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Yuval Raphael knows she has her work cut out for her. Israel’s entry into the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest is slated to take the stage on for Thursday’s (May 15) second semi-final round amid tensions around the country’s participation in the global singing competition in the midst of its ongoing war in Gaza.
The 24-year-old tells Billboard she’s ready for whatever comes her way: “Every one of us is experiencing difficult times and none of us are immune to it.”

Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children in an assault that set off the now year-and-a-half-long war between Israel and the militant group. (Before talking with Billboard, per competition rules, Raphael’s team stressed that the singer could not answer questions about her escape from the Nova massacre or comment on the war in any fashion.)

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The singer won her spot at Eurovision by coming out on top in Israeli reality talent show Hakohav Haba (Rising Star); her uplifting anthem, “New Day Will Rise,” is her first professional effort after a lifetime of singing in her bedroom. “In my heart I knew that it was going to happen and I used to imagine big stages… but now, doing it professionally feels like a dream come true,” she tells Billboard in a WhatsApp chat.

She sings the song in French, Hebrew and English, the latter because, she says, English is an international language she thinks will help audiences connect with the lyric. “I wanted the message to be out there and understood,” she says of the soaring track on which she sings, “New day will rise, life will go on/ Everyone cries, don’t cry alone/ Darkness will fade, all the pain will go by/ But we will stay, even if you say goodbye.”

Looking for a spot in Saturday’s (May 17) finale, Raphael says the song’s strong message of hope will connect with audiences, pointing to the chorus line about crying as the key to its emotional punch. “Crying is not a bad thing, it’s a way of expressing your emotions and letting everything out instead of keeping it inside,” she says. “And crying with someone else or someone that relates to your grief is something that is so healing… hopefully they’ll take the message of embracing each other and bringing hope to each other.”

As with many Eurovision entries, “New Day Will Rise” is full of uplifting lyrics, soaring emotion and a broad message. Raphael will deliver it from inside a huge silver spiral staircase structure on a massive set featuring video of a cascading waterfall (which is on the somewhat subtle side for the show’s typically way over-the-top production).

British author Chris West, who wrote the 2017 book Eurovision! A History of Modern Europe Through the World Greatest Song Contest — which looked at the sometimes wacky song contest’s intersection with political, cultural and social movements over the past sixty-plus years — tells Billboard that despite event organizer European Broadcasting Union’s insistence that the event remain non-political, it’s inevitable that world events get reflected in its mirror-ball gaze.

“Eurovision makes a big thing about it not being political,” he says, not surprised that the Israeli delegation is sensitive to any hint of mixing events on the ground in the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza with Raphael’s performance. He notes that in 2022 audiences were clearly behind Ukrainian group Kulash’s Orchestra’s run to the top with the song “Stefania” just weeks after Russia launched its unprovoked war on the nation. In 2024, there were also calls for a boycott of Eurovision over the inclusion of an Israeli singer.

Last week, more than 70 former Eurovision contestants signed a petition once again calling on organizers to ban Israel from the competition. West says there is a history of current events impacting Eurovision. In 2021, Belarus was suspended after their song “Ya nauchu teya,” as well as a replacement track, were deemed to have violated the contest’s rules about political messages; in 2022, Russia was denied entry over its invasion of Ukraine.

Last year’s entry from Israel, Eden Golan — who had to change her song title from “October Rain” to “Hurricane” after complaints that it was viewed as a thinly veiled message about the Gaza war — said she received death threats and was booed when she sang. That reaction is something Raphael has said she expects to hear when she sings on Thursday in Switzerland, where she lived for several years as a child.

“It’s pretty unusual to be booed,” West says, adding that it did happen in 2014 when Russia’s entry, the Tolmachevy Sisters, were hit with boos during the semi-finals, seemingly in response to Russia’s invasion of Crimea that year. “It’s always been political in my view, but probably getting more political as its profile rises,” he says. “In Europe, the perception of Eurovision as a joke is over, and people take it more seriously — and as it is taken more seriously, the political aspects will matter more.”

