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Aly & AJ on Channeling Classic Laurel Canyon Vibes
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T20:00:56+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 4:00pm ET Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Aly & AJ catch up with Kyle Meredith to talk about their first album in 14 years, A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up On Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun. The sisters talk about making a West Coast record with heroes Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, and the Laurel Canyon scene in mind, all while reflecting on the turmoil going on in the country. The actor/musicians also discuss working with Heart’s Nancy Wilson and Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum on “Listen!!”, having their 00’s hit “Potential Breakup...
Here Are the 13 Best ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Memes From Taylor Swift Fans
Taylor Swift caused quite the social media frenzy on Friday (April 9) following the release of her re-recorded sophomore breakthrough album Fearless (Taylor’s Version). The 31-year-old singer traveled back in time to 2008 and breathed new life into the 20 original tracks fans came to know and love at a younger age while adding six never-before-released songs “From the Vault.” But those bonus cuts weren’t the only things unleashed online. Her die-hard followers spun their own (even Swift co-signed) versions of the Internet’s beloved cinematic memes, from Adam Driver’s infamous wall-punching scene in Marriage Story expressing one’s preparation for “Today Was a Fairytale (Taylor’s Version)” to Rachel McAdams’...
Taylor Swift Drops ‘Breathe (Taylor’s Version)’ Lyric Video Featuring Colbie Caillat
To celebrate the release of the highly anticipated Fearless (Taylor’s Version) album on Friday (April 9), Taylor Swift dropped a meditative lyric video for her Colbie Caillat-assisted re-take of “Breathe.” The seventh track on the album — an acoustic reverie about life, love and rolling with the changes — gets an appropriately contemplative visual treatment in the lyric clip, with the words fading in and out over images of bubbles in the water rising and fading into the surface, with brief glimpses of the sunny skies above. The song, on which the two singers seamlessly meld their voices over the string-laden arrangement, reaches a crescendo around the 2:30 mark, as the camera breaks through the surf and rises into the stratosphere. “It’s 2 a.m./ Fe...
Miguel Releases Art Dealer Chic Vol. 4 EP: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T04:12:17+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 12:12am ET Nine years after the original trilogy, Miguel has returned to his Art Dealer Chic series with the Vol. 4 EP. Stream the collection below via Apple Music and Spotify. The R&B singer broke onto the scene with his hit “Adorn” from ADC Vol. 1 back in 2012. That same year he released two other entries in the series, all leading up this his debut full-length Kaleidoscope Dream. In a press statement, Miguel intimated that releasing Art Dealer Chic Vol. 4 is akin to reactivating a moniker that gets to the core of his “truest self:” “I’ve been doing a lot of work to consider and refine my beliefs in the last few years. Inevitably, this bro...
Swifties Are Obsessing Over ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’: Check Out Reaction
The new release, the first of what should be many re-recorded Taylor Swift studio albums, trended on social media before and long after it dropped. Fans took a trip back in time as they tuned into digital music platforms, and shared their thoughts on social media. Check out some of the reaction below. 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.
Pink and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man Break Hearts With ‘Anywhere Away From Here’: Stream It Now
On it, Pink and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man take turns singing, “Pull me underground/ Don’t know if you notice/ Sometimes I close my eyes/ And dream of somewhere else.” “Anywhere Away From Here” will appear on Rag ‘n’ Bone Man’s sophomore album Life by Misadventure, set for release April 23. It’s the follow-up to his debut 2017 set Human, a statement release that ruled the Official U.K. Albums Chart and landed the singer a string of BRIT Awards, including breakthrough artist. Pink’s last album was 2019’s Hurts 2B Human, which led the Billboard 200 chart. Earlier this year, she recorded the song “Cover Me in Sunshine” with her daughter Willow Sage Hart. Stream the new single below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should b...
