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Taylor Swift served “Espresso” and more with with Sabrina Carpenter in New Orleans Saturday night (Oct. 26). Swift teased she was about to do something different for her acoustic set during her latest stop on The Eras Tour — sing someone else’s song. “It’s been stuck in my head,” she explained to the crowd at […]
Chappell Roan confronted a photographer she’d previously had an uncomfortable encounter with on the red carpet Friday (Oct. 25). Making an appearance on the carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour film, which will be streaming Oct. 28, the “Good Luck, Babe!” singer-songwriter pointed, said, “You,” and walked straight […]
When Jin named his new solo track “I’ll Be There,” he didn’t do so lightly. According to the BTS star, he genuinely wants to give his listeners comfort, starting with the lead single from his upcoming album Happy.
In a new video interview with Dolby Atmos shared exclusively with Billboard, the 31-year-old South Korean singer explains that he wrote his new song — which dropped Friday (Oct. 25) — with the hope of “providing happiness” to his fanbase. “When ARMY feel tired and lonely, I hope this song gives them strength,” Jin says in the clip.
“I have a very clear idea of what kind of emotions I want to share with our fans,” the performer continues. “I want our fans, our ARMY, to be happy.”
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The interview comes as part of Jin’s new partnership with Dolby Atmos in honor of his new solo music. The “Super Tuna” artist also filmed an alternative music video with the audio technology company — which Billboard exclusively premieres below — featuring Jin driving a convertible through swirling, colorful lights, performing “I’ll Be There” in a futuristic glass room, flirting with a few actresses on set and dancing with a group of people in an airport.
Jin also dropped a standard music video for “I’ll Be Alright” Friday, just a few weeks ahead of the Nov. 15 release of his debut solo album, Happy. In his new interview, the star revealed that — much like “I’ll Be Alright” — the songs on the six-track LP “have choruses that everyone can sing along to.”
“It’s a song that will put a smile on your face,” he added of his new single. “I hope to spread those feelings to my fans because they give me so much energy, laughter and joy.”
Jin’s album will make him the final member of BTS to release a solo LP, following previous projects from Jung Kook, Jimin, V, SUGA, RM and J-Hope. The group’s full-band activities are currently on pause as five of the members finish their mandatory military service, which Jin was the first to complete in June followed by RM earlier this month.
Watch Jin’s interview with Dolby Atmos above, and check out his alternative music video for “I’ll Be There” below.
Chappell Roan is ready to continue the pink pony club fun. The star took to Instagram on Friday (Oct. 25) to tease a potential single called “She Gets the Job Done” alongside a series of Polaroid photos of herself rocking her own merch. “This is a clue. Just let that sink in,” she captioned the […]
On today’s (Oct. 23) episode of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century podcast, we reach No. 7 of our list with a producer-turned-rapper-turned-all-consuming-celebrity, who has been unavoidable in pop culture for the last two decades — often for his artistic brilliance, sometimes for his business ventures or personal life, and particularly in recent […]
Ariana Grande‘s has made her diagnosis of Lady Gaga‘s new single “Disease.” On Friday (Oct. 25), the Joker 2 star made her long-awaited pop music comeback with the release of her upcoming seventh album’s lead single, a dark dance track that finds Gaga singing, “I could play the doctor, I can cure your disease/ If […]
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The mogul purchased the pop star’s six-album catalog for upwards of $300 million in 2019.
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When you’re already number one you can take some chances. Secure that her 2020 pandemic home NPR Tiny Desk concert still holds the record for the most-seen Tiny Desk ever with more than 130 million views, Dua Lipa was back in the crowded public radio offices on Friday (Oct. 25) when her second stripped-down show highlight tracks from this year’s Radical Optimism album.
Speaking to NPR’s Ari Shapiro in an interview before the four-song episode dropped, Dua explained that she flipped the uptempo album track “Happy For You” into a stripped-down piano and voice ballad that represented the song in its “purest form,” stripped of the bubbling electronic production. “It is what it is in the moment, and I think you just feel that song differently,” she said. “You listen to the lyrics in a different way, and it was really fun to think about it and take it back to the basics.”
She also talked about how she flipped the oft-used phrase “if these walls could talk” on “These Walls” by “personify[ing] the walls, because no one knows you more than the four walls in your room.”
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The mini-concert opens with an unplugged, meditative take on “Training Season,” highlighted by acoustic guitar and electric piano and a gently thrumming bass and angelic backing vocals before the singer’s seven-person band picks up the pace and (gently) rocks the office with a jazz pop take on the Radical Optimism single.
“I’ve always wanted to come down and be by the desk,” a smiling Dua told the assembled NPR staffers. “We did a at-home Tiny Desk in 2020, so this feels really, really special,” she added, cheekily wondering if anyone had seen that little record-setting show. She then slipped into the chilled out “These Walls” before setting up “Happy For You” by saying she’s always been inspired by the way artist’s reimagine their songs for the series.
Which is why she also switched up the arrangement for the song about her being happy that her ex has a new girlfriend, swapping the original’s wistful pop dance vibe for a skeletal, emotion-forward keyboard and voice arrangement that brought new poignancy to the wish-you-the-best lyrics.
“Even the hard parts were all for the best/ I see where you’re at now, you picked up the pieces/ And then you gave them to somebody else,” she sings over keyboardist Georgie Ward’s gentle backing. The session ends with the album’s first single, the certified banger “Houdini,” whose slinky, joyful vibe likely sent the NPR crew shuffling back to their desks with a big smile on their faces.
Check out Dua’s Tiny Desk show below.
“It’s always interesting to meet your peers that you’ve influenced,” says Zac Hanson.
As the trio Hanson, Zac and his brothers Taylor and Isaac have, after all, been making music together for 30 years — the equivalent of an entire career for many artists. Those peers have included some of today’s biggest hitmakers, who’ve looked to Hanson’s success and stability as a potential model for their own.
“We sat in our studio with Billie Eilish and FINNEAS when they happened to be in town, [with] their parents talking to us saying, ‘We basically decided they should make music ’cause we saw Hanson and you guys seemed like you were OK,’” Taylor recalls. “Like, that’s insane … and here they are, they’ve done incredible, beautiful work.”
Other artists, the brothers reveal, have visited Hanson simply looking to get their take on new music. “In the same studio, Ed Sheeran, when he was opening for Taylor Swift, [was] like, ‘I wanna play you some songs.’ … And you’re just going, ‘This is really fun!’” Isaac says with a laugh.
Hanson is currently celebrating 20 years since going independent and starting their own label, 3CG Records, where they released their third album, Underneath. The band is on a North American tour in support of a deluxe re-release, Underneath: Complete.
“These songs are all richer, layered, we produced a great deal of it,” Taylor says of Underneath. “It’s a record that really works well in a live setting and it’s exciting to go back and really lean into those songs,” which include the radio hit “Penny and Me.”
In a wide-ranging and loose chat with Billboard News, the Hanson brothers also talk about their foray into beer-making with their Mmmhops Pale Ale, also getting a re-release, alongside a new beer, Pink Moonlight Hazy Peach IPA, created in collaboration with noted independent craft brewery Destihl.
Watch the full interview — in which the brothers also discuss their thoughts on how to, as Isaac puts it, “fix the music industry” — above.
Billie Eilish just reacted exactly how anyone would to Rihanna saying she wants to collaborate — with utter disbelief. Shortly after the Fenty Beauty said that the “Bad Guy” singer is her dream duet partner, Eilish reposted the former’s remarks on Instagram Stories Thursday (Oct. 24) and wrote, “what in the absolute f–k.” “oh my […]