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Lady Gaga to Perform at the 2022 Grammys
Lady Gaga will perform at the 2022 Grammys in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3. The 12-time Grammy winner is up for another five awards this year alongside Tony Bennett, including Album of the Year for their collaborative LP Love for Sale. (Bennett, who has retired from performing, is not billed alongside her.) It will be Gaga’s first Grammys performance since 2019, at which point she had performed at five consecutive Grammys. Other performers this year include Billie Eilish, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X, John Legend, J Balvin with Maria Becerra, Carrie Underwood, and openers Silk Sonic. There will also likely be a tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, although the band itself canceled its scheduled appearance. The Grammys ceremony starts this Sunday, April 3, at 8 p.m. Ea...
Grammys 2022 Performers List: See the Full Lineup Here
The 2022 Grammy Awards are taking place Sunday (April 3) at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trevor Noah will host the ceremony for the second year in a row. Among the many performers are Billie Eilish, BTS, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, Olivia Rodrigo, and Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Silk Sonic. Plus, there’s the Premiere Ceremony® (at the MGM Grand Conference Marquee Ballroom), hosted by LeVar Burton. Find the full list of performers for both events below. The Premiere Ceremony begins at 3:30 p.m. Eastern and the main event broadcasts at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS with a livestream via Paramount+. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2022 Grammy Awards, including the new live ...
Pabllo Vittar Enlists Rina Sawayama for New Song: Watch the Video
Brazilian singer-songwriter, activist, and drag queen Pabllo Vittar has teamed up with Rina Sawayama for a new song. It’s called “Follow Me” and it arrives with a music video directed by Amber Park alongside creative director Lauren Kessler. Watch Vittar and Sawayama walk the runway in vintage Dior in the clip below. “I’m so excited to release this song with Rina,” Vittar said in a press release. “She is such an icon and I’m so pleased we managed to make this song work as it’s the perfect combination of our music styles. I really hope the fans love it as much as we do. Shooting the video was so much fun as well, wearing iconic outfits, and strutting our stuff on the runway! SERVE!” Sawayama added: “I have been such an admirer of Pabllo for so long—she is nothing short of an icon and so for...
Why Harry Styles’ New “As It Was” Video Resembles Elderbrook’s “Inner Light”
In August 2021, English musician Elderbrook released the music video for “Inner Light,” his collaborative single with the electronic duo Bob Moses. The visual stars Elise Legros and Jean-Yves Phuong as they dance on a rotating platform, situated inside the Panthéon in Paris. The scene is excerpted from French dancer and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois’ 2018 film The Great Ghosts. “Inner Light” may now look familiar to Harry Styles fans, as the pop star dances on a rotating platform with Mathilde Lin in his new “As It Was” music video. As it turns out, Styles’ new video is choreographed by Yoann Bourgeois. Bourgeois had previously used a rotating stage in his 2014 piece He Who Falls, as Billboard notes. In an interview with NR, the artist remarked, “The relationship with physical forces has a...
Rap Song of the Week: J.I.D and J. Cole Carry a Big “Stick” on New Gangsta Grillz Track
Every Friday, our new music column Rap Song of the Week breaks down all the new hip-hop tracks you need to hear. Check out the full playlist here. Today, J.I.D and J. Cole open D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape with “Stick.” Earlier this week, J. Cole surprised Dreamville fans with the news that he teamed up with DJ Drama for a new Gangsta Grillz mixtape. The project doesn’t come entirely out of left field, since the mixtape king is performing a special set at Dreamville Festival this weekend (April 2nd-3rd) featuring Lil Wayne, T.I., and Jeezy, but it was still exciting to see two blog era veterans come together. Once Cole dropped the artwork, it was also apparent how seriously they took the project. With the entire Dreamville roster draped in dark clothing and Photoshopped in front of a wa...
Netflix Unveils Trailer for Abercrombie & Fitch Documentary White Hot: Watch
Once upon a time in American suburbia, one’s worth may have been determined by the amount of Abercrombie & Fitch in their closet. But the brand’s sexed-up, post-prepster allure was not without its fair share of prejudice, as told in the official trailer for the upcoming Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch. Beyond the superfluous perfume, dim lighting, and nightclubby playlists in their stores, A&F were also recognizable by their homogenous models: Thin, white, and perceptibly “cool.” Their marketing insinuated that all customers and employees should fit that description, too, spawning endless accusations of discrimination. A Muslim woman, featured in the trailer, won a Supreme Court case in 2015 after suing the company for their “no headsca...
