Monthly Archives: February 2021

Phoebe Bridgers: ‘Marilyn Manson’s record label should have dropped him years ago’ – Music News

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Phoebe Bridgers has slammed Marilyn Manson’s record label for only dropping the singer after abuse allegations against him were made public.

The Kyoto star, who admitted that she stopped being a fan of the hitmaker after visiting his home and seeing his “rape room”, alleged in several tweets that Manson’s behaviour was overlooked by his label, band, and management.

And in an interview with CNN, Bridgers slammed Manson’s label Loma Vista for only cutting ties with the Rock is Dead singer after Evan Rachel Wood and three other women went public with their allegations of abuse against him.

“I think it’s very funny that Marilyn Manson’s label decided to drop him right when the story went public, and people have just known about it for so long. I find that very annoying. I think it’s a lot of performative activism, basically,” she sighed.

“I think people should take more responsibility internally. It doesn’t matter how many people know about it. You should look into things like you’re the FBI. But when people make people money it’s really hard – I know – it’s really hard to walk away from that. But I think more people should.”

The scandal has cost Manson a record deal and two TV roles.

He has issued a statement denying the abuse allegations against him, writing on Instagram: “Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how – and why – others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”



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Robin Thicke insists relationship with ex Paula Patton has ‘never been better’ – Music News

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Robin Thicke has never been in a better place with ex-wife Paula Patton than he is right now.

The Blurred Lines star and Paula, who share a 10-year-old son named Julian, called time on their marriage in 2014 – with their split becoming messy as they argued over custody of their child and various other issues.

However, now they’ve both moved on with their lives – Robin has three children with fiancée April Love Geary – he told editors at People that “communication” and “transparency” means his relationship with Paula has “never been better”.

“There’s so much emotion when you first break up, and there’s so much stuff that spills over,” he explained. “But time heals those wounds, and she’s an incredible person.

“Once you can put yourself second, your son rises to the top and you go, ‘It’s not about us anymore.’ We’re very lucky the way everything has worked out.”

And Robin added the results of their co-parenting system are clear to see in Julian’s schoolwork.

“We’re co-parenting at our very best, and it shows in Julian’s results,” the 43-year-old boasted. “He’s thriving and has really blossomed this last year. He’s so devoted to school. He’s the opposite of me: I was the class clown in the back row. He’s in the front of class and loves going to school.”



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Britney Spears fans fill up Twitter with responses to damning documentary – Music News

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The new Britney Spears documentary has sparked a Twitterstorm of comments, with more than a million people weighing in on what they saw when the film debuted over the weekend.

The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears appeared on TV in America late on Friday night, and fans were appalled by what they watched, turning to Twitter to vent their frustration.

More than 220,000 tweets used the now-popular #FreeBritney hashtag, referencing the movement set up last year aimed at helping the troubled popstar escape the people fans fear are controlling her life.

The documentary studied the conservatorship in charge of Spears’ estate.

The online responses spiked on Tuesday when Britney’s boyfriend, Sam Asghari, spoke out about the singer’s ongoing situation and took aim at her father, Jamie Spears, who controls the singer’s finances and welfare.

Celebrities like Kacey Musgraves, Hayley Williams, and Sarah Jessica Parker are among those who have taken to Twitter to speak out about the documentary and send their support to 39-year-old Spears.

Paramore star Williams’ note was one of the most retweeted. It read: “the Framing Britney Spears doc holy f**k. no artist today would have to endure the literal torture that media/society/utter misogynists inflicted upon her. the mental health awareness conversation, culturally, could never be where it is without the awful price she has paid.”

The New York Times film features interviews with blogger Perez Hilton, who boasts that when Britney does badly, he does well, and the singer’s ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, while her father, Jamie, is painted as a terrible, toxic force. But perhaps the most awkward footage is a hard-hitting 2003 TV interview, in which newswoman Diane Sawyer grills the singer and visibly upsets her by quoting Maryland’s then-First Lady Kendel Ehrlich who famously said she’d like to shoot Spears if she got the chance, due to the bad example the popstar was allegedly setting for American kids.



