EDM titans Don Diablo and Felix Jaehn have joined forces to launch “Monster,” a dynamic new observe below Diablo’s HEXAGON label. Steeped within the vibrant power of 90s rave tradition, “Monster” affords extra than simply rhythmic enchantment—it carries a poignant message in regards to the significance of psychological well being consciousness. The observe is a seamless mix of Don Diablo’s cutting-edge sounds and Felix Jaehn’s simple rhythms, merging right into a dance anthem that appears again nostalgically whereas pushing the sound ahead.
To amplify the music’s psychological well being message, the duo filmed a particular music video in Berlin, a metropolis celebrated for its wealthy musical legacy and profound historic significance. The video not solely enhances the observe’s deep message but in addition portrays the distinctive inventive identities of each Diablo and Jaehn towards the backdrop of a metropolis synonymous with transformation and resilience. This collaboration stands as a landmark of their careers, using their musical platform to spotlight psychological well being complexities and promote open discussions on well-being.
JT has suggested followers to make use of unofficial variations of her upcoming solo single on TikTok regardless of Common Music Group (UMG)‘s banning their music from the platform.
In January, Common introduced that it will withdraw its artists’ songs from the platform, citing unfair compensation for the artists and the dangerous results of A.I. Days later, TikTok confirmed that it had additionally began to take away songs from songwriters signed with Common Music Publishing Group.
Now, Metropolis Ladies member JT – who’s signed to Motown Data, a subsidiary of UMG – is ready to launch ‘Okay’ tomorrow (April 19). Forward of its launch, she urged her followers on X/Twitter to advertise the tune on TikTok, as UMG’s ongoing dispute with the app will forestall her from importing the official audio.
“Keep in mind I’m with UMG so as soon as [the] tune is out, [the] TikTok [sound] can be muted so attempt to get a distorted sound going,” JT tweeted. “I’ve one on my TikTok, use it if you’d like or make your personal. IDC – simply unfold the sound [megaphone emoji]”
Keep in mind I’m with UMG so as soon as tune is out Tik Tok can be muted so attempt to get a distorted sound going I’ve one on my Tik Tok use it if you’d like or make your personal IDC simply unfold the sound📢🔊🔊🔊
‘Okay’ is JT’s third single to this point and may be anticipated to characteristic on the Miami star’s upcoming solo mixtape, ‘Metropolis Cinderella’.
Though JT appears to be the primary artist to overtly defy UMG’s determination to take away their catalogue from TikTok, others signed to the conglomerate nonetheless handle to share their music on the app. Olivia Rodrigo has posted movies of her singing alongside to songs from her newest album ‘Guts’, together with one where she promotes a fan upload of ‘Obsessed’.
As well as, Taylor Swift’s music has lately returned to TikTok after being eliminated earlier this yr, possible as a consequence of Swift now proudly owning her masters and publishing rights. This coincides with the discharge of her upcoming album, ‘The Tortured Poets Division’.
Different artists signed to the label who’ve been affected by UMG’s determination embody Dangerous Bunny, The Weeknd, Drake, Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber, Adele, Coldplay, J Balvin, Submit Malone and Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Common Music Group, TikTok. Credit: SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs
On the time, UMG defined that its licensing settlement with TikTok expired on January 31 and that negotiations to resume the contract had fallen quick.
UMG acknowledged that they pushed for “three important points” whereas renegotiating their contract with TikTok: the “applicable compensation for [their] artists and songwriters, defending human artists from the dangerous results of A.I. and on-line security for TikTok’s customers.” The label additionally believed that “TikTok is making an attempt to construct a music-based enterprise, with out paying honest worth for the music.”
They added that “TikTok encourages A.I. music creation on the platform itself” and “demanding a contractual proper which might enable this content material to massively dilute the royalty pool for human artists, in a transfer that’s nothing in need of sponsoring artist substitute by A.I.”
UMG concluded that “TikTok’s ways are apparent: use its platform energy to harm weak artists and attempt to intimidate us into conceding to a foul deal that undervalues music and shortchanges artists and songwriters in addition to their followers.”
The platform’s quick assertion famous that UMG had “chosen to stroll away from the highly effective assist of a platform with effectively over a billion customers that serves as a free promotional and discovery car for his or her expertise”.
KSHMR marks a decade beneath his the moniker with the discharge of “Devotion,” a robust membership anthem he’s been showcasing on tour. Celebrating 10 years as a DJ and producer, KSHMR honors his Indian roots and different international cultures, collaborating with Thai artist 22Bullets for this newest observe.
