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Fans Choose Camila Cabello’s ‘Don’t Go Yet’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
“Don’t Go Yet” is the first new music from the former Fifth Harmony member since the release of her 2019 sophomore album, Romance, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The new tune will appear on Cabello’s upcoming third album, Familia. Cabello recently received backlash on social media following the live debut of “Don’t Go Yet” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Joining her on stage for the Friday performance were a number of dancers, all dressed in ’80s costumes, reflecting the theme of the new song’s music video. Some Twitter users criticized the singer for performing with a white dancer whose skin appeared much darker in his stage makeup. In response to the tweets, Cabello said that the intention was for the dancer to...
Normani Performs ‘Wild Side’ for the First Time at Don Julio’s Casa Primavera Event
Dressed in a sleek velvet suit dress and garter tights, the star nailed the vocals for her new hit, before revealing to the crowd that the performance was her first in two years due to the pandemic. The crowd cheered in excitement for her return to the stage, before Normani finished off her performance with a rendition of her Sam Smith duet, “Dancing With a Stranger.” The Don Julio event, which offered specialty cocktails and a stunning view of the Pacific Ocean, was in celebration of the tequila brand’s new limited edition variant, Casa Primavera. “This deliciously smooth expression takes Tequila Don Julio’s traditional Reposado and finishes it in orange wine casks for a sophisticated, silky taste,” the Don Julio website reads. Pre-order a bottle of Casa Prim...
Taylor Swift Fans Reflect on Powerful Impact of ‘Folklore’ on Album’s First Anniversary
“Happy one year to the album that is everything and quite literally saved so many of us during the chaos an uncertainty of last year,” one fan tweeted. “Love you and your team of folklorians so incredibly much.” Another Swiftie wrote, “folklore feels like a warm blanket on a cold day, or a warm hug on an especially rough day. Thank you for creating this beautiful album that has saved my life and has made me feel understood. Please never stop making music. I love you.” Swift herself celebrated Folklore‘s first birthday by gifting fans an original version of the album’s bonus track, “The Lakes.” “It’s been 1 year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler,” the 31-year-old singer tweeted on Saturday. ̶...
Camila Cabello Responds to Backlash Over Dancer in ‘Don’t Go Yet’ Performance
In response to the tweets, Cabello said that the intention was for the dancer to look like a character with a bad fake tan. On Saturday afternoon Cabello shared an iPhone Notes app statement that said: “hey! so this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan. we purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin. There are white people, African American people, latin people, etc. and so the point wasn’t to try to make everyone look Latin either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not.” “The point was to try to make each person look like an over the top 80’s character just like in the video, including a white dude with a te...
Taylor Swift Shares Original Version of “the lakes” For folklore’s First Anniversary: Stream
Somehow, an entire year has passed since Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her eighth studio album, folklore. To celebrate the anniversary, the singer-songwriter has gifted Swifties with an original version of “the lakes,” the album’s bonus track. “It’s been 1 year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler,” Swift wrote on social media. “With tall trees & salt air. Where you can wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost & no one will side eye you cause no one is around.” “To say thank you for all you have done to make this album what it was, I wanted to give you the original version of The Lakes. Happy 1 year anniversary to Rebekah, Betty, Inez, James, Augustine and the stories we all created around them. Happy Anniversary, f...
Britney Spears Shares Racy Photo in Nothing But Daisy Dukes Amid Conservatorship Battle
The sizzling pic caught the attention of several stars, including fellow singer Tinashe. “BRITNEYYYYYYYYYYY,” she wrote in the comments section. Paris Hilton also reacted with her famous catchphrase, “That’s hot.” Spears is currently in the midst of her ongoing conservatorship battle. In mid-July, she scored a major legal victory when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny ruled that she can hire her own lawyer in her pursuit of ending the conservatorship that has controlled her life and career for the last 13 years. And for the first time, Britney used the viral hashtag-turned-movement “#FreeBritney” in celebration. The singer has also made shocking claims in court, including that she’s unable to remove her impla...
Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Kiss in Steamy New Instagram Photo
Bennifer 2.0 has officially been confirmed with a kiss shared on Jennifer Lopez‘s own Instagram account. “5 2 … what it do,” Lopez captioned a series of new photos shared on social media on Saturday (July 24), her 52nd birthday. The first three photos, which show the “Cambia el Paso” singer rocking a fierce look in a bikini on a boat, are captivating enough, but the final photo is the one that will get people talking this weekend. In the last picture, J. Lo and Affleck passionately lock lips, with Affleck’s arms around Lopez. 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 ...
Taylor Swift Releases ‘The Lakes (Original Version)’ on ‘Folklore’ One-Year Anniversary: Listen Now
In this week’s Billboard digital cover story, Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote and co-produced “The Lakes” with Swift, first revealed that “The Lakes” originally existed in a “big orchestral version,” before Swift decided to strip the song down. In the days following the publishing of the interview, Swift fans on social media asked to hear the original version of the track. “On one of my favorite songs on [Swift’s] Folklore, ‘The Lakes,’ there was this big orchestral version, and Taylor was like, ‘Eh, make it small,’” Antonoff says in the digital cover story. “I had gotten lost in the string arrangements and all this stuff, and I took everything out. I was just like, ‘Oh, my God!’ We were not together because that record was made [remotely], but I remember being in the studio alone like, ‘Holy ...
Song of the Week: Lil Nas X Proves He Can’t Be Locked in With “Industry Baby”
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, Lil Nas X proves once again that in spite of controversy or haters, he will always break free. Lil Nas X is very good at his job. He’s one of the most fearlessly fun pop stars in recent years, remarkably adept at wielding social media to his advantage, and creates on an unrestrained wavelength as young, Black member of the queer community. While his extremely online persona is often what catches attention, he manages to back it all up by dropping bops along the way, and his latest effort with Jack Harlow is no different. “Industry...
Camila Cabello Unveils New Song “Don’t Go Yet”: Stream
Camila Cabello returns today with “Don’t Go Yet,” her first new music in over a year. The latest single from the singer’s forthcoming album, Familia, is a striking dose of Latin-influenced pop, co-written by Cabello with Scott Harris, Ricky Reed, and Mike Sabath. Along with the track, Cabello has also shared its accompanying music video by Philippa Price and Pilar Zeta. The campy visual for “Don’t Go Yet” feels pulled straight from an ’80s Pedro Almodóvar film, complete with an eccentric cast of characters, bold set design, and a few great dance sequences. In the track, Cabello teases a significant other: “Baby, don’t go yet, ’cause I wore this dress for a lil’ drama,” she sings over live percussion by the acclaimed Cuban drummer Pedrito Martinez. Check out the video below. “When it was ti...
Beck Goes Undercover As Young Paul McCartney in Trippy Deepfake ‘Find My Way’ Video
Beck goes undercover as a de-aged Paul McCartney in the mind-bending video for “Find My Way,” which employs controversial deepfake technology to swap the 51-year-old American alt legend into the body of the 79-year-old Beatle. The song from Macca’s remix album, McCartney III Imagined, comes to life thanks to director Andrew Donoho’s inventive visual, which uses technology from Hyperreal Digital, a company that specializes in creating hyper-real digital avatars. In the visual for the funk-tinged remake of the song from the McCartney III album, FauxCartney takes a number of trips down the same stripe-y hotel hallway, dancing, popping and locking his way through the space as it gets overgrown with greenery. “The technology to de-age talent and have them perf...
Billie Eilish Shares Trailer for New Disney+ Concert Film Happier Than Ever: Watch
Billie Eilish is a teen idol, a superstar, and now… a Disney princess? Or perhaps we should say Queen, as the reigning ruler of pop music has signed a deal with streaming giant Disney+ for her new concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles. The special premieres September 3rd, and Eilish has today shared a glamorous new trailer for the special, which you can watch below. A Love Letter to Los Angeles shares a name with her upcoming sophomore album, Happier Than Ever. Via Billboard, Eilish will perform all 16 tracks from the LP in an intimate set at The Hollywood Bowl. She’ll be accompanied by her collaborator/brother, FINNEAS, as well as both the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter’s music and artistic director Gustavo Dudaeml will co...
