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29 Feb 2024

Bad Bunny, Rita Moreno & More Added as 2024 Oscar Presenters

The 2024 Oscars will have strong Latin representation. Two Puerto Rican superstars of different generations — Bad Bunny and Rita Moreno — have been added as presenters for the March 10 ceremony, along with Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef.

Moreno won an Oscar in 1962 for West Side Story. In 1977, she became the first Latina (and just the third person overall) to complete the EGOT. In 2022, Bad Bunny made history when Un Verano Sin Ti became the first Spanish-language album to top Billboard’s year-end chart and to receive a Grammy nod for album of the year.

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On Wednesday, the Academy announced that another popular Latin star, Becky G, would perform the nominated “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot on the telecast. Becky G was born in Inglewood, Calif., to Mexican American parents.

Previously announced Oscars presenters are Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya.

The 96th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast to outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 10, at the new, earlier time of 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the show for the fourth time. It will be held at its usual home, the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.

Raj Kapoor is executive producer and showrunner for the 2024 Oscars. Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan are also executive producers. Hamish Hamilton is directing. Rickey Minor is music director.

29 Feb 2024

21 Savage, Lil Jon, Killer Mike & More Reflect on Freaknik’s Legacy in ‘Wildest Party Never Told’ Trailer

Freaknik took HBCU spring breaks in Atlanta throughout the ’80s and ’90s by storm. The cultural street party has been turned into a documentary as Hulu’s Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told is set to arrive on the streamer on March 21.

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Ahead of the P. Frank Williams-directed documentary’s debut at SXSW next month, Hulu unleashed a trailer detailing the Black excellence to give those that attended a nostalgic blast from the past and inform those who didn’t have the chance to learn about the history they missed out on.

21 Savage, Jermaine Dupri and Uncle Luke are on board as producers for the film, which also boasts appearances from Lil Jon, Killer Mike, Too Short and more.

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“At its heart, Freaknik is a music documentary. Luke is the soundtrack of Freaknik, [Dupri’s] So So Def label is directly correlated to Freaknik and 21 Savage is the new school. They’re fascinated with the wild stuff we did, the clothes and the music of that era,” Williams told Variety. “The legacy of Freaknik really started in ‘83, I don’t know if people realized that. It was about kids trying to find a place for Black joy. Freaknik wasn’t just about the party. Our goal was to show how it affected politics, culture, race, there was a lot with sexuality, gender.”

Freaknik provided a place for the youth to indulge in debauchery but also celebrate themselves as well as their sexual expression. Lil Jon called the block party the “greatest Black gathering in America.” Killer Mike joked to close out the teaser: “Trust me, your momma and daddy got down.”

However, amid all the partying, there was a dark side of Freaknik that the documentary made sure to not shy away from with scenes of violence breaking out among the overwhelming amount of partygoers and police brutality.

“The turn up, the cars, sexuality, joy, the daisy dukes — that’s the candy of it. But there’s also some vegetables in it – which is the Black empowerment, police brutality was part of it, Black cultural realization, young women realizing their sexuality, young men too,” Williams continued.

“Freaknik is really a coming of age story about a generation who was trying to find a voice in a world that didn’t accept them — but this is a place they created for themselves. Freaknik is the ultimate personification of that.”

Watch the trailer below. Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told arrives on March 21.



29 Feb 2024

Australian Swiftie Speaks Out After Her Emotional Reaction to Taylor Swift Performing ‘Exile’ Goes Viral

Taylor Swift fans are famously passionate people, as demonstrated in that viral video of one Swiftie sobbing over the pop star’s surprise song performance of “Exile” at one of her Eras Tour shows in Sydney.

But while some people may criticize such displays of emotion, especially where celebrities such as Swift are concerned, Madison Blackband — the fan featured in the clip — feels no need to apologize for being herself. “There’s no point letting it upset me,” the 20-year-old Brisbane local told Rolling Stone Wednesday (Feb. 28) of the negative reactions she’s encountered since going viral. “I reacted the way I reacted.”

