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Olivia Rodrigo Shares a Scary Story While Suffering Through Very Spicy Wings: Watch
At 8 years old, Rodrigo was the star of the Boys and Girls Club “Idol” stage: “They gave me a trophy that was as tall as me at the end, and they gave me a big check. It was like $100, but at eight years old I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m rich. I can buy an American Girl doll,'” she recalled. By 18, she was performing her debut hit single on the Brit Awards stage. But ahead of the Brits, the obvious highlight of her trip to London in May, she had a rough time in quarantine. “We were quarantining in this little, real 18th century English cottage in the countryside, and it was so cold and we couldn’t figure out how to turn on the central air and heating, but they had a fireplace so we lit the fireplace all the time and that’s how we kept warm...
beabadoobee Performs “Last Day On Earth” on Fallon: Watch
Celebrating the release of her new EP Our Extended Play, beabadoobee appeared as the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. The UK singer-songwriter (and our 2020 Rookie of the Year) performed the jangly single “Last Day On Earth”, turning a studio space into a teen’s dream party with the help from a few extras — and a cameo from Simon Pegg. Keeping in line with beabadoobee’s early 2000s aesthetic, the set of her “Last Day On Earth” performance felt straight out of an episode of Lizzie McGuire. As she perused the set with her microphone in hand, she swung by a DJ booth, jumped on a bed with a crew of friends, and exchanged a handshake with Pegg. Check it out below. Our Extended Play EP, which beabadoobee made in collaboration with members of the 1975, was ...
Justice’s Gaspard Augé Calls Justin Bieber’s ‘Justice’ Album Art ‘A Very Conscious Rip-Off’
“Though Bieber is from Canada, his actions fit this mindset of American hegemony: ‘Oh well, it’s just a small band from France, I’m sure we can take their name, nobody will care,'” said Augé. Billboard reached out to a representative for Bieber for comment on Saturday. Previously, Rolling Stone reported that, according to Justice’s management, Bieber’s legal team did “reject” the original cease-and-desist letter. The cease-and-desist letter obtained by Rolling Stone read, “Your use of the Mark is illegal. You have not received permission from Justice to utilize the Mark. Moreover, Bieber’s work is in no way affiliated with, supported by, or sponsored by Justice. Such use of the Mark is not only illegal, but likely to dec...
Miley Cyrus Dazzles With Cover of Madonna’s ‘Express Yourself’ for Pride Special
Miley Cyrus put herself to the test by covering Madonna‘s 1989 Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 hit “Express Yourself” on her Pride special. The performance snippet is part of Miley Cyrus Presents Stand by You, which began streaming exclusively via Peacock on Friday (June 25). Filmed at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the hourlong concert special sees Cyrus take the stage with queer country artists, such as Brothers Osborne and Orville Peck as well as allies Mickey Guyton, Little Big Town and Maren Morris. No one needed diamond rings or 18-carat gold after Cyrus stunned onstage in an embellished black mesh bodysuit. She packed some extra oomph in the song and put her back into the moves, or, as the singer herself puts it, “put the EX-tra in EX-press y...
Klymaxx Members Say Women Songwriters Hall of Fame Is Inducting the Wrong Band
Cooley did not respond to emails and voicemails asking her to comment for this story. This story will be updated if she contacts Billboard following publication. From 1985 to 1987, Klymaxx scored five Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “I Miss You,” which hit No. 5 on the chart; “Meeting in the Ladies Room”; and “Man Size Love.” By late 1988, Cooper, Malsby and bassist, vocalist and producer Joyce “Fenderella” Irby had left the band, leaving Cooley, Stewart and keyboardist Robbin Grider to record the group’s last album, The Maxx Is Back, which was released in 1990. In the early 2000s, Cooley fell out with her former bandmates when she unsuccessfully attempted to register the Klymaxx trademark for her sole usage — beef that was touched upon in a 2004 VH1 Bands Reunited episode. The Tru...
Song of the Week: Miley Cyrus and Friends Take on Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”
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, a murderer’s row of stars cover Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.” This year marks three decades since Metallica released their self-titled album, remembered as The Black Album, and Miley Cyrus, the reigning queen of rock covers and collabs, isn’t letting the anniversary pass without some acknowledgement. With the help of quite a few impressive friends — WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, and Chad Smith — Miley has honored the original track with a sweeping arrangement that shows off her characteristically killer vocals...
