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Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Este Haim reveals ex-boyfriend brutally dumped her over her diabetes
Haim are finally back with new music and for this era, they've put their relationships under the microscope, revealing some brutal breakups. The sister trio — Este, Alana, and Danielle — have mainly kept their romantic lives private, but bad exes are always great material for songs. While chatting to British GQ about their upcoming album, I Quit, Este revealed that one of her boyfriends shockingly broke up with her over her Type 1 diabetes. 'I had a guy break up with me because I said that there was a possibility that our kid would have diabetes,' the 39-year-old musician shared. To Este's surprise, he gave her a brutal response and said: 'Then why are we here?' to which she replied 'What?!' Este has regularly shared her diabetes journey with fans, and while at Glastonbury in 2022, revealed she had once passed out on the side of the stage. She is now engaged to tech entrepreneur Jonathan Levin, posting a snap of the engagement ring in February with a t-shirt which read 'I'm taken'. Her younger sister, Alana, 33, also shared a more recent dating disaster as a man tried to stand in the way of her career. 'I had a boyfriend that gave me an ultimatum between doing Licorice Pizza and staying with him,' she revealed. 'I obviously made the right choice…' The Wire hitmaker was nominated for best actress at the Golden Globes for her role in the film — definitely the right choice. Meanwhile, Danielle, 36, is 'happier than ever' while single and declared she's 'okay alone'. 'Not only okay, but so happy,' she continued. 'Sorry to be that b***h but I'm like, really having a great time being by myself. And now, unless someone's gonna make me so much more happy, I'm good.' Alana said her sister's 'sparkle' had returned as they prepare to release I Quit later this month. More Trending Haim explained the title is not meant to be a negative, instead, it's about quitting the things that no longer serve you. The trio have already dropped three singles from the new album and are heading on a UK tour later this year. They're also heavily rumoured to fill one of Glastonbury's surprise set slots, possibly the set listed as 'Patchwork', which is the name of a novel by a woman named Sylvia Haim. You can read Haim's full interview at GQ's website and on newsstands now Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Talking Heads fans feel 'gaslit' after rumoured 50th anniversary announcement is finally revealed MORE: Miley Cyrus reveals deep regret about Sinead O'Connor spat MORE: Ross Lynch confesses he gets 'territorial' when hardcore fans misinterpret his songs
Cosmopolitan
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Glastonbury 2025: Who is Patchwork? All the theories on mystery headline act
Glastonbury festival has officially announced their full line-up, with over 3,000 performances set to take place between 25th and 27th June. A bunch of new artists have been added to this year's festival, but eagle-eyed fans have spotted a mystery band amongst the line-up. On Saturday night at 6.15pm on the Pyramid stage, slotted in right after John Fogerty and just before Raye and Neil Young, is an act called Patchwork, which no one seems to have heard of. There are a few obscure bands that go by the name of Patchwork - one's a folk group in Canada; another is a hard core band from Tennessee. However, both are unlikely to be performing on the main Glastonbury stage. Glastonbury did something very similar back in 2023 when they hosted an act called Churnups, who ended up being the Foo Fighters. The organisers have said that they won't be providing any further information on the act, leading many to believe that it's definitely a cover up for a real band. So, who could it be? Read on for all the theories behind the mystery act. Fans are convinced that Patchwork is American rock band Haim, made up of sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim. One fan spotted a few clues, which they believe points towards the trio. "Heavily rumoured, then come across these. Coincidence? I suspect @HAIMtheband are Patchwork," they wrote alongside a couple of pictures. The first picture was of an article on the band from 26th April, with the headline: "HAIM stitch a patchwork quilt of rich tones, textures, and colors to explore on Women in Music Pt. III" The second photo was of a book titled Patchwork, written by an author named Sylvia Haim. Haim are due to release their new album I Quit on 20th June, which would make this Glastonbury performance the perfect time to promote some of their new songs. They're also Glasto veterans, having performed there in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2022 and during a virtual Stone Circle set in 2020, so