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Wales Online
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Mötley Crüe recruit Dolly Parton for new version of Home Sweet Home
Mötley Crüe recruit Dolly Parton for new version of Home Sweet Home The rock legends have joined forces with none other than country music icon Dolly on a 40th anniversary version of the power ballad originally released on the 1985 album Theatre of Pain, and again in 1991 for the Decade of Decadence 81-91 compilation album. Dolly Parton (Image: Getty ) Mötley Crüe have released a new version of Home Sweet Home with Dolly Parton. The rock legends have joined forces with none other than country music icon Dolly on a 40th anniversary version of the power ballad originally released on the 1985 album Theatre of Pain, and again in 1991 for the Decade of Decadence 81-91 compilation album. Another country star, Carrie Underwood, released a cover of Home Sweet Home in 2009. A portion of the proceeds from the single will benefit Covenant House, a non-profit providing safe shelter, meals, hope and more to help youth experiencing homelessness. A new music video will also drop at 5pm BST. The song is part of the From The Beginning singles collection set for release on September 12, 2025, the same day the Crüe will kick off their 10-show residency at Las Vegas' Dolby Live at Park MGM. Article continues below Mötley Crüe - comprising Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and John 5 - commented: "Home Sweet Home was first released in 1985 as a single from our Theatre Of Pain album. For an icon like Dolly Parton to sing on a song that has not only meant so much to us but to all the fans through the years, is a career high that means a lot to us. We couldn't be happier to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Home Sweet Home in this special way, and we're excited to share this version of the song with all the Dolly and Mötley fans around the world." On the special cause, they added: "That we were able to unite with Dolly to raise awareness for homeless youth and the amazing work of Covenant House, which provides them safe housing and care, makes it even more special. We hope you'll enjoy Home Sweet Home featuring Dolly Parton as much as Dolly and we enjoyed creating it." Dolly added: "It was an honour and a joy working in the studio on Mötley Crüe's 40th Anniversary re-release of 'Home Sweet Home'. I was so pleased that they would ask me to sing on such a classic." Article continues below From The Beginning spans four decades of Crüe anthems, from the global single and MTV video Live Wire, all the way through to 2024's Top 5 Rock smash Dogs Of War. Plus, fan-favourites Kickstart My Heart, Dr. Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls, Shout at the Devil, Smokin' In The Boys Room, Wild Side and many more. From The Beginning will be available for streaming in standard audio and Dolby Atmos audio. Stream Home Sweet Home with Dolly Parton now on all major streaming platforms.
Perth Now
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Mötley Crüe recruit Dolly Parton for new version of Home Sweet Home
Mötley Crüe have released a new version of Home Sweet Home with Dolly Parton. The rock legends have joined forces with none other than country music icon Dolly on a 40th anniversary version of the power ballad originally released on the 1985 album Theatre of Pain, and again in 1991 for the Decade of Decadence 81-91 compilation album. Another country star, Carrie Underwood, released a cover of Home Sweet Home in 2009. A portion of the proceeds from the single will benefit Covenant House, a non-profit providing safe shelter, meals, hope and more to help youth experiencing homelessness. A new music video will also drop at 5pm BST. The song is part of the From The Beginning singles collection set for release on September 12, 2025, the same day the Crüe will kick off their 10-show residency at Las Vegas' Dolby Live at Park MGM. Mötley Crüe - comprising Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and John 5 - commented: "Home Sweet Home was first released in 1985 as a single from our Theatre Of Pain album. For an icon like Dolly Parton to sing on a song that has not only meant so much to us but to all the fans through the years, is a career high that means a lot to us. We couldn't be happier to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Home Sweet Home in this special way, and we're excited to share this version of the song with all the Dolly and Mötley fans around the world.' On the special cause, they added: 'That we were able to unite with Dolly to raise awareness for homeless youth and the amazing work of Covenant House, which provides them safe housing and care, makes it even more special. We hope you'll enjoy Home Sweet Home featuring Dolly Parton as much as Dolly and we enjoyed creating it.' Dolly added: 'It was an honour and a joy working in the studio on Mötley Crüe's 40th Anniversary re-release of 'Home Sweet Home'. I was so pleased that they would ask me to sing on such a classic.' From The Beginning spans four decades of Crüe anthems, from the global single and MTV video Live Wire, all the way through to 2024's Top 5 Rock smash Dogs Of War. Plus, fan-favourites Kickstart My Heart, Dr. Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls, Shout at the Devil, Smokin' In The Boys Room, Wild Side and many more. From The Beginning will be available for streaming in standard audio and Dolby Atmos audio. The physical configurations include the standard CD and 2LP sets. Pre-Save and pre-order via Stream Home Sweet Home with Dolly Parton now on all major streaming platforms. From The Beginning tracklisting: 1. Live Wire 3:14 2. Take Me To The Top 3:43 3. Shout At The Devil 3:16 4. Looks That Kill 4:07 5. Too Young To Fall In Love 3:34 6. Smokin' In The Boys Room 3:27 7. Home Sweet Home 3:59 8. Girls, Girls, Girls 4:30 9. Wild Side 4:41 10. Dr. Feelgood 4:50 11. Without You 4:29 12. Kickstart My Heart 4:48 13. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) 4:40 14. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.) 4:12 15. Primal Scream 4:46 16. Afraid 4:07 * LP ONLY 17. Saints Of Los Angeles 3:40 18. The Dirt (est. 1981) 3:52 19. Dogs Of War 4:04 20. Cancelled 4:47 * LP ONLY 21. Home Sweet Home (featuring Dolly Parton) 3:59 – NEW
