Music

Naomi Ackie hits the high notes as Whitney Houston in the first trailer for I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a dramatized biopic about the life of the late singer. The clip showcases Houston getting her start onstage and her subsequent rise to fame. Along with Ackie, the cast includes Ashton …

James Taylor performed a special show at the White House on Tuesday to help celebrate the recent passage of President Joe Biden‘s Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The musician played classic “Fire & Rain” before being joined by his wife Kim Taylor for “You Can Close Your Eyes” and “America …

Nicki Minaj wasted no time filing a $75,000 defamation lawsuit against a blogger who called her a “cokehead” and said the rapper was known for “shoving” cocaine up her nose. In the new complaint obtained by Rolling Stone, Minaj says Marley Green, a gossip blogger who goes by the name …

Billie Eilish recalled frantically learning the proper etiquette for meeting the Royal Family last year, only to watch all that hard work be for nothing, during an interview with Fitzy and Wippa on Australia’s Nova radio station. Eilish got to meet then-Prince (now-King) Charles, as well as prince William and …

Made in Lagos — the great and Grammy-nominated fourth album from Afrobeats leader Wizkid — could make you forget the slick singer is good for getting the party started with intense, uptempo songs. While most of Made in Lagos is made for slow whines and cooling out, Wizkid’s got dance …

Ellie Goulding appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her latest song “Easy Lover” — “one of my favorites,” host Jimmy Fallon said — on Tuesday night. The track — which is not a cover of the Phil Collins & Philip Bailey classic of the same name — is the …

Spice Girls singer Melanie Chisholm (known in the group as Sporty Spice) said she was sexually assaulted by a masseur before the girl group’s first-ever performance. Chisholm writes about the incident in her new memoir, Who I Am, while she also spoke about it on an episode of the How …

Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock discussed how frequently rappers are targeted for robberies in an interview recorded several weeks before he was shot and killed during a robbery in Los Angeles. PnB Rock discussed the matter on an episode of DJ Akademiks’ Off the Record podcast, which was first released on …

Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and Gwen Stefani helped bona fide pop star Rina Sawayama connect — and fit in — with her white classmates after her family immigrated to London from Japan. In a new interview with Them, the “Hold the Girl” star shared how the music allowed her to …

[Jackson, Mississippi, is still recovering from a water crisis that left approximately 150,000 people without safe drinking water, a cruel reminder of decades-long structural issues facing a predominantly Black city. Interviews for this story were conducted in the spring.] Talk to scene makers in Jackson, Mississippi, like Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin …