Women in music

When Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye burst onto the scene in 2014 with “Girl in a Country Song,” the duo were often highlighted as part of the next chapter for country music. That breakout hit, along with the biting “Shut Up and Fish,” helped to get them placed in the same category as Miranda Lambert, the Dixie Chicks and Carrie Underwood; namely, women who don’t take any shit. But with their latest project, Maddie and Tae wanted to show fans the other dimensions of themselves.

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“‘Girl in a Country Song’ is definitely the side of us that’s confident, just like balls to the wall, fearless. We’re just going for it,” Taylor Dye tells Rolling Stone Country. “But there’s days where we feel totally weak, not confident. We don’t feel beautiful.”

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“Courtney’s a pioneer,” Auf der Maur said of Love in a statement that accompanied the tribute’s announcement. “Her legacy is vital to the voice of women in our culture. The passion she brings to her life and art fuels the long-fought battle for the empowerment of alternative voices as they take center stage at last! There’s no one as punk and fearless as Courtney, and she deserves a creative bouquet of honoring. Her power onstage is a massive force to be reckoned with. She broke new ground, combining raw and powerful rock music and lyrics of a singular feminist perspective, with her escapades as a Hollywood actress. Her legacy cannot be erased or confused by sexist or fearful critics. We are really excited to honor her.”

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Miami duo City Girls revealed their sophomore album Girl Code will be out on November 16th. City Girls formed last year, releasing songs for fun online before getting discovered by Coach K and Pierre “Pee” Thomas of Quality Control Music (Migos, Lil Yachty). The pair released their debut album, Period, to acclaim in April. In June, they appeared on Drake’s Scorpion hit “In My Feelings,” which eventually went Number One.

City Girls’ JT went began a two-year sentence for credit card fraud on the same day Drake’s Scorpion was released. Her sentence was due to begin earlier than that, but it was delayed so she can complete her work commitments, like an appearance at the BET Awards and, potentially, the final touches of recording this new project.

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It’s been a wild week for Linda Perry, the veteran writer and producer behind hits for Alicia Keys, P!nk, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and more. On Thursday, she received a Golden Globe nomination for “Girl in the Movies,” a track she co-wrote with Dolly Parton. The following day, she woke to find out that she had been nominated for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at the 2019 Grammys for her work on the soundtrack to the documentary Served Like a Girl, Dorothy’s album 28 Days in the Valley and Willa Amai’s cover of Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger.”

Perry’s second nomination in as many days put her in rare position: The last woman to be nominated for Producer of the Year award was Lauren Christy in 2004 as a member of the production group the Matrix.

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Cardi B’s headlining set at Rolling Loud Festival on Saturday didn’t go quite as planned as her estranged husband Offset attempted to win her back in front of the audience.

Just hours before he appeared at the festival, the Migos rapper had posted a public apology to Cardi in an Instagram video.

During Saturday night’s show, Offset appeared with a bouquet of white roses with signage that read “Take Me Back, Cardi.” As he continued to profess his love to her, Cardi looked uncomfortable before the couple exchanged words privately.
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Lady Gaga staged the opening night of her career-spanning Enigma Las Vegas residency Friday at Park MGM, with the singer delivering a pair of live debuts during the performance: A cover of David Bowie‘s “I’m Afraid of Americans” and Gaga’s first live rendition of the A Star Is Born hit “Shallow.”

Enigma serves as a retrospective of sorts at Gaga’s career thus far, and the shape-shifting Bowie was as a huge inspiration to the singer, from her “Poker Face”/Aladdin Sane iconography to the 10-song Bowie medley that Gaga performed for the Grammy’s tribute to the late singer. The Enigma show marked the first time Gaga tackled Bowie’s paranoiac Earthling track onstage, with Gaga weaving the 1997 track into the Born This Way portion of her Enigma setlist.

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Ariana Grande unveiled the track list for her forthcoming album, Thank U, Next.

