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Any time Lil Nas X rewrote the rules of the game with "Old Town Road," it only made sense that the viral hit's eventual video could be a blockbuster. Nevertheless the artist's hard pivot from meme-maker to cinematic visionary has been at least a little bit unexpected, while definitely most welcome. The target of "Holiday," "Rodeo," and "Panini" was only matched by their respective rea..
Read MoreBy Hilary Hughes An eponymous album marks a major moment in an artist's career. For females, owning one's work, body, and artistry can be especially powerful, even political. While in Women's History Month, MTV News is highlighting some of those iconic statements from some of the hugest artists on the globe. This is Self-Titled. Beyoncé is queen of the epic entrance (as anyone who ..
Read MoreBy M.T. Richards Think back to the fourth season of HBO’s sui generis crime drama The Wire. It’s all about the finer points of Baltimore machine politics. Mayoral hopeful Tommy Carcetti, a loquacious, know-it-all councilman from the city’s South Side, visits the parish of a kingmaking West Side minister. Carcetti scans the church carefully, unsure quite what to do with himself...
Read MoreBy Rob LeDonne Trigger warning: This interview discusses sexual assault and drug addiction. Any time Demi Lovato approached director Michael D. Ratner about a docuseries on her life, the singer was clear: the aim was to be as sincere as possible. The result is Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, a warts-and-all four-part look at the tumultuous, complex personalized life of the actr..
Read MoreLast Sunday night noticed Justin Bieber picking up his second-ever Grammy, a notable accolade given the song it accompanied: "10,000 Hours," the country-pop team-up between Biebs and Dan + Shay. Considering Bieber's first Grammy win was for the EDM-pop "Where Are Ü Right now with Diplo and Skrillex, his latest win five years later is a testament to not only his versatility, yet his c..
Read MoreBy Ashlee Mitchell It’s finally Rosé’s time to shine, and she’s willing to receive her ferns. The New Zealand-born, 24-year-old singer is a quarter of iconic K-pop girl categorize Blackpink, although she delivers enough for four on her first official solo effort. The main vocalist proves herself more than capable of holding her own with her two-song debut, R, which includes e..
Read MoreBy Erica Russell Love is the “röd tråd” — literally, “red thread,” a Swedish expression meaning throughline — on Zara Larsson’s new album. Whether it’s toxic infatuation, heartache, self-love, or the bliss of burgeoning romance, love serves because the thematic connective tissue at the heart of Poster Girl, the Swedish singer’s sophomore full-length record, out to..
Read MoreBy Ilana Kaplan An eponymous album marks a major moment in an artist's career. For ladies, owning one's work, body, and artistry can be especially powerful, even political. During Women's History Month, MTV News is highlighting some of those iconic statements from some of the largest artists on the globe. This is Self-Titled. A few images have defined Britney Spears while in her car..
Read MoreBy Jack Irvin because the musician’s star started to rise, Madison Beer had thought an enormous, extravagant party would toast the release of her debut album, Life Support. Although even before the coronavirus pandemic postponed its arrival nearly per year and prohibited such gatherings for the foreseeable future, she had already changed her mind about the grand soiree. "I don't th..
Read MoreBy Dani Blum Billie Eilish loves The Office so much she sampled dialogue from the show on her debut album, bookending a song about desire with one of the sitcom’s in-jokes. Any time once she first met with filmmaker R.J. Cutler, known for making profiling documentaries like the Anna Wintour-chronicling The September Issue and The World According to Dick Cheney, Eilish mentioned she..
Read MoreBy Brennan Carley In 1998, Britney Spears traveled to Stockholm to record songs for her debut album, ...Baby One More Time, with producers like Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. She was one of several stars at the time who ventured to the Swedish city to capitalize on the words and sounds of its burgeoning pop scene. Months later, at a dance school only a number of miles away, a team of re..
Read MoreIt's been nearly three months since Taylor Swift gave fans an important update: Trim "recently begun re-recording my older music," an experience that, at the time, had "already proven to be both exhilarating and creatively fulfilling." We got to hear a bit of what, mention, "Love Story" might sound like if Swift were to record it right now whenever a snippet of it appeared in a commer..
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