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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry aren't going to be left penniless -- FAR from it actually, according to Ryan Seacrest and Mark Cuban ... so long as they follow this advice.
The two titans of industry -- who've successfully forged their own paths in entertainment and sports, and branded themselves masterfully -- sat down for the new, TMZ/FOX special, "Harry & Meghan: The Royals In Crisis," to share their thoughts on PH and MM's financial future in entertainment.
As you might've heard, the former Royals are kinda on their own now. And, life ain't free!!!
The question ... can they make an honest buck, and if so, how? Seacrest says it all depends on what they have to offer, which may come as a surprise to both the public and maybe even themselves, especially Harry. Bottom line, RS thinks there's untapped potential there.
Mark Cuban is right there with him ... saying, if Har and Meg play their cards right, they could be just as successful and wealthy as the Obamas, if not more so.
FOX's one-hour special gets into more than just what lies ahead for them though ... it's also a deep dive into what got them here to begin with. Piers Morgan has thoughts on that.
Check it out ... he makes no bones about how he believes Meghan manipulated her way to the top, only to strip his country's Prince away from his people and family. Oof, harsh!
Renowned writer Afua Hirsch has a different take, however, with which many others agree.
Get ready for fireworks! 'The Royals in Crisis' airs on FOX Wednesday at 8 PM ET/7 PM CT.
BTS appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” to talk about the Grammy Awards, their upcoming album, and perform their pre-release single “Black Swan” for the first time!
BTS sat down with James Corden to talk about their collaborative stage with Lil Nas X for his “Old Town Road All Star” special performance, and they talked about how amazing the night was. The members also revealed what they do when they forget a dance move while performing, and shared their excitement for their upcoming album and tour.
James Corden also mentioned the amazing support they receive from ARMYs [BTS’s official fan club name] whenever the members are on the show, and the members took a moment to share a sweet message with their fans.
Check out the interview below!
BTS also performed their newest song “Black Swan” for the first time ever, taking over the stage and putting on a stunning barefoot performance. Watch the performance below!
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Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The duo’s hi-res music player Pono aimed to fix problems they said plagued MP3 players like the iPod and music software like iTunes — including compressed, lossy, and low-fidelity audio files that were not similar enough to their original recordings.
But five years after the Pono was released, Young believes the tech industry has still not advanced enough for consumers to easily listen to high-resolution audio. Their new book, To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio, details the hurdles they had to overcome to create the Pono as well as what the tech industry should do in order to get consumers to realize what they’re missing with streaming and “CD-quality” music.
In an interview with The Vergecast, Young tells Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel that even though Grammy-winning artists are able to make music almost anywhere they go on their laptop or mobile devices, they’re still sacrificing on audio fidelity.
Below is a lightly edited excerpt of that conversation.
So many artists today write their songs on tour in a hotel room on a MacBook. They’re not starting with the big analog studio. They’re not starting with tape. They’re starting digitally. Does that carry through? Is it even worth it to talk about the output format when it’s teenagers in bedrooms writing hits right now?
What’s the problem with teenagers in bedrooms writing hits?
Well, they’re starting on a MacBook, recording straight to MP3.
Yeah, I know. But if that’s what they want to put out as a record, that’s a problem.
Right. But I’m saying... I’m looking at the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. Apple gave me a review unit. They said, “Look at all of the artists who use this thing with GarageBand to start.” But you’re saying that shouldn’t be where the recording starts?
It’s a piece of crap. Are you kidding? That’s Fisher-Price quality. That’s like Captain Kangaroo, your new engineer. A MacBook Pro? What are you talking about? You can’t get anything out of that thing. The only way you can get it out is if you put it in. And if you put it in, you can’t get it out because the DAC is no good in the MacBook Pro. So you have to use an external DAC and do a bunch of stuff to make up for the problems that the MacBook Pro has because they’re not aimed at quality. They’re aimed at consumerism.
