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Song of the Week: Lorde Paints a Sunny Portrait With “Solar Power,” Her First Song in 4 Years
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, Lorde returns with a bright new song after four years. It’s been four years since we got new music from Lorde, and she seems happy. That’s enough to make us happy, too. After vanishing almost entirely from the public eye in 2017, the New Zealand singer-songwriter has only been heard from on a few sporadic occasions. Understandable: it’s probably difficult to write or share new music from Antarctica, where Lorde spent part of her hiatus. Related Video From one extreme to another, Lorde released “Solar Power” with little fanfare or ...
Watch the Kaleidoscopic Music Video for Calvin Harris and Tom Grennan’s “By Your Side”
The song of the summer is poised to continue its domination after Calvin Harris and Tom Grennan dropped the official music video for “By Your Side.” “By Your Side” arrived just one week ago and immediately became entrenched as the song of summer 2021. Directed by Emil Nava, the kaleidoscopic music video is akin to pineapples and Malibu sunrises, a bubbly audiovisual project that ties in perfectly with the sun-kissed tune. A radiant Grennan shines here, dancing along with the mirthful buoyancy that originally inspired Harris to recruit him for the song’s topline. “The first thing is I liked [Grennan’s] voice a lot,” Harris told Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1 in a recent interview. “I started following him on Ins...
Clairo Announces New Album Sling, Shares “Blouse”: Stream
On the heels of her collaboration with Lorde, Clairo has now announced her own new album and released the first single. Entitled Sling, Clairo’s sophomore full-length will arrive on July 16th through FADER Label/Republic Records. It serves as the follow-up to 2019’s Immunity. Clairo recorded Sling at Allaire Studios in Upstate New York with, you guessed it, Jack Antonoff. In a note posted to social media, the 22-year-old singer explained that her dog Joanie “opened up my world in ways I didn’t think were capable.” Related Video “By caring for her, it forced me to face my own thoughts about parenthood and what it would mean to me. stories as lessons, regrets as remorse,” she explained, “thinking about something/someone before yourself. It’s a glimpse into a world where I found that domestic...
Lorde Returns with New Single “Solar Power” Featuring Clairo and Phoebe Bridgers: Stream
Lorde is finally back! The New Zealand pop star has officially unveiled her long-awaited comeback single “Solar Power”. Watch the song’s music video below. The summer-ready song finds Lorde ready for some fun in the sun. “My cheeks in high color/ Override beaches/ No shirt, no shoes, only my feet/ Just my boy behind me/ He’s taking pictures/ Make the boys and girls onto the beaches/ Come one, come all, tell you my secrets/ I’m kinda like a prettier Jesus,” she croons on the chorus over acoustic guitar while fellow indie pop darlings Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo to provide back-up vocals. Longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff co-wrote, produced, and plays many of the instruments on “Solar Power”, while Matt Chamberlin (formerly of Pearl Jam) can be heard on drums. Update: In an email ...
Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’ Song & Video Have Beamed Down: Watch
Days after teasing that she had music on the way, Lorde released the new single “Solar Power” on Thursday (June 10). The strummy, shimmery song features background vocals from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo and is co-written and co-produced by Lorde and her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff. On Monday, Lorde took to her website to share cover artwork with the title “Solar Power.” The art showed a woman, likely Lorde herself, photographed from the ground up wearing a thong with a long-sleeve yellow shirt. “ARRIVING IN 2021 … PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE,” a message under the artwork read. 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,...
Mariah Carey Gets Her Groove On With Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis On ‘Somewhat Loved’: Listen
Ahead of Jam & Lewis: Volume 1, the pair released “He Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout It” featuring Babyface, and “Til I Found You” with Sounds of Blackness and Ann Nesby, Big Jim Wright and Lauren Evans. The latter single reached the top 40 of Billboard‘s Gospel Airplay and Adult R&B Airplay charts in September 2019. Nesby and Sounds of Blackness joined Jam and Lewis from Prince’s Paisley Park for a performance of “Optimistic” at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. “When we started Jam & Lewis: Volume 1, we put a wishlist together of all our favorite artists. The chance to reunite with our friend and fellow Songwriters Hall of Fame partner Mariah wa...
