Onstage, a Feisty Olivia Rodrigo Tests Out Life After Girlhood
Olivia Rodrigo combines acute writing and un-self-conscious singing with a versatile use of curse words in her music.
Her music, especially in the albums 'Sour' and 'Guts,' delves into the complexities of new fame and the tension between being good and acting bad. [ more ]
Billy Joel Will End Madison Square Garden Residency in 2024
In December 1978, Billy Joel headlined Madison Square Garden for the first time, playing three shows on the tour for his first No. 1 album, 52nd Street.Dozens more performances followed there over the years, and in January 2014, Joel began a monthly residency as the Garden's first music franchise.Now the monthly gig is coming to an end.
Beyonce ties Grammy record after leading nominations with 9
LOS ANGELES Beyonce has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday.Beyonce's Break My Soul reeled in record and song of the year nominations, while Renaissance which ventured into the world of dancehall music netted an album of the year nod.
Beyonce ties Grammy record after leading nominations with nine
Beyonce has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations, making her tied - with her husband Jay-Z - as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show.eyonce's Break My Soul reeled in record and song of the year nominations, while Renaissance - which ventured into the world of dancehall music - netted an album of the year nod.
Beyonce ties Grammy record after leading nominations with 9
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. (AP Entertainment Writer) LOS ANGELES (AP) Beyonce has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday, making her tied with her husband Jay-Z as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show.Beyonce's Break My Soul reeled in record and song of the year nominations, while Renaissance which ventured into the world of dancehall music netted an album of the year nod.
Beyonce ties Grammy record after leading nominations with 9
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) Beyonce has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday, making her tied with her husband Jay-Z as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show.Beyonce's Break My Soul reeled in record and song of the year nominations, while Renaissance which ventured into the world of dancehall music netted an album of the year nod.
Phoebe Bridgers won the most awards at the 66th annual Grammys with three awards with her band boygenius and one for a feature on a SZA song.
Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo delivered powerful performances at the Grammys, using pianos to comment on societal standards and expectations for young women. [ more ]
Was SZA's SOS Worth the Wait? Breaking Down its Best Songs and Big Themes
Patience is a virtue when it comes to being a SZA fan: the R&B singer-songwriter has dragged out the release of the follow-up to her universally acclaimed debut album Ctrl for five years, practically a lifetime in pop music.Throughout that time, SZA has fought bitterly with her label for artistic control, battled depression and anxiety following her grandmother's death, and scored a top three Billboard hit and Grammy with Doja Cat's Kiss Me More.
The 10 Best Versions of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'
You don't become the best Christmas song of all time by being just another cute and fun bop, and sure enough, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" captures the dark side of the holidays; it's a song for the cynics, the sad girlies, and the lonely boys like Dan Humphrey.Written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane in 1943, the song made its debut in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
Katie Gregson-MacLeod Sang About a 'Complex' Love. TikTok Responded.
The 21-year-old Scottish folk singer-songwriter found a sudden hit by tapping into the platform's appetite for melancholy with a striking, sorrowful chorus.
Glastonbury: Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen hit out at US Supreme Court ruling
Olivia Rodrigo brought out Lily Allen during her Glastonbury set to perform the singer's hit song F*** You in response to the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn a landmark case, ending the country's constitutional right to abortion.
Culture 2023: our picks for film, TV, music and art
What are your cultural new year resolutions?Maybe you're just going to stop listening to new albums on shuffle, like the film critic Ellen E Jones.I really ruined Beyonce's last album like that, she says.Nosheen Iqbal is joined by the Guardian's arts editor, Alex Needham, the music and features writer Sam Wolfson, and Ellen E Jones, to recommend what to look out for in 2023.
Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish to perform on Saturday Night Live
Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish will be musical guests on the final SNL episodes of 2023.
Rodrigo will appear on the December 9th episode hosted by Adam Driver, and Eilish will perform on the December 16th episode hosted by Kate McKinnon. [ more ]
Best College Try-In and Out of the Pool In 2014, when Nicholas Askew became head coach of the swimming and diving teams at Howard University, the program had sunk to a low point.So the Howard alum, who swam for the Bison in the late 1990s, addressed every part of the program-from having the once-drab indoor pool freshly painted to recruiting and developing athletes.
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They Said What? Lip Readers Decode Celebrity Whispers
Nina Dellinger was 16 when she realized she could read lips.She was zoning out in math class, she said, and it struck her that she could understand what a classmate was saying across the room, even though she couldn't hear a word.For years, Ms. Dellinger kept this skill to herself, practicing in secret in social situations, making it a game.
Lip Readers Apply Their Skill to Celebrity Conversations
Nina Dellinger was 16 when she realized she could read lips.She was zoning out in math class, she said, and it struck her that she could understand what a classmate was saying across the room, even though she couldn't hear a word.For years, Ms. Dellinger kept this skill to herself, practicing in secret in social situations, making it a game.
On its debut album, Meet Me @ The Altar carries a pop-punk legacy into the future
Meet Me @ The Altar's debut album, Past // Present // Future, features a punchy rhythm section and a momentum that reaches out a hand to yank potential friends into the fun.Jonathan Weiner/Courtesy of the artist It can be a disorienting moment, when a broken shard of yourself kept cushioned to your chest reflects the light of thousands of others like it.
