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Lorde Cranks Up ‘Solar Power’ For ‘Late Show’ Rooftop Performance
With her seven-piece band dressed in muted suits, the singer climbed up onto a mirrored riser as the song’s seductive chorus kicked in and the air filled with a swarm of bubbles. The Colbert visit was the debut performance of the song from the singer’s anticipated third effort, due out Aug. 20 on Republic Records. The track was co-written and co-produced by Lorde and frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, with backing vocals on the recorded version from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo. Earlier this week, Lorde said she was having a bit of culture shock returning to the “pop star world” after a few years out of the spotlight following the release and tour for 2017’s Melodrama. At the same time, she appears to be going full bore on getting back into the zone, teasing t...
Clairo Releases New Album Sling: Stream
The new album from singer-songwriter Clairo is here. Titled Sling, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter’s sophomore album was co-produced alongside in-demand studio wiz Jack Antonoff. The album sees Clairo build on the vulnerable, hushed indie-pop of her 2019 debut, Immunity. Press materials for Sling describe the record as an “exploration of mental health, unmet expectations, and the struggle to treat ourselves with gentleness and love,” with a lot of the subject matter inspired by Clairo’s newly-adopted dog, Joanie. “When I got Joanie, I started changing my routines and habits to healthier ones, to try to create an environment where she felt comfortable and happy,” Clairo said in a statement. “It made me realize I hadn’t been doing that for myself, and that I need to look at myself with the...
Swedish House Mafia Returns: In Stockholm With the Dance Music Legends
And the group was still hard at work on more new music: In June 2019, the members were in the studio with A$AP Rocky the day before he turned himself in to Swedish police following an alleged street brawl (and was subsequently held in detention for two months). Still, the group dragged its feet on releasing singles — it still felt the album was unfinished. Then, everything stopped. The COVID-19 pandemic struck — and the Swedes, in a way, got what they wanted: much more time to work on the music. “Now we laugh about the early ideas,” says Angello. “We’re like, ‘Holy s–t — we were supposed to put that out?’ ” The pandemic may have had some silver linings for artists, but the Swedes weren’t immune to its many downsides. Sweden never fully locked down and only recommended wearing ma...
Harry Styles Adjusts 2021 North American Tour Dates
This fall, Harry Styles will embark on a lengthy US tour in support of his latest album, Fine Line. Ahead of its launch date, the singer has made a number of adjustments to the tour’s itinerary. Due to COVID-19 restrictions varying by state, the “Fine Line Tour” kick off a month later than originally planned. The first date is now scheduled for September 4th in Las Vegas, Nevada. What’s more, because of global travel restrictions, Styles has had to pull the plug on all international tour dates at this time — and that includes Canada. On the plus side, Styles has added three new shows to the docket, including dates in Nashville (9/29), Uncasville (10/21), and Milwaukee (11/3). Plus, Jenny Lewis is still on board to serve as the tour’s opening act. Advertisement Related Video Check out the u...
Ariana Grande Tells Britney Spears She’s ‘Loved & Supported’ After Court Hearing
It’s unclear whether Grande and Spears have ever met or interacted, though Grande did pay tribute to the pop legend by impersonating her signature vocals on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon back in 2015 and singing a snippet of Spears’ “Womanizer” on Snapchat that same year. In Spears’ Instagram caption Wednesday, Spears thanked her dedicated fans, writing, “You have no idea what it means to me be supported by such awesome fans !!!! God bless you all !!!!!” Also in the comments section was Latin star Paulina Rubio (“I love you #freebritney”) and Spears’ boyfriend Sam Asghari: “Internet is about to explode #FreeBritney.” See Spears’ new post below: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Date...
Britney Spears Uses #FreeBritney Hashtag in Instagram Post Celebrating Court Ruling
The #FreeBritney movement has been pop culture canon for quite a while now, and it’s been cemented even further now that its namesake has finally utilized the hashtag on her own social media. Celebrating Wednesday’s court ruling that she can at last hire her own lawyer, Britney Spears shared a gleeful Instagram post expressing her gratitude with clips of herself horseback riding and doing cartwheels. Tacked on at the end of the caption was a cheeky “#FreeBritney.” “Coming along, folks … coming along,” Spears wrote, with a middle-finger emoji for good measure. “New with real representation today … I feel GRATITUDE and BLESSED !!!! Thank you to my fans who are supporting me … You have no idea what it means to me be supported by such awesome fans !!!! God bless you all !!!!! Pssss this is me ...
