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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 25 November 2017
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill find harmony on first duets record

By KRISTIN M. HALL way if we’re not doing that
Associated Press ourselves, so I think it came
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In at an important time,” Hill
a scene from their Show- said.
time documentary, Tim “I think as a man, it’s time
McGraw and Faith Hill are for us to look at ourselves
rehearsing for their elabo- in the mirror as well,” Mc-
rate Soul2Soul tour, one of Graw said. “Gosh, I know
the biggest tours of their I haven’t been a gentle-
careers. Hill is on top of the man my whole life. This is a
stage singing “Devil Calling good paradigm shift in our
Me Back,” while McGraw is world for people to exam-
at the bottom of an open- ine themselves and move
ing on the stage waiting to forward.”
be lifted up on a platform The two made headlines
to join her. when they came out in sup-
“So Faith is dancing and port of stronger gun laws
I am about ready to get during a recent Billboard
on this (lift) and I hear a magazine cover story, be-
whack,” McGraw recount- cause very few country
ed later. stars have spoken publicly
In the documentary, which on the topic since a deadly
comes out Friday, Hill plum- mass shooting at a country
meted backward into the Tim McGraw and Faith Hill perform on NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Plaza on Friday, Nov. 17, music festival in October.
hole in the stage, a six-foot 2017, in New York. For McGraw, speaking out
drop onto her back. Mc- Associated Press about gun control was im-
Graw cradled her under first ever duets album, “The nails an impressive falsetto ways hard work involved in portant to them as parents,
the stage, while the crew Rest of Our Life,” featur- with Hill backing him up. a marriage. not as artists with a plat-
rushed to her aid. Luckily, ing songs written by hit “He had to tighten a cou- “Your first thought can’t form.
she escaped serious injury singer songwriters in pop ple of things,” Hill said with be ‘Am I supposed to be “You want to speak to the
and was back performing and country including Ed a smile. McGraw responds, in this relationship?’” Mc- things that you think will
the next day. Sheeran, Meghan Trainor “Put the clamps on.” Graw says. “That’s the last make the world a better
“It was a scary, scary mo- and Lori McKenna, and ex- The album is a mix of their thought that you should place,” he said.
ment,” McGraw said. “If panded their tour into 2018. singing styles. Hill, who have during an argument But he said that today’s di-
she had fallen on her an- And even though they hasn’t put out an album or a time period when visive political climate has
kle or fallen on her head, have had countless duets of new music in nearly a you’re not getting along.” made it difficult for people
it would have broken her on their respective albums, decade, delivers flawlessly Months after their first single to have discussions about
neck. If she had fallen any this was the first time they on the big power pop and came out, “Speak to a Girl,” these pressing issues.
other way than she fell, it literally looked into each soulful anthems, like “Love a song written by three “If you put your fingers in
would have been a disas- other’s eyes as they were Me To Lie.” And McGraw men about how to respect your ears and you yell and
ter.” recording the album. brings it back home to his women, a cascade of sex- you scream and the other
They took the song out of “We were side by side in country rocker roots on ual harassment and abuse person’s got their fingers
the set list, but Hill is not de- the vocal booth together,” songs like “Cowboy Lul- scandals have dominated in their ears and they’re
terred. “I want to put that McGraw said. laby.” the headlines. Hill said the yelling and screaming,
song back in,” Hill said. “It’s That physical closeness The songs also touch on the song was very important for nobody’s going to hear
some of my favorite lighting helped McGraw to push normal cycles of most long- them even before the al- anything,” McGraw said.
in the show.” himself vocally, especially term relationships, from legations against powerful “You have to have smart
After 21 years of marriage, on songs like the title track, early romance, through men in entertainment and commonsense pragmatic
the Grammy-winning pow- which was written by Sheer- the tension and arguments media came out. conversations about the
er couple seems invincible an. Initially McGraw wasn’t and back to the affirmation “It’s difficult to teach our real issues and leave your
at a new peak in their ca- sure he could handle the of love. children to act a certain idealism on the side of the
reers. They released their range of the song, but he McGraw said there’s al- way and to be a certain road.”q

Uma Thurman lashes out at Harvey Weinstein in cryptic post

NEW YORK (AP) — Uma don’t deserve a bullet.” In this June 11, 2017 file photo,
Thurman has wished every- Dozens of actresses have Uma Thurman arrives at the
one a happy Thanksgiving alleged Weinstein ha- 71st annual Tony Awards in
New York.
— everyone except dis- rassed or assaulted them,
graced movie mogul Har- including Rose McGowan
vey Weinstein. and Asia Argento. But Thur-
In a cryptic Instagram post man has said she’s waiting
Thursday , the actress wish- to speak when she’s less
es her followers a happy angry.
Thanksgiving, but adds, She plays an assassin in the
“except you Harvey, and Weinstein-produced “Kill
all your wicked conspira- Bill.” She also starred “Pulp
tors.” She says she’s “glad Fiction,” another of his
it’s going slowly — you films.q