Though she’s barred from discussing it, Raphael’s story is one of the most unusual in Eurovision history. She was nearly killed when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israel on Oct. 7 while she was attending her first outdoor rave. The singer and her friends sprinted to a bomb shelter, with nearly 50 people trying to cram into the small concrete bunker as assailants fired gunshots and lobbed grenades at them.

An Israeli documentary about the mass killing featured a recording of Raphael calling her father in a panic, asking him for help as he counseled her to “play dead.” The tactic allowed her to be one of fewer than a dozen survivors in the shelter, as she hid under a pile of bodies for nearly eight hours until her rescue — on a day when nearly 400 other Nova attendees were killed.

A student of past Israeli Eurovision singers such as 2015 entry Nadav Guedj (“Golden Boy”), as well as 2018’s winning artist, Netta (“Toy”), and 2023’s Noa Kirel (“Unicorn”), Raphael says she reached out to Golan for advice on how to deal with the agita surrounding her participation and the expected push-back from protesters.

“I think the best way of dealing with all the noises is reminding yourself that there is a sole purpose to this contest, which is to bring honor to your country and give a good and honorable performance,” she says — noting that her mother, her biggest supporter, is always by her side. She’s already encountered some of that resistance when demonstrators shouted at her and flew Palestinian flags during Sunday’s turquoise carpet event in Basel, Switzerland, where this year’s edition is being held.

“This competition has such an amazing slogan, ‘United By Music,’” she says. And though she’s not allowed to reference her dramatic backstory, Raphael thinks the song does it for her. “That is the beauty in music: Anyone can take it to their heart and relate to it in your way,” she says. “My song has such a strong message, and hopefully it will [reach as many people as possible] — so I’m very, very excited to be sending that message all over the world.”

At the end of the interview, dropping her on-message mode briefly, Raphael has a final message she feels compelled to share — just hours before the last known living American hostage, Edan Alexander, was reunited with his family after more than 18 months in captivity.

“The hostages should have been home a very long time ago — and hopefully until we’re back, everyone will be home,” she says, in reference to the approximately 58 Israeli hostages that are still in Gaza as the competition kicks off in earnest.

There will be 37 countries participating in this year’s competition, which you can stream on Peacock beginning with Tuesday’s (May 13) first semi-final at 3 p.m. ET. The Grand Final will air on Saturday (May 17) beginning at 3 p.m. ET.

Listen to “New Day Will Rise” below.

The tracklist for SEVENTEEN‘s fifth studio album has arrived, and the surprises it features will have fans bursting with excitement.
As revealed Tuesday (May 13) in a video posted to the band’s social media accounts, Happy Burstday will feature a total of 16 tracks — 13 of which are solo songs, one for each member. Displayed in the clip on stickers pasted all over the inside of a silver phone booth, THE 8’s solo track is titled “Skyfall,” JOSHUA’s is titled “Fortunate Change,” WONWOO’s is titled “99.9%,” SEUNGKWAN’s is titled “Raindrops,” HOSHI’s is titled “Damage,” MINGYU’s is titled “Shake It Off,” DK’s is titled “Happy Virus,” Vernon’s is titled “Shining Star,” DINO’s is titled “Trigger” and S.COUPS’ is titled “Jungle.” 

The remaining three solo tracks are stylized in Korean. WOOZI’s translates to “Fate,” JUN’s translates to “Gemini,” and JEONGHAN translates to “Chance,” according to Google Translate. 

In addition to letting each of the 13 bandmates shine individually, Happy Burstday will also include three full-group songs. Listed as the first three tracks in the tracklist, the full-band songs are called “HBD,” “Thunder” and “Bad Influence.”

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But that’s not all. The album will also feature collaborations with two titans of the music industry, with Pharrell Williams producing “Bad Influence” and HOSHI joining forces with Timbaland on solo track “Damage.”

The tracklist reveal comes a few weeks after SEVENTEEN announced that Happy Burstday would be arriving May 26, following 2022’s Face the Sun. The latter LP reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200. The boy band has also released three mini albums in the past three years: FML, Seventeenth Heaven and Spill the Feels, which reached Nos. 2, 2 and 5 on the chart, respectively.

Happy Burstday will arrive right in time for SEVENTEEN’s 10th anniversary, which the group plans to celebrate with a performance on Jamsugyo Bridge in Seoul the day before the new album drops.