they'll be right at home on the main stage. English rock band Pulp are another contender for who could be the real group behind Glastonbury's mysterious Patchwork. "Are Patchwork Pulp, probably not, am I going to get really excited and believe it's them? Yes. Is it them, no," one fan wrote on X. "Pretty certain 'Patchwork' is gonna be Pulp!!" another said. Pulp was formed in Sheffield in 1978. At their peak, the band consisted of Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber. The group recently released their first album in 24 years and have been promoting it, so they'd definitely have some new material to perform. They're no strangers to Glastonbury either, and have headlined the Pyramid Stage twice before. According to Casino Beats, the Sheffield band, known for their iconic 1995 Glastonbury headline set, are currently 6/4 to be behind the secret slot. British folk rock band Mumford and Sons are among the list of speculated bands behind the name Patchwork. The group, which is made up of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane, and Winston Marshall, are going on their Railroad Revival tour of the US on 3rd August, so they could have time to squeeze in a little Glasto performance before it kicks off. The group are currently 8/1 to be revealed as Patchwork, however, earlier this year they said that they wouldn't be heading to Somerset for the festival, after headlining in 2013. They could change their mind or perhaps that was a decoy... Some other names have been dropped when it comes to the mystery of Patchwork, including Ed Sheeran (3/1) Lewis Capaldi (9/2) Harry Styles and Oasis who are both priced at 6/1. Recent betting odds place Lorde at 8/1, Sam Fender at 10/1, Lady Gaga at 14/1, Robbie Williams at 16/1, and Taylor Swift at 25/1, as contenders for the surprise slot. We'll update you right here once we know more about Patchwork. Glastonbury will take place at Worthy Farm, Somerset, from 25th June to 27th June.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Haim are everywhere right now. Even they don't know how they've managed it
Suddenly, Haim are everywhere. Open your browser and you'll be hit by one of their meme-inspired singles covers, lo-fi recreations of famous celebrity breakup paparazzi pics. Scroll TikTok and you'll see them doing a viral dance for lead single Relationships or new track Take Me Back. Head to YouTube and you'll see their cinematic video clip, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and featuring internet boyfriend Logan Lerman, or viral clips of them playing live onstage while pop icon Addison Rae cavorts louchely in front of them. For a band that's been around forever (specifically, 12 years), whose last album, 2020's Women in Music Pt III, was their biggest yet, a Grammy-nominated album of the year featuring a cameo from Taylor Swift, to drum up such anticipation for their fourth album, the upcoming I Quit, is an impressive feat. Whatever viral marketing strategy they dreamed up in their record label's boardroom has clearly worked. 'There's no strategy, it's just us,' says youngest Haim sibling Alana, who you might've also seen strolling the red carpet at Cannes last month for the premiere of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, in which she stars with another internet boyfriend, Josh O'Connor. 'We grew up watching SNL and had the amazing experience of watching Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, all these women that were so unapologetically funny. All we ever wanted to do growing up is make people laugh, so that's how we take on all these things.' It's not quite the answer I was expecting. In fact, I had about 15 questions prepared around the realities of marketing in pop, about how artists don't talk about it much even though it's such a significant part of the job, especially in the streaming era where culture moves so fast and attention spans are frayed. I figured they'd learned something from Charli XCX's 'Brat Summer', about the power of a viral TikTok dance, of flooding web-space with crowd-pleasing shenanigans and canny collaborations. I'd set aside at least half of our 30-minute interview slot for an enlightening backroom discussion about the modern business of doing pop. But no, Haim – Este (39, bass and vocals) in brown, Alana (33, keys and vocals) in tan, Danielle (36, lead vocals and guitar) in black, huddled across my screen from a 'random room in a hotel in London' where they just played a show for BBC Radio One – are telling me this whole thing is just a lucky accident? 'Just doing our thang,' laughs Alana. 'I've been asking them to dance with me since they were born,' says Este. 'There are so many family videos of Este teaching us choreography and being like, 'No, your hands go here!' Honestly, we've been Este's lab rats for dance class since I was like two years old,' says Alana, and Este nods. 