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Katy Perry Loves Coloring Her Hair!

“I’m naturally the most boring dishwater squirrel brown,” Katy told Glamour. “So I’ve been playing with colors since I was 15. I loved the grunge green, and shocking blue was fun. Colored hair is such a huge accessory that you don’t even need to add extra stuff.”

On Tuesday 8 March, people around the world will be celebrating the achievements of women while calling for greater equality in the name of International Women's Day.

This year’s theme is #PledgeForParity to honour this day and to celebrate female success in the music industry, whilst still recognising the long journey we are still on for gender equality.

After successfully hosting our first ever Women in Music Event in March 2015, the Musicians' Union will once again be celebrating International Women's Day by hosting Women in Music 2016 in Manchester.

The first half of the day consists of Women in Industry Presentations with speakers from PRSF, PPL, Brighter Sound, CC Skills and the White Ribbon Campaign (Music Project).

Following this will be a panel discussion exploring ‘Challenges, Attitudes, Barriers and Positive Discrimination’.

Beyoncé graces Elle’s Women in Music issue and talks about everything from fashion to feminism. For the cover image, she dons a black bathing suit from her new Ivy Park athletic wear line.

While the issue is not available everywhere until April 6.



According to Vogue, her activewear collection will go on sale in mid-April at Nordstrom, Topshop and Net-a-Porter.

She also appears on the Elle U.K. cover.





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'Beyoncé is not a woman to be messed with' – Lemonade review

Dishearteningly billed as “a conceptual project based on every woman’s journey of self knowledge and healing” – a description that makes it sound like something agonisingly earnest you’d go out of your way to avoid at the Edinburgh Fringe – Beyoncé’s sixth solo album touches on a lot of potent topics. Quite aside from the presence of her much-discussed single Formation, a meditation on race that originally appeared in the middle of Black History Month, there are lyrical references to slavery, rioting and Malcolm X and a ferocious guest appearance by Kendrick Lamar that jabs at Fox News and police brutality and ends with something approaching a call to arms.



In an era when pop doesn’t tend to say a great deal, there’s obviously something hugely cheering about an artist of Beyonce’s stature doing this: she increasingly seems to view her success and celebrity as a means to an end rather than something to be maintained at all costs. Nevertheless, Lemonade is an album less about politics than something more personal. It’s more preoccupied with the state of her marriage than it the state of the world, overshadowed by her husband Jay Z’s alleged infidelity. If you want to compare her to an old soul legend, it’s more Here, My Dear than What’s Going On: for all its brilliance, Formation feels oddly tacked-on at album’s end, arriving after All Night, a track that sounds remarkably like a grand finale.

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Ke$ha offered a stirring cover of Lady Gaga's anti-sexual assault track "Til It Happens to You" during a recent performance at Humane Society of the United States Gala in Los Angeles over the weekend. Songwriter Diane Warren was honored at the event and joined Ke$ha on piano for the performance. "I want to dedicate this song to every man, woman, child and animal . . ."

Ke$ha remains embroiled in a legal battle with both her record label and producer Dr. Luke, whom she has accused of rape.

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Avril Lavigne has stepped up to defend her estranged husband Chad Kroeger and his oft maligned band Nickelback. The comments came via Twitter after E! News poked fun at the Canadian rockers saying that the only person more hated than the band is GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump. "Hey @ENews and everyone writing these articles . . . grow up . . ."

"Hey @ENews and everyone writing these articles . . . grow up . . . this is extremely rude and uncalled for. @Nickelback is one of the of the highest selling rock bands of the past 2 decades selling more than 50 million albums worldwide. 17 #1 HIT SINGLES!!!! What an epic accomplishment!!!! @Nickelback is adored by millions worldwide !!! I've seen their sold out shows!!! Enough is enough!!! You can't live a positive life with a negative mind. #SpreadMoreLoveThanHate."

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Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga

Alicia Keys performed on the Italian TV show Che tempo che fa in Milan on Saturday, June 11. The 35-year-old "In Common" singer, who has been on an anti-makeup crusade lately, was makeup free during her visit and wore a colorful headdress, black blouse with white squiggly lines and a black leather jacket.

The singer's recent visit to Europe was due to her singing at the opening of the UEFA Champions League final, which took place in late May.

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Songwriter Ingrid Burley made the admission to lyric website Genius, saying that "Love Drought" is actually about her own frustrations with Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment record label.

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