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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Janet Jackson to be honored at American Music Awards
No, her first name ain't baby, it's Janet, and soon she'll be honored as an icon. Later this month, Janet Jackson is set to receive the Icon Award at the 2025 American Music Awards. The 11-time American Music Award winner will also take to the stage for her first television performance since 2018. 'Celebrating 50 years in the music industry, Jackson is still making an impact including the recent viral craze on social media of her Billboard 100 high-energy dance track 'Someone To Call My Lover' that catapulted the song back on the Billboard charts, nearly 24 years after its original release, reaching #3 on the R&B Digital Songs chart and achieving a 1,400% gain in year-to-date U.S. on-demand streams for the hit according to Luminate,' a press release explained. ''Someone to Call My Lover' originally debuted at #3 and was the second single from her chart-topping, seventh studio album, 'All For You.'' Jackson's honor comes as she's kicking off another installment of her Las Vegas residency, Janet Jackson: Las Vegas, which returns to the Resorts World Theatre stage on May 21 for a six-show run through May 31. The 2025 American Music Awards will air live from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Memorial Day, May 26 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT on the CBS Television Network, and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. The 51st annual awards show will be hosted by Jennifer Lopez. Decades ago, Lopez and the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer worked together when the 'Love Don't Cost a Thing' singer was a backup dancer for the global phenomenon. Fans can vote for all award categories at and the AMAs Instagram profile. Voting closes May 15, at 11:59:59 p.m. PT. Collaboration of the year and social song of the year will remain open for online voting through the first 30 minutes of the AMAs broadcast. Tickets to the star-studded show are available now on Ticketmaster. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Sun
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Pop star, 35, has barely aged a day since one hit wonder 16 years ago
THIS music star has barely aged a day 16 years on from her famous hit song. The rapper shot to fame back in 2008 with the release of her chart topping hit, Lip Gloss. 4 Now 35, Niatia Kirkland - better known as Lil' Mama - looks frozen in time in a new video uploaded to Instagram. In the clip, Niatia can be seen walking past a petrol station then down the streets of Brooklyn in a racy outfit. She wears a denim co-ord, which reveals her incredible toned stomach and a lacy red bra. She accessorises the look with a trench coat, red fur bag adding a huge diamond chain around her neck. The music star then tosses her bright neon hair to the side before sending kisses to the camera. She captioned the post: "Grab it Like It's Made For You (heart emoji)" "LIL MAMA FOREVER POPPIN," added another. "Dayuummmm (heart eyes emoji) that's the biggest glowup in the entire industry," chimed a third. A fourth penned: "Been beautiful since day 1." Lil' Mama shot to stardom at just 17-year-old with the release of her memorable hit and dance anthem, Lip Gloss. The song became a viral sensation reaching Number 10 on the Billboard 100. This earned the singer two Teen Choice Awards and a nomination at the MTV Music Awards. She then went on to become more widely recognised when she collaborated with pop-punk singer Avril Lavinge on her track Girlfriend. After the release of her only album VYP she took a music hiatus opting to become a judge for eight years on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. Fans may also remember that infamous moment from 2009 when Jay-Z and Alicia Keys reunited to perform Empire State of Mind at the Tony Awards. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys were shocked when Lil Mama unexpectedly hopped on stage in a cringe-worthy moment. She later revealed the she went on stage because she was emotionally moved by the performance. The rapper has also had success as an actress starring the TLC biopic as Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and in 2019 she starred in the crime flick All In. When it comes to new music Lil' Mama released her EP Truly In Love last year which featured 4 tracks including, Whoa Baby and The One. 4 4
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Yahoo
This AI Tool Creates Custom Songs in Seconds. But Here's What It Sounds Like
As content creators continue to flood publishing platforms with thousands of audio-visual media by the minute, song selections in 2025 are sometimes more about utility than taste. Artificial intelligence tool Riffusion, which launched in beta in January 2025, was created using a fine-tuned open-source version of Stable Diffusion, which itself creates products that allow you to generate still images and video from simple text prompts. Riffusion takes that concept and applies it to song, potentially making the painstaking work of sourcing and selecting royalty-free tracks for content creation, for example, more fun. Getting started with Riffusion is fairly simple. A standard sign-up requires either an email or linking the account to another form of authentication, like a Google account. After that, aspiring song creators can generate full-length music, either with or without lyrics, with a single text prompt. I put the tool into the hands of two student content creators and asked them to generate some tracks, then judge them based on how much they liked the music, how likely they were to listen to the songs again and whether they could see themselves generating bespoke pieces for their YouTube channel content. Here's the lowdown on, and how to get the most out of, tools like Riffusion, and what my student content creators thought about the AI songs they were able to create. Like many text-to-generate-media-product AI tools, Riffusion riffs on whatever prompt you give it. A simple request to generate a background track for a podcast about surfers gives the tool a lot of latitude with sound. If you want a track that sounds a very specific way or features specific instruments, include those details in the prompt or prepare for some impromptu elements to make their way into the work. For example, one of the students prompted the AI tool to create a "diss track about a baby with a gritty British rapper with prominent cowbell and jazz flute," while the other asked for "background music for a podcast about surfers." Adding specific instrumental notes, like soft jazz flute and more cowbell, or instructions for the vocalist, like breathy vibrato or gritty British grunge, produces music that's pretty close to what you might be looking for. You can also make precise edits to sections of generated songs with the Remix option if you like the overall track but want to tweak things like sound and length or pump up the volume on the "weirdness" metric for a more creative take. Student content creators called the tracks they generated with Riffusion boring and soulless, taking on a hollow feel in the instrumentals, vocals and lyrics. None of the pieces they generated merited a second listen, they said, so there's no threat yet of tools like Riffusion taking the place of your favorite artists on the Billboard 100. Check out the baby diss track and mellow, beachy podcast theme Riffusion generated, and you be the judge. Read more: AI Created 3 Songs for Me, and They're Really Catchy. Give a Listen The consensus from the student content creators was that Riffusion is great for creating background music for videos or theme songs for things like podcasts, but vocalists spitting hot fire on the mic or generating notes that bring grown men to tears are not in the cards for this music-making AI tool. At least not yet.
