Australian pop star Kylie Minogue emphasizes the importance of one’s own uniqueness when giving advice to her younger self backstage at Billboard’s Women In Music 2024.
Kylie Minogue
Some advice I would give my younger self would be that there is one you. You may want to be a better you. I think you need to accept the you that is not ideal or doesn’t, you know, live up to your expectations all the time. We are all one of a kind and we are works in progress.
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Katy Perry opened up about her upcoming Rock in Rio performance, her fan base in Brazil, her love for dance music and more backstage at 2024 Billboard Women In Music.
Katy Perry:
Hi guys, I’m Katy Perry, and two things you may not know about me, this moment is …
One, I’m playing Rock in Rio, which is an incredible festival in Brazil. You’ve got to come! My Brazilian fans are the most passionate, they are the best. They know everything about me — they know more about me than I know about myself, well … bits and pieces.
Another thing that you may not know is that I love dance music. I like songs that make you move, and I hope that you will be moving with me in the future.
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Charli XCX shared advice she would give her younger self. The singer talks about the importance of being yourself, trusting your gut, and more backstage at 2024 Billboard’s Women In Music.
Charli XCX:
Some advice to my younger self would be to follow your gut instinct on everything that you think is cool. And also, don’t take anything that seriously and be sarcastic because I feel like I’m a very sarcastic person and I was always afraid to kind of show it and now I’m just like, so be yourself, I suppose is what I’m trying to say. Be yourself.
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Billboard and Bose honored PinkPantheress with the Producer of the Year award at Billboard Women in Music 2024. Before the event, Kenzie Ziegler showed off her custom pair of Bose Ultra Open Earbuds designed by Maggie Simpkins.
Rania Aniftos:
PinkPantheress received the Producer of the Year Award presented by Bose at Billboard Woman in Music. Since introducing herself on TikTok in 2020, PinkPantheress has toured the world, made her Hot 100 debut, and now joins Rosalía as the second artist to receive this prestigious award.
PinkPantheress:
I’m just happy that I have the opportunity to be recognized in a specific field by the Billboard Women in Music Awards. I watched Rosalía get this last year and that’s my queen.
Rania Aniftos:
Billboard and Bose partnered to present PinkPantheress with the Producer of the Year honor, and are dedicated to creating spaces for women in production. Before the show, social media star and emerging musician Kenzie Ziegler stunned on the red carpet wearing a custom pair of Bose Ultra Open Earbuds designed by Maggie Simpkins. Ziegler talked to us about the design and what the night means to her.
Kenzie Ziegler:
First of all, they’re awesome. I actually got to try them before tonight, which was so nice. I’ve been using them, but I worked with this amazing designer named Maggie Simpkins. And then my amazing stylist, they coordinated this so well. We wanted to go for a really classy look, but also kind of more edgy up top and I love how it turned out. I feel so cool right now.
Rania Aniftos:
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Billboard Women in Music host Tracee Ellis Ross shares she used to intern for Arsenio Hall and five things you didn’t know about her backstage at the 2024 Women in Music event.
Tracee Ellis Ross
My name is Tracee Ellis Ross, I’m the host this evening. Five things you don’t know about me: One, I love olives. My favorite olive is a green olive — not with a pimiento; with a pit. Couldn’t think of the word. Another thing that you should know about me that other people don’t know that’s very important for you to know about me is I love gum, chewing gum. Very big on chewing gum. I love chewing gum. I eat chewing gum like it’s going out of style. And I like to eat the gum, spit the gum out, stick it somewhere, hopefully in a garbage can. And then eat more gum. It’s a problem. What’s the next thing you should know about me? My favorite of all beverages? Water. What’s the fourth thing you would know about me? Oh, I’m extremely organized. And when I say organized, I mean problematic. And before I was acting, I used to go into companies and organize them. My first job was at a bank. I was organizing files. Oh, I’m sorry, a sixth one. I worked for Arsenio Hall. I interned for Arsenio Hall. Exactly. I was reading scripts. I mean, I didn’t really think I was doing anything but they told me that I was like, you know, helping make sense of things. In all honesty, it was my idea. Right, that’s what people don’t know about. Now you know.
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Sherine accepts the Global Force award from Billboard Arabia at Billboard’s Women In Music 2024.
Sherine
Thank you Billboard for the award. Thank you, I am proud to be receiving it, I’m so proud that you enjoyed my work. And of course I’m thrilled and proud that there is a music award specifically for women, is something that makes me very happy. And I hope that my work reaches the entire world, that’s always been a dream of mine. Thank you so much again.
Karol G accepts the Woman of the Year award at Billboard’s Women in Music 2024.
Karol G:
First of all, it’s an amazing surprise that Sofía Vergara is giving me this award, I love it. Buenas noches a todos. I’m super honored to be here today. Oh my God, [this] might be the most significant and important recognition of all my career, this is super special. This is Woman of the Year, but this is the first time ever a Latina is named the Woman of the Year. So, I have to give my speech in Spanish, of course.