Tyler, the Creator Apologizes to Selena Gomez for Past Tweets in New Song ‘Manifesto’
Tyler, the Creator released his new album Call Me If You Get Lost on Friday (June 25), and on one song, he calls himself out for his past behavior toward Selena Gomez. On the track “Manifesto,” featuring his old Odd Future member Domo Genesis, Tyler confesses that he apologized to the “Kill Em With Kindness” pop star after he wrote a number of inappropriate and sexually explicit tweets about her in 2010 and 2011, around the time she was just 18 years old and dating Justin Bieber, who was good friends with Tyler. “I was a teener, tweetin’ Selena crazy shit/ Didn’t wanna offend her, apologize when I seen her/ Back when I was tryna f— Bieber, Just-in,” he raps in the third verse. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are l...
Nashville Singer-Songwriter Gatlin Releases To Remind Me Of Home EP: Stream
In Music City, writing is key. There’s a reason the slogan around the business that built Nashville is “three chords and the truth,” a phrase originally from Harlan Howard, and members of the current generation of Nashville’s singer-songwriters seem to be getting back to that original premise. Listeners can tell when an artist isn’t being honest. As a bedroom-pop writer and producer, Gatlin is part of a demographic not always discussed when it comes to Nashville, where country is king but the pop, R&B, and rock scenes are just as (if not more) interesting. With her latest EP, To Remind Me Of Home, Gatlin taps into that critical honesty, speaking for young people in particular who are surrounded by heartache, loneliness, and a general sense of detachment. The EP’s single, “Hospital,” sp...
Tyler, the Creator, Doja Cat, Ed Sheeran & More: What’s Your Favorite New Music Release? Vote!
This week’s new music release took us on a journey outside planet Earth with a guaranteed guide if we got lost. Doja Cat invited her fans to Planet Her, her third studio album, and greeted them with a myriad of sounds, from heartfelt R&B ballads about being in love, like “You Right,” featuring The Weeknd, to hardcore bars about how men ain’t all that on “Ain’t Shit” and “Get Into It (Yuh).” On the new album, Doja raps, “Call him Ed Sheeran, he in love with my body” in reference to the English superstar’s 2017 smash “Shape of You.” But the English singer-songwriter came out with a new radio-friendly summer smash of his own, “Bad Habits,” in which he dwells on his nighttime vices ove...
Why Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Album Is Still as Critical as Ever a Decade Later
“My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars.” The familiar opening line of “Born This Way,” the title track from a certain seminal album, carries just a little weight for Lady Gaga, who was born Stefani Germanotta, and who by her own volition became a classically-trained, boundary-pushing social provocateur with a vital presence in the pop zeitgeist. It takes a certain caliber of artist to become mononymous: Prince. Madonna. Gaga. Lady Gaga and pop culture both looked quite different in 2011 during Born This Way’s initial release, and reviewing Gaga’s boldness from that time — both in her melodramatic public persona and innovative production choices — serves as a reminder for how much has changed in the decade that has passed since. Gay marriage had not yet been legalized...
Madonna Premieres ‘No Fear, Courage, Resist’ at Times Square for Pride Weekend
There’s no brighter tourist destination than Times Square, and no bigger pop star than Madonna. So it made sense for the Queen of Pop to use the famous Manhattan intersection on Thursday night (June 24) to premiere her “No fear, Courage, Resist” video. The Pride Weekend-themed video was filmed with Ricardo Gomes, and it flashed up on the big screens of Times Square for the world to see. 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.
Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ 10th Anniversary Edition Is Here: Stream It Now
Until now, we knew just four of the six cover stars: Big Freedia (on “Judas”), Orville Peck (“Born This Way The Country Road Version),” Kylie Minogue (“Marry the Night”) and Years & Years (“The Edge of Glory”). With the release, the final two mystery artists are revealed: The Highwomen, Brittney Spencer and Madeleine Edwards on “Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)” and Ben Platt on “Yoü and I.” Following its original release back in May 2011, Born This Way blasted to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with a whopping 1.11 million first-week sales in the U.S. It was Gaga’s first No. 1 album, and, at the time, just the 17th album to sell a million in its first seven days. Stream Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So w...
