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Hailey Bieber Once Snuck Out of the House to Go on a Date With Justin
During Justin and Hailey Bieber’s Facebook Live session for their latest The Biebers on Watch installment on Friday (May 22), the couple reminisced on their first kiss. “He asked me to go get sushi with him and I called my parents to ask them if I could go and they said no. They were like absolutely not, you’re not going to hang out with Justin by yourself, that’s not happening,” Hailey explained. Thankfully, the model’s sister “covered” for her, and she was able to go “to dinner and didn’t get caught.” That night, Jailey shared their first kiss. “We were just hanging and we went back to watch a movie and we kissed,” she recalled. On when they realized they loved each other, Justin noted that, “I think just time, being around ...
Michael Buble Reigns on Top Facebook Live Videos Chart With Cookie Baking Upload
The 30-minute video earned nearly 40 million views in its first seven days. A stream of Michael Buble baking oatmeal cookies with wife Luisana Lopilato crowns Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for April 2020. The chart, the latest of which recaps April 2020 activity, is a monthly look at the widest-reaching and most-reacted-to videos posted by musicians on Facebook Live, as tracked by media analytics company Shareablee. Rankings are determined by a formula that blends reactions, comments, shares and first-seven-days views. Buble’s April 6 upload documents his process of baking cookies with Lopilato. The 30-minute video reigns thanks to a whopping 38.6 million views in its first seven days; the next closest video on April’s chart managed 4.1 million. In addition to leading all musi...
Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga, The Weeknd & Doja Cat, Plus More: What’s Your Favorite New Music Release? Vote!
This Memorial Day weekend’s forecast might call for sunshine, but Arianators and the Little Monsters hope it pours after their favorites Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga released their first collaborative song “Rain On Me.” [embedded content] But Doja Cat doesn’t want the showers to extinguish her hot streak after she jumped on The Weeknd‘s “In Your Eyes.” This remix could put her right on top of the Billboard Hot 100 again after she scored her first chart-topper with the Nicki Minaj-assisted remix of “Say So.” Pharrell wills the sun to shine “like three seeds of pomegranates in my hands” in the deadmau5 and The Neptunes‘ joint jam “Pomegranate” that’s fully ripe and ready to be plucked out of ea...
Tove Lo Releases Expanded Edition of Sunshine Kitty, Shares New Song “sadder badder cooler”: Stream
Tove Lo has released a new expanded version of her latest album, Sunshine Kitty. Dubbed the Paw Prints Edition, the special release adds eight songs to the tracklist, including the newly revealed single “sadder badder cooler”. Much of the additional material on Sunshine Kitty (Paw Prints Edition) is made up of previously released tracks, including the FINNEAS-produced “Bikini Porn” and “Passion and Pain Taste the Same When I’m Weak”, as well as Tove Lo’s cover of Swedish artist Veronica Maggio’s “I’m Coming”. Also present are a pair of Live at Vevo recordings (“Sweettalk My Heart” and “Mistaken”), Heavy Baile’s remix of “Are U Gonna Tell her”, and the Team Salut remix of “Sweettalk My Heart”. As for the new track, “sadder badder cooler” is an empowering electropop jam that truly lives up t...
Christina Aguilera Loves Kim Kardashian Channeling Her ‘Dirrty’ Aesthetic in White Bikini & Chaps
Christina Aguilera took to social media on Wednesday (April 20) to show her love for Kim Kardashian West’s latest outfit of the day. “Love it…so dirrrtyyy,” Aguilera wrote, retweeting a number of snaps of Kardashian rocking a white bikini and pair of chaps, which the reality star had cheekily captioned, “All dressed up with nowhere to go.” Fans were quick to point out that Kardashian’s daring look gave gave off major “Dirrty” vibes, with many commenting that the look easily could’ve come straight out of the video shoot for Aguilera’s gloriously raunchy 2002 single. One eagle-eyed fan even responded to the tweet by sharing a throwback photo of the pop star performing live in a remarkably similar all-white get-up. While Aguile...
Lana Del Rey Defends Her Comments on Fellow Female Singers, ‘Racist’ Backlash
After facing heavy criticism on thoughts she expressed via Instagram earlier on Thursday (May 21), Lana Del Rey is defending herself. In her original post, the singer called out fellow female stars Doja Cat, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Kehlani, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé, who “have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, f—ing, cheating, etc.” She then asked if she can continue singing about her own dark past “without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorizing abuse?” “To be clear because I knowwwwww you love to twist things,” she wrote in the comments section of her post. “I f—ing love these singers and know them. that is why I mention them.” “I would also like to have some of the same freedo...
Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga’s ‘Rain on Me’ Is Here: Listen
Two pop queens have at last crossed paths in the highly anticipated “Rain on Me,” which dropped on Friday (May 22). The song showcases both Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga‘s unmatched vocals, and comes just one week after the duo announced the release date for their high-profile collab. “I said to her, ‘OK, now everything that you care about while you sing, I want you to forget it and just sing,'” Gaga recently told Zane Lowe of the collaboration on Apple Music. “‘And by the way, while you’re doing that, I’m going to dance in front of you. And she was like, ‘Oh my God. Oh my God, I can’t, I can’t. I don’t know. Oh my God. OK, OK.’ And then I did it and she sang, and she started to do things with her voice...
The Opus Celebrating the Greatest Love of All With Whitney Houston’s Self-Titled Debut
For nine seasons, Consequence of Sound and Sony’s The Opus podcast has examined the legacy of a range of iconic albums. Previous seasons dug into Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks), The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Electric Ladyland), Jeff Buckley (Grace), Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger), Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard of Ozz), The Clash (London Calling), Simon & Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water), Miles Davis (Bitches Brew), and Mobb Deep (The Infamous). For the series’ 10th season, host Andy Bothwell, a.k.a. Astronautalis, will celebrate the greatest love of all with Whitney Houston. In 1985, Houston celebrated Valentine’s Day with the release of her self-titled debut. It was a minor splash that would become an unstoppable tidal wave as the record gathered speed over 55 weeks to reach...
Doja Cat Pounces on Remix of The Weeknd’s “In Your Eyes”: Stream
Doja Cat has learned the power of the remix, especially after “Say So” featuring Nicki Minaj became each woman’s first number one hit. Now she’s teamed up with Canadian megastar The Weeknd, pouncing on a new remix of his After Hours track “In Your Eyes”. She feels right at home in The Weeknd’s tripped-out pop landscape, where the melodies are intoxicating and the artists have been over-served. She begins her verse in tears over her love, even though the rest of the lyrics imply that the relationship is going well. “I can’t stop staring at you” she sings, before spitting raps. “It’s like I forgot that staring is rude/ And that’s what five shots could turn me into.” Check out “In Your Eyes (Remix)” below. In March, The Weeknd shared a deluxe edition of After Hours featuring re...
Lana Del Rey Responds To Instagram Backlash: “Don’t Ever Ever Ever Ever Bro- Call Me Racist”
It’s been a day for Lana Del Rey. In an Instagram post on Thursday morning, Del Rey announced the September 5th release of her new album and name-checked major pop stars of color like Beyoncé and Cardi B in a lengthy digression on the glamorization of abuse and feminism’s place in pop music. Shocker: It didn’t go down so well, eliciting all sorts of backlash from fans and passersby alike. Del Rey has since responded to the vitriol by replying to comments on her own Instagram post. To further broadcast her sentiments, Del Rey then republished her own comments in an Instagram story. Here’s the first comment: Bro. This is sad to make it about a WOC issue when I’m talking about my favorite singers. I could’ve literally said anyone but I picked my favorite fucking people. And this is the proble...
Why Madonna Brought 14 Cape Verdean Drummers on Tour – And What They Taught Her
In 2017, Madonna thought she was moving to Portugal to “be a soccer mom,” but instead, the 61-year-old icon found inspiration for her then-upcoming album, Madame X, thanks to a friend she calls her “musical plug,” Dino d’Santiago. One night, the Cape Verde-born, Lisbon-based singer — who coached Madonna on how to speak Portuguese and sing in Portuguese and Creole — had arranged a concert for her by Batukadeiras Orquesta, a group of female drummers specializing in batuka, a rhythmic call-and-response style created in Cape Verde during the early days of the slave trade. “I’d never seen anything like it, never heard anything like it. So of course, I couldn’t get it out of my head,” says Madonna. She invited several members of the collective to perform on her album and even brought some to the...
‘This Isn’t a Fad’: Three of Africa’s Biggest Stars on Making the Industry Come to Them
Tiwa Savage, Davido and Mr Eazi are opening doors (and labels’ checkbooks). Here’s what they’re up against. The next musical revolution is brewing in Africa. As the industry buzzes with — and profits from — new languages and sounds from all over, the prospects for artists across the continent have never been brighter or more numerous. There have, of course, always been African superstars — from Miriam Makeba to Hugh Masekela to Fela Kuti — as well as great respect for the continent’s music, thanks to projects like Paul Simon’s iconic 1986 album, Graceland, which famously put Ladysmith Black Mambazo and others on the international map. But despite major-label deals, chart successes and eye-popping sales figures, African artists have often been siloed from the popular music landscape, segreg...
