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Will Harry Styles & Dua Lipa Win Brit Awards to Go Along With Their Recent Grammys?
Three other 2021 Grammy winners are nominated for Brits this year. Taylor Swift, who won album of the year for Folklore, and Billie Eilish, who won two awards, including record of the year for “Everything I Wanted,” are competing for the Brit for international female solo artist. Swift won in that category six years ago. Eilish won last year. (Eilish is vying to become the first artist to win in that category two years running since Rihanna in 2011-12.) Burna Boy, who won a Grammy for best global music album for Twice as Tall, is nominated for a Brit for international male solo artist. If any of these artists win at the Brits, they’ll receive a uniquely designed award that is meant for sharing. The award was redesigned by Es Devlin and Yinka Ilori in what the Brits call a “collaborative do...
Selena Gomez Launches ‘Mental Health 101′ With Rare Beauty
Mental Health 101 is the education Gomez wished she’d had in school but is now dedicated to providing for others. The initiative, which coincides with May being Mental Health Awareness Month, is “dedicated to supporting mental health education and encouraging financial support for more mental health services in educational services,” according to her follow-up Instagram post. The set of slides — which starts off by listing mental health as its own school subject next to math, science, history and P.E. — contain shocking statistics about mental health, a petition calling on the philanthropy community to support mental health services in schools, and a fundraiser for the Rare Impact Fund that she launched on her 28th birthday last July. The original pl...
Maroon 5 Announces New Album ‘Jordi’ in Tribute to Late Manager
The collection will feature their Megan Thee Stallion collab “Beautiful Mistakes.” To hype the album’s release, the band also teased an coming virtual performance, “American Express UNSTAGED With Maroon 5” on June 4, which will feature music from the new album. Jordi was executive produced by J Kash and will also feature the singles “Nobody’s Love” and 2019 single “Memories,” the latter of which was also an homage to Feldstein. Levine also chatted with old friend DeGeneres about their long history on her show, how much he loved quarantining at home with his wife and daughters, the painful waxing he had to endure before the long process of getting his new full left-leg tattoo and his final word on frenemy Blake Shelton’s upco...
Willow Smith Releases New Track “Transparent Soul” With All The Pop-Punk Feels
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN.com / WENN While she has taken her time to develop her sound, it is clear it was time well spent for Willow Smith. Her new track is a nod to the punk genre and more. As spotted on Rolling Stone, the co-host of Red Table Talks has dropped a new song with an accompanying visual. “Transparent Soul” captures her in an uninhibited space as she stays true to the genre’s energy and attitude. Additionally, her styling is in alignment with the subculture with black eyeliner and bondage pants in one scene, a grungy white-blue dress with a studded neck collar in the following. Backed by Blink-182’s drummer Travis Barker, Willow’s lyrics target a male associate who just wasn’t worth her time and attention. “I knew a boy just like you / He’s a snake just lik...
The Weeknd & Ariana Grande Bring Years of Musical History to ‘Save Your Tears’ Remix
On the new Pop Shop Podcast, we talk about why the duo are a perfect match, from “Love Me Harder” through their latest team-up. When The Weeknd and Ariana Grande started teasing their new “Save Your Tears” remix last week, fans of both artists already knew it would be a perfect fit. The duo linked up early in their careers, on Grande’s second studio album My Everything, for the Billboard Hot 100 No. 7-peaking hit “Love Me Harder” in 2014. Then just last year, The Weeknd popped up on Grande’s latest album, Positions, for “Off the Table,” which is a top 40 Hot 100 hit without even being released as a single (yet). Now, Grande brings her ethereal vocals to a remix of “Save Your Tears” — already a top five Hot 100 hi...
Legendary Recording Engineer Al Schmitt Dies at 91
Born April 17, 1930 in Brooklyn, Schmitt served in the U.S. Navy and began apprenticing at Apex Recording Studios in New York City when he was 19. It was there he began working with legendary engineer/producer Tom Dowd, eventually engineering a session for Duke Ellington and His Orchestra on his own when no one else was around. “Duke Ellington sat next to me, and I was so nervous and it was obvious. I kept saying, ‘You know, Mr. Ellington, I’m really not qualified to do this. This was a huge mistake,'” Schmitt told Billboard in a special tribute to the engineer in 2012. “And he kept patting me on the leg and saying, `Don’t worry, son. We’re going to get through this.’ And that was it. I got thrown in, we got it done, we did four sides. The ni...
