'm all about music.

Meagan Good is stepping into 41 in style. The actress, who just celebrated her 41st birthday Monday, spoke to ET's Kevin Frazier at the premiere of her new film,, about the big day, her busy year and her plans for starting a family amid her divorce from her ex-husband, DeVon Franklin. «Man, it's been amazing. It's been such a crazy, crazy year, but it's been like, so many blessings, so many good things, so much learning and growth,» Good gushed.

Jason Oppenheim has a new woman on his arm! The  star stepped onto the red carpet at the  premiere Wednesday night with model, Marie-Lou by his side. Oppenheim spoke to ET's Kevin Frazier about their relationship and Marie-Lou's possible appearance on the real estate reality series.«Well, the new season of  is coming out in like two weeks, which we just watched actually this last week. It was really good.

Alvvays have shared their brand new single ‘Easy On Your Own?’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the second to be previewed from the Canadian band’s forthcoming third studio album ‘Blue Rev’, which is due for release via Transgressive on October 7.Following on from the arrival last month of the LP’s lead single ‘Pharmacist’, Alvvays have now shared ‘Easy On Your Own?’.You can listen to the track in the below visualiser.You can see the tracklist for Alvvays’ ‘Blue Rev’, which has been described in a press release as the band’s “most harmonically rich and lyrically provocative” album yet, below.Alvvays will head out on a North American tour in October, with dates running through to mid-November.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Pietro Marcello’s sprawling post-WWI film “Scarlet,” which opened Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.Represented in international markets by Orange Studio, “Scarlet” will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, before a theatrical release in 2023.A loose adaptation of Alexander Grin’s novel, “Scarlet” marks Kino’s second collaboration with Marcello. It follows “Martin Eden,” which competed at Venice, won best actor for Luca Marinelli and went on to play at Toronto.Marcello, who rose to prominence as a documentarian with his film “The Mouth of the Wolf,” penned the script for “Scarlet” with his regular screenwriting partner Maurizio Braucci (“Martin Eden”) and Maud Ameline, with the participation of novelist Geneviève Brisac.

Kamille undoubtedly boasts one of the music scene's most accomplished CVs. With a GRAMMY for her work on Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, a BRIT Award for Little Mix anthem Shout Out to My Ex and five UK Number 1 singles to her name, she's probably gonna need a bigger mantlepiece to house her growing number of accolades.

Olivia Newton-John will be remembered as a «sweetheart» who was truly selfless until the very end.GRAMMY-winning singer Dionne Warwick and TV/radio personality Leeza Gibbons, two of Newton-John's closest friends, spoke to ET's Kevin Frazier and offered a glimpse of the special bond they shared with the star who died on Monday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 73.Warwick tells ET they first met in England when Newton-John was working on a show decades ago with the late singer Sacha Distel.«We kind of just hit it off,» the songstress recalled. «You know how girls are, and such a sweetheart.

Jane Seymour is tearfully paying tribute to her longtime friend, Olivia Newton-John. In an interview with ET's Kevin Frazier, Seymour opens up about the pair's enduring friendship, Newton-John's final days, and her legacy. Newton-John died Monday after a decades-long battle with breast cancer, which she was extremely forthcoming about to the public. Her story has inspired and encouraged others on the same health journey.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Rome-based indie distributor Intramovies has snapped up international sales rights to Locarno contender “Nightsiren” (“Svetlonoc”) by Tereza Nvotovà.The Slovakia-Czech Republic production turns on a young woman who returns to her remote mountain home to seek answers about her traumatized childhood. The deeply superstitious villagers turn on her, accusing her of witchcraft and murder.As Nvotová, who co-wrote the screenplay with Barbara Namerová, explains in her statement, “Nightsiren” “seeks to dispel outdated myths surrounding womanhood, drawing a line between ancient misogynist superstitions and their resurgence in the modern world.”“Even though women are no longer being burned at the stake, they’re still targeted for their sexuality, emotionality and reproductive choices.

Chaka Khan has claimed that Kanye West never told her that he was going to pitch-shift her voice on the sample for his 2003 debut single ‘Though The Wire’.The singer, who is promoting her new single ‘Woman Like Me‘, said in a new interview that Ye made her “upset about sounding like a chipmunk” when he sped up her vocal from her 1985-released song ‘Through The Fire’.When asked if West ever reached out to her to discuss the matter, Khan told Good Day DC that they haven’t spoken.“[Kanye] didn’t mention that he was gonna speed it up, you know, three times its normal speed,” Khan said. “Had he, I would’ve had something to say.

