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PinkPantheress Drops Debut Mixtape to hell with it: Stream
TikTok pop phenom PinkPantheress has dropped her debut mixtape to hell with it. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. The British producer is about 20 years old, and that’s an estimate because she’s either cultivating an air of mystery, or just clinging to some semblance of privacy in our increasingly online world. Her music is steeped in turn-of-the-millennium sounds — what she has called the “new nostalgic.” In an interview with i-D, she talked about her fascination with the early aughts, explaining, “The music was so unpolished and cool because I feel like people weren’t afraid of being a little bit cringe. It was all way more experimental.” Advertisement Related Video This shows up in her samples, which can feel like an easter egg hunt for older listeners. Her...
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres Is Completely Oblivious to Its Own Plight
On “Trouble In Town,” the third track on Coldplay’s 2019 LP Everyday Life, the band places a rather disturbing sound clip of a police officer rudely interrogating someone — this comes after Chris Martin’s solemn lament on unequal power structures and how they always “add more police,” and before a full-band psychedelic freak out of an outro, which is not necessarily what you’d associate with Coldplay. This was not an anomaly on the record; Everyday Life featured Coldplay at their most experimental, their most vital, and playing the riskiest music they’ve made in years. But what’s more, is that it sounded like Coldplay had changed, that over a span of 20 years as a band, they were almost more weathered and rugged. Fast forward to two years later; Coldplay have released their ninth studio al...
Adele’s “Easy on Me” Breaks Spotify Record for Most Single Day Streams
Even after six years away from the spotlight, Adele remains the biggest name in music. Case in point: her comeback single “Easy on Me” has set the Spotify record for most streams in a single day. Adele bested a record previously held by BTS, whose song “Butter” received 20.9 million global streams on May 23rd. Here at Consequence, we named “Easy on Me” our Song of the Week. In her accompanying writeup, contributing editor Mary Siroky said of the song, “It’s not groundbreaking, but it’s Adele through and through, and that might just be best case scenario right now. Turn it on for a long, reflective drive. Pour a cup of coffee and sit by the window looking forlorn. Resist the urge to call your ex. Adele is here for all of us.” Advertisement Related Video “Easy on Me” serves as the first sing...
Britney Spears Says ‘Lord Have Mercy on My Family’s Souls’ If She Ever Does an Interview
In her new post, Spears says she’s already had a lot more freedom from her conservatorship, but she’s worried she might mess it all up by making a “mistake.” In her latest Instagram post, Britney Spears is opening up to fans about the double-edged sword of her looming freedom. Even though she’s still fighting to end the conservatorship that has controlled her personal life and finances for the past 13 years, she scored a big victory last month when her father was suspended as the conservator of her estate. In her new post, she says she’s already had a lot more freedom, but she’s worried she might mess it all up by making a “mistake.” “For so many years I was always told if I succeeded at things, it could end … and it never di...
Song of the Week: Adele Confirms the Arrival of Sad Girl Autumn with “Easy On Me”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Adele breaks her lengthy hiatus with an extremely on-brand ballad. What is it that separates a moody piano ballad from an Adele song? Is it the undeniable vocals? The reflective nature of the lyrics, nostalgic and sad? The overwhelming desire to suddenly go stand outside in the rain? It’s probably all of the above, and with “Easy On Me,” Adele takes it easy on absolutely no one — not the listeners, and not herself. The record-breaking vocalist has shared that her upcoming album is entitled 30, and the only thing truly surprising a...
J Balvin Unveils “Ten Cuidado” Video for Pokémon 25: The Album: Watch
J Balvin has released the Pokémon-filled music video for his new single “Ten Cuidado (Pokémon 25 Version).” Watch it below. In the clip, the reggaeton star transforms into a real-life Pokémon trainer after finding a Pokéball on his doorstep. Heading out into the wild of New York City, he meets up with some of his favorite Pokémon, including Pikachu, Hitmontop, Totodile, Loudred, and Charizard. “I always wanted to be Ash Ketchum and through this collaboration with Pokémon I’ve been able to live out a childhood dream,” a giddy J Balvin said in a statement about the track. “That love for Pokémon inspired ‘Ten Cuidado,’ my contribution to P25 Music, as well as the video in which I get to be a Pokémon trainer in New York City. I can’t wait to share my fandom for Pokémon with my fans around the ...