“That’s just me,” she continued. “I’m just a passionate person. The opinion of people thinking that it’s embarrassing and stuff doesn’t mean anything to me because I never thought it was and I’m not going to think it is now just because someone says I should. I understand why people are laughing at it. I laughed at the video myself once I first watched it back.”

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In the video, which has since been critiqued and repurposed into various memes countless times on X, Blackband sits outside of Accor Stadium between two friends. When she hears Swift play the opening notes of her Folklore Bon Iver duet, she collapses into one friend’s lap and starts bawling loudly and uncontrollably.

“My reaction to Taylor singing Exile (also known as the song that saved my life),” she captioned the video, which she originally posted on TikTok Sunday (Feb. 25).

“I posted it intending it for like 200 people, not millions,” Blackband explained to the publication. “[Exile] means a lot to me. It’s a song I’ve listened to when I needed anything, as a distraction or to keep me focused. It’s like a safety blanket.”

Swift wrapped up her four-night stint in Sydney Monday (Feb. 26), closing out the Eras Tour‘s Australian leg, which also included three shows in Melbourne the week prior. Next up, the “Anti-Hero” singer will set up shop in Singapore for six nights beginning March 2 at National Stadium.

In a recent Instagram post, Swift reflected on her stay in Sydney, which she described as “a whirlwind of endless magical moments.” “I’m so grateful that we got to be the first tour to play Accor Stadium 4 times,” she wrote. “I’ll never forget singing with Sabrina [Carpenter], the chaotic acoustic mashups, and the crowds that were louder (singing AND screaming) than I thought humanly possible.”

See Blackband’s viral video below.

29 Feb 2024

Twenty One Pilots Announce ‘Clancy’ Album, Drop Video For Booming ‘Overcompensate’ Single

Twenty One Pilots officially announced the Clancy era on Thursday (Feb. 29). The quadrennial quirk of the calendar was the perfect time to reveal that the final chapter in the Blurryface saga will unfold when the Columbus, Ohio duo’s seventh album drops on May 17.

Before releasing the video for first single “Overcompensate,” singer/guitarist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun shared the album’s fiery artwork earlier in the day, in which the pair stand amid a field of licking flames, with the title situated vertically over Joseph’s balaclava-obscured face.

The “Overcompensate” visual opens with a hovering shot of an ocean before a glitchy woman’s voice and insistent keyboard thrum bubble up over a map of the fictional land of Trench. The drone-like shot then flies above a barren-looking island before dropping into Dema as an ominous voice croaks, “welcome back to Trench.”

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The scene switches to an empty arena bathed in blood-red light, with Dun in the middle of the floor playing the song’s thundering beat as a masked Joseph materializes to sing to a room full of grim-faced young people in grey sweatsuits. With the beat slowing down, Joseph breaks into his familiar rap cadence, “Earned my stripes/ Three hundreds tracks in my Adidas jacket/ Bless your ear holes while you react/ Acting gobsmacked don’t hesitate to maybe overcompensate/ I feel like I was just here/ Same twitching in my eyes,” before singing the melodic chorus, “I fly by the dangerous bend symbol/ Don’t hesitate to maybe overcompensate/ And then by the time I catch in my peripheral/ Don’t hesitate to maybe overcompensate.”

Climbing to a high point in a pulpit-like spot — not unlike the platform Joseph often scrambles onto during the band’s arena shows — the singer then reveals “I am Clancy,” pulling open his jacket to reveal suspenders with rune-like letters running down them horizontally. Near the end of the clip, the audience shuffles out and Dun and Tyler move to the front of a classroom while a series of mysterious symbols, maps and legends are projected onto their faces. It ends, of course, with yet another unexplained image: a glowing-eyed Clancy dressed all in black holding up a pair of animal horns before slyly smiling at the camera.

