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Rihanna is Sheer Perfection on Self-Styled Cover of Italian ‘Vogue’
“On set Rihanna played simultaneously the artist and the muse, the observer and the observed, the director and the character, experimenting on the fine line that exists between the two sides of an artist,” the magazine explained of the issue out on Friday (June 4). ““In recent years we have tried to use our cover in many different ways: with photography or illustrations, or with no images at all,” addd the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Emanuele Farneti. “But we’ve never invited the featured person to do everything by themselves: to pose, take the photographs and choose the clothes to wear. If there was a right occasion for this new experiment, it could only have been the DIY issue. Neither could there have been a better protagonist than Rihanna – who...
Lady Gaga and Versace Celebrate Pride, ‘Born This Way’ Anniversary With Colorful Capsule Collection
Lady Gaga has teamed up with Versace for a colorful capsule collection celebrating Pride Month as well as the 10th anniversary of her landmark Born This Way album. A portion of the sales from the collection will benefit’s Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. “Versace has always been a leader. Since Gianni, Donatella, Allegra, and still now they have celebrated the beautiful colors of love we have within us to offer each other,” Gaga said in a post in which she’s rocking a t-shirt from the collaboration, which features the album title in cursive over a rainbow-colored Versace logo. “We were all more different, and different is beautiful. Thank you Donatella for supporting LGBTQ+ mental health and the Born This Way tenth anniversary.” Her old friend...
Justin Bieber Merch on Amazon You Need to Check Out
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Justin Bieber took to Instagram on Tuesday (May 18) to tease fans, letting them know that “when tour comes, it will be [bananas emoji]” — and we believe him, given that he was forced to push his highly anticipated 2020 world tour to 2022 due to the global pandemic. To prep for the star’s return to the stage, Beliebers can grab some fun, trendy merch items, from pop sockets to t-shirts — all available on Amazon. See the latest seats and tickets for JB’s Justice World Tour at VividSeats.com or on his website. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a datin...
Billie Eilish Unveils New Song “Lost Cause”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-02T16:31:23+00:00“>June 2, 2021 | 12:31pm ET Billie Eilish has unveiled her new song “Lost Cause” off her highly-anticipated upcoming album Happier Than Ever. This latest single finds Eilish showing off her smoky voice over a restrained track that offers little more than sly bass behind her. “You ain’t nothing but a lost causе,” she sings. “And this ain’t nothing like it once was/ I know you think you’re such an outlaw/ But you got no job.” The song comes with a music video directed by Eilish herself. It shows the pop star and some friends dancing across a king sized bed, gyrating in and out of walk-in closets and having a blast with silly string. Check it out below. Re...
The Players Behind BTS’ ‘Butter’: See the Full Credits
Artists:Main Artist – BTS Songwriters:Composer Lyricist – Alex BilowitzComposer Lyricist – Jenna AndrewsComposer Lyricist – RMComposer Lyricist – Rob GrimaldiComposer Lyricist – Ron PerryComposer Lyricist – Sebastian GarciaComposer Lyricist – Stephen KirkVocal Arranger – Jenna AndrewsVocal Arranger – Rob GrimaldiVocal Arranger – Stephen Kirk Producers:Producer – Rob GrimaldiProducer – Ron PerryProducer – Stephen Kirk Engineers:Engineer – Juan “Saucy” PenaEngineer – Keith ParryMastering Engineer – Chris GehringerMixer – Serban Ghenea Labels:Distributor – The Orchard EnterprisesLabel – BIGHIT MUSIC/HYBE Explore the full “Butter” credits on Jaxsta her...
Demi Lovato & Olly Alexander Join YouTube Pride 2021 Livestream as Hosts
Demi Lovato announced last month that they are non-binary and their pronouns are they/them. The “very personal” news came as part of Lovato’s new “4D With Demi Lovato” podcast, in which the 28-year-old singer explained, “Over the past year and a half I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work, I’ve had the revelation that I identify as nonbinary.” Alongside H.E.R. and Brandi Carlile, Lovato paid tribute to Elton John by performing a medley of his biggest hits at last week’s iHeartRadio Awards. Speaking of John, Olly Alexander teamed up with the living legend at the 2021 Brit Awards last month to perform a cover of the Pet Shop Boys’ “It’s a Sin,” a collaboration the pa...
