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When Lady Gaga makes a cameo on your show, you best believe it’s not going to be any ordinary day on set.
According to Jenna Ortega, the producers of Wednesday all but rolled out the red carpet for Mother Monster when she came overseas to film her part on the Netflix series’ upcoming second season — but it was all gone as soon as Gaga’s parts were over.
On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night, the 22-year-old actress recalled working with the “Disease” singer, saying, “I remember showing up to set and they completely changed everything.”
“We had a normal functioning set, and I remember pulling up to work the day of, and suddenly there was like truck after truck after truck,” she continued. “They had, like, rolled out this walkway for her to exit from the trailer to the tents. I went to my tent to hang out, and they replaced my dirty tent with, like, brand-new tents. I had a barber’s chair. They gave me fancy water. Everything. We really did it up for her guys. We really wanted to impress her.”
Ortega added while laughing, “And then the next day, I went back to my dusty setup. … I wanted her to be on set even more, but part of it was because the water was really nice.”
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Though season 2 will mark Gaga’s debut on the show, the 14-time Grammy winner first unofficially entered the Wednesday universe when her 2011 track “Bloody Mary” experienced a renaissance after fans started pairing it with Ortega’s iconic dance sequence from the first season. The phenomenon sparked a TikTok dance trend in 2022 that Gaga herself took part in; two years later, it was announced that she’d be joining the show’s cast.
Earlier this month, the Scream star teased the musician’s role in Wednesday, saying, “She’s great in the show, and I don’t think she’s what people expect her to be.”
On Colbert, Ortega added, “She is so sweet, so humble, just a normal person, and it’s beautiful and amazing … It’s intimidating when someone is so talented but cool at the same time.”
Watch Ortega recount her time filming Wednesday with Gaga on The Late Show above.
It’s been a decade since Zayn Malik left One Direction and on Tuesday night (March 25) during the singer’s show in Mexico City he did something he hasn’t done since then: he performed one of the group’s most beloved hits during a solo show. At his gig at Palacio De Los Deportes on the Stairway […]
Lady Gaga announced the dates for her anticipated summer-fall 2025 Mayhem Ball tour in support of her new Mayhem album on Wednesday morning (March 26). “This is my first arena tour since 2018,” said Gaga in a statement. “There’s something electric about a stadium, and I love every moment of those shows. But with The MAYHEM Ball, I wanted to create a different kind of experience — something more intimate — closer, more connected — that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create.”
After a run of previously announced shows in April and May, Gaga’s first North American and European tour since her 2022 Chromatica Ball tour will open in the U.S. with a double-down in Las Vegas on July 16 and 18, two shows in Seattle, three nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and two-night runs in Miami, Toronto and Chicago. She will then play a run of arena dates across Europe from Sept. 29 through Nov. 20.
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Tickets for the North American dates will go on sale on March 31, with an artist pre-sale beginning on April 2 at 12 p.m. local time; sign up for that pre-sale here through 8 a.m. ET on Sunday (March 30). The general on-sale will kick off on April 3 at 12 p.m. local time here. There will also be a Citi pre-sale for North America beginning on Monday (March 31) at 12 p.m. local time through April 2 at 11 a.m. local time here. A Verizon pre-sale will begin on April 1 at 12 p.m. local time through April 2 at 11 a.m. local time here.
Tickets for select shows in Europe will go on sale on March 31 with a Mastercard pre-sale for shows in Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Belgium beginning at noon local time through April 2 at 10 p.m. local here. Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week before the general on-sale for all of the European/U.K. dates beginning on April 3 at 12 p.m. local time here.
Mother Monster will gear up for the tour by headlining Coachella next month, followed by a pair of previously announced dates (April 26-27) at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City, and some other already announced spring dates, including a free May 3 show on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and four nights at the National Stadium in Singapore on May 18, 18, 21 and 24.
Check out the dates for the 2025 Mayhem Ball tour below.
July 16 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
July 18 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
August 6 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
August 7 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
August 22 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 23 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 26 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
August 31 – Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
Sept. 1 – Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
Sept. 10 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
Sept. 11 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
Sept. 15 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
Sept. 17 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
Sept. 29 – London, UK @ The O2
Sept. 30 – London, UK @ The O2
Oct. 2 – London, UK @ The O2
Oct. 7 – Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
Oct. 12 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena
Oct. 13 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Avicii Arena
Oct. 19 – Milan, Italy @ Unipol Forum
Oct. 20 – Milan, Italy @ Unipol Forum
Oct. 28 – Barcelona, Spain @ Palau Sant Jordi
Oct. 29 – Barcelona, Spain @ Palau Sant Jordi
Nov. 4 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena
Nov. 5 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena
Nov. 9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
Nov. 11 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Sportpaleis Arena
Nov. 13 – Lyon, France @ LDLC Arena
Nov. 14 – Lyon, France @ LDLC Arena
Nov. 17 – Paris, France @ Accor Arena
Nov. 18 – Paris, France @ Accor Arena
Nov. 20 – Paris, France @ Accor Arena
Selena Gomez isn’t afraid to talk about the double standard when it comes to comments about her appearance. On this week’s episode of Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, Gomez lamented that she gets “a tad bitter” when people mention her weight, noting that those comments are always aimed at women.
