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Trending on Billboard Leonardo DiCaprio starred in the One Battle After Another movie, but Katy Perry lived that title to the fullest in her “Bandaids” music video, which arrived on Thursday night (Nov. 6). “Bandaids” serves as Perry’s first solo single of 2025, as she displays emotional vulnerability while looking back on her journey in […]
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Charli xcx wasn’t messing around when she took on the assignment of writing an original song for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation.
On Thursday (Nov. 6), the pop star posted a teaser for the track, titled “House,” and shared a long description of the creative process behind how she made it — including how she teamed up with surprise guest the Velvet Underground’s John Cale for the project. Explaining that she was immediately taken with the “world [Fennell] was creating” after the director reached out about making a song for Wuthering Heights last Christmas, Charli wrote, “After being so in the depths of my previous album [Brat], I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite.”
“When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of many things,” she continued. “I think of passion and pain. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit.”
The singer went on to say that while working on the music for the movie — which will star Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff — she kept returning to a phrase she’d heard Cale use to describe his band’s music in a Velvet Underground documentary. “Any song had to be both ‘elegant and brutal,’” Charli wrote. “When the summer ended I was still ruminating on John’s words.”
This led Charli to reach out to Cale with the idea of collaborating on the scoring project, after which he sent her a poem that made her “cry.”
“I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song,” she added in her note. “I’ve been so excited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.”
“House” will arrive Monday, months ahead of when Wuthering Heights is set to hit theaters in February next year. In the song teaser, Charli appears on the screen lying on the side of her face while a man’s hand presses into her hair.
“Can I speak to you privately for a moment?” a deep voice says from off camera over sparse violin strikes.
Fennell’s take on Wuthering Heights is just the latest screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s iconic gothic novel of the same name. In September, the first teaser trailer for the film dropped, featuring “Everything Is Romantic” from Charli’s Brat album. “House” will mark Charli’s first release since unveiling the full Brat remix album in October 2024.
See Charli’s teaser for “House” below.
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5 Seconds of Summer pulls up to Barney’s Beanery in L.A. to talk about the group’s new album, Everyone’s a Star!, over drinks, food and a game of pool. The members share why they made a complete 180 with the new album, what their recording sessions looked like, how they’re tackling the stigma of being a boy band, their Billboard chart history, who they would include in a super boy band, their touring experiences and more!
5 Seconds of Summer: Like the apple baby. That’s going to be a tight squeeze.
Tetris Kelly: 5 Seconds of Summer, what!
5 Seconds of Summer: Tetris looks very confused. I like this. Sup, Billboard.
Ashton: Nice. Welcome to Barney’s Beanery.
Yo, fellas, this is sick.
Ashton: We’re here, man.
Yeah, come on in, guys, let’s get some food. I mean, not every day you get to kick it at Barney’s Beanery with 5SOS. Wait, do y’all hate when people do that? 5SOS? Do you care?
Michael: That’s what it’s meant to be.
I’m just saying.
Michael: 5 SOS is wrong.
Does anybody ever walk up to you and say, “Hey, 5 SOS.”
Calum: Instantly shunned.
They’re not allowed at the table.
Michael: They wouldn’t be invited to lunch at Barney’s Beanery.
Luke: No, 100%.
And like, what’s the story behind Barney’s Beanery? Like, you guys come here often? Like, why did we pick here to hang out today?
Ashton: Oh, because Outback Steakhouse said no. I thought you guys already knew that.
Luke: Which is some bulls–t, honestly because you know what? Outback Steakhouse started by a Floridian guy.
Calum: Yes, he’s not even Australian.
Luke: And we go, “Oh, we’re the biggest band from Australia.”
Ashton: And he has the hide to say, “No thanks.”
Luke: He says, “No.” You dropped- I don’t know which camera to go to. I’m gonna go to all of them. Applebees saying no? Fumbled the bag. Chili’s saying no like that’s fair, but Outback, like, come on. I thought, I thought we were cool.
Ashton: At the end of the day, we have to thank the Beanery. Thank you for having us. It’s our sweet sanctuary. You were our fourth choice.
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Normani teaches Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles her dance routine and what it takes for her to be a star on stage.
Normani
So today I’m swapping spaces. I have a special guest.
Dondraico Johnson
Can they dance though?
Normani
Absolutely.
Jordan Chiles
I mean, the entrance might have seemed I was really hype, but I’m actually really nervous
Normani
Okay I mean, nervous is okay.
Jordan Chiles
Yeah, yeah, I guess.
Dondraico Johnson
You’re in a safe space this is the best place.
Jordan Chiles
I feel. I feel it. I feel the energy.
Normani
And you have a dance background.
Jordan Chiles
I do. I do. I was dancing until I was about five years old, tap, hip hop and ballet, believe it. Then gymnastics took over so.
Normani
Great foundation.
Dondraico Johnson
See the greats across the board. We good. You got this.
Jordan Chiles
Are you sure? I ain’t trying to embarrass myself?
Dondraico Johnson
Trust me
Normani
And you won’t, we wouldn’t have you go out there like that.
Jordan Chiles
Yeah, I do. I do. I did put you on a beam today.
Normani
She did. Had me doing aerials and cartwheels.
Jordan Chiles
So I guess, since I’m in her space, she was in mine.
Dondraico Johnson
You trying to kill my friend?
Jordan Chiles
I didn’t mean too.
Normani
We’re gonna get even.
Jordan Chiles
This is her getting even.
Normani
Let’s do it.
Jordan Chiles
Let’s do it. Let’s go.
Normani
Okay, so I’m gonna call my vocal coach, because we got to get warm vocally to make sure that that aligns with what we’re doing in terms of the movement, okay, okay, okay.
Jordan Chiles
See ya. Thanks. Bye. Don’t leave me, but thanks.
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Trending on Billboard SiriusXM is spotlighting the sounds of the season — and Billboard charts — with the Billboard Holiday Countdown. Based on cumulative performance on Billboard’s Holiday 100 chart through last holiday season, the Billboard Holiday Countdown is a festive journey from No. 100 to No. 1 spanning decades and generations of time-honored hits. […]
Trending on Billboard In this episode of Billboard On The Record, director Jon M. Chu and music editor Jack Dolman join host Kristin Robinson to talk about bringing the iconic musical ‘Wicked’ to the big screen. They dive into the process of adapting a beloved story, from working closely with Stephen Schwartz to deciding how […]
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Adolescence can be a trying, sometimes terrifying time for many teens. But on Penn Badgley’s Podcrushed podcast this week, Sam Smith revisited a particularly challenging time they went through as a young teenager struggling with painful physical changes.
“I had surgery on my chest when I was 13 years old, because I had a growing chest,” Smith told Badgley about the procedure they first talked about in a 2019 interview. “There were all sorts of reasons why, but mainly, I was just getting so teased, I couldn’t go swimming in school, and I couldn’t — like, getting changed in the locker room was hell. So I got liposuction when I was 13 years old.”
As a non-binary, queer child trying to find their way in the world, Smith praised their parents for being “hugely supportive of the whole thing, because they just saw how much it was crippling everything about me.” Describing the “brutal” years in a Catholic school at 12 while being “so obviously gay,” Smith said they were popular, “really chubby, round a pink” and totally comfortable with their queerness after coming out to a female friend at 10.
But their weight was always a burden. “My queerness was something that I could handle and could have a grasp on it, but my weight as a kid was the hardest thing for me in school and weirdly the thing I got teased most about,” Smith said.
The singer recalled that it was “just all a struggle with food and stuff. And the liposuction, it worked, but it was also a nightmare because they gave me a bandage,” describing a kind of bra that they were originally meant to wear for a month while healing that turned into a year of binding. “If I wore the bandage, it meant that I would get to the front of the lunch queue,” Smith laughed. “So I just kept this bandage on for nearly a year, and I’d be like, ‘Oh, don’t come close to me,’ and then I’d just get first at lunch and I’d eat more and eat more and eat more… so the surgery never really worked because I just love food.”
Smith has long been open about their history of struggle with body issues, including in a 2019 post in which the singer posed shirtless on a beach and described a reluctance early in their career to take photos without a shirt on. “In the past if I have ever done a photo shoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down,” Smith said at the time, adding that the near-unanimous support from fans has helped them be open about their struggle.
Smith is gearing up to kick off a 12-show To Be Free residency at the Warsaw in New York City on Nov. 26 before moving on to a 20-night residency at the refurbished Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Click here to listen to the Podcrushed Smith interview (liposuction discussion begins at 26-minute mark).
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Katy Perry has long made being a charming klutz part of her brand. The singer leans all the way into that part of her personality in the brand new preview of her upcoming single, “Bandaids.” After teasing what fans assume is her next single on Tuesday (Nov. 4) with a picture of her somber face all cut up and bruised, Perry offered up a brief video preview of the song that is due out at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday (Nov. 6).
Spoiler: things get way, way worse.
Though it does not contain any actual music, the eight-second sneak peek at what appears to be the visual for the track finds Perry perishing in all the worst ways. It opens with the 41-year-old pop star sticking her hand into a garbage disposal, which she seems shocked to learn will set off a blood geyser as her unseen fingers are chewed up, blasting the white sink with gore.
For her next trick, Perry sits on the wrong end of a giant tree branch and saws away at it until the bit she’s resting on comes crashing down, followed by KP suffering a major face plant as she trips at the top of an escalator at a mall, leading to her getting seriously electrocuted while walking through a puddle at a gas station.
And sorry Katy Kats, but it does not get better. While enjoying a coffee at the Crumb Café, Perry is blasted with shards of glass from an unseen explosion, then forced to dodge gigantic tree trunks falling off an 18-wheeler on the highway and, finally, covered in dirt, bruises, scratch and bandages, Katy is blown to bits after lighting a cigarette, resulting in a massive, fiery blast.
What does it all mean? You’ll have to wait one more day to find out.
At press time, a spokesperson for Perry had not returned Billboard‘s request for additional information on whether the song is a one-off single or attached to a new album. Perry released her uptempo seventh studio album, 143, last September, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The LP, written and produced by controversial producer Dr. Luke, as well as pop savants Max Martin and Stargate, was fronted by the single “Woman’s World — which peaked at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart — followed by the songs “Lifetimes” and “I’m His, He’s Mine” featuring Doechii.