Sky News AU
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
'Going back to my roots': Aussie supermodel Jess Hart says she wants to raise her children, Baby-Rae and Glorious, in Ballarat after decades overseas
Australian supermodel Jess Hart has revealed she plans to return home and raise her children in Australia, after spending more than two decades living abroad. The 39-year-old, who was born in Sydney and raised in Melbourne, has lived overseas since she was a teenager, first moving to Paris at age 15 to pursue her modelling career after winning Dolly magazine's Model Search in 2000. Hart's career took off quickly, with high-profile campaigns for brands including Victoria's Secret, Guess, L'Oréal, Louis Vuitton and Max Mara. She's graced the pages of Vogue and Sports Illustrated, and called cities like London, New York and Los Angeles home. But now, with four-year-old daughter Baby-Rae, three-year-old son Glorious, and 11-year-old stepdaughter Wren in tow, Hart says she's preparing to lay down roots back in Victoria. "I want my children to be half-Australian and half-American- not just Americans with Australian passports," she told Harper's Bazaar. "I want them to be immersed in Australian culture and grow up the way we did." The supermodel, known for her cheeky gap-toothed grin, is reportedly eyeing a permanent base near Ballarat in regional Victoria- the same area where her late mother Rae's family once lived. Rae tragically died in January 2023 after a battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disorder formerly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. "It would make my mum so happy," Hart said. "[The region is] where her family had homes. I'm going back to my roots, my heritage." She also revealed she's currently exploring schooling options that would allow the family to split their time between both countries. While it's unclear whether Hart and her longtime partner, American NASCAR driver James Kirkham, are still together, she's made no secret of her desire to reconnect with Australia. In September, Hart starred in a Qantas campaign alongside First Nations model Charlee Fraser, with creative direction from Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin. When asked what she misses most about home, Hart quickly responded: "My friends and family." More recently, the supermodel shared a string of sweet snaps from her trip back to Australia on Instagram, including time spent at Sydney's Crown with her children. "Three little monkeys…. Just busy creating winter memories in Australia," she captioned the post. She also made an appearance at Australian Fashion Week in May, opening the Bianca Spender show to the delight of fashion insiders.
The Spinoff
a day ago
- Lifestyle
- The Spinoff
The Spinoff Essay: Becoming my own man of the year
Lorde has couched statements about her gender cautiously, but they're still welcome and radical for women who grew up thinking traditionally masculine traits were a flaw. The first time I realised I could choose to buy men's clothing was in April 2023. I'd worn 'old man pants' in the 90s (previous owner likely deceased) during a brief flirtation with grunge dressing, but that wasn't a conscious choice; it was the result of cultural instruction. Aged 43, I stood behind a curtain in a dressing room in the menswear section of 2nd Street, one of several vintage clothing stores in Hiroshima's Hondori shopping district, and pulled on a pair of Homme Plissé Issey Miyake pants. They were black, famously pleated and to the naked eye, had nothing to suggest they weren't the same as the black, famously pleated women's version of the pants. Only the label and the gaping at the crotch, fastened by two buttons, gave the game away. I'd landed in the menswear section after encountering a common problem for anyone of antipodean proportions. Japan is a mecca for vintage and preloved designer shopping, but it primarily caters for a domestic and smaller-sized market. Disavowed of the savvy and strictures of familiar culture and humbled by a lack of language, I had tentatively wandered up to the menswear section after realising nothing in the womenswear would fit. I took baby steps, grabbing a scarf that fit my restrictive idea of what was acceptably 'unisex'. Realising no one but me cared who I was or where I was, I moved towards items that, through cut, sizing, areas of coverage and decades of cultural conditioning, were more denotatively male: trousers, jeans, shirts, jackets and shoes. I left Japan with more menswear than womenswear. I haven't stopped browsing and shopping on both sides of the strangely upheld border between the two since, but it took a long time getting there. Growing up in the analogue 90s, before iPhones, social media, the mass adoption of the internet and the infinite splintering of cultural understanding, Western