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Demi Lovato teases her return to pop music with preview of 'Fast' single: 'Told y'all i've been cooking'
Over the last week, Lovato has shared snippets of her upcoming single on TikTok. Demi Lovato is ready to return to pop. The 32-year-old singer has hinted at her return to dance-pop music with a series of videos posted to her TikTok over the last week. Lovato's most recent video, shared on Monday, shows her in a recording studio playfully 'resurrecting' her pop-heavy sound. 'My pop music coming back to life after we had a funeral for it,' reads text on Lovato's video. The 'funeral' Lovato is referring to took place in January 2022, when the singer hosted 'a funeral for my pop music' with music executives from Island Records, including Scooter Braun, her manager at the time. Dressed in all black with her middle fingers to the camera, Lovato seemingly bid adieu to her once signature pop sound. She released her rock album Holy Fvck in August of that year. Hours before posting her latest video on TikTok, Lovato shared a series of photos on Instagram, which showcase her in the studio recording new music. The carousel of images marked Lovato's fifth post since she completely wiped her feed clean. The Instagram overhaul, as many fans are familiar, is typically a telltale sign that something big is coming for an artist — and that a new musical era is on the way. In Lovato's case, however, it seems the singer is returning to form — and to her pop powerhouse roots. In a handful of videos posted to TikTok in the last week, Lovato dropped previews of her song 'Fast,' her forthcoming, dance-pop single and first solo release in three years. One video shows Lovato lip-syncing to the track's lyrics. Over a pop-infused, heavy house-like beat, Lovato sings defiantly, 'Cuz baby honestly/ I just wanna feel your hands all over me (over and over)/ Right where they wanna be/ Even if it's only for tonight,' as the camera anticipates her every move. Another video, with the caption, 'told y'all i've been cooking,' shows Lovato in the vocal booth as a new snippet of 'Fast' plays. 'I wanna go fast/ I wanna go hard/ I wanna go anywhere, anywhere you are,' Lovato sings. Lovato's ninth studio album is reportedly in its final stages. The forthcoming album, a source close to former Disney Channel star told Rolling Stone, sees the singer wholeheartedly embracing the vigorous, electronic sound of some of her biggest pop hits. Following her recent marriage to Jordan 'Jutes' Lutes in May, Lovato appears to have turned a new page in life and is ready to embrace the parts of herself that she, and her fans, have long loved. What she's pulling together, added the source, is a 'celebratory dance-pop album.' 'Over the past few years, Demi has found love, joy, and newfound confidence, making the choice to approach life with much more lightness and fun,' the source told Rolling Stone. 'She took this sentiment into the studio, which can be felt in every track on this celebratory dance-pop album.' Also featured in Lovato's latest TikTok is music producer Zhone, who is responsible for bringing tracks like 'Joyride' by Kesha and 'Rush' by Troye Sivan to life. Lovato tapped Zhone to executive produce her new album. Zhone told Rolling Stone of working with Lovato, 'It's been so inspiring working with Demi and experiencing her journey of continued leveling up. She is such a master in the studio. This album is about letting inhibitions go, and we had so much fun making this music! It really comes across throughout.' Before teasing her lead single 'Fast' and the accompanying sound of her upcoming album, Lovato, during an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, revealed that she was 'working on new music' but was admittedly still trying to pinpoint her sound. 'I'm kind of figuring out my sound right now,' Lovato said in September 2024. 'I tend to write from the place that I am in, in the moment. … It's actually been like, it's been amazing. I've been writing just nothing but, like, love songs and like sexy songs 'cause I'm just in this, like, really good place. And so it feels good to be able to write coming from that place.' Solve the daily Crossword
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5 days ago
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Sabrina Carpenter Reveals ‘Man's Best Friend' Tracklist via Golden Retriever
