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Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic Gwen Stefani reintroduced herself Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview, from clarifying her political affiliations to addressing her past controversies. Speaking with Paper magazine, the "Slow Clap" singer didn't shy away from the tough subjects, even when her relationship with Blake Shelton was brought up when discussing his previous rumored support of former President Donald Trump. When asked if her fiance's political views influenced hers, said Stefani, 51, "I can see how people would be curious, but I think it's pretty obvious who I am." "I've been around forever. I started my band because we were really influenced by ska, which was a movement that happened in the late '70s, and it was really all about people coming together," the three-time Grammy winner remarked. "The first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Different People,' which was on the Obama playlist, you know, a song about everyone being different and bei..

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Courtesy of HBO Max (SPOILER ALERT) Friends: The Reunion is officially streaming on HBO Max, and the cast brought some extra friends along for the ride -- including some of music's biggest stars. As previously reported, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are among the special guests joining the now-iconic sitcom's six stars: Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. Both singers are massive fans of the show and each contributed to the reunion in their own special way. Yesterday, the show’s director Ben Winston let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, revealing that Gaga would be teaming up with Kudrow for a rendition of the Phoebe classic, “Smelly Cat.” And team up they did, with Gaga rocking her best Phoebe-inspired look and thanking Kudrow for playing Phoebe as "the different one. The one that was really herself." Justin Bieber, meanwhile, participated in a Friends Fashion Show segment, where celebrity guests modeled some of t..

Paul Bellaart After winning the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Arcade," Duncan Laurence is now seeing it become a hit in the U.S. Duncan, who's from the Netherlands, says "Arcade," was inspired by several things that happened when he was young: Moving to a different city, and losing a family friend. As a kid, Duncan moved from a small town to Tilburg, a bigger city that each year hosts the biggest fair in Europe each year. "To me the whole city felt like an arcade, just this whole new place full of opportunities and full of new life," he explains. Duncan says he pictured himself, a small town boy, who was "just seeing all these things, these flashing lights, but also falling in love for the first time, finding out who he is, falling in love with his music." That's how he came up with the arcade imagery in the song's lyrics, but it was another childhood incident that helped inspire the lyrics about lost love. "A friend of the family, when I was younger,..

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Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for Triller Justin Bieber is performing next month at his native Canada’s 50th annual Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys, marking the first time he’s appeared at the ceremony in over 10 years, the CBC reports. Justin is also nominated for five awards this year, including album of the year and pop album of the year, for Changes, single of the year for “Intentions,” featuring Quavo, artist of the year, and the Juno fan choice award. The last time Justin attended the Junos was back in 2010, when he performed a then-new version of his hit “Baby” with fellow Canadian Drake. Justin has won seven Junos to date. The 50th annual Juno Awards will be broadcast throughout Canada on Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET and will air globally on CBCMusic.ca/junos. The show will also be livestreamed on CBC Music’s TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.