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Netflix announced on Monday (Jan. 22) that Britney Spears‘ 2002 coming-of-age roadtrip dramedy Crossroads will make its streaming debut next month. “The first movie to ever star the one and only Britney Spears has never been available on streaming… but that’s about to change!” the streamer said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to announce that […]

Ariana Grande said that s— with her chest, and it paid off. The pop superstar’s “Yes, And?” debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart dated Jan. 27, 2024, and she took to Instagram on Monday (Jan. 22) to celebrate the achievement and thank her fans for all their support. “i am so so so……. […]

Boy George isn’t holding back in his memoir, Karma: My Autobiography.
The Culture Club star reflected on his many not-so-positive run-ins with Madonna over the years, noting that “every gay man loves Madonna and there’s no one gayer than me.”

He recalled the first time he met the Queen of Pop. “This is where Madonna alleges she met me, and I was bitchy,” he wrote in an excerpt shared with People. “She describes me as head to toe in Westwood.” George added that, at the time, he was wearing Sue Clowes exclusively, so the person she met couldn’t have been him.

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Madge allegedly later snubbed him at the opening of an NYC club called Palladium. “Madonna arrived with Sean Penn and pretended she didn’t see me,” he wrote. “Madonna is everything it says on the tin but she adds new ingredients every day. I know for a fact she’s too full of herself to even mention me. She once said, ‘Boy George was mean to me in the eighties and he’s still mean.’ To be fair, I haven’t really been given the opportunity.”

However, George says he still loves some of her songs. “Not knowing anything about her I would assume she’d have issue with the word ‘some.’ … I have a sense of humour, I don’t think Madonna does, despite some of the clothes she wears (LOL),” he added.

“I love all the drama of, you know, the pop star behavior. I love to watch Madonna. I mean, the Madonna brand is genius,” George continued. “But outside of that, you know, it’s how you act. You know, because you want, as I say in the book, you want your artists to be weirdly beautiful and strange and all that, but you also want them to be kind of ordinary.”

However, he still has faith in their future. “Like Bette and Joan, we should have been friends,” he says. “There’s still time.”

Pssssssssst. Megan Thee Stallion just announced her new single “Hiss” — and it’s arriving sooner than you think.
A fittingly titled follow-up to her most recent solo single “Cobra,” “Hiss” will arrive Friday (Jan. 26), as announced by Meg on Instagram Monday (Jan. 22). “HISS JANUARY 26 🥚🐍PRE-SAVE NOW,” she wrote.

The “WAP” rapper also shared artwork for the single — a graphic design with a retro feel that features Meg posing with a dangerous-looking white snake around her neck, its fangs and forked tongue on display. The song’s title is displayed in red gothic lettering at the top.

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The three-time Grammy winner also shared alternative artwork for the single on Twitter, this time sans snake. In the second version, Meg stares down the camera in a red bodysuit patterned with cutouts.

“Hiss” will mark Meg’s first solo release since her Nov. 3 single “Cobra,” which debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. In between the two projects, she teamed up with Mean Girls star Reneé Rapp for “Not My Fault,” which the two women performed together over the weekend on Saturday Night Live.

The new track will also mark Meg’s second proper release under her own independent record label and entertainment company, Hot Girl Productions. She recently settled a yearslong legal battle with her former label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, with the two parties reaching a mutual settlement in October that allowed them to “amicably part ways.”

All of this comes in the lead-up to Meg’s upcoming third album, which will follow 2020’s Good News and 2022’s Traumazine — both of which charted in the top five of the Billboard 200. “This part of my album is very much so funded by Megan Thee Stallion because we’re trying to get off … Y’all know what’s the tea,” she teased in an October Instagram Live. “I have no label right now… The next s—t y’all about to see is all straight from Megan Thee Stallion’s brain and Megan Thee Stallion’s wallet. We are in my pockets, hotties, so let’s do our big one.”

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Just months after turning 10 years old, One Direction‘s iconic “Story of My Life” music video has surpassed one billion views on YouTube. 
Uploaded to the platform Nov. 3, 2013, the four-minute visual stars then bandmates Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne along with real members of their families as they recreate childhood photos. In one scene, for instance, a picture of a young Styles sitting on the couch next to his mom Anne morphs into a present-day version, the pair sitting in the same position — the “As It Was” singer now several inches taller, but still in the same blue bathrobe. 

In another childhood photo, a young Tomlinson sits with his parents and grandparents. When the scene shifts to present day, he and his mom and dad visibly age — however, his grandmother and grandfather fade away altogether. 

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“Written in these walls are the stories that I can’t explain/ I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days,” Styles sings at the beginning, the rest of the boys joining him later for the chorus. “The story of my life, I take her home/ I drive all night to keep her warm/ And time is frozen.” 

The track was released in 2013 ahead of the boy band’s third album, Midnight Memories, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 and was the group’s third of four straight No. 1 albums. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of six tracks to reach the top 10 in the band’s career before its 2016 hiatus. 

“Story of My Life” isn’t the first 1D video to join YouTube’s billion views club. The beachy visual for the band’s 2011 debut single “What Makes You Beautiful” also reached the milestone, as did 2015’s NASA-themed “Drag Me Down.” 

