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Lorde opened up in a new interview published Thursday (May 1) about the struggles she experienced with body image while making her 2021 album Solar Power. “I had made my body very small, because I thought that that was what you did as a woman and a woman on display,” she told filmmaker and close […]
This April, the Billboard charts have been largely static — with a couple big exceptions, for which we are thankful — but pop music keeps moving. This was a month for big festivals, with two weekends of Coachella and one of Stagecoach all back to back out in Indio, Calif., and of just-as-big tour kickoffs, […]
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are not done saying I love you. The couple announced on Wednesday (April 30) that their debut collaborative album will get a deluxe edition on Friday (May 2) when they drop I Said I Love You First… And You Said It Back. “The deluxe version of my album with @itsbennyblanco is called […]
If the party was over and our time on Earth was through… could you say you’ve watched Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars‘ “Die With a Smile” video? Since its release more than eight months ago, the music video has officially racked up 1 billion views on YouTube — so yes, a few people can say […]
Following before-and-after photos of Olly Murs‘ fitness journey going viral this week, the British pop star is reacting to what he calls “very disappointing” coverage of his body transformation.
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It seemingly started when a poll on X (formerly Twitter) asked users if they preferred the “before” or “after” version of Murs’ body, and whether they were male or female. The results showed that the majority of women voters thought the “before” looked better, while men voters chose the “after.”
After days of social-media debate (which seemed to dismiss the fact that only Murs needs to be happy with his own physique), the singer/songwriter and TV host weighed in on the chatter, sharing a photo on Instagram of a Daily Mail headline that read: “Bad luck, Olly! Women prefer your ‘huggable dad bod’ to the muscles you got in the gym.”
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“I wouldn’t normally comment on stuff like this but from what I’ve seen I just want to say that this journey at the start of the year was for many personal reasons and not one of them was to spark a debate and divide opinions,” Murs wrote in the caption. “So it’s very disappointing to see this kind of reporting!”
He ended with a message to his supporters and anyone else on their own fitness journey: “Big Love to everyone who’s been kind and to anyone out there improving themselves and making adjustments to their wellbeing. Love to you all, keep it up! ignore the noise!”
One of Murs’ fans decided to flip the narrative by providing her own “before & after” moment on X. “Thought I’d do my own Olly Murs comparison post since that’s all that’s on my feed right now… 15 years in the game..5 albums out of 7 went to number 1 and STILL selling out arenas ! you deserve every single bit of success @ollymurs.”
The “before” moment she shared was Murs’ audition on season 6 of the U.K.’s X Factor in 2009 — where the then-25-year-old declared his dream of becoming a “pop star” and finished as the runner-up — and the “after” is his Official Charts Company stats, which include five U.K. No. 1 albums and four U.K. No. 1 singles. In the U.S., Murs has scored two Billboard Hot 100 hits, including the top 40 hit “Troublemaker,” featuring Flo Rida, which peaked at No. 25 in 2013 and hit the Pop Airplay top 10.
In addition to his music career, Murs has found success as a TV personality, appearing as a coach on The Voice UK from 2018 to 2023.
Find Murs’ response to the online debate below.
thought I’d do my own Olly Murs comparison post since that’s all that’s on my feed right now…15 years in the game..5 albums out of 7 went to number 1 and STILL selling out arenas ! you deserve every single bit of success @ollymurs 👏❤️ pic.twitter.com/ALaAgpoAj6— antonia✨ (@antonia_704) April 29, 2025
Sheryl Crow knows a great song when she hears it, or writes it. And lately she’s been hearing so many good ones from the younger generation of female singers and songwriters that she’s got serious FOMO.
“The caliber of writing is just so good with Chappell Roan, Olivia and Phoebe Bridgers, and these women are not just in the studio throwing in a lyric — they play,” she told Variety magazine. “If you want to take a course in great songwriting, go study at the college of Taylor Swift. There’s Brandi [Carlile] and Courtney Barnett. For a long time, there was a dearth of women who were playing and singing and rocking, and now I’m tickled.”
Some she got to see work their magic up close at the recent session at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to tape an all-star network special honoring Ringo Starr’s country album, Look Up. Crow said she was dumbstruck “being onstage with Molly Tuttle, Sarah Jarosz and Larkin Poe. I remember having a conversation with people on the Grammys board 15 years ago, saying, ’What are you guys going to do to get instruments into young women’s hands?’ Lo and behold, some of the greatest musicianship right now is young and female.”
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More than three decades into a career that was kicked into overdrive by her 1994 Tuesday Night Music Club hit “All I Wanna Do,” Crow is also sanguine about her place in the music business these days. “I feel happy. I feel at peace. There isn’t that ’Oh my God, I gotta write a hit song.’ Even if I wrote a hit song, it wouldn’t get played!” she said. “So now I just wanna write music that feels like I’m glad I wrote it.”