ideas of femininity were shaped by Hollywood and women's magazines. Despite Mum's best efforts to guide me away from these bibles, issues of Cosmo and Dolly (stolen from the public library) informed my friends and me about beauty, sex, sexuality and what it meant to be, and look like, a woman. It was a strange and contradictory time for feminism. The Girls Can Do Anything poster, on display in classrooms throughout the country in the 1980s, presented a wholesome ideal of women doing 'men's jobs' like welding and lifting heavy things. The 1990s were informed by a highly sexualised explosion of 'girl power' and corporate 'have it all' culture. It felt progressive, but at the zenith of mass and monocultural media, it was informed by singular ideas of desirability, identity and appearance. Xena, Warrior Princess (Lucy Lawless), now regarded as a canonical lesbian icon, appeared on the covers of Maxim and Stuff For Men – men's magazines in the tradition of FHM and Loaded – wearing her underwear. 'Xena as you've never seen her before.' As a teenager, and every day since, I have never once looked in the mirror and seen what I'd describe as a typically feminine face. I once took a celebrity look-alike quiz online and got Russell Crowe. My face, to be clear, is fine, and I have no doubt people looking at it might dispute what I just said. For me, though, I had a list of defects that took away from what I understood as 'pretty' and, therefore, what women should look like. My eyes were too round, and not almond-shaped or wide enough. My mouth was too small. My hair was never long enough, and my chin was too pointy. The most egregious was a lack of sharp cheekbones. 'I have no cheekbones,' I would wail, ignoring the obvious lack of complete facial collapse that would occur if that were true. I resigned myself to a simplistic binary: not 'pretty' meant masculine, and that wasn't something to embrace or even accept as OK. I vividly recall being described as 'handsome' by someone in passing and wanting to die. While I now share the view expressed by Tilda Swinton about her father and David Bowie in 2011, it got under my thin and stubbornly dull skin at the time. For a man, 'handsome' is good, but for a young woman with no reference points for embracing any kind of fluidity or positive connotations about masculinity as a woman, it was antithetical. I also absorbed ideas that being articulate, smart, 'intimidating', and a leader were masculine qualities, which were at war with the feminist ideals I was rapidly absorbing at university. To me, the pathway to being a fully-rounded woman was to wrestle those ideas to the ground, bludgeon them to death and reabsorb those 'masculine' characteristics as feminine. There was never any contemplation that a reconciliation could occur between the different parts of me, or that embracing masculinity as an act of positivity was an alternative. Through my 20s and 30s, I was very overweight. Year after year, the pages of my university diaries were a testament to the era's contradictions. Bullet-pointed goals included: 'finish Masters' (I did not) and 'lose 10kg' (also not achieved). I'd also discovered an admiration for masculine tailoring and androgynous fashion. Studying film, I spent hours falling in love with Katharine Hepburn's screen presence and her trousers. I watched Annie Hall and wanted nothing more than to sling a tie around my neck. By the time Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando arrived on my required screening list, I was completely besotted with the interplay between trickery, freedom, identity, gender and style. There's a particular cruelty in wanting to dress more androgynously when you already feel like your body occupies too much space and isn't conforming to a desired ideal. Choosing clothes that made me look 'bigger' felt like a form of self-sabotage, and clothes that weren't 'feminine' just highlighted broad shoulders and a wide back. Despite a growing mental catalogue of masculine sartorial icons, 'flattering' was the only style preoccupation I allowed myself to have. There was nothing more humiliating to me than having people think I didn't understand my own body or the rules that should apply. I did eventually lose weight via gastric bypass surgery. I've reconciled how that changed my relationship with my body privately and publicly. It also changed my style. I rarely wear dresses and frequently wear men's jeans, shirts and jackets. Driving through the heart of Auckland's University Central City campus one day wearing sneakers, men's jeans and a sweatshirt, I realised that aside from shape, there was no real difference from behind between me and the 20-something-year-old men mooching along Princes Street. The reasons for this late-stage and, by the standards of more enlightened generations, quaint transitory phase are ripe for an unfurling of caveats, discursive criticisms of just about every aspect of life today, and self-flagellation, but the most permissive and accurate description I have found is clunky and base. It's not my description but Ella Yelich-O'Connor's, and it's held together by the completely obtuse and amorphous concept of 'the ooze'. Two weeks before Lorde's single 'Man of the Year' landed, her interview with Rolling Stone was published. In it, she details how she came to a different understanding of gender. It's layered and authentically rooted in her own experience. She talks about an eating disorder, growing up famous, a break-up, therapy, anxiety and the relentless drain of existing in the limbo of being what people expect you to be and being yourself. She describes buying men's jeans, taping her chest and feeling like a man on some days, and a woman on others. The ooze is defined as 'the act of letting herself take up more space in everything she does, whether physically or creatively. Doing so opened the floodgates of her own identity'. 