Spotify only spent 10 per cent of its $100million diversity fund in the past year

Jane Fonda said this week that she "appreciates" her body at 85 years old but wouldn’t want to "get naked" in front of a man anymore because of her "nicks" and "scars."  "I appreciate my body," the "80 for Brady" actress told Julia Louis-Dreyfus on her "Wiser than Me" podcast on Tuesday. "I don’t criticize it and hate on it anymore, but I live alone.

The Wyoming game warden will soon be back on patrol: Paramount+ announced the neo-western Joe Pickett will return with two episodes on Sunday, June 4 in the U.S. and Canada.

Police have issued an urgent appeal to help trackdown the whereabouts of a 13-year-old girl who has been reported missing.

Veruca Salt vocalist-guitarist Louise Post has announced details of her debut solo album – listen to lead single ‘Guilty’ below.The album, titled ‘Sleepwalker’, has been produced by Matt Drenik and is due to be released on June 2 via El Camino Media.Speaking about the album in a press release, Post said: “I have always identified as a sleepwalker. I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street.“I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage.

Spotify has shut down its live audio app Spotify Live, with the company saying it “no longer makes sense as a standalone app”.Spotify Live, which was previously called Spotify Greenroom and purchased (under the name Locker Room) by Spotify in 2021, allowed fans to stream and interact with live audio and podcasts.Speaking to Music Ally this week, Spotify confirmed that they were shuttering the app, saying: “After a period of experimentation and learnings around how Spotify users interact with live audio, we’ve made the decision to sunset the Spotify Live app.“We believe there is a future for live fan-creator interactions in the Spotify ecosystem; however, based on our learnings, it no longer makes sense as a standalone app,” they continued.“We have seen promising results in the artist-focused use case of ‘listening parties’, which we will continue to explore moving forward to facilitate live interactions between artists and fans.”Elsewhere at Spotify, it was recently revealed that company executives have only spent 10 per cent of their $100million (£81.75million) budget on a new fund to promote music and audio content by members of “historically marginalised groups”.The Creator Equity Fund was launched last year in the wake of controversy surrounding Joe Rogan’s Spotify-exclusive podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, due to uses of the N-word and COVID vaccine misinformation.A host of popular Bollywood songs have also been removed from Spotify after a licensing dispute with a top label.

Spotify after a licensing dispute with a top label.As The Independent report, fans have been sharing their anger after hundreds of songs from the Indian label Zee Music Company have been disappearing from playlists.The label, which purports to be India’s second most popular, claims it is home to more than 50 per cent of new Bollywood music.Now, hugely popular soundtracks to films including Bajirao Mastani, Ram-Leela and Gully Boy have all been removed from the service, while the song ‘Apna Bana Le’, from new film Bhediya, has also been removed despite being the most-streamed song in India on Spotify in recent weeks.In a statement toBillboard, Spotify said: “Spotify and Zee Music have been unable to reach a licensing agreement.“Throughout these negotiations, Spotify has tried to find creative ways to strike a deal with Zee Music and will continue our good faith negotiations in hopes of finding a mutually agreeable solution soon.”Elsewhere, it was recently revealed that Spotify executives have only spent 10 per cent of their $100million (£81.75million) budget on a new fund to promote music and audio content by members of “historically marginalised groups”.The Creator Equity Fund was launched last year in the wake of controversy surrounding Joe Rogan’s Spotify-exclusive podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, due to uses of the N-word and COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.Just over a year on, however, Bloomberg has found that the initiative has got off to a slow start.

Jane Fonda says she has never received an apology from Jennifer Lopez after she was injured on the set of 2005 rom-com 'Monster-in-Law'. One memorable scene involved Jennifer's character slapping her mother-in-law played by Jane and the 85-year-old actress revealed that she was cut above the eye by a large diamond ring Jennifer, 53, was wearing. Speaking to Drew Barrymore on her talk show, Jane said: "The thing that comes to mind right away is we have a slapping scene.

Jane Fonda went down memory lane on The Drew Barrymore Show remembering films from her acting career. When an image of the 2005 rom-com Monster-in-Law came up, Fonda recalled the infamous slap scene opposite Jennifer Lopez that left her with an injury.