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Appearing with fiancé Benny Blanco — who said he never reads too deeply into what people say about him online because he’d rather “free-fall through life” without knowing what anyone else thinks — Gomez said her take is very different. “I was also going to point out that women have it much worse,” she said. “From my perspective, it’s pretty wild, and I think this isn’t news to anybody, that obviously women have a lot more intense feelings from their appearance to what they are wearing to everything.”
The scrutiny is so intense that Gomez said it gets in her head when she’s getting ready for the red carpet. “When I get prepared for an event, 90 percent of the time I’m just like, ‘I just hope I can take the picture and sit down.’” Gomez said, “It’s the character that gets judged, it’s the way I’m not white enough, I’m not Mexican enough. There’s just so many different things that come up in my face that I can’t help but see. But I fall victim to looking at things, and it really doesn’t add to your life, but it’s just so difficult. From the choices of people you date, it’s like nobody cares about those kind of things with men. They’re just like, ‘yeah, the did that, they said that.’”
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Gomez, 32, said the most frequent unsolicited comments she sees are about her weight, with “everyone” online having “something to say” about it. “My weight’s a big one too,” she said. “It’s really making me sad and — not even sad cause, I’m not a victim, I just think it’s made me a tad bitter, and I feel really guilty for saying that, but it’s true.” In the past, Gomez has shared that the medicine she takes to combat the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus can cause weight fluctuations.
In November, Gomez hit back at negative posts about her posture at a red carpet event promoting her Oscar-nominated film Emilia Perez, after some TikTok users suggested she was trying to hide her body with poses in which her hands were positioned across her stomach. “This makes me sick,” Gomez wrote in the comments of the speculation. “I have SEBO [SIBO] in my small intestine. It flares up. I don’t care that I don’t look like a stick figure. I don’t have that body. End of story. No I am NOT a victim. I’m just human.”
As she’s revealed before, the singer also told Shetty that she takes mental health breaks from being online and “most of the time” she ignores the haters, noting again that she doesn’t have social apps on her phone. “So there are ways to combat it,” she said. “I’m not like, ‘I hate it.’ I understand the power of what social media is, it’s just tricky.”
Watch Blanco and Gomez on the Shetty podcast below.
This is an S.O.S. — the Jonas Brothers are turning 20, and they’re celebrating in a massive way.
To kick it all off, thousands of fans gathered at New Jersey’s American Dream Mall on Sunday (March 23) for the first-ever JONASCON, a free fan event filled with performances, surprise guests, themed activations (like G.I. Jonas laser tag and Jonas Pizza), branded merch and much more. Joe, Nick and Kevin were of course in attendance — making multiple appearances throughout the mall all day long. It was a full-circle experience for the three brothers from Jersey — whose first performances ever (before they became who we know now as “the Jonas Brothers”) were in this same mall, but to much smaller audiences.
“This is, in a lot of ways, is 20 years in the making, and just a culmination of a lot of things going right and a lot of people believing in us,” Nick tells Billboard about the event right before their first performance of the day at Jonas Beach, which took place at the mall’s DreamWorks Water Park.
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Later in the day, the Brothers welcomed previously-announced performers, The All-American Rejects and Franklin Jonas, to the stage, but also had several other surprises up their sleeves. Big Time Rush traveled to Jersey for a mall-ready performance of “Boyfriend,” while Camp Rock cast members M Dot, Meaghan Martin, and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle joined podcasters Chicks in the Office on stage for a surprise chat down memory lane.
During their final keynote performance, Joe, Nick and Kevin treated fans to a slew of other special announcements — meaning much more for fans to get excited about for the band’s 20th year. The band revealed that their next studio album, Greetings From Your Hometown, will arrive on Aug. 8. They also announced the release date for Joe’s long-awaited solo album, Music For People Who Believe in Love, on May 23, their Disney+ film A Very Jonas Christmas (arriving later this year), a new song celebrating Disneyland’s 70th anniversary, a London Live album (out June 13) and a new song in collaboration with ESPN for Sunday Night Baseball called “I Can’t Lose.”
Even with so much to look forward to in their 20th year, the lessons they’ve learned aren’t lost on them — and they hope to pass on what they’ve learned to the next generation.
