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Lily Allen is rethinking her comments about Katy Perry‘s trip to space. More than a week after she slammed the pop star’s participation in Blue Origin’s first-ever all-women rocket flight as “out of touch,” joining in on a wave of criticism related to the expedition, the “Smile” singer shared an apology on the latest episode of her Miss Me? podcast posted Monday (April 28).
On the show, the musician began by saying, “I would actually like to apologize for being mean about Katy Perry last week.”
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“There was actually no need for me to bring her name into it, and it was my own internalized misogyny,” Allen continued to cohost Miquita Oliver. “I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and it was just completely unnecessary to pile on with her. I disagree with what it was that they did, but she wasn’t the only person that did it. She was possibly the most famous and the one that divides people the most.”
“There was something in me that decided to choose her as the person that should … anyway, I’m just sorry,” she added.
Allen was just one of several public figures who criticized the Blue Origin flight following its 11-minute trip on April 14, during which Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez and more passengers hurtled approximately 62 miles above Earth to space. While the “Firework” singer has maintained that the trip was an empowering feat for women — “It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,” Perry told press immediately after touching down — stars such as Olivia Munn, Olivia Wilde, Emily Ratajkowski and more have countered that it was actually a waste of resources.
For Allen’s part, the podcaster had said on the April 17 episode of Miss Me? that there was “absolutely no f–king reason” for the Blue Origin mission. “Do we want to talk about Katy Perry and her mates all going up to space for 12 minutes?” she remarked. “I mean, what the f–king hell is all that about? In all seriousness, what? Why?”
“I just think it’s so out of touch,” Allen continued at the time. “We’re on the brink of recession. People are really f–king struggling to make ends meet and get food on their tables.”
But in hindsight, the “F–k You” singer says she now regrets zeroing in on Perry. “I would have been hurt if it had been me and someone in my industry used me and my name,” she said on Monday’s episode. “I’m sorry, Katy Perry.”
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Chappell Roan has new management. The fast-rising superstar has signed with Drew Simmons of Foundations Music, most known for managing Noah Kahan.
Foundations’ roster also includes Laufey, Rebecca Black, Wilder Woods and producer Gabe Simon.
Simmons, who is a partner at Foundations, announced the news on Monday (April 28) after beginning to work with Roan earlier in the year. To share the news, he posted the cover art for Roan’s 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, on his Instagram. The caption read: “Thrilled to be working with Chappell Roan – it’s an honor to welcome her to Foundations.” Meanwhile, Foundations’ website features Roan on the homepage with the message: “Foundations welcomes Chappell Roan to the roster!”
Simmons also tagged the larger team, which includes Roan’s assistant Kyle Goold along with Foundations’ Lauren McKinney, Emily Harlan, Ellie Hocking, Nate Futral, Izzy Newirth, Brooks Dawson and Caroline Scofield.
Last November, Billboard broke the news that Roan had split with her then-manager, State Of the Art’s Nick Bobetsky. Bobetsky met Roan in 2018 and managed the artist through her breakout years, which included such milestones as scoring her first Billboard Hot 100 top 10 with “Good Luck, Babe!” and a top 5 entry for Midwest Princess on the Billboard 200 — plus her first slate of Grammy nominations, including in all of the Big Four categories.
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At the 2025 ceremony this February, Roan took home the award for best new artist.
Simmons was previously named to Billboard’s 2023 Managers To Watch list, amidst Kahan’s own breakout year. “There is no off-cycle anymore,” Simmons said at the time, “and that is taxing on the infrastructure around the artist but also on the artist themselves.”
And while speaking of Kahan’s foundation, The Busyhead Project, which raises funds to support and provide mental health resources, Simmons said he was “excited about opportunities ahead for artists as the paradigm shifts, placing more and more leverage in [their] hands.”
His sentiment aligns with Roan’s own vision for how artists should be treated and cared for in the industry. During her Grammys acceptance speech, she said: “I told myself if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and healthcare, especially for developing artists.”
Roan herself donated $25,000 to Backline – a nonprofit that helps connect music industry professionals and their families with mental health resources. And in the following days, artists including Charli xcx and Kahan supported Roan in her effort, pledging to match her donation. Posting to Instagram Stories, Kahan said: “I’m inspired by you. Happy to get the ball rolling. Money where my mouth is.”
In March, Roan released her latest single, the country-inspired “The Giver.” The song debuted atop Billboard’s streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart dated March 29.
A lot of things happened while JoJo Siwa was on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
First, there was her awakward interaction with castmate actor Mickey Rourke, who asked if she liked “girls or boys,” to which Siwa responded that she’s attracted to women and that her partner, Kath Ebbs, is non-binary. The 72-year-old Murder Motel star then said something that earned him a formal warning the show’s producers when he told Siwa, “If I stay longer than four days you won’t be gay anymore.”