Sabrina Carpenter has taken the notion of 'man's best friend' quite literally in the weeks leading up to her seventh studio album, Man's Best Friend. Set for release on Aug. 29 via Island Records, the LP's rollout has been anything but ordinary: Carpenter enlisted a golden retriever puppy and a pair of lucky fans to unveil her tracklist, two songs at a time, in a series of Instagram and Twitter posts that combined star power with canine cuteness. More from Billboard June Freedom Returning to His Grandfather's House in Cape Verde 'Balanced My Spirit Out' and Inspired His Serene 'Casa Mira Mar' Album Billboard Charts First-Timers: Dijon, Eddie Benjamin & Lil B Score Hot 100 Entries Thanks to Justin Bieber Jamal Roberts Shares How His Life Changed Since Winning 'Idol' & Why He Never Wants to Leave 'Mississippi' About a month after announcing the album, Carpenter began the tracklist reveal on July 23 by introducing track 12, 'Goodbye,' alongside a photo of fan Mariah cradling the puppy in her arms. In her caption she wrote, 'track #12 is 'Goodbye' but mariah is helping us say hello to our tracklist reveal.' Two days later, Carpenter returned to the pup brigade to share track 11 — 'House Tour' — featuring fan Neriah in a similar snapshot, captioned 'neriah & a golden = home sweet home. track #11 is 'House Tour.'' Both posts drew hundreds of thousands of likes, with fans applauding the innovative, heartwarming approach. Carpenter then took to X to amplify the moment, reposting excited reactions from @overdosedontun ('omggg sabrina asked me to reveal track 11 'House Tour' from Man's Best Friend !!!') and urging fellow fans to rally: 'Track 11 stans rise.' Beyond the puppy reveals, Carpenter has maintained momentum for Man's Best Friend by leaning into playful fan interaction and capitalizing on her comedic timing — qualities that have earned her more than 5 million Instagram followers and built genuine community around her music. The forthcoming album follows 2024's Short n' Sweet and arrives amid Carpenter's latest lead single, 'Manchild,' released on June 5. Man's Best Friend will drop almost exactly a year after Carpenter released breakthrough album Short n' Sweet, which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. So far, fans have gotten to hear only one song from the new record — 'Manchild,' which dropped in June and debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking Carpenter's second-ever No. 1 song. In keeping with the album's canine theme, Man's Best Friend is available to preorder in multiple formats, including a Jacob Rochester–painted picture disc that depicts Carpenter in a surreal tableau beside a suited figure. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
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22-07-2025
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Demi Lovato teases her return to pop music with preview of 'Fast' single: 'Told y'all i've been cooking'
Over the last week, Lovato has shared snippets of her upcoming single on TikTok. Demi Lovato is ready to return to pop. The 32-year-old singer has hinted at her return to dance-pop music with a series of videos posted to her TikTok over the last week. Lovato's most recent video, shared on Monday, shows her in a recording studio, playfully 'resurrecting' her pop-heavy sound. 'My pop music coming back to life after we had a funeral for it,' reads text on Lovato's video. The 'funeral' Lovato is referring to took place in January 2022, when the singer hosted 'a funeral for my pop music' with music executives from Island Records, including Scooter Braun, her manager at the time. Dressed in all black with her middle fingers to the camera, Lovato seemingly bid adieu to her once signature pop sound. She released her rock album Holy Fvck in August of that year. Hours before posting her latest video on TikTok, Lovato shared a series of photos on Instagram, which showcase her in the studio recording new music. The carousel of images marked Lovato's fifth post since she completely wiped her feed clean. The Instagram overhaul, as many fans are familiar, is typically a tell-tale sign that something big is coming for an artist — and that a new musical era is on the way. In Lovato's case, however, it seems the singer is returning to form — and to her pop powerhouse roots. In a handful of videos posted to TikTok in the last week, Lovato dropped previews of her song 'Fast,' her forthcoming, dance-pop single and first solo release in three years. One video shows Lovato lip-syncing to the track's lyrics. Over a pop-infused, heavy house-like beat, Lovato sings defiantly, 'Cuz baby honestly/ I just wanna feel your hands all over me (over and over)/ Right where they wanna be/ Even if it's only for tonight,' as the camera anticipates her every move. Another video, with the caption, 'told y'all i've been cooking,' shows Lovato in the vocal booth as a new snippet of 'Fast' plays. 'I wanna go fast/ I wanna go hard/ I wanna go anywhere, anywhere you are,' Lovato sings. Lovato's ninth studio album is reportedly in its final stages. The forthcoming album, a source close to former Disney Channel star told Rolling Stone, sees the singer wholeheartedly embracing the vigorous, electronic sound of some of her biggest pop hits. Following her recent marriage to Jordan 'Jutes' Lutes in May, Lovato appears to have turned a new page in life, and is ready to embrace the parts of herself that she, and her fans, have long loved. What she's pulling together, added the source, is a 'celebratory dance-pop album.' 'Over the past few years, Demi has found love, joy, and newfound confidence, making the choice to approach life with much more lightness and fun,' the source told Rolling Stone. 