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CBC
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
The most memorable moments from the 2025 Juno Awards
Social Sharing The Juno Awards have returned to Vancouver after seven years away, and CBC Music is on the ground to catch every thrilling moment. Whether it's performances from Canada's rising stars, behind-the-scenes hijinks or Junofest showcases that bring the house down, we'll be covering Juno Week so you don't miss a thing. There's a lot happening, but we'll make sure you'll feel like you're there. Scroll down for the highlights, and for more Junos coverage, head over to March 27: Q live and Block Party Night 1 Q with Tom Power hosted its first live show since pre-pandemic times in Vancouver, and it was a sold-out night at the Hollywood Theatre. The stacked event included an interview with Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, and a mix of interviews and performances by Peach Pit, Lowell, Jonita Gandhi, Darcy Michael, Aqyila, Debra DiGiovanni and Ivan Decker. Lowell, who co-wrote Beyoncé's Texas Hold 'Em and was recently recognized at the Grammys for it, talked about fighting for one of this year's brand new Juno categories: songwriter of the year, non-performer. "I feel like there's a space for us to shine and for people to notice what we've been doing already," she explained. "I think it's really important that we do acknowledge the backbone of the industry, which is songwriters," she told Power. Sum 41's Whibley sat down for a chat with Power in the first half of the evening, and talked about a key turning point for the band: when the video for Fat Lip came out. "The video just took off everywhere, and then in every possible way, everything changed," he said. "Everybody knew the band's name, everybody recognized us on the street, all of a sudden we were selling records. Although it takes a long time for you to make money even when you're doing very well, because this is the way the system works: the record company keeps a lot of it until it trickles down to you. So we weren't really making a lot of money, we were still living in our parents' house but we were kind of like famous — but like living in our mom's basement?" he confessed, laughing. And over at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Night 1 of the second annual Juno Block Party kicked off with a sweet lineup that included Tia Wood, Loony, Raman Bains and Wild Rivers.
CBC
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Watch Billianne's stripped-back cover of Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much
The Milton, Ont. singer whittles the 1998 country hit down to its bare bones The 2025 Juno Awards are March 30, and CBC Music is officially in celebration mode. In the lead up to the awards, we're presenting the Juno Sessions: a series in which emerging musicians cover songs by artists who have previously won the coveted songwriter of the year award. Watch Good Kid's rollicking cover of Nelly Furtado's I'm Like a Bird In the second episode, Billianne delivers a playful and cheeky cover of Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much. Accompanied simply by acoustic guitar, the Milton, Ont. singer gives a rendition of the 1998 song that is more subdued, but still has the same bite as Twain's original. Billianne started her musical career with covers, notably of Tina Turner's The Best and Doris Day's Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), showcasing her powerhouse vocals. The 21-year-old felt drawn to cover Twain for the Juno Sessions because she grew up listening to her during daycare. Her and the other young girls would "just be bouncing around the kitchen to Shania Twain songs," she told CBC Music. The song's lyricism particularly resonated with Billianne: "I like how she [was] just unapologetically [saying] 'You do not impress me whatsoever.' And I think, back when she wrote that, we didn't have the Sabrina Carpenters of now talking about men in that way. It's just cool that she did that. She was not even afraid to name drop Brad Pitt in a song and be like, 'You don't impress me.'" Twain won the Juno for songwriter of the year in 2000 for her songs Man! I Feel Like a Woman, That Don't Impress Me Much and You've Got a Way, from her 1999 album Come on Over. It's the second best-selling country album of all time and went on to influence the likes of Taylor Swift and Maren Morris. The 13-time Juno winner was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2011. Watch Billianne's take on Shania Twain's That Don't Impress Me Much above, and stay tuned to for the rest of the 2025 Juno Session releases.
