The Weeknd is speaking out.
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Tyler, The Creator has confirmed that he will not release posthumous music after his death.While performing at an intimate show in Los Angeles on Wednesday (April 26), the rapper told fans that he has no plans for his unreleased music to see the light of day following his death, reiterating that his decision has been written into his will.During the show, Tyler played an unreleased track ‘Penny’, before explaining why it’s hard to keep unreleased music to himself. “Some of these are so good I can’t just let them sit on my hard drive.
Because I have in my will that if I die, they can’t put no fucking [posthumous] album out. That’s fucking gross, like, half-ass ideas and some random feature on it from some n**** I didn’t fuck with.
Like, no.”Watch a clip of Tyler talking about his will below.Tyler, The Creator speaks on posthumous releases at last nights show.pic.twitter.com/fefTUWHS3K— Odd Future (@OddFuturePage) April 27, 2023Tyler, The Creator is now the latest artist to say they don’t want posthumous albums released when they die, following Anderson .Paak and Lana Del Rey in 2021. In August of that year, .Paak revealed a new tattoo, in which he outlined his thoughts on posthumous music: “When I’m gone, please don’t release any posthumous albums or songs with my name attached.
Those were just demos and never intended to be heard by the public.”A couple of days later, Lana Del Rey echoed his sentiments, sharing a screenshot of .Paak’s tattoo in a now-deleted post on her Instagram account. “It’s in my will but it’s also on his tattoo.”Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran recently revealed that he’s already working on a posthumous record, which will be a continuous work in progress from now until his death.
The Weeknd is speaking out.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Drafthouse Films has acquired three films that it will release theatrically in U.S. theaters followed by digital releases across major streaming platforms. They include “Mister Organ,” a documentary from journalist and filmmaker David Farrier, whose 2016 film “Tickled” explored the dark underbelly of “competitive endurance tickling,” will be released in theaters this fall. As he turns his camera on another stranger than fiction story, Farrier finds himself caught in an increasingly dangerous game of cat and mouse with a mysterious character who expertly manipulates the lives of anyone who dares to expose his secrets. The film, Produced by Ant Timpson and Firefly Films’ Emma Slade and Alex Reed, was a critical and audience favorite at Fantastic Fest 2022, and has become a box office hit in Farrier’s native New Zealand.
A body language expert has kept a close eye on Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield as they made their first appearance together on TV since claims of a 'rift'. The presenting duo were back fronting This Morning as normal on Monday (May 15) despite claims the pair are not getting on behind the scenes.
Former This Morning host Eamonn Holmes has waded into the ongoing furore surrounding the ITV show.
Holly Willoughby reportedly "wants Phillip Schofield gone" from This Morning as their once-close friendship is rumoured to have hit the rocks.Talk of a rift between the pair emerged this week, with Phillip, 61, going on to release a statement, which is said to have left Holly, 42, "blindsided" as she had no idea he was going to do so. Now, a This Morning insider has told The Sun on Sunday the pair's working relationship has broken down irretrievably and “Holly just wants Phil gone.” The couple have been one of Britain’s best-known double acts for years but they have had a rocky year, with several dramas including Queue-gate scandal after the Queen’s death and Phillip’s brother being convicted for sexually abusing a minor.
Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield have 'vanished' from their usual appearance in a This Morning promo after a statement was issued addressing their 'feud'. Claims have been made that the pair are 'barely speaking' behind the scenes of the ITV daytime show.
Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, and Will Catlett have been set for Universal Pictures’ untitled monster thriller from Radio Silence. The pic has been set for an April 19, 2024 release.
Katherine Heigl and John Travolta are set to share the screen in a new rom-com.
Holly Willoughby is "barely speaking" to her daytime TV co-host Phillip Schofield off-camera and the pair have "become more distant," according to reports.The ITV double-act - who have presented This Morning together since 2009 - became "great friends" after first having met as hosts of Dancing On Ice on the same channel. Phillip, 61 - who last week spoke out about the show's "reshuffling" rumours - later described his 42-year-old on-screen counterpart as "his rock" after he came out as gay live on television back in 2020.
Six months and counting! Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke are inching closer to their wedding day — but their guest list is still being decided.