Because 21P’s knotty world building is jammed with more Easter eggs than a Taylor Swift concert, eagle-eyed fans noted that the Clancy release date is exactly nine years to the day after the 2015 drop of the first album in the sprawling Blurryface saga. Last week the band began the roll-out of the new album’s story via the four-minute video “I Am Clancy” recap video, which served as a catch-up on the story of the allegorical walled city of Dema, the rebel Banditos outlaw group and the story’s villain, the red-robed Nice, aka Blurryface.

The upcoming album is posited as the final entry in the long-running story that began on the group’s 2015 breakthrough Blurryface album, and then continued on 2018’s Trench and 2021’s Scaled and Icy. The news was accompanied by what appears to be the color theme of the Clancy album, red tape, which was spotted over the digital covers of the band’s albums on streaming services. The Blurryface story kicked off with a red and black color scheme before pivoting to yellow for Trench.

Check out the Clancy album cover and “Overcompensate” video below.

29 Feb 2024

Afrobeats Fresh Picks: Ayra Starr, Adekunle Gold, Logos Olori, Joeboy, Rowlene & More

The year is starting to heat up, and with an extra day in February, this month’s Afrobeats Fresh Picks makes it to you just under the wire. This month, there is new heat from bright young hitmakers like Ayra Starr, Black Sherif and Boy Spyce and Khaid, plus new bangers from more established stars like Young Jonn, Joeboy and Adekunle Gold, and some fresh tracks from artists like Rowlene, YKB, Logos Olori and Crayon. And there’s already more great music on the horizon, meaning that this year is still just getting started.

We’ve highlighted 10 of our favorite new Afrobeats (and related) songs that have come out roughly within the last month. Check out our latest Fresh Picks, and catch a vibe with our latest Spotify playlist below.

Black Sherif feat. Mabel, “Zero”  

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While discerning all of the good (fame) and bad (gossip) that comes with being in the public eye, Ghanaian rapper Black Sherif calls for “Zero” drama in his new single with English R&B/pop singer-songwriter Mabel. The tender melodies evoke the peace Black Sherif is seeking, while Mabel preoccupies herself with “the piano in the hotel lobby” and lights up a “zoot” (British slang for a joint) and Palo Santo to create a carefree environment that cuts through all the other noise. The only voices that matter are theirs.  

Logos Olori feat. Davido, “Easy On Me”  

After collaborating with Davido Music Worldwide label boss Davido on “Picasso” from the Grammy-nominated album Timeless, Logos Olori taps him for the easygoing “Easy On Me,” from his new OLORI EP. Olori’s sensual melodies and tropical-inspired production makes it the perfect baecation song, as both artists marvel at women who have them wrapped around their fingers. 

Young Jonn feat. Kizz Daniel & Seyi Vibez, “Big Big Things” 

This trio of Nigerian singer-songwriters is only meant for “Big Big Things,” as evidenced by Young Jonn’s latest single that will be featured on his upcoming debut album Jiggy Forever. Powered by an amapiano-infused bassline, rap air horns and a tropical melody, this banger is all about being unstoppable. “When I walk through the valley of the shadow / All eyes on me cause I came in a Lambo,” Young Jonn flexes. In a press release, he describes “Big Big Things” as “a rallying cry for dreamers, go-getters and anyone with an unrelenting desire to achieve greatness.”   

Ayra Starr, “Commas”  

The Beninese-Nigerian star simultaneously addresses those who’ve presented roadblocks in her path, and inspires others to never stop chasing their dreams, on her new Afropop single “Commas.” Over a swelling string arrangement and bubbling percussion, she delivers a personal message of resilience for those who need it most – including herself. During her recent Billboard News interview, she revealed that “Commas” will be included in her upcoming album. “The Ayra Starr I want to introduce is excellent, sonically amazing. This album is unique, because I’ve been evolving sonically,” she said.  

Adekunle Gold, “The Life I Chose”  

The Nigerian star reflects on “The Life I Chose” in his new single. Produced by Kel-P, the track employs a spellbinding, psychedelic flavor of Afropop that draws listeners in just the way the rockstar lifestyle drew in Gold. He revels in its opulence – “Pool side, sippin’ Don Peri/ All the fine girls won fed gum-body” – while being wary of undercover opps when he realizes, “All of a sudden, everybody act like they love me (Fake love).”

