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Ashton Kutcher is opening up about parenthood.

There is a changing of the guard in the reality competition Emmy arena. After winning the harbinger Outstanding Casting For A Reality Program category last year, Peacock’s pop culture phenom The Traitors tonight took one of the two top categories in the field, Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality Competition Program, for its emcee Alan Cumming.

Rihanna is turning the streets of New York City into her very own runway.

Taylor Swift brings boyfriend Travis Kelce along for a quick trip to one of her favorite recording studios in New York City!

Are Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez no longer close — all because the Wizards of Waverly Place alum doesn’t want to hang out with her bestie’s squad??? That is what one source is suggesting!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic There’s a moment in “Elton John: Never Too Late,” a robustly satisfying and emotional documentary about the life and career of Elton John, that captures him, in a most revealing way, in his ’70s heyday. It’s a clip from a television interview, in which Elton is explaining how he writes a song. The clip must be from 1971, and Elton, still looking like a puppy child, with rectangle-framed glasses and plenty of shaggy hair, sits at an upright piano and brings out a sheaf of lyrics — pages all written in longhand by his collaborator, Bernie Taupin.

When it comes to the music industry, romance often sparks right on stage.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Joseph Kahn’s sci-fi/horror satire “Ick” has its world premiere in Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Midnight Madness slot on Saturday.

Selena Gomez has reportedly reached billionaire status.Gomez recently appeared in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking for the first time and is now reportedly worth a staggering $1.3 billion. In analysing her wealth, Bloomberg considered the estimated value of her stake in the beauty brand Rare Beauty, album sales, acting, and streaming deals.While her music has been popular, it’s one of the smallest sources of her overall wealth, and it’s been noted that unlike her close friend Taylor Swift, she isn’t well-known for writing her own material – and could stand to double her earnings by penning her own songs.A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez)Another major difference between Gomez and Swift is that touring accounted for less than 5 per cent of her wealth, with album and record sales even less so, at 2 per cent.The ‘Hands to Myself’ singer hasn’t toured since 2016, when she was forced to cancel her ‘Revival’ tour after 55 shows due to mental health struggles.

Teezo Touchdown has shared his thoughts on Kendrick Lamar namedropping him on his infamous Drake diss song, ‘Not Like Us‘.Back in April, Drake and Lamar engaged in a high-profile feud where they delivered seething diss tracks back and forth at one another. The last jab sent by Lamar was ‘Not Like Us’ – which became one of TikTok’s Songs Of The Summer, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the most streamed hip-hop song in a day on Spotify.In ‘Not Like Us’, Lamar rapped: “Man down, call an amberlamps, tell him, ‘Breathe, bro’ / Nail a nigga to the cross, he walk around like Teezo”Talking to Billboard in an interview, Touchdown commented on Lamar namedropping him, revealing that he was in his own “bubble” and didn’t know the Compton rapper had done so until a later date.

Pharrell Williams has shared a new song ‘Piece By Piece’ from the soundtrack of his upcoming LEGO biopic of the same name. Check it out below.The musician will chronicle his life and career in the new movie directed by Morgan Neville, which is out on October 11 in the US and November 8 in the UK.

Paris Hilton has said she wants to collaborate with Charli XCX.Hilton spoke to Billboard ahead of the release of her second album, ‘Infinite Icon’, which comes 18 years after the release of Hilton’s 2006 debut album ‘Paris’, which hosted her biggest song to date, ‘Stars Are Blind’.While discussing potentially working with Charli XCX, the reality TV icon nodded to ‘Brat Summer’ and proclaimed: “I’m the original brat.”A post shared by Paris Hilton (@parishilton)“Every time I’ve spoken with [Charli],” she added, “She’s like, ‘You’ve always been such an inspiration to my music.’ So I just think it just makes so much sense for us to do a song together.”Later on in the interview, Hilton said she loved “seeing so many people now who can follow in my footsteps” in creating “their own brands and their own businesses” and “a beautiful life to support themselves.”Hilton, much like Charli XCX, credits her early DJ career for her sound. “My DJ career has definitely had a massive influence on me and my life and making this album,” she said.“Performing all around the world at music festivals, for thousands of people and being on stage and just really paying attention to what makes people move and how to create those unforgettable dancefloor moments — I wanted to bring that same energy into the album.”Similarly, the ‘Apple’ singer promoted her album, ‘Brat’, through a series of ‘Partygirl’ DJ sets and live performances over the summer, one of which saw her joined by Robyn and The xx’s Romy during her set at Glastonbury 2024.In a four-star review of the record, NME wrote: “It all paints a picture of who XCX is in 2024.