Lana Del Rey has released the 10-minute music video for ‘Candy Necklace’ featuring Jon Batiste from her new album ‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’.The video, directed by Rich Lee and shot in Los Angeles, sees the singer take on the role of numerous Hollywood starlets throughout history like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short, also known as the The Black Dahlia.The black and white video features behind the scenes shots of Del Rey through the camera finder, in the make-up chair and alongside collaborator Batiste at the piano.“The whole thing about the video — why it was all supposed to be behind the scenes — was because all these women who changed their names and changed their hair, like me,” Del Rey tells the crew at one point in the video.“It’s like they all fell into these different snake holes. So the whole point is like, how do you learn from that and not fall into your own thing?”Watch the video for ‘Candy Necklace’ below.In a four-star review of ‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’, NME said the LA artist’s ninth album was “amongst her most revealing work yet” and “continues to expand the modern icon’s artistry”.It adds: “‘…Ocean Blvd’ might deal with some major existential questions, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had and cements Del Rey’s status as one of modern music’s most intriguing songwriters.”Last month, ‘…Ocean Blvd’ became the best-selling vinyl album of 2023 so far, outselling albums from P!nk, Taylor Swift and more.Upon the album’s release in March, it debuted at the Number One spot on the Official Albums chart — making it her sixth chart-topping LP in the UK.Del Rey was also recently confirmed as the final headliner for this summer’s BST Hyde Park.
Ed Sheeran is surprising fans in Los Angeles and New York City!
The Jonas Brothers are in hardcore promotion mode ahead of the release of their new album, the aptly titled The Album.
Todd Gilchrist editor Over three seasons (and a pandemic special) on Showtime, “Couples Therapy” has quietly become a destination for healing for television watchers who are interested in the difficult work of digging into interpersonal relationships — or watching other people do that work, anyway. Through the empathetic, incisive probing of Dr. Orna Guralnik, executive producers Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres have not only explored the complexity of couples’ shared and individual lives, but the essential, often painful and yet invariably revelatory therapeutic process that helps people understand themselves, their partners and the world around them. Following the April 28 premiere of Part 2 of the show’s third season, Variety spoke to Steinberg, Kriegman and Despres about “Couples Therapy” as a mirror for the challenges that many relationship face. In addition to talking about the themes that emerged from the conversations shared with their selected couples this season, the filmmaking trio broke down the process, both logistical and philosophical, that guided them, and examined some of the deeper notions exposed by the series’ format — and by therapy itself.
Tom Petty has been recognised by the University Of Florida with an honorary Doctor Of Music degree.The late musician and Florida native is also being celebrated with an endowment to the school’s music program that was announced by his estate. According to Petty’s brother Bruce, this was the rock icon’s life-long dream.“I don’t think anyone in our family, including him, thought that he would be linked with the University of Florida this way,” shared Bruce Petty in an Instagram post.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director As Warner Bros. gears up to release “The Flash” in theaters this summer, many moviegoers are wondering how star Ezra Miller’s history of legal troubles and alleged abuse might impact the release and press tour. The film’s production designer, Oscar winner Paul Austerberry (“The Shape of Water”) isn’t sweating it. During a recent interview with CBC, Austerberry said “people will forget” Miller’s history when the film releases. As reported by the CBC: “Austerberry says he’s not too concerned about how the stories surrounding Miller will affect the film. ‘People will forget that,’ he said, noting that Miller did a superb job playing the titular hero as two distinct characters, which required production to shoot the film in ‘two different chunks,’ with Ezra switching roles every few days.”
Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux are the two stars of the upcoming new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers and they sat down for a joint interview together.
Tyler, The Creator performed three new songs from the deluxe version of his sixth album ‘Call Me If You Get Lost‘ at a pop-up show in Los Angeles.The rapper took to Twitter to announce that he would perform on April 26 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The intimate show which he said would be “just me and a mic nothing special” instantly sold out.The show’s set included the live debut of ‘Dogtooth’ and ‘Sorry Not Sorry’ from the new deluxe version of the record, titled ‘Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale’ – featuring tracks that originally didn’t make the cut of the record.
Posthumous albums, those released after the death of an artist, have always been a contentious subject for fans. Did they really want that music released? Does something put out without an artist's ultimate approval count as canon? Should people be denied the chance to hear more from their favorite act? This topic has taken on a more tragic wrinkle in the rap world in recent times as the untimely deaths of artists such as Juice Wrld and Lil Peep at a young age left behind not just a sense of untapped potential but a trove of recordings, many of which have gone on to subsequently hit streaming services in various forms.
Meghan Markle has joined the likes of Serena Williams and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and signed with Hollywood power agency WME, according to reports. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, will now be represented by William Morris Endeavor, known as WME, which boasts a huge roaster of A-list talent, according to a new report from Variety. She will reportedly be working with WME CEO Ari Emanuel, agent Brad Slater, and agent Jill Smoller.