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Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK Drop Collaborative Single “Sour Candy”: Stream
Lady Gaga will drop Chromatica tonight at midnight, and yet the blockbuster star continues to rain singles on us. This morning, she’s unveiled her collaboration with BLACKPINK: “Sour Candy”. Stream it below via YouTube. The South Korean girl group truly takes over the track, allowing Gaga to slink her way in and out. Similar to lead single “Stupid Love” and her Ariana Grande collaboration “Rain on Me”, “Sour Candy” is another banger from the Oscar winner, proving Chromatica will bring the party to our pandemic. As the song suggests, take a bite, take a bite below. Editors’ Picks After a minor delay, Gaga’s fifth album Chromatica arrives tonight at midnight on May 29th. Sir Elton John is also expected to appear on the Joanne follow-up, which is said to be “a return” to Gaga’s dan...
Whitney Houston’s Historic Billboard Run Contains Multitudes
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS It’s hard to underestimate Whitney Houston’s stardom. For better and for worse, the world knows so much more about the late diva than we do about most artists from her era. Houston’s meteoric rise would eventually place her own personal life under a microscope, and it’s the tragic details that all too often overshadow her unparalleled legacy and groundbreaking influence. Looking back, though, Whitney Houston wasn’t just a pop star. She wasn’t just an incredible voice. No, she was a trail blazer, the first of her kind, who opened the door for so many artists to follow. For its highly anticipated 10th season, The Opus plans to trace those footsteps, and put a spotlight on the star t...
Coachella Likely Postponed Until 2021: Report
Coachella was one of the early victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the festival was forced to postpone its annual April event. Organizers had initially hoped to staged Coachella in the fall, but with large-scale events seemingly prohibited for the foreseeable future, those plans have now shifted to 2021. According to Bloomberg, Coachella is in the process of rescheduling its 2020 festival for 2021. Festival organizers at Goldenvoice have already reached out to a number of artists scheduled to play this year’s Coachella to gauge their availability for next April, Bloomberg adds. It’s also worth noting that not every performer on the 2020 lineup has been asked to play next year. The original Coachella lineup featured Rage Against the Machine, Frank Ocean, and Travis Scott, in addition ...
Protomartyr Share New Single “Michigan Hammers”: Stream
Protomartyr were meant to release their new album, Ultimate Success Today, tomorrow. However, due to the coronavirus crisis, the band has now pushed the album’s release date to July 17th. To tide fans over until then, they’ve shared a new single in “Michigan Hammers”. For all its kineticism, “Michigan Hammers” feels extremely coalesced. Shots of staccato guitar are glued together with relentless but measured drums and the coaxing of horns. It’s like rubble being carefully reconstructed into art, which is fitting considering the track’s themes: “What’s been torn down can be rebuilt/ What has been rebuilt can be destroyed,” sings frontman Joe Casey. The song comes with a video made using only stock footage due to, as Casey puts it, the current “miasma.” “This video is a retelling of a well-k...
Lady Gaga Doesn’t Need Pop (Pop Needs Lady Gaga)
Lady Gaga is a living legend. Only a little over a decade since the release of her 2008 debut album, The Fame, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has cemented her place among the best of the best — not only in music, but entertainment itself. Critical acclaim, a legion of fans, and a slew of awards (including tough Grammy and Oscar victories toward an eventual EGOT) are just the shallow end of Gaga’s dominion. Her versatility, her creativity, her skill, and her work ethic all make her a standout from her contemporaries — far more than any of her much-publicized outfits. More than anything, though, Gaga is an artist who’s not afraid to fail, and any past failures have only made her stronger. Looking back, they’ve become an extension of her idiosyncrasies, the likes of which she’s shared to ...
Madonna Mocked Over George Floyd Tribute Video
Madonna would be wise to skip Instagram once and awhile. On Thursday, the veteran pop icon shared a video of her 14-year-old son David Banda dancing to Michael Jackson’s oft-forgotten HIStory single “They Don’t Care About Us”. The clip was meant to serve as a tribute to George Floyd, who was tragically killed by Minnesota police officers on Monday evening. In a caption, Madonna wrote, “Brutal murder travels around the world my son David Dances to honor and pay tribute to George and His Family and all Acts of Racism and Discrimination that happen on a daily basis in America.” Not surprisingly, the message arrived with a deafening thud across the Internet as thousands mocked the Material Girl for the performative post. Below, we’ve gathered a number of reactions, all of which illuminate the ...
