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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
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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...
Coldplay’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’ Is Spinning: Stream it Now
Coldplay‘s career keeps on spinning with the release today (Oct. 15) of Music Of The Spheres, their ninth studio album. At the stroke of midnight, the British alternative rock outfit dropped Spheres, spanning 12 songs including the previously-released tunes “Higher Power,” “Coloratura” and “My Universe.” Last week, Coldplay blasted onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1 with “My Universe,” a collaboration with BTS, marking the Brits’ first leader since 2008’s “Viva La Vida” and giving both groups appearances on the Rock & Alternative Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts, reaching the No. 20 and No. 23 spots, respectively. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined wha...
Adele’s ‘Easy On Me’ Offers a New Type of Raw Power
Yet “Easy On Me,” which leads Adele’s forthcoming album 30, is not more of the same, no matter how closely parts of the track (which Adele created with longtime collaborator Greg Kurstin) resemble her past smashes. Instead of offering more tear duct-ravaging balladry focused on long-gone exes or scorned romances, “Easy On Me” presents a different type of devastation: a plea for understanding, following a breakup that has caused too much collateral damage. “There ain’t no room for things to change / When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways,” Adele sings, her words decisive and her voice determined to get her point across. Throughout, Adele balances anthemic phrasing (can’t you already picture a crowded karaoke bar belting out “Go e-e-e-e-easy on me, baby”?) with pointed imagery (“I know...
Everything We Know About Adele’s 30 (So Far)
Adele is coming. After a nearly six-year hiatus since the release of 2015’s 25, the superstar is returning with her long-awaited fourth album. Needless to say, the music has been a long time in the making. As rumored comebacks came and went, and fans the world over eagerly crossed their fingers for the next “Hello,” Adele was busy living life and weathering heartbreak. After marrying Simon Konecki in 2018, the singer chose to embrace life as a stay-at-home mom, raising the couple’s son Angelo, who’s now almost nine. However, by the following April, Adele and her husband had split, with the star filing for divorce in September 2019. And all of the singer’s heartache, struggle, and resilience made it into the coming LP. “I feel like this album is self-destruction,” she said in a new cover st...
Adele Releases First New Single in Six Years “Easy on Me”: Stream
At long last, Adele’s first new single in six years is finally here. It’s called “Easy on Me” and it’s available to stream below. The video for “Easy On Me,” directed by Xavier Dolan, was shot last month in Quebec and begins in the same house featured in the video for her smash 2015 single, “Hello.” “Easy on Me” is the lead single from 30, Adele’s first album in six years and her follow-up to 2015’s touching full-length 25. The 33-year-old pop superstar has been dropping hints and quotes about her upcoming LP for a while now, but she didn’t officially confirm its title or release date of November 19th — which, by the way, is a big enough deal to cause Taylor Swift to move Red (Taylor’s Version) up by one week to November 12th, so as to avoid competition — until just yesterday. Adverti...
Beyoncé Stuns in Opulent Ballgown at ‘The Harder They Fall’ Premiere: See Photos
Jay-Z, meanwhile, was seen enjoying himself following the screening of The Harder They Fall. According to TMZ, the “Jail” rapper held an event after the movie screening, where he was seen with a band and gave an impromptu performance of “Gotta Have It,” a cut from Watch the Throne — Jay-Z’s Billboard 200-topping collaborative album with Kanye West. The official synopsis of the film reads, “When outlaw Nat Love discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary, his right and left hand men hot-tempered Bill Pickett and fast drawing Jim Beckwourth and a surprising...
Adele’s ‘Easy On Me’ Single & Video Have Arrived: Watch
Adele isn’t going easy on her fans with the release of her first single in five years “Easy On Me,” out now via Columbia Records along with a music video. On Thursday evening (Oct. 14), Adele introduced the piano ballad with a black-and-white video, in which she drives away from an empty house with a “Sold” sign in the front yard. Of course, by the end of the clip, she’s in full Technicolor as she belts the song in a room swirling with loose sheet music. In an Instagram Live session a week prior to the song’s release, Adele shared a snippet of the track, where she’s heard singing, “There ain’t no gold in this river/ That I’ve been washing my hands in forever/ And there is hope in these waters/ But I can’...
With Juno, Remi Wolf Signals That the Future of Pop Music Is Already Here
“Remi Wolf is a crazy bih but is also hella nice and sweet sometimes but also likes to yell at people but has figured out that maybe instead of yelling at people she can just sing.” This is the description that greets users who visit Remi Wolf’s official Spotify artist page. It’s not an inaccurate first impression for people who might be new to our October Artist of the Month, Remi Wolf. She’s arrived on the indie-pop scene in a neon and rainbow-drenched burst and has become something of a festival darling over the past year. Active social media users probably heard her track “Photo ID” on TikTok, but Wolf’s budding discography is much more than the viral hit may have suggested. Juno, her debut full-length album, is an odyssey through a world of oddities. In a recent interview with Consequ...
