Last week, Halsey posted a TikTok from backstage at their tour rehearsals, hinting that new music might be on the way.

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The singer head-banged to an untitled snippet in the video, which was almost unhearable but had the atmospheric rock mood that colored their most recent album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.

Over the weekend, the track was resurfaced with crystal clear audio — but it wasn’t quite the tease fans might have expected.

Halsey revealed in a TikTok clip that while the song and video have been completed for over a month, her label will not allow them to release it until they can fake a viral moment on TikTok.

See the TikTok video below for a snippet of the new song.

tiktok.com/@halsey/video/7100595685912775979

 

Taking to their TikTok page, the singer said in a post titled “I’m tired” that there is new music she wants to release “ASAP,” but that “marketing” is getting in the way and the label won’t let her share the new song.

The singer took to their TikTok page to say that while they have new music they want to release “ASAP,” marketing is getting in the way and her label won’t let her release the new song.

“My record company is saying that I can’t release it unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok,” Halsey said.

“Everything is marketing,” she continued. “And they [the label] are doing this to basically every artist these days.”

Halsey revealed in March that she was writing new songs and planned to create a “pop album” for their next release.

The singer announced the news on her Instagram Stories, posting: “Due to personal reasons I will be making a pop album.”

“I have an incredible song that I could put out as a single for radio next but I feel like that’s insane to do bc I haven’t even toured iichliwp [‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’] yet idk,” she captioned a later post. “I actually have a few. Idk what to dooooo.”

The pop star is currently signed to Capitol Records under the Universal Music Group. “Our belief in Halsey as a singular and important artist is total and unwavering. We can’t wait for the world to hear their brilliant new music,” said a Capitol Music Group representative to Rolling Stone in a statement.

The viral video, which has been viewed over 7.7 million times since it was posted, includes a comment section packed with users who believe they’ve cracked the music industry’s code — that Halsey’s video in which she complains about having to create TikToks for marketing is actually the one she made for marketing.

“Bruh, I wish it was,” the singer replied to one user. “They just said I have to post TikToks; they didn’t specifically say ‘about what’ so here I am.” She then responded to another comment that the label’s request was for six TikTok posts.

The 2022 Songwriters Hall of Fame will honor Lil Nas X next month.

The rapper and pop star will receive the Hal David Starlight Award on June 16 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, which is given to “gifted young songwriters who are making a significant impact in the music industry via their original songs.”

Previous honorees include Taylor Swift, Drake, Halsey, Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco, Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds, Sara Bareilles, John Legend, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, and others. The award was established in 2004 to recognize SHOF chairman emeritus Hal David for his support of emerging songwriters.

“Lil Nas X is someone we are very proud to award the Hal David Starlight Award to,” said Nile Rodgers, chair of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. “He has perhaps better than anyone demonstrated how powerful great songs are, with ‘Old Town Road’ and ‘Montero’ dominating the charts for almost every day of the last three years.”

“If you’re lucky enough to be alive at this time, you know exactly who Lil Nas X is and he’s an incredible and inspirational person for every one of his communities as well.”

Nas’ first single, “Old Town Road,” was notably recorded for $50 in a simple Atlanta studio and went on to become the Billboard Hot 100’s longest-running No. 1 hit. Instead of becoming a one-hit-wonder, he has taken his music and stardom in unexpected directions, branching out from the country-hip-hop of his 2019 debut into R&B, rock, and other genres.

Since then, he’s had hits with his “Montero” album and single, as well as “Industry Baby,” a collaboration with Jack Harlow that topped the Billboard Hot 100 last fall. In September, Nas will embark on his first national tour.

Lil Nas X revealed last month that he’ll be on the road, with a few European tour dates planned for the end of the year.

His ‘Long Live Montero’ tour will begin in North America on September 6 at The Fillmore in Detroit and will stop in Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, and other cities before concluding on October 23 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

The ‘Industry Baby’ hitmaker will then embark on a European tour, which will begin in Amsterdam on November 8 and will include stops in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and Hamburg, before concluding in Barcelona, Spain, on November 17.

With the announcement of his next global tour, The Weeknd will bring his past two projects to fruition.

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After the initial After Hours tour was postponed multiple times owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the After Hours Til Dawn stadium tour will be the Canadian pop star’s first worldwide tour.

Grammy-nominated Doja Cat will join the “Dawn FM” musician for the North American portion. This will comprise 18 shows starting in July in his birthplace of Toronto at Rogers Centre and concluding in September in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium.

It is going to be a high-concept, high-tech production in the vein of the new album “Dawn FM.”

The production will also be linked to the singer’s Amazon Prime special, which explores a post-pandemic departure from purgatory.

The general public on-sale begins on March 10 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.

The Weeknd had planned to announce the tour a week ago. However, he delayed the announcement when the world’s focus shifted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On February 24, he tweeted, “unfortunately i’m just now seeing what’s happening with the conflict and will pause on tomorrow’s announcement. I pray for everyone’s safety. “

The After Hours Til Dawn tour will include some of the most popular songs from the last two years. These include “Blinding Lights” and “Save Your Tears,” the world’s leading streaming singles in 2020 and 2021.

Each ticket purchased on the North American leg of The Weeknd’s tour will contribute $1 to his new XO Humanitarian Fund. The fund is a collaboration between The Weeknd and the United Nations’ World Food Programme. The artist also announced that he will contribute $500,000 to the cause.

Levitating, the chart-topping single by Dua Lipa, has now levitated into legal territory.

According to court records acquired by E! News on March 2, the 26-year-old pop star is now being sued for copyright infringement in connection with her 2020 smash track, “Levitating.” The members of Artikal Sound System, a Florida-based reggae band, filed the case against the pop diva and her label, Warner Records.

The band claims in the case, filed in federal court in Los Angeles that Dua’s song is “substantially similar” to their 2017 single, “Live Your Life.” Although the group does not go into detail about how the singer and her group allegedly plagiarised their song, their lawsuit claims, “In 2020, on information and belief, Defendants listened to and copied ‘Live Your Life’ before and during the time when they were writing ‘Levitating.'”

“Given the degree of similarity,” they stated in the documents, “it is highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently from ‘Live Your Life.'”

Additionally, Warner Records is listed as a defendant, as are songwriters Stephen Kozmeniuk, Sarah Hudson, Clarence Coffee, Jr., and Bosco Kante.

According to Artikal Sound System, they have been touring and performing together since 2010, and their album featuring Live Your Life reached number two on the Billboard reggae chart in 2017.

Their single “Live Your Life” was released in 2017 on CD Baby and is also available via streaming sites such as Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, and Sound Cloud.

Additionally, the band has included what they claim is a copy of the Certificate of Copyright from the United States Copyright Office for their single Live Your Life.

Artikal Sound System is demanding an award of profits and actual damages from the defendants.

‘Levitating’ from Dua Lipa’s album Future Nostalgia, released in October 2020, was a huge success for the artist, landing at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became the longest-running Top-10 single by a female singer, according to Billboard, after lasting more than 41 weeks on the charts.

The Weeknd has secured his next major project, and it’s fair to say he’s “Earned It.”

According to Variety, the Starboy performer will collaborate on the upcoming HBO series The Idol with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. Along with Levinson and his creative producer, Reza Fahim, who are both recognized as creators, he will executive produce and co-write the series.

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Yes, he will star in the series, but no details on who he will portray have been released.

According to Variety, the show will depict a Los Angeles pop singer who begins dating a nightclub owner. What’s the major twist? In addition to being the owner of a nightclub, she is also the head of a cult.

The Weeknd simply re-posted the stories and tagged HBO on Instagram to confirm his involvement in the show.

This will be the artist’s first major role at the age of 31. The singer previously appeared in Adam Sandler’s Uncut Gems and guest-wrote and featured in an American Dad episode in 2020.

Uncut Gems director Josh Safdie earlier told Variety that the musician, née Abel Tesfaye, is a “real cinephile.”

“Like, one of his favorite filmmakers is (David) Cronenberg, and that makes sense because he’s from Toronto. But he watches a lot of movies,”  Abel even helped write the plot for the Adam Sandler film, according to the director.

And Benny Safdie claimed that The Weeknd and Adam got into a fistfight for the film. The director said, “He did it with Adam, the two of them, no doubles, both of them rolling around on the ground.” “Everybody wanted to get into it, really get down and dirty with us. It was heavily choreographed, but still, none of that stuff is easy.”

In other words, when The Idol premieres, fans should expect The Weeknd to give it his all.

HBO announced on Monday, Nov. 22, that the drama series, currently titled The Idol, would have a six-episode run. According to the announcement, Amy Seimetz will direct the whole first season, while The Weeknd and Lily Rose Depp will star in the show.

 

Rihanna has received a rare honor in Bridgetown, her hometown.

During the presidential inauguration event in Heroes Square on Monday night, Barbados proclaimed the ‘Diamonds’ singer a National Hero, symbolizing the country’s transition to a Commonwealth republic.

To loud applause, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced the 33-year-hero old’s status.

Mottley summoned Rihanna out in front of the audience to congratulate her.

“On behalf of a grateful nation and an even prouder people, we therefore present to you, to the designee, a National Hero of Barbados, ambassador Robyn Rihanna Fenty,” Mottley added, referring to the singer by her full name.

“May you continue to shine like a diamond and bring honor to your nation by your works, by your actions,” she said, referring to Rihanna’s chart-topping track from 2012.

Prince Charles, who was also present at the event, congratulated the pop star personally.

According to Forbes magazine, the Barbadian entrepreneur became a billionaire early this year.

The magazine reported earlier this year that Rihanna is the wealthiest female artist and the second-richest woman in entertainment, after Oprah Winfrey.

The 33-year-old, who hasn’t released a new album in five years, is worth an estimated $1.7 billion thanks to her cosmetics line Fenty Beauty.

According to Forbes, Fenty Beauty is worth $2.8 billion.

Through her Savage x Fenty lingerie brand, the singer has also committed time to grow her business empire.

Taylor Swift only had two actors in mind for her short film All Too Well: Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien.

The Stranger Things actress and the Teen Wolf alum play love interests who are in a tumultuous relationship in the project. Taylor also stars in and directs the angst-filled film, which features a new, 10-minute version of the same-named track from her re-recorded version of her 2012 album Red, which was released on Friday, Nov. 12, amid a dispute over custody of the pop star’s music.

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“I got their numbers and sent them text messages,” Taylor said of hiring Dylan and Sadie on E!’s Daily Pop. “I had already created an entire treatment and script and like, visual kind of references of what I wanted to do.”

“I wanted to have everything ready, like, this is my DP, this is who we are using for set design, this is who we are using for editing, this is who we are using for, this is the producer. I wanted them to know all of the information so they could make a choice and sent them the song,” she continued.

“They had the song before anyone else had the song,” Taylor revealed at the premiere of All Too Well in New York on Friday. “When they said yes, I was so elated because I didn’t have backups in mind.”

When Taylor Swift asked Dylan O’Brien to star in the project, which he referred to as a “trip,” he said yes without hesitation.

“I didn’t know [Taylor] knew who I was at all,” he said. “I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time, I love her, even more now. She’s like the best person ever, she is so brilliant. So yeah, it was like an automatic yes. I think we were sort of just hanging out on the phone and she asked me a while into it, like, you know, how long I wanted to think or whatever and it’s OK if I wanted to say no, and I was like, oh it’s not even a question.”

Taylor told Daily Pop that All Too Well is a “coming-of-age film about a very specific time in someone’s life when you are between 19 and 20.”

She explained that “You have one foot in childhood and one in adulthood and you don’t quite know where to stand and how fragile that makes you in that moment. We go through life, we get our hearts broken, what does that give us, what does that take away. This is a film that ponders such issues.”

Taylor’s fans have long speculated that “All Too Well” is about Jake Gyllenhaal, whom she dated briefly when she was 20 years old in 2010.