Lil Yachty Drops Guest-Heavy New Album Lil Boat 3: Stream
Lil Yachty is sailing into the weekend with his star-studded new album, Lil Boat 3. Stream it in full below via Apple Music or Spotify. The Atlanta MC’s fourth studio effort comes almost two years after Nuthin’ 2 Prove. It’s also the third and final installment in his Lil Boat series, following 2016’s debut project and Lil Boat 2 in 2018. For the 19-track project, Lil Yachty brought onboard a dream team of hip-hop’s most prominent artists, such as Drake, ASAP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, and Future. Also appearing on Lil Boat 3 are Tierra Whack, Mike Will Made-It, DaBaby, Young Thug, Lil Durk, and Lil Keed. Lil Yachty teased the LP with a handful of early singles, including “Oprah’s Bank Account”, which featured a video in which the rapper actually impersonated Oprah. Edi...
Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters Are Freaking Out Over ‘Chromatica’
Little Monsters finally have some fresh meat to bite into. After a six-week delay, Lady Gaga sixth studio album Chromatica has finally arrived in all its glory. The new LP features collaborations with Ariana Grande, Elton John and Blackpink and is executive produced by Gaga and BloodPop. Spanning 16 tracks, Chromatica marks Mother Monster’s return to pop seven years after Artpop was unleashed. Judging by the early reaction, it was worth the wait. After dropping at midnight across digital music services, social media lit up with memes and messages as Gaga’s fans turned in and got turned on by the new album. This one has a lot of hype, and some Little Monsters are calling it the GOAT. Check out some of the reaction below. ALICE -10/10STUPID LOVE – 10/10RAIN ON ME – 10/10FREE WOMA...
Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is the Summer Dance-Pop Escape We Needed
“I’d rather be dry, but at least I’m alive,” Lady Gaga sings on her new Ariana Grande duet, “Rain On Me.” It’s a timely sentiment: this year has forced many of us to recognize that, while we’d rather our circumstances be different, at least we’re breathing, and able to reflect upon that newfound sense of gratitude. “Rain On Me” and the rest of Gaga’s new album Chromatica were likely finished before the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to an unexpected standstill — after all, its lead single, “Stupid Love,” was released in late February, back before the words “social” and “distancing” had been smushed together and made to define modern society. Yet the timing of Chromatica still feels uncanny, as if Gaga’s long-awaited return to the dance-pop aesthetic that made her a household ...
Gunna Gearing Up for First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
Plus: The 1975 set for top 10 debut with “Notes on a Conditional Form.” Gunna is set for his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, according to industry forecasters. Sources suggest his new effort, Wunna, may launch atop next week’s tally with perhaps over 100,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 28. Nearly all of the album’s first-week units will be driven by streaming activity. Wunna was released on May 22 via Young Stoner Life/300. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which comprises traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the June 6-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Wunna could debut at No. 1) is scheduled t...
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus Named President of CISAC
Björn Ulvaeus, a co-founder of ABBA who wrote the group’s hits with his bandmate Benny Andersson, was today (May 29) named the president of CISAC, the global confederation of authors societies. Known for his business-savvy, as well as his interest in technology, Ulvaeus steps into the role at a time when Internet companies and collecting societies are learning to live with one another but still have very different views on how streaming services should work and what they should pay creators. “I tend to think that creators get too little, of course, because I’m a songwriter, and I think that in the long run we have to take a closer look at how things are divided,” Ulvaeus told Billboard over Zoom before his appointment became official. “It all starts with the song, as far as I’m concerned. ...
Nollywood Actor Ali Nuhu Reveals Why He Stopped Taking Romantic Movie Roles
82.1Kshares 30.1K 52.0K 0 0 0 0 0 Nollywood Actor Ali Nuhu Reveals Why He Stopped Taking Romantic Movie Roles Top Kannywood actor Ali Nuhu who was recently said to have tested positive for COVID-19 has debunked the rumour once again. In a recent chat, the actor also opened up on why he stopped hugging and kissing women in movies. Here is what the Banana Island Ghost star said in a new interview; “I come from the North, and I’m a Muslim. My culture and religion do not allow for that, so I stopped acting in scenes like that. People talk about it all over but I personally think of it as an ambassador of my culture and religion and stopped”. The movie stars was among the top Nigerian actors stars, who attended the 2019 African Magic Viewers Choice Award (AMVCA) event in Lagos. He frowned at th...