Kristen Doute is getting married!

Travis Scott‘s label is disputing reports that Sabrina Carpenter beat him to the Number One slot on Billboard‘s album chart.Two weeks ago, Carpenter released her sixth studio album ‘Short N’ Sweet‘, while Scott shared a 10th anniversary reissue of his 2014 mixtape ‘Days Before Rodeo’ to streaming platforms.The two releases were poised to take the coveted Number One slot, but it was ‘Short N’ Sweet’ that won the chart battle in the end, with Carpenter selling 362,000 album units, compared to Scott’s 361,000.Now, Vulture is reporting that an anonymous representative from Cactus Jack Records, the label founded by Scott, sent a letter of complaint to Billboard and tabulation company Luminate, disputing the final chart.The representative reportedly claimed that Billboard‘s methods were “unreliable and incomplete” and that they had missed “an extremely high volume of orders” from their counting that would have presumably increased ‘Days Before Rodeo”s chances of reaching Number One.Cactus Jack representatives also reportedly claimed that a Luminate employee might have “a personal incentive” to want Carpenter to reach Number One, on account of his former employment at Island Records – Carpenter’s label.

Are Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes hitting pause on their friendship??

Rosalía has confirmed that she is working on her fourth studio album, admitting that during the process she has “changed a lot”.In a recent cover story with Highsnobiety, the Spanish pop star revealed that she is currently working on the follow-up to her Latin Grammy Award-winning album, 2022’s ‘Motomami‘.“It’s been a process,” she said. “I’ve changed a lot, but at the same time, I’m still wrapping my head around the same things.

Megan Thee Stallion has commented on the upcoming US presidential election, saying that she is against when people decide not to vote.Speaking to Billboard , she opened up about the political climate in the US at the moment, and why she has since endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris over the Republican choice, Donald Trump.“To be alive in a lifetime where a Black woman or a woman at all could be the president, I feel so blessed. This is what the future is about,” she told the publication. “We really about to get a strong, Black female in there.

A.D. Amorosi Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Friday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Fred Gibson was already a successful pop songwriter when his galvanizing trilogy of “Actual Life” albums began emerging in surprisingly rapid succession as the pandemic lifted. Released over just 18 months, the albums were a sort of living musical diary, filled with sophisticated dance/house/electronic-leaning sounds but also a sense of emotion and songcraft rare for the genre, which usually tends to be production-based more than song-based.

Former Cover stars The Last Dinner Party have spoken to NME at the 2024 Mercury Prize, and recalled how they managed to build a “sense of community” with their fans.The London band released their acclaimed debut record, ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ back in February. It subsequently became the biggest UK Number One debut album in nine years, and named by NME as one of the 10 best debut albums of 2024 so far.It was also shortlisted for this year’s Mercury Prize, alongside albums from Charli XCX, CMAT, Ghetts, Corinne Bailey Rae, Beth Gibbons, Barry Can’t Swim and more.

Central Cee has teamed up with RAYE on the UK garage-inspired new single ‘Moi’.Produced by Einer Bankz, Harry Beech and Eight8, the track sees both artists sing and rap in snippets of French, with RAYE setting the tone in a soul-inspired opening: “I wonder why/There’s a stone cold breeze as I kiss him goodbye/Paris is the city of love, they say/But not for him and I.”The Dan Prod produced video accompanying the track was filmed over several days across London and Paris, and features the ‘BAND4BAND’ rapper in a fleet of rose gold supercars.‘Moi’ follows Central Cee’s surprise drop of ‘Billion Streams Freestyle’, made as a nod to reaching over a billion streams, and also ‘Bolide Noir’, which saw him team up with Parisian rapper JRK 19.RAYE revealed she co-produced the track when announcing the song on Instagram, writing: “grateful to my friend @centralcee for having me Moi ft.