Jane Fonda has shared her memories of the iconic slap scene with Jennifer Lopez in Monster-In-Law - and revealed that she doesn't believe Jennifer ever "apologized" for leaving a cut "across my eyebrow".Jane was joined by best friend Lily Tomlin on The Drew Barrymore Show to discuss their new film Moving On, but Drew asked her about the iconic 2005 film - Jane's return to filmmaking after a 17-year break - and the actress recalled: "The thing that comes to mind right away is we have a slapping scene. I slap her, she slaps me.""Well Jennifer — as per Jennifer — she had this enormous diamond ring.

Jane Fonda is looking back at working with Jennifer Lopez.

Jane Fonda walked down memory lane while appearing on, and one particular film seemingly still had her feeling a type of way.While discussing with Drew Barrymore some of her — and guest Lily Tomlin's — past work, Fonda got a glance of the image on the screen, which showed Fonda and Jennifer Lopez in their iconic roles for the 2005 rom-com,. After the crowd roared in approval, Fonda shared the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about that film.«The thing that comes to mind right away is we have a slapping scene,» she says.

Jane Fonda said on Friday that Jennifer Lopez "never apologized" for cutting her eyebrow during a slapping scene in the movie "Monster-in-Law."  "Well, okay, the thing that comes to mind right away is, we have a slapping scene," Fonda told Drew Barrymore in a segment on her talk show in which she and Lily Tomlin were discussing their most iconic roles.  She continued, "I slap her, she slaps me, I slap her. Well, Jennifer — as per Jennifer — she had this enormous diamond ring, and so, when she slapped me one of the times, it cut open across my eye, my eyebrow.

Jane Fonda says she has never received an apology from Jennifer Lopez after she was injured on the set of 2005 rom-com 'Monster-in-Law'. One memorable scene involved Jennifer's character slapping her mother-in-law played by Jane and the 85-year-old actress revealed that she was cut above the eye by a large diamond ring Jennifer, 53, was wearing. Speaking to Drew Barrymore on her talk show, Jane said: "The thing that comes to mind right away is we have a slapping scene.

hilarious slap quarrel in one scene in the iconic film.However, Lopez has yet to express her regret over the moment 18 years ago. During a recent appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Fonda explained that the Bronx native accidentally cut her eyebrow with the engagement ring she wore for the scene.“The thing that comes to mind right away is we have a slapping scene,” the “Grace and Frankie” star said. “I slap her, she slaps me, I slap her.

Still in character? Jane Fonda claimed that Jennifer Lopez cut her face during the duo’s iconic slap scene in the 2005 film Monster-in-Law — and never apologized for it.

Jane Fonda revealed an intimate part of her nighttime ritual, and then shared that as a gift.

Post Malone has settled a songwriting lawsuit relating to his 2019 song ‘Circles’, minutes before it was scheduled to reach a jury trial.Musician Tyler Armes had claimed that he had written the guitar melody and keyboard chords on Malone’s hit song and gave input to what became the bassline in a studio session in August 2018. “I was beside him giving input – I was not just someone hanging out in the room, I’m a writer/producer in the room with two other writer/producers working on a song,” Armes alleged.After reaching out to producer Frank Dukes once the song was released, Armes said he was offered a five per cent share of publishing royalties.

Jane Fonda, “It’s never too late” — especially when it comes to owning a vibrator.During an appearance on Thursday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Fonda, 85, implied that she uses a sex toy to unwind — and even gifted Barrymore one.Fonda appeared on the show alongside her “80 for Brady” co-star, Lily Tomlin.“I heard, Jane, you relax with like, baths and meditations,” Barrymore said during the segment. “Is it true that there also might be an adult toy involved?” “There is,” Fonda confirmed of her self-love ritual.The “Monster In Law” star even divulged where she keeps them.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor In February of last year, as controversy broiled around Joe Rogan’s racially charged language and COVID-related misinformation on multiple editions of his Spotify podcast, the streaming giant’s CEO attempted to defuse the situation by apologizing to his aggrieved staff and pledging $100 million “for the licensing, development, and marketing of music (artists and songwriters) and audio content from historically marginalized groups.” Nearly 14 months later, that $100 million “Creator Equity Fund” has spent less than 10% of its funding on that work,” according to a report in Bloomberg. The initiative was behind schedule in hiring an eight-person staff to oversee the project and “has suffered from shifting priorities,” the report said, citing unnamed people familiar with the effort. At the beginning of this year, the fund had not completed its 2023 budget and had not determined its priority projects, according to a memo the publication said it had obtained, and another fund intended to promote diversity in podcasts suffered after that business was hit by layoffs last year, a union representing workers said.

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