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Drake and producer Elkan are giving fans a glimpse of how one of the standout tracks on $ome $exy $ongs 4 U came together. Reposted from Elkan’s Instagram, Drake shared a video on his plottttwistttttt IG account of the producer crafting the beat to “Nokia” in a studio in Freetown, Sierra Leone, timestamped on Wednesday, […]
Halsey has yet another trick up their sleeves. The star revealed on Monday (Feb. 24) that she’s releasing a brand new single, titled “Safeword,” on Thursday (Feb. 27).
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To tease the single, Halsey dropped a 13-second preview into the upcoming music video, in which they’re seen rocking black-and-silver studded underwear, a leather jacket and knee-high, stiletto, studded boots. While a guitar-driven beat plays, a man is seen laying on the floor, wearing a leather submission mask. Halsey, the dominatrix, has her foot on his throat before the scene cuts to the singer’s face, exclaiming, “You’re not the boss of me!”
“Safeword” comes just a few months after Halsey dropped their highly anticipated fifth studio album, The Great Impersonator, back in October, featuring singles like “The End,” “Lucky,” “Lonely Is the Muse” and “Ego.”
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Additionally, the superstar is set to embark on her Halsey: For My Last Trick tour this spring. The 32-city Live Nation-promoted outing is slated to kick off on May 10 at the Toyota Pavilion at Concord in Concord, CA and criss-cross the country for shows in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Dallas, Nashville, Tampa, Charlotte, Toronto, Chicago and St. Louis, before winding down on July 6 at the Yaamava’ Theater in Highland, CA. Del Water Gap, The Warning, Evanescence, Alvvays, Hope Tala, Royel Otis, Sir Chloe, flowerlove, Magdalena Bay and Alemeda are all joining joining on select dates.
See the full list of tour dates here.
Chino Moreno is ready to embark on a new arenas tour with his alternative metal band Deftones, starting Tuesday (Feb. 25) at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. It’s the California band’s first tour since 2022, and it will share the stage with The Mars Volta and Fleshwater during some spring dates in the U.S.
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At the same time, the Sacramento-based band plans to release new music this year, Moreno tells Billboard Español in Mexico City. “So the plan is, obviously, to have a record sometime around that time [during the tour.] It’s getting very close to being ready, so yeah, we’re excited,” he says of what would be the successor to Ohms (2020).
Almost eight years have passed since Deftones last visited Mexico, where — as in the rest of Latin America — it has a solid fan base. But with his other project, Crosses, Moreno was in Mexico City last December. Here, he and his bandmate, guitarist and producer Shaun Lopez, closed the tour of their album Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete (2023) at the Pabellón Oeste of the Palacio de los Deportes, after being on the road between 2023 and 2024.
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“We made it happen! We were gonna do a full Latin America tour, but it was just gonna be too much time and it was close to the holidays, so we decided we at least have to go to Mexico City,” Moreno says.
It was Crosses’ first show in the capital and it was an incredible experience for him and Lopez, who had never been here before. Lopez, a former member of the now-defunct group Far, created an unexpected close bond with Mexico when he served as a producer of Mexican trio The Warning‘s album Keep Me Fed (2024) — it was thanks to the Villarreal Vélez sisters that the musician obtained his first Latin Grammy nomination last year, for best rock song, as co-author of their song “Qué Más Quieres.”
“When we wrote it, it wasn’t in Spanish,” Lopez tells Billboard Español. “Sometimes when you do songwriting sessions like that, you don’t hear anything for like a year. And usually when you don’t hear anything, you think ‘Oh, they didn’t like it, they didn’t like me’ or whatever, you know? And then the manager hit me up a year later and he said: ‘Can you send me a session for that song?’ He’s like, ‘The good news is the girls are going to convert it to Spanish, which is going to be actually really cool because it’ll be the only song on the album that’s Spanish.’”
In 2025, Moreno will spend much of the year touring with Deftones, so Crosses will have to take a break before returning to the recording studio. “I don’t know how soon it’ll be, but we definitely want to work on more music,” Lopez says. “We enjoy making it and yeah, I just would like to thank everybody for showing interest in our project.”
As Deftones is soon expected to announce tour dates in Mexico, Moreno confirms that the band is considering the possibility of bringing the festival they have been organizing annually since 2020 in San Diego, California — Día de los Deftones, whose name is a clear reference to the popular Mexican tradition Día de Muertos celebrated on Nov. 1-2 — to Mexico.
“We talked about it a lot recently, so it’s definitely in discussions to do so. We would love to do!” Moreno says. “I mean, I can’t promise, but, you know, it’s been growing really great.”
Lizzo is on the hunt for authenticity going into her next era, with the hitmaker dropping a new music teaser for a project titled “Love in Real Life” on Monday (Feb. 24). A cinematic clip on Lizzo’s Instagram opens with a bird’s-eye view of the Grammy winner lying on the hood of a vintage white […]
Calibre 50 adds a record-extending 27th No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart with “El Sueño Americano.” The Sinaloans achieve the feat on the March 1-dated tally, as the song advances 2-1 for its first week on top. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “El Sueño […]
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Joy Reid will host her final show on MSNBC this week, and many folks are understandably BIG MAD about that.
Joy Reid has lost her evening news show as part of a lineup shakeup at MSNBC spearheaded by Rebecca Kutler, the network’s new president.
Sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that Kutler plans to replace The ReidOut, which has been on the air at 7 pm since 2020, with co-hosts from The Weekend: Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez.
The Weekend has recently enjoyed success with a 35% increase in viewership during its 8 am time slot on Saturday and Sunday.
Before landing The ReidOut, Reid hosted a weekend show, AM Joy, from 2016 to 2020.