A. G. Cook and Finn Keane – two of the producers behind Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ – have spoken to NME about what it was like to work on the album, as well as revealing the thing that sets her apart from everyone else.The two worked alongside Charli and her fiancé – producer, soloist and The 1975 member George Daniel – to create the hit album, which has become a cultural phenomenon since its release back in June.Even ahead of its release, the simple lime green artwork became a meme, and fans on social media quickly embraced the record’s hedonistic aesthetic and attitude.

On the heels of three Emmy nominations for his most recent documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, Bao Nguyen has entered production on Jimi, an authorized, feature-length doc on the meteoric rise of rock star Jimi Hendrix for Double Agent (Asif Kapadia’s 2073), Network Entertainment (Brats, Sidney), and Experience Hendrix.

Lady Gaga is saying farewell to the 2024 Venice Film Festival after a busy week of promoting her new movie Joker: Folie a Deux with costar Joaquin Phoenix.

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian composer, arranger and pianist whose melding of his native country’s traditional music with ’60s-vintage American pop, bossa nova, samba, funk and hints of cool jazz became one of the decade’s most beloved and popular sounds, died peacefully Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 83.

Ethan Shanfeld “The Greatest Night in Pop” director Bao Nguyen has found his next music-themed project: a feature-length documentary about Jimi Hendrix. “Jimi,” from Double Agent, Network Entertainmentand Experience Hendrix, is the first full-length doc about the iconic rock star that is authorized by his estate.

Lady Gaga has opened up about being “pain free” after struggling with fibromyalgia for years.She previously described the condition, which causes musculoskeletal pain and a host of other symptoms including severe fatigue, sleep problems and depression, as a “nightmare”, and at points thought she’d “never be on stage again”.In a new interview with Vogue, the Joker: Folie à Deux star has reflected on her journey with the condition.“When I went on the ‘Chromatica Ball‘ tour in 2022,” she recalled, “that was the first time I’ve performed not in pain in…I don’t even remember. Michael [Polanksy, her fiancé] and I did that tour together,” she added.

Barack Obama has doubled down on his fandom of Charli XCX – see what the former President of the United States had to say below.Last month (August 11), Obama shared his annual summer playlist, which featured Charli’s ‘365’ off ‘Brat’. It also featured over 40 songs from artists such as Billie Eilish, Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Tyla, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and much more.Now, speaking to the I’ve Had It podcast, Obama elaborated on his decision to include the track on the playlist.

Autumn has arrived - and you know what that means. It’s time to dig out our woollen jumpers, don our fluffy scarves, and enjoy pumpkin spiced lattes for the ultimate cosy vibes.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Series and documentaries about ancient history, pop culture and current events continue to prove popular sellers for Arte Distribution, which is presenting a number of new titles at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre. “The Mystery of the Desert Kites,” which follows an international team of archaeologists exploring the heart of Saudi Arabia and the Black Desert of Jordan to find out more about the oldest megastructures in human history, just pre-sold to Australia’s SBS.

She made it right on time.

Kacey Musgraves has performed a cover of Chappell Roan‘s ‘Pink Pony Club’ – watch it below.On Wednesday (September 4), Kacey Musgraves kicked off the North American leg of her ‘Deeper Well’ tour at the Bryce Jordan Center in Pennsylvania. To make the event even more special, Musgraves whipped out a cover of the Chappell Roan hit ‘Pink Pony Club’ towards the end of her set.Notably, Musgraves did not perform the entire song, but just a portion of it before transitioning to her own track ‘High Horse’.Watch Musgrave’s cover of ‘Pink Pony Club’ below.Kacey Musgraves opening night of the #deeperwelltour mix of @chappell roan pink pony club and @kaceymusgraves high horse!! #deeperwell #deeperwellworldtour ♬ original sound – Tyler Mizak Kacey Musgraves is due to continue her trek across the US throughout September until early December with support from Madi Diaz, Father John Misty, Nickel Creek and Lord Huron.Visit here for US tickets.

Exciting news for Law & Order: SVU fans!

Sabrina Carpenter claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her new album Short N Sweet after a stiff chart battle with Travis Scott. Now Nicki Minaj is showing her love.

Sam Heughan has appeared to aim fire at pop sensation Beyoncé over the release of her new tipple - which has an uncanny resemblance to his own whisky.

We have a shocking update on the attack that almost happened at one of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Vienna last month.