Kacey Musgraves Says 'Dry Spell' Lyric About Masturbation Isn't 'My Grandma's Favorite': 'I Don't Know If She'll Laugh'

Kacey Musgraves tells Variety her grandma understands the suggestive lyric in "Dry Spell" but it’s not her favorite

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• Musgraves revealed her grandma had a health scare during the music video shoot but is now doing well

• The singer shared that her "dry spell" lasted over a year and inspired the lead single from her new album Middle of Nowhere

How doesKacey Musgraves' grandma feel about her more suggestive lyrics?

In a newVarietycover story interview, the Grammy-winning country star, 37, opened up about her grandma's reaction to a lyric about masturbation on her recent single "Dry Spell" about an extended period of time where she wasn't having sex.

The song opens with the lyrics, "It's been a real long 335 days / And the last time, it wasn't good anyway / I'm so lonely, lonely with a capital 'H' / If you know what I mean, I've been sitting on the washing machine."

"I’ve never talked about self-pleasure before," Musgraves toldVariety. "So that’s a first for me: ‘Sitting on the washing machine.’ It’s not my grandma’s favorite line, but it’s mine, I guess."

The "High Horse" singer explained her grandma "does" know what the lyric means, but at the time of the interview she hadn't yet watched the "Dry Spell" music video. The clip finds Musgraves walking through a grocery store and encountering many food items that remind her of sex.

"I don’t know if she’ll laugh," said Musgraves of her grandma, who was actually "rushed to the hospital" for a medical issue while the "Dry Spell" video shoot was happening.

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"She had a really scary extreme high blood pressure incident," she recalled. "So I had to leave and I was on the call, crying, like, ‘If Nana lives, she’s gonnahatethis video!’"

Luckily, Musgraves' grandma is now in better heath. "She’s doing great — I saw her this morning," she told the outlet.

As for the "Follow Your Arrow" singer's sex life? "The dry spell was broken at a certain point. It did cross the year threshold — a year and a half, maybe?" she notes.

"Dry Spell" was released in March as the lead single off Musgraves' sixth studio albumMiddle of Nowhere, which comes out on Friday, May 1.

Around the release of her previous albumDeeper Well, Musgraves spoke toToday's Country Radioabouther grandma's negative reactionto seeing her nude on an alternate cover of the record.

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Trump urges Iran to sign a deal after report suggests US may extend blockade

DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Iran to 'get smart soon' and sign a deal, following days of deadlock in efforts to end the conflict and a media report that the U.S. would extend its blockade of Iran's ports.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump, ‌who has said Iran can call if it wants to talk and has stressed repeatedly Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon, said the country 'couldn't get its ‌act together.'

The Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials as saying the president had instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran's ports in a bid to force Tehran to capitulate.

Officials said that Trump had ​opted to continue squeezing Iran's economy and oil exports with the blockade as his other options - resuming bombing or walking away from the conflict - carried more risk, according to the WSJ.

"They don't know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They'd better get smart soon!" Trump said in the post on Wednesday, without explaining what such a deal would entail.

Iran wants some kind of U.S. acknowledgment of its right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful, civilian purposes.

It has a stockpile of roughly 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60%, material that ‌could be used for several nuclear weapons if further enriched.

Iranian officials ⁠said on Tuesday the country could withstand the blockade as it was using alternative trade routes, and the Islamic Republic did not consider the war over.

The conflict has killed thousands, thrown energy markets into turmoil and disrupted global trade routes.

IRAN WANTS FORMAL END TO CONFLICT FIRST

Iran's ⁠most recent offer for resolving the two-month war, suspended since April 8 under a ceasefire agreement, would set aside discussion of its nuclear programme until the conflict is formally ended and shipping issues resolved.

That proposal did not meet Trump's demand to have the nuclear issue discussed from the outset, however.

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U.S. intelligence agencies, at the request of senior administration officials, are studying how Iran would respond ​if ​Trump were to declare a unilateral victory in the two-month-old war that has become a political liability ​for the White House, two U.S. officials and a person familiar ‌with the matter told Reuters.

Tehran has largely blocked all shipping apart from its own from the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for global energy supplies, since the war began on February 28. This month, the U.S. began blockading Iranian ships.

Trump's Truth Social post featured a mock-up image of himself in dark glasses and wielding a machine gun with the caption "No more Mr. Nice Guy."

IRAN'S GUARDS TAKE GREATER ROLE

Hopes of a swift resolution to the conflict have receded since Trump last weekend scrapped a visit by his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to mediator Pakistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi visited the country twice during the weekend.

Since several senior Iranian political and military figures were ‌killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of ​power, which may be hardening Tehran's negotiating stance.

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of ​the war, and the elevation of his wounded son, Mojtaba, to replace him ​as supreme leader, has handed more power to hardline commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian officials and analysts say.

Trump is under ‌domestic pressure to end a war for which he has given ​the U.S. public shifting rationales. His approval rating ​fell to the lowest level of his current term, as Americans increasingly soured on his handling of the cost of living and the unpopular war, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll showed 34% of Americans approve of Trump's performance, down from 36% in the prior survey.