Mae Stephens on Her Viral TikTok Song, If We Ever Broke Upand leaving the Grocery Store for a Record Deal
TikTok's power to create inescapable hits out of songs has been one of the platform's defining features since everyone turned to it during early COVID-19 lockdowns.The most recent earworm to get stuck in people's heads, If We Ever Broke Up, is now out on streaming services from Mae Stephens, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, who is clearly a student of the app.
Year-End Listener Mailbag: Your 2022 Questions, Part 1
Each year, oodles of questions pour in from the Popcast faithful, and each year, the pop music staff of The New York Times tackles them with gusto.On this week's Popcast, heated conversation about Olivia Rodrigo and strategic disappearance, Taylor Swift and intoxicants, Dua Lipa and other female pop superstar aspirants, the state of indie rock and more.
The Internet's Biggest Jack Antonoff Hater Explains Himself | Defector
Less than 12 hours after Taylor Swift's 10th album, Midnights, dropped on Oct. 21, a 25-year-old New Zealander posted a video on Twitter in which he recorded himself correctly guessing, one by one, upon first listen, every song on the album produced by Jack Antonoff."I'm able to instantly detect if Jack Antonoff worked on a song due to a visceral hatred of his production style," Caleb Gamman captioned his clip, which currently has over 84,000 likes.
On This Is Why, Paramore Fight for the Present Moment: Album Review
"Why we gotta be in a rush?My watch is just for decoration," Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams sings on the third track of the group's new album, .The group premiered the track at an album release kickoff show in their home base of Nashville on Monday, February 6th, telling the audience, "It's really not that deep."
Nearly 28 years since Clueless premiered in 1995, colorful plaid sets still evoke the teenage spirit of Cher Horowitz, Alicia Silverstone's character, in all her delightfully oblivious, fashion-obsessed, Beverly Hills glory.The film's greatest legacy is its vibrant fashion, courtesy of Mona May, the film's costume designer, and Amy Heckerling, the director.
Steelers: Najee Harris ditches the visor because he's the ultimate savage
Najee Harris' reasoning behind not wearing a visor in his second year with the Pittsburgh Steelers should absolutely terrify opposing linebackers and other would-be tacklers.
The 2023 Grammy Awards are set to take place this Sunday, Feb. 5 at the Crypto.comArena in Los Angeles.The nominations, announced back in November, include some major face-offs at this year's ceremony: Adele and Beyonce both released massive, record-breaking albums last year which now hold nominations in the many of the same categories including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year.
The Best-Selling Vinyl Records In 2022 Reveal A Very Surprising Trend
Physical media is back.In an age in which it's hard to keep track of where your favorite movie is streaming, Blu-rays and DVDs are still clutch.And, in a world where music sounds horrible coming out of an iPhone speaker, true lovers of great tunes have made vinyl records bigger than ever.For families, listening to vinyl records is a great activity, a moment where you can buy something together, and share it together, too.
We do it grande: how 2022 became the year of the big statement album
Musically at least, 2022 wasn't an easy year to button: there was no huge mainstream breakthrough artist along the lines of Olivia Rodrigo or Lewis Capaldi; there was no glaringly obvious musical trend along the lines of the pandemic glut of escapist glitterball disco.Nevertheless, some of the years's biggest and most-acclaimed albums did indicate a shift.
Spotify reveals top streamed artists, albums, and songs of 2022
The weather is getting colder, Spotify Wrapped has arrived, and it's hard to tell if that sound is "Jingle Bells" or just Spotify's famous royalty payments clinking in the pockets of 2022's biggest artists.As we all put a bow on 2022, the Big Green Circle has shared its annual roundup of the top streamed artists, albums, and songs from the year that was.
Good morning to Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, and the rest of the Knowles-Carters.The 65th annual Grammy Award nominations were announced by Olivia Rodrigo, Jimmie Allen, Cyndi Lauper, Smokey Robinson, Luis Fonsi, Machine Gun Kelly, and more November 15.The Beyhive will have much fodder to lord over the heads of the Swifties in the coming months.
Grammy nominations 2023: Beyonce leads race with nine
Beyonce leads the 2023 Grammy race with nine nominations.The singer's haul of latest nods makes her the most nominated artist ever, tying with husband Jay-Z, both scoring 88 nominations throughout their careers.Her genre-spanning album Renaissance is up for album of the year while hit song Break My Soul is up for both song and record of the year.
Nominations for the 65th annual Grammy Awards which could see a rematch of 2017, when Adele and Beyonce competed in the top categories will be announced via livestream on Tuesday, beginning at 12 p.m.This year's show in Las Vegas, delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, saw big wins by Silk Sonic, Olivia Rodrigo and the Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste, who took home album of the year for We Are, among his field-leading five wins.
Nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards will be released on Tuesday, November 15th at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m.local time.The nominations will be announced during a livestream event available on the Grammys' website, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.Olivia Rodrigo, Machine Gun Kelly, John Legend, Jimmie Allen, Luis Fonsi, Ledisi, Smokey Robinson, Cyndi Lauper, and Dan + Shay will be on hand to help reveal the nominees.