That’s what Steve Jobs told me. He told me that exact thing: “We’re making products for consumers, not quality.” So they don’t want audio quality. They don’t want to spend a lot of time on that. Audio quality — for your reference and for anybody else that’s listening — is deeper than visual quality.
You can look at things and think you’re seeing everything with a hi-res whatever you’re looking at in a picture. But true audio dimension is so deep, and there’s so much data there if you want to capture it all — in the echo and the softness and the loudness and the difference as things are decaying and getting smaller and smaller as they go away. That’s part of the beauty of sound, and the beauty of music based on that is that you can hear all of the detail.
Now, when you talk about doing that on a MacBook Pro, it makes me barf. This is where we are.
But I see so many artists... we talk to artists, we interview them. We did a video with a guy who won lots of Grammys, works for lots of people, and he’s like, “I assemble samples in the back of my car using my MacBook Pro. I love it. This is how music is made.”
I’ve never won a Grammy for music, so I wouldn’t know about that quality.
Sure. I’m just saying, we talked to the people who are making the money, and they’re like, “I assemble samples on my MacBook Pro.”
It’s not about money. It’s not about hits. It’s about quality. It’s about sound. It’s about museum quality. It’s about the real thing. The facts. The real sound. What happened when you opened your mouth and sang? What went into the air? That’s what we’re not getting with the new technology.
The older technology used to give you a reflection of it so that you could still feel it. Today, it’s reconstituted. It’s poorly sampled. It’s garbage that has less bits to save people memory, which is not even relevant anymore. We have so much memory we’ve got it coming out of our ears. Yet we’re still saving memory, saving quality, so we can store more crap. It’s just we’ve gone down this bad street, and we’re way down. So if you talk to somebody about quality and they’re using anything from that, they’re not going to hear it. They’re going to hear today’s quality. And they may be great as far as today’s quality goes, but to me, it’s just like it doesn’t matter.
Horrifying images have emerged of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter exploding in a ball of flames after slamming into a Los Angeles hillside, killing the NBA superstar, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others.
A man who was riding a mountain bike with a friend captured photographs of the inferno after witnessing the fogbound Sikorsky S-76B shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday, according to the UK’s Sun.
“Out of the fog came a helicopter and it slammed into the mountainside about 200 feet from where we were standing,” said the man, who asked to remain anonymous.
“We were close enough that we could feel the air from the propellers. There was a huge fireball,” he said.
“One of the helicopter doors landed about 10 to 15 feet away from us. Helicopter parts were flying everywhere. There was very little left of the helicopter,” the witness added.
He and his pal rushed to the blazing wreckage to lend assistance, “but there were obviously no survivors,” the man said.
“We didn’t realize that Kobe Bryant was in the helicopter until we got back down to the parking lot,” he added. “Just the fact that a whole helicopter full of people crashed was shocking to us.”
Pilot Ara Zobayan had asked for and received what’s known as a “special visual flight rules” clearance to fly by sight in worse than normal visibility in the controlled airspace.
Flying at 1,400 feet, he veered from Highway 101 below and smashed into the Calabasas hills, authorities said.
“We are not just focusing on weather,” Jennifer Homendy, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Monday. “We look at man, machine and the environment, and weather is just a small portion of that.”
Radar data indicates the chopper climbed to 2,300 feet and then began a left descending turn, she said.
The aircraft didn’t have a black box, nor was it required to, Homendy added.
In addition to Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, the victims included college baseball coach John Altobelli, his daughter Alyssa Altobelli and wife, Keri Altobelli; girls’ basketball coach Christina Mauser; mom Sarah Chester and her 13-year-old daughter, Payton Chester; and Zobayan.
Kobe Bryant preferred to get around via helicopter — but he and his wife, Vanessa, promised to never fly together, according to a new report.
“He and Vanessa had a deal that they would never fly on a helicopter together,” a source told People magazine Monday.
The report didn’t provide an explanation behind the couple’s unusual deal.