Watch “Story of My Life” below. 

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Justin Timberlake is back in the ring. After a five-year drought of any solo material from the pop star, he’s finally announced that his new single, “Selfish,” is coming in a matter of days. The former boy bander broke the news by simply posting what appears to be the song’s cover art on social media […]

More than 30 years since Billy Joel released his last pop album, 1993’s River of Dreams, he’s putting out a new pop single, “Turn the Lights Back On.” 
Columbia Records, Joel’s longtime label home, will release the song on Feb. 1 to all digital service providers and on limited edition 7” vinyl. It will be accompanied by a lyric video on Joel’s YouTube channel. 

Joel, who has scored 33 Top 40 hits, hinted about the new song at his Dec. 19 show as part of his Madison Square Garden residency, telling the audience, “I have good news. I have bad news. I’ll give you the bad news first. We don’t have anything new to play for you. The good news is you don’t have to sit through something you have no idea what it is. Although we’ve got a little something we’ve been working on you might hear sometime.” 

The pop song — which Joel wrote with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon and Wayne Hector and was produced by Wexler — includes the lyrics, “Did I wait too long … to turn the lights back on?” It’s Joel’s first song released with words since 2007’s  “All My Life,” a lush, Sinatra-like ballad Joel wrote for his then wife, Katie Lee, that reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Singles Sales chart.  

No word on if “Turn the Lights Back On” is a one-off or a precursor to more material, but Joel has been open about his hesitation to return to his pop heyday, making the new song all the more welcome. “I’m not ruling out the possibility of writing songs again,” Joel told Billboard in 2007, a few months after “All My Life’s” release. “I suppose if I had the motivation to write a song, I’m not gonna stop myself from doing it. I just haven’t felt the compulsion to write songs in pop form. I guess these days I just think of myself as a composer.”

More recently, Joel told the New Yorker of his decision to stop recording, “Some people think it’s because I’m lazy or I’m just being contrary … But, no, I think it’s just — I’ve had my say … I’m not crazy about going into a recording studio and doing that kind of life again, or taking on another project where there’s other people involved, arrangers and orchestrators and conductors and producers. I don’t want to deal with it.” 

The six-time Grammy winner’s last studio album was a collection of his classical anthems, Fantasies & Delusions, released on Sony Classical, in 2001.  

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee is on the tail end of his record-breaking 10-year residency at Madison Square Garden. Joel has played the historic New York City arena once a month since January 2014, and will wrap with his 150th show in July. He continues to tour outside of the residency, including a sold-out stadium show in Tokyo on Thursday (Jan. 25). 

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Touchdown, Chiefs! Travis Kelce was responsible for two of Kansas City’s TDs at their playoffs game against the Buffalo Bills Sunday (Jan. 21), from which they emerged victorious 27-24. Of course, Taylor Swift was there to cheer him on alongside the tight end’s brother, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, and Brittany Mahomes, who is married […]

Avril Lavigne announced the dates for her 2024 Avril Lavigne: The Greatest Hits tour on Monday (Jan. 22). The North American outing is slated to kick off on May 22 with a show at Rogers Arena in Vancouver and keep her on the road through a Sept. 16 gig at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB.

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In between, the 27-date Live Nation-produced tour will have Lavigne performing such smash hits as “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi” and “Girlfriend” in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Ottawa, Toronto, Nashville, Milwaukee, Chicago and Minneapolis before the final scheduled show in Edmonton.

Joining Lavigne on select dates through the tour will be Simple Plan and All Time Low, with Royal & the Serpent and Girlfriends also playing on select dates as opening acts. Tickets will be available first through an artist presale beginning Wednesday (Jan. 24) at 10 a.m. local time, with additional presales throughout the week before the general onsale kicks off at 10 a.m. local time here.

Lavigne will also take her Greatest Hits show on the road in the U.K. and Europe this summer on a run that will will include several festival gigs, including the Pinkpop Festival (June 21) in Landgraff, Netherlands and the Hurricane Festival (June 22) in Schnee, Germany.

Check out Lavigne’s 2024 North American tour dates below.

May 22 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena ^

May 25 — Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre ^

May 26 — Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater ^

May 28 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ^

May 30 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum ^

June 1 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena ^

June 2 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre ^

Aug. 14 — Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre +

Aug. 16 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage +

Aug. 17 — Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC @ Festival International de Montgolfières ~

Aug. 20 — Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater  +

Aug. 21 — Hartford, CT @ The XFINITY Theatre  +

Aug. 23 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center  +

Aug. 24 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center  +

Aug. 27 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater +

Aug. 29 — Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion  +

Aug. 31 — Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live  +

Sept. 1 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion  +

Sept. 3 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre + 

Sept. 4 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater  +

Sept. 6 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center  +

Sept. 7 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre  +

Sept. 9 — Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater  +

Sept. 10 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island  +

Sept. 12 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory  +

Sept. 14 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre +

Sept. 16 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place

^ With All Time Low and Royal & The Serpent

+ With Simple Plan and Girlfriends

~ Festival Date