Willow Smith Unleashes Heavy New Single “Purge” Featuring Siiickbrain: Stream
Willow Smith has released a heavy new single titled “Purge,” featuring Siiickbrain, along with an accompanying music video. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith released her fourth album, Lately I Feel Everything, in July, but is already putting out new songs that weren’t included on the LP. The singer, who just goes by the artist name WILLOW, appeared on Machine Gun Kelly’s single “emo girl” in February. Now, she’s unleashed “Purge,” which builds up to an intense chorus that finds both WILLOW and Siiickbrain singing at the top of their lungs, with the latter even delivering some powerful metalcore screams. The eye-catching video matches the intensity of the song, with WILLOW and Siiickbrain both wearing striking outfits as they bash a car with baseball bats and engage in othe...
Lady Lamb Shares New Single “Wolves of My Want”: Stream
As the proverb goes, March comes in like a lion, but out like a lamb. Singer-songwriter Lady Lamb is certainly taking the saying to heart, dropping her new single “Wolves of My Want” just one day after returning with “Ivy,” her first new music since 2020. After opening with sparse instrumentation, “Wolves of My Want” builds up to a beautiful combination of strings and piano as the musician born Aly Spaltro reminisces about childhood and ponders the mysteries of the universe. “Why do you always have me meet you in here/ You tell me like a secret, make me wanna keep it,” she sings. “Ah well yes, of course, I will find you again/ You’re so real to me I could reach out and snatch that apple from your hand.” Advertisement Related Video “Wolves of My Want” and “Ivy” mark Lady Lamb’s first n...
City Girls Drop New “Top Notch” Single and Music Video
In their first release of the year, Miami rap duo City Girls have debuted a new song and video featuring Fivio Foreign. On the hard-hitting “Top Notch,” JT and Yung Miami confidently refute rumors and gossip. The track begins with a previously teased verse from Yung Miami, who tells her haters to “go and check the news.” New York drill rapper Fivio Foreign follows with his guest verse before JT joins in. In an accompanying music video, City Girls rap outside of a corner store while surrounded by a crew dancing and hyping them up. While this is City Girl’s first single of 2022, Yung Miami and JT individually dropped singles at the tail end of last year. JT teamed up with Summer Walker for November’s “Ex For A Reason,” while Yung Miami’s “Rap Freaks” went viral on social media upon its ...
Japan’s Daichi Miura Premieres New Song ‘Sansan’ in Concert
J-pop artist Daichi Miura kicked off his nationwide tour on Thursday (March 31) in Saitama, Japan. Titled Daichi Miura Live Tour 2019-2022 Colorless, this trek picks up from where he left off when he had to indefinitely postpone in 2020 due to the pandemic. The current tour adds new venues to the schedule from two years ago for a total of 22 locations. The “Excite” singer-songwriter will perform 33 shows over the course of four months this year. During the concert that was also livestreamed for fans watching from home, the 34-year-old performed a set including many of the songs he released after he had to postpone. He also premiered his latest track called “Sansan,” set to be featured as the theme of the new NHK morning drama series beginning April 11. Chimudondon is the 106th title in the...
First Stream Latin: New Music From Mora, ChocQuibTown, Lyanno & More
First Stream Latin is a compilation of the best new Latin songs, albums and videos recommended by the Billboard Latin editors. Check out this week’s picks below. Mora, Microdosis (Rimas Entertainment) The Puerto Rican artist-producer, who got on the radar thanks to his work with Bad Bunny, surprised fans with the release of his sophomore album Microdosis on April 1. Far from an April Fools joke, Mora dropped 15 new tracks with a completely different vibe from his debut set Primer Dia de Clases. He has some hard-hitting trap selections such as “Quieren Ser Yo” and “Robert de Niro”; He has electronic fusions such as the opening track “Bad Trip :(” and the Jhay Cortez-assisted “Memorias”; He has alternative picks such as “Lejos de Ti,” as well as many infectious reggaetón bops, and even sampl...
Vitamin String Quartet Turns Cover of Robyn’s Heartbreak Anthem for ‘Bridgerton’ Into a Fun, Silly Video
Who knew it was possible to play the cello while dancing? On Friday (April 1), Vitamin String Quartet dropped the music video for their instrumental cover of Robyn‘s “Dancing on My Own” — aka the track that plays in season 2 episode 4 of Bridgerton as Anthony and Kate dance together for the first time — featuring the group’s members showing off their moves. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In Bridgerton, VSQ’s cover plays over the scene where Lady Kate Sharma twirls around the dance floor with Viscount Anthony Bridgerton as she scopes out his intentions to marry her younger sister Edwina — even though both of them secretly know they’re madly in love with each other. It’s an incredibly tense moment in the show, but the new music video i...