The same source said the Los Angeles Lakers legend would “only” fly in choppers flown by pilot Ara Zobayan, who was at the controls in the crash Sunday that left him, Bryant and seven others dead Sunday.
In a 2018 interview, Bryant, 41, said he opted to travel via helicopter to avoid sitting in traffic — and maximize family time with his four daughters, Natalia, 17, Gianna, 13, Bianka, 3, and Capri, 7 months.
“Traffic started getting really, really bad,” Bryant said on the Barstool Sports podcast “The Corp.”
“And I was sitting in traffic and I wound up missing like a school play, because I was sitting in traffic. … I had to figure out a way where I could still train and focus on the craft but still not compromise family time.”
Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the others were killed on the way to the teen’s basketball tournament in California.
Ch-ch-changes are coming soon. Justin Bieber announced his new album will drop next month and it’ll be titled Changes.
The Canadian pop singer's forthcoming album, the followup to 2015’s Purpose, is slated for release on Feb. 14 via RBMG/Def Jam Recordings. A full-scale tour will support Changes, Bieber's fifth studio album.
The announcement accompanied the launch of Bieber's YouTube docuseries, Seasons, and there’s a second taste from the set in “Get Me,” a new track featuring Kehlani.
Last week, Bieber introduced the album during a private album playback event in Los Angeles, with Def Jam chairman Paul Rosenberg, longtime manager/SB Projects leader Scooter Braun and his wife Hailey among those in the room.
The heart throb welled-up when he recounted problems he’d faced growing up in the industry, and the love and support he’d felt from his inner circle.
The new album is led by “Yummy,” which has peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A special collectors-edition CD will be available at Target, where each disc will contain one of two exclusive fold-out posters.
Meanwhile, a full-scale north American jaunt will kick off this May and runs through late September. Live Nation will produce The Changes Tour. Tickets go on sale to the general public from Feb. 14 at noon local time at justinbiebermusic.com.
Stream “Get Me” and check out the Changes Tour dates below.
The Changes Tour dates:
May 14 -- CenturyLink Field, Seattle, WA
May 17 -- Moda Center, Portland, OR
May 19 -- Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA
May 22 -- Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA
May 26 -- Pechanga Arena San Diego, San Diego, CA
May 29 -- Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA
June 2 -- T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV
June 5 -- State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ
June 9 -- Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT
June 13 -- Empower Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO
June 16 -- Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, NE
June 19 -- Soldier Field. Chicago, IL
June 21 -- Target Center, inneapolis, MN
June 24 -- American Family Insurance Amphitheater during Summerfest, Milwaukee, WI
June 27 -- AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
June 30 -- Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, LA
July 2 -- NRG Stadium, Houston, TX
July 6 -- Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO
July 8 -- BOK Center, Tulsa, OK
July 11 -- Nissan Stadium, Nashville, TN
July 13 -- Enterprise Center, St. Louis, MO
July 15 -- Simmons Bank Arena, Little Rock, AR
July 18 -- Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA
July 21 -- AmericanAirlines Arena, Miami, FL
July 25 -- Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL
July 27 -- Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, SC
July 29 -- Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, NC
Aug. 1 -- Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA
Aug. 4 -- PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA
Aug. 6 -- Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA
Aug. 8 -- Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH
Aug. 12 -- KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, KY
Aug. 14 -- FirstEnergy Stadium, Cleveland, OH
Aug. 16 -- Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
Aug. 18 -- Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY
Aug. 21 -- FedExField, Landover, MD
Aug. 24 -- KeyBank Center, Buffalo, NY
Aug. 26 -- Times Union Center, Albany, NY
Aug. 29 -- Ford Field, Detroit, MI
Sept. 1 -- Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, ON
Sept. 3 -- Videotron Centre, Québec City, QC
Sept. 10 -- Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON
Sept. 14 -- Bell Centre, Montreal, QC
Sept. 17 -- Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA
Sept. 26 -- MetLife Stadium, E. Rutherford, NJ