Watch SEVENTEEN’s tracklist unveiling below.

The party don’t stop for Kesha‘s biggest hit, “Tik Tok,” which has remained one of the most popular songs from the late 2000s more than a decade later. But according to the pop star, she originally thought the track was “too dumb” when she first wrote it.
While serving as a guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show Tuesday (May 13), Kesha recalled being blown away by the success of “Tik Tok” after it dropped in 2009. “No, oh my god,” she said when asked whether she ever expected it to become such a big hit.

“When I was writing ‘Tik Tok,’ it was weird, because the dumber it got, the better it got,” the “Praying” singer continued. “Which was confusing, because I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligent human being. But it just got dumber and dumber and better and better.”

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Kesha added, “When I listened to the final product, I was like, ‘This is too dumb.’”

Regardless, there was nothing dumb about what the track would do for her career. “Tik Tok” would launch the California native to superstar status, becoming not just her first solo Billboard Hot 100 entry, but her first No. 1 on the chart. It would also remain in the top spot for nine weeks, her longest run at the chart’s summit, and helped Kesha’s first album, Animal, debut atop the Billboard 200.

Fifteen years later, the musician is gearing up to release her sixth studio album, . (Period), her first LP under her own label, Kesha Records. Her departure from Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Records — the founder of which also produced much of Animal — comes after a yearslong legal battle with Dr. Luke over Kesha’s claims that he drugged and raped her in 2005, after which he sued her for defamation while calling the allegations “false and shocking.” Their ensuing legal battle continued for nine years before the two parties finally reached a settlement in 2023. 

Of finally getting to release music fully on her own terms, Kesha told Hudson, “I’m really excited for the world to hear this, because I’ve been in control of everything.”

“It’s been all of my vision, all of my words, a lot of hard work, a lot of joy,” she continued, tearing up. “Really coming back home to myself and feeling what freedom really looks like, feels like, sounds like.”

Watch Kesha’s conversation with Hudson below.

Something fortuitous happened for Role Model during the second North American stop of his No Place Like Tour live run on Feb. 27. Jake Shane happened to be in Dallas at the same time — and with some last-minute coordination, the influencer ended up onstage with the singer for “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out.”
“People loved it — like, lost it,” recalls Role Model, chatting while still on the road. “We were like, ‘Why not do this every night? We don’t need a cameo. It will be fun to do a Justin Bieber “One Less Lonely Girl”-type of moment.’ ”

Throughout the tour, Role Model has welcomed one lucky fan onstage to dance around with the artist during the bridge of the sun-kissed pop-rock song. At one of two sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ The Wiltern in April, he welcomed friend Reneé Rapp to play the part.

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Later that month, when the 27-year-old made his late-night television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he scored an appearance from Bowen Yang for the role. The stunt resulted in viral social media moments, with the unintentional strategy helping sustain the song.

“Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” arrived on Feb. 14 as part of the deluxe edition of Role Model’s second album, Kansas Anymore. (As was much of the album, the song was co-written with close collaborator Noah Conrad, alongside Annika Bennett and Harrison Whitford.) The deluxe, titled Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), featured four new tracks — but “Sally” emerged early on as “something we could jump off of,” says Sam Riback, Interscope Geffen A&M co-president and head of pop/rock A&R. “We were like, ‘Here we go.’ ”

By early May, Role Model made his Billboard airplay debut when “Sally” entered at No. 36 on the Alternative Airplay chart. The song also cracked the top 20 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and reached a No. 12 high on Hot Alternative Songs.

Riback first heard of Role Model, born Tucker Pillsbury, in 2018; at the time, Benny Blanco had an imprint with the label called Friends Keep Secrets, and one of its employees tipped Riback off to the then-unknown artist from Cape Elizabeth, Maine making music in his college dorm room. “I heard this demo, which we inevitably put out, of a song called ‘Minimal,’ ” recalls Riback. “It just immediately captivated me,” he says of the stripped-down, hip-hop inspired indie track. Later that year, Role Model signed to Interscope Records. (He signed with Best Friends Music for management in 2020, though parted ways with the firm this April).