After other homophobic comments, fellow competitor Chris Hughes called Rourke out for his language. Then, in an episode last week, after a discussion with Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard about how her Big Brother experience was helping her come to terms with her evolving sexuality, Siwa had a revelation. She said living in the house, “made me feel so queer. And I’ve always been afraid of feeling ‘queer,’”… like, I always said ‘lesbian,’ right? But I feel, like, so queer… I think I’ve always told myself I’m a lesbian, and I think being here I’ve realized, ‘Oh, I’m not a lesbian, I’m queer.’ And I think that’s really cool.”
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Siwa told ITV’s This Morning on Monday (April 28) that the reality TV lockdown also made her realize that things she was “okay with in my life that I should never have been okay with in the first place.” When one of the hosts asked if she was referring to the relationship with Ebbs, Siwa said, “so many things and that is one of them.”
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As viewers know, Siwa, 21, broke up with Ebbs at the show’s wrap party and the singer/actress told This Morning that that was not her plan. “Initially, I was told that the wrap party was something they [Ebbs] didn’t want to attend and then about an hour into the wrap party they decided they wanted to,” she said of the Australian content creator. “And so I was genuinely just going to have a conversation before and then it just led to another. They straight up asked me if I was happy and I said ‘no.’”
During that conversation, Siwa said Ebbs asked if she was happy and Siwa told them she was not. “One thing led to another… and that conversation did take place there,” she said of the 20 days that felt “like four-and-a-half years,” noting that the first thing she wanted to do when she got out was “exactly what you need to do in your life to make it as good as you can.”
Sitting next to Hughes on a couch, Siwa said she is “very happy where I am now” and grateful for having Hughes in the house with her for “support and comfort.” Asked if her friendship with Hughes was a catalyst in the break up with Ebbs after the couple went public in January, Siwa, again putting her hand on Hughes’ shoulder said, “obviously we’re very close,” with Hughes adding that it’s “just a really strong bond between two people which is just a strong friendship.”
Hughes, 32, called their time together in the house “three weeks we’ll remember for the rest of our lives,” arguing that all gossip aside about the nature of their close ties in the house, he thinks you can genuinely have a “soulmate friendship.” Asked by the hosts if she’d like things to get romantic with “gorgeous boy” Hughes, Siwa doubled-down on her pal being a “great guy,” but agreed that it’s strictly platonic and that they have a lot of fun together, but that’s it.
“Life is life and I don’t know any future of anything,” she said. “But I’m really grateful for our dynamic that we have and our bond that we have.”
Watch Siwa and Hughes discuss their platonic relationship below.
There was nothing ordinary about Alex Warren‘s star-studded experience at Stagecoach 2025, especially a moment during which Lana Del Rey sang his own song back to him backstage.
In a video posted to TikTok Sunday (April 27) — the same day the TikToker performed at the festival during Jelly Roll‘s headlining set — Warren hangs out with the “Summertime Sadness” singer and “Son of a Sinner” musician in a special lounge area. As Warren smiles incredulously, Del Rey sings a lyric to his chart-climbing breakout hit, “Ordinary”: “You’re takin’ me out of the ordinary …”
“Every time I hear it, I think, ‘Why can’t we hear more like this?’” the alt-pop star gushes of the track as Jelly nods. “Because it takes you to church.”
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In footage seemingly filmed just moments after, a shocked Warren marvels, “Lana Del Rey was singing my song? To me?”
“Your song now,” he adds breathlessly. “Not my song, that’s your song. Oh my god.”
The recognition from Del Rey is just one of many pinch-me moments Warren has experienced since “Ordinary” has propelled him to new heights, with the track reaching a new peak of No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated April 26. He also sang the song with Ed Sheeran at the British pop star’s Coachella pop-up April 20, and at Stagecoach, the social media star performed it alongside Jelly for thousands of fans in Indio, Calif.
The duo also debuted their upcoming collaboration, “Bloodline,” during the “Need a Favor” musician’s set. On Instagram, Warren further teased the track by posting a video of himself and Jelly singing the lyrics, writing, “this album is about to be CRAZYYY.”
In addition to playing her own Stagecoach set — during which Del Rey raised eyebrows by singing about supposedly kissing Morgan Wallen — the “Snow on the Beach” musician, like Warren, made a cameo during Jelly’s performance. Subbing in for Lainey Wilson, she and the country star belted out his finale number, “Save Me.”
Katy Perry loves sharing her woman’s world with Lady Gaga. In the crowd at Mother Monster’s ¡Viva La Mayhem! concert in Mexico City Saturday (April 26), the “Firework” singer was one of tens of thousands of fans cheering on Gaga, whom she later praised in a sweet message on Instagram.
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In a clip posted to her Story two days after the show, Perry and a friend passionately sing along with Gaga as the latter performs Mayhem single “Abracadabra” on stage at GNP Seguros Stadium. The former American Idol judge — who arrived with her team to witness the locally dubbed “¡Viva la MAYHEM!” show — also shared a video of Gaga singing “Perfect Celebrity.”
“Show was MAGINIFCA!” Perry wrote. “The dress! The sand! Every moment was theee moment.”
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“So proud of you and grateful to grow up together @ladygaga,” the singer also gushed. “Love u.”
Gaga’s performance in Mexico’s capital came just three days after Perry kicked off her own Lifetimes Tour in the city, performing a mix of past hits and selections from 2024 album 143 at Arena CDMX Wednesday (April 23). Much of the show featured space-themed outfits and visuals, matching the “California Gurls” musician’s recent trip above the Earth’s atmosphere – about 62 miles up to the Kármán line, which is the internationally recognized boundary of space — on Blue Origin’s first all-woman space flight April 14.
At one point, Perry invited two fans dressed as astronauts to join her on stage. “You guys look so good,” she gasped at the time. “I want these gentlemen to come on stage, because they are dressed like my most current timeline.”
The Haus Labs founder first premiered her Mayhem live show at this year’s Coachella, headlining the festival April 11 and 18. She’ll next perform in Rio de Janeiro for a special Mayhem on the Beach performance May 3, after which she’ll set up shop for four nights in Singapore before embarking on her Mayhem Ball tour through North America, Europe and Australia.
“To all my beautiful little monsters who are here tonight, it is an honor for me to be here, in your beautiful country, performing for you,” Gaga told her fans in Mexico City Saturday. “It’s been 13 years since the last time I was here. I hope you see how hard I’ve worked on stage tonight to show you how much I admire and respect you. I sincerely thank you for choosing to spend the night with me.”
Mariah Carey tops the pop-forward line-up for Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard 2025 show slated to take place at Wembley Stadium on June 15. In addition to Carey, the show will also feature sets from Benson Boone, Lola Young and KSI. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The […]
Kylie Minogue will be honored with the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at this year’s APRA Music Awards, set to take place at Melbourne Town Hall on April 30.
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The honor, awarded annually by APRA AMCOS, recognizes outstanding contributions to the Australian music industry. Minogue joins a distinguished list of previous recipients, including Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil, and The Seekers.
To celebrate Minogue’s latest accolade, several leading artists and industry peers shared tributes to her career and influence. Longtime collaborator, Neighbours co-star Jason Donovan, praised her “dedication and focus to her craft,” describing her as “a hardworking and authentic Melbourne girl who is proud of her Australian heritage.”
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Fellow Australian songwriter Kylie Sackley declared, “Kylie Minogue walked so the rest of us Australian music makers could run,” hailing her as “an innovator and an inspiration.”
Ben Lee reflected on Minogue’s lasting cultural impact, calling her a “mirror” through which audiences see themselves, and Gretta Ray credited Minogue with making the path toward pop stardom less daunting for emerging Australian artists. “She has inspired me to be courageous in my creativity,” Ray said.
Missy Higgins noted Minogue’s remarkable longevity: “She continues to tour consistently and remain exciting and relevant,” while The Wiggles, who once collaborated with Minogue when she portrayed the honorary “Pink Wiggle,” applauded her “unstoppable artistry” and “special Kylie-magic.”
Minogue’s career, spanning over four decades, has earned her international acclaim. She has amassed 10 ARIA No. 1 albums, including her most recent project Tension, which debuted atop the Australian Albums Chart in September 2023. Minogue made history on the Billboard charts when “Padam Padam,” the lead single from Tension, became her first solo track to reach the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart in 2023.
Minogue’s influence on generations of artists remains unmatched. Julian Hamilton of The Presets, who curated a special performance for the APRA Awards night, said, “With so many hits to her name, it hasn’t been the easiest of tasks.”
Tim Nelson of Cub Sport summed it up best, calling Kylie “a true global icon who has filled countless lives with joy, expression and a sense of belonging for decades.”
Benson Boone‘s new song “Mystical Magical,” which was first heard at Coachella 2025, tops this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (April 25) on Billboard, choosing the pop star’s latest single as their favorite new music release of the past week. Several anticipated songs dropped this week, but Boone came out […]
It was a match made in brat heaven when Charli xcx met some 15,000 Minnesotan fans at Minneapolis’ Target Center on Saturday (April 26) night for the 17th stop on her brat tour. Her co-headlining Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan last year didn’t include a stop in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but if you […]