Amanda Bynes Cancels Podcast To Pursue Manicurist Career

Amanda Bynes is hanging up her podcasting career once again. Despite being convinced to try again after just one episode of her podcast aired, the former child star announced she has another calling.

As we recently reported, Bynes, 37, announced an update on her Amanda Bynes & Paul Sieminski: The Podcast show last weekend. Bynes said on Instagram that even though the podcast was doing "really well" and the response "has been great," she wanted to "take a pause on it for now." Her reasoning for the show’s hiatus is that she and her Sieminski “are not able to get the type of guests that I’d like on the show like, say, Jack Harlow or Drake or Post Malone.”

Leaving it up in the air for "those types of guests on the show," the All That alum thanked fans for their support of the project. Bynes and her co-host/best friend/biochemist/PhD student Paul Sieminski interviewed a Los Angeles tattoo artist named Dahlia Moth for their first and only 26-minute debut episode, which premiered earlier this month. Moth met Bynes at a Spirit Halloween store a few years prior. During the first episode, however, Bynes’ energy was pretty lackluster as she read and stuck to the questions on her phone. Per the synopsis, the podcast was going to focus on “the hosts’ loves: fashion, artists, actors, actresses, music and everything else!”

Now, Bynes said that despite the encouragement she received to continue with her podcast, she would rather have a consistent job. She wrote on TikTok before the holiday weekend: "I would rather get my manicurist license and have a consistent job. I'm going to follow that path instead. Thank you for following my journey!" Following her announcement, Bynes shared the process of her dying her hair from platinum blonde to bluish black. After rocking the dark-haired 'do for a day, she bleached her hair back to blonde, documenting it all on her Instagram Stories.

The early 2000s in pop was such a magical time for music. Artists that have become legends were just starting out. Disney were still bursting onto the music scene in 2004, with actors like Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff. Then, you had returning pop mainstays like Gwen Stefani, Destiny's Child, Avril Lavigne, The Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, and Usher releasing music that year. Newcomers to the industry released tracks that may have been their one-hit-wonders or claim to fame in 2004, like JoJo with "Leave (Get Out)" and Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten." Pop music that came out this time were either dance bangers or songs that would pull on your heartstrings.

What a time to be alive: we relate to, and return to, the pop music that came out twenty years ago more than the music that came out in 2014. In 2004, Maroon 5, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, and Ciara were all enjoying massive hits. Usher was officially the biggest artist of 2004 when his Confessions album was named the best-selling album of the year, and his single "Yeah!" was named the most-played song of the year, according to MTV. According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, Usher took the top spot with "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris. Hoobastank's "The Reason" came in second, with Maroon 5's "This Love" in third. Usher's other hit from his Confessions album took the number four spot with "Burn," and in fifth was Nickelback's "Someday." We may never get music as diverse as these artists were in 2004. If we don't, we'll always come back to the music of this era to jam out on some throwback tunes.

Check out our list of seven songs we love from 2004 that turn 20 years old in 2024:

In 2004, Lindsay Lohan took a shot at a singing career with her debut album, Speak. It released the same year she had back to back movies, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and the iconic Mean Girls. Turning 18 years old in July of that year, Lohan's album features different styles of music such as pop rock, dance-pop, rock ballads. She said previously, "I wanted to have a mixture like that because I love those kinds of club tracks that you can listen to before you go out at night with all your friends. And I also wanted stuff that was a little bit more rock that you could get into if you were like angry or depressed or sad or that. I wanted to be able to touch upon all those feelings and I wanted to speak about all different things, too, which is why I titled the album Speak."

JoJo was just 13 years old when she came out with "Leave (Get Out)" in 2004. She became the youngest female pop solo artist to have a number-one single in the United States. She began performing in singing competitions and local talent shows as a child in New England. In 2003, record producer Vincent Herbert noticed her after she competed on the television show America's Most Talented Kids.

The English singer-songwriter burst onto the scene with the smash hit, "Unwritten," which became the theme song for the popular MTV reality show The Hills, two years after its initial release. Bedingfield, who initially wrote the song for her brother's 14th birthday, said her favorite line in the song is: "'We’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can’t live that way.' I give myself such a hard time. I just want to be perfect and I can’t be. And so I have to remind myself and give myself a break. And, yeah, sometimes the mistakes actually lead to even better things."

The Black Eyed Peas' third studio album had this fun dancehall track, with newcomer to the group Fergie laying down her iconic voice in "Hey Mama." will.i.am asked Fergie to join the group after meeting her a few years prior on a radio show when she was a member of a group called Wild Orchid.

This was the debut single of the identical twin duo that was Nina Sky. Consisting of Nicole and Natalie Albino, their debut single was their only hit and has since been sampled by other artists. Now, they are DJs, but we will forever thank them for this dance hit that is a must for every summer playlist.

Usher's Confessions album in 2004 had so many hits, but "Burn" is one of the most powerful and passionate tracks. It was actually planned as the album's lead single, but they went with the crunk "Yeah!" song with Lil Jon and Ludacris instead. We don't blame them for the choice, but "Burn" is a banger that we can still enjoy to this day.

From the 2004 album of the same name, this song was iconic and featured in The Princess Diaries. "Since U Been Gone" is probably her most popular song of all time. But "Breakaway," is ever better.