'She took this sentiment into the studio, which can be felt in every track on this celebratory dance-pop album.' Also featured in Lovato's latest TikTok is music producer Zhone, who is responsible for bringing tracks like 'Joyride' by Kesha and 'Rush' by Troye Sivan to life. Lovato tapped Zhone to executive produce her new album. Zhone told Rolling Stone of working with Lovato, 'It's been so inspiring working with Demi and experiencing her journey of continued leveling up. She is such a master in the studio. This album is about letting inhibitions go, and we had so much fun making this music! It really comes across throughout.' Before teasing her lead single 'Fast' and the accompanying sound of her upcoming album, Lovato, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, revealed that she was 'working on new music' but was admittedly still trying to pinpoint her sound. 'I'm kind of figuring out my sound right now,' Lovato said in September 2024. 'I tend to write from the place that I am in, in the moment. … It's actually been like, it's been amazing. I've been writing just nothing but, like, love songs and like sexy songs 'cause I'm just in this like, really good place. And so it feels good to be able to write coming from that place.' Solve the daily Crossword
Scotsman
09-07-2025
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Album reviews: Kae Tempest Gina Birch
Kae Tempest. Picture: Jesse Glazzard Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Kae Tempest: Self Titled Island Records ★★★★☆ Gina Birch: Trouble Now aged 70, Gina Birch remains at the punky edge of lo-fi art Third Man Records ★★★★☆ Gwenno: Utopia Heavenly Recordings ★★★★☆ As his wry fifth album title suggests, Self Titled is a revealing release from Kae Tempest which coincides with coming out as a trans man earlier this year. The acclaimed performance poet has drawn in the past on epic poetry, hymned London and wider society and told kitchen sink stories across preceding works but, with the encouragement of his producer Fraser T Smith, shines his light back in his own face and circle in typically eloquent style. Gwenno sings in Welsh, Cornish but predominantly English on her fourth solo outing I Stand on the Line is an epic filmic soundtrack for big sentiments on lineage and identity, as Tempest zeros in on his experiences of transitioning ('going through a second puberty') and transphobia ('how many strangers today will I upset with my existence'). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Statue in the Square moves further from performance poetry towards hip-hop with lightning delivery, swagger, skittering beats, klaxons, foreboding chords and deeply personal beseeching lyrics ('it's not a disorder or a dysfunction') about the daily askance glances. The electro swirl Know Yourself is Tempest's tale of being saved by hip-hop ('I was learning how to capture a room with two phrases') while Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant brings his usual mournful empathy to bear on the softer melancholy of Sunshine on Catford. Guest-wise, Carl Jung weighs in - via sample, of course - on Hyperdistillation and Edinburgh's brilliant Young Fathers are immediately identifiable in the resonating coda of Breathe. Elsewhere, Tempest folds in gospel and soul influences to the contemplative Prayers to Whisper, provides a Venn diagram of neurodiversity acronyms on Diagnoses ('ancient conditions with brand new solutions') and salutes the progress in understanding, before putting a human face – his own? – to mental health issues on the tender closing track Till Morning with its compassionate declaration that 'I wish I could travel through time, find that child, guard that door, I would sit on the floor outside your room till morning'. Former Raincoats singer/bassist Gina Birch was the poster girl for the Tate's 2024 touring Women in Revolt exhibition, depicted screaming in a still from a 1977 Super 8 film. Now aged 70, she remains at the punky edge of lo-fi art, penning odes to comfortable footwear on her 2023 debut album I Play My Bass Loud. She teams up again with producer Youth for the follow-up, Trouble. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad I Thought I'd Live Forever addresses the gradual onset of decrepitude with the same wry wit, supported by reggae rhythms, acid guitar and dreamy backing vocals. Cello Song (Tape Echo) names two of its instruments. A third – Birch's voice – is impactful in its weathered croakiness. Keep to the Left is a distorted mantra on her political leanings, while Doom Monger teams heavy thoughts with light, dubby pop and Train Platform weaves whispery spoken word, pattering percussion and foreboding cello into a hypnotic Laurie Anderson-like concoction. Causing Trouble snaps out of the experimental reveries to appropriate Joy Division's She's Lost Control as the basis of another riot grrrl agitation, on which Birch has invited fellow female artists to make a roll call of inspirational feminist trailblazers from Mary Shelley to Kathleen Hanna. Trilingual artist Gwenno sings in Welsh, Cornish but predominantly English on her fourth solo outing. Utopia is an unashamedly nostalgic autobiographical album with a dreamy flow. Gwenno explores her family's roots over trip-hop beats, undulating guitar and shimmering percussion on London 1957. She names the title track after the Las Vegas club she would frequent back when she was performing in