Miley Cyrus Working on Her Ninth Studio Album, First for Columbia
Cyrus has relaunched her MileyWorld website that originally started in 2007 as she transitioned out of the Hannah Montana moniker and started releasing music under her real name. Almost a year after the release of the rock-heavy album Plastic Hearts, Miley Cyrus has been hard at work on her follow-up ninth studio record, according to her new label home, Columbia Records. Previously under RCA Records, Cyrus jumped over to Colombia in March, and her upcoming record will be her first under the new label and management Crush Music. Cyrus has been sharing teases of the new era’s aesthetics, which appear to pull heavy inspiration from the days of 1970s disco and its Studio 54 heyday. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dat...
Camila Cabello Debuts New Song ‘La Buena Vida’ on ‘Tiny Desk Concert’
“I didn’t want to not do ‘Tiny Desk’ because I’m a huge ‘Tiny Desk’ fan and I didn’t know if they were going to call me back again, so, here I am,” Cabello explained. “And hopefully, next time, we’ll do it at the ‘Tiny Desk’ actual, at the NPR office, without the tiny sinus infection, but for now, this is where it’s at.” The singer jumped into “Real Friends,” “Señorita” and “Don’t Go Yet” before closing with the debut of “La Buena Vida,” which enlisted the help of the Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar. “La Buena Vida” is from her upcoming album titled Familia, due sometime this year. Cabello’s performance of the mariac...
‘True Colors’ at 35: How Cyndi Lauper Reimagined Her Career With Her Sophomore Album
“I remember Adrian Belew [songwriter and studio musician] saying to me, ‘Cyn, what happened to the girl that wanted to have fun?'” she recalls of a conversation she had while in the process of writing new music at the time. “He was looking for that fun thing, and he was right — it kind of wasn’t there, you know? But I didn’t want to write ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Part 2’ — because I was afraid if I did, I would be stuck there forever.” Instead, Lauper delivered True Colors, her 10-track 1986 sophomore album that proved to be a metamorphosis in her career which celebrates its 35th anniversary on Friday this year. To celebrate the anniversary, Lauper is sharing two new tracks with fans — a remix of the h...
Lourdes Leon Talks Growing Up With Super-Strict Mom Madonna: ‘List of Things I Wasn’t Allowed to Do is Never-Ending’
In one of the funnier moments, Mazar asked the bi-coastal Lourdes if she steals her mom’s clothes when she’s in New York. “I do, but now there’s a lock on her closets,” Leon said. “When she’s not in the house, those things are locked tight, because I take everything I feel that I’m entitled to.” Leon also said that unlike her always-hustling, multi-media mom, she doesn’t have a “specific” career goal, preferring to dip into modeling and dance, but expressing some reticence to follow the family path into acting or music. “I think it’s about finding a role that wouldn’t be too far off from who I am already,” she said of her big screen aspirations. “Honestly, actors really annoy me and I can’t be around them. As for...
Stanning BTS: Permission to Dance on Stage and Iconic Meetup
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS Editor’s Note: If you stan Stanning BTS, grab our new Iconic ARMY T-shirt at the Consequence Shop or via the buy-now button below — available in two new colors! Use code BTS15 for 15% off, and wear yours to the Iconic Meetup in Los Angeles! Advertisement Related Video Stanning BTS hosts Kayla and Bethany were lucky enough to grab tickets to one of BTS’ upcoming “PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE — LA” concerts — a huge blessing considering tickets were sold out before general on-sale! (You can still check Ticketmaster for resell tickets!) Hopefully, some of you Iconic listeners also snagged your passes to the shows — and we want to meet ...
Coldplay Release New Album Music of the Spheres: Stream
Coldplay have released Music of the Spheres, their new album and ninth studio full-length to date. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. Music of the Spheres was produced by Max Martin, the Swedish mega-producer responsible for countless No. 1 hits, and follows Coldplay’s 2019 full-length Everyday Life. It unabashedly leans into today’s pop radio style, which means there’s funky percussion, disco-esque beats, and the soft delivery of R&B production. Dispersed throughout are cold, twinkly, electronic notes meant to imitate the computerized sounds we associate with outer space. The new album spans 12 tracks in total, including the alien-touting song “Higher Power,” the 10-minute-long single “Coloratura,” and their crossover collaboration with BTS called “My Universe.” Perhaps unsu...