'No strategy,' Danielle repeats. 'But if anyone else has the answer for that, I'd watch that video as well.' Even so, the buzz for I Quit is real. Is it difficult for an established band, a dozen years into their career, to make people excited for album number four? Is there more effort involved in convincing people to listen? 'We're still in the pinch-me phase of the fact we get to tour the world together and put out albums,' says Alana. 'And especially for this album, we were all single making this album. We were going out, we were going to bars, we were dancing, we were getting drunk together again like we were 16 years old. All we were put on this earth to do is bring happiness and play music, and the fact we get to do that together is the greatest gift of all time. We're just riding the wave.' It helps when your fourth album is this good. I Quit is Haim at the peak of their creative powers. Coming out of Danielle's split from a decade-long relationship with Ariel Rechtshaid, the hit songwriter and producer who helmed the first three Haim albums, it feels like a seminal breakup album. If the band's Stonesy-rock DNA and California harmonies underpin each song, there are also intriguing experiments, no doubt prompted by the fact noted knob-twiddler Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has taken over lead producer duties. 'Watching Danielle and him producing was like watching a ballet,' says Alana. 'They speak the same language. And I've said it from the beginning, this is the closest we've ever gotten to sounding like how we've always wanted to sound. On Women in Music Part III, we kind of half-opened the door, and then with this album it's definitely the most Haim-sounding album we've ever made.' If you Ctrl-F'd my album notes, the word that comes up most is 'freedom'. In its free-for-all playfulness and Danielle's songs attacking all stages of post-breakup relief and grief, the album emits freedom sonically, thematically and, to start, even literally. On the raucous opener Gone, the band samples George Michael's Freedom! '90. You can picture Danielle with arms out, head to the sky, yelling 'freedom!' , as a gospel choir praises her overdue release from a bad relationship. It's a ridiculous way to open a breakup record: hilarious, over-the-top, celebratory and self-skewering all at once. 'That was the last song we wrote for the album,' says Danielle. 'We didn't mean for there to be a through-line or a story to the album, but as it was shaping up we were like, 'This is feeling like a really powerful story' and it felt like we needed an intro.' Inspired by Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, which she'd been listening to on repeat, Danielle realised Haim had never used a sample. 'So we were like, let's try it. We're such huge George Michael fans, we thought why don't we try to do this sample justice and try to invite the listener in on this little journey.' The process of securing a George Michael sample involves sending his estate a heartfelt email and then letting the lawyers do their job. 'Honestly, I was like, I don't wanna know, just tell me it's cleared,' laughs Alana. 'I think getting the approval of that estate was a really big deal for us, because we obviously are such big fans,' says Danielle. 'It's the first sample we've ever used, and it was very nice.' Weirdly enough, the song that launched Haim's I Quit era – lead single Relationships – was written on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney back in 2017, during the band's promo tour for their second album Something To Tell You, a remarkable result for such a short flight. 'It's amazing, but a little frustrating, that I get these weird waves of inspiration right as planes are taking off,' says Danielle. 'I just plucked out a few chords, and the chorus – 'I think I'm in love, but I can't stand f—ing relationships' – came down as something fully formed into my head, which, as songwriters, is really rare.' She showed it to her sisters as soon as they landed, who agreed there was something to it but suggested Danielle tuck it away till they got home as they were literally walking into album promo. When they got home they showed it to collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr, fixed some lyrics, and then held on to it for years. 'I think some people didn't get it at the time, but we always knew it was special,' says Danielle. 'It wasn't until, like, a year and a half ago that we finally cracked it open. The response to it has been amazing. We were all like, 'See, we knew it!'.' Holding on to a track for years isn't unknown to Haim: the same thing happened with their smash The Wire, which was written in 2008 but released in 2013. It does bring up an uncomfortable elephant in the room, though. Danielle was barely into her relationship with Rechtshaid in 2017. Was she already feeling misgivings that far back? The band fumble silently; I catch Danielle and Este stifle a smirk. 