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On Sunday (July 11), Ariana Grande posted a photo dump on Instagram, giving an intimate glimpse of her honeymoon in Amsterdam with her new spouse, Dalton Gomez. The couple usually have had a good time while in their romantic getaway! The post was captioned with a snail and waffle emoji, with the latter likely referencing the Dutch stroopwafel snack. There was a reflect selfie reflect..
Read MoreBillie Eilish released her newest single “NDA,” from her sophomore album Happier Than Ever, on Friday (July 9) — as well as an eerie self-directed music video. And astonishingly, no visuals or stunt doubles were used. The video depicts Billie walking alone on a highway in the dark night, with deep synth bass beats and plucky strings to evoke a creepy atmosphere. Occasionally, c..
Read MoreToday (June 28), Halsey reported that she is working on her fourth studio album titled If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power with industrial metal band Nine Inch Nails’s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. A 10-second preview video of a new, untitled track with heavily atmospheric and textured musical elements came with the announcement. The video also depicts a billboard advertisement p..
Read MoreI treated the release of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way as ceremoniously as any teen girl without her driver’s license could: by begging my mom to drive me to the mall to purchase a physical copy. The record came out on May 23, 2011, the day before my fifteenth birthday. The timing was a cosmic coincidence, although if I closed my eyes, I may almost convince myself that the CD was a bi..
Read MoreOlly Alexander is getting the queer party started. On Tuesday (June 22), the Years & Years soloist and It’s a Sin star dropped his new magical cover of the iconic Lady Gaga hit “The Edge of Glory.” The new version comes three days ahead of the individual anniversary release of Born This Way Reimagined: The Tenth Anniversary. https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=sLeHpCrsDVo&..
Read MoreBy Hugh McIntyre “Where do I belong?” This question opens Rina Sawayama’s touching and heartfelt “Chosen Family,” and it also is one that far also several LGBTQ+ people have had to ask themselves as they navigate existing authentically in a global that still largely sees them as “other.” The query pops up constantly in the lives of these who identify as piece of the co..
Read MoreFour years soon after her critically acclaimed album Melodrama, Lorde finally returned earlier this month to bring hippie, summer vibes courtesy her new single “Solar Power” — and also more anticipation for her fans. On Sunday (June 20), the 24-year-old New Zealand singer dropped a mysterious clip on her website to tease her upcoming new and third album Solar Power. https://twi..
Read MoreBy Danielle Chelosky A couple years back, a burgeoning underground pop star worked as a receptionist at a hair salon in St. Louis, Missouri. “I wasn’t the perfect employee,” the 24-year-old Slayyyter, who more formally goes by Catherine Slater, tells MTV over the phone in early April. “My music began to blow up and I was so preoccupied with that. I would just sit at my desk a..
Read MoreBy Carson Mlnarik To understand the impact of Paris Hilton’s debut pop single “Stars Are Blind” — a top-20 hit that recently soundtracked Promising Young Woman’s beloved rom-com montage — you have got to rewind to the summer of 2006. A charcoal-haired crooner named Taylor Hicks just won American Idol, the clubs were sweating to a Soft Cell sample in Rihanna’s “SOS,”..
Read MoreLast month, Katy Perry sat down to meditate with a special companion — Pikachu. The video for her booming latest single, "Electric," took the pop star and her Pokémon pal to the best of the Diamond Head Lighthouse in Honolulu to sing about finding the light within and following your dreams. The meaning is clear — the clip ends with the structure's massive beam glowing brightly as..
Read MoreBillie Eilish is back, blonde, and bringing fresh new tunes. On Wednesday (June 2), the 19-year-old pop star released the latest single off her forthcoming album Happier Than Ever, “Lost Cause.” The track is a low-key empowerment anthem in the vein of TLC’s “No Scrubs” or Dua Lipa’s “New Rules,” in which Eilish tells off a would-be partner who “ain’t nothing altho..
Read Morea couple of weekends ago, on May 15, 2021, Ariana Grande got wedded. In a private ceremony at her residence in Montecito, California, Grande tied the knot with her partner, Dalton Gomez, wearing a dress described by Vogue as "a custom lily-white silk charmeuse empire waist column gown accented with a sculpted neckline, an exposed bra strap closure, and also a plunging back." It was a..
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