Hey Stephen: Taylor Swift Is Coming to ‘Colbert’ Next Week
Her late-night TV appearance will be her first since December, when she went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! shortly after the surprise release of her ninth studio album Evermore, which also happened to be the day after her 31st birthday. (She really dug into the numerology on Kimmel). In a similar pattern, the pop superstar’s Colbert appearance will also follow the release of her re-recorded breakthrough sophomore album, Fearless, which is out Friday. Television appearances have been instrumental in her promotion of Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which she first announced — as well as the release of “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” as the first single — on Good Morning America in February. GMA also premiered an...
Previously-Unreleased Prince Album ‘Welcome 2 America’ Is on the Way: Hear Title Track
A takedown of corporate greed, digital distraction, the vapidness of contemporary music (compared to classic jazz, that is), celebrity culture and sex tapes, the spoken word piece is a call-back of sorts to the late rock/pop icon’s infamous 1990s battle with his label over ownership of his music, during which he painted the word “slave” on his cheek. “Land of the free/ Home of the slave,” the back-up singers croon. According to a release announcing the project, Prince went on a tour of the same name shortly after completing the album, playing residencies in several U.S. cities, topped by a 21-night stand at the Forum in Inglewood, California. A deluxe edition of the album will come on CD and black vinyl (and as a hi-res download), packaged with a never-before-...
Bomba Estéreo on the Latin Music Wave in Pop
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-07T20:00:33+00:00“>April 7, 2021 | 4:00pm ET Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Bomba Estéreo‘s Simón Mejía catches up with Kyle Meredith to dish on the details about the Colombian duo’s new LP, Deja. Mejía, along with musical partner Li Saumet, had began writing and planning the record in 2017 around the concept of the end of the world due to the environmental crisis. Mejía discusses his thoughts on musicians being more in tune with nature, writing about loneliness and depression, and the current Latin wave of music on the US pop charts as he remembers when early on, they were e...
How Britney Spears’ ‘I’m A Slave 4 U’ Shifted Her Career and Pop’s Direction
Spears continued to raise her own bar sonically and stylistically, and her first three albums, released in back-to-back-to-back years, couldn’t have been a better character arc. If 1999’s…Baby One More Time showcased her girl next door likability with a schoolgirl uniform and pigtails, and Oops!… I Did It Again (2000) found her slowly chipping away at her perceived purity with videos featuring chair-straddling dance solos, then Britney (2001) was the culmination of those bubblegum-wrapped eras bursting once and for all, as she proved she really was “not that innocent.” Britney’s lead single “I’m A Slave 4 U” (originally intended for Janet herself) carries a thematic double-entendre. During MTV’s 2001 “Making The Video” episode for the song, Spears said it’s about being “enraptu...
Five Burning Questions: Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Debuts Atop the Hot 100
1. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is now Lil Nas X’s second career No. 1 single after debuting atop the Hot 100. On a scale of 1-10, how surprised are you that “Montero” was the song to return Nas to the chart penthouse? Andrew Unterberger: If you had asked me two Fridays ago when I heard the song for the first time, I would’ve said a 9 at least — it didn’t sound like an obvious hit to me, and obviously Lil Nas X’s chart track record since “Old Town Road” has been respectable, but not automatic-number-one respectable. But after a couple days of Internet-wide back-and-forth over the song and its video, that number would’ve dropped to a 4 or 5, and then by mid-last week, I would’ve been surprised if it didn’t go to No. 1. Lil Nas X...
Mariah Carey Posts Throwback Video of High-Heeled Treadmill Workout
Snoop Dogg plays the voice of her dog in the MTV promo clip. Whatever your pandemic workout regime has been, old school Mariah Carey has you beat. The singer posted a throwback clip early Tuesday morning (April 6) from the Music Box era in 1993 in which she teaches us all a lesson or two about proper exercise technique. In the MTV promo video, Carey is walking on a treadmill in a black tank top and shorts, accented by matching high heels, of course, next to her adorable dog, who is strolling on a matching machine while rocking a red sweater. As she works her arms back and forth, Carey snaps a heel and exclaims, “S–t! I can’t even believe this. Nine hundred dollars [and] you can’t even frickin’ go on the treadmill in them!” Exasperated, Carey tosses the s...