The pop star posted a snapshot fo the track list on her Instagram story and linked to a different account, @sweetener, where it was also posted (Grande used the @sweetener account last fall to reveal details about her 2018 album of the same name). Per the track list, Thank U, Next will include the album’s previously-released title-track, as well as other recent songs “7 Rings” and “Imagine.”

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After a hugely successful run in London's West End, Tina, the Tina Turner Musical will make its Broadway debut this fall. To get fans excited, the producers announced on Tuesday that Adrienne Warren will reprise her critically lauded portrayal of the rock legend. They also released a video of the performer singing the iconic “River Deep, Mountain High,” which is also available on the cast album.

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Grimes has announced her follow-up album to 2015’s Art Angels. Entitled Miss_Anthropocene, the singer took to social media on Tuesday to unveil details about the forthcoming LP.

“It’s a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate change: A psychedelic, space dwelling demon/ beauty-Queen, who relishes the end of the world,” she explained in a Twitter post. “She’s composed of Ivory and Oil” she added and said that she has crafted illustrations of the goddess and shared them on Instagram.

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Lil Kim will drop a new album on May 17. The rapper announced via Twitter that her latest full-length, which will be her fifth LP and first in 14 years, is titled 9. The music video for the album’s single, “Go Awff,” is expected Friday.
Lil Kim’s last album, The Naked Truth, came out in 2005 and she has continued releasing mixtapes in the years since. Her most recent, Lil Kim Season, arrived in 2016. “Go Awff,” which featured a sample of The xx’s “Dangerous,” dropped last month. The new album was originally expected last year after the rapper kicked off the release with a called “Nasty One.”

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Missy Elliott offered her support when Lil Kim announced 9. “Congratulations sis,” her fellow rapper wrote on Twitter. “Can't wait.” There’s no news on the album’s tracklist or potential collaborations yet.

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In a new video, Julia Jacklin performs a stunning, stripped-down version of “Comfort” alone in her dressing room. The tenth and final track from her new album Crushing, the clip was captured last fall while Jacklin was on tour with First Aid Kit.

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Madonna announced on Monday that she will embark on her tour for her new album, Madame X, in a series of intimate theater venues.

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Beginning September 12th at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, Madonna will perform multiples nights each in a handful of cities, including the Chicago Theatre in Chicago, the Wiltern in Los Angeles, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston, the Met Philadelphia and the Jackie Gleason Theatre at the Fillmore Miami Beach. So far, only the dates for New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have been confirmed.

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The Spice Girls kicked off their long-awaited Spiceworld reunion tour in Dublin Friday night, reuniting onstage for the first time in seven years.

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For the show at Croke Park, members Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice) and Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) performed a slew of the band’s hits including tracks from their 1996 debut album Spice, “Wannabe,” “2 Become 1,” “Say You’ll Be There” and songs from their 1997 follow-up Spiceworld like “Spice Up Your Life,” “The Lady is a Vamp” and “Viva Forever.” Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) opted out of the reunion tour to focus on her fashion brand.

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Madonna has unveiled her new video for “Dark Ballet.” It’s the fifth and final preview that will be released from her forthcoming Madame X, due June 14th. The cinematic clip stars Mykki Blanco, who portrays Joan of Arc.

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In the visually arresting Emmanuel Adjei-directed video, Mykki Blanco is seen bravely facing adversity from various religious figures and onlookers and dancing despite the impending, inescapable doom to come.

The star mouths along to Madonna’s lyrics, “‘Cause your world is such a shame/’Cause your world’s obsessed with fame,” Madonna sings on the chorus. “‘Cause your world’s in so much pain/’Cause your world is/’Cause your world is up in flames.”

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Carly Rae Jepsen gave an intimate performance of her Dedicated single “Too Much” for Vevo. The singer-songwriter released Dedicated in May and is currently touring North America in support of the album.

For the live take, Jepsen stands out in a red tuxedo dress as she performs beneath a giant, glittering disco ball. Her denim jacket-clad back-up singers perform subtle, delicate choreography behind as she delivers an earnest take on the song all about the romantic excesses she indulges herself in. Throughout the song, Jepsen punctuates her desire to know if she is doing too much with stares directly down the barrel of the camera.