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Taylor Swift set to make a ‘surprise announcement’ on ‘Good Morning America’ today – Music News

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The ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker will appear on the ABC news channel, which airs from 7am EST (12pm GMT), to share some news with her fans.

A tweet on the ‘GMA’ Twitter page reads: “TOMORROW ON @GMA: @taylorswift13 has a new surprise announcement to make — and she’s making it tomorrow exclusively on GMA! Make sure to tune in to hear the news! (sic)”

The post featured a clip of a short instrumental but didn’t give any other clues away.

As it’s Valentine’s Day this weekend (14.02.21), Swifties have speculated that Taylor’s re-recording of ‘Love Story’ could be on the way.

The Grammy-winner has been re-recording a number of her albums after Scooter Braun purchased her former label Big Machine records from Scott Borchetta, and acquired Taylor’s entire back catalogue of master recordings, before selling the rights for over $300 million, and her contract allowed her to re-record new music from November 2020.

The 31-year-old pop superstar – who released the sister records ‘folklore’ and ‘evermore’ last year – has already teased a preview of a new recording of ‘Love Story’, as it appeared in an ad starring her pal, Ryan Reynolds.

Taylor tweeted at the time: “Okay so while my new re-records are NOT done, my friend @VancityReynolds asked me if he could use a snippet of one for a LOLsome commercial he wrote so…here’s a sneak peak of ‘Love Story’! (sic)”



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Framing Britney Spears documentary contributors launching new podcast – Music News

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Babs Gray and Tess Barker, two of the contributors from the controversial Framing Britney Spears documentary, are gearing up to launch a new podcast.

The New York Times Presents film, which explained Britney’s current state and the conservatorship she is battling, aired last week and quickly became a viral sensation, with fans flocking to social media to promote the #FreeBritney movement, which launched last year amid concerns for the singer’s wellbeing.

And hot on the heels of the success of the documentary, contributors Gray and Barker are preparing to further investigate Britney’s situation in the upcoming podcast docuseries.

According to editors at Deadline, the series will feature interviews with people involved with Britney’s case, including the paralegal who left an anonymous tip that was mentioned in Framing Britney Spears.

Gray and Barker are no strangers to the podcast world – they previously teamed up on Britney’s Gram, a podcast in which they analysed possible meanings behind the mother-of-twos social media posts.

The new series is being produced for Stitcher’s Witness Docs department, and will launch later this year.



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Taylor Swift completes re-recording Fearless – Music News

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Taylor Swift has finished re-recording Fearless as part of her ongoing effort to re-record her first six albums after the master recordings were sold by her former record label.

The singer announced on Good Morning America on Thursday that her 2008 album is the first in a series of full-album remakes she vowed to create after failing to acquire her master recordings, which were initially bought by Scooter Braun, sparking a bitter row between the music icon and the mogul.

Fearless: Taylor’s Version will include six never-before-heard tracks, and the single, Love Story (Taylor’s Version), will be released on Thursday at midnight, mirroring the lead single from the original album.

“I have now finished re-recording all of Fearless which will be coming out soon,” Taylor said on GMA. “My version of Fearless will have 26 songs on it, because I’ve decided to add songs from the vault, which are songs that almost made the Fearless album, but I’ve now gone back and recorded those so that everyone will be able to hear not only songs that made the album but the songs that almost made it. The full picture.”

As well as appearing on GMA, the singer also updated fans about the new release on her social media.

“Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work,” she wrote. “For example, only I know which songs I wrote that almost made the Fearless album. Songs I absolutely adored, but were held back for different reasons (don’t want too many breakup songs, don’t want too many down tempo songs, can’t fit that many songs on a physical CD).

