Late last year, we found out that Belinda Carlisle was working on her first new pop release in over two decades, which came about after her son ran into Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren in a Starbucks and she forced him to call her and said: “Bitch, what are you doing? I have some hits for you.”

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Shania Twain has been vocal about her ongoing friendship with Harry Styles, which began in his early solo days away from One Direction. Styles has covered Twain in concert before, and at his Coachella set last year he brought her out to sing some songs with him.

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