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Beyoncé unveiled the new video for her song “Spirit” during an ABC News primetime special on Tuesday called The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight With Robin Roberts. The special featured interviews with the singer, fellow members of the remake’s new cast and director Jon Favreau, alongside cast members and others involved in the original 1994 animated and music-driven The Lion King film and the stage production that followed.

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In the new video for the song “Spirit,” which appears in the reboot of the The Lion King, its soundtrack and on Beyoncé’s executive produced and curated The Lion King: the Gift, clips from the movie are interspersed with beautiful shots in vibrant locales, including by waterfalls and in bodies of water, flanked by mountains and in night and daytime settings. It features Beyoncé and a cast of dancers in a variety of settings dancing and striking poses in colorful costumes. Her daughter Blue Ivy also makes a cameo. The song about resilience opens with resonant call-and-response voices and features piano and orchestral touches with gospel-tipped choruses. “Rise up to the light in the sky, yeah,” Beyoncé sings. “Watch the light lift your heart up/Burn your flame through the night.”

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Ariana Grande navigates an undefined relationship and things get confusing as they do in that situation in her new video for “Boyfriend,” which features her tour mates, the duo Social House.
In the new clip, Grande and Social House are hanging at a stylish party in a fancy mansion, pretending that they aren’t together, but two of them are … sort of … Well, it’s complicated. “I know we be so complicated/But we be so smitten, it’s crazy/I can’t have what I want, but neither can you,” she sings and Social House echo the sentiment later.

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“You ain’t my boyfriend,” Grande sings on the chorus. “And I ain’t your girlfriend/But you don’t want me to see nobody else/And I don’t want you to see nobody.” At the party, they lock eyes, flirt with others, get jealous, and eventually, all the push-and-pull lust and avoidance leads to some major damage and bloodshed.

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Ari Lennox turns up the seduction in her new video for “BMO.” The video for the song, which appears on her recently released LP, Shea Butter Baby, was inspired by visuals from Missy Elliott and Total.
In the Child-directed video, the R&B singer’s sultry vocals are vibrantly matched by the sumptuous, retro-vibed setting, complete with various outfits and looks that include crushed velvet textures, shiny backdrops and scenes in the bathtub. “Break me off/Gichie Gichie yaya/When the lights is out,” Lennox croons on the chorus. “I’m summer time crushin’/Put that game on pause/And do it how I like it/Baby, nice and slow.”

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Ahead of Lover‘s official release next Friday, Taylor Swift has dropped the album’s romantic title track. The pop star announced the new song’s release while accepting her Icon Award at the Teen Choice Award on Sunday.

In the Jack Antonoff co-produced track, Swift sings the tender lyrics of devotion over a retro-styled musical motif. “Can I go where you go?/Can we always be this close?” Swift yearningly sings on the chorus. “Forever and ever/Take me out and take me home/You’re my, my, my, my lover.”

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Miranda Lambert teams with Maren Morris for a murderous revenge fantasy against a cheating partner in the new song “Way Too Pretty for Prison,” released on Monday. It’s the fourth track Lambert has offered from her upcoming album Wildcard.

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Opening with an atonal squall and Lambert’s laughter, “Way Too Pretty for Prison” settles into a loping rhythm augmented by jagged shards of detuned electric guitar. Lambert plays the role of consoler, talking through a few scenarios with an aggrieved girlfriend who wants to go all “Goodbye Earl” on the guy. “He cheated, he’s a villain, and you know I’d help you kill him,” she sings, before laying out the litany of obvious consequences. Morris even proposes a couple of ways to dispatch the guy without getting too messy: “Antifreeze in Gatorade, arsenic in his lemonade,” she sings, relishing her part in the way Lambert had originally envisioned.

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Lana Del Rey has already video of Ariana Grande, and will release a collaboration with her and Miley Cyrus later this week as a tie-in to the new Charlie’s Angels reboot. On Monday, Lana took her fandom a step further and covered Grande’s “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” at the BBC Live Lounge.