Framing Britney Spears Producers Making Doc on Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “Nipplegate”: Report
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-27T15:02:41+00:00“>April 27, 2021 | 11:02am ET Left/Right TV is gonna have you questioning everything you knew about the term “wardrobe malfunction” by the end of this doc. The production team behind the Framing Britney Spears documentary are reportedly at work on a new film about Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s infamous 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show and what became known as “Nipplegate”. “It’s going to be all about the fallout and the suits who fucked over Janet [at] Viacom,” a source told Page Six. “They’re reaching out to everyone who was involved: dancers, stylists, directors. Everyone.” For those unaware of how “wardrobe malfunction” entered the lexicon, it was how Tim...
Justin Bieber Picks Fresh ‘Peaches’ With Classroom Instruments on ‘Tonight Show’
Justin Bieber joined The Roots and Jimmy Fallon in the Tonight Show classroom on Monday night (Apr. 26) for a revamped run through his single “Peaches.” Posted up at a toy piano, Bieber plunked out the song’s longing melody as he opened the performance solo, dressed down in a grey sweatshirt and black knit cap. As the camera panned out, JB took center square in the colorful Brady Bunch-like arrangement with the Roots and Fallon all arond him, banging on plastic buckets and cowbells and shaking a variety of percussion instruments. Ever the gentleman, Justin even stood down for Fallon to take over the second verse, letting him sing lead as the show’s host jiggled a plastic peach shaker and harmonized with drummer Questlove. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are ...
Rina Sawayama Reschedules North American Tour for 2022
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-26T16:40:19+00:00“>April 26, 2021 | 12:40pm ET Less than two weeks after announcing a 2021 North American tour, alt-pop songwriter Rina Sawayama has pushed back that slate of dates to spring of 2022. Those who have already bought tickets will see them honored, and everyone else has a fresh opportunity to catch our former Artist of the Month in action. She’ll start off the trek on April 11th and 12th with a two-night stand in San Francisco, making stops in Seattle and Portland before cutting across the heartland to Denver, Minneapolis, and Chicago. From there it’s north to Toronto and Montreal, then back across the border to Boston, Washington DC, and Philadelphia. Saway...
P!nk to Join Rag’n’Bone Man For 2021 BRIT Awards Performance
P!nk will join Rag’n’Bone Man for a performance of their emotional duet “Anywhere Away From Here” at this year’s Brit Awards. The duo will take the stage together at the May 11 event alongside the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Choir. The 2021 Brits recently announced that the show will include a live audience of around 2.500, with free tickets being offered to front-line workers. P!nk and Bone Man join a line-up of performers slated for the show that includes Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks, Griff and this year’s Rising Star winner, Headie One. “Having people attend this special evening makes me really excited for touring to come! I’m grateful that P!nk is able to join from across the pond, to my band as ever and the NHS Choir are sounding amazing!,” Bone ...
Fans Choose The Weeknd & Ariana Grande’s ‘Save Your Tears’ Remix as This Week’s Favorite New Music
Earlier in the week, both superstars teased an audio snippet of their breathy vocals harmonizing the lyric, “I don’t know why I run away,” on the song from The Weeknd’s Billboard 200 No. 1 album, After Hours. The remix later dropped with an animated clip featuring The Weekend and Grande. “Save Your Tears” is currently sitting at No. 5 on the April 24-dated Billboard Hot 100 and just topped the Pop Airplay chart last week. The “Save Your Tears” remix is The Weeknd and Grande’s third collaboration in seven years. He previously appeared on the “off the table” duet featured on Grande’s 2020 album, Positions, and “Love Me Harder,” from her 2014 sophomore release, My Everyt...
Joshua Bassett Compliments Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Deja Vu’: ‘The World Better Watch Out for the Album’
Rodrigo’s debut album, Sour, will be out on May 21. The 11 tracks on the project include “Drivers License” and “Deja Vu,” her first two proper singles. She shared the full track list earlier this month. Bassett released his self-titled debut EP in March and recently revealed he’s got a brand-new single, “Feel Something,” coming on May 7. Bassett and Rodrigo will be seen together for season two of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which premieres May 14 on Disney+. See his kind words about “Deja Vu” on Instagram. 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 pro...