Joeboy, “Osadebe”

The first single under his new imprint for Warner Music Africa, Young Legend, finds Joeboy paying tribute to highlife icon Chief Osita Osadebe and his 1984 classic “Osondi Owendi,” and dealing with the emotions of balancing such a successful career with remaining humble. “Sometimes I feel like I’m supernatural / But I’m only human / I’m only human,” he sings. A good start to a new chapter for Joeboy.

YKB, “High & Sober”

A gorgeous ballad, “High & Sober” finds YKB crooning a love letter to his girl over lush production from Pheelz, who supports the vocals with a full backing orchestral section underneath the hook, fleshing out the song and giving YKB the platform to showcase his vocals. After great singles “komplete riddim” and “This Must Be Love” with King Promise last year, YKB is on an upward trajectory.

Crayon, “FADE AWAY”

An understated beat underscores this unconventional single from Crayon, whose syncopated rhythms and flexible melodies bring an unorthodox style to the track. With occasionally double-tracked vocals and production that relies mostly on its drum pattern but incorporates piano, organ, guitar and saxophone in different sections, the song stands out from a lot of the other songs coming out right now.

Rowlene, “don’t let go”

For fans of the South African singer, it’s been a long wait after 2020’s excellent 11:11 album, but finally Rowlene has returned with a beautiful three-pack of songs called Moment In Between, with “don’t let go” a particular standout among them. A poignant plea, the song features her ever-engaging vocals, reminding that there’s a lot more to come from one of the leading lights of South African R&B.

Boy Spyce & Khaid, “I Don’t Care”

Boy Spyce and Khaid made a big impact last year with the carefree, upbeat “Carry Me Go,” which combined an irresistible melody with an earworm of a hook to deliver a song that truly felt like the summertime. “I Don’t Care,” their most recent collaboration, is a different beast entirely, opening with a menacing beat that then gets its edge taken off, instead providing a propulsive platform for their intertwining vocals, a stylistic switch up that nonetheless still works well, with a fun video to accompany it.

29 Feb 2024

Kanye West Pleads With Kim Kardashian to Take Their Kids Out of ‘Fake School’

Kanye West isn’t a fan of where his kids go to school in California, and he once again called for ex-wife Kim Kardashian to remove them.

In a Thursday (Feb. 29) social media post, the Chicago native put the school, which Billboard is not naming, on blast.

“KIM TAKE MY KIDS OUT … NOW IT’S A FAKE SCHOOL FOR CELEBRITIES THAT ARE USED BY ‘THE SYSTEM,” he wrote. The former couple — who finalized their divorce in November 2022 — shares four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.

West added in the caption: “At this point everybody knows what ‘the system’ is code word for I was removed from my dad by the system and the system removed me from my children. When the system drafts athletes they avoid working with those who have their father in their life because they are harder to manipulate. My two oldest know they daddy is.”

Billboard has reached out to Kim Kardashian’s rep and the school for comment.

It’s not the first time the rapper — who now goes by Ye — has railed against his kids’ education, as he took shots at the school his kids are attending on Vultures 1 anthem “Carnival.”

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“Got my kids in a fake school we ain’t,” he raps while being cut off to close out his verse on the hit.

While unhappy with the current schooling curriculum for children, Ye took it upon himself to open the Donda Academy. However, the K-12 Christian academy came under fire for its practices and eventually shut down in October 2022 following Ye’s antisemitic remarks and string of hate speech.

29 Feb 2024

Watch Olivia Rodrigo Gear Up for Her Austin Guts Tour Show With Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’

Olivia Rodrigo is bringing her Guts World Tour to Texas, so naturally, she’s turning up Beyoncé‘s chart-topping new ode to the Lone Star State.

