内容摘要：Perhaps not. In 2025, he performs between worlds, but no matter. He’s long dedicated himself to big country radio hits and returns to those roots across “For Recreational Use Only.” The songs here concern themselves with lived-in bars (“Cold Can”) and backroad acuity (“Some things we all gotta get through/‘Til it’s goin’, goin’, gone in the big rear view,” Shelton sings on “Life’s Been Comin’ Too Fast.”)

Perhaps not. In 2025, he performs between worlds, but no matter. He’s long dedicated himself to big country radio hits and returns to those roots across “For Recreational Use Only.” The songs here concern themselves with lived-in bars (“Cold Can”) and backroad acuity (“Some things we all gotta get through/‘Til it’s goin’, goin’, gone in the big rear view,” Shelton sings on “Life’s Been Comin’ Too Fast.”)

“I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,” she says. “I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.”McAlpine and Jeremy Jordan in “Floyd Collins” in New York. (Joan Marcus via AP)

McAlpine and Jeremy Jordan in “Floyd Collins” in New York. (Joan Marcus via AP)tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins’ sister, a woman who doesn’t fit in.“She is strange, definitely, but it’s just because she’s in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She’s like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She’s just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,” McAlpine says.

“It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that’s like been a theme in my life because I’m working in the music industry. I’m surrounded by men all the time.”McAlpine, 25, didn’t know much about “Floyd Collins” — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist,

who created “The Light in the Piazza,” one of her favorite musicals.

“I saw his name and I was like, ‘Oh, I love him.’ So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,” she says. “It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.”Rwanda has argued that despite being one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, it has space to help alleviate what many countries in Europe – and the United States – consider to be a

with unwanted migrants.Rwanda’s foreign minister confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that

about a potential agreement to host deported migrants, after telling state media the talks were in the “early stage.” Olivier Nduhungirehe did not give details but said it was consistent with Rwanda’s long-standing commitment to the pursuit of migration solutions.The U.S. State Department declined to comment on a potential deal, but said engagement with foreign governments is an important part of the U.S. government’s policy to deter illegal migration.