Grammy nominations to be announced, with 5 new categories
LOS ANGELES The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 65th Grammy Awards on Tuesday with some significant additions.The academy earlier this year introduced five new categories including songwriter of the year to honor music's best composer and a special song for social change award.The non-classical songwriter category will recognize one individual who was the most prolific non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a body of new work.
Latin star Bad Bunny tops Apple Music Awards after huge 2022 | amNewYork
Last year, the top Apple Music Awards went to three artists - Olivia Rodrigo, H.E.R and The Weeknd.This year, there's only one - Bad Bunny.The music streaming giant on Wednesday crowned the Puerto Rican reggaeton superstar its Artist of the Year, thanks in large part to his latest album, "Un Verano Sin Ti," which became Apple Music's most streamed album of 2022 and its biggest Latin album of all time.
The curate's Easter egg: how Taylor Swift turned pop into a multiplayer puzzle
For Taylor Swift fans, a new album is never just an album.When she announced her 10th record Midnights in October, Swifties knew to expect a flood of Easter eggs, cryptic clues and mysteries in need of solving that would supposedly point to the record's lyrical content, aesthetic and upcoming tour.Head to Reddit, Twitter or a specific corner of TikTok known as SwiftTok, and you'll find fans analysing interviews, social media posts and the minutiae of her music videos, from the outfit colours and hairstyles to the significance of different buttons in an elevator in a music video.
Selena Gomez's Boldly Revealing Ballad, and 9 More New Songs
Selena Gomez has spoken openly of her mental-health struggles bipolar disorder, depression, psychosis in recent years.Her new song, My Mind & Me, arrives as the title track of a documentary that reveals some of her low points.The music moves from fragility to determination, from lone, echoey piano notes to a supportive march and a mission statement, as she sings, All of the crashing and burning and breaking I know now/If somebody sees me like this then they won't feel alone.
When the Scottish singer-songwriter Katie Gregson-MacLeod recorded a verse of an unfinished song called "Complex" and posted it to TikTok in August, she was tapping into the app's penchant for confessional storytelling, and demonstrating its ease of distribution and repurposing.
At this year's Grammy Awards, Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo, two of music's freshest new stars, will face off against Abba and Tony Bennett, some of its sagest.
5 Seconds of Summer are learning how to be happy: 'There's parts of our career that I don't remember'
leven years since four Australian schoolboys were spotted covering Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber songs on YouTube, plucked from obscurity and planted on some of the world's biggest stages, 5 Seconds of Summer are starting fresh.
The Trash Report: Good Shade, Bad Vibes, and Ugly Shoes
HELLO, and welcome back to The Trash Report, where I will serve as your human raccoon to sift through the dumpsters and bring you all the best in gossip, gross-outs, nonsense, and no-thank-yous.
Glastonbury festival announces full details of 2022 lineup
Glastonbury festival has announced full details of its lineup, allowing ticketholders to studiously plan their gig-going across the vast site, and those at home to plan their evenings watching and listening to BBC coverage.
Ariana Grande and other stars support Roe v Wade in New York Times ad
Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion, Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez joined a slew of fellow music stars and other celebrities to take out a full-page advertisement in Friday's New York Times decrying the looming fall of nationwide abortion rights.
Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen give controversial performances at music awards
Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen invited controversy with their performances at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, while Mary J Blige was honoured for her musical excellence.
The best music producer in the world that nobody has ever heard of
On April 3, Jack Antonoff won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year - classical music aside.It was his first win and third consecutive nomination in the category.
Music fans struggle to get refunds for concerts cancelled due to COVID
Some big-name acts including Elton John, Olivia Rodrigo and Shawn Mendes are coming to Toronto on concert tour this summer, but some fans are still waiting for refunds for shows that didn't happen last year due to the pandemic.
Olivia Rodrigo nails cover of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" in Portland: Watch
From the pop-punk anguish of "good 4 u" to her impeccable 2000s-inspired fashion, it's pretty obvious that Olivia Rodrigo would look up to Avril Lavigne.
Olivia Rodrigo Breaking Her Grammy Reminds Fans Of Taylor Swift's 2010 Moment
In February 2010, Taylor Swift won four Grammys and proceeded to drop one of them in the backstage press room.Twelve years later, Olivia Rodrigo has repeated history.
Jon Batiste tops Grammys as Silk Sonic soars and Rodrigo is crowned
Olivia Rodrigo made an impressive debut, Silk Sonic claimed two major gongs and Jon Batiste had the most stunning victory of the night at the Grammy Awards by winning the top prize.
Big Grammys questions: Will Olivia Rodrigo make a clean sweep? | amNewYork
It's anyone's guess who will prevail at the Grammy awards on Sunday in Las Vegas, in a field that ranges from teen sensation Olivia Rodrigo to 95-year-old singer Tony Bennett and rapper Kanye West.
Grammy Awards 40 years later: How the 1982 nominees stack up four decades later
The Grammy Awards, which return Sunday from Las Vegas, honor the very best of music, the songs and albums and performances that will endure for decades to come.