Welcome to our weeklyrundown ofthe best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Janelle Monáe gets sensual, BTS deliver for a sleek salute to our planet, Phoebe Bridgers lends vocals to new songs by Arlo Parks and Rob Moose, and Lil …
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Janelle Monáe has announced her first album in five years, The Age of Pleasure, with a new single, “Lipstick Lover.” On Wednesday, she teased the single with a short clip of her emerging from a shallow pool as the track played in the background. The video — where she wore …
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Janelle Monáe had fun — but no points — participating in Friday night’s NBA All-Star Celebrity Game in Salt Lake City. Fresh off the release of her new single “Float” — a track that’s been used in promoting televised NBA games this season — Monáe suited up for coach Dwyane …
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WELCOME TO OURweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, the long-awaited return of Janelle Monáe, a frosty ballad from Lana Del Rey, the first Omar Apollo song of 2023, and great new tracks from Chimbala, …
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After Janelle Monáe teased her new single “Float” on social media last month, the singer finally capitulated to fan demand and released the song in its entirety on Thursday. In a press release, “according to sources closest to Monáe,” the single is “inspired by Muhammed Ali talking shit in Zaire, …
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Janelle Monáe shared a teaser of her upcoming single “Float” on social media on Wednesday. The clip features a montage video of the singer blissfully poolside with floaties, drinks and balloons, with the majority of the video appearing to be from her recent birthday celebration in December. In the 30-second …
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Janelle Monáe was presented with the SeeHer Award at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, which broadcast live via CW from Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California. Monáe was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. “She’s an advocate, an ally, …
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The good people at Netflix would prefer that reviewers, critics, pundits, wags, culture vultures and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who write about movies on the internet not spoil any of the many twists and turns of Glass Onion, the much-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson‘s 2019 tribute/throwback to whodunnits Knives Out. It’s …
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“Everyone is in danger,” Daniel Craig‘s Detective Benoit Blanc proclaims in the action-packed teaser trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The film, coming to Netflix on Dec. 23, is a sequel to 2019’s popular murder mystery Knives Out, which introduced Craig’s sly detective. “The phrase I kept coming …
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Music has long been intertwined with the spirit of Pride and pro-LGBTQ+ movements, from obvious selections like Diana Ross’ disco banger “I’m Coming Out” to the confrontational queercore of groups like Pansy Division. During Pride month, the music is usually a mix of party and protest, combining the sensual pleasures …
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