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By Gabriel Aikins Once it comes to how the human brain works, nostalgia is one of the most powerful forces. The movies and shows we watch, the video games we play, and the music we listen to in youth will usually hold a special place in our minds, and inevitably spring back up in pop culture. Think Billie Eilish sampling The Office on When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? or Arian..
Read MoreTom Parker, one of the five members of the early-2010s boy musical group The Wanted, has revealed he's been diagnosed with a brain tumor and that he's been undergoing treatment. In an emotional Instagram post on Monday (October 12), the British singer wrote that as a substitute opposed to battling privately or attempting to keep his diagnosis a secret, he determined to "lay out all of..
Read MoreA day right after announcing that he and Gigi Hadid have welcomed a baby daughter into the world, Zayn has welcomed another creation into this earthly realm: his latest single, "Better," a lovely slice of R&B pop anchored by Z's massive, massive voice. The breezy, endearing song debuted alongside a sparse however stately video, where the heavily tattooed new daddy Zaddy dresses himse..
Read MoreEarlier this year, Taylor Swift reached a big milestone with her surprise eighth album, Folklore, as soon as she became the first artist in history to debut at the best of both the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the Billboard 200 album chart. And the accolades keep coming. On Sunday (September 27), Billboard reported that Folklore has once again become the No. 1 album in the nat..
Read MoreLast week, the surprising news came out that Demi Lovato and her fiancé of two months Max Ehrich had ended their engagement. The two had received with each other in March, around the time quarantine started, and immediately after Ehrich proposed in July in Malibu, the two shared adorable beach pictures expressing their excitement. Although whatever the reason for their split, Lovato..
Read Morea fast Billie Eilish 2020 recap: Immediately after winning pretty much all the Grammys in January, the 18-year-old pop futurist locked in the coveted gig of singing the latest James Bond film theme. That breathy song, "No Time to Die," arrived in February, several months before the film's originally scheduled release. Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. The live-music indu..
Read MoreShawn Mendes's Continuum look has finally arrived. In his new video for "Wonder," a soaring pop song that keeps rising, Mendes first shows off his quarantine-grown lettuce by peering out the window of a train as a glowing pink horizon beckons. In under a minute, though, he's standing on top of the zooming vessel, King of the World-ing the shit out of the enterprise. He's arrived. ht..
Read MoreBy Natasha Mulenga Blackpink’s The Album has finally arrived, plus it feels like a long time coming. Though they’re the most-followed K-pop girl order on Instagram, the initial Korean girl categorize to perform at Coachella, and the order whose music video for “How You Like That” garnered a record-breaking 86.3 million views in its beginning day, it’s hard to believe that T..
Read MoreBy Sam Manzella Mxmtoon’s Maia is one of the busiest young females in the indie-pop world, nevertheless you wouldn’t know it from a cursory glance at her space. Zooming in for a video call with MTV News from her apartment in Brooklyn, the 20-year-old social media star-turned-pro singer-songwriter readily accepts compliments of her lush surroundings. Cascading houseplants and smal..
Read MoreWhile in 2020, with the live-music industry effectively shut off, artists have taken to livestreaming, recording remotely, and any time possible, pumping out show-stopping performances right from residence. In Miley Cyrus's case, just over a month soon after hitting the 2020 VMAs with a glamorous, self-referential rendition of new single "Midnight Sky," she's heading to the backyard f..
Read MoreBefore she was a subterranean pop artist navigating the darker spaces on songs like "Vicious" and also you Broke Me First," Tate McRae was a dancer. She even appeared as as finalist on So Think You could Dance. Yet she learned how to play piano, and since then, McRae's been digging into her musical side. "Music has sort of habitually surrounded me," the Canadian singer-songwriter tol..
Read MoreJohn Legend does a lot of talk shows. It's sort of his thing, and also being half of one of the most visible celebrity couples on the planet, networking with with a diverse array of artists, and devoting time to charity work and activism. Really, the guy is made to be on TV, as seen perhaps definitively in the Between Two Ferns Netflix movie, where he plays a menacing, although relent..
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