“I’ve decided I want you to have the whole story, see the entire vivid picture, and let you into the entire dreamscape that is my ‘Fearless’ album. That’s why I’ve chosen to include 6 never before released songs on my version of this album, written when I was between the ages of 16 and 18. These were the ones it killed me to leave behind.”

Although Taylor didn’t share a release date for the project, fans quickly picked up on the fact that capitalised letters in her social media message spell out “APRIL NINTH”.

Fearless won the singer her first Grammy Award for Album of a Year, a feat she later repeated with 1989.



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Justin Bieber set to play the first-ever TikTok concert – Music News

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The ‘Yummy’ hitmaker will perform songs from his 2013 digital-only compilation album ‘Journals’ as part of ‘Journals Live From The Drew House’ live-stream on Valentine’s Day (14.02.21) in the US, which is 2am GMT on February 15, with UK fans able to tune in to see it again from 7pm GMT on February 16.

Justin – who has 19.6 million followers on TikTok – said: “I’m excited to bring this show to life. ‘Journals’ is one of my favourite projects and I’ve never performed it live. I’m grateful to TikTok for helping me to bring this show to everyone on Valentine’s Day.”

Meanwhile, the Grammy-winner recently gave an update on the progress of his sixth studio album.

The 26-year-old superstar shared snaps from the studio across Instagram and teased fans that he’s got to the stage of picking the track-listing for the LP.

Alongside one picture of him staring at sheets of paper, he wrote: “going over track listing for the album. (sic)’
The ‘What Do You Mean?’ hitmaker also captioned a black and white shot of him with his mouth wide open: “how this album makes me feel (sic).”

Justin released his most recent record, ‘Changes’, last February, and he has since kicked off his “new era” with singles ‘Holy’, ‘Lonely’ and ‘Anyone’.

In December, he teamed up with the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir to release a charity rendition of his and Chance the Rapper’s mega-hit ‘Holy’, in a bid to land the much coveted Christmas number one spot on the UK charts.

But the tune was by beaten by YouTube stars and charity campaigners, LadBaby, whose song ‘Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ – a cover of Journey’s 1981 hit ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ – hit the top spot.

The collaboration came after Justin was beaten to the Christmas number one in 2015 by the choir’s charity single, ‘A Bridge Over You’.

The ‘Sorry’ hitmaker had encouraged his millions of Twitter followers at the time to buy their song in order to help it reach the top of the chart ahead of his own single ‘Love Yourself’.

He also appeared on ‘Monster’ from fellow Canadian megastar Shawn Mendes’ album ‘Wonder’ last year.



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Alice Cooper has had his COVID-19 jab – Music News

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The ‘Poison’ hitmaker, 73, has revealed he and his wife, Sheryl, 64, have both previously had coronavirus, and he’s urged everyone to have their vaccine when their time comes.

The couple had their jab at an immunisation centre in Phoenix, Arizona, set up by non-profit organisation, Team Rubicon, that utilises the skills of military veterans to “serve communities and to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises.”

In a video shared on Team Rubicon’s Twitter page just after having a dose of the vaccine, Alice said: “We already had COVID but we’re getting vaccinated anyway.

“Everyone out here has been really nice and you don’t feel like you’re in danger of anything. So come on out. If you haven’t been vaccinated, come on out.”

His dancer spouse, Sheryl, added that it was “painless”.

Meanwhile, the rocker recently released a free single to mark his birthday.

Alice dropped ‘Social Debris’ as a “gift to Detroit, to his fans and to himself” on 73rd birthday February 4.

He said: “The single ‘Social Debris’ is a gift to Detroit, to my fans and to myself. The track was written by the original Alice Cooper band. We never thought that we would ever fit in; the Alice Cooper band didn’t fit in with anybody, because we were doing things that no other band did. We didn’t fit in with the folk scene, we didn’t fit in with the metal scene, we really didn’t fit in with anything that was going on at that time. We just always felt like we were outsiders. We felt like we were social debris, we were in our own little world. So ‘Social Debris’ was just the original band writing a song about us, essentially. And it came out sounding like it belonged in 1971. That’s just the original band – you can’t change that, it’s great.”