P!nk’s Kids Willow and Jameson Scale New Heights in Rock Climbing Pics
He also had high praise for son Jameson, writing, “Jamo blew me away at how he charged this rock. Under grabs and really thinking his way up the face. The stoke is real.” In the series of snaps, the helmeted children scale the wall with some spotting from below by grown-ups, including an adorable video of a smiling Jameson rappelling down the wall and touching ground as Hart gives him props and a high five as the rest of the crew clap and hoot. “You did so good, bro, I’m so proud of you!” Hart says. Willow recently showed off her comfort with heights when she performed a soaring routine with her mom at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. Check out the pics below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating ...
Slushii Quietly Released Two Hyperpop Songs Under a New Alias: Listen
Slushii has long been revered for his versatility in the studio, widely considered a sound design chameleon with his genre-defying approach to bass music production. This time around, however, he’s gone in a completely unpredictable—and awesome—direction. Slushii has quietly uploaded two new songs to SoundCloud under a new alias called Dinner With Judy. He tells us that he “randomly made hyperpop” under a new nom de plume, dropping two tracks in as many days. The raucous “Blackout” arrived on June 6th as the de facto debut of Dinner With Judy. The track is a saccharine hip-pop jam with punk-inspired guitar riffs, which harkens back to Slushii’s earlier work. He then followed with “sandboy” a day later, dropping a breezy indie-dance...
At Miley Cyrus’ Intimate Pride Concert in Nashville, Love and Rainbows Were in the Air
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-09T14:30:47+00:00“>June 9, 2021 | 10:30am ET On Tuesday night (June 8th), the church pews of the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee were rumbling with all the energy of a revival: service was in session, hosted by one of the city’s most famous exports, Miley Cyrus. A true homecoming, Cyrus spent the evening taping a Pride-themed special both grandiose and intimate in scale thanks to the venue’s capacity, which was just shy of 2,500 guests. The no-phone/camera show was ticketed via lottery exclusively to vaccinated residents of Music City — and Nashville came ready to dance. Cyrus’ connection to the LGBTQ+ community is longstanding and well-documented. Her Happy Hippie...
Ariana Grande’s Congratulates Brother Frankie on His Engagement
Frankie, 38, is a dancer, actor, singer and activist who has enjoyed stints on Broadway with Rock of Ages and in Mamma Mia! Leon, 28, is a model and social media influencer. According to People, Frankie dropped the big question Tuesday night with a wild VR presentation at the site of one of their first dates, the Dreamscape venue in Los Angeles. “It was such a perfect, beautiful moment,” Grande he told the title. “Hale was completely surprised and we both started crying tears of joy. I have been working on proposing to him in virtual reality for over a year and it was absolutely breathtaking for us both.” Just last month, Ariana married Dalton Gomez in an intimate ceremony. The pair had started dating in early 2020 and shared their engagement news in December with a...
Sinéad O’Connor Retracts Retirement, Criticizes BBC for “Hurtful” Interview
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-09T01:06:33+00:00“>June 8, 2021 | 9:06pm ET Sinéad O’Connor is not retiring from music after all. In a three-page note shared on Twitter, the Irish singer explained that last week’s announcement was prompted by the fallout to insensitive questions asked by media in the UK and Canada during the press tour promoting her memoir, Rememberings. O’Connor specifically cited a particularly triggering experience on BBC’s Woman’s Hour. During the interview, host Emma Barnett asked about O’Connor having four children with four different men and brought up a piece in The Telegraph referring to the singer’s reputation “as the crazy woman in pop’s attic.” “It was unnecessary and hurt...
After Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way,’ What Recent Classic Should Get Its Own Covers Album?
Only 10 years after its release, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way is getting a special anniversary re-release, which will include six covers of the album’s songs by other artists. So far, Big Freedia released her bouncy take on “Judas” and Orville Peck gave us his retro-country twang on the title track from the June 18 project. On the latest episode of the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), we talk about the 10th-anniversary reissue and what other modern albums — from the last 10 to 20 years — could warrant a similar tribute. We’ve seen Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson and Carole King go a similar route before with their legendary albums, but what modern-day classics deserve the same? You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking f...