Four years after signing, Role Model released his debut album, Rx, in 2022, where he showcased an edgier look and more alternative sound. But Kansas Anymore took a turn towards softer, more Americana-inspired indie-pop and highlighted his sensibilities as a songwriter.

“People who have been listening to me since 2017 have gotten to watch me slowly figure out music,” he says. “When I put out [‘Minimal’], that was really the first song I had made. I didn’t know what I was doing. So I feel like, truly, I did not find my sound until Kansas Anymore. It’s something I’m proud of and it feels like the most genuine thing I’ve made, ever.”

After the album arrived last July, Role Model was eager to stay in the sonic world he had built. While writing the album, he had two “rough ideas that were not fleshed out” but fit into the same universe. So he saved them (they ultimately became “Old Recliners” and “Some Protector”). But as he toyed with the idea of a deluxe, he knew he would need more: “I don’t wanna half-ass it,” he remembers thinking. Weeks after its release, he started writing again, and out came “Longest Goodbye” and “Sally,” the latter of which he calls “a new ending to the chapter…I think that this song felt like a breath of fresh air in that way of, ‘Oh, there’s somewhat of a positive spin here.’ ”

The most fun-loving song to come from the Kansas Anymore chapter, Role Model says “Sally” is “based off some truth,” with the song detailing his re-entry into the dating pool. “Lyrically, it was me being hesitant and doubtful,” he says, “not being sold on someone.”

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Role Model teased the track in the days leading to its release, and when he kicked off his No Place Like Tour dates in New Zealand/Australia in early February, added it to his set. “The very first time I did it, people were singing the words. It got louder and louder every show,” he says. “It was the bridge specifically, but it felt like a big moment in the set and the song wasn’t out yet. And that’s when I started to be like, ‘Oh, maybe this is bigger than I can imagine.’ ”

“[‘Sally’ is] an entryway for all these people to see what Tucker’s been building so sturdily over the past seven years,” says Riback. “He hasn’t skipped any steps and he has meticulously put together a fan base that I think is so onboard and along for the ride, wherever this goes next.”

In terms of the next onstage Sally, Role Model has his eyes on Kacey Musgraves, teasing that they’re on a few of the same festival lineups this summer, including Iowa’s Hinterland and Aspen’s Up In the Sky, both scheduled for August. “There’s gotta be some strings we can pull,” he says with a laugh. Riback adds: “We are always planting seeds and hoping things bloom into what we would like them to bloom into.”

In between legs of his tour, he’s also been writing a bit: “I finally had some days to lock myself in the studio again,” he says, “which was incredible and inspiring in itself.” But, much like his career, Role Model is not rushing a thing, calling his rise “a very slow incline — with bumps, of course.” He admires the way his tourmate Gracie Abrams, for whom he’s opened, has navigated her own career, saying she is “an amazing example…I feel like she has just skyrocketed and has handled it incredibly.

“It’s always scared me, the idea of a moment and a giant peak in a career, because it’s the hardest thing to keep up with,” he continues. “And I think oftentimes, you see it go away. So I’m trying not to live in it, but at the same time, I’m doing everything in my power to make sure it does stick around.”

This story appears in the May 17, 2025, issue of Billboard.

Kelly Clarkson has a simple message to her human resources department: she’s happier than ever and quit telling her to shut up about it. According to People, during her show at Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday (May 10), the singer took a moment during the gig to chat with an audience member who praised her “sexy” appearance.

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Clarkson, 43, said she appreciated the compliment, but noted that she has had a hard time complimenting other people’s looks on the set of her eponymous NBC daytime talk show because HR keeps telling her it’s not appropriate.

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“Every time I go to an HR meeting, I’m like, ‘How have I not been fired?’ I grew up on the road at 19 years old, you know what I’m saying? I’m like, ‘Oh, that is inappropriate. I would never,’” she said of the conversations. Last May on her show, Clarkson and Whoopi Goldberg bonded over their use of the prescription medication Ozempic for weight loss, with Kelly saying she’s lost a “lot” of weight on the drug.