Well, this is Women in Music so I’m going to talk about us. I have to start first by telling you that for years and years, I lived very disappointed with the fact of being a woman. I found myself on the road with so many rejections and so many lost opportunities. Because of that, I wondered why I was not born a man to exploit all this love, this desire and passion I felt for music. Where would all this desire I had to eat the world have gone if it was assumed that, as a woman, I could not achieve it? For a long time, I believed that story. I believed that this was not for me. So many times I was told that I could not make it and I always think of the number of people who leave their dreams behind and leave their dreams aside for that reason, for the perception of others but not for the real dream they have and the desire they have inside. In the midst of my desire, in the midst of wanting to make music even if it was just for me, I decided that if my environment did not change, I was the one who had to change and I was the one who was going to do it. And that I wasn’t going to let being a woman be an obstacle or define my capabilities, but that it was going to be my strength, it was going to be my motive and my reason. And every time I was told no, I found the strength and the desire and everything I needed to say: yes I can. In my mind I changed the “a woman can’t do it” to “look at this woman how she does it, look how a woman does it.”
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Karol G performs “Amargura” at Billboard Women In Music 2024.
Read the lyrics below and stay tuned for more Karol G news.
Karol G’s “Amargura” lyrics
(Si te dicen que yo me estoy curando, es la verdad)
(Ey)
Ayer te vi
Aparentemente, estabas contento, estabas feliz
Besándola a ella, así como antes me besaba’ a mí
En parte me alegra que uno de los dos no esté llorando
Ojalá me piense de vez en cuando
Y aunque yo hago como si nada
Baby, qué amargura me da, saber que ahora
Tú estás vacilando con otra
Por fuera me río, pero por adentro estoy rota
Y aunque yo hago como si nada (papi)
Baby, qué amargura me da, saber que ahora
Tú estás vacilando con otra
Por fuera me río, pero por adentro estoy rota
Primero, quiero decirte que no hay un segundo
Que piense que te lo dañó un tercero
Sin ti, se siente vacío el cuarto, insisto
Polvo’, llegábamos hasta el quinto
Te extraño tanto, sin ti es distinto
Me duele ver cómo me deja’ en visto
A veces pienso que me extraña un poquito
Yo misma los pajarito’ me pinto (ey)
Qué mal que ya no estés aquí
Estaría tomándomelos contigo y no por ti, por ti
En coleccionista me volví
Guardando toda’ las foto
Me volví más devota y ni así
Y aunque yo hago como si nada
Baby, qué amargura me da, saber que ahora
Tú estás vacilando con otra
Por fuera me río, pero por adentro estoy rota
Y aunque yo hago como si nada (papi)
Baby, qué amargura me da, saber que ahora
Tú estás vacilando con otra
Por fuera me río, pero por adentro estoy rota
Ey
Esta canción
Que no me la pongan borracha, hijueputa
(O-O-Ovy On The Drums)
(Y aunque yo hago como si nada)
Lyrics licensed & provided by LyricFind
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Alonso Catalino Curet, Carolina Giraldo Navarro, Danuel Echavarria, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno
Each year Billboard’s Women in Music event recognizes music’s rising artists, creators, producers and executives for their contributions to the industry and community. Featuring Ice Spice, Victoria Monét, Charli XCX, Tems, NewJeans, Luísa Sonza, Annalisa, Sarah Geronimo, PinkPantheress, Maren Morris, Young Miko, and our Billboard Woman of the Year, Karol G!
Watch the show on Thurs, March 7 at 5pm PT on billboardwomeninmusic.com and on our YouTube channel.
Narrator
Welcome to Billboard Women In Music presented by Marriott Bonvoy, live from YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park. Honoring Annalisa, Charli XCX, Ice Spice, Kylie Minogue, Luisa Souza, Maren Morris, Michelle Jubelirer, NewJeans, PinkPantheress, Sarah Geronimo, Tems, Victoria Monet, Young Miko and Karol G. Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross, with appearances by Andra Day, Bebe Rexha, Coco Jones, Demi Lovato, Ellie Goulding, Emily Estefan, GloRilla, JoJo, Katy Perry, Lainey Wilson, Saweetie and Sofia Vergara.
Narrator
From ABC’s Blackish to the Oscar nominated American Fiction, our host tonight always delights on screen. Please welcome actress, producer, Pattern Beauty CEO and founder, joy bringer and style icon Tracee Ellis Ross!
Tracee Ellis Ross
Hello! Hi everybody! Oh hello, hello, hello! I’m so delighted to be your host for Billboard’s Women In Music 2024 here at YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park presented by Marriott Bonvoy. Ahh yes, you know I just I feel so home in this environment and at home, I mean on stage with a captive audience. Yes and I, since I have you here captive while I’m on said audience. I thought you guys could take a moment as I walk to gander at my hair.
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