'It's weird, sometimes you're writing something and it doesn't really feel like it's pertaining to your life at the time and then some time will roll by and you'll be like, wait, I was really going through it then,' says Danielle. 'Or maybe I was forecasting something, I don't know. The songwriting gods are very mystical. But we love them, please don't ever leave us.' The pop canon is filled with beloved breakup albums: Joni's Blue, Alanis' Jagged Little Pill, Beyonce's Lemonade, Ariana's Thank U, Next. Do Haim think of I Quit as part of the same tradition? Danielle scrunches her lip. 'We think of it more as a 'being single' album,' she says. 'Because that's where we were, we were all single and exploring the feelings of being that.' To get back to the meme-making of it all, the idea to recreate famous celebrity breakup moments for their ongoing singles cover art – the image of Nicole Kidman, arms raised in ecstasy, leaving the courthouse after signing her divorce papers from Tom Cruise (debunked, but still); the image of Scarlett Johansson warmly embracing Jared Leto while he stares off bored into his phone – are these not thematic nods to the fallibility of high-profile relationships? Loading 'All that stuff just goes back to getting a computer,' says Alana. 'That's what we would do as siblings when we first got the internet, you would see all these photos for the first time and it just made us laugh. There's such a plethora of funny photos on the internet, and we just wanted to recreate them. It's fun.' I tell them I appreciated the obsessive level of detail on the Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan picture for new single, Take Me Back. 'We just did that, like, three days ago when we were in Manchester,' Danielle laughs. Are there any more in the bag? 'Who knows, we have no idea. This is all very rough and tumble,' says Alana. 'Again: no strategy,' adds Este.
The Age
3 days ago
- Business
- The Age
Haim are everywhere right now. Even they don't know how they've managed it
Suddenly, Haim are everywhere. Open your browser and you'll be hit by one of their meme-inspired singles covers, lo-fi recreations of famous celebrity breakup paparazzi pics. Scroll TikTok and you'll see them doing a viral dance for lead single Relationships or new track Take Me Back. Head to YouTube and you'll see their cinematic video clip, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and featuring internet boyfriend Logan Lerman, or viral clips of them playing live onstage while pop icon Addison Rae cavorts louchely in front of them. For a band that's been around forever (specifically, 12 years), whose last album, 2020's Women in Music Pt III, was their biggest yet, a Grammy-nominated album of the year featuring a cameo from Taylor Swift, to drum up such anticipation for their fourth album, the upcoming I Quit, is an impressive feat. Whatever viral marketing strategy they dreamed up in their record label's boardroom has clearly worked. 'There's no strategy, it's just us,' says youngest Haim sibling Alana, who you might've also seen strolling the red carpet at Cannes last month for the premiere of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, in which she stars with another internet boyfriend, Josh O'Connor. 'We grew up watching SNL and had the amazing experience of watching Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, all these women that were so unapologetically funny. All we ever wanted to do growing up is make people laugh, so that's how we take on all these things.' It's not quite the answer I was expecting. In fact, I had about 15 questions prepared around the realities of marketing in pop, about how artists don't talk about it much even though it's such a significant part of the job, especially in the streaming era where culture moves so fast and attention spans are frayed. I figured they'd learned something from Charli XCX's 'Brat Summer', about the power of a viral TikTok dance, of flooding web-space with crowd-pleasing shenanigans and canny collaborations. I'd set aside at least half of our 30-minute interview slot for an enlightening backroom discussion about the modern business of doing pop. But no, Haim – Este (39, bass and vocals) in brown, Alana (33, keys and vocals) in tan, Danielle (36, lead vocals and guitar) in black, huddled across my screen from a 'random room in a hotel in London' where they just played a show for BBC Radio One – are telling me this whole thing is just a lucky accident? 'Just doing our thang,' laughs Alana. 'I've been asking them to dance with me since they were born,' says Este. 'There are so many family videos of Este teaching us choreography and being like, 'No, your hands go here!' Honestly, we've been Este's lab rats for dance class since I was like two years old,' says Alana, and Este nods. 'No strategy,' Danielle repeats. 'But if anyone else has the answer for that, I'd watch that video as well.' Even so, the buzz for I Quit is real. Is it difficult for an established band, a dozen years into their career, to make people excited for album number four? Is there more effort involved in convincing people to listen? 'We're still in the pinch-me phase of the fact we get to tour the world together and put out albums,' says Alana. 'And especially for this album, we were all single making this album. We were going out, we were going to bars, we were dancing, we were getting drunk together again like we were 16 years old. All we were put on this earth to do is bring happiness and play music, and the fact we get to do that together is the greatest gift of all time. We're just riding the wave.' It helps when your fourth album is this good. I Quit is Haim at the peak of their creative powers. Coming out of Danielle's split from a decade-long relationship with Ariel Rechtshaid, the hit songwriter and producer who helmed the first three Haim albums, it feels like a seminal breakup album. If the band's Stonesy-rock DNA and California harmonies underpin each song, there are also intriguing experiments, no doubt prompted by the fact noted knob-twiddler Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has taken over lead producer duties. 'Watching Danielle and him producing was like watching a ballet,' says Alana. 'They speak the same language. And I've said it from the beginning, this is the closest we've ever gotten to sounding like how we've always wanted to sound. On Women in Music Part III, we kind of half-opened the door, and then with this album it's definitely the most Haim-sounding album we've ever made.' If you Ctrl-F'd my album notes, the word that comes up most is 'freedom'. In its free-for-all playfulness and Danielle's songs attacking all stages of post-breakup relief and grief, the album emits freedom sonically, thematically and, to start, even literally. On the raucous opener Gone, the band samples George Michael's Freedom! '90. You can picture Danielle with arms out, head to the sky, yelling 'freedom!' , as a gospel choir praises her overdue release from a bad relationship. It's a ridiculous way to open a breakup record: hilarious, over-the-top, celebratory and self-skewering all at once. 'That was the last song we wrote for the album,' says Danielle. 'We didn't mean for there to be a through-line or a story to the album, but as it was shaping up we were like, 'This is feeling like a really powerful story' and it felt like we needed an intro.' Inspired by Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, which she'd been listening to on repeat, Danielle realised Haim had never used a sample. 'So we were like, let's try it. We're such huge George Michael fans, we thought why don't we try to do this sample justice and try to invite the listener in on this little journey.' The process of securing a George Michael sample involves sending his estate a heartfelt email and then letting the lawyers do their job. 'Honestly, I was like, I don't wanna know, just tell me it's cleared,' laughs Alana. 'I think getting the approval of that estate was a really big deal for us, because we obviously are such big fans,' says Danielle. 'It's the first sample we've ever used, and it was very nice.' Weirdly enough, the song that launched Haim's I Quit era – lead single Relationships – was written on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney back in 2017, during the band's promo tour for their second album Something To Tell You, a remarkable result for such a short flight. 'It's amazing, but a little frustrating, that I get these weird waves of inspiration right as planes are taking off,' says Danielle. 'I just plucked out a few chords, and the chorus – 'I think I'm in love, but I can't stand f—ing relationships' – came down as something fully formed into my head, which, as songwriters, is really rare.' She showed it to her sisters as soon as they landed, who agreed there was something to it but suggested Danielle tuck it away till they got home as they were literally walking into album promo. When they got home they showed it to collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr, fixed some lyrics, and then held on to it for years. 'I think some people didn't get it at the time, but we always knew it was special,' says Danielle. 'It wasn't until, like, a year and a half ago that we finally cracked it open. The response to it has been amazing. We were all like, 'See, we knew it!'.' Holding on to a track for years isn't unknown to Haim: the same thing happened with their smash The Wire, which was written in 2008 but released in 2013. It does bring up an uncomfortable elephant in the room, though. Danielle was barely into her relationship with Rechtshaid in 2017. Was she already feeling misgivings that far back? The band fumble silently; I catch Danielle and Este stifle a smirk. 