Blake Shelton has revealed that he almost recorded “I Wanna Talk About Me” before it became Toby Keith‘s number one hit. During an appearance on the Bobby Bones Show, Shelton said songwriter Bobby Braddock wrote the song specifically for him because Blake used to make up silly raps in the studio. His label, Giant Records, recorded the song for his first album, but after focus group testing came back terrible, they decided not to release it as a single or even put it on the album. The focus group results were so bad that the label said it was “horrifying” and shouldn’t be on his record at all. Toby Keith later recorded the song and it became a two-month number one hit in 2001. Shelton joked that the focus groups “really nailed it,” showing how wrong they can be.

Post Malone may have a new girlfriend. The singer was spotted in Milan yesterday, strolling comfortably through the city with Russian influencer Diana Korkunova. No PDA, but the “Daily Mail” reports the two seemed very into each other. The sighting comes as Posty and ex-GF Jamie Park just finished duking it out in the courts over custody of their three-year-old daughter. No word on how the two met; Korkunova has over 1.3-million followers on her Instagram…perhaps Malone is one of them.

Morgan Wallen got himself into a little bit of trouble up in Boston, but nothing a fistful of c-notes won’t take care of. His Friday night show at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts went a little long. The town of Foxborough had set a curfew for 11:30 p.m., while Wallen’s final song began at 11:44 pm…14 minutes past curfew. The fine was 25 cents per attendee, which totaled $15,705. It’s not the biggest curfew-related fine for the venue; Bruce Springsteen, who played until nearly midnight in 2016, was fined more than $22-thousand.

Carly Pearce was on the latest episode of the “Dumb Blonde” podcast with Bunnie XO and revealed that she’s been fighting a lifelong battle with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). When the topic of her anxiety came up, Bunnie asked her when she first experienced it. “I would have told you three years ago my anxiety started during my divorce in Covid,” Pearce said. “But I’ve had crippling OCD since I was a child. So like, checking my backpack over and over and over, checking my alarm over and over and over. … And my mom would just try to calm me down, or I would freak out over storms. I remember her taking me to the local library to meet a meteorologist to try to calm that. I’ve had anxiety my whole life.” Pearce admitted it’s still a struggle, but having more time to herself during the pandemic made her decide it was time to work seriously on her mental health, at which point she sought out therapy.