In a TikTok posted ahead of her Wednesday (Feb. 28) show in Austin, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter sports a purple cowboy hat and springs in and out of a hollow, oversized birthday cake prop to the beat of Bey’s new hit “Texas Hold ‘Em.” At the end, she crawls toward the camera and tips her hat at followers.

“austin tonight!!! luv u texas ???,” she captioned the clip.

Rodrigo’s show at Austin’s Moody Center came one day after she performed in Bey’s home city, Houston, at the Toyota Center, delivering an energetic pop-punk showcase featuring tracks from both her debut album Sour and her 2023 sophomore effort Guts. On Friday (March 1), she’ll bring the trek to Dallas at the American Airlines Center.

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The “Drivers License” musician is just the latest creator to make a video set to “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which recently peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its second week on the chart. Earlier this week, TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s Taehyun and HueningKai shared a video of themselves trying out a hoedown-esque dance trend designed around the track, a snippet of which has been used well over 300,000 times on TikTok.

The Guts World Tour kicked off Feb. 23 at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, Calif., marking the beginning of Rodrigo’s largest trek so far. Openers The Breeders, PinkPantheress, Chappell Roan and Remi Wolf will join her on different dates of the six-month run, which will find the former High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star traveling across North America and Europe through mid August.

Watch Rodrigo’s TikTok below.

29 Feb 2024

Charli XCX Hard Launches ‘Brat’ Era With Unruly New ‘Von Dutch’ Single & Video: Stream It Now

From “I Love It” and “Fancy” to “Speed Drive” and “Boom Clap,” Charli XCX has been upending pop music with boisterous production and gigantic hooks for over a decade. On Thursday (Feb. 29), the Grammy nominee officially launched her newest era with the delightfully rambunctious “Von Dutch” and its accompanying music video.

“I’m just living that life, Von Dutch/ Cult classic but it’s still pop/ I get money, you get mad/ Because the bank stop,” she sing-chants over a blaring synth-anchored electropop beat produced by EASYFUN.

In the music video for the brash song — one that wholly embraces her position as an artist who straddles the line of pop star and cult favorite — Charli wreaks havoc in a semi-empty airport. She embodies the archetype of an overgrown brat as she struts down moving walkways, trespasses onto empty planes and frolics on the baggage carousel. The visual was filmed at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and directed by Torso.

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“Von Dutch” serves as the lead single from Charli’s forthcoming sixth studio album, Brat. The new record is the follow-up to 2022’s Crash, which topped the albums chart in the U.K. and reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200, becoming the highest charting LP yet of Charli’s career in the U.S. On Feb. 24, Charli discussed her new album on X, writing, “I was born to make dance music. I came from the clubs. XCX6 is the album I’ve always wanted to make.”

On the heels of her BRIT Award nomination (pop act), the innovative pop star will be honored with the Powerhouse Award at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards presented by Marriott Bonvoy on Wednesday, March 6, at the YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, and streaming March 7. Of her honor, Charli posted on X, “[Billboard] is honoring me at their [Women in Music Awards] and I’m very honored… I’ve never felt stronger about the music I’m making and it’s defo cool to be noticed but it’s also fun to be an outsider too. So thank you!”

Stream “Von Dutch” below, and watch the music video above.

29 Feb 2024

Djo’s ‘End of Beginning’ Is the Latest TikTok Billboard Top 50 No. 1

A week after scoring a splashy debut at No. 11 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, Djo’s “End of Beginning” vaults to No. 1 on the March 2-dated survey.

The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity Feb. 19-25. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50. Titles that are part of Universal Music Group’s catalog are currently unavailable on TikTok.

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“End of Beginning,” as previously reported, encompasses a TikTok trend that largely centers on Chicago, which is mentioned prominently in the 2022 song’s lyrics. The line “And when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it/ Another version of me, I was in it” soundtracks footage of the city, people discussing their time there or even users pining for similar experiences in other cities.