The mother of two teenage boys hasn’t toured much lately — she did open some dates for P!nk last year — and while she’ll hit the road for a limited run of shows with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan for their Outlaw Music Festival this summer, she would have “done every single one” if her kids wanted to join her on the road. “I’m too selfish to want to miss any time with them; I feel like my 18-year-old was just born, and he’s gonna be leaving for college in a year,” she said, promising that once both boys are out of the house she’ll “go back to work full time, because I have an acute connection to joy when I’m playing.”
And though she’s lived in Nashville for more than two decades, proud progressive Crow said she’s well aware that her habit of tweaking conservatives doesn’t always make her popular in the city that’s a blue dot in an otherwise deep red state that overwhelmingly went for Donald Trump in all three of the presidential elections he’s participated in.
So the singer who famously announced in February — long before the current spate of protests, sell-backs and arson attacks — that she was selling her Tesla and donating the proceeds to NPR is finding her own way to quiet the red noise around her. “Tennessee is a hard place for me. I mean, I struggle,” she said. “I call my representatives [in Congress] every single morning — Andy Ogles and Marsha Blackburn hear from me every day — because we have to stand up and be vocal and fight for the future for our kids.”
Asked what she imagines her reps think when they get a fresh voicemail from the Grammy-winner every single work day, Crow said, “I do think, ’Are they laughing?’ But it’s like what Jimmy Carter said: ‘As long as there’s legal bribery, we won’t ever have fair elections.’ So we have to keep raising our voices and showing up to these organized rallies.”
She also noted that unlike the flak she got back in 1996 when Walmart banned her self-titled album because of the lyric “Watch out sister/ Watch out brother/ Watch our children as they kill each other/ With a gun they bought at the Walmart discount stores” on the song “Love Is a Good Thing,” back then she didn’t live in Tennessee, “where everybody is armed.”
So, yes, “there was a moment where I actually really felt very afraid,” she said of a scary incident that occurred after she announced her Tesla sell-off. “A man got on my property, in my barn, who was armed. It doesn’t feel safe when you’re dealing with people who are so committed,” she revealed.
Given what she knows now, would Crow post that kind of video again? “I can’t help it,” she told the magazine. “I feel like I’m fighting for my kids. Also, that’s the way I was raised. There have been times when it hasn’t really been fun, but I follow my [To Kill a Mockingbird lead character] Atticus Finch dad [attorney Wendell Wyatt Crow]; I’m very similar to him if I see something that seems unfair, you know?”
Donald Trump hosted the 2025 Super Bowl LIX champs the Philadelphia Eagles at the White House on Monday (April 28), where he took the opportunity to once again lash out at Taylor Swift. The President took his latest swipe at the pop star during the visit when he lauded the Eagles for their commanding 40-22 win in February over the Kansas City Chiefs.
“It was an incredible game. A little surprising, but right from the beginning of the first quarter of the big game, which I was there I watched in person,” said Trump before adding a diss aimed at the billionaire pop superstar who is, of course, dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “I was there along with Taylor Swift, how did that work out? How did that one work out?”
Trump, the first sitting President to attend the NFL championship game, has made a habit of lashing out at world-beating pop star, including on the night of the Super Bowl, when he wrote, “The only one who had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift. She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving.”
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While Swift was met with some audible boos from the crowd when she was shown on the jumbotron that night, Trump’s latest comments come on the eve of the 100-day mark of his second term in office at a time when, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll 45% of those polled gave him an “F” for how he’s handled things so far, compared to just 23% giving him an “A.”
Trump’s overall approval rating is 42%, which stands as the second-worst approval rating for any president at the 100-day mark in the past 80 years, bested only by the 41% lodged by Trump during his first term; in a different Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll, his approval rating was ahistoricallylow 39%. And while Trump promised to fix the economy on day one and lower the nation’s debt by slashing government agencies, his onerous across-the-board tariffs and DOGE-led mass firings have resulted in a 39% approval rating to date on his handling of the economy, a new low for Trump.
As is his wont, Trump lashed out in all-caps at the dismal poll numbers, decrying them as “FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS” and saying that they should be “investigated for ELECTION FRAUD!”
The White House visit is a tradition for some championship teams, but a number of prominent players skipped Monday’s event, including QB Jalen Hurts, as well as star players A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Brandon Graham and six others; the Eagles turned down a visit to the White House after winning their first Super Bowl in 2018 during Trump’s first term.
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If you’re a fan of super-shiny lips and glittery eyeshadows that capture the light, the disco glam trend is for you.
This trend has been showing up everywhere from music videos and movies to red carpets and at music festivals — it’s even transcended from a nighttime trend to an around-the-clock option. Celebrity makeup artist Hannah Jaclyn created a stunning disco glam looks on Miley Cyrus in the past, similar to the one seen in her new “Something Beautiful” music video. We spoke with different makeup artists to find out how to create this look so you can try out the trend for yourself.
How to Create a Disco Lip Look
To create a more sheer but glitter-heavy look, Jaclyn starts with a lip oil that helped smooth the lips so that the base was hydrated and devoid of any flakiness or texture. From there, she uses Jouer’s lip topper, which is super shiny and incredibly long-lasting.