The was available for free for 24 hours from the artist’s website.

What’s more, Alice revealed his upcoming album, ‘Detroit Stories’, will be a celebration of Detroit rock.

He added: “Detroit was Heavy Rock central then. You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces.

“You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your a** kicked … After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognised the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit … we were home.”



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Pink and her daughter Willow Sage Hart to release viral duet ‘Cover Me In Sunshine’ – Music News

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The ‘Who Knew’ hitmaker made her debut on TikTok with her nine-year-old daughter – who she has with husband Carey Hart – two days ago, with Willow singing a snippet of the original song in a clip on Pink’s official page on the video sharing platform, and it has since been played over four million times.

Now, the duo have announced the official release of the track on Friday (12.02.21).

The 41-year-old pop legend – who also has son Jameson Moon Hart, four, with her spouse – announced on Twitter: ““Cover Me In Sunshine” ft. #WillowSageHart – Available Friday 2.12 Pre-Save Now. (sic)”

In an accompanying video message, she said: “We thought we’d put it out around Valentine’s Day as a big old hug and kiss to all y’all.”

In the original video, Willow said: “Or I could just sing ‘Cover Me in Sunshine’.”

She then belts out: “Cover me in sunshine/ Shower me in good times/ Tell me that the world’s been spinning/ Since the beginning and everything will be all right/ Just cover me in sunshine.”

Willow had previously shown off her impressive vocal skills when the pair performed a sweet cover of ‘The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)’ by Nat King Cole for ‘The Disney Holiday Singalong’ show in December.

Meanwhile, Pink recently admitted she is “proud” of herself and Carey for reaching 15 years of marriage.

The ‘So What’ hitmaker took to social media last month to mark their 15th wedding anniversary and gushed that she’s happy the couple have made it through so many years together.

She wrote: “15 years. Proud of us babe. See, sometimes being stubborn pays off. What a wild ride it’s been, once we learned how to stay in our race line. Here’s to at least the next 15 months hahahAh. I love you and I love our family. (sic)”

Pink and Carey have been open about their marriage in the past, with the former previously explaining that she and her husband have been keeping their marriage strong by attending counselling together.

She said: “Marriage is awful, wonderful, comfort and rage. It is boring, terrifying, and a total nail biter. It is loving another fallible creature while trying to love yourself. It is a lifetime of coming back to the table.

“People laugh at us because we’re either fighting or laughing. They roll their eyes when we talk about therapy. But I’ll tell you what. It’s worth it. All of it. Even when it isn’t.”



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Rihanna’s Fenty clothing label ‘put on hold’ – Music News

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The ‘Diamonds’ hitmaker launched the luxury fashion line in 2019 with LVMH.

However, after two years, they’ve made the joint decision to close down the clothing business to focus on the singer’s lucrative Fenty Beauty cosmetics and Savage x Fenty lingerie lines.

In a statement issued to WWD.com, LVMH said: “Rihanna and LVMH have jointly made the decision to put on hold the RTW activity, based in Europe, pending better conditions. Following the completion of a fundraising round where L Catterton has taken a stake into Savage X Fenty, LVMH and Rihanna reaffirm their ambition to concentrate on the growth and the long-term development of [the] Fenty ecosystem focusing on cosmetics, skincare and lingerie.”

The Fenty clothing arm was tailored to the high-end market, whereas Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty is more affordable.

The last collection was in November and saw Rihanna team up with popular designer Amina Muaddi on a range of heels.

Upon the launch of Fenty clothing, the 32-year-old star had insisted: “I’m not the face of my brand, but I am the muse, and my DNA has to run all the way through it. I don’t want anyone to pull up my website and think, Rihanna would never wear that.”

Rihanna is yet to comment on the closure.



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