“Devotion” blends sturdy basslines with vibrant instrumental synths and KSHMR’s iconic melodies, making a fascinating sound that transcends typical style boundaries. The observe, which cleverly incorporates a pattern from Nomad’s Nineteen Nineties hit “(I Wanna Give You) Devotion,” has already grow to be a crowd favourite in KSHMR’s North American membership tour and through his efficiency finally month’s Extremely Music Pageant Miami Foremost Stage. 22Bullets, recognized for his work with artists like David Guetta and Ty Dolla $ign, and for his releases on KSHMR’s Dharma imprint, beforehand teamed up with KSHMR on the 2022 observe “It Isn’t Me.”
“I’ve been eager to work with 22Bullets on a observe for my units for a very long time; he’s one in all my favourite up-and-coming producers that’s launched on my label Dharma earlier than. He’s additionally one of many few producers representing Thailand within the digital scene. Flipping this pattern was the right collaboration, I knew it will get massive reactions stay. It’s been an enormous hit all through my units on this membership tour celebrating 10 years of KSHMR.” – KSHMR
Rihanna has offered an replace on her long-awaited new album, saying she’s “already received stuff she may make hits out of”.
Yesterday (April 17), the Bajan singer attended a launch occasion for her FENTY x PUMA Creeper Phatty Earth Tone shoe line in London. On the occasion, she spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her new assortment, her trend sense and motherhood.
After sharing that her sons RZA and Riot‘s favorite tune is ‘Wheels On The Bus’, Rihanna revealed if her youngsters would seem on any of her new music.
“I imply, it’s as much as them,” the ‘Wanted Me’ singer mentioned. “I already received stuff I really feel like I may make hits out of. Me and [partner, A$AP] Rocky are actually attempting to determine who’s going to make use of what as a result of it’s so good.”
Earlier this month, the pop juggernaut shared thatshe has “quite a lot of visible concepts” for her hotly-anticipated ninth album.
“It’s bizarre,” she mentioned. “My mind is working backwards proper now. I often have the music first, and the music leads me into all of those visible alternatives, and now I’m having all of those visuals, and I don’t have the songs for them but, however possibly that’s the important thing, this time. Possibly the visible concepts are main me to the songs that I must make.”
When requested if she noticed the venture as considerably of a “rebirth”, Rihanna responded: “Random concepts, quirky concepts, issues that don’t have anything to do with me in any respect. I imply, I can’t let you know. The opps is watching.”
Whereas speaking with ET, she confirmed that she nonetheless “doesn’t have the songs simply but” to go together with her visible concepts. Afterwards, Rihanna diverted the chat away from her upcoming music, saying: “I can’t let you know [anymore]. That’s like me snitching on my document.”
Rihanna’s final full-length album was her 2016 eighth album ‘Anti’. She has been teasing the follow-up – dubbed ‘R9’ – since 2018, initially promising followers in an Instagram remark that it might arrive the next yr. In 2019, she additional taunted followers by importing a video of a dog dancing to Home Of Ache’s ‘Soar Round’ with the message “Replace: me listening to R9 on my own and refusing to launch it.”
Rihanna at FENTY X Puma Creepers Phatty Earth Tone occasion. Photograph credit score: Neil Mockford/WireImage
In 2020, nevertheless, she dampened the hopes for the album when she informed followers to cease asking her to launch new materials throughout the pandemic.
Final yr, Rihanna signed a brand new take care of Dwell Nation and it was reported that the singer deliberate to launch new music forward of a possible world tour within the subsequent few years.
In December, Rihanna added to the rumours by alluding that there could also be new music and a world tour on the horizon. “Effectively, we’re all the time gonna return on tour. [But] I really feel I wish to do a tour when there’s new music. We already know what that’s gonna be, with the songs that I’ve carried out on my final tour. That was a very long time in the past,” she informed Entertainment Tonight.
“I really feel prefer it’s solely truthful that my followers get what they’ve been ready on, which is new music. After that, let’s similar to, blow all the pieces up.”
Extra just lately, A$AP Rocky confirmed in February that Rihanna was nonetheless “engaged on” her ninth album.
Rihanna’s final launch was the 2022 tune ‘Raise Me Up’, the sombre lead single to the Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally soundtrack and a tribute to late actor Chadwick Boseman.
Multi-platinum Australian producer Hayden James groups up with California’s Anabel Englund to ship “Totally different Worlds,” a vibrant home monitor that melds James’s signature dance-pop aptitude with Englund’s sultry vocals.