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Sitting casually in an office chair and reading the lyrics off her cherry-covered iPhone, Del Rey brought her sultry voice to Grande’s cheeky anthem. Pre-recorded backing vocals added to the mystique of the track, fitting in nicely with the vocal layering found on Del Rey’s new album Norman Fucking Rockwell.

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Beyoncé and ABC surprised fans Sunday with the announcement of Making the Gift, a behind-the-scenes special documenting the making of her recent The Lion King companion album The Gift.

Like the surprise arrivals of Beyoncé’s self-titled album, the Carters’ Everything Is Love and her Homecoming special, Beyoncé Presents: Making the Gift arrives with little warning: The special will air Monday night at 10 p.m. following Dancing With the Stars on ABC, or “ABeyC” as the network branded itself Sunday.

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Rihanna has announced her first “visual autobiography,” Rihanna, a 504-page book containing more than 1,000 photos documenting the pop star and her life (many of them never-before-seen). It will be published by Phaidon.

“From her childhood in Barbados to her worldwide tours, from quintessential fashion moments to private time with friends and family, the book showcases intimate photographs of her life as a musician, performer, designer, and entrepreneur,” reads a press statement for the book.

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Lady Gaga has made new physical copies of her 2013 album Artpop available for preorder, only this time without the original album’s R. Kelly collaboration, “Do What U Want.”

The new vinyl and CD versions of Artpop are listed on Gaga’s website, due out November 11th, and both versions leave the single “Do What U Want” off the tracklist. An older vinyl version of Artpop that includes “Do What U Want” is still featured on the website, but is listed as “sold out.”

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The Lantern Tour II will get underway in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening with performers including Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, and Steve Earle. A winter 2020 concert in Nashville has been added to the itinerary, with Sheryl Crow and Amy Ray also joining the bill.

The Lantern Tour II will visit the War Memorial Auditorium in Music City on Saturday, January 11th and performers at the show will include Harris, Crow, Jerry Douglas, Earle, Buddy and Julie Miller and Amy Ray. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, November 8th.

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Karol G and Nicki Minaj fans were united in shock Thursday night, after the two dropped a surprise new single, “Tusa.”

The title comes from a Colombian slang term for the heartache one experiences after a breakup. Still, Nicki and Karol don’t sweat it — in both English and Spanish, they promote the benefits of partying away the pain. “Se cansó de ser buena/Ahora es ella quien los usa,” sings Karol G. “She got tired of being good/Now it is she who uses them.”

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On Wednesday, Lady Antebellum gave a standout performance at the CMA Awards when they partnered with Halsey to sing their current single “What If I Never Get Over You” and “Graveyard.” Earlier this morning, they celebrated the release of their new album Ocean on Today and reprised “What If I Never Get Over You” for the viewing audience.

Unlike the somber, stripped-down reading of the song on the CMA Awards, Lady Antebellum’s Today performance of “What If I Never Get Over You” is a full-band affair that chugs along on the same sturdy rhythm as Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ “Learning to Fly.” The vocal chemistry between singers Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott provides the dramatic tension for the tale of heartbreak and unresolved feelings, building to an emotional peak as it enters the final chorus.

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Ariana Grande gave a ringing endorsement of Vermont senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.

The pop star shared two photos of her posing with Sanders and giving him a hug. “MY GUY. thank you Senator Sanders for coming to my show, making my whole night and for all that you stand for !” Grande wrote. “@headcountorg and i are doing our best to make you proud. we’ve already registered 20k+ young voters at my shows alone. also i will never smile this hard again promise.”

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Beyoncé showed up in style at a recent screening of Queen & Slim, directed by Melina Matsoukas, who previously worked with the singer on several music videos, including "Formation."

In a trio of posts on Instagram on Saturday (Nov. 30), Beyoncé shared a series of photos of herself wearing an olive green mini dress, snakeskin boots (channeling the film's character of Queen, played by Jodie Turner-Smith) and long, dangling earrings. She carried a matching green purse with the letter "B."
One snapshot shows Beyoncé posing with Matsoukas in front of the film's poster.