OIL PRICES RISE ON FEARS OF LENGTHY BLOCKADE

Oil ​prices rose nearly 3% on Wednesday, with the Brent contract ‌hitting a one-month high, on concerns that an extended blockade of Iranian ports would prolong supply disruptions.

The World Bank on Tuesday forecast energy prices would surge ​by 24% in 2026 to their highest level since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago, if the most acute disruptions caused by ​the Iran war end in May.

(Reporting by Reuters bureaus; Writing by Alexandra Hudson, Editing by)

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George Clooney reacts to learning his Italian vacation home makes cameo in “Devil Wears Prada 2”: 'Now I've made it'

George Clooney was shocked to discover that his Italian vacation home makes a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Key Points

• "Is it really? Oh man, I've made it," Clooney told Access Hollywood, noting that sequel star Emily Blunt is "a dear, dear, dear, dear friend."

• His Lake Como estate, Villa Oleandra, appears mid-way through a trailer for the fashion-forward sequel, which premieres on May 1.

You won't findGeorge Clooneyin the credits ofThe Devil Wears Prada 2. But if you look closely, you might be able to spot him sunbathing, far off in the distance.

Villa Oleandra, Clooney's enchanting Lake Como estate, makes a cameo in the upcoming sequel to the fashion-forward2006 classic. In fact, viewers don't have to wait until the film premieres on May 1 to catch a glimpse of the Villa; atrailerfor the film prominently features it in the background of a shot ofAnne HathawayandEmily Bluntspeedboating across the storied Italian lake.

That was news to Clooney on Monday, however, while walking the red carpet at the 51st annual Chaplin Award Gala at New York City's Lincoln Center. "Is it really? Oh man, I've made it," he joked toAccess Hollywood.

"The house holds a special place in my heart, because I love going there," theJay Kellystar explained.

He also noted that the unexpected cameo is even sweeter, because Blunt "is just a dear, dear, dear, dear friend. The whole cast! Has it come out? It's going to be a big hit."

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Clooneypurchased Villa Oleandrain 2002. Nowestimatedat roughly $100 million, the 100,000 sq. ft. estate perches on the western banks of Lake Como in the small town of Laglio. Villa Oleandra's history extends back into the 18th century, and is home to its own pier, swimming pool, tennis court, and more.

It was also on the banks of Lake Como thatClooney met Amal Alamuddin, a human rights lawyer who in 2014 became Mrs. Amal Clooney.

Blunt spoke about her connection to Clooney, and her special attachment to his portfolio of Lake Como properties, onThe Howard Stern Showin 2023.

"We werehaving sushiand [Clooney] said, 'Congratulations, blah, blah, blah, are you going to get married at my house?'" Blunt explained. She and soon-to-be-husbandJohn Krasinskisaid no ("we thought he was just saying that"), but Clooney "asked again... and then he asked again," until they at last said yes.

Blunt and Krasinski ultimatelywed at Clooney's Lake Como estatein July 2010, and it was a partialDevil Wears Pradareunion, withMeryl Streepin attendance.

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Billie Eilish responds to rumors she and brother Finneas O'Connell 'had a falling-out': 'How do we move on?'

Billie Eilish addressed rumors that she and brother Finneas O'Connell, her collaborator, have had a falling-out.

Key Points

• The "Wildflower" singer says she and O'Connell are siblings, and they fight.

• O'Connell was absent from his sister's most recent tour.

Billie Eilishknows there are rumors about why her brother and longtime collaborator, Finneas O'Connell, isn't with her as much these days.

"I heard somebody say, 'Did you guys hear Finneas and Billie had a falling-out?'" the singer recalls in an interview published Tuesday inElle.

The "What Was I Made For?" singer's response was clear: "Finneas and I have never and will never have a falling-out, ever in our lives. We'll get in the biggest f---ing fight you've ever heard of in your life…and five minutes later, we're back, laughing and making music. It's sibling s---. There's nothing else in the world like sibling relationships."

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In fact, Eilish said, much of her work depends on her brother.

"If I never saw Finneas at all, I might literally never make a song again," she said of her older brother. "But how do we move on and have separate lives?"

They gave that a go with Eilish's latest tour, in promotion of her 2024 albumHit Me Hard and Soft, which he contributed to as usual.

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"It was a few years in the making," Eilish told the magazine. "We got so busy that we would only see each other right before going onstage. Finneas and Andrew [her touring drummer], who were the only band members I had back in the day, performed on some sort of platform that was hard to leave. Finneas was stuck in a tower—like Rapunzel! He never said it, but I was feeling like, 'You have more to be doing than being my band member in the back.'"

In the meantime, O'Connell was able to release solo music that he promoted with his own tour.

Like his sister, he's already quite accomplished, with 11 Grammys to his name, compared to her 10.

"I think that it's the closest I am with Billie to like total trust of anyone," he toldCBS Newsin January 2024. "And total vulnerability. I'm sure there's something that she would be embarrassed to say in front of me, but not much."

He acknowledged that he had missed her when she was gone, and he even popped up at a few dates.

"It's basically true that I don’t like touring, but I love the show part of it," he toldElle. "And I love being around Billie. This past year, when she would be on tour for months, I missed her a lot."

A scene from Eilish's new concert film,Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), shows her reading a note that O'Connell sent her on the road. The James Cameron-directed film arrives in theaters May 8.

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