Country artist Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT Music Awards with a tribute to the victims in the Nashville shooting, then danced alongside drag queens, as states consider limiting drag performances involving children.
Madonna has added Nashville, Tennessee, as a location in her "Celebration Tour" and will reportedly donate the proceeds from the event to trans rights groups.
Singer Natasha Owens discussed her chart-climbing single "Trump Won and You Know It" on Steve Bannon's The War Room, expressing her desire to perform at Trump's rallies.
President of Malawi asked to restrict Madonna's access to "sex exploitation, sexual slavery, adoption reversal, threat of coercion, fraud, deception and abuse of power or vulnerability."
Contestant judge Keith Urban in 2014 told Harris, "You sing 'cause you have to sing, not 'cause you want to sing. And, I mean that in the deepest way. And, that's why it's so believable and real."