The music options flowing natural basslines and ethereal melodies that crescendo into melodious drops, whereas additionally exploring deep feelings with its poignant ‘who am I with out you?’ riff. As each artists put together for a giant 12 months forward, with new music releases on the horizon and Englund embarking on thrilling new initiatives, “Totally different Worlds” acts as an exciting introduction to their upcoming endeavors. With competition season across the nook and reside performances lined up, count on this dynamic monitor to energise dance flooring and radiate throughout radio waves very quickly.
The phrase ‘Taylor Swift leak’ has been banned from the search on Twitter/X forward of the discharge of ‘The Tortured Poets Division’.
The social media platform has blocked customers from trying to find ‘Taylor Swift Leak’ beginning yesterday (April 18), two days earlier than the discharge of her eleventh studio album on April 19.
Clips of the alleged tracks from ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ had been circulating on X/Twitter, with followers speculating that the leaks got here from a Google drive that housed the album.
Devoted Swifties have been fast to start flooding the mentions of the phrase with memes and jokes, coming to the pop star’s defence by shaming anybody actively searching for out leaks and sharing them. The leaks haven’t been confirmed as actual or pretend.
a bunch of people who hate taylor swift rushed to take heed to the leaked album simply to tweet that they hate it. extra obsessed than swifties i believe!! pic.twitter.com/0gpqI1rNya
Some followers believed that the leaked songs could also be fakes created with the usage of synthetic intelligence. If confirmed, this is able to not the primary time that one among Swift’s albums has been leaked.
Again in 2014, her fifth studio album ‘1989’ was leaked three days previous to its set launch date on October 27, 2014 regardless of the singer’s makes an attempt to maintain it underneath wraps.
That is additionally not the primary time a phrase revolving her has been banned on X/Twitter. Firstly of this 12 months, the social media platform briefly blocked her title from being searched after specific, pretend AI-generated photos of the singer went viral.
‘The Tortured Poets Division’ is about for launch tomorrow (April 19) – the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-winning ‘Midnights’.
It should characteristic collaborations with Florence + The Machine (on ‘Florida!!!’) and Submit Malone (on ‘Fortnight’), whereas different track titles on the document embrace ‘My Boy Solely Breaks His Favorite Toys’, ‘Down Unhealthy’, ‘However Daddy I Love Him’, ‘I Can Do It With A Damaged Coronary heart’ and ‘The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived’. See the complete tracklist right here.
In different information, Woman In Crimson lately opened concerning the work that Swift gifted her following the discharge of her debut album describing it as “a really cute little factor”.
Introducing “Electrical energy,” a dynamic new single by the rising duo FAST BOY in collaboration with multi-platinum DJ and producer R3HAB. The observe blends the infectious vitality and distinctive kinds of each acts, promising to be a brand new anthem for each tasks. Launched underneath Virgin Information and accessible on all main streaming platforms, “Electrical energy” combines FAST BOY’s hovering trajectory in music with R3HAB’s seasoned veteran standing.
The FAST BOY duo, brothers Felix and Lucas, have quickly climbed the music charts, amassing over 850 million streams and collaborating with notable artists like Tiesto and Meduza. Their observe “Unhealthy Reminiscences” has hit over a billion streams and acquired a number of platinum awards. R3HAB, persistently ranked amongst Spotify’s prime 400 most-streamed artists and 14th within the DJ Magazine Prime 100 DJs of 2023, brings his distinctive sound to this collaboration and collectively, they create an electrifying observe that’s destined competition levels worldwide, a quintessential tune for the upcoming summer season season.
Paris Jackson has opened up about her upcoming music, and mentioned that the non-public subjects she explores within the lyrics could also be “laborious for some folks to listen to”.
The 26-year-old singer is the one daughter of pop icon Michael Jackson, and is presently within the midst of engaged on the follow-up to her 2020 debut LP ‘Wilted’.
Now, discussing the forthcoming materials in a brand new interview on the Stay From Mattress podcast, the artist has recalled how followers can count on to see her delve into extra private lyrics and put ahead some subjects that could be troublesome to listen to.
“I imply, is a few of it going to be laborious for some folks to listen to? For positive, yeah, as a result of what I’m speaking about is quite a lot of sensitive issues,” she defined to host Jade Iovine. “Some folks may need a tough time.”
Whereas particulars on the album stay sparse – together with the title and launch date – she did elaborate that the subjects she explores weren’t laborious for her to write down, as she has already handled the feelings and opened as much as these near her.
“All of my shut mates know my story. I’m an open ebook with all of my mates,” she mentioned, including that she usually attracts on her experiences of “ache or heartbreak or loneliness” in her music. She additionally recalled how the upcoming launch has seen her draw inspiration from her collaboration with songwriter and producer Linda Perry.
