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Halsey, Alex Lahey and Other Artists Are Loving Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’
With Folklore dropping like a bolt out of the blue, everyone is a Swiftie right now. Including some of the biggest artists in the music scene. Taylor Swift wrote her eighth and latest album in isolation and let her “imagination run wild” across 16 songs. The rest of us only knew what was coming in the hours before TayTay unleashed it. And what a bombshell it has been on social media, with Taylor and her new LP trending for hours after the release as millions of fans poured over all the hooks and lyrics. Several artists also gave us their Folklore reviews, including Halsey, Australian indie-rock artist Alex Lahey, and collaborators Bon Iver (Justin Vernon collaborates on album track “Exile”) and The National. Check out some of the artist feedback below. Awww buddy…❤️Righ...
There’s One Song From Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ You Can’t Hear Yet
Taylor Swift surprise released her eighth album folklore overnight along with a lyric video for every damn song on the album (yep, all 16). And it’s not over yet — there’s one more folklore tune that isn’t available on streaming. The song in question, “The Lakes,” will be on physical versions of the folklore album, which is available on CD, cassette and vinyl. Never one to do things by half, Swift isn’t just releasing one physical version of the CD or vinyl record – she’s got eight collector’s editions of her eighth LP for each format, each one featuring photography unique to that version. Each edition has a cute nickname: “in the trees” edition, “in the weeds” edition, “meet me behind the mall” editi...
Adam Levine Shaves His Head, And He’s All Alone in Maroon 5’s ‘Nobody’s Love’: Watch
It’s lonely at the top, especially in lockdown. Maroon 5’s “Nobody’s Love” is a visual nod to all that. The new video is a study of being all alone in a big city. Adam Levine is that guy. He’s the only guy. Indeed, no one else appears in the clip, shot in Los Angeles by David Dobkin, the filmmaker behind Maroon 5’s promos for “Sugar,” “Girls Like You” and “Memories.” Levine is sporting a full beard and freshly-shaved head combo. And at one point he rolls a fat smoke, the contents of which are ambiguous. On it, he sings, “You’re the only hand in my back pocket/ If you ever left I go psychotic/ Heaven hear me cryin cryin oh oh/ Baby you’re the key to my heart locket.” According to the blurb accompanying the video, Dobkin filmed “Nobody’s Love” on an iPhone. Maroon 5 will perform their ...
‘It Started With Imagery’: Read Taylor Swift’s Primer For ‘Folklore’
Taylor Swift’s new album was a surprise for her many fans, but it was months in the making. The pop superstar dropped the new LP at midnight, just 24 hours after telling the world it was coming. Accompanying the release is an elegant essay, a primer, for Taylor’s new LP which she made in isolation. It’s a “collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness,” she writes. Read Swift’s explainer in full below. “It started with imagery. Visuals that popped into my mind and piqued my curiosity. Stars drawn around scars. A cardigan that still bears the scent of loss twenty years later. Battleships sinking into the ocean, down, down, down. The tree swing in the woods of my childhood. Hushed tones of “let’s run away” and never doing it. The sun drenched month of Augus...
J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny Team on New Single “UN DÍA (ONE DAY)”: Stream
Dua Lipa (photo by Ben Kaye), J Balvin (photo by Heather Kaplan), and Bad Bunny (photo via artist’s Instagram) As her smash sophomore album Future Nostalgia demonstrated, Dua Lipa is plenty comfortable flexing into various pop genres. For her latest foray into new territory, the British singer has joined three of reggaeton’s finest — J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and producer Tainy — on the collaborative song “UN DÍA (ONE DAY)”. Tainy first laid the groundwork for the track over a year and a half ago, executive producing the cut with his NEON16 partner Lex Borrero. He called up Balvin to handle the vocals, who in turn reached out to Dua Lipa. Bad Bunny hopped on last, adding his own voice during the same 2019 session that birthed “Callaita” (via Billboard). Trading Spanish and English vo...
Justin Bieber Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates for 2021
Justin Bieber has announced a 2021 tour, rescheduling many of the shows he previously called off due to the pandemic. Some industry folks don’t think live music will be back until 2022, but don’t count Bieber as a belieber believer. The pop star has revealed a tour schedule for next summer that includes previously postponed concerts as well as 19 new stops. Kicking off June 7th with a two-nighter in San Jose, the fresh shows include double-headers in Chicago, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, as well as dates in Boston, Philadelphia, Tacoma, Newark, and Brooklyn. As for the rescheduled portion, a press release notes that the rerouting won’t be stopping in “all markets,” and it looks like planned gigs in Columbia, South Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; East Rutherford, New Jersey; ...
