Chris Brown: Feeling a Little Bit Country (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Chris Brown isn't letting those legal troubles get in the way of him putting out some new music.

The embattled singer might even try to dip into the country music world with "Trapped in a Dream," a song that's being considered for his upcoming new album.

He may go so far as to ask a country music star or two to appear on the track...

"Maybe we'll see an appearance from Carrie Underwood or someone like that," Robert Allen, a writer and producer currently working with Brown, told us last night at the BMI Pop Awards in Beverly Hills. "It's that kind of song."

So what's it about?

"It's just feeling like you don't want that dream to go away," Allen explained. "Everybody has a dream and you're in it, but you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, my God.' You feel like you're still in that dream."

Allen said Brown doesn't talk about what's going on with Rihanna, who is also spending time in the studio. "We just focus on music," he said. "We're just happy-go-lucky people who just get into the studio as much as possible."

This year's BMI Pop Awards, which honor songwriters and music publishers, included performances from Estelle, Michael Bubl and Colbie Caillat. Among the guests were Adam Levine, Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks.

Taylor Swift picked up BMI's prestigious President's Award. "I write songs on my bedroom floor about boys," she said. "Thank you for giving me an award for that."

—Reporting by Dahvi Shira

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Farrah Fawcett Gets Comfort From Fave Musician (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Farrah Fawcett loves Van Morrison's music.

So much so that the legendary musician filmed his recent shows at L.A.'s Orpheum Theaterso he could givecopies to Fawcett to watchwhile she's at home in bed in Malibu.

Morrison's 1987 romantic ballad, "Queen of the Slipstream," is featured in Farrah's Story, Fawcett's documentary about her cancer battle premiering tomorrow night on NBC.

Ryan O'Neal, along with his grandchildren, visited with Morrison backstage after his concert this past Saturday. I'm told the actor and Fawcett have been fans of Morrison since the 1970s.

"Van is also a huge fan of Ryan and Farrah's work," says a rep for Morrison, whose new DVD, Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, is out May 19.

Among his favorites? "Farrah in The Apostle," the rep said, "and Ryan in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and, of course, Love Story."

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Danny Gokey has big plans for life after `Idol' (AP)

MILWAUKEE – Danny Gokey (GO'-key) has big plans for his life after "American Idol."

Besides touring this summer with the top 10 finalists, the former church music director from Milwaukee plans to work more with Sophia's Heart Foundation. He started it after his wife, Sophia, died during surgery for a congenital heart defect last summer.

The 29-year-old also wants to start his own eyeglass line and make a "soulful" album with rhythm and blues mixed with salsa and merengue beats.

Gokey was voted off the popular Fox singing competition Wednesday night. In a conference call Thursday, Gokey said his much-talked about scream at the end of Aerosmith's "Dream On" might have been a variable in getting voted off.

Paisley says wife dreamed name of their new son (AP)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music starBrad Paisley has found inspiration for songs in some unexpected places. So why not the name of his second child?

While a guest on National Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" Saturday, Paisley told host Garrison Keillor that his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, dreamed they had a boy and they named him Jasper.

So, when their son was born April 17, they named him Jasper Warren Paisley.

The baby's middle name comes from Paisley's grandfather, who gave Brad his first guitar.

Jasper Warren joins older brother William Huckleberry, who was born in February 2007.

Last month, Paisley won best male vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards. He is also the reigning Country Music Association male vocalist of the year.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Brad Paisley has found inspiration for songs in some unexpected places. So why not the name of his second child?

While a guest on National Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" Saturday, Paisley told host Garrison Keillor that his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, dreamed they had a boy and they named him Jasper.

So, when their son was born April 17, they named him Jasper Warren Paisley.

The baby's middle name comes from Paisley's grandfather, who gave Brad his first guitar.

Jasper Warren joins older brother William Huckleberry, who was born in February 2007.

Last month, Paisley won best male vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards. He is also the reigning Country Music Association male vocalist of the year.

Court sends Janet Jackson case back for review (AP)

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to re-examine its ruling in favor of CBS Corp. in a legal fight over entertainer Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.

The high court on Monday directed the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to consider reinstating the $550,000 fine that the Federal Communications Commission imposed on CBS over Jackson's breast-baring performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.

The order follows the high court ruling last week that narrowly upheld the FCC's policy threatening fines against even one-time uses of curse words on live television.

In a statement, CBS said the Supreme Court's decision was not a surprise given last week's ruling and expressed confidence the court will again find the incident was not and could not have been anticipated by the network.

Last year, the appeals court threw out the fine against CBS, saying the FCC strayed from its long-held approach of applying identical standards to words and images when reviewing complaints of indecency.

The appellate court said the incident lasted nine-sixteenths of one second and should have been regarded as "fleeting." The FCC previously deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so "pervasive as to amount to 'shock treatment' for the audience," the court said.

The FCC appealed to the Supreme Court. The case had been put off while the justices dealt with a challenge led by Fox Television against the FCC's policy on fleeting expletives.

The case is FCC v. CBS Corp., 08-653.