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8 hours ago
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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
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a day ago
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- CNA
K-pop group Monsta X seemingly tease new album after making their live comeback in Seoul
K-pop idols Monsta X have seemingly teased new music is coming in September – days after making their live comeback in Seoul. The popular group – comprising Shownu, Minhyuk, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Joohoney, and IM – made a triumphant return with three shows at Seoul's KSPO Dome between Jul 18 and 20, their first full-group fan appearance in more than four years due to their military enlistments. The weekend also saw the Love Killa hitmakers tease more band activity on Sep 1, with recent reports suggesting it's an album. They captioned a teaser clip on X on Sunday (Jul 20): "MONSTA X IS COMING 2025.09.01." View this post on Instagram A post shared by 몬스타엑스 MONSTA X (@official_monsta_x) At a press event held at the Conrad Hotel last week, members Hyungwon and Shownu discussed the reunion and insisted "nothing has really changed". Hyungwon shared: 'Since we're preparing for our concert, we've spent a lot of time together. 'I was surprised by how nothing has really changed in terms of our teamwork since returning from the military. Our passion for practice and sense of humour have stayed the same.' He then cheekily quipped: 'I'd say our visuals have become more mature – and even sexier.' To mark a decade as a group, the six-piece released the digital album Now Project Vol 1 in May. The 10 tracks were originally released between 2021 and 2023, but they rerecorded them to showcase Shownu's vocals, as he was carrying out his mandatory military service when they were first recorded.
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a day ago
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Listen: TXT releases new EP, 'Beautiful Stranger' music video
July 21 (UPI) -- South Korean boy band TXT is back with new music. The group, formally known as Together X Tomorrow, released a new EP, titled The Star Chapter: Together, on Monday. They also dropped a music video for "Beautiful Strangers," the second track on the project. The music video features TXT members Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun and HUENINGKAI running, dancing and standing in a circle holding hands. "It's strange yet beautiful -- even shattered glass seems to glisten," the K-pop stars sing. "Your broken wings and my horn, scars, just like tattoos -- they're proof of our love." The group released their first single of 2025, "Love Language," in May. They dropped the EP The Star Chapter: Sanctuary in November. The Star Chapter: Together also includes the songs "Upside Down Kiss," "Ghost Girl," "Sunday Driver," "Dance with You," "Take my Half," "Bird of Night" and "Song of the Stars." Solve the daily Crossword
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a day ago
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Tobi's high-energy motivational anthem, and 3 more songs you need to hear this week
Scroll down to discover the songs our producers are loving right now. For even more new music, check out our SYNTH playlist on Youtube. He's So Good, Tobi When Nova Scotia hip-hop producer and rapper Classified sent Tobi a pack of beats, the Toronto rapper said that what's now the backbone of He's So Good immediately stood out to him. "It was high-energy, positive, very confident," Tobi explained via email, and recorded his lyrics, freestyle, right away. The result is an affirmation song heavy with swagger, as compliments tumble out verse after verse over bright horn samples and a Classified Easter egg: that tongue-in-cheek "you gonna find out" is a sample from his 2006 song Find Out, as he told Exclaim!. "My mission with this song was to create something that I could say to myself in the morning before tackling the day," wrote Tobi, and it's a fitting chapter from his new album, Elements, Vol. 2, which braids Tobi's vulnerabilities with the award-winning rapper's well-earned confidence. — Holly Gordon Wheel, Living Hour On Oct. 17, Winnipeg band Living Hour will return with their fourth studio album, Internal Drone Infinity. Its lead single, Wheel, is a powerful jolt of shoegaze-inspired rock full of dreamy vocals, but punctuated by a palpable angst. The track was inspired by an experience singer Sam Sarty went through buying a car off of Facebook Marketplace that turned out to be junk. "I was driving through the mountains, and the headlights were so dim, and for a stretch there was nowhere to turn off," she