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Back from the Thanksgiving weekend, TRL returned with NBC's This Is Us star Michael Angarano in a sweater fully fit for the holiday season. Michael, who's new to This Is Us for season three, told TRL host Kevan Kenney about binge-watching the series with his family member soon after learning he'd scored a part in the series. "I look up and all of us are just quietly weepin..
Read MoreThe TRL Pop Quiz works like this: our editors are posed a music-related question and have only 15 minutes and just 100 words to statistics, pick and explain their answers. With recent news of "Hey There Delilah" by The Plain White T's and "Paris" by The Chainsmokers getting TV show and movie adaptations, respectively, here's this week's question: what song deserves to be turned into a..
Read MoreIn a moment the music world's been waiting for, Mariah Carey returned to TRL just a matter of hours right after dropping her fifteenth studio album, Caution. Nevertheless before she had a chance to address her latest album, Mariah had to give some love to the #JusticeForGlitter campaign, which brought her 2001 soundtrack to the best of the iTunes charts just a day before Caution's ..
Read MoreEvery week, TRL presents a starter pack of songs you've got know to start stanning a new artist. This week's Starter Pack belongs to none other than Chicago rapper CupcakKe. Since skyrocketing to online fame with "Deepthroat" in 2015, CupcakKe hasn't stopped making music. Dropping Ephorize and Eden this year alone, CupcakKe's six albums as she keeps it up and continues to com..
Read MoreReturning to TRL with a debut album finally out, Kodie Shane was truly glowing from the Times Square studio. Tons of Kodie's peers have expressed their support for Young HeartThrob, which just dropped last week. Talking to TRL host Sway Calloway, Kodie couldn't have been more grateful for the positive feedback – and the friendships – she's gotten from Lil Yachty and Yara Sh..
Read MoreThe TRL Pop Quiz works like this: our editors are posed a music-related question and have only 15 minutes and just 100 words to studies, pick and explain their answers. This week's question: what's your preference unreleased – and inevitably leaked – track? It’s accurate to mention that “Wake Up” by Beyoncé was never released, nevertheless that wouldn’t be telling the c..
Read MoreThere's nothing truer to the TRL spirit than bringing two young artists to the middle of Times Square, right as they're premiering new music. That's what happened this Monday morning, with Zara Larsson and Kris Wu stopping by and finally meeting at the TRL studio. Kicking off the week, Jamila Mustafa had a chance converse with Zara about the feminist values she upholds in her m..
Read MoreNever underestimate TRL's ability to turn a song title into a full-blown game, especially if you're Sabrina Carpenter and your album Singular: Act 1 just dropped. Taking inspiration from Sabrina's album track "Sue Me," TRL's Jamila Mustafa and Kevan Kenney quizzed the pop star on the weirdest lawsuits, hard Sabrina to deem them true or false. Though Sabrina wasn't brilliant, she ..
Read MoreFrom streaming to purchasing to promoting, there's not just one way to support your fave on album release day. And if your fave is Sabrina Carpenter, you could just think to paint her Singular: Act 1 tracklist on your face. That's the story of Kristine, a high school student and dedicated Sabrina stan who pulled off an all-Singular makeup look by featuring the album's eight tracks ..
Read MoreRight after her song "Lovers" featured in To All of the Males I've Loved Before, Anna of the North is giving the 2017 track a whole new life in 2018. Stopping by TRL this morning to chat with Jamila Mustafa and Kevan Kenney, Anna recapped how she didn't even know "Lovers" could be in the Netflix original film up until the movie was already out. Although right now that she's seen th..
Read MoreThe TRL Pop Quiz works like this: our editors are posed a music-related question and have only 15 minutes and just 100 words to studies, pick and explain their answers. This week's question: which songs use Auto-Tune in the ideal way? How could we talk about the ideal Auto-Tuned tracks without referencing T-Pain, best known for popularizing the vocal effect? His 2007 track “Buy U ..
Read MoreTemperatures are dropping, the sun is setting earlier and all your preference songs keep getting older. Fight that urge to begin listening to Christmas music, though, because so several of your preference throwbacks of Novembers past can keep you occupied all month long. "Since U Been Gone," Kelly Clarkson: 14 years old Two years immediately after being crowned the winner of the ope..
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