Also on Friday, host Seth Meyers asked Taylor, who has often wrote cryptic lyrics about her real-life relationships, “I wonder if there are people who might think that they were the ones you were singing about, if it’s easier or far, far worse for them, 10 years later.”

“To be honest, I haven’t thought about their experience,” she answered.

Taylor Swift told E!’s Daily Pop that re-recording the song “All Too Well” gave her “a real buzz” since the lyrics “had been written a long time ago.”

Ariana Grande is having a great time as a married woman!

The 28-year-old pop singer, who married real estate broker Dalton Gomez in a private ceremony in May, gave a romantic shout-out and a never-before-seen picture of their small wedding to her husband’s 26th birthday.

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On Saturday, Aug. 7, the singer shared a candid photo of herself and the birthday kid lovingly seated in a pair of big Dutch wooden clogs from their recent trip to Amsterdam on Instagram Stories.

“Happy birthday to my baby my husband my best friend,” her IG story read. “I love you infinitely.”

Ariana also shared a black-and-white picture of herself and Dalton kissing passionately on their wedding day. Making their photo even more adorable? As they piled on the PDA, one of the singer’s dogs was sandwiched between them.

The singer’s recently published photo of her and Dalton’s wedding day comes only three months after they tied the knot in their Montecito, Calif. home.

Ariana Grande shocked her millions of followers when she revealed her new Mrs. title on Instagram at the time.

With glamour pictures of her beautiful Vera Wang bridal gown and loving photographs of her and the groom, the “7 Rings” singer naturally spilled the beans on her wedding.

“There was a lot of love and everyone is really happy,” a source earlier told E! News, adding, “It was a beautiful day and very romantic. Everyone is happy for them. It was perfect and just what Ari wanted. “

According to a third source, “Ari wanted it to be simplistic and tasteful. All they cared about was having family there and to be able to enjoy the special moment together.”

Although Harry Styles and Jennifer Aniston belong to different circles, it seems that they have a similar sense of style. Case in point? After it was discovered that the Friends star and former One Direction member were wearing the same exact Gucci suit, their fans went crazy.

Of course, Harry, 27, and Jennifer, 52, gave the statement-making piece—which includes a distinctive pattern in a kaleidoscope of brown tones—their own spin.

The color-block pantsuit was originally worn by the “Watermelon Sugar” singer, who is also an ambassador for the premium brand, at the 2021 Brit Awards in May. He completed the look with Gucci sneakers and a brown leather bag.

What about Jen? For her cover shoot for InStyle’s September edition, she looked effortlessly stylish in a power suit. The Morning Show star completed her outfit with white Gucci loafers, diamond-studded rings, and a Carolina Bucci scarf.

Jennifer was quick to notice her amazing twinning moment with Harry.

She shared a side-by-side picture of herself and the 27-year-old pop singer wearing the identical outfit on Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Aug. 4.

“Just call me Harriet Styles,” she wrote.

According to writer Evan Ross Katz, the 52-year-old actress and the Don’t Worry Darling actor have previously donned identical outfits.

Harry previously wore a tight white shirt that said, “Save the Drama for Your Mama,” in addition to the Gucci pantsuit. It’s a shirt that Jennifer’s Friends character, Rachel Green, wears in the show’s season 10 premiere.

While Jennifer Aniston is obviously a Harry Styles fan, she also gushed about another major star: Jennifer Lopez.

The A-lister revealed how much she admires J.Lo on the red carpet for her InStyle cover story, which will reach newsstands on August 20.

The Emmy winner said that “I want to know what gives her the look like she’s about to be seething. It’s amazing. She’s almost stuck getting mad at somebody, but she’s just so gorgeous. She’s like, ‘I can’t believe I’m standing here.’ But I don’t think she’s trying; she fell out of bed that way. She’s a performer.”

Jennifer stated that she tries to “connect with those people holding cameras” when it comes to perfecting her own killer poses during awards season.

“Some of them I’ve known a long time, so I’ll say hello,” she admitted. “If I’m having an honest interaction with someone, it makes it easier.”