Judge Approves Britney Spears’ Request to Hire Her Own Lawyer
A judge has approved Britney Spears’ request to hire her own private counsel to represent her in her ongoing conservatorship case. In the wake of Britney’s damning public testimony last month, her court appointed attorney, Sam Ingham, tendered his resignation. During a hearing on Wednesday, Judge Brenda Penny approved Ingham’s request to remove himself from the case, while allowing Britney to retain her own representation for the first time since the conservatorship was put into place some 13 years ago. TMZ reports that Britney has already picked Matthew Rosengart to replace Ingham. A one-time federal prosecutor, Rosengart is now a go-to attorney for A-list clients including Madonna, Sean Penn, and Steven Spielberg. Advertisement Related Video Britney herself appeared in court on Wednesday...
Little Mix Talk Pregnancy Struggles on ‘Heartbreak Anthem’ Video Set
Little Mix gave fans a “Heartbreak Anthem” with Galantis and David Guetta, but the pregnant members of the girl group felt a different kind of pain during the video shoot. In an official behind-the-scenes clip from the music video, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock — who are both pregnant — reveal how cumbersome pulling off the video was, especially the wardrobe and mechanical angel wings. “I’m literally living my childhood dream right now in this music video. The glitz, the glamour, the hair is so crazy, the outfits and the wings. We are going to be like creatures,” Edwards says in the video before thinking about how the glitz and glam might weigh on her throughout the shoot. “It’s just the start. We haven’t started filming yet. So ...
98 Degrees Fire Up the Grill, Hop in a Convertible For Super Chill ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’ Video
“Where do you wanna go?/ Who do you wanna be?/ Got nothing but forever so we can wait and see/ No one to tell us no, no one but you and me/ It doesn’t get much better, got nothing but forever/ Where do you wanna go?” they sing on the chorus. When Billboard caught up with Nick after he was revealed as the Piglet on the most recent season of The Masked Singer, he was touting the group’s “98 Days of Summer” campaign that led up to this weekend’s release of “Where You Wanna Go.” He said the reunited group also has other new music in the can and more time booked in the studio to complete additional tracks later this summer. “We’ve also done a remix album of all the classic 98 hits,” he said. “After a year of being on ...
BTS Show Off Their Best Moves With ‘Permission to Dance’ Performance on ‘Fallon’: Watch
When BTS gives you permission to dance, you do just that. The K-pop superstars stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a chat with the host and to perform their new song. RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook showed us their best dance moves in an empty mall. Empty, with the exception of an overhead raft of purple and white balloons. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Halsey Announces Feature Film to Accompany New Album, Premieres Trailer: Watch
Next month, Halsey will release her highly anticipated new album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. As it turns out the pop star has also been working on a coinciding feature film of the same name to accompany the record. She just released a gothic trailer for it, which you can watch below. Similarly dubbed If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, the film is written by Halsey and directed by Colin Tilley, her frequent collaborator who helmed the music videos for “Without Me” and “You Should Be Sad.” The movie is billed as “an hour-long film experience set to the music of her upcoming album” and, based on this new clip, looks rather brooding and intense. The film trailer opens on a number of knights trotting on horses, torches in hand, towards an eerie castle while text takes over the screen. ...
Halsey Announces ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’ Film to Pair With Album: See the Creepy Trailer
The 26-year-old artist also unveiled the two-minute trailer of the film, which fits the mold of a horror flick and unpacks “the lifelong social labyrinth of sexuality and birth,” the text on the screen reads. “The greatest horror stories never told were buried with the bodies of those who died in that labyrinth.” On July 7, Halsey unveiled the powerful album artwork at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and later on social media. The cover image depicts the regal-looking “Castle” singer sitting on a Game of Thrones-like golden throne. Halsey, who is currently expecting her first child with screenwriter Alev Aydin, is holding a baby on her lap in the cover shot while exposing her breast, which serves as a nod to the Madonna-whore psychologic...