Lord of the Dance and elsewhere flashes forward to deliver a woozy ode to her daughter – 'she's growing inside of me and I wonder who she will be' – on the indie psych easy listening of St Ives New School. CLASSICAL Franz Xaver Mozart: Piano Quartet | Violin Sonatas cpo ★★★★☆ Imagine how Franz Xaver Mozart must have felt being 'his father's son': how much would have been expected of Wolfgang Amadeus' offspring. There are sure signs of accomplishment in the piano quartet and two violin sonatas included in this delightfully honest release featuring Freiburg-based chamber collaborators Hansjacob Staemmler (piano), Muriel Cantoreggi (violin, Johannes Erkes (viola) and Juris Teichmanis (cello). The opening Piano Quartet in G minor Op 1 journeys from lengthy sophistication and deliciously-crafted Adagio to the simplicity and charm of the final variations. The Violin Sonatasare every bit as touching, built to formula, and delivered with the same eloquence as the music itself. Franz Xaver inherited the essential Mozart genes. Finding his own distinctive musical voice was another matter. Ken Walton FOLK Eilidh Shaw and Ross Martin: Stay Here All Night self released ★★★★☆ Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Highland fiddle and guitar duo Eilidh Shaw and Ross Martin adopt their 'Birl-esque' alias in this relaxed mix of new and traditional tunes and contemporary songs. They're joined along the way by guests such as trombonist Chris Greive, who gruffly bolsters Swimmy Tunes, and piper Angus Mackenzie who blends into a gentle slow reel, Tune for Keith. Martin's guitar work provides considered accompaniments to Shaw's fiddle while his pedal steel lends a country vibe to the title track, a wistful song written by Shaw. Two Lighthouses, adapted from a Tim Dalling song, is a winsome excursion in waltz time featuring Casey Dreissen's western fiddle and Willie MacAskill's harmony vocals. In contrast, a no-nonsense trio of Highland jigs kicks off with The Thief of Lochaber jig while The Braes set sees familiar strathspeys and a reel, crisply accompanied by Martin.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
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Hilltop Hoods Announce 2026 Australian Arena Tour Ahead of New Album Release
Australian hip-hop heavyweights Hilltop Hoods are gearing up for a triumphant return to the road in 2026 with their Never Coming Home national arena tour, supporting their upcoming album Fall From the Light. The six-date run, presented by TEG and Blue Max Music, kicks off Feb. 14 at Hobart's MyState Bank Arena before hitting Adelaide (Feb. 21), Sydney (Feb. 28), Melbourne (Mar. 7), Brisbane (Mar. 14), and concluding at Perth's RAC Arena on Mar. 21. Fans can access pre-sale tickets from July 14 at 9 a.m. local time via the group's mailing list, while general sale opens July 17 at 10 a.m. local time on the Hilltop Hoods website. More from Billboard Mariah The Scientist Announces 'Hearts Sold Separately' Album: See When It Arrives Chappell Roan Lets Down Her Hair for Rapunzel-Coded Video Shoot in New York City: See Photos Travis Scott Raises 'JACKBOYS 2' Hype With '2000 Excursion' Single Feat. Don Toliver & Sheck Wes Fall From the Light, arriving Aug. 1 via Island Records/UMA, marks the ARIA-winning trio's first album in six years following 2019's The Great Expanse, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and broke records as the band's sixth consecutive chart-topper. The new LP promises collaborations with SIX60, Nyassa and Marlon, and includes recent singles 'The Gift,' 'Don't Happy, Be Worry,' and 'Laced Up.' Their latest release, 'Never Coming Home,' drops this week. 'This album has been an exercise in patience,' Suffa (Matt Lambert) said in a statement. 'Six years is a long time between albums, but we've never been so thorough, so pedantic with an album before. The result is something carefully crafted with extreme attention to detail.' Pressure (Daniel Smith) added, 'We put more years into it than any other album because we wanted it to be our best work to date. Putting it out after so long feels monumental and exciting.' The Never Coming Home tour marks Hilltop Hoods' first Australian headline trek since 2022's Show Business Tour, which followed a global run and pandemic-era singles like 'I'm Good?' that connected deeply with fans. Formed in Adelaide in 1994, Suffa, Pressure, and DJ Debris (Barry Francis) have built a career as one of Australia's most celebrated groups, with six ARIA No. 1 albums, 10 ARIA Awards, and over one million records sold in their homeland. Internationally, the group's influence has grown steadily, with U.S. tours in 2014 and 2019, and plans to bring Never Coming Home to European and U.K. audiences later this year. Hilltop Hoods made history in 2006 as the first Australian hip-hop act to top the ARIA Albums Chart with The Hard Road. Hilltop Hoods Never Coming Home Tour – Australia 2026Feb. 14 – MyState Bank Arena, HobartFeb. 21 – Entertainment Centre, AdelaideFeb. 28 – Qudos Bank Arena, SydneyMar. 7 – Rod Laver Arena, MelbourneMar. 14 – Entertainment Centre, BrisbaneMar. 21 – RAC Arena, Perth Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
