Bad Bunny, Rosalía Celebrate Valentine’s Day
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Bad Bunny and Rosalía play two lovers in a fiery romance in the new video for “La Noche de Anoche,” the duo’s collaboration off 2020’s El Último Tour Del Mundo.
In the stylish Stillz-directed visual, Bad Bunny and Rosalía serenade one another from afar, eventually embracing each other, which causes them to spontaneously burst into flames.
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Osbourne came to his defense on The Talk
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Initially contrite on Twitter, Osbourne then went on the offense during the show's hiatus. She gave interviews to both Variety and Entertainment Tonight, claiming that she had been "set up" by the producers and was offered up as a "sacrificial lamb." Her publicist also issued a doozy of a statement, alluding to Remini and Robinson Peete's comments by noting, "The only thing worse than a disgruntled former employee is a disgruntled former talk show host." It's not typically the strategy of someone expecting to keep their job, so the writing seemed to be on the wall.
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Tom Jones Lands Record-Setting U.K. No. 1
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Surrounded By Time is Jones’ fourth leader in the U.K. and his first since 1999’s Reload. He also becomes the first Welsh soloist to top the national chart in nearly a decade, since Marina and The Diamonds’ Electra Heart, in 2012.
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Watch Coldplay Open 2021 Brit Awards
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Coldplay performed their new single “Higher Power” during the 2021 Brit Awards on Tuesday in London. The band, who opened the awards show, delivered the song at sunset while on a barge in the River Thames.
Mirroring the group’s official video for the song, their set included dancing alien holograms. Their performance also featured colorful smoke and fireworks as Chris Martin buoyantly danced around and sang the Max Martin-produced track on a purple-and-blue lit platform.
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Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth on ‘Utopian Ashes’
Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth are an odd coupling — he’s prone to loose, decadent, druggy overtures while she actually screams primally — and their differences become even more apparent on Utopian Ashes, a concept album of sorts that they made together about two lovers’ preamble to a divorce. And like any couple in disarray, the Venn diagram of their respective worlds seem only to intersect barely. When they do, it can be beautiful; when they don’t, it’s uncomfortable to be around, yet even then their unique talents can sometimes be a song’s savior.
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Dua Lipa and Sir Elton John are ready to go breaking our cold hearts
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Dua Lipa and Sir Elton John are ready to go breaking our cold hearts wide open with their new collaboration, "Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)."
On Wednesday (Aug. 11), the superstars announced their new collaboration would come out on Friday, Aug. 13. John has mentored Pnau, the Australian dance music trio consisting of Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes and Sam Littlemore, for years, and they previously worked together on the 2012 remix album Good Morning to the Night, a collection of songs made out of mixing samples of John's early songs. The set debuted at No. 1 on the U.K. Albums Chart.
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Elvis Costello’s Songs in Spanish
When Elvis Costello decided to re-record his album This Year’s Model entirely in Spanish, he knew he wasn’t going to do it alone. He saw the entire thing as a lively, hands-on collaboration in which he’d give Spanish-speaking artists access to the original master recordings from the iconic 1978 LP and let them interpret the songs exactly how they wanted. He and the producer Sebastian Krys enlisted a varied set of musicians from around the world and watched as each of them added their own magic to the anticipated project, which is called Spanish Model and is out today via UMe.
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