“I think speaking to any musicians and artists, really believe in your craft and what you’re creating. We had people around us that really lifted us up and [let us] go in the studio and create them. It’s important to have that, because even after time, 20 years later, people are still gonna have opinions,” Joe tells Billboard. “You have to be able to just remember that: This is why you love it, and you create something for yourself.”
Read their full interview with Billboard below.
I’m sure there are countless memories over the past 20 years, but do you have any favorites?
JOE: We can’t pick one, but I think probably […] the van/trailer that we also would drive around the Northeast playing in front of anyone that listened to us — usually in malls. We started in malls, and we would sound check at about 4 or 5 a.m. and mall walkers would yell at us, and then we perform about 10 times throughout the day in front of Build-A-Bear. And now we’re doing it again, just a different size of mall.
KEVIN: There are so many to count. We walked through the Jonas Museum last night while it was completely empty and so fun to see memories from so long ago. My Takamine guitar is there. That was like my first purchase of a guitar ever. It’s the [guitar] we wrote “Please Be Mine” on all together. So it was pretty cool to see that.
NICK: [JONASCON] has actually got to be up there, just seeing the excitement from the fans … and our family is here today with us. Our parents are here. Our dad’s doing a sing along later with the fans, and [our brother] Franklin is performing.
What do you remember about recording your first album?
JOE: Well, I’m gonna go with the album that John Fields recorded with us [Jonas Brothers], because that was one of the launching pad albums for us — we had It’s About Time earlier. But I think when we were really able to define our sound as a band, and those were some of the most heartwarming memories for us […] we had our buddy John Taylor doing belly flops in the pool almost every day. The pool was like 102 degrees. It was our first real experience in Los Angeles.
NICK: I think the early memories of recording and writing music, we really didn’t know what we were doing, to be honest … we still don’t know what we’re doing. We had a bunch of people, to Joe’s point, that just said, you can do it and pushed us. And that was our dad, John Fields, our record label at the time Hollywood and John Lind. We were surrounded by people that just said, ‘You can do it,’ and believed in us, and that’s what took us to the next stage.
Even now, looking up and seeing what these songs mean to people so many years later, even though they were written when we were teenagers, is so incredible to us, and they resonate for us in different ways as we look out and see how the fan base has grown and changed and evolved over the years.
You guys started out around the same time social media started popping off. How do you reflect on having that personal connection with fans from the jump and those early days making YouTube videos?
KEVIN: Short-form content on YouTube. We figured it out quickly.
JOE: If only we were smart enough to create an app. We missed out on that … Our writers room was great, which was actually that van. We flipped the two back seats facing each other, and we’d come up with all these fun ideas. We would always be pitched things that we’d need to promote, but we felt kind of weird trying to sell ourselves like that. So we always said, ‘Let’s just make it fun and come up with stupid ideas.’ Jackass was really popular time. A lot of fake injuries, sometimes that became real injuries, and trying to make it feel natural and put into our own words. Our fans really, I think, gravitated towards that. We still do that stuff.
What do you remember about “Bounce,” the song/music video you put out while filming Camp Rock 2?
NICK: Sidebar — One of funniest checks I ever received was for “Bounce,” and it was for like $10 [because I was credited as the producer].
JOE: Did it go Gold or Platinum?
NICK: I think it went Gold.
JOE: We have a Gold plaque for “Bounce,” which is ridiculous … It was literally made on Garage Band in our Camp Rock dressing room. We had a lot of hours spent on that set, which we didn’t realize at the time, it was our first real movie to be a part of. You’re sitting around a lot, so “Bounce” was created.
Will there be a “Bounce” part 2?
JOE: There is time, you know. We’ll see, the next 20 years might have it.
KEVIN: Only time will tell.
You guys announced your massive JONAS20: LIVING THE DREAM tour, kicking off at MetLife Stadium. What does it mean to be headlining that massive venue in your home state? And do you have plans to bring the tour internationally?
JOE: We do have plans to bring the tour internationally. We also are overwhelmed to be playing MetLife Stadium. We’ve done it with radio shows and things like that, and popped up here and there, we’ve seen countless New York Giants football games there. I remember buying nosebleed seats when we had just enough in our allowance to go and watch a game. So to be Jersey guys who grew up 10, 15 minutes away from the stadium, MetLife. It’s a dream come true — to celebrate with our fans as well. And then we’re starting there, it’s now tradition. We have to start with New York.
[Note: This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.]
Camila Cabello is heading to Australia for two massive shows this August as part of her global Yours, C tour.
The pop star will perform in Sydney and Melbourne, bringing her latest album C,XOXO to life onstage following her recent run of festival appearances across Europe.
The Yours, C tour marks Cabello’s first as a solo artist, with her previous performances in the country as part of Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour. Since then, she’s continued to evolve as a solo artist with hit singles like “Bam Bam” and her genre-blurring fourth studio album C,XOXO, which blends pop, trap, reggaeton and punk.