Guy Fieri, it took a beloved Oscar winner to make him feel starstruck.The TV personality and celeb chef recently spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier on the set of his new Food Network show, , and opened up about the movie star encounter that really blew his mind.As Fieri recalls, he was at Sylvester Stallone's house cooking food, and in walked Al Pacino.«You hope that you're gonna meet the legend and legend's gonna be as great as he is,» Fieri explained, «And he sits down and he takes a couple bites and I'm just looking at him, like, I've never been more nervous.»«He goes puts his hands on the counter he pushes back the chair and he goes, 'Hoo ah!'» Fieri recalled, evoking Pacino's famous quote from. «And I go outside, I'm like 'Did you see that?!'»Fieri's new show,, will also have the Mayor of Flavortown hanging out and having fun with his famous friends as they play food-related and inspired games to win money for charity.«We make up the rules as we go, we set up some ridiculous prizes, and we compete, family versus family, to the point where we're knocking over the dinner table breaking glasses people are laughing uncontrollably,» he explained of the fun show. «Somebody kind of wins and at the end uh we get money for charity!» is set to debut on The Food Network and Discovery+ on Aug.

Sanford and Son and  sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier to talk about the impact the storylines from those iconic shows are still reflective of today's America. He also shared his thought process for addressing some of the more sensitive subjects, like race, abortion and sexuality. Those subjects, somehow, continue to be sensitive multiple decades later, but Lear is hopeful.«I've said this as recently as yesterday or the day before, I don't want to wake up in the morning without hope and faith in the future,» he tells ET.Lear himself is gobsmacked at the thought of celebrating an entire century, but the milestone birthday offers him an opportunity to reflect on how he changed the face of television and what truly defines an All-American family.

Rina Sawayama has shared the third single and title track from her highly-anticipated second album ‘Hold The Girl’.The artist has already previewed the new album – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘SAWAYAMA’, which NME awarded five stars – with the singles ‘This Hell’ and ‘Catch Me In The Air’, with the latter premiering as Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily pick on Apple Music 1.The new single is a typically ambitious, multi-faceted pop song, addressing both the trauma and catharsis of moving forward in life. “Sometimes I just wanna run away, leave behind that old me, start again/ Then I’ll remember who I’m really made of/ And she’s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone,” she sings on the track.Speaking about the songwriting process, Sawayama said: “‘Hold the Girl’ was the first song I wrote for the record at the end of 2020 – I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song… that was the start of it.

Neil Patrick Harris put a lot of thought behind his new tattoo. ET spoke with the 49-year-old actor at the premiere of his upcoming Netflix series, , and he revealed the meaning behind the new ink as well as why he chose to get it done in London, England.“I was filming a  special in London, and I knew that the tattoo was going to be a top hat, and a magical sort of classic one, and I wanted it to be very detailed, and I figured the Brits would know how to do a top hat better than the Americans," Harris explained with a laugh.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaChinonye Chukwu’s “Till” will world premiere at the 60th New York Film Festival.The announcement comes on what would have been the late Emmett Till’s 81st birthday, as the country is remembering the impact that Till’s 1955 abduction, torture and lynching had in drawing attention to the brutality and persecution of African Americans in the United States. “Till” stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till Mobley and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till.

Dwayne Johnson's epic character in  has jumped off the big screen and lit up Comic-Con center stage. The famed actor surprised San Diego convention-goers by appearing in full costume for the cast's panel presentation at Hall H. The immersive experience began when Johnson boomed into the room, rising through the stage in a cloud of dark smoke with vibrant lightning strikes surrounding him, saying, «Hall H, you have been warned.

Jenna Johnson is still undecided on whether or not she'll return to the ballroom come next season of . ET's Kevin Frazier spoke to Jenna and her husband and fellow dance pro, Val Chmerkovskiy at the  2022 ESPY Awards Wednesday night, where the soon-to-be mother said if she does dance, she's asking for an «old» partner.«You know what, so when I had to have the call and tell them that I was pregnant, I gave them the option, I'm down, give me someone, give me the old guy, I'll do it.