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Take Me Home Found One Direction Rewriting The Boy-Band Script
Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of the biggest artists, hits, and cultural moments that made 2012 a seminal year in pop. MTV News is looking back to see what lies ahead: These essays showcase how today’s blueprint was laid a decade ago. Step into our time machine. By Larisha Paul There was no blueprint for One Direction. Before their formation in 2010, the landscape of competing boy bands whose mere name evoked thousands of screaming fans was barren. Predecessors like Backstreet Boys and NSYNC were either past their peak or already broken up — and none of...
George Ezra reschedules upcoming UK shows after getting chicken pox
George Ezra has rescheduled a trio of upcoming UK shows after he contracted chicken pox – see the new dates below. The singer-songwriter was set to preview his upcoming third album ‘Gold Rush Kid’ at shows in London, Manchester and Edinburgh next week. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Is George Ezra the nicest man in rock’n’roll? “As you can see, I’m pretty under the weather right now with chicken pox,” he wrote on Twitter, “so I’m sorry to say that I’m going to need to move my upcoming shows.” Advertisement In an accompanying video, which shows the extent of his...
Primavera Sound Festival to take place in Barcelona and Madrid in 2023
Primavera Sound Festival has announced that it will take place in both Barcelona and Madrid in 2023. The festival first launched in Barcelona in 2001, and is set to expand later this year to feature a previously announced Los Angeles edition. READ MORE: Primavera Sound: the 12 best acts we caught at the Spanish festival’s groundbreaking 2019 edition Last year, Primavera Sound announced a plan to return with a bumper two-leg edition in Barcelona, taking place across two weekends in June 2022. Next year, it will still run across two weekends, but the second will take place in neighbouring Madrid....
Listen to Röyksopp’s euphoric new track ‘This Time, This Place’
Röyksopp have shared their latest single ‘This Time, This Place’ – you can hear the duo’s new track below. The song, which features the vocals of film director and conceptualist Beki Mari, is part of the Norwegian pair’s “prodigious conceptual project” ‘Profound Mysteries’. READ MORE: NME Recommends: Anxiety easing albums to soothe your soul Röyksopp previously said “goodbye to the traditional album format” following the release of their fifth LP ‘The Inevitable End’ in 2014, but vowed to continue making music together. Advertisement ‘This Time, This Place’ is the latest track to be lifted from the duo’s ‘Profound Mysteries’, and you can...
Megan Thee Stallion files lawsuit against label over “album” definition
Megan Thee Stallion has filed another lawsuit against her record label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, claiming the label is attempting to keep her locked into a contract by not acknowledging her recent ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ compilation as an album. READ MORE: New doc Queens Of Rap reinforces the importance of ‘WAP’, more than a year on On Friday (February 18), Megan – whose real name is Megan Pete – filed a complaint in Harris County District Court, “seeking a declaration that her album, ‘Something for Thee Hotties’ constituted an ‘Album’ as defined in the parties’ recording agreement”. ‘Something For...
Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Jodie Comer and more cover Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’
Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Jodie Comer and more have joined an all-star cover of Olivia Rodrigo‘s huge hit ‘Drivers License’. The actors and musicians joined forces for the rendition of the record-breaking 2021 track as part of W Magazine’s ‘Lyrical Improv’ series, which sees celebrities taking it in turns to read lyrics from famous songs. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo: inside the Taylor-endorsed mega-hit ‘Drivers License’ Also involved in the cover are Leslie Odom, Jr., Tessa Thompson, Simon Rex, Jennifer Hudson, Emilia Jones, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ruth Negga. Advertisement Watch the cover below. Last month, Olivia Rodrigo shared a throwback...
Rihanna Embraced Boldness And Eased Into Her Next Act On Unapologetic
Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of the biggest artists, hits, and cultural moments that made 2012 a seminal year in pop. MTV News is looking back to see what lies ahead: These essays showcase how today’s blueprint was laid a decade ago. Step into our time machine. By Jaelani Turner-Williams With six albums and a multitude of artistic transformations under her belt, in 2012, Rihanna was the most daring mainstream act in pop music. An experimental vanguard of the genre, Rihanna was worlds away from the Bajan, honey-tressed sweetheart introduced to fans on her 2005 Caribbean-tinged debut...
Mura Masa, Lil Uzi Vert, PinkPantheress and Shygirl flip a ’00s classic on ‘bbycakes’
Mura Masa has recruited Lil Uzi Vert, PinkPantheress and Shygirl for a new version of 3 Of A Kind’s 2004 hit ‘Babycakes – hear ‘bbycakes’ below. The new track, which sees each of the three guests adding their own original verses in between the song’s instantly recognisable chorus, follows Mura Masa’s 2021 collaboration with Shygirl on a remix of Lady Gaga‘s ‘Sour Candy’, and his production work on PinkPantheress’ ‘Just For Me’. READ MORE: The Big Read – Mura Masa: “If you’re smart right now, you’re making guitar music” “I feel like ‘bbycakes’ is a future facing record,” Mura...
Soulja Boi and Lil Yachty among those sued over alleged cryptocurrency scheme
Rappers Soulja Boy and Lil Yachty, and YouTube personality Jake Paul, are among the defendants in a class action lawsuit over an alleged cryptocurrency “pump and dump” scheme. As reported by ClassAction.org, a lawsuit claims that Soulja, Yachty and Paul, as well as musician Nick Carter and YouTuber Ben Phillips, were recruited by the company SafeMoon to misleadingly promote and sell the cryptocurrency token ‘V1’. It is alleged that the endorsements were intended to artificially inflate the currency’s value, allowing founder and CEO Braden John Karony and other executives to sell their holdings for a profit while numbers were...Recent Posts
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