'It's weird, sometimes you're writing something and it doesn't really feel like it's pertaining to your life at the time and then some time will roll by and you'll be like, wait, I was really going through it then,' says Danielle. 'Or maybe I was forecasting something, I don't know. The songwriting gods are very mystical. But we love them, please don't ever leave us.' The pop canon is filled with beloved breakup albums: Joni's Blue, Alanis' Jagged Little Pill, Beyonce's Lemonade, Ariana's Thank U, Next. Do Haim think of I Quit as part of the same tradition? Danielle scrunches her lip. 'We think of it more as a 'being single' album,' she says. 'Because that's where we were, we were all single and exploring the feelings of being that.' To get back to the meme-making of it all, the idea to recreate famous celebrity breakup moments for their ongoing singles cover art – the image of Nicole Kidman, arms raised in ecstasy, leaving the courthouse after signing her divorce papers from Tom Cruise (debunked, but still); the image of Scarlett Johansson warmly embracing Jared Leto while he stares off bored into his phone – are these not thematic nods to the fallibility of high-profile relationships? Loading 'All that stuff just goes back to getting a computer,' says Alana. 'That's what we would do as siblings when we first got the internet, you would see all these photos for the first time and it just made us laugh. There's such a plethora of funny photos on the internet, and we just wanted to recreate them. It's fun.' I tell them I appreciated the obsessive level of detail on the Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan picture for new single, Take Me Back. 'We just did that, like, three days ago when we were in Manchester,' Danielle laughs. Are there any more in the bag? 'Who knows, we have no idea. This is all very rough and tumble,' says Alana. 'Again: no strategy,' adds Este.
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Haim: We love to dance and make people laugh but that's a no-go
Haim believe the rock community doesn't "get" them because they "love to dance". The trio - made up of sisters Alana Haim, Danielle Haim, and Este Haim - are due to drop their fourth studio album, 'I Quit', on June 20th, but the siblings admitted some people just cannot understand their love of movement. Speaking to GQ magazine, Danielle said: "For some reason, people that need to put people in boxes don't get us." Alana added: "We love to dance and we love to make people laugh, and for some reason that's a no-go." A clip of Haim performing a dance to their 'I Know Alone' video on stage recently went viral, but Alana revealed some just cannot see the funny side. She said: "That's where it gets lost in the sauce with people." Danielle explained: "Even though we're a rock band, we love movement." Este added: "Prince danced." The 'Summer Girl' hitmakers also pointed out that rockers Talking Heads love "movement", but admitted some of the rock community see Haim's dance enthusiasm as a "weakness". Danielle said: "It's such an important part for us. I don't know if the rock community... Alana added: "Takes that as a weakness. I don't know why.." Despite the group being blasted by some for their love of dance, Este insists they have "quit caring" about such opinions. She said: "I think it's all quite antiquated. "The whole setup is... who gives a s**t about that? It's really old school. We quit caring about that s**t." Haim have also previously been hit with claims, from online haters, that they aren't really playing live because their guitars aren't plugged in. Este said: "It's always a guy. It's like, my dog, we're playing with wireless. "Are you a f***ing idiot?" Haim dropped 'Everybody's Trying to Figure Me Out', the second single from 'I Quit', in April. Danielle admitted the song helped her come through "some hard times", as she penned the track after suffering a panic attack. She wrote on Instagram: "This next song we will be releasing is my favorite song we've written in the last couple years :) writing it has gotten me through some hard times, and we felt this might be of some use to get our vibes right for this summer! "I started writing this after a panic attack I had the night I got home from tour. I was very confused because I was SO SO SO happy about our incredible tour, but something about being alone with myself scared the s*** out of me. after a lot of reflecting I realized I've let a lot of people try and tell me how I should live my life, but I realized in making everyone else happy, I lost myself. "I wrote this as a way to believe in myself again and quit being scared to do what I want. I hope this finds anyone who needs it. (sic)"