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The singer-songwriter talks to the Pop Shop Podcast about getting "emotionally & physically" over a relationship on her new single "Kissing Other People."

Last month, Lennon Stella gave her fans a mini-heart attack when she started a tweet with: "also thought you should know I am very pregnant." For those who stopped reading after those nine words ("Yeah, there was a lot of people that thought I was actually pregnant," Stella laughed to Billboard in a new interview with the Pop Shop Podcast; listen below), the rest of the tweet reads: "...with an album baby and i'm about to pop. ... three…two...one here we go 2020."

The 20-year-old singer/songwriter -- who has been in the public eye since her 2012 debut on the ABC series Nashville and as part of a viral-video duo with her sister in Lennon & Maisy -- is finally ready to release her debut album next year and formally introduce herself as an adult solo star. Over the past few months, she's been super busy on the road with The Chainsmokers and 5 Seconds of Summer, but once that wraps up, she's focusing entirely on the album.

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Selena Gomez is celebrating both the release of her new album, Rare, this weekend and the upcoming opening of her latest film project, Dolittle.

Gomez voices the character of a giraffe named Betsy in the movie, which hits theaters on Jan. 17. The film's premiere was held on Saturday (Jan. 11) in California.

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Selena Gomez is giving fans a look at the making of the "ethereal, iridescent universe" created for her "Rare" music video.

The singer uploaded a behind-the-scenes clip from the set on YouTube on Monday (Jan. 20)
"I am so glad that it worked out the way that it did," Gomez, who dropped her album of the same name on Jan. 10, said of the single's release. "It's such an important song, but I'm so glad I released 'Lose You to Love Me; and 'Look at Her Now' because it was more of a parting. This is the first moment into this era for me, personally and for the music."

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Before Billie Eilish even took the stage at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday night (Feb. 9), she already stole the show -- well, at least on social media.

The "Bad Guy" singer's reaction to Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph's off-the-wall medley immediately went viral, with her "what is going on?" expression becoming a hilarious meme across Twitter and Instagram. Not long after that, upon Eminem's surprise (and somewhat confusing) performance of the Oscar-winning 8 Mile hit "Lose Yourself" resulted in another meme-worthy Billie face.

While several Twitter and Instagram users had fun with Eilish's puzzled and unenthused faces, there were clearly several Billie fans tuned into the Oscars specifically to catch her highly anticipated performance. "This is actually my mood throughout the oscars I am not a movie person I am all music and I am only here to watch Billie perform but it’s taking years please hurry Idk these people," one Instagram user captioned a pic of her reaction to Wiig and Rudolph.

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The Queen of Pop is the first act ever to score as many as 50 No. 1s on any single Billboard chart.

Madonna earns her record-extending, landmark 50th No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart, as "I Don't Search I Find" rises 2-1 on the Feb. 22-dated survey.
The chart, and all rankings dated Feb. 22, will refresh on Billboard.com on Wednesday, Feb. 19 (a day later than usual due to the Presidents' Day holiday in the U.S. on Monday, Feb. 17).
"Search" was remixed for clubs by, among others, Honey Dijon, Endor and DJLW.
With 50 No. 1s on Dance Club Songs, which measures reports submitted by a national sample of club DJs (and which launched as a national survey in the Billboard issue dated Aug. 28, 1976), Madonna outpaces runner-up Rihanna, who has notched 33 No. 1s. Beyoncé and Janet Jackson follow with 22 and 20 leaders, respectively.

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Rihanna may have been the recipient of one of the biggest honors at the 51st annual NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night (Feb. 22), but she humbly turned the focus towards a powerful and crucial message.
The pop star, actress and beauty and fashion mogul received the President's Award at the ceremony for her extraordinary philanthropic efforts across the globe: she's raised millions of dollars for disaster relief, education abroad and awareness for issues affecting communities all over the world, and she stressed that she didn't make this impact by working on her own.

"Tonight is not really about me, because the purpose is bigger than me, right?" she said upon accepting her award. "It’s not bigger than us together, but it’s bigger than me, because my part is a very small part of the work that is being done in this world and the work that is yet to be done."

