Last week, YouTube star Colleen Ballinger, the creator of sketch character MirandaSings, responded to allegations of having inappropriate interactions with underage fans. Instead of a statement, the internet star played a ukelele, accusing people of jumping on a “toxic gossip train.” Her apology was widely lambasted on social media, and …
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Long before she traded in country music for unstoppable pop stardom, there was a moment in time when Taylor Swift decided to go full emo. And it really was just a moment, particularly the mid-point of NBC‘s Thanksgiving Special:Taylor Swift – Speak Now in 2010, just one month after she …
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Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, was in the middle of a hectic period in his career when Rolling Stone asked him to be on the cover of its July/August double issue. He was getting ready to perform at Coachella (and to become the first Latino solo …
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Drake‘s It’s All a Blur tour launched on Wednesday with the rapper opening with “Look What You’ve Done” at Chicago’s United Center. The rapper-poet performed the song from a couch while appearing to recite the lyrics from a notebook. The show marked his first stretch of performances in North America …
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The music industry’s petty poet, Drake, kicked off his It’s All a Blur tour Wednesday night in Chicago with a genuinely dazzling spectacle of stagecraft, including a statue of the late designer Virgil Abloh, a hologram projection of Drizzy handing him his newly released book of poetry, and a set …
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On November 2021, hundreds of QAnon’s most ardent believers gathered at Dallas, Texas’ Dealey Plaza to await the dramatic return of John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in a tragic plane crash at Martha’s Vineyard more than two decades ago. As the crowd waited at the same spot where his …
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When asked about her age, Afro-Indigenous-Venezuelan producer and songwriter Gotopo doesn’t give an exact number. Instead, her answer sounds like one of the lyrics of Sacúdete, her recent debut EP. “I am older than all the trees that surround me,” she tells Rolling Stone via Zoom one afternoon from a …
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The Secret Service is investigating a white, powdery substance believed to be cocaine that was discovered in the White House on Sunday. Donald Trump has seized on the news, suggesting on Wednesday that the substance belonged to either Joe or Hunter Biden — or maybe to Special Counsel Jack Smith, …
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A group of centrist Republicans is worried nobody on the GOP primary debate stage will hold Donald Trump accountable for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection. But they have a plan to fix that: boost Chris Christie. The group Country First — a centrist nonprofit founded by Adam …
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The Grammy Awards are getting ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence in the music industry. A change to the ceremony’s guidelines last month opened the door for music created with AI to be eligible for awards, however, “a work that contains no human authorship …
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