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Cardi B says she’s planning on releasing a new album in 2022
Cardi B has said that she’s planning on releasing her next album in 2022. The Bronx rapper is currently working on the follow-up to her 2018 debut LP ‘Invasion of Privacy’, though its release has been hampered by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Queens Of Rap reinforces the importance of ‘WAP’ more than a year on Back in April, Cardi said that “the whole COVID thing discouraged me putting out my album” in 2021 and that she didn’t want to promote her new record solely on Zoom. Advertisement The rapper added that she intended to “go away for...
Watch IDLES’ unsettling new video for ‘When The Lights Come On’
IDLES have shared the unsettling new video for their song ‘When The Lights Come On’ – you can check out the clip below. The song is taken from the Bristol band’s fourth album ‘Crawler’, which was released last month. READ MORE: IDLES live in London: gleeful mayhem from British rock’s darlings Directed and edited by IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan and written by frontman Joe Talbot, the video for ‘When The Lights Come On’ stars Heavy Lungs’ George Garratt. Advertisement Garratt is seen in the black-and-white clip riding a bicycle at night while wearing spike-pronged body armour and sunglasses –...
The Journey Of Becoming A Taylor Swift Fan In Your Thirties
By Liz Riggs “Well, I guess there’s no turning back,” a fellow thirtysomething late-adopting Taylor Swift fan named Jess Tantisook tells me over the phone. She’s talking about discovering the 2020 album Folklore, but it’s impossible to discuss how we accidentally became Swifties without talking about the coronavirus pandemic, or reexamining the last two years fraught with anxiety, grief, and trepidation. “We’re all locked inside. If the world had looked different, maybe it would have passed us by.” There’s this idea that by your thirties, you’ve more or less figured out your favorites — drinks, songs, artists. Most people...
BTS’ V sets two Guinness World Records with his new Instagram account
BTS member V has set two Guinness World Records, following the group’s launch of their personal Instagram accounts last week. READ MORE: BTS live in LA: a euphoric return to live performance for the K-pop juggernauts On December 13, the Guinness World Records announced that the K-pop idol had broken the records for the fastest time taken to reach one million and 10million followers on Instagram. The vocalist, whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, hit one million Instagram followers in just 43 minutes, breaking the record of one hour and 45 minutes set by NCT’s Taeil earlier this year....
Britney Spears reflects on previous touring schedule: “I don’t think I ever want to do it again”
Britney Spears has reflected on the rigorous touring pace of her past, saying that she doesn’t think she’ll “ever want to do it again”. READ MORE: Controlling Britney Spears review: toxic conservatorship back under the microscope According to Rolling Stone, in an Instagram post that is no longer publicly viewable, Spears reflected on a string of events from her past, including touring. Spears, who hasn’t embarked on a world or even national tour since 2018, said that she “hated” being on the road after her career took off. “I know I’m not playing in huge arenas with my loud...
SHINee’s Minho announces new solo song, ‘Heartbreak’
SHINee’s Minho has announced that he will be releasing a new solo digital single later this month. READ MORE: Woosung – ‘GENRE’ review: a beautiful, laid-back ode to messy young love Earlier today (December 14), Minho unveiled a series of teasers for his upcoming single, titled ‘Heartbreak’. The song will mark Minho’s second-ever solo release, following 2019’s ‘I’m Home’, which had been released as part of SM Entertainment’s SM Station project. According to the teasers for ‘Heartbreak’, the track is slated to arrive on December 21 at 6pm KST. Additional details about the upcoming single are expected to be...
Lil Uzi Vert says his insurance company nearly “cut him off” over forehead diamond piercing
Lil Uzi Vert has shed new light on his infamous forehead diamond piercing, claiming his insurance company tried to “cut him off” over it. Speaking on Twitch streamer Trainwreck’s Scuffed podcast on December 10, the rapper revealed that his insurance company tried to cut him off after he had a pink diamond, worth $24million (£17.6million), pierced into his forehead in February. “My insurance tried to cut me off, they were like, ‘This kid’s trying to kill himself,’” he said. “Because we knew it was a piercing, my insurance looked at it like, ‘This kid just implanted this diamond in his head,...
Proceeds from Kanye West’s ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit merch will be donated to charity, representative says
Representatives for Kanye West have confirmed that, despite earlier reports saying otherwise, profits from merch sold at his and Drake’s recent ‘Free Larry Hoover’ benefit concert will be funnelled into charities supporting legal reform efforts and community advocacy. READ MORE: Kanye West and Drake live in Los Angeles: titans unite for a near-religious experience West headlined the concert – which marked his monumental reunion with Drake after the pair put an end to their longstanding feud – last Thursday (December 9). It was live-streamed for free via Amazon Prime and shown at select IMAX cinemas across the US, with...
BTS’ Jin stirs controversy in Japan over the lyrics of ‘Super Tuna’
The lyrics of BTS member Jin’s latest solo single ‘Super Tuna’ has stirred controversy in Japan. READ MORE: Seven K-pop songs from November 2021 you need to hear, from Hwasa to TWICE According to a report by The Korea Times, Japanese netizens have voiced their disappointment over the use of the contested term “East Sea” in the song’s lyrics: “East sea, west sea / Where is my fish?”. The term is used by South Korea to refers to the waters between the two Koreas and Japan. For context, South Korea and Japan are currently in a long-standing dispute over...Recent Posts
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