explained in a press release. "It felt like a weird, horrific video game – navigating the road and dodging danger and trying not to die. I also felt so deeply betrayed by all the men involved in the whole thing." Wheel finds Sarty reclaiming that experience and turning the tables on those men, putting them in the same danger they put her in, posing the scenario: "What happened/ When I went/ Falling off the wheel." — Melody Lau Nothing to Do, Emmett Jerome Country singer-songwriter Emmett Jerome has crafted a sunny ode to growing up in a small town with his latest track, Nothing to Do. Over shimmering pedal steel and a warm harmonica riff, he looks back on fond memories of Bragg Creek, Alta., defined by moonlit nights, red dirt roads and stolen cases of beer. The intoxicating hold of nostalgia keeps Jerome in its grip as he sings, "I can walk into any liquor store and lay my money down, it just don't feel the same." A warm synchronicity flows through the song, which can be attributed to the track being recorded live off the floor: "We wanted to use the same technology our favourite classic records were made with. Real analog gear and real musicians," he said in a press release. Next up, he'll be dropping a new song every few weeks throughout the summer. — Natalie Harmsen Colorado, TX, Mah Moud It's been a fair while since we've heard new music from Mah Moud. The Toronto artist's last release was 2022's abdalla, an explorative and spellbinding debut album that made CBC Music's best albums list that year. In November, he teased some new music while opening for Mustafa at Roy Thomson Hall, and now, eight months later, it's finally here. Colarado, TX is the first single from Mah Moud's upcoming album, Alexander Mure's songs in the key of C-minus. After witnessing the effects of gentrification on his life-long neighbourhood of Leslieville, Mah Moud created the character of Alexander Mure to symbolize the heartbreak, rage and anxiety that come with feeling pushed out of your home. Colorado, TX is the introduction to Mure, a vigilante outlaw, who after being gentrified out of his home takes a journey back, only to find the Toronto he returns to is unrecognizable. The country-folk road song is anchored by Mah Moud's soaring, impassioned vocals and a meandering pedal steel that mimics the nomadic journey Mure has embarked on. — Kelsey Adams
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2 days ago
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Justin Bieber to release long-awaited new album amid erratic behavior, marriage woe rumors: report
Wake up, Beliebers! Justin Bieber is reportedly getting ready to release new music. Def Jam Recordings record label will drop the pop star's long-awaited seventh studio album on Friday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. TMZ reported the same, claiming that the album's name is 'Swag.' Bieber's reps have not yet responded to Page Six's request for comment. Reps for Def Jam were also not immediately available. However, the singer seemed to confirm the news by reposting The Kid Laroi's Instagram Story, which read, 'if you don't listen to this album when it drops we can't be friends. sorry I don't make the rules.' Bieber wrote atop the post, which included an image of what looked like the album cover, 'LOVE YOU BROski.' The Grammy winner also uploaded a picture and video of what appeared to be the album's tracklist. He went on to share new family photos featuring his wife, Hailey Bieber, and their 10-month-old son, Jack, which seem to be affiliated with the project. On Thursday, billboards featuring a black-and-white picture of a shirtless Justin — from the aforementioned photo shoot — along with the word 'Swag' started to pop up in different cities, including Los Angeles and Iceland. Hailey took to her own Instagram account Thursday to re-share a billboard pic and support her husband — while slamming rumored trouble in their marriage. 'Is it finally clocking to you f–king losers?' she wrote atop the Instagram Stories slide, adding 'WTHELLY' by Rob49 to the background. Justin spent some time in Iceland in April to put the finishing touches on the project, THR reported, with a source telling the outlet that he was really able to 'vibe out' during 'jam sessions' with a number of collaborators. Gunna, Sexyy Red and Cash Cobain are reportedly among those featured on the album. The Biebers have been battling divorce rumors for close to a year, with many sources claiming that Justin's recent erratic behavior is to blame. However, both he and the model, 28, have repeatedly shut down speculation of trouble in paradise. And while the musician has shown himself smoking marijuana, his reps have denied that he is on drugs. Solve the daily Crossword
