It’s Thursday July 8th and here are the latest Music News Stories Brought to you by the filter
Britney Spears shared a pair of cryptic Instagram posts late Wednesday, two weeks after begging a judge to let her out of the conservatorship she’s been under since 2008.
In one, Spears posted a piece of anime art that she captioned: “Our Father who ART in Heaven HALLOWED BE THY NAME !!!! Pssss you better F**KING BELIEVE IT !!!!”
While some fans reacted with confusion others doubted the post came from Spears
A few hours earlier, Spears shared a photo of herself, from behind, standing naked in front of a bathtub. It was accompanied only by three emojis of ballerina flats.
“Britney’s back,” noted one person in the comments. Other fans noted that her tattoos were not visible.
A hearing about the conservatorship is scheduled for July 14.
https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/britney-spears-shares-cryptic-instagram-posts-1.15576216
Diplo is facing another accusation of sexual assault.
According to TMZ, a woman suing Diplo alleged he forced her to perform oral sex and recorded it in his room at the Wynn in Las Vegas following a 2019 show. She claimed she was too intoxicated to consent.
Diplo’s lawyer Brian Freedman told TMZ the lawsuit is “completely outrageous, wildly untrue and yet also entirely predictable.” He said the complaint is almost identical to one filed last month by Shelly Auguste, whom he identified as the woman’s friend.”
Freedman added: “We have irrefutable evidence that this is a completely meritless claim and we will be providing it to a court as quickly as we possibly can to put an end to this shakedown by Ms. Auguste and her accomplices once and for all.”
Diplo sought a retraining order against Auguste in December 2020 after ending their relationship. He sued her in April, alleging stalking and harassment. Auguste countered by suing Diplo for sexual battery, assault, defamation, infliction of emotional distress and fraud.
One of her claims was that Diplo coerced her into a threesome with a girl she believed was underage after one of his 2019 shows in Las Vegas.
Freedman told TMZthat Auguste’s lawsuit is part of an “ongoing campaign of harassment.”
https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/diplo-facing-another-sexual-assault-allegation-1.15575799
Darius Rucker said on Wednesday he and two members of Rascal Flatts were pulled over by police while driving a golf cart after a concert in Canada.
In a TikTok video, the singer shared a memory from his time on the road with Rascal Flatts.
“We were playing Toronto and we were walking out of the back, walking to our buses, and I was walking with Joe Don and Gary from the band, and they said they saw a golf cart,” Rucker recalled.
“So, sure enough, we grabbed it, we were driving out, and all of a sudden Gary decided we were gonna go across the street, across the highway in this golf cart. And so, we go across the highway, and as soon as we go across the highway, we see the red lights. We get hit with the red lights, with the blue lights.
“We're getting arrested, we're getting pulled over. We're getting pulled over in the golf cart, the cop wants to arrest us. And, the funniest thing about the whole thing is the cop stops us, and me and Joe Don did the ol' ‘pretend that we're not there' thing. We just got out of the golf cart and started walking back, we were leaving Gary right there. He was going to jail by himself, we were out of there.”
Rucker said nobody was, in fact, arrested that night but added “that was one of the few nights of my life I thought I really was going to jail.”
(Rucker could be mistaken about the city – he was the opening act on Rascal Flatts’ American Living Unstoppable Tour in 2010, which stopped in London, Ottawa and Hamilton.)
https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/darius-rucker-recalls-being-pulled-over-by-police-in-canada-1.15576435
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