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Even though his Latto-assisted “Seven” is still dominating music charts around the world, Jung Kook already has his eyes set on his next smash hit. On Friday (Sept. 28), the BTS member unleashed “3D,” a brand new collaboration with Grammy-nominated “First Class” rapper Jack Harlow. Over a funky instrumental that evokes Justin Timberlake’s “Señorita,” Jung […]
Fans have waited two decades for an *NSYNC musical reunion, and the day has finally arrived. Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass came together on Friday (Sept. 29) for the release of their upbeat new single, “Better Place.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I don’t mind […]
Autumn is here, and Ed Sheeran is getting fans into the spirit of changing leaves and colder air with his new album, Autumn Variations, released via his own Gingerbread Man Records on Friday (Sept. 29). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Last autumn, I found that my […]
Swifties are less than a month away until Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated Eras Tour concert film hits theaters, and AMC Theaters announced that they will be hosting a glitzy world premiere for the movie in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest […]
Mark Cuban wants Taylor Swift to bring some of her global influence over to the NBA. The superstar made headlines over the weekend when she attended a Kansas City Chiefs football game to support her rumored love interest Travis Kelce. The game reeled in more than 24 million viewers, boosting NFL ratings. Cuban weighed in […]
Kelly Clarkson said it best: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger — and that includes wardrobe malfunctions. During a recent performance in Minnesota, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter suffered a wardrobe malfunction, prompting her to leave the stage for a few minutes to fix the situation. “Wait, hold on,” Clarkson said mid song. “Should I fix […]
Lady Gaga skies up into her highest, most soulful register on the new Rolling Stones gospel blues burner “Sweet Sounds of Heaven.” The latest preview single from the Stones’ upcoming Hackney Diamonds album takes its time, unspooling over more than seven minutes of righteous rambling that sounds like an outtake from the band’s beloved 1972 Americana rock classic Exile on Main St.
The song opens with a rolling piano riff and Jagger in classic barroom crooner form, emoting, “I hear the sweet, sweet sounds of heaven/ Fallin’ down, fallin’ down to this earth,” before Gaga joins him on the second verse, parachuting in to echo Jagger’s lines in a high and sweet churchy register.
“I smell the sweet/ Sweet scents of heaven/ Tumblin’ down/ Tumblin’ down to the earth,” Jagger sings as Gaga’s voice rises to double his on the next verse, matching the 80-year-old rock legend note-for-muscular-note on the track that takes its sweet time. The song eventually rises to a joyous riot of guitar, drums, saxophone and keyboards more than five minutes in, building to a pair of joyous peaks as Jagger and Gaga get entangled in a growly soul shout-off.
In a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, Jagger heaped praise on Gaga, calling her a “really great singer,” noting that he’d “never heard her sing quite that style before.” The Stones vocalist also described tracking the song — which also features soulful Fender Rhodes, piano and Moog from Stevie Wonder — which he said the band laid down live while all in the same room in an era when many A-list collaborations are digitally stitched together from afar.
“That was a great experience, her just coming in the room and her just opening up and seeing her bits and feeling her way and then getting more confident,” Jagger said, noting that the band and album producer Andrew Watt then tidied it up and that he and Gaga were at some point, “really face-to-face, getting them really tight, the parts really tight, and then being slightly competitive and screaming” on the track that is reminiscent of such Stones classics as “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Though guitarist Ronnie Wood recently told Sky News that the collab came together somewhat spontaneously when Gaga happened to be in the same studio complex working on a different project, it’s not the first time they’ve gotten together. Gaga jumped on stage with the Stones in Dec. 2012 during their 50 and Counting tour to duet on a version of their 1969 single “Gimme Shelter.”
Hackney Diamonds, the Stones’ first album of new material in 18 years, is due out on Oct 20. The album’s previous single, “Angry,” features a video starring Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney.
Listen to “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” below.
The Taylor Swift, Ice Spice love fest continues. In a statement to Variety for her “Karma” collaborator’s recent cover story, the pop star opened up about the long list of reasons why she thinks the young rapper is one of the most impressive artists in the game. “I relate to Ice in many ways, but […]
Rina Sawayama has spoken at length about the childhood trauma that she wrote about on her sophomore album Hold the Girl, but in a new interview, she revealed how one song came out of a revelation in therapy.
During an interview on BBC Three and BBC World Service’s In Conversation on Thursday (Sept. 28), Sawayama said that a series of sex and relationship therapy sessions helped her understand the truth behind what she once thought was a relationship she had at 17 years old. “I was groomed,” she said. “It was by a school teacher.”
Coming to this realization in her therapy sessions, Sawayama said, “completely broke my whole world apart.” The “Hurricanes” singer said that she experienced intense fallout after being groomed, both by her peers and herself. “I was so badly slut-shamed, that I developed so much shame around my sexuality, and lost completely my sense of self, I detached from my skin like inside,” she said. “I just felt so afraid of things, and I’d have anxiety attacks.”
It wasn’t until her sex and relationship therapy sessions that Sawayama felt capable of acknowledging what had happened to her. “Seventeen to me is a child — you’re in school, you have no autonomy most of the time … If a school teacher is coming on to you, that’s an abuse of power,” she said. “I didn’t realize that until I was his age.”
The revelation led Sawayama to write “Your Age,” the furious mid-album anthem of Hold the Girl, in which she proclaims, “‘Cause now that I’m your age/ I just can’t imagine/ Why did you do it?/ What the hell were you thinking?” Sawayama shared in her interview that writing about her trauma on Hold the Girl turned out to be “one of the most incredible experiences” of her career.
“Now it makes me so happy when I see women or femmes in the audience connecting to [‘Your Age’],” she said. “When I look out to the audience, and I see femmes or women connecting to it, I’m like, ‘Maybe you know what I’m talking about, maybe you’re feeling it right now.’”
The singer is currently coming off of her busy festival season, which saw her hit stages at festivals including Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and dozens of others. At a few of her sets, Sawayama appeared to call out her labelmate Matty Healy for “microaggressions” such as mocking “Asian people on a podcast.” During her NOS Alive set, she turned up her ire, saying, “Why don’t you apologize for once in your life without making it about your f–king self?”
Watch a clip of her interview on BBC News’ TikTok.
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Even in the midst of her Travis Kelce saga and the countdown to her Eras Tour concert film, Taylor Swift is dominating TikTok with a song and trend that aren’t connected to either of those things. On Wednesday (Sept. 27), actors Penn Badgley and Kevin Bacon joined forces for their own spin on the “August” […]