“But they also say you’re not allowed to say someone looks attractive, and I say f–k that,” Clarkson told the crowd. “Because some of those b–ches are out here working, and we’re trying, and I want every motherf–ker that passes me to go, ‘Damn. Well done.’” To be fair, Clarkson added, she doesn’t think there is anything wrong with anyone’s bodies, whatever shape, telling her fans that she felt “very confident” at her previous weight.

“I felt fine both ways, but I’m just saying it’s a lot more fun with clothes now. And I’ve been working on it,” she said. According to People, she thanked the fan for the compliment and quipped that she will “not be calling HR” about their interaction. “It is not a joke. I know HR is not a joke, but it is really funny some of the things they talk about,” she said. “And we’re like, ‘Oh no. We would never.’”

The Saturday show was one of two she played in Atlantic City, where, during the Friday night gig she lamented to the audience that she is bummed she can’t tour like she used to due to the schedule of her TV show. “We haven’t done a show in a while, y’all, ’cause I have a talk show. It’s like a whole other job,” said Clarkson, who has not mounted a full tour since 2019. “We are bummed ’cause we love doing shows, and it’s hard to fit it in, so it’s cool when it does work out with the schedule. And it’s cool to get to see your faces and feed off y’all. Thank you so much for having so much energy.”

Ed Sheeran has found yet another novel way to promote his upcoming Play album. After opening a pop-up pub in Ipswich, MA and encouraging fans to share archival messages and videos from their “Old Phone” and recording several international takes on the album’s first single, “Azizam,” the singer dialed up a new clever idea over […]

Tina Arena was forced to pause her Melbourne concert on Friday (May 10) after a physical altercation broke out near the front of the stage at the Palais Theatre, prompting security to intervene and the singer to directly address the crowd.

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The incident took place during Arena’s Don’t Ask Again 30th Anniversary Tour, where she was performing material from across her decades-long career. According to reports from 7News and the Herald Sun, the disruption began when a man and a woman began shouting at each other, with the woman reportedly punching and kicking audience members around her.

Arena halted the show immediately after noticing the commotion. “Darling, you need to leave the show,” she told the disruptive concertgoer before addressing the rest of the audience.

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“Ladies and gentlemen, if we could please just have some calm in this hall, I would really, really appreciate it,” she said. “I’ve never experienced anything like this in 50 years.”

The concert paused as venue security escorted the parties involved out of the venue. Witnesses said the woman resisted, at one point reportedly throwing herself to the ground and yelling at guards not to touch her. Arena remained onstage, refusing to resume the show until the situation was fully handled.

“If there’s something that needs to be discussed, please do it outside. I won’t commence the show until this is the case,” she told the crowd.

Entertainment reporter Peter Ford described the moment as “startling” during a segment on Australian breakfast show Sunrise, adding, “It’s not what you expect at a Tina Arena concert. But she stayed composed and was resolute in getting control of the room.”

The disruption came just one night after another unexpected moment on Arena’s tour. During her Thursday (May 9) performance at the same venue, the singer paused mid-show to reprimand audience members for leaving to use the restroom.

“Back in my day, you wouldn’t leave to go to the toilet unless you were sh—ing your pants,” Arena said from the stage, drawing gasps and laughs from the crowd.

Arena is currently touring nationally to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her 1994 breakthrough album Don’t Ask, which was certified 10-times Platinum in Australia and included hits such as Billboard Top 50 single “Chains,” “Sorrento Moon (I Remember),” and “Wasn’t It Good.” The tour continues this week with shows across Queensland.

Arena has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2015.

The full lineup for Olivia Rodrigo’s headline show at London’s BST Hyde Park series has been announced.
The huge outdoor gig will take place in the capital on June 27, two days before the pop phenomenon’s much-anticipated Glastonbury headline slot. She will be joined by special guests Girl In Red and The Last Dinner Party, who were confirmed for the gig last November. 

Today (May 13), eight more support acts have been added to the bill: Flowerovlove, Caity Baser, Between Friends, Florence Road, Katie Gregson-Macleod, Ruti, Aziya and Déyyess. 

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Irish band Florence Road came to prominence on TikTok last year, where they shared covers of contemporary pop songs including their takes on Rodrigo’s “Obsessed” and “Making The Bed.” In April, the four-piece released an acoustic ballad entitled “Anxiety,” which was produced by Dan Nigro, known for his work with Rodrigo and Chappell Roan. 

