"I'm a sad girl in this big world," 20-year-old Benee sings on her most prominent song, "Supalonely," a bubblegum disco cut with funky musicality that belies its own melancholy. Nevertheless just before the world shut off earlier this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the New Zealand pop chameleon was having the time of her life. "Literally in the week before we went into lock..

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Billie Eilish released her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, 19 months prior already, and thus much has shifted since then. She won all the Grammys. She recorded the new James Bond theme. And right now, she even got Glendale to close down the mall for her. In her exceptionally DIY new video for "There I Am," Eilish spends five minutes gallivanting around the dese..

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"I'm gonna keep this very simple," Lady Gaga mentioned from the podium, addressing the crowd at a drive-in rally for former Vice President Joe Biden in Pittsburgh on Monday night (November 2). "If you believe in Joe Biden and you also haven't already voted, make a plan to get to the polls tomorrow." "Right right now, for action, it is about time to muster all of our energy, every oun..

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Election Day is far less than 24 hours away, and Lady Gaga is hitting the campaign trail. Tonight (November 2) at 7 p.M. ET, the Chromatica queen will take the stage in Pittsburgh on behalf of former Vice President Joe Biden, complete with an efficiency sure to rally voters. "Good morning PENNSYLVANIA! I’m so excited to be able to see you today and SING for you!!!!!!!" She wrote on..

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By Ilana Kaplan Whenever it comes to the release of Cam’s sophomore studio album, nothing has really gone as suggested. For one, it’s taken five years for the record to come to fruition — thanks to a label change soon after her 2018 heartbreaking single “Diane” dropped. Then, there was the fact that the country-pop singer-songwriter wanted to spend her time tinkering to get..

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By Ashley Oken Ariana Grande’s rather anticipated sixth studio album, Positions, dropped today (October 30) and is full of the empowering and relatable bops we expect from the pop princess. An R&B-influenced follow-up to her February 2019 album Thank U, Next, Positions finds Grande confidently and happily singing of healing through new love. Second song “34+35,” as an example, ..

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It's not quite Halloween, nevertheless the Jonas Brothers are already all set up for Christmas. On "I Need You Christmas," a loungy and longing new cut from Kevin, Joe, and Nick, it's all about the power of the holiday and why it could lift anyone out of the doldrums of loneliness. It's also about missing childhood and realizing that at the end of a long, tiring year full of coldness..

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Harry Styles is on the run. In the dazzling new visual for "Golden," the cruising-through-the-hills lead track from his 2019 sophomore album, Fine Line, Styles runs and drives away from... Something. Yet it doesn't quite matter what's soon after Harry, does it? The mere vision of him in a billowing white blouse, pumping legs, and lip-synching to the tune is enough to inspire dozens o..

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By Alex Gonzalez Twenty years prior, a 21-year-old singer from Canada stepped onto the scene with her debut single, “I’m Like a Bird.” At the time of its release, Nelly Furtado didn’t know the song could be a big radio hit. Her folky, coffee home fashion and sound was different from that of the Britneys and the Christinas of the time, although she knew “I’m Like a Bird”..

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What in the event you went to sleep with Keke Palmer posters on your wall and woke up to her singing directly to and also you alone? That's the fantasy at the heart of her latest video for "Dreamcatcher," a Weird Science-inspired trip through desire and wish fulfillment. The premise is simple: A young dude who loves to crush Surge and disaster around on his computer ends up designing..

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By Caitlin Wolper Anna Lotterud played her last headlining show on March 6 in San Francisco — just a week before coronavirus shutdowns rocked the United States. Lotterud, who performs bouncy, upbeat electro-pop as Anna of the North, was wracked with indecision — she was working on music in Los Angeles and wasn’t sure if she should go house to Norway. For quite some time, flight..

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Forget the pair of politicians on the presidential debate stage last night. Ariana Grande is the new Commander-in-Chief. In her stylized new video for "Positions" — a slinky song about being several things to one individual — Grande occupies the Oval Office with support from her trusted advisors (including Victoria Monét, Tayla Parx, and her mother, Joan) before quite literally ..

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