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Kelis Says She Wasn’t Told Beyoncé Used Her Music on Renaissance
Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Kelis for comment and additional information. While “Milkshake” is formally a Kelis song, she is not listed as one of its producers, composers, or lyricists, per Tidal credits. The track’s producers are Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams, Rob Walker, and the Neptunes. In addition, Hugo and Williams are the composers and lyricists of “Milkshake.” Kelis is referenced in the credits as the song’s performer. In a 2020 interview with The Guardian, Kelis claimed that “she made nothing from sales of her first two albums,” suggesting that she was “blatantly lied to and tricked” by “the Neptunes and their management and their lawyers and all that stuff.” “I was told we were going to split the whole thing 33/33/33, which we didn’t do,” she said. “Their argu...
Big Freedia Discusses Working With Beyoncé in New CBS Morning Interview
Big Freedia appeared on CBS Mornings today (July 29) to speak about her appearance on Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” which samples Freedia’s 2014 song “Explode” and appears on Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance. Freedia spoke about going to Los Angeles to hear the song in the studio (where she met Beyoncé in person), how the sample came to be, the influence of bounce music, and more. Check out the full interview below. Host Gayle King asked Freedia if it mattered how the song was going to be used. “Not at all! It’s Beyoncé. You can use whatever you need, honey,” she said. King also asked if Freedia wanted to re-record the “Explode” vocals for “Break My Soul.” “Of course,” she said. “If I’m there, I can do a whole lot more.” She also spoke about the origin of “Explode”: “At the time when I wrote ‘...
Calvin Harris, Normani, Tinashe, and Offset Unite for New Song “New to You”
Calvin Harris has enlisted Normani, Tinashe, and Migos’ Offset for “New to You,” the latest track from the producer’s new album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2. Check it out below. The album is out next Friday, August 5. Previous singles from the album include “Potion” (with Young Thug and Dua Lipa) and “Stay With Me,” which features Justin Timberlake, Halsey, and Pharrell Williams. The latter corralled all four stars for a kaleidoscopic video. Read Pitchfork’s new feature “Tinashe Has It All Under Control” and revisit “Dance Dance Revolution: How EDM Conquered America in the 2010s.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
King Princess Dedicates New “Let Us Die” Video to Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins
King Princess has released her new album Hold On Baby, and, with it, the music video for the track “Let Us Die.” Directed by Quinn Wilson, the video is dedicated to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who performed on the song. Check out the new video below. Hold On Baby is the second album from the Brooklyn-based songwriter, following 2019’s Cheap Queen. The full-length has contributions from Mark Ronson, Tobias Jesso Jr., Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and more. Later this year, she’ll perform a handful of shows in the southeastern United States, opening for Florence and the Machine. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Meet George Johnson: The Angriest Songwriter in Washington, D.C.
It was a sweltering day in Washington, D.C., and George Johnson was running late for an appointment at the James Madison Memorial Building, the massive, bright-white marble box that is part of the Library of Congress. Inside, a high-priced lawyer for Pandora, impatient to move on with a 2016 hearing to set royalty rates for webcasting recorded music, suggested that the three-judge Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) simply call the next expert witness. But the judges decided to wait just a little longer. Finally, an hour after his scheduled time, Johnson, now 55, burst into the room, drenched in sweat and wearing a “Still Pissed at Yoko” T-shirt. (He was out of suits, and his Metro had stalled.) “It looked like he’d just run a marathon,” remembers Chris Harrison, then vp of business affairs for ...
Kelis Has Much More to Say About Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Sampling: ‘I’m Coming For What’s Mine and I Want Reparations’
Kelis has much more to say about being sampled on Beyoncé‘s Renaissance album. After venting her anger about what she claimed was Bey and The Neptunes alleged failure to secure her permission to sample the 1999 song “Get Along With You” on the Renaissance track “Energy,” the “Milkshake” star dove deeper into why she feels slighted in a series of videos posted on Thursday night (July 28). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I’m an artist, so I am as Erykah [Badu] said ‘I’m sensitive about my s—,’” Kelis said. “The reality is that my real beef, is not only with Beyoncé, because at the end of the day, she sampled a record, she’s copied me before, so have many other artists, it’s fine, I don’t care about that.” The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams an...
Every Song Ranked on Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’: Critic’s Picks
After six excruciating weeks, Beyoncé’s Renaissance has finally emerged. Her first solo studio album since 2016’s Lemonade, Renaissance boasts collaborations with Grace Jones and Tems, lifts from Donna Summer and Teena Marie, and the seismic lead single “Break My Soul.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Since its release, “Breaky My Soul” has been hailed as the unofficial anthem for “The Great Resignation” and spent four weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking thusfar at No. 7. “Soul,” which draws inspiration from Robin S.’s seminal “Show Me Love,” set the tone for what turned out to be Beyoncé’s most danceable album yet. Each song on Renaissance flows seamlessly into the next as Beyoncé reclaims her joy ...
Here’s Who Was Crowned ‘Queen Of All Queens’ On Season 7 of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’
After 12 episodes, zero eliminations, and a refreshingly minimized amount of drama, the seventh, all-winners season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars finally came to a close on Friday morning (July 29), and one queen emerged victorious, earning the title of “Queen of All Queens” and a $200,000 cash prize. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news As announced at the start of the season, the finale format was that of the Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza, a tournament-style performance challenge in which the final four queens (Jinkx Monsoon, Monét X Change, Shea Couleé and Trinity the Tuck) faced off until only two remained. What Ru didn’t tell us until last week’s episode was that there would, in fact, be two Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza’s, where the four non-f...
Martin Garrix, Zedd, Afrojack, More to DJ at the 2022 Return of Ultra Japan
Following two years off, Ultra Japan is back with the first wave of artists for the festival’s 2022 return. Since the event’s pandemic-induced hiatus following the 2019 outing, fans have been awaiting the return of Ultra’s Japan offshoot. The 2022 event will mark the seventh chapter in the festival’s history. Giving prospective attendees time to prepare their pre-festival playlists, organizers have announced a handful of artists who are set to take the stage in Tokyo this September. Organizers have revealed performances from EDM superstars Martin Garrix, Zedd, Afrojack, KSHMR, Timmy Trumpet and Nicky Romero. Ultra Japan 2022 Phase One Lineup Ultra Japan Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Considering the fact that the festival will host multiple stages over two ...
SLANDER Announce 2022 North American Tour Dates Ahead of Debut Album, “Thrive”
Ahead of their long-awaited debut album, Thrive, SLANDER are set to take the record on an expansive North American tour. One of the electronic dance music scene’s hottest acts of the moment, SLANDER recently debuted a new, dazzling live show for their momentous performances at the Long Beach Arena. Across two nights, over 18,000 fans immersed themselves in the singular ethos of the surging bass music tandem, who called the experience “hands down the best show we have ever done.” The emphatic shows set the tone for SLANDER’s impending “Thrive” tour, which is scheduled to kick off on September 10th in Phoenix. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, fans will hear brand new material from Thrive throughout SLANDER’s eponymous tour. The album...
ILLENIUM and Teddy Swims Unveil Pensive Collab, “All That Really Matters”: Watch the Music Video
There’s no doubt longtime fans of ILLENIUM will feel at home listening to his new single. With its melancholic keys, resonant drum hits and pitched vocal chops, the track, “All That Really Matters,” has all the hallmarks of a signature ILLENIUM anthem. And a stentorian Teddy Swims delivers a typically stunning vocal performance, retrospectively offering sage advice to a younger version of himself. Swims’ visceral lyricism cuts deep through ILLENIUM’s poignant future bass production like a hot knife through butter. “Learning how to live when there’s no one around,” he croons, “is like learning how to feel when the drugs run out.” Check out the official “All That Really Matters” music video belo...
Calvin Harris Drops Bubbly R&B Single With Normani, Tinashe and Offset
Another day, another Calvin Harris record to soundtrack our summer. The Grammy-winning “Summer” producer has unlocked the latest single from Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, an album that fans have been clamoring for since its sun-kissed predecessor dropped in 2017. Harris today unveiled “New to You,” a sultry, R&B-inspired cut featuring Normani, Tinashe and Migos’ Offset. Fans will recall Offset’s work in “Slide,” a bubbly cut from Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 that remains one of the album’s most popular singles. He channels the same warm ethos this time around, rapping about the effervescent feeling of finding the right person: “I was dead on relationships, you made me feel like living.” Tinashe and Normani follow suit with th...