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Following a string of memorable performances at major international festivals last summer, including Glastonbury Festival (UK), Rock in Rio Lisbon (Portugal), and Tinderbox Festival (Denmark), Camila will kick off the Yours, C tour in Marbella, Spain, before hitting Australia.
Speaking about the tour in February, Cabello wrote on Instagram: “I have been dying to tell you this. You have been so patient, and now it’s finally happening. I haven’t seen you guys on tour in so long, I wanted it to be a love letter to you guys for the summer. For the summer I’m yours.”
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At the BAFTAs in London in February, the “Havana” singer dropped a hint on the red carpet that she would be heading Down Under as part of the tour.
“I’m actually going on tour this summer, for the first time in a very long time, so I’m gonna be on tour all over Europe.” She added, “I’ll be playing some festivals, but a lot of headline shows. I’m gonna be in London July 8th, so I’m excited about that.”
Her latest singles “I Luv It” and “He Knows” have been making waves online and teasing a bold new era for the former Fifth Harmony star.
Camila Cabello – Yours, C Tour Australia Dates
Aug. 20 – Sydney, Qudos Bank ArenaAug. 22 – Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
Fred Again.. and Justin Bieber were recently seen in the studio together, according to footage shared by U.K. artist Sekou — and while no collaboration has been confirmed, the brief moment has prompted renewed interest in both artists’ current creative phases.
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On March 21, Sekou posted several Instagram Stories documenting a recording session. Though the focus was on the rising artist himself, fans quickly noted the presence of both Fred Again.. and Justin Bieber in the background of one clip. The story has since expired, but screenshots began circulating across Reddit and X (formerly Twitter), drawing attention due to the pair’s history of working together — and their individual reputations for shaping global hits.
Fred Again.., born Fred Gibson, previously co-wrote and co-produced Bieber’s 2019 hit “I Don’t Care” with Ed Sheeran. The track debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, both stars’ best ranking on the chart since 2017, spending 22 weeks on the chart and reaching No. 1 in multiple countries, including the U.K., Australia and Canada. The collab also topped the Adult Pop Songs airplay tally dated Aug. 3.
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It remains one of Bieber’s most commercially successful releases — and was a key early writing credit for Gibson before he launched his solo career under the Fred Again.. moniker.
Since then, Fred Again.. has become one of the most innovative voices in electronic music. With albums like Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) and collaborative projects alongside Skrillex and Four Tet, the producer has built a cult following through emotionally raw production and unpredictable live performances.
His 2022 breakout track “Delilah (Pull Me Out of This)” reached the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and helped propel him to a spot on Billboard’s year-end Top Dance/Electronic Artists list.
Bieber’s last full-length project, Justice, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2021 and produced multiple Hot 100 hits, including “Peaches” (No. 1), “Ghost” (No. 5), and “Anyone” (No. 6). While the singer has yet to announce a new album, he’s been spotted in the studio on several occasions over the past year.
Sekou, who posted the story, is a fast-rising British R&B talent who released his debut EP Out of Mind in 2023 to critical acclaim. His presence alongside two high-profile artists has only amplified curiosity — but for now, no official release or project involving the three has been confirmed.
In 2024, producer Mk.gee confirmed he had been working with Bieber, telling The New York Times, “Anything that comes out of his mouth: That’s pop music. You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that, just because it represents something.”
After launching a world tour in February 2022 in support of Justice, and his 2020 Changes album, Bieber revealed in June of that year that he’d been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which had resulted in “full paralysis” on one side of his face, leading to the postponement of some dates. Though he hit the road again, Bieber was forced to come off the road again in September after the Rock in Rio festival due to ongoing health issues.
He appeared as a guest on a few singles since then, including Don Toliver’s “Private Landing” and an acoustic version of SZA’s “Snooze.”
Bieber has been busy with fatherhood lately. The star and his wife, Hailey Bieber, welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Jack Blues Bieber, in 2024.
Even LISA isn’t immune to Bieber Fever. In a recent interview about her favorite songs, the BLACKPINK star shouted out Justin Bieber‘s breakout hit before recalling how starstruck she was the first time they met. While speaking to The Guardian in a piece published Monday (March 24), LISA shared that the American pop star’s “Baby” […]
Mariah Carey is taking her Celebration of Mimi tour overseas. The singer announced on Sunday (March 23) that she’ll honor the 20th anniversary of her 2005 album with a run of international dates in Asia in May and this fall. “We’re taking The Celebration of Mimi worldwide! I can’t wait to see you all during […]
*NSYNC fans got a special treat on Friday (March 21), when Vevo chose “Bye Bye Bye” as the subject of their newest Footnotes episode, giving an inside look at the beloved track on its 25th anniversary. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The song peaked at No. […]