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A more recent trend featuring “End of Beginning” is a photo montage with the prompt “If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there’d be signs,” showing off how their life would change after winning the cash. While the Chicago-specific trend kicked off the song’s TikTok rise, the latest theme helped drive the track to an explosion on the platform – and subsequently on audio and video streaming services – that begets its jump to No. 1.

Concurrently, “End of Beginning” becomes Djo’s (real name Joe Keery, known also as an actor on Stranger Things, Fargo and more) first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, bowing at No. 51. It accumulated 8.4 million official U.S. streams Feb. 16-22, a 194% jump, according to Luminate. Those streams also drive it to No. 2 on Alternative Streaming Songs.

“End of Beginning” takes over No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 from Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do for Love,” which falls to No. 2 after one week atop the tally. The trend for the 1978 song, which peaked at No. 9 on the Hot 100 in its time, continues, though; as noted toward the Feb. 24 ranking, creators are most often using the song to supplement footage of different food items and dishes, including chocolate-covered strawberries, while others zoom in on pets or significant others. The song jumped another 15% in official U.S. streams Feb. 16-22 to 1.8 million.

The week’s top debut is one spot below at No. 3: Glee cast’s version of “Rose’s Turn,” a song originally written for the musical Gypsy. The tune’s opening line “All that work and what did it get me? Why did I do it?” is used as creators lament trying hard to accomplish something, only for it to be all for naught.

Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” concurrently the week’s No. 1 song on the Hot 100, continues its ascent on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, leaping from No. 13 to No. 4, while one of its closest competitors on the Hot 100, Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival,” starts at No. 5.

While uploads for “Texas Hold ‘Em” remain largely rooted in a dance trend to the country tune, “Carnival” is being used in a variety of ways, from usages in general viral clips to creators reacting to the track, considered to be the runaway hit from Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s No. 1 album Vultures 1.

Both “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “Carnival” rise in official U.S. streams Feb. 16-22, the former up 51% to 29 million streams and the latter jumping 5% to 24.6 million.

Cat Janice‘s “Dance You Outta My Head” ranks at No. 6; the chart’s latest tracking week came prior to the 31-year-old singer’s Feb. 28 death from sarcoma; she debuted the song while in hospice as her final release.

One other song debuts in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10: Armando Trovajoli’s “L’amore Dice Ciao,” the “slow take” version of which bows at No. 8. The instrumental track from the Italian pianist and composer is mostly utilized in a trend soundtracking animation to the prompt “Do you think you would be my [fill in the blank] in every universe?” – often friend, mother, sibling, etc. – with the response “I hope we are,” showing the users in multiple forms.

See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.

29 Feb 2024

St. Vincent Unveils Fiery New Single ‘Broken Man’ & Announces New Album

The final day of February arrives with an abundance of blessings from St. Vincent. In addition to sharing a new song and music video titled “Broken Man” Thursday (Feb. 29), the singer-songwriter born Annie Clark also announced that her next album, All Born Screaming, is set to arrive this spring. 

Set over sharp-edged electric guitar and industrial-sounding percussion, “Broken Man” gets progressively angrier and grittier as Clark laments, “Hey, what are you looking at?/ Who the hell do you think I am?/ And what are you looking at/ Like you never seen a broken man.” 

In the music video, she sings the track’s lyrics into an old-fashioned microphone as parts of her body erupt into flames. By the end of the visual, the indie musician is completely engulfed in fire. 

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The song will appear on All Born Screaming, one of 10 tracks on St. Vincent’s seventh studio album – the cover of which borrows a shot of the singer spontaneously combusting from the “Broken Man” music video. Clark confirmed Thursday that the LP will drop April 26 via Virgin Music Group. 

“There are some places, emotionally, that you can only get to by taking the long walk into the woods alone — to find out what your heart is really saying,” she said in a statement. “It sounds real because it is real.”  

All Born Screaming follows St. Vincent’s 2021 effort The Nowhere Inn. She last released music in 2022, during which she dropped a single titled “Piggy” as well as a cover of “Funkytown” for the Minions: Rise of Gru soundtrack. 

Watch the “Broken Man” music video below.