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Don’t call it a comeback. The Beats Pill is making its return with improved sound features, a cheaper price tag and Lil Wayne and LeBron James helping usher in the new era.
Announced on Tuesday (June 25), the new Beats Pill is 10 percent lighter than its predecessor, with a 20-degree tilt for “better on-axis sound projection.” It retails for $149.99 – around $50 cheaper than the original — and will be available in matte black, statement red and champagne gold.
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“The Beats Pill has been a staple in the James household from day one,” James said in a statement. “It’s an iconic product, so it’s exciting to be part of its relaunch for a new generation.”
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Tunechi and LeBron star in the new Beats Pill campaign dubbed “The Predicament.” In the clip, James is throwing a hotel party while Tunechi’s classic “A Milli” blasts in the background, preventing Lil Wayne from sleeping in a nearby room. After Wayne gets up to see where the noise is coming from, he ends up joining in on the party.
The Beats Pill offers up to 24 hours of battery life and a Fast Fuel charging option that gives you two hours of music playback after a 10-minute charge. The Bluetooth speaker has USB connectivity for continuous play (it’s iOS and Android compatible) and one-touch pairing.
“The Beats Pill is back and better than ever — now packed with outstanding sound, all-day battery life, and convenient features,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “From the beloved Pill characters to cameos in the world’s most watched music videos, the original Beats Pill was a pop culture phenom and we’re thrilled to bring back a fan favorite updated with the latest features in an iconic design.”
If you have the original Beats Pill, back from 2012 or 2013, then you probably remember the choppy sound quality and terrible bass. According to Beats, the new Pill promises to deliver “better sound than ever before.”
Beyond the acoustic upgrades, including a redesigned tweeter for “crisper highs and rich mid-range tones” and a reengineered racetrack woofer, Beats Pill features a removable carry lanyard, a soft-grip silicone backing and an IP67 dust and waterproof rating.
The Beats Pills is available for pre-order at Amazon, Beats, Apple.com and BeatsbyDre.com. The speaker will be released on June 27.
Watch the new campaign starring LeBron James and Lil Wayne below.
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Start the clock: Prime Day returns next month. Megan Thee Stallion announced the official dates for Prime Day 2024 via a new song and music video released on Tuesday (June 25).
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The original song, “It’s Prime,” will be featured as a bonus track on her forthcoming album, Megan, out June 28. The track is streaming exclusively on Amazon Music starting today.
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Keep reading for more details on Prime Day 2024.
When Is Prime Day 2024?
Prime Day is scheduled to take place July 16-17. This year, Amazon will celebrate 10 years of Prime Day with special deals marking the anniversary.
For two days only, Prime Members will be able to score some of the year’s best discounts across 35 categories including electronics, kitchen, beauty and apparel.
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Amazon Prime Day is a marathon shopping event with more deals than you can tackle in one sitting. But if you plan accordingly, you’ll be able to find steals on everyday items, back-to-school supplies, beauty, apparel, electronics, food and more. From budget-friendly picks and big-ticket items that are worth the splurge, get them on sale on Prime Day.
What Are the Best Prime Day Deals?
Prime Day will offer up to 40% off Sony Wireless Headphones, up to 30% off the Peloton Original Bike and Bike+, 40% off school supplies and dorm essentials from Amazon Basics and 40% off crew necks, hoodies and joggers from Amazon Essentials.
Megan Thee Stallion curated a collection of her favorite items for Prime Members to shop ahead of Prime Day, which includes her Hot Girl Summer tour merch, kitchen must-haves, beauty favorites, pet gifts, décor picks, gaming gadgets and other more.
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From July 8-15 influencers, such as Jess Sims, Alyssa McKay, Monet McMichael, Jared McCain, Millie Bobby Brown, Meredith Duxbury and Alix Earle will drop can’t-miss deals on their favorite products in beauty, sports, home and other categories.
Now that summer is here, Prime Day gives you the chance to score savings on swimsuits, swim trunks, sandals, sunglasses, sunscreen, fans, portable air conditioners, inflatable pools, pool floats and other necessities to keep you cool.
Outside of summer finds, Prime Day will offer savings on Dyson Beauty, New Balance, HP, Jansport, Youth to the People, Clinique, Allbirds, Kiehl’s, KitchenAid, Coach handbags and more.
Booking summer travel? Prime members can save up to 40% off on select trips with Carnival Cruise Line booked through the Amazon Deals page, plus up to 30% off, and 10% back in an Amazon.com gift card, on Avis rentals.
What other deals can you expect? Invite-Only deals will be back for Prime Day! Members can save up to 40% off Invite-Only deals on a Speedo Champion Signature Swim bundle, up to 60% off a Citizen Chronograph Watch and 58% off the Foreo LUNA mini 3 set.
What time can you start shopping? Prime Day officially starts at 12:01 a.m. PT on July 16, but you can get the party started now by shopping early deals. For example, eligible Prime Members can get five months, yes five months, of free Amazon Music Unlimited (Amazon’s best Prime Day deal for Amazon Music).
Prime Members can rent select digital titles for 50% off; subscribe to Prime Video channels such as Crunchyroll, STARZ, and MGM+ for $0.99 each per month for up to two months, and 50% off AMC+ and Paramount+ with SHOWTIME for up to two months.
Save up to 68% on Echo Show 8 (3rd Gen), Fire TV 2-Series, INSIGNIA 50-inch Class F30 Series Smart Fire TV with Alexa Voice Remote, Fire HD 10 tablets, Fire HD 8 Kids, Luna controllers, Amazon Smart Plugs and other devices, plus some of the biggest price cuts ever on Ring Battery Doorbell Plus, Blink Outdoor 4 multi-packs, Fire TV Cube (3rd Gen.), Kindle Scribe, and eero Max 7 mesh wifi systems.
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What happens when two queer icons meet in the flesh? According to Sir Elton John and Chappell Roan, they throw a pizza party.
In a post to his Instagram on Monday (June 24), John revealed that he and the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer — as well as John’s husband David Furnish and Roan’s collaborator Dan Nigro — met up on Sunday night for a pizza dinner party. “The BEST evening of pizza and outrageous laughter with the fiercely fabulous @chappellroan,” John wrote in the caption. “Love her, love her, love her.”
While the post marked the first time the pair had met in person, John and Roan had previously spoken to each other as part of the “Rocket Man” singer’s Apple Music show Rocket Hour. During her appearance in late May, the pair discussed Roan’s ascent to stardom, with John letting her know just how happy he was to see her thriving.
“I rang you the other night and said, ‘Listen, I’m not stalking you, but I’m as excited about your album’s success as you are,’” he said. “It’s wonderful to see true talent being recognized.”
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Roan, giggling at John’s compliments, said that the sudden success was “pretty overwhelming,” but added that “it’s also affirming … pushing through the hard times is worth it.”
Roan recently added a fourth single to this week’s Billboard Hot 100, as “Pink Pony Club” joins her other tracks “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot to Go!” and “Good Luck, Babe!,” the latter of which ascended to No. 16, marking the singer’s first top 20 hit on the chart.
John, meanwhile, wrapped his record-setting Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour in July 2023, and recently spoke with Billboard about his husband’s game-changing work as his manager.
Meghan Trainor channeled her experience with childbirth into a heated round of NBC’s Password. In a new preview clip for the upcoming June 25 episode shared exclusively with Billboard, Trainor and Jimmy Fallon serve as celebrity partners for the two contestants. In the game, hosted by Keke Palmer, the two teams attempt to convey mystery words […]
For a brief shining moment in the 1960s, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane seemed to be turning into a star. That is, until she inexplicably vanished.
“This is a woman who disappeared off the face of the earth for 45 years and nobody knew if she was alive or dead,” says Michael Mabbott, co-director of the forthcoming documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. “As a filmmaker, that’s an intriguing thing in itself.”
The simultaneously sad and triumphant tale of a groundbreaker before her time is the crux of the film. Co-directed by Mabbott along with Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and co-produced by Elliot Page, it brushes away the dust and traces Shane’s stunning rise as a trans singer during an inhospitable period. The result of her quest is a long-overdue reclamation of Shane’s musical legacy. “This theme of erasure was such a guiding light for working on this project,” says Rosenberg-Lee, who is Black and trans himself. “I recognize how much of our history is lost.”
Shane, a native of the American South before moving to Toronto to escape the suffocating effects of Jim Crow, subsequently made waves with a song that inspired the film’s name, the breezy horn- and drum-fueled “Any Other Way.” Along with landing on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, it became a hit in Canada in 1962. And yet, despite Shane’s fleeting fame, Mabbott hadn’t heard of the performer until about a decade ago when he came across a bootleg of Jackie Shane Live! When he discovered she had been missing since 1971, his interest was further piqued.
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“It was staggering that she was from my hometown [of Toronto] and I didn’t know who she was,” Mabbott says. After Numero Group reissued her music in 2017 (a compilation of her career later won a Grammy Award for best historical album), it was revealed she was indeed still alive. From there, Mabbott attempted to get in touch — to no avail — before discovering she was living as a recluse in Nashville. Shane eschewed the music industry for myriad reasons, from caring for the woman she regarded as her mother to avoiding the discrimination that had plagued her career from the start.
“Our first phone call lasted four hours,” says Mabbott, who recalls how Shane had an endless supply of vivid memories from her too-brief career — and was ready for a second chapter. “We spoke every week for over a year,” helping the two form a close bond. “She eventually said, ‘Let’s work on this documentary.’ ”
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Unfortunately, as plans were coalescing, Shane died in her sleep in February 2019. “Her death was all the more tragic because she was ready to come back,” Mabbott says. “She felt the timing of this was important to her and that her message had to be heard now more than ever.”
With that, the filmmakers tackled her journey with added vigor to piece together the puzzle of a remarkable life. Luckily, Shane had scrupulously preserved the artifacts of her career, from acetate recordings to homemade jewelry. Mabbott, who worked with Shane’s long-lost family and a music anthropologist to excavate her legacy, calls the treasure trove she left behind “a documentarian’s dream.”
The final product, which premiered at South by Southwest in March, tells a story the filmmakers hope will spur audiences to both reflect and feel inspired. As Rosenberg-Lee explains, “To have people watch the movie, feel connected to it and see that, ‘Wow, people like this have been around for a long time doing their thing…’ It’s very gratifying for sure.”
This story originally appeared in the June 22, 2024, issue of Billboard.
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Snoop Dogg’s hit album Doggystyle, Skechers is launching a limited-edition Skechers x Snoop Dogg signature style slip-on sneakers, available exclusively on the Skechers website starting today.
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For Snoop Dogg fans and sneaker collectors, these exclusive kicks offered in both high-top and low-profile versions, featuring the renowned Doggystyle album artwork printed across the shoes infuses Snoop Dogg’s signature West Coast style with Skechers’ renowned comfort. With these one of a kind hands-free slip-in Skechers, you’ll feel completely secure without the traditional shoe laces.
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If that’s not enough, these sneakers deliver high-quality cushioning and support for everyday activities with its air-cooling memory foam insoles. For those looking to simplify your footwear and avoid the hassle of dealing with shoe laces, you’re in the right place.
The Skechers x Snoop Dogg collab is available now at Skechers.com.
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Skechers Slip-Ins: Snoop One Doggy Style
For those looking to add to your sneaker collection, consider adding this slip-in Doggy style pair. These unique hands-free sneakers are easy to put on and take off. You just slip them in and you’re good to go. According to the brand, this pair provides “flexible traction outsole,” referring to the bottom part of the shoe providing grip, stability, and ultimate comfort. This pair is covered in Doggystyle artwork from top to bottom, the design continues at sole of the shoe with its one of a kind Snoop Dogg-inspired “Doggy Dogg” print.
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Skechers Slip-ins: Snoop One Low Dogg Canvas
If you are looking for a more subtle design, consider these Snoop One Low Dogg Canvas Slip-on Skechers. You can get these in White, Tan, Navy, or Black. These shoes also come with a “Doggy Dogg” art-inspired print at the bottom of the shoe. Hurry, before they run out.
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Skechers Slip-in: Snoop One Low-G Leather
Add these alternative Slip-in Skechers to your sneaker collection. You can get this pair in Black/Green or White/Red. This pair features a low-profile premium leather upper, stretch laces, and a leopard print heel. The brand calls it the “Just Slip In, Snoop style.”
For more product recommendations, check out these Nike sneakers, these Hoka Ora Recovery Slides, and alternative slip-on footwear.
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Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS isn’t just another celebrity-owned business, the lifestyle brand has become top-tier within the fashion world, especially among Hollywood stars who have starred in one of the brand’s many iconic campaigns.
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Bridgerton‘s leading lady Nicola Coughlan was the latest to get her starring role in a SKIMS campaign with her predecessors including WNBA athletes, Sabrina Carpenter, Nelly Furtado, Lana Del Rey and even Usher. With a TV series as dramatic and dreamy as hers, it makes sense that Coughlan would introduce a new era of the viral Soft Lounge Slip Dress that helped solidify the brand’s cult-favorite status.
Many dupes have tried to replicate the success and virality of SKIMS, but nothing can compare to the original, including an updated mini version that possess the same addictive qualities of the dress, including the famous soft, form-fitting material.
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Keep reading to shop the new Soft Lounge dress release.
Soft Lounge Mini Tank Dress
Instead of the classic spaghetti strap style, this new Soft Lounge dress comes with thick halter-inspired straps paired with a mini length you can wear for practically any occasion, whether it’s date night, happy hour or a morning stroll through the park. Just like the OG version, the design features the brand’s viral rib modal stretchy fabric that will hug every curve comfortably. The dress comes in the classic black shade as well as two limited-edition colorways: bone and lemonade.
A shorter length isn’t the only updated version you can stock up on — the Soft Lounge Long Dress also comes in the tank style in addition to a ’90s-inspired tube dress you can buy online below.
Soft Lounge Long Tank Dress
For anyone who loves the racerback look, but wants to keep the maxi length, there’s also a long version of the Soft Lounge Tank Dress that you can pick up. It comes with the same viral material that the brand has been praised for and is available in the two limited-edition colors as well as a neutral black.
Soft Lounge Tube Dress
Go completely sleeveless with the tube dress version, which offers an elegant take on the lounge-ready dress. The black version can easily become that little black dress you wear to parties and events while the bright neon look can be worn for festivals and the off-white colorway is perfect for bridal showers and engagement parties.
What Is the Famous SKIMS Dress Called?
The dress that SKIMS claims “broke the Internet” is its Soft Lounge Long Dress, which comes in a maxi length and spaghetti straps. The look is inspired by slip dresses from the ’90s and uses a special fabric designed by the brand that provides stretch and lays flat against your body to help show off your curves. It’s hard for the bestseller to remain in stock — especially when new shades are dropped, which only adds to fans’ desire to snag every new style as quickly as possible. Since it shows off a simple construction, it’s a multipurpose dress you can wear to lounge around in, like the name suggests, or wear it out on the dance floor.
Does the SKIMS Dress Fit Short People?
The length of the regular Soft Lounge Long Dress is 50 inches for sizes XXS-XL and 51 inches for sizes 2X-4X. Models in the photo are around 5’8″ and the length hits around their ankles, but for those shorter who don’t want to have to worry about getting the dress hemmed, there is a petite style of the Soft Lounge Dress available in the classic black shade, which is made for anyone 5’3″ and below.
For more product recommendations, check out ShopBillboard‘s roundups of the best slip dresses, denim jumpsuits and platform sandals.