Taylor Swift Announces New Album Folklore, Featuring The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver
Surprise, surprise: Taylor Swift has announced the release of her eighth studio album. It’s called folklore, spans 16 tracks, and arrives TONIGHT at midnight ET. Co-produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, who co-wrote/produced 11 tracks, the album also features collaborations with Bon Iver, Jack Antonoff, and William Bower. “Most of the things I had planned this summer didn’t end up happening, but there is something I hadn’t planned on that DID happen,” Swift announced on socials. “Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. I wrote and recorded this music in isolation but got to collaborate with some musical heroes of mine; Aaron Dessner (who has co-written or produced 11 of the 16 songs), Bon Ive...
Kylie Minogue Announces New Album Disco, Shares “Say Something”: Stream
Kylie Minogue, photo by Darenote Ltd. 2020 Kylie Minogue is hitting the dance floor for her next studio album. Titled Disco, it’s due for arrival on November 6th. The upcoming effort follows up on Golden from 2018 and consists of a total of 16 new songs. One of those is lead single “Say Something”, produced by longtime associate Biff Stannard. As to be expected, the track works in a glittery ’70s strut, all while Minogue laments the distance — both physical and emotional — between herself and a loved one. “We’re a million miles apart in a thousand ways,” the Grammy winner sings. “Love is love it never ends, can we all be as one again?” Quite a timely tune given our current circumstances, right? Stream it below. Disco is available for pre-order now. All of the new album’s visual compon...
Demi Lovato Announces Engagement to Max Ehrich: ‘Here’s to Our Future’
It’s official: Demi Lovato is getting hitched! The pop star is taking her relationship with Max Ehrich to the next stage, after saying “yes” to his marriage proposal. The “Sorry Not Sorry” singer shared the good news in an Instagram post (see below). “When I was a little girl, my birth dad always called me his ‘little partner’ – something that might’ve sounded strange without his southern cowboy like accent,” she writes. “To me it made perfect sense. And today that word makes perfect sense again but today I’m officially going to be someone else’s partner.” Ehrich, whom she has been romantically linked to since March, is the right guy. “I knew I loved you the moment I met you,” she continues. “It was something I can’t describe to anyone who hasn’t experienced it firsthand but lu...
Lizzo Is a Green-Haired Goddess in Starry New Photo
Lizzo‘s badass energy always has us green with envy–and now she has the hair to match our mood. The star took to Instagram on Tuesday (July 21) to share a golden hour photo wearing nothing but glittery gold stars, paired with green hair and matching green eyeshadow. “When they say ‘ima star’ this is what they mean..” she captioned the post, tagging her creative director Quinn Whitney Wilson. The “Good as Hell” singer followed up with another moment from the shoot, a video of the (literal) star posing in the sunlight as a voiceover is heard proclaiming, “Yeah, we Black and we fine / We do this all the time.” See it here. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins wi...
Katy Perry Posts Heartbreaking Video of Orlando Bloom’s Tribute to Late Dog Mighty
A week after fiancé Orlando Bloom’s beloved dog Mighty went missing, Katy Perry posted a heartbreaking video of the actor getting a tattoo tribute to his good boy. “We’ll miss our little buddy boy, Nugget’s brother so much. Forever a paw shaped hole in our hearts,” Perry wrote along with a broken heart emoji and #ripmighty. The Instagram send-off included a video of a masked Bloom getting Mighty’s name inked over his heart. “Mighty’s on the other side now,” Bloom wrote. “After 7 days of searching from sunrise to sunset and into the wee hours, today, the 7th day ~the number of completion~ we found his collar… I have wept more this week than I thought possible, which has been very cathartic and healing… I left no stone unturned, crawled t...
Marshmello Nabs First Streaming Songs No. 1 With Juice WRLD on ‘Come & Go’
“Come & Go” is also the fourth song to debut at No. 1 on Streaming Songs in 2020 and first since 6ix9ine’s “Gooba” in May. Juice WRLD and Marshmello’s “Come & Go” becomes the fourth song to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart in 2020, ruling the list dated July 25. “Come & Go” bows with 36.4 million U.S. streams earned in its first full tracking week (ending July 16), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The song follows Drake’s “Toosie Slide,” The Scotts, Travis Scott and Kid Cudi’s “The Scotts” and 6ix9ine’s “Gooba” as No. 1 Streaming Songs debuts in 2020, equaling the amount of No. 1 debuts achieved in 2017 and 2019. Only 2018, which saw 11 debuts atop the list, had more. “Come & Go” is Juice WRLD’s third Streaming Songs leader, following the two-week rei...