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The all-female Japanese rock band SCANDAL released their ninth studio album, Kiss from the darkness, earlier in February, the first set recorded under their own private label established under Victor Entertainment, a long-standing rock label in Japan.

The four-member band was formed in 2006 in Osaka and debuted two years later. They founded their new label, called "her," in 2018 on their 10th anniversary, and share that recording the new album in their new environment last year was like "making music feeling really relaxed in our own atelier.

"The result is an album that the members say "embodies how we live as a band and as individuals," and also "redefines what 'all-girl bands' are." Japanese society is gradually shifting toward a more gender-free mindset in general, but the members of SCANDAL don't mind being called an "all-girl band."

SCANDAL World Tour International Dates
May 23: Seoul, South Korea - West Bridge Livehall
May 30: Singapore - The Coliseum, Hard Rock Hotel Singapore, Resorts World Sentosa
June 6: Manila, Philippines - New Frontier Theater
June 13: Bangkok, Thailand - Lido Connect (Hall 2)
June 21: Hong Kong - MacPherson Stadium
Sept. 4: Paris, France - YOYO - Palais de Tokyo
Sept. 6: London, U.K. - O2 Academy Islington
Sept. 9: Berlin, Germany - Musik & Frieden
Sept. 17: Anaheim, California - HOUSE OF BLUES
Sept. 19: Dallas, Texas - Canton Hall
Sept. 21: Atlanta, Georgia - The Masquerade
Sept. 23: Toronto, Canada- Queen Elizabeth Theater

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J-pop girl group Nogizaka46 shared its new music video accompanying "Shiawase no hogoshoku," the last single for main member Mai Shiraishi before she leaves the group in March.

The concept of the video, shot in early February at a Yamanashi studio, was to visualize what it would be like for the rest of the group to see Shiraishi off "prom-style." The video-specific choreography features the departing 27-year-old dancing with small groups of members from the first to the fourth generations before converging as the group as a whole toward the end.

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Lady Gaga would love to be spending time with her parents and grandparents at the end of this week, especially considering how rapidly the coronavirus pandemic is spreading in this trying time -- but that's exactly why she won't be making plans to visit with them anytime soon.

Along with a photo of her posing with her dogs at home, the "Stupid Love" singer posted some thoughts on COVID-19, and what she's learned in her conversations with some healthcare professionals about it, on Instagram on Saturday (March 14).

"It’s not the easiest for everyone right now but the kindest/healthiest thing we can do is self-quarantine and not hang out with people over 65 and in large groups," she writes. "I wish I could see my parents and grandmas right now but it’s much safer to not so I don’t get them sick in case I have it."
She closed her brief note with an optimistic and hopeful sign-off: "I love you world, we’ll all get through this. Trust me, I talked to God -- she said we’re gonna be ok."

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Rita Wilson was casually reading a copy of Ender's Game in isolation when Naughty by Nature's "Hip Hop Hooray" came on. With a "hey, ho" she launched into a full-on sing-along in the latest update from her coronavirus quarantine.

"Quarantine Stir Crazy," Wilson, who tested positive for COVID-19 along with husband Tom Hanks, captioned an Instagram video of the moment on Sunday (March 22). "See it to believe it."

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J-pop artist Haru Nemuri's new song "Seventh Heaven" will be featured as the theme of an upcoming Japanese movie called Colorless (Japanese title: Sarugakucho de aimasho).

The bittersweet love story, set in modern-day Shibuya, stars Daichi Kaneko as a struggling photographer who falls for an elusive aspiring model, played by Ruka Ishikawa, depicting their intense relationship that gradually begins to unravel after he takes a portrait of her that launches his career.

The trailer, edited by director Takashi Koyama himself, features Haru Nemuri's dreamy yet steady narration over scenes tracing the lovers' ephemeral romance, ending with the words: "That love, that emotion, that impulse, that wish, that lie… are they true?" Colorless opens in Japanese theaters June 5.

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