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Lady Gaga has long been known for pulling inspiration from an eclectic mix of artists, and with seventh studio album Mayhem, she’s cited Nine Inch Nails as a major influence.
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During a new interview on The Howard Stern Show on March 12, the pop icon opened up about her admiration for Trent Reznor and his groundbreaking work with the industrial rock outfit.
When Stern played Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” and asked why she loves the track so much, Gaga didn’t hesitate. “Because it’s so good!” she replied. The 1994 hit, known for its pulsating synths and provocative lyrics, is one of Nine Inch Nails’ most recognizable songs, charting in the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and leaving an impact on rock and electronic music.
Gaga revealed that she’s actually met Reznor but struggled to recall their first meeting. “I forget the first time. I think I black out every time I’m in his presence,” she admitted, adding, “He’s an amazing musician.” When asked if she ever felt intimidated by him, she clarified, “Not intimidated—just really excited, stoked, quiet.”
Earlier this month, Gaga shared that Mayhem, her first full-length studio album since 2020’s Chromatica, is heavily influenced by the sounds of the ‘90s and 2000s. She listed Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead among the artists who helped shape the record’s sonic direction, describing it as a fusion of “’90s grunge influence, 2000s pop influence, funk influence, ‘80s influence.”
She specifically credited “Closer” as a major inspiration for Mayhem’s lead single, “Disease,” which has already sparked discussions among fans about its darker, industrial-tinged sound.
As Gaga gears up for the release of Mayhem, Nine Inch Nails are also making waves with their own plans. The band announced their Peel It Back tour earlier this year, marking their first live performances since 2022. The run will see them hitting stages across the U.K., Europe, and North America this summer, with support from Boys Noize.
Reznor also confirmed at the end of 2024 that new Nine Inch Nails music is in the works, saying, “We’re ready to be back in the driver’s seat.”
Album single “Abracadabra” arrived at No. 29 in its first abbreviated week on the Feb. 15-dated Billboard Hot 100 and debuted at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs tally with “Abracadabra,” becoming the second chart-topper in the survey’s five-week history.
Despite its shortened week, “Abracadabra” boasted the highest sales and streaming totals in the chart’s brief history.
Following the chart’s current reigning champ, the Bruno Mars-assisted “Die with A Smile”, and “Disease” (No. 27), Mayhem already boasted three top 40 hits on the all-genre ranking prior to its March 7 release, marking her first album to do so since 2013’s Artpop. Overall, it’s her 39th entry on the chart dating back to “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis, which spent three weeks at No. 1
Fresh off the release of a joint single last month, Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard have announced their debut collaborative album.
Pritchard, who has 30 years’ experience as an electronic musician and producer, first teamed up with the Radiohead and the Smile frontman in 2016, with Yorke providing guest vocals on “Beautiful People” for Pritchard’s Under the Sun record.
The pair had first met when Radiohead last toured Australia in 2012, where English-born Pritchard is based, though their association extended back slightly further (at least in name only). In 2011, Radiohead’s TKOL RMX 1234567 album featured two remixes of “Bloom” reimagined by Pritchard, with one made available under his Harmonic 313 alias.
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Yorke’s 2024 Australian tour brought with it the live debut of the new song “Back in the Game,” which was officially released in February, and is set to also appear on their forthcoming album, Tall Tales. The LP will be out on May 9 via Warp Records.
The record’s announcement also coincides with the release of a new song from the pair, with “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice” once again being accompanied by a Jonathan Zawada-directed music video. The clip, along with the visual for “Back in the Game,” is part of a feature length film made by Zawada which had been developed in tandem with the creation of the music. A one-off screening of the film will also be announced in the near future.
“Mark sent me a large file of MP3s of ideas during lockdown,” Yorke explained. “There were so many great ones, I knew straight away that I had to drop what I was doing. It felt very much that I had not been anywhere like this before — both as soon as I put my headphones on and started trying to find the vocals, words and sounds, but also, as it progressed, watching Jonathan respond so freely and spontaneously with all his video and artwork ideas.
“It was mental, and I feel lucky to have been involved. I am looking forward to this finally coming out. Tall Tales is very important to me. I hope people get it, and get to hear it!”
The release of Tall Tales comes following a surprisingly prolific year for Yorke. In January 2024, The Smile released their second album Wall of Eyes, with a third album, Cutouts, arriving in October. The records peaked at No. 42 and No. 52 on the Billboard 200, respectively. In April, Yorke also issued the soundtrack to Daniele Luchetti’s drama film Confidenza.
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Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik may not be a couple anymore, but they’ll always be on the same team thanks to their daughter, Khai.
In a Vogue cover story published Tuesday (March 11), the model got candid about her co-parenting relationship with the former One Direction star. She and Malik dated for about six years — and welcomed Khai in September 2020 — before calling it quits in 2021 following a dispute between the singer and Gigi’s mother, Yolanda Hadid.
“Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance,” the Victoria’s Secret Angel told the publication, noting that she and her ex plan everything around the weeks they respectively have their daughter. “That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other’s backs.”
Gigi went on to say that she and Malik both approach their co-parenting relationship with “love and a feeling of camaraderie,” though it’s sometimes difficult knowing that parts of their history will forever be public knowledge. Though she didn’t mention it specifically, one of the most talked-about moments in the former couple’s relationship — and subsequent breakup — is definitely the 2021 incident in which Malik was accused of grabbing and shoving Yolanda. The “Pillowtalk” singer later pleaded no contest to four counts of harassment and agreed to serve 360 days of probation as well as complete anger management and domestic violence programs.