“‘Let’s make one thing loud and let’s make one thing enjoyable and let’s additionally make one thing a bit extra particular,’” she mentioned, recalling the choice that she and Perry opted for when writing, in addition to steering away from “imprecise” and “pretend deep” lyrics.
“It’s a really particular factor that I am going for and [Perry] simply [told me]: ‘Be extra particular together with your phrases as a result of I can’t perceive what you’re saying’.”
The presently unnamed launch will observe on from final yr’s singles ‘Bandaid’ and ‘Hit Your Knees’. It’s not but identified if both of the 2 tracks might be launched as a part of an upcoming LP.
In different Paris Jackson information, final yr the singer headed on tour throughout America, opening for Silversun Pickups. She additionally carried out at a lot of festivals together with Bonnaroo, Bottlerock and the baseball-themed Innings Pageant.
The yr prior, she launched a three-track EP known as ‘The Misplaced’, and spoke with The Struts’ Luke Spiller as a part of NME’s Associates Like These collection. Test it out above.
Jackson launched her debut album ‘Wilted’ in 2020. Reviewing the album, NME wrote: “‘Wilted’ feels caught between the twee folksy pop of Paris Jackson’s earlier releases with The Soundflowers and the bewildering alt-rock icon she might turn out to be.
“As a musical introduction, it’s enthralling, inconsistent and, at instances, glorious. In the end, this can be a glimpse of the artist that Jackson may very well be.”
Following the discharge of “Can’t Bear in mind Your Title” in January, Elohim continues to drop off singles from her upcoming album. Her newest, “Tiny Human,” faucets right into a dark-dance vibe paying homage to artists like Rezz. This new single contrasts with the brighter tones of its predecessor, delving into themes of insignificance and questioning the depth and objective of our existence.
Elohim displays, “On the finish of the day, we’re all people who had been at one time in a womb, and we’re minuscule. I want extra individuals had been humble and grounded, and we might go into conditions and simply be ourselves.” This introspective method guides “Tiny Human,” as Elohim muses on the delicate nature of being merely one amongst billions. The music encapsulates a profound sense of vulnerability, acknowledging the common experiences of longing and the hunt for which means in a seemingly boundless world.
The observe’s lyrical content material mirrors life’s transient magnificence and the existential dance of our minor roles throughout the cosmic scale, fostering a romantic craving for deeper connections and understanding. Elohim’s present musical journey, shadowed by a extreme battle with nervousness resulting in an overreliance on prescription treatment, underscores the narrative. Taking a break from touring to prioritize her restoration, Elohim’s ongoing releases and forthcoming album will not be solely a testomony to her resilience but additionally a beacon of psychological well being consciousness throughout the music neighborhood. Every new single, together with “Tiny Human,” is a step in her profound journey of therapeutic and inventive expression.
YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more – often known as YoungBoy NBA has been arrested on drug, gun and fraud expenses in Utah.
The rapper – actual identify Kentrell Gaulden – was arrested yesterday (April 16) on six expenses: sample of illegal exercise; procuring or trying to acquire medicine; identification fraud, forgery; possession of managed substances; and possession of a harmful weapon by a restricted individual (Per information from the Cache County Sheriff’s Office). In line with the information, no bail has been set but.
Gaulden has been underneath home arrest for the previous couple of years in Utah as he awaits trial for separate expenses of possession of two weapons as a felon. In 2020, the rapper was arrested alongside a gaggle of me in Louisiana and was indicted in March 2021 by a federal grand jury. He spent a number of months in jail in Louisiana and was then launched and put underneath home arrest in Utah.
NBA YoungBoy
Again in 2022, YoungBoy NBA was discovered not responsible in his California case concerning a federal weapons possession cost.
As reported by Stereogum, the rapper was arrested in LA final March. It’s mentioned that prosecutors within the metropolis had a federal warrant out for Gaulden’s arrest – stemming from his September 2020 expenses in Louisiana – and though he was cooperative with them at first, he finally led the authorities on a “high-speed chase” in his Mercedes Maybach. When he was lastly apprehended, prosecutors reportedly discovered Gaulden in possession of an FNX .45 caliber pistol, ammunition, money and jewelry.
Gaulden’s legal professionals reportedly claimed that the rapper tried to evade the authorities out of panic, unbeknownst to him that there was a federal warrant out for his arrest. It’s additionally mentioned that Gaulden’s legal professionals argued he was unaware in regards to the pistol being in his automobile, and that prosecutors have been unable to search out his fingerprints on it.
Final yr, the rapper launched his sixth studio LP ‘Don’t Attempt This At House’.
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