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If you want even more depth and shine, Urban Decay’s head of global artistry Steve Kassajikian explains how to use eyeshadow on the lips. While it may seem odd, he suggests starting by setting your lips with a translucent setting powder before applying your favorite lipstick. “Then take a loose or pressed glitter eyeshadow and press it against the lips with your finger and finish it off with a gloss,” Kassajikian told Billboard. “For depth, you can line the lips as well to give the glitter a bit of dimension.”
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Kassajikian notes that liquid lipsticks are often known for their long-lasting qualities, so they may be the best option for music festivals when you need real staying-power. Here are the products recommended by Jaclyn and Kassajikian.
Jouer Long Wear Lip Topper
Urban Decay Vice Lip Bond Glossy Longwear Liquid Lipstick
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Waterproof Lip Pencil
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Urban Decay 24/7 Moondust Glittery Eyeshadow
How to Create a Disco Eye Look
Both Jaclyn and Kassajikian suggest applying a base layer to the lid, either a cream or liquid eyeshadow or a primer intended specifically for the lids. This not only helps the glitter pop, but it will help the shadows really stick and prevent fallouts. “You can also use a powder glitter first and then use a liquid glitter on top with a fluffy eyeshadow brush,” says Kassajikian.
From there, press powder shadows into the lid with your fingertip or a dense flat brush. If you’re partial to a brush, Kassajikian suggests spraying it with a setting spray before dipping it in the shadow. To further prevent fallouts, apply a layer of translucent setting powder under the eyes so that any glittery particles can be swept away with a brush. Kassajikian also notes that liquid eyeshadow formulas can be easier to use and more long-lasting. Here are product recommendations from both artists.
Jouer Cosmetics Crème Eyeshadow Stick
Jouer Paris Lights Eye Paints
Urban Decay 24/7 Glaze-On Shimmer Liquid Eyeshadow
Urban Decay All Nighter Waterproof Makeup Setting Spray
A lot of things happened while JoJo Siwa was on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
First, there was her awakward interaction with castmate actor Mickey Rourke, who asked if she liked “girls or boys,” to which Siwa responded that she’s attracted to women and that her partner, Kath Ebbs, is non-binary. The 72-year-old Murder Motel star then said something that earned him a formal warning the show’s producers when he told Siwa, “If I stay longer than four days you won’t be gay anymore.”
After other homophobic comments, fellow competitor Chris Hughes called Rourke out for his language. Then, in an episode last week, after a discussion with Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard about how her Big Brother experience was helping her come to terms with her evolving sexuality, Siwa had a revelation. She said living in the house, “made me feel so queer. And I’ve always been afraid of feeling ‘queer,’”… like, I always said ‘lesbian,’ right? But I feel, like, so queer… I think I’ve always told myself I’m a lesbian, and I think being here I’ve realized, ‘Oh, I’m not a lesbian, I’m queer.’ And I think that’s really cool.”
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Siwa told ITV’s This Morning on Monday (April 28) that the reality TV lockdown also made her realize that things she was “okay with in my life that I should never have been okay with in the first place.” When one of the hosts asked if she was referring to the relationship with Ebbs, Siwa said, “so many things and that is one of them.”
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As viewers know, Siwa, 21, broke up with Ebbs at the show’s wrap party and the singer/actress told This Morning that that was not her plan. “Initially, I was told that the wrap party was something they [Ebbs] didn’t want to attend and then about an hour into the wrap party they decided they wanted to,” she said of the Australian content creator. “And so I was genuinely just going to have a conversation before and then it just led to another. They straight up asked me if I was happy and I said ‘no.’”
During that conversation, Siwa said Ebbs asked if she was happy and Siwa told them she was not. “One thing led to another… and that conversation did take place there,” she said of the 20 days that felt “like four-and-a-half years,” noting that the first thing she wanted to do when she got out was “exactly what you need to do in your life to make it as good as you can.”
Sitting next to Hughes on a couch, Siwa said she is “very happy where I am now” and grateful for having Hughes in the house with her for “support and comfort.” Asked if her friendship with Hughes was a catalyst in the break up with Ebbs after the couple went public in January, Siwa, again putting her hand on Hughes’ shoulder said, “obviously we’re very close,” with Hughes adding that it’s “just a really strong bond between two people which is just a strong friendship.”
Hughes, 32, called their time together in the house “three weeks we’ll remember for the rest of our lives,” arguing that all gossip aside about the nature of their close ties in the house, he thinks you can genuinely have a “soulmate friendship.” Asked by the hosts if she’d like things to get romantic with “gorgeous boy” Hughes, Siwa doubled-down on her pal being a “great guy,” but agreed that it’s strictly platonic and that they have a lot of fun together, but that’s it.
“Life is life and I don’t know any future of anything,” she said. “But I’m really grateful for our dynamic that we have and our bond that we have.”
Watch Siwa and Hughes discuss their platonic relationship below.
Mariah Carey tops the pop-forward line-up for Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard 2025 show slated to take place at Wembley Stadium on June 15. In addition to Carey, the show will also feature sets from Benson Boone, Lola Young and KSI. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The […]