“There is the hard part of the world knowing this much, and thinking they know everything,” Gigi told Vogue. “At the end of the day, we’re not interested in giving everyone our whole story. What we are interested in is raising our daughter together, with so much respect for each other, and not just as co-parents, but what we’ve been through together.”
Gigi is now dating actor Bradley Cooper, whom she met at a birthday party for a mutual friend’s child. Calling their relationship “very romantic and happy,” the model said, “I think just getting to the point where knowing what you want and deserve in a relationship is essential.”
“Then to find someone that is in a place in their life where they know what they want and deserve … and you both do work separately to come together and be the best partner that you can be,” she added. “I just feel really lucky. Yeah, lucky’s the word.”
See Gigi on the cover of Vogue below.
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A few unsuspecting Little Monsters were learning the choreography to Lady Gaga‘s “Abracadabra” when, just like magic, the pop star appeared right in front of them for an emotional surprise.
In a video shared by Mastercard on Tuesday (March 11), Gaga secretly watches from behind a one-way mirror as a handful of fans take a class with one of the 14-time Grammy winner’s longtime dancers, who teaches them some of the moves from the “Abracadabra” music video. “[There’s] something about Little Monsters that is this deep connection,” Gaga says while looking on proudly. “They were just giving it their all — I didn’t expect myself to feel so emotional.”
After finishing the dance, the group posed for a photo — at which point the A Star Is Born actress suddenly popped out from behind the sliding mirror. In response, the shocked fans loudly screamed and cheered, some of them covering their mouths with surprise.
Gaga then sat on the floor with the Little Monsters for a heart-to-heart conversation, during which the fans told her their personal stories about how long they’ve been fans. “The purpose for why I kept making music really was all of you,” the vocalist told the group. “It means so much to me, the way you have been celebrating this song.”
“Abracadabra” was one of three singles that preceded Gaga’s new album, Mayhem, along with Billboard Hot 100-topper “Die With a Smile” featuring Bruno Mars and “Disease.” The full LP dropped March 7, marking the musician’s first album since 2020’s Chromatica.
Gaga has long maintained a special relationship with her fans, but in a recent interview with Billboard, the star said that something about the Mayhem era that’s brought them even closer. “I’ve seen Little Monsters be so amazing for almost 20 years,” she said at the time. “I haven’t seen us like this in a long time.”
“Between the dancing, the makeup, the hair, the costumes, it gives me so much life,” she continued. “I am really honored. All I ever want to do is make something that you press play and you feel good for the duration of the record, and maybe you play it again.”
Watch Gaga surprise her fans above.
Stray Kids has broken yet another record! The group’s latest album, HOP, is officially RIAA-certified gold, giving them most gold certifications of any K-pop artist in history.
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HOP, released in December 2024, also marked Stray Kids’ sixth No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart. The band then became the first act to debut at No. 1 with its first six chart entries in the nearly 69-year history of the chart. They previously debuted atop the chart with ODDINARY and MAXIDENT (both in 2022), ROCK-STAR and 5-STAR (both in 2023) and ATE (earlier in 2024).
The eight-member group — featuring members Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and IN — will continue their touring success this year, with the next leg of their World Tour, marking their first full run of stadium dates around the world. The Live Nation-promoted, JYP Entertainment-produced tour will kick off in Chile at the Estadio Bicentenario La Florida on March 27, before moving on to stops in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, as well as Lima, Peru and Mexico City before shifting to North America.
That run will launch on May 24 in Seattle, WA at T-Mobile Park before hitting stadiums in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Arlington, TX, Atlanta, Orlando, New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago, and winding down in Toronto at Rogers Stadium on June 29. The tour will then hop over to Europe for gigs in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid and a final show slated for July 26 at Stade de France in Paris. The U.S. run will feature the eight-man group making their debuts at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and Citi Field in New York.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are continuing the rollout of their I Said I Love You First album with another single, “Sunset Blvd.”
Gomez announced the single on Instagram on Tuesday (March 11) alongside a sweet black-and-white selfie of the couple snuggling up together. “Our first date was on Sunset Blvd, and it’s also the title of our next song together 🖤 Sunset Blvd out March 14 with @itsbennyblanco,” she captioned the post. “P.S. this is our first official photo together.”
Gomez and Blanco recently documented returning to the restaurant where they had their first date on Instagram. The duo happily cooked up fried shrimp with curry — the meal they had — at Jitlada Restaurant, an authentic Thai food joint on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the restaurant’s owner, Sarin “Jazz” Sing.
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The couple’s joint album, I Said I Love You First, is set to arrive on March 21. The project featurespreviously released singles “Scared of Loving You” and “Call Me When You Break Up” featuring Gracie Abrams.
As revealed by the Rare Beauty founder via the tracklist she shared on social media, the rest of the songs are called “I Said I Love You First,” “Younger and Hotter Than Me,” “Ojos Tristes,” “Don’t Wanna Cry,” “Sunset Blvd,” “Cowboy,” “Bluest Flame,” “How Does It Feel to Be Forgotten,” “Do You Wanna Be Perfect,” “You Said You Were Sorry”,” “I Can’t Get Enough” and “Don’t Take It Personally.”
The couple began dating in June 2023, and got engaged late last year. Gomez shared the happy news with a Dec. 11 Instagram carousel featuring her marquise-cut engagement ring, along with the caption, “forever begins now..”