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Baser has enjoyed a flurry of activity in recent months. Following the release of her single “Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It),” the Southampton-raised musician has completed a tour of intimate venues across the U.K. and dropped another new track, “Running From Myself.”

Singer-songwriter Gregson-Macleod is eyeing up the release of her EP Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early EP in July, which will arrive via Matt Maltese’s Last Recordings On Earth label. Aziya has drip-fed a slew of singles throughout 2025, the most recent being the grungy “Diamonds,” which dropped in April. 

The BST Hyde Park shows have a history of supporting emerging acts, platforming newer names in the early stages of their career. Over the past few years, the likes of Sam Fender (Bob Dylan and Neil Young, 2019), The Last Dinner Party (The Rolling Stones, 2022) and Elmiene (SZA, 2024) have performed at the festival before going on to break into the mainstream.

The other headliners for BST Hyde Park 2025 are: Zach Bryan (June 28 and 29) Noah Kahan (July 4), Sabrina Carpenter (July 5, 6), Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts (July 11), Stevie Wonder (July 12) and Jeff Lynne’s ELO (July 13). Remaining tickets can be found here.

Rodrigo unveiled her second LP Guts in 2023, which she has supported with extensive global touring. In April, she performed the largest show of her career to date at a sold-out Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City, which holds a capacity of 65,000 fans. 

We caught up with KATSEYE at Wango Tango and they shared their reaction to the public’s response to “GNARLY,” teasing new music coming soon, handling fame and more.

What do you think of “GNARLY”? Let us know in the comments!

Tetris Kelly:

Hanging out with KATSEYE at Wango Tango. How are you doing, ladies? 

KATSEYE:

I’m good!

All right, you know what I gotta start talking about right now: “GNARLY.” I mean, you guys, I feel like you did something. You got the Internet a little bit shook right now. So how was it to put the song out and see everything that happened once it was out in the world? 

It was definitely a gag for everybody. And this is like what we felt the moment that we first heard the song. So we were so happy when we saw everybody’s reactions, especially after our first performance. We just got back from Korea doing all this promotion. So we’re excited because today is our first performance here in the U.S. So we’re here to gag.

Yeah, no. And, I mean, that’s what it did. Because I love seeing people, like, watch the performance and be like, Oh, the girls that get it, clearly get it, you know what I mean? So how was it just like, get the choreography and see that that was what changed everybody’s opinion about the song. 

I mean, it looks amazing. 

She’s like the choreography is good. She’s like gang, gang, gang.

No, literally, like we’re shaking ass. We’re having fun. And I feel like the crowd really, like, just saw us being confident and selling it. And so we’re just super excited. And we 100% stand behind the song. We love it, and we mostly love performing it. So we’re really excited.

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Meghan Trainor talks about how “Mind Reader” with Mimi Webb came to life, how she’d love to work with KATSEYE, her fitness journey & more at Wango Tango.

Would you want a Meghan Trainor x KATSEYE collab? Let us know in the comments below!

Tetris Kelly:

‘Nah nah nah gnarly, everything’s gnarly.’ I love that you know that song, and love it already. 

Meghan Trainor:

I love it. I’ve seen it 100 times.

At first I didn’t get it, and then I got it. 

The ones that get it, get it. That’s how I get it. 

Work with KATSEYE. I feel like that is two of my faves together. That’s something we should make happen. 

Yeah, except like, how do I perform next to them yo? They’re the best dancers I’ve ever seen. 

You got the moves. I think you can keep up. 

Hi, I love you. 

I love you, too. Speaking of collaborations-

Do you like the dress? 

The dress looks amazing. I love the pink. Bringing it to Wango Tango. New song, Mimi Webb.

Do you like it?

I do love it. Tell me about the song and how it was to work with her. 

She’s on my label, and so they called me and were like, would you ever work with Mimi Webb? And I was like, I love Mimi Webb. The biggest Mimi Webb fan there is, is my husband, Daryl [Sabara]. So he was like, “Please work with her.” And then we met, we fell in love. And then I wrote this chorus the night before because I wanted Daryl to be able to read my mind.

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