While fighting back tears, Reid talked about her shows canceling during a Zoom call on Sunday’s edition of the Win With Black Women, where she doubled down on her work and topics like Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Gaza that “she went hard on.”
Mediate reports that over 10,000 people joined the call.
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Where I land is that the moment that I’ve– of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues–.
Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was killed, or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just Black folks.
That– or went hard for immigrants who’ve done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.
Or whether we’ve talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country.
Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed.
And and where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.
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Joy Reid Was Not The Only Anchor Affected
Reid’s show wasn’t the only casualty. The Daily Beast reports that anchors Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin are also losing their shows.
According to the website, Capehart and Mohyeldin will host separate editions of The Weekend at 7 am and 6 pm Phang will stay on as a legal correspondent but will no longer have an anchor slot.
Miami-based anchor José Díaz-Balart is also losing his show, but he will stay as a weekend host of NBC’s Nightly News.
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Reactions to Reid’s apparent “firing” aren’t sitting well with folks. Some are even calling Kuttler’s plans racist, mainly because everyone involved in the shakeup is people of color.
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Others are using the moment to give Joy Reid her flowers and providing them a platform to give their thoughts on the political climate when other networks didn’t.
“I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y’all never would have heard of if not for her. And *that’s* why she’s gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable,” Ellie Mystal wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Yes, Reid’s MSNBC cameras are turning off, but we are sure the haters will never silence her voice.
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Beyoncé had yet another groundbreaking night at the 2025 Grammy Awards earlier this month, where the superstar was at last awarded her first win in the album of the year category, thanks to Cowboy Carter. Bey’s shocked reaction has since become a hilarious meme, and her mother Tina Knowles was just as surprised by the […]
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With the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight approaching in late 2025, publishers Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is releasing a new edition of the very popular book series for a new generation of fans.
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Available for pre-order for $97.30 (reg. $139), the Twilight Saga Deluxe Hardcover Collection features five hardcover books, including the four main entries in the series — Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn — and Midnight Sun, the companion novel published in 2020. The set comes in a premium box that highlights Bella and Edward’s vampiric love.
If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can order now and the Twilight Saga Deluxe Hardcover Collection will be delivered to your home in less than two days, once it’s released, thanks to Prime Delivery.
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Once you pre-order, Amazon will send you a notification when the retail giant will ship it to your home.
The Twilight Saga Deluxe Hardcover Collection is available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble on sale for $118.15 and BookShop.org on sale for $129.97. The collection retails for $139.
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Meanwhile, if you’d only like a collector’s edition of the first book in the saga, then Amazon has Twilight: Deluxe Collector’s Edition ready for pre-order too. It goes for $28 (reg. $40). The collector’s edition is a standalone copy of the novel with new floral art, a bookmark ribbon and premium foil-stamped slipcase. It’s also available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble.
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Additionally, Lego is also celebrating the 20th anniversary of Twilight with a new Lego set featuring the Cullen House. It comes with 2,001 pieces and seven Mini-figures, such as Bella, Edward, Jacob and others. It retails for $219 at Lego.com
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As an author, Stephenie Meyer said her writing process begins and ends with music. In fact, as a treat for fans of the book series, she listed a playlist of songs that she envisioned for a sort-of soundtrack for Twilight. It features songs from hit recording artists, such as Travis, Radiohead, Coldplay, My Chemical Romance, Muse and more. Check out a complete list of songs for Twilight here.
In the meantime, the Twilight Saga Deluxe Hardcover Collection is available for pre-order for $97.30 (reg. $139) right now at Amazon. It’s also available at Barnes & Noble and BookShop.org, while the set drops on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
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The Toronto stars have made numerous hits over the years, but which one stands above them all?
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Morgan Wallen opened up about hard times, and ponders the long-tail familial impact of his lower moments in a personal new song he wrote for his 4-year-old son, Indigo Wilder. On Monday (Feb. 24), the reigning CMA entertainer of the year and 19-time Billboard Music Awards winner shared a snippet of the track titled “Superman” to social media.
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In an accompanying caption, Wallen explained why it has taken a while for him to craft a song for his son.
“Been trying for a long time to write a song I loved to my son. None of them ever feel good enough because of how perfect I want something like this to be,” he shared. “And not saying this is perfect, but I am very proud of it. Here is a clip, It’s called ‘Superman.’”
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The song starts off with Wallen’s thoughts of how Indigo will grow to learn more about the life his father has led to this point — surely, the incredible career accomplishments, but the low points as well.
The song opens candidly, with lyrics that seemingly reference Wallen’s arrest last year, when the singer-songwriter was briefly taken into custody after allegedly throwing a chair from the roof of a Nashville bar. (He later pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges, and was sentenced to seven days in a DUI education center, as well as two years probation.)
“One day he’s gonna see my mugshot from a night when I got a little too drunk/ Hear a song about a girl that I lost/ From the times when I just wouldn’t grow up,” Wallen sings. He continues describing his fears as a father in the vulnerable lines, “And when you ain’t a kid no more/ I hope you don’t think less of me/ I try to hide my fallen soul/ But you’re gonna see.”
The self-aware lyrics continue: “Now and then, that bottle’s my kryptonite … brings a man of steel to his knees/ Don’t always know wrong from right/ Sometimes I’m my own worst enemy/ No I don’t always save the day, but you know for you I’ll always try/ I’ll do the best I can, a Superman is still just a man sometimes.”
Wallen has been steadily sharing new music over the past few months, including “Lies, Lies, Lies,” “Smile,” “Love Somebody” and the title track to his upcoming new album, I’m the Problem. He’s set to launch his 2025 I’m the Problem Tour in June.
Hear Wallen’s snippet of “Superman” below: