Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” spent a seventh week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart with 24.3 million streams. The Sour cut debuted at Number Two behind J. Cole‘s “My.Life” back in May. “Good 4 U” rose to the top of the chart the following …
Read More »15 Thoughts on the 2021 Grammys
As a fictional singer-songwriter who once fictionally peed their fictional pants at a fictional Grammys ceremony once sang, via real-life, dry-trousered songwriter Jason Isbell, “Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die.” And, like, it really is. The 2021 Grammy broadcast was already poised for reinvention, with producer Ken …
Read More »Year in Review: The Year Fandom Went Underground
Twenty years ago, in The Village Voice’s yearly poll of music critics, one of the writers quipped about the future: “So who’s going to be paying $300 a seat for the Backstreet Boys reunion at AOL Hard Rock Cafe in 2020?” As it happens, $300 would have snagged you a …
Read More »Dua Lipa Takes Off on a Long, Strange Dancefloor Trip in 'Hallucinate' Video
Dua Lipa has released a wild new animated video for “Hallucinate,” the latest single off her most recent album, Future Nostalgia. The clip was directed by the Mill’s Lisha Tan, and it opens with an animated Dua Lipa performing for an adoring crowd of cartoon creatures whose big eyes and …
Read More »Watch Dua Lipa Jump Into Jimmy Kimmel's Bed With Taser, Perform 'Electricity'
Dua Lipa surprised Jimmy Kimmel with a late-night, in-bed performance of “Electricity,” her collaborative single with Silk City, on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The comedian’s wife, Molly McNearney, orchestrated the celebrity prank, which follows similar surprise visits from Rihanna, Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. The clip opens with Lipa arriving …
Read More »Watch Dua Lipa Detail Mark Ronson, Diplo Collaboration, New Album Plans
Dua Lipa discussed her upcoming dancefloor-ready collaboration with Silk City — a club music-centric side project of the star producers Mark Ronson and Diplo — before performing at Lollapalooza. “We did a song together that I’m again really excited about,” the singer told Rolling Stone. “It’s something different, but it …
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