Watt Takes Us Inside Bieber’s ‘Peaches,’ Miley’s Stevie Nicks Remix & More of His Hit Collabs
Watt’s hit list of songs he either co-wrote or co-produced also includes Dua Lipa’s “Break My Heart,” Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes’ “Señorita” and 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Youngblood” — not to mention the bulk of Miley Cyrus’ latest album Plastic Hearts and the entirety of Ozzy Osbourne’s last album, Ordinary Man. Earlier in 2021, Watt won his first Grammy, for producer of the year, non-classical (“such an honor… it’s not something that really feels real”). Meanwhile, he continues to work toward releasing his own solo album, which is sure to be filled with a starry lineup of collaborators. On the Pop Shop Podcast, Watt not only discusses how the seed for “Peaches” was planted, but also how Cyrus’ “Midnight Sky” (a track he co-wrote and co-produced) found its way to S...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Brutal’ Bows at No. 1 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart
Concurrently, “Brutal” debuts at No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs and Alternative Streaming Songs, and at No. 5 on the all-format Streaming Songs chart, behind three other songs from Sour; “Good 4 U” leads at No. 1, followed by “Deja Vu” at No. 2 and “Traitor” at No. 3. On the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Brutal” begins at No. 12. Sour has produced Rodrigo’s first two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Drivers License,” for eight weeks beginning in January, and “Good 4 U,” which opened atop the tally last week. (“Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” are Rodrigo’s current singles being properly promoted to radio, to pop and adult stations. On Pop Airplay, they climb to Nos. 13 and 25, respectivel...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Breaks Modern-Era Record for Biggest Vinyl Album Sales Week
Evermore’s record-breaking vinyl sales add to the great music-on-vinyl comeback story for the once-dormant format. 2020 marked the single-largest year for U.S. vinyl album sales in MRC Data history (27.54 million copies) and the 15th consecutive year of growth for vinyl (up 46.2%). Further, vinyl LPs accounted for 27% of all albums sold in 2020. Vinyl albums were once the dominant format for album purchases in the U.S., up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD format flourished and became the leading format for album sales. Evermore, again, was initially issued to streaming services and as a commercial digital album on Dec. 11, 2020, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album’s CD, cassette and vinyl editions followe...
Billie Eilish’s Stunning New Selfies Have Fans Wondering If ‘Lost Cause’ Is Coming
Billie Eilish is releasing a new song this week, and her latest Instagram post has fans murmuring about which Happier Than Ever track it will be. Eilish announced on Friday (May 28) that a new tune was on its way some time this week. On Monday, she posted new photos of herself — a full-face selfie, a closeup of her gaze and a snapshot of a car tire — with the caption “nothing but a lost cause.” One of the top comments left on her post was a fan’s prediction that “LOST CAUSE IS COMING,” and various comments below seemed to express the same thought. 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 t...
Taylor Swift’s evermore Breaks Best Vinyl Sales Week Record in Just Three Days
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-31T20:43:25+00:00“>May 31, 2021 | 4:43pm ET Taylor Swift is your new Queen of Vinyl. The vinyl edition of the pop star’s latest (all original) full-length, evermore, just broke the record for best sales week — and it only took three days to do it. As Billboard reports, initial data from sales tracking company MRC Data shows that evermore moved 40,000 vinyl units between its May 28th release and May 30th. Considering that number is obviously expected to grow ahead of the week’s official close on June 3rd, that means Swift will easily snap the record previously held by Jack White’s Lazaretto. It took White’s LP the full week of June 7th-13th, 2014 to reach the same 4...
Forever No. 1: B.J. Thomas’ ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’
“When the film was released, I was highly critical — how did the song fit with the film? There was no rain,” Redford told USA Today in 2019, a half-century later. “At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea. How wrong I was.” “Raindrops…” was hardly the most sophisticated song that Burt Bacharach and Hal David — the duo who’d penned many of the most pristine and affecting pop songs of the late ’50s and ’60s, including most of Dionne Warwick’s signature smashes — ever wrote. But it may have been their most universal, a song that everybody who has ever had a bad day or a rough patch could relate to. David’s lyric has a dash of whimsical humor (“So, I just did me some talkin’ to the sun/ And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done...
