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Brazillian singer-songwriter, activist, and drag queen Pabllo Vittar has teamed up with Rina Sawayama for a new song called "Follow Me." The new song comes with an electrifying video directed by Amber Park with Lauren Kessler serving as creative director. Check out some of their vintage Dior looks below.
"I’m so excited to release this song with Rina — she is such an icon and I’m so pleased we managed to make this song work as it’s the perfect combination of our music styles," Vittar said about the song. "I really hope the fans love it as much as we do.
Shooting the video was so much fun as well, wearing iconic outfits, and strutting our stuff on the runway! SERVE!” Read Next: Charli XCX is an alien enchantress in “Beg For You” video with Rina Sawayama Two years ago, Rina Sawayama released her self-titled debut album, which The FADER named one of the best of 2020. Sawayama and Vittar joined up that year to remix "Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys)." Last year, Pabllo Vittar shared Batidão Tropical.
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Arcade Fire debuting new song ‘Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)’ at Coachella 2022 – check it out below.The band played a secret set at the Californian festival on Friday (April 15) ahead of the release of new album ‘WE’, which is due out next month. Over the last few weeks they’ve made their live comebacks with gigs in New York, New Orleans and elsewhere.The hour-long set saw the band open with recent single ‘The Lightning I, II’ before playing hits from their five studio albums to date including ‘Wake Up’, ‘Rebellion (Lies)’ and ‘Everything Now’.Before playing their new song, ‘Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)’, which was teased last week, frontman Win Butler dedicated the track to his son.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPhoebe Bridgers has dropped “Sidelines,” her first original song since her Grammy-nominated 2020 album “Punisher.” The moody and low-key track is from Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s low-key blockbuster novel “Conversations With Friends.” According to the announcement, it will be Bridgers’ only new original song of 2022, although she’s released multiple covers and reworked versions of “Punisher” songs over the past few months.Bridgers will be making her first-ever appearance at the Coachella festival this and next weekend, and then will launch a long tour of North America and Europe through the end of August; dates appear below.
Phoebe Bridgers has dropped her new song “Sidelines,” just 24 hours ahead of her performance at Coachella!
A former “American Idol” contestant is out with a new song.
Amanda Bynes and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have dropped a new song. On Wednesday, the “Amanda Show” star shared the track, “DIAMONDS” on her official Instagram account. “DIAMONDS on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon music and itunes! search DIAMONDS Amanda Bynes Paul Michael,” she captioned the video.
Kenedi Anderson may have just left American Idol after being noted as a surefire standout, but she appears to not be going anywhere from music. Just days after speaking about about leaving the show for “necessary” reasons, the teen shared a TikTok on Wednesday debuting a new song and the lyrics are … perhaps a little telling.
Jeshi has teamed up with Nigerian artist Obongjayar for a new song. "Protein" is the latest song from the East London rapper's forthcoming debut LP, Universal Credit, to be revealed.
Amanda Bynes and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have dropped a new song. On Wednesday, the star shared the track, “DIAMONDS” on her official Instagram account. “DIAMONDS on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon music and itunes! search DIAMONDS Amanda Bynes Paul Michael,” she captioned the video.
The first full-length trailer for Hulu‘s Conversations with Friends has debuted online!
One in three LGBTQI Australian voter said that they are undecided about who they will vote for or are considering changing their vote at the forthcoming federal elections scheduled to be held on May 21, 2022. The results of one of the largest national online surveys of LGBTQI voters conducted by advocacy group Equality Australia was released on Monday, just as major political parties started their six-week campaign before the federal elections. One in five LGBTQI voter, who had voted Liberal, National, Labor or Greens at the 2019 elections, said they were reconsidering their vote this time. A post shared by Equality Australia (@equalityaustralia)Equality Australia estimates that there are around 850,000 LGBTQI voters who are eligible to vote at the elections in May. Around 7,902 people, including 5,578 LGBQI people currently living in Australia, responded to the LGBTIQ+ Federal Election survey conducted in February and March 2022. The elections are being held months after a failed bid by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to get an anti-LGBTQI Religious Discrimination Bill passed in Parliament.
Striking while the iron’s hot. Less than two weeks after Will Smith’s Oscars scandal, August Alsina dropped a new song that alludes to his “entanglement” with the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
City Girls have teamed up with Fivio Foreign for their first single of the year, ‘Top Notch’.The new cut sees Yung Miami and JT rapping over trappy production courtesy of AXL Beats. It’s full of the duo’s typical bravado, with lines like “I just got my hair did to shit on hoes like it’s a hobby / Every bitch that hate on me got an ugly face and a botched body” from JT.Fivio’s verse echoes the sentiments, rapping: “Go to the hood and the topic is me / When I was down, I was broke but I told ’em I knew I’d be rich by the top of the week.”‘Top Notch’ arrives alongside a Ben Marc-directed video that sees City Girls and Fivio partying in the streets of New York.
Rina Sawayama to release a dazzling new single, ‘Follow Me’.Released today (April 1), the club-ready pop number boasts a wild guitar riff and fierce vocals from both artists as well as a vibrant music video to match the track’s carefree yet exotic direction.Speaking on the track in a press release, Vittar – who is a noted activist – called Sawayama “an icon”, adding that the merging of their musical styles in ‘Follow Me’ is “perfect”.“I really hope the fans love it as much as we do,” she said. “Shooting the video was so much fun as well, wearing iconic outfits, and strutting our stuff on the runway! SERVE!”Check out the ‘Follow Me’ video – directed by Amber Park – below:Sawayama had compliments for Vittar, too, also calling the artist an icon.
Harry Styles has shared his new single "As It Was," the first from his upcoming third studio album Harry's House, out on May 20. The song is a wistful but upbeat jam that comes with a video that finds Styles impeccably dressed in a series of successively scantier bright red outfits on what appears to be a very cold day.
Free parking for NHS staff that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic will end on tomorrow in England, Sajid Javid has said. The Health Secretary issued a statement on Tuesday (March 29) announcing the government-funded perk would come to an end at the end of this month, Friday April 1.
court battle with Rebekah Vardy continues and the costs sky rocket, it seems her husband’s had just about enough. Friends tell us the footballer -turned-manager is so concerned, he’s suggested Coleen curbs her “frivolous spending” – starting now.“Coleen never thought this saga would drag on for so long or get so expensive,” says an insider close to the mum of four, who is being sued by Becky for libel after she famously accused “.......Rebekah Vardy’s account” of leaking stories about her, which Becky denies.