'My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room,' she explains. She is careful not to overegg this disclosure, saying, 'I don't think that [my identity] is radical, to be honest,' she says. 'I see these incredibly brave young people, and it's complicated. Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I'm not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I'm, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.' And she is. Despite her assertion that her gender expression isn't that radical, conversations about gender have simultaneously become more nuanced and visible, and contentious and dangerous enough to be ascribed the language and conditions of warfare. The war is cultural and ideological, but protests, abuse, violence and death are now its regular companions for those without the safety of Lorde's position. 'Woke Lorde accused of 'gender baiting' as she appears to come out as non-binary… but there's a twist,' screamed The Daily Mail, a publication that lives and dies by the potency and twisting of bait. I also write from a position of safety. I am a cis woman, and all I'm doing is wearing men's clothing. I wear makeup, dye my hair and sometimes remove my body hair. I'm not existing in a particularly unacceptable, challenging or radical way. When I put on those pants in Hiroshima, I wasn't challenging much at all, except my own restrictions. It was still a revelation. Revelations always seem like they're meant to be sudden. This one crept up over decades. Maybe that's what Lorde means by 'the ooze'. It's the slow acknowledgment that you're allowed to take up the space you actually occupy. Growing up on a diet of highly prescribed ideas of femininity, it's taken time to peacefully inhabit that space and not see traits traditionally ascribed to masculinity as a flaw. Nothing needs to be bludgeoned to death and absorbed to fit one of the binaries. It's expansive. Sometimes, to become someone more like yourself, you've just got to wear the pants.
Daily Record
a day ago
- Climate
- Daily Record
Simple mistake parents make during a heatwave could be deadly for your child
We've all got our children's best interests at heart but efforts to protect them could be putting them in danger Scotland is edging ever closer to the possibility of a heatwave, as a blast of hot weather and sunshine arrives in the UK this weekend. The Met Office has even gone as far as to issue a yellow health warning for much of England. For Scots, if Thursday and Sunday in particular play ball with high temperatures, we could establish an official heatwave of our own, too. This is when Scotland enjoys consistent mercury on or over 25C for three days in a row. However, while parents and children are frolicking in the sea, building sand castles in the beach, or playing in the garden, there is one simple mistake they could make in the heatwave that could be deadly for their children. A recent piece from Netmums has warned against the common practice of covering your baby's pram with a blanket or muslin on sunny days. Experts warn that this can lead to dangerously high temperatures inside the pram. You may do it to shield your wee ones from the sun or help them nap, but a covered pram can heat up like an oven in minutes, putting your baby at serious risk of overheating or even heatstroke. The Lullaby Trust charity warns that doing so could raise the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). To illustrate the danger, childcare provider Sophie Campbell conducted an experiment using a thermometer and a child's doll. In a Facebook post, she explained how the temperature inside a covered pram or pushchair can rise. She dressed the doll, named Dolly, with factor 50, 5* UVA sunscreen, a drink for hydration, and a sun hat. Despite these precautions, she decided to cover Dolly with a blanket for shade and placed a thermometer inside. The temperature in the buggy started at 35C, but after just 12 minutes, it rose to 45C, and after another 15 minutes, it crept up to an alarming 50C. The gravity of the situation was clear for all to see, and Sophie used the example to urge parents to think again when using blankets for shade, as the potential consequences for a real child are horrendous. What's more, a cover can also hamper with a parent's ability to see their child therefore making it difficult for them to check on their tot or monitor their temperature. So, what is the alternative? The organisation advises using a clip-on sunshade or parasol for a pram or buggy. Svante Norgren, a paediatrician at a children's hospital in Stocklholm, threw weight behind the advice, telling Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet: "It gets extremely hot down in the pram, something like a thermos. "There is also bad circulation of the air and it is hard to see the baby with a cover over the pram." Sophie went on: "It doesn't matter what you put over the top, a muslin, blanket or towel, the results will all be similar, and the outcome could be horrendous. 'Still to this day, I see babies/children in pushchairs on very sunny and hot days with blankets draped over them to block the sun and heat out." She